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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Creamy Orzo with Asparagus & Parmesan
49 comments:
- What's Cookin Chicago said...
This looks delicious! I love how creamy it is!
- September 2, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Sandi @the WhistleStop Cafe said...
Looks great! You had me at asparagus.
I get whole wheat orzo at whole funds... you gotta try it.
- September 2, 2009 at 9:30 PM
- Colleen said...
This looks right up our alley - I need to make this in my house!
- September 6, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- Unknown said...
Gonna try this tonight. I found a recipe for this in a magazine but now I cannot for the life of me locate it. This looks easy and delish. :-)
- March 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM
I used broccoli and half and half, it's delicious, I'll be adding this to our regular meal plans. Next ill be trying green peas. Thank you for sharing an easy, yet yummy dish.
- June 26, 2012 at 4:49 PM
- Celeste said...
Thank ya'll so much for your comments! :)
- June 26, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Dish was quick, easy, and delicious! I added some peas to it to have some extra veggies.
- July 1, 2012 at 7:36 PM
Great job! I made this tonight for dinner and we loved it. Easy enough my daughter will make it, too. Thank you!
- July 1, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- Celeste said...
Thank ya'll so much for commenting. Peas! That's a great idea. I'm glad that you guys liked it! :)
- July 1, 2012 at 9:29 PM
This was wonderful.Simple to throw together and everything is usually on hand. I used some leftover cooked green beans. It was great. My toddler gobbled it up. Thanks so much!
- July 6, 2012 at 11:29 AM
- Celeste said...
Thanks, Josi! :)
- July 15, 2012 at 9:20 PM
I made this today with fresh green beans! Yum!
- August 4, 2012 at 5:34 PM
- Celeste said...
Jen - SO glad you liked it! :)
- August 24, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- Unknown said...
I just came across this recipe and it looks delicious! Do you think I can substitute milk for the cream to lower the calories a bit for this dish? Or do you think the cream is necessary for the consistency/taste of it?
- August 31, 2012 at 8:36 AM
I made this last night and it was so easy and delicious. Went well with a spicy bbq'd meat. Thank you for sharing.
- September 9, 2012 at 10:35 AM
- Shannon said...
There's one MAJOR problem with this recipe that I'm surprised no one else has had...I don't want to share it with ANYONE!!! My 2 year old son looked at me as if I had gone mad when I took the first delicious bite! Daddy is out of town on business and I am reluctant to make this for him because I know we will be standing over the stove waiting impatiently for it to be ready! As I stated earlier...I will not share nice with him!! Thank you, thank you for this recipe. It is so simple, quick and versitile. I already had all of the ingredients which made it even better!
Thank you!
~Shannon and Jameson (A.K.A. Little Man)
- September 14, 2012 at 7:41 PM
- Celeste said...
Thanks to everyone for your comments! This is one of my favorite side dish recipes.
Hayley - If you substitute with milk, I would maybe stick with whole milk. Perhaps using half milk and half cream would be a good solution. I don't cook often with cream, but this dish really benefits from it.
Megan - I'm so glad that you liked it. I imagine it indeed would be delish with with spicy BBQ.
Shannon - I'm so glad that you loved it!!! :-)
Thanks everyone for stopping by my little blog! :-)
- September 17, 2012 at 12:08 PM
- SamiBubbles said...
Recipe looks delicious an simple. What a great combination! I will be trying this later this week with leftover rotisserie chicken (the precooked grocery store type) cut up right in the dish to make it a full meal on its own. Thanks!
- September 17, 2012 at 4:42 PM
- SamiBubbles said...
Looks delicious and simple. What a great combination! I will be trying this later this week with rotisserie chicken (the precooked grocery store type) mixed in for a complete one-bowl style meal. I will also try using part chicken stock to cook the orzo since I think it adds a bit more depth of flavour, and I will use a steam basket over too of the boiling orzo to cook the asparagus since it keeps in more nutrition. Great idea though thank you!!
- September 17, 2012 at 4:45 PM
- SamiBubbles said...
I did try this tonight and it was great!!!! So easy and so delicious! I added some wine into the boiling liquid instead of the chicken stock I mentioned the other day and it was great! My boyfriend loved it too! will definitely make this again!
- September 20, 2012 at 7:27 PM
- Unknown said...
when you say cream as in like what kind of cream ?!
- September 21, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- Unknown said...
wait when you say cream what kind of cream?!? help please
- September 21, 2012 at 12:16 PM
- Celeste said...
Hi Jennifer! It should be heavy whipping cream. :)
- September 23, 2012 at 6:58 PM
- Celeste said...
SamiBubbles - I'm so glad that you liked it! Wine sounds like a great addition.
- September 23, 2012 at 7:00 PM
- Dana @ Conscious Kitchen Blog said...
I found this recipe on Pinterest and made it last night! It turned out great. I shared it with my blog readers as well. Thanks for the great recipe!
~Dana, www.consciouskitchenblog.com
- September 27, 2012 at 8:27 AM
- Monique Valenzuela Calligraphy said...
If I'm using one cup of orzo, how much water do I use?
