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The Colorado Department of Transportation announced Friday it plans to realign U.S. Highway 550 across a private ranch and connect it to U.S. Highway 160 by a $47 million interchange that includes the so-called Bridge to Nowhere.
It is the same decision CDOT reached in 2006 before the agency hit snags in trying to cross the Webb property. Since then, CDOT has undergone an entirely new analysis that takes into account a gas well and the ranchs historic designation that were not previously considered.
Weve done everything everybody has asked us to do, said Steve Parker, CDOT commissioner for District 8. Weve studied the alternatives that the other folks suggested and didnt find any reason to go forward with those. We think were good to go, and were eagerly awaiting the record of decision to come down, hopefully this fall.
The record of decision is the final blessing from federal authorities.
The proposed 1½-mile realignment would cost an estimated $78 million. It would upgrade the highway from two lanes to four lanes and route it across the Webb ranch east of Farmington Hill.
The existing Highway 550 on Farmington Hill would be abandoned. It is too early to say what would become of the abandoned road: local cycling and hiking group Trails 2000 has expressed interest in using it, or it could be revegetated, said Tony Cady, planning and environmental manager for CDOT.
The realignment would connect with the Grandview interchange, which has received little use since its completion last year.
The interchange includes a foot path, a roundabout, access ramps, six retaining walls, a new westbound lane and four bridges three of which span Highway 160 including the Bridge to Nowhere.
It is one of three interchanges proposed for the Grandview area: one is planned for the Three Springs intersection and another is planned at the Elmores Corner intersection. CDOT also plans to upgrade the 13-mile stretch of Highway 160 between Grandview and Bayfield from two lanes to four lanes.
The Grandview interchange has received considerable criticism from residents, who have said it is oversized and a waste of taxpayer money. Even Denver media outlets have investigated the project, which cost $28.5 million in state funds, $14.4 million in federal funds and $3.6 million in stimulus funds.
Durango lawyer Daniel Gregory, who represents the Webb ranch owners Chris Webb and his sister, Martha Coutinho said only time will tell whether his clients and CDOT can reach an agreement on providing a right of way across the ranch.
CDOT needs to acquire about 64 acres, including about 42 acres from the Webb ranch.
Gregory said his clients hope to reach a collaborative resolution, but any legal action could take years to resolve.
CDOT rejected several alternatives in favor of one that bisects the heart of the Webb ranch and connects with the Bridge to Nowhere, Gregory said.
We think its an amazing coincidence ... they still come back to the design that justifies the ill-thought-out bridge that they decided to build years ago, Gregory said.
CDOT said the realignment across the Webb ranch is the best alternative when considering capacity, safety, cost and environmental impacts.
The realignment will impact five archaeological sites, said Kerrie Neet, transportation director for Region 5. Two other alternatives that received serious consideration would have affected seven and eight sites, she said.
The final environmental impact analysis is available for public viewing until Aug. 27. CDOT then hopes to receive a formal record of decision from the Federal Highway Administration to proceed with the project.
If the administration gives its stamp of approval, CDOT will seek funding for the project next year, Neet said. No construction date has been set.
Until then, the Grandview interchange will continue to receive minimal use.
CDOT said the interchange was built with the future in mind. In 2009, an average of 27,875 vehicles passed through the corridor. A traffic study has suggested that number could triple to 85,910 vehicle trips per day by 2030, if Grandview develops.
Even if Highway 550 never connects to the interchange, the Federal Highway Administration determined the project has independent utility, which allowed construction of the project to commence even though it was uncertain if Highway 550 would connect.
The Webbs attorney questioned this.
I dont think anybody who is applying common sense to looking at this really believes that that bridge has independent functionality, Gregory said. But that is what theyve claimed.
In addition to needing to obtain rights of way to cross the Webb ranch, CDOT must remove 1.6 million cubic yards of dirt before it can connect Highway 550 to the interchange. That is equal to 80,000 big-belly dump truck loads, or enough earth to fill the lap pool, leisure pool and spa at the Durango Community Recreation Center 732 times.
The realignment was deemed necessary to replace the existing two-lane highway on Farmington Hill, which has steep switchbacks, an abrupt drop-off and has been blamed for several trucks jackknifing.


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(Pocket-lint) - Last month, the Sony VPL-VW1000ES was announced; the company's first 4K projector designed with the living room in mind.
Over in Japan, at CEATEC, the company used its opening press conference to show off the 4096 x 2160 monster, and Pocket-lint was on hand to take a butcher's.
The VPL-VW1000ES packs a SXRD 0.74-inch LED panel and the company was keen to stress that it boasts an LSI processing super-resolution video display database. Picture-wise, there's a 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast, 120Hz refresh rate and four times the pixel count of your Full HD telly.
It's also able to upscale your 1080p footage, as well as displaying Full HD 3D and 4K upscaling 3D movies. The SXRD panel has been optimised for minimum light reflection and the size of each pixel has been reduced from 7μm to 4μm.
Sony also announced at the conference that the PS3 will get a firmware update at the beginning of 2012 that will allow it to natively output 4K stills. No word on moving pictures though.
The 4K projector looks a lot like the aliens from the Speilberg War of the World movie. And we don't just mean the lens/eye part. It's about as big as the movie's baddies. It's a whopper, measuring in at 520 x 200 x 640mm and weighing the best part of 20kg.
Not surprisingly, the VPL-VW1000ES doesn't come cheap. It's priced at ¥1.68 million - more than £14,000.
Unfortunately, we didn't manage to get eyes-on with any of the Sony 4K video; we had a Lost in Translation moment (minus any sexy shenanigans with Scarlett Johansson, unfortunately) with Sony's Japanese PR team.
But we're hoping to get a demo during the show at some point, so we'll update the story and let you know how we got on.


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For anyone who might struggling with the notion of professional dancer/country singer Julianne Hough adding acting to her resume, let her cut right through it: "It's not like I'm trying to sing, dance and be a rocket scientist."
The former "Dancing With the Stars" pro, who helped make her lesser skilled celebrity partners shine on the show, makes her acting debut in "Burlesque" opposite Christina Aguilera and Cher.
