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Turbo-diesel engines are about to become as synonymous with Volvo as safety judging by the Swedish company's latest product roll-out plans revealed at the Australian international motor show.
Volvo Car Australia announced that it would be adding D5 2.4-litre turbo-diesel models to its S40 and V50 prestige small car range from next March.
It also unveiled the S80 large saloon and C30 small hatch for the first time here and both these models will also include the D5 in their model lineup.
This dramatic expansion comes just one month after Volvo launched its first turbo-diesel model in Australia, the XC90 D5 light duty SUV wagon.
The D5 is an inline five-cylinder engine that produces 136kW, 350Nm and is Euro IV emissions compliant.
"The swing to diesel has been so big," said Volvo Cars Australia general manager Alan Desselss. "There has been so much fuss about diesel, I think it was a natural thing for us to do."
Pricing of the new S40/V50 variants are expected to start close to $45,000 for the sedan and $48,000 for the wagon. Equipment will be equivalent to the petrol-engined LE models.
VCA predicts D5 will take up about 25 per cent of total volume for the two bodystyles.
The second generation S80 should go on-sale before Christmas, available as either the $71,950 D5 or all-wheel drive 4.4-litre V8 priced at $95,950.
The C30, a three-door four-seat hatchback that Volvo is hyping strongly for its urban attributes, will be offered as a D5 and two petrol models, the entry-level 2.4 and the performance oriented 162kW turbocharged T5.
No pricing is confirmed for the C30, which will be launched in February or March. But considering the broad swathe of competitors that Volvo envisions for the car – everything from the VW Golf to BMW 1 Series – then you can expect pricing to start above $30,000 and finish around $50,000.
VCA also officially launched the two-model C70 hardtop convertible range for sale in Sydney. The 2.4-litre LE retails for $69,950, while the T5 turbo is $79,950. No sign of a turbo-diesel model though – at least not yet.
Volvo is growing against the industry's downward trend this year, with 4000 sales the aim. That is only the start point however, with 5000 the target for 2007.


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NEW ORLEANS — Danny Keifer leans back from the bar at the Home Plate Inn and orders another. ``Gimme a Dixie,`` he says.
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I'm sure we all know that the number 6.5 comes before the number 7. I'm betting that most of you didn't know that we'll see Windows Mobile 6.5 before WinMo 7 however. the::unwired caught news of the interim upgrade release through Motorola's corporate earnings call today of all places. Sanjay Jha, Chief of Mobile Devices for Motorola spilled the beans this way:
"Windows Mobile 6 has not delivered the experience that I thinkApple has been able to deliver, but as you look at the plan that is WindowsMobile 7 and even 6.5, I think there are significant new added features whichwill help the platform".
Turns out that while Motorola might be seen as betting the farm on Android, they're still not out of the Windows Mobile licensee camp just yet. The company plans to work with Microsoft on one of the first Windows Mobile 6.5 devices for delivery in the second half of next year. I'd be curious to know what enhancements we'll see in 6.5 versus 7 at this point.


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By staff reporter Ye Weiqiang and intern reporter Shao Lige
(Caijing.com.cn) His meteoric rise, from factory worker with little formal education to winner of the biggest landslide presidential election in Brazilian history, is the stuff of legends. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was re-elected to a second term in 2002, is currently the only head of state with higher approval ratings than U.S. President Barack Obama. Under his leadership, Brazil has risen from a debt-ridden, inflation-plagued country to become an economic and political powerhouse in Latin America. In recent years
The left-of-center Worker's Party leader fostered economic development in Brazil by balancing free market policies with targeted social spending. Now unemployment is down, foreign exchange reserves are up, and ratings for Brazilian government bonds have been raised to investment grade status. Through extensive welfare programs, Brazil narrowed its infamous income gap by more than any other South American country this decade – a Pareto improvement that helped the poor without hurting the rich.
Building diplomatic strength on economic stability, Silva's government has pursued what many observers consider an independent, flexible and pragmatic foreign policy, not allowing Washington to serve as its spokesmen. Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has more than doubled the number of its departments, increased staff by more than 50 percent, and opened new embassies in 35 countries and regions.
Brazil's newfound strength during times of global disarray has afforded the country increasing influence in world affairs. Silva has been an outspoken critic of the world's rich countries for undoing the prosperity of the past few decades, dragging down with them developing countries that had only played by the developed world's rules. He has taken staunch anti-protectionist – in particular, anti-G8 protectionist – stances, such as during the recent G20 Summit in London. He has urged the international community to continue the Doha Round of trade talks and commit more to stimulus packages. He may be the first Brazilian leader to lend money to the International Monetary Fund, rather than the other way around. Beyond economic matters, he has made a determined but thus far unsuccessful bid for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. He's also been a champion of energy conservation while advocating the use of new bio-fuels.
"Love this guy," Obama said of the bearded Brazilian at the London Summit of world leaders in April. "The most popular politician on Earth. It's because of his good looks."
For all his charisma and achievements, the 62-year-old still has many old and new problems to grapple with at home, from declining industrial output and rising unemployment amid the financial crisis, to an ailing education system and government waste, and to corruption scandals that threatened his presidency. With only two years left in his second and final term, time is running out for Silva to accomplish his goals. And now, building a strategic partnership with China is a crucial component in his lofty game plan for the country.
Silva sat down for an exclusive interview with Caijing Magazine in Brasilia just before traveling to Beijing for scheduled meetings with Chinese leaders in mid-May. It was to be his second trip to the country he regards as a key international partner.
China has similar social and economic needs, as well as a shared interest in gaining influence within multilateral organizations such as the United Nations and World Trade Organization. Even before Silva first visited China in 2004, the two countries voiced mutual opposition to the American invasion of Iraq and worked together to launch the G20 with developing nations as a counterweight to the wealthy G8.
Since then, the relationship has deepened. Just this year, China surpassed the United States to become Brazil's largest trade partner. The Asian and South American economic giants are poised to emerge from the financial crisis relatively unscathed, and ready for larger international roles. He's traveling with an entourage of 180 business leaders, the government's ministers of mines and energy, industry and commerce, agriculture, health, and the space agency, as well as a number of state governors, all of whom have either visited or worked with China.
Silva said he aims to "intensify" relations, both economic and strategic, cementing bonds of trust and cooperation between the world's third and 10th largest economies. Here are his comments to Caijing's questions:
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Caijing: How has the economic crisis brought new meaning to your second trip to China?
Silva: China and Brazil must maintain optimistic and proactive relations. In times like these, we cannot sit back and complain. We have to think big and look at what changes the economy needs. At meetings of the G20 and WTO, we have had many more agreements than disagreements; most of our positions have been held in common. When we bring together Brazil, China, India and Russia -- as well as Mexico and Argentina -- we represent significant weight in political decision-making.
What happened at the London G20 Summit was an important step. Many people did not think we could come out with important decisions, and we did. The first thing in a crisis is for us to recover credibility, especially that of the state and the role of the state in normalizing an economy. That was the first time I've ever been at meetings where rich countries, who in the past knew it all, knew nothing. Today, we can discuss on a more equal footing the important decisions that previously excluded Brazil and China.
Caijing: During the trip, what agreements do you expect to sign?
Silva: First, we are launching satellites and sharing images. We already have an agreement with the Chinese. We launched CBERS-1 and are about to launch CBERS-2 and 3, all of which were built in Brazil.
We hope to sign an agreement between Brazilian financial institutions and China Development Bank. We're working on an agreement for cooperation in trade and civil law, for ports and waterways. We will probably be signing a protocol to fight transnational crime, and possibly another agreement between China Development Bank and Petrobras. We also hope to show the Chinese the current stage of development in Brazil – the current public investment situation in Brazil, the main infrastructure works we are building – to try to sign an agreement between China and Brazil to participate in these infrastructure projects, airports, oil, gas, and so on.
Caijing: What strategic issues will you focus on?
Silva: We will focus on renewable fuels, especially ethanol and bio-diesel. Brazil has the technology; it's already been tested and used for many years. Brazil's energy blend is very diverse and we'd like to share that knowledge with the Chinese. Brazil is the only country in the world where nearly 90 percent of all cars sold are flex-fuel – they can run on gasoline, 100 percent ethanol, or a blend. Now we are working on bio-diesel fuels to replace or be mixed with diesel, and therefore diminish the impact of greenhouse gases.
When I talk about promoting bio-fuels, I know about China's need to produce food. We don't want anyone to be replacing their food production with bio-fuel production. But what we do want is for countries like China to establish partnerships with Brazil and Africa, for us to produce bio-fuels and generate more jobs and income, and at the same time, meet the needs for a new energy blend, which we will all have to adopt. We cannot simply continue taking things out of the planet and not replace them. A clean energy model is an obligation for all of us. If you don't have land to produce but you need energy, you can finance other countries that can produce to meet your market needs. But what we cannot do is to continue to burn diesel, oil, gasoline, coal and firewood, while ignoring the damage we are doing to the planet.
