French novelist Marcel Proust has cornered the market in madeleine-related musings In his masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu there is a scene in which the taste of the buttery shell-shaped cakes with their signature ‘bump’ transports the writer back to his childhood in one bite.  Although early drafts of the seven-tome opus show that he originally wrote ‘stale bread’ instead ‘Proust’s Madeleine’ has become shorthand for the magical power of everyday events to stir up deeply held memories – and a cheat’s way of sounding terribly well read.  Read more: How your favourite French patisseries got their names While the Normandy coastal town of Cabourg embraces its role as the location for Proust’s story (he wrote it in the Grand Hotel de Cabourg the Madeleine’s origins lie some 300 miles away in the town of Commercy (Meuse) which has a much bigger claim to the cake’s story Commercy’s legend tells how they were invented by a quick-thinking kitchen maid who was working in the palace of Polish King Stanislas while he was exiled in Lorraine in the mid-18th Century she is said to have whipped up her grandma’s recipe and served them as dessert.  When the King asked what they were called and she had no name for them he gratefully bestowed her own moniker – Madeleine – on the delicious confection.  with rumours of it being created in the Middle Ages for pilgrims on the route to Santiago de Compostela using scallop shells as moulds; or in the 17th Century when the Cardinal of Retz had his cook Madeleine Simonin whip up a new kind of cake the wider cake-loving community across France may never have discovered Madeleines without the railway.  Commercy was on the route between Paris and Strasbourg and trains had to stop at the town’s station to refill stocks of coal and water The platform-side cake sellers had a captive audience among the train passengers who no doubt bought more than they needed and shared them with friends at their destination.  Today they are sold in almost every food shop station and airport in France to sate hungry travellers but mass-produced Madeleines sadly lack the je ne sais quoi to inspire Proustian levels of nostalgia Visiting Commercy is well worth the detour for the real thing Read more: Meet the French family who have been making Madeleines for 70 years There are just two Madeleine producers left in Commercy whose Madeleines are light and slightly lemony and ideal for taking home to share (they keep for a month or two).  which is run by brothers Stéphane and Thierry Zins whose family business dates from 1951.  set in a modern building next to a McDonald’s just outside the town centre I was in awe of their painstaking baking process – not just because they do not use any preservatives or colouring but also for their dedication to what is essentially an incredibly repetitive task I stood watching the glass-fronted ovens as the famous ‘bumps’ began to rise Their buttery Madeleines have a hint of lemon and are light and fluffy Eating them there and then is how it should be done The mark of a good Madeleine is a good size ‘bump’ even if it is hard to fathom how it happens Some say the shape of the pan makes the difference others suggest it is all in the recipe.  there is nothing like biting into a warm Madeleine and tasting that buttery sponge with its delicate ridges.  Purists say you should not add anything to them though that rule is frequently broken with all sorts of enhancements such as lemon zest I say adapt them all you like: how else will you justify owning a fluted cake pan if you stick to just one recipe?  such as they serve alongside classical music recitals at the chambres d’hôtes Villa du Châtelet near Compiègne.  The villa was built by composer Léo Delibes just happened to be friends with Proust’s father and inspired the character Odette in A la recherche du temps perdu Read more: How to spot mass-produced pastries in a French bakery Extracted from Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France by Carolyn Boyd Available from all good bookshops and online This small department on the German border is home to the historic city of Strasbourg We also look at other key French transport acronyms: SNCF Japanese pastry chef Mori Yoshida creates refined cakes and desserts BRUSSELS—As the CFM Leap engine fleet grows and its manufacturers GE Aerospace and Safran Aircraft Engines form a network of maintenance Safran is creating capacity for parts repair Close to 4,000 Leap-equipped aircraft are in service and that number will double by 2030 While the company intends to put in place most of its facilities for engine shop visits between 2025-28 it anticipates demand for parts repair to grow slightly later Expanding the parts repair network will continue after 2030 Safran Aircraft Engines EVP for customer support 29 during a visit to the Safran Aircraft Engines Services Brussels facility The scope of repairs widens as the engine matures and engineers have to perform maintenance work in a growing portion of the engine as opposed to replacing them with new parts the more competitive we are in maintenance operations,” he said in parallel to an engine maintenance network .. Our strategy is for each family of component to have repair sources in three regions: the Americas Potier thus echoed Safran CEO Olivier Andries “We have decided to be a strong player in repair capabilities.” Safran is developing more than 250 repair processes per year Safran is building on existing CFM 56 repair capabilities are thus expanding their skills to the Leap engine Two joint ventures are adding Leap repair know-how too: Ceramic Coating Center with MTU Aero Engines in Chatellerault and PTI with GE in Miramar Leap production sites will add repair expertise That will be the case for composite fan blades in Commercy Safran’s plan to open a turbine blade manufacturing site in Rennes The company anticipates a capacity of 36,000 repaired parts per year Safran is in the process of taking over Component Repair Technologies The company specializes in casing repairs and Safran expects the acquisition to close by year-end Thierry Dubois has specialized in aerospace journalism since 1997 An engineer in fluid dynamics from Toulouse-based Enseeiht His expertise extends to all things technology in Europe Thierry is also the editor-in-chief of Aviation Week’s ShowNews insight and analysis from our award-winning editors delivered to your inbox daily a small group occupying a roundabout of Commercy (department of Mosa was called a few weeks ago in a video that has been seen a lot on social media They start their call as follows: -To all those To all those who have not yet worn the yellow jacket but feel on their stomach our same indignation the roads and in all the conversations we are on everyone’s lips Commercy's yellow jackets are glad to see the shaky authorities in their palaces because they start offering crumbs of bread but at the same time the Yellow Jaca do not fall into the trap of the division in which the enemy has striven: "We have understood that it is our real enemies who do not share their enormous riches: France’s 500 richest people have tripled their fortunes since the financial crisis of 2008 to reach EUR 650,000 million Voir ce lien pour info sur l'Assemblée de Commercy ce week end https://t.co/BP5XEd7M4R #giletsjaunes Groupes de GJ envoyant des délégués à Commercy pour la mise en place d'une coordination nationale du mouvement pic.twitter.com/JmLnagc862 — JF Khan (@JfNeige) January 23, 2019 This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page ROAR Magazine is an independent journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the frontlines of the global struggle for real democracy Lost Password? The legacy of the Paris Commune and its dreams of radical social change resonate through time inspiring revolutionary thinkers and activists to this day They have just unanimously decided to fight against the local government to keep their shack by organizing their own voting booth for a local citizen referendum debate and collective decision-making during daily assemblies the shack was the cornerstone of Commercy’s direct democracy movement To repress this threatening democratic experiment the mayor decided that the shack should be destroyed without inviting the population of the whole town to express their support by voting to keep the shack during a grassroots referendum this scene of French revolutionaries organizing their own elections to govern themselves in defiance of the state could have been mistaken for an assembly of Parisian Communards the crowd cheering in Commercy happened almost 150 years later but yellow vests; today’s symbol of a modern-day popular uprising against the French government marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune the Commune forms a key moment in both the history of political ideas and revolutions the Communards fought to build a democratic and social republic organizing elections for their popular commune discussing political issues in revolutionary clubs while organizing resistance with the National Guard against the Versailles counterrevolution This revolutionary experience ended with the Bloody Week a brutal repression of the Communards by the French government based in Versailles Although the Paris Commune took place a century-and-a-half ago the echoes of this ephemeral revolution resonate throughout history to animate social