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Night Receptionist - Wales
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- Job Type
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Night Receptionist - Wales
Premier Inn Night Receptionist - Wales
At Premier Inn it is our dream to be truly loved by our guests. We want to make lives better by always putting the guest at the heart of all we do. We are looking for individuals who share in our values and are genuine, confident and committed in delivering brilliant guest experiences every day.
At Premier Inn our people make the biggest difference. If you enjoy variety and are at your best when working as a member of a team as well as being passionate about delivering brilliant guest service, you're right for us.
A good night's sleep really matters. Our Premier Inn Nights team do whatever it takes to make sure our guests feel brilliant through a great night's sleep. Overnight and through to breakfast, you'll ensure our guests enjoy their Premier Inn experience and are impressed with both the high quality service and value for money. It's what we're famous for.
While some experience of hospitality would be an advantage it certainly is not essential. What is more important is that you share in our purpose of helping our guests feel brilliant through a great night's sleep. We will welcome you with a full, structured induction and all the support you need to make a brilliant beginning to your Premier Inn Career Journey. Joining a friendly team you will always put the guest at the heart of what you do, gaining valuable skills along the way with full & ongoing training. Your Line Manager will also help to guide your development, building on your strengths and helping to realize your potential – there's lots of scope to progress as Premier Inn continues to grow. Along the way, we'll even support you in gaining industry qualifications or completing an apprenticeship.
How to Apply – The Important Bit
To apply to work for Premier Inn click the apply button below. You will then be directed to our new careers website where you will be required to fill in an application form. Please tell us exactly where you can work (close to home), as well as your preferred hours and shifts.
If a vacancy currently exists in that area OR when a vacancy becomes available that matches your requirements you will be contacted for interview.


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Gintech Energy will be presenting its mainstream solar cell products, latest Gpower Series, "Full Square Series" with high convergence efficiency, "Douro Series", and "Phoenix series" with different color cells in this event; we are looking forward to seeing you in Intersolar Europe 2011.

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Enrolment for tourism youth summer camp opens
Abu Dhabi, May 22, 2013
Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi) has opened enrolment for this year's edition of its annual Tourism Youth Summer Camp, which aims to introduce the emirate's tourism destination product.
The camp, which will run from August 18 to September 5, is for 100 young Emiratis - a mix of boys and girls - aged between 15 and 17 years. It is to get a better understanding of the industry, its role and goals and its impact on the local society, a statement said.
The camp will be held at the Yas Rotana Hotel on Yas Island and is being organised by TCA Abu Dhabi in co-ordination with the European International College in the UAE capital.
"This year the programme takes in many new aspects of the destination reflecting the evolvement of Abu Dhabi's tourism proposition," explained Nasser Al Reyami, tourism standards director, TCA Abu Dhabi.
Camp modules this year will include the inclusive destination marketing campaign currently being run for Yas Island and the recently-launched Abu Dhabi Convention Bureau.
There will be field trips to facilities on Saadiyat Island including the St.Regis Saadiyat Island Resort, Manarat Al Saadiyat exhibition centre, and Masdar City. The attendees will be introduced to sports tourism as well with visits to Yas Marina Circuit and Yas Links golf course, said Al Reyami. - TradeArabia News Service


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Just like the president who appointed him , Talaat Abdullah Egypt's current public prosecutor decided to withdraw on Thursday his resignation which he presented to the supreme council of judiciary last Monday.
Now according to sources Abdullah was convinced by the Muslim brotherhood judges/ "Judges for Egypt" to withdraw his resignation. He claimed that he decided to withdraw the resignation to preserve the respect of his position !!! He also added that he was forced to resign by a small a group of district attorneys !! Suddenly he discovered this on Thursday !!!!
Ironically on Monday he told Al Hayat Al Youm TV show live that he resigned to preserve the respect of that position !!
To be honest I did not have high hopes when I heard that he will resign after Sunday.
Before you waste your time giving me lecture about how great Abdullah is "Please check his record in Bahrain's uprising" , you must understand that I will not accept after the revolution a public prosecutor appointed by Morsi who interferes in the work of the district attorneys.


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In the autumn of 2008, China's best-known filmmaker, Zhang Yimou, found himself at a career crossroads.
The multiple Oscar nominee had spent the previous two years away from movies, orchestrating the opening and closing ceremonies for Beijing's Olympics, an eye-popping $300-million extravaganza of pyrotechnics and synchronized acrobatics that wowed a global TV audience. And after a fabled three-decade career delivering such critically hailed films as "Raise the Red Lantern" and "Hero" (the most internationally successful Chinese film export to date), Zhang could greenlight almost any project he wanted, enjoying a Robert Pattinson-like media ubiquity and James Cameron level of box-office clout. Problem was, without any original movie material in development, Zhang didn't know what to do next.
Then inspiration struck: a remake! "I wanted to do something to relate my humor," Zhang said by phone from Beijing. "Something light."
Paradoxically, the filmmaker's first thought was to tackle a "cold and distant" American movie he had seen at the Cannes Film Festival nearly a quarter century earlier. A film he had seen without even comprehending any of the dialogue absent Chinese subtitles. A work that had left a "deep impression" on Zhang: Joel and Ethan Coen's mordant 1984 thriller "Blood Simple."
Cut to the present day with Zhang's visually lush, slapstick caper "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" reaching American theaters Friday in limited release. The $12-million film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year and was a hit upon release in China, raking in $38 million; here it has already gotten critical props from watchdogs at Variety, Indiewire and Slash Film. Moreover, the Sony Pictures Classics-distributed movie's journey to the screen speaks volumes about Zhang's prestige as a filmmaker -- he's the only person the Coens have ever given their remake blessing -- and it highlights a certain coming of age for Chinese cinema.
"Very, very few Chinese films are remakes," Zhang explained through a translator. "That has to do with financial considerations. International copyrights cost a lot of money. As for my own adaptation, when I told my producers what I wanted to do, they said, 'Forget that. It's way too expensive!'"
Just don't lump "A Woman, a Gun" in with recent by-the-numbers Hollywood movie reboots such as "The A-Team" or "Fame." Where "Blood Simple" follows a contemporary Texas saloon owner's strangled effort to put out a hit on his wife and her lover for their adulterous affair, the flavor of Zhang's movie is as piquantly Chinese as Hoisin sauce.
The film situates "Blood Simple's" double-crosses and misunderstandings, grand mal scheming and thievery, in desolate Gansu province, somewhere between the Great Wall of China and the Silk Road, during the late Ming dynasty of the 17th century. The original film's perfidious private eye ( M. Emmet Walsh), oily gin-joint owner ( Dan Hedaya) and his wife (played by Frances McDormand) have been respectively reincarnated as a granite-faced local constable with a gigantic sword, a curmudgeonly restaurateur and a shrill adulteress with a gymnastic talent for making hand-pulled noodles.