Caijing: What investments does Brazil plan to make in China?
Silva: We already have a lot of investment in China. Brazil has more JVs in China than China has in Brazil. We have major companies like Embraer that are manufacturing things in China. We hope the planes in China's domestic airline market will be produced by Embraer in China. Just to give you an idea, by the end of 2007, Brazil already had 431 JVs operating in China. China had 94 JVs in Brazil. That means we are being more audacious with our investments in China than China has been in Brazil. We need to share on a more equal basis for the two countries to grow together.
Also, Brazil has just discovered major new oil reserves, and we want to build partnerships. We can use this oil as collateral. We hope that in these pre-salt oil wells there will be a lot of gas as well, which we can use to renew our energy supply.
In terms of other investments and other major infrastructure projects, in September we will be going up for bids on a high speed train that will link Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. That will be a major investment, and we will be looking for partners around the world to make the investment. We must be open to discussing complementary projects, that is, how Brazil can help China and China can help Brazil to help our people, grow our economy and allow us to participate more actively in the world community. That's my objective for going to China.
Caijing: Brazil and China have made pledges against trade protectionism. You've already made a significant contribution to push forward world trade talks. How do you evaluate such efforts?
Silva: The Doha Round was not concluded due to a disagreement between the United States and India, which had a lot to do with elections in each country. Now that those two electoral periods are behind us, President Obama personally expressed interest in re-launching Doha. We need to struggle against protectionism because it will only make the economic crisis worse. We need to understand that trade relations are a two-way street. It has to be balanced between the countries. For example, for some time, Brazil has had a big surplus with China. In more recent years, China has had a trade surplus with Brazil. Now once again, Brazil is a little bit of out in front. So we have to be careful, to maintain that balance. China can't run a major deficit with Brazil, nor can Brazil run a major deficit with China. That's why strategic partnerships are important, to maintain the balance.
Caijing: What else can be done to prevent global protectionism?
Silva: Protectionism often depends on sovereign decisions made by independent countries, and we cannot control that. That's why the WTO is important. It's important to strengthen the WTO. That's where we'll achieve balance, both to avoid protectionist practices and to avoid dumping. That's what will make trade more fair and balanced.
One important thing – I want to bring this up with President Hu Jintao – is that between Brazil and China, we need to establish a trade that is paid for in our own currencies. We don't need dollars. Why do two important countries like China and Brazil have to use the dollar as a reference, instead of our own currencies? We've already started doing this with Argentina. Our trade is taking place in our own currencies. Otherwise, we'll be in an absurd situation, where the country that caused this crisis will be the country that gets the most dollars. It's crazy that the dollar is the reference, and that you give a single country the power to print that currency. We need to give greater value to the Chinese and Brazilian currencies. The governors of our two central banks and our ministers of economy need to put their intelligence to work.
Caijing: How do you think both countries can contribute to a global economic recovery?
Silva: I think we're already doing the things we need to. We're investing more in our domestic market. We're trying to strengthen demand in our domestic market with a lot of investments. It's true that the economies of Europe, the United States and Japan, which are the world's biggest consumers, need to recover for us to be able to go back to a normal situation.
When we return to normalcy, the financial system has to play a different role. It has to be linked to production, rather than to speculation as it was before the crisis. That's what caused the crisis. China and Brazil have a great responsibility. That's why we're going to have a meeting of BRIC countries in Russia on June 16. One important thing that President Obama said at the G20 meeting was that 50 years ago, or a little more, it was very easy to make decisions. He said Roosevelt and Churchill would sit down and made decisions for the world. But today, there are more people that want to be in on the party. It's very difficult now to make decisions without listening to the BRIC countries.
Caijing: You've been pushing for emerging markets such as China and Brazil to have stronger voices in international organizations. How likely is this?
Silva: It's unavoidable. It's just a matter of time. Today, it's very difficult for the G8 to be as important as it was, say, 10 years ago. It's very difficult to set up a forum, to discuss politics or economics, without considering the existence of the emerging countries, the BRICs. Our economies are more solid than their economies. But this will depend very much on our willingness to take action because, in politics, nobody gives up any room to anyone else. We have to win that room, and that's our challenge – demanding a leading position that we have a right to in global decisions.
We already have the G5 group, which started meeting before the G8. That had two effects. First, the G5 wound up being invited to participate in G8 meetings. Second, some things that we've thought about are now being considered by the G8. Previously, the G5 members were just called in for tea and coffee. Now, we're called in for lunch and dinner. If you look at the global politics of 10 to 15 years ago, everything happened only for Europe and the United States. But that's not the case now. Now, whenever there is a meeting in the world, people want to know what China thinks and how Brazil feels. People begin to perceive that we're no longer supporting actors; we're leading actors now. This creates a new, real possibility for a new global politics. It's precisely at this moment that China, Brazil, Russia and India need to be very humble and very calm, but at the same time very audacious.


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This home is nestled in the beautiful Beartooth Mountains. Enjoy your wonderful rustic western experience with all the comforts of home. This hunting style log home will give you the feel of being out in the wilderness without having to rough it. From the front deck of the home you look out over the Clarks Fork valley and on a clear day you can see the Pryor and Big Horn Mountains 80 miles away. On the back deck you will enjoy astonishing views of the dramatic Beartooth Mountains created by glacier formation.
With access to Line Creek and great fishing, you will also enjoy an abundance of wildlife. Situated next to BLM, you can enjoy riding or hiking in the sandstone formations. National Forest access is about 1 ½ miles up the County road offering endless recreational opportunities. The Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River flows through the valley offering great fishing. Watch the wildlife from this home and enjoy the brilliant sunrises and mountain sunsets.
The house has 3 bedrooms upstairs, one with a King size bed, and two with Queen beds. There are three full bathrooms, two on the main level, one with a jacuzzi tub.
The main level also has a eat in kitchen and living room. There is a bedroom downstairs with a queen bed and it's own private bathroom. The downstairs also has a family room and a pool room.
Al is a school teacher and Patti is in the health care industry. We live in NJ but love to travel. Of the many places we have been, Wyoming made us feel at home. It has enormous natural beauty, and the people are some of the most friendly in the world. We fell in love with the Wyoming lifestyle and plan to retire there.
Al Raya purchased this house in 2013
This property offers everything from non-stop activities to quiet secluded rest and relaxation. You can enjoy the western lifestyle with breath taking views and wonderful wild life right out of the window. Have your coffee while watching some of the world's most beautiful sunrises.
Clark, a small community at the base of the Beartooth Mountains, offers 3 public accesses to the National Forest, the grandest being the Clarks Fork Canyon. Situated 30 miles north of Cody, it is an easy drive to the Northeast Entrance of Yellowstone and then exit the East Gate and enjoy dinner and the rodeo in Cody. Red Lodge, a ski resort, is about 30 miles northwest. From there you can climb the Beartooth Highway and enjoy the 'most scenic highway in North America' according to Charles Kuralt. From the Beartooth Highway you return back to Clark or Cody via the Chief Joseph Scenic Highway.
There were five of us that stayed here for almost two weeks. House was great. Had all of the amenities of home. We did purchase a crock pot that hopefully will stay for the next guest. Convenient to Cody, YNP and Chief Joseph Highway. Al was available for questions that arose and very helpful. Would definitely return.
We were heading from PA to Cody Wyoming and we found this perfect house. We booked the house through HomeAway for the location and the amount of space that it proved, going by only what the pictures showed, I was kinda worried if it was what we were really going to get. But when we got there it was so much more. The view was amazing, so peaceful and so much room. There was 8 of us plus a 2 year old and it was just perfect!! The homeowners were great with all the question that I had and they responded in a very timely manner. It was Hot during our stay but the basement stayed cold and the evening breeze was perfect to cool the house off. We would love to book this house again. We made trips to Yellowstone and in town to Cody, drive was not that bad at all. We had a wonderful time!
Reading previous reviews about lack of air conditioning I was concerned with the teens in our group not liking but no problem. 2 nights nearby forest fires concerning but that made us realize nature needs to be respected. Drive to day trip to Yellowstone was 14 hours long but well worth the short trip to see elk buffalo and even a bear!
The house exceeded our expectations and housed 8 people comfortably. The night sky is amazing and the surroundings very quiet. You can sit on the back deck and listen to the creek over the hill. Everything we needed was supplied, but bring extra paper supplies, as you would with any rental when staying a week. The travel to Yellowstone East Entrance is around 2 hours, but very scenic with a convenient stop in Cody. When viewing the north side of Yellowstone, the Northeast Entrance is a better option, with viewing of bison herds and shopping at several small towns. We had one hot day in the 90's, but there were fans available to cool the house. We did most of our cooking in a crockpot (we brought), so dinner was ready upon our return from Yellowstone. There is a blender, toaster, mixer and coffee pot provided, along with full kitchen appliances. There is an additional freezer in the laundry room. The owner was helpful, friendly and answered any questions we had. Would stay here again.
