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Mimi Faust was given the shock of her life on Monday night's episode of Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 3 when her boyfriend, Nikko, confirmed rumors that he's a married man. Now it looks like someone else (aside from Nikko's wife, obviously) knew Nikko was taken — Love & Hip Hop alum and Mimi's former friend K. Michelle.
In a new interview with Hip Hollywood, Kay reveals that she was actually "flown in to break the news about him being married," but didn't have the chance, since Mimi refused to film with her because "they know my mouth."
Despite not filming with her former friend, K. Michelle says, "I love Mimi to death," and adds it was the reason why she reached out to the Atlanta star on the night the secret came to light.
"That's why I had to tweet her and be like I poke fun and do jokes, but at the end of the day you're not a bad person and you really don't deserve that."
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Rumors have been swirling since almost the start of the year. Celeb site Jezebel.com wrote on Jan. 6: "Mark it in your calendars: Today's the day that love officially died."
The site was picking up a RadarOnline "exclusive" that Johnny Depp's long-term relationship with French actress Vanessa Paradis is "on the rocks."
A source said their 14 years together (they are not married) was "heading toward the end."
Last week, the gossip was that a "miserable" Depp had fallen for his "Dark Shadows" co-star, Eva Green, 31.
Now People magazine is devoting its cover story this week to "Love Gone Wrong" and says Depp, 48, and Paradis, 39, who are parents to Lily-Rose, 12, and Jack, 9, have not appeared side-by-side on a red carpet for more than a year. Multiple sources tell People the relationship is all but officially finished and quotes an insider as saying, "It's so sad."
French actress Vanessa Paradis (L) and her partner Johnny Depp (R) arrive to attend the Figaro Madame/Chanel dinner during the 63rd Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2010 in Cannes.
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A teisho1 is a dharma talk given by a Zen teacher, usually during sesshin. In Soko Morinaga's memoir Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity, each chapter, though far more autobiographical than is typical of the form, has the style & feel of a teisho, a teaching. The book relates in a very straightforward manner the author's journey from Rinzai novice immediately after World War II to dharma holder & highly regarded Rinzai teacher. He was an important figure in bringing Zen from Japan to the US, so his story has historical significance; but he is also a graceful writer whose story — in the way of the best memoirs — transcends the particulars of time & place to say something important or at least interesting about what it means to live a human life. In the case of a memoir by a Zen master, genre & subject matter�reinforce each other.
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05/18/2010, At Sea
We finished with customs and left the dock about 1pm on Monday. Winds have been light, with squally conditions and most on the noise and we have been motor sailing on and off to put some miles behind us. Being at the dock for six months have left us with no sea legs, so we are just trying to take it easy and just keep the boat moving. 880 miles to go.
Testing remote system before leaving for Vanuatu.
We finally left the dock and went sailing (mostly motor sailing) for the long holiday weekend to the Great Barrier Island. On Thursday afternoon, we left work and motored the long way up the river to Marsden Cove to anchor for the night so we would have a good start on the 60 mile trip. Gerry, a co-worker who used to live on the island, came along to show us around and make sure we caught fish. When he went down for a nap, Russ caught a fish for dinner on the line he had rigged up. On Friday, we anchored at the south-east part of the island at Medlands Beach. Gerry jumped off the boat with his surfboard to catch a few rides and then we BBQ's the fish for dinner. The anchorage and beach were beautiful but rolly, so Saturday afternoon, we decided to move the west side of the Island to Tryphena. Since we were in a more populated location, we were able to rent a car on Sunday and drive around to see more of the island (see photo gallery). Then Monday we started off at 3am to make it back before low tide in Whangarei and Tuesday it was back to work. Way too short!
We took a weekend trip to show Joel and Robin Auckland. On Saturday after a scenic drive down, we all indulged ourselves on Oriental food and going to see "Alice in Wonderland" in 3D at the IMAX theater. We also got to spend time with our friends, Stacy and John Stuart on Lightfoot, who joined us for drinks and eats and sailboat racing.