movements aspiring to radical and popular democracy communalist movements are embodying the revolutionary spirit of 1871 with direct democracy principles applied all over France municipal elections were held by the Central Committee of the National Guard that was in charge of the city after the March 18 uprising the results of the elections were publicized and the Commune was proclaimed before a crowd of 200,000 people formerly subordinated to the central government with no right to self-government was to be ruled by a municipal council of 90 elected officials They would be in charge of running the city and handling public affairs the conception of politics that prevailed during the Paris Commune conferred the task of political decision-making to an elected few During the few weeks that made the Paris Commune the municipal council met on a daily basis and in the spirit of merging legislative and executive powers some of its members were also part of the executive committee or of the nine thematic commissions on finance The heads of these commissions were recallable delegates from the council each elected official was also in charge of the affairs of his own district This multi-tasking demanded solid time management skills from the elected Communards the Paris Commune is associated with the idea of direct democracy one could wonder what is directly democratic about a municipal council composed of elected representatives through universal (male) suffrage the democratic evolution achieved by the Commune resulted in an elected municipal council — composed in part of working-class people — with the city no longer dependent on the central government to manage its affairs But are elections and representative government not the opposite of direct democracy from a traditional representative government was the fact that the people were constantly gathering in public spaces to discuss These informal popular assemblies intended to exercise control over and exert pressure on the official government of the Commune direct democracy was not so much the one practiced in city hall as the one found flourishing in multiple assemblies across the city and taking part in public matters: the district committees which were organized in a city-wide federation and managed local affairs through a very active neighborhood life; the assemblies of the National Guard; the people’s militia composed of most working class men; the local sections of the First International the International Association of Workers who was created in 1864 in London; the union chambers; and above all First created during the revolutionary periods of 1789 and 1848 and resurrected with the collapse of the Second Empire in 1870 the revolutionary clubs marked the history of the Commune by their profusion their intense political activity and their radicalism Occupying the churches in the evenings (the clergy was dismissed as early as 5pm) these clubs brought together hundreds or even thousands of people They were “the theaters and salons of the people,” where “the teaching of the people with the payment of 1 to 5 cents to finance the lighting these popular assemblies exercised an important amount of control over the actions of the Commune questioning the decisions of elected officials considered as “mere delegates,” demanding more radicalism and adopting resolutions on important political and social issues In order to channel the democratic life of the clubs towards the Commune they created a federation of clubs that was located right next to the city hall to collect and transfer proposals from the assemblies to the city council The clubs were also an important place for women’s political expression — who One of the clubs among which there was an important presence of women is the Club des Prolétaires which welcomed 3,000 women out of 4,000 participants who were both feminist activists for girls’ and women’s education as well as members of the First International A resolution in favor of the complete emancipation of women and the right to divorce was adopted at the Club des Libres-penseurs several clubs also had their own newspapers such as the aforementioned Club des Prolétaires which met at Saint-Ambroise Church and published four issues of its newspaper Le Prolétaire throughout the month of May in order to make workers aware of their interests some decisions of the Commune impeded this democratic exercise by the people these decisions even question its fundamentally democratic character the Commune at first decided to make its deliberations secret Although this may have been justified by the military threat stemming from the Versaillais government so as to not give away information to the enemy the decision seemed difficult to understand by a population demanding direct democracy it undermined the principle of permanent intervention by the people in communal affairs that the Commune was supposedly championing after numerous debates within the council and popular pressure from the clubs the Commune decided to lift the secrecy of the deliberations by publishing reports in the Official Journal of the Commune The division of power within the Commune also questions its directly democratic character legislative and executive powers were merged in the Commune as the elected officials were both members of the municipal assembly — the legislative power — and members of one or several commissions including the executive commission — which together formed the executive power We will see later how the fundamental division between policy-making and administration is paramount to communalist direct democracy Another questionable decision of the municipal assembly was to ban newspapers hostile to the Commune While it was again justified by the need to silence the anti-Communard movement in face of the imminent repression of Versailles this decision could be — and has been by some elected Communards — considered an obstacle to the freedom of the press All the more in a revolutionary time where the press multiplying since the beginning of the insurrection the most famous and widely distributed journals such as Le Cri du Peuple of the elected Communard Jules Vallès a satiric journal dating from the Great Revolution the decision that offers the most serious challenge to the qualification of direct democracy for the Commune is the one taken on May 1 This decision sought to create a Committee of Public Safety (Comité de salut public) to replace the executive committee The Committee was composed of five members endowed with “the most extensive powers over all the commissions” of the Commune This decision was taken in order to protect the revolution by rectifying the military situation and by suppressing opposition — which was mainly done through the prohibition of hostile press outlets and through hunting down traitors the decision was not adopted without debate: while some members of the Commune claimed the committee to be necessary to protect the revolution against Versailles others saw it as the end of any democratic functioning of the Commune and the beginning of a dictatorship The memory of a previous Committee of Public Safety created in 1793 to protect the newly created republic from dangers during the Great French Revolution made some Communards fearsome of a repetition of the period of the Terror that the committee instilled — a period where the guillotine worked tirelessly against those deemed as traitors to the revolution the creation of the Committee led to a fracture within the municipal assembly leading the anti-authoritarian socialist minority to leave the Commune the elected representatives of the 4th district who had resigned from the Commune in protest faced their voters in a district assembly on May 20 imposed on their delegates the imperative mandate to return to the Commune This mandate was respected and the elected representatives returned to the Commune the next day this day also marked the beginning of the end of the Commune with the entry of the Versailles army in Paris and the start of the Bloody Week This example illustrates one of the essential elements of direct democracy generally associated with the Commune: the imperative mandate Consisting of a precise mandate given by the populace to the elected officials that the latter must respect the principle of the imperative mandate seems to have been implemented at certain times the revocability of elected officials seems not to have been practiced in the Commune although called for in speeches and declarations and in the call for elections made by the Central Committee of the National Guard Despite the fact that no elected official was revoked by his voters in his role as an official (only in his role as delegate of a certain commission) the revocable mandate was nonetheless very present in other institutions during the Paris Commune both the National Guard and the workers’ associations practiced the recall of elected people But direct democracy at the time of the Paris Commune was not limited to local self-government What also influenced this era was the idea of association of free communes mostly theorized and promoted by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon this autonomy was claimed not just for Paris in the “Declaration to the French people” of April 19 the Commune claimed that “the absolute autonomy of the Commune extended to all the localities of France The autonomy of the Commune will