Great communication with owners, very attentive. If staying in summer, you may want to bring a couple extra fans if you are not used to warm conditions. (Most homes in the area do not have a/c.). The downstairs family room and game room provide a little relief from the heat. If cooking for a large group, you may also want to pack a few extra pots & pans. Neat mountain trails just up the road from the house.
Overall we thoroughly enjoyed our stay in the Beartooth Mountains. The property is very beautiful and the house is nice. I do have a couple of comments to make regarding the accommodations. First, the house was not very clean, the floor was sticky on our arrival and things like cupboards/drawer spaces were sticky. There were no screens on a lot of the windows and no air conditioning so opening windows was important. Luckily for us it was only hot a couple days during our stay. Second, it would be nice if you had a few staples in the house since the nearest shopping is almost 30 miles away and we didn't want to have to purchase some of this stuff. Things like, spatulas, a can opener, baking pans, enough toilet paper/paper towel, trash bags and cleaning supplies for 10 people for week. We had to buy all of this stuff which was a little frustrating. Since we were so far away from restaurants and shopping almost all of our meals were eaten at the house. Also, a nice plus would be things like sugar, flour, salt, pepper and some other spices.
Cody was a nice place to visit and the rodeo is a must.
Access to the East and NE of the entrances to Yellowstone National Park. House is located in a deer, antelope, and elk habitat area. It is normal for deer to walk through the yard headed towards the stream located down the hill behind the house. There are many bird species to view including Golden Eagles and hawks.
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Real talk. When I 1st started this beta blog (and yes I call it beta as I feel like I've never launched it), one of the 1st cats I came across was this dude Morpheground. He had sent me this BANGER that do this day, when I play it, guys are just like... WTF IS THIS? Oh this?? My man Morpheground from Italy put this one out. Betweem hearing a ridiculous beat playing, and the words italy, these guys are floored. So, he always gets carte blanche when he sends joints down. So when he emailed me during the holidays, between throwing my cousin's daughter in the air w/ one hand, I answered his email in my other w/ the barackberry™. ;)
Back with record to start the new year of 2012 is Morpheground, with this his new LP ENFUSE.
Enfuse takes again classic style and feel, the ones that I recall so well from his songs like The Most High, and Revolutions, into this LP. Enfuse definitely delineate his deeds as certified and official, with a catalog now spanning 4yrs+ (damn, that long ya??). Again, not the name all have known in the past, but one that need be in your library. The beats are undeniable, and i def look fwd to hearing more from Morpheground this year.
Enfuse is available for a name your price basis now, over at his Bandcamp.
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Hi everybody, it's Mo with FaveCrafts. We have an amazing show and story for you today. I'm rounded up with some of the best man crafters on the web who will be here to talk to you about what is like to be guy crafter because I know I want to know, as well as some great holiday craft ideas for gifts, home decor, parties and so much more. They have so much to share. I can't wait to get started. I just want to remind everyone that you can call in to the show yourself and share your own ideas or ask a question. All you have to do is to call us at 646-200-4435 anytime during this live show. Also, we have a chat room where you can connect with me as well as fellow listeners. Its fun to hang out there during the show and see what everyone is talking about and I see there are people already in there so jumped on in. It's at favecraftradio.com and you can chat with the listeners and guests right there on our chat room. We also have several giveaways with today's show so stay tune because I'm going to have an announcement about that later in the show. Okay, so we're going to get right to the show because we have four guests today right after this message.
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Okay. I'd like to introduce my first guest. He can't draw, he has no formal design training, and he is allergic to flowers, though he does have some amazing DIY project ideas that he shares online with his awesome videos and tutorials. He is the man behind Style with a Smile TV, an online web show where he shares all kinds of projects from recycled crafts to home decor, and his ideas will inspire anyone and are perfect from the beginner to the experienced crafter, so let's welcome Jonathan Fong. Hi Jonathan!
Hi! It's so fun to be here.
Thanks for being on FaveCraft Radio.
Thank you for having me.
I have so many questions, so let's get it started.
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I'm just chock full of questions. You're definitely one of my favorite man crafters, but I want to know what is it like to be a man crafter in a primarily women world. What is that like?
It's so funny you asked that because I don't really think much about that. All my life I've been in situations where I've been the only male so after awhile you don't think about it anymore. When I was a little, it was the same thing. Now, I took the hip-hop class where I'm the only male and I never thought about it until somebody else mentioned it.
Hip hop. You do do it all.
I love being in a world of all these women because I love women. Until somebody mentioned it, I never thought about it. Then when I thought about it, all I feel is I'm special. (laughs)
Yeah, of course. And __04:14__, hip hop. I should've added that to my intro for you.
Well, I'm not any good at it.
(laughs). Well, when I think about man crafting and I love the term man crafts, it sounds so extreme. I'm always, I'm always picturing like power tools like saws and like big heavy tools. Would you agree with that or are you -- you know, are you using more power tools than the average crafter would use maybe?
I'm not sure. I use a drill and a screw driver, but that's about it. I'm afraid of a power tools that could cut my arm off, although I learned that a jigsaw, not a jigsaw, a hacksaw is surprisingly helpful and it helps me with cutting like wood and bamboo and that sort of things. But now, I stick to my glue gun for having lift in really.
Well, the glue gun can also be dangerous as we all know.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I have burns through that.
Right. We all have the whirlwinds.
So I've been using those pink little silicone tips.
Oh glue gun helpers.
Yes. Love that.
I love those. Yes, agree! So if you haven't seen the glue gun helpers from Cathie and Steve, they're awesome. They really protect your -- so have your fingerprint take...
Yeah. They make breaks just for people.
I haven't seen them before like "Wow".
Yeah. Those are really cool.
I know that you have several books, Walls that Wow, Flowers that Wow, Parties that Wow, so it leads me to the hottest topic right now. You know, Turkey Day is right around the corner so everyone's talking...
I can't believe that.
I know right how did this happen. Halloween in November, it's just known here in Chicago last night and it was kind of like a wakeup call. Yes, we are in November. Can you share some a couple of ideas for adding a DIY touch for holiday get-togethers, for Parties that Wow for the holidays?
Yeah. Well, I like to for holiday get-togethers, I'd like to think that we need to start like even like outside the house like before people even get inside to the party and living in Southern California, that's like a big deal because it's always so warm here and you're not getting to the holiday spirit visually here because it's so beautiful. You don't have the visual cues that it's winter.
So I like to start the party like outside, so that's my tip to get people in the mood. Just like in Disneyland, you don't actually get to the ride for a while, so they give you all these fun stuffs outside before you get into ride. So I'm into decorating like the walkway and the porch, just the approach to the party. So I could use luminaries and I just made, I just did this project for eHow where I decorated a friend's porch for holidays and I did that back in October. That was really out of sync with the time.
But I did check, I made these gigantic candy canes out of red PVC pipe that I found at home depot and I guess that was very manly of me, you know, going to home depot there.
I found those five-foot long red PVC pipes and I melted it on a gas grill. That sounds very manly too.
Wow! That sounds dangerous.
It really wasn't because if not like you put the PVC pipe there and it instantly melts. It just takes a long time to even just get it malleable and then it just softens a little bit and then I use my boot strings and kind of bend the tip of the PVC pipe to get the crook of the candy cane and then I wound a white electrical tape around the red PVC pipe to make it looks like a candy cane. So it makes some of decor entrance especially at Southern California where that comments have a (Crosstalk) in the exterior.
Once I went all the way for a holiday party, I went to rent in a truck and drove all the way to the mountains and filled the truck with snow and then drove it back and then put it all outside at the entrance to the house so that when people came there will be snow outside.
I was going to ask if you use a lot of fake snow in California actually, but I guess you just go get it.
Yeah, just an hourly drive out so. I had no idea that when I rented the truck that they charged my mileage. I saw the $20 left on the side of the truck. Then "Oh, $20" but no they charged me the mileage too so it was really expensive snow.
Oh, that's hilarious. Oh, that's so funny. I didn't even think of that, just bring the snow to you.
Yeah. Yeah. It really made an impact and it surprised me that the snow did not melt that quickly and that stayed outside for several days afterwards.
Is that candy cane idea on you site at all so we can show people what that is like?
Yeah. Actually, it is. I think I just posted it on jonathanfongstyle.com. I just renovated my site, so it just went live this week whether it is -- finally, I'm in the 21st century where I included a blog function on it. There is a link to it. The whole article was on eHow. So there is a link on there, blog entry on the front porch and there is a link to the article on eHow on there. I'll be doing a video on it as well in the coming weeks because...
