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St. Lucie Tape #6R
History of Fort Pierce Churches
I do feel highly honored, though, to be called upon to speak
before this group, because I've noticed, with a great deal of interest
the many outstanding people you've had here to speak to you before, and I
feel I have a great deal to live up to. I heard a little story last night.
Maybe some of you heard it on the late show, or maybe you all don't keep
the hours that I keep. But anyway, I was watching this movie and it was
a story of some people who were living on a little island off the coast of
the Carolinas about two hundred years ago. These people were very devout
Anglicans, and there were just a few people on the island and one day
a shipwrecked man c ame somehow, or another made his way to their shore.
They took care of him very carefully, but one day when he was able to eat,
they noticed with a great deal of shock and amazement that he didn't say
grace before he ate. And they commented on this fact to each other and
the lady said, "Well, he just can't be an Anglican if he doesn't say
grace." And another member of the family said, "Well, surely he must
be a Baptist." So, I don't know, I didn't know that Baptists were noted
for not saying grace, but anyway, they didn't stand very high in that man's
estimation. I'd like to comment f rst on the real difficulties that are
involved in this kind of report. You would be amazed, and I won't mention
anything specifically, but you would be amazed to know how many churches
have not preserved their records very carefully. Some of you when I
mentioned things and some facts will not agree with me. I found that out
in our church project that there was a great and a very violent difference
of opinion on some things. But I have tried to authenticate whatever
information I have, as best as I have been able to do, with material taken
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from papers that are printed and dated from books that are printed
and dated, and from other reliable sources. And so I feel that what I
have is well authenticated, especially on the history of the first
Baptist church. Now I dodnot have, and have not been able to get the
detailed information on many of the churches. I'd like to read, in the
beginning a very beautiful poem that I think you will enjoy, and in fact,
I'm sure you will agree with:
God builds no churches.
By His plan that labor has been left to man.
No spires miraculous arise.
No little mission from the sky falls on a bleak and barren place
to be a source of strength and grace.
The humblest church demands its price in human toil and sacrifice.
Men call the church the House of God toward which the toil__
pilgrims trod,
In search of strength and rest and hope,
As blindly through life's mist they grope,
And there God dwells.
But it is man who builds that house and draws its plans;
Pays for the mortar and the stone,
That men may seek for God alone.
The humblest spirit in mortal skin where God abides, was builf by men.
And if the church is still to grow, there still the light of hope
to through across the valley of despair,
And still must build God's house of prayer.
God sends no churches from the skies,
Out of our hearts they must arise.
And perhaps you have recognized it. It's one of Edgar Cayce's poems.
And so that is hte story of the churches of Fort Pierce. I'm sure that
Gold was in the hearts of the people as they planned. But it was the
people themselves in the face of many difficulties and hardships who
built the churches. And the early history of organized religion in our
area bears out the truth of this poem. And it makes us aware more than
ever perhaps of the debt that we owe to these early settlers, not only in
a material way, but in a spiritual way as well. It was true in this area
as it has always been true when people have migrated from one place to
another that it didn't take them very long to figure out some way to have
some type of worship service. The earliest thing that I can find about
this is that Mrs. Elizabeth Carlton, who lived out west of town made it
a practice, before there were any churches or Sunday schools or anything
here to have worship services for the people on her ranch. And then
quite often as the boats made their way down the Indian River, an' itineraft
preacher would stop off here in Fort Pierce and stay overnight or stay
a day or two and he would always take advantage of the opportunity to
preach and everybody, it didn't make any difference whether they Vere
Methodist or Baptist or Presbyterian or Episcopalian or what. Everybody
went to hear the preacher. It didn't matter what denomination he was.
They were so hungry to have somebody preach to them. And it is interesting
to remember and I'm sure you have all heard this story that when the
first funeral was held in this area there was no preacher around to
participate and to conduct that service. And so one of the layman of
the community had to offer the prayer and Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Jenny
Jennings, and Mrs. Lizzy McCartey sang the duet, provided the music for
that. the very first effort that any organization of a church began
in 1884. Mrs. Emery in her little book which many of
you may have read, My Pioneer Days In Florida she tells that in that year
two young Baptist missionaries came to her home looking for a place to
stay and their names were Michael and Savage. I haven't been able to
find out their first names but I did write to the Florida Baptist Historical
Society at Stetson University and ask them about this fact and they bore
it out in every detail that there were two young missionaries that
traveled up and down the east coast here, wherever they heard of a place
that had no church. They would do what they could to help the Baptist
people of that area to start a church. And so they stayed in Mrs.
's home for quite some time. In fact she eventually added a
room onto her house for them. And the first services were held in her
home. These young men as we said had been working up around Cocoa and
somebody had passed the word along that there were no churches at that time
of any kind in Fort Pierce, and so that was their reason for coming here.
Shortly after they began holding these services in the home of Mrs. Bell,
they organized a Sunday school, and it was operated more or less just as
a mission. Then one happy day a man named Mr. Rabin Gaines Hood and his
family came to Fort Pierce and they were very staunch Baptist and he was
very much a Sunday school man and he was quite interested in seeing this
here group progress and do something more than they had been doing.
And he more than anyone else, I suppose, was instrumental in leading
this group'to organize into a church. Some of you may recognize the
name of And these were, the girls were Mr.
Hood's granddaughters. In 1889 the Indian River Baptist Association was
organized and the Uasociation at that time extended from the- an to Key
West. And I would certainly hate to have been the clerk of that association,
but that was, there were so few churches that the association of the state
did cover vast territories. And just by way of interest, this has nothing
to do with our subject here tonight, but it is interesting that the
first Baptist Sunday school in the state of Florida was organized in'Key
West in 1843. The records of this association indicate that the Baptist
Church of Fort Pierce, or the Fort Pierce Baptist Church was the real
title, real name of it at that time, became a member of this association
in 1890. Now this date is one point on which there has been a great deal
of disagreement and in fact, I didn't know whether I'd get through
our historical pageant without a knock brown drag' out fight over this or
not. Butg, anyway when the associational records indicated that this
church became a member in October of 1890 that established the fact,
b because a Baptist church, group, is never admitted to the association
until it has already been constituted a church, and so it must have been
some"in the early months of 1890. We have never been able to find out the
exact day and month. However, the historical records left behind also
bear out that it was 1890. And so this church was organized with
nineteen charter members. Mr. S. S. was the first pastor and
he came here once a month for about nine years. Mr. Hood was the first
Sunday school superintendent. Among the charter members in addition
to and Mr-. Hood were Mrs. Elizabeth Carlton, Mrs. lucy Jane
Carlton, Carl Hood Mrs. D.H. Middlebrook, Annie Jessup Brown,
Thomas Bevil, Mr. and Mrs. James Bell, Mr. and Mrs. A.S. Mrs.
Mary Richards, Col. Ned Summerlain and Mrs. Polly Anne Summerlain, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bevil, Mrs. Sally Blankin, and W.T. Edwards. And there's one,
I haven't been able to find out who he was. We have searched records
and at the courthouse and everywhere and there's one more that we just, we
just don't know who it is. We think we know but we've never been able
to authenticate that or to confirm it. For a while services were held
in the school on Hill which is up in the area of the Brooks
Hotel, formerly the Out to Dinner Hotel, and formerly, we remember
a long ways back, but it was in that part of town. And this little school
house, sad to say, was also used for dances and these people said,"'well,
the Baptists can have church there on Sunday night, but they've got to be
out at a certain time so we can start the dance. Well, they would go up
there and wait around, especially those who were, well, sort of rowdies,
I guess you'd call them. And if the preacher didn't say, "Amen" in
time, they'd go right up in the church and start rearranging the furniture
before the services were over. And then, sometimes if they were real
provoked at the preacher, if he preached a little bit too long, they'd
throw rocks and lemons at him. Now that is also an authenticated fact.
This little church had attending it a great many people who were of
other denominations until their churches were started. It was rather
difficult going to this church sometimes. They had some disagreements
and one of the most interesting ones to me was, there was aman, who was
from Connecticut, I believe, that wasMr. Tuggs, and Mr. Hood, of course,
was a southerner, and every year they had a big arguf ment
in the business meeting. Mr. Hood said, "We're going to use the progressive
northern literature." And Mr. Hood said, "No, sir. I will not use that
Yankee literature." And they would go round and round, and sometimes
one of them would win and sometimes the other one would win, as indicated
in the early minutes. One year they'& be using the literature from the
David C. Cook Publishing Co. in Illinois, and the next year they'd be using
that new Southern Baptist literature from Nashville. But I don't'they
argue too much about that anymore. The Baptist State paper, the Florida
Baptist Witness, in the November twenty sixth issue of 1890,had a little
item in there by the pastor. And it said, "We're trying to build a church
at Fort Pierce. It will be thirty by forty feet. We lack-a hundred dollars."