As well, where "Blood Simple" exists almost as a formal exercise in the cinematic usage of darkness, shadows and light, color fairly explodes from the screen in "A Woman, a Gun." And with several of China's most beloved comedians in prominent roles, it is also shot through with a goofy brand of Peking Opera-inspired comedy that has proved somewhat baffling to many non-Chinese viewers.
According to Zhang, 59, he chose to set "A Woman, a Gun" in pre-modern China in an effort to side step government censorship that has prevented several of his greatest films from being seen in his homeland. "By changing it into a traditional Chinese background, I could attain more freedom," the filmmaker said. "The further back you go, the fewer political taboos there are and the better off you are in terms of political sensitivities."
Although the film is set at a time when guns were a recent invention -- the wife's purchase of a three-barreled pistol from a Silk Road trader is crucial to the plot -- "A Woman, a Gun's" action adheres closely to its source material. The noodle shop owner pays the policeman to bump off his missus and the feckless cook with whom she is cheating. Manipulations build upon misunderstandings and coverups beget ever greater crimes until the bodies start piling up en route to a bloody climax.
It represents a departure for Zhang, whose films have generally fallen into two categories. There are his gritty epics, such as "Ju Dou" and "To Live" from his early filmography, that showcase China's struggles with war, poverty and political malfeasance (and have been consequently banned in the director's homeland for "subversive" content). And then there are his more recent martial arts thrillers, such as "House of Flying Daggers" or "Hero" -- films that critics complain implicitly glorify the Chinese state and have won Zhang favoritism with the political elite while also saddling him with a reputation as a kind of Leni Riefenstahl for China's authoritarian regime.
"As he shifted to the martial arts epics, Zhang was criticized as selling out to the Chinese government and pandering to what officials wanted," said Michael Berry, associate professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara, who extensively interviewed the director for his book "Speaking in Images: Interviews With Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers." "He's always rejected those criticisms, though. It's a natural evolution. People tend to be rebellious when they're young and after a while, they become the establishment."
As polarizing a figure as he is in his homeland, Zhang's international acclaim allowed him certain opportunities when it came to acquiring the international copyrights to a well-regarded Western movie. The Beijing native has been nominated for best foreign film Oscars three times (for "Ju Dou" in 1990, "Raise the Red Lantern" in 1991 and "Hero" in 2003) and won a Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994 for "To Live.
The filmmaker's longtime producer Bill Wong was enlisted to negotiate with the Oscar-winning filmmaker siblings for "Blood Simple," their debut feature and the movie that set the cinematic boilerplate of midnight-black humor, brutality and blazing intelligence that have become the Coens' hallmarks. They eventually agreed to pay a copyright fee and ironed out a profit participation deal that the producer declined to detail but that he described as "very fair." (Deep in post-production on their next film, a remake of the 1969 John Wayne western "True Grit," the Coen brothers were unavailable to be interviewed for this story.)
"'Blood Simple' is not from a studio. It was produced and is owned by the Coen brothers themselves," Wong said. "When a property is attached to a studio, you have to go through a lot to acquire rights. But because the Coens controlled the rights, the process was very efficient."
Although Zhang and Joel and Ethan Coen have never met, as Zhang tells it, the brothers said: "We won't do this for any other director but we're willing to do it for you."
Turns out, "Blood Simple" wasn't necessarily Zhang's first choice for adaptation. "He wanted to do 'No Country for Old Men,'" Wong said. "I said, 'It's too recent. It won Oscars, it involves too many parties and would take forever to clear the rights.' But Yimou is a big admirer of the Coen brothers. We looked into [remaking] 'Fargo,' all of them."
The movie went into production last year in northwestern China, at a time of explosive growth for Chinese cinema, with an average of three new movie theaters opening in the country every day. During the country's tumultuous Cultural Revolution, filming a remake of a Western film would have been impossible on political grounds. But as a result of China's economic boom, there has been a spate of Chinese movies drafting off the popularity of earlier American fare; a recent mainstream film billed itself as "the Chinese 'Bridges of Madison County'" while a period drama set during the siege of Nanjing was marketed as "the Chinese ' Schindler's List.'" Not to mention Chinese-American co-productions, which include reboots of American fare such as "High School Musical: China" and an adaptation of "What Women Want," which just recently wrapped production in Beijing.
"A new cultural space has opened up," UC Santa Barbara's Berry said. "China's film industry is entering a new phase. Now it's both ideologically and financially possible for filmmakers to purchase the rights to remake British or American films."
Zhang, who is finishing post-production on his next feature, "Under the Hawthorn Tree," a love story set during the Cultural Revolution, says the Coens saw an early cut of "A Woman, a Gun" last year and gave it their approval.
"They thought it was fun and interesting the way we took their contemporary film, added Chinese flavor and set it in the past," the director said. "They never imagined their film could be expressed in this manner."
According to Wong, the adaptation may have unintentionally opened the door to a kind of cross-cultural movie exchange program. "They sent a note of congratulations to Zhang," Wong said. "They told him that they are going to make a remake of 'Raise the Red Lantern.' "
In the autumn of 2008, China's best-known filmmaker, Zhang Yimou, found himself at a career crossroads.


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With a shalom and an as-salamu alaykum, Salaman Sadan welcomes another group of travellers to his spacious tent. He distributes glasses of spicy tea as he begins to tell his story of a Bedouin life in Israel's Negev desert.
Born at the end of the nomadic period for this beleaguered indigenous people, Sadan was raised in the traditional ways of a goat and camel herder. Among the first Bedouin children to attend a Jewish school, he went on to a 15-year career in the tourism industry before reclaiming his Bedouin culture and the herder's life.
A natural storyteller, his amusing tales of the incongruous cultural clashes between the nomads and the Israelis who took control of his world in the 1960s have us rapt. There's the time he naively wears a girl's bathing suit; the reaction when he arrives at school on a camel; his method of avoiding homework (it helps when your parents don't know what a book or a pencil is.)
His wife brings in a ball of fresh dough that Sadan kneads into a flat loaf, sets directly on the low fire and covers with coals.
He explains the Israelis banned goat herding because the wandering Bedouins impeded military operations (approximately 80 per cent of the Negev is an active weapons range) and because of the environmental damage goats cause. The Bedouin were told to settle down and raise sheep.
Sadan explained that goats need water weekly, camels biweekly. But a few hours after the Bedouins took delivery of their new sheep, they were thirsty and bleating. The herders began to walk with the sheep in search of water when they happened on a strange object sticking out of the ground. They studied it a while and eventually hit it with a spike. Allah be praised, water gushed forth and the sheep were saved.