"I've been singing and dancing and acting my whole life," she said. "They all kind of make sense with each other. There are different challenges, and you have to think differently. Because I'm a dancer, I tend to move my body when I talk, so I'm like 'Do not move your body, Julianne!' That's an issue for me. I'm very, very animated when I talk normally, and so onscreen it's like, 'Okay, I have to tone the face down.'"
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She said her stint on "Dancing" helped prepare her for the film's musical sequences.
"Even though I danced on the show all the time, the dance style for me was pretty simple so that it could translate to my partner," she said. "This time I got to really push myself and compare to the other professional girls around me. I really kicked my butt and worked hard."
Even before her first supporting role on film hit theaters, Hough was already elevated to leading lady for director Craig Brewer's remake of the '80s favorite "Footloose."
"'Burlesque' definitely helped me kind of prepare for 'Footloose,' because I didn't have to worry about carrying the entire movie," she said. "In 'Footloose,' I really got to learn the whole world of filming and lighting and cues and the people that are really important, like, the people that do the focus on the camera. ... I learned all that to where I felt like I was super-comfortable and I could just focus on the acting."
After two musicals, she's hoping to choreograph a career that doesn't always call for dance shoes: "Right now, I'm focused on maybe finding some things that aren't necessarily dancer- or music-related, but are more about acting and performance," she said, "but I definitely am not ruling that out -- if something comes along that I think is right then I would love to do that."


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The number of babies born in 2018 fell to the lowest level since 1986, according to a provisional report from the Centers for Disease Control.
The report found that the total number of births in 2018 was down 2% from 2017. The general fertility rate for women aged 15-44 also fell 2%, a record low for the nation.
The total fertility rate also declined 2% to 1,728 births per 1,000 women, another record low. This is below replacement level, or the level at which a generation can replace the previous generation.
In order for the US population to reproduce itself and remain stable, there needs to be at least 2,100 births per 1,000 women. The total fertility rate has generally been below replacement level since 1971.
The report did not explain why birth rates were declining, but there are some patterns in the data. Younger women are having fewer children. The birth rate for teenagers aged 15-19 dropped 7%, an all time low. In contrast, birth rates for women in their late 30s and early 40s actually rose. It's possible that women are postponing birth, and that current trends could reverse themselves as the population ages.


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We are here in northern California for our granddaughter's baptism. However, being the dog show junkie we are, we squeezed in a side trip to today's Sacramento Kennel Club show. Two days of Terrier only limited breed shows contributed more than 350 Terriers to the all breed event.
Dr Scott Kellog's final included the Weimaraner, GCH CH Silhouette's LifeInTheFastLane, the Basset Hound, GCH CH Blossomhill's Hello Dolly, the Doberman Pinscher, GCH CH Caryola's Antigua, the Wire Fox Terrier, GCH CH AfterAll Painting the Sky, the Brussels Griffon, GCH CH Casnross' First Griff Tina Fey, the Bulldog, GCH CH Globe and Anchor Sgt Iron Mike, and the Pembroke Welsh Corgi, GCH CH Coventry Allure at Wyndstar.
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Good Morning,
The magical "miracle" that is our corrupt and gamed markets was down all evening until this morning when the broad market took another hit of the crack pipe and rocketed 120 DOW points in the past hour:
This market is the exact opposite of "free." The action in gold and bond options prior to the FOMC announcement are just sickening and disgusting – only the latest example of such manipulation.
There is no economic data today, Bernanke delivers a speech at noon Eastern time.
IYR is still down on SPG's stock dilution, be careful in that space if you have open positions. Financials are, or where, down as well, bonds are up, the dollar's up, Gold and oil down, SPG like a stone.
Of course today's options expiration, the fun and games will continue at Goldman's and Morgan's discretion. Oh, and the bond market will behave at Bernanke's discretion (who of course works for Goldman and Morgan).
Have a great free market day!
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Alaric I was King of the Visigoths in the early 5th century AD. He led them, when quite an old warrior, into the Italian peninsula, and they took and sacked Rome in AD 410, an event seen by many as being a sign that the World was about to end. Alaric was an Arian Christian and did not permit his warriors to loot or destroy the City's churches. They did not remain in Rome, but moved south, attempting, it is said, to reach North Africa. But Alaric died, and was buried in a river bed (the river being temporarily diverted for this purpose) with much treasure. His name in Gothic was probably 'Alareiks'.


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Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex disorder that affects up to 5% of the general population worldwide. Its pathophysiological mechanisms are difficult to identify and current drug therapies demonstrate limited effectiveness.
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Both mitochondrial dysfunction and coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiency have been implicated in FM pathophysiology.
We have investigated the effect of CoQ10 supplementation. We carried out a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate clinical and gene expression effects of forty days of CoQ10 supplementation (300?mg/day) on 20 FM patients. This study was registered with controlled-trials.com (ISRCTN 21164124).
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There's a new service in town that lets you prove via social media that you live an amazing life (that's not your actual life). Isn't that the goal of social media? To make everyone jealous?
Enter Instasham — a service that provides photos of bomb vacations, sexy friends, and fancy clothes. You can be all, "Cruising in Rio in my Tesla roadster/yacht wearing seven La Perla Bras and a gucci belt as a top!" and everyone will be all, "Oooooh she's so rich and cool, I wish I wasn't eating this $1 meal deal from Wendy's I guess I'll go kill myself." Mission accomplished!
It's kinda stupid that all the photos of cool friends are actually just half-naked ladies being half-naked. And also, Kanye West. Where are all the suntanning bros to gawk at? That's what Feminism is about, GOD.
Personally, I think they've got it all wrong — if I were to create an Instasham it would just be delicious vegan food, and my cute-ass nieces, and my cute-ass nieces with my cute-ass dogs. Let's be real here, that's what the people want.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In 1977, New York City was deep into its worst fiscal crisis ever. Riots erupted that summer during a blackout. And a fire in one of the most blighted, bombed-out parts of town that fall led Howard Cosell to announce during a World Series game at Yankee Stadium: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning."
Into that mess stepped Ed Koch as the city's newly elected mayor. Within a few years, New York was back on firmer financial footing and the fears that the city was sliding into anarchy had given way to a new sense of energy and optimism.
Koch didn't do it all by himself, but is credited with hectoring, cajoling and noodging the city to make the hard decisions on its road back.