Oh, great!
Great! Awesome! Yeah, I'd love to see it. So for Thanksgiving since that is really coming up I can't believe.
I know. I love Thanksgiving.
I know, me too, eating holidays, I'm all for it. Do you have any great ideas for setting a table that will wow our guests?
I have a -- if you go to table ideas that I use over and over again because you know what's wrong with that one, good ideas to use, and one of my favorite Thanksgiving table setting ideas is to start with an old picture frame. I collect 11 x 17 old picture frames. You can go to a store or trade markets and if you find like pictures that are 11 x 17 frames throw the pictures out or give those away and keep the outer frame and I use that -- that sounds like my frame for the dinnerware and the glasses and the ...
Silverware. So I put that frame on the table so everybody gets a frame or sometimes when I haven't had enough because there's lot people, then I every other person gets a frame and you put the frame down in front of the feet and then within the frame, you can put like a placemat on the background or I've used like vintage French postcards like in the background there and then put the plate down and the silverware all within the frame and the glassware and then that for seating card, I get the little mini canvases at the art supply store or the craft store and then I put that each person's photograph on the frame and then sat down the easel and put that on the charger or whatever that's within the frame and 11 x 17 frame works perfectly because most dinner plates are like 11 inches so it fits right.
Right. That's a great idea though.
Oh, that's really...
I haven't heard that one. That's a great idea.
It looks pretty cool and people just love it. I love being a little bit -- something a little bit special for holiday gathering because it makes people feel special when they come to your home and I'm always feel grateful when people come over for like Thanksgiving or any get-together because I know there are a lot of entertainment options. They don't have to come to find out.
Hey free food.
Yeah. I love when they come over so I want to entertain them really. When you say you're entertaining people, that's actually giving a little entertainment quality to them without having anything to them. (laughs)
So I know you have lots of videos that we talked about at stylewithasmile.tv. I love that site. It's so easy to use and you can I used to find so many ideas. Are there some ideas on there that we can use for a handmade holiday gift idea?
Oh yeah. Yeah. Well, I love to make handmade gift and I love personalizing gift because it's obvious that you didn't buy it at the store and one of my favorite things is to make personalized soaps for people. Actually, I don't make the soap. I buy bar soap and then I personalize it with images and then I put images of their kids, their pets or them on the soaps and I show how to make that one in my videos and it's basically -- I use mod podge first to put the image on the soap and you need like a flat soap and not like a curve soap, but with a flat side so you can put the image on with some mod podge and then I have, at all time, an electric cooker with melted wax in their, melted beeswax. It's not like I have it on all time. I have electric wires at all times and I take the soap and I just dip it into the hot wax just really fast and that fills in the image so that you can actually use the soap and it won't wash off.
It makes a great gift and I've had people telling me that they make gifts for everybody like that.
That sounds like a great idea.
Yeah, it's really easy and it sounds like, "Oh, I'm feeling the hot wax," but it's really not that hot. It's not hot enough to melt and in dipping it, I use like some tongs just to dip the soap into the hot wax.
Yeah, not your bare hand.
That actually -- I should get this back but I have to use just my bare fingers because (laughs).
It so manmade.
Yeah it is. The wax itself in the electric pan is just like a half inch or quarter inch deep. It was not like I'm dipping my fingers into it. As long as I just hold the edge of the soap, I just get it in there just enough to dip it.
Right. Well and I know on FaveCrafts, we have the project for the paint chip boxes like gift boxes from you and all...
I love working with paint chips. I just do anything with paint chips. So it's like decorated boxes with paint chips on them on the site. Yeah, I have a video on making a paint chip starburst mirror and I don't know what else I've made with paint chips.
Those are great because they're like low cost craft. You have a lot of recycled crafts too which are awesome so people are looking for quick and easy inexpensive gift ideas that you have.
Yeah. There is a video on making picture frames with old cereal boxes.
You know I just use things. I just save my toothpaste box this week thinking I want to make something with this. I'm thinking that kind of thing.
Oh, yes. What a great idea. Because it's nice and narrow, that's great.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well you have so many great ideas. I just want to encourage anyone to go and see all your awesome ideas, remind everybody of the website.
Yeah. It's stylewithasmile.tv for all the video and then my regular site is jonathanfongstyle.com.
And you said you just revamped it so everyone should go and check it out.
Yeah. Yeah. So there are probably all these glitches on it so far away without that. That's not physics, just tell me what's wrong with this. (laughs)
Everyone go and test it and then jump on the Facebook and tell him.
Yeah. Every now and then I get something, "Oh that sounds __18:15__ like that".
Use our feedback. Well, thank you Jonathan so much and really everyone should check out the site because there are some I mean that you do really do have some really great project ideas that are so cool and about the videos, they're spectacular so make sure to go and check it out.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you so much. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Thank you! You too! Bye!
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Okay, we're back. So we're skipping ahead a little bit here to our next guest. I've known this next amazing crafter and I can't thank him enough for calling in early. He is really something fabulous. He is an amazing crafter and a really great friend. He is the author of 10 crafting books and has started on several television series including While You Were Out and 10 Years Younger. He has taken his skills as a fashion designer and created some awesome DIY projects on his new video series, The Mark Montano Project. It's Mark Montano. Hi Mark.
Yehey! Hello, how are you?
Good morning. (laughs)
It is morning and I woke up with a cold today.
It happens.
It's not even cold there, is it?
No. You know what, it's just that I've been -- today is the official launch of The Big-Ass Book of Bling. Today is when it hits the shelf and I've been working so hard to like get it officially launched that I think I've finally just -- this morning, I've finally just broke down and woke up with colds. It can happen.
It finally broke you.
It really -- it almost killed me.
The bling almost killed you. Well, I finally got my hands on your new Big-Ass Book of Bling. So tell us now that we know you're exhausted, how does this process work when you are creating this book? What goes into it besides your love, sweat and tears? Because this book is I already told you, it's big. It's a Big-Ass Book. It's big.
It really is. It's 150 DIY projects. And really, I mean in essence this book took over 20 years to write because even though it's been a year to put it together and publish, a lot of the projects are things that I have been making since I was a fashion designer in New York City and I used to have a boutique and to make extra money, we always made the accessories for the store. We always made the jewelry. It was just fun and it was a great way to take a break from selling clothes, which we would do all day. And so basically, I've just been making jewelry my whole life and we made a lot of jewelries for the runway shows that we did, which you can see on YouTube still, which I think is so funny. So basically, this is just a culmination of the accessories that we made in my fashion career.
Wow. But I mean it seems like because you have to make all 150 projects that takes quite some time, right?
Yes. It takes a real solid year to make photographs and write about each projects and I go through a big process where I really go to the material, make sure that they're readily available to the public that I'm not using found objects and things like that which I love to use but really can't when I'm writing a craft book because I want people to be able to do the project and I want them to be understandable and acceptable so that's how I vet each project. It can be It's a long process.
Yeah. So the Doll Head, can we talk about that for a moment? (laughs) I have to bring it up because every time, one of your new books hit my office, it's like the most talked about thing, of course. So how did this whole thing -- they want to know. How did this whole love of baby has, how did this start? Where does that come from? They're just dying to know.
Well, I've always loved dolls and you know dolls have been used in arts and photography, and you know, Joseph Cornell used them. He is one of the most famous collage artists. You know they have been used for 100 years. I think the imagery, I think they are just so beautiful and they evoke so much emotion in people, sometimes good, sometimes bad. They can be very creepy and very scary, but they can also be very -- you know, it remind you of really lovely times and I actually love dolls. I think they're beautiful. I love how little girls really love their dolls and create them into actual beings and give them personalities. So I've just always like doll. I hate clowns so you will never find me using any clown. I do not use it in my work.
You like baby heads, but not clowns.
But I do like, but I do like baby heads.
It's where you draw the line.
I draw the line in clowns.
Such a fine line between baby head and clown.
For some people yes. And some people love the baby heads and some people don't, but you know, baby head right here.
Yes, as you said. At some point, you have to make a decision. You have so many great projects with safety pins. I'm actually -- I was kind of amazed that few of them really are -- you wouldn't believe some of them are safety pins. So what would just say are your two besides you know the baby head? Whenever you made, well you will say this is the baby head? What are your two favorite projects that are in the new Big-Ass Book of Bling?
Okay. My two favorite projects. One it's something called the bluebird bangle and it's really hard to sometimes go out and find really interesting bracelets that everybody doesn't have. So I basically cut wood bangles out of wood with the jigsaw. You can have anybody cut it if you're not good with the jigsaw. So I cut these wood bangles out and then I showed people how to make molds. It's really easy molding putty and then cast them. And so I cut out a wood bangle and put a bluebird head on the wood bangle and I used some Minwax Express Color Stain to stain it really nice blue and it looks like a museum piece. It's a really wonderful, interesting bracelet that has a lot of possibilities if you like working with wood. And then other one, my other favorite project are these rings that I made with -- I microwaved glass in a Fuseworks microwave glass kiln and created this beautiful glass gem rings in the book, and those are my favorite. I wear them around the house all the time. I mean I personally can't wear them in public because they're very pretty and very feminine, but I wear them around the house. I think they're just so cool.