be limited only by the right of equal autonomy for all the other communes adhering to the contract whose association must ensure French unity.” As such in the words of the American philosopher Murray Bookchin: “the Paris Commune called upon all the communes of France to form a confederal dual power in opposition to the newly created Third Republic.” Inspired by the Paris Commune and in solidarity with it Saint-Etienne and Le Creusot undertook to create their own communes towards the end of March These communes would be ephemeral and last only ten days the Paris Commune would receive very little support from other cities in France it left Paris alone to face the French government in Versailles Though the term communalism originated during the Paris Commune to denote its activity it is also known today as the political theory developed by Murray Bookchin The affiliation to the Paris Commune is clear as Bookchin writes in The Next Revolution: “The word originated in the Paris Commune of 1871 when the armed people of the French capital raised barricades not only to defend the city council of Paris and its administrative substructures but also to create a nationwide confederation of cities and towns to replace the republican nation-state.” According to the political philosophy of communalism the commune is the main political unit where communities directly manage their own affairs through popular assemblies functioning on the mode of face-to-face and direct democracy it “seeks to radically restructure cities’ governing institutions into popular democratic assemblies based on neighborhoods deal with community affairs on a face-to-face basis making policy decisions in a direct democracy.” For issues that exceed the scope of the municipality communalism supposes that municipalities should organize following the confederalist model a network of administrative councils whose members or delegates are elected from popular face-to-face democratic assemblies The members of these confederal councils are strictly mandated and responsible to the assemblies that choose them for the purposes of coordinating and administering the policies formulated by the assemblies themselves Their function is thus a purely administrative and practical one not a policy—making one like the function of representatives in republican systems of governments Bookchin establishes a distinction between policy-making — the political decisions regarding the course of action a municipality should follow — formulated by the popular assembly gathering the residents of the municipality and the administration of these decisions — the coordination and execution of these decisions (both at the municipal and the confederal level) — carried out by delegates with recallable and imperative mandates under close supervision of the popular assembly would be in direct competition for the claim to political legitimacy with the nation-states Bookchin thereby rejects both the political unit of the nation-state and the model of representative democracy which together constitute the paradigm around which our modern polity is structured to the model of statecraft “in which individuals have diminished influence in political affairs because of the limits of representational government,” with “the state conceived as a highly professionalized system of governance,” he opposes politics understood as “the civic arena and the institutions by which people democratically and directly manage their community affairs.” The main principles of communalism as theorized by Bookchin are therefore: the commune as the main political unit; direct democracy as the mode for exercising power; the political legitimacy of the popular assembly as a place of meeting debate and decision; politics as the daily activity of all and not the profession of a few; the constant assembly of the people; the refusal of representation in favor of the delegation of power through imperative and revocable mandates; as well as the distinction between decision-making even though the Paris Commune inspired the theory of communalism the institution of the Commune itself did not instantiated some communalist principles the decision-making power belong to elected representatives during the Paris Commune and not to the assembled people which therefore only had supervision and debating power with little capacity to give representatives imperative mandates the legislative and executive powers were merged without any kind of distinction between decision-making and administration As noted by Paula Cossart in her forthcoming essay “De la Commune au Communalisme,” this was much criticized by Bookchin in The Ecology of Freedom: This distinction [between the formulation of policy and its administrative implementation] has been woefully confused by social theorists like Marx who celebrated the Paris Commune’s fusion of decision-making with administration within the same political bodies and agencies Perhaps no error could be more serious from a libertarian viewpoint The danger of delivering policy-making decisions to an administrative body which normally is a delegated body and often highly technical in character is redolent with elitism and the usurpation of public power A direct democracy is face-to-face and unabashedly participatory the assembled people did not have any decision-making power which makes this principled distinction even further from reality the theory of communalism as formulated by Bookchin is not so much the exact theory of the Paris Commune’s experiment It is rather an ideal theory he created to give life to his direct democracy principles and to address the shortcomings of revolutionary events to reach direct democracy the Paris Commune being one of the first experiments of the sort on a large scale Graffiti in Paris: “La Commune de Paris 1781 [sic] / Gilets Jaunes 2018.” Photo by Katerina Ryzhakova / Twitter The communalist form of political organization adopted by the group was partly inspired by the ideas of Bookchin the principles of communalism was progressively suggested to the group by a few communalists among them familiar with Bookchin’s ideas whose propositions fit the democratic aspirations of the group These assemblies of the people were much like the district assemblies and revolutionary clubs during the Paris Commune: constant assembly of the people meeting of neighbors to debate and decide on essential political topics politics seen as deprofessionalized activity The ideal of politics as the daily activity of all was instantiated every day the principles of imperative and recallable mandates similar to the ones practiced and called for during the Paris Commune Indeed, in reaction to the French government’s demand to appoint eight representatives from the Yellow Vest movement to begin negotiations, the Yellow Vests of Commercy launched a first call to the Yellow Vests of France to refuse representation and recuperation and to organize popular assemblies everywhere: “From Commercy we therefore call for the creation of popular committees throughout France to help one another.” They kept on: “If there are to be delegates it is at the level of each local Yellow Vest popular committee as close as possible to the people’s word After a second call to all Yellow Vests to confederate, the Yellow Vests of Commercy organized an “Assembly of Assemblies” at the end of January 2019 which brought together 75 delegates from local Yellow Vest groups elaborated its functioning according to the principles of direct democracy Most delegates were endowed with imperative and recallable mandates from their local assemblies with the aspiration to create a sort of federation — an aspiration shared by the Communards and for the creation of popular assemblies everywhere The confederal dynamics of the Assembly of Assembly lived on beyond Commercy’s borders showing the extent to which this federative vehicle for democratic self-organization answered the need of many local Yellow Vests groups the Commercy Yellow Vests movement ran out of steam in March 2019 notably due to the destruction of their shack by order of the mayor who wanted to repress this local uprising against which they fought by organizing a local citizens’ initiative referendum and gathered massive support among the local population the movement decided to institutionalize the discussion space that is the assembly and to open it to other residents of Commercy by creating the Commercy Citizens’ Assembly (CCA) as well as several thematic meetings during the summer the people organizing the CCA decided to go one step further: to take the municipality and make it the locus of popular power That the Commune should be the unit for the exercise self-government through direct democracy echoes the very purpose of the Paris Commune the CCA gave a mandate to a group of people within it to present a list for the municipal elections of March 2020 “Let’s Live and Decide Together,” has as its program only direct democracy giving power to the CCA by linking the mandate of elected municipal officials to its decisions — that is punctuated by the organization of a national gathering of free communes called “The Commune of Communes” in January 2020 demonstrating the continuous pursuit of the federative ideal of the Assembly of Assemblies the list failed in the first round of municipal elections on March 15 missing only four votes to qualify for the second round the communalist project to allow the self-organization of the inhabitants through a citizens’ assembly remained as elections have always been seen as a means and not an end to give power to the residents of Commercy what started in Commercy is much more than a local dynamic It planted the seed of communalism in the mind of many Yellow Vests The Communard and well-known anarchist Elisée Reclus said: “What the leaders did not do the nameless crowd did.” While this was true at the time of the Paris Commune the same could be said today of this contemporary communalist movement And what the nameless crowd did is no less than enacting the ideals of communalist direct democracy While the Paris Commune is a source of inspiration for contemporary movements its actions but also its shortcomings and its failures can allow communalist organizers to learn from them and to avoid certain pitfalls this first large experience of workers’ self-government can also teach us several lessons the fact that the clubs weighed on the municipal government shows the extent to which direct democracy is not only a matter of procedure This outburst of political engagement within civil society was very present during the Paris Commune: all power was put in question by the people gathered into popular assemblies even the revolutionary power of the Commune this direct democracy had its own limits: the clubs flourished in a milieu favorable to the revolutionary Commune which was not representative of the whole population these popular assemblies did not represent the whole population but at best several tens of thousands of people this begs the question as to how to gather massive support among the population the fusion of legislative (policy-making) and executive (administration) powers within the Commune as well as the fact that citizens were not the legitimate body of decision-making also questions its directly democratic character in a communalist outlook and its capacity to actually give power to the people Communalists should be wary of placing the locus of decision-making in the hand of the assembled people rather than leaving them only a right of intervention and to give executive powers to delegates endowed with recallable and imperative mandates — mechanisms that the elected Communards neglected workers will enter the struggle and self-organize This self-organization will unfortunately face a brutal repression by the ruling class ready and prepared to commit a massacre to maintain its own interests about the fight the ruling class is ready to wage against anything that will threaten its position the revolutionary movement must be prepared and organized — and this was certainly one of the main shortcomings of the Paris Commune The Commune has been criticized for its endless discussions and resulting inaction at a time during which it should have put more effort to prepare against the state government based in Versailles The lack of support the Paris Commune received from other cities during the repression also shows the extent to which building a confederal movement is paramount to effectively challenge the state in a communalist perspective One of the main questions the inevitability of state repression also begs is how to manage the delicate balance between fighting repression to preserve the revolution on the one hand and organizing the new revolutionary society in a directly democratic way on the other The Commune answered this quandary through the creation of the Committee of Public Safety This centralized body which gave executive power to a minority while reducing civil liberties seemed very far from the ideal of power to the people the Paris Commune pretended to embody and perhaps alienated people from the revolutionary movement Beyond all these lessons that movements could take away from this inspiring-but-tragic history and what the Yellow Vests movement has once again confirmed is that there is no better incentive to become politically active than political struggle itself Revolutionary events drive those who were not conscious of their political being to discover within themselves deeply anchored social convictions and a hidden competence to become leaders The dream of social change can inspire this collective enthusiasm and a massive energy to act And this is the worst nightmare of the ruling class Help ROAR cultivate the radical imagination Sixtine van Outryve is a PhD researcher in political and legal theory at UCLouvain in Belgium Her research focuses on the theory and practice of direct democracy in a communalist perspective more specifically on social movements struggling for self-government in France and North America She is also the co-author of an exhibition for the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune called “Vive la Commune!” More > Source URL — https://roarmag.org/essays/paris-commune-yellow-vests/ Education & Emancipation Paris Commune 150 Read now For your regular fix of revolutionary brainfood ROAR depends entirely on the support of its readers to be able to continue publishing you enable us to commission content and illustrations for our online issues while taking care of all the basic expenses required for running an independent activist publication We constantly publish web content and release 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allowed so many people to benefit from so many goods while at the same time “excessively exploiting common resources increasing inequality and deteriorating the planet.” He says that during the trips he has taken since becoming Pope he has seen first-hand this “paradox of a globalized economy which could feed and house all of the inhabitants who populate our common home but which– as a few worrisome statistics indicate – instead concentrates the same wealth owned by half of the world’s population in the hands of very few people” The Pope says that issues regarding the economy are not foreign to the Gospel message since they affect people Neither can the Church remain silent before “injustice and suffering.” Rather the Church “unites herself to the millions of men and women who say ‘no’ to injustice in peaceful ways doing what is possible to create greater equity,” Pope Francis writes One important thing that can be done is making people aware of how grave the problem is Pope Francis writes that “this is what Michele Zanzucchi has done: gathering and making accessible a synthesis of some of my thoughts on the power of the economy and finance.” The Pope describes his teaching as “situated within the path outlined by the rich patrimony of the Church’s Social Doctrine.” The Pope concludes his preface on a hopeful note because not even sin “can erase the imprint of God’s image present in every person.” This truth gives us hope that working together the present situation can be improved since “the Lord is in our midst…and therefore is in the world’s factories Potere e denaro: La giustizia sociale secondo Bergoglio is being released on 12 April in Italy by Città Nuova the publishing house of the Fololari Movement It contains a collection of Pope Francis’ contributions on wealth and poverty a writer and journalist who also teaches journalism Thank you for reading our article. 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When students worried about filling the molds too much or dripping on the prep table or creating lopsided cakes Le Bourdat offered a quick peek at the flavored madeleines he is developing now and demonstrated how to whip up glaze from powdered sugar and orange juice PB general manager Kathleen Morris said Le Bourdat will visit again this summer and probably in the fall Then cover the madeleine with glaze and put back in the oven for one minute to set – Recipe from Ble Sucre owner/pastry chef Fabrice Le Bourdat Find Gwenn Friss on Twitter: @dailyrecipeCCT  a pharmacy resident who was killed in a shooting at Mercy Hospital on Monday said he doesn't want her to be remembered as a victim.ST (WLS) -- Dayna Less understood the power of healing having overcome a headache disorder as a teen that led to a career in pharmacy.[br /][br /]"She said but I would do this for free,'" said Dayna's father Brian Less.[br /][Ads /][br /]Dayna Less' life and career were tragically cut short [url HREF="https://abc7chicago.com/mercy-hospital-shooting-mourning-3-innocent-victims/4724378/" TARGET="" REL=""]Monday when she was shot[/url] while getting off an elevator at Mercy Hospital where she was in her first year of residency.[br /][br /][b]RELATED: [url HREF="https://abc7chicago.com/mercy-hospital-gunman-what-we-know/4725117/" TARGET="" REL=""]What we know about the gunman at Mercy Hospital[/url][/b][br /][br /]Brian Less is adamant that his daughter he wants her to be remembered for how she lived.[br /][br /]"She was the best and brightest star on this planet and she didn't deserve what she got," he said She was a good friend."[br /]Brian Less called Monday "an impossible day for all of us," including police officers the [url HREF="https://abc7chicago.com/slain-mercy-hospital-doctors-family-relying-on-faith-for-strength/4728193/" TARGET="" REL=""]other civilian victim of the shooting[/url].[br /][br /][b]WATCH: Families Tamara O'Neal and pharmacy resident Dayna Less[/b][br /][media ID="4729711" /][br /][Ads /][br /]Dayna was a first-year pharmacy resident who began her clinical rotations at Mercy in July The hospital said its pharmacy residencies are very competitive as Dayna Less was one of two pharmacy residents at Mercy She planned to do a second year residency in ambulatory care and eventually hoped to work in an outpatient care clinic according to a press release from the hospital.