On Sunday morning, we lined up early for free tickets on a spectator boat for the final race of the Louis Vuitton series. The City Council of Auckland had lined up a luxurious sailing/motor cat for the 2 race weekends to allow the "average person" to enjoy some Louis Vuitton racing. They were able to accomodate 120 passengers for morning and afternoon cruises. The race we saw turned out to be the deciding race as Team New Zealand beat Mascalzone Latino Audi Team (Italy) for their 2nd win in the best of 3 finals. This is match racing at its finest and we were able to see it both on the big screen TV on the spectator boat and by looking out at the course. The parties at Viaduct harbor were starting even before the boats returned to the dock.
On our third trip to Russell, we finally found the "Welcome to Russell" sign as we drove by it and had to pull a u-turn to get the picture. We spent a pleasant weekend touring Northland by car with our house (boat) guests, Joel and Robin, who were visiting from Tonga. On Saturday we enjoyed the Kauri museum and on Sunday, we visited "romantic Russell". Our guests especially enjoyed the cool New Zealand weather.
02/06/2010, Whangarei, New Zealand
It is a long time since we sent an update and after a stressful passage, we have made it to New Zealand. We spend 5 days in Opua , checking in and getting organized. Found checking in easy and all officials were very professional and courteous. We arrived at the end of the All-Points-Rally to Opua so only got to go to their closing party. The next night we traveled by ferry to Russell to see the town and hear Bob McDavitt speak, (a New Zealand weather Guru) He was very knowledgeable and entertaining which was surprising since we have so much trouble making sense of his Weathergrams (we are working on the local vernacular). The next day we left for Whangarei (pronounced Fong- ga-ray) to get settled before Russ started work.
We are now in Whangarei tied to a dock in the Riverside Drive Marina. Russ has a job in a rig shop (they call it a factory in NZ) and Debbie is working in the office of the same business. We have bought a car and cell phone. Cruising has been great this year, but it is also great to be connected to the grid after a year of constant moving and being at anchor. We like Whangarei which a medium sized city (about 78,000) on the North Island of New Zealand. It is up a river 2 hours from the ocean, so we are here to stay for awhile, since leaving is a long way and can only be done when the tide is right. Since we now have a little car (Honda Civic) we are getting to see parts of the Northland by land trips. Debbie is trying to get used to driving on the wrong (left) side of road and all the round-a-bouts. (Russ grinds his teeth a lot these days.) There are great walking and hiking trails very close to where we are staying and it is so nice to be somewhere where the streets and trails are clean and well maintained.
New Zealanders really take their holidays seriously and all business close for the week between Christmas and New Years, so after working for the company for 3 weeks, Russ had a 10 day (paid) vacation. We spent Christmas in Whangarei, having a potluck dinner with our fellow cruisers in the marina. Dave cooked a leg of lamb on the BBQ and we all brought other dishes to share. It was about 75 degrees out and didn't get dark until 9:30, so Christmas dinner outdoors was very successful. A couple of days later we got in our car and started driving around Northland. The first stop was Hundertwasser's Kawakawa Toilets. Not that stopping for a toilet is such an unusual concept for Debbie, it was the first time she took pictures of the toilet in question. Next we visited the seaside town of Kerikeri which was one of the first places to be settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and is the site of New Zealand's two oldest buildings, the Kemp House and the Stone Store. We also toured Rewa's Village . This is a full-scale recreation of a pre-European Maori village which details traditional aspects of life including a marae, the chief's house, a cooking area, weapons, store, fishing canoe and hangi pit (ground oven). We spent the night camping (in a tent) at a bird sanctuary called Aroha Island (our first night off the boat in a long time). The next day we drove north to Cape Reinga, where the Tasman meets the Pacific Ocean. Great views.
We also visited a Kauri forest and saw the largest and second largest Kauri tree in New Zealand. The forests here are green and lush, with streams and waterfalls. New Zealanders will proudly tell you that it is safe to hike in the woods in NZ because they have no snakes and no dangerous animals. Outside of possums and rats, they virtually have no land mammals, but a wonderful collection of birds. So far, the only Kiwi we have seen was in captivity, but he was in a display set up to be as close to his natural habitat as possible. In the wild, Kiwis are nocturnal and shy of humans, so they are hard to spot. Hopefully we will get lucky before we leave but understand that many New Zealander live here there whole life and never see a Kiwi in the wild.