They seemed pretty amazing. I was wondering how hard it was to do that actually with the...
It's a kiln and it's about 6 inches in diameter and it goes in your microwave and you can melt glass in your microwave. It's a Fuseworks microwave kiln and you can out marbles in their and they sell glass that you can fuse in there. You can make these beautiful glass gems in your microwave. It's crazy...
That is crazy.
It's really crazy. I got hooked on it. I got one a couple of years ago. It's been about three years now and it's always on my kitchen counter. I'm always fusing glass and melting glass. I was that kid who put a beer bottle in the camp fire at the end of the night because in the morning I wanted to see the melted beer bottle. You know, did you ever do that?
Right, yeah. Definitely.
Yes. So I love melting glass.
That's so cool. I'm so glad you're talking about jewelry because we actually have someone called in with a question for you about jewelry and DIY so I'm going to welcome Rolando. A man called into the craft show which is the first time ever. Hi Rolando!
How is it going?
You have a question?
Yeah. Well, actually I guess some advice. About a year ago, I made a necklace for my wife. It looked like well to her, it's kind of idiot. My intention was to like to impress her with my creative skills and then a few months after that, I made another one and then it got a little bit better and I go -- at least wear to church. So she did it and then I started making more because some of the ladies are going. "Wow, that's cool! That's nice. Where did you get them?" "My husband made it." "Well, that's pretty impressive for your husband making this kind of stuff for you." So for the last year I've been on disability and I've been making jewelry while it is out of duct tape or not. I'm starting to do some accessories here and out to make it look a little bit more I don't want to say California style, but I moved here four years ago to Pennsylvania from San Francisco. Well, it was a really artistic type of community. So that's where I'm at right now. Well, I'm making a lot of jewelry, but it's still kind of weird approaching women. You know what I mean? (laughs). I'm trying to incorporate my wife just like how she stand next to me and kind of like when you wear this, because she just wears it in the church sometimes or other places. It's like "Wow, where did you get that?" I turn to kind of push her a little bit to like, "Hey, tell them we do jewelry".
She gives the final pick because as a woman, she can tell me like, "You know, that's good or not" and that where I'm at. But I kind of have this vision to incorporating them or some of the husbands or some of the wives that we know to maybe sit down and I have plenty of those little kids that you can put beads on them and sort of for a husband make a jewelry piece for his wife just to figuring out, "Hey, you're going to pick your favorite color or favorite kind of this or that and make something for your wife and give it to her. Most of them are not agreeing to that you know. They think it's kind of whatever, give her 20 bucks and go buy some jewelry somewhere...
Well it sounds like you have a great money making project there. You should make some -- definitely make some business cards so that when you wife wears her jewelry, she can just hand it to someone and say, "My husband makes it." You should put some pictures on a blog for absolute sure so that people can see the kind of things that you're making so that they can go and check it out and have a way to contact you. And I think it's a really great idea that you maybe get a group of guys together to come and make some accessories especially around the holidays for your wife, your girlfriends or things like that because I think that those handmade gifts are really, really special especially -- you know, anybody can go out and buy something at a jewelry store or piece of custom jewelry, but those special handmade gifts I know me personally and my friends really appreciate the time and the effort that when people take time to actually make something for me. That's what I keep forever. Those are the things that I really, really treasure and I think your wife deals the same way. I think she is just riding you a little bit. She's just like torturing you. But you know, I think it's great that you're doing that and I think you have a really good opportunity here to turn this into some capital.
I love it. Thanks so much Rolando for calling in. I can't believe that this is like the all men show, right?
Yeah. Thanks Rolando.
It's crazy. So I have something really fun, but I just wanted to alert everybody. I thought it would be fun to give away a copy of your new book, The Big-Ass Book of Bling. It talks the baby head project and other awesome things. Here live on the show right now to caller 10.
So all you have to do is call in the number 646-200-4435 and caller 10 is going to win a copy of your brand new book. So start calling in people and we're going to go to caller 10 and we're going to move on. I have a question for you from the chat room which is great because it kind of leads into one of my questions. It's from Kidpreneur Tour. Thanks for asking. The question is "What is it yours, Mark, your cannot live without craft tool?
Oh gosh. I have several. I can't. You can't just have one craft tool. I think this book is particular to just to stay on topic of The Big-Ass Book of Bling. It is probably E600 Glue. That is my one glue that I always, always have on hand. It's right next to the olive oil on the kitchen counter, because I use olive oil everyday and I use E600 glue every single day, so there you go. I mean I almost can't get through a project without using that glue in one way or another.
Yeah I love that stuff.
Now, do you want me to list my other top say 10 or 5 when making things?
Well, I was going to say you must store them all on your craft cottage which I've seen the craft cottage and we're going to put up pictures of it in the radio show recap. Maybe you can tell people about your crafty cottage where you work and create all these projects.
Well. Thank you. First of all, I want a big shout out to TLC, The Learning Channel, because if it wasn't for TLC, I would never have been able to buy my house, so thank you TLC for hiring me for all those crazy shows. But when I bought my house, it's a 1914 Craftsman. It's a tiny little cottage house that looks like, I don't know. That looks like something you'd find in the middle of the forest and it's small and I needed a craft room, so basically me and my friends who are really good carpenters, I've some really good carpenter friends from actually couple of the shows that I've been on, built a miniature version of my house on the back property. So it's a tinier version of my house which is my craft house and it's just a little tiny house that it just filled with everything that you could ever, ever want to do. Sewing machine, fabrics, beads, recycled material, all my scissors, everything that you can imagine is out in that little house and that's kind of where I go to work. So I go out to the back door of my house and walk about equivalent to sort of half a block away and I go into my craft house and that's where I work.
That sounds awesome. That sounds awesome.
It's really magical.
So what do you think will be the hot gift that we can give, that we can give to crafters this holiday season because we're talking about products? You're saying what you love, so what do you think are some great like gift ideas to give to a crafter? I mean obviously crafters like handmade things but we all like you know, let's face it. We all shop, right? So what could we -- what are the hot things?
I think the two hottest things are any of the embossing machines that are coming out -- they're coming out now that do leather craft. I think those are super hot. I'm just going to mention two companies. Spellbinders make some really great embossing that the Calibur, Excalibur...
Yes, yes. Grand Calibur, it is.
Grand Calibur. Thank you.
Spellbinders. It's awesome. Yes, I have that as well.
And the new one from Fiskars is pretty amazing.
Yeah the Fuse.
The Fuse is really awesome. So those two are -- they are pretty amazing like if you get a coupon from Joanne's or Michael's and go and buy one of those because they're so awesome. After people read, okay -- and then inspiration is also good to give. Give somebody a really cool craft book like The Big-Ass Book of Bling because that's 20 bucks or less.
Yes. Oh my gosh on Amazon. I just want to say this because I'm just so amazed that it such a great deal, it's less than $12.
Yeah. $11.89 on Amazon and on barnesandnoble.com too by the way.
That's amazing.
Yeah. So if you're not an Amazon fan which I agree, but I think everybody is. But you know if you are Barnes and Noble fan, if you get your books from Barnes and Noble, they also have it for that prize. So go online and you can that's a great gift and easy to give to a crafter because it's inspiration. And then I also love -- I really do love the Fuseworks microwave kiln. It's so different. No one has written about it.
It's a really...
I haven't seen it.
It's so fun. It's been for a while actually, but it is so fun. Like everybody who got to see an advance copy of the book has gone out and purchased a kiln because they just and they can't stop sending me messages like photo messages of the stuff they melting in the kitchen. They're like "Look at this, look at this! I'm going to stop blowing up my phone with pictures of glass (laughs). Those are three really great items right there I think.
That's awesome. Yeah. The Fuse is great and everyone should stay tune to FaveCraft because we are actually giving away the Fuse. It's coming up here right after Thanksgiving, so make sure you're following us on Facebook or something so you'll know when it's coming up because that machine is pretty awesome.
I got to -- yeah, they've sent me one and I've been playing with it and I've been doing the leather craft stuff where you ink the images and it's so cool. I mean it's really a fun machine.
Yeah, I love it. It's great and I love you know, Fiskars generally makes really good products. The Spellbinder machine is also really, really great too and it's really durable. I've had it when it first came out and it works great too. And I use lots of different dyes. You can cut things and cut fabrics so that's a great one too.
Yeah. It really is.