- October 16, 2012 at 9:37 PM
A good recipe -- creamy and toothsome -- but a bit bland. I might try it again sometime with onion and garlic and maybe something a bit spicy. Thanks for introducing me to creamy orzo!
- October 22, 2012 at 9:33 PM
I'm sure you can use a dollop of Greek yogurt. I tend to in most recipes that call for cream or sour cream. Adding this to my recipes to try!
- October 25, 2012 at 11:38 AM
I have never cooked with orzo, so I was wondering how much water also. Plus do you drain the orzo?
- October 25, 2012 at 2:04 PM
I made this tonight for dinner. My boyfriend and I loved it!! I boiled the orzo and asparagus in chicken stock instead of water and I used 1/4 cup whipping cream because that's all I had.
Will definitely be making this in the future, great recipe!
- November 7, 2012 at 10:09 PM
very tasty side dish! It even passed the man test :-) love that it makes a decent amount, I know what's for lunch tomorrow!
- November 12, 2012 at 11:56 PM
- katie said...
A bit bland...try adding onion powder, garlic powder and a dash of chili flakes! :)
- November 16, 2012 at 12:53 AM
- Stacie Jean said...
Made this for dinner tonight! Perfect! I added sauteed mushrooms to mine along with the asparagus. This dish coupled with a glass of wine was the perfect meal while the boyfriend was out for the night!! Can't wait to eat the leftovers :)
- November 25, 2012 at 6:19 PM
- Unknown said...
This was amazing! Loved it very much and so simple to make!
- November 30, 2012 at 7:10 PM
- Life With Lucy said...
I just made this for dinner tonight! It was delicious! I added chicken to make it our main dish. I'm always looking for different ways to cook veggies and this was great! Thanks so much for sharing!
- December 16, 2012 at 6:25 PM
- Jacki said...
Made this tonight & while it was really good as is I took suggestions from here & my family on how we want to tweak it for next time :) Will boil pasta & veggies in chicken broth for more flavor, add more parmesan & maybe some mushrooms. Definitely a keeper!
- January 4, 2013 at 6:22 PM
Made this first time tonight and it is delicious !!
- January 8, 2013 at 5:43 PM
- Dinner-Pal said...
Great shortcut to asparagus risotto. Will definitely try out! Thanks for sharing...
- February 15, 2013 at 9:36 AM
I just made this tonight...great dish!I I added shelled edamame into the boiling water with the asparagus and then added roasted grape tomatoes and shrimp at the end. Instead of cream, i used cream cheese and it added a nice tangy flavor.
- March 5, 2013 at 6:11 PM
- Vicki Capone said...
Awesome! I made it with mushrooms too, boiled the pasta in chicken stock. Delish!!
- March 11, 2013 at 12:39 PM
My grandaugher Jamie made this dish for dinner when she visited me from Flordia, the whole family loved it. She did add shrimp to it and it was great.I now have the recipe and can't wait to try it for myself.
- March 18, 2013 at 12:01 PM
I just made a gluten-free, lighter version by replacing the orzo with rice and the cream with 1/4 c. low-fat greek yogurt and 1/8 c. milk. It was so good, thank you for the inspiration! I might try it with quinoa next time!
- April 19, 2013 at 7:13 PM
Commenter # 5 said she used half n half. Just wondering if it turned out the same as if heavy whipping cream was used? And same amount?
- April 22, 2013 at 3:56 PM
We just renamed this dish the OMG dish - it is that good. Even my picky 7-year old asked for seconds.
- April 29, 2013 at 9:27 PM
- Stacy said...
Just made this and it is delicious! I cooked the asparagus a little too long, but will correct this the next time I make it! Yum!
- May 9, 2013 at 11:14 AM
- Unknown said...
BACON! I didnt change anything in this recipe... but i had some leftover bacon in the fridge. So i chopped it up and put it in the mix. I wont tell anyone when Im making it next time so I dont have to share. :)
- November 26, 2013 at 2:31 PM
- oaklandchoicemom said...
Just made this and it is super easy and fast. Tasted great but I would agree it needs something else to make it less bland. Maybe some chile flakes?
- December 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM
I made this a few months ago with Half & Half and added leftover roasted chicken. Everyone loved it including my grandchildren. I am making it again and am adding sundried tomatoes along with the chicken. Sauteed mushrooms sound good, perhaps I will try that too. Thanks for the great recipe!
- April 26, 2014 at 9:06 PM
I used 1/2 cup of fat free half & half. It turned out perfect. Thank you for the wonderful and easy recipe. I tis definitely a keeper.
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My first two books, Hammer and Hoe and Race Rebels, grew out of the same set of questions: who makes up the black working—class, how do they fight back against oppressions of race, class and gender, and what do they fight for? In some ways, my goal was to write a social history of politics that pays attention to the culture and ideas of ordinary people in struggle. I wanted to know how people changed as a result of their participation in these social movements. I wanted to know how they fought back, survived, made community outside the pale of the organizations and movements that are too often our own source for historical narratives. The last question lay at the heart of Race Rebels, which included an elaborate discussion of everyday forms of resistance. I concluded that there is nothing inherently radical or oppositional about daily acts of resistance and survival; the relationship of these acts to power always depends on the context.