Since we are working, we are now only doing weekend trips and sightseeing. This is being alternated with the long list of boat projects, we need to complete before we leave here in the spring (NZ's fall). We did get to visit Auckland where we stayed with our cruising friends, the Stuarts, on their boat Lightfoot which is mooring on the Viaduct. They took on a great tour of the city's parks and downtown area and of course, eateries. We had brunch in the Sky Tower in a restaurant that rotates every hour and 10 minutes, giving a constant different view of the city. We watched the cable jumpers leap from the building and plummet to the ground where of course the cables are tightened as the reach the jump deck.
The last couple of weekends have been boat projects, but hopefully more sightseeing next week.
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Panorama City and Neighbors Community Partnership Meeting - February 23
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
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BEST START focuses on making families stronger, building on current work and bringing much-needed resources to the community. You know your community, and that's why your ideas and support are so important in transforming your neighborhood into a Best Start community. Working together, Best Start partners will create communities where all young children have:
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Do you have friends, family and colleagues who would be interested in joining Best Start? Invite them to attend a meeting with you or encourage them to sign up at BestStartLA.org.
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What I've really enjoyed about writing this column is talking to people in all areas of the "Elvis/ETA" business and learning from them. This month, for example, I've tackled a topic about which I previously knew next to nothing -- and that is the lighting effects that go into making a spectacular backdrop at a concert or large venue.
Jeff and Beth Griffin were in the Griffin Brothers Band also. They were hired together at the Rainbow Theatre, in l995, for the new show that was opening there. Ava Barber and Eddie Miles were the stars of the show. They did not have a light man so Jeff and Beth told them about me, and it was decided that it would be cheaper to give me a shot than to have to actually pay a real light man. I had to direct traffic in the parking lot before the show, do the lights for the show and then clean up the theatre after the show for a price that I would rather not say but it got me in the door. About two years later, Eddie opened his theatre in N. Myrtle Beach and asked me to come along with some of the band members to the beach. Eventually, the lease to the theatre was sold to a fellow who kept the Elvis show going and hired another Elvis named Rick Alviti. I worked for him at the theatre for about two years also. Rick, like Eddie, is also a really nice guy and now doing road shows. And I'm now working full time for Eddie Miles on his road shows -- so, here we are today!
George also filled me in on other aspects of his work -- explaining in language that I could understand (thanks George!).
(Some technical explanations below, for those who may be working with lights)
an acl effect with lecos acl lights are the white lights that I point downward in a fan shape. They have a really narrow beam. At these road shows I usually have four on both sides and five in the middle. The acl is a special light that is only 250 watts when most lights are 1000 watts but pack the same if not more punch. You usually have to wire in 4 together so they don't get overloaded and blow, because dimmers that run the lights are around 1300 watts. On these road shows it seems no one ever has acl lights so to do the white fan look that I like I have to make it with some other lights. Lecos or ellipsoidal are lights that I can do this effect with. They are usually at every place we go to. They have 4 flat metal pieces on each side that you can slide in to chop the beam down. I chop them way down to make a nice narrow beam and then focus it in a fan the way I like. Most Lighting people don't know you can get an acl effect out of lecos.
lights pointing up the cyc The cyc is usually white and it is the back wall of the stage that you see during shows. It is made out of cloth usually but sometimes plastic. It can be whatever color I make it with lights. Cyc colors are usually red, blue and green. This way you can mix the colors to get a lot of different colors. But to get the cyc more involved than just shades of colors you can put shapes on it. You can get shapes from some lights by putting a gobo in it. A gobo can be made out of a lot of different kinds of materials but the basic ones are steel. They make all kinds of patterns you can buy. But another effect on the cyc that a lot of people don't use because they must have never seen it done, is to have lights pointing up it in a fan shape. I usually just have the lights white but I have put green gels in them for Christmas time. (Gels are the sheet of color that you can put in front of the lights to make them whatever color). You can use all sorts of lights for this effect. At the theatre I just used regular par cans. But most of time at these road shows I use lecos or ellipsoidal, because the cyc is usually so big that I need to chop in the sides to a separation between the beams so you can actually see the fan that I am trying to create.