"The whole city was crumbling, and then we elected Ed Koch," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday during a ceremony marking the centennial of Grand Central Terminal, a once-crumbling edifice Koch helped save from the wrecking ball.
"When we were down, Ed Koch picked us up. When we were worried, he gave us confidence," Bloomberg said. "When someone needed a good kick in the rear, he gave it to them – and, if you remember, he enjoyed it."
The brash, opinionated Koch, who led the city in the late 1970s and `80s with a combination of determination, chutzpah and humor, died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 88.
A funeral was set for Monday in Manhattan as tributes poured in from presidents, political allies and adversaries, some of whom were no doubt thinking more of his earlier years in City Hall, before many black leaders and liberals became fed up with what they felt were racially insensitive and needlessly combative remarks.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said that although they disagreed on many things, Koch "was never a phony or a hypocrite. … He said what he meant. He meant what he said. He fought for what he believed."
President Barack Obama said in a statement that Koch's energy, force of personality and sense of commitment "always informed and enlivened the public discourse." Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised him as a leader who "stood up for the underprivileged and underrepresented in every corner of every borough."
During Koch's three terms from 1978 to 1989, he helped New York climb out of its financial crisis through tough fiscal policies and razor-sharp budget cuts.
To much of the rest of America, the bald, paunchy figure became the embodiment of New York City's brash, irrepressible character – the mayor who raced around town asking average New Yorkers, "How'm I doing," and usually being in too much of a hurry to wait for an answer.
Quick with a quip or a putdown, Koch dismissed his critics as "wackos," feuded with Donald Trump ("piggy") and fellow former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ("nasty man"). He lambasted the Rev. Jesse Jackson and once reduced the head of the City Council to tears.
"You punch me, I punch back," Koch once observed. "I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag." Or as he put it in his best-selling autobiography "Mayor": "I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them."
Koch's favorite moment as mayor, fittingly, was a loud one. During a 1980 transit strike, he strode down to the Brooklyn Bridge to boost the spirits of commuters who had to walk to work.
"I began to yell, `Walk over the bridge! Walk over the bridge! We're not going to let these bastards bring us to our knees!' And people began to applaud," he recalled last year.
But New Yorkers eventually tired of Koch. Homelessness and AIDS soared in the 1980s, and critics charged that City Hall's response was too little, too late. Koch's latter years in office were also marked by scandals involving those around him and rising racial tension.
In 1989, he lost a bid for a fourth term to David Dinkins, who became the city's first black mayor.
A lifelong bachelor who lived in Greenwich Village, Koch championed gay rights, taking on the Roman Catholic Church and scores of political leaders. His own sexual orientation was the subject of speculation and rumors. During his 1977 mayoral campaign against Mario Cuomo, posters that read "Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo" mysteriously appeared in some neighborhoods.
Koch offered a typically blunt response to inquiries about his sexuality: "My answer to questions on this subject is simply, `F— off.' There have to be some private matters left."
Describing himself as "a liberal with sanity," Koch supported President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004 and spoke at the GOP convention. He also endorsed Bloomberg's re-election at a time when Bloomberg was a Republican.
Proudly Jewish, Koch was an outspoken supporter of Israel.
After leaving office, he worked as a lawyer and continued to offer his opinions as a political pundit, movie reviewer, food critic and judge on "The People's Court." He wrote 10 nonfiction books, four mystery novels and three children's books, played himself in the movies "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "The First Wives Club" and hosted "Saturday Night Live."
Edward Irving Koch was born in the Bronx on Dec. 12, 1924, the second of three children of Polish immigrants. During the Depression, the family lived in Newark, N.J.
After serving as a combat infantryman in Europe during World War II, he got a law degree and began his political career in Greenwich Village by winning a district leader race as a liberal Democratic reformer. Koch was elected to the City Council and then to Congress, serving from 1969 to 1977.
With New York in dire financial condition in 1977, Koch defeated Mayor Abe Beame and Cuomo in the Democratic primary to win his first term in City Hall. He breezed to re-election in 1981 and 1985, winning an unprecedented three-quarters of the votes cast.
In 1982, he made a run for governor against Cuomo, then the state's lieutenant governor. But Koch's bid blew up after he mouthed off about a possible move to Albany, saying that living in the suburbs was "wasting your life."
Koch's third term was beset by corruption scandals, one of which ended in the suicide of a top party boss in 1986.
Meanwhile, racial unease ran high after the deaths of two young black men who were set upon by gangs of whites in 1986 and 1989, and the mayor fell out with many black voters for purging anti-poverty programs and saying, among other things, that busing and racial quotas had done more to divide the races than to achieve integration. He also said Jews would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson during the civil rights leader's 1988 presidential campaign.
Koch attributed his defeat to longevity, not racial tensions. But he also said his biggest regret as he left office was that "many people in the black community do not perceive that I was their friend."
On Friday, Jackson said in a statement that Koch's "leadership and legacy will never be forgotten."
At 83, Koch paid $20,000 for a burial plot at Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space. "I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone," he explained.
The funeral will be Monday at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Dignitaries including Bloomberg and Ido Aharoni, the Israeli consul general in New York, will be among the speakers, said a person familiar with the arrangements, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person wasn't authorized to discuss them.
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Excited about the clarity and practicality of the translated information from the Beings who called themselves Abraham, Jerry and Esther Hicks began disclosing their amazing Abraham experience to a handful of close business associates in 1986.
Recognizing the practical results being received by themselves and by those people who were asking meaningful questions regarding the application of the principles of the Law of Attraction to finances, bodily conditions, and relationships—and then successfully applying Abraham's answers to their own situations—Jerry and Esther made a deliberate decision to allow Abraham's teachings to become available to an ever-widening circle of seekers of answers to how to live a better life.
Since 1989, using their San Antonio, Texas, conference center as their base, Esther and Jerry have traveled to approximately 50 cities a year (throughout Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States), presenting a series of interactive Law of Attraction Workshops to those leaders who have gathered to participate in this progressive stream of thought. And although worldwide attention has been given to this philosophy of Well-Being by Leading Edge thinkers and teachers who have, in turn, incorporated many of Abraham's concepts into their best-selling books, scripts, lectures, films, and so forth, the primary spread of this material has been from person to person, as individuals begin to discover the value of this form of spiritual practicality in their personal life experiences.