[br /][br /]"She was very sharp and motivated and kept everyone on their toes," said Steven Silverstein director of pharmacy at Mercy Hospital.[br /][br /]Dayna Less graduated with a doctor of pharmacy degree from Purdue University just last May she was planning to go home on Tuesday to be with her family for Thanksgiving.[br /][br /]"I was going to be giving a wedding speech instead of a eulogy," Brian Less said.[br /][br /][b]WATCH: Dayna Less' father shares memories of his daughter[/b][br /][media ID="4726944" /][br /][br /]Brian Less remembered how his daughter overcame that debilitating headache disorder sharing the experience of enduring pain and several surgeries in a blog in hopes of helping others.[br /][br /]She started a blog with her mother called [url HREF="http://mydaughtersheadache.com/" TARGET="new" REL="nofollow"]"My Daughter's Headache."[/url][br /][br /]While in college Dayna served at a clinic in Kenya during a doctor's strike Her father said Dayna truly lived to help others.[br /][Ads /][br /]"She's helped hundreds of children across the country and internationally who are afflicted with this disorder," her father said she gave them help and she was a friend to them was making her wedding dress.[br /][br /]Amid the despair Brian Less prayed for healing.[br /][br /]"Hug your kids every day "Do something every day to make their world a better place."[br /][br /][b][i]Mercy Hospital has created a fund to support the families of both O'Neal and Less.[/i][/b] [url HREF="https://donate.mercyfoundationchicago.org/VictimsFund" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow"]Click here for more information[/url].[/i][/b] “My very first marathon was in Boston,” Des Linden was saying “It’s a course that requires tenacity and grit and all the things a marathon should ask of you,” she said “It’s got all the things that Bostonians tend to be and embody.” Wow: She doesn’t feel the need to drop in little wink-winks about Fenway Park the Freedom Trail and the Bunker Hill Monument and it’s all celebrated by the city,” she said “You feel the energy and love from start to finish.” Desiree “Des” Linden is ready for her Boston Marathon close-up such as one year ago when she won the women’s division of the 122nd edition of Boston’s famous Hopkinton-to-Copley commute You’re whisked from presentations to handshake lines to hugfests and then you’re pulled into the grand ballroom of the Copley Plaza Hotel for one of those very official press conferences in which media folks must first identify themselves after an intern hands them the cordless microphone but they come at a time when everyone is packing up to go home which begins Monday morning in Hopkinton and ends when race director Dave McGillivray completes his annual moonlit fun run to Copley Square will hit the Hub as a member of Boston Marathon Royalty she’s on a pedestal with Clarence DeMar and Sara Mae Berman Boston Marathon Royalty includes Joan Benoit Samuelson the Maine native who conquered Boston in 1979 and ’83 before gaining greater fame by winning marathon gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles after emerging last year as the first American to win the women’s race since Lisa Larsen Weidenbach (now Rainsberger) in 1985 has a chance to become the first two-time American champion since Benoit Samuelson And for added sparkle to Linden’s close-up should she win is running this year’s marathon as a 40th anniversary celebration of her 1979 triumph about that 40th-anniversary thing: Benoit Samuelson tells us it seems more like “four weeks ago.” She also wants it known that (a) she’s a member of the Des Linden Fan Club and (b) if Linden does win it’ll be a much bigger deal than what she accomplished back when Jimmy Carter (’79) and Ronald Reagan (’83) were in the White House “I would be thrilled for Des if she wins this year,” Benoit Samuelson wrote she will have me beat since she will be a back-to-back winner Was so proud and honored to hug her at the finish last year That day was epic when it comes to the harshness of (New England) weather.” But it’s not just the chance to join Benoit Samuelson as a two-champion that makes this year’s Boston Marathon special for Linden And it’s not just that her first marathon was Boston where she finished in 19th place (2:44:56) as a 23-year-old in 2007 she provided a textbook example that when you get right down to it a veteran marathoner is never running just one race you saw Mamitu Daska of Ethiopia lead for much of that cold rainy morning until being passed at the base of Heartbreak Hill more than four minutes ahead of second-place finisher Sarah Sellers It stood as the most lopsided victory in Boston sports until the Red Sox rolled to a 16-1 Division Series victory over the Yankees last October But Linden could take no victory lap after turning left on Hereford Street as Des Davila (she hadn’t yet married coffee bean impresario Ryan Linden) she found herself sprinting down Boylston Street against Kenyan Caroline Kilel as chants of “USA Last year’s victory is why Linden loves Boston that second-place finish in 2011 is also why she loves Boston She never backed down in 2018 because of 2011 and this time around she’ll be able to summon memories of both a stunning victory and a stunning defeat when/if she needs an extra dose of motivation Asked which of those two marathons she’ll be recalling When I’m running the race and I’m trying to pull away I’ll be thinking about losing by two seconds And if I’m chasing someone down I’ll be thinking about how great it was to win last year Last year’s marathon took place in horrible weather with heavy rains dousing the runners and a wind chill of 30 degrees that turned Kenmore Square into a Kenmore Refrigerator Linden chooses to be very stiff-upper-lip about that saying last week that “I love that part about it I think that’s what makes it fascinating and fun you hope for the best but you prepare for the worst because you never know what you’re going to get in Boston and it’s one of the things that makes the race exciting.” which is probably why I felt so flat the first six miles,” she said last week “I was hoping to stay dry for as long as possible.” Never mind thinking about the 2011 Boston Marathon she was thinking about future marathons is this going to be detrimental to the next marathon?” she said “How much is this going to take in terms of the pain How long is it going to take to recover if I cover this 26.2-mile distance I was 34 at the time with only a handful of years left in my career is this going to play a role in the rest of my career it was a little too early to be thinking about that A little over two hours after the shaking-off Des Linden was seated at the long table in the grand ballroom of the Copley Plaza Hotel She talked a lot of running that afternoon talked about how proud she felt to be the first American woman to win Boston in 33 years this because she and husband own a roasting business called “Linden and True” and plan to have a pop-up presence at this year’s Boston Marathon According to their @coffeebylt Twitter feed Roaster Ryan is always pushing the envelope and he’s got something special in the works this year Des Linden has also been known to spend a moment or two #withafullmug of good whiskey Speaking with the media after year’s first-place finish she said she’d be taking it easy later that night “It might be too aggressive,” she said that day “I’ll probably be standing on a table or something I didn’t stand on a table,’’ she said last week who was a few weeks shy of his 39th birthday when he won the men’s division in 2014 Appearing at a pre-marathon fiesta last year at the Harvard Club Keflezighi was born in present-day Eritrea and raised in San Diego educated in Arizona and has been a longtime trainee in Michigan (Top photo of Linden being honored at Celtics game: Brian Babineau / Getty Images) Unless you enjoy a nibble while you’re reading a book Fans of Charles Dickens might point to Miss Havisham’s decaying wedding cake in Great Expectations as one example But there’s a little cake out there that’s synonymous with a literary giant yet it’s imbued with the potential to evoke powerful memories of things past and it will forever be associated with the French writer Marcel Proust 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Swann’s Way the first of seven volumes of Proust’s most famous work In Search Of Lost Time ("À la recherche du temps perdu") Proust’s narrator involuntarily recalls an episode from his childhood after tasting a madeleine dipped in tea “No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.” it may come as a surprise that something so simple - and so plain - could trigger such a gushing deluge of memories that would fill seven long and ponderous volumes the madeleine will forever have a special place among the pantheon of pastries sponges and biscuits that make our lives that little bit sweeter (or in Proust’s case plump little cakes called ‘petites madeleines,’ which look as though they had been moulded in the fluted valve of a scallop shell.” A familiar mixture of flour eggs and butter is brought to life with the juice and zest of a lemon before being spooned into a special moulded baking tray which gives each madeleine its distinctive shell-like shape moist sponge-cake-cum-biscuit with a humped back An elegant rather than elaborate confection which practically begs to be immersed in a piping hot cup of tea Recently unearthed early drafts of Proust's masterwork suggest that it was initially toasted bread with honey then a biscotto - a hard biscuit - that evoked such recollections in the author Only the third draft of his manuscript featured a soft madeleine as the now-famous memory trigger.   