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[dreamconsumer]

Louis XVIII, Roi de France. Par Peter Edward Stroehling.

[littlehistorian]

Peter I (1328-1369) was King of Cyprus and titular King of Jerusalem from his father's abdication on 24 November 1358 until his death in 1369. He was invested as titular Count of Tripoli in 1346. As King of Cyprus, he had some military successes, but he was unable to complete many of his plans due to internal disputes that culminated in his assassination at the hands of three of his knights.

He tried to convince powerful rulers to strengthen him by organizing a crusade to liberate the Holy Land and the Kingdom of Jerusalem which belonged to him. He travelled to England, Germany, and France. During his visit in England the historical Banquet of the Five Kings took place.

Peter returned to Cyprus, but was rapidly plunged into domestic troubles. Queen Eleanor had been unfaithful during his long absences in Europe, and he retaliated by tyrannizing her favorite nobles, alienating his brothers. On 17 January 1369 he was assassinated in his bed at the Palace of La Cava, Nicosia.

Despite the harshness that brought a premature end to his life, his knight-errantry and crusading zeal led him to be regarded as the epitome of chivalry. He was buried in the church of St. Dominic's of Nicosia, the traditional burial place of the Kings of Cyprus. He was succeeded by his son Peter II.

[roehenstart]

La Prise de Juliers le 1er de Septembre de 1610. By Rubens.

Thanks to French troops, the town of Juliers (in Germany) was returned to the German Protestants. The Queen, a true successor to Henry IV, superbly helmeted, baton in hand, is crowned by Victory, Fame celebrating this feat with her trumpet. On the left, Generosity with its lion, an animal that is both merciful and courageous. In the background, the surrender of Juliers-

[emyerss]

"ah, ¿de verdad?" busca confirmación, llevando mirada hacia el entorno, como si así pudiera encontrar el grupo que menciona. fracasa en el intento, así que regresa con él. "no es nada, supuestamente es de buena calidad, con años encima, pero yo no sé de eso." se permite ser sincera, encogiendo apenas los hombros. "toda tuya, disfrútala." mirada viaja entonces a aquello que está haciendo, curiosidad en alza. "sí claro, lo que necesites, pero, uh. ¿peter?" llama, un poco confundida. "exactamente, ¿qué es eso? - quiero decir, sé que es, sólo, ¿qué de tanto?"

' uh... ' alza la mirada de su regazo, donde está liando un porro. ' creo que vi a un grupo con latas de gaseosa hace un rato. ' su atención se fija en la botella y la recibe sin mucho preámbulo. ' vaya, gracias. ' la deja a su costado sobre el césped, temporalmente, porque se dispone a abrirla pronto. mientras tanto, retoma la tarea en la que estaba enfrascado. ' si quieres te acompaño a buscar algo de beber, sólo —dame un segundo. '

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Dicas para ajudar você a criar um s/p ou s/o do zero! / Tips to help you create an s/p or s/o from scratch! ♡

pt-br - eng!

"Oh, i love this view! Which view? Your eyes!"

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Olá a todos!!

Vou dividir essa thread nas seguintes partes:

1‐ Físico.

2- Mental.

3- Relacionamento.

4– Hobbies.

5 - Dicas extras.

s/p: specific person ( "cr" )

s/o: significant other ( dr )

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1 - FÍSICO..

Eu acho que uma das partes mais "complicadas" de fazer um s/o / s/p do zero e pensar no seu físico! Isso inclui, aparência, porte físico, altura e etc. Minha dica para isso é: Use personagens de desenhos ou livros!!! Sério, isso ajuda tanto no físico quanto no mental e no relacionamento de vocês (próximo tópico).

Eu por exemplo, usei o Príncipe Naveen como base principal para criar meu s/p! Eu não tinha uma fc 100% igual a ele mas tem um ator que no momento que eu vi, já sabia que era o meu s/p e desde desse dia eu uso ele de fc única do meu s/p.

A parte de porte físico e altura vai de pessoa para pessoa! Meu sp é jogador de basquete profissional, por isso que eu coloquei que ele é alto e tem um porte atlético! Mas você pode mudar e pôr do jeito que quiser, não existem limitações para isso! 😉

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2 - MENTAL..

Chegamos no tópico que para mim, é muito importante!! A parte mental, é de grande importância que você pense bastante em como você quer seu parceiro, não adianta dizer "Ele/a/u é obcecado/a/e por mim e me ama muito!!" Você tem que especificar! Depois que aparece um doido stalker, vem dizer que a culpa é minha!!!

Agora é sério, criem pessoas saudáveis, compreensivas, calmas, pacientes, de preferência que tenham maturidade o suficiente para estar em relacionamento! Alguém mentalmente estável!! Dependência emocional não é bonito, viu? Nada de por que ele/a/u "não vive sem mim", tenham consciência!!

Eu, por exemplo, fiquei bastante tempo nessa parte porque coisas que eu achava "saudáveis" na verdade eram bem problemáticas, recomendo vocês fazerem uma profunda auto investigação antes de criarem seus amores!! Uma relação para funcionar, precisa de duas pessoas 100% mentalmente saudáveis! ☝🏻☝🏻

Outra coisa importante, idade!! Escolham uma idade de boa para vocês se conhecem, onde você já tenha mentalidade e maturidade para estar em um relacionamento, eu como exemplo, vou conhecer o meu sp quando eu tiver 19 e ele 21, porque eu sei que lá eu estarei 100% bem para estar em um relacionamento e ele também.

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3 - RELACIONAMENTO...

Agora vem a parte bonita, como vai ser o relacionamento de vocês??? Como é a dinâmica??? Quem é mais o que??? Tudo isso é importante na hora de produzir essa parte!! Dica: usem casais de desenhos, filmes, séries, livros ou até mesmo músicas (eu fiz e recomendo!!) Eles são os melhores modelos que vocês podem usar se não tiverem em mente como querem o relacionamento de vocês! (Usem casais e músicas com relações saudáveis, pelo amor!)