Everyone settled in around the new spring and much partying ensued. Then the waterline inspector showed up. "This is not yours, you can't stay here." They hadn't realized this was someone else's spring and reluctantly moved on. A few kilometres later they happened on another pipe. Alhamdulillah, another spring!
The government soon realized that reliable water was the way to get the Bedouin to settle and installed a tap.
Sadan takes the bread from the ashes and gives it a good beating to clean it off, breaks it into pieces and passes the platter. Needless to say, it's delicious. Over fresh bread, he explains that nomadism in Israel is largely a thing of the past, but tourism is becoming a mainstay of desert life.
Yoash Limon, our guide for the EcoNegev 2011 tour, set up his guiding business after falling in love with desert history and ecology as a child hiking with his parents. Everywhere you go in Israel, he explains, there is history under foot. Mamshit, the National Park and World Heritage Site in the southern Negev, for example, is a remarkably wellpreserved Nabatean city along the Incense Road that included their ancient capital Petra.
At the ruins of Mamshit's main Christian church, its intricate Fifth Century CE mosaic floor intact, Limon explains how Christian worship brought an end to the incense trade. The church is immediately adjacent to a temple and Limon speculates that the Christians stood at the church doors and kindly offered temple-goers a drink of water. Peeking into the church, the worshippers would notice its fresh, clear air.
Temples were places of continuous animal sacrifice; the incense trade existed to provide the frankincense and myrrh needed to cover the stench of blood and gore. Christianity did not require animal sacrifice, ergo its rise to dominance rang the death knell of the incense trade and the Nabatean empire.
For those more interested in nature than human culture and history, the Negev offers its harsh, stark beauty and the opportunity to explore its resilient, arid ecosystem. Perhaps the most spectacular site is the 40-kilometre-long Makhatesh Ramon, the largest of three massive erosion craters of a type found only in Israel.
A great staging ground for any of these activities is the traditional Be'erotayim Khan, a desert inn built of mud, shaded by a lone acacia tree and woven fronds from date palms. The Negev has every level of accommodation, from luxurious spa hotels to Spartan Field Camps, but even the pampered will be charmed by the rustic khan. With rainfall limited to a few millimetres a year, and no water or vegetation to support mosquitoes or flies, the khan is comfortable as an openair retreat where life merges with the land.
We lounge on carpets and cushions around a fire, drinking herbal teas or bracing coffee, listening to stories of desert adventures. Like most Israeli fare, the meals of couscous and fresh vegetables are simple but delicious. If you want to do something more than relax, the khan's herd of 25 camels is available for short rides and multi-day treks that follow the trail of the caravans.
If you prefer luxury - and money is no object - try the wonderful Beresheet Isrotel Hotel and spa at Mitzpe Ramon. Not usually a fan of buffets, I had to admit theirs was second to none.
Ecotourists may want to time their visit to the Negev to correspond with the spring and fall bird migrations. With 500 million birds passing through the tip of Israel twice a year, birders flock in to check off their sighting lists.
In my mind, the most remarkable features of the Negev are the desert-defying farms and settlements. Most Israeli kibbutz have renounced their communal values, but a few, like the Kibbutz Lotan and Neot Semadar, have retained their original egalitarian ideals and recast themselves as eco-villages. Both have transformed the parched desert into Edenic oases that are completely unexpected after a few days travelling the desiccated plains and wadis.
Half the fun in Israel is meeting people; our delightful guide in Ein Gedi, Zabu Leviyim, an elderly kibbutzim originally from Shiraz, explained that the collection resulted from the Ein Gedi residents' experimentation with plants from around the world.
- I couldn't recommend tour guide Yoash Limon more highly. Contact information is available on his website, www.ChosenPath.co.il.
- Eco-oriented tours and self-tours can be arranged through the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) at www.teva.org.il/english/ or the Israel Nature and Parks Authority at www.parks.org.il. Information about Mamshit and the Makhatesh Ramon is available on the parks site. The SPNI offers lower-cost accommodations through its field schools located around the country.
- Check out the features of the luxurious Beresheet hotel at www.isrotelexclusivecollection.com/beresheet/.
- The Desert Shade Group offers hiking and biking ecovacations and arranges visits with the Bedouins. Details at www.desert-nomads.com.
- For information on the Be'erotayim Khan visit www.beerotayim.co.il/english.htm. For the Neot Semader Kibbutz, see www.neot-semadar.com and for Kibbutz Lotan see www.kibbutzlotan.com/tourism/. Both offer accommodations.
- For information on the Ein Gedi Botanical Gardens, Spa and Nature Reserve check www.goisrael.com/Tourism_ Eng/Tourist+Information/Discover+Israel/Cities/Ein+Gedi.htm


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Smart Lesson: Combatting the Resource Curse in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
Control over natural resources often plays an important role in armed conflicts, either because warring factions fight over access to natural resources or because natural resources help finance one or several of the factions. Recent examples include the several wars fought, in part, over access to oil in the Middle East and wars fueled by "blood diamonds" in West Africa. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) facilitates public control over the wealth generated by these natural resources and limits corruption.
The EITI, launched in 2002 and endorsed by the World Bank in 2003, has provided tangible governance improvements in resource-rich conflict-affected countries. It works with multiple stakeholders—a coalition of governments, companies, investors, international organizations, and civil society organizations — to manage a process of publication and verification of company payments and government revenues from oil, gas, and mining.
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Second, in post-conflict situations—in particular where the conflict was about "who gets what" of the natural resources—reliable, official data concerning the extractive industries sector are rarely available in the public domain. Without having the data verified by an independent body, it is difficult, if not impossible, for the different parties to have a constructive dialogue.
Thus, credible and verified data (in the EITI context, on financial flows from natural resources) are crucial, as they allow stakeholders to negotiate peacefully. This reduces the potential for recriminations and mistrust.
As a third challenge, corruption often is a huge problem in resource-rich conflict-affected countries, but traditional anticorruption measures rely on commissions or courts, which carry great potential for conflict by "cornering" perpetrators, who may respond with bribery—or, worse, recourse to arms.
A key lesson learned from the EITI in this respect is that a preemptive approach to curbing corruption, which avoids granting involved parties the opportunity for wrongdoing, is preferable to pursuing rule breakers after the fact.
Once established, a successful initiative in post-conflict countries may successfully serve as a springboard for related ones. In the case of the EITI, its institutionalized implementation framework — a capacitated multistakeholder group, and reliable data on revenue flows — could frequently be used to subsequently intervene at other levels of the extractive industries value chain. Examples include better monitoring of EI firms' activities, or (as e.g. in Timor Leste) the establishment of a national oil fund to fund the country's long-term sustainable development.
