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Black gospel singing at its best is transcendent--a striking contrast to the travails of African-Americans--and the Nashville-based Fairfield Four (in fact, five) are among the most uplifting voices to be heard today. With a lineage running back to the 1920s, the Fairfield Four have become the backup singers du jour in the '90s. They have recorded and performed with such artists as John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, and Lyle Lovett. I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray plays that trump card, albeit subtly: Costello performs his song "That Day Is Done" (which he co-wrote with Paul McCartney) with the Four on this disc, and wrote liner notes. Pam Tillis sings a song as well, and Garrison Keillor gives a recitation on another track.
Avoiding the star-studded album of guest duets was an artistically wise move, because it's the Four's own talents that take this collection to the heavens. Significantly, the only two tracks here that aren't performed a cappella are the ones with Tillis and Costello, where an accompanying piano probably helps keep the pop artists on key. Tillis rips her way through "Get Away Jordan," but for all her vocal finesse, there's a certain something you hear in the Fairfield Four behind her--soul? seasoning? grace?--that Tillis' obvious singing talents can't match. Costello may have less of a voice, but what counts is the gracefully emotive reading he gives "That Day," making it a special moment.
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India gold imports touched $60 billion, of which $15-20 billion was due to high inflation as people use the precious metal as a hedge against inflation.
NEW DELHI(BullionStreet): A completed ban on gold imports is not possible in India as it will make way for wide scale gold smuggling, said a top Indian official.
According to C Rangarajan, Chairman of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC), banning gold imports will push up its smuggling and stated that there are already indications that illegal shipments of the precious metal have gone up in the last three months.
"I believe gold imports will come down when inflation goes down," he added while addressing a function. Rangarajan said he has been told by Revenue Department officials that the seizures of smuggled gold have gone up in the recent past.
India, world's largest gold consumer, imported 969 tons of gold last year. In the same event, Reserve Bank Governor D Subbarao reiterated his concerns over rising gold imports and cited its pressure on current account deficit.
He, however, said, "RBI has not put any new restriction on gold imports. Our announcement to stop lending for gold purchase was a reiteration of decades-old decision."
Rangarajan said that last year, gold imports touched $60 billion, of which $15-20 billion was due to high inflation as people use the precious metal as a hedge against inflation.
RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn had recently called for dematerilisation of the metal to discourage its physical possession, hoping that this move will trim imports.
Traditionally, India has been the world's largest consumer and importer of gold. Last year, imports was to the tune of 969 tonnes.
However, doubling of the excise duty to 4 per cent in the last budget and the curbs that RBI imposed on gold loan value (down from 85-90 per cent of the value of jewellery to 60 per cent) and banning banks from funding gold purchase by loan companies have led to drop in imports.
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Over the past week or so, I've been struck repeatedly by the fact that cars have an extraordinary power to move people. It's the emotional impact of a car that I'm talking about, not its physical one. A car with a strong enough brand, and a clever enough designer behind the wheel, can take a person to places that horsepower alone can never reach.
In the beginning, there was the Aston Martin. We borrowed a Vanquish Volante in bright racing red for the weekend and were astounded as we were transformed Cinderella-style from our scruffpot selves into a sleek, sexy couple in sports mode. It sounded like a tiger, drove like a dream, and everyone we passed stopped and stared as we swooshed past. It was at once embarrassing and fabulous, a feeling that can be yours for just £200,000.
The Vanquish experience made me think about design and how the feeling of a car can be extended, or not, into other products. "I want an Aston Martin office chair," my boyfriend said at one point, a little overexcited. Also the Aston Martin desk, sofa, jacket, the coffee pot, the works. But did we really? Aston Martin doesn't make office chairs, and hopefully it won't ever feel the need. But it does have a Lifestyle Collection including product collaborations such as silverware by Grant Macdonald, and a lounger by Formitalia. Several other car marques, from Mini to Ferrari do the same. The problem? Fine craftsmanship, advanced engineering, sleek good looks and valuable materials aside, great design can make you feel wonderful, but even when created by the best in the business the end results rarely appear more than mere merchandise – nothing beats driving the super car itself.
