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 The tiny town of Saalfeld exemplifies the country’s divisions the border between the German federal states of Bavaria and Thuringia is imperceptible The regional train that connects the Bavarian city of Nuremberg and the Thuringian town of Saalfeld passes through forested hills punctuated by small villages in the lower areas the first village in Thuringia when traveling from Bavaria there is a reminder that this wasn’t always the case when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) — East Germany — was founded Probstzella was a border train station where around 20 million people were controlled Although US troops were the first to arrive at Thuringia the territory — under the terms of a 1944 agreement between the Allies — was quickly transferred to Soviet troops Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov there is no physical border between Bavaria and Thuringia anymore but some significant differences remain.  Whereas Bavaria is the federal state with the second highest GDP per capita Thuringia has the lowest value in Germany — only 62% of the average Bavarian GDP as few eastern Germans access the top positions in politics These are grievances that the far-right has skillfully exploited often using immigrants and refugees as scapegoats with political messages that have very real consequences elected in 2023 the first district head in Germany from the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) right-wing violence in the district has multiplied by five the number of criminal offenses committed by right-wing extremists has broken records for two consecutive years a town less than 15 km (9 miles) north of the border between Thuringia and Bavaria elucidates the history of the two Germanies since 1949 and the reunited Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) since 1990.  prides itself on its thousand-year history and the nearby Feengrotten (Fairy Grottoes) The town and surrounding area are a microcosm of eastern Germany’s recent history Although Saalfeld has long had an industrial base agriculture is also an important economic activity it accorded with the GDR’s self-definition as “a socialist state of workers and farmers.” Saalfed was only atypical due to its closeness to the border which represented a constant reminder that Germany was a divided country the economic upheaval in Saalfeld was very much in line with the experience in other regions of eastern Germany you have to cross a bridge over the river Saale The current structure is a renovation of the bridge that was destroyed by the German army during the last days of the Second World War.  There are still traces of those days in the town a tower at the entrance of the town center there is a plaque honoring the 208 Saalfelders who died after a US bombing on April 9 Another plaque commemorates the prisoners from the Buchenwald concentration camp located 40 km (25 miles) north of Saalfeld forcibly evacuated in “death marches” ahead of the US troops’ arrival the new Communist regime privileged those who were deemed politically reliable and workers considered key to the economic recovery of the Saalfeld area Those who worked at the Maxhütte steel mill dubbed the “Mother of the Metallurgy” because it remained the only steelworks in the GDR until the early 1950s was seen as essential for the reconstruction of the country.  which could count on the economic potential of the Rhein-Ruhr industrial region profited from massive US investment in Europe under the framework of the Marshall Plan to recover from the war the GDR was severely weakened by Soviet looting at the end of the war and the ongoing reparations imposed by Moscow.  The groundwork for the split between the two Germanies was laid in the 1950s the GDR’s government implemented a program of land collectivization that sought to break up the old structures of aristocratic domination in the countryside the land collectivization process had a slow start Many low-income farmers in the area often believed they were better off cultivating their lands independently of the newly-created agricultural collectives or preferred to wait and see before making a decision land collectivization was virtually completed by the early 1960s.  there was still a significant flow of people between West and East Germany that had important effects on Saalfeld in part because of its geographic proximity to the FRG Although around 800 people arrived in Saalfeld from the FRG before the building of the Berlin Wall and some of those who abandoned Saalfeld were the kind of skilled professionals the GDR could not afford to lose in the effort to rebuild the country from personal reasons to a desire for higher salaries and greater political freedoms.  