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November 8th, 2007, 19:05 #481
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When You Can't Deal With The Devil
A year later than I expected, the drum roll has begun towards a Western attack on Iran's nuclear capability. Despite the best efforts of Western diplomacy, the "moderate" option in Iranian politics expired last week with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's triumphal consolidation of power.
A combination of economic distress and external threats, Western capitals hoped, would strengthen the position of the loser in Iran's 2006 presidential elections, Hashemi Rafsanjani, and external pressure would undo the decision of the Iranian electorate. At best that would have been a deal with the devil; unfortunately, the devil was not returning phone calls last week.
It never was to be. Iran has only two options: a sickening slide into economic decay and internal weakness as its oil-exporting capacity attenuates, or a regional adventure against the Sunni oligarchs of the Gulf oil-producing states. For the Iranian street, Ahmadinejad's constituency in the slums of Tehran and the Persian hinterland, this is the Shi'ite moment, the once-in-a-millennium opportunity to undo centuries of perceived oppression.
European diplomats woefully concede that Rafsanjani, who maintained close ties to Germany in particular, no longer offers a viable alternative. Arab commentators are watching with alarm developments in Iran, beginning with the dismissal of Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani.
Elias Harfouche wrote in the Lebanese daily Dal al-Hayat on October 28, "The unease that accompanied the replacement of Ali Larijani with Saeed Jalili as the head of the negotiating nuclear team was exceptional. Its importance was further reinforced by the comment made by Ali Akbar Wilayati, the former foreign minister and counselor to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the statement of Mohamed Hashemi, the brother of Hashemi Rafsanjani on 'narrowing the decision-making circle' in the executive authority as a result of Ahmadinejad's decisions."
As usual, the American media are slow to grasp how profoundly the landscape has shifted during the past week. Writing in the October 27 Washington Post, for example, David Ignatius argued, quite incorrectly, that Ahmadinejad "faces growing resistance, starting with former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Sources tell me that Rafsanjani's allies have been advising officials in Europe and the Middle East that Ahmadinejad is weak and vulnerable." I do not know what Rafsanjani's allies have been saying of late, but I am certain that their credibility is exhausted.
Ignatius worries that if the United States or Israel were to strike Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran would retaliate through such proxies as Hezbollah and various terrorist operations under its control.
These fears are well-founded. In February 2006, I argued that a few sorties by American aircraft could put the Iranian problem to rest, but that the window for a clean military operation would not last long.
The longer Washington dallies, the more resources Tehran can put in place, including:
Upgrading Hezbollah's offensive-weapon capabilities in Lebanon.
Integrating Hamas into its sphere of influence and military operations.
Putting in place terrorist capability against the West.
Preparing its Shi'ite auxiliaries in Iraq for insurrection.[1]
One might add to this complications on the Turkish-Iraqi border, as Iran and its ally Syria have taken the Turkish side against Kurdish rebels, which Iran claims have the covert assistance of the United States.
In early 2006, I predicted "war with Iran on the worst terms", and that is what the West is likely to get. I warned at the time, "if Washington waits another year to deliver an ultimatum to Iran, the results will be civil war to the death in Iraq, the direct engagement of Israel in a regional war through Hezbollah and Hamas, and extensive terrorist action throughout the West, with extensive loss of American life. There are no good outcomes, only less terrible ones. The West will attack Iran, but only when such an attack will do the least good and the most harm."
Rafsanjani's dialogue with Berlin was the last, best hope of the anti-war faction in the West. One winces at the chagrin of the German partner in this relationship, given that Rafsanjani likes the Germans because he admires what Adolf Hitler did to the Jews of Europe. On October 5, Rafsanjani told Iranian television in a clip posted by MEMRI:
Europe resolved a great problem, the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists constituted a strong political party in Europe and caused a lot of disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless. What Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe at that time was partly due to these circumstances with the Jews. They wanted to expel the Zionists from Europe because they were always a pain in the neck for governments there ... Their first goal was to save Europe from the evil of Zionism, and in this they have been relatively successful. [2]
The leading Iranian "moderate", in short, is just as much the Islamo-Nazi as the Holocaust denier Ahmadinejad. Rather than deny the Holocaust, Rafsanjani applauds it. Reportedly, Rafsanjani believes that the threat of military confrontation of the West makes a bad gamble of Iran's nuclear development program, unlike Ahmadinejad, who is happy to take the risk.
Deals with the devil simply do not work, even in the ethically challenged world of foreign policy. The devil will act according to his nature, whatever bargain one attempts to make with him.
My proposed mantra for President George W Bush, is, "There are no good options." To be precise, there are options that are considerably worse for others than for the United States. The use of force against Iran without doubt will make the Iraqi mess completely unmanageable. It will have spillover effects in Turkey, where the electoral majority that supported the Islamists in this year's elections will rise in outrage against the United States and Israel. It may reignite the war between Israel and Hezbollah. Nor should we have any illusions about Iran's terrorist capacities. Western civilians well may pay a heavy price for the excision of Iran's nuclear program in the form of terror attacks. The price may be steep, but it's worth it.
The West has no choice but to attack Iran, because Iran believes that it has no choice but to develop nuclear weapons. Make no mistake: this attack will destabilize the entire region, past the capacity of the king's horses and king's men to reassemble it. The agenda will shift from how best to promote stability, to how best to turn instability to advantage.
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Report: Washington concerned Israel gearing up to attack Iran
Haaretz ^ | November 8, 2007 | Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Washington officials are concerned that Tehran's announcement that it has 3,000 centrifuges fully working in its controversial uranium enrichment program will lead to an Israeli strike on Iran, the British daily The Times reported on Thursday.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the landmark development on Wednesday. Pentagon sources in Washington fear Israel could move to attack the uranium enrichment plant, as U.S. officials and foreign media reports confirmed it did a suspected Syrian nuclear facilily on September 6.
The Times report quoted military officials as saying that while the United States is hesitant to embark on an attack on Iran, Israel is a "different matter."
When Iran first announced launching the 3,000 centrifuges in April, the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said Tehran had only 328 centrifuges up and running at Natanz's underground facility.
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Putin Warns US Against Attacking Iran
Russian leader Vladimir Putin met his Iranian counterpart Tuesday and implicitly warned the U.S. not to use a former Soviet republic to stage an attack on Iran. He also said countries bordering the Caspian Sea must jointly back any oil pipeline projects in the region.
At a summit of the five nations that border the inland Caspian Sea, Putin said none of the nations' territory should be used by any outside countries for use of military force against any nation in the region. It was a clear reference to long-standing rumors that the U.S. was planning to use Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic, as a staging ground for any possible military action against Iran.
"We are saying that no Caspian nation should offer its territory to third powers for use of force or military aggression against any Caspian state," Putin said.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also underlined the need for solidarity.
"The Caspian Sea is an inland sea and it only belongs to the Caspian states, therefore only they are entitled to have their ships and military forces here," he said.
