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Engel's is a rather small town and does not have an airport. But it is possible to fly from Moscow at first to one of settlements nearby and then head to Engel's by bus, train or car.
• Saratov — 10.47 km
• Balakovo — 121.13 km
• Penza — 204.62 km.
Unfortunately, there is no chance to buy a direct flight ticket for Moscow – Engel's, because in Engel's there is no airport where flights from Moscow could land. There are, however, the following airports located in the vicinity of Engel's:
• Saratov — 9.59 km
• Balakovo — 120.53 km
• Penza — 206.78 km.
Engel's is located in Russian Federation.
Continent the country is located on Europe.
Area of Russian Federation — 17075400.
Population of Russian Federation — 143300000.
Population density of Russian Federation — 8.39.
Phone code of Russian Federation — 7.
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MOUNT CARROLL — A man who took his girlfriend and four children hostage in rural Carroll County and threatened to kill them surrendered Sunday and faces weapons, drug, endangerment and animal cruelty charges, according to police.
Shane R. Brown was in the Carroll County Jail on Sunday night on charges of child endangerment, unlawful use of a weapon by a felon, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a stolen firearm, aggravated and domestic battery and other charges related to the Sunday morning incident.
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department received a 911 call about 10:41 a.m. When police arrived a woman and one child had escaped from the residence, but three children remained inside. After a standoff, the man surrendered.
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Ohio tax plan hits concerts, sports, even bowling
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Expanding Ohio's sales tax might take some of the fun out of going to concerts, football games and amusement parks.
Gov. John Kasich wants to cut the state's overall sales-tax rate while also putting the lower 5 percent sales tax on a long list of new items that include circuses, arcade games and carnival rides.
Admission to fairs, museums, and theme parks would fall under Ohio's sales tax for the first time too. So would tickets to pro, college and high school games.
The governor is proposing sweeping changes in the way Ohio taxes businesses and individuals in his two-year budget that still must be approved by lawmakers. Kasich's plan includes cutting the income tax rate by 20 percent over three years and the small business tax by 50 percent.
The reductions add up to $1.4 billion in tax cuts over three years.
At the same time, his proposal tacks on Ohio's sales tax to attorney fees, cable TV and pet grooming as well as entertainment options.
"By broadening this tax, by broadening it, we're actually bringing greater fairness to the system," Kasich said last week.
Adding the sales tax on arts, entertainment, and recreation alone is projected to bring in $85 million to the state government over the coming two years.
It's also likely to add to the cost of seeing a ballgame or a play.
Some entertainment businesses and sports teams will pass the costs onto ticket buyers and customers while others are likely to absorb the costs, fearing that a price increase will drive away business.
"There has to be a decrease somewhere, either in my profits or customers," said Eric Bates, president of Bates Brothers Amusements Co., which is based in Wintersville in eastern Ohio and supplies carnival rides to fairs and festivals.
He worries that some cash-strapped county fairs won't survive if they're forced to give up 5 percent of their gate fees to the government.
"I don't know that it's wise at this time," Bates said.
Bowling alley owner Marty Teifke agreed that it would hurt to pay a tax on lane rentals.
"It's not easy to raise prices, and the economy is not the best around here" said Teifke, who runs Timbers Bowling in Maumee near Toledo. "It scares me to hear this."
Most entertainment businesses and groups that would be affected by a wider sales tax are still trying to figure out what the impact might be and how they'll respond, including Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., owners of Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky and Kings Island near Cincinnati.
Both parks have fought against past attempts by local governments that have tried to tax tickets and parking.
The addition of a 5 percent state sales tax on admissions would amount to $2.75 on the price of a $54.99 Cedar Point ticket at the gate.
A $22 Cincinnati Reds ticket in the upper deck ticket would generate $1.10 for the state.
Close to 70 cities and villages in Ohio already have some sort of admission tax with most coming in at 3 percent. Cleveland's is at 8 percent.
Tickets for high school sports wouldn't be exempt from the governor's proposal.
Jim Stoyle, athletic director at Centerburg High School north of Columbus, said he would want the cost of admission to go up. "That's the one thing I hate in sports today," he said.
Game tickets at the school now are $6 for adults and $4 for students. He's concerned that families would be stretched thin if the price goes up, especially for those with several children playing, and that the teams would suffer as well.
"Most of our high school athletic programs survive on ticket gate sales," Stoyle said.
Community theater groups would face the same decisions.
"There wouldn't be much choice but to pass along a sales tax increase to the customers," said Tom Neff, board president of the Chagrin Valley Little Theater outside Cleveland. "People would understand it's part of what you would have to do. I don't think there's any way around it."
Associated Press writer Ann Sanner in Columbus contributed to this report.


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Today's News: Our Take - Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, Kristen Stewart Win Kids' Choice Awards
Kristen Stewart was a big winner Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards Saturday, as she took home awards for Favorite Movie Actress for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 and Favorite Female Buttkicker for Snow White and the Huntsman.
Though Stewart admitted she was afraid to accept the awards out of fear of being slimed, she escaped mostly unscathed. The same couldn't be said for other celebrities, including Sandra Bullock, Neil Patrick Harris and Nick Cannon, Josh Hutcherson and Amanda Seyfried were covered in green goo before the night was over.Pitbull and Christina Aguilera kicked off the show with a performance, after which Pitbull was also doused with slime.
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Other notable winners included Johnny Depp for Favorite Movie Actor (Dark Shadows), The Hunger Games for Favorite Movie, Justin Bieber for Favorite Male Singer and Katy Perry for Favorite Female Singer.
On the television side, Simon Cowell won the Favorite Villain award for his role on The X Factor. Selena Gomez won Favorite TV Actress for Wizards of Waverly Place, while Austin & Ally star Ross Lynch won Favorite TV Actor. Victorious was named Favorite TV Show.
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Brenda Cossman on the Situation of Women in the Workplace
Posted by The Situationist Staff on January 8, 2010
Brenda Cossman is a Professor of Law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her teaching and research is in the area of family law, feminist theory, law and film, and sexuality and the law. Her most recent book on Sexual Citizens: The Legal and Cultural Regulation of Sex and Belonging was published by Stanford University Press in 2007.
She recently published a fascinating article, titled "The 'Opt Out Revolution' and the Changing Narratives of Motherhood: Self Governing the Work/Family Conflict" in the 2009 volume of the Utah Law Review. Here's the abstract.
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"The double shift," "the glass ceiling," "the mommy track": Women's efforts to balance work and family have given rise to a host of buzz words over the last two decades. Now, it is the "Opt-Out Revolution,"-the title of Lisa Belkin's New York Times Magazine article in 2003 that described the decision of upper middle class, professionally trained women to leave the work force and to stay home to care for their children. Her Sunday magazine cover story, headlined as "Q: Why Don't More Women Get to the Top?" alongside the answer: "A: They Choose Not To," tracked the decisions of eight women graduates from Princeton now living in Atlanta, and four women in San Francisco, three with MBAs, to trade in their briefcases for diaper bags. Belkin maps their decisions onto what she identifies as a larger trend amongst highly educated women to opt out of the labor market in favor of motherhood.
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In February of 2008, at the New Frontiers In Family Law Symposium, Professor Cossman gave a fascinating talk based on that article. You can watch the seventeen-minute talk on the following video.
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For a sample of related Situationist posts, see "The Situation of Objectification," "Hillary Clinton, the Halo Effect, and Women's Catch-22," "Women's Situational Bind," "The Gendered Situation of Science & Math," and "You Shouldn't Stereotype Stereotypes."


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It's not feasible for most folks to do their everyday work on an iPad yet, but writers seem to be one of the quickest growing groups to attempt it. It makes sense: the act of writing doesn't require that many technical resources outside of a way to input text, a way to research, and a way to save your work. In that sense, using an iPad when it's time to sit down and write can be pretty easy (for some of us, anyway). But which app to use?
This is a question that the staff at Infinite Loop find ourselves being asked often. And admittedly, it's not always an easy question to answer, because writers have different needs based on what they're writing, who they're writing for, and what they plan to do with it after they're done. I happen to know a lot of different kinds of writers, from gadget bloggers to food writers to sci-fi authors, so I held an informal poll to find out which apps they like the best. From there, I chose the four most commonly mentioned and tried them out.
So, hold on to your butts and read on for our mini-showdown between four popular writing apps on the iPad:
iA Writer ($0.99)
iA Writer for iPad (there is a separate version for iPhone) was hands-down the most-mentioned writing app when I asked for suggestions from my friends, Twitter, and even several other Ars writers. The reason became clear when I began using the app: it manages to pull off being a full-featured app with numerous bells and whistles, and a simple-looking app that doesn't come with many distractions. And for only 99¢, it's certainly priced well against the $4-5 competition.
What are those features, exactly? For one, you can store your work on your iPad, iCloud, or Dropbox—using iCloud can sync your documents seamlessly with the Mac desktop version of iA Writer (available on the Mac App Store for $8.99), but using Dropbox can sync your documents anywhere for free (or whatever price you're paying for your massive Dropbox account). The diversity of the options is nice, because it allows you to save your work to wherever's most comfortable for you, or you have the option of just storing it on the iPad and mailing it to yourself, printing, or copying/pasting to something else.
iA Writer supports plain text and Markdown (if you're into that sort of thing), but there's no Markdown preview, so that may be a deal-breaker for some. There's apparently no HTML support either—at least I couldn't find a way to export my writing as HTML, meaning that if that's the kind of output I want, I'll have to write it in plaintext. That's fine and all, but there are other apps that will convert it for me. As such, this is an extra step that I'd rather avoid, and the same applies to Markdown. Some sort of clipboard export option that supports HTML would be nice to have for writers looking to save a piece to somewhere on the Web via the iPad (without exporting it to Dropbox and then accessing it from a computer).
WriteRoom ($4.99)
WriteRoom has long been a popular writing app on the Mac, but it turns out that it's popular on the iPad as well. Known for its distraction-free workspace, WriteRoom has a button (lower right corner) that lets you get rid of the other UI elements so you can focus entirely on your writing. But most of the other apps I looked at also had this feature—save for Writing Kit, which I discuss below—so this can no longer be WriteRoom's main selling point (though WriteRoom does tout the fact that it has "true" fullscreen support, sans status bar). So what else does it offer?
For one, WriteRoom was the only app that allowed me to create folders within the app in order to organize my writing. I write for Ars, but I also write for my personal blog and sometimes I even write things for a mythical book that I always tell people I'm not writing. So I don't always want to have all of my writing in one place; folders help keep things separate.
Like iA Writer, WriteRoom allows you to save documents to the iPad's own internal storage or to Dropbox, but there's not yet any support for iCloud (its FAQ says that "iCloud support is under consideration.") That would be beneficial for the reasons outlined above—being able to sync documents over iCloud with the Mac version would be great. For my purposes, Dropbox is just dandy, and the implementation works well.
WriteRoom technically only supports plaintext when composing, though it can open files that are designated as Markdown or HTML if you save them as such in Dropbox. You can't automatically export your writing in these formats, though, nor is there an easy way to copy the entire thing to clipboard as there are in other apps. (You can select all and copy/paste using the iOS copy/paste behaviors, but it requires more steps.)
One thing I do like about WriteRoom is the ability to set a passcode upon launch of the app. If you're the private type, not wanting nosy people digging through your work, this is a huge plus. I don't like the idea of a friend or family member picking up my iPad to play a game, and ending up filtering through my writings without my knowledge. To our knowledge, this is the only app of the bunch that offers such a feature.


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Authorities: Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax
- Police received the false report via a chat message
- Police are trying to identify the prankster
- Students were told to remain indoors an hour after police were alerted
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) — A false report of a gunman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that briefly caused a campus-wide lockdown Saturday stemmed from an electronic message sent to police, authorities said.
Officers searched for a man reported to be carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor but found nothing unusual, Cambridge police said. The report — that alleged that the gunman was barricaded inside a building on campus — turned out to be a hoax, and there was no threat to public safety, state police spokesman David Procopio said.
Cambridge police received the tip in an electronic chat message around 7:30 a.m., but witnesses on the scene eventually contradicted it, spokesman Dan Riviello said. Neither police nor MIT specified how the tip was received, though the police department's website says anonymous crime tips may be made via text message or email, in addition to a telephone hotline.
"The MIT community was sent a precautionary text message at 8:52 a.m. asking them to remain indoors and shelter in place," the university said in a statement issued following online criticism over delays in alerting the public that a gunman was possibly on campus. It did not explain why it took more than an hour to issue the alert.
A room-to-room search by MIT and Cambridge police, along with state police troopers, led officers to declare that the scene was clear at about 10:30 a.m., MIT said.
"No armed suspects were found in the building or on campus and police believe that the event, as reported, did not occur," according to a statement by Cambridge police.
Investigators are trying to identify the prankster and will pursue criminal charges if they do, Riviello said.
He declined to provide additional details or confirm reports that the IP address used by the prankster has been traced to New York, saying the investigation continued.
John DiFava, chief of MIT's campus police, acknowledged the delay in telling students about a possible gunman on campus. "I have to look into it and find out the reason for the lag," he told the Boston Globe.
Junior Zach Wener-Fligner told the newspaper that the delay was "a little worrisome."
"But I assume the relevant area was locked down," he said.
About 11,000 people attend the prestigious school outside Boston where students are famous for their smarts as well as their stunts, including once putting a police car on top of a domed campus building.


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WISN 12 News investigates incarcerated dogs rescued from dog-fighting rings
Tax dollars being spent to keep dogs locked up because of legal system
WISN 12 News investigates why dogs rescued from suspected fighting rings are being kept in solitary confinement.
In the summer of 2011, Milwaukee police allowed WISN 12 News' cameras to videotape the victims they said they rescued from a dog fighting ring -- six sick and injured dogs, including 20-month-old Coco, who was scared, scarred and missing an eye.
"We had to have the dogs removed for the dogs' safety," Milwaukee police Officer Dustin Frank said.
Police detailed the operation with photo evidence: blood-splattered walls, a dog treadmill, syringes, chains and a rubber loop hanging from the ceiling used to strengthen dogs' jaws and hind legs to make them stronger for the fight.
WISN 12 News caught up with one of the two men suspected of fighting them.
"I do not fight dogs," said Demetrius Boyce, who was named in a search warrant.
Twenty months later, the men remain free while the rescued dogs languish in lockup at the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission.
MADACC houses a total of 16 dogs seized in fighting investigations. They live behind the locked door of Kennel 3.
"We restrict the area. We don't allow anybody in there for security reasons," said John McDowell of MADACC. "We don't want any pictures taken of the dogs."
"How come?" WISN 12 News investigative reporter Henry asked.
"Because Milwaukee wants them secure, and to us, secure means no photos," McDowell said.
"They're (dogs) just shelved as evidence, like a gun or money or drugs," said David Mangold of Save Milwaukee's Court Case Dogs.
Mangold had worked with victims of dog fighting in Chicago. After the 2011 bust, he went to MADACC to volunteer to rehabilitate them. He was stunned by the response.
"'We're not allowed to talk about them. They're evidence. We have no program for them. We're not interested in helping you help them,'" Mangold said is what MADACC told him. "They went directly from those chains here to MADACC, and I don't know if they've seen the sunlight since."
That's not the case everywhere. Even NFL star Michael Vick's fighting dogs got another chance. Of the 51 seized, nearly four dozen were rehabilitated.
"Have these dogs been out of this building since they were seized?" Henry asked.
"I won't answer that," McDowell said.
"Why?" asked Henry.
"Again, for security purposes,' McDowell said.
"Is this really good for dogs?" Henry asked.
"No, no, absolutely not, and that's probably the one point that everybody agrees on," McDowell said.
McDowell blamed Wisconsin law. Dogs involved in fighting must be held in custody until the case is closed. If the suspect is acquitted, he gets the dogs back. If the suspect is convicted, the statute requires "the animal be disposed of in a proper and humane manner." It's a state-sanctioned death sentence for victims of dog fighting.
"They're double victims of cruelty, first by their alleged abusers and then by a system that's overlooked them," Mangold said.
Mangold has created a Facebook page called Save Milwaukee's Court Case Dogs. He's also filled a petition with 400 signatures asking officials to save the dogs of Kennel 3.
Milwaukee police told WISN 12 News they too believe the state statute fails the animals they're working so hard to protect. Investigators won't talk on camera because of their expanding investigation into the dog-fighting ring.
"I did not fight my dogs. I do not condone dog fighting," Boyce said.
But search warrants executed in 2011 said Boyce openly instigated dog fights in his back yard. This week, WISN 12 news cameras captured pictures of three new dogs in his yard. Boyce also condemns the state law.
"Don't nobody deserve to be locked up if they didn't do nothing wrong. That's just a poor animal. They don't deserve to be locked up, not even when you have them in the house. You don't lock or chain the dogs up," Boyce said.
Neither Boyce nor the other person named in the warrants has been charged with a crime. Police said their investigation keeps growing.
The district attorney told WISN 12 News there's no need to hold dogs for prosecution of the case. They collected DNA and photo evidence of the dogs and their injuries.
MADACC is funded by taxpayers. It said the evidence dogs' care isn't that expensive, but MADACC's current boarding rate is $15 per dog per day -- times 16 dogs times 20 months.
If there were paying customers, the bill would total nearly $150,000.


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From the archive: Button's last spell with Williams
Jenson Button is returning to Williams in 2021 as a senior advisor, 21 years after making his F1 debut with the Grove outfit in 2000. The team is in a very different position now, but so too is Button - who reflected on his rookie campaign for the 11 August 2016 issue of Autosport magazine
The time-honoured manufacturer model that can't apply to all F1 teams
What happens, asks MATT KEW, if the old adage of win on a Sunday, sell on a Monday is no longer true for F1 manufacturers?
Why is Oscar Piastri F1's most sought-after rookie?