In this way, EITI can not only contribute to stakeholder reconciliation and transparency of data crucial for the country, but its structures can ultimately be used to address a host of related problems in the country concerned.
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Chateau Petrus, from a prime vineyard on well-drained clay soil atop the Pomerol plateau, has for decades stood as the world's greatest example of Merlot. Petrus's rise to the top, however, was rather meteoric, happening all at once in the second half of the 20th century.
Chateau Petrus, which is really not a Chateau at all, just a two-story farmhouse 40km from Bordeaux, dates to the mid 18th century. The golden age of Petrus, however, didn't begin until after World War II, when Madame Edmond Loubat became sole proprietor of the estate. Under her direction, Petrus became one of the first estates in Bordeaux to implement green harvesting -- a technique used to lower crop yields and increase concentration in mature berries. The terroir, unique to the 28 acre site at Petrus, produces a wine that is extraordinarily creamy and thick but with the substantial tannic underpinning to ensure decades of development in bottle.
The panoply of exotic aromas and flavors typically encompasses black raspberry, mulberry, iron, cocoa powder, truffle and expensive new oak. Petrus bottlings are generally 100% Merlot, although some vintages will contain 2-3% of Cabernet Franc. The vineyard itself is planted to 95% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Franc. An average vintage produces only 2500 cases of the Grand Vin and no second wine. This limited supply accounts for much of the astronomical price of a Petrus bottle.
In 2007, After 44 seasons as Technical Director at Petrus, Jean Claude Berrouet retired and was replaced by Eric Murisasco. Berrouet's son, Olivier Berrouet, is winemaker at Petrus and is currently in training to assume the position of Technical Director.


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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 1:51 pm
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Uhhh, but you still sell WS and Teutonic Satan releases through discogs? Talk about taking out the competition, eh? Just seems funny, that's all.
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 1:54 pm
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Mein Kampf 009 - NaziSSexNoise "Untitled"
More field recordings of "Aryan Sexology" music mixed with static. Considering this isn't called "To Make Another Explode Inside Aryan Woman" or advocating incest like their other demos I think you could call this an evolution of their sound. Don't buy this.
This stuff is getting so crazy and absurd, it makes me feel I need to check it out
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 2:56 pm
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Look I like a lot of your releases and WS as a whole but you've really got to chill out on the goddamn rants, dude. Also it's Discogs not Discgo's
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Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:00 pm
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Wolfram wrote:
Vega360 wrote:
Mein Kampf 009 - NaziSSexNoise "Untitled"
More field recordings of "Aryan Sexology" music mixed with static. Considering this isn't called "To Make Another Explode Inside Aryan Woman" or advocating incest like their other demos I think you could call this an evolution of their sound. Don't buy this.
This stuff is getting so crazy and absurd, it makes me feel I need to check it out
you do not need to buy this.
Evan me & aaron came to an understanding. My views on discgo's have softened somewhat. I think the retarded flipping on that site is outrageous but if people are simply too lazy to go and click on my profile then just order from my distro, that's there own fault.
I don't care if people sell stuff there considering that it is actually is a good distribution tool, but something at four or five times the list price is absurd and just greedy.
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 4:02 pm
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Obviously, Show No Mercy is still the greatest recording ever.
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 5:55 pm
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Ough wrote:
Look I like a lot of your releases and WS as a whole but you've really got to chill out on the goddamn rants, dude.
I love the rants. That's why I keep checking the WS site from time to time.
Would be nice to have the page with the manifestos back too.
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Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 6:15 pm
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little_raven wrote:
Ough wrote:
Look I like a lot of your releases and WS as a whole but you've really got to chill out on the goddamn rants, dude.
I love the rants. That's why I keep checking the WS site from time to time.
Would be nice to have the page with the manifestos back too.
That shit was golden.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 3:04 pm
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eighthplague wrote:
little_raven wrote:
Ough wrote:
Look I like a lot of your releases and WS as a whole but you've really got to chill out on the goddamn rants, dude.
I love the rants. That's why I keep checking the WS site from time to time.
Would be nice to have the page with the manifestos back too.
That shit was golden.
Just fuck off >_>
I really don't think there needs to be an entire webpage that says that?
After one's days are spent talking to only to people who believe masons run the free world, that they are "war" or "nothingness", want advice on how to rape women, show me their own written manifesto's, tell me how they have attacked random people of other races, preach about the American race, talk about free masons running the world etc. You just wanna have a conversation about the weather or something.
Despite such things as
, music is released here that people should really be talking about. Bands such as Kaevum, Massenhinrichtung, Jewish Juice, Frost, Moloth and the numerous others I have released should be discussed. Having to publicly slander people, give out band news etc is never any fun, at least I make an effort to make a joke when bad shit happens.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 4:34 pm
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Yes, listen to Jewish Juice.
This is not a joke, that shit fucking rules despite the silly name.
If you are a false don't marry! Girlfriend is ok but only destructing anus from behind!!!
- Fat Dagon
And now we have fags complaining about other fags. A "fagoboros" if you will.
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Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 5:00 pm
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Yes, listen to Jewish Juice.
This is not a joke, that shit fucking rules despite the silly name.
Apparently the Italian Translation of their name is a racial slur similar to the first one listed there.
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Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 6:43 am
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May 18th 2013.
The minimum order for people paying with paypal has been abolished, however if you order just one tape or I'm not making a special trip to the post office for you.
For some reason people it seems have forgotten that actual music is released by this label, a detailed update about what is in store for the future has been provided below. The outline below covers many upcoming titles coming out in both noise/experimental music and black metal.
The following covers will be sent to one print house (the one normally used here) within the near future.
Solace101 - Rodna Zashtita/Aryan Kommando 88/Nachtkrieger "Day of the National Socialist Uprising"
Solace119 - Massenhinrichtung "Go Beyond Gist"
Solace121 - Jewish Juice "Fourth Reich"
Solace131 - Aryan Assault/1389 "The Fist of Aryan Defiance"
Solace134 Dread Ghost Roar
Solace137 - 1389 "1389"
Solace144 - Rodna Zashtita "Mogashtestvoto Na Balgarskiya Duh"
Rodna Zashtita is NSBM from Bulgaria and is a direct continuation of the type of sound this label became famous for in our beginnings over 5 years ago, I have about three copies left of their first demo released here a few years ago that I re-imported from the label I co-released that tape with 2 years ago. Aryan Kommando 88 is the US answer to Aryan Terrorism and there tracks on the split above are going to be the last release from the band (they ended activities in 2012) that pushed the limits of the 1st Amendment to limits to unheard of extremes with their earlier demos. Nachtkrieger is a new band from Quebec, already having released a split with Der Misanthrope and a tape full length on the now defunct Black Howling records, both of those tapes can be checked out in our distro.