Minha dinâmica com meu sp é Tiana e Naveen, um pouco de Lara Jean e Peter Kavinsky, Love Maze do BTS, Serendipity do Jimin, Trivia: Love do Namjoon, BTBT do B.I e entre outras!! Nossa relação é algo leve e calmo, algumas vezes é agitada mas não é algo cansativo, eu sempre quis algo calmo então estou satisfeita com a nossa dinâmica!! :(

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4 - Hobbies...

Essa parte é tranquila, se tiver seguido minhas dicas, a personalidade dele já deixa claro os hobbies, você pode colocar que ele/a/u tem os mesmos hobbies que o seu ou diferentes! Vou deixar alguns exemplos aqui:

– Esporte (natação, futebol, tênis...)

– Leitura.

– Jogos digitais.

– Fazer algo artesanal.

– Karaoke (meu hobbie com meu sp ♡)

– Pintura e desenho.

– Culinária.

– Jardinagem.

E entre outros! Fica tudo a sua escolha!! 😉

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5 - Dicas Extras..

– Situação financeira e emprego são coisas para serem colocadas e pensadas!

– Relação entre a família de vocês, se aprovam o relacionamento ou se eles gostam de vocês!

– Relação entre os amigos é SUPER IMPORTANTE! Seus amigos gostam dele/a/u ??? Gostam em que nível?? Se ele curtir alguma foto de alguém do deu grupo, eles vão ficar tirando print e mandando no grupo de vocês para dizer que seu s/p ou s/o não presta?? 🤔 (específico, eu sei! Mas pense em tudo!) 

– Higiene pessoal é de EXTREMA IMPORTÂNCIA!! Você pode pensar que não é necessário, mas anjo kkk é sim. Você não quer ficar perto e nem se relacionar com alguém que não sabe ter higiene básica, não é?

– A fidelidade do seu s/p é importante sim!! Construa alguém com bom caráter e que nunca iria fazer coisas assim.

– Respeite as decisões de ambos quando o assunto for construir uma família!! Apenas mude se tiver certeza disso!

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English Version!

Tips to help you create an s/p or s/o from scratch! ♡

"Oh, I love this view! Which view? Your eyes!"

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Hello everyone!!

I'm going to divide this thread into the following parts:

1- Physical.

2- Mental.

3- Relationship.

4- Hobbies.

5 - Extra tips.

s/p: specific person ( "cr" )

s/o: significant other ( dr )

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1 - PHYSICAL..

I think one of the most "complicated" parts of making a s/o / s/p from scratch is thinking about their physical appearance! This includes appearance, physical build, height, etc. My tip for this is: Use characters from cartoons or books!!! Seriously, this helps both physically and mentally and in your relationship (next topic).

For example, I used Prince Naveen as the main basis to create my s/p! I didn't have a 100% identical FC to him, but there's an actor who, the moment I saw him, I knew he was my s/p and since that day I've used him as my s/p's only FC.

The physical build and height part varies from person to person! My sp is a professional basketball player, that's why I said he's tall and has an athletic build! But you can change it and put it however you want, there are no limits to that! 😉

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2 - MENTAL..

We have reached the topic that is very important to me!! The mental part is very important for you to think carefully about how you want your partner. There is no point in saying "He/she is obsessed with me and loves me very much!!" You have to be specific! After a crazy stalker appears, he/she comes to say that it is my fault!!!

Now seriously, raise healthy, understanding, calm, patient people, preferably those who are mature enough to be in a relationship! Someone who is mentally stable!! Emotional dependence is not nice, you know? There is no reason why he/she "can't live without me", be aware!!

I, for example, spent a lot of time on this part because things that I thought were "healthy" were actually quite problematic. I recommend that you do a deep self-investigation before creating your loves!! For a relationship to work, it needs two people who are 100% mentally healthy! ☝🏻☝🏻

Another important thing, age!! Choose a good age for you to meet each other, where you already have the mentality and maturity to be in a relationship. For example, I'm going to meet my partner when I'm 19 and he's 21, because I know that by then I'll be 100% ready to be in a relationship and so will he.

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3 - RELATIONSHIP…

Now comes the good part, what will your relationship be like??? What is the dynamic like??? Who is more what??? All of this is important when producing this part!! Tip: use couples from cartoons, movies, series, books or even songs (I did it and I recommend it!!). They are the best models you can use if you don't have in mind how you want your relationship to be! (Use couples and songs with healthy relationships, for the love of God!)

My dynamic with my partner is Tiana and Naveen, a bit of Lara Jean and Peter Kavinsky, BTS's Love Maze, Jimin's Serendipity, Namjoon's Trivia: Love, B.I's BTBT and many others!! Our relationship is something light and calm, sometimes it is hectic but it is not tiring, I always wanted something calm so I am satisfied with our dynamic!! :(

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4 - Hobbies…

This part is easy, if you followed my tips, his/her personality already makes his/her hobbies clear, you can say that he/she has the same hobbies as you or different ones! I'll give you some examples here:

– Sports (swimming, soccer, tennis…)

– Reading.

– Digital games.

– Doing something crafty.

– Karaoke (my hobby with my s/p ♡)

– Painting and drawing.

– Cooking.

– Gardening.

And so on! It's all up to you!! 😉

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5 - Extra Tips..

– Sexuality and gender of the person are parts to be thought about too, don't ignore who YOU ​​ARE for someone!

– Financial situation and employment are things to be considered and thought about!

– Relationship between your family, if they approve of the relationship or if they like you!

– Relationship between friends is SUPER IMPORTANT! Do your friends like him/her??? Do they like him/her to what extent?? If he likes a photo of someone in your group, will they take a screenshot and send it to your group to say that your s/o or s/o is no good?? 🤔 (specific, I know! But think about everything!)