Yo' Mama's DisFunktional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America is a work of urban studies, public policy, social commentary and late 20th century history. In addition to offering a critique of the ethnographic imagination in studies of inner city communities, I examine various sources of the contemporary urban crisis and the means by which residents have tried to survive, achieve some kind of upward mobility, create art, and organize in order to fight back. This book has been widely read and debated.
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination might be described as a history of the collective imagination of black radical social movements during the 20th century, focusing primarily on what people in particular movements dreamed of, what they thought they were fighting for, what they articulated as the "New World" or "New Land." The book begins with the premise that the catalyst for political engagement has never been misery, poverty, and oppression but hope; the promise of constructing a new world radically different from the one we've inherited. It is a brief meditation on the black radical imagination, a kind of "third eye" view of history that attempts to recover the dreams of a new world that have yet to be realized. Focusing on "back-to-Africa" movements, socialism, Third World Liberation, Surrealism, radical feminism, and reparations, I argue that these renegade black intellectuals/activist /artists not only created a vision often more inclusive than their Euro-American counterparts, but in so doing produced theoretical insights that might have pushed Western radicalism in new directions.
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press 2009) is the first full-length, complete biography of one of the most important composers/pianists in 20th century American music, and one of the most enigmatic figures of his era. While he is recognized as an originator of modern jazz, throughout much of his life his angular melodies, dissonant harmonies, and unorthodox technique were dismissed or overshadowed by tales of his reputed behavior. Critics and fans alike called him weird, eccentric, strange, taciturn, child-like—sometimes derisively, other times as evidence of his originality. Based on exclusive access to the Monk family papers and private recordings, personal interviews, as well as a decade of prodigious research, this book challenges the common stereotypes and delivers an intimate portrait of a startlingly different Thelonious Monk–witty, generous, family-oriented, politically engaged, critical and brutally honest, and a devoted father and husband. Above all, Thelonious Monk is the story of an artist's struggle to "make it" without compromising his musical vision.
My most recent book, Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Harvard University Press, 2012), examines the work and lives of four artists and the groups they led during the age of African decolonization: Ghanaian-born drummer Guy Warren; pianist Randy Weston; bassist/oudist Ahmed Abdul-Malik; and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin, who is also South African. By exploring the work, conversations, collaborations, and tensions between both African and African American musicians during the era of decolonization, Africa Speaks, America Answers explains how modern Africa figured in reshaping jazz during the 1950s and early 1960s, how modern jazz figured in the formation of a modern African identity, and how various musical convergences and crossings shaped the political and cultural landscape on both continents.
Each of these artists was propelled by the upheavals of the 1950s to seek new musical forms, new collaborations, new fusions across time and space. They shared neither a common agenda nor a common culture—though they recognized and often embraced cultural commonalities, "jazz" being one. Nor did they always succeed. On the contrary, they occasionally clashed with fellow artists, or bumped up against prevailing assumptions, the intransigence of the market, an oppressive state that viewed their music as a threat to order, or consumers whose own stereotypes made them incapable of hearing and appreciating the work. Yet, they all shared a common vision of jazz as a path to the future, a vehicle for both Africans and African Americans to articulate and realize their own distinctive modernity while critiquing its Western variant. And, from their vantage point, standing at what appeared to be the precipice of freedom for Africa and Black America, the continent represented a beacon of modernity blazing a new path for the rest of the world, but one tempered by deeply spiritual, anti-materialist values. This sort of janus-faced modernism is key to understanding the nexus of jazz and Africa in the age of decolonization.
My latest big project is a biography of the late Grace Halsell, tentatively titled The Education of Ms. Grace Halsell: An Intimate History of the American Century. The Texas-born journalist, granddaughter of Confederate slave owners, daughter of a once wealthy cattle rancher and Indian fighter, began her career as a correspondent (domestic and foreign) for several Texas papers during the 1940s and 50s, eventually worked as a staff writer for President Lyndon B. Johnson, before setting out in 1968 to chemically darken her skin and live as a black woman for a year. Known as the female John Howard Griffin, she published the best-selling Soul Sister: The Journal of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi (1969). She would go on to write twelve more books, including an expose about living as a Navajo and working as a domestic in a California suburb (Bessie Yellowhair), a book about passing as an undocumented worker from Mexico and crossing the border three times (The Illegals), and several other unrelated texts. In her final masquerade, she passed as the person she was probably supposed to become: a right-wing Christian fundamentalist. She traveled to Israel with Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" and wrote a scathing critique of the Christian Right's uncritical support of Israel and what she regarded as the brutal treatment of Palestinians and Arab Jews. As a result of her sharply critical stance against Israel, her jobs, lucrative book contracts, and other opportunities began to disappear. She died in 2000 from multiple myeloma cancer caused largely by the drugs she had taken to turn herself brown.