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EDMONTON - The pile of paperwork that comes with buying and selling a home is growing one document taller.
Starting July 1, Realtors in Alberta will ask their clients to sign a written service agreement.
While this has been standard practice for sellers, the rule change being implemented by the Real Estate Council of Alberta means people trying to purchase a home will also sign a buyer representation agreement.
The document lays down the ground rules of the relationship between the real estate agent and the client, which have typically been implied or based on conversation, said Kevin Clark, chairman of the council, which licenses Realtors in Alberta.
"What are my expectations of this? When do I go out and how many homes are we going to look at, how do I write an offer, who does the writing and who develops the offer, how do you get paid and how long does this relationship go on for?" Clark said.
"What a written service agreement does, is basically take all that I've just said and puts it down in writing so there is clarity of the relationship between the two parties."
The agreements will also spell out the services to be provided by the brokerage; the obligations and responsibilities of the parties; consent for collection, use and distribution of personal information; and the method of calculating remuneration or how the agent will be compensated.
Some first-time buyers may not know their agents are paid through a cut of the selling agent's commission, for example.
"If you and I had never done business before and you had never sold or bought a house before and I'm giving you my time and showing you property, it would be reasonable for you to ask 'how do you get paid?' "
Spelling out the expectations will curb confusion and disputes, Clark said.
There were about 65,000 residential transactions in Alberta, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association.


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There is another possible reason for the stats to drop to zero over night on the Local Business Center Dashboard: You've been penalized for category spamming . The new penalty, first noted by Chris Silver Smith last week, dings your listing and causes it to loose standing precipitously. It does not preclude you from editing your listing in the Local Business Center.
A user in the Maps forum posted about a preciptious drop in his listings in the Google Map Help forums last week. Upon investigation it became obvious that his listing included multiple categories and geo phrases in the category fields. Removing the category cramming and geo phrases immediately (as in 30 minutes) brought his listing back into 10 Pack view.
Here are some examples of his choices to fill a single category field, which when removed returned his listing to the 10 Pack although in many fewer searches:
los angeles arabic classes, los angeles german classes, los angeles hebrew classes, los angeles japanese classes, los angeles persian classes, los angeles russian classes, los angeles korean classes, los angeles latin classes, los angeles thai classes
Clearly having multiple phrases on your category fields offers the possibility of your listing being returned on many more searches. For a business that doesn't bother to read the guidelines or that is looking to gain a temporary advantage, it is easy to abuse Google's categorization options.
The Google Maps Listing Guidelines as they relate to categories cramming and spamming are as follows:
• When entering categories, use only those that directly describe your business.
• Do not submit related categories that do not define your business. For example, a taxi company might properly categorize itself as "Airport Transportation", but it would be inaccurate to also use the category "Airport".
• Also, please use each category field to enter a single category. Do not list multiple categories or keywords in one field.
Interestingly while the poster was penalized, his close competitors had multiple categories per field but without the geo phrases and did not receive the penalty.
So it raises the question of what exactly can go into the custom category fields and what behaviors you would recommend? Does Google's lack of enforcement imply tacit acceptance or support for category cramming?
Chris Silver Smith noted the following in an email conversation that we had on the topic:
It may indeed be arbitrary, but if we're talking about algorithmic detection, then they're rapidly applying penalizations only when able to detect them, and then also penalizing manually the instances that are brought to their attention.
Geographic terms would be relatively easy to detect in category fields through automation, compared with valid categories, yet overcrammed. They're probably adding more automated detections as they're able to identify common patterns.
Could also be that they might run detection scripts and then review all listings which are in violation of the algorithm. They might allow listings that are not egregious to pass, such as the language class you mentioned.
They've sorta created a problem for themselves in this area, since the Category fields have room for so many characters — it rather encourages small, inexperienced businessmen to add in MORE words and length than are found on average in biz category names. If they wished to reduce abuse, they could easily do so by once again moving to a formal, set list of biz categories to choose from (hopefully much longer than their earlier list), and then they could get rid of the free-form category fields entirely. They could also stand to better tutor small businessmen as to what Categories are, and point them to some of the standard lists of categories as an example of what could work.
In inimitable Google fashion and in a way that is sure to annoy every SMB from here to California, they are penalizing some violators of the guidelines and not others. This seems to be the case even when close competitors are participating in this and other behaviors in violation of the guidelines. What exactly would you recommend that a client do with custom categories?Google Penalizing Category Spamming - What are the Standards? by Mike Blumenthal


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UK outlines changes to boost Army reserves
British army reservists will get military pensions and other benefits as part of a government bid to boost reserve numbers, the U.K. defense secretary said Wednesday.
The proposals unveiled by Philip Hammond - which include rebranding the Territorial Army as the Army Reserve - come as Britain cuts its regular army from 100,000 to just over 80,000 soldiers and increases its fully-trained army reservists to 30,000 from around 19,000 by 2018.
Hammond told lawmakers Wednesday that the government will invest about 1.8 billion pounds ($2.7 billion) during the next 10 years in the reserves.
"The job we are asking our reservists to do is changing," he said, calling such moves key to ensuring Britain's future military capabilities, and noting that organization and training must evolve as well.
Some lawmakers questioned whether the plans were realistic. Conservative Party lawmaker Bob Stewart said he was "slightly pessimistic" about the reserves increasing since recruitment "has not been great" over the last year.
Hammond acknowledged that the plans were not without risk, but said the government did not have the "luxury" to maintain current numbers.
"We have no plan B," he said. "We will deliver these reserve numbers."
Hammond announced further training and plans to bring forward some 40 million pounds of investment in new equipment for reservists.
New incentives will be offered to small- and medium-sized businesses to support their reservist employees, along with upgraded vacation and pension entitlements to improve overall reservists' compensation.
Starting in 2015, reservists will be able to accrue armed forces pensions while they are training - in addition to when they're deployed - and the government also will offer a "signing bonus" as part of efforts to encourage and speed up transitions by regular serving soldiers into the reserves.
More notice also will be given for deployments to make it easier for companies to plan around them - though the government stopped short of making it illegal to discriminate against part-time soldiers when hiring.