– Personal hygiene is EXTREMELY IMPORTANT!! You may think it's not necessary, but angel, lol, it is. You don't want to be around or have a relationship with someone who doesn't know how to maintain basic hygiene, do you?

– Your s/o's loyalty is important!! Build someone with good character and who would never do things like that.

– Respect both of your decisions when it comes to building a family!! Only change if you're sure about it!

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We've reached the end of the thread! I hope you enjoyed it, if you have any questions or suggestions, please send them to me, sorry if there are any errors in the translation! Until next time, kisses!!

Chegamos ao fim da thread! Eu espero que tenham gostado, qualquer dúvida ou sugestão, podem me mandar, perdão se houver algum erro de tradução! Até a próxima, beijinhos!!

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[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Peter Berlin

photo by: Tana Kaleya

1974

Peter Berlin

Armin Hagen Freiherr von Hoyningen-Huene (nascido em 28 de dezembro de 1942) é um fotógrafo, artista, cineasta, designer de roupas/costureiro e modelo germano-americano, mais conhecido pelo seu nome artístico Peter Berlin, do início a meados da década de 1970. 

Seus dois filmes, Nights in Black Leather (1973) e That Boy (1974) (creditado neste último como Peter Burian) ajudaram a dar legitimidade artística aos filmes eróticos gays masculinos.

Vida pregressa

Peter Berlin nasceu em 28 de dezembro de 1942, em Litzmannstadt (hoje Łódź ), Polônia , ocupada pelos alemães , mas cresceu em uma família aristocrática em Berlim , Alemanha . Ele é o segundo de três filhos. A família extensa incluía o fotógrafo de moda russo-americano das décadas de 1920 e 1930, George Hoyningen-Huene .

Fotografia

Ele recebeu educação pós-secundária na Alemanha como técnico em fotografia. Aos 20 e poucos anos, trabalhou como fotógrafo para um programa de entrevistas na televisão alemã, fotografando algumas celebridades e estrelas de cinema da Europa , incluindo Alfred Hitchcock , Catherine Deneuve , Bridgette Bardot e Klaus Kinski.

Moda

Berlin desenhou e costurou todas as suas roupas sem molde. Ele também era pintor e ilustrador. Começou a se fotografar em poses eróticas e a fazer roupas justas para usar enquanto percorria os parques e estações de trem de Berlim e as ruas de Roma, Paris, Nova York e São Francisco. Muitos de seus designs agora são vistos nas obras de moda de designers internacionais como Jean Paul Gaultier .

Cinema e celebridades

No início da década de 1970, Berlin mudou-se para São Francisco e tornou-se uma figura constante nas ruas com suas roupas altamente sugestivas e suas constantes andanças. Ele colaborou com o amigo Richard Abel em um filme pornô hardcore de 16 mm intitulado “ Nights in Black Leather” (1973), no qual desempenhou o papel principal. O pôster de Berlin para o filme ajudou a tornar “ Nights in Black Leather” um sucesso underground.

Como acompanhamento, Berlin dirigiu, produziu, escreveu e estrelou That Boy (1974). Ele também fez quatro curtas-metragens em meados do final da década de 1970, que foram vendidos principalmente como “loops” de 8 mm por correspondência. Seus autorretratos foram publicados e vendidos. Ele também foi tema de várias fotografias de Robert Mapplethorpe , cinco desenhos de Tom of Finland e pelo menos uma fotografia de Andy Warhol .

Tom of Finland Foundation

Tom of Finland Foundation

Duas imagens Polaroid de Berlin feitas por Robert Mapplethorpe podem ser vistas no livro de 2008, Mapplethorpe: Polaroids , e na exposição de mesmo nome do Museu Whitney de Arte Americana. Alguns de seus amigos famosos eram Salvador e Gala Dali, Warhol, o estilista nova-iorquino Koos e o pintor Jochen Labriola. Ele conhecia o bailarino Rudolf Nureyev .

Fotografia

As fotografias e obras de arte de Berlin foram exibidas ao redor do mundo, incluindo a exposição “Split/Vision” (Nova York, 1986), com curadoria de Mapplethorpe, e na exposição “Berlin on Berlin” (2006) na Leslie Lohman Gallery, em Nova York.

Embora tenha se afastado dos holofotes na década de 1980, ele continua fazendo vídeos de si mesmo e vive discretamente em São Francisco , onde ainda é frequentemente reconhecido nas ruas.

Ele foi treinado na Alemanha como técnico em fotografia na década de 1960.

Volta

Em 2005, o cineasta e roteirista Jim Tushinski dirigiu e coproduziu (com Lawrence Helman) o documentário de longa-metragem “ That Man: Peter Berlin” , que reacendeu o interesse pela obra de Berlin. O documentário estreou no Festival Internacional de Cinema de Berlim de 2005 e recebeu diversos prêmios em festivais de cinema ao redor do mundo, reconectando Berlin com seus fãs mais antigos e apresentando-o a uma nova geração. Em 2006, Berlin lançou um site dedicado à sua obra.