It was with Ron Arad last week at Art Basel in Miami that I witnessed a more creative alternative. Brand extension products are not the only way a car marque can capitalise on its products' emotional impact. The designer was presenting one of his projects at an exhibition entitled PISTON HEAD: Artists Engage the Automobile. For the show, on the top floor of Herzog & de Meuron's incredible car park, a selection of classic cars had been reinterpreted by a distinguished group of artists including Arad, Bruce High Quality Foundation, César, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Kenny Scharf and others. Not a million miles away from BMW's Art Cars series, the collection included many a make and model of transformed four-wheeled wonders.
Arad's contribution was a squashed Fiat. One of a series of works he has been building with Fiat called Pressed Flowers, the car – far from being scrap – is preserved like its botanical equivalent, huge, fragile, evocative and beautiful. While other artists in the 1960s have attempted the squashed car sculpture in the past, these are fresh, and Arad and his team have experimented with a fantastic array of methods to allow the cars to stay as cars, just flat ones, seen from a new perspective. The best result, incidentally, was achieved using a 500-ton press found in the Netherlands.
"Pressed Flowers 2013", originally shown at the Design Museum in Holon, is soon to be "going home", to a three month-long exhibition at Fiat's Pinacoteca Agnelli, where the cars were first made. The crushed vehicles will surround a curved wooden forming buck, a mould, made by Dante Giacosa and his artisans in 1956, that was used to shape and fit the metal panels of the 500, which is on loan from the Fiat Archive and Museum. They will be joined by "Roddy Giacosa (2013)", a new sculpture created by positioning hundreds of polished stainless steel rods on a metal armature in the shape of a Fiat 500, which is extraordinary to look at, and speaks volumes about materials, construction and the artist at work. It's a project that is certainly very close to Arad's heart. "Doing In Reverse has been a fascinating journey with lots of unknowns, and lots of ups and downs," he says. "We thought the journey was concluded when the show opened in the Museum we designed in Holon. But here is another surprise – the Cinquecento are going home."
The tiny cars have such a hold on those who've ever driven one, and are as much a symbol of Italy as a Ferrari, or an Aston Martin is of Britain. And although the Pressed Flowers are no longer functional vehicles, they are still moving in the emotional sense, possibly more so in this incarnation than they ever were.


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Generally speaking, when Country A's currency is worth more than that of Country B, it does not necessarily mean that Country A's economy is stronger than B's. For example, Japan's economy is regarded as one of the world's strongest, and yet a single Japanese yen exchanges for considerably less than US$1. On the other hand, Cyprus' economy is considerably smaller than the U.S. economy, but Cyprus' currency, which is the pound, exchanges for about twice as much as the U.S. dollar.
The fact of the matter is that looking at a currency's worth relative to that of another currency at a static point in time is meaningless; the best way to judge a currency's worth is to watch it in relation to other currencies over time. Supply and demand, inflation and other economic factors will cause changes to a currency's relative worth, and it is this change in value that can be used to evaluate worth.
For example, let's say that at the beginning of the year, the U.S. dollar was worth 1.75 XYZ dollars (a fictitious currency), and six months later, the U.S. dollar is worth 2.00 XYZ dollars. In this case, the U.S. dollar increased in value over the XYZ dollar by around 14%. This change could be due to XYZ having higher inflation, or to just an overall lower demand for the XYZ dollar.
A currency's purchasing power can also be used as an indicator of the relative worth of currencies. For example, if US$1 can be exchanged for XYZ$1, it would appear that the XYZ dollar is worth as much as the U.S. dollar. However, if the purchasing power of XYZ$1 is equal to only US$0.50, then you can conclude that the U.S. dollar is worth more than the XYZ dollar, because a single U.S. dollar can be used to buy more goods than a single XYZ dollar can.
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The Warc Prize for Innovation was a free to enter global contest to find examples of effective innovation in communications across any marketing discipline. Below, Warc's Editor discusses some key themes that emerged from the Prize.
You can browse entries from the 2012 Prize here.
In innovation circles, it sometimes seems as though nothing succeeds like failure.
"If you don't fail," Debra Sandler, chief consumer officer of Mars Chocolate, told last year's Association of National Advertisers' Creativity conference in the US, "you're not working hard enough".
"Fail fast, fail often," counselled Brainjuicer's John Kearon in the pages of Market Leader ('The death of innovation', Q4 2010).