Chief of the General Staff Gen. Sir Peter Wall called the proposals a "welcome and timely announcement" for the army.
"The Territorial Army, as it has been called up till now... is ready for change," Wall said.
Shadow defense secretary Jim Murphy said the opposition Labour Party backed many of the reforms, citing reservists' "enormous contribution" at home and overseas.
"However, there are concerns that rather than synchronize the role of the Army with that of the reserves, today's announcement appears belated, and there will be concern the reserves uplift is not designed to complement our Army but to supplement lost capacity," he said.
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Fashion Week is in full swing and for once I'm not pouting that I can't attend. I think it has something to do with my being pregnant and knowing that I'd be an uncomfortable mess trekking about NYC trying to catch shows. Okay, I'm lying. I STILL really want to be there. Not so much to see any shows but to attend all of the events. I'm still pouting that I'm not there. So much so that I'm creating "What if I was at Fashion Week" scenarios. Play with me, will ya? Soooo, if I was at Fashion week this season, these are the beauty goodies that would be in my bag.
La Fresh Acetone-Free Nail Polish remover
Shufflin' around the city, hoppin' off of trains, snappin' shots, blogging on the go and huggin' fellow beauty bloggers is a tough job. The nails usually take a beating and I'm far too vain to walk around with chipped nails. A simple swipe of this pad will help remove polish from all 10 nails. And they'll be fresh and ready to go when it's time to apply a new coat of polish. Woot!
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I likely wouldn't apply this first thing in the morning (I'd go for something much brighter) but when lipstick starts smudging off, this Lip Butter is not only incredibly moisturizing but gives a fantastic pop of color.
A handkerchief
Because mama said a lady should always carry one. Plus, I sweat at the drop of a dime and subtly dapping my brow is far more attractive than sweeping my hand across my face. Know what I mean?
Johnson's Baby Oil
Aside from using this as makeup remover, the popular oil is also great for quickly dapping on those super dry spots. Lotions usually don't last long for me and my natural oils don't come in portable sizes so I like to opt for this stuff. Just a dab on an eczema flare up and I'm good to go!
Phone charger
Obviously, right? These smartphone thingies aren't all that smart because they just can't stay charged up allllllll day. So unfair.
Business cards
You never know who you're going to meet and being caught without your business card at Fashion Week is the ultimate business faux pas. Unless of course you're a celebrity that everyone already knows… Yours truly ain't exactly on that status yet.
Pretty short list for a beauty editor, uh? Less is more when it comes to attending fashion shows. Or anywhere for that matter. I have great longwear makeup products so I usually never have to re-up with mascara, powders and blush.
Okay – so let's say you're going to Fashion Week (and if you're there, don't tell me…I can't take any more jealous twinges. ha!)…what's the #1 beauty item you'd HAVE to have with you?
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I have talked about my love of P.F. Chang's. I could eat there everyday if I could. They have a great gluten free menu! But unfortunately I can't eat there everyday. But I CAN make my own version of their delicious Mongolian Beef! (which is a part of their gluten free menu!)
Adapted from Food.com
- 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
- ½ teaspoon ginger, minced
- 1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
- ½ cup gluten free soy sauce
- ½ cup water
- ¾ cup dark brown sugar
- vegetable oil , for frying (about 1 cup)
- 1 lb flank steak
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- 2 large green onions, chopped
For the Sauce:
- Heat 2 teaspoon of vegetable oil in a medium saucepan over medium/low heat. Don't get the oil too hot.
- Add ginger and garlic to the pan and quickly add the soy sauce and water before the garlic scorches.
- Dissolve the brown sugar in the sauce, then increase the heat to medium and boil the sauce for 2-3 minutes or until the sauce thickens. Remove it from the heat.
For the Beef:
- Slice the flank steak against the grain into 1/4″ thick bite-size slices. Tilt the blade of your knife at about a forty five degree angle to the top of the steak so that you get wider cuts.
- Dip the steak pieces into the cornstarch to apply a very thin dusting to both sides of each piece of beef. Let the beef sit for about 10 minutes so that the cornstarch sticks.
- As the beef sits, heat up one cup of oil in a wok (you may also use a skillet for this step as long as the beef will be mostly covered with oil). Heat the oil over medium heat until it's nice and hot, but not smoking.
- Add the beef to the oil and sauté until brown. Stir the meat around a little so that it cooks evenly. After a couple minutes, use a large slotted spoon to take the meat out and onto paper towels.
- Dab excess oil off meat with a paper towel and add to medium saucepan with the sauce in it. Put the pan back on the oven over medium/low heat. Add chopped green onions and let sauce simmer until warm.
- Serve over white rice or with delicious fried rice!
Even though I can make this at home, I'll still be heading to P.F. Chang's often!
Kwegyirba Croffie is a freelance Associate Producer at News 12 Connecticut and a Special Events/Event Planning and Social Media Intern at College Lifestyles (TM). She is a Quinnipiac University alumni and a sister of Alpha Delta Pi. She enjoy cupcakes,Broadway musicals, Forever 21 ,giraffes, peacock feathers, orchids, lillies and anything Disney.


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"Who is W. Kamau Bell?" That's the central question in the promotions for FX's Totally Biased, the new weekly political talk show featuring the San Francisco comedian. And it's fair: Bell isn't a familiar face. He didn't come from another television show, or a guest spot on Louie, which precedes Totally Biased in FX's programming. But within comedy circles, Bell's politically charged comedy has been a stalwart since 2007, when he launched The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism In About An Hour, a one-man show that used slides and video footage to punch up Bell's calm, collected outrage at the social and racial injustices he was noticing. His mini-Daily Show has toured steadily since then, and in 2010, it caught the attention of Chris Rock, who signed on as an executive producer of Totally Biased. The TV show, which debuted last week, is written day-of, and shakes out to be similar to what Bell was already doing with Bell Curve. So Bell is new to TV, but not to the format. He's also released two albums, and last year, he worked on a documentary with his political comedy collective, Laughter Against The Machine, that finds the sweet spot between comedy and change. After attending a rehearsal taping of Totally Biased (which wound up being similar to last week's debut episode), The A.V. Club called Bell to discuss his viewers' racism, the comic stylings of Malcolm X, and who W. Kamau Bell is.
