text: operating for extended age of machines sparking during the day, percentage of machines periods without human that started and ended the night intervention, managing sparking, and the percentage of machines that started and/or these assets so that they ended the weekend sparking. spend the majority of From your notes, you should be able to make a reasonable esti- time making sparks is the mate of the sparking hours per year for each of your machines. by Roger Kern path to the promised land During my numerous visits to of improved EDM pro- shops large and small, I often Techtips is a collection of observe the majority of the EDMs useful ideas, techniques, and ductivity and profitability. are not sparking at any given procedures designed to further There are 8,760 hours time. If your machines are "only" EDM knowledge. sparking 2,000 hours per year per year available for (and that is a lot for some shops), sparking. How many of it is obvious that there is a huge potential for improvement. those hours are your machines making sparks? While Peak Current, Managing for Please note that I said On-time, in2/hr, and in3/hr are the terms that excite the CNC sparking, not waiting for a program, being set- technician in most of us, it is the often overlooked and EDM up, or waiting for tedious management process that needs to be Productivity the next job! getting the lion's share of our attention, if we want to The "inconvenient If you have a sophisticated maximize the profitability of truth" concerning EDM job costing and reporting system the EDM Department. productivity is, that for that isolates cutting time from set-up time, you can readily The potential for productivity most shops, the greatest determine the situation for your improvement by managing your potential for improving shop. However, an informal ran- EDM assets is enormous, espe- dom survey can be almost as cially when compared to the the throughput of the effective. Daily, take a walk productivity improvement pro- through your EDM Department vided by technology. Let's say EDM Department has lit- that in one shop they increase first thing in the morning, a few tle to do with the cutting times randomly during the day, cutting speed by 25% in an EDM and just before going home at Department that is sparking speeds of the EDM "only" 2,000 hours per year. That night. During each walk-through, machines! Since CNC note if each of your machines is 25% increase in performance is sparking. At the end of two equivalent to adding another 500 EDMs (both wire and weeks, review your notes to production hours. Compare this sinker) are capable of determine the average percent- increase to another shop that, by 12 EDM Today, May/June 2007 Issue managing its assets, increases its Why is the machine machine on the ragged edge). A sparking hours to 4,000 hours per machine sitting for just a short year, doubling its capacity with waiting for an time waiting for a an operator to little or no capital investment. rethread a broken wire, quickly And even at that, the second shop operator? gives up the advantage of that 5% is only operating at less than 50% • Job is finished extra speed obtained by pushing of theoretical capacity. Not only Why aren't there multiple the envelope. Many machines have they doubled their capacity, jobs set up? now have re-threading capabili- but they have also cut their fixed ties, or can proceed to the next CNC EDM's are quite capable costs per hour by 50%. I know of cut or job. Training of operators of having a number of jobs set up a number of shops that purchase and programmers is the key here. on the table with matching elec- and operate a battery of 20 year Many shop owners decline the trodes in the tool changer. Some old "obsolete'' machines, yet suc- invitation for operators to attend shops set the jobs up in the tool cessfully compete against shops factory training. Here is where changer and mount the electrodes with "state-of-the-art" equipment that training would pay off. in a magazine on the table. by running these older machines Scheduling jobs and setups is cru- 120 hours per week. • No operator available cial to the efficient operation of EDM machines. Night jobs need Why is the operator not In this issue, we'll attempt to to be setup at the beginning of the available? uncover opportunities for day, so that, no matter what hap- • Working on other improved productivity by repeat- pens during the day, the job(s) machine(s) edly asking the question "why". will be ready when it's time to go This simple, but very powerful, home. Similarly, weekend burns • Operator is on break method of process improvement (bathroom, coffee, need to be ready to go long theory will lead us to the root lunch) before Friday at 5:00 PM. A num- causes of machine idle time and ber of highly successful shops toward suggested solutions. devote much of the daytime • Operator is out (shift weekday hours to assure that over, weekend, sick, Remember, a machine is evening and weekend hours are holiday, vacation) either sparking or waiting, devoted to unattended so let's begin by asking sparking. It has been my experience that why a given machine most EDM Departments are under- • Slug removal staffed. Since EDMs are capable of isn't sparking? Why doesn't the program long periods of unattended opera- tion, many shops underestimate • Waiting for an operator proceed to next opening? the manpower required to keep An inventive process plan can • Waiting for a job the machines running for extended eliminate the need for off-hours periods. While increased staffing is • Waiting for the set-up to coverage. For example, roughing often considered heresy in today's all the openings in a block during be completed world of cost cutting, in fact, just the night, while leaving the slug such increased staffing can dramat- • Waiting for consumables cut-offs for the following day. ically improve the productivity of • Waiting for maintenance an EDM operation. I know of a • Wire Break production EDM operation with • Waiting for repair Why did the wire break? more than twenty machines with • Wrong wire selected just two operators. Since they can't Let's continue by examining keep up with the loading and each of these topics further by • Inappropriate unloading of parts, yet are required