And in March, Julie Cottineau, the former VP for brand at Virgin USA, told the Brite Conference on Global Branding: "Entrepreneurs realise they are going to have to fail if they're ever going to succeed… Failure is a market condition. It's not a value judgement."
Against this backdrop, Warc's idea of creating a global prize for the most successful case study of innovation in communications might strike you as a provocation.
Occasionally, it is exactly that: when I recently gave a presentation featuring the winning case study (see below), the audience started arguing over the case's merits before I was even halfway through my slides.
One side thought the case in question was too successful to enjoy an enduring impact. The other thought it was too successful not to have had a lasting legacy.
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However, if the 2012 Warc Prize for Innovation – which was free to enter and open to entries from any country, industry category or marketing discipline – aimed to provoke anything, it was a renewed discussion of what innovative communication means today.
What follows is an attempt to summarise some missives back from the frontline of the Warc Prize judging process. Given the number, depth and variety of entries for the prize, it is an attempt which, in the spirit of innovators everywhere, is itself doomed to be, at best, an honourable failure.
First, the facts – and the caveats. The prize, which awarded $10,000 in cash to the winning entry, was launched in October 2011 and closed in March 2012. In total, it attracted 70 entries from 20 countries and 14 industry sectors.
Broadly, entrants staked their claim to be innovative on one of seven grounds:
This is in danger of missing the point. For who else is going to extol a campaign's virtues if not the agency behind it? And what else would an agency submit but its proudest achievement? No-one is likely to enter a blatant case study of marketing failure into a competition any time soon. Even in the most rigorous of awards schemes, false starts, digressions, inconvenient facts and happy accidents are all likely to be edited out or seamlessly incorporated until what remains is a more-or-less forward march towards triumph.
This narrative shaping is essential to the format's blend of storytelling and real-world evidence. Less obviously, case studies also tell us about marketers' current ambitions and omissions, what they find most difficult to define or proof, and how they want to be seen by the wider world.
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For instance, the fact that India was the single biggest source of Warc Prize entries (27) should not lead us to believe it is the most innovative of markets.
But it could lead us to suspect that some Indian agencies are keen to present themselves as among the most innovative practitioners in a way that is not yet a priority among agencies in, for example, China (number of Warc Prize entries from China: two).
The participating Indian agencies also appear to have some of the most supportive clients: P&G, Vodafone and Volkswagen were among the brand owners signing off case study entries from that market. One suspects Indian clients are as keen to be seen as innovators as are their agencies.
Prize entrants were required to submit a written case study of 2,500 to 3,000 words that described their campaign background, chosen insight and strategy, implementation and performance against objectives, as well as defining the innovation and lessons demonstrated by their work.
Of these, the most challenging was the final section. It also carried the most marks (we're no fools).
The word innovate is derived from the combination of two Latin stems, in- ('into') and novus ('new'), which together make up the verb innovare, meaning to renew or change. Of these two etymological strands, most prize entrants stressed the newness element and underplayed the emphasis on introducing change.
But there is a fine line between invention and innovation, and some prize entrants stood on the wrong side of it. An original use of newspapers may be inventive, for instance, but it is not innovative unless it demonstrates that it was also a process for delivering a substantive change to the performance of the brand involved.
Among the 70 prize entries were campaigns which featured a 'talking newspaper' ad to promote Volkswagen, branded rickshaws to market Duracell batteries and the deployment by the Pedigree Dog Adoption drive in New Zealand of technology that scanned pictures of homeless dogs and consumers in the hope of matching unwanted pets to prospective owners with similarly shaped features.
Of this trio of examples, only the Pedigree case can be said to have introduced real change into the relationship between buyer and brand by creating a new way to increase dog ownership. And even this campaign was based on the insight that owners often resembled their dogs – a truth only slightly less whiskery than some of Pedigree's end consumers.
Perhaps the tightest definition of innovation came from this quote in a submission by News International Ltd (TNL) and the agency, VCCP: "Formula One is probably the most effective innovation industry in the world for one simple reason. Speed is the only reason to innovate and any change or intervention which does not result in increased speed is a waste of money and certainly not an innovation."