But before Proust even got his hands on a madeleine (or honey toast these unassuming little cakes had been winning over the affections of French tea-dunkers since the late 18th century the madeleine was named after a young maid who baked the cakes for Stanislas Leczinski - the Duke of Lorraine and deposed King of Poland - in the town of Commercy but Commercy has claimed the madeleine as its own There are countless variations on the traditional recipe Julia Child recommended adding vanilla extract and a pinch of salt while others opt for finely ground almonds orange blossom water or even healthy chia seeds Rachel Khoo adds honey to the mix and plonks a raspberry on each madeleine before piping lemon curd into the freshly baked article There can be few better places to find the perfect madeleine Fabrice Le Bourdat’s Ble Sucré is a small boulangerie in the Ledru-Rollin area which has won a loyal following for its light madeleines with a lemony glaze gourmet delicatessen Fauchon doesn’t just do a mean madeleine its original store is actually situated on Place de la Madeleine And if you’d prefer a madeleine with a distinctly Japanese flavour try the matcha green tea madeleines at Pâtisserie Sadaharu Aoki You can start by making it at home with our Madeleine recipe With many of its turrets exhibited either in its stand or on chassis from different OEMs within the IDEX premises CMI focused the company exhibition area on its training offer and more precisely on the so-called Cockerill Campus which will soon open its doors to the first customers’ students Already involved in the training of its customers’ personnel the Belgian company decided to optimise this building a true campus-like structure at Commercy one hour away from the Suippes French Army training range  The company took-over a former barrack the “Quartier Oudinot” once home of the French Army 8th Artillery Regiment transforming it in a hospitable structure that hosts both real-live and training facilities The facility can host up to 120 trainees at the same time and has been exploited for the first time to run a training course for CMI personnel this course allowing to check any possible bug before hosting customers The aim of CMI is not to train the single soldier of a customer Army but to train the trainers that will then take care of the actual training in their nation The syllabus obviously differs depending on the student task; vehicles operators spend 10-15% of their time in classrooms 20% on simulators and 20% at the Advanced Training and Firing facility (ATF) located at the Suippes camp The baseline firing training depend on the type of turret involved 20 of them representing the different combinations such as static with 4 spare rounds left to repeat a session if needed 200 rounds of coaxial machine gun being also fired; medium calibre turret operators fire 200 rounds of the main weapon and the same amount of coax rounds as the bigger calibre operators; if the army hosted acquired also the Falarck missiles for the 105 mm gun or if the medium calibre turret is fitted with antitank missiles from a third party these spend around 15% of their time in classrooms the remaining time being spent in workshops; their course lasts six weeks while operators spent five weeks at Commercy and Suippes With the experience acquired in the future these figures might change training concepts being always under review to increase training effectiveness and optimise the syllabus The facility has already been in use for some time exploiting the buildings that were completed in the build-up process however Spring 2019 will see for the first time the Cockerill Campus being used at its full capability Indo Defence – Jakarta – 11-14 June DSEI – London – 9-12 September PARTNER – Belgrade – 23-26 September Seafuture – La Spezia – 29 Sept.-2 October ADEX – Seoul – 29 October-2 November Dubai Air Show – Dubai – 17-21 November Milipol Paris – Paris – 18-21 Novenber Expodefensa – Bogotá – 1-3 December Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" (VVNG.com) — Mercy Air the life saving-helicopter medical service provider that transports critically ill people celebrated its 30th Anniversary over the weekend The celebration took place on Sunday at Hook Park in Victorville “There was a huge turn out of first responders including fire services from Tulare Kern County Victorville and Cal fire Also participating were the San Bernardino County sheriff sheriffs air as well as six of Mercy Air’s helicopters,” said Mark Driscoll and a bottomless taco feast as well as games and contests Mercy Air was presented with a recognition from the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors acknowledging and thanking Mercy air for 30 years of service to the communities of the Victor Valley an air medical service that provides life-saving care to more than 70,000 people every year. Mercy Air began operations out of the Rialto Municipal Airport in 1989 📢 Stay connected with the High Desert’s largest news community 🔗 For more local news, visit VVNG.com we’re dedicated to keeping the Victor Valley informed with essential Our newsroom works tirelessly to bring you the latest stories that matter—news that fosters awareness If you value our reporting and want to see it continue local news accessible to everyone—because an informed community is a stronger community The Zins family have been making Madeleines de Commercy (between Verdun and Nancy in Meuse when Georges Zins came up with his all-butter recipe at his boulangerie Jean-Pierre and Marinette took over in 1975 and their son Thierry has been working in the bakery with his parents since 2000 the family sold the bakery to concentrate solely on madeleines They opened their shop La Boîte à Madeleines and in 2006 Thierry’s brother Stéphane joined the family firm “We open every day except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day,” says Stéphane “It’s just the two of us and we have five employees “We don’t use preservatives so our madeleines only have a shelf-life of a month meaning we don’t supply them to supermarkets or other boutiques They are only available from our own shop.” they were making 500kilos of madeleines a month but today that has grown to become closer to five tonnes a month and they receive around 100,000 visitors per year People can watch the entire process from start to finish (except on Sundays and Mondays) Stéphane points out that being halfway between Paris and Strasbourg and close to Verdun and World War One battlefields means they are well located for tourists Madeleines are available all across France but were invented by a woman called Madeleine in Commercy for a party at the château and from the arrival of the railway in the late 19th century right up until World War Two the townswomen used to crowd the platforms selling madeleines to the passengers from large wickerwork baskets As well as traditional all-butter madeleines the Zins family also make madeleines coated in dark We also make financiers and ‘rochers coco’ (coconut macaroons) we really don’t have time to do anything else Berlingots: The traditional hard sweets still made by hand Columnist Sue Adams gives her tips on how to get the best out of the long season in France Household favourites including courgettes and strawberries become commonplace this month KQED Live EventsPRX Podcast Garage EventsEvents Around the Bay AreaMember Benefits with KQED LiveVideos from KQED LiveWatch recordings of recent KQED Live events FeaturedThat's My WordAn ongoing exploration of Bay Area hip-hop history See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9 Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events Support KQED by using your donor-advised fund to make a charitable gift I have this thing about history books-- especially ones about food history If its got a lot of useless trivia packed into it and annoy my friends with the opening line And if what I'm reading includes all of the above He might not have been the handsomest fellow in the world but he had it going on: he lost the crown of Poland became the French Duke of Lorraine by marrying off his daughter Maria to Louis XV (after losing Poland a second time) most likely by virtue of is own good nature and a heavy dose of pity from Frederick III but a cluster of bickering Central European states But it really isn't his laundry list of honors that impresses me I'd still like him if he were merely an viscount or baron or margrave It's his penchant for popularizing and ascribing names to food that I like According to my latest read, The Food Chronology by James Trager Stanislaw started a craze in Paris for pigs' feet onion soup soon after his daughter became queen of France he was so taken with an onion soup he was served at an inn on his way to Paris that he visited the kitchen in his dressing gown and demanded the chef to show him how to make it everyone was eating