The A.V. Club: The taping of your rehearsal had one of the most racially diverse audiences I've ever seen at a comedy show. How often does that happen at your shows?
W. Kamau Bell: I sort of tailor-marketed it that way. When I started doing The W. Kamau Bell Curve, I put out that if you bring a friend of a different race, you get in two-for-one, as a way to ensure racial diversity. I felt like, "If I'm going to do a show about racism, I don't want to just be talking to one group, you know, whether it's white people or black people or Latino people or Chinese people." [Laughs.] I feel like, if we're going to end racism, the first thing we've got to do is all get in the room together. Now, I can't always assure it's a great racial mix, but it makes even the people who come to the room who don't bring a friend from a different race think about things in a different way.
AVC: You had that promotion the whole time?
WKB: From the very first time I did the show in 2007, that was the thing that actually made me go, "Oh yeah, we can do this. This actually will work." And so since then, whenever I do that show, I do that promotion. I always say I want to become the interracial-dating comedian. A lot of times, an interracial couple will go to a comedy show and they get made fun of, and I feel like, "No, you're safe here." You know, I talk about race a lot—and sometimes I'm critical of all sides—but I also feel like I'm not trying to indict somebody so much that they feel like they can't stay in the room. Now, it does happen—sometimes people can't stay in the room, but that's on them.
AVC: When has that happened?
WKB: Early on in doing W. Kamau Bell Curve, I saw this couple leaving, and at the time, thought, "Oh, they need to go to the bathroom or something." But then I heard later from my producer that it was a white guy and an Asian girlfriend, and he was like, [irritated voice] "I don't have to take this." A lot of times, people don't walk out, but I certainly get my share of crazy emails after a show, that sort of explain to me that I don't know what I'm talking about.
AVC: It doesn't seem like your show is necessarily, "Here's the problem with you, and here's the problem with you, and here's the problem with you." It doesn't feel like you're going after people.
WKB: No, I mean, I think that I'm going after the problem, and sometimes people are part of the problem, right? [Laughs.] But also I don't think I have it in me to be that guy who's like—I mean, let me be clear: My favorite comedian of all time is Bill Hicks. But I don't think anybody would ever confuse me with Bill Hicks, and that's a compliment to Bill Hicks. I don't have it in me to get in someone's face and point at them and go, "You are the problem!" [Laughs.] Unless they actually reveal that. I'm not saying I've never done anything close to that, but I can't do that every night, you know? I would rather you sit in the room and listen and walk out and go, "Huh, I hadn't thought about that before," as opposed to getting up and storming out. Having said that, like I said, I'm getting emails right now—based on the commercials, I'm getting called a racist.
AVC: Really?
WKB: Yeah, absolutely.
AVC: For what?
WKB: I don't know. A lot of those emails aren't really that well-written. [Laughs.] I'm trying to see if I can find one—I just got one not last night but the night before—you know what's actually making people the most upset? The fact that I say [in the commercial] that they don't let black people be Spider-Man. Because the Marvel universe now has the Ultimate Spider-Man series, [in which] Spider-Man is a black character named Miles Morales. And who's worse to offend than the Klan? Comic-book nerds. So I'm getting a lot of apoplectic, like, anger about the fact that I said they don't let black people be Spider-Man. [Laughs.] And the funny part about that is, that's not a joke that's in my act. The day we shot the promo shoot, they needed more footage, and we did a question-and-answer period, and somebody asked what I wanted to do when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a comedian or Spider-Man. And I said at some point, "They don't let black people be Spider-Man."
And in my mind, I was thinking about Donald Glover and the thing he went through, literally the fact that they didn't let him audition [to be Spider-Man]. It was totally just an answer to a question I threw away, having no idea that FX was going to use it as the centerpiece of the marketing campaign. [Laughs.] But I'm not mad at FX. I mean, it's been great to get attention. But it's also just like, on a very basic level, I said they don't let black people be Spider-Man. Miles Morales is not a person. [Laughs.] He's a drawing.
AVC: What was the email you were about to read?
WKB: Let's see. This one is from Richard Farley, it says, "Racist!" And then the content says, "Racist jackass!" [Laughs.] And then this one says "Commercial…" in the subject line. And the body of the email is, "What can I say? You have to pick on a man over his religion? You're a real piece of work." And then I love this: "Sent from my HTC smartphone on the Now Network from Sprint." [Laughs.] People send out these angry emails with their regular, standard email endings.
AVC: What kind of relationship do you have with people who get upset? Having done the show since 2007, are you comfortable with people who don't like the things you say?
WKB: No, I'm actually not all that comfortable with it. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a comedian. I didn't want to be an edgy comedian or whatever. I didn't want to be a political comedian; I didn't want to be a politicized comedian. I just wanted to be a comedian. And what does a comedian do? A comedian makes people laugh. As an adult, as I started to think about the world, I started to want to talk about things that I care about a lot. And, really, the election of Barack Obama is what really started to swing my act really firmly in this direction, because I saw people really being crazy about how they criticized Barack Obama, and it made me want to be like, as a fellow black man, "Hey, back off!" And through that process, it becomes this thing where, because you want to create a safe space for debate, people then suddenly get mad at you because they feel like you're threatening their thing. There are comics out there who encourage the hate and want the hate, and, it's funny, it still always surprises me. On Twitter, deep inside me—not even deep inside me—my feelings get hurt. [Laughs.] Sometimes it's like, "This is not actually the type of comic I imagined myself being," but it's the type of comic I enjoy being onstage.
AVC: As somebody who wants to enact change, what do you think comedy brings to the equation?
WKB: I think in general—like, forget standup comedy—the best way to communicate is through humor. I think every public speaker says, "Open on a joke," and the reason they say it is because if you can get people laughing, you know they're paying attention. If you're ever talking to someone and they laugh, you know they heard the last thing you said. One of my big heroes is Malcolm X; Malcolm X was hilarious. And that's actually what set him apart from the other civil-rights leaders of the day. He was actually telling jokes. I don't know if he thought of them as jokes, but he certainly was being provocative in a way that made people laugh. Now what gets confusing is, people say in comedy that if you laugh, it must be true. No, it just means if you laugh, you understood the message. It doesn't mean it's true. Comedy really is apolitical; it doesn't take a side. Comedy can prove lies and prove truths.