Highlights That Stand Out? I have done a lot of shows because many acts came through the theatres... Ronnie McDowell, The Drifters, The Byrds, Chubby Checker, The Ink Spots, gospel singer Michael English, and some I can't even remember. I worked in Pigeon Forge for BJ Thomas for a couple of months. Some of the best times were working with Elvis' former band members. I did lights for Ronnie McDowell in Pigeon Forge and Scotty Moore was with him. We had two shows one day and went out to eat between them. I sat right across from Scotty at a booth with the four of us sitting there eating. Scotty was telling us stories of the old days with Elvis. And - I remember the times I worked with JD Sumner and the Stamps in Myrtle Beach. We did so many shows and they would tell us so many stories about the good old days with Elvis. Ed Enoch would have us rolling with laughter with some of the stories. I also worked on JD's last show. It really was a sad time.
When we went to Memphis for "Elvis Week" in August 2002, it was just great being back stage with all those guys again...talking to Scotty Moore, The Stamps, The Jordanaires, DJ Fontana, Boots Randolph, and the others.
J.D. Sumner
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Chubby Checker
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Before the show? As all the shows are "road shows," at many different venues, George usually sends the people at the venue a "tech rider" ahead of time. This is basically a detailed list of what equipment the show will be using (sound, lighting, rigging, special effects, electrical, communication, stage, and crew requirements), what he will be providing himself, and what needs to be available at the venue -- along with an indication of how the show will proceed. As soon as he gets to the venue on show day, he works, along with the sound man, on getting the sound and lights ready.
George has a lot of equipment that he sets up and takes down himself and this usually takes quite a few hours of concentrated work. He uses his own light board along with the light boards available in the various venues he works at. He says there are a lot of different boards and even though he is familiar with most of them, he does run into new ones which he has to learn how to run once he gets to the theatre.
Challenges? One of the biggest challenges, says George, is having to make his own lighting plot for each show (his lighting scheme and the placement of lights, etc.) work with what the different venues have available to use. As he says, it's a mental challenge and the mental part of the job is harder than the physical part. He tries to program the board the way he likes (i.e. store a particular selection or scene of lights which can be brought back on demand) but sometimes the venue just doesn't have enough faders (which raise and lower the intensity of light) on their board, so George has to figure out what he can and can't use – and often with not a lot of time to decide.
Special Effects? Well, here I can tell you personally that the special effects that George creates are just spectacular and very "tailored" to the show and the song being sung at the time...George truly is a lighting genius. In George's words: "I have done tons of stuff – I'm not sure if I've been the first person to create that effect. I do know that some of the things that I do and use make the light men at some of the venues say they will use the same things and do the same things at their shows later. They have never seen what their lights are capable of doing. For example, I can make an acl effect out of lecos (explanation below) . I also put the lights pointing up the cyc (explanation below) . A lot of people have never seen that done. I like the effect I've used a few times at a show where I don't have the spotlight on the performer -- just some lights coming from behind. I call it the silhouette look. At Christmas time I put snowflake patterns in my moving lights at the theatre. While Eddie was singing "Blue Christmas," I turned them blue and had them fall as he sang the line, "and when those blue snowflakes start falling." Eddie turned and saw them. He stopped singing and said, "Did you see that.... those snowflakes turned blue and fell....that was cool." He complimented me again after the show. I do that type of thing a lot. If the song mentions a particular colour, I try to have that color on at that moment. I don't know if anyone else notices or not. In the song, "What Now My Love" when Eddie sings, "Here come the stars, tumbling around me" I put stars tumbling around him; he gets a kick out of that. Another special effect includes using red, white and blue lights and stars in the background for "American Trilogy."
I used to put together videos to play on the back screen for some songs at our theatre. I played a lighthouse video that I put together when Ed Hill (of the Stamps Quartet) would sing "The Lighthouse." He looked back and could not believe it; he almost broke up crying and I almost ruined that song for him. I did the same thing for a show with Michael Twitty. I put together a beautiful scene to match the video that I made up of Conway Twitty (his Dad) singing. I had rope lights going real dim to match the lights exactly on the video. I had some lights coming down on Michael as he sat on the steps of our stage while he sang "That's My Job." There wasn't a dry eye in the theatre including mine. I still get really sad when I hear that song and it's one of my favorites now.