The opportunity to leave practically disappeared in 1961 with the construction of the Berlin Wall and the closure of the inner German border This was “a form of national house arrest” A specific example of this relative calm can be observed in the winter of 1969 to 1970 Even though there was a shortage of food and energy in the GDR because of record-low temperatures the GDR engaged in a major construction program of prefabricated buildings (Plattenbau) to provide affordable housing to the population the first Plattenbau was built in Gorndorf Walter Ulbricht was replaced by Erich Honecker as leader of the GDR social benefits improved and the agricultural sector underwent a mechanization process advanced technology programs were introduced to catch up with Western Germany Two of these new industrial plants were located in Thuringia The economic modernization program led to higher levels of debt in the 1980s around 7,000 people were working for Stasi in Thuringia by 1989 but also larger population centers in Thuringia remained a backwater to the protests in Leipzig and Dresden that hastened the collapse of the GDR.  and the other areas that belonged to the GDR experienced an immense shock after reunification such as freedom of association and open elections but also severe economic upheaval The first free and fair regional elections in the former GDR took place in October 1990 both in Saalfeld and the whole of Thuringia by the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of German chancellor Helmut Kohl who had completed the reunification process only days before the elections There was initial trust that the “flourishing landscapes” Kohl had promised for the East would materialize which had largely been in the hands of the state an agency created to transfer ownership from the decaying GDR state to private hands — most often those of Western German investors — was behind these dramatic changes.  once the “Mother of the Metallurgy” in the GDR became the private company “Stahlwerk Thüringen” in 1992 under the control of a corporation from Luxembourg The factory has changed owners multiple times since then and is now owned by a Brazilian company was by 1991 already in the hands of Stollwerck a chocolate manufacturer then headquartered in Cologne A former worker at Rotstern commented in 1992 to a reporter of the weekly magazine Der Spiegel that “this is not our company anymore” and the “company climate is not like before.”  four out of five eastern Germans lost their jobs or had to change their working places This was all the more traumatic because Eastern citizens were not used to unemployment which had been almost nonexistent in the GDR unemployment in the former GDR was around 10% and would remain very high during the early 2000s before falling rapidly later.  unemployment remained above 16% in the decade between 1996 and 2005 In a process replicated in many other areas of the former GDR Thuringia experienced a steep decline in its birth rate and lost 7% of its population in the first decade after reunification with a population of 32,349 people in 1994 was below 25,000 inhabitants in 2016 and only rose later in population due to administrative changes that widened the area of the town.  Once incorporated into the political system of the FRG the areas that formerly belonged to the GDR have retained their political specificities One of these specificities is lower levels of party membership among the population The center-right CDU and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) — the only two parties to have appointed a chancellor after the Second World War — combine for a smaller share of the vote in eastern Germany than in the rest of the country In the last elections to the German parliament in 2021 the two parties combined for 50% of the votes in the whole of the country 41% in former GDR areas and a meager 37% in Saalfeld a significant segment of the vote in eastern Germany has gone to two parties that have been perceived as representing eastern interests The Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) was the successor of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) It would later merge with left-wing Western groups to constitute a new party managed to gain close to or even more than a fifth of the votes in former GDR areas in every German election until 2017 which marked the entry to the German parliament of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) AfD has managed to capture votes from all other parties while taking away Die Linke’s mantle as the representative of eastern Germany In the last German-wide elections in June 2024 when Germany chose its representatives in the European Parliament the AfD obtained 29% of the votes in the areas of Germany that belonged to the GDR Die Linke had to content itself with 5.3%.  the most significant AfD election successes have come in eastern Germany the far-right party finished first in the five federal states that belonged to the GDR The profile of these two parties is very different The PDS/Die Linke gained credibility among voters as a defender of workers’ rights amid the wave of privatization and unemployment that followed reunification the AfD has a neoliberal profile and has been exploiting xenophobic grievances after the arrival of over a million asylum seekers in Germany in 2015 The AfD has also established a strong foothold in areas outside of the former GDR that Die Linke could not even dream of in its best days with 13% of the votes in western Germany in the June 2024 European elections the AfD won the regional elections in Thuringia represented the first win for a far-right party in a regional election in Germany since the end of the Second World War.  and even more with the rural areas surrounding it were among the places that contributed to this unprecedented result The AfD obtains better results in rural areas and in parts of the country that are going through a process of de-population Part of AfD’s success in eastern Germany is due to it being more rural and having undergone major de-population after reunification there are simply more grievances for the AfD to exploit in eastern Germany The economic inequalities between eastern and western Germany remain prominent to this day nine times fewer assets than their Western counterparts The average salary is also 20% lower in the areas that belonged to the former GDR and the gap has barely narrowed in the last two decades.  