Massenhinrichtung come from Belarus play a refreshing brand of technical black metal with an emphasis on song writing. Recently they have toured around Eastern Europe with Polish titans Arkona and are currently writing new material. The tape we will release will be a reissue of their debut CD release on Eastside 5 years ago.
Jewish Juice come from Italy and prove why people need to just accept the fact that underground music shouldn't fit in your boxes. This band has a very powerful sound, akin to Dark Fury, Der Strumer and Capricornus without going to over the top in terms of intensity, thus keep their sophistication on display through their music. Our copies of the CD are not in stock and soon this tape will be the only way to get the recording from us.
1389 is the main project of Vod Jovan Pogani from Banja Luka in Republika Srpska (if you're American you're just taught to call this region Bosnia) who has made recordings since 2007 or so under names such as Goat Evil, Porok, Black Vomit SS and others. I stocked these demos (specifically the split with Tank Genocide) and numerous customers made a point to have me actually listen to them. Taking him down became mandatory. The self-titled comp contains tracks from numerous demos circulated only in the Balkan underground if at all. Their split with Aryan Assault showcases new material from both bands. Aryan Assault branch away from making NS Techno and more towards a blasting industrial sound.
Dread is a project between the Russian noise artist Viktoria Isa Mengele (Oxycodone, Hazetomb, others noise projects with Merzbow style productivity) and Luc Mertz of Zarach 'Baal' Tharagh. This project despite who is involved is actually a unique sound akin to neither of their works. The album Ghost Roar mixes bleak ominous noise with the majestic atmospheres of Khors, Ygg, BBH, Ulvegr & Na Rasputje to create one of a kind listening experience that is the fitting definition of the Winter Solace label.
Other releases are also in production such as full lengths of Sunchariot, Vinland Special Services, Ilsa Koch, Oxycodone and promising demos from bands such as Yggr in Finland. What is discussed above is probably what will come out first due to production costs & planning, the rest will be discussed later.
NS Ninja has split up, KM phoned me from where he is living now after months of silence. He is ending all his musical activities for personal reasons. The album that me and him worked on is essentially incomplete and thus I have chosen not to release it, as again the themes of that project differ greatly from what is in my works. The demos are still in stock, and Mein Kampf Recordings will make all the bands music onto one cd-r with their next batch. The split with The Guanoson that was announced here has been cancelled.
Mein Kampf recordings had made an official website giving more insight into their beyond strange world. A.N. was never much for web design or English but it still is an interesting viewpoint. It can be seen
at this link
. There new batch of releases they say will be out this winter, along with a scene report. Their current batch of releases still is in stock.
++++ Distro stock ++++
I've got 2 copies of the debut album from Austrian NSBM band Feuernacht in stock now. This album gets the highest recommendation from me, however will not be for everyone. These guys actually make black metal with an emphasis on sound production and actually competently playing said instruments, which is getting more and more rare with each year that passes. I am looking forward to working with this band in the future.
Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico are a band from Italy that I have been following for sometime. Starting out with a tape on the legendary War Kommand label from Italy. There new album is one of the most refreshing things I have herd in quite a long time. Very complex black metal with a vast array of influences and instrumentation far outside the genre. So far this album is probably my favorite new release of the year, and I do encourage everyone to give this a good listen. I did a small trade with the band to get these, which is why the price is higher however I would pay full list price in a store for something like this. A link to a sample from their album can be found in my list below.
Many new tapes from Legion Blotan have arrived here. Most of these speak for themselves, so I'll let people determine the ones they need. Copies of the White Metal/Slaget EP are limited to one per customer. We don't have the new EPs he put out here, nor the pro cassette versions of any of these.
NEW DISTRO ITEMS (* Recommended)
Black Metal MC's
Arch Toll "Poisoner"
Arch Toll/Nigrum Ignis Circuli "Arch Toll/Nigrum Ignis Circuli"
Dommedagssalme "Divisions"
Dommedagssalme "Terra"
ESK "Ashdene"
Nightgown "Nightgown"
Pact of Ash "Pact of Ash"
Pogavranjen "s/t"
Satanhartalt "Deapscufaergewinn"
Smoke "Eeuwigheyt"
Troth "Darkend Light in World of Pale Convictions"
Unkerd Wood "Demo I"
Unkerd Wood "Demo II"
Vanvyrd "Armods Grind"
War of the Roses "s/t"
White Medal "Yorkshire Steel"
Woddrea Mylenstede "II"
Metal CDs
Black Howling "Melancholy of a Pagan Bucolic Spirit"
Black Howling "The Rain is the Weeping of Forefathers"
*Feuernacht "Kampf Macht Frei..."
*Movimento d'Avanguardia Ermetico "Lacrime degli Dei" ($10.00 - Digi CD)
White Medal "Yorkshire Heathen Black Metal"
Vinyl EPs
White Medal/Slaget "Them Thut Fear T'Wolf/Lysets Dod" ($5.00)
White Medal "Heathen Ridings Return" ($5.00)
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Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 5:59 am
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May 27th 2013
This label has many releases and many titles which we distribute officially. A lot happens quickly which leads to many things getting lost in the confusion. I've decided to use some of the slower periods (like now) to promote some of these titles again and hopefully find them homes. The one for discussion during this update will be a title released from the now dead label the Thule Society.
Cosmic Weapon of Thule "Cosmic Weapon of Thule"
This tape was originally conceived about 10 years ago in an attempt to make NS trance/electronic instrumental music in vein of earlier composers such as Klaus Schultze, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Dance 2 Trance (no vocals), Jean Michel Jarre, Sven Väth & Conrad Schnitzler. Needless to say the end result was not that, what came about is probably the only "National Socialist Post-Trance" genre recording in the world. Distorted muddy sounding techno is looped and mixed with minimal rhythm to create repetitive droning mechanical sounds, in a sense minimal electronic anti-music. This tape is an ideal soundtrack for a robot porno scene. I first described this as "Daft Punk ran through a washing machine" which probably is in a sense still true.
The track "Cosmic Weapon of Thule" on youtube.
The track "Intergalactic SS" on the old youtube channel.
NEW DISTRO ITEMS (* Recommended)
- Samples of some new items & Pictures of the shirts can be seen at the website.