A State Department spokesman, Tom Casey, said the United States is not planning military action against Iran.
"We are pursuing a diplomatic course with respect to Iran that includes with respect to its nuclear program as well as with respect to its support for terrorism and other issues that are out there," he said.
Putin refused to set a date for the start-up of Iran's first nuclear power plant, to be built by Russia.
"I only gave promises to my mom when I was a small boy," Putin told Iranian reporters, when asked whether he could promise that the plant that Russia is building would be launched before his term ends next May.
At the same time, he said, "We are not going to renounce our obligations."
Putin's careful stance suggested that Russia is seeking to preserve solid ties with Iran without angering the West. A clear pledge by Putin to quickly finish the plant would embolden Iran and could complicate international talks on the nuclear standoff.
Putin, whose trip to Tehran is the first by a Kremlin leader since World War II, warned that energy pipeline projects crossing the Caspian could only be implemented if all five nations that border the sea support them.
Putin did not name a specific country, but his statement underlined Moscow's strong opposition to U.S.-backed efforts to build pipelines to deliver hydrocarbons to the West, bypassing Russia.
"Projects that may inflict serious environmental damage to the region cannot be implemented without prior discussion by all five Caspian nations," he said.
Other nations bordering the Caspian Sea and in attendance at the summit are: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.
The legal status of the Caspian — believed to contain the world's third-largest energy reserves — has been in limbo since the 1991 Soviet collapse, leading to tension and conflicting claims to seabed oil deposits.
Iran, which shared the Caspian's resources equally with the Soviet Union, insists that each coastal nation receive an equal portion of the seabed. Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan want the division based on the length of each nation's shoreline, which would give Iran a smaller share.
Putin's visit took place despite warnings of a possible assassination plot and amid hopes that personal diplomacy could help offer a solution to an international standoff on Iran's nuclear program.
Putin has warned the U.S. and other nations against trying to coerce Iran into reining in its nuclear program and insists peaceful dialogue is the only way to deal with Tehran's defiance of a U.N. Security Council demand that it suspend uranium enrichment.
"Threatening someone, in this case the Iranian leadership and Iranian people, will lead nowhere," Putin said Monday during his trip to Germany. "They are not afraid, believe me."
Iran's rejection of the council's demand and its previous clandestine atomic work has fed suspicions in the U.S. and other countries that Tehran is working to enrich uranium to a purity usable in nuclear weapons. Iran insists it is only wants lesser-enriched uranium to fuel nuclear reactors that would generate electricity.
Putin's visit to Tehran is being closely watched for any possible shifts in Russia's carefully hedged stance in the nuclear standoff.
The Russian president underlined his disagreements with Washington last week, saying he saw no "objective data" to prove Western claims that Iran is trying to construct nuclear weapons.
Putin emphasized Monday that he would negotiate in Tehran on behalf of the five permanent U.N. Security Council members — United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — and Germany, a group that has led efforts to resolve the stalemate with Tehran.
Posted that one too, in the Russian area I think
November 28th, 2007, 15:51 #485
Iran Announces New Long-Range Missile
CBS2CHICAGO ^ | 27 NOVEMBER 2007 | AP
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ― Iran's military said Tuesday it has manufactured a new missile with a range of 1,200 miles capable of reaching Israel and U.S. bases across the Mideast, the official news agency IRNA reported.
The defense minister, Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, did not say whether Iran had test fired the Ashoura or had plans to do so, according to the IRNA report. The name means "the tenth day" in Farsi, a sacred reference among Shiite Muslims to the martyrdom of Islam's third imam.
Iran already had reported improvements in a previous missile that would give it the same range as the Ashoura, and Najjar did not elaborate about whether there are any differences between the two weapons.
Analysts believe Iranian military production has benefited from assistance from Russia, China and other countries, but many of Iran's weapons development claims have not been independently verified.
Iran launched an arms development program during its 1980-88 war with Iraq to compensate for a U.S. weapons embargo imposed after the Islamic Revolution. Since 1992, Iran has reportedly produced its own jets, torpedoes, radar-avoiding missiles, tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Recent weapons development has been motivated by Iran's standoff with the U.S. over its controversial nuclear program, which Washington claims is a cover for developing an atomic bomb. Tehran denies that, saying the program is intended to produce electricity.
Iran is known to possess a medium-range missile known as the Shahab-3, which means "shooting star" in Farsi, with a range of at least 800 miles. In 2005, Iranian officials said they had improved its range to 1,200 miles, equal to the new missile announced Tuesday.
In September during a military parade, Iran unveiled the Ghadr missile, which it said has a range of 1,119 miles.
Experts also believe Iran is developing the Shahab-4 missile, thought to have a range of 1,200-1,900 miles that would enable it to hit much of Europe.
In Israel, there was no official reaction to Iran's statement. But missile expert Uzi Rubin, formerly head of the Arrow anti-missile project in Israel's Ministry of Defense, said the announcement had long been expected.
Rubin said Israel already was in range of other Iranian missiles, so "the people who need to be really worried about the new missile are in Europe."
While saying the Ashoura marks a "technological jump," Rubin said he doubted it is operational because a test of the missile would likely have been picked up by U.S. intelligence.
"They are apparently at the initial stages," he said. "The system is not yet operational, but it doesn't mean that it can't be."
December 12th, 2007, 14:42 #486
Iran restarted nuclear weapons program in 2004: dissident
AFP by way of Google ^ | 11DEC07 | Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Iran resumed its nuclear weapons program in 2004, according to a US-based dissident who said Tuesday that US intelligence had failed to include his findings in a surprise about-face downgrading the Iranian threat.
"The weaponization program is alive, is active, and has been resumed since 2004," Iranian opposition figure Alireza Jafarzadeh told AFP, contradicting the US National Intelligence Estimate released a week ago.
"The NIE was only partly right," said Jafarzadeh, formerly the US spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and author of a book released in January called "The Iran Threat."
"They (Iranians) were forced to pause in 2003 because of the tremendous pressure they were under," he said. "They suspended it to consider their next steps, and started again in 2004."
In August 2002, Jafarzadeh first reported the existence of secret Iranian nuclear sites at Natanz and Arak, prompting denunciations of Tehran by Washington and hurried inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Iranian regime maintains the NCRI is a "terrorist" front run by disaffected exiles. The group is the political wing of the Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization, which is banned in the United States and the European Union.
Jafarzadeh was speaking as the United States continued to press for a third round of UN sanctions against Iran despite the new intelligence estimate, arguing that diplomatic pressure caused Tehran to halt its program in 2003.
The NIE was a diplomatic bombshell that contradicted forceful US assertions that Iran's nuclear program was a gathering threat that raised the prospect of "World War III."
While the NIE expressed with "moderate confidence" that Iran was not now trying to build nuclear weapons, Jafarzadeh said the program had only been suspended in 2003 to evade IAEA inspections.