Filmografia

Longas-metragens

1973: Noites em Couro Preto (ator)

1974: That Boy (diretor, produtor, escritor, ator) (creditado como Peter Burian)

Documentário

2005: Aquele Homem: Peter Berlin

Shorts

1973: Waldeslust

1974-6: Pesquisa

1974-6: Ciro e Peter

1976-7: Blueboys

Prêmios

2007: Prêmio GayVN , Categoria: “Introduzido ao Hall da Fama do GayVN de 2007”

[the-star-rigel]

Jason (from the Greek Iásōn, “healer”) Peter Todd (from the German Tod, “death”) - I hope you find your way out of that grave.

dc comics + The Oresteia, Aeschylus / Lady Windermere’s Fan, Oscar Wilde / Grief Lessons: Four Plays [tr. Anne Carson], Euripides + Batman v1 #385 / Batman: The Cult #3 / For Example, Mary Oliver / Batman: Legends of The Dark Knight #100 / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Eight, Sleeping at Last / Red Hood and the Outlaws: Rebirth / Batman: Urban Legends #10 + ? / On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong / Red Hood and The Outlaws #25 / Slay the Princess / pinterest + Batman #422 / Batman #424 + Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, Rainer Maria Rilke + Batman #428 | A Death in the Family / @/metamorphesque, tumblr / American Teenager, Ethel Cain / Anecdote of the Pig, Tory Adkisson / interpretations of A Death in the Family + The Oresteia, Aeschylus / Nightwing: Secret Files and Origins #1 + the Haunting of Bly Manor + Red Hood and the Outlaws #23 / @/petrichara, tumblr / I Didn't Apologize to the Well, Mahmoud Darwish / Infinite Crisis: Secret Files + pinterest / Ruin and Rising, Leigh Bardugo / Red Hood and the Outlaws #26 / The Cruel Prince, Holly Black / pinterest / Red Hood: The Lost Days / Sue Zhao / Red Hood: The Lost Days part II + Red Hood: The Lost Days #4 / I See Boats Moving, Fernando Pessoa / Oedipus the King, TV Tropes / @/devilsmoon, tumblr / Red Hood: The Lost Days + Speeches for Dr Frankenstein, Margaret Atwood / Saving June, Hannah Arrington + embroidered patch / Slay the Princess / unaligned, @/hamletmaschine + Batman: Under the Red Hood / Batman: Under the Red Hood + Batman and Robin #11 + South and West: From a Notebook, Joan Didion / The Good Fight, Ada Limón / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Grief Lessons: Four Plays, Euripides [tr. Anne Carson] / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Slay the Princess / Under the Red Hood / Slay the Princess / @/sainticide, twitter / The Truth About Grief, Fortesa Latifi + Batman: Under the Red Hood / Batman: Under the Red Hood / Ten Legs, Eight Broken, mandana on tiktok / War of the Foxes, Richard Siken + Under the Red Hood + Batman #428 | A Death in the Family / The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath / Under the Red Hood + Batman #428 | A Death in the Family / @baitmeat, tumblr + Batman: Under the Red Hood (Deluxe Edition) / Origin Story, Desireé Dallagiacomo / Vive, Vive, Traci Brimhall / The Dogs I Have Kissed, Trista Mateer + Batman: Under the Red Hood + Three Jokers / Red Hood and the Outlaws Rebirth #9 / @/sainticide, twitter + Red Hood and the Outlaws #10 / Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve, Taylor Swift / ? + Robin 80th Anniversary 100 Page Super Spectacular / Ep. 4: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth -- 'Sacrifice and Bliss', Joseph Campbell / White Knight #7 + Heaven, Mieko Kawakami / Forest Fire, Mitski / Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 2 #9 + Batman Annual #25 + Free Will Astrology, Rob Brezsny / Letter XV, @/lucidloving / Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol 1: REDemption / briscoepark + The Civil War, Anne Sexton [compiled by @/lovejoyparadox here] / @/soapstore, tumblr + I Await the Devil’s Coming, Mary MacLane + Claire C. Holland / @/havingrevelations, tumblr / Meditations in an Emergency, Cameron Awkward-Rich + Deathstroke #34 / Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides [tr. Anne Carson] + Red Hood and the Outlaws

[rawenbeau]

Comfort Crowd

Chapter 7: Hairy Snout, Human Heart

Sneak peak of tomorrow’s chapter:

Another time turned out to be the next day. Sirius really did have a talent for finding Remus when he was alone.

“Hey.” Sirius took the seat next to Remus, who had managed to secure that amazing spot in the library again. It always felt like their professors assigned their longest assignments on the days Remus was gone, so he found himself back there often.

Remus blushed instantly. “Hey.”

“What essay are you working on?”

“Defence Against the Dark Arts.” That was one of the classes they didn’t share, and while it was usually one of his favourite subjects, he wasn’t enjoying it as much this year. “I’m not sure I like our substitute professor. She gives too many assignments and readings, and too few practical classes.”

The only time he had actively disliked the class prior to that, was when they had learned about werewolves. Everyone hated werewolves; it was an immutable fact, but Remus hadn’t found it very fun listening to his classmates discuss whether or not he deserved to have rights. Whether he should even be allowed to live amongst “normal” people.

James had tried to say something during class, but Remus had begged him not to. He didn’t need that sort of werewolf-positive spotlight on their group. Though he and Peter had spent the rest of the day in the dorm bashing the professor for having such outdated views. It hadn’t helped at all to point out that his views fit the times. No, Professor Vives was bogue, phony, so stunned, a putz, boge, freaky deaky and a rah rah.

(James had previously to that just learned a bunch of muggle slang in class).

Sirius let out a long sigh, while pulling up a blue book from his bag. “Tell me about it.”

“What about you?”

“I’m ahead, so I’m reading this for fun.”

They turned silent as they began working on their own projects, but Remus couldn’t help sneaking glances at Sirius every now and then. He hadn’t previously been aware that Sirius read books for fun, so he was curious as to what had gotten his attention.

[rafaelmartinez67]

Mole Doña María, un producto con origen en Catorce, SLP.

Doña María Pons Nicoux junto con su esposo Peter Degetau Wegener comenzó la empresa que al día de hoy conocemos cómo Mole Doña Maria.

Doña María, potosina de ascendencia Franco-Italiana vivía en la localidad de Potrero, municipio de Real de 14 S.L.P. Una recesión económica temporal les impide impulsar el restaurante que tenían.

Durante este tiempo, doña María dedicó gran parte de su tiempo a desarrollar diversos platos y conservas, pero también quería una fórmula que le permitiera preparar la cantidad correcta del Mole que necesitaba para su establecimiento.