Compliments You Have Received? I have been told that I do the best Elvis lights of anyone. Now what that means I don't know. I have been told that by Ed Enoch, Ed Hill and Jack their road manager. Jack even said that JD loved the way I did the lights. Eddie Miles says I am the best! Now I don't know if I am the best but I do know I try my hardest every show no matter how many people are in the building. I have received good comments at just about every show I have ever done. I learn as I go and try to learn something at every place we go to. I ask questions when most people would just play like they know it all. I also try and treat people like I like to be treated.
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August 12, 2014 - Joselyn King
Tracy Lawrence once sang, "If the world had a front porch like we did back then ... We'd still have our problems, but we'd all be friends."
Honestly, I think it does much for my daily disposition to have breakfast on my porch in the mornings. It's a wonderful, wrap-around Victorian porch on a hill with an expansive view of the neighborhood below. There's most always a cross breeze, as well as the a siting of a squirrel or a couple of deer.
It's my spot in the world.
Prior to breakfast, I often take a walk through the neighborhood .... and can't help but notice the porches on the homes below. Some are well-utilized by their neighbors. Others have beautiful outside spaces where much thought appears to have been placed, though they don't appear to be much used.
In one case, a neighbor has a spacious front porch -- which seems to be doing service as an overflow storage garage. I cringe. (If your belongings outgrow your home, perhaps it's time to purge.)
And one neighbor is especially blessed. He has a front porch, a side gazebo, a back porch and a pool area to enjoy. I spoke with him recently as he stood on the sidewalk carefully assessing changes to the landscaping he planned to make.
I complimented his work, and I shouldn't have been surprised he asked me to come have a tour of the back of the house. People with outdoor spaces are open, friendly people. (Wonder how he gets along with the people next door with the six-foot fence?)
I asked him if he ever had breakfast, lunch or dinner in his outdoor spaces. I learned the front porch was pretty much for decoration. He used to eat exclusively in the gazebo, but that was before he put the pool in the backyard in recent years. Sometimes they use the back porch, but he said it was hard to beat sitting around the pool and looking at the water. Didn't know the guy. But I have to think he's pretty cool and fortunate.
I've been known to use my porch area as soon as April, and as late as November -- depending on the weather.
As the summer comes to a close, there come's the realization the world will soon be shutting down, and going inside until next year.
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Sep-03-14 9:33 AM
Hilarious when desperate leftists have so little left that the meat of their posts consists of tasteless fabricated quotes plagiarized from lowbrow comedians. LOL
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Yuppies are about image while the avg porchsitter (like me) is about 'just a swingin'
...while Rick Perry feels "We are living in dark days indeed when the state of Texas is spending time and money probing its officials instead of its women"
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I like porch sitting too Joselyn. I'm not looking forward to winter either.
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Transparency in healthcare will facilitate the improvement of performance and quality by providing hospitals and physicians with the additional information necessary for benchmarking their work. It will obviously assist patients as they attempt to make informed decisions regarding their potential care. Finally, transparency will improve quality and efficiency by encouraging private insurers and public programs through providing necessary information to them to make necessary decisions. Transparency is not the end-all, but it is a solid start.
Having dealt with insurance companies, car dealers, computer sales specialists, architects, construction companies, stock brokers, and any number of other professions, it is obvious that any steps toward transparency would significantly move us in the right direction, toward truth, justice and the American way, but none of these topics raise as much passion as conversations about transparency in healthcare.
A little over a year ago, I was informed that a retirement policy endorsed by a former employer had gone bad, and, co-incidentally, it had cost me five years of my personal savings. Could a lack of transparency that may have resulted in personal gain for those involved in selling the product have contributed? One can only guess.
When we realize that we have lost hard earned money, the result is anger, disillusionment, and frustration. When, however, we realize that a loved one has lost their ability to walk because of a lack of information needed to make an appropriate clinical decision, the passion becomes significantly more extreme. We talk a lot about transparency in healthcare, but, not unlike most professions, the jargon, complexity, and intricacies of the profession's jargon keep all but the most learned individuals from sorting through the risks and rewards of each clinical decision.