Few marketers can afford to be as single-minded as this. However, the best prize entries set out both the change they expected their innovation to deliver and the resulting business value they wanted it to create.
For Febreze's 'Breathe Happy' campaign the intention was to correct the misattribution of the brand's advertising and boost its preference scores in a crowded odour elimination category.
For GlaxoSmithKline's Polident 'Kilauan Emas' entry the goal was to increase penetration and sales by introducing a new category (denture adhesives) into an emerging market (Malaysia) using a new platform – namely a branded singing TV talent show for the over-45s, proudly showing how their newly secure dentures boosted their stage confidence.
Intriguingly, although platform-led innovation dominated the total number of entries, this was less true when the entries were trimmed to a long-list of 20. When this was further reduced to a shortlist of the best six cases, there were two examples apiece of platform and audience led innovation, and one each of product and category led innovation.
During the judging, debate ensued about how far innovation should aspire to go. Did entrants need to prove they had contributed to a 'game-changing' innovation, or only to a more incremental benefit? Should the innovation in question only be possible in the highly specific context of one brand or could it be replicable by other brand owners? Could it be short-lived, or did it need a lasting legacy? Did it need to make marketing – or even the wider world – a better place?
The Pedigree Dog Adoption drive matched homeless pets to lookalike would-be owners
There were entries that cleared the highest of these hurdles, such as the 'FARC: Operation Christmas' campaign. This work was based on the novel and effective deployment of giant illuminated trees as media vehicles in the Colombian jungle to attract the attention of hard-bitten FARC insurgents and convince them to lay down their arms. As one prize judge pointed out, it was hard to criticise an initiative aiming to increase world peace. Ultimately, though, it was deemed unfair to judge all brands by such lofty ideals.
Less clear-cut was the issue of whether a campaign could be innovative if it did not satisfy an unmet consumer need. Initially, this seemed a useful criterion with which to sift the strong entries from the weak. Counter-intuitively, however, there were cases that read as convincingly innovative, but were clearly orientated around the needs of the originating business, rather than the consumer.
An example was Dorito's Late Night: World First Entertainment. The business priority here was to reposition Dorito's as an integral part of the in-home late night entertainment rituals of young Britons. It would be hard to claim that this audience suffers from either a shortage of salty snacks or a paucity of online diversions. However, a breakthrough use of iPhone technology and a credible piece of branded content (a music video from UK rapper Professor Green) helped present the brand as a credible provider of entertainment on YouTube and other social media outlets.
Cognisant of such examples, we took a pragmatic line. Entrants needed to demonstrate that innovation was responsible for helping them attain their commercial goal. This innovation didn't have to be game-changing, but it should have created tangible value for the period in question.
Paradoxically, creating such definitions may be necessary, but not sufficient, to fostering genuine innovation. This became apparent as we arrived at our final shortlist of six, which were:
During the whittling down process, we encountered many examples in which consumers' reactions provided the most convincing proof that a genuine innovation had occurred.
Dettol China, for example, explained how in a bid to bring out the brand from 'below the kitchen sink', it created a new miniature spray bottle that Chinese women could put in their handbags as a portable hygiene aid. The communications strategy was built around getting samples to the target audience and encouraging them to spread word of mouth about the product innovation. And the eventual prize winner,
Rom, took this further, showing how consumer reaction could turn a change exercise into a national debate.
Rom, once Romania's favourite chocolate bar brand, was struggling under competition from the likes of Mars. Its owner, the Romanian confectioner Kandia Dulce, opted for a high-risk spoof rebranding. In an attempt to reignite patriotic sentiment, Rom was repackaged as 'American Rom' with stars and stripes packaging and a cover story that it had new US owners.
The resulting public uproar played out across social media, chatshows and flash mobs – all monitored and exploited in real time via PR and digital media. After the spoof was revealed and the familiar Rom restored to consumers, the brand regained its status as the nation's favourite and reversed its sales decline.
If consumer reaction had been muted or even positive towards American Rom, the campaign could have backfired massively. It was the scale, clarity and daring of the Rom campaign that gave it the prize ahead of the runner-up, FARC: Operation Christmas.
By the campaign's conclusion, two-thirds of all Romanians were aware of it. It also provided a vivid demonstration that however lucidly a brand defines a strategy innovation, public participation and support can take it to a whole new level.