Almost eight decades after the end of the Second World War and thirty-five years after Germany’s reunification the echoes of the country’s division continue to shape politics today Marc Martorell Junyent is an author and researcher based in Munich He holds a Master in Comparative and Middle East Politics and Society at the University of Tübingen Inkstick is changing the face of 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View Obituary & Service Information The family of Fred Saalfeld created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories Made with love by funeralOne Could the little white farmhouse on the corner of College and East Garfield streets become Mt Local historians are close to deciding whether to turn the Saalfeld House into a history hotspot open to visitors The outcome depends on the cost of upgrading the quaint structure’s foundation and floor “The idea of turning the house into a museum is by no means dead but it’s taking time,” said Bill Predeek “Now contractors are going to evaluate what has to happen under the house and how much it’ll cost.” The late Henrietta Saalfeld donated her family home to the City of Mt stipulating that the yard become a public park.  MORE: 6 new downtown businesses greet Mt. Angel Oktoberfest visitors volunteers turned the tidy little yard into usable patio and park space the society’s board was cautiously optimistic about asking the city to use the house to store photographs documents and artifacts – and to possibly convert it into a museum someday As the nonprofit grew to its current size – a seven-person board serving 109 members – it successfully negotiated a one-year lease with city council followed by a 15-year lease that began in February.  the organization is now using the house as a home base for small meetings and archiving The lease agreement makes the city responsible for the building’s exterior and the historical society responsible for its interior The society has also verbally committed to spending up to $20,000 in repairs PHOTOS: Benedictine Brewery opens in Mt. Angel “It’s been wonderful to have what we’ve collected here so we can work toward organizing and categorizing information,” Predeek said Although the historical society only has a small annual operating budget – less than $5,000 last year – it already has in the bank a $30,000 donation toward the Saalfeld House project Repairs to the house could climb higher than that depending on the price tag contractors attach to the floor/foundation-reinforcement and other things Marion County requires the floor of an office building to support heavier usage than that of a residence Now the historical society is waiting to hear back from contractors about the cost of pouring additional footings inserting beams and any other necessary improvements WATCH: Hallie Ford Museum of Art Celebrates 20 years the society has been busy since its formation seven years ago Volunteers have digitized and organized photographs and documents started a DVD library With a presence online at www.mtangelhistory.org they regularly serve local residents and visitors inquiring about family history Predeek shared some of the latest finds: a photo album from Gary Epping about the city’s Flax Festival and Mt new information about the catastrophic fires at Mount Angel Abbey in the 1890s and 1926 and pottery recovered from an old hotel near the train station The evening meeting’s rapt audience viewed and commented on a series of photographs projected on a big screen in the grade school’s cafeteria MORE: Salem Public Library may trim upgrades as costs rise, should finish in 2021 “I love anything to do with history,” said Nancy Bochsler “It’s fascinating detective work Predeek and the rest of the board – treasurer Sue Tapia secretary Angie Brenden and at-large members Mary Ellen Butsch Stan Schoenfeld and Ann Ebner – were unanimously voted in to serve another year “By being involved with the historical society I’ve been able to find photos of my aunts and uncles – they’re gone now – and see them when they were young,” Brenden said “I wanted to go back and find my family history Angel’s history along the way.” MORE: Oregon: Where the baseball legends of 1906 go to retire? $170 million worth of business up for grabs after Saalfeld shutdown Join now from just £5 or LOG IN below OPI is the global business supplies industry's go-to hub for essential resources, news, analysis, information and networking. 