Under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, the top-secret weapons program was in fact moved from one site at Lavizan-Shian and scattered across various underground installations in 2004, he said.
Jafarzadeh said he had shared his analysis with contacts in the US intelligence community before the NIE's publication, but suggested a "certain agenda" by some in the community anxious to downplay Iran's threat.
"We've gone back and checked every site that we knew of... since 2002 to see if any of those activities were halted in those sites," he told a press conference, presenting slides purporting to show ongoing nuclear activity.
"With the exception of Lavizan-Shian... no other site was ever shut down," the Washington-based Jafarzadeh said, arguing that the US intelligence assessment "needs to be fixed."
"I don't think the international community, I don't think the United States government can afford to make such mistakes and provide the opportunity for the mullahs to get the bomb before we all know."
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January 18th, 2008, 03:12 #487
Israel "would not dare attack Iran": Ahmadinejad
Thu Jan 17, 2008 6:44pm EST
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Israel "would not dare attack Iran", after Israel said it tested a missile and warned against Tehran's nuclear program.
"The Zionist regime ... would not dare attack Iran," Ahmadinejad told Al Jazeera television in remarks translated into Arabic, referring to Israel.
"The Iranian response would make them regret it, and they know this."
"It knows that any attack on Iranian territories would prompt a fierce response," he added.
Israel tested a missile on Thursday and urged the West to work harder to prevent "the appearance of a nuclear Iran".
Israel Radio said the missile tested was capable of carrying an "unconventional payload" -- an apparent reference to the nuclear warheads Israel is assumed to possess, though it has never publicly confirmed their existence.
Ahmadinejad said Israel was a "criminal regime" which would not gain legitimacy through threats. "It has lost its philosophical reason to exist," he said, adding that regional countries rejected Israel for occupying Palestinian territories.
The Iranian president also said Iran was also prepared for any possible U.S. military strike.
"But we are not worried about this kind of talk...because it is aimed at American domestic consumption as they need it in the upcoming presidential elections," he said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsO...81409020080117
Global government, mankind's gravest need - Ahmadinejad
Islamic Republic News Agency ^ | January 22, 2008 | IRNA
IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Monday evening at the inauguration ceremony of new head of National Center for Globalization Studies, "mankind's gravest need today is a global government." Appreciating the services rendered by the former head of that center (formerly called the International Center for Dialogue among Civilizations), Dr. Mohammad Nahavandian, the President said that choosing Esfandiar Rahim-Masha'ie was "based on precise calculations, and in accordance with a plan for the center."
The president added, "The Center for Globalization Studies must be a very dynamic center, able to take long studies forward, thanks to the presence of thinkers and intellectuals from various academic fields, able to pursue globalization discussions throughout the world."
Pointing out that God has definitely been pursuing objectives in creation of man, he stressed, "Almighty Allah has drawn the horizons of man's blessed life in this world and how to achieve that objective, based on man's innate desires and in the framework of his social relations with the others."
The President emphasized, "Man is created to be a global creature, as all divine religions are global, and if he would be deprived of this aspect of his personality, neither anything would remain of his humanity, nor any of his potentials and talents would find a proper ground for manifestation."
Proposing that the rule of single law in the entire world is a bare necessity for the mankind, he said, "The existence of a thousand laws in the world, and then expecting that the global society would reach a status of equilibrium, justice, and tranquility is wishing for the impossible."
He added, "It is not possible to observe global justice under such conditions that each country is ruled based on a different set of laws."
Ahmadinejad said, "The entire monotheist Arch-Prophets (PBUT) were leaders for the whole mankind, and accordingly, so long as a single law would not be put to effect globally, and a single perfect, and noble human being would not take the charge of a global government, the God given talents of the people would not be materialized, and there would be no sign of divine justice in the world."
He considered mankind's progress throughout history "a constant move towards perfection", reiterating, "Today, globalization has become an issue for daily talk of even ordinary folks, under such conditions that signs for accelerating move of the mankind towards the peaks of perfection are countless, and ever increasing." The IRI President stressed that pure Mohamedan Islam has answers to modern man's entire questions, adding, "World nations would accept Islam in large groups if pure Islam would one day be presented to them free from all non-Islamic attachments."
Ahmadinejad said, "The entire developments in the world are pieces of a puzzle, being fit in their place in order to complete God's general scheme for a perfect world for the mankind, but in the process of this completion some people achieve perfection, while others fall in the abbeys of annihilation, and nowhere is ever devoid of God's will and Divine Rule, nor of his Caliph on earth." He said that the era for drawing border lines between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism is now over, reiterating, "Unadulterated Christianity and Judaism are the same as they are entirely manifestations of the same Divine Truth."
The President stressed, "The single and solid plan and order that we should present for the lives of the world people should be in a way to be acceptable by the pure innate nature of the entire mankind, and such laws need to be based on divine teachings."
February 6th, 2008, 15:17 #489
In about turn, U.S. says Iran may be able to make nukes by 2009
IMRA/Haaretz ^ | 2-8-08 | Amir Oren
The head of American intelligence said Tuesday that it is unclear whether Tehran has returned to its production of nuclear weapons in the past six months, and warned that Iran "would be technically capable of producing enough highly enriched uranium for a weapon" by the end of next year.
Speaking two months after an American intelligence report cast doubt on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, National Intelligence Director John Michael McConnell made his remarks during an appearance before the Senate Intelligence Committee to present an annual report on threats to the U.S.
A National Intelligence Estimate report released in December said that Iran halted its nuclear weapons development program in the fall of 2003.
"We remain concerned about Iran's intentions and assess with moderate-to-high confidence that Tehran at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons," the report said.
"We assess with high confidence that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity eventually to produce nuclear weapons," it said, adding that the only realistic way to prevent Iran from producing such weapons was "an Iranian political decision to abandon a nuclear weapons objective."
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Intelligence official revives Iran doubts
Financial Times (UK) ^ | Published: February 6 2008 03:05 | Last updated: February 6 2008 03:05 | By Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington
The senior US intelligence official on Tuesday stressed that a recent report on Iran had concluded that Tehran had halted only one part of its alleged nuclear weapons programme.
Admiral Michael McConnell, director of national intelligence, said the November national intelligence estimate had concluded that Tehran had ceased only efforts to covertly enrich uranium and design nuclear warheads. "The only thing that they've halted was nuclear weapons design, which is probably the least significant part of the programme," he told the Senate intelligence committee.
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Russia says Iran missile raises nuclear suspicions
afp ^
MOSCOW (AFP) — A missile fired into space by Iran earlier this week raises "suspicions" over Tehran's claims to have no ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, a Russian foreign ministry official told domestic news agencies Wednesday.
"Any movement on creating a weapon of such potential of course worries others too, and, in addition, raises suspicions concerning Iran over its possible desire to create a nuclear weapon," Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Losyukov was quoted as saying by Interfax and RIA Novosti.
