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Chair design has evolved slowly through the centuries, but an innovative designer -- using new materials or new structural shapes -- can make furniture that looks radically different from anything else that's on the market.George Hunzinger was a German cabinetmaker who moved to New York in 1855. He patented furniture designs using new materials and new technology. Many of his chairs looked as if they were made from machine parts such as pipes, screws or bolts. Some were folding chairs and some were rigid chairs that just looked as if they could fold.

On May 11, 2004 LOUISE E. HOCK resident at Edenwald, beloved daughter of the late John and Lulu (nee House) Hock. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (Beltway Exit 26A) on Saturday from 9 to 10 a.m. at which time a funeral service will be held. Interment Baltimore Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.

Willem Roosenburg reached into a white bucket and pulled out a terrapin the size of a hamburger. The Ohio University professor waved a scanner over the freshwater turtle, recording the data from the tiny transponder in its leg before handing Lulu back to her handlers, first-graders from Frank Hebron-Harman Elementary School in Hanover. Tuesday was the last time the first-graders saw the turtle after spending nine months nurturing the hatchling in their classroom tank. It was time to release her and her brother, Blue, back into the Chesapeake Bay surrounding Poplar Island.

TODAY, WHILE many are out returning gifts or catching year-end bargains, let's muse on Robert Redford's words in his most recent Sundance catalog of merchandise: "Holidays again. Forgive me while I dodge the rumble of the million-footed throngs that have succumbed to the marketing ether for Christmas and its days. Can we, without disappointing the children and others who long for the surprise of gift giving, just look to a different value to digest?" One might say -- if in a jaundiced mood -- that this is a little holier-than-thou, appearing in a catalog of things to buy!

On April 9, 2006, HENRY R. BUMBA Sr., husband of the late Helena Lulu Bumba, loving father to six children, seven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Also survived by one brother. Friends may call at the Tarring-Cargo Funeral Home, P.A., 333 S. Parke Street, Aberdeen, MD, on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M where funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 10 A.M. Interment Harford Memorial Gardens. Contributions may be made to the ARC of Harford County or the Muscular Dystrophy or to the charity of your choice.

On September 10, 2007, OLGA T. DAVIDOVSKI, former wife of Srebro Davidovski, M.D.; loving mother of Florence Davidovski, M.D., Mira Davidovski and LuLu Kauffman; dear sister of Jean-Marie Tognet. Also survived by three grandchildren. The family will receive friends at the family owned Ruck Towson, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26 A) Thursday, 4 to 7 p.m. where a Memorial Service will be held Saturday, at 2 p.m. Interment private. The family suggests memorial contributions in her memory to: Johns Hopkins University Annual Giving, 3003 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.

Fat Lulu's, 1818 Maryland Ave., (410) 685-4665. Open Mondays to Fridays for lunch and dinner, Saturdays for dinner only. AE, MC, V. No-smoking area: no. Prices: appetizers, $3.95- $9.95; entrees, $9.95-$15.75. ***1/2Driving past Fat Lulu's you'd probably never dream of stopping there to eat. From the outside it looks like a neighborhood bar with a funny name, nothing more. It's in a block of MarylandAvenue that's being gentrified, with intriguing little antiques and oddities shops; but at night the area is pretty deserted.

We all know what a NIMBY is.When people object to the placement of a proposed landfill, an incinerator, a jail, an animal rendering plant or a tavern favored by bikers near their homes, the complaint often invokes the term NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard).But do they also qualify as NIMFYEs?What is a NIMFYE? Apparently, it is reserved for something even more undesirable than a NIMBY; it stands for Not In My Front Yard Either.I bet you have never heard of a LULU or a BANANA, either. (If you want their definitions, you will have to read on.)

At your service: 18th-century comedy Washington's Kennedy Center begins its celebration of the arts of the United Kingdom on Tuesday with Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century comedy, "A Servant of Two Masters," co-produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company and London's Young Vic Theater Company. Goldoni's commedia dell'arte script has been adapted for this production by British playwright Lee Hall, screenwriter of "Billy Elliot." The other two theatrical components of the British festival are an adaptation of George Eliot's "The Mill on the Floss" (May 15-June 10)

JOHN DAVID JOHNSON, JR., of St. Michaels, MD died at 82 on Saturday, June 18, 2005 in Easton, MD. John lived in Baltimore, MD from his birth in 1923 until he joined the Coast Guard in 1942. He married Martha Lulu May in 1945 and spent his career with AB&W Transit in Alexandria, VA until he retired in 1974 as President. John has spent the last 30 years on the Eastern Shore of Maryland where he and his sons have owned and operated the Lu-Ev Framing Shop in Easton, MD. John's beloved wife Martha, passed away in 1994.