The Australian rising star is fast, consistent, confident, adaptable and has shown excellent racecraft, but there's already a taint to his reputation. That hasn't stopped him becoming the hottest property in this year's F1 driver market and why McLaren moved fast to snap up the 21-year-old
The unintended benefit that F1's new engine rules era will deliver
Formula 1's incoming engine rules shake-up has multiple targets. But it may also solve what has been a bone of contention since the hybrids arrived in 2014. The new plan will allow the series to pump up the volume
How de Vries made himself impossible to ignore for a belated F1 chance
Nyck de Vries appeared to have missed his opportunity to break into Formula 1 as he was passed over for more exciting talents who have now become frontrunners and title fighters. But after catching the eye outside of the F1 sphere, before his stunning impromptu grand prix debut in Italy, will it lead to a delayed full-time race seat?
Can Hamilton produce another Singapore magic moment?
The Singapore Grand Prix has, explains BEN EDWARDS, played an important role in Lewis Hamilton's Formula 1 career. As the series returns to the Marina Bay Street Circuit for the first time in three years, he faces the latest challenge with an underperforming Mercedes car
Why Sainz is key to Ferrari achieving its chairman's F1 goals
Although Ferrari's chances of title glory in 2022 have evaporated, chairman John Elkann expects the team to have chalked up both championships by 2026. Both require drivers to play the team game and, having now become more comfortable with the F1-75, Carlos Sainz may be Ferrari's key to title glory
How F1 has tried to avoid repeating its 2014 engine rules mistakes
With Formula 1's future engine regulations now agreed, MARK GALLAGHER wonders if they will provide a more competitive field than past attempts actually managed
How its faltering first turbo car advanced a Williams-Honda glory era
STUART CODLING charts the development of the Williams FW09, the ugly duckling that heralded the start of the title-winning Williams-Honda partnership


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Holmes brought five weapons to the theater: a Smith & Wesson AR-15, two Glock .40 pistols, a knife and a Remington model 870 pump shotgun he left in his car.
The AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle, nearly identical in appearance to a military M16, that usually holds up to 30 rounds of high-powered ammunition.
But AP tweeted that Holmes had a high-capacity, drum-style ammo clip in the rifle that can carry much more ammunition than a box-shaped magazine.
The Glocks are also semi-automatic, meaning once a round is chambered all the shooter needs to do is keep pulling the trigger until the clip is empty. They weigh about 2 lbs when loaded with up to 17 .40 caliber rounds. The .40 calibers flatten when they enter the body, without passing through, causing the most damage possible.
With all this hardware, Holmes burst in through an exit door at the front of the theater, tossed at least one tear gas canister to the floor and fired into the ceiling causing profound chaos and panic.
Twelve people are believed to be dead of the 71 people shot. That's a lot of bullets – meaning Holmes had to reload as he calmly stalked the theater, shooting people running for the exits as he walked up the aisle.
Witness: "He would reload and shoot and anyone who would try to leave would just get killed." on.wsj.com/O0UG5S #theatershooting
The 870 shotgun would have been devastating in a crowded movie theater – it's a bottom-loading, pump-action weapons that holds about four rounds.
Assuming the small arsenal he brought with him was acquired legally (some of Colorado's gun laws are listed below) Holmes would have went through the required background check and passed given that reports of his criminal history include only the traffic ticket reported by NBC.
In addition he seems to have purchased a full line of assault gear shown on the parking lot outside the theater. He was wearing a ballistic helmet, goggles, a gas mask, a ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, along with throat and groin protectors and black tactical gloves available at any law enforcement gear website.
It's curious that Holmes clearly came prepared to receive fire from law enforcement, but according to police he calmly gave himself up. It's also worth noting that this equipment would have cost several-thousand-dollars regardless of where it was purchased
Looking further at the same scene it appears there could be a police shield against the side of the building near the rest of the discarded gear.
Beside the shield and in front of the Hyundai Holmes drove to the Cinemaplex, there also looks to be dark, liquid splashes. The spots stretch from the bottom right of the picture below, to the door of the theater down the alley at the top.
Here's a summary of some of the gun laws in the Colorado Revised Statutes (via Angelo Young of the International Business Times):
* Gun registration is not required.
* Gun permits are not required to keep firearms in vehicles.
* As of 2003, it is illegal for any local government or law enforcement agency to "enact an ordinance, regulation or other law that prohibits the sale, purchase or possession of a firearm that a person may lawfully sell, purchase or possess under state or federal law."
* It is prohibited for law enforcement or local government to build databases of gun buyers or gun owners who leave weapons for repair or sale on consignment; people who transfer gun ownership unless they are federally licensed gun dealers; or serial numbers of guns bought, sold, dropped off for repair or left for sale on consignment.
* There are no laws pertaining to bringing firearms from another state.


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We've already spent a lot of time discussing the redesigned 21.5-inch iMac, which was announced in October and shipped last month. Its bigger brother, the 27-inch iMac, needed a little longer in the oven—there were rumors that Apple was having difficulty with assembling its large glass-bonded display. However, those rumors ultimately proved unfounded, and 27-inch iMacs began showing up for early buyers late last week.
We've received ours, and from the outside, there really isn't anything here we haven't already seen—the 27-inch iMac is the same overall shape as the 21.5-inch iMac, just scaled up. But on the inside, things are much different.
Seen dead-on from the front, it appears identical to the previous 27-inch iMac. From the top or sides, though, the difference is obvious.
Apple has been pilloried for making the 21.5-inch iMac's RAM non-upgradable (at least, non-upgradable without some significant disassembly), but the 27-inch iMac doesn't share this shortcoming. On its rear is a small hatch; depressing a button at the top of the power socket releases the hatch, and underneath it are four memory slots in a small swing-out enclosure. Our iMac shipped with two 1600MHz 4GB SODIMMs installed and two slots free.
Though the outsides are similar except in scale, the guts are definitely more powerful. The 21.5-inch review iMac we previously discussed was a base model, equipped with a 2.7GHz Intel Ivy Bridge i5-3330S and a 2.5" 5400 RPM hard drive, along with an Nvidia GeForce GT 640M GPU. By contrast, our 27-inch iMac is stuffed to the gills with every upgrade possible except for the ludicrously overpriced Apple RAM: a 3.4GHz Intel Ivy Bridge i7-3770, a Samsung 830-based 768GB SSD, and a GeForce GTX 680MX GPU.