Finally, I am collaborating with two other authors, Tera Hunter and Earl Lewis, on a general survey of African American history. In many ways, it is a challenge to what has become the standard 'multiculturalist' approach to American history. What we are proposing is a re-writing of American history through the experiences and struggles of African Americans. We want our readers to understand both slaveholders and enslaved people, lynch victims and lynch mobs, women and men, working people and employers, rich and poor, and how all of these relationships are interconnected to American culture, the economy, politics, power, and tradition.
Ph.D. American History, UCLA, 1987
Selected Publications
Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012)
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (The Free Press, 2009).
Best Book About Jazz 2009, Jazz
Journalists Association
Music in American Culture Award, American
Musicological Association
Ambassador Award for Book of Special
Distinction, English Speaking Union;
PEN Open Book Award, PEN American Center
ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award
Best Non-Fiction Book, Hurston/Wright
Legacy Award.
Booklist – Starred Review
Selected by New York Times Book Review –
Top 100 books of 2009
**Italian translation: Thelonious Monk: Storia di un Genio Americano, trans. Marco Bertoli (Roma: Minimum Fax, 2012).
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002)
with Howard Zinn and Dana Frank, Three Strikes: The Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Beacon Press, 2001)
Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).
Selected Best book of 1997 by Village
Voice; Outstanding Book on Human Rights,
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Human Rights in the United States,
**Translated in Japanese, as Yo Mama's DisFunktional!: Representing America's Urban Crisis (Hanmoto Publishers, 2007), translated by Kosuzu Abe and Katsuyuki Murata. New foreword by author
Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York: The Free Press, 1994).
Outstanding Book, National Conference of
Black Political Scientists, 1995.
Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990).
Elliot Rudwick Prize, Organization of
American Historians, 1991;
Francis Butler Simkins Prize, Southern
Historical Association
Outstanding book on Human Rights,
Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of
Human Rights in the United States, 1991.
Edited Books and Collections
Co-edited with Stephen Tuck, The Other Special Relationship: The Black Freedom Movement in the U.K. and the U.S. (forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2014)
Co-edited with Franklin Rosemont, Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the African Diaspora (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009).
Winner, American Book Award, the Before
Columbus Foundation.
Co-edited with Earl Lewis, To Make Our World Anew: A History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, 2000). Two Volume edition, 2004.
Selection of History Book Club and Choice
Outstanding Academic Title.
Chosen as an Outstanding book on Human
Rights, Gustavus Myers Center for the
Study of Human Rights in the United
States, 2002.
Co-edited with Sidney J. Lemelle, Imagining Home: Class, Culture, and Nationalism in the African Diaspora (London: Verso Books, 1995).


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OMAHA, Neb. (April 27, 2017) – Last night, Christine Collins of New Port Richey, Florida, was named the 2017 North American CAREGiverSM of the Year for her extraordinary compassion and lifelong dedication to serve others. Since 1997, Home Instead Senior Care selects one of its 60,000 North American professional caregivers for the prestigious award each year – identifying a CAREGiver who has exemplified exceptional compassion and care toward his/her senior clients.
"I have always been a caregiver – a trait, I feel, was derived from my Irish heritage," said Collins in her acceptance speech to the more than 1,600 attendees at the Home Instead annual convention in Omaha. "Our clients' families entrust their loved ones' well-being to us. This is truly a privilege, and I am so honored that they allow me to come into their lives at such a vulnerable time and help them along their journey."
After experiencing 9/11 from the perimeter of ground zero, Collins was made all too aware how precious life is. She left her 40-year career at a Manhattan investment banking company and headed to Florida to be closer to her mother, who was living with dementia. She served as her mother's caregiver until she died in 2010. It was then that she discovered Home Instead and has since worked as a Home Instead professional caregiver, never missing a single shift.
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It came as no surprise to Stacey Murphy, co-owner of the Home Instead franchise in New Port Richey, when Christine was selected to receive this prestigious award.
"She treats her clients how she would treat her own mother," said Murphy. "There is truly no one else like her. She has a way of making the people around her feel special, important and loved."
In the face of all the praise and accolades Collins has received, she remains thankful to her senior clients for giving her an opportunity to serve others.
"Even though I'm in the latter part of my life, I feel like there's been a really big change in me, and I'm happy with it. Doing this work, I have discovered my niche in life. After my husband passed away, this gives me purpose again. There is no better award than that."
To learn about becoming a CAREGiver and joining the Home Instead family, visit www.homeinstead.com/jobs.
Founded in 1994 in Omaha, Nebraska, by Lori and Paul Hogan, the Home Instead Senior Care® network provides personalized care, support and education to help enhance the lives of aging adults and their families. Today this network is the world's leading provider of in-home care services for seniors, with more than 1,000 independently owned and operated franchises that are estimated to annually provide more than 50 million hours of care throughout the United States and 12 other countries. Local Home Instead Senior Care offices employ approximately 65,000 CAREGiversSM worldwide who provide basic support services that enable seniors to live safely and comfortably in their own homes for as long as possible. The Home Instead Senior Care network strives to partner with each client and his or her family members to help meet that individual's needs. Services span the care continuum from providing companionship and personal care to specialized Alzheimer's care and hospice support. Also available are family caregiver education and support resources. At Home Instead Senior Care, it's relationship before task, while striving to provide superior quality service.
