lacquer ware is known for its glossiness from the many coats of lacquer. kato's work caught the eye of a businessman in tokyo who asked him to make a smartphone case. >> translator: young people rarely come into contact with lacquer ware. i think that making lacquer-coated cases for smartphones is a good way to introduce them to our tradition. >> reporter: plastic is never used as a base for traditional lacquer ware, so the cases need special preparation with an adhesive primer to get the lacquer to stick. the primer surface can crack easily with even small changes in temperature and humidity, or in the formula for the primer. >> translator: it's been a laborious task finding the perfect primer. i've had to learn by trial and error. >> reporter: it is time to apply the lacquer. to remove all impurities, it first has to be strained carefully. smartphone cases have holes for the camera lens and other functions. this poses a challenge for the traditional lacquer ware. kato uses brushes to coat the small holes. after waiting for the cases to dry for a week, it

so captain abbey, went down to get a gallon of lacquer, put eight coat of lacquer on that. you ever see him speak and how nice that hat shines. there was eight coats of lacquer on that baby. and then he had his pistol. and he wanted his pistol, he wanted a pearl handle. i guess you heard about that story. but the pearl handle he wanted. so we said, we could fix it. so i brought pieces of plastic from the airplanes and a guy named mcdonald said yeah, we can fix that. he took the handle off the pistol and he got this plastic and carved it and did a wonderful job. so he painted it inside all nice and white and lacquer in it. so it looked pearl. he was happy, he the pearl handles. then another time, when the war ended and he couldn't go to berlin, he felt bad. so i took him back, he went back and we stayed for a while. two days later he called me and said he was going to take me to austria. i said, where in austria. he said, i will ride the white horses. so the calgarymen in louisiana, they close down, the jeeps took over his sources. so he got permission to sell horses and get

you kind of wonder which is more harmful, cigarette smoking or people drinking and of using lacquer all over the city? i just bring that up more as a general idea to compare how in one instance, one type of item is aggressively prohibited and the other item, in a certain sense, is allowed officially by the city. also, in regards to the previous item, number one, mr. washington brought up an interesting status on how the city is functioning right now. my own take on mr. washington's comments is that, number one, there should be more items on today's agenda other than these two. and, number two, given the current state of the city in regards to a lack of revenue, problems, abuses, whatever you want to talk about, i am kind of wondering why some of the other supervisors have not scheduled items on to this agenda. it seems to me like for the opera since and neighborhood, it has not been fully utilized, and i do not think it is a good sign when the committee chair is not in attendance today. is that supposed to send a message that maybe, you know, when there is only two liquor licenses, that

here's what his players came up with that lacquer room right after this. >> davis with the plank of his life. >>> well, the sunday game was the high point of what has been a rough and tumble couple of years. >> sunday game is what put the 49ers against the new york giants. the win on saturday is interesting because alex smith and vernon davis have really been symbolic. each have gone through so much. for those two football players to be involved in something and putting them on the big stage was great stuff. now he is a hero for his cat that put the nfl into the championship. here's a look at the speech game speech following saturday's win over the saints. >> third down. touchdown. touchdown 49 49ers. >> congratulations. >> game ball vernon davis. game ball. >> who has it better than us? >> nobody. >> so, bring on the new york giants who are coming back to skill for the game. it will be rematch. justin smith batted down. 4th down. who would have known then. watching the two best seats in the nfc. >> surprise a lot of people that the giants and had theres in the gym. >> we got a pretty g

special drinking vessels made out of ceramic that were lacquered. so important that these vessels were actually part of the tribute that the. >> guest: ruler, montezuma, had. so that was sort of the fiscal competition but it was also incredibly important culturally. chocolate was seen as one of the perks of the elite. is a kind of conspicuous consumption to drink find chocolate. and it was really important in sociability. so you couldn't have meeting of diplomats or traders without chocolate. and it was often used in very ceremonial ritual before any kind of feasting would begin. among aztec cultures there would be ceremony use of chocolate and tobacco together, and served in this very choreographed manner. and one of the arguments of my book is that when europeans arrived, they actually adopted the customs almost, there were some differences but there was essential continuity like mesoamerican come europeans began to associate him as quintessential symbols of sociability, and also a status in the case of chocolate. tobacco i've sort of more differe

has gone down and he will manage the pain the rest of the year >>the bears linebacker bryan carroll lacquerlked about the use of legal painkillers ... now he tells the chicago tribune that he has used toradol in his career for at least 40 times >>in the medical watch a vaccine designed to kill cancer cells in the body and prevent them from coming back ... the vaccine was created at the roswell park cancer institute in buffalo new york it will use a special protein to recruit killer immune cells that seek out and destroy cancer it is designed to train the body's defenses never to forget how to kill cancer cells work began on this vaccine after one of the researchers discovered that a drug used for many years to prevent rejection of organ transplants also produces jim meehan cells ... >>it really worked it's hard to imagine ... >>18-20 patients with different forms of cancer will be selected for the first phase of clinical trials. if they are successful larger studies will be conducted but it may be several years before this vaccine could be marketed >>chemicals from food packaging costs weak

noticed about every car around here has the handicapped lacquered, what are the odds? with a disabled placard the carrier can park all day absolutely free. even with a threat of $1,000 for the mes use of a parking placard getting free parking and it seems to be it been worth it froze some drivers. her one idea that is being tossed around is to make people pay for parking just like everyone else. that might be a hard sell to lobbyists. art and but what ever is done may actually require changes this state law or it could mean even higher fines. your want to know you think hit me up on facebook and tell me how the city can handle this abused. >>reporter: at if you have a comment or story idea for stanley you can e-mail us. coming up we have one reason the trains may never come to the new underground station. and if you wonder how the other half lives, you will take a look at how the candidates live and a real look inside their homes. and to open up the lewd as some of the cars at the 2012 card show in detroit. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte device