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What are the political implications for single mothers if less and less are staying married?
The number of single mothers in the United States is rapidly increasing, as marriage rates decline and births out of wedlock rise.
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As a result, some social commentators are concerned that the growth in single mothers will have a detrimental impact on the power of women in politics as a whole, while others argue unmarried moms could be a strong source of support in President Obama's 2012 campaign.
Does a decline in marriage significantly change the political landscape? As a single mother, do you feel more compelled to vote to secure a better future for your children? And if you don't engage in politics, why not?
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[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from the Season 5 premiere of The Walking Dead. Read at your own risk.]Well that didn't take long.The Walking Dead's hotly anticipated Season 5 premiere wasted little time getting right into the action — and as a result, quickly paved the way for our band of survivors to escape Terminus, the presumed safe haven they arrived at last season only to be thrown into a train car. Although Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Glen (Steven Yeun) and Bob (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) were pulled out of the train car to meet a grisly, throat-slitting fate, they...
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Even the best TV dramas start to show signs of slowing down after a few years. And while AMC's The Walking Dead has arguably had its own share of stumbles in the past, the confident, action-packed Season 5 premiere suggests a show that's just getting warmed up.
To any outsider setting foot on the Griffin, Georgia, set of The Walking Dead, the sense of heightened security and secrecy is immediately apparent. Production assistants string giant tarps across the entrance to a small alley, shielding any on-camera action from the eyes of dozens of gawkers who have parked themselves across the street in the 90-degree heat holding homemade signs professing their love for AMC's hit zombie drama. ("I <3 Daryl Dixon" is one popular sentiment.) Brief glimpses of the show's stars elicit the kind of eardrum-tearing screams usually reserved for the latest boy band.
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It's a fun group to run with, and watching everyone problem solve and react (in their character's own way, of course) made the night for me. I really think exploration is such a fun aspect that's glossed over in a lot of campaigns.Zachary The Firsthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6702508936667404812.post-50033433169366393612009-11-16T12:20:40.634-05:002009-11-16T12:20:40.634-05:00It was great. Even though their were relatively li...It was great. Even though their were relatively little combat -- there was a great edge of creepiness and when the enemies were revealed they came from a direction I never expected (rather than the dead bodies popping up.)

Even though we didn't get all the clues as to what was really going on, it was clear that there was an internal logic, which made it fun to try and figure out. That is one of the strengths of the campaign -- there is s structure to the world.

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My first reason goes back to the time when a guy named David Marmon hired me to be his graduate assistant. I remember my first day on the job. I wanted to get my workout in. Like a typical meathead, I went out and did some crunches, bench presses, and bicep curls. After my "gettin' swole" workout, I sat back down in the office expecting some praise and admiration for my superior workout skills. David greeted me with, "Why do you train that way?" I was dumbfounded. I thought I had all the answers when it came to things like getting stronger, fitter, and leaner and all around more awesome. He followed his question with, "We train movements, not muscles." I guess the idea of training movements, not muscles, kind of stuck with me (even though we still did sit-ups in our programming at the time). Train movements, not muscles.
So taking the train movements, not muscles approach, is bringing your sternum closer to your pelvis a movement you want to get better at? Think about it. When you squat, what are the coaching cues you hear? Chest out. Back flat. Hips back. Right? Same thing with deadlifts and many other exercises. Chest out. Back flat. The spine evolved to handle weight in the "chest out, hips back" position. That's why we coach it that way. Why would we want to get better in producing force in any other way?
We don't teach this.
We don't coach people to get better at being in the rounded back position. So why do they need to get better at it? Your chances for injury are high when you flex the spine. Dr. Stuart McGill has become famous for saying, "Wanna see a disc explode? Keep flexing at the spine." The torso musculature was meant to transmit force, not produce it.
So we train the limb muscles (ankles, knees, hips, shoulders, elbows, and wrists) to produce force. We train the torso musculature to act as a conduit and transmit force, not produce it. Therefore, the stronger and more rigid we can make the conduit, the more force the body as a whole will be able to produce.
My second reason is that the main function of these muscles is to co-contract. Basically, they contract against one another to stiffen and support the lumbar spine. I call this bracing. This is contrary to the popular belief that people must suck in the stomach to better support the spine (not long ago, I believed this as well). Sucking in actually decreases the stability of the lumbar spine (1).
Ok, so if not crunches and sit-ups, then what? The core is composed of the lumbar spine, quadratus lumborum, muscles of the abdominal wall (rectus abdominus and obliques), back extensors, and multijoint muscles like the latissimus dorsi and the psoas. You could also include the glutes in this group as well because they're the main power producers and a synergist to the core muscles.
Here at Nunn's Performance Training, we break our core training into three sections: anti-flexion, anti-rotation, and anti-lateral flexion. The progressions look like this:
Easy → Hard
Quadruped single arm/single leg raise → quadruped opposite arm/leg raise → prone plank → prone plank + weight → stability ball rollout → abdominal wheel rollout → TRX fallout → barbell rollout
Quadruped single arm/single leg raise → quadruped opposite arm/leg raise → Pallof series (half kneeling/high cable, standing/medium cable, standing/low cable)
Anti-lateral flexion*
Quadruped single arm/single leg raise → quadruped opposite arm/leg raise → side plank → side plank + weight → Pallof with overhead press
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What's On Guide: December 18 to 22
Last updated at 13:54, Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Your guide to exhibitions, movies, music, theatre, arts and community events for the week ahead...
Whitehaven: The Christmas Show, The Beacon, until January 5
Egremont: Arts and Crafts for Christmas, Lowes Court Gallery, until December 24
Take 5, Lowes Court Gallery, until January 2
Whitehaven: Regulation 21, The Whittington Cat, Saturday
Cleator Moor: Open mic, The Crown, last Thursday in the month
Cleator: Live music, The Brook, every weekend
Open mic, The Brook, Wednesdays, 8.30pm
Egremont: Jam Night, The Wheatsheaf, Tuesdays.