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Celebrities, They're Just Like Us! (Dating Coach Edition)
If you've ever wondered why I don't do celebrity news when writing about Kate Middleton or Kim Kardashian could increase my traffic tenfold, it's because it would be too painful for me to "analyze" the inner workings of their relationships. My time is better spent coaching clients, reading interesting articles, or arguing with strangers in the comments section below.
But when this celebrity-driven post went up on the Daily Beast, I knew I had to at least acknowledge it in some way:
Turns out that AnastasiaDate, a US/Russian dating site that is just shy of pimping mail order brides, has signed soap star and celebrity hunk Antonio Sabato to write a column for their website. Sabato's first piece of advice?
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Seriously? If you're on a Russian mail order bride site, I would think you should try to be someone else.
Listen, I don't know Antonio Sabato, Jr. He may be a smart, sweet, compassionate guy with a real desire to help people. But me thinks that he just needed a paycheck. And that AnastasiaDate, with $140M in revenues had a little extra cash to throw around.
I'll be the first to acknowledge that ANYBODY can be a dating coach. There's no barrier to entry. Build a blog, start a mailing list, see if you can convince people to trust you, and get them to pay for your products. I ain't stopping you. But the fact is that even if everyone can (and does) give dating advice (see the comments section again), very few people get away with being able to do it for many years and many millions of people.
As the article observes, "Those ambling unsuccessfully through the dating scene don't want a wall covered in degrees and certificates. Nor are they interested in Adonis-like television stars' tips on picking up girls (the secret is to be an Adonis-like television star). It's the charmingly mediocre man–not hugely wealthy, not exceptionally good-looking–who snags the beautiful, smart, and interesting woman worthy of study."
Charmingly mediocre. Not exceptionally good-looking. I'll take it!
That makes me think of one time when I was called into audition to be a dating coach on Extreme Makeover. The executive producer took one look at me and said: "YOU'RE a dating coach? You must either have a really big dick or you must be incredibly charming!" Me: "I can tell you what it's not."
I love that story. Not because a Hollywood bigwig insulted me to my face as soon as he met me. But because I'm living proof that you can find the ultimate love with a little charm, a lot of trial and error, and the ability to persevere and learn from your own mistakes. I hope that's readily apparent every time you read my blog. Thanks for being a part of my community.


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Tax assessment resolution approved
A resolution that approved the method to collect non ad-valorem assessments drew discussion on City Council Monday night.
Newly elected Councilmember Rick Williams said it seemed like a gung-ho way to tax residents, especially with the amount of assessments that are on the list.
But Councilmember Rana Erbrick said many of those assessments on the list aren't used by the city, but need to be there just in case.
"It's just another tool we have in the tool box," Erbrick said. "We have not assessed them and have no plans to do so."
Councilmember John Carioscia also had questions, such as why doesn't the city vote on assessments when they need them.
Victoria Bateman, the city's financial manager, said doing so would take options away for fiscal year 2015.
"Timing is critical if you want to do anything for the budget," Bateman said. "If this doesn't pass, it would crimp our ability to use assessments."
The resolution passed 6-1, with Williams dissenting.
The city also discussed an interlocal agreement between the city and Lee County regarding its use of space within fire stations for its emergency vehicles and personnel.
The five-year term would pay the city $68,711 per year, up from $30,775 in the previous agreement.
It also agreed to the interlocal agreement for the provision of fire protection services in unincorporated Lee Country in the Burnt Store area.
The county's payment will be $716,967 for fiscal year 2014, up from $602,000 last year, assuming a "ready-to-serve" methodology.
In other business, the city approved deviations for a new sanctuary building at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, adopted an amendment to the city's investment policy, and amendments to the definitions of a kitchen and a dwelling unit.
Kitchens are considered both indoors and outdoors and do not require storage cabinets to be considered a kitchen.
The ordinance was instituted to prevent illegal modifications of dwellings
Also, Councilmember Rana Erbrick had a presentation for the family of Gary Vandenberg, a member of the Citizens Police Review Board and numerous other committees, who died in April.
Joe Cobb, a member of the committee and good friend, said Vandenberg stepped forward and gave that committee the expertise it needed.


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Ozuna looking to land job in Marlins' outfield
Now healthy, 23-year-old is bidding to win starting position in center
JUPITER, Fla. -- Thumb taped and covered by a batting glove, Marcell Ozuna steps into the batters' box without any hesitation on the back fields at Roger Dean Stadium.
Upbeat and enthusiastic as ever, baseball is fun and games all over again for Ozuna.
In the middle of last season, the 23-year-old found himself dealing with a painful thumb injury, which required surgery and ended his season in late July.
Healthy, Ozuna is a frontrunner to win the Marlins' starting center field job.
"I feel OK," Ozuna said. "I feel ready to make the team, and have a good season."
Ozuna injured his thumb making a diving catch against the Rockies at Coors Field. The diagnosis was a ligament tear and an avulsion fracture.
In October, he was cleared to play winter ball in the Dominican Republic, where he played in 34 games and batted .277 with two homers and 12 RBIs in 141 at-bats.
Admittedly, Ozuna had some concerns when he first faced live pitching.
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Now, in Spring Training the only sign that he had a thumb issue is the extra layer of tape he wears.
Power is expected to be part of Ozuna's game. But it is developing. In 70 big league games, he batted .265 with three homers and 32 RBIs.
Before he was called up from Double-A Jacksonville, he belted five homers in 10 games.
Ozuna's big league promotion came the day after Giancarlo Stanton went on the disabled list with a strained hamstring.
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A Wild Fortune Summoners Demo Appears
Just a quick one, as I'm supposed to be in the middle of cooking a curry and if my girlfriend catches me posting instead of chopping onions she'll… WhatwasthatohgodI'mgonnadie.
Okay. Okay. It was only a passing seagull. Got to be speedy here. Side-scrolling RPG Fortune Summoners, the next translated Japanese indie game from Carpe Fulgur, now has an English-language demo. That's here, at a svelte cost of 66MB. And its release date and price are newly confirmed as January 17th, 2012 and 25 USD/20 EUR/£16. Right, I need to slice some mushrooms before I get sliced up myself. Have fun!


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Kyoya Hibari is the 16th chapter of Akira Amano's Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
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At the meeting of the heads of the Fall Quarter Committees, a girl is surprised to see that a committee would use the reception room but, upon hearing that committee is the disciplinary committee, stops and apologizes immediately to the head, Kyoya Hibari. Hibari then sees three representatives of the tree planting committee and tells them that only one representative is allowed per committee. He then has the three beaten up while Reborn watches them from a distance.
Meanwhile, Tsuna, Yamamoto, and Gokudera are talking about the summer vacation ending abruptly when Reborn, wearing his autumn camouflage Chestnut suit, arrives. While Tsuna scolds him for going to school again, Reborn tells him that they have to make a Family hideout. Yamamoto and Gokudera happily agree and Reborn tells them that their hideout would be the reception room since the furniture view and geographical location are good. Yamamoto and Gokudera head toward the reception room, with Tsuna reluctantly following.
As Yamamoto and Gokudera enter the room, they are surprised to see Hibari inside. Hibari notices Gokudera's cigarette and uses his tonfa to put it out, much to the group's surprise. He then comments on them being weak for forming a group and tells them that he wants to bite them to death. At that moment, an oblivious Tsuna enters the room and is immediately attacked by Hibari who sends him flying. Gokudera and Yamamoto try to retaliate but fail and end up unconscious. Tsuna then gets up and sees Gokudera and Yamamoto unconscious. As Tsuna tries to make heads or tails of the situation, Reborn shoots him with the Dying Will Bullet, giving him the strength to fight back. Hibari is able to dodge his attacks and punches him on the chin. Thinking that he has defeated Tsuna, Hibari turns to beat up the other two but sees Tsuna standing up. Tsuna uses Leon as a slipper and attacks Hibari on the head, angering Hibari. Hibari tries to attack Tsuna but is stopped by Reborn, who uses a bomb to escape.
After Tsuna, Yamamoto, and Gokudera recover, Reborn explains to them that he intentionally wanted them to meet Hibari. Tsuna panics, thinking that Hibari will have his eyes on them, while the other two try to calm him down. Reborn says to himself that Hibari would be a useful guy in the future. Elsewhere, Hibari is thinking about Reborn, wanting to see him again.
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Nearly two decades have passed since Ed Carpenter watched Indianapolis 500 time trials for the first time. Actually, he acknowledges being more focused on playing in the Turn 2 suites at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with his brother and cousin than the track activity.
"I started getting more into what was going on in the mid- to late-'90s when I was getting more serious about racing and meeting the guys, knowing some of the drivers," says Carpenter, an Indianapolis native who turned 31 on March 3.
On May 12 – Opening Day of practice for the 96th Running of the Indianapolis 500 – reflections of hours spent with family, friends and giants of the sport at the Speedway struck Carpenter as he entered the 103-year-old venue for the first time as the lone IZOD IndyCar Series team owner/driver.
"I think it hits you even when it's not May, but it's a little more special in May because you're preparing for the race," says Carpenter, who's driving the Chevrolet-powered No. 20 Fuzzy's Ultra Premium Vodka car. "That's why I race IndyCars – for this race. There's so much emphasis put on it, it's an honor every time you go on track."
Carpenter was among 26 drivers to record 693 incident-free laps in the six-hour session. Drivers will get 36 more hours of track time, weather permitting (and the forecast is favorable), through "Fast Friday" before Pole Day qualifications May 19 in testing the new engine/aero kit package. Gates open at 10 a.m. May 13 for the Mother's Day special of noon-6 p.m. practice.
Rookie Josef Newgarden posted the quickest lap on the 2.5-mile oval of 220.250 mph in the No. 67 Dollar General car for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing. JR Hildebrand, the 2011 race runner-up and Chase Rookie of the Year, was second quick (219.693 mph). Two other rookies, Bryan Clauson (219.632) and James Jakes (2198.286), followed. Tony Kanaan (217.741) completed the top five.