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at European Molecular Biology Laboratory and International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility for Fiji image-processing school Pereanu for the confocal image of the larval fly brain the scientists who released their code under open-source licenses and made the Fiji project possible We want to thank Carl Zeiss Microimaging for access to the SPIM demonstrator were supported by US National Institutes of Health grant RC2GM092519 were funded by Human Frontier Science Program Young Investigator grant RGY0083 was supported by The European Research Council Community′s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) grant agreement 260746 Present address: Present addresses: Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics Germany (B.S.) and Janelia Farm Research Campus Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department of Computer Science of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Institute of Neuroinformatics of 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Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture (2024) Sign up for the Nature Briefing: AI and Robotics newsletter — what matters in AI and robotics research Howard and Susan Rohleder of Salem are announcing the engagement of their daughter He is the son of Tom and Kathy Saalfeld of Fort Thomas Following the bride elect’s graduation from Salem High School in 2003 she attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania for a bachelor’s degree in biology She currently works as a pathologists’ assistant in Cincinnati after receiving a master’s degree from Duke University in 2010 The prospective bridegroom graduated from Thomas Moore College in Kentucky He is employed as a software developer for a pharmaceutical research company A private ceremony will be held this fall in Cincinnati Copyright © 2025 Ogden News Publishing of Ohio Inc.: | https://www.salemnews.net | 161 North Lincoln the Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes are colorful caves full of stalactites and stalagmites Once a slate mining pit known as Jeremias luck the beautiful grottoes were declared the "most colorful grottoes of the world" by the Guinness Book of Records The biggest cave system in the Arabian Peninsula is home to a rare variety of blind fish At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves A series of idealized caves carved to entertain guests These caves secretly held national treasures during World War II Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora This archaeological site built into a tuff outcrop is filled with rock dwellings This network of roads is one of the most unique Etruscan creations ever discovered this cave built in the early 19th century houses an ancient stone sarcophagus at First United Methodist Church in Kearney Elizabeth (Liz) Renner Saalfeld passed away on May 5, 2016 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She was born to Philip and Ruth Renner on March 14, 1936 in Sikeston, Missouri. Liz, her husband, Fred and son Fred, Jr. were longtime residents of Kings Park... View Obituary & Service Information The family of Elizabeth (Liz) Renner Saalfeld created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories Elizabeth (Liz) Renner Saalfeld passed away on May .. .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By Mark Tower | mtower@mlive.comJim Saalfeld Kent County Board of Commissioners Chairman Jim Saalfeld MI -- Less than a month after winning reelection the chairman of the Kent County Board of Commissioners took new a job more than 100 miles away But Jim Saalfeld, R-Grand Rapids Township, said his two-hour commute to Ann Arbor will not impact his ability to serve District 11 constituents in East Grand Rapids "Just because I'm working 100 miles further away I'm no less accessible than I was before," Saalfeld said Saalfeld, 49, left his position as director of corporate and commercial affairs for Grand Rapids-based vacuum manufacturer Bissell in early November and assumed the post of chief executive officer for the Michigan District Church Extension Fund an arm of the Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod The nonprofit organization acts as an investment and lending institution for Lutheran churches Individual Lutherans are offered savings and investment opportunities through the fund which then uses its resources to issue loans to Lutheran institutions "It's just an outstanding organization," Saalfeld said "The fund has been around for 115 years and has $275 million in total assets It's just a great organization that has a great story to tell." Saalfeld recently served a 12-year stint on the Church Extension Fund Board he said he received a call early this year from a board member saying the current CEO was retiring and asking if he would be interested in applying for the position "I gave it some thought and ended up applying and interviewing," Saalfeld said "It was just an offer too good to turn down One of those career moves you get once in a lifetime." "I really enjoyed working at Bissell and the progress I had made there working with them," Saalfeld said The distance from his home and his constituents in Grand Rapids was one major downside Saalfeld said he plans to buy a condominium in Ann Arbor to ease the pain of commuting but will still live primarily in Grand Rapids "I am continuing to treat that as my primary residence," he said When Kent County Republicans held their caucus meetings late in November Saalfeld was nominated and selected to continue in his role as the board's chairman that likely means Saalfeld will be formally reelected as chairman