I've often wondered if he wgs just throwing out a little hint to the other
Baptists to help him out. They did that quite often in those days. But,
anyway, he said,"This will be the only church house between Melbourne
and Key West.' I thought that was not too clear whether it would be only
Baptist church house, or the only church of any kind. I haven't been
able to clarify that. But they did get their building and Mr. Alexander
Bell and Mr. A.C. Bitner were a great help in securing that building.
The first little building stood where the East Coast Lumber yards are
at the present time. And then later they moved the church up to where
about where the eity hall is, on Avenue Eight. And people would come in
boats Mrs. was telling me the other day that she went
to Sunday school there and quite often they went in a boat to Sunday
school. And they baptized in the river there Well thkchurch
felt the need to have a larger building and they sold the building finally
in the twenties to the First Christian Church and then for a while they
had a tent. Well, it was really a tent tabernacle, with saw dust on the
floor and everything. And it was located where the Fifth Street Post Office
is at the present time. And they had services there until the, what we
call the old building on the corner of Orange Avenue and Tenth Street, was
built. And that was dedicated, I believe, in 1924 and we seem to have
come a full circle as far as that is concerned because the Pastorate was
built at the same time and, of course, all of you haven't noticed but
the Pastorate has been torn down. in recent weeks. The-itrness gave a lovely
bell to the church and when theysold the little church there was some
feeling that we should keep the bell but it did go to the Christian church
and, I believe it was, I can't remember the year, but I think it was 1933
that there was a terrific storm and the little church, now the Christian'
church was rather severely burned and the steeple was torn down and the
steeple was out there on the grounds of the church. And so they decided
to give the bell back to the Baptists and they brought it over to our
church and it was out there on the lawn, and I was real sentimental about
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it, but I don't think very many other people were, because they wanted
to get that bell moved from the grounds. I don't know how the
felt about it, but anyway, they heard that the man up at the
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Gardens would like to have the bell U-his collection. So
went to him and said," Well now, if you'll give twenty five dollars to the
First Baptist Church I'll let you have it. So he gave twenty five
dollars to the First Baptist Church and gave a lifetime pass
to the gardens. And I suppose he's gotten his twenty five dollars back from
the Baptisgwho go out there to visit the garden by this time. I don't
know. One interesting sideline is that in the early twenties there
were some disagreements in the church and some of the people wanted
to organize another church. And they organized a little church down on
the river, very close to where the McCartey home is, beyond the radio
station. It was called the Riverside Baptist Church. But in a couple
of years they felt that this was not a very good location and somebody
gave them some land out in the Pinewood area and so they built a church
out there and while they were building that church they went to church in
the old court house. And this church completely disbanded, They just wiped
themselves off the map and these same people went back in 1925 in the
courthouse and organized again and called themselves the Parkview Baptisit.
Church. To me that is just sort of interesting. In 1925" the First
Baptist Church became the First Baptist Church. They changed their name
from the Fort Pierce Baptist Church to FirstBaptist Church and then
the beautiful new sanctuary was dedicated in 1927. The present membership
is about one thousand five hundred and seventeen. A number of churches in
Fort Pierce about, well all the other Baptist churches all spring off the
First Baptist Church. So the missions that were sponsored then started by
the First Baptist Church. The Westside Baptist Church was a Sunday
school that belonged to the Presbyterians and, I don't make no comment on
why they were so anxious for us to have it, but they practically gave it
to us to take it and do something with it. And that's all I'll
say about it, but anyway, it is now the Westside Baptist Church. We
have always been very proud of the fact that the only moderate, proud in
a sense,of the fact that the only moderate Baptist missionary of World
War II was a member of this church, Rufus Gray, who grew up in this
community. There were a number of rather interesting motions made in
the early business meeting, I think. One of them was that, they made
a motion that none of the deacons were ever supposed to go fishing on
Sunday when the preacher was gone. And they added a little note to that
or even when he wasn't gone. So that didn't leave any leeway for the
poor deacons. I have not been able, as I said before, to get as much
information about the Methop$d4t Church as I would like to have, but I
haven't been able to find out when it was constituted a church. I even
called Mr. Alley, in Melbourne who was the district superintendent for
the Methodist churches to see if he had records available that would tell
us that date. And I have called innumerable people to try to find it out
and I haven't been able to find it out. They believe, most people think
that it was possibly 1896 or seven. But at any rate, the very first kind
of service, under the auspices of any Methodist people was in 1888 or possibly
in 1889 when there was just a little Sunday school started and Mrs. Jennings
was the one who was largely responsible for that. The first services of
the Methodist church were held in a little school house. It was a new
school house at that time on the Avenue D, 101. We even have the
address. That's one thing we do have. And then later on they have to
have a new building and so they went up to North Fourth Street, just
beyond where is located. And some of you may know the building.
The building is still standing today and I can't talk to you at this
point what is there, and what it's being used for. Anyone knows I will
be glad for them to speak up and sell it., At any rate, this lumber was
furnishedby the father of Mrs. Paul Osteen and I can't recall the father's
name but the railroad had not been coming in here very long, which is the
reason that they pin point the date 1895 or 1896 because the railroad
came here in 1894. And they chose this location because it was right
close to the railroad and they wouldn't have so much difficulty in
unloading the lumber and they persuaded the trains to stop right there so they
could get the lumber right off the train. And that was where the .building
vas built. Mrs. Jennings, as mentioned here before was the leading light
in the early Methodist beginnings here. Shortly after that the population
shift, that part of town was called Edgartown at that time and for
various reasons the population began shifting itself towards what we
consider the main part of Fort Pierce now. It was called Karentown, and
so they decided to buy a location on North Second Street. And they used
that location for about 25 years until the present property was purchased.
It was very interesting, Mr. Lawson told me last night that the
ladies of one of the missionary societies, called the Women's Missionary
Society at that time. Not the Women's Society of Christian Service. But
they were appointed for some unknown reason to find the land and buy it
for the new church building. And so this property on Seventh Street is
what the women selected, and after they had selected it and paid some
money on it, the ladies who were on the committee were called in before the
official board of the church and they were really raked over the coals. And
they just, oh, it was terrific, he said the was they, well, I can't say
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anything, but they just bawled him out.And the reason was that they said,
"What in the world did you go and buy land way out tin the country for?
We don't want our church way out in the country. I thought that was
quite interesting and I remember when the Delaware School was built, some
people thought the same thing, that it was too far out in the country.
The name of this church was changed from the Hendry Memorial Church to
the First Methodist Church in 1944, and the new parsonage was built in
1948. They were instrumental in beginning three new Methodist churches
in this area. Now I suppose the point of time that St. Andrews Episcopal
is the next one we should consider. They just had a most colorful history.
They said that in 1891 there were only five Episcopalians here and soma
of them attended the Bap.tist church but very shortly they began holding
their own services and these were held in the parlors of the Old Fort
Pierce Hotel with a lay leader. And then they held services in the Masonic
hall and they also used the First Baptist church building for services.
And it was classed as a mission for quite a long time. After the railroad
was built and came this far south they got some property on now Second
Street. In 1904 or five, I have both of those dates. One place I read
four and one place I read five. The building was consecrated and it
was Mrs. Tyler who adopted the name of St. Andrews for the church. They
have been responsible for missions in Vero Beach, Ockeechobee, and a
colored mission in Fort Pierce and also services in Walton at times.
But I remember reading an article some years ago about St. Andrews church,
and it said this church was on the move, literally and also figuratively
speaking. In 1922 this St. Andrews mission became a self-supporting
parish and in 1923 the church moved to another sight down on the river and
they felt it was an appropriate location because, of course, it was the
fishermen who inspired the name of St. Andrews. In the great hurricane of
1928 a great deal of damage was done to this church and destroyed a great part
of their parish house and the church. It had to be rebuilt. Then in 1933
they had the terrible storm on labor day, this church being so close
to the river, I suppose, was severely damaged again. But it was rebuilt
and expanded. Then the third storm to damage this church was the -forty
nine hurricane and there was rather an interesting little story about
that. The church property and the rectory and the radio station, WRIA,
right close to it were inundated. They were just flooded with water, and
pounded by heavy winds. And the radio stations wires blew down and in order
for them to continue their emergency broadcasting, they rigged up a temporary
instillation of some kind on the roof of the rectory. Well the rector
at that time was the Rev. J. Samson Wolf and he was out of town at the
time of the storm but he came back home pretty fast, I guess, and he
returned to find the church turned a little bit on its foundations and he
found a note on his bedroom window. I guess it was somebody from the radio
station, a hot wire hire hanging outside his window,'Do Not Touch.See
the chief engineer next door.' So I don't guess that was very, you didn'-t
write that did you?