However, lest this seems too adulatory a note on which to end a piece about innovation, spare a thought for the author of one entry.
This concerned a Singapore case study about a campaign premised on providing users with the tools to upload videos filmed on their Cisco Flip handheld camera to their Facebook page as a way of building awareness of the Cisco Flip brand.
The narrative pursues a typical trajectory towards triumph until the following passage:
"Conclusion: Flip Your Profile gave the world a new way to shoot and share and in return received millions of free media impressions. The campaign rolled out on 14 February 2011 and lasted for eight weeks.
"Unfortunately, Cisco then decided to shut down its consumer division and that marked the end of Flip video cameras globally."
Proof, if it were needed, that even in the world of case studies, it is still possible to snatch failure from the jaws of success.
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Carlos Grande is the Editor of Warc. He joined the company in 2008 after eight years at the Financial Times, where he was marketing correspondent and, before that, senior UK companies reporter.
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It was the brilliant Francesco Baiano who orchestrated the right-wing move that led to his side's first goal, feeding Stefano Eranio for the cross Deon Burton headed home in the 55th minute. It was the referee, though, who provided the assist four minutes later, albeit without the help of video analysis - a penalty that the Bald Eagle ultimately needed to stay on the FA Cup perch.
Goals: Beech (41) 1-0; Burton (55) 1-1; Dorigo pen (59) 1-2; Stewart (71) 2-2.
Huddersfield Town (4-4-2): Vaesen; Edmondson (Facey, 67), Dyson, Gray, Edwards; Baldry, Johnson, Phillips, Beech; Thornley, Stewart. Substitutes not used: Barnes, Beresford, Hessey, Senior (gk).
Derby County (3-4-1-2): Hoult; Stimac, Carbonari (Powell, 71), Prior; Laursen, Carsley, Eranio, Dorigo; Baiano (Hunt, 86); Sturridge (Harper, 85), Burton. Substitutes not used: Schnoor, Knight (gk).
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Its not too expensive, 500GB hard drive may sound small but it can record quite a lot if u set all 4 cameras to motion detection. i say it may use about 1 to 2 gigs per day in motion detection mode, will last you more than a year.
The nightvison works a lot better than you'd expect, no need for an infrared floodlight. the camera infrared is enough for quite some distance outside.
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Playback feature is a major pain. You can not play all 4 cameras of what happened in a given day by just pressing a few buttons, you have to go into the file search feature and select each file for each camera at a given time. 4 cameras with motion sensing can make hundreds of such files in one day...go
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WinMobile camera APP installs and once started it freezes. i tried everything to get it to work, i cant do anything once i run the ap it freezes as it opens i have the T-mobile Dash 3G(win mobile 6.5) coneted to wifi. So beware im 99% sure this survailance system will not work with this phone, 1% unsure only if theres something i missed in the phone setting but thats unlikely i looked everywhere to get it to work.
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Lo bueno de María es que habla con mucha claridad y seguramente con el tiempo me va a ayudar a suavizar mi acento americano..... para que la gente me entienda mejor!
The reason that I initially selected Maria was based on the fact that she is from Spain and speaks Castilian Spanish. As a child, I used to live in Spain, so I wanted to become reacquainted with Spanish customs and culture.
The thing that I like most about Maria is the fact that my lessons are progressive. My current skillset is assessed, then subsequent lessons are structured to accommodate my desired skill level. In addition, she mixes up the material. On any given day, the material could reference Spanish movies, literature, music, or history, so the material isn't rote and repetitive.
The other thing that I like about Maria is the fact that she is somewhat flexible when it comes to scheduling class. I work full time, and live about 2 hours from class. She is able to accommodate my work schedule.
All in all, I highly recommend Maria as a tutor!
Maria is fun, knowledgeable and helpful. The lessons are enjoyable. I am planning to continue lessons with her for a while!
I had my first lesson with Maria and I was very pleased. I am a fairly fluent Spanish speaker with the goal to refresh my skills. Maria quickly adjusted to my level of learning and guided me to undo a few bad habits and learn new vocabulary, I found it very informative and I really enjoyed Maria's energy and enthusiasm.