during the board's first meeting in 2017 His intentions to continue serving as a commissioner and as the board's chairman were discussed during his interview with the Church Extension Fund "I let them know that I would be in Ann Arbor for much of the working week," he said "I also let them know that I would not be missing any meetings When I make a commitment to run I'm going to follow through with it I said that was one of the things they needed to accept with hiring me." Saalfeld said he also updated his fellow county commissioners on the new job "It was full disclosure and everything on both ends," he said "Everybody seems to be fine with it." Saalfeld said he has actually found himself more available to deal with county business during workdays than he was during his tenure at Bissell I sometimes had 12 meetings during the course of the day and I'm able to pretty much respond immediately if I get any calls." Saalfeld moved to Grand Rapids in 1992 when he started working as an attorney for local law firm Dykema Gossett He later worked 12 years as vice president and general counsel of Meritage Hospitality Group helping the company transition from hotel chains to management of a regional Wendy's franchise and other restaurants Saalfeld headed his own Grand Rapids law firm from 2009-13 He was first elected to the Kent County Board of Commissioners in 2010 and has served three consecutive two-year terms winning election to a fourth in November 2016 Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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One user, Ammodramus has taken time to photograph county courthouses but he/she released all their photos to the public domain That generosity deserves a shout out and since this is my last article of the county series The county was formed in 1855 and named after the mighty Platte River The county seat is Columbus (so named after Columbus Ohio) and is located where the Platte and Loup Rivers come together Census-designated and unincorporated communities include: Lakeview The town of Humphrey is where Ranchdude and I procured most of the flooring for our house The Catholic church in town built a new school and auctioned off everything (and I mean everything) from the old building right down to the flooring but we salvaged about 2000 square feet of maple floor We have 110 year old floors in our 15 year old house The flooring we bought (for a grand total of $20) came from the upper floors The rooms there were the bedrooms for the nuns Ranchdude likes to tell everyone we have virgin maple floors The small town of Tarnov recently celebrated the 75th anniversary of when they were “bombed” by the U.S. military in a training exercise gone awry Mistaking Tarnov for their actual bombing range near Stanton the Army dropped seven bombs on the townin 1943 With the townspeople unaware that they were actually filled with sand instead of explosives The town was evacuated and the military removed six of the devices The seventh was found later and is now on display in the Tarnov museum The city of Columbus built its first runaway in 1929 the city is home to one of the FAA’s automated Flight Service Stations that is used throughout the state Columbus also called itself the “Crossroads of the Nation” due to its location at the intersection of federal highways 30 and 81 (originally known as the Meridian Highway) Another interesting nugget about Columbus from the Virtual Nebraska website: blight days of the 1930s -- Columbus leaders revived the earlier dream of harnessing water power to generate electricity By using government money (authorized for self-liquidating projects) it also helped alleviate local unemployment by providing jobs in the midst of the Great Depression Columbus was the birthplace of public power in Nebraska continues to produce great quantities of hydro-electric power Anyone who drives in rural Nebraska quickly notices how heavily farms in this state rely upon center pivot irrigation for watering crops The town of Lindsay is home to one of the major manufacturers the chief of the Holy Jim Volunteer Fire Department who spent nearly five decades as the most ardent advocate for the remote cabin community in the Cleveland National Forest Milligan, who made it one of his life’s missions to protect Holy Jim Canyon from fires – and what he frequently described as wayward land-and-water-use policies enacted by the federal and state governments – died in his sleep on Aug He had been sick for about a week with flu-like symptoms Milligan posthumously tested negative for COVID-19 in the Orange County portion of the Cleveland National Forest whose founding residents were Union soldiers In 2018, the Holy fire – which fire investigators said was caused by arson – destroyed several cabins And had it not been for the work of federal and county firefighters A complex web of state and federal policies makes it illegal for the Volunteer Fire Department to use water from the creeks – and unlikely that cabin owners would get the OK to rebuild destroyed cottages when discussing the possibility of Holy Jim eventually vanishing Milligan was Holy Jim’s steadfast patriarch leading the community for around one-third of its approximately 150-year history a mother to three children and a nurse at Providence Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo She sat on the cabin’s patio on Thursday afternoon “They are just such overwhelming shoes to fill,” Saalfeld said Michael Patrick Milligan was born on May 25 His mother left when Milligan was 2 years old having a middle-class upbringing; he was mostly raised by his aunt He attended Cal State Long Beach for several years bringing him below the number of units needed for full-time status who served as a Marine during the Vietnam War and decades later befriended Milligan while they both worked at Lowe’s rarely discussed his military service with his family But he and Esphorst bonded over their time in Vietnam was able to be alone longer than many of his fellow soldiers So he spent much of his time in Vietnam perched on hills He received multiple commendations and was struck by shrapnel in a leg before eventually receiving an honorable discharge in July 1974 commercial broker and property manager – and as a Lowe’s employee receiving a degree in English and eventually even obtaining a master’s degree in English as well from CSULB he sold a house to a woman named Kate Cannan “I got out of my car and he got out of his and that was it,” his widow said The family spent countless days sequestered in Holy Jim Canyon Milligan would take Saalfeld on walks as a young child Saalfeld regularly visited with her three children and her husband Those who knew him described Milligan as equal turns gruff and kind obstinate in his desire to defend Holy Jim and inquisitive “I think that’s why he liked it up here,” Saalfeld said a blaze claimed the life of a Forest Service firefighter and several Holy Jim cabins bringing sludge that washed out a road and forced several drivers to squeeze out of car windows organizing his fellow volunteer firefighters “They are the first line of defense,” Capt “And no one knows the area better than they do.” At least 13 cabins burned when a fire, which investigators and prosecutors say was started by arson, scorched thousands of acres of forest in Orange and Riverside counties. Cabin owner Forrest Clark has been charged with igniting the fire though he and his attorneys have denied that “There were suggestions that my Dad started the fire and he was going to have to testify,” Saalfeld said of one of Clark’s possible defenses Kate Cannan Milligan; eldest daughter Chelsea Redwood and granddaughter Nikelle; middle daughter Jennifer Vargas and grandson Cannan; and youngest daughter Katie Saalfeld and with Holy Jim having newer and younger residents now after the 2018 fire Milligan once again started preaching prevention measures ©2022 MediaNews Group, Inc. Visit dailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 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MI – Republican Dan Koorndyk has been selected as the new chairman of the Kent County Commission by his party’s caucus on Tuesday and likely will replace outgoing county board chairman Sandi Frost Parrish said she’s stepping down after three terms as board chairwoman and is encouraged the bipartisan spirit many credit her with engendering will continue was selected by Republicans as vice chairman The full county board is slated to conduct its annual leadership votes Jan but Koorndyk’s and Saalfeld’s selections to one-year terms are considered secure as Republicans hold a 15-4 majority on the county board Parrish has long said there are few partisan issues facing the county board She chalked up to personality conflicts the partisan rancor which erupted about six years ago when she was first elected commissioner “At a time when national politics has become more partisan it’s refreshing to see it going the other way at the local level,” Parrish said proud of the way we did it and I think that’s going to continue.” said he plans to maintain the minority vice chairman post created in 2008 after a near record number of Democrats were elected to the county board D-Grand Rapids and the only person so far to serve in that capacity said that move is an indication that attempts at continued bi-partisanship will continue “It is a continued effort toward bipartisanship,” she said “It shows a continued respect and resolve to involve everybody who is elected to the commission.” Koorndyk ascends to the county board’s top spot after serving as its vice chairman Koorndyk has served on the county board between 2000 and 2006 when he was ousted by now state Rep Koorndyk has served as chairman on both the board’s standing committees which oversee finances and legislative issues as well as other boards including the West Michigan Sports Commission He said continuing the minority vice chair post is an attempt to continue the bi-partisanship and focus many including Koorndyk say Parrish was so talented at maintaining “It shows that we’re working together as a team and getting things accomplished for the citizens of the county,” Koorndyk said “We all work together on the county board regardless of party Sandi’s done a phenomenal job and provided a lot of leadership in helping us work toward non-partisan goals.” Koorndyk noted he’s the first county board chairman to reside in Grand Rapids since the mid 1990’s and added Saalfeld will provide a continued perspective from the township level Before his election to the county board in 2010 Saalfeld served on the Grand Rapids Township Board for three years after four years on the township’s