?: I'm not that old.
I don't know about that. This little church has had more than her share
of historical figures. You remember that the late governor Dan McCarty
was baptized in St. Andrews and served on the vespers and after his sudden
and tragic death nine months after he took office as governor of Florida,
he was buried from St. Andrews in September of 1953. The State Supreme
Court Justice, Elwin Thomas and former Supreme Court Justice Arthur
Adams are also parishoners of St. Andrews. In July of 1959 the old
St. Andrews Church in the very rather colorful and exciting ceremony
was taken to, was to be taken to Satellite Beach for the people there
to use. But it was not taken until the new church was completely
finished. The people continued to worship in the old church until
they were ready to hold their first service in the new church. They
played the cornerstone in 1960 and some of the interesting things put
into the cornerstone were contributed to the building fund, a wooden cross
from the old building, a coin, a prayer book, and newspaper clippings.
And in April of 1961 the new St. Andrews, very beautiful and lovely church
was consecrated by the bishop of the of south Florida. St.
the catholic church was the-started here as a mission in
1906. Now I did have two dates on that. I did some research on this
quite a number of years ago and got the date 1909 but told me
the other day that according to his records it was 1906 and they had only
fifty members. And Michael J.Curly who was a pastor in DeLand and bishop
of St. Augustine was the one who was the first pastor and he later became
an archbishop. The church where it is located on Orange Avenue was
completed in 1910 and it has always been in the same location. The building
on 33rd street was completed in 1960 and he says that his present membership,
now I did not get very much information here because this is in his own
handwriting. I wrote down some questions and he put them-down in his own
handwriting. Their present membership is 3,681. That was just the most
amazing to me. Rev. Beerholder became pastor in June of 1929 and there
has been only two other pastors, Rev. Michael Curly and Rev. Gabriel
I know that you may remember Father Gabriel, as he was
called, and how well loved he was all over this entire community. You
don't have to have me to tell you .how their school and other activities
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have grown. But that's all I've been able to find on the actual history,
although they did say that the first masses were held in someone's
home here. The Presbyterian church was started as a mission and was
held services as a mission for quite a number of years. It was constituted
a church in 1919, with seventy charter members. H.W. McCombs was the
first pastor and the services were held in the Woodman Hall on North
Second Street for quite a number of years. And the building that they have
now was finished in 1916 and they have not actually had any other building
but this one ,* on the corner of South Eighth Streetand Orange Avenue.
But they have remodeled it and reserviced it and changed it around quite
a bit over the years and added to it but it's always been that same building.
Dr. Howard became the pastor in 1936 and he is now the pastor in
And I wanted to ask right here if there's anyone here who is a descendant
of a charter member of any of these churches that I've already mentioned.
Would you talk?
?: My brother and myself.
?: My brother was a charter member.
Of the Presbyterian church? Anyone else whose parents were charter members
of any of these churches?
?: I was a charter member of the Presbyterian church here.
Who was? We have no charter members of our church.
Mumble mumble.
Well I tell you, I haven't been able to locate these charter members and
maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to locate them anyway. I found one
interesting thing about the Presbyterian church and that was that they seem
to want to, over and over again through the years, prove the law-of gravity
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for some reason. For example, one year the church was beautifully decorated
by someone who liked to do that every year for the candlelight service,
and this particular year it was a real live tree, a palm tree. And it
had those little things on it, you know we call them dates. And along
about halfway through the service people began to hear this little
and all the little dates began dropping off
the little tree. Well there wasn't anything they could do about it. People
were grinning at each other but that's about all they could do about it.
And another time Mr. Edgar had furnished a beautiful background of candles
above the choir and for some unknown reason they all began to bend over
like this and drip the wax and the frames all down, pretty close to
the choir members, bck of their necks.
?: We even got a sense of humor don't we?
There was another one that I don't know whether I dare tell or not, but
a member of the church told me this that one time they had a visiting
minister there to try out, on a trial sermon. They thought they might
consider him for pastor, and he was preaching a way and all of a sudden
both of his dentures fellout right on the floor. And he was very nonchalant
about it and he picked them up and put them back into his mouth and went
right on preaching. I sure hope that doesn't happen to me. The First
Christian church was organized in the home of Mrs. May Reed and th4t- home
is still Von North Tenth Street and Miss Amelia Reed still lives there.
She's been living in that home for fifty years or more. And that's where
he First Christian church was organized in 1915 with sixteen charter members.
And I was talking to Miss Amelia Reed and she said that just the minute
the Presbyterians got out of the Woodman Hall the members of the Christian
church moved in, and took it for their services. Now they have, se far as
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we, I can tell, the only church that has, except for one other, that has
any charter members with them, and that's George and Amelia Reed and
Ivy Ling, so far as I can learn. Ahd 6f course the story about the bell
and the dying of the Baptist church building belongs in this story, too.
And they have just completed their lovely new church. A very personable
and intelligent young kind of prosecutor, Mr. rurt Ditton told me that
a very cute story about himself. He's a member of the First Christian
church and he gave me permission to tell you. Although he wanted me
to preface by saying that he did turn out alright because he's chairman
of the Board. At any rate, up in the attic of the church they had built some
very small classrooms, just little tiny classrooms and the flooring was
ghat had been there for the attic and there were wide cracks in the flooring.
And sometimes when they would be taking up the collection from the children
or the offering, I should say I suppose, sometimes a penny would roll
down in these cracks. And sometimes they would lose money there. Well,
one Saturday afternoon when Burt was quite a young boy he and Jimmy Reed
wanted to go to the movies and they were just flat broke. So Jimmy Reed
had the bright idea of going up there and, now Burt said it was Jimmy's
idea but he went along with him. He said he was right with him. Anyway
they took a crowbar and they went up there to see if they couldn't get
some of that money. So Jimmy was using the crowbar and he was prying the
planks up and Burt was reaching under. He got some money under there, but
just about that time something happened and Jimmy lost control of the
crowbar and this heavy timber came down on Burt's arm and he was in such
pain that he just nearly fainted before they could get him out of it. But he
had time to think. And he said he was just thinking that was the Lord
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telling him, "Burt, you better get out of here right now." So when the
old church was torn down someone did find the money up there and they brought
Burt a dime at that time. And he still has it. But he said said, "Please
tell them I turned out all right because this year I'm chairman of the
Board of the First Christian Church. The primitive Baptist, this is
very brief, was organized in T.W. Jeffreys home and some of you may not
know that he was the preacher and he was the father of Mrs. Mick Thomas
who has a bakery on the South Dixie Highway. It was organized in December
26, 1931, with seventeen charter members and then I have forty five
members. And I have one more that I think you'll be interested in and that's
the Denton Memorial Presbyterian Church in White City. The land for this
church was .given by Mr. George C. Denton and it was started as a mission
Sunday school in 1893 and they hold their own Sunday school in the White
City school house. And their first building down there was built in 1915
and they still have that building, although it has move I think to the back
of the property. And it was organized by the Southeast Presbyterian in
April the sixteenth, 1924 with twenty six charter members. I believe that
the name is the one that is the most prominently mentioned, you
might recognize in the organization of that church. They have a hew
building but they .are still using the old one and one of the most
interesting things about this church is the splendid camp program and youth
program that institued by the Sayers, when they were, when he was pastor
of that church. And they have a hundred and thirty eight members. The
clerk of that church told me a little story and he said,"If you get in
trouble about this little story just tell them that I said you could tell
it'.' At any rate when they got ready to build a new building the
the pastors home was in very bad condition and he said they really should
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have built the manse first, but they didn't. They built the church
first. Anyway, the manse linked so that they just couldn't get it
fixed. They couldn't get the roof fixed where it wouldn't leak. And
so everytime they felt a storm was coming up or it began to rain a little
bit, Rev. and Mrs. Sayer would have to jump up and move the whole bed
clear across to the other side of the bedroom. Well finally they did
gt a new manse, a beautiful new home. At about the first or second
evening they were in their new home a storm came up and they were
awakened by the noise of the wind and the rain and the first thing- they
did was jump out of bed and just automatically move their bed over to the
other side of the bedroom. Today we have in Fort Pierce about, it's
b een difficult to ascertain this about fifty five churches,
not counting all of the colored churches. But the Chamber of Commerce
and the Fort Pierce Tribune when they had a church ---------- they'd lift
fifty five churches with a great many denominations and sects, and of
c ourse, we have many beautiful church buildings in Fort Pierce. I'd
like to close with what I feel is a tribute to all of our churches:
Beautiful is the large church with stately arch and steeple,
Neighborly is the small church with groups of friendly people,
Reverent is the old church with centuries of grace,
And a wooden church or a stone church can hold an altar place.