Soupe à l'Oignon It is also culinary lore that Stanislaw would drench kugelhupf with rum from the French West Indies to create Baba au Rhum Though it is more than likely he did not name the dish "Baba au rhum" three points of truth indicate his possible involvement in some ways-- kugelhupf was a well-established dish in the regions of Alsace and Lorraine by the time Stanislaw took up residence and the word "baba" is derived from the Polish word for "good woman" or grandmother And finally (unless you want to get into the quiche Lorraine he's got the madeleine-- that tea cake enshrined by the famously self-obsessed shut-in Not everyone will agree that Stanislaw was the man who named it What is known is that the madeleine originated in the town of Commercy Some say he named it after a maid who served them him Others say they had long been baked by the local nuns of St there are lots of theories on the origin of madeleine I think what I'm rather taken with is the fact that this man seems to have had his finger in a number of culinary pots he was able to influence the tastes of a country which was then becoming famous for its food-- a country that wasn't even his Of course in the 18th Century, anyone of note was aching to have their cooks invent dishes to be named for them. Think Sauce Richelieu or Sue Anne Nivens' favorite, Veal Prince Orloff Are people naming dishes today or has everything already been named Apart from delis with a penchant for naming sandwiches after Borscht Belt comedians We just don't see elegant dishes like Asparagus Britney Spears or Tournedos à la Brenda Fricker coming into common usage a long string of words listing ingredients Are we so unsophisticated that we now have to have everything spelled out for us Give me the days when an old Polish king could wander into France let's call this a madeleine." Perhaps his French wasn't good enough to say "I would very much like one of those delicious buttery cakes with the faint whiff of lemon." It doesn't really matter One says "madeleine" and one knows exactly what one is getting the best name I've come up with for anything lately is Chicken Statutory which is an Americanized version of Chicken Cacciatore this time to her new Ultimate ability Valkyrie Mercy's Valkyrie now only lasts 15 seconds (down from 20) It also no longer grants an extra charge of Resurrect or remove its cast time The speed boost that Valkyrie grants to Guardian Angel has also been decreased by 50 percent Mercy's Valkyrie Ultimate is now primarily about giving her flight and healing/damage beams that link to her allies Resurrect is pretty much unaffected by popping her Ult we’re toning back the amount of mobility Valkyrie provides through Guardian Angel and reducing its duration to overall reduce the power of this ability." His Concussion Mine's damage now has significant falloff if it doesn't hit the target directly but that damage goes down significantly as you move away from the center of the blast the full 120 damage was dealt to anyone within the blast radius.  "Junkrat has been enjoying the flexibility his double-charge Concussion Mine provides but it has now become a bit too easy to throw out huge bursts damage in a large area," Blizzard said "With this change he can still dish out similar damage but he must now be more accurate with his tosses." There are also a handful of new emotes and voice line available for players who pre-purchase the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals Bo MooreSocial Links NavigationAs the former head of PC Gamer's hardware coverage Bo was in charge of helping readers better understand and use PC hardware picking the best peripherals and components to spend your hard-earned money on He is now IGN's resident tech editor and PC hardware expert.  Welcome Mickeymickey@disney.comManage MyDisney AccountLog OutDoctor in hospital shooting shares photos of recoveryMonday 2014The doctor who was wounded during a shootout inside Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital last week is sharing photos of his recovery.DARBY (WPVI) -- The doctor who was wounded during a shootout inside Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital last week is sharing photos of his recovery Lee Silverman post a photo of himself with bandages on his head and hand another photo shows his daughter holding a picture she drew of her father Action News has learned that the suspected gunman returned fire after Plotts shot and killed Hunt and was credited by the DA with saving more lives District Attorney Jack Whelan said Plotts had 39 bullets on him - bullets intended for more victims Whelan says two guns and a computer were seized from Plotts' home in Clifton Heights this weekend Investigators say Plotts opened fire inside the wellness center of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital on Landowne Avenue in Darby Borough just after 2:00 p.m Police say Plotts went to his appointment intending to kill Dr They said Plotts was angry because the hospital posted a sign declaring the building a 'gun-free zone.' Whelan said Plotts was agitated and refused to sit down next to Hunt He hit Plotts twice in the chest and once in the arm this caseworker then went back into the room and engaged in a wrestling match with Mr There are also pictures of the blood-splattered office including bloody hand prints on the carpet left by Plotts as he tried to crawl away before he was subdued Plotts had a long history of mental health issues and arrests for a bank robbery Investigators don't know where he got the gun he used on Thursday Action News spoke with Plotts' ex-wife on Thursday night "He was always very controlling and very violent Silverman's gun was legally registered and he had a permit to carry "I believe if the doctor did not have the firearm he'd be dead today and I believe other people in that facility would be dead," Whelan said Silverman off-and-on for the past 20 years and there were no specific threats before Thursday's outburst Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital said: "We are thankful for the swift action of Dr John D'Alonzo and the other colleagues and visitors who took brave and difficult action during yesterday's tragic event We extend our condolences to Theresa Hunt's family Silverman's return to serving patients at our hospital We will do all we can to support the victims during this difficult time." Mercy Ships has announced that it has reached an agreement with China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) to build a new 36,600-GRT hospital ship at the group’s Tianjin Xingang Shipyard Malta-flagged hospital ship will be designed by the Finnish naval architecture firm Deltamarin  The construction project will be managed by Stena RoRo Managing Director This project will make this vessel the world’s largest civilian hospital ship and delivery is being planned for July 2017,” stated Mr Chairman of Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Senior VP of Mercy Ships Marine Operations “We are thrilled to formally secure this important milestone for a project we have worked on quietly for quite some time,” said Stephens “Our goal with this second Mercy Ship is to more than double the hope and healing through life-changing surgeries provided to those with little access to specialized healthcare and to increase the partnership of training and educational support of health professionals within the developing nations our ships will continue to serve.” The 157-year-old French ship brokerage company Barry Rogliano Salles (BRS) under the leadership of its Geneva (Switzerland) office Managing Director negotiated the successful contract and sale CSIC is one of China’s largest shipbuilding and ship repair groups and operates directly under the China state government with authorisation for investment and capital management The group has a total asset base of USD 27.54 billion and a workforce of 140,000 The group’s 28 R&D institutes employ more than 30,000 engineers seven enterprise technology centers and 150 large-scale laboratories The new Mercy Ship will be classed by Lloyd’s Register and flagged by Malta Sign up for gCaptain’s newsletter and never miss an update and updates delivered daily straight to your inbox Denmark will spend about 4 billion crowns ($614 million) on building and procuring 26 navy vessels for patrolling oil spill response and surveillance of undersea cables Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said on Tuesday A South Korean shipbuilder plans to construct the first US-built liquefied natural gas tanker following sweeping recommendations from a US trade agency that would tax ships made in China and aim to combat the Asian nation’s dominance in the industry South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean has marked its entry into the deepwater drilling operations sector with the naming ceremony of its next-generation drillship ‘Tidal Action’ The vessel includes advanced capabilities,.. Subscribe to gCaptain Daily and stay informed with the latest global maritime and offshore news Stay informed with the latest maritime and offshore news For general inquiries and to contact us,please email: [email protected] To submit a story idea or contact our editors, please email: [email protected] For advertising opportunities contactEmail: [email protected]Phone: +1.805.704.2536 Essential news coupled with the finest maritime content sourced from across the globe Sign In Register or any other ski destination for that matter Whether the stories relate to winter sports or summer pastimes the smorgasbord of things to do were just nonstop and wonderful.” But the narrative only tells half the story and is often shaded by the overlooked fact the writer wasn’t footing the bill for their whirlwind stay in paradise.  