repeatedly asking why, and then technology selection to keep as many machines spark- suggesting possible solutions. Wire breakage can often be ing as possible, they turn down the avoided by proper wire and tech- feedrate overide on all the nology selection (not running the machines! One more operator EDM Today, May/June 2007 Issue 13 would increase the throughput of Why is the set-up good EDM tooling is expensive, the department by a phenomenal but a properly tooled machine 40%, yet that solution was not taking so long? can often do the work of two open for consideration in order to machines, even without a robot. "keep costs down." Additional staffing, whether it is accom- • Blanks or electrodes not plished by more staff, cross-train- properly prepared Why is the machine ing, or flexible scheduling waiting for designed around the process, can Why weren't the blanks substantially improve the bottom prepared? consumables? line. A machine being down solely A missing start hole or because the shop is out of wire Why is the machine improperly ground reference or filters is inexcusable! "Just in edges can spoil the best laid waiting for a job? process plan. time" may be the catch phrase of the day, but the security of hav- ing an extra box of wire, box of • Blanks not ready • Program has errors filters, belt, flush cup, or dielec- • Program not ready Why wasn't the pro- tric fluid is worth far more than Scheduling the flow of jobs gram tested in advance? the cost of a small inventory of through the shop is a topic in these essential items. A weekend itself. However, by utilizing a Complicated programs of burning lost, due to lack of computerized shop scheduling should be tested in advance, consumables, could easily mean system that "backward sched- either with off-line screen simu- $2,400 in lost revenue, in addi- ules" from the delivery date, lation, or when the machine is tion to the havoc it will wreak on based upon the operations that not being used. the EDM Department schedule need to be performed and the and the schedule of subsequent estimated time to complete these • The operator has to study operations. operations, management can plan when a part will need to be the job in the EDM so that programs, If the operator doesn't have a Why is the machine parts, electrodes, and fixtures are clue as to the orientation of the completed by that time. The parts or electrodes or the process down due to lack EDM Department staff needs to sequence, a fifteen minute setup of preventative be apprised of that schedule in can take hours. Communication advance, so that they can proper- can be as elaborate as a process maintenance? ly allocate those jobs to the day, sheet and layout drawing, or as sim- night, and weekend schedule. ple as markings on a print, but There is nothing more frus- This type of management activity there must be effective communica- trating than having a hot job is tedious, but not rocket sci- tion between all parties. In addition, ready to go into the machine at ence. Someone needs to be if the EDM staff is apprised of the 5:00 PM on a Friday evening, responsible for seeing to it that schedule for the machines in only to find that suddenly the the parts, electrodes, programs, advance, much of the preparation wire won't thread because the fixtures, and drawings arrive at can be completed in advance. threader needs cleaning. Most the EDM Department not only maintenance items are pre- on time, but as a completed dictable, and scheduling regular package. • The tooling is inadequate preventative maintenance, so that it doesn't interfere with pro- A high quality tooling pack- duction, can significantly con- age with enough components to tribute to improved productivity. allow multiple jobs to be pre-set off the machine, is essential to minimize set-up times. Certainly 14 EDM Today, May/June 2007 Issue Why is the machine still waiting for repairs? Unexpected breakdowns, while rare, are an unpleasant fact of life. How we respond to them can make the differ- ence between a day of downtime and a week of downtime. Immediate and persistent contact with the OEM service and parts departments, combined with timely parts orders and utilization of premium transportation, can minimize non- sparking time due to breakdowns. It also helps immeasur- ably if someone on staff has a basic knowledge of electrici- ty and electronics to communicate problems to the factory and carry out the suggested diagnostics. What about robots? You may have noted that I haven't advocated the use of robots in this exercise. While, at some point, a robot is an essential ingredient to utilizing the majority of the 8,760 hours available for production each year, it takes a highly sophisticated management system to actually achieve the potential productivity a robot can provide. Unless and until your company can implement management practices that get you to the 4,000 hour production level, your manage- ment system will most likely be inadequate to even consid- er integrating a robot into your EDM production system. Summary The marginal cost of each additional unattended spark- ing hour for an EDM machine is minimal compared to the additional revenue generated. The combination of cutting performance improvement, and the application of sound management practices to substantially increase unattended hours will pay substantial dividends to those shops willing to take on the challenge. Any suggestions for future topics are welcome. Tell us what you would like to read about. firstname.lastname@example.com EDM Today, May/June 2007 Issue 15


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The propagation models for path loss may give different results if they are used in different environment other than in which they were designed. In this paper, the authors review of compare the different path loss empirical propagation models with measured field data. For comparative analysis they use the long distance path loss model, Stanford University Interim (SUI) Model, Hata model, Okumura's Model, COST231 Extension to Hata Model and ECC-33 model The field measurement data is taken in urban (high density region), sub urban (medium density region) and rural (low density region) environments at 900 MHz & 1800 MHz frequency with the help of spectrum analyzer.
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Sunday, March 31st, 2013Improved Syntax Highlighting and Theming Support
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013If you grab the latest from SVN, RSyntaxTextArea has improved theming support. First, RSTA supports the following new token styles:
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Note that all of these are related to markup languages, such as XML, HTML, JSP and PHP. Previously, the lexers for each of these languages identified and colorized all of these constructs, but re-used token styles for other token types when rendering them. For example, entity references were previously rendered using the "variable" token style. This wasn't optimal, as it meant that theme designers had to be aware of this token-style re-use when creating custom Themes, if they wanted their Themes to be as pretty as possible. Not so any longer!
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Remember back in the day when Kanye was actually, you know, humble(r). For instance, Last Call, in which he recounted his rise to fame. Like that 'Ye classic Mike Posner's latest, Toast, shares the same starting line "I would like to propose a Toast", as well as its genuine and nostalgic feeling (what the hell happened, Kanye?). In a handwritten note, Posner dedicates his new record to anyone chasing his or her dreams, because that's exactly what he is still doing. In addition to his distinct vocals, the RCA signee is joined behind the boards by MdL and Black Bear, who together craft an ideally-suited beat to compliment Posner's breezy style and hammer home the song's feel-good vibe. Like last month's OshFest, Toast is not attached to anything larger, but with two quality releases in such close proximity, I'd say he has something in the works.
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MarshmallowTuesday, March 14, 2006
Brachs Bunny Basket EggsCandy is a microcosm of society and existence. I know this because there are certain candies that indicate the presence of the divine in every scrumptious bite. Then there is evidence of evil on this planet. The Easter "marshmallow egg" is one of the latter candies. This candy has promise on the outside, as all temptresses do. It's big, so of course it's appealing to any foolish child who hasn't learned that "bigger is not always better." What's more, it is an evil that has no name. Really, what are these things called? If I say marshmallow egg, you might thing of the satisfying marshmallow half-hemispheres that are drenched in chocolate this time of year. Or even something that resembles an Easter-themed Circus Peanut. Brachs has chosen to call their version of these Bunny Basket Eggs. I will hereafter refer to them as BBBE, which when pronounced as an acronym (as all good acronyms should be) it will sound like a stuttered bee-bee or a very cold person trying to say 'bean.' Part of their temptation lies in their beguiling size, which is made up entirely of sugar with a dash of artificial color and carnauba wax. That's a Starburst Jelly bean there; it's no match for the Mastodon known as a Brachs Bunny Basket Egg. I hope you understand that Brachs probably makes the finest BBBEs there are. They're generous with the color and they're even flavored. The green ones are lime and orange ones are orange. I can't tell you what the rest are. Please don't make me eat more of them. If you haven't already guessed, these are horrid candies. It's not like I'm against eating pure sugar, I have in fact indulged in full spoonfuls of honey or brown sugar as a treat quite often. The shell of a BBBE is similar to a jelly bean. It's a rather grainy sugar coating that's smooth on the outside and lightly flavored. The center of a BBBE is a fluffy, grainy sugar that really isn't like marshmallow, but I call it that because the ingredients mention gelatin and corn starch. I don't think BBBEs can be made and delivered fresh, not to mention the fact that few people eat them right out of a pristine bag. They're intended to sit in amongst the pastel cello grass of an Easter basket until all the other choice candies are consumed and a desperate sugar-toothed child is force to eat it. Then the last thing this child remembers of his Easter experience is this deplorable egg. The smell of these inside the bag is like a mess of flavored lipsticks or a bad candle shop. A combination of fake fruit flavors and of course airborne microfine sugar which is intent on giving you that satisfying sweet feeling on your tongue before you even eat one. I realize that this candy has its champions, and that by no means makes you minions of evil. I can only surmise that the experience of eating these foul little fingers of pure sucrose is inextricably tied to a pleasant experience and these help you relive a little of it. If that's the reason, then I completely support their continued, but limited, production as a therapy device. If you would like to read someone who might share your unending love of these, you might want to pick up Hilary Lifton's memoir called Candy and Me: A Love Story (you can preview the chapter online). I honestly did try to like these. I never cared for them as a child, but I did buy them, make them look pretty in the photos (they are actually very pretty) and of course ate TWO! That's why they get a rating of two instead of one. (You may now commence in the comments section telling me how wrong I am.) Related Candies
Monday, March 6, 2006
2006 Independent Food AwardsAs part of this year's Independent Food Festival and Awards sponsored by tasteEverything, I've been tapped as a jurist to give out an award for excellence in food. (You know it's gonna be candy.) I decided after my mind-blowing experience touring candy factories in the Bay Area last December that it had to be something that really helped me to immerse myself in the true source of chocolate. My 2006 Winner of the Independent Food Awards is The Best Things to Stick to your Marshmallow: Scharffen Berger Chocolate Covered Cacao Nibs. Cacao nibs are roasted cocoa beans, what all chocolate is made from. Scharffen Berger then pan coats them with 62% cacao semisweet chocolate. They're complexly flavored little buggers, about the size of rice crispies - they're crunchy, sometimes fibery, sometimes buttery and nutty ... always a surprise. Some flavors are like wine, raisins, coconut, coffee, oak, banana, apricot, sweet almond, grapefruit, cherry, cinnamon, clove ... I could go on and on. They're like a blank canvas and a symphony all at once. They take over the senses and make you forget your train of thought. The coolest part is that each little morsel is independent of the others - it might have come from a different tree, might have been harvested weeks before or after its buddies in the tube. Eat one and get a sense of the particular, eat a palmful and travel the world. So, what do you do with these besides just eat them like candy? You can bake with them, as I saw at Tartine in San Francisco, where you can get Rochers (like soft meringues) made with cacao nibs.