And whether it be a rich church or a poor church anywhere,
Truly it is a great church if God is worshipped there.


Quick overview In Finland there is a special word - 'kalsarikanni' - to denote `drinking at home, alone, in your underwear'. In Finland, Pantsdrunk is considered a path to recovery and self-empowerment to help you face your future challenges, much like the 'lagom' or 'hygge' of their other Scandi neighbours.
Pantsdrunk is a refreshing take on the personal-development genre. In Finland there is a special word - 'kalsarikanni' - to denote `drinking at home, alone, in your underwear'.
It is no coincidence Finland consistently rates in the top five in happiness ranking. In Finland, Pantsdrunk is considered a path to recovery and self-empowerment to help you face your future challenges, much like the 'lagom' or 'hygge' of their other Scandi neighbours.
The Pantsdrunk method also includes bingeing on Netflix, scrolling mindlessly on your phone, sweet and salty snacks, sofa time, and blocking all work communications. It will lead you to a healthier, more energising and relaxing life - wherever, whenever.


*This is the third post in a four-part series about the Business Chemistry types. Check out the first and second posts in the series, about Pioneers and Guardians, respectively, and watch for the upcoming post about Integrators. Subscribe here so you don't miss it!
Ask people the best thing about Drivers, and a clear theme emerges: They get sh*t done. Even when it's difficult. Especially when it's difficult. Because if you had to capture the spirit of Drivers in a word, it would be CHALLENGE. Drivers love a challenge, and they love to challenge. They are focused and competitive. To get the results they want, Drivers will calculate the shortest possible path and stay on course despite whatever, or whoever, gets in their way. This directness infuses everything they do, from the way they make decisions to the way they interact with others. They like to get to the point.
Drivers are not the warmest and fuzziest of the types. They don't mince words and they don't sugarcoat. Expecting small talk? Drivers see it as a waste of time. No clear agenda? Come back when you have one. Vague ambitions? Intuitive conclusions? Emotional interpretations? Good luck with that. Drivers are logical, technical, and quantitative. They want data and structure. Try to engage them without these things, and they have no qualms voicing their displeasure. Even if you do arrive armed with facts, don't expect Drivers to accept them at face value. They will likely question your data, dispute your premise, and argue with your conclusion. But often that's not a bad sign. Drivers are competitive and love to debate. They respect someone that can go toe to toe with them—and they don't give out points to people who are self-eff acing. Tell a Driver you're not that good at something and, chances are, they will believe you.
This is the second post in a four-part series about the Business Chemistry types. Read the post first in the series, about Pioneers, and watch out for the upcoming posts about Drivers and Integrators. Subscribe here so you don't miss them!
If we had to pick one word to represent what the Guardian values, it would be STABILITY. A Guardian knows it's essential to forge a solid foundation before building anything skyward. And when it comes to how the Guardian does things, many aspects of their working style serve to establish and maintain such stability. They're methodical, careful, disciplined, meticulous, and exacting. (How else to ensure a foundation is sound?) Guardians believe it's important to follow a structured process when completing a task, and they like a bit of structure in their work environments and meetings too.
As we enter the final rounds of this year's college basketball season, there's much business leaders can learn from coaches about building collaborative and motivated teams .
"Upsets" happen every day in the sports world; however, it is rare for a team to accomplish something truly unprecedented. Yet, never before had a 16-seed beaten a one-seed in the NCAA Tournament – at least, not until 2018, when the unknown, unheralded UMBC Retrievers took down top-ranked Virginia in one of the most historic upsets in sports history.
Haven't had time to finish reading the Business Chemistry book yet? I'm sure you'll get there, but if you've got an extra 20 minutes, I cover some of the key points in this SarderTV Author Talk.
*This first post in a four-part series about the Business Chemistry types. Post two, about Guardians, has since been posted as well. Watch out for posts three (about Drivers), and four (about Integrators). Subscribe here so you don't miss them!
If we could capture the essence of the Pioneer in one word, it would be POSSIBILITIES. Pioneers love imagining what could be and don't hesitate to reach beyond the status quo. Expressions like "What if…?", "Picture this…", "Yes, and…", and "Why not?" are music to a Pioneer's ears, and often are lead-ins to lively brainstorms. Pioneers are big fans of collaborative idea generation. They're very comfortable with ambiguity, and highly adaptable to change—whether they're the ones initiating it, as is often the case, or not.
Strong Pioneers tend to be easy to spot because they're typically high energy and outgoing. They're the ones you can hear all the way down the hallway before you even get to the conference room. Or more likely, you'll hear them coming down the hallway as you wait in the conference room, because they'll be running late. They have little regard for rigid structure, and an almost allergic aversion to details. That agenda the team put together so painstakingly? Don't expect the Pioneers to follow it. Their thinking can be non-linear and resists constraint. That detailed review of the pivot table analysis you had planned? Their eyes will blur and their minds will wander as you strain what paltry patience they possess. But give them a juicy, open-ended challenge and a whiteboard, and they'll be formidable idea generators.
Can an introvert be a good leader?
Stereotypes about leadership could be preventing you from seeing the unique strengths and potential of some of your most talented employees.
Do you think of leaders as outgoing, sometimes larger-than-life individuals who command attention? If so, you may have a hard time seeing an introvert as a good leader. And those misconceptions may be stopping you from promoting some of your best and most talented employees.
While some people may view being quiet and reserved as a leadership weaknesses, an introvert's ability to be a thoughtful listener can help them be successful in strategic roles.
Executive leaders can build successful teams and maintain productive relationships with business stakeholders by understanding and leveraging cognitive diversity.
The CIO of a global manufacturing company was elbows-deep in a multiyear enterprise resource planning (ERP) transformation when her organization hired its first marketing chief. She enthusiastically made room on her busy calendar to meet with the new CMO, but her interest began to fade when the CMO arrived late to the meeting. As he presented a series of visionary ideas about mobile marketing analytics and AI, the CIO found herself impatiently tapping her foot. "I don't have time to waste on blue-sky ideas," she thought, making a mental note to avoid him until after the ERP implementation was complete.
Can this relationship be saved? Deloitte LLP's Kim Christfort and Suzanne Vickberg share perspectives on building stronger relationships in a new article published in the Wall Street Journal.
Tensions in the workplace and conflicting personalities have gotten the best of even the most patient of managers. Conflicting personalities amongst staff members are certainly nothing new, and it's a problem that usually scales with a company as it grows. Many organizations go through growing pains as new staff are added, but what happens when you organization experiences more cases of disagreements, jealousy, and tension? In the best cases, it makes the break room mildly unpleasant; in the worst, turnover.
Read more about how understanding different work styles can make your office a place where all types can thrive in this article from Forbes.
Pioneers are adventurous, energetic and imaginative. They likely cherish creative or out-of-the-box gifts. For this employee, think memorable concerts or performances, improvisation classes or unique experiences.
Guardians are practical and reserved, and they care about the details. They may discourage you from making too much of a fuss. So, shop for gifts that allow them to relax and enjoy their time off during the season's festivities. Noise cancelling headphones, a monthly book subscription, or a coffee shop gift card could be a hit.
Drivers are logical, competitive and curious. They like to set goals and track their progress, so they might value wearable technology or other gadgets that help them jump start their 2019 ambitions. They also like a challenge, so a mind-bender, strategy or construction games might appeal to them as well.
Integrators are empathetic and relationship-oriented, and they love bringing people together. They may particularly cherish gifts that help brighten their social gatherings and the memories that go along with them. Delight this coworker with an interesting food basket, or a gift certificate for a custom photobook. Or, consider a gift that brings them enjoyment through helping others, such as a charitable donation in their name.
Of course, no gift-giving strategy is fool-proof, but reflecting on individual working styles may help you avoid gift-giving pitfalls this holiday season and help keep the peace around the office.
Hell /hel/ noun: A state or place of great suffering; an unbearable experience.
We'd like you to think about what type of work environment fits in with your own definition of an unbearable environment. The types of things people do that zap your potential.
Do you love the details or detest them? Are you a free thinker or would you prefer more structure? Do you prefer working with the broader team or are you focused on individual contributions?
We all have differences and preferences. Understanding more about these can help everyone learn how to work better together and lead to a more productive workplace. Take our poll below and tell us what type of work environment that causes you great frustration.


Foreign Investment Restrictions Being Implemented Through Pilot Program: International Trade Law Firm | Sandler, Travis & Rosenberg, P.A.