West Lakes Music Centre, The Meeting Place, Tuesdays, 7.30pm
Open mic, Florence Arts Centre, third Wednesday in the month, 7.30pm
Country and Western night, Catholic Club, tonight, 8pm
Bernie and Louise, Catholic Club, Saturday, 8pm
Spotlight Duo, Cons Club, Saturday
Gosforth: Jam Side Up Jazz Club, Horse & Groom, third Friday in the month, 8pm
Millom: Open mic, The Palladium, fourth Friday in the month
Keekle: Cleator Moor Brass, Village Hall, Mondays and Thursdays, 7pm to 9pm
Cockermouth: A Medieval Christmas, The Kirkgate, today, 1.45pm
Danny Bryant, The Kirkgate, Sunday, 4pm
Maryport: The Counterfeit Christmas Show, The Wave Centre, Saturday, 10.30am and 1pm
Whitehaven: Modern, Latin and sequence dance, Marchon Club, Sundays, 7.30pm to 10pm
Salsa and Latin classes, Marchon Club, Wednesdays, 7pm
Guest mediums, Greenbank Community Centre, Sundays (except bank holidays), 6.30pm
Copeland Photographic Society, Sneckyeat Community Hall, Mondays, 7.30pm
Country Market, United Reformed Church Hall, Thursdays, 9.30am to 11.30am
Bingo, Haven Club, Thursdays, 8pm
Arts & crafts class, Hensingham Methodist Church Hall, Tuesdays, 1.30pm to 4pm
Mirehouse: Coffee morning, Community Centre, Fridays, 9.30am to 11am
Lunch club, Community Centre, Fridays, noon to 1pm
Prize bingo, Community Centre, Fridays, 1.30pm to 2.30pm
Parent and Toddler, Community Centre, Wednesdays, 1.30 to 3pm
Men in Sheds, Community Centre, Wednesdays, 10am to noon
Egremont: Living With Loss Bereavement Group, The De Lucy Centre, first and third Wednesday in the month, 2pm to 4pm
Quiz night, Cons Club, second Wednesday in the month, 8pm
Youth Partnership, Methodist Hall, Tuesdays, 4pm to 6pm (ages eight to 11), 6pm to 8pm (ages 12+)
Salsa and Latin classes, Rugby League Club, Thursdays, 7.30pm
Bingo, Catholic Club, Sundays, 8.30pm, and Wednesdays, 8pm
Farmers, Craft and Fairtrade Market, Market Hall, Friday, 9.30am to 1pm
Darts competition, Catholic Club, Friday, 8pm
Members day, Catholic Club, Saturday, 8pm
Bigrigg: Bridge Club, Village Hall, Tuesdays, 6.45pm, and Fridays, 1.15pm
Cleator Moor: Pensioners' Club, Crossfield Community Centre, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 1pm to 3.30pm
Church, Crossfield Community Centre, Wednesdays, 9.30am to 10.30am
Hobby Club, Crossfield Community Centre, Thursdays, 1pm to 3.30pm
Coffee morning, Crossfield Community Centre, first Saturday in the month, from 9am to noon
Family service, Crossfield Community Centre, first Sunday in the month, 4pm to 5pm
Derwent Railway Society, 9 to 13 Phoenix Court, Mondays and Thursdays, 6.30pm to 9pm
Coffee morning and 'Good As New' sale, Methodist Church, Fridays, 10am to 11.15am
Moor Harmony Singing Group, Howgill Family Centre, Mondays, 6.30pm to 9pm
Cleator WI, Wath Brow Masonic Hall, second Tuesday in every month, 7pm to 9pm
Clear Blue Skies, Town Council, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11am to 2pm
Arlecdon: Quiz night, The Hound, Thursdays, 9pm
Gosforth: Art Society, Village School, Mondays, 7pm to 9pm
Beckermet: Art class, Reading Rooms, Mondays, 10am to noon
Seascale: Gosforth & District Art Society, Church Hall, Thursdays, 10am to noon
Millom: Modern jive classes, beginners, Recreation Centre, Sundays, 7.30pm
Youth Zone, Recreation Centre, Saturdays, 7pm to 9pm
Moor Row: Scottish Country Dancing, Moor Row Club, Mondays, 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Haile: Morris dancing, Village Hall, Mondays, 8pm
Cockermouth: Christmas ceilidh, The Kirkgate, Saturday, 7pm
Whitehaven: WeightWatchers, United Reformed Church, Wednesdays, 5.15pm, and New Life Church, Thursdays, 10am
Mokyfit, The Whitehaven Academy, Tuesdays, 5.30pm and 6.45pm
Exercise classes with Lynda Ridley, Marchon Club, Mondays, 5.30pm
Tracey Telfer Fitness, Harbour Youth Project, Mondays, 7.30am to 8am (pyramids workout); noon to 1pm (weigh-in and work-out); Tuesdays, noon to 12.30pm (supreme work-out), 12.35pm to 1.05pm (spiked work-out); Wednesdays, 7.30am to 8am (spiked work-out); Thursdays, 7.30am to 8am (pyramids work-out); noon to 12.30pm (supreme work-out); 12.35pm to 1.05 (spiked work-out)
Tracey Telfer Fitness, St Gregory and St Patrick's School, Mondays, 6pm to 7.15pm, and 7.20pm to 8.20pm (Fitsteps)
Kettlercise, beginners, Senhouse Centre, Thursdays, 9.30am to 10.30pm
Kettlercise, 24 Wellness Club, Mondays, 9.30am to 10.20am and 5.45pm to 6.35pm; Wednesdays 5.30pm to 6.20pm; Fridays 9.30am to 10.20am; Sundays 10.20am to 11.10am
MetaFit, 24 Wellness Club, Tuesdays, 5.45pm to 6.15pm, Thursdays, 5.45pm to 6.15pm, Sundays, 11.30am to noon
Abs & Core Fitclub, 24 Wellness Club, Fridays, 5.15pm to 6pm, and 6.10pm to 6.55pm
Inasnity Fitness, 24 Wellness Club, Saturdays, 9.30am to 10am, and Wednesdays, 6.15pm to 6.45pm
High Intensity Interval Training, 24 Wellness Club, Sundays, 9.30am to 10am
Herbalife Better Body Challenge, 24 Wellness Club, Wednesdays, 7pm to 8pm
Circuits Fitclub, 24 Wellness Club, Wednesdays, 8pm to 8.45pm
Insanity Fitness, St Mary's Club, Kells, Mondays, 5.45pm to 6.35pm, and Thursdays, 5.15pm tp 5.45pm
Zumba Fitness, The Whitehaven Academy, Mondays, 6pm, and Wednesdays, 6.30pm
Therapeutic exercise, Senhouse Centre, Saturdays, 11am to noon
Kettlercise, St Mary's Club, Kells, Wednesdays, 5.45pm to 6.35pm, and Thursdays, 5.15pm to 5.45pm
Pilates, all West Coast Yoga and Pilates, Mondays, 6pm to 7pm, 7pm to 8pm and 8pm to 9pm; Tuesdays, 4.45pm to 5.45pm and 8pm to 9pm; Wednesdays, 6pm to 7pm; Thursdays, 11am to noon; Fridays, 9.30am to 10.30am, and 10.30am to 11.30am (back care)
Yoga, all West Coast Yoga and Pilates, Tuesdays, 5.45pm to 6.45pm (advanced); Wednesdays, 10am to 11.30am (yoga-lates), and 4.55pm to 5.55pm (beginners); Thursdays, 9.30am to 10.30am and 4.45pm to 5.45pm (yoga), 6pm to 7.30pm (yoga and relaxation)
Pilates, United Reformed Church, Tuesdays, 5.30pm to 6.30pm (power) and 6.30pm to 7.30pm
Pilates with Sophie, Senhouse Centre, Mondays, 10am to 11am
Clubbercise Fitness, Marchon Club, Wednesdays, 7pm to 7.50pm
Qi-Yoga, Senhouse Centre, Mondays, 11.20am to 12.30pm, and Wednesdays, 6pm to 7pm
Slimming World, New Life Church, Mondays and Tuesdays, 5pm and 7pm, and Saturdays, 9.30am and 11.30am; Cricket Club, Tuesdays, 9.30am
Taekwondo, Richmond Community Centre, Mondays and Thursdays, 6.30pm (family) and 7.30pm (adults)
Mirehouse: Kettlercise, Community Centre, Mondays, 6.45pm to 7.45pm
Armchair Aerobics, Community Centre, Fridays, 11.30am to noon
Tai Chi Chuan, Community Centre, Mondays, 5pm to 6pm
Egremont: Hi Lo Aerobics, St Mary's and St Michael's Church Hall, Mondays, 9.30am, and Tuesdays, 6.30pm
Total Body Conditioning, St Mary's and St Michael's Church Hall, Thursdays, 7pm
WeightWatchers, St Mary's Centre, Mondays, 6.30pm
Mokyfit, Market Hall, Wednesdays, 5.45pm
Jujitsu, Market Hall, Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm to 7pm
Kettlercise, Market Hall, Thursdays, 6pm to 7pm
Tai Chi, Market Hall, Thursdays, 7pm to 9pm
Slimming World, Parish Church Hall, Tuesdays, 10am, and Wednesdays, 9.30am, 11.30am, 5pm and 7pm; Rugby Union Club, Mondays, 7pm
Cleator Moor: WeightWatchers, Columba Club, Tuesdays, 10am and 6pm
Moky, St Bega's Church Hall, Thursdays, 11am
Zumba, Crossfield Community Centre, Mondays, 11.15am to 12.15pm
Dancing, Crossfield Community Centre, Mondays, 7.30pm to 9.30pm
Aerobics, Crossfield Community Centre, Wednesdays, 10.45am to 11.45am
Jujitsu, Crossfield Community Centre, Wednesdays and Fridays, 6.30pm to 8.30pm
Yoga and Relaxation, Crossfield Community Centre, Tuesdays, 10am to 11.30am
Tracey Telfer Fitness, St Patrick's School, Wednesdays, 5.45pm to 7pm
Slimming World, Civic Hall, Tuesdays, 7pm, and Thursdays, 9.30am, 11.30am, 5pm and 7pm
Frizington: Mokyfit, St Joseph's Church Hall, Thursdays, 6.30pm
Seascale: Mokyfit, Seascale School, Mondays, 6.30pm
Slimming World, Windscale Club, Tuesdays, 7pm
Millom: Yoga/pilates , beginners, Recreation Centre, Thursdays, 6pm
Moky, Recreation Centre, Wednesdays, 7.15pm
Bootle: Moky, Village Hall, Thursdays, 6.30pm
Drigg: Moky, Village Hall, Fridays, 6pm
Lowca: Kettlecise, Rugby League Club, Tuesdays, 6pm to 6.50pm
Wath Brow: Pilates, Wath Brow Fitness Suite, Wednesdays, 7.15pm to 8.15pm
Thornhill: Mokyfit, Thornhill School, Mondays, 6pm
Santon Bridge: Kay's Keep Fit, Village Hall, Mondays, 9.50am to 10.50am, and Thursdays, 6pm to 7pm
Cockermouth: It's a Wonderful Life, The Kirkgate, Monday, 8pm
Workington: Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb; Dumb and Dumber To; The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies; Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast; Penguins of Madagascar 2D; Get Santa; Paddington; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1; Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?; Bolshoi Ballet: The Nutcracker (Sunday, December 21 only); all Plaza Cinema, from Friday
Muncaster: By the Light of Fool Moon, Muncaster Castle, until December 23
Drigg: It's a Wonderful Life, Village Hall, tonight, 7.30pm
Carlisle: Peter Pan, Sands Centre, until December 31
Keswick: A Present for Santa, Theatre by the Lake, until Wednesday
Peter Pan, Theatre by the Lake, until January 31
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Take your favorite characters from all of the best fighting games, and duke it out! Choose from 44 characters and six gameplay modes. One unique feature in this game is the ability to choose a "groove" -- a set of special abilities that allows you to play how you decide to. Adjust the intensity of your attacks using the pressure-sensitive shoulder buttons on your GameCube controller. There's plenty of game here -- call a friend and check it out!
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Capcom vs. SNK 2 Okay but not great. (7 out of 10)
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The game was good for a fighting title but the controlling for gamecube was crazy and hard to use. Especially if you wanted to try out the other gauges in the game. The differences in fighters were awesome and so was the music soundtrack to the game. The backgrounds was equally good and the bonus...more
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Not really. Peace and quiet, free breakfast at 11. LIFE.
One drive failure, one VMware server that was on a PSOD and appears to have corrupt vmware install (probably the usb pen it's on gone corrupt) luckily HA did its job though.
Only came in to setup the PCs in two offices, looks like i'll be here a little longer than expected. Anyone else having an interesting first day back?
Not really. Peace and quiet, free breakfast at 11. LIFE.
Got 15 mind into work to be called to pick up a poorly daughter...
Exchange 2010 DAG failed, soooo irritating.
First thing start of the day get a text from SMT the admin server has died :|
Our CC can not decide which data center we are using, so we keep losing all Internet for a few mins
Not back till Monday. Have remoted in and restarted servers after updates.
I really don't want to go back. Really not.
Oh dear
Plugged all computers in I could get to and allowed the Sims update to propagate.. which it seems to have quite nicely.
Trying to stop eating all the left over chocs.
My Darth Vader and Binary clocks didn't go off this morning - so I wake up at 8:38, launch myself into the car while getting dressed, and make the trip into Manchester for work in 25 mins instead of 40 mins - looks like Darth only works for 2 minutes before turning itself off, and the binary clock *may* have been set wrong.
Nice steady fitting SSDs today, suits me after 22 days off
Luckily my day ended up being a nice warmup to monday (off again tomorrow ) started at 9:30, went home at just gone 2
Why can't work be like that every day!?! Ideally including no students or teachers.
Two words: password resets.
Not going back in till Monday, will have to test one of our fibre links out as a tree fell on it over Xmas. Luckily there was enough excess in the loft space. Its working fine according to the switch. Fortunately as of last summer its no longer our only link to that side of the site.
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New Trailer of Ra One: Looks good
The new action – dialogue trailer of Ra One, which also has a small glimpse of the negative character played by Arjun Rampal. The special effects are easily the best we have ever seen in a Bollywood film and the trailer is brilliant!
Outstanding action, special effects and background sound. Have a look
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sunny Totawar: (September 9, 2011 at 7:54 pm)
iam speech less.this movie gonna change the the course of indian cinema.
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aashkaran: (September 9, 2011 at 7:57 pm)
Haha..thanks Indicine….. :)
I told ya…I told everyone..what we are going to expect…
I had doubts if it was going to be hwood stuff..but it has surpassed my expectations..infact broken them..
Hollywood..will get taste of its own remedy..brilliant top notch stuff..from VFX to Background SCORE..
Am I Right Indicine..
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Rahul: (September 9, 2011 at 8:12 pm)
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Saboor khan: (September 9, 2011 at 8:19 pm)
Just salman and shahrukh are king khans.RA.ONE will another succes movie like BODYGAURD AND DABANGG.
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Rahul: (September 9, 2011 at 8:25 pm)
@ Indicine team thanx for appreciating SRK product because I have notice that you are anti-srk.
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aashkaran: (September 9, 2011 at 8:27 pm)
Indicine..Aage aage dekho hota hai kya..heard that 2:50 sec trailer would be also out..dont know..btw..
If u got a chance..to..see at 38 seconds..notice how evilish Ra.One looks..
its just fantastic to see..how benchmarks can be set by a film by miles..
terrific stuff..and the last line..
Jung Goliyon se nahi dil se jeeti jaati hai was..Absolutely Muaah..!!
Every Coming Promo shows..how well is Ra.One made up of elements like ..comedy..vfx..sfx..action..and emotional stuff..
Perfect ingredients..
now the fear I had that..how is it gonna work among..very massy audience..has vanished..
coz classes and masses..can now enjoy it..too..it has Indian and internationally stuff mixed in a very good propotion..
SRKING all the way..
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aashkaran: (September 9, 2011 at 8:28 pm)
Rahul..chordo..yaar..Indicine..ko pasand aagyi samjho Baat bangyi..now lets see..how some hooligans come and bark that gay stuff now..with their ears red after watching this promo..
just wait and watch..SRK fans are winning..
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Sujal: (September 9, 2011 at 8:48 pm)
We SRK fans have kept quite for long enough… now is the time for us to shut all of them up who have been barking that salman is the bigger star and amir is the bigger star..
Now its SRK time.. wait and watch ladies gentleman and fans of other stars.. on 26th of next month you will know what a 'REAL SUPERSTAR' is all about.. 25 crores or maybe 30 crores in 1 day.. Bodyguard records will bite the dust..
you read it first here.. Ra one will reach 100 crores in 5 days or less!!!!
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Rahul: (September 9, 2011 at 9:23 pm)
@ Indicine team thanx
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vinay: (September 9, 2011 at 9:23 pm)
ekdam faltu trailer hai. Koi cartoon film ki tarah. Mujhe lagta hai pure desh mai sharya ke do hi fans hai. Rahul and aashkaran.ye movie bahut badi flop hone wali hai. Single pasali hero srk(gay)
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Rahul: (September 9, 2011 at 9:25 pm)
@ vinay oh…dear don't be jealous of trailer……even u don't have sence of talking…..
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Aashkaran: (September 9, 2011 at 11:17 pm)
haha..I love it..I love..seeing Indicine..backing SRK now..after Salman hoopla…I love seeing..face saving tatics of Shocked Salman fans..
Sujal..bro..we aint keeping quiet now..our time has come..
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Rahul: (September 9, 2011 at 11:26 pm)
..@ well said Aashkaran bro.
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Saju Dey: (September 9, 2011 at 11:30 pm)
FLOP film
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Aashkaran: (September 9, 2011 at 11:34 pm)
thnx..stay united..
