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Sunday, April 27, 2014
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CANONIZATION
VATICAN
Thousands fill St. Peter's Square to celebrate canonization of Pope John XXIII, John Paul II
April 27, 2014: People gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Tens of thousands of people have filled St. Peter's Square for a historic day of four popes, with Popes Francis and Benedict XVI honoring John XXIII and John Paul II by declaring them saints in the first ever canonization of two pontiffs. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
VATICAN CITY – Hundreds of thousands of people filled St. Peter's Square Sunday for a historic day of four popes, with Francis and Benedict XVI honoring their predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II and declaring them saints in the first ever canonization of two pontiffs.
Polish pilgrims carrying the red and white flags of John Paul's beloved homeland were among the first to push into the square well before sunrise, as the human chains of neon-vested civil protection workers trying to maintain order finally gave up and let them in.
Italy's interior ministry predicted 1 million would watch the Mass from the square, the streets surrounding it and nearby piazzas where giant TV screens were set up to accommodate the crowds eager to follow along.
"Four popes in one ceremony is a fantastic thing to see and to be at, because it is history being written in our sight," marveled one of the visiting Poles, David Halfar. "It is wonderful to be a part in this and to live all of this."
Most of those who arrived first at St. Peter's had camped out overnight nearby on air mattresses and sleeping pads. Others hadn't slept at all and took part in the all-night prayer vigils hosted at a dozen churches in downtown Rome.
By mid-morning, the scene in the square was quiet and subdued -- perhaps due to the chilly gray skies and cumulative lack of sleep -- unlike the rollicking party atmosphere of John Paul's May 2011 beatification when bands of young people sang and danced in the hours before the Mass.
The Vatican on Saturday ended weeks of speculation and confirmed that retired Pope Benedict, 87, would indeed participate in the canonization. The move sets a remarkable precedent for the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church, which has never seen a reigning and retired pope celebrating a public Mass together.
Benedict had promised to remain "hidden from the world" after resigning last year, but Francis has coaxed him out of retirement and urged him to take part in the public life of the church.
Sunday's canonization is also the first time two popes have been declared saints at the same time. Francis' decision to canonize two of the 20th century's greatest spiritual leaders amounts to a delicate balancing act, giving both the conservative and progressive wings of the church a new saint.
John, who reigned from 1958-1963, is a hero to liberal Catholics for having convened the Second Vatican Council. The meetings brought the church into the modern era by allowing Mass to be celebrated in local languages rather than Latin and by encouraging greater dialogue with people of other faiths, particularly Jews.
During his quarter-century papacy from 1978-2005, John Paul helped topple communism through his support of Poland's Solidarity movement. His globe-trotting papacy and launch of the wildly popular World Youth Days invigorated a new generation of Catholics, while his defense of core church teaching heartened conservatives after the turbulent 1960s.
"John Paul was our pope," said Therese Andjoua, a 49-year-old nurse who traveled from Libreville, Gabon with some 300 other pilgrims to attend. She sported a traditional African dress bearing the images of the two new saints.
"In 1982 he came to Gabon and when he arrived he kissed the ground and told us to `Get up, go forward and be not afraid,"' she recalled as she rested against a pallet of water bottles. "When we heard he was going to be canonized, we got up."
Kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers from more than 90 countries were expected to attend the canonizations. Some 20 Jewish leaders from the U.S., Israel, Italy, Francis' native Argentina and Poland were also taking part, in a clear sign of their appreciation for the great strides made in Catholic-Jewish relations under John, John Paul -- and their successors celebrating their sainthood.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
KIMONO MAKER. ALSO APRIL 23RD I WOKE UP THE HAPPIEST PERSON EVER!
Hand-Crafted Kimonos: Japan's Wearable Masterpieces
Liza Foreman
Honda Tadashi at home in his workshop. He is one of hundreds of artists who work with the Japanese kimono maker Chiso.More Photos »
By LIZA FOREMAN
Published: August 19, 2013
KYOTO — When you consider the amount of time that one of Japan’s most famous kimono makers spends on each garment, even the most celebrated Western couture houses start to look like fast fashion.
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Chiso, founded in Kyoto in 1555, creates standard kimonos in three to four months, but it is not unusual for special orders to take 18 months or more. The company even spent 10 years helping to develop a dyeing technique for one special indigo kimono.
“Chiso expresses the essence of Japanese beauty,” said Hiragane Yuichi, director of the Arts and Crafts Association in Osaka, who used to train Chiso’s designers. “It is a company, but it isn’t just a business. It creates a culture of Japanese beauty.”
Managers say there are 20 to 25 steps to producing a kimono, from design to sales. “Our producing process starts from planning, and then designing, checking right after each process is done,” said Emi Kanasaki, manager of Sohya, Chiso’s modern kimono brand, which was founded in 2005.