Under a pilot program set to begin in November, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. will conduct national security reviews of an expanded range of proposed foreign investments in 27 sensitive industries. The pilot will implement certain provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act by assessing and addressing ongoing national security risks resulting from (1) the ability and willingness of some foreign parties to obtain equity interests in U.S. businesses in order to affect certain decisions regarding, or to obtain certain information relating to, critical technologies; and (2) the rapid pace of technological change in certain U.S. industries. This pilot will begin Nov. 10 and end no later than March 5, 2020.
A Treasury Department fact sheet provides the following information about the pilot.
Notice or declaration. The pilot establishes mandatory declarations (abbreviated notices that generally should not exceed five pages) for certain transactions involving investments by foreign persons in covered U.S. businesses. Declarations must be filed at least 45 days prior to a transaction's expected completion date and CFIUS will have 30 days to take action.
However, parties may choose to file a notice under CFIUS's standard procedures rather than a declaration.
Parties that are required to file with CFIUS but do not can be assessed a civil monetary penalty up to the value of the transaction.
Investments. Covered investments are those that give the foreign investor (a) access to any material nonpublic technical information in the possession of the target U.S. business, (b) membership or observer rights on the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the U.S. business, or the right to nominate an individual to such a position, or (c) any involvement, other than through voting of shares, in substantive decisionmaking of the U.S. business regarding the use, development, acquisition, or release of critical technology.
Foreign persons. The pilot covers all foreign persons and is not country-specific.
U.S. businesses. The pilot covers any U.S. business that produces, designs, tests, manufactures, fabricates, or develops a critical technology that is (1) utilized in connection with the U.S. business's activity in one or more specified industries (see below) or (2) designed by the U.S. business specifically for use in one or more such industries.
Critical technologies. All critical technologies, as defined by FIRRMA, including emerging and foundational technologies controlled pursuant to the Export Control Reform Act of 2018, are covered. The Department of Commerce said that in a parallel rulemaking it will identify, review, and potentially control such technologies.
Industries. The pilot covers the following 27 industries for which the federal government has determined certain strategically motivated foreign investment could pose a threat to U.S. technological superiority and national security.


Extreme Chill is a small but well-loved electronic music event that sits in the centre of Iceland's summer festival calendar. For its sixth edition, the festival has decamped from its regular location in the plains beneath the Snæfellsjökull glacier, and moved to the picturesque southern coastal town of Vík.
We caught up with one of the festival's founders, Pan Pan Thorarensen—who also plays in the band Stereo Hypnosis—to find out how it all began, what it's like to go from musician to organiser, and what's on the menu this year.
How did Extreme Chill get started?
Extreme Chill has been held for six years—five times in Iceland at Hellissandur in Snæfellsnes, then once in Berlin, Germany, for our fifth anniversary. The idea came in August 2009, when my band Stereo Hypnosis held a release concert in Hellissandur. One year later Extreme Chill – Undir Jökli (or "under the glacier," in English) was held.
How did you enjoy the first festival? It must be very different as an organiser rather than a festivalgoer.
The first edition was great. Biogen played, and many other great artists. Your first adventure is always epic.
Is there a community around the festival who comes every time?
Yes we have our extreme chilled crew, friends, fans and family. A couple of them followed us to Berlin in the summer of 2014. Tonik Ensemble, Skurken, Futuregrapher, Yagya, Ruxpin, M-Band and many more.
What's the range of music on offer this year?
Ambient, experimental, down-tempo and electronica = Extreme Chill.
Obviously you're into the lineup, but anything you're hyped for, personally?
Hans Joachim Roedelius is playing, of Cluster and Harmonia. Roedelius is a pioneer in the field of the exploitation of electrically generated tones, sounds and noises, and is one of the founders of contemporary popular electronic music. He has collaborated with many musicians such as Brian Eno, Holger Czukay, Michael Rother, Konrad Plank, and many others.
What prompted the change of venue for the 2016 edition?
Vík is my favorite place in Iceland. It has a beautiful ambient landscape, and lots of elves and trolls… a new location for new adventures.
Will it be in the town, or in the wilderness somewhere nearby?
We will be in the town. The concerts will be held in the music venue Leikskálar on Saturday and in the town church Víkurkirkja on Sunday, during the day. Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson will close the weekend in Víkurkirkja.
Do you see many international incomers, or mostly Íslendingar?
It will be about half and half, I think.
How's the atmosphere at Extreme Chill? What is it that makes it special?
The atmosphere is unique—there are sunsets like nowhere else. Reynisfjara is nearby—the most beautiful non-tropical beach in the world. There are some adventurous hiking paths in the area as well. The weekend is also perfect for taking photos, videos and field recordings. It'll be a unique experience.
Extreme Chill tickets are on sale now, priced at 5900 ISK. Visit www.extremechill.org for more information.


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4th Parliament Ends
After four years in existence, the life of the Fourth Parliament of the Fourth Republic came to an end at 12 midnight yesterday.
The dissolution of the Fourth Parliament was to pave the way for the inauguration of the Fifth Parliament today.
During its lifespan, the Fourth Parliament legislated on areas that would enhance the growth and progress of the country.
Mention could be made of the National Pension Reform Act, the Chieftaincy Act, the Domestic Violence Act, the Northern Development Fund Act, among other salient legislation.
The Fourth Parliament comprised 205 males and 25 females (NPP-20 and NDC-5).
Of the 230 Members of Parliament, the New Patriotic Party had 128, the National Democratic Congress, 94, the People's National Convention (PNC), four, the Convention People's Party, three, and one independent member.
While nine of the MPs had been in the House since 1993, 45 of them had also been MPs since 1997, with 122 being new entrants. Five of them could be described as returnee MPs.
Addressing the last sitting of the Fourth Parliament yesterday, the Majority Leader, Mr Abraham Ossei Aidooh, stated that the MPs exhibited a high sense of duty and responsibility.
"The knowledge displayed by both old and new members in parliamentary procedures and practices kept improving day by day, which contributed to the quality of debates on the floor of the House," he stated.
He regretted, however, that Parliament was still contending with inadequate office space for its work and expressed the hope that efforts at completing the new office complex and the committee secretariat would be stepped up.
Mr Aidooh also suggested that the car loans that were given to MPs should rather be in the form of grants, since MPs, as public servants, used their cars for their day-to-day work as parliamentarians.
For his part, the Deputy Minority Leader, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, commended the Speaker, Mr Ebenezer Begyina Sekyi Hughes, for the quality of his leadership, which resulted in consensus building between the Majority and Minority MPs on important national issues that came before the House during the period.
In his final remarks, Mr Hughes thanked the MPs, the staff of the Parliamentary Service and members of the Parliamentary Press Corps for their support during the period.
"Whatever I managed to achieve was largely due to your co-operation and advice. My knowledgeable and indefatigable deputies propped me well and so did the leadership of the caucuses," he said.
"Honourable members, pursuant to Article 113 (1) of the Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, the Fourth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana will stand dissolved at midnight tonight," he said, amidst the shout of "agbenaa, agbenaa", from the Minority side, while some MPs from the Majority side shouted, "We are moving forward".
An emotional atmosphere was created when the Speaker moved from one table to another to shake the hands of the MPs after the dissolution of the House.
Some of the MPs who lost their seats during the recent general election said they would miss the debates and the cordial relationship among MPs during the period.
They include Kwabena Okerchire Adusa (Nkawkaw), Mr Yaw Asiedu-Mensah (Dormaa West), Mr Lee Ocran (Jomoro) and Dr Ben Kunbuor (Lawra/Nandom).
Story by Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah

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OC COVID-19 hospitalizations and infections continue climbing
By City News Service Santa Ana
UPDATED 4:54 PM PT May. 10, 2022 PUBLISHED 4:38 PM PT May. 10, 2022 PUBLISHED 4:38 PM PDT May. 10, 2022
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS) — Orange County's COVID-19 hospitalizations and infection rates continued climbing, according to data released Tuesday by the Orange County Health Care Agency.
The county's COVID-related hospitalizations reached 101 as of Monday, with 17 patients in intensive care, according to the most recent data available
The county has 36.8% of its ICU beds available, well above the 20% level when officials become concerned
Of those hospitalized, 83.2% are unvaccinated, and that rate is at 86.3% in intensive care units
Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, said he "highly recommends" wearing a mask to stores and indoor events as well as outdoor events with large crowds
The county's COVID-related hospitalizations reached 101 as of Monday, with 17 patients in intensive care, according to the most recent data available. On Friday, there were 94 hospitalized, and that number jumped to 108 Saturday and 117 by Sunday. The ICU patients have climbed from 14 since Friday, according to the agency, which provides updates on Fridays and Tuesdays.
The county has 36.8% of its ICU beds available, well above the 20% level when officials become concerned.
Of those hospitalized, 83.2% are unvaccinated, and that rate is at 86.3% in intensive care units.