En una ocasión, visitando el municipio de Cedral S.L.P. probo un mole que le fascinó. Preguntando a diferentes Cedralenses, pidió le proporcionaran ingredientes que podian favorecer a su sazón, los cuales agregó a su famosa receta. Así es como nace el famoso Mole Doña María. UN MOLE CON SABOR Y SAZON CEDRALENCE.

Una mujer con visión y espíritu emprendedor, poco a poco empezó a colocar a su línea de productos como chiles mexicanos, postres, salsas caseras, etc. con varios clientes en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí.

Ante tal éxito y al no darse abasto con los pedidos, decide mudarse a Cedral y establece su operaciones en lo que antes fue la hacienda San Gabriel. Doña María buscó el consejo de su cuñado Don Ignacio Hernández del Castillo para darle a sus productos el impulso que necesitaban. Él sugirió industrializar el proceso de mole para patentarlo como Mole doña Maria. Al tener ya una firma registrada se queda en Cedral por varios años pero su negocio iba en aumento y se vio obligada a emigrar a la ciudad de San Luis Potosí donde ya su receta era conocida, tiempo después, Doña María comenzó a crecer y extenderse, no sólo en San Luis Potosí, sino también en la Ciudad de México, Tampico, Monterrey y algunas ciudades del norte y el Pacífico. Los kilos que se produjeron de forma manual dio paso a toneladas, gracias a la aplicación de los molinos eléctricos.

El 4 de febrero de 1956 Don Ignacio Hernández del Castillo, invitado por su hermano y su cuñada (hermana de doña Maria) establece la última piedra en el Doña María tienda, dando un total de 100 toneladas de mole producido por primera vez.

El primer producto elaborado era el clásico mole poblano en polvo, embalado dentro de bolsas de celofán en las presentaciones de 50g y 250g.

Bien aceptado por su sabor único y fácil preparación, cocineros mexicanos olvidaron el proceso largo y tedioso que se requiere para prepara este platillo, encontrando en Mole Doña María una garantía de calidad e higiene en su preparación.

No fue sino hasta 1961, cuando la fórmula novedosa para pasta de mole concentrado, se convertiría en el líder absoluto del mercado.

En primer lugar, se empaquetó en 20 latas de a kilo, así como tarros de 4kg y 250g. Adobo, pipián y también Mole Verde se empaqueta y se vende con esta nueva técnica.

Doña María y su esposo, no tuvieron hijos y al estar entrados en años, cansados de tanto trabajo deciden vender, así es como en 1969, Don Enrique Hernández Pons (sobrino de doña Maria y Propietario de la compañía Herdez) se ofreció a pagar en efectivo por la empresa y así adquirió el negocio. Inmediatamente después, se racionalizaron los productos que se vendían, y se procedió a adaptar las instalaciones de la fábrica para cumplir con las normas sanitarias y de calidad exigidas por Herdez. La marca de Doña María no sólo se convierte en un líder nacional, sino que también cruza las fronteras para convertirse en el líder mundial en el Mole.

Al igual que otros grandes de la historia, Doña María trascendió en el tiempo y el espacio. La transformación y adaptación de productos para satisfacer las necesidades de los clientes que a la fecha siguen satisfaciendo los exigentes paladares de cocina mexicana. Como lo dijo el trágicamente desaparecido chef Anthony Bouradin “La vida se vive en la mesa” y Doña Maria lo supo hacer.

Doña Maria fallece el 5 de Mayo de 1974 en la ciudad de San Luis Potosí a la edad de 80 años. Un mes después, el 4 de Junio del mismo año fallece su esposo don Peter Degetau Wegener a la edad de 70 años.

*En la foto aparece de izquierda a derecha Don Ignacio Hernandez del Castillo (fundador de Herdez) al centro Doña Maria y a la derecha Don Peter (esposo de doña Maria) colocando la última piedra de los que en su momento se llamó “Doña Maria Tienda”

[leibal]

Montpellier House is a minimal residence located in Montérégie, Canada, designed by Vives St-Laurent. Built into the natural slope of Mount Saint-Bruno, the residence demonstrates how contemporary design can engage with topography as both constraint and opportunity. The partially buried garden level recalls the earth-sheltered houses of Hassan Fathy or the landscape-embedded works of Peter Zumthor, yet here the strategy serves not merely environmental concerns but a deeper philosophical alignment with place.

[dreamconsumer]

Louis-Charles de France (1785-1795) par Peter-Edward Stroehling.

[littlehistorian]

Peter II of Cyprus (1354 or 1357–1382), called the Fat, was the eleventh King of Cyprus of the House of Lusignan from 1369 until his death.

He succeeded to the throne while he was still under age, following the assassination of his father in 1369. He was also titular Count of Tripoli and King of Jerusalem.

Peter II, who had no surviving children, was succeeded not by his surviving sister Marie, called Mariette, nor by their oldest uncle, John of Lusignan, who had been murdered in 1375, but by his younger uncle, who became James I of Cyprus.

[diceriadelluntore]

Storia Di Musica #377 - The Magnetic Fields, I, 2004

Quando c'è necessità di pensare a dischi particolari, Stephin Merritt è una sorta di garanzia. Il disco più famosa della sua creatura musicale, The Magnetic Fields (nome nobilissimo scelto dal titolo del libro Les Champs Magnétiques, scritto nel 1920 da André Breton e Philippe Soupault, manifesto del surrealismo). Probabilmente surrealista è l'idea di musica che Merritt ha: una fantastica mistura di ogni possibile suono del pop, con spruzzi di jazz, musica da camera, con la consapevolezza, o forse l'incoscienza, della possibilità di farli naturalmente convivere. Inizia tutto a Boston, sotto il nome di Buffalo Rome. Con l'aiuto dell'amica Claudia Gonson, che aveva suonato nella primissima band di Merritt, gli Zinnias, durante il liceo, iniziano a suonare dal vivo: la band si amplia a Sam Davol, John Woo, con l'aiuto occasionale di Shirley Simms e di Daniel Handler (che diventerà uno scrittore famoso con lo pseudonimo di Lemony Snicket).