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Dipen: (September 9, 2011 at 11:34 pm)
Nasty trailor. Ra-1 will sure FLOP
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Dipen: (September 9, 2011 at 11:40 pm)
Kareena looks very sexy & beautiful in the film but srGAY looking very OLDER to her. Not match up jodi. Kareena looks very young & srGAY looking 65Yr. old guy.
RA-1 will be DISASTER.
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shuridh: (September 9, 2011 at 11:52 pm)
I dont know why but here are some blind sucker fan of slaman like vinay, dipen, who have no scence of film……….RA.ONE is blockbuster hit even now……
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Dipen: (September 10, 2011 at 12:08 am)
ROBOT is a far more better film than Ra-1.
ROBOT films VFX & special effects are mind blowing.
Ra-1 is a copy paste of ROBOT. Shame on srgay.
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Aashkaran: (September 10, 2011 at 12:13 am)
haha Everyone..look how Dipen is disgusting himself..isse kehte hain..khudki bezti krwanaa..
pehle gay bol bol ke..waar krte the..ab old waale criteria pe aagye..
Hurrrrrr…Dipen..buzz off…
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Aashkaran: (September 10, 2011 at 12:14 am)
theek hai bhai Dipen..Robot ki copy..hai..chal ab patli gali se nikaale..yeh salman ki koi mallu film nahi hai..Standard hai iska..
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salman: (September 10, 2011 at 12:41 am)
jub insan budha lagnay lag jaye to usy acting chor dyni chahiye ………………….salman khan ka koi muqabla nahin ker sakta
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haroonn1986: (September 10, 2011 at 12:54 am)
Its a brilliant trailer. I love this. This movie is going to make history in bollywood.
@srk haters:
I think u all people need some psychological treatment. There is some serious problem with all of u. This problem will become much bigger after the release of ra 1.Bcz it will be a big shock nd i m afraid u all r going to be mad. So its better to get treatment before its too late.
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Congregation B'nai Israel earned its Fain Award for its interfaith programming. The Congregation reachs out to nine local churches including two African-American churches. Four events are threaded together to create continuity, impact and participation.
The first of these events is "Feeding the Needy." This program began 15 years ago and feeds the hungry and needy in Boca Raton just prior to Thanksgiving at Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church. Each year between 500-800 hungry people are fed through the participation of the congregation and the cooperation of the church and community.
The second event is a joint inter-faith service with Ebenezer. This service was begun 17 years ago and has generated great participation and support. The congregation's clergy and members join Ebenezer's pastor, deacons and church members for a joyous celebration of the life of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Music helps to unite the two communities and to share their experience of God together. There is "standing room only" each year at Ebenezer for this service! On this occasion, the members of the church cook a light lunch so the members of both congregations can enjoy fellowship together while the singing and dancing continue.
God's Children in Concert was created and organized by B'nai Israel's Cantor, Stephanie Shore. She invited and helped rehearse the children's choirs along with their directors, and created such an extensive production that it is held only every other year. This year participants came from a diverse group including St. Paul Lutheran Church, St. David's Armenian Church, B'nai Torah Congregation, the Hindu Community, the Inner City Youth, St. Jude Catholic Church, Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, First United Methodist Church, and the Florida Baha'i Workshop. Of course, the congregation's own choirs also participate.
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Uzbekistan trip, Mark Seltzer
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- Submission Date: 10th Feb 2005
The following is a brief description of a 12 day trip through Uzbekistan. Section 1 is a description of the trip. Section 2 is a few practical notes, in the form of corrections and additions to the Cadogan book 'Central Asia: The Practical Handbook' by Giles Whittel. This is the only practical guide to Central Asia and essential for independent travellers.
On October 24 1994 my wife and I flew in to Tashkent from Peshawar, Pakistan. We had pre-paid for a hotel room on our first and last night, at the Hotel Uzbekistan. In addition, we had paid US$40 for 'visa support', and supposedly a visa was waiting for us at the airport. In fact, no-one had heard of us at the airport, and the 'visa support' money seemed a complete waste - however the pre-paid hotel seemed essential - the immigration officials checked the hotel 'voucher' carefully. For US$50 each we were given visas for Tashkent, and with a bit of argument I was able to have the other cities that we intended visiting added - the fact that we did not have pre-paid hotels in those cities was a problem that took a bit of discussion to overcome. Then there was customs, where we had to complete a set of forms listing our money, cameras, etc. - these forms were stamped and retained by the customs officials at the airport (though when we were leaving 2 weeks later, the same officials demanded the forms back!)
[It did appear that people who claimed to be in transit, i.e. to Almaty, were given visas on the spot without any pre-arrangement. I don't know how long their visas were for, although if you did this, you would have to find some way of getting other towns in Uzbekistan added to your visa before being able to get there easily.]
Several hours later, we left the airport and paid $5 for a taxi to the hotel (later we found that there is a bus that goes directly from the airport to the downtown, stopping by the Metro and Hotel Uzbekistan - bus number 25. But when you exit the airport and are surrounded by a crowd of taxi drivers, it is impossible to unearth this information!) The Hotel Uzbekistan, which cost us US$150 per night for a double, was about the same quality as a run-down cheap motel off some out-of-the-way highway in the U.S., but not as friendly, or as clean, or as service oriented! It is a good introduction to the remains of the Soviet tourist infrastructure. I try to think of our two nights hotel as a bonus, thrown in for free with our US$200 per person visa fee.
One thing that one can do at the Hotel Uzbekistan, without too much difficulty, is purchase domestic air tickets with credit cards, and the next morning we bought tickets to Urgench (for Khiva). We also changed US$200 into the local currency, the 'som', which proved to be a mistake, as hotels all insisted upon being paid in US$ cash, and prices for meals & transportation in Uzbekistan were so low that we had great difficulty spending all of our som. [Recommendation: change only a token amount of money at the official rate. It is relatively easy to change more money at the black market rate, which at the time was about 30% higher].
We saw a little of Tashkent the next morning, it reminded me of Eastern European cities in the '70's, with relatively few cars, wide streets, crowded trams, and a generally decrepit look compared to the West. It is not dirty, but a little run down looking. The museums were all either closed, or in different locations than indicated in the Cadogan book. There were no restaurants visible, and at first sight, Tashkent was rather unattractive.