One interesting difference between the two models is that in spite of the domestic US assembly stamp some iMacs are sporting, this one was most decidedly assembled in China.
As with the 21.5-inch iMac, there is no optical drive in the 27-inch—it has been sacrificed in the name of slimness. The only place where I thought this might give me trouble was in prepping Boot Camp to install Windows 7, but the automated Boot Camp assistant takes the lack of an optical drive into account and offers an elegant solution. If you have access to an ISO image of a Windows install disc—like from TechNet or MSDN, for example—the Boot Camp assistant will not only create a bootable USB stick for you from that image but will also stash the necessary drivers in a subdirectory on the USB stick. This worked extremely well.
Once I had Windows 7 up and running, the Boot Camp assistant provided me with version 306.37 of Nvidia's video drivers. I updated these to the latest beta drivers available (version 310.77), and then ran 3DMark 11 in the "Extreme" preset.
The i7 CPU and faster GPU trounce the 21.5-inch iMac, which is to be expected. The iMac pulls in quite respectable numbers under 3DMark 11, and we expect it to be a perfectly fine gaming computer (though buying an iMac specifically for gaming is not a particularly good value proposition).
The iMac also turned in tremendous improvements over its base model little brother in Cinebench and Geekbench.
We didn't run a complex set of disk benchmarks against the 27-inch iMac, since the Samsung 830 on which its SSD is based is a pretty well-studied piece of kit. However, a quick run with the free Disk Speed Test from the Mac App store yielded these results, which are about what you'd expect for the SSD.
Subjective experience and value
The 27-inch iMac looks sharp—metaphorically and physically—and it's very, very quiet. There's only a single fan inside, and the lack of a mechanical hard disk drive or any other moving parts makes for a near-silent desktop. The fan spun up a bit during benchmarking, but it didn't make very much noise—it was the loudest thing in the room, but my office is pretty quiet. During a multihour gaming session, the fan stayed spun up at a constant level, but the noise was still less than the previous-generation 27-inch iMac under load. As soon as the CPU and GPU dropped back to near-idle, the fan began to spin down, and the computer was near-silent again within about 30 seconds.
The SSD means that you won't be encountering very many disk-related bottlenecks during daily use. Applications, even big ones like Aperture or Final Cut Pro, launch with a single bounce (though we found Final Cut Pro occasionally taking two). We figure most folks will go for the Fusion Drive storage option, which means that they ought to get SSD speeds during daily usage except in rare cases when accessing cold data. Apple has indicated that Fusion Drive keeps the OS X system files pinned to the SSD side of the volume, so Fusion Drive-equipped Macs will boot just as fast as all-SSD Macs and should provide a very speedy subjective experience.
Mo money, mo components
The price is another matter entirely. Though we didn't tick every single box on this computer's configuration, we did upgrade everything except the RAM. The base 27-inch configuration costs $1,799, and the up-rated model starts at $1,999. We bolted our build-to-order options onto the up-rated model. The 3.4GHz i7-3770 adds $200; the GeForce GTX 680MX adds $150, and the 768GB adds a whopping $1,300. Our 27-inch beast came out to $3,649 before tax, which harkens back to how much computers typically cost twenty-plus years ago.
It's steep, but is it unreasonable, considering the bill of materials? Building a PC with comparable specs doesn't really get you too far off from the iMac's price; the most inflated item in the computer would be Apple's RAM, which we didn't spring for. After that, the $1,300 768GB SSD seems to be the biggest price outlier. However, though SSD prices are falling and are typically lower than $1/GB even on high-quality drives, it's difficult to find a consumer SSD with the same capacity as this one in order to directly compare prices. Newegg lists a few SSDs with capacities greater than 512GB, but nothing directly equivalent to the 768GB SSD in the iMac. OWC sells a 2.5-inch Electra with 960GB of capacity for $1,200, but it's only a SATA II part.
The built-in screen, too, adds significantly to the cost. Comparable IPS-panel 27- to 30-inch LCD displays are not cheap, coming in at anywhere between $800 and $1,300, depending on size and brand. If we figure the SSD's price to be "fair" (since it's difficult to find an SSD to compare it to with the same speed and capacity), and then add on $1,000 for the display, that cuts the rest of the components' aggregate cost down to $1,349. For that, we're getting a Kepler-based mobile GPU (with no real pricing available for this specific model, but we'll say $300 based on pricing for other Kepler models), a fast CPU (about $300), and 8GB of RAM (let's say $40).
Now we've got $709 to play with. From that, you'd subtract the custom Ivy Bridge motherboard (which includes a pair of Thunderbolt controllers at $20-30 each), along with the remainder of the innards (HD webcam, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, speakers). Then there's the cost of the aluminum enclosure, along with associated manufacturing costs. Apple also needs to make some money somewhere; the component prices above have some margin figured into them, but there's an overall margin component, too.
Taking all this into account, the 27-inch iMac does indeed cost more than if you parted an equivalent box together yourself, but you can't really part together an equivalent box. Components like the SSD and the GPU are at least so far unavailable outside of Apple, though you can trawl eBay for 768GB SSDs pulled from MacBook Pros, which use the same part. There's still some "Apple tax" in the price, but it doesn't seem terribly unreasonable. The hardest component to swallow is the SSD, but removing that and its $1,300 price from the picture brings the price into more reasonable territory. Substituting a 3TB Fusion Drive for the 768GB SSD would knock $900 off the sticker price, bringing it down to an easier-to-swallow $2,749.
A computer to live with
Whether or not you find the pricing reasonable, the iMac's closed nature tends to turn off upgrade-happy enthusiasts, and the new glued-together models are the most difficult iMacs yet to get into. To get the most return on an iMac, it needs to be a computer you keep for years, and a tinkerer's computer doesn't usually survive for years without multiple gut-swaps—a new video card here, a new CPU there, perhaps a new motherboard every year or two. The iMac is not (and has never really been) for folks who want the freedom to tinker.