My daughter had a huge amount of work to do in a short period of time, Maria has been reliable, efficient, patient, and has done an excellent job teaching the material so that my daughter feels comfortable while learning difficult assignments even within a short time frame. We highly recommend Maria!
Maria is helping my daughter gain a deeper understanding of the Spanish she has learned in high school and is helping her to speak in Spanish with greater ease.
Señora Maria has been an excellent tutor for my son, who is in Middle School. She customizes her lessons to my son's learning needs, and she is kind, patient, and outgoing! Señora Maria is a great tutor for children because she can relate to them and make learning exciting! She makes learning interesting by discussing topics of interest to kids, such as sports and kids' activities! My son has learned so much over the past several months with Señora Maria's help!!! I would definitely recommend her to students of all ages!
My son is so excited and feels like he already understands more than he did during the school year! He struggled during a large class but loved the one on one attention.
I've been working with Maria for about 4 months now and have made a lot of progress in my Spanish comprehension and speaking. She's been very flexible with lesson plans: adjusting what we focus on to my business and my weaknesses in the language. I'd highly recommend her if you have had some Spanish experience and are looking to get back into the language!
I have only had a few lessons with Maria, but am hooked! The lessons are very specialized ranging from good fundamentals in grammar, phrases, culture, etc. to a focus on business terminology and conversation (where more formal phrases, etc. are used).
It was difficult to find a language tutor from Spain with the accent I wanted and I was so lucky to find one in Baltimore!
Maria is excellent and I can't say enough positive things about my lessons.
Maria travelled quite some distance to teach our after-school Spanish program. She was always on time, despite the inconvenient start time and traffic. This was the first time that our school offered such a course and we quickly figured out that the kids this age are pretty worn out by the end of the school day. But Maria hung in there and worked with them even though they were fidgety and distracted. Although it didn't seem like it at the time, the kids learned a lot of vocabulary. They were delighted to receive Spanish names, play bingo and duck-duck-goose with Spanish words. Thanks Maria.
Thank you Ms. China. It was a great challenge, but I really enjoy it, and the kids learned a lot. These kids were amazing! I will miss you niños.
Maria has done a fantastic job tutoring my son. She is very patient with him and creates an enthusiastic atmosphere for him to learn in. He is becoming more comfortable with the language and has been participating in class more often.
I highly recommend Ms. Maria. Classes are personalized and tailored to my specific needs and progress. On the first day, she asked what my expectations are and ways through which I prefer to learn Spanish. I have fun each class, and time flies. Not only do I learn about grammar and pronunciation, but also Spanish culture and cuisine. Ms. Maria connects well with her students. I have no reservations in recommending her.
Maria is a great tutor. She can teach a group with different backgrounds and proficiency levels. Maria has a very balanced approach that includes new vocabulary, grammar, fun exercises, differences between Latin America's Spanish and Spain Spanish. I look forward to every class!
Works well with kids and is very patient! She has a great command of the Spanish language and will certainly help with language comprehension!
As a lifetime teacher I know a good teacher. Maria is always pleasant engaged and prepared. I look forward to every class.
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Muscovado Coffee Cream
|1⁄2 Pint (300 Milliliter Or 1 1/4 Cup)
|Single cream
|1⁄2 Pint (300 Milliliter Or 1 1/4 Cup)
|2 Small
|Egg yolks
|Light muscovado sugar
|30 Milliliter (2 Tablespoon)
|Instant coffee granules
|15 Milliliter (1 Tablespoon)
|Chocolate coffee beans
|18 (For Decoration)
Bring the milk and cream just to the boil in a saucepan.
Do not allow the mixture to boil fully, or it will curdle when you add it to the eggs.
Whisk the eggs, egg yolks, sugar and coffee granules together in a bowl until well blended.
Stir in the hot milk and cream and whisk well.
Strain into six individual dishes.
Place in a roasting tin (pan) containing 1 cm/1/2 in hot water.
Cover the dishes with foil and bake in a preheated oven at 160°C/ 325°F/gas mark 3 for about 40 minutes or until set.
Remove from the tin and leave to cool.
Top each with three chocolate coffee beans, if liked, and wrap in clingfilm (plastic wrap).
Chill until needed.