But I'm not really a baker. You can't just serve an olive boat of these morsels to guests. Then oddly enough the answer came to me in the mail the same week. I was reviewing Plush Puffs, flavored, handmade marshmallows. With proximity being the mother of invetion, I tried putting things on my marshmallow. Actually, I tried mashing my marshmallow into things. Now, given that I have the title of jurist, it was incumbent upon me to evaluate at least several other marsh-mashables. So I ordered up more Scharffen Berger Cacao Nibs and a full array of Plush Puffs (Orange-Honey, Sam's Sour Lemon, Maple Pecan and Vanilla Bean) and scoured my kitchen and a few stores for some options. In the interests of trying to find the perfect thing to mash into my marshmallows, I pulled a few things out of the cupboard and ordered some others off of Chocosphere. Here are the results: The definition of pure confection heaven has to be Orange-Honey Plush Puffs with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Covered Cacao Beans. This is the standard by which all other mashmallow-ables will be judged. (Really, why did I go on, how much better could I expect things to get?) My second favorite thing to mash into my marshmallows has to be these Valrhona Chocolate Covered Orange Peels (Equinoxe Noir des d'ecorces d'oranges confites). They're tiny pieces of lightly candied orange peel pan coated with 66% cacao dark chocolate. Smooth, sweet, crisp and with a great zesty orange taste. At $4.00 for 1.8 ounces, they're even more expensive than the Scharffen Berger Cacao Nibs, but as a little dash mixed in with the Cacao Nibs, it's a welcome little burst of citrus energy. They go really well with both the Vanilla Bean and Maple Pecan ones but unlike the cacao nibs, they don't work with everything. It wouldn't be fair of me to evaluate chocolate covered cacao nibs without trying out the naked ones. So I selected the Dagoba Cacao Nibs, which are also organic. The pieces are less consistent in size and shape than the chocolate covered brethren. They have a wild, alcoholic aroma. Smoky and woodsy to the nose, they provide a huge burst of flavor when eaten on their own but they're also incredibly acidic and sometimes acrid, astringent and puckeringly dry. When pressed into the Vanilla Bean marshmallow, the sweetness and blankness allows the subtle cacao notes to shine while moderating the overt acidity. With the success of the malted rice krispies squares, I thought I'd just go with the source materials. This wasn't as pleasant. The malted milk powder is a bit salty and of course dry. The milk powder, I think, is part of the issue. Milk doesn't really belong with marshmallow. In fact, it turns out that I don't really care for the flavor of powdered milk. I love molasses and my favorite sugar is Billington's Muscovado. It's got a sort of whiskey aroma to it, a complexity that you won't find in refined sugars. I like to let it dry out in chunk and eat it that way. It doesn't really stick to the marshmallows very well, and frankly, it makes it too sweet. As a final confirmation about the Chocolate Covered Cacao Nibs, I brought the array of my top contenders to an Oscars (tm) viewing party Sunday night. At the end of the night the marshmallows were nearly gone and so were the CCCN while the plain nibs were largely untouched. On top of that, people were pleased with the fun combination of flavors. (And as a capper we got to taste some new regionally-sourced chocolate ice creams. Yum!) There is one other company that I know of that makes chocolate covered cacao beans, called SweetRiot. I haven't tried them yet, but I imagine they too are awesome. If you've stumbled across this posting without first visiting the tasteEverything, have a look at all the other incredible finds from around the globe. Related CandiesPOSTED BY Cybele AT 10:47 pm Candy • Mash Up • Recipes • Scharffen Berger • Chocolate • Marshmallow • Nibs • United States • News • Comments (2) Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Littlejohn Caramel MarshmallowsI think it might be marshmallow day here at CandyBlog.net. Last week I was at the Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax to meet up with some other bloggers and I knew I had to stop at Littlejohn's Candies because a reader told me they had the best toffee. Of course once I got there my eyes were drawn to these plump caramel kisses - soft caramel drenching a puffy marshmallow. I completely forgot about the toffee. So, I got two, one in chocolate and one in vanilla. (And a pecan praline which was divine and I ate before I could take a photo of it.) I figured I can always go back for more toffee ... and another pecan praline. Once I opened the wrapper it was obvious that these caramels were made with lots and lots of butter. They were creamy, very smooth and exceptionally sweet with a slight hit of salt to it. The marshmallow center was smooth and light without being too foamy. The center also wasn't very sweet, so it gave a nice backdrop to let the caramel dominate the flavor stage. The chocolate caramel wasn't as tasty to me, there wasn't enough chocolate to set it apart from the regular caramel and I plan on sticking to the vanilla in the future. These are messy candies. They stuck to the cellophane wrapper and to my fingers as I held it. They're too big to put in your mouth all at once (about the size of a squashed golf ball), so eating them posed a challenge. I ended up with sticky fingers. In the future I think I'll leave them in the cello and scrape them off with my teeth. Since the Farmers Market and the adjacent Grove shopping center are such a tourist destination in Los Angeles, if you do come to the city be sure to seek this place out for something a little different from the tourist fudge that you find at many places. (Though they certainly have fudge.) It's a classic, working farmers market and they actually make the candy right there with big plate glass windows so you can learn all of their sugary secrets.