About 70 of Chiso’s 100 employees work at its headquarters on Sanjo Street in central Kyoto. (The rest work in the Tokyo office.) The building has a popular tea house on the ground floor and a small gallery for kimono displays.
One morning, designers in a spare office space upstairs were copying an old kimono pattern onto a large piece of paper. A young man sat at a desktop computer nearby with a pretty kimono pattern displayed on its large monitor. Chiso has been using computers in the design process for five years, and now sends digital versions to clients to show potential mixes of pattern, color and material. The team also draws on its own library, with books and filing cabinets filled with kimono designs dating back hundreds of years.
En Isomoto, Chiso’s production manager and president of one of its two subsidiaries, pulled out books on water and the Edo Period (1600-1868), as well as a design inspired by Venice’s Grand Canal, to show a visitor. “Each object represents something different” in kimono design, he explained. “Water represents eternity and power. A pine tree represents strength. It is a good omen.”
Clients’ choices, even today, reflect the traditional Japanese respect for nature. “Cherry blossom can only be worn in January, February or March,” Ms. Kanasaki said. “There are two aims in the design for the wearer: to show their enjoyment in the season and to show their education.”
Kimono trends also are influenced by Western fashion, Mr. Isomoto said, like the most popular colors of a particular fashion season.
Akiko Fukai, chief curator and director of the celebrated Kyoto Costume Institute, said such inspiration works both ways. “There have been many Western designers influenced by the kimono,” she said, noting that both Prada and Gucci had references in their spring/summer 2013 collections. Over the years, so have designers like Madeleine Vionnet, Jacques Doucet, Mariano Fortuny, John Galliano and Dries Van Noten.
Chiso itself has an innovative attitude, Ms. Fukai continued, “including its collaboration with many fashion designers, in particular Yohji Yamamoto. Most kimono makers in Kyoto are too conservative to look at the new field.” In 2005, the company created a special line of flip-flops for Havaianas and it has designed labels for the Japanese beverage giant Suntory for five years.
Although the yukata, or simple summer kimono, has come back into fashion with some young Japanese, kimonos now are mainly reserved for such special occasions as weddings and graduations. Chiso annually sells around 5,000 through major department stores and custom makes about 100, with prices ranging from ¥380,000 to ¥10 million, or about $3,900 to $103,000. “Sometimes there come special orders of up to ¥20 million,” Ms. Kanasaki said, adding that the company’s most expensive garment sold for ¥35 million about 10 years ago.
Honda Tadashi is one of Chiso’s approximately 600 collaborators, artists and artisans who work on a freelance basis, often from their homes in or around Kyoto. Trained by his father, who was a Chiso employee, Mr. Honda works mostly on Furisode kimonos, a style worn exclusively by young women.
When the artist receives pieces of kimono silk from Chiso, the design already has been outlined in an extract made of spiderwort, a three-petaled perennial flower. He spends about a month painting in the pattern, following the design team’s directions and using 40 to 50 colors.
“Over the years, the colors have changed,” Mr. Honda said, painting pretty reds and greens onto white silk. “They used to be darker. This year, pinks and greens are in vogue.”
Dyeing is done at Takahashi Toku, a workshop that is only a short bike ride from the Chiso headquarters. Although the two companies are separate businesses, they have been collaborators for more than 100 years.
Takahashi Toku specializes in yuzen, a dyeing process developed in the mid-17th century that initially uses a rubber-based paste to protect areas from dye and then a complex series of applications and steaming treatments. It also has skilled workers who can add embellishment like embroidery or metallic leaf to finish a design.
Shuki Takahashi, the son of the workshop’s president, quickly brushed a mauve dye across a long piece of white silk that had been stretched across a bamboo frame. “Not so many people know how to do this today,” he said, explaining that the color will dry evenly only if the room’s temperature is constant and it is closed to natural light to avoid shadows.
Later, over tea, Mr. Takahashi displayed the records of his 10 years of work to create the indigo kimono, which sold for ¥20 million last year. In addition to using a time-consuming dyeing process from the Edo Period, he said, the kimono “was dyed not only with indigo but also other vegetable dyes. For the vegetable dyes, they had to experiment with many kinds of silk to find which fabric suits to each dye. These experiments to achieve the color took a long time.”
Mr. Takahashi now devotes much of his time to developing new techniques. “I want to keep working on dyeing so that Kyoto is known for dyeing in the future,” as it has been in the past, he said.
Just as the city is considered the center of Japan’s cultural heritage, it also continues to be the center of kimono making — in part because of its pristine water, said Mr. Isomoto, Chiso’s production manager.