Do you want coated or uncoated stents? Should you try controlling this situation with medication, open heart surgery or angioplasty? Will I do better with 20 mg. of cholesterol medicine or 40 mg. and what is the potential side affect of this new drug? These questions are incredibly complex, individual, sometimes life and death oriented questions. Simple transparency is not necessarily the answer here.
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One of the reasons I love featuring rehearsal dinners is that they're inevitably more relaxed than weddings, and that laid back feeling is something I'd love to see at more wedding receptions! To inspire you today, Amory and Marc's gorgeous August rehearsal dinner in Maine…
Amory shared some details about the day: In planning our wedding, we thought most about our friends' and family's weekend in Maine, and giving them an experience that captured all that Maine offered. We couldn't think of a more perfect place than my parents' home to welcome everyone to Maine. Whenever we come home to visit my parents, my mom plans a huge dinner with a house full of friends and neighbors, a delicious meal, and cocktails overlooking the ocean in the fresh salt air. We tried to create this feeling for the rehearsal dinner – friends, family, lobster, BBQ, and (luckily) a beautiful Maine summer day.
I love these drink stirrers that Amory made with striped paper straws and Washi tape!
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Sugar-lime cookies were packaged in blue striped bags so guests could enjoy them or take them home for later. Guests also enjoyed croquet and driving golf balls off the rocks.
Amory's advice for other brides? "It's going to be an amazing weekend, so don't forget to look around and soak it all in."
Photography: Moss + Isaac / Tent: Sperry Tents / Amory's dress: Mason by Michelle Mason / Marc's attire: J.Crew / Table runners: Paulina Reyes / Wine glasses, napkins: IKEA / Barbecue: Harvey's Sebago Lake Smokehouse / Lobster: Ready Seafood / Whoopie Pies: Amato's
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Amazing!! Can I ask where the red and white napkins were from? I love the table runner as well, what a great idea!
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The napkins are dishtowels from Ikea! A bit more than rentals, but we now have a few years worth of dish towels, which remind us of the wedding :)
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What a beautiful rehearsal! As a future bride planning my wedding on the coast of Maine, I love everything about your event!
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My wife, m0mmacat, asked me to build her a new dining room table. We already have a nice heirloom 50's style table that we received from good friends of the family years ago (that my brother and I used to eat breakfast off of when we visited them), so I was a little taken aback when she wanted to replace it. But we talked about it, and it would be relocated to the kids playroom to have many more years of service as a Lego table.
What she really wanted was to redo the dining room with a French Bistro style theme with a farmhouse style table as the centerpiece. Farmhouse Tables on the retail market can be VERY expensive (think above $1000) at popular outlets like Anthropologie, and are also the subject of much Pinteresting since Ana White and others have posted inexpensive builds using commodity lumber.
We decided on construction lumber (2x materials) because it was inexpensive and easy to get – albeit heavy. After picking out the lumber (and I was trying to be as choosy as I could to the dismay of Home Depot), we got to work on the plans, although I had thought a lot about how I was going to build it prior. I had watched a Norm Abrahms video on Youtube, which outlined pretty much what I wanted to do. The issue was that with construction lumber, I don't have the tool sizes needed to cut the mortises and such required by the Norm Abrahms version, so I had to compensate by using non-traditional joinery with my Kreg pocket hole jig. I did manage to stick to the basic design, including the horizontal support underneath and the through tenons on the support, however. One of the major design elements was that we wanted the table to be able to be taken apart, which in a lot of Pinterest designs we saw, the table couldn't be dismantled – meaning once assembled, it would be hard to fit through standard openings like a door.
After assembling the tabletop using pocket holes, the top required a lot of prep work with a belt sander to get it smooth enough to use. I also rigged a cleat system similar to the Norm table using 2x4s and lag screws (no glue). I used no glue because I reasoned that if we ever wanted to redo the legs, it would be much easier to remove the existing cleats if they weren't glued to the top. I cut the through mortises in the legs, and fitted the through tenons for the horizontal support – locating the mid-support piece about halfway of the length of the table to support the table from sagging. The pins in the ends of each side of the horizontal support keep the legs from splaying, and I used (4) 2 1/2 screws through the cleats into the legs to ensure the legs don't shift or wobble in the cleats. I used leg levelers on the feet to ensure we could get the table level(ish), because construction lumber will never be perfectly straight as it ages so I just assumed we'd have to level the table when we install it.
We stained the table using Minwax Polyshades (Espresso) and we did two coats on everything but the table underside. Then I waxed the table with 3 coats of Johnson's Paste Wax. I'm not too happy with the wax finish on the dark stain (I don't usually use dark stain) but it will provide a minor amount of sheen and protection to the table in addition to the Poly coating.
One final touch: I carved a heart shaped venn diagram with our initials with a wood burning pen onto the surface in the corner. As my wife puts it, it's the Table of Love.


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Doug Howard
Professor, History
Office: Hiemenga Hall 476
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Educational background
B.A., History, Western Michigan University
M.A., History, Indiana University
Ph.D., Uralic and Altaic Studies, Indiana University
Research and professional interests
My research field is the history of the Ottoman Empire. I have published a few articles on how the Ottoman feudal cavalry worked, and on Ottoman scribes and the literary genre called "Advice for Kings." I have also have a book on the history of Turkey from antiquity to modern times. At Calvin I teach courses on early world history, Middle Eastern societies, India, and U.S.-Middle East relations.
Every other year I organize and teach a wonderful off-campus interim course in Turkey. Look for it in interim 2017.
Recent activities
I am in the final stages of a years-long book project, tentatively titled Amid the Ruins: A History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1924. In the book I write about how humans cope with calamity, suffering, and the passage of time, using the main theme of the Ottoman worldview.
During the next few months, while the book goes to press, I am also trying to finish two other tasks. One is a second edition of my book on Turkey, with a new chapter on the Erdoğan years since 2002. The other is a critical edition and English translation of a seventeenth-century Ottoman "Advice for Kings" treatise. I and a Hungarian colleague, Géza Dávid, who spent last summer at Calvin on a Fulbright fellowship, are collaborating on this project.
Life outside of Calvin College
When I am not working, or even when I am, I like to listen to music, especially Paul Simon and world music of all kinds. I also like to play the piano and write music, watch Detroit Tigers baseball, and sip strong coffee. My wife Sandy and I have four terrific adult children, and we have just become grandparents.
Other information
See a partial list of Doug Howard's publications.
Read Doug Howard's posts on Historical Horizons, the history department blog.


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From our in-house collection, La Garçonne Moderne; a soft, alpaca sweater handknit in a chunky moss stitch.
- Crew neck
- Full length sleeves
- Turned under rib trim at collar, cuffs, & hem
- Allover moss stitch
- Length hits just below hip
- Relaxed fit
Color: Cream. 100% baby alpaca. Handknit in Peru.


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Jerry W. Thornes, Mountaire retiree
Jerry W. Thornes, 65, of Georgetown, passed away at Beebe Healthcare Sunday, April 6, 2014.
Mr. Thornes was born July 20, 1948, in Virginia to the late Paige and Norma Grace Wells Thornes. Before his retirement, Jerry worked in the general maintenance department for Mountaire, formerly Townsends in Millsboro.
He was a devoted family man who did everything he could for his grandchildren. He enjoyed fishing and bowling. He was a fun man who liked a good joke.
He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Ethel Thornes; two sons, Chauncey Parsons and his wife Jennifer and Danny Parsons all of Georgetown; one daughter, Margaret Parsons of Salisbury, Md.; a sister, Frances Yeo; an aunt, Denna Ward; seven grandchildren, Courtney, Jamie, Zachary, William, Jessica, Lynn and C.J. He is also survived by his special canine friend Cocoa as well as numerous extended family members and friends.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, April 13, at Watson Funeral Home, 211 S. Washington St., Millsboro, where friends may call after 1 p.m. for visitation.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests contributions to the National Parkinson's Foundation, Gift Processing Ctr., P.O. Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5018.