Dark Chocolate Rocky RoadThere are a couple of other iterations of the famous red foil Rocky Road. One is Mint, which I found only recently but was in such bad condition, I could hardly give it a fair review. The second is this one, which I found at the Rite-Aid which is Dark Chocolate. This bar comes in a pleasant, lightly gold-tinted wrapper. I've decided that all Rocky Road bars are dented and cracked as a consequence of the scant packaging. No matter, it doesn't seem to affect the taste at all. This bar doesn't smell quite as chocolately as the milk chocolate one does, but does have a very sweet aroma. The marshmallow is thick and foamy, but not very moist. It has some good give to it without being too rubbery and a not-too-fake vanilla taste to it. There's very little contribution from the cashews in the chocolate coating except for some texture. I think the bar might be better served without them, but then I'd probably notice that the quality of the coating chocolate isn't really that good. Overall, I liked it quite a bit better than the traditional milk Rocky Road, but its rarity is an impediment to purchasing it again. I've been in plenty of Rite-Aids in Los Angeles and this is the first time I've seen this there and it's not good enough for me to keep going back to that particular Rite-Aid (Santa Monica Blvd. & La Brea).
Friday, December 9, 2005
Artisan Marshmallows: Plush PuffsName: Plush Puffs Assortment Yes, artisanal marshmallows. And why not? The stuff we've been getting from Kraft are not what marshmallows are capable of. And those things that you find in cereal? Please, let's not even grace them with the name marshmallow. They're not even marshy! I was sent a generous sample pack from Ann of Plush Puffs, which is based here in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks, to be exact). The weird thing is that until I started Candy Blog, I didn't really think much of marshmallows. Besides the See's Scotchmallows, there were very few marshmallow things that I would even try. Peeps were never on the menu, but I have been known to toast marshmallows, if only because they're the only grillable dessert I know. Instead of just plain marshmallows, Plush Puffs are flavored with intense combinations of spice, nuts and/or fruit essences: Caramel Swirl - I think I'd rename this one to "sticky toffee" because it had a nice carmelized sugar note to it and it was sticky. It was very sweet and had a little bit of caramelly fudge topping on it. Chocolate Chipetta - this is the only one that doesn't feel "sweet" to me. It's rich and toasty tasting with a good chocolate hit. One of my top three flavors. Maple Pecan - holy moly! These were really good. The maple flavor wasn't artificial or chemically like some candies can be. It was a good sweet woodsy backdrop to the sweet, chewy foam. It had almost a toffee-like flavor and I even had a few pecans in mine. Peppi-Mint - it's like a fluffy candy cane! Seriously minty, like someone's made a foam Altoid or something. The color and texture looks more like a cake than a marshmallow but the intense flavor made me want to eat both but I settled for doing a mash-up with the Chocolate Chipetta which was really good. One of my top three flavors. Toasted Coconut - this one smelled divine and tasted just a good. I love coconut and I love the nutty smell that reminds me of the beach and all the kids that could tan wearing that coconut oil suntan lotion. One of my top three flavors. Sydney's Cinnamon - this was not my favorite, though I had high hopes for it. It's definitely cinnamonny, but it also has cinnamon oil, which gives it more of a candy hit than a spiciness (like eating a cinnamon hard candy). But where this puff really showed itself was in the toasting. (see below) Vanilla Bean - I know, vanilla, kind of bland. It wasn't really bland, a little salty and it just didn't wow me. I think this would be good with something else, like maybe over pie or toasted or in s'mores. Sam's Sour Lemon - these had a gorgeous zesty lemon smell and pretty creamy and vivid yellow swirls in them. Calling them "sour" lemon doesn't work at all for me (in fact, I would call them "zesty" lemon instead) but the flavor is really nice and mellow. I also didn't care much for the mix of textures wtih the crunchy lemon sugar but it's not a dealbreaker or anything. There's one more flavor on their list that for some reason I didn't get in my grab bag, which is the one that sadly interested me most - Orange Honey. The honey flavor is not that noticeable in the other Plush Puffs but is one of the things that I've always found so intense about the See's Scotchmallows. (I guess I'll have to place an order.) Per the recommendation of Ann at Plush Puffs, I tried some in my tea and of course toasted some of Sydney's cinnamon: I brewed a cup of Revolution Lavender Earl Grey tea and and dropped in about a quarter of a puff (I didn't want to overload). As I took the photos I noticed the marshmallow dissolving into a beautiful aromatic foam. I enjoyed the combination of flavors, the creaminess of the marshmallow, the interaction of the botanicals of bergamot, lemon and lavender was really nice. And of course the sweetness of the puff was a nice change from my usually naked tea. Even after I'd slurped off the foamy dissolved puffiness there was still a nice lingering sweetness and lemony flavor. Definitely a cool way to decorate an ordinary after-dinner or afternoon tea. I still prefer my naked tea, because that's just the way I am. The drink marshmallows were invented for, of course, is hot chocolate. I got some amazing Mayan Hot Chocolate mix from Xocoatl from my sister-in-law at Thanksgiving which I made here at the office with some milk in the