So, handmade quick ideas, what's the one fast project you can think of that you can make for somebody as a quick gift for the holidays?
I think a mixed media sort of a necklace is a really great gift because you can -- in my book the new one, The Big-Ass Book of Bling, can I say it again?
Yeah. I know. You can't __41:55__ on the front.
Yeah. So I did this mixed media necklaces and they're basically these sort of necklaces that are made out of -- and brooches that are made out of pretty much whatever is left over in your craft bin and a really cool image. So it incorporates like a little bit of decopatch and fabric within, a little bit of chains, whatever you have left, kind of like all assembled on like a small piece of cardboard, maybe an oval or something like that and then you can pour a resin over it or Mod Podge Dimensional Magic which is awesome too and then you just kind of create these really cool mixed media pieces. They are all going to be different. They are all going to look really cool and I think people are going enjoy those a lot. It's really ...
Yeah that's a great idea.
It's a great project to get into. You'll have a lot of fun making it and you don't have to go out and buy anything for it. So I think that's a great handmade gift to give this year.
So Mark, we have a 10th caller for your book. We have lots of people who called in so thank you everybody who called in. I'm sorry there is only one winner today, but we do have a winner and I'm so excited to tell her so I can put her on the show here if my button works, it will be great.
Let's have __43:14__.
Hello. You are the winner. Who is this? Hello? Hello I can't hear you. I can't totally hear her. Well, I'm going to put you back on hold and Maggie is going to get your information so we can send you out Mark's new book so congrats! You are the winner.
Yehey, congrats!
Yehey. Thanks everyone for calling. I just got a little crazy there for a hot second. (laughs). We've never done that before. I went a little crazy. So remind everybody where we can go to find all the Mark Montano goodness online.
Oh, all you have to do is go to markmontano.com and on that, there are links to the blog. There are links to my YouTube pages. There are videos, everything. Everything you want to know about me and probably a lot of stuff you don't want to know about me is all on markmontano.com.
Well thank you so much Mark for being on the show. It's always a pleasure to chat with you. We don't do it in us.
I know, it's my pleasure. Well, thank you for having me and have a wonderful day.
You too and I'll see you soon. I'll see you in January.
That's right, we will. Alright, save me a Martini. I'll talk to you soon.
I will. Okay buh bye.
Okay. So before I bring on my next guest, I just want to let you know that we have a couple of awesome giveaways for our listeners. So if you didn't win Mark's book by calling in, you can also win by logging on to favecraftblog.com/November-radio right after the show and comment with out secret word for this show which is Man Craft. So that's our secret phrase for this show plus which prize you'd like to receive because we're giving away a copy or Mark's new book, The Big-Ass Book of Bling, which we just give away and a set of Ergo Crochet Hooks just for listening. So again you just have to enter man craft in the comment section of the post at favecraftblog.com/November-radio for a chance to win. So good luck everybody! My last guest is a craft and decorating guru who is also one of the crafty judges on TLC's Craft Wars. He has worked as a costume designer for television and movies and now produces a line of home decor and giftware products. As a big fan of the holidays, I'm sure the mayor of Glitterville will have lots of holiday ideas to share with us. Let's welcome Stephen Brown. Hi Stephen!
Thanks! How are you?
Do you mind that I called you the mayor of Glitterville? I was not sure that you would consider yourself the mayor or (laughs)
Oh, I guess I'm the mayor.
(Laughter) I don't know. I wasn't sure.
Right! (Laughter) So, thanks for being on the show and I just...
You're welcome.
I just happen to start with Craft Wars. It's such a huge hit with crafters and we even had an entire show about Craft Wars back in August which everyone could listen to online and it was one of our hottest shows. So, can you tell us a little bit about what's like on the show? It looks so intense.
Well, I guess the intenseness depends on what your role was on the show. For the judges and Tori, you know, it was great because we got to see all of these crafty people who come in and show us, you know, they had to exercise their skills in the Pop Craft and the Master Challenge. So for us, it was pretty calm. As for the crafters, we didn't get to see much of them like before the show or anything, but you would see them in the first intro when they came in and everybody was really calm and cool and looks confident about everything and then they would get the challenge and that's...
Until the nerves start creeping in and then to make it worse, like you know, "Okay, we're going to give you all these fabulous material and then they open the garage door and, you know, you get a pile of beach balls or blue jeans or baby blankets and that kind of thing. So, I think that's where you really saw the intenseness coming in because you could just see their faces drain as they see these odd materials that they were given. So, they would start in crafts and it sort of looked like a pressure cooker from there and...
And, you know, of course someone was eliminated right away in the top class and then two of them went on to be given another big pile of stuff and another big challenge to complete. So that's really what was the most intense part of it for the crafters is, you know, just watching them try to deal with all these problems that come up, because you know, everybody at home would sit and think "Oh, it's really easier. I would have done this." And even we at the judge's table would sit there and say "You know, everybody knows you can't spray paint Styrofoam. Everybody knows, you know" but if you think about all of the cameras that are surrounding everybody and you have Tori Spelling herself who is just walking around from person to person, you know, saying "What are you going to do? It doesn't look like you've been there." You
You know, it was only a second, I think. So I think that's what made, you know, all the nerves and everything, it's like got so intense on the set. As for the judges, you know, we were pretty calm because for the most part, no one was looking for us to perform like the crafters. That was the hard part.
Right! So, I'm guessing maybe the hardest part for the judges was the actual judging of the craft. I mean how hard it is to judge someone's craft? I think that's kind of hard to do sometimes right?
I think it -- I think it depends on how you look at it because you know one of the difficulties with the show from day 1 was people wanting you to design craft like what is -- you know what are crafts. You know, because everybody expected to tune in to the show and they'd be making small things on the table and you know for television, you have to ramp it up a little bit which is why they may be large things...
And you know, so the first thing was to identify what is craft and what fits in to something else. And I think all three judges came at it from a different direction. You know my thing is, holidays and making things from basic materials has always been my -- sort of my things and then you have Joe Peterson from Michaels who is so fabulous and \knows every material that was ever put on the planning.
Any kind of blue, all of those things and that was a disadvantage for me because I don't work that way. I work from a very small list of basic materials and I really don't explore much outside of that, although I would love -- you know, I'm sure I would love some of those materials and then...
And then you have Erica who came at it at more from the fashion point of view. So when we were judging a lot of times, something would hit on a particular thing that was of interest to us but most of the time, it was just looking at the skill and I have to say for the most part, you know, we could usually identify early on who we thought was going to do the best in the challenge.
Right. So I just want to remind the listeners that you can call in at 646-200-4435. If you have a question for Stephen, he is a master of home decor ideas on holidays. So if you have a question about that or an idea or you want to ask about Craft Wars because I know everyone has burning questions, you can just call in. So your site, I have to ask Glitterville. Is it because you just love glitter? Where does that come from?
Well, I do love (Crosstalk)
How did you become Glitterville -- the mayor of Glitterville? (Laughter)
(Laughter) Well, in the early days right after I had really stopped designing movies and TV and that kind of thing and started making a few ornaments, everything that I made, I would put glitter on because, you know, everything is better with glitter. Everybody knows that.
To be honest, what have happened was every time I would leave the studio to go somewhere else, someone would say you've got glitter on your face and it's like -- and all crafters hear that. You know, he is the guy with glitter here or there or whatever and on that particular day, someone said "You have glitter on your face" and I said "Yes I know" and they said "It looks like --" they said -- "You look like you might be the mayor somewhere that is really a sparkle."
And I said Glitterville. And I said that's it. And we all laughed and we didn't take it too seriously at that time and then when we got back to the studio, maybe that's the name, so that's how it got coined and that's what we've been ever since that -- yes I do love glitter. A lot of people love glitter.
So we have a question from our chat room, it's from Eileen Hall. Hi Eileen! She wants to know if there will be more episodes of Craft Wars. Is there a Season 2?
That's something that TLC hasn't announced yet, so...
Oh! So we should all hold our breath and wait.
I don't really have any information regarding that topic, but it's a very good question Eileen.
That is a good question. So the holidays are quickly, quickly approaching as I was just saying to Mark. I can't believe Thanksgiving is next week. So hostess' guest -- Would you have some ideas for what you can bring the person throwing the party as like a little thank you?
Well, I think you can always -- one of the things that I like to take if I am going for dinner or whatever mix. You know, just do something that shows you went out of the way. It does not have to be a huge gift. It does not have to be anything which you know particular to the substance that you are going to. It's just something that shows you made a little effort. Like last week, I had to make some thank you notes to send after a few people but I really hate just sending out thank you notes. So instead, I made a little small loaves of pumpkin bread and then I put them into one of my favorite things for giveaway such as that whether it's a favorite at party or as a thank you. If you go to the florist supply, they have corsage bags and they come in small, medium and large and the thing that's special about these bags is they are super glossy and shining. So anything you put in them and tie up with a ribbon is you know going to be received fabulously. So when I have this over time, I made these mini loaves of pumpkin bread put them into this tiny corsage bags and tie them up with a glass glittered leaf and some pink, orange ribbons of course.
Glitter of course.
For me -- for Glitterville, Thanksgiving the colors of Thanksgiving are a little __54:52__ than what our colors are so we tied them up with pink and orange ribbons and you know put little thank you note on it and you know sent them out that way so I think any time, you can just do something that looks a little crafty and tested. You know, that's going to make the person happy that they get it instead of just giving them a note, all were happier.
Okay. So I knew that would be a lot of glitter talk having Glitterville on the show and I am you know -- I was proclaimed not a glitter lover which I know it's hard for glitter people to understand or anyone really. (Crosstalk) I know, I know, I know.
This is going to have to become a therapy hour for your problem.
It's a problem for a person. I know it's a problem for a person in craft but we actually have a caller who has a question about glitter. Hello! How is this?
Hi! My name is Kelly.
Hi Kelly! You have a question for Stephen huh?
Yup, I'm calling from California.
Hi Kelly!
Hi! I am calling from California and this last summer, we were doing a project for children in the backyard. You know some glitter on paper just letting them be really creative and some of the older children called our attention to the fact that they were getting cuts on their fingers. You know "Moms we're getting cuts to our fingers." and like "Oh be quiet, you're fine." It turns out it was actually cut glass, it was cut glass glitter that was made from out of the country because we bought it in an expensive store. We are just wondering, how can we be sure that it is not like that in other time, and where would we find glitter that isn't cut glass?
Well it's funny that you mentioned that because what you had was like glass glitter which when it first hit the scene, it was called German glass glitter whether it came from Germany or not, but I think you just had a little -- Well someone view it as luck. In your case, it wasn't good luck but most of the time, glitter is synthetic and that's the glitter that most people are familiar with. The glass glitter is just now becoming enough common on the market that you might find it in place with another kind of glitter but not usually because we think of glass glitter as exotic, but it is just crushed glass and people think "Oh! It's a crushed supply so it won't cut me. It is just crushed glass and even here at the studio we get it in our hands. We can get it in your eyes. You have to be really careful. We make a lot of tiaras and crowns and party hats and the glass glitter is really beautiful on them but you have to be careful because when you glue that on the party hats and then people wear them, that same glass can drop down in their eyes. So Kelly most of the time, the glitter that you find will be synthetic and usually it's very small like fine or suffer fine. What you had, I think it was just a fluke that you came across from glass glitter like that because normally it's much priced here than regular glitter and if you just look at it, you can tell it's very chunky and it usually has a little bit more sparkle that looks more like glass than just regular glitter. So I don't think it will usually be your problem but when you do get that, be very careful because it can hurt you.
The cheaper glitters are usually safer for children I think.
They have lots of that at Michaels.
The really chunky kind that you use when you were in elementary school that comes in basic colors like gold and blue and red and green and then you move into like super fine glitters and fine and so forth.
But those are all synthetic and none of those will hurt you. Glitter is almost always a good thing (Crosstalk)
Well it's so great to have you on this show and all this glitter talk. I feel like I might have some on me. I don't know. I'll probably have it on me all week now just talking about it.
We have to get to the bottom of what you hate about glitter.
I know, I know.
That's one whole show on its own.
I know, an intervention, a glittervention. If people want to find out about your amazing book, I love that Halloween book you have out and your ideas, where did I find you online?
They can go to glitterville.com and the book is available on amazon.com or you can order signed copies on glitterville.com as well.
Fantastic! So thank you so much for being on the show Stephen and we hope to see you at Season 2 of Craft Wars.
We hope so. Have a good day.
Thanks. So that's our November show. I want to thank everyone for listening and sorry to Drew if we lost you somewhere, I hope not. Thanks for everyone for spreading the word on Facebook and Twitter and don't forget, you can enter to win Mark's new book or a set of Ergo Hooks. Just go to favecraftsblog.com/November-radio. The secret word is Man Craft and if you love the show, we'd like to hear it on our iTunes page and stay tune for next month's show, it's December 11th. Have a great Thanksgiving everybody.
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Re: Dickasons of Bristol/Norfolk
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Dickasons of Bristol
Simon Dover 11/01/04
Hi Simon,
Did you ever find any connection between the Dickason's of Bristol and the Dickason's of Norfolk?
My wife (Carolyn) was a Dickason and I can trace her line back to Jorge D. of Necton.
Of interest I have jut discovered Carol has relatives living in Argentina of which we knew nothing.
Martin Rogers
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A couple chooses one of three properties in the Lake District.
Michael Caton follows the fortunes of renters, buyers and builders all playing the property ladder.
A Balinese inspired property is placed on the market and the owner is hoping to make a good profit.
A couple plan to build a bale house out of straw and mud.
A couple are building their dream home, but living in a shed until their new property is complete.
A rail enthusiast purchases a run-down train carriage that he wants to renovate into a holiday getaway.
An engaged couple may win their dream home if they can correctly guess the asking price.
A converted church is on the market, and its owner is hoping to make a healthy profit on his original investment.
A couple build their own kennels; a musician hopes to trade in a one-bedroom house with its own recording studio for a new pad.
Three students hunt for the perfect flatmate; a couple attempt to renovate their property in the hope of making a profit.
A Melbourne estate agent decides to hold a rental auction.
Louise Harrison and Adrian Wright are stuck in their council flat in Wolverhampton with two children.
A London couple expecting their first child play for a place in Cartegena, Spain.
Two London boys play for a place in Almeria, Southern Spain.
A London couple play for a retreat in Lorca, southern Spain.
Bristol couple hoping to relocate are given the opportunity to choose a home in Malaga, Southern Spain.
Professional basketball player Justin Pheonix and his wife want to own their own home.
Vlad builds in his father's back yard; Marion and Col search for a waterside home.
Clive and Leonie learn if building their new home was worth all the trouble.
Construction of Clive and Leonie Williamson's house grinds to a halt.
Clive and Leonie learn saving money was the easy part; first-time buyers Adam and Anna.
A couple spend 20 years waiting to build their dream home; five bachelors search for a female flatmate.
A young couple who want to start a family live in a cold, damp rented house.
Melbourne's hottest property spot; newlyweds can't afford to pay their mortgage.
Houses with "wheels"; Melbourne beach huts.
Three single women seek a male flatmate; an estate agent sells her own property.
Aussie sisters sell the house where they have been living for 70 years.
Two old friends create the ultimate bachelor pad; Justin and Catherine's houseboat is complete.
An empty-nester couple sell their dream family home; search for a dog-friendly landlord.
A couple convert an old fishing trawler into a home.
Rival teams design and build a backyard box.
A Sydney couple live in their parents' garage while they build their dream home.
The Melbourne house is ready for auction; two girls leave home for university.
The Melbourne couple's renovation takes shape, but time and funds are running out.
The Melbourne couple face more problems; football team needs a new clubhouse.
A Melbourne couple start to renovate a dumpy property they just purchased.
Hank and Donna Coopman are on the road with their new bus; Jim and Deb battle the local council.
Hank and Donna throw caution to the wind and embark on a life on the road.
Kylie and Vlad return from their honeymoon; Boyd and Kay are hoping they can sell their old home.
Kylie and Vlad's building project is hit by rain; a couple decide to move closer to kin.
Kylie and Vlad are racing to get their house built for their wedding day.
A couple tries to win a property in Andalucia in southern Spain.
Intent on fulfilling a wish to move to Spain, a couple plays for an idyllic place in Mojacar in Andalusia.
Eugene and Nadine want a family home in the warmer climate and open spaces of Spain.
Paul Giles and Helen Stubbins cramped staff accommodation they currently live and cook in.
Kim and Damien try to win their dream home in Costa Calida, Spain.
A couple is expecting their second child and would like a retreat to get away from the hustle and bustle of London living.
Hot spot of Malaga, Spain.
Alice Beer visits trainee teachers Kelly and Andrew from Liverpool.
Laura and Jim try and guess the asking price and possibly win their very first home.
Alice Beer presents the game show that gives first-time house buyers the chance to win their own home; she meets an ex-model and a fashion consultant, both of whom long to move out of London and back to the model's hometown of Norwich.
Starter-home in York, England.
Alice Beer visits Edinburgh.
A young couple from Dagenham hopes to win a property and move out of its respective parents' homes.
A couple joins Alice for more viewing-by-video to decide which of three houses they'll try to guess the price of.
Alice Beer goes to Nottingham.