"There's another wave starting, I'm quite confident of it," Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist and UC Irvine professor of population health and disease prevention, told City News Service on Friday.
"I said if we got 100 patients and up, that would be significant, and 200 and up would be a full-blown wave, and we're at almost 100," Noymer said. "We're building toward a new wave. We're very close to a significant increase in COVID. ... But no one can say what the high-water mark of that wave will be."
Easter gatherings likely didn't help, but Noymer said there are many causes to surges now.
"We've got these new variants working around" that are more contagious, Noymer said. "Part of what we're seeing here is there's a new variant, and getting vaccinated doesn't prevent infection, and getting (infected) doesn't prevent infection, so what does prevent infection? Wearing a mask helps, and getting lucky. ... I don't think you can just say this is Easter. With a virus this contagious, it's just society being society is what causes this."
Noymer said he "highly recommends" wearing a mask to stores and indoor events as well as outdoor events with large crowds.
The daily case rate per 100,000 people in Orange County increased from 9.7 Friday to 10.8 on a seven-day average with seven-day lag, and from 6.1 to 7.5 for the adjusted rate with a seven-day average and seven-day lag.
The testing positivity rate went from 3% to 3.3% overall and from 1.3% to 1.4% in the health equity quartile which measures the communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
Those statistics can be deceiving, Noymer said.
"With testing so far down and people doing at-home tests, hospitalizations is some of the only data we have," Noymer said.
The county logged 1,728 more infections, raising the cumulative case count to 557,338. Eight new fatalities increased the death toll to 7,019.
Three of the fatalities occurred last month, raising April's death toll to 28. One happened in March, raising that month's death toll to 86.
Two of the fatalities occurred in February, raising that month's death toll to 329. January's death toll stands at 554, 115 in December, 121 in November, and 138 in October. One fatality occurred in September, increasing that month's death toll to 206. Three deaths occurred in August, increasing that month's death toll to 201.
The case rate per 100,000 for fully vaccinated residents who have received a vaccine booster dropped from 12 as of April 29 to 10.6 as of May 6, the latest data available show. The case rate for residents fully vaccinated with no booster decreased from 7.3 to 6, and the case rate for residents not fully vaccinated dropped from 11.9 to 10.8.
The number of vaccines administered in Orange County increased from 2,304,729 last week to 2,310,731, according to Tuesday's data.
That number includes an increase from 2,164,061 to 2,170,180 residents who have received the two-dose regimen of vaccines from Pfizer or Moderna.
The number of residents receiving the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine decreased from 140,668 to 140,551 as officials continue to adjust to a new accounting of shots administered in the counties across the state.
Booster shots decreased from 1,280,690 to 1,273,356.
In the most recently eligible age group of 5 to 11 years old, the number of children vaccinated increased from 89,800 to 90,228, versus 178,352 who have not been vaccinated. It's the least-vaccinated age group in Orange County.
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"The urgency is gone, the message from the government isn't 'Vaccinate, vaccinate' anymore," Noymer said.
Vaccines are still the best way to protect against severe illness and hospitalization, Noymer said.
"If we're talking about protection from infection at all, they're clearly waning," Noymer said. "But with protection from severe infection, they have staying power.
"The devil is in the details in terms of you can still get a bad cold, but it will be COVID if you're vaccinated, and the bad news is you can still spread it. But are you likely to be on a ventilator in a hospital? That's much less. Vaccines are still holding their ground, but not for transmission."
The omicron subvariants are "in the ballpark" of contagiousness as measles, Noymer said.
Noymer said he was "very disappointed" the mRNA vaccines have not been upgraded to tackle the subvariants.


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San Francisco Kitchen Lends Low-Income Food Entrepreneurs A Hand
San Francisco's Mission District is a cultural crossroads for food, where Mexican bodegas and burrito shops meet gourmet bakeries and cutting-edge California cuisine. It's also home to a kitchen where some of the most promising food startups in the region are getting a boost.
When 52-year-old Alicia Villanueva migrated to San Francisco from Mexico in 2001, she began preparing tamales at home to make a living. She found clientele for her authentic, quality food easily, but says that she struggled to grow the business.
"I'd buy a little and then cook, save a little, buy more ingredients, and on and on," she says. "But that money went to support my family and pay the utility bills."
What she needed to expand was access to an industrial kitchen.
In 2010, Villanueva found La Cocina, the Spanish word for "kitchen." Founded in 2005 by an anonymous donor, the non-profit organization provides equipment, mentoring, industrial kitchens and — most importantly — access to capital to low-income food entrepreneurs in the Bay Area.
Michelle Fernandez runs La Cocina's development and communications department. She says there's huge demand for the program, which takes on only 30 up-and-coming entrepreneurs at a time.
"It's pretty competitive," she notes, adding that all applicants are required to submit a business plan.
La Cocina weighs a few factors in deciding who makes the cut: Cooks and bakers have to show they're ready to put in the time and sweat equity. They also need thick skin to handle constructive criticism and feedback.
Fernandez says most people underestimate the challenges. "A lot of people don't understand how insanely hard this is," she says, especially what it takes to scale up recipes and production.
Scaling up is a critical skill regardless of whether the cooks want to create a product for retail distribution, or their own catering business, or the brass ring: a restaurant with their name above the door.
Those interested in catering can join La Cocina's own operation, which serves weddings, local microfinance institutions and tech giants like Google and Twitter.
Others develop their own products to sell at weekly street food fairs, like Off the Grid. Every Friday night near San Francisco's marina, four La Cocina vendors, including 39-year-old single mother Bini Pradhan, are among the stalls of ethnic food. Pradhan learned to cook in her mother's Kathmandu kitchen as a child, and hopes to see her Nepalese turkey dumplings sold throughout the Bay Area and the U.S.
"I came to La Cocina to pursue my dream," Pradhan says. "It would have been impossible without them. They've given me access to marketing, business planning and catering."
Entrepreneurs spend roughly three to five years in the program, learning about operations, finance, marketing and other business basics. They also can meet angel investors, micro-financiers and venture capitalists through La Cocina's connections.
Many products developed at La Cocina are now sold at Whole Foods and Williams-Sonoma's online shop. There's hummus Donna Sky makes with her Palestinian mother's recipe, and chocolate-covered graham crackers by Cristina Arantes. They were chosen to be part of a special Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor.
As small business owners mature in the program, they eventually work on a six-month exit strategy and graduate. The lead time provides a cushion while the entrepreneurs locate outside space and demonstrate they can market and manage operations for their business.
Alicia Villanueva has come a long way since she started the program in 2010. She's still selling tamales, but now she's got a website, Tamales Los Mayas, and a cart vending them at Justin Herman Plaza and Off the Grid. She also employs nine women, five of them full-time.
"My last step is to open my restaurant and see my three kids go to college," says Vilanueva. "I'm almost there."


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BVI court underlines willingness to support foreign arbitral proceedings
On 17 January 2019, the Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court handed down an important decision which clarifies the extent of the BVI courts' powers to act in aid of foreign arbitral proceedings.
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In Koshigi Limited v. Donna Union Foundation (BVIHCMAPP 50/2018), Donna Union Foundation (DUF) had the benefit of a substantial award of the London Court of International Arbitration (the LCIA) against Svoboda Corporation (Svoboda) and Koshigi Limited (Koshigi). Together, Svoboda and Koshigi (the KS Shareholders) were ordered to acquire DUF's shareholding in a Maltese vehicle, Ulmart Holding Limited, for approximately USD 67m.
Beginning on the very day that the liability phase of the proceedings before the LCIA came to an end, the KS Shareholders began to divest themselves of their assets in what a Judge was later to observe "must have been a concerted judgment proofing exercise." DUF therefore applied to the BVI Court for a worldwide freezing order, an ancillary asset disclosure order and the appointment of a receiver. This was done pursuant to section 43 of BVI's Arbitration Act, 2003 (Arbitration Act), which allows the Court to grant interim measures in support of arbitral proceedings. DUF was obliged to give notice of its application, which it did by serving Svoboda on Friday 20 April 2018. In full knowledge of that application, by 24 April 2018 Svoboda had re-domiciled itself to Anguilla.
Before the Judge and before the Court of Appeal, Svoboda argued that the Court lost jurisdiction over it when it re-domiciled. In addition, the Respondents both claimed that the power to grant injunctive relief and to appoint a receiver was only engaged where it was possible to identify assets within the jurisdiction which were amenable to enforcement, and that ancillary disclosure orders were unavailable. These, they argued, were limitations on the Court's power at common law to order interim relief in support of foreign proceedings, irrespective of whether there was an available cause of action in BVI. This has come to be known as the Court's 'Black Swan' jurisdiction.