microwave. In went a half of a Sydney's Cinnamon. Instead of dissolving in a bubbly foam and spreading across the surface like the lemon one in the tea did, this one hung together really well. But once I tried poking it with a spoon it melted completely. I scooped it up like some sort of dessert soup with some of the hot chocolate and enjoyed that until all I had left was my cocoa broth. The spice of the cinnamon went really well with the Mayan chocolate which already had a hit of spices in it. I kept a few of the Sydney's Cinnamon aside for toasting. I loaded one up on a carving fork because I know that a single prong really doesn't do very well with a marshmallow. I put it over the open flame on the gas burner on my stove and it carmelized so beautifully and left the house smelling so good, I think I'll just start toasting these like incense. Here's a tip about toasting them. They're huge. They're actually too big to toast whole. There's no way to get a fully molten center (I do not like medium rare toasted marshmallows) with a marshmallow this size. What is so intense about these is that they melt even at moderate heat, which turns them into this molten, intense foamy sauce with a crispy carmelized shell. In the future I think I'll slice them in half and then have a greater surface area to center ratio. I've been looking for a summer dessert to have after grilling and this just might be the thing. Everyone can choose their own flavor and I think it'd be really cool to make some grown-up s'mores and drinks with them. They don't quite fit into the "candy" family for me for some reason. They feel more like food, maybe that's because they're so satisfying and slightly saltier (more savory) than an ordinary marshmallow. I should go back and add them to the gift guide, especially since they have baskets where you can choose the selection of flavors. Also, if you're dubious about them, you can try their "scraps" which are not quite perfect marshmallows. I love factory stores. Overall this is the kind of thing I'd like to offer guests at a party and I can see myself ordering them for a summer grill or maybe part of dessert a holiday cocktail party. I don't see myself just ordering them to eat, maybe it's because they feel kind of precious being handmade and all, I just can bring myself to just wolf them down like so many handfuls of M&Ms or Skittles. Rating - 8 out of 10 POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:31 am Candy • Los Angeles • Review • Caramel • Chocolate • Coconut • Marshmallow • Mints • Nuts • 8-Tasty • United States • Comments (10) Monday, October 31, 2005
See's ScotchmallowName: Scotchmallow I've mentioned the See's Scotchmallow a few times as being the epitome of fine marshmallowyness. So I figured I should probably detail it for folks who have never had one. First, there are two kinds. There's the one you can buy pre-packaged like a candy bar, pictured above. It's 1.5 ounces and clocking in at 113 calories per ounce, for a chocolate treat, it's pretty low on the calories per ounce. I'll credit the marshmallow for that. The second kind is the little round one that you can get at the counter by the piece or in the mixed boxes (comes in both the standard mix and the nuts & chews). Not only is it smaller, but it is also cloaked in semi-sweet chocolate, not milk chocolate as the bar is. Second, See's makes one of the best caramels available in stores. What is it about them? I think it's that they actually have carmelized sugar in them. Caramels are rather time consuming and though the ingredients are simple (sugar, corn syrup, milk and butter), they need to be boiled slowly and brought up to temperature. If you don't boil it long enough or to the right temp, you end up with gooey caramel without much flavor. If you go too long, you get toffee (which is good in its own right). Basically, a good caramel is a chewy toffee. The marshmallow though, is what makes this candy special. And the best thing about the marshmallow is that it has a flavor. It's not just foamy, gelatinized sugar and egg whites. It has a wonderfully rounded flavor of honey in it which sets off the toasty taste of the caramel and sweet creaminess of the chocolate. Often I'll eat off the chocolate and caramel and just be left with a honey of a marshmallow heap. Ahhhhh! (I wish the just sold the marshmallows, maybe they have a version of a Peep I should look out for at Easter.) Third, they're great quality. They use real ingredients (except for vanillin) and they're not that expensive. I prefer See's far and away over Godiva as boxed chocolates from the mall go. Though they're antiseptic stores, which resemble the school nurse's office more than a candy shop, they're a plain old hoot. And when you go into the store, whether you buy something or not, they give you a free sample. (I had a raspberry truffle when I was there on Saturday.) Stores are found only in the West and Midwest, but you can always mail order. Rating - 9 out of 10 Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:39 pm Candy • Review • See's • Caramel • Chocolate • Marshmallow • 9-Yummy • United States • Comments (14) Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Rocky RoadName: Rocky Road I know it seems odd that I've never had a Rocky Road bar before, but I've never been much of a marshmallow fan. To me the best thing about marshmallows is that they're a dessert you can make on the grill. If marshmallows disappeared from the earth, I'd probably only lament the loss of Rice Krispies treats. But, I thought it was high time I gave it a try - after all, how did I know I wouldn't like it? First, the package is just fantabulous. It's flashy red mylar and the lettering is bold and you can spot it easily from 