NUKES IN FOUR YEARS
Nealz Nuze ^ | February 6, 2008 | Neal Boortz
While we were all fussing over the Super Tuesday primary yesterday, an announcement came out of Israel. It seems that the Israeli spy agency feels that Iran will develop a nuclear weapon within three years. Three years. Hmmmm. Let's see. That would mean that Iran might possibly have nukes during the term of the president we're going to elect this year. So .. .who would you want in the White House dealing with this problem? Obama? Oh yeah. He'll go talk to them. Hillary? Sure, let me know how that works out for you ... or us, I should say.
A Republican? Right! And that means any Republican over MoveOn Democrats.
Iran testing advanced centrifuges at Natanz plant
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...503685,00.html ^
Iran is testing an advanced centrifuge at its Natanz nuclear complex, diplomats said on Wednesday, a move that could lead to Tehran enriching uranium much faster and gaining ability to build atom bombs.
Tehran's quest to produce usable amounts of nuclear fuel has been hampered by its use so far of a 1970s vintage of centrifuge, the "P-1", prone to breakdown. A senior diplomat familiar with the International Atomic Energy Agency's file on Iran confirmed it recently began testing centrifuges based on a "P-2" design, used more recently in the West and able to enrich uranium 2-3 times as fast as the P-1. (Reuters)
February 14th, 2008, 16:07 #494
US intel links Iran with nuke bomb bid
Yahoo/AP ^ | Feb. 14, 2008
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer
The U.S. has recently shared sensitive information with the International Atomic Energy Agency on key aspects of Iran's nuclear program that Washington says shows Tehran was directly engaged in trying to make an atomic weapon, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday.
The diplomats said Washington also gave the IAEA permission to confront Iran with at least some of the evidence in an attempt to pry details out of the Islamic republic on the activities, as part of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's attempts to investigate Iran's suspicious nuclear past.
The decision by the U.S. administration to declassify its intelligence and indirectly share it with Iran through the IAEA was a clear reflection of Washington's' drive to pressure Iran into admitting that it had focused part of its nuclear efforts toward developing a weapons program.
While the Americans have previously declassified and then forwarded intelligence to the IAEA to help its investigations, they do so on a selective basis.
Following Israel's bombing of a Syrian site late last year, and media reports citing unidentified U.S. officials as saying the target was a nuclear installation, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei turned, in vain to the U.S. in asking for details on what was struck, said a diplomat who — like others — asked for anonymity in exchange for divulging confidential information.
Shared in the past two weeks was material on a laptop computer reportedly smuggled out of Iran, said another diplomat, accredited to the IAEA. In 2005, U.S. intelligence assessed that information as indicating that Tehran had been working on details of nuclear weapons, including missile trajectories and ideal altitudes for exploding warheads.
He said that after declassification, U.S. intelligence also was forwarded on two other issues — the "Green Salt Project" — a plan the U.S. alleges links diverse components of a nuclear weapons program, including uranium enrichment, high explosives testing and a missile re-entry vehicle, and material in Iran's possession showing how to mold uranium metal into warhead form.
The material followed up on information on the projects shared by the Americans with key allies and the agency last year, said the diplomat
Iran is under two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, which it started developing during nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity built on illicit purchases and revealed only five years ago.
Since then, IAEA experts have uncovered activities, experiments and blueprints and materials that point to possible efforts by Iran to create nuclear weapons, even though Tehran insists its nuclear project is peaceful and aimed only at creating a large-scale enrichment facility to make reactor fuel. Its leaders consistently dismiss allegations that they are interested in enrichment for its other use — creating fissile material suitable for arming warheads.
Instead of heeding Security Council demands to freeze enrichment, Iran has expanded its program. On Wednesday, diplomats told the AP that its new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, right, is welcomed by Frrench foreign minister Beranrd Kouchner at the Elysee Palace before their talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Thursday Feb.14, 2008 in Paris. The talks come amid new signs that Iran's sensitive centrifuge activity is progressing, and after Sarkozy called sternly for further isolating Iran's president. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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By GEORGE JAHN – 1 hour ago
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — The U.S. has recently shared new intelligence with the International Atomic Energy Agency on key aspects of Iran's nuclear program that Washington says shows Tehran was directly engaged in trying to make a bomb, diplomats said Thursday.
One of the diplomats said Washington also gave the IAEA permission to confront Iran with at least some of the evidence in an attempt to pry details out of the Islamic republic, as part of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's attempts to investigate Iran's suspicious nuclear past.
The diplomats suggested that such moves by the U.S. administration would be a reflection of Washington's' drive to pressure Iran into acknowledging that it had focused part of its nuclear efforts toward developing a weapons program.
The U.S. is leading the push for a third set of U.N. sanctions against Iran. Tehran insists its program is intended only to produce energy and has refused U.N. demands that it suspend its uranium enrichment program — technology that can produce both fuel for nuclear reactors and the fissile material for a bomb.
A recent U.S. intelligence assessment that Iran had a clandestine weapons program but stopped working on it four years ago has hurt Washington's attempts to have the U.N. Security Council impose a third set of sanctions.
Following Israel's bombing of a Syrian site late last year, and media reports citing unidentified U.S. officials as saying the target was a nuclear installation, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei turned in vain to the U.S. in asking for details on what was struck, said a diplomat who — like others — spoke on condition of anonymity in exchange for divulging confidential information.
Over the past two years, the U.S. already has shared material on a laptop computer reportedly smuggled out of Iran. In 2005, U.S. intelligence assessed that information as indicating that Tehran had been working on details of nuclear weapons, including missile trajectories and ideal altitudes for exploding warheads.
After declassification, U.S. intelligence also was forwarded on two other issues: the "Green Salt Project" — a plan the U.S. alleges links diverse components of a nuclear weapons program, including uranium enrichment, high explosives testing and a missile re-entry vehicle — and material in Iran's possession showing how to mold uranium metal into warhead form.
Two of the diplomats said the material forwarded to the IAEA over the past two weeks expanded on the previous information from the Americans, but had no additional details.
Iran is already under two sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment, which it started developing during nearly two decades of covert nuclear activity built on illicit purchases and revealed only five years ago.
Since then, IAEA experts have uncovered activities, experiments, and blueprints and materials that point to possible efforts by Iran to create nuclear weapons, even though Tehran insists its nuclear project is peaceful and aimed only at creating a large-scale enrichment facility to make reactor fuel.
Its leaders consistently dismiss allegations that they are interested in enrichment for its other use — creating fissile material suitable for arming warheads.
Instead of heeding Security Council demands to freeze enrichment, Iran has expanded its program. On Wednesday, diplomats told the AP that Iran's new generation of advanced centrifuges have begun processing small quantities of the gas that can be used to make the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
Nasrallah during Beirut rally: If Israel wants war, so be it (Vows revenge for killing of a killer)
The Jerusalem Post ^ | Feb 14, 2008 17:53 | DIMI REIDER
Hizbullah's chief on Thursday vowed to retaliate against Israeli targets abroad after accusing Israel of taking the fight beyond Lebanese borders with its assassination of one of the group's top commanders, Imad Mughniyeh in Syria.
"You have killed Hajj Imad outside the natural battlefield," Hassan Nasrallah said, addressing Israel and referring to Hizbullah's longtime contention it only fights Israel within Lebanon and along their common border.
"You have crossed the borders," Nasrallah said in the fiery eulogy at the funeral of Mughniyeh in south Beirut. "With this murder, its timing, location and method - Zionists, if you want this kind of open war, let the whole world listen: Let this war be open."
"Like all human beings we have a sacred right to defend ourselves," said Nasrallah, speaking in a videotaped message broadcast over a giant screen at the ceremony in a Hizbullah stronghold. "We will do all that takes to defend our country and people."
Nasrallah warned that Israel's killing of Mughniyeh was a "very big folly" which Israel will eventually pay for it.
"Mughniyeh's blood will lead to the elimination of Israel. These words are not an emotional reaction," he said, drawing roars from the crowd which raised fists into the air.
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Iran says will bring powers "to their knees"
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The Iranian president said on Wednesday Iran's determination to continue its disputed nuclear work had brought major powers "to their knees."
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TEHERAN - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned the world powers against a 'new game' in their nuclear dispute with his country, the Fars news agency reported Friday.
'Put an end to this game, but if you want to start a new game, you should know that if our nation decides something, then it will definitely be put into practice without the slightest concession,' Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.
The warning by the Iranian president came just before the presentation Friday of the latest International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran's nuclear projects.
Teheran is confident that IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei's report would be positive and confirm its claims that it is pursuing only civilian and peaceful nuclear programmes.
Ahead of the IAEA report, Britain and France delivered a new draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council, calling on additional sanctions against Iran for defying international demands to suspend its uranium-enrichment programmes. Highly enriched uranium can be used to produce nuclear weapons.
'The era that world powers violate Iran's rights through intimidation and deception is definitely over,' said Ahmadinejad, adding that regardless of how strong the world powers' pressure would be, the 'nation's will' to proceed with its nuclear activities would be stronger.
Ahmadinejad further charged the reformist administration of his predecessor Mohammad Khatami of having given in to 'worthless meetings and ransom-like concessions instead of defending the nation's rights.'
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In preparation for a large-scaled Palestinian protest march planned for Gaza on Monday, security forces mobilized along the security fence Sunday night in an effort to head off a replay of last month's Rafah border-storming at the Erez or Kissufim crossings.
An artillery battery was moved to the Gaza border for the first time in months, and rules of engagement were reviewed as troops prepared for the demonstration Hamas is calling a "human chain."
A joint statement issued by the Foreign and Defense ministries blamed Hamas for fanning the flames and endangering Gazan civilians.
"Hamas, not for the first time, is orchestrating a premeditated effort to put civilians on the front line. Israel does not get involved in demonstrations that occur within the Gaza Strip, but Israel will defend itself and prevent incursions into its sovereign territory. Israel is working to prevent an escalation, but has made it absolutely clear that if there is an escalation, the responsibility will be entirely on Hamas's shoulders," the statement read.
The IDF was unwilling to confirm or deny a Channel 2 news report saying soldiers would be instructed to fire at protesters' legs should they approach the security fence, in order to prevent a recurrence of what happened at the Gaza-Sinai border on January 23.
Hamas announced Sunday that it would mobilize the mass demonstration along the Salah-a-Din Route from Rafah on Gaza's Egyptian border to Beit Hanun in the north, to protest the continued embargo placed on the Strip. The protest is geared to attract more international attention than previous protests against the sanctions, due to its size and the photographic value of a chain stretching more than 60 kilometers along the entire length of the Gaza Strip.
But security forces are concerned that the protesters - or organizers - will not be satisfied with the symbolic imagery and might try to make good on threats issued by a Hamas leader last month that the Erez crossing would become the next Rafah.
In a worst-case scenario, Hamas activists could motivate the crowds to storm the Gaza security fence, particularly at "weak spots" where Israeli communities or army bases abut the strip. Areas such as the Erez crossing, Kissufim, Nahal Oz and Netiv Ha'asara are considered to be particularly at risk. IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi held a situation assessment with officers on Sunday night, including representatives of the Home Front Command, to finalize preparations for Monday's IDF response.
Israel Police chief Insp.-Gen. David Cohen also held a late-night assessment, in which police decided to raise the national alert level. Some 6,500 police officers, one senior officer said, would be deployed to the Southern District on Monday morning to maintain order.
While some Hamas officials have denied organizing an attempt to breach the border, others have hinted that such a human surge - involving women and children - might in fact occur.
"The next time Gazan residents protest the ongoing siege, they will do so on the border with Israel, and not on the border with Egypt," Israel Radio quoted one senior Hamas official as saying on Sunday.
Over the weekend, the IDF was already rushing large forces to the Gaza border in anticipation of civilian unrest after gasoline supplies in the territory ran out on Saturday for all but emergency service vehicles.
Immigration Absorption Minister Ya'acov Edri (Kadima) said Sunday that the government was ready for any scenario resulting from Palestinians trying to breach the border crossings.
Also Sunday, an all-day IDF operation in the southern Gaza Strip, near the defunct Dahiniye airstrip, bore fruit in the afternoon, when Givati infantry, Armored Corps units and combat engineers uncovered five tunnels used to smuggle arms from Sinai into Gaza. In the course of the operation, 50 Palestinians were detained for questioning on suspicion of involvement in a terrorist organization.
Six Kassams were fired Sunday at the Negev.
Sderot boy severely wounded in Kassam rocket attack [10 year old]
Jerusalem Post ^ | 2-25-08
A ten-year-old boy was severely wounded by shrapnel when one of three Kassam rockets fired from Gaza landed in the center of Sderot on Monday afternoon.
According to initial assessments, the boy was playing with his friends in a playground when the alarm sounded. He took cover under the roof of an underground shelter which was locked. A Kassam landed a meter away from the boy's position and he was hit in the shoulder by shrapnel.
The 10 year old underwent an operation in Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital and was listed in moderate-to-serious condition.
A mother and her daughter who were lightly wounded in the attack were also evacuated to Barzilai. Ten people were sent into shock and were treated at the Sderot Trauma Center.
Two more rockets landed in open areas in the western Negev Monday afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.
Meanwhile, three hours after landing in Israel on Monday, and following a tour to Yad Vashem, Heidemarie Wiecorek-Zeul, Germany's federal minister for economic cooperation and development met with President Shimon Peres and expressed sympathy and outrage that rockets fired from Gaza had again caused harm to an Israeli child.
She felt for the children and families in Sderot, she said, and would go there on Tuesday in a show of solidarity.
She had intended to visit Sderot anyway, but now had a special purpose, she said, as she called on those who fired rockets from Gaza to end their attacks and to allow people who "want to live in peace, to do so."
Overnight Sunday, the IAF killed three Palestinian gunmen in air strikes in the Gaza Strip .
According to an Army Radio report, Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip said one Hamas gunman was killed and two others were wounded in a strike in the southern town of Khan Yunis.
Two other Hamas operatives were killed in a separate strike in northern Gaza, the report stated.
The army confirmed both strikes, saying it had targeted gunmen and confirmed hitting them.
Meanwhile, Army forces arrested eight fugitives in the West Bank Sunday overnight, the IDF said.
The men were taken for interrogation.
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Samantha Brett Burton was born on the 22nd December 1991, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, and is an actress who is probably best recognized for her memorable role in one of the most popular movies of the 2000s, entitles "The Sandlot 2: The Sandlot Continues". She is one of the few actresses who managed to catch so much attention by only appearing in one movie, because of which she was described as a rare talent. In addition, she is well-known for her production works.
There are only a few details revealed about her childhood; there is no information about her parents or siblings, even if she is an only child, nor where she went to primary school, etc. However, authoritative sources state that she moved to Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tennessee, to attend and matriculate from Tullahoma High School. She went on to college, where and which unknown, but apparently became a Homecoming Queen there. People close to her informed the public that she was very passionate about acting from an early age.
To speak about her career, it is well-known that she became involved in the entertainment industry when she was only 14 years old, by accepting the opportunity to star in the very successful and remarkable sequel of "The Sandlot", entitled "The Sandlot 2: The Sandlot Continues". The movie directed and written by David Mickey Evans was a baseball comedy, which covered very important topics of good and evil and how friendship is important to overcome all the struggles life presents. Burton portrayed one of the main characters, Hayley Goodfairer, one of the kids who played baseball at sandlot, but were forced to leave the place by a bully. They managed to defeat their enemy only when they realized that they had to join up and take care of each other. The movie received mixed reviews from critics, but was widely accepted by the audience.
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She worked alongside experienced and famous actors of that time, such as Max Lloyd-Jones, David Mickey and Sean Berdy. This was Samantha's first and only role in a movie, but was considered to be a huge breakthrough for her, as she was one few people who became a part of so skillful and accomplished a cast and crew, without having any previous background in acting. Therefore, she entered the spotlight, and journalists tried to find out more about her talent and personal life. However, Samantha decided to keep her life private and away from the public's eye, although according to sources, Burton tried herself in modeling, and apparently worked for several notable brands. Furthermore, she gained credits in TV production as well, namely as an executive producer of the reality TV show entitled "Obsessive Compulsive Hoarder".
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Speaking about Samantha's personal life, she has managed to keep it as private as possible, so there is almost no information about boyfriends available to public. It is only speculated that she dated her co-star from "The Sandlot 2: The Sandlot Continues", Max Lloyd-Jones, an English actor probably best recognized for his memorable appearance in the remarkable movie "War for the Planet of the Apes", as well as in numerous TV series such as "The Heart Has its Reasons", "Supernatural", "Reign: The Destiny of a Queen" and "Teen Wolf". It is believed that they dated while working together in 2005 and 2006, but this information was never confirmed by either of them. According to her social media profiles, she might currently be in a relationship with a mysterious man appearing in her photographs. However, she has never talked about him in public, nor even confirmed that she is in a relationship. She is believed not to be married and not to have children.
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Burton seems to be active only on Twitter where she has approximately 2,000 followers. However, she still has an Instagram account, although she posted her last picture in 2016; on this account, she has almost 3,000 followers. As for her appearances, her exact height or weight are not known, but she is described by many people as having a tall and slim figure, as well as beautiful blonde hair and exceptional blue eyes.
To speak about her net worth, it is estimated by authoritative sources that Samantha counts her net worth at the amount of $48,000, accumulated through her modestly successful career in the entertainment industry, in the roles of an actress, producer and model.
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Noe MH, Wanat KA. Noe M.H., & Wanat K.A. Noe, Megan H., and Karolyn A. Wanat. (2020). Dermatology. Graber MA, Ray BE, Wilbur JK. Graber M.A., & Ray B.E., & Wilbur J.K.(Eds.),Eds. Mark A. Graber, et al. Graber and Wilbur's Family Medicine Examination & Board Review, 5e. McGraw Hill. https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?bookid=2780&sectionid=235868885
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Is this the correct way and is FOSUserBundle a good bundle for this kind of application?

A: Bundles have sense only if they can be used in "multiple projects". I mean: if you write code, make it as a bundle and you can't reuse that bundle (for example because bundles, as you described above, are strictly and logically connected to your project) this three bundle separations is totally useless.
So, final answer (that is also a question) is:
Could you reuse FrontendBundle in other projects?
Could you reuse CustomBundle in other projects?
Could you reuse AdminBundle in other porjects?
If you notice that you can't use any or all of these bundles for other project, maybe this separations isn't good.
Why I say that?
Because if they can't be used in separated ways is likely that they should be used togheter so you should keep them togheter.
So I advice to keep them into a single bundle (YourNameYourBundleNameBundle (in that notation, for example)) and to separate the single "areas":

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A: This problem has been discussed at length already. For application specific code either do a single AppBundle or don't use bundles at all.

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I have installed arcgis server 10.2 and the web adaptor on to iis in windows 2008r2. Everything works great on my university network.
But when I try to check the services directory from home the services don't open. http://mgs.geology.wmich.edu/arcgis/rest works fine but if you go deeper i.e. http://mgs.geology.wmich.edu/arcgis/rest/services/SampleWorldCities/MapServer The page fails to load on the internet where it works fine on the internal network.
I have the server open to the web through the university firewall, I've tried reinstalling arcgis server and the web adaptor. I can't seem to figure out what the problem is.
this does not look like an ArcGIS Server issue at all. Just to be clear, the only port that needs to be opened to internet users is whatever port your IIS web site uses (typically http:80). Opening additional ports is not strictly necessary for your ArcGIS services to be accessed. At first sight it looks like your organization has some sort of proxy on top of your Web Adaptor. This proxy is most likely blocking calls to your ArcGIS Server once the url goes beyond .../services/ I would start by showing your IT department the issue. You can also open a Technical Support incident with Esri to dig deeper.
Finally, I noticed that your administrative end points are open (accessible over the internet). It is good practice to hide them. This can be done easily through the Web Adaptor configuration page (a simple checkbox). It is not like people will be able to administer your server right away (your admin credentials are needed), but hiding your admin end points is good practice.
Are you able to reach services without web adaptor using 6080?
Check that all the ports are open. Go to a command prompt and type netstat -ao | findstr "LISTENING" | findstr "4000 4001 4002 4003 6080 6443"
What are you using for the hostname for each of your services in the Connection field (under General tab) of Service Properties? Are you using mgs.geology.wmich.edu or something else?