Black Metal Tapes
Ad Arma "Stalingrad"
*Funeral Countess "Madness Ritual"
Muinainen Ruhtinas "Tuskanvuorten Valtaistuin"
Musta Siunaus "Edenista Tuhoon"
Nefario "Evil Metal"
Vinyl EPs
Evil/Necrostrigis "Winter Darkness Storm" ($5.00 - One per customer)
Excruciate 666 "Warblood" ($5.00) - ($4.00 one has scuff on cover)
Nocturnal Depression/Kaiserreich "Split" ($5.00)
Vinyl DLP
Striborg "Black Desolate Winter/Depressive Hibernation" ($14.50 - Corner ding)
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:49 pm
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June 15th 2013
While this will be seen as futile by many, I've decided that it should still be made public. For the past months/years there has been a rampant lack of professionalism here regarding postings made on this website and elsewhere, specifically the "trash talking"/juvenile attempts to destroy the reputations of others for things that are simply useless. I will not explain the torrent of behind the scenes related personal/mental health issues that led to this behavior however I do wish to offer sincere apologizes to any such persons who felt offended by something posted here/elsewhere. This unprofessional behavior has never been in the image I have wanted this label to be seen in and note that changes are been implemented here that will hopefully eradicate this in the future. If there are specific parties that feel that any specific grievances have been made against them that aren't absolved by this posting they may reach out to me directly if they feel a need to do so.
B.H.O.L 22 Vinland Special Services "Cemetery Without Crosses"
This is a folk/bluegrass/ambient track I made in 2011. It sounds like unlike any of my other works and is for the most part devoid of noise entirely. I felt that this did warrant some kind of release as it was to be the tombstone of my musical endeavors.
B.H.O.L. 23 Vinland Special Services/Cosmic Breath "Hanoi Hilton/Five Pointed Snow Mound"
This recording showcases the true power and spirit that can exist on split/collaboration recordings. My tracks on this and the ones by Cosmic Breath differ greatly from our usual styles and the final result has to be listened to in order to be believed. With roots in power electronics and industrial black metal this recording branches out into several different musical genres and is simply "Avant-Garde" in every aspect of the word. The VSS folk/patriotic musings collide with Cosmic Breath channeling the essence of H.P. Lovecraft. At times echoing everything from electronic music, jazz, tribal and bluegrass music this is a hazy surreal recording that will forever stand as a mark of excellence in both bands already abstract discographies!
Both of these recordings are here in limited numbers, if you need copies for your distro it is suggested you get them from Brotherhood of Light.
Seeing as I've gotten a bunch of requests to do this, I've made a Winter Solace mailing list/newsletter. I've never been huge into these myself but people have been telling me they check the website everyday to see if new products are in so now they don't have to do that. There will also be special discount sale offers discussed through there.
In the future once this is established, I will be using this as the primary method of informing people of new releases/distro stock etc. So if you feel inclined to do so please make sure to add your e-mail by going to the contact page of the website.
The box to submit your e-mail to is this page.
The upcoming releases page has been updated to further showcase what will be released here soon and when. There will be a bunch of Xerox titles released soon, and I've gotten test tapes back for the upcoming pro tape titles. Expect great things soon!
It would seem I have met another kindred spirit wandering around the internet. I'd like everyone to check the releases I have from the label Occult Mountains in the new arrivals. It would seem this label has unearthed a plethora of new & unknown raw NSBM bands. I was talking about some of these on Facebook yesterday as some of these are worth looking into, specifically the "Anti-Semitic Poetry" split between Aryan Werewolf & Astral Legions. I only got 2 or 3 of some of these so if there is interest I'd act fast as some of these were pressed in runs of 14 copies etc.
One side note, the Axis of Evil split with Reek of the Unzen Gas fumes is still in stock and has been for sometime. It was filed under the Experimental section. I've since moved it to the black metal portion of the distro list. I'm getting low on these so if you wanting some let me know.
NEW DISTRO ITEMS (* Recommended)
Black Metal Tapes
*Aryan Werewolf/Astral Legions "Anti-Semitic Poetry
Count Shannath/Neit/Whispersorrow "White Skin/Black Metal"
Count Shannath "Anti Social Dogma"
Peisithanatos "Poisoned Dreams and Obscure Memories of Sorrow"
*Right Wing Messiah "Replace The Bible With Mein Kampf" (Slow Punk/NS Music with just bass & vocals)
*Svb Imperivm "Desjudaización Espiritual (Por la razón de los fuertes)"
*Tank Genocide "Fascism is our Ideal"
Experimental Music Tapes
AG14 "Demo" (Ambient/Folk - Sounds like a music box)
Fuhrer Anon "Aufstieg" (NS Trance)
*Vinland Special Services "Cemetery Without Crosses" (bluegrass/ambient) Sample
*Vinland Special Services/Cosmic Breath "Hanoi Hiltion/Five Pointed Snow Mound" (Avant-Garde/Industrial/Various)
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Solace140 - Insane Hour "Cacophony of the Nihilistic Mentality"
The type of music on this tape isn't the kind usually released by this label and I'll be honest when I say I know little about what genre this actually is. Harsh Noise based industrial music influenced by NON & Stalaggh that is layered over nowave/punk rock sounding similar to The Locusts, chance era Nurse with Wound, early Swans & The Birthday Party. Sickening broken music vomited out for people who hate everything.
Solace146 - Dunkelwhite "Rehearsal 2009"
From forgotten Nordic paradise of Iceland hail Dunkelwhite playing NSBM akin to the olden days of Scandinavian sound. Howling maniacal vocals, shredding raw guitars and refined atmospheric driven drums come together to recreate the sounds that brought us all here. Simple tapes, simple xerox this release is a black metal demo junkie's wet dream to be kept in print forever as this is destined to become a future classic akin to White Wolves Kommando, Storming Hate, Goatmoon and the Finnish (not the Italian one released here years ago) Ymir.
Solace147 - Estonian Synagogue Destruction "Narwa!"
This recording is absolutely delirious and will send chills to your bones. Slow haunting funeral/death doom influenced metal music is layered under ominous Theremin atmospheric sounds to make for a simple yet complex EP that is a must for people seeking to push beyond the norms of extreme music. Exploring themes of Estonian military history, modern satire, anti-pornography, humor & Estonian folklore. This will infuriate and confuse many, but will entrance all that seek to understand it. Winter Solace is proud to showcase this new line-up from the band who are already working on a full-length album and looking for opportunities to collaborate with other individuals.
Solace148 - Cosmic Weapon of Thule "NS Techno"
NS/WP techno music is a fun little side ordeal that this label somehow wound up being a vehicle of. This sub-genre has been host to all kinds of strange folk, and CWoT is no exception. There debut album is a complete turn in the proper direction from the happy accident that was the "Kugelblitz" album (which was more noise then anything else) and showcases the bands new style. 2 30+ minute trance sound landscapes in vein of Jean Michel Jarre & Klaus Schulze and one short song akin to Kraftwerk. One of the tracks on here is the sound from the first album reworked with electronic compositions to be released in a way that was envisioned by the band.