The other half is generally contained in the comments following I fully understand even the best curated—censored—comments sections are somewhat less toxic cesspools of misinformation than generally found on social media but they also contain interesting insight into what a cross section of the reading public think about a subject or in the case of Whistler-centric stories Apparently we all tend to be wealthy—quite likely as a happy result of our family’s trust fund—ne’er do wells living in fabulous multi-million-dollar homes dressed in very expensive designer outfits who favour overcrowded slopes groomed to perfection and operated by an unfeeling corporate money machine Only one of those things is true but all seem to be part of troll culture.  even quite a few people who fit that description which is to say a number of our very welcome guests and second are surprised to discover there are people who actually live here and aren’t fabulously wealthy perhaps in warrens underneath the resort itself but they also assume most are just passing through—here for a good time They express shock when I explain most of the folks who live here are not but struggle to stay here in the face of expensive housing and even more expensive like bikes that cost way more than many of the cars they own Such are the sacrifices of living in paradise post-pandemic normal be much like it was pre-pandemic or will it be dramatically different?  My hunch is it’ll be ironically different Ironically because the population will be larger.. The 2021 census information pegs Whistler’s population at 13,982 I’m rounding to 14,000 because I know there have to be at least 18 more who live in vans on couches and were undoubtedly missed because they never check the mail they don’t get or didn’t bother to respond.  Notwithstanding the current transit strike anyone who drives a car in Whistler knows the population is up I don’t know whether they actually last an hour or not but I do know there is a rush of SUVs heading both directions on the highway during what is typically thought of as rush hour It isn’t just the endless line of traffic north in the morning and south in the afternoon there’s an astounding flow coming south from points north as well in the morning and reversing that flow in the afternoon.  Also ironically because Whistler the Resort may emerge from the pandemic smaller Our growth was partly out of our control and partly fuelled by believing our own PR—successful resort with an unlimited flight path too-much growth began in 1989 when the municipality and province hammered out the details on Village North the large parcel of land the province picked up when it bailed the nascent resort out of bankruptcy earlier in the decade Village North—the land roughly north of the pedestrian bridge—was envisioned to be a seven-to-12-year development project virtually all of the parcels were sold and work was underway on most of them Whistler more or less doubled in the blink of an eye growing out of Intrawest’s Placemaking redevelopment of Creekside was an offer council of the day couldn’t pass up While acknowledging the preference would have been for a more phased redevelopment everyone believed Whistler would grow into its new shoes The direct result of both growth spurts was an almost single-minded effort by the Resort Municipality of Whistler Tourism Whistler and the Chamber of Commerce to pull out all the stops to put heads in beds that being pretty much the only metric driving their efforts That it worked was evidenced by the pre-pandemic focus on overtourism too soon is evidenced by the empty commercial locations the truncated opening hours/days of many businesses the partially opened venues on Whistler and Blackcomb and the handwringing over whether and when workerbees might begin to flock to Whistler again Not as sure they’ll continue to come back when they experience the decline in service levels and choices Not just because they fill jobs we’re struggling to fill but because they add a vibrancy to the resort sorely lacking in their absence may prove to have been dampened by the pandemic but I can’t believe it will have been extinguished It’s too much a part of the culture to disappear and there are too many people in the country with children ramping up on their own gap years who still harbour fond memories of their own time here to not have passed on the desire to find out for themselves if the stories are true Canadians and adventurers from other countries will reignite the spark and head here for a good time pricing and value for price will have to get a lot better for that to happen And with the changing reality of foreign ownership digital nomads encamping here because they can work anywhere and the ongoing inability of local business to entice retired and semi-retired people into the workforce I won’t be surprised to see the smaller Whistler sticking around for some time to come I’m also not sure that would be a bad thing I would like to thank you for your patience during a very challenging time for me I had a terrible fall fracturing several bones in my big toe I AM back and will once again write my bi-weekly column the first of which is part one highlighting Mercy Hospital and its pioneering physicians Mercy Hospital was about to come into being when the Samaritan Hospital was moved from Seventh Street and Sixth Avenue South to 1150 Fourth Ave S to become the first health care facility for African-American residents was located on Second Street near First Avenue North It was soon followed by a second hospital built in 1910 Neither of these hospitals provided medical care to black residents a prominent local developer for whom Roser Park is named offered to move the Samaritan Hospital to a new location to serve as a “Negro hospital.” The reasons for supporting the Negro hospital varied among the white community from feeling that everyone deserved medical care to the desire to confine communicable diseases within the black communities Often referred to as the “pest house,” Mercy primarily treated patients with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis or smallpox; it did not provide quality health care Petersburg purchased five acres of land on 22nd Street South to build the new Mercy Hospital The construction costs were estimated to range from $15,000 to $17,000 and the city hospital board agreed to pay the difference Progress on the construction of the new hospital was very slow the 3,500 square foot hospital opened still without a black physician on staff Not until 1926 did Mercy Hospital get its first African-American physician and their son Ernest moved here from Ocala He remained the only black staff physician for more than 10 years Ponder saw several expansions to the hospital Petersburg’s Mercy Hospital: A Community of Caring,” it states that in 1926 a permit was issued for a single-story addition to the hospital and two cottages were built two more cottages were added for a total of four small cottages constructed on the hospital grounds two wood-framed buildings were moved to the property to serve as the “colored clinic.” Mercy underwent two additional expansions in 1942 and again in 1947 becoming the hospital’s second black staff physician He arrived with his wife Helen and his three children in 1949 and provided medical care for the community for more than 35 years Alsup opened his private practice and joined the Mercy Hospital staff in 1950 Mercy Hospital now had three doctors on staff Alsup was also one of the pioneer civil rights activists in our community fighting against the segregated conditions in the hospitals and the city at large Ponder retired as city physician to the black community in 1951 and over the next few years three more physicians joined the Mercy Hospital staff: doctors Wimbish Ralph Wimbish established a practice in Tampa and built a home Petersburg and joined the staff at Mercy Hospital and was named assistant city physician Alsup’s patients when he was recalled to the military from 1953 until 1955 Taliaferro was the last black physician to join Mercy’s staff He initially established his practice in Clearwater but later moved to St Petersburg now had five black physicians providing quality health care to the African-American population in the city and surrounding areas This was accomplished even as they struggled with outdated equipment discarded from Mound Park White doctors from Mound Park performed surgical procedures Even under such adverse conditions in the fiscal year ending in Oct the hospital is reported to have performed 474 operations of which 273 were major surgeries and to have delivered more than 550 babies we will delve more into Mercy Hospital and its pioneering physicians Information for this article was sourced from “St Petersburg’s Mercy Hospital: A Community of Caring” by Lynn M  The publication was part of a project commemorating the historic Mercy Hospital Please visit the Historic Mercy Hospital gallery located in the Johnnie Ruth Clarke Health Center You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed.