How Not to Decorate
How Not to Decorate is a television series which aired from 1 August 2004 to 27 April 2006 on Five in the United Kingdom.
Designers Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan helped redecorate notoriously ugly or unstylish homes, in a format similar to the" What Not to Wear" series.
The series centred heavily around McAllister and Ryan's trademark banter and fussiness.
Cecil Mountford
Cecil" CecCes" Ralph Mountford( 16 June 1919 – 19 July 2009), also known by the nickname of" The Blackball Bullet", was a New Zealand rugby league footballer and coach.
Mountford was one of ten siblings, he and four of his brothers played rugby league for the South Island whilst Bill Mountford and Ken Mountford played for New Zealand.
Mountford also played for West Coast, along with Bill and Ken, in inter-provincial matches.
Ken Xie
Ken Xie is a Chinese- born American businessman who founded Systems Integration Solutions( SIS), NetScreen Technologies, and Fortinet.
He serves as CEO of Fortinet, a cybersecurity firm based in Silicon Valley.
Xie was previously the CEO of NetScreen, which was acquired by Juniper Networks for$ 4 billion in 2004.
He built the first ASIC- based firewall/ VPN appliance in 1996.
Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan
Colin Lewis McAllister and Justin Patrick Ryan are Scottish interior decorators and television presenters, often billed as Colin and Justin.
As well as being co-hosts, McAllister and Ryan have also been a couple since 1986 and have been credited for introducing laminate flooring to British households.
On 15 February 2008, they had a private civil partnership ceremony in London followed by a Caribbean honeymoon.
Although their main residence is in Glasgow, they divide their time between there and London.
They have filmed 4 13- episode series of" Colin and Justin's Home Heist" for HGTV, which is broadcast in approximately 25 countries.
" Million Pound Property Experiment" was a BBC Television series which originally aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom in 2003.
In this, McAllister and Ryan renovated and re-sold properties for a profit as they gambled with a £ 100,000 loan from the BBC, with the ultimate goal being a sale of a property for £ 1 million.
Taking more than two years they bought, renovated and sold seven properties across the UK with the help of project manager Nigel Leck.
Their final property sold for £ 1.25 million and after paying back all loans they made a profit of nearly £ 300,000 which was donated to BBC's Children in Need Appeal.
McAllister and Ryan counted down the best ways to increase the values of viewers homes.
The format also included Twenty Builders' Botch Ups and Twenty Design Crimes.
The series was made for the UK's Five channel.
" Trading Up"( and overseas spin- off show" Trading Up in the Sun") aired on BBC One in which McAllister and Ryan counselled people on how to successfully sell and buy property.
The former concentrated on British homes while the latter saw the presenters travel around Spain and France in search of homes for British buyers.
Seven series were filmed with 210 episodes in total.
This live format multi camera studio show, a production for BBC1, was hosted by Lowri Turner and co-presented by various experts such as chef James Martin and Colin and Justin.
Spanning some seven series the decorators created live' one hour' transformations interacting throughout with viewers.
The emphasis was about creating' style on a shoestring' and the show had a spin- off series called" Housecall in the Country" on which Colin and Justin also worked.
How Not to Decorate aired on the UK's Channel 5 and followed the format of the popular" What Not to Wear" series, but in this case McAllister and Ryan were recruited to transform homes with dramatically ugly interior decoration schemes into something more stylish.
Four seasons of 13 were filmed as well as a mini series featuring celebrity homes.
A British TV first, Colin and Justin, along with model Caprice, attempted to raise a £ 150,000 anamatronic' baby'.
The show charted the three celebrities as they experienced the highs and lows of parenthood.
Caprice infamously dropped her' baby' while Colin and Justin later said in interviews that it made them realise they would indeed make good parents.
In 2006, McAllister and Ryan hosted the reality series" The Farm" on Five.
In McAllister and Ryan's next programme," Wedding Belles", which aired on Five in 2007, they became wedding decorators to prospective brides.
Four one hour episodes now showing across the globe.
McAllister and Ryan presented STV's 2008/ 2009" Hogmanay Stories", a mix of traditional Hogmanay celebrations, with music from Michelle McManus, John Carmichael and some surprise guests.
There were stories from Elaine C. Smith, Cameron Stout, Aggie MacKenzie, Sanjeev Kohli, Limmy and others – and messages to loved ones who find themselves away from home at that momentous time of the year.
McAllister and Ryan attempted to visually transform a council estate in Glasgow( Arden, on the south side of the city) in their 2007 show on Five.
The premise was that everyone should be entitled to a good standard of living, no matter where they are on the social strata.
An anniversary TV' one year on' revisit is currently being planned.
The Midnight Watch
The Midnight Watch is a 1927 American silent crime film directed by Charles J. Hunt and starring Roy Stewart, Mary McAllister and David Torrence.
Hip Hop Republican
Hip Hop Republican is a combined music and politics blog that started in 2004 by Richard Ivory.
Ivory says that he started the blog in part because of frustration with the belief that blacks must be Democrats.
The blog was credited with giving conservative blacks a sense of community during the 2008 presidential election when they were often expected to vote in solidarity with Barack Obama.
The blog has since expanded to feature many other commentators alongside Ivory, including Lenny McAllister and Shirley Husar.
The term" Hip- Hop Republican" as popularized by the blog has become an identity for some young black Republicans.
Lenny McAllister
Leonard Francis McAllister Jr.( born January 13, 1972) is an American political commentator for a number of newspapers and websites, including AOL and The Root.
He was the 2016 Republican Candidate for US Congress in after winning the primary by way of write- in votes, tripling the requirement for the nomination.
From 2008 through 2017, his media platform including hosting shows on the Pittsburgh Cable News Channel and KDKA_( AM) in Pittsburgh and WVON in Chicago as well as appearing regularly on CNN, HLN, Al_ Jazeera _America, Radio_New_Zealand, and other outlets.
As an African- that is part of the Black Conservatism movement, he is often attributed to positions that mirror some civil rights activists including his positions on ending stop and frisk practices on African- Americans as a violation of the Constitution.
A Roaring Adventure
A Roaring Adventure is a 1925 American silent western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Jack Hoxie, Mary McAllister and Marin Sais.
1973 Australian Open – Men's Doubles
Owen Davidson and Ken Rosewall were the defending champions.
Findlay v. McAllister
Findlay v. McAllister, 113 U.S. 104( 1885), was a suit brought against Thomas McAllister and 14 other defendants, to recover damages as follows:

Question: Did Lenny Mcallister and Ken Xie have the same nationality?
Answer: yes