The water has not changed over the centuries, he said, ensuring the best results for dyeing and fabric treatments. The Takahashi workshop, in particular, “is situated to receive water which flows through the area of Kamigamo to the Imperial Palace and is of a special quality,” he said.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
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I DIDN'T WANNA...BUT IT'S ADDICTIVE. WELCOME TO VICE CITY BABY!!!!!
Only That Real Lyrics
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Hook]
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
[IamSu!]
Found [?]
You can hang with us baby but you cannot stay
Bitches love a nigga you would think I'm Dre
I told her throw it back for a R A C K
Don't stop get it get it one time for real
I know you got big dreams on your mind for real
I heard you trying to sing do wanna sign a deal
Or you wanna fall back just take your time and chill
I be out in New Orleans like please believe me
If you really fucking with me say Yeah like Jeezy
Ooh yeah, you like that I like that too
She got kicked out the club I brought her right back through
I got the juice like that, I could get away with murder
And if you ain't knowing you should go ahead and learn it
Burn it, hot shit cut it out like a surgeon
I'm splurgin on fly shit until the day that they bury me
Found [?]
You can hang with us baby but you cannot stay
Bitches love a nigga you would think I'm Dre
I told her throw it back for a R A C K
Don't stop get it get it one time for real
I know you got big dreams on your mind for real
I heard you trying to sing do wanna sign a deal
Or you wanna fall back just take your time and chill
I be out in New Orleans like please believe me
If you really fucking with me say Yeah like Jeezy
Ooh yeah, you like that I like that too
She got kicked out the club I brought her right back through
I got the juice like that, I could get away with murder
And if you ain't knowing you should go ahead and learn it
Burn it, hot shit cut it out like a surgeon
I'm splurgin on fly shit until the day that they bury me
[Hook]
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
[2 Chainz]
My role model used to drive a Saab
Still got every chain I had from the store
Just a victim of identity theft
Them ho niggas, order Victoria Secret [?]
Figured your mom would have aged on
Money talk so I say song, play some
Why every time I do a feature, it feel like I ate some
Real shit, got the A locked with my rollie on the west coast
Call it bay watch, nigga they watch nigga
Put it in a safe box nigga
Put a fucking dread lock in her head
Throw this money, the trap my habitat
Woke up with money, cause I went to sleep with racks
Real shit
My role model used to drive a Saab
Still got every chain I had from the store
Just a victim of identity theft
Them ho niggas, order Victoria Secret [?]
Figured your mom would have aged on
Money talk so I say song, play some
Why every time I do a feature, it feel like I ate some
Real shit, got the A locked with my rollie on the west coast
Call it bay watch, nigga they watch nigga
Put it in a safe box nigga
Put a fucking dread lock in her head
Throw this money, the trap my habitat
Woke up with money, cause I went to sleep with racks
Real shit
[Hook]
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
[Sage The Gemini]
This is why you know I'm the man
You say you hot but you ain't busting like a lava lamp
Breaking hoes hard to my B-Boy stance
Making this money Bye-Bye like the N-Sync dance
I be running in your mama like it's my last steps
And I'ma balling ass nigga bank with Max Preps
Ooh yeah, I'm from Seven oh Seven
Used to be on [?] from the 7-Eleven
You know she order it down for a mac
She make it jump like I'm holding on an iPhone app
Like holla, give her that brain [?]
Ride it like a skateboard going hard off this Rocket Power
Now this is only for family
Take your girl bring her back Friday like Stanley
The best french man but you will not [?] me
Racks on racks so you cannot ban me
This is why you know I'm the man
You say you hot but you ain't busting like a lava lamp
Breaking hoes hard to my B-Boy stance
Making this money Bye-Bye like the N-Sync dance
I be running in your mama like it's my last steps
And I'ma balling ass nigga bank with Max Preps
Ooh yeah, I'm from Seven oh Seven
Used to be on [?] from the 7-Eleven
You know she order it down for a mac
She make it jump like I'm holding on an iPhone app
Like holla, give her that brain [?]
Ride it like a skateboard going hard off this Rocket Power
Now this is only for family
Take your girl bring her back Friday like Stanley
The best french man but you will not [?] me
Racks on racks so you cannot ban me
[Hook]
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
I'ma throw this money (don't stop go crazy)
I'ma make it back
Said I'ma throw this money
And I'ma make it back
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
Only that real shit, that's what I'm talking about
[Outro]
Don't stop go crazy
Don't stop go crazy
Don't stop go crazy
Don't stop go crazy
Yeah
Don't stop go crazy
Don't stop go crazy
Don't stop go crazy
Don't stop go crazy
Yeah
Read more: Iamsu! - Only That Real Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
APRIL 17TH, 2014
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