Recipe Summary
Rate It
Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 161 Calories from Fat 103
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12 g17.9%
Saturated Fat 6.4 g32.1%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 145.7 mg48.6%
Sodium 53.1 mg2.2%
Total Carbohydrates 10 g3.3%
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 7.3 g
Protein 5 g10.1%
Vitamin A 8.7% Vitamin C 0.53%
Calcium 10% Iron 2.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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PHOENIX -- One thing the Washington Nationals do very well is beat the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Gold Glove second baseman Orlando Hudson's two-base throwing error cleared the way for Nook Logan's RBI single in the eighth inning to give the Nationals a 5-4 victory over the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night.
The Nationals franchise is 15-2 against Arizona since the start of the 2004 season, including 5-0 this season. Washington came from behind in all five of those games.
Alfonso Soriano still needs one stolen base to join the exclusive "40-40" club after being thrown out by Arizona's Johnny Estrada trying to steal third in the seventh inning.
"He didn't argue and the third base coach didn't argue," Nationals manager Frank Robinson said. "It was a heck of a throw by Estrada."
Only three players -- Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and Jose Canseco -- have hit at least 40 home runs and stolen 40 bases in a season.
Luis Gonzalez became the oldest player to hit 50 doubles in a season with a shot to the left-center gap off Nationals starter Jason Bergmann leading off the third. Gonzalez is 39 years, 9 days old. The previous oldest major leaguer to hit 50 doubles was Tris Speaker at 38 years, 107 days in 1926.
"To me, it's a nice honor because in my mind I'm still running out there doing it," Gonzalez said. "I want to continue playing, so 50 hopefully is just a start now and gives me something to push for next year and the year after that."
With the score tied at 4-4, Jorge Julio walked Soriano to lead off the seventh, then Felipe Lopez singled to put runners at first and second. Soriano tried to steal on an 0-2 pitch and was called out after a perfect throw by Estrada. It was the 16th time Soriano had been caught stealing this season. Ryan Zimmerman struck out on the play.
In the eighth, Hudson back-handed Brian Schneider's one-out grounder, but his throw sailed over the head of first baseman Conor Jackson's head.
"That's another error I made that cost us a game," Hudson said. "That's probably about the fifth or sixth error I've had that cost us the game. It's another one I've got to take under my belt. We've got to keep going."
Schneider was awarded second, then scored on Logan's single. Logan had a three-RBI game, including a homer, at Colorado on Sunday, but had made a base-running mistake earlier in Tuesday's game.
That made the go-ahead RBI even sweeter.
"Everybody in their bullpen throws pretty hard," Logan said. "When he got behind, I was just looking for something down the middle I could handle and try not to do too much with it."
Felix Rodriguez (1-1) threw a scoreless seventh to get the victory. Chad Cordero pitched the final 1 1/3 innings for his 26th save in 30 opportunities.
Tony Pena (3-4) gave up the unearned run in one inning for the loss.
Stephen Drew tripled in two runs for Arizona in the second on a hit that he thought was a home run. The fly to deep left-center appeared to hit the top of the railing, which would have been a homer, as a fan reached out for the ball. However, the umpires huddled and upheld the ruling as a triple.
Drew scored anyway, coming home on Miguel Batista's sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.
Batista didn't allow a hit until Nick Johnson's two-run homer down the right-field line with one out in the fourth.
Hudson's solo home run off Mike O'Connor put Arizona up 4-2 in the fifth.
The Nationals tied it in the sixth. Johnson led off with a walk, then Austin Kearns singled to put runners at first and third. Vidro's ground out brought Johnson home, then Kearns scored when Batista threw wildly to third after diving to stop Schneider's grounder.
Arizona threatened to break it open early, with runners at first and third with no outs. But Drew popped out to left. Batista tried to put down a bunt, but the ball popped in the air. Rather than catch it, Schneidera allowed the ball drop in front of him, then threw for the force at second. Because Batista didn't run on the play, the Nationals converted it into a double play.
"A great play," Robinson said. "For us, that was the play of the game."
- Soriano threw out Gonzalez at third on a fly out for his 21st outfield assist of the season and second in two nights.
- The Diamondbacks doubled three times to break the club record for most two-base hits in a season with 305. They set the record of 303 last year.
- Hudson has career bests in home runs (13) and RBI (66).


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