La band vive nel grande mare della musica indie fino al 1999 quando Merritt, che voleva fare un musical sull'idea di amore partendo dai Sonetti di William Shakespeare, non pubblica 69 Love Songs: un disco che raccoglie appunto 69 brani sull'amore, in tutte le sue forme, che dal 2000 regala al gruppo un clamore inaspettato. Che mette in moto l'estro creativo infinito di Stephin Merritt

Nel 2001 il sesto disco Hyacinths And Thistles ; il 2002 vide il secondo lavoro dei Future Bible Heroes, un suo progetto parallelo e la colonna sonora del film di James Bolton, Eban And Charley; nel 2003 realizzò un'altra colonna sonora, questa volta per il dramma di Peter Hedges, con, Katie Holmes dal titolo Schegge Di April. Quasi cinque anni dopo Love Songs, i Magnetic Fields sono tornati con I, una raccolta dove per decisione sua scompare il tanto amato sintetizzatore con tutti i suoni elettronici, per fare un nuovo disco sulla vita sentimentale fatta di amore, emozione e perdita che fa ampio affidamento su violoncello, chitarra e la più egoistica delle vocali, la lettera I. Infatti I ha tutte le canzoni che iniziano I (spesso "I" della prima persona singolare inglese) e sono in rigoroso ordine alfabetico.

La cucina di Merritt produce dolciumi pop che esteriormente sembrano deliziosi, ma nascondono a volte il retrogusto amaro. Sarà anche uno stalker di rime intelligenti su romantici senza speranza e occasioni perdute, ma sono i falliti e gli sconfortati a ricevere il peso della sua ossessiva attenzione ai dettagli. Nella ninna nanna ingannevole I Was Born, si lamenta: "Invecchiare è come uccidere un bambino che rideva e sorrideva a qualsiasi cosa". Lo spettro dell'età non è immune al dolore di un cuore spezzato, e la densa estetica Brill Building di brani come I Don't Believe You e I Looked All Over Town risuona con quel tipo di disperazione che di solito è riservata ai giovani e agli ingenui. È quantomeno spiazzante la gioia della musiche rispetto ai titoli: I Don't Really Love You Anymore, o la stupenda I Thought You Were My Boyfriend (I thought I was just the guy for you and it would never end\I thought we were supposed to be like glue\I thought you were my boyfriend (...) Love or not, I've always got ten guys on whom I can depend\And if you're not mine, one less is nine, get wise\I thought you were my boyfriend) che usa una drum machine. C'è di tutto: brani in stile cabaret come In An Operetta sono arricchiti dalla nuova estensione vocale del cantante, che si definisce "orribile", e quando svela un falsetto sorprendentemente dolce e delicato nella splendida chiusura, It's Only Time, la voce dell'ascoltatore si spezza insieme a lui. E chissà chi è Irma a cui dedica una bellissima canzone.

In copertina, la I è un'opera di Fred Tomaselli, famoso per i suoi lavori dove i materiali più disparati sono i supporti per iper dettagliate opere pittoriche, che sembra una ottima metafora per la musica di Merritt. E per capirlo a fondo, vi consiglio un documentario di Kerthy Fix e Gail O'Hara, dal titolo Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt And The Magnetic Fields, del 2010, che vinse anche premi in giro per il mondo, che raccoglie la magia e la particolarità del gruppo in oltre 10 anni di riprese, un arco di tempo mi permetto di dire appena sufficiente per raccogliere la pazza magia di questo musicista e della sua immaginifica creatura musicale.

[schismusic]

Joy Division, or: how I learned to stop worrying and love New Order, too

Spring is weird as hell because one time you have this glaring sun that powers you up like being plugged into a wall outlet, then not five minutes later clouds begin to gather and you feel like you're going to die if anything goes south. So the most obvious combination to represent two sides of this same coin, emotional and meteorological, is Joy Division and New Order.

Sometimes you need Transmission or Shadowplay for the sunny days — impassioned jolts, sparks flying everywhere. Sometimes The Perfect Kiss hits harder on a cloudy afternoon, coming back home and in need of that extra push to not fall asleep in the train. It's surprising to realize the versatility displayed by both bands, or the same band in two different iterations according to whomever you ask. Peter Hook says, as late as 1993, that the laziest member of New Order is Ian Curtis. Or again this other person, in the comments under the Atmosphere official video on YouTube, who went to see New Order (Hooky-less New Order, which might be a relevant distinction) at the O2 Arena a couple of years ago and they gave an encore, says "Those of us who stayed got the privilege of watching Joy Division perform three of their songs". Interesting outlook on the matter. I personally saw Peter Hook and the Light play both Joy Division records and, I'm pretty sure, an encore comprised of just Love Will Tear Us Apart at the Arti Vive Festival in Soliera, back when it was still free to attend some of the events. I remember being pretty mad that Hooky had stopped to take pics with basically everyone and then left exactly as I was approaching. In retrospect I don't exactly blame the man, it was like midnight anyway. I remember nothing of the back trip home.