Solace149 - Klontaveum/Protocols "Glory & Hope/Fa"
An hour long dark monolith of low frequency driven drone & noise music. Reflecting dark caves and fire with manipulated piano, siren and guitar sounds this split tape will trap the listener within a moody, slow hopeless world. Klontaveum is a new project from the US while Protocols has made numerous releases on Winter Solace, The Thule Society & Mein Kampf, once of which being a full length spanning 6 CD-r's. Only for those who like absolutely ominous and dreary music!
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I got a bunch of new items in from Hateful Productions in Brazil. That country still reign's supreme at creating raw satanic black metal like no other. Samples from a lot of these have been posted almost all of these are unknown and in small numbers dating back to the early nineties. From numerous different styles of black metal.
Also arrived are limited imports from the mighty Darker than Black/Merchant of Death. All of these obviously have the full support here from myself. Besides having CDs of Kaevum & their other band Nordvrede I have in stock the CD split between The Helheim Society & Vendetta Blitz, which which is one of the earliest fusions of black metal and industrial music that has simply been ignored for many years. Some copies of the Satanchist pro tape EP have been stocked as well, while somewhat unknown this project is a collaboration between members of Der Stürmer, Ewiges Reich & Dark Fury mixing belligerent black metal with rocking RAC/80's metal solos.
Some copies of the new Brotherhood of Light releases by the band LLYR are in stock. I would highly encourage everyone to check the Undying Solider tape specifically. It really shows the foundation their collectives later works are built on.
Many new releases from Werewolf Promotion in stock. Including tapes of Dark Ages, Flame of War, Pagan Hellfire & the final releases of Frost. Also in stock from there is an experimental noise release from a band called "[Saturn]" which I guess I'm the official US distributor of, scathing minimal noise rehearsals from various Polish artists with similarities to Atrax Morgue, Sshe Retina Stimulants, Protocols etc.
NEW DISTRO ITEMS (* Recommended)
Black Metal MCs
*Behalf Fiend "Journey Mystic To The Knowledge of Occults Secrets"
*Black Baptism "Warriors The Burn The Cross"
Black Valley Forest "The Conquest Begins"
Cryptic Lorn "Storm of Satan's Fire"
*Dark Forest "Sodomized by Depraved Goat"
*Dunkelwhite "Rehearsal 2009"
Elitism "L'Odeur Des Deportes"
Enslaved "Promo Tape 1991" (Nema Bootleg)
Flame of War "Long Live Death!"
*Frost "Berserkr's Hallucinations"
*Frost "...Neant..."
*Gloria Excelsis Satani "Solidão do Anoitecer Eterno..."
Gradus Pentalpahe "Evil Pure Essence"
Hiems "Celebrating the Essence of Void"
Immortal "Immortal"
Into the Black Forest "Destroying The Humanity With Black Metal"
Likvann "Vredeskrik"
*LLYR "Heathen"
*LLYR "Undying Soldier"
Matrimonivm "Streetz Ov Phy-Ladelphium"
Navjarmaaher "The Fangs of the Shining Night"
Pagan Hellfire "On The Path to Triumph"
Para a Glória de Teu Nome Lúcifer "Maximum Perverssum"
Poprava "Prichod"
*Profanus Philosophy "Reflexoes Infernais"
*Satanachist "Crown of the Black Sun"
*Severe Storm/Slavecrushing Tyrant "We Will Drown The Dawn with Blood"
*Thou Supreme Art "Son of Ayperos"
Winter Deluge "As The Earth Fades Into Obscurity" (NZ heathen BM with ties to blood of the moon)
Non-Metal MCs
*[Saturn] "[Saturn]"
*Cosmic Weapon of Thule "NS Techno"
Dark Ages/From The Bogs Of Aughiska "Holodomor/Am Gorta Mor"
*Estonian Synagogue Destruction "Narwa!"
*Insane Hour "Cacophony of the Nihilistic Mentality" (Experimental Industrial Rock)
*Klontaveum/Protocols "Glory & Hope/Fa" (Drone, Noise)
Caçador de Almas "Vigário Maldito" Sample
*Kaevum "Kosmos Erwache" ($10.00)
*Kaevum "Natur" ($10.00)
*Nordvrede "Monument Viktoria" (Digipack $12.00)
Satanic Honor "Destroying for Satan's Glory"
*The Helheim Society/Vendetta Blitz "Fenris/Vendetta" (Industrial Black Metal/Industrial) ($7.00)
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Oregon's Chip Kelly reportedly has head-coaching interviews scheduled for Friday with the Cleveland Browns and the Buffalo Bills, and all but admitted he was headed to the NFL after his Ducks beat Kansas State in the Fiesta Bowl on Thursday in Glendale, Ariz.
"I'll talk to Dave (agent David Dunn) tomorrow," Kelly said after Oregon's 35-17 victory. "I said I'll always listen and that's what I'll do."
"I want to get it wrapped up quickly and figure out where I'm going to be," Kelly said Thursday.
He's also expected to meet with the Philadelphia Eagles. NFL.com's Ian Rapoport has reported that the Eagles, Browns and Bills are lined up to interview Kelly for their head-coaching vacancies. Friday's planned interview with the Bills was reported by ESPN.com, while the Plain Dealer also confirmed Friday's interview with the Browns.
Kelly has become the next hot NFL coaching prospect during four spectacular seasons as Oregon's head coach and two as the school's offensive coordinator. He's gone 46-7 as Oregon's coach, but even more attractive for many NFL executives is his innovative offensive approach, which consistently lights up the scoreboard and excites fans.
At the podium Thursday night after leading his team to a BCS bowl victory for the second year in a row, Kelly was quick to credit his players when the subject of his NFL future arose.
"I know that people want to talk to me because of our players," he said "... it's because of what those guys do."
UPDATE: The Browns and Kelly are close to a deal, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported on Friday.


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You can't really read a food magazine at the moment without being told what the "new cupcake" is. Apparently, macarons are the new cupcakes but then I've also read lately that whoopee pies are the new cupcakes...so maybe they're actually the new macarons? It's all very confusing.
Anyway, I think these qualify as whoopie pies as they're cakey biscuits sandwiched by a suitably gooey filling. As it's Easter I added some chocolate glaze and chocolate eggs...I have no subtlety at all (if there's a way of adding more chocolate to something you can rely on me to do it!)
The marshmallow filling was sticky and chewy and made a nice alternative to buttercream. I was delighted to see on the marshmallow packet that they are fat free! Who knew that marshmallows were a health food...they beat celery any day!