AVC: Is there a point at which you have to connect the dots for people? Where it's like, "Okay, you're laughing, and now I'm going to slip in this other thing because you're already open"?
WKB: No, if you have to be that didactic about it, you're probably not doing a good job of it, you know? I mean, even Chris [Rock], just yesterday he was on the set talking about this, like "You have to put the medicine in the middle of everything." You can't just say, "Here's some medicine!" [Laughs.] And ultimately, that's not my interest anyway. I still just want to be a comedian. If I wanted to be a civil-rights leader, I've gone about it in a really horrible way. I want to be the campfire for the revolution; I can't be the revolution.
I'm always trying to be clear that these are just my opinions, and there are certainly smarter people than me to talk about this. But I think it's sort of indicative of the fact that we just don't have these discussions that often, so we want our comedians to help us have these discussions. Chris Rock is an absolute example of, like—his opinions about race have become people's opinions about race. One of my favorite Chris Rock jokes of all time is, "There's a difference between rich and wealthy. Shaquille O'Neal is rich; the white man who signs Shaquille O'Neal's checks is wealthy." And for me, that's a very clear way to be like, "Ooooh, there's different striations of money, and capitalism is broken down in different ways." That's a complicated economic analysis in a joke. And you walk out and you go, "Oh, that's how I'm going to explain it now."
AVC: You mentioned in another interview that, in constructing the Bell Curve show, you wanted to write the kind of show you would write if you were famous. What do you mean by that?
WKB: At the point when I wrote that show, I'd been doing stand-up and was not making the kind of headway I wanted to make. I would go onstage and talk about race, and after a few minutes, the crowd would be like, "Talk about something else!" Whether they said that out loud or not depended on the crowd.
AVC: What kinds of things were you talking about, stand-up-wise, beforehand?
WKB: My stand-up was really a battle for the first few years of my career. I always wanted to talk about race, and sometimes I would talk about it exclusively, and crowds would get tired of it, and then I would just go back to observational humor. So you don't have to dig that deep in my career to find me talking about [yuckity hack voice] "the difference between men's and women's magazines!" [Laughs.] You know, whatever random things—random sex jokes that don't have any impact on me as a person, that are just sex jokes. And so I would sort of go back and forth between those two poles, and finally, in 2007, that was a point at which there were all these weird stories of celebrity racism—Michael Richards and Don Imus and Rosie O'Donnell and Dog The Bounty Hunter—and I was seeing all this racism that I wanted to talk about onstage.
But the problem was, as a stand-up, whenever you bring up anything, if people haven't heard of it, they assume you're making it up. So if you go, "Did you hear what Rosie O'Donnell did?" or you want to talk about, "Don said this thing," people know about it, but on some level, they don't know where the facts end and the lies begin. And I wanted to do a show where I can actually play the video clips and talk directly about them, and then people will know where the jokes begin, you know? But in my mind, you go, "Well, you can't ask people to come out to see you do an hour of just you talking about race, unless you're famous." And I was like, "Wait a minute. I'm going to write the show as if I am famous." [Laughs.] "I'm going to act as if," as they say in sales. And so instead of waiting for the time when somebody would be like, "We're going to give you a TV show where you can talk about the current events of the day," I'm going to write that show now and just do it. And it became very successful in the Bay Area, and I started taking it around the country and to colleges, and ultimately I got a TV show that looks very similar to what my live show was.
AVC: So what was the process of that? Did Chris Rock see an iteration of it, or were you already in talks with FX? What was the timeline?
WKB: No, the process was, I met Chuck Sklar, who's the executive producer and head writer. He tried to hire me and Kevin Avery, who's also a writer on the show, for the D.L. Hughley CNN talk show. But the show didn't last long enough for us to get hired. At that point, Chuck heard I had this solo show; I took it to L.A., and he came and saw it with Kevin Kataoka, who I knew from San Francisco, who's also a writer on the show. Kevin's like, "Yeah, come see Kamau's show." So they came and saw it. Chuck thought it was great and called me the next day and was like, "You're going to have a TV show someday," and I was like, [unconvinced voice] "Whatever, L.A. guy! That's why I live in San Francisco, so I don't hear this nonsense." And he was very sure about that, and we talked about it. We would stay in touch. He came to all the shows the next time I took it to L.A., and then he told me that he told Chris about me, and Chris looked me up online and thought I was funny. And then this woman Jocelyn Cooper, who runs a site called AfroPunk.com, she came to my show when I did it in New York at the soloNOVA festival, and she was like, "I know Chris, I grew up with Chris, I'm going to make sure he comes and sees your show." And again, I'm like, "Okay, whatever, people who are saying crazy things." As a comic, you learn eventually you can't buy into all that stuff, or you'll go crazy. But then I did my show at the UCB Theatre in October 2010, and it was a great show, and when I walked backstage feeling really good about the show, all of a sudden I see my manager walk backstage with a weird look on her face. And right behind her is Chris Rock, dressed in black, floating like he's in The Matrix. As a comic, if you're around for a while—I know comedians who are famous or semi-famous, but this is an icon. It's like Santa Claus just walked into the back.
AVC: Even yesterday, when he came out for 10 seconds to deliver a note and didn't say anything to anybody, the audience was like, "Whoa!"
WKB: I know. That was a really funny moment for me, because he's hyperaware of who he is, and also doesn't give a shit. In a very balanced way. So he was like, "I need to tell Kamau something I think he messed up, so he doesn't do it again," and he just walked right out. It was funny, it took everybody a second to be like, "Wait, I think that's…" And then he was gone before anybody could realize. And that's when I was like, "Yes, everybody, that was Chris Rock." [Laughs.] You have to acknowledge the fact that, yes, an 800-pound gorilla just walked in the room and left on his tippy-toes.
AVC: What happened between 2010 and 2012? The show seems to have gone through a long development process.
WKB: To me, it doesn't feel like that long a process. I mean, it's less than two years, and in the middle of that—like, when he met me in October 2010, my wife was just newly pregnant, and so there was months where we weren't working on the show because I was trying to figure out how to be a dad. And he actually went to Broadway and did the show The Motherfucker With The Hat. So we weren't actively working together for two years; there were months where there was nothing going on, just because we were living our lives and doing our thing. And then once I came through the haze of new-dadhood, I basically called Chuck and was like, "Hey, can we get this thing started again? Because I've got a baby, and apparently this baby wants to start to eat food soon."