"Today is very encouraging, but it's still a very long month and we still have a lot of room to grow and room to learn," said team owner Sarah Fisher, who spotted for Clauson throughout much of the day. "Having two rookies and it being their first experience, we need to make sure we have an even month so that when we arrive on both Pole Day and Race Day we're as prepared as today."
Carpenter, who drove for Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing in 2011, recorded 39 laps with a best of 213.962 mph. Seeking to make his ninth Indianapolis 500 start, Carpenter qualified eighth the past two years. He has a best finish of fifth in 2008 and won the inaugural Freedom 100 Firestone Lights race in 2003.
"You always think of winning the Indy 500 and what it would be like to do it," said Carpenter, winner of the last IZOD IndyCar Series oval race (at Kentucky Speedway in October). "If we qualify well, I think I can then visualize what it is going to take to win the race. I have been in good situations before at Indy. I feel like I have been in position to win the race before and I think that is the case this year, too."
Carpenter doesn't foresee the management side of the operation to distract his focus on race preparation.
"I have a good group that allows me to focus on what I do. When we're at the track, they do a great job of taking the burden off me and letting me focus on my job. That's what it will take for us to be in position to win Indy.
"I'll be disappointed if we're not in the (90-minute) shootout (to set the first three rows) again. With all the new stuff, I feel there's an opportunity to do well and we'll be able to put ourselves on the front row."


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Technology will keep transforming war, because it's always been doing that. In many cases, these "advances" will make war even worse. In other cases, it will save lives. Here's an update on war-related technologies in the works in 2014, thanks to the ever-flowing spigot of Department of Defense (DoD) spending and the ubergeeks at outfits like the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Face transplants
The DoD has been working with civilian clinics for a decade to advance face transplant surgery. The goal is to help service members with devastating combat injuries. The entire face of a deceased donor is removed and then used to restore a patient's disfigured face. Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital is a leader in this work, funded by a DoD grant. The program is now accepting new volunteers.
Robotic animals, now with heads like hands
BigDog is a rough-terrain robot, about the size of big dog or small mule. It's designed to walk, run, climb and carry heavy loads. It was designed by BostonDynamics, since acquired by Google's Robotics Division, funded by the DoD. Recently, the company posted a video of BigDog with something like a long neck that ends in a powerful robotic "hand," shown here lifting a 35-pound cinderblock just before it tosses it nearly 17 feet.
Lasers on the high seas
This summer, the U.S. Navy will deploy the first prototype Laser Weapon System or LaWS -- on the USS Ponce, formerly an amphibious transport dock – for testing. The weapon is designed to be used against unmanned drones or small-boat attacks. The solid-state infrared beam can be tuned from low output to cripple the target's sensors to high output for destruction. A YouTube video, from which this photo was taken, shows first an animation of the system, then actual video of an earlier test against a real drone. Six years in development, LaWS has rung up a price tag of $40 million.
Bulletproof skin
This actually, and surprisingly, is not a DoD project. A Dutch artist, Jalila Essaïdi, who uses biology as an artistic medium, was intrigued by a commercial attempt to have a genetically modified goat produce milk containing an extra protein that could be extracted and spun into spider silk thread. Spider silk thread is, according to Phsy.org, "stronger than steel on a per weight basis" with a ratio of strength to density exceeding that of steel. Essaïdi wondered if the human body could produce the thread, could it lead to "bullet-proof skin"?
Drone convoys
Earlier this year, a group of Army M915 tactical trucks and Palletized Loading System vehicles barreled over roads, coped with intersections, oncoming traffic, passing vehicles, pedestrians, and the winding turns of a simulated urban neighborhood…all without drivers, and all without any problems. The driving system is part of the Army and Marine Corps' Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System program, or AMAS, with Lockheed Martin. Eventually, drone trucks could resupply troops in forward areas. Here's a video of the Fort Hood test.
More fun with lasers
This weird looking contraption, with its steampunk aesthetic, isn't a weapon. Yet. It's a DARPA project called Excalibur and it's intended to make really powerful lasers that are a lot smaller and lighter than today's chemical lasers. It does so by using coherent optical phase arrays, with each element (the blue-tinted lenses) driven by fiber laser amplifiers. In a test earlier this year, Excalibur precisely hit a target over four miles away. The business end is three clusters of seven fiber lasers; each cluster is barely 4-inches across. Fittingly, the military acronym for high-energy lasers is HEL.
Prototype Iron Man suit due in June
Three unpowered prototypes of what's being informally called the Iron Man suit, after the one worn by Marvel Comics superhero and ubergeek Tony Stark, are now being assembled for delivery in June 2014 to U.S. Special Operations Command. Formally known as the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS), the idea is to build an assault suit with "enhanced mobility and protection technologies," with embedded antennas, computers, sensors to "increase the wearer's situational awareness by providing user-friendly and real-time battlefield information." It's all just bits and pieces, but SOC has successfully completed this animated video of TALOS, from which this screen grab is taken. It's just nowhere as slick as what the private sector has already delivered.