However, if swapping parts isn't your idea of a good time, it's a fine computer. The iMac's design is attractive, the components are sporty, the screen is beautiful, and in daily use, it's quick and quiet. We would have preferred perhaps some additional build-to-order storage choices, as there's a pretty tremendous gap in price between the Fusion Drive options and the 768GB SSD—a gap that 256GB and 512GB SSDs would have slotted into nicely. However, the absence of non-crazy SSDs seems to indicate pretty clearly that Apple would prefer you upgrade to a Fusion Drive.
If you can be content with spending a fair chunk of change on a computer you'll keep for three to five years, the iMac is a good choice. If you have a burning need to buy a swap video cards, hard drives, or CPUs every six months, the iMac is not (and never has been) a good choice.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former South Carolina treasurer, reality TV star and convicted felon Thomas Ravenel plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Lindsey Graham.
Ravenel presented about 16,500 signatures from registered voters on Monday. If election officials verify the signatures, he will be an independent on the November ballot.
The star of the "Southern Charm" cable television show entered the Election Commission office twice at the request of television news crews trying to get the best shot of him carrying his paperwork. But he insists his candidacy is serious.
Ravenel was a Republican rising star when he became state treasurer in 2007, but had to resign months into his term after he was charged with buying cocaine. He later pleaded guilty.
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Interview: 'The Sapphires' director Wayne Blair
While the trek of girl groups in 1960s has been explored in the past few years with films like "Dreamgirls" in 2006 and "Sparkle" last August, there's something wonderfully refreshing about the new musical dramedy "The Sapphires."
An Australian production directed by Aussie native Wayne Blair, "The Sapphires" -- which received a 10-minute standing ovation at Cannes last year -- sings a much different metaphorical tune, mostly because of where the group originated.
"It's just about looking at things in a different way," Blair told me during a recent interview stop in the Twin Cities. "The film is about a girl group, but they just happen to be four aboriginal girls and their back story is a little bit different."
Expanding into more theaters Friday, "The Sapphires" tells the story of sisters Gail (Deborah Mailman), Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell) and Julie (Jessica Mauboy), and their cousin, Kay (Shari Sebbens), who, under the guidance of an R&B-loving Irish musician (Chris O'Dowd), travel hundreds of miles from home in 1968 to perform for the U.S. troops in Vietnam.
A hit in clubs with the troops, the girls and Dave are even willing to take risks to bring the music to places that could cost them their lives.
"The Sapphires" is even more remarkable in that the tale itself is based on true story of co-screenwriter Tony Briggs' mother, Laurel Robinson.
"She went across to Vietnam in 1968 and sung for the American troops," Blair said. "Along with her cousin, they even went to the front line to sing for them. Apart from what Bob Hope was doing, the troops just wanted to hear some soul music to remind them of home."
See the trailer for "The Sapphires" below.
Much like director Baz Luhrmann's vastly underrated 2008 drama "Australia," "The Sapphires" addresses the country's "stolen generations," a seldom discussed part of history where mixed-race children of Australian whites and aboriginals were taken from their parents by the government and church missions.
"The three sisters come from one family and their first cousin is taken away, and for whatever rhyme or reason, she later finds herself back into that mix with the other girls," Blair explained. "It's great to bleed this story into the film, because it's something that my country, let alone America don't talk enough about. It's good to share it with the world, and maybe politicize it a little bit, but overall share it as a human story."
Playing a pivotal role in "The Sapphires" is O'Dowd, the affable Irish actor whose breakthrough role in America came as Kristen Wiig's police officer boyfriend in the 2011 blockbuster comedy "Bridesmaids."
Even though O'Dowd has been in the entertainment business for quite a while, Blair admits he didn't see the actor's work, like so many other people, until "Bridesmaids." After that, the director said he further explored O'Dowd's work in such British projects as the sitcom "The IT Crowd" and the under-appreciated comedy "Pirate Radio" (aka "The Boat that Rocked" in the UK).
"Chris was such breath of fresh air," Blair recalled. "There's a scene of him (in 'Pirate Radio') where he lip-syncs with a song that's playing while on the job as a radio host after he's broken up with his wife. It's a beautiful moment in the film that's quite funny. But he actually goes to that place of sadness and hurt, too. He gives it his all."
As for his turn in "The Sapphires," Blair, 42, said he was naturally impressed with O'Dowd, and furthermore, moved by the actor's commitment to the project.
"He could have done anything (after 'Bridesmaids'), but he came down to Australia to do this little indie film," Blair enthused.
While "The Sapphires" features mostly soul music, the film also features a little bit of country & western music, which is torpedoed to great comedic effect in the film by O'Dowd's character, Dave Lovelace.
Blair must caution, though, that country fans in America and around the globe shouldn't take the jokes too seriously.
"That's we sort of lie a little bit in the film, because we aboriginal people and Australian people, we love country and western," Blair said, laughing. "We love Merle Haggard, George Strait, Patsy Cline and Tammy Wynette. They're all in our iTunes playlists, and I'm sure they're in O'Dowd's playlist as well."
The great thing is, Blair added, is that you don't have to be a fan of any particular genre of music to be moved by "The Sapphires."
"It's very much a human story and a little bit of love creeps in there as well," Blair said. "It sort of has this Dorothy and 'Wizard of Oz' feel, where you go away into a war zone and you come back home, and that's where your love and your life is. That's who you are and that's where you can come to know yourself a little bit better."
Bring Me The News film critic Tim Lammers is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and annually votes on the Critics Choice Movie Awards. Locally, he reviews films on "KARE 11 News at 11" and WCCO Radio. As a feature writer, Tim has interviewed well over 1,000 major actors and filmmakers throughout his career and his work is syndicated nationwide.


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'We swam before we walked or breathed, but then we forgot. The same thing happened outside the womb:swimming was practiced regularly in ancient times butvirturally disappeared for centuries'.
This online chart tells you daily which pools are open and hours. After my Paris bus guide this is my bible.
Metros, velib stations, buses, free classes etc.
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'Pools used to be called tanks, whether they were actual tanks full of water or just holes in the ground. What you wore in a tank was 'a tank suit'.
All of the pools I visited were the same.
The pools come with crystal clear instructions - les regles
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Better yet get a card for 10 swims.