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Autoimmunity associated with anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha treatment in Crohn's disease: A prospective cohort study
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Background & Aims: Infliximab therapy is an effective approach to treating Crohn's disease. Development of antinuclear antibodies has been described in patients treated, but the size of the problem and ... [more ▼]
Background & Aims: Infliximab therapy is an effective approach to treating Crohn's disease. Development of antinuclear antibodies has been described in patients treated, but the size of the problem and the relationship with autoimmunity have not been investigated. We investigated the occurrence of antinuclear antibodies in 125 consecutive Crohn's disease patients and studied the relationship with symptoms of autoimmunity. Methods: Autoantibodies and clinical data were investigated before and 1, 2, and 3 months after infliximab infusion. If antinuclear antibodies were greater than or equal to1:80, further study of double-stranded DNA, single-stranded DNA, histones, and ENA was performed. Results: Cumulative antinuclear antibody incidence at 24 months was 71 of 125 (56.8%). Almost half of these patients developed antinuclear antibodies after the first infusion, and >75% became antinuclear antibody positive after fewer than 3 infusions. So far, only :15 of 71 patients have become seronegative, after a median of 12 months. Of 43 antinuclear antibody-positive patients who were further subtyped, 14 of 43 (32.6%) had double-stranded DNA, 17 (39.5%) had single-stranded DNA, 9 (20.9%) had antihistone, and 0% were ENA positive. Two patients (both antihistone and double-stranded DNA positive) developed drug-induced lupus without major organ damage, and I developed autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Antinuclear antibodies were associated with the female sex (odds ratio, 3.166; 95% confidence interval, 1.167-8.585; P = 0.024) and with papulosquamous or butterfly rash (odds ratio, 10.016; 95% confidence interval, 1.708-58.725; P = 0.011). Conclusions: The cumulative incidence of antinuclear antibodies was 56.8% after 24 months in this cohort of infliximab-treated Crohn's disease patients. Antinuclear antibodies persisted up to I year after the last infusion, and only a few patients became seronegative. Two patients developed drug-induced lupus erythematosus. Antinuclear antibodies were associated with the female sex and skin manifestations. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 20 (2 ULiège)
Transmission of CARD15 (NOD2) variants in families with Crohns disease
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Serological markers for prediction of response to anti-tumor necrosis factor treatment in Crohn's disease
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in American Journal of Gastroenterology (2002), 97(6), 1458-1462
OBJECTIVES: The use of monoclonal anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antibodies (infliximab, Remicade) is a new therapeutic approach for severe refractory luminal or fistulizing, Crohn's disease (CD ... [more ▼]
OBJECTIVES: The use of monoclonal anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) antibodies (infliximab, Remicade) is a new therapeutic approach for severe refractory luminal or fistulizing, Crohn's disease (CD). However, up to 30% of patients do not respond to this treatment. So far, no parameters predictive of response to anti-TNT have been identified. Our aim was to determine whether serological markers ASCA (anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies) or pANCA (perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies) could identify Crohn's patients likely to benefit from anti-TNF therapy. METHODS: Serum samples of 279 CID patients were analyzed for ASCA and pANCA before anti-TNF therapy. A blinded physician determined clinical response at week 4 (refractory luminal CD) or week 10 (fistulizing CD) after the first infusion of infliximab (5 mg/kg). RESULTS: Overall, there was no relationship between ASCA or pANCA and response to therapy. However, lower response rates were observed for patients with refractory intestinal disease carrying the pANCA+/ASCA- combination, although this lacked significance (p = 0.067). CONCLUSIONS: In this cohort of infliximab-treated patients, neither ASCA nor pANCA could predict response to treatment. However, the combination pANCA+/ASCA- might warrant further investigation for its value in predicting nonresponse in patients with refractory luminal disease. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 50 (0 ULiège)


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FEATURES | spring 2005
A Gallery of Dreaming
"Too hot for you," the Aboriginal woman says. So here, smack in the middle of the Australian Outback, thousands of miles from anywhere, I station myself in the meager shade of a burnt pine.
Cooked over a noontime campfire, the goanna lizards (a little stringy) are shared along with a white grub (rich, like sautéed mushrooms) amid festive talk in Warlpiri, their guttural tribal tongue.
These days, the most recognizable style of Aboriginal painting is the much-admired Western Desert "dot painting," usually done in acrylic on canvas, linen or board. It originated in the arid region around Alice Springs, where temperatures can reach 120 degrees and poisonous snakes and insects always threaten.
Its most revered artist is the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996), who handled camels and livestock at a cattle station called Utopia and didn't begin painting until age 77. In a dizzyingly short period, she moved into virtuoso realms, creating "allover" fields of dots, quavering stripes and networks of grids. No less than New Mexico Minimalist Agnes Martin came to admire her technique when both were exhibited at the tony 1997 Venice Biennale (a towering achievement for any artist, let alone an Aboriginal woman).
The centers also distribute profits to artists. A surprising amount of international art market funds have streamed into humble, sun-baked settlements like Yuendumu, usually no more than a Quonset hut grocery store and a gas pump. Some collectors, eager for the best work, even fly in to choose paintings.
Remarkably crafted, the painting formally resembles nothing less than Pablo Picasso's Surrealistic Cubism of the 1930s, depicting multiple realities simultaneously. But Judy, a soiled bandage on one leg, her hair bound by a faded kerchief, figured out this approach more or less on her own.
The dot-painting style originated a few hundred miles from Yuendumu in Papunya, a desultory settlement of tin-roofed buildings where tribes were grouped artificially during a low moment in Aboriginal history. A cruel government "assimilation" policy forced tribes off their lands, aiming to "breed" them quickly into colonial society (a policy spelled out in the unsettling 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence). In 1971, however, an idealistic Australian art teacher in Papunya, Geoff Bardon, encouraged dispirited senior men to record their traditional symbols in acrylic paint. Sophisticated compositions soon evolved, using a palette limited to the earthy ceremonial hues of ocher, white, yellow, black and brown.
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Refrigerated Collection Rack
The Refrigerated Collection Racks are horizontal racks which accommodate up to 12 Rodent Metabolic Cages (not included). Urine and feces samples are collected into separate 15 ml conical tubes under each cage.
• Manual or Automatic/Manual collection
•Maintain samples down to -15°C effectively reducing enzymatic reactions until analyses can be performed
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• Manual or Automatic/Manual collection
•Maintain samples down to -15°C effectively reducing enzymatic reactions until analyses can be performed
The racks come completely assembled with a compressor which controls the temperature of the samples, twelve funnels and twelve 15 ml Polymethylpentene Conical Tubes for each cage (144 tubes total).
The Refrigerated Rack with Automatic Collection automatically collects and refrigerates or freezes urine samples from metabolic cages at pre-set intervals. It is ideal for automatic, unattended sample collection overnight or on weekends and for fraction collection for repeated urine sampling over a short period of time.
The Refrigerated Rack with Automatic Collection has a geared motor with microprocessor-controlled timing mechanism permitting preprogrammed collection intervals from 10 seconds to 30 hours, with a total of 12 collections. A control/power panel allows automatic or manual operation and has a central power switch and separate. ON/OFF switches for the timing mechanism and compressor. Supplied with complete instruction manual.
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piriformis muscle (anatomy)
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Piriformis is one of the muscles of the gluteal region. It is located both within the pelvis and posterior to the hip joint.
It originates from the second to fourth lateral masses of the sacrum on its anterior surface and the adjoining sacrotuberous ligament. It passes laterally to exit the pelvis through the greater sciatic foramen. Lying posterior to the femoral head, it inserts into the superior and medial border of the greater trochanter of the femur.
It is innervated by the anterior primary rami of S1 and S2.
Piriformis has many functions:


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One of the most random style categories out there is Grand Cru. Most beer categories have a set range of numbers, color, and other things that are pretty specific, but Grand Cru is wide open. I've have everything from sour to peppery. Green Flash Brewing Company makes a Grand Cru and that's what we are looking at today. Let's see what direction they decided to go with this open style.
Grand Cru Dark Ale pours a dark ruby color. You can't see through it as first glance, but when held up to the light you can see that it is clear and changes the source of the light beautifully as it travels through the liquid. The head is a light tan color and soon fades into the beer below.The nose starts with a good malty, caramel base. It then morphs into a nice helping of dark fruits, most notably fig and plum. It ends on a slightly spicy note.
On the first taste the first thing I noticed was the drop of heat. This beer comes in an at a massive 9.1% ABV so it's not surprising that alcohol shows up. The caramel smells follow through to the flavor and add a nice splash of sticky sweetness. A nice raisin flavor develops in the caramel and carries through until the end of the sip. Grand Cru Dark Ale has a spicy Belgian finish that has a bit of clove on the end.
This is yet another Grand Cru that is different from what I have had in the past. It is nice and smooth. It's a little sweet but overall it's pretty well balanced. This is a style that I want to explore more as I love the variety and combinations of flavors that different breweries put into it. (more…)