Planning Commission In the spring of 1895, Louis C. Tiffany, of stained-glass and jewelry fame, held a lavish “Mayflower Festival” to benefit a local hospital. “Among the evening’s entertainments,” writes culinary historian Cathy K. Kaufman, “was an Easter egg tree, dazzling with different colored eggs.” This wasn’t unusual at the time many Americans carefully emptied whole eggs of their contents and colored them brightly for Easter hanging them on tree branches with scraps of ribbon or thread For months each year, residents of San Biagio in Sicily team up to build life-size structures made of local herbs, cereals, and bread. This monumental display is both centuries old and one of Italy’s most fantastical traditions: the Arches of Bread Every year around Orthodox Easter, Georgian cemeteries fill with families drinking wine, nibbling on platters of sweet bread, and rolling eggs dyed a deep blood red. They cry, they offer sweet words of remembrance, and they eat. It’s all part of a longstanding Georgian tradition of dining with the dead every spring It’s hard to imagine celebrating Easter, a holiday of spring and rebirth, in the middle of a war. But in Ukraine bakers are still making their Easter breads egg-laced breads are part of nearly every European country’s celebratory menu occasionally baking them into towering domes with lots of icing Almost every holiday comes with its own accompanying foodstuff. Easter treats seem self-evident: chocolate, eggs, and chocolate eggs. But for hundreds of years, the English ate something entirely different at Easter: a sweet, herbal concoction—somewhere between a pancake and an omelet—known as a tansy. It was green, herbal, and slightly toxic. In Auxerre Cathedral and other places of worship in northern France, on Easter Monday in the medieval era, clergy gathered around the church’s labyrinth, danced in a circle, and tossed a ball from person to person—a joyful celebration of Easter We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the world’s hidden wonders Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month Follow us on Twitter to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders This April marks the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster documentaries and products coming out to commemorate the event Even the beauty industry is trying to capitalize on the centennial event.  QVC has launched a special perfume called Legacy 1912 Titanicä as a tribute to the history and allure of the Titanic story The perfume is actually based off of the scents created by British perfume maker Aldophe Saalfeld Saalfeld was a passenger on the Titanic and brought along perfume samples in his luggage for the transatlantic journey he had to leave his samples behind as he abandoned ship Sixty-two of 65 vials of Saalfeld's perfume samples were recovered from the bottom of the ocean near the ship Many of the artifacts remained intact and the scented oils untouched after nearly 100 years buried beneath the ocean The Legacy 1912 Titanicä combines scents based on those Saalfeld oils and the fragrance features notes such as lemon The perfume retails for $69 and will ship out July 9 The online retail site is currently accepting advance orders for the 2.5-ounce bottles What do you think of this Titanic-inspired fragrance Do you think it is a romantic tribute or a cheesy gimmick but recordings of their incendiary sermons have continued to inspire jihadists and their sympathisers in the wider East African region The Mombasa-based IPK was established by a group of young Muslim middle-class professionals in the early 1990s These activists envisioned the political leaders of Kenya’s Muslim minority working together with non-Muslim actors to advance Muslims’ socio-political standing the IPK’s founding fathers included an assertive religious reference in their party’s name the Kenyan authorities refused to register the IPK and resorted to heavy repression against the new party leading to its disintegration in the mid-1990s The southern coastal Ansar Sunnah movement emerged around the Salafi cleric Abdulaziz Rimo in the former district of Kwale in the 1980s Rimo pursued an agenda fundamentally opposed to democracy and the conventional state he called on his followers to boycott secular education and state employment When in 1992 a delegation of IPK activists tried to convince Rimo to campaign for them he stuck to his rejectionist dogma until he died in 2015 Yet these narratives provide an unbalanced account of the local dynamics of Islamist activism it is crucial not to overstate the link between the fate of the IPK and the rise of coastal jihadism none of Kenya’s leading jihadist preachers had been an IPK activist After initially moving towards militancy in the face of massive state repression the network behind the IPK became largely integrated into the Kenyan political process While some activists turned towards Kenyan mainstream parties others became active in an expanding NGO sector The fact that most of the IPK’s activists swiftly abandoned the aggressive rhetoric they had adopted following the state’s hostile reaction to the party’s creation can be attributed to the pragmatic Muslim empowerment agenda the party was rooted in Although this agenda included Islamic references such as the call for the establishment of modern Islamic