Thanks for the responses everyone. Turns out the university upgraded their firewall recently and was blocking arcgis for some reason. Everything now works as expected.


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Keith Hunter Jesperson, né le  à Chilliwack en Colombie-Britannique, au Canada, est un tueur en série canadien ayant opéré aux États-Unis. Il prétend avoir tué 185 personnes, mais seulement huit meurtres lui sont attribués avec certitude. Il est surnommé «  » parce qu'il y avait toujours un smiley dans les lettres qu'il envoyait aux médias et aux procureurs.

Biographie

Jesperson a eu une enfance violente et troublée sous le joug d'un père alcoolique et dominateur. Traité comme un paria par sa propre famille et taquiné par les autres enfants pour sa grande taille à un jeune âge, Jesperson était un enfant solitaire qui a montré une propension à torturer et tuer des animaux. Bien qu'il ait eu constamment des ennuis dans sa jeunesse, dont deux tentatives de tuer des enfants qui lui avaient causé des ennuis, Jesperson obtient un diplôme d'études secondaires, puis un emploi comme chauffeur de camion. Il s'est marié et a eu trois enfants. En 1990, après 15 ans de mariage, Jesperson divorce et vit son rêve de devenir policier dans la Gendarmerie royale du Canada, carrière stoppée après une blessure. C'est après son retour à la conduite de camions, que Jesperson commence à tuer.

Jesperson est connu pour avoir tué au moins huit femmes en cinq ans. La strangulation a été sa méthode préférée, la même qu'il a souvent utilisé pour tuer les animaux étant enfant. Après que le corps de sa première victime, Taunja Bennett, a été trouvé, l'attention des médias a porté sur Laverne Pavlinac, une femme qui a faussement avoué avoir tué Bennett avec son petit ami violent. Jesperson a été bouleversé parce qu'il n'a pas reçu l'attention qu'il voulait. Il a par la suite dessiné un visage souriant sur le mur sale d'une salle de bain où il a écrit une confession anonyme pour l'assassinat, à des centaines de miles de la scène du crime. N'ayant pas obtenu de réaction, il commence à écrire des lettres aux médias et aux procureurs. Plusieurs de ses victimes étaient des prostituées et des SDF sans aucun lien avec lui.

Bien que Jesperson ait affirmé avoir tué jusqu'à 185 personnes, seulement huit meurtres ont été confirmés.

Melissa G. Moore, fille de Keith Jesperson, est passée plusieurs fois à la télévision. Par exemple, en novembre 2008, dans le talk show Dr. Phil ou The Oprah Winfrey Show en septembre 2009.

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Dr. Jerry Argovitz, a dentist who became a powerful sports agent, is seen during an appearance on "CBS This Morning" Jan. 2, 2013.
(CBS News) A dentist who became a powerful sports agent called on the NCAA on "CBS This Morning" Wednesday to allow college athletes to hire agents and to have the same collective bargaining rights that the pros do.
In the middle of college football's bowl season, Dr. Jerry Argovitz told Anthony Mason and Norah O'Donnell that the NCAA has a legal "cartel" when it comes to young athletes because the association bans them from seeking the advice of an agent when they sign up to play in college.
"Oh, yeah, they can hire a lawyer," Argovitz said. "Now I don't know many poor families that can afford, you know, $2,000 to have a lawyer read a contract, and the contract is so vague I can't even understand it, so there's no way a 17, 18-year-old young man can understand it."
The co-owner of the now-defunct U.S. Football League's Houston Gamblers said the NCAA has an agenda for keeping college athletes under amateur status.
"If they pay the players, they become employees, then they lose their tax-free status, and they also have to furnish workman's compensation," Argovitz said.
Argovitz wrote about his experiences in his new memoir, "Super Agent: The One Book the NFL and NCAA Don't Want You to Read."


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Classics , Drama , Romance
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In Theaters: Dec 5, 1957 Wide
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The best romance movie ever made! With the best movie score ever composed!
I adore everything about this story. Brando, what can I say, yum. Charming, conflicted and in the mist of an intrinsic evolution that leads him to making a stand for what is right, and honorable in the name of friendship and love.
A progressive romance tale for the ages. Director Joshua Logan crafts a thoughtful romance story in Japan that touches on many relevant issues such as racism, interracial marriage, military code, tradition, and real love. Sayonara may be from 1957, but It is a movie before its time as it goes out of its way to show you the humanity of all sides and genuine love across race and country lines. The screenplay from writer Paul Osborn is truly ahead of his time. I am stunned at how profound and progressive Sayonara remains to this day. Marlon Brando delivers a fascinating role as an ignorant country boy from Virginia that learns to appreciate, and indeed, love Japan's country, people, and culture. He is so far removed from the usual thoughtful intellectual Brando characters that Brando's performance is all the more impressive. He demonstrates the character's gradual shift in ideals. It's a wonderful role for Brando that marks his last great role in his untouchable 1950's era. Similarly, actress Miiko Taka stars as the leading lady Hana-ogi. Her English is perfect as she delivers the most endearing monologue of the movie to Brando during their first dinner together. Her singing is lovely and her dancing is mesmerizing. Taka gave us the performance of a lifetime in Sayonara. Additionally, Sayonara holds several incredible supporting performances. Namely, Patricia Owens, Miyoshi Umeki, Red Buttons, and Ricardo Montalbán. They each represent another side of the racial relationships occurring in 1950's Japan. They are so sincere and sympathetic in their own way. Musically, Franz Waxman composed the most lovely score for Sayonara. It is romantic and atmospheric. It only chimes in at the most sweet moments. I really enjoyed how pretty Sayonara's score sounds. In all, Sayonara is a must see romance film. It has proven to be timeless and continues to be relevant. All that's left to say is Sayonara!
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Probing forthrightly racism and prejudice against interracial marriages, this Oscar-winning sweeping military romance of a dashing Air Force hero and a striking Japanese traditional trouper is well-meaning but idealistically hopeful.
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In 1957, for mainstream audiences, this was considered progressive. Whike it is a sensitive intelligent story, beautifully shot, with good performances, it dates badly and is even embarrassing now. Great and mysogenist attention is brought to All-American white guys marrying submissive Japanese women. The greatest hypocrisy is that when faced with a possible relationship of a white woman with a Japanese man....it fails and insults. Ricardo Montalban, a Mexican actor is cast as a Japanese actor who becomes a confidante of Brando's fiance. Progress in 1957 meant white guys marrying Asian women, but no hint of white women with other races was tolerated. Miyoshi Umeki is lovely, in one of the most ridiculous Oscar winning performances. She has little to do but smile sweetly, bow, and be cute in a few scenes focused on other characters. She has one more effective scene where she reads two lines in a heartbreaking manner. Oscar????!!!! Brando is good but hammy (his worst quality on screen). Again, its well made, beautiful to look at, well intentioned, and a great chance for Red Buttons to show he has real talent. But its all so dated and unintentionally insulting it just does not deserve a great rating.