The Commercial Court and the Court of Appeal rejected those contentions. Three important principles emerge from the judgment of the Court of Appeal.
1. The Black Swan jurisdiction in arbitration cases
The Court of Appeal was unequivocal in its support of foreign arbitrations. The Court observed that local courts play an important role in the potential enforcement of awards, and that section 43 of the Arbitration Act "comprehensively clothes the court with jurisdiction to grant interim measures and there is no need to resort to the Black Swan line of cases in order to give efficacy" to that.
It also took the opportunity to confirm that the jurisdiction of the BVI Court to act in aid of foreign arbitral proceedings is significantly wider than its English equivalent, and that the "the BVI courts are entitled to grant relief [under section 43] even if the existence of BVI assets cannot be established."
2. Jurisdiction over Svoboda
Svoboda sought to argue that the Court had no in personam jurisdiction over Svoboda, and thus no entitlement to appoint a receiver. The Court of Appeal firmly rejected that analysis: in personam jurisdiction was established at the point in time at which Svoboda had been served with the application. In any event, the "progressive" BVI Business Companies Act, 2004 (the BCA) contained effective anti-avoidance mechanisms: the BCA provided that a former BCA company may continue to be served in the BVI, and that proceedings were not abated or impaired as a result of its re-domiciliation.
3. Failure to disclose assets
Finally, it is worth noting that DUF relied heavily upon the Respondents' failure to provide disclosure of their assets pursuant to ancillary disclosure orders attached to an earlier injunction as being sufficient evidence of a propensity to disobey an injunction that would merit the appointment of a receiver. There was ample additional evidence of such a risk and the Court was therefore not required to decide whether, had that factor existed in isolation, it would have been sufficient. However, a few weeks after Koshigi was argued, the Court of Appeal returned to the same theme in Konoshita v. J Trust (BVIHCMAPP2018/0047). In that case, the Court of Appeal held that a receiver would "invariably" be appointed where there was a "continuous failure to comply with a disclosure obligation".
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PS: Our church is organizing a trip to Israel for this coming February. We won't be able to go ($$$) but it looks like it would be completely awesome. We are putting that trip on our 'bucket list' and hope to get to take it some day after we retire. What a wonderful opportunity for you! Enjoy!!
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Our congregation truly IS wonderful! And you must have heard Frank's wonderful line, "Favor is better than money!" So very much that money can't buy. Merry Christmas!!
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Offseason Dates Moved Up
By Tim Dierkes | September 27, 2010 at 10:54am CDT
On Thursday, ESPN's Jayson Stark reported that the players' union and MLB "reached an agreement to lengthen the offseason negotiating periods for free agents by moving up the annual filing, arbitration and tender dates, starting immediately after this season." Today, MLBTR has learned the details, including the new 2010 deadlines.
Instead of the typical 15-day free agent filing period following the World Series, it will be five days.
Typically the deadline for a team to offer arbitration to its own free agents has been December 1st; it's now November 23rd.
December 7th has been the deadline for free agents to accept or decline arbitration offers from their old teams; it's now November 30th.
December 12th has been the non-tender deadline; it's now December 2nd.
The above dates are confirmed. On the unconfirmed side, there is word that the Rule 5 draft may be moved to November 20th. The Rule 5 draft typically marks the end of the Winter Meetings, but that gathering takes place from December 6-9 this year in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
The goal here, according to Stark, is to lengthen the offseason free agent negotiating period, resulting in fewer unsigned players in February and March.
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Does extending the offseason mean that more players will sign, or that it will just take longer for them to sign? There are only so many major league spots to go around… I can't see this making too much of an impact.
I also think it would be odd for the Rule 5 to be moved in front of the 12/1 arbitration deadline.
ZoinksScoob
This won't jumpstart the off-season they way MLB and the union think it will. It just gives the agents more time for posturing. A player is going to want multiple bidders, so all this does is give him more time to line those up. This is likely an over-reaction to guys like Jermaine Dye and Jarrod Washburn not getting contracts this past winter. The "normal" free agent pool is pretty thin after the top names (Crawford, Werth, Dunn, Lee, etc.) It will be flooded with even more mediocrity after the non-tender deadline; I can easily see another 50 guys being let go. The only way to speed up the process is to have a deadline by which teams have to sign free agents or else all they can dish out are minor league contracts, and that those players can't be added to the major league roster until one month into the season. That forces both sides to make concessions and get things moving along quicker.
Moving the Rule 5 Draft before the non-tender deadline would create a problem in speeding up the free agent signings, as teams would have an additional spot filled on their 40-man roster that much earlier. They would have to weigh holding onto experienced talent against taking a chance on a potential long-term piece to their puzzle.
Patrick OKennedy
The Rule 5 draft (traditionally last day of winter meetings) has always been held a few days prior to the non tender deadline (formerly Dec 12), but I agree with the premise of your post on the motives for these dates being moved up. I think it's still good, because there has been a sort of useless dead period between the end of the season and the date to offer arbitration, which often delays some signings as clubs wait to see if they can avoid paying the compensation. That process will be sped up now. Clubs can still release players that they plan on non tendering before the Rule 5 draft in order to make room on the roster to protect a younger player, rather than waiting for the non tender date (actually the tender date, as a non tender is a non action).
I would not agree with a deadline on signing free agents. I don't agree with interfering in the ability of parties to contract. Clubs do as much posturing as agents, IMO, and sometimes in a very collusive fashion.
One thing they need to get rid of is the requirement to pay compensation for Type A free agents that aren't really Type A talent. A top reliever simply is not as valuable as a top starting pitcher, or a top outfielder. They need to equate the compensation with the true value of the players being signed and the way to do that is to rank them according to how much money they get paid per season. There isn't a truer indication of a player's value than that!
I think this was meant for the guys not being tendered new contracts. It would allow them to enter the free agent market earlier and be able to compete for jobs with other teams before they decided to go after the unrestricted free agents first.
baseballdude
so what day can guys like crawford and dunn sign ??
They can file and sign on November 23, but their new clubs will forfeit the compensation picks automatically if they sign before their former clubs have an opportunity to offer them arbitration. In the case of those two, and Werth, I think we can assume that arbitration will be offered, so there's probably no detriment to striking early.
Fangaffes
This is GREAT news – for MLBTR revenue.
Baseballdude: Once the World Series ends, potential free agents have 5 days to file for free agency. Once the 5 days are up, it's open season on free agents. So a free agent could conceivably sign before the end of October if it's a short World Series. However, that probably won't happen with the big-name free agents until after they are/aren't offered arbitration by their former clubs; that determines whether or not a signing team has to give up a first or second round pick in the amateur draft the following season. That date is now November 23, and those players have up until November 30 to accept or decline those offers if they are made. So my guess is we won't see any of the big names sign until the first week of December at the earliest.
mgsports
Players and Pitchers should be allowed to file right after the season ends for non Playoff Teams.
They don't want any distractions during the World Series and playoffs. There's an unwritten rule about not processing any trades during that period also. All you might read about at that time is someone's option being picked up or declined.


Homescapes – I was a big fan of this series when the method for earning money was hidden object based rather than match 3. Because of the change I didn't give Gardenscapes too much of a chance, but now that I've moved on to a new device I wanted to get a few match 3 games and decided to give Homescapes a chance. Turns out it's actually rather amusing. If you're not familiar with the series, it's basically about a butler that goes from residence to residence fixing up the landscape or the structures themselves. In this case you're fixing up your parents' house – which was also your childhood home – in the hopes that they will decide to keep it rather than selling and moving to an apartment. To do this you will have to check off a number of tasks, each of which takes one or more stars to complete. You earn a star for each match 3 board that you complete. If you've played even a few match 3 games you pretty much know how this works – get a certain number of one or more colors of objects, cover or uncover a specific number of tiles, and so on. You also get the typical power ups associated with matching more than 3 objects at the same time. The thing is, the match 3 sequences are really more about keeping the story progressing than anything else. What makes Homescapes so charming is the interaction between the butler and his parents. After almost every upgrade there is some sort of exchange between the butler and at least one of his folks. If you just watch for a while you'll see them moving around the house and doing various activities as well. It's sort of like a mini Sims game. Those looking for a fresh gaming experience will probably be disappointed, but if you'd like an entertaining, family friendly outing that's full of atmosphere, Homescapes is for you.