schools and universities it did not fundamentally question the secular Kenyan nation-state As regards the recent history of the Ansar Sunnah movement while some “Ansaris” became affiliated with Somali-based jihadist circles others turned their back on the extreme isolationism of the movement’s founding father Abdulaziz Rimo Several former disciples of Rimo have become involved in mainstream Islamic NGOs such as the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya others have established a state-recognised primary school going against Rimo’s preaching against secular education Heightened exposure to the teachings of Abdulaziz Rimo has been neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for individual activists to develop jihadist worldviews the histories of the IPK and the Ansar Sunnah movement underline the multi-faceted and non-linear dynamics of Islamist activism in coastal Kenya and the wider East African region Unlike what popular narratives might suggest local Islamist action has not irreversibly shifted towards violent jihadism Photo credit:  used with permission CC BY 2.0 Jannis Saalfeld is a researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) and a PhD candidate at the University of Duisburg-Essen Hassan Mwakimako is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Pwani University Bad Behavior has blocked 6173 access attempts in the last 7 days NFL quarterback Michael Vick has re-established his relationship with Nike two years after his release from prison after a dog fighting conviction the star National Football League quarterback whose career was sidelined by a dog fighting conviction has reached an endorsement agreement with athletic equipment maker Nike "We have re-signed Michael Vick as a Nike athlete," said Megan Saalfeld, a Nike (NKE, Fortune 500) spokeswoman currently on the roster of the Philadelphia Eagles served 20 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to bankrolling a dog fighting operation The conviction cost him a $2 million endorsement deal with Nike and a 10-year $130 million contact with the Atlanta Falcons He has since emerged as a spokesman against dog fighting "Michael acknowledges his past mistakes," Saalfeld said but we support the positive changes he has made to better himself off the field." Vick said in a statement that he is "thrilled" to be back with Nike "I am thrilled to be on the Nike roster The brand represents the most exciting athletes in sports," Vick said "My focus is now on preparing for the football season and performing at the highest level for my team and my fans." Vick signed his first post-conviction deal in January, when he sealed a two-year contract with Unequal Technologies a company that makes protective athletic gear He had worn Unequal apparel after suffering a rib injury against the Washington Redskins in the 2010-2011 season -- CNN's David Close contributed to this report.  A 73-year-old woman was readmitted to the hospital with cachexia (BMI 14 kg/m�) Chest CT again showed bilateral bronchiectasis in the lower lobes as first detected in 2012 this time with displacement of the lumina by large collections of exudate the patient declined invasive diagnostic endoscopy The new CT featured a prominent left-sided finger-in-glove sign indicating displacement of the major airways by mucus Because clinical examination had shown exacerbated bronchiectasis (CRP on admission: 63.4 mg/l [Dr Klinik f�r Diagnostische und Interventionelle Radiologie Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that no conflict of interest exists Translated from the original German by David Roseveare Ghopreal T: Massive mucoid impactions in a 73-year-old woman entwickelt von L.N. Schaffrath DigitalMedien GmbH .st1{fill-rule:evenodd;clip-rule:evenodd;fill:#2a2a2a}By The Associated Press | MassLiveAssociated PressVolker Kraft decorates a tree with 10,000 Easter eggs in the garden of the retired couple Christa and Volker Kraft in Saalfeld The Kraft family has been decorating their tree for Easter for more than forty years.SAALFELD Germany — You thought Easter eggs don't grow on trees Check out Volker Kraft's garden in eastern Germany Kraft's apple sapling sported just 18 eggs when he first decorated it for Easter in 1965 The number increased year by year; and by last year the sturdy tree was festooned with 9,800 eggs artfully decorated with everything from sequins to sea shells Kraft has reached 10,000 — and he says he's stopping there "There will be no increase because I do not have storage capacity anymore," the 76-year-old retiree says "I would have to sleep with the eggs otherwise." Kraft's tree in the town of Saalfeld has become a tourist attraction Decorating trees with colored eggs at Easter is a tradition in Germany — though usually on a smaller scale Kraft started with plastic eggs decades ago but later switched to real eggs and enlisted his family's help in blowing out the insides of the eggs and painting them "You can now see here what develops after 47 years the wife blows the eggs and the children start painting," he says Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, (updated 8/1/2024) and acknowledgement of our Privacy Policy, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (updated 1/1/2025) © 2025 Advance Local Media LLC. 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