In the afternoon we took bus 25 (like the subway, the bus cost 1 som, or about 5 cents at the official rate) to the airport. Foreigners go to a special building, still marked 'Intourist', where you get special treatment: for example, your passport gets the privilege of being inspected a large number of times by a large number of people, all of whom write down the details in their books. What happens to all these books? Where do they go when they are full? And why are there so many different books? There is no why!
Another unfortunate privilege is that you get taken to the plane separately from the masses, after they have all boarded, so that foreigners get the worst seats. Uzbekistan Airways was not so bad - later we read that their maintenance crew is being trained by Lufthansa, although they don't bother with stuff like ensuring that people have their seat belts fastened and so on. The worst thing about the flight was a group of slimy looking Uzbek businessmen, presumably black-marketeers, fat and over-flowing with gold jewelry; some of them refused to let us sit near them!
We landed in Urgench, and had our passports checked by a policeman as we got off the airplane. It did appear to be essential that one's visa listed all the towns that one wanted to go to - I don't know what would have happened if we did not have one of our destinations listen, but our passports were certainly checked frequently.
The sun was setting, so we negotiated for a taxi to the train station and then to Khiva, 200 som for a 30 km ride. I wanted to find out what time the trains left for Bokhara, and went in to the trains station to ask, only to find that getting such information is extremely difficult. There was only one service window open, and (as in all the bus stations & train stations) the window was simply an opening about 3 inches by 6 inches, about 4 feet off the ground, though which one shouted one's request, fed through the money, and received one's ticket. And this little window was surrounded by a dozen frantic locals, all pushing and shoving and trying desperately to get their mouths close enough to this little slot to shout in their ticket order. My naive idea had been to go up to the information window, present my paper with 'What time are the trains to Bokhara please?' written in Russian, and give them a pen to write down the reply, but it was clear that I would never be able to even approach that window without my piece of paper (and all my clothing) being torn to shreds. So we went on to Khiva.
It turned out to be fortuitous that we had taken the taxi, for the driver knew of the new 'private' guest house in Khiva, the Hotel Orkanchi, which was not mentioned in the Cadogan Guide. [There is one other place to stay in Khiva, the hotel in the Madrasa, it looked great but we talked to someone who stayed there and reported the following disadvantages: there had been no running water for a long time, it was US$15 per person without meals, and there were no restaurants that sold food anywhere to be found. The only restaurants in the area had food only for the restaurant staff! The guest house was quite nice, and we spent 4 nights there. One slept on the floor, and the outhouses were inconvenient to get to at night, but the food was good. It cost US$10 per person including meals].
The next couple of days were spent wandering about Khiva. Since Uzbek independence, people have been moving back into the old town, and Khiva is no longer the deserted 'museum city' of a few years ago. There are almost no commercial establishments, and few people about, so it is very quiet, yet clearly all the old houses are now inhabited again. I found it pleasant, except for the aggressive begging children, who were more persistent here than almost anywhere else in the world. At one point I had stones thrown at me by kids to whom I had refused to give pens or chewing gum; this really turned me off Khiva. We had met some travellers in China who told us to make sure that we had pens to give to the children in Uzbekistan, as 'they love them', and now we saw what happened once these kids started to expect such gifts. Khiva was beautiful, but the stone throwing incident turned my visit sour.
On the third day we rented a taxi with another traveller to go to the ruins at Kunya Urgench, a few hours drive away, and in Turkmenistan. We did not have visas for Turkmenistan, which caused a bit of a problem! Very briefly, we had agreed to pay a big premium to the taxi driver to cover the bribes for the border guards and Turkmen police, then the Uzbek policemen who came to the guest house regularly to check visitor's visas heard that we were intending on entering Turkmenistan, and called our taxi driver and told him not to take us. We suspect that he was upset at not being informed & getting his share of the bribes! Our taxi driver told us to get ready to depart an hour early, so we could slip through the border before the local policeman found out that we were still going, and phoned the border - and as it turned out, the border guards were still asleep when we crossed. Our car was stopped at least 4 times by Turkmen police during our day trip, each of whom were paid off by the driver. The Cadogan guide gives the impression that land crossings without visas are easy, but in general throughout our trip we found that this was not the case, that whether travelling by air, bus, or car, one's passport and visa was checked frequently. Anyway, we saw Kunya Urgench, where one of the sites (the dome of the 14th century mausoleum of Turabeg Khanym) was spectacular, but the rest of the sites were overshadowed by the drama of our journey!
The next day we used the same taxi and went to the 3rd century ruins of Tokrap-kala, on the north side of the Oxus, the site was supposed to be an hour from Khiva but the river level was too low to use the intended bridge; it ended up being a 3 hour drive and thus we had to miss some of the other, further, sites that were supposed to be part of this day trip. Toprap-kala was an interesting site if (and only if) you are a fan of old ruined cities - if you do wish to visit it, photocopy some information from a book on archaeology in the USSR or Central Asia that discusses the site, as without a plan or any description you will not be able to appreciate the site.
We returned to Urgench, and caught the 3:00pm bus to Bokhara, which left at 3:05pm. [In general the buses in Uzbekistan leave on time, and are quite comfortable if you have a reserved seat, though 'standing room' gets very crowded: it is a 'one seat, one person' system. They also travel very slowly, averaging about 50 kph.] We arrived in Bokhara at 9:30 p.m. and started an evening of extreme frustration trying to find a hotel with hot water - we went first to a private guest house called Sasha's that had been recommended to us - we telephoned and asked them to explain to a taxi driver how to take us to their guest house, which they did - but when we arrived they told us that they were full! Nor were they very friendly. I have the feeling that Sasha's is an excellent place if you are connected with an embassy, or recommended to them, but they do not seem backpacker-friendly! We went on to examine two of the three real hotels in Bokhara, typical ex-Soviet hotels: huge, decrepit, dirty, run-down, and expensive (US$30 double) for what one got. And of course, no hot water. Finally we went to the Intourist hotel where US$60 gets hot water! [Note: this is the hotel that the Cadogan Guide states has an AT&T credit card phone, from which one can easily make international calls - there are now 2 such phones, neither of them works. When you ask the hotel staff whether they work or not, they stare at you as though you asked an absurd question!]
The next morning we remembered that we had also heard of another guest house in Bokhara, Mubenjon, and we moved over there. It was an excellent place, with a friendly owner (Mubenjon) who speaks about 5 words of English but is very fluent with sign and body language and quite easy to communicate with! I highly recommend this guest house. US$10 per person plus US$2.50 per person for meals. The washing and toilet facilities were primitive but new Western style facilities were under construction. I suspect that anyone in Bokhara will be able to guide you to Mubenjon's, but it is quite easy to get to: take the small street leading south from the Lyab-i-Khauz, until you see a garage with the 5-ring Olympic symbol, and go down the adjoining alley until you see the sign (in English).
We spent the next couple of days wandering about in Bokhara - we were invited to a wedding celebration the first day, which was a lot of fun, though I found it impossible to keep up with the 'drain your glass each toast' style of drinking and must have left the impression that Canadians are wimps when it comes to vodka consumption. Bokhara was great, small enough that one could walk anywhere, more of a 'living' place than Khiva, and friendly (quite a few kids asked for pens, but they were not aggressive). I met quite a few English speakers here, and could have stayed longer. It takes at least 2 days just to see the major historical and architectural sights of Bokhara.
From Bokhara we went by bus to Samarkand. At the bus station there was the usual wild crowd pushing and shoving at the little ticket window. Twice I tried to penetrate, moving gradually towards the center of the maelstrom as people managed to exit with tickets, but both times I was unsuccessful in getting close enough to the window to shove my money through the little slot before being forced to relax my grip on the people in front of me for a split second and suddenly being forced from the crowd like a pip being squeezed out of a lemon! Finally someone at another (closed) window took pity on me and let me buy my tickets there! Queuing in Uzbekistan is a nightmare.
Finally we arrived in Samarkand, found a relatively good value place to stay (Hotel Zerafshan, the usual huge, run-down, dirty, Soviet style establishment, but not quite as huge, not quite as run-down, not quite as dirty as the others, and only $8 for a double, I recommend it).
Samarkand is a large, industrial city, with heavy traffic, mostly trucks and buses belching black smoke, and with the exception of the Timurid monuments, full of extremely ugly decrepit Soviet style architecture. I was disappointed, especially after Bokhara, which had met my expectations. The Timurid buildings were (to my eyes) beautiful but a little suspect, overly restored. And somehow lacked the magic that I had expected. There are more sites to visit than in Bokhara, and the individual buildings are impressive, especially the Shah-i-Zinda, but there wasn't the same pleasure of simply 'being there' that I felt in Bokhara.
Finally we returned by bus to Tashkent and had some fried chicken bones for lunch (a change from the usual menu mutton fat and mutton gristle!). We visited the State Art Museum, one of the few museums which is still open, and even that could be disputed - most of the rooms were blocked off with a rope barrier, for no obvious reason. It was very frustrating, to have to attempt to look at a museum's treasures with binoculars from the corridor. There were lots of guards standing around making sure you did not enter the closed areas - so it wasn't that they did not have enough people to guard the rooms! Finally, we saw a performance of Faust at the Opera, splurging on the best seats (US$1.75 at the official rate), perhaps 50 of 2500 seats in the theater were occupied. I recommend the Opera - especially as it is the only possible activity during a Tashkent evening!
The next morning we went out to the airport and ate every little bite of every meal on our 7 hour flight to Frankfurt ......
In the above summary of the trip I have made some reference to practical details, and here I will elaborate on a few of those topics.
VISAS: as noted, we received visas at the airport with accommodation pre-paid. It appears easy to get a visa for the duration of one's intended visit if you have pre-paid accommodation for the first and last nights. We met a number of people who had entered Uzbekistan by land from other CIS states without visas. Their stories were wildly different, from some Australians who had almost been arrested, and spent 9 days in Tashkent trying desperately to sort our their situation, to some Americans who got a visas in a morning. Generally the visa situation is more strict and difficult than implied by the Cadogan guide, although some people still seem to get away with anything. An important note for UK passport holders: there is some agreement between the UK and Uzbek governments that UK citizens can move freely about in Uzbekistan without having every city that they want to visit written in their visa. We met a chap from the UK who had a copy of this agreement (in Russian) and showed it whenever necessary, I rather doubt that you could get by if you did not have a copy of the agreement.
MONEY: during our visit the som went from 22 to 23 to the U.S. dollar. It is impossible to use Traveller's Cheques or Credit Cards except at the Hotel Uzbekistan in Tashkent. Even the official Intourist hotels in Bokhara and Samarkand do not take Traveller's Cheques much less credit cards. You MUST have cash. The Cadogan guide recommends lots of small bills, but I found that wherever I had to pay in US$, I was able to get change in US$. You certainly do not need to bring a huge stack of 1 and 5 dollar bills, as I did. Don't change too much money into som, for anything that you can pay with som is inexpensive, and it is hard to go through a lot of som! Some typical prices: taxi rides within Bokhara/Samarkand 10 to 20 som depending on distance, entrance fees to museums/historical sites 5 to 15 som, meal at a street stall 5 som, meal at a hotel restaurant with vodka 10 to 20 som.