Blobout – I have never been a huge fan of the F2P concept, and this is the perfect example of why. At its heart, Blobout is not a bad game. In fact, it can be rather addictive. All you have to do is bounce a little slime back and forth between two walls, making sure to avoid a rather deadly collection of obstacles that don't get along well with little green blobs. The game is quite challenging, sometimes frustratingly so, and therein lies the problem. There appear to be two different game play modes, though I've found nothing to explain what the difference between them is, at least from a game play perspective. In the first game mode you keep going until you die, and then you can either watch a video or pay some coins to keep playing. After your second death you start over from the beginning. In the second game mode you get three lives, but you start from the beginning each time you die. After you use up those three lives you have to watch a video to keep playing. If you're not very good, you'll end up watching a lot of videos while playing for a rather short amount of time. Worse yet, all you earn for your time and pain (assuming you collect enough coins), is a shiny new skin for your blob or some hats. Neither of these upgrades actually seems to affect game play at all, so unless you're a "collect 'em all" kind of player it's not much incentive to keep playing. The only in game purchases I've run across so far are golden tickets, but buying those only seems to speed up the process of acquiring the different collectables. Again, it's not worth the expense. Personally, I'd rather just pay a dollar or two to unlock unlimited, ad free play and be done with it. It's too bad the game doesn't really offer a good draw to continually come back, because the pixel graphics are great and the fact that it can be played with one hand makes it a perfect game for those long grocery lines.
Fastlane: Road To Revenge – So I figured it wouldn't take me too long to contradict myself, and here we go. Fastlane is another F2P game, but in this case – at least in my opinion – it's one that is done right. Somewhere I remember seeing this described as a scrolling shooter, which I suppose it is, but I would classify it more as Spy Hunter without the cool gadget vans rather than something like Sky Force Reloaded. However you want to label it, I've managed to sink a bunch of time into the game already, and while it's not something I'd spend hours at a time playing, I could easily see myself pulling it up for a few minutes here and there into the foreseeable future. The basic plot of the game is that you were apparently thought to be dead, and now you've returned to reclaim the streets of your neighborhood. I'm not 100% sure if you're supposed to be a good guy, but since I get to blast a bunch of stuff I don't really care all that much. You start out with a basic car and basic artillery and get to hit the streets running. Through a kind benefactor you get enough resources to upgrade your vehicle and buy some basic weaponry, and then it's up to you to keep on going. There are three types of currency in this game: dollars let you upgrade just about anything, gems are used to buy new vehicles and secondary weapons for the vehicle you already own, and golden tickets get you new drones. As you blast through the streets you earn Rep, which eventually allows you to level up. This gets you bonus resources and gives you access to the better vehicles (you still have to buy them, of course). Along the way you'll get jobs to complete to earn more resources, and after every run you have the option of watching a video to get even more goodies. So yeah I watch a lot of videos, but I never really feel like I'm forced to, and nothing ever pops up forcing me to buy something to continue playing. It's a nice balance that serves as a good model for F2P games.
CoDots – One current craze in mobile app stores seems to be the idea of "color matching" games, where you move an object or slide lanes around or do something to get items of a certain color to go through, end up in or touch a like colored spot. Like so many genres this one is starting to look the same for every iteration, but thankfully CoDots puts a nice spin on the genre (sorry, couldn't resist). Your job is to protect the conjoined planets in the center of the screen, one of which is orange and the other blue. You do this by spinning them around so that the planes flying towards them crash into the like colored planets; apparently there's some sort of immunity clause for the planets in this case. You score one point for each successfully destroyed plane, and the first collision of conflicting colors means the game is over. There are four game play modes which mainly vary in how the planets spin. In the initial game mode they spin 180 degrees with each tap, in the next mode the increment is 90 degrees, and in the third mode you have to hold the screen in order for the planets to keep spinning. The final mode will switch between the three movement types at various intervals. You start with the 180 degree mode, and aside from a one run preview you have to unlock each of the other modes by scoring at least 30 points in the prior mode. Graphics are minimal but nice, the music is calming though some might argue a bit too plain, and the sound effects could stand some tweaking. The biggest drawback in my opinion is that there is only one power up (an hourglass that temporarily slows time) and what I assume is supposed to be either a score list or some sort of achievements option doesn't seem to do anything, making the game feel half complete. Still, it feels fresh compared to its peers, so hopefully enough interested players can encourage the developer to expand what the game has to offer.
Into The Dead 2 – I'll actually be exploring this one in more detail in a full blown review, but in case that never actually materializes I wanted to mention it here. I was a huge fan of the first game, and this one ups the ante in just about every regard. The graphics are great, even on a mode low enough to run adequately on my device. The game play is smooth, and three different modes offer a little bit of something for everyone. The story mode feels like a sideline ripped from The Walking Dead, while survivor mode lets you test your mettle against players from around the world and Daily runs give you a chance to test out the best of the equipment. There are plenty of guns to discover and upgrade, as well as grenades to clear a group at long range and a knife just In case one of the undead gets up close and personal. Playing through story mode unlocks additional aspects of the game, as well as providing you with the parts necessary to enhance your equipment. Companions will help you slay the undead and find additional ammunition, and there are even times when you can use the terrain to your advantage. There's a lot to this game, and if you're an avid fan of zombie games there's really no reason you shouldn't have played it by now. It's about the only game on my device that I've played for at least a few minutes every day since I first loaded it up.
Bitcoin Mania – I'm a huge fan of match 3 games, so naturally once I got my new toy (okay, technically it's a phone but if I can load games on it I consider it a toy) I did my best to find several new and interesting looking members of the genre that I could try out and hopefully enjoy. Sadly, this is not one of those. I will give it kudos for simply being a match 3 game and not having RPG elements or fixer-upper overtones or anything like that. The problem is, that's about the only thing the game has going for it. The power ups are uninspired and the levels are boring. The music is grating and apparently on a couple of very short loops. The graphics are hard to look at, especially on a big board with small tokens. I suppose if you're into the current bitcoin craze the theme might mean something to you, but personally I find it kind of garish. The one other minor thing you could toss in the plus side is that the game doesn't handhold you through the first few levels, but in retrospect that might have been more interesting than what the game does offer. Unless you're really hard up to find a match 3 experience, I'd let this one pass.
Man Vs. Missiles – It seems like several games of this style came out within a short time span of each other, and to be honest the only reason I chose this one in particular was because I received a press release about it. Turns out I think I made a good choice. The premise is simple: avoid the missiles and collect coins. There are also two power ups that you can pick up, one of which gives a temporary shield and the other a slight speed boost for a short period of time. You can also buy flares which you can use to knock out planes that are tailing too close, but you can only carry five at a time. The game is kind enough to give you little arrows to indicate what direction things like coins and power ups are in, as well as where the bad guys are coming from. The main thing I don't like game play wise is that it seems you have to actually stop controlling your plane long enough to fire a flare, which can easily result in premature death. Each level has certain requirements to meet in order to pass it, like collecting a certain number of coins or simply lasting for so many seconds. You can keep trying a level until you pass, and even when you fail you get to keep any coins you've collected. The coins are used to buy new ships, which give you an increase in speed and turning ability, or to upgrade the shield and power up boosts. There is a leaderboard, which based on the all time high scores appears to have been hacked, and there are no achievements, though I don't know if that's as much of an Android thing as it is in the iOS world.
That wraps up the first edition of the Android Games Roundup (the name's not as catchy as the latest one I came up with for the iOS version, but I'll work on it). Eventually I'll start building up a list of prior editions, which is kind of hard to do when this is your first, but in the mean time, here's a link to the iOS roundups: iOS App Store Roundups. See you next time!


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Construction work has started along the intersection of Venice and Robertson Boulevards for the bridge that will connect the first and second phase of the Metro Expo Line light rail. Expect lane reductions and possible parking reduction.
Construction workers on the Metro Expo Line construction project near Olympic Boulevard.
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Corey Moore | April 3, 2013
Construction crews have started building the new Expo Line bridge that will extend over Venice Boulevard. The structure will connect the Culver City station with Phase 2 of the light rail project to the Westside.
Crews have been working underground for several months to clear away power lines and poles that were in the way.
With the utility work behind them, Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority CEO Rick Thorpe says his team is now putting up columns along Venice to support the bridge.
"They've started the one on the eastern side and then they'll be moving into the middle of the street, where we have a couple of other columns and then on on the western side of the street," Thorpe said.
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Thorpe predicts that work will take several months. In the summer, crews will add concrete and steel. Developers expect to finish the bridge by the end of the year. Then they'll lay more than six miles of track out to Santa Monica. After that, workers will power up test trains.
Planners expect the $1.5 billion project to wrap up sometime in 2016. Metro estimates that by the year 2030, about 64,000 people will ride the Expo line between downtown L.A. and the Westside every day.
As the first anniversary of the 1st phase to Culver City draws near, leaders say ridership has surpassed expectations with nearly 26,000 passengers a day.
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Expect lane reductions along Venice Boulevard and Robertson Boulevard, especially where the two roads intersect. Look at the green area in the map above for exact lane reduction areas.
Prepare for less parking, especially on the street, along the construction area.
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