Prototype combat underwear
A suit without underwear is a like a day without sunshine. DARPA launched the Warrior Web project in September 2011, to create basically long underwear to "protect injury-prone areas by stabilizing and reducing stresses on joints and promoting efficient and safe movement over a wide range of activities" along with technologies "to augment the work of wearers' own muscles." And all using at most 100 watts of power. In 2014, the project's goals include focusing on technologies for "core injury mitigation technologies; comprehensive analytical representations; regenerative actuation; adaptive sensing and control; and suit human-to-wearer interface." It seems to be drawing on the DARPA-funded "Harvard Suit" project at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and this photo is from that project.
iPad-controlled robot combat boats
In February, a 35-prototype robot combat boat, dubbed Anaconda, conducted its first trials in Louisiana where the AN-2 project is being run by Swiftships Shipbuilders and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. A researcher remotely controlled the boat using an iPad, but the idea is to use lasers, cameras, ultra-sound, and other sensors feeding information to an "almost sentient computer system that would steer and accelerate the AN-2 like a human pilot would." Alas, we know how that turns out.
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What if… Jane Austen wasn't the author of Sense & Sensibility?
If Sense & Sensibility were a Wilkie Collins novel:
Marianne would get pregnant by Willoughby but no one would know it was him, and she'd die in childbirth, bequeathing her baby daughter a single silver ring inscribed with a "W". Her daughter would grow up to wander the moors at night in a flowing white dress, quoting Shakespearean sonnets; and by day, she'd enlist the help of Elinor's son (who would fall in love with her). No one would believe her (and yet somehow, the male cousin who is clearly taking advantage of her delirious mental state would always be believed) and try to send her to an asylum. They'd finally find Willoughby, but just a few days too late — after he took his own life, living in shame and guilt for 20+ years. (But not before he amassed a large fortune that he left to his unknown daughter.)
If Sense & Sensibility were an Isabel Allende novel:
The novel, now called "La Casa de Sensibilidad," would detail the life of the Correo-Madera family, spanning four generations, and tracing the post-colonial social and political upheavals of Devonshire. The youngest daughter, Margarita, has paranormal powers. She predicts the death of her sister, Marianna the Beautiful, who is killed by poison intended for their mother. Marianna's fiancé, a landed gentleman named Juan, is devastated and attempts to mend his broken heart by devoting his life to restoring his family's hacienda, La Casa Cumbia Magnito. The story charts the up and down relationships of his family after he marries Margarita, and they have several children.
If Sense & Sensibility were a Hunter S. Thompson novel:
Elinor and Marianne would steal a carriage and go on a wild ride to London, where they'd try opium, bleeding, and Georgian-era snakeoil cures in too-large doses and have wild dreams about flying starched cravats trying to attack them in strange formations. At the end of it all, Elinor would write everything up and publish it anonymously, and somehow still get paid — much to the annoyance of writerly-minded young ladies ever since.
If if Sense & Sensibility was written by J.M. Barrie:
Margaret would fall asleep while writing a pirate fantasy, and suddenly find herself in it. She would fly away on the sails of a particularly large bonnet, and befriend a talking atlas that constantly fusses over her on the way. Her family would search in vain for her, but finally, after battling the evil Pirate Queen (who looks suspiciously like Fanny Dashwood) she'd come to realize that family is the best adventure of all and return home, into the loving arms of her mother and sisters.
If Sense & Sensibility were written by J.K. Rowling:
The novel would start with young Margaret on the cusp of heading to Bartonwarts, a school for young ladies in Devonshire. Both of her sisters attended and have since graduated, but are suspiciously close-lipped about what sorts of things she'll learn there. Once she arrives, she soon learns the finishing school is actually a training ground for well-bred lady ninjas. Her favorite professor, whom all the students call "Colonel," teaches her how to accomplish goals and lessons while still having fun… and a little bit of mischief.
If Sense & Sensibility were written by Ian Fleming:
Code Name "Colonel Brandon" is a tough international spy who never lets his heart gets in the way of his head… that is, until he meets England's Poet Laureate, Marianne Dashwood. He's tasked with guarding her life, but what seems like a simple job in the service of His Majesty King George — becomes more complicated the more time they spend unraveling each others' secrets… and her corset stays. Set between thrilling scenes of London's underground crime syndicates, is a romance novel unlike any you've ever read before…
Together, they can save the world…
Or each other.
But not both.
If Sense & Sensibility were written by Margaret Atwood:
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood may seem mild-mannered polite young ladies, but in reality, they are the leaders of the Resistance, an underground paramilitary they formed to fight the patriarchy inherent in the English nobility. Together, they plan devastating attacks on the wealthy men who are keeping them in corsets and under the thumb of outdated inheritance laws. But when they're sentenced to prison… and Marianne falls in love with one of her captors, the whole game changes…
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BLINDED BY THE RED LIGHT � The ladies pack their bags and head overseas to their European destination. Upon arrival in the foreign land, the ladies are sent on a scavenger hunt throughout the city and must find their way to their temporary home. Upon arrival at the house, three of the girls decide to fight jet lag by taking a bath together. The first challenge finds the ladies in a famous section of town where they model clothing in storefront windows. After the judges deliberate, one girl is sent home (#1109).