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an inquiry into why we swim—the lure, the hold, the timeless magic of being in the water. It's a look at how swimming has changed over the millennia, how this ancient activity is becoming more social than solitary today. It's about our relationship with the water, with our fishy forebearers, and with the costumes that we wear'.


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The gay phil theory has never held much water with me. I wouldn't be surprised if he got some butt in prison, but the fact that this made him uncomfortable and magnified his homophobia seems like just another symptom of Phil's central character trait, his projection and self-consciousness of his own moments of weakness.FlyOnMelfisWall wrote:I was never terribly captivated by the question of how much of that was just Phil reflecting and dutifully enforcing the societal conditioning of his times in the much more violently intolerant and macho milieu of the Mafia and how much may have been a reaction to cover latent homosexual feelings or guilt for perhaps having secretly availed himself of homosexual contact while in prison all those years.
I definitely agree this was the underlying theme of the Vito arc as a whole, but my argument is that the simultaneous Phil storyline, as addressed in Johnny Cakes, represented the unforgiving old-school mob father mentality that Tony struggled with in regards to AJ, with Phil acting as a subliminal surrogate for Johnny Boy.FlyOnMelfisWall wrote:The aspect of Vito's story which most interested me and that I think was uppermost in Chase's mind had to do with Tony's desire (which he chickened out on) to let things be and not pursue any kind of "vindication" once Vito left town. This was clearly a departure from what Tony would have been willing to risk or associate himself with before his shooting. And it was meant, I think, to portray Tony's desire to change and evolve against all his conditioning and the pressures of the social/power structure he was part of. But like Vito himself, he would not change because he ultimately was unwilling to endure the risks, suffering, and sacrifices that change requires.
"In Camelot" is definitely another episode where I can see parallels between Phil and Johnny Boy, and it also happens to be the episode wherein Tony's conflict with Phil begins. Based on the psychological content of the episode, it seemed like Tony settling Fran's business straight was another attempt to please his mother (she may not have reminded him of Livia the way Gloria did, but as an older woman his father used to fuck, there definitely are some parallels). Since later that episode we find that one source of Tony's underlying resentment for Johnny is his neglect of Livia in her time of need, it may be that assaulting Phil was a subconscious outlet for that resentment - Phil was neglecting Fran financially, and Phil reminded Tony of his father. Note how quickly Tony entered a high-speed pursuit of Phil. There was already some kind of resentment there, even though they didn't really know each other at that point. Tony may have looked at Phil ignoring his commitments, and seen Johnny ignoring Livia when she was having a miscarriage.arrjay wrote:In the "IN CAMELOT" episode...Tony has a sit down with Johnny Sack to settle his claim to a racetrack owned by his father, Hesh, and Phil Leotardo


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Thursday, November 6, 2008
I Fail at Uncheese
Though it appears fairly solid in this photo, it was definitely not. The cheese was actually more spreadable than the spread I made last week. Apparently, I'm lacking in agar skills.
I didn't have any agar flakes, which the recipe called for, but I did have agar powder. So I looked up the measurement substitutions on a PPK forum. According to one poster, a half-teaspoon of agar powder equals one tablespoon of agar flakes. So I dissolved 2 1/2 teaspoons in the water since the recipe calls for 5 tablespoons of flakes.
The agar and water came to a boil. And I lowered the heat and stirred constantly for about 10 minutes. But it never really thickened. Having only worked with agar once or twice before (without much luck), I assumed the stuff would "set" as it cooled.
So I poured it in the blender with the raw cashews, lemon juice, nooch, and other ingredients and blended until smooth. Per the instructions, I poured the mix into a mold lined with paprika and placed it in the fridge overnight. When I woke this morning, the consistancy hadn't changed a bit.
Fortunately, it still tastes great! I spread some on an Amy's Bistro burger for dinner and on sprouted grain toast for lunch (eaten with leftover linguini).
Does anyone have any agar tips? The Uncheese book doesn't provide much in the way of an agar troubleshooting guide.
35 comments:
- ladyliriel said...
As long as it tastes great, it's all good!!
- November 7, 2008 at 1:03 AM
- Alicia said...
Oh, sorry, I also suck at cooking with agar... I make my own flakes out of agar strings, but they only work sometimes, rather randomly... And I have agar powder that works better, maybe you have to add more? no idea. I'm dying to try something out of that book!
- November 7, 2008 at 2:01 AM
- Mihl said...
So sorry to hear about that! When I make uncheese, I always use 1 1/2 tablespoons of agar powder, which works pretty well. The result is very firm and sliceable. I hope your next results will be better.
- November 7, 2008 at 2:55 AM
- Melisser; the Urban Housewife said...
Agar's a bitch! At least it tastes good!
- November 7, 2008 at 3:34 AM
Bummer! At least it's tasty! I find with agar that I almost always need more than the recipe calls for, but that's not very precise, is it?
- November 7, 2008 at 4:36 AM
- Sal - AlienOnToast said...
I've had mixed results with agar flakes. I find the best way is to sprinkle them onto cold liquid then bring to the boil without stirring and then when boiling, turn the heat down to a simmer, stir well and just stir every so often until dissolved. It normally takes about 3 or 4 minutes.
- November 7, 2008 at 5:18 AM
sorry I've never used agar but at least it tasted good, right?
I really want to try one of those cheeses!!!
- November 7, 2008 at 7:56 AM
- LizNoVeggieGirl said...
Hey, at least it tastes good - that's what counts!! :-D
- November 7, 2008 at 8:12 AM
- Leslie Richman said...
I've only made one uncheese, I think it was the Colby. I say, if it tastes good, you are close enough, cuz even when I got it right, it was an odd texture. Still tasted great though!
- November 7, 2008 at 8:54 AM
I made this same cheese myself last week. It turned out great, but I was really worried as I was putting it into the fridge to cool. It was like soup, and I didn't think it would thicken at all. But it did. I noticed that while cooking the agar, it didn't really thicken too much, but I have also noticed in making other cheeses (the Gooda, for instance) that if the measurements are off by just a bit, the cheese will come out "spreadable" and not sliceable at all. I don't know if that helps at all, but good luck in future uncheese endeavors!