GUIDEBOOKS: the Cadogan guide is essential, but already quite out of date. Here are some corrections & additions to the book (in addition to what I have already mentioned) [square brackets indicate page numbers]:
GETTING TO CENTRAL ASIA: [7] PIA have one flight per week, currently on Monday, from Peshawar to Tashkent. [10] Regent Holidays will arrange Uzbek tours & accommodation but NOT the Almaty-Urumqi train [14] PIA do demand to see evidence that you have an Uzbek visa before you board your flight though I suspect that you can avoid this by claiming that you are in transit to somewhere else. [16] China Xinjiang Airlines now have weekly flights between Islamabad and Urumqi
PRACTICAL: Electricity [24] the plug size (the diameter of the 2 round pins) is larger in Uzbekistan than in Pakistan & China. I found it useful to have an adapter that ended in two bare wires which I could stick into any outlet. Guides [30] here (and in several places later) the book claims that you can join an Intourist group to visit Uzbek museums, etc. I tried this many times, and the conversation always went: 'Do you have tours to the museum?' 'Yes' 'Is there a tour today?' 'No' 'When is the next tour?' 'I don't know'. Police [39] For 'never offer a policeman a bribe', read 'never offer a policeman a bribe yourself, always get someone else to do it'. Tourist Information [42]: there is no Intourist office at the Hotel Uzbekistan anymore, only an Uzbektour office that sells air tickets.
TASHKENT: Getting To and From [94] The desk in the Hotel Uzbekistan charges US$8 service charge to get a domestic ticket, and an additional 4% if you pay with a credit card. Tourist Information [98] there is no Tourist Information in the Hotel Uzbekistan. On the 3rd floor there is a Business Center where you might get someone to tell you something if they are not busy with businessmen sending faxes. Museums [101] The Aybek museum is closed. All museums: in my limited experience there are no Intourist tours to any museum. Eating Out [106] the restaurant on the ground floor of the Hotel Uzbekistan is also 'hard currency', prices are very high (US$15 per person and up). All rooms include a breakfast buffet. Entertainment [107]: The Hotel Uzbekistan does not sell tickets to the Opera. From the box office the tickets range from 10 cents to $1.75.
SAMARKAND: Getting Around [115] Delete the paragraph about bus 10. In 3 days I never saw a bus 10 near any of the locations mentioned in that paragraph. Tourist Information [116]: to hire an Intourist car and driver to Shakhrisabz is US$72 not US$20. We hired a taxi for US$20, I very much doubt you could get one 'much more cheaply'. [128] The Khodja Akrar madrasa is in roughly the same direction as indicated on the map, but very much further away (it would be off the bottom of the page). Where to Stay [128]: The Zerafshan was US$8 double, with hot water from 0700-0900 and 2000-2300 most days. Eating Out [129]: The Chinese restaurant has closed and is now a shashlyk restaurant. The restaurants in the Zerafshan were quite OK (they actually had beef shashlyk for those who tire of mutton fat).
BOKHARA: The Zindan [145]: we were told that it often closes early and when we went there at 4pm it was already closed. Where to Stay [156] Hotel Bukhoro is US$60 double with no meals. The AT&T satellite credit card phone does not work. The Varakhsha has gone up from $2 to $30.
KHIVA: Getting to and From [163]: It took a lot of negotiation to get the taxi fare from Urgench to Khiva down to 200 som. There is no Aeroflot/Uzbekistan Airways office in the Amin Khan madrasa. Where to Stay [169] The Hotel Orkanchi is US$10 per person full board, and is located just south of the Amin Khan madrasa.
OTHER BOOKS: For historical background on Tashkent, Samarkand, Bokhara and Khiva, I recommend the appropriate chapters of Kathleen Hopkirk's A Traveller's Companion to Central Asia (John Murray, London, 1993). This book concentrates on recent (18th century and later) history; and if you get hooked, her husband Peter Hopkirk's The Great Game (John Murray, London, 1990) is over 500 pages of similar excitement and adventure. Hopkirk's Setting the East Ablaze (John Murray, London, 1984) is an entertaining (and often shocking) account of the Bolshevik battle for Central Asia from WW I to WW II.
For information on the current social and political situation in Uzbekistan and the other Central Asian CIS countries, 'The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?' by Ahmed Rashid (Oxford University Press / Zed Books 1994 is excellent.
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When the Pentagon said earlier this year that it would open ground combat jobs to women, it was cast in terms of giving women equal opportunities in the workplace — the military workplace.
But the move has practical considerations, too. The military needs qualified people to fill its ranks, and it's increasingly harder to find them among men.
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"It's fairly common knowledge that our population of military-age young men, who qualify for the military, is declining," Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said in an interview with NPR just after the Pentagon announced that women no longer be excluded from ground combat jobs.
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Too many potential male recruits have criminal records, drop out of high school or have drug problems. In addition, the rising obesity rate is also a factor.
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Dempsey and the joint chiefs looked out to the end of the decade and decided they had to recruit more women.
"As a very practical matter, we decided if in 2020 we're going to need these young ladies, and we're going to need to attract as much diversity and as much talent as we can possibly attract, if that's going to be the case, what are we waiting for?" he said
It's a serious concern. Less than 25 percent of young people — both male and female — can actually meet the standards for military enlistment today. Those standards disqualify more men than women. Young men account for three-fourths of all arrests, and in all 50 states, males have a higher high school dropout rate than females.
"Recruiters anecdotally will have fewer issues with a female applicant than they will with a male," says Kathleen Welker, who is with the U.S. Army Recruiting Command at Fort Knox, Ky.
Opening more combat jobs to women will help the Army meet its goals, she says.
"It expands the pool of candidates who are eligible to enlist across the board," she says.
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But will women want to sign up for those new jobs in the infantry, armor and artillery units?
Bernard Rostker, a former undersecretary of defense for personnel, says he's doubtful many young women will choose those careers.
"We're not prepared to force women into combat positions. It's a very nontraditional role," he says. "The numbers would likely be quite small.
And then there's the question of whether women who apply can meet the tough physical standards for ground combat. Dempsey and other military leaders will soon review the training program. He said some existing standards — which include everything from pull-ups to carrying heavy loads — need to be revised.
"There are existing standards, many of which haven't been dusted off in a very long time, many of which have been narrowly focused just on physical standards but without the companion piece of psychological and intellectual standards," Dempsey said.
Statements like that are leading some military officers to complain privately that combat training will be watered down to allow more women to pass.
Meanwhile, some women already are trying to meet the existing physical standards. Last fall, two female Marines were the first to try and complete the grueling, 12-week-long Infantry Officer Course. They failed, along with about 20 percent of the men.
Later this month, two more female Marines will see if they can make it.
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