My first contact with Joy Division happened when I was thirteen and very much in my prog era. I was in Rome staying at an aunt of mine's place for my fourteenth birthday and she told me I could get a CD, since I had gotten some money saved up over time. Some Facebook page dedicated to Pink Floyd I'd liked (yeah, Facebook at age thirteen — I literally just wanted to play a fucking Flash game, back when Facebook allowed them, and I ended up getting to be terminally online. Crazy how things turn out) used to share a lot of memes and fanart relating to the Unknown Pleasures album cover, and me being a massive Pink Floyd head at the time I thought "I mean, if these guys are pushing this band so hard, that's gotta mean something". The album cover was pretty striking, admittedly: a far cry from the paisley ass paintings that I had grown to accept as the gold standard for the music I liked, but its simplicity struck a chord closer to The Dark Side of the Moon, or perhaps The Wall. Those were records I liked a lot, probably called them "the best records ever made" to more than one person, not like they aren't but that's a very bold statement to make when your listening experience consists exactly of

Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor when I was six;

Daft Punk's complete discography (minus Random Access Memories, which wasn't out yet) when I was twelve;

Pink Floyd's complete discography, courtesy of a CD collection coming out with some Italian newspaper, that same year;

a couple random classic rock records recommended to me by older friends and relatives usually well into their fifties or sixties at the time, random people on Internet forums — which, for clarification, I did not actively attend, preferring to just lurk from time to time — and the OndaRock "milestones" page.

So browsing through the surprisingly expansive CDs section of this electronics shop in Rome, and being mesmerized by a vinyl rack in the days when Music on Vinyl was the final frontier of pretending you could re-analogue the digital ("you mean to tell me these are like CDs, but bigger? Whoever designed these truly lived in the future"), I came across that very same album art that had stricken me so hard. I had listened to the first seconds of the album on YouTube, but that weird drum sound — so echoey, so distant, ultimately not particularly powerful, meaning it didn't really sound like Bonzo: it sounded more like my own band, which at the time didn't even exist yet — I didn't really know what to make of. This store I was in had one of those preview listening machines that would scan the barcode on the CDs and give you a small snippet of the song. I pull the CD up to the scanner, the scanner lights up green, I put on the headphones and the solo from this comes up:

Clearly they had to be kidding me. I had come to know, sneaking into infinitely many rehearsals with the band from my mother's town, what it sounded like when someone tried to play lead without something else filling up the arrangement (even though I didn't really know all that, or at least lacked the vocabulary to properly express it) and, for Christ's sake, didn't these guys notice rehearsing? It sounded empty, weirdly so, and it wasn't my thing, I thought. I put that CD away and picked up a band I knew I'd like — Genesis, specifically. So Nursery Cryme became the first CD I've ever paid with my own money, the very day I turned fourteen. Not a bad pickup. I remember being very impressed with the fast blurring lead guitar on The Musical Box and digging the sweet pastoral atmospheres of For Absent Friends and Harlequin. I still think of that record more often than one would probably assume looking at this blog, or my most played on Spotify. At the time, that was the best move I could take, really: why beat my head against a record that, as your average prog nerd ballbreaker, simply wasn't speaking to me?

Then all of a sudden in August of the same year my friend's dad hands me a 16 gigabyte USB drive, full of random music from all eras of rock. A lot of it remains inscrutable to me for a really long time, most notably Tom Waits (see related post), but I spent the whole month reading random folder names, seeing if something catches my eyes, and at one point I come across the Mars Volta. Open the folder up, read the names of their first three records, and my first thought is "Christ, these guys look incomprehensible. I'm about to have some fun". Long story short: I end up having a lot of fun, the Mars Volta turns into my favourite band at the time and finding out that they had previously been called At the Drive-In makes me gain some measure of respect for punk rockers: if they tried hard enough, I must've thought, they could prog as hard as anyone. In the meantime the ghost of Joy Division remains at the back of my head. I feel like I'm missing something, for the first time in my life: it's not them, it's me. Too bad that same realization didn't occur to me when it came to the people in my life until much, much later, but that's being fourteen for you I suppose. Early King Crimson and the Mars Volta were the pinnacle of violence to me, and not even the very few Metallica songs I'd downloaded just to see what would happen scratched that itch. It felt a bit too cauterized for some reason (I would later find out I had been looking in the wrong direction the whole time: the Black Album "sucked", according to my favourite metalhead of the time, who somehow catalyzed my interest from the very second I saw him in the school's courtyard. Hard to imagine why I would imprint on people like puppies do, but what the fuck, not like I've ever outgrown that anyway, I've just gotten better at managing it). But I felt there was more than violence to this, or different forms of violence. When Christmas came around and my relatives tried to get me presents, my mother asked if there was anything specific I was interested in, and I basically told her "look, if they can get me some CDs off of this list, I'm golden". It had some bangers on it, namely Noctourniquet by the Mars Volta — it's one of their best and I will die on this hill, be warned — and The Downward Spiral, which might as well warrant its own post in an ideal world. But the best of them all I think came from a random purchase, once again with the little money I had lying around at the time.

Closer appears to be, right away, a bit more concrete, and if there's something inexperienced music fans like is a pretty packaging that conjures a strong emotional response before they've even played the record. Compare a color-inverted graph of pulsar emissions to a literal funerary monument. Opening up the booklet I was shocked to see that Genesis was used as a negative point of comparison (bad omen, I thought) by people close to the band, and I came across much more detailed information about Ian Curtis's untimely demise — at that time, something far too removed from my experience to be faced with the delicacy and attention it deserves. Atrocity Exhibition hits like a ten-ton truck, a reference which at the time I wouldn't have been able to make for obvious reasons, and Isolation exposes all the nerve tissue under the skin. Passover comes in and strips everything even barer, and then A Means to an End turns… danceable, for some reason? Big emotional moment with The Eternal and Decades, which I thought actually took them closer to my usual tastes. And yet at the same time I kept looking at Colony, Heart and Soul and Twenty Four Hours as the most compelling cuts. Geometric assault sounding like sheet metal if it were music; rhythmically driven emptiness that serves as a minimal backdrop for depressed poetry, and finally a rocking ebb-and-flow that would probably inform a lot of my interest in GY!BE-like post-rock in the coming years. Very interesting to think that the same guys who'd done Unknown Pleasures could think of this. To this day, when asked, I still do think that Closer is the best Joy Division record, but what does it even mean when the records are exactly two, compilations notwithstanding?