- November 7, 2008 at 9:55 AM
- Jen said...
i'm scared of working with agar, just like i am of working with bread yeast. if there was a cooking class titled "learning to cook with agar and yeast" you'd bet your sweet southern tuchus that i'd be in the front row. i agree with everyone else that as long as it tastes great that's all that really matters.
- November 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM
I'm so glad you still liked how it tasted. You're giving me the inspiration I need to try one of these block cheeses for myself.
- November 7, 2008 at 11:20 AM
That sounds hard!
I added you to our blogroll. Hope that's cool!
- November 7, 2008 at 11:34 AM
- jessy said...
i wouldn't call that a failure - i mean, it's still super yummy - and that's damn awesome, Bianca! i too loved that reddish orange rim from Muenster! always looked so pretty, and kinda fun, too.
i've never used agar, but i hear that the key is soaking it for at least 30 minutes before using it. i hear it's tricky stuff! eek!
hooray for more uncheeze!
- November 7, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- thedalyn said...
I always make the uncheese in the Native Foods cookbook and, though I make it thin for pouring on nachos and pizza, her recipe calls for making a block. The amount of agar she calls for (as I recall)? A half cup. So you may just need to use a lot more.
- November 7, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Sadly I have no agar advice as I am slightly frightened of it - you're definitely inspiring me to explore more of the Uncheese Cookbook though.
- November 7, 2008 at 3:03 PM
I've made a couple of the block uncheeses and used agar powder, not flakes. I may be wrong, but I thought there were some powder/flake equivalents in the introduction part of the block uncheeses? At any rate, I always made my cheeses subbing some white wine for the water (this worked especially well with the Swiss, to add some tangy flavor) and adding some more oil (that second part is less healthy but also tasty!). They always set up well, though they're never going to be solid like dairy cheese. I've also found, like many people, that I don't really have Stepaniak's palate, so I haven't used that book for a long time (too much ground mustard, onion and garlic powder, in my opinion). But I wish you luck on future endeavors!
- November 7, 2008 at 3:24 PM
- Agnesss =) said...
Hey Bianca!!
WoooW!!!!!!!!!! This cheese looks AMAZZZING!!!!!!!! =D I think I have to make sth like these in the future...!! Thx for inspiration!!
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- November 7, 2008 at 3:36 PM
- MeloMeals said...
i usually use around 1 T of agar powder for uncheese.. one thing I know for a fact is that agar will not set up if it's initially mixed with an acid. (although you didn't do that).. but when I've done my vegan feta, I have to activate the agar first and then blend it in with the rest of my ingredients.
- November 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- River (Wing-It Vegan) said...
Well, it looks fantastic if it's any consolation. Plus if it tasted good, at least it didn't go to waste! I love its redness!
- November 7, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- Theresa said...
I have no agar tips... but I've been relatively unhappy with the block uncheeses that I've tried. The sauces and spreads are so good, though! Yesterday I made mac&cheese with the "melty chedda cheez" variation of melty white cheez... so rich and creamy and yum!
- November 7, 2008 at 6:43 PM
Like pretty much everyone here, I've found agar to be very fussy and imprecise. The only solid uncheese I've tried from the book is the Swiss cheese and it came out great (and I love swell vegan's idea of white wine!)
- November 7, 2008 at 10:44 PM
- Lisa (Show Me Vegan) said...
i haven't tried cooking with agar yet, but I'm glad you posted this so people could share their experiences with it!
- November 8, 2008 at 7:15 AM
- Becka Robinson said...
I wish I had tips but I'm sure this is better than what I would have come up with. HaHA.
- November 8, 2008 at 7:25 AM
- Bex said...
yes, agar can be a godsend and a pain all at the same time. I haven't worked with it much but each time I do it comes out a little better. 10 minutes should have been enough to dissolve it Stick with it. Kitchen experiments can be fun and at least it tastes good.
- November 8, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- miss v said...
i also suck at agar. my first attempt with it turned into something so solid i could have paved my driveway with it. but at least yours was still edible! :)
- November 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM
- Susan G said...
I think I have read that 1 tsp. powder = 1 Tblsp. flakes. But I have not tried it myself, so I can't vouch.
- November 8, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- ChocolateCoveredVegan said...
I love agar, but I've only used it in pudding recipes. But taste is most important :o)
- November 8, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm with Susan G. 1 t powder for 1 T of flakes, and it's always worked fine.
- November 9, 2008 at 5:32 AM
- Joanna said...
oh geez. i give you credit for even attempting this recipe!!! i've never made my own cheese before. i've actually never even eaten it either!!! i wouldn't know how it's supposed to taste haha
- November 9, 2008 at 5:08 PM
- urban vegan said...
It looks good, even though you say it was a failure. Go to my blog--I just did an agar post--and there's a link to my Agar Basics post.
And remember, an apple will never taste like an orange. Vegan cheese s different than regular cheese, and you have to enjoy it for what it is...how Zen, right?
- November 9, 2008 at 7:26 PM
I've made these cheeses several times and I use 1 1/2 tablespoons of agar powder (the amount it recommends in the book) and it works fine. One time mine came out spreadable. It was because it wasn't blended enough. I find that if I blend all the other ingredients well (especially the cashews) BEFORE I put in the agar liquid, it blends better and tends to come out smoother. I love the way these cheeses taste on crackers!
- November 10, 2008 at 6:35 AM
- funwithyourfood said...
Agar is just hard for me too... for me, it's a partice makes perfect thing. also i use powdered agar b/c it's suppose to form better than flakes... those are the only tips I have
- November 10, 2008 at 9:59 AM
- Unknown said...
you just followed bad advise is all! you need 1/3 the amount of powder as flakes..
so if a recipe calls for 1 tablespoon of flakes, use 1 teaspoon of powder (1 tablespoon equals three teaspoons).
- November 11, 2008 at 10:30 AM
- Sophie K said...
oh my god, i just used agar in a dessert recipe with very sad results!! i'm not sure WHAT went wrong. it was the rhubarb tart in "vegan desserts" which tastes amazing but never set up.... maybe i'll just try more agar?
- May 11, 2012 at 7:29 PM