20 feet. No wonder, it's a big bar. At 1.8 ounces and the size of a tree limb, it's a sizeable purchase for 75 cents. The bar is rather unappealing when pulled out of the package, but really, when you look at most candy analytically it's unattractive. I first pulled the bar apart for the photo and the sugary smell is just fantastic. It's like putting your head into a box of Count Chocula. The marshmallow isn't overly sweet, but it's foamy and has a good rubbery pull to it. The chocolate coating though is very sweet and the cashews are rather hard to discern. The mixture of textures is the real treat in this bar, with a real focus on the marshmallow, the light airyness of the bar sets it apart from just about everything out there. I hardly feel like I've eaten almost two ounces. It still hasn't changed my mind about marshmallow in general, but I can see why it's such an enduring favorite. Rating - 6 out of 10 POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:00 am Candy • Review • Annabelle's • Chocolate • Marshmallow • 6-Tempting • United States • Comments (12) Tuesday, August 30, 2005
The Mysterious Cup-O-White GoldName: Peppermint Cup-O-Gold This candy cup has left me mystified. Is it really from Adams-Brooks? They don't mention it on their website ... no one mentions it on their website on any of the internets. Have I stumbled across an inter-dimensional 99 cent store that sells candy unknown to us here? Why is it called Cup-o-Gold anyway? The center is clearly white. The package is silver ... these things trouble me. But not enough to keep me from eating it. Like the original Cup-O-Gold, this milk chocolate cup sports toasted coconut and almond bits in the chocolate. The ratio of chocolate to the filling is a little off. Upon my first small bite (not pictured), I didn't hit filling, just chocolate. The second bite, which was sizeable (like the photo) didn't hit filling. Finally on the fourth bite which by now meant half the cup was gone, I hit a small hidden cavity of filling. Instead of a light, frothy filling like the Cup-O-Gold, this one was a little tacky, a little stiff. The mint was barely perceptible. I bought this thinking it'd be like a milk chocolate Junior Mint - a gooey minty cream center. Alas, the coconut competes too much with the scant mint. If there were less chocolate and more filling, perhaps it wouldn't seem so overpowering. However, the package does say thick rich milk chocolate, so who am I to go expecting things not advertised? Rating - 4 out of 10. POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:29 pm Candy • Review • Adams & Brooks • Chocolate • Coconut • Marshmallow • Mints • 4-Benign • United States • 99 Cent Only Store • Comments (5) |
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One of the best things about being a blogger is reviewing books. And if enough people visit your blog, authors and publishers will send you books to review! This is particularly great when the books that I'm sent are books I'm excited to read. The next crop of books I'm reading to review might be my best yet. So here are 10 books I'm reading (or have already read) to review in 2015:
People are not their positions. Positions are ideological affirmations a person holds at a given time, but which a person can also renounce or just grow out of. If you have been journeying on a theological pilgrimage for any significant amount of time, your positions have no doubt evolved. If they haven't, I would question how critically you've examined those beliefs, and whether you've interacted with the best alternative views.
Some Christians think God became a Savior only after the historical crucifixion of Messiah Jesus of Nazareth. For these Christians, God is not a Savior essentially, but incidentally. "Saving" is an activity God could do without; it's not something God "has to do." God is a Savior as a result of historical events, not because it is who God is in God's very nature. If humanity has not sinned, Jesus Christ would not have been 'necessary,' and God would not be a Savior.
Depending on your theological perspective, this belief could either appear common sensical or absurd. If you're coming from a Western, conservative, evangelical (Protestant) perspective, you likely find the belief that God became a Savior obvious. And it might be equally obvious that this is why Christians should worship God—because God has saved Christians by the Cross and Resurrection of Jesus. This makes sense to Western Christians because of Western culture. It is the individualism of Western culture that distorts salvation history into God's "plan of salvation" for humanity. And it is the consumerism of Western culture that makes God's praise about the salvation humanity has received."God does what God does because of us, and we worship God because of what we get from God."
Western Christians will argue that they hold this view for two important reasons. First, they claim that this view preserves and secures God's "freedom." They argue that were God a Savior in God's very nature, God would not be "free" to not save humanity. They claim this would introduce "necessity" into the nature of God. Second, they claim that it safeguards salvation as a gracious gift from God. Were salvation not something which God could have withheld from humanity, salvation would no longer be "grace" (a gift) freely given. Thus, they speculate that God could exist without communicating salvation.
However, in chapter 5 of The Trinity and the Kingdom, Jürgen Moltmann directly confronts this conception of God in a section called "The Doxological Trinity."1 He makes several arguments, which dismantle this view, rooted in Scripture, the tradition of the Church, and the doctrine of the Trinity.