Eating a biscuit sandwich means you're actually eating two biscuits at a time. This appealed to me as a very efficient way of eating biscuits! Here's one biscuit fresh from the oven:
For the biscuits (this quantity makes about 14 finished pies i.e. 28 biscuits):
120g unsalted butter
240g golden caster sugar
2 eggs
40g cocoa powder
250g plain flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 tablespoons milk
For the marshmallow filling:
2 egg whites
150g caster sugar
2 tablespoons double cream
½ teaspoon cream of tartar
10 white marshmallows, cut into quarters
For the chocolate glaze:
200g chocolate 50% cocoa content (I couldn't find any 50% so used half 70% and half 34% and this roughly came out at 50%)
50g unsalted butter
2 tablespoons double cream
To decorate: chocolate sprinkles and any decorations of your choice
Preheat the oven to 200˚C/fan oven 180˚C/400˚F/Gas mark 6.
Line two baking sheets with baking paper.
Start by making the biscuits: cream together the butter and sugar until smooth and well combined.
Beat in the eggs.
Sift the cocoa, flour and baking powder over the butter mixture and beat in.
Beat in the vanilla and milk; the batter will be softer than a traditional biscuit mix but firmer than a sponge batter.
Drop rounded teaspoons full of the batter onto the baking sheets. Space them about 6cm apart as they spread. I had to bake half the mixture at a time and use each baking sheet twice.
Bake the biscuits for about 14 minutes or until they are firm but not crisp – they should retain a certain cakey-ness.
Leave to cool on a wire rack. They will store in an airtight container at this point if you're not making them up straight away.
Now make the marshmallow filling: Whisk the egg whites, sugar, cream and cream of tartar.
Place the bowl over a saucepan of simmering water and whisk until the mixture has turned thick and glossy – almost like a mousse; this took ages by which I mean about 20 minutes! It should stand in peaks.
Stir in the chopped marshmallows and whisk until they have melted and mixed in.
Remove from the heat.
Match up the biscuits in pairs as best you can – they will all be different sizes and shapes.
Sandwich using a generous teaspoon of the marshmallow filling.
Put to one side for 30 minutes or more, until the marshmallow filling has set.
Now make the chocolate glaze: break the chocolate into chunks and melt with the butter, either using the bain marie method (i.e. in a bowl over a pan of simmering water) or microwaving. I've really come around to microwaving chocolate as I feel I have more control over it.
Stir in the cream.
Leave to cool and firm up a bit before spooning it over the sandwiched biscuits.
Decorate with crushed flake or other chocolate sprinkles.
Leave to set.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, February 23, 2007
A Sleeping Giant Awakes
While Pepsi stayed the course with its Sociables series of ads, Coke, which was running photographic ads that year, suddenly commissioned a dozen illustrations by a relative newcomer, Jack Potter, whose style could certainly be described as 'avante garde' for the time. Not only did Coke leap into the abyss - but they chose to run these ads on the high profile and expensive back covers of major magazines like Life, Look and The Saturday Evening Post.
Imagine what this commission must have meant for the 30-year old Potter! Though he had relatively little published work at that point, he was about to be the visual representative for a major national ad campaign lasting an entire year and occupying some of the most prestigious media real estate in the country. I have to wonder what other, better established illustrators of the day must have thought of this...
And perhaps more importantly, what did Pepsi think of Coke's full-bore assault on the brand's carefully nurtured marketing strategy? Was Coke's year-long experiment the catalyst that pushed Pepsi into 'modernizing' its visual presentation?
If yesterday's examples from 1959 represent a stylistic shift in approach then this series of ads (below), which Pepsi also ran during that year, suggest that the company was indeed casting about for a new identity. The style and design (if not the subject matter) are really quite a dramatic departure from what had been a solid, steady and long-running brand identity.
Illustrated by Roy Besser, this series strike me as having been designed to appeal to the same demographic that was seeking out the just-that-year released Barbie doll.
Why did Pepsi run these ads in mainstream magazines like The Saturday Evening Post? They feel like they'd have been more appropriate for the readership of Seventeen magazine...
In 1960, Pepsi returned to the tried and true look that had been its hallmark throughout the 50's. The Sociables were dating again!
Yes, they were socializing with others -- but clearly they had eyes only for each other. The focus was on the couple while everyone else remained in the middle distance.
In an odd bit of brand continuity, each ad seems to have required the illustrator to include a powerful red motif as an element of clothing on the beautiful woman which, in my opinion, would have had the viewer subconciously thinking about drinking... a Coke!
Whatever the case, the point becomes moot after 1960. Like so many other advertisers, both Pepsi and Coke shifted their focus to photography. With the exception of Haddon Sundblom's Coca-Cola Santa Claus, relatively little illustration was used by either company from then on. The Sociables quietly faded away.
All of today's images have been added to my Beverages Flickr set.
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Love these illustrations! Thanks!ReplyDelete
What a great series, Leif...and your commentary/analysis added so much! I truly enjoyed this week--thank you!ReplyDelete
Finally got time to catch up here with "The Sociables" and coke vs. pepsi girl...ReplyDelete
Great stuff, Leif--the images and your commentary both!
I'll be directing some of my students here, too. Sadly, they won't be a class of smart young design students---oh how I wish I taught a class like that!
No, they will be from the freshman comp course I carry every semester as per my contract. I emphasize writing about visual culture, so the old analyze-an-ad-essay is standard. And usually it helps to postdate it a few decades: the semiotic cues of the past seem more obvious to them and help erase their blindness toward their own world.
And maybe they'll pick up style, taste and a sharp aethestic eye by osmosis...
Thanks so much for your comments, guys! It means a lot to me to know you're enjoying this stuff. :-)ReplyDelete
professor estevez, I'm very flattered that you find so much merit in my humble blog. Thank you for the great compliment... You made my day!
I represented Roy Besser in arranging a three city tour of his original paintings in Japan, but they wanted his newer Nagel style paintings. I felt his previous work with Pepsi, the Saturday Evening Post, and other leading magazines was superior. The Japanese show was a great success, but it got him going in a wrong direction, in my opinion. I probably have about 15 to 20 of his earlier original works from the 50's and the 60's, including a Pepsi piece. For me, these earlier works were his best works. For me Roy Besser's works were similar to Rockwell's, but with a gritty, sophisticated quality, instead of a wholesome Americana.ReplyDelete
I DO like these Coke ads, but looking through the lens of time, the Pepsi ads amuse me far more...ReplyDelete


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I actually considered leaving this blog. After so many years. Yes.
Then I read someone else's blog. Some random person I met. She really put herself out there and it inspired me. I remembered how much more I enjoy reading my own blog posts in retrospect, so much more than any journal I've kept. My journals have been so depressing and self indulgent. Yeah, this is a better idea.
I do however think my writing skills have gone to hell recently. But I'll try here and see what happens.
So, I've moved AGAIN. This place is way more pleasant than other places I've lived in the past couple of years. It's huge. It's mine. It's spare in furnishings. In a couple of months I will be enjoying a wood burning fireplace which seems almost too good to be true. I have outdoor space.
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