It was around this time that it came to my attention that both Joy Division and another band called New Order had a record called Substance out, both published by the same recording company, both coming out within a year of each other. Looking it up, it turns out it's fully intentional, because New Order is simply Joy Division minus Ian Curtis. It would turn out to be a tad bit more complex than that. Anyway, I look New Order up and kind of have to do a double-take. Synthpop? In my Joy Division? More likely than you'd think, considering Isolation exists. But yeah, that sort of seals it — I wouldn't care about this New Order for a million years. Until all of a sudden a couple of years later David Sylvian bursts like a comet in my face, which of course leads me straight to Japan, the same year as I'd come across Berlin-era Bowie, and you can probably guess where this is going, right?

Well, you'd be wrong. I still don't check out New Order. There's a whole new world open to me — vaporwave and therefore R Plus Seven come to my attention, which leads me to dissect that record like an alien tool of unclear purposes. This of course leads me onto an ambient tangent, taking me back to my Tim Hecker listens of that same year, which has the effect of renewing my interest in "pure" electronic music and the then-rising post-dubstep movement. The sheer experience of sound, the dazzling modernity and innovation, is what's in at the time. I have no time for nostalgia-pandering dimwits: the future awaits. Then all that jazz from the first Godflesh post hits, then God pulls the funniest gag in the history of viral infections to my memory, and I have some time to actually look back, a bit less prejudiced. As it turns out, synthpop is not the devil, as some of you might have surmised by now, and as I relisten to Blue Monday I realized I have never listened to either of the Substance record. I do know some, most perhaps?, of the tracks on the Joy Division one, and I do think the New Order one has the more striking cover art — not to mention I knew, by this time, that this was the one to give Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance its name, and that Your Silent Face soundtracked one of the most memorable moments in Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson. As the ultimate Hideo Kojima stan, I couldn't let this slide, so I pop the record on and get hit with this:

Way to go, guys. Holy shit. I knew that Ceremony was a Joy Division cut before they could record it, but what the hell — Bernard got it, too. It wasn't a matter of singing ability with songs like these, it's just getting it, finding the right energy. They had that right energy. And then it hit me just as many times these dudes have made Blue Monday over and over again before actually getting it right, and everytime I look into it it's funnier and funnier to realize just how many different attempts it took them to finally be Kraftwerk, but augmented — with the stellar results we all know. Everything's Gone Green, 5 8 6, Temptation potentially, all lead up to this one moment in the history of dance music where somehow three dudes and a girl hailing from Manchester managed to out-gay the Pet Shop Boys (by their own admission, apparently), to shake the whole world's collective booty, to do whatever it is they were supposed to do in this last comparison that would ideally make the previous one a bit less obnoxious but whatever, it's 3am as usual, you know how it goes by now don't you? But then after Blue Monday the record keeps going, and thank god it does, because it's banger after banger. How do these guys keep doing it?

So I spend some time with that record, then it fades down, then it comes back up last month, when the weather calls for it and its parent company. Which is when I find myself watching the Control movie for the first time, surprisingly enough seeing as I already enjoyed the work of Anton Corbijn as a photographer. Looking at all that, it is revealed to me that Joy Division never really having died is not a bug, it's a feature. Everyone is gasping, I get it, but please pick your jaws up and check this out: the band has never learned how to play their respective instruments. One might go so far as to argue they play their own stuff their own way, and that's basically it. Nothing could be further from the truth. These guys jammed, a lot; that's how Joy Division wrote songs, that's how New Order wrote songs, even going as far as having Bernard Sumner fucked up on acid so he could find the chorus to Temptation or the whole band bombed out of their minds on X in Ibiza clubs to write, basically, the entirety of Technique — and even then, not really, there's a couple jangly tracks that the X would most likely render unlistenable but what do I really know? Point being: it might now have been sparked by a music teacher or instructor, it might not have been the product of a process comparable to that within Television, which led them to organically seek out better, more "by the book" musicianship, but New Order were incredibly familiar with their instruments, had formed an element of comfort and understanding that counterbalanced the alien-ness to music terminology.

Peter Hook recently uploaded a Yamaha-sponsored video to his Instagram, which I am pretty sure has a say in running, where he jams on a Yamaha bass and, you know, it sounds like Hooky alright, but it's never a discernible bassline until he kicks into the A major strumming that opens Love Will Tear Us Apart. Before that, he just strolls around the neck, leisurely strumming away at power chords imbued with that thick chorus and reverb combo he became renowned for. I would never, in my wildest dreams, have imagined I'd find myself thinking "okay, awesome, stop talking — I want to hear you jam a bit more" referring to one of the musicians who were part of possibly two of the craziest storiest in the history of contemporary rock'n'roll, also notorious for playing the rockstar whilst carrying the minimum possible baggage of technical knowledge he could. Once again, this is nowhere near a knock to the man — quite the opposite. Ian Curtis asked "persistence, well, what does it matter?", and Hooky (and, of course, the other members of New Order) found a way to constructively answer that question. Moments before Coil, but a bit later than Israel Regardie, they said "persistence is all" and built a brand on finding a way to consistently sound like splendid, eternal, golden children: "like crystal", impassionate, tightly-knit performers with the purity of a child's heart. Ian Curtis had, in certain ways (at least artistically), the purity of a child in his heart, which some might even argue was a distinguishing feature of most of his literary idols — if you think about it, William Burroughs could be your dirty-minded classmate who walked in on his parents sharing an intimate moment in the bedroom (had his parents been gay men, the metaphor would probably fly better, but that most definitely wasn't the case). So the heart of Joy Division remains untouched, if a bit more naked. Heroes of post-punk, sons of the silent age, you can sleep soundly tonight.