Heaven and the Bible are all the rage at the movies right now—as if Hollywood producers are just now realizing that there is money to be made in religion. I've already written about the string of comedies about the "biblical" end times that came out last summer, and a Left Behind remake is due out in October [sigh]. I walked past a local Red Box machine the other day and 4 of the top 10 featured rentals were about religion or the Bible: 'Noah,' 'Heaven is for Real,' 'Son of God,' and 'God's Not Dead.' Not to mention Ridley Scott's 'Exodus' is due to premiere this December, and some movie I can't stomach the trailer for called 'Christian Mingle' (don't Google it, you'll thank me later).
So it's no surprise Aaron McGruder, creator of The Boondocks (one of my all-time favorite shows!), has gotten in on the action with a new show on Adult Swim called Black Jesus. As many others have already pointed out, McGruder isn't the first in pop culture to depict Jesus as black, and he isn't even the first to depict Jesus as a pot-smoker. However, there may be more to McGruder's comedy than critics have recognized. Sure, reviews have been predictably mixed, ranging from the now obligatory "conservatives are up in arms" reports to the "calm down people, it's a comedy" reviews. But I predict, not unlike The Boondocks, McGruder's 'Black Jesus' will be packed with astute social commentary.
I'd just like to offer a few initial thoughts on Black Jesus through my hip hop hermeneutical lens, with an eye in particular toward racism.
My wife, some friends, and I have been reading Brian Zahnd's new book A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace. We've only just started reading it, but already we've been challenged and inspired.
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We've finally arrived at the fifth and final installment of this series on the 'politics of impassibility,' looking deeply into an important book: Mañana 1 by world-renowned, Hispanic theologian and historian Justo González. Be sure to check out the rest of the series (one, two, three, four).
In part four, we drew readers' attention to the ninth and tenth chapters of Mañana: "On Being Human," "And the Word Was Made Flesh" respectively. Part four focused on chapter nine and so we'll now turn our focus to chapter ten.
Were in part three of a series considering the thoughts of celebrated historical theologian Justo González on the doctrine of "impassibility" from his fantastic book Mañana. Be sure to also check out parts one and two.
After Nicea ruled definitively against Arianism, rejecting the immutable and impassible god of the philosophers in favor of the God revealed in the Crucified Son of God, who is 'of one substance with the Father,' another heresy arose which came to be known as Patripassianism. The name is unfortunate because instead of being named for the heretical portion of its view, it is named for its only truth.
In part one of this series on the politics of impassibilty, we surveyed the argument made by Hispanic theologian Justo González for the rejection of the false god of the pagan, Gentile philosophers—which is actually an idol—in favor of the self-disclosing God of the Bible, supremely revealed in Messiah Jesus of Nazareth. We demonstrated that there is a socio-political dimension to the theological conclusions at which one arrives. The doctrine of impassibility comes from an Athenian society built on the backs of slave labor. Impassibility was the natural outflow the Athenian aristocracy's indifference to the suffering of the lower classes. They projected their value of personal impassibility onto their conception of God.
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I was witness to a unique event yesterday, namely the first penalty shoot out in Rugby. The Blues (my team) scored two tries in the final six minutes to force extra time. It was an extraordinary and exciting moment, all the more exceptional as both were scored on the margins of the pitch, but both conversions were made. No scores in extra time and the penalty shoot out starts as both sides had also scored two tries each (if one had scored more that would have determined it). As it worked out Leicester missed first but then we missed as well, and it went to sudden death with the forwards and we lost.
Now I have watched many a penalty shoot out in soccer and they are exciting, but this wasn't. From the perspective of the crowd it was not even entertaining, it was an endurance test. There was no contest and the skills were simply not there in most of the participants for penalty taking. In soccer there is a contest between the goal keeper and the striker. Not only that all soccer players kick the ball. Yesterday it was just place the ball and kick it, and only two/three players per side have any training or experience in taking such kicks. Martyn Williams is one of the world's greatest loose forwards, to ask him to kick a penalty is a nonsense. It really wasn't a test of skills.
Now this is not sour grapes, if we had won it would have been against the run of play and it would have been a great escape. On the day we failed to adjust our tactics and kicked too much possession away to Murphy (who was my man of the match) instead of playing the running/possession game that we finally rediscovered in the final ten minutes. So while I am very disappointed I am not blaming this for the outcome. I do have a complaint that it took so long for the referee to yellow card Leicester for consistently preventing release, and they were more street wise (that is not a compliment). They also sneaked back on a goal kicker who had been taken off the pitch as a "blood replacement" which is playing on the margins of the rules. However overall one cannot complain too much about the result.
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"What the AEC have to do is data entry for all the below the line votes and they have to get them all into the computer system and verify them and once that's done they can set a quota and do the distribution of preferences," he told Geoff Hutchison.
"Our senate calculator was showing Wayne Dropulich (Australian Sports Party) and Scott Ludlam from the Greens winning the last two spots, it's now giving the fifth seat to Zhenya Wang from the Palmer United Party and the sixth to Louise Pratt from the Labor Party."
"It's a very close count, 100 votes either way can trigger that sort of change."
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