AVC: At what point did The Daily Show enter the conversation about the new show?
WKB: We've talked about The Daily Show, but there's really been talk about a lot of different shows. You know, Chris Rock had a show on HBO. And I remember at the time, when that show was on, I was like, "This is the greatest thing I've ever seen," and then it was gone. [Laughs.] The shows we've talked about, like his show, [Jon] Stewart's show, we've talked about [Bill] Maher's show—a show where it's all about one person's point of view on the world. We've talked about that in that sense, but, ultimately, I think if we are going to be around and be a part of that—you know, The Daily Show and Bill Maher's show exist together, and you can watch one or both or neither. It's not like if you watch Maher, you can't watch Stewart. So I think we have the potential to be another voice in there that's just another voice that you can watch, you can add to your DVR list.
AVC: There really is so much insane news that there are enough stories to go around.
WKB: Well, yeah, and I feel like, because we're not explicitly political, that's a lot of room we get that they don't have. Yesterday we did, you know, the show you saw—I don't think there was any politics in there. But it still feels political, because I'm talking about things I care about a lot. But I don't think we said the word "Obama" once, I don't think we said the word "Romney" once, because right now at this point in what we're working on, that's not the most important stuff.
AVC: It's more about media criticism.
WKB: Absolutely. And I think there's room for more of this. I know on some level, it's like—maybe I have more in common with Chelsea Lately than I have with Stewart. [Laughs.] I think there's room for a lot of people in this pool.
AVC: You mentioned being from San Francisco, and actively choosing to live there. What is your feeling about suddenly being part of the industry, and moving to New York?
WKB: Well, the thing I'm proud of is that we accomplished this—and I say "we" because there's a lot of writers, and a lot of these people are from San Francisco—without going through the traditional route. I'm happy to be in New York, but even here in New York, it's not like I'm a part of the scene right now. A lot of the comics who work on the show are going up into clubs, and I'm like, "Man, what's that like?" [Laughs.] Because I'm too busy working on the show and then going home and trying to sleep and be a dad and a husband. I much prefer being in New York to being in L.A., it's just I think New York has a lot more in common with San Francisco than L.A. does, other than the oppressive heat. But I'm happy we're doing it in New York. If could have chosen any place to do it that wasn't San Francisco, New York would be the place. It's also just because New York is a very fertile city. We go out in the street and talk to people a lot about issues, and it's just a very fertile place for that to happen.
AVC: But your TV show sprung organically from the live show you had; it came from San Francisco.
WKB: If this becomes a success, a big part of the story is going to be about the 21st-century new-media landscape, and the fact that Chris Rock can see me on the Internet, get familiar with my stuff, go see my live show in New York, basically fund a pilot himself, then hand over that pilot to FX, a network all about giving original voices a shot at TV shows. This would not have happened when there were four channels, three major networks, and UHF.
AVC: Yesterday at the taping, you had your hands in your pockets for a while, which is supposedly one of those rules you're not supposed to break. How did your stage presence evolve?
WKB: I think 99.9 percent of comedians, when they start, are horrible. Every now and again you get a Dave Chappelle, an Eddie Murphy, or a Bill Hicks who comes out fully formed. But yeah, it's a journey to get to the place where you feel the most comfortable. And that's been my thing too. It's funny you say that about my hands in my pockets, because even when I put my hands in my pockets, my mind goes, "Should I be doing this?" [Laughs.] If I had my hands in my pockets the whole show, that would be weird. But I just felt like, "This is where my hands are going to go." The thing is, the more comfortable I am onstage—and maybe FX will call us tomorrow and be like, "Stop putting your hands in your pockets"—but the more comfortable I am onstage, the better I'm going to be as a performer. Chris talked about that a lot yesterday, like, "Own the space. If you want to move, move." And the director of the show said that yesterday, too, and the stage manager said, "If you want to move, move; the cameras will find you. Don't feel like you have to be rooted in one space."
AVC: The marketing for the show has been, basically, "Who is W. Kamau Bell?" Is that a strategy you wanted? Did they come up with that independently?
WKB: The funny thing was, when I met with FX—when we finally decided this was happening—they have a whole marketing department, and they presented probably 20 or 30 different directions of ad campaigns. These people work. [Laughs.] One thing they said: "We realize we're introducing you to the world." I don't know if you know this, Steve: I'm not famous. And so initially, they were like, "I hope this doesn't offend you, but we're thinking about this," and I was like, "No, I get it."


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Aaron Hernandez girlfriend seeks details in her charges
FALL RIVER, Mass. >> Massachusetts prosecutors must provide more detail about how the girlfriend of Aaron Hernandez allegedly lied in testimony to a grand jury that indicted the former New England Patriots player on a murder charge, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Defense attorney Janice Bassil said in Fall River Superior Court she is "at a loss" for how prosecutors believe Shayanna Jenkins lied to the grand jury because the perjury indictment isn't specific.
Jenkins, who attended the proceeding but did not address the court, pleaded not guilty to a single count last month and is free on personal recognizance. She did not comment after the hearing.
Bristol County prosecutors said at Jenkins' arraignment that she lied before the grand jury, including about disposing a box from the basement of their North Attleborough, Mass., home at his request.
Prosecutors say Jenkins told grand jurors she couldn't recall where she threw out the box, which she put in a trash bag along with baby clothes. It's not clear what the box contained.
Jenkins was granted immunity before she testified to the grand jury.
Bristol County Assistant District Attorney William McCauley said Wednesday that most of Jenkins' testimony, on that and other topics, was "not credible." Her intention was "to protect, to cover up and to assist in keeping evidence from our reaches," he said.
Bassil has said there is no evidence Jenkins lied and that the prosecution simply doesn't believe her.
Judge Susan Garsh ruled that prosecutors must provide more detail to the defense by Dec. 2. Jenkins is due back in court Jan. 6.
Hernandez has pleaded not guilty the killing of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semipro football player who was dating Jenkins' sister. He is being held without bail.