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"My woman from Tokyo, she makes me see!" Well, actually, this man's woman is from Kobe, but, hey, the military ostensibly can't even tell the difference between the Koreans and the Japs in this film, because even though this film is set during the Korean Conflict, they're trying to get said woman from Kobe out. You can see the irony in the fact that this '50s Southern man is opposing prejudice, but then again, Marlon Brando apparently improvised the accent. Nevertheless, Japan was, like, ten years ago, folks in this movie, and you need to get over it, because there are plenty of other Asian nations to feud with, and at the rate this film is going, it ought to cover them all by the time the credits roll. There's been, like, a million properties titled "The Long Goodbye", so they could have called this, I don't know, "The Long Sayonara", and let people know what they're in for. That would be such a cliché, but hey, it's no more of a cliché than nicknaming this Air Force act flier "Ace", or an Asian fetish that I don't entirely get. Brando was bi and ended up having 16 kids, so I'm sure there are a lot of things that he was into that wouldn't be interested in, unless, of course, they made a movie out of it, because this film is quite interesting, although the Ace character's name and particular taste in women are not the only things in this film which are a little familiar. A military drama, a cultural celebration, and a star-crossed romance, this film is refreshing in how it entangles its various themes into a singular vision, but it doesn't do much of anything new with the respective traits, being rather predictable from various angles, with tropes that include histrionics. As a matter of fact, considering how long the film is, it's only a matter of time before it hits histrionics, no matter how mild, but otherwise, a sense of melodrama derives almost entirely from the sentimentality in Joshua Logan's direction, which is mostly resonant in its dramatic atmosphere, until reaching certain tonal excesses that by no means marks the end of the excess in this film. Coming very close to a runtime of two-and-a-half hours, the film is much too blasted long, with draggy and repetitious dialogue pieces, and too much exposition on individual layers in this branched and segmented narrative, leading to lapses in a sense of progression. As if it's not awkward enough that excessive structuring sees plotlines regarding the leads' friend's interracial marriage, an exploration of Japanese culture, and the lead's personal romantic conflicts outstaying their welcome enough for the other segments to lose focus before too long, the central plotline is often so aimless in its excess and meanderings that is takes much too long to get to a predictable point, focusing on the lead losing his original love, then winning over his true love, and then having his love challenged by his peers. Lloyd "Ace" Gruver's love interests receive an unbalanced amount of attention, and Gruver's other affairs, for that matter, are juggled messily, thus, the film is uneven and aimless to the point of being rather unfocused, and that's all fine and good, because the film is ultimately very compelling from most every angle, but, with that said, the excessive length and flimsy structure just go to show you how unspectacular this story is. This is no epic, no matter what the runtime may say, as it's a rather straightforward drama that is driven by dialogue and no extreme dangers, and although the story remains compelling in its concept and in its telling, the predictability, sentimentality, unevenness and aimlessness stress natural shortcomings and shake up momentum, almost to the point of shaking off a rewarding status. The final product tries one's patience, but so long as that patience stands firm, it is sure to be paid off, for although the film is unspectacular with its plot and disjointed with its storytelling, it holds your attention plenty, partly from an aesthetic angle. For 1957, the film is remarkably good-looking, with Ellsworth Fredericks delivering on cinematography that is relatively crisp in definition, and lush in coloration, while carrying a certain scope that does further justice to an expansive observation of the environments and cultures of Japan, enhanced by Ted Haworth's Oscar-winning art direction. As a celebration of Japanese culture, this film hits the nail on the head in its lavishly distinguishing its environments and the other attractive traits of its setting, so if nothing else holds your attention throughout this overlong affair, it is the striking visual style and haunting visuals, and yet, this story explores much more than a lovely culture. This story may not be especially original, or have the scope or great consequentiality that are insinuated in a runtime of almost two-and-a-half hours, but to say that it is not especially compelling is inaccurate, for there is still plenty of depth to this narrative, of a human nature that is backed by themes regarding prejudice in respectable outfits, and is brought to life by a strong script. Paul Osborn's script is excessive, make no mistake, with aimlessness and unevenness that shake a sense of focus and progression at times, and yet, the point is that it takes its time to flesh out its characters and layers, and along the way, it holds your attention through sharp dialogue and a fair, clever sense of humor, while taking on potentially melodramatic genuineness with a surprising deal of genuineness, more often than not, at least. Again, it's Joshua Logan's sentimental direction which most challenges a sense of dramatic genuineness, and even then, on top of the being charming, the sentimentality is generally controlled enough to get across the weight of this subject matter with resonance, and a sense of importance that could have been lost amidst all of the dragging, which Logan makes more comfortable through tight pacing that keeps up an adequate degree of entertainment value. Really, color, charm and resonance are mostly encompassed in the cast, which is comprised of effective talents ranging from the subtly layered Red Buttons and Miyoshi Umeki, to the beautiful and humanized Patricia Owens and Miiko Taka, none of whom are quite up to par with leading man Marlon Brando, who delivers on explosive charisma and impeccable line delivery which get you invested into the grounded, likable nature of the flawed Lloyd "Ace" Gruver character, until incorporating a dramatic subtlety and grace that captures the lead's depths better than the storytellers. You can feel Gruver's change of heart when he finds true love, and you can feel his pain when that love and the love of his friends go opposed by figures he holds in high regard, and considering that, with all of its inconsistences, the film hardly every turns its attention away from Gruver, Brando carries this non-epic, but not quite alone, for although there's a lot to challenge one's patience, there is enough to maintain one's investment and make this minimalist, but piercing drama rewarding. In the end, there is some familiarity and sentimentality to shake the dramatic momentum of this film, while other forms of momentum go shaken up something fierce by an excessive and repetitious structure that begets a sense of unevenness and aimlessness behind a story of very limited scale, thus, nearly two-and-a-half hours don't entirely pay off, but through lavish cinematography, locations and art direction, the cleverly written and genuinely directed telling of a thematically and dramatically important story, and a solid cast from which Marlon Brando stands out, there is enough payoff to make Joshua Logan's "Sayonara" a rewarding military and star-crossed lovers drama. 3/5 - Good
Les E
Beautiful story with a stamp of real quality given by Brando.
John B Super Reviewer
Brando takes a break from serious films to earn a bit of cash and some recognition in Sayonara. It lacks freshness today and likely can only be viewed as something that must be seen if you need to see the entire Brando cannon.
Adrian B
Marlon Brando plays a soldier named Ace, who has originated from the southern USA that has been reassigned to working in Japan. One of his colleagues Kelly (Red Buttons) falls in love and weds a Japanese woman (Miyoshi Umeki), although this not to the liking of his superiors. Additionally, Ace's woman (Patricia Owens) from America comes and joins him, although he starts losing interest in her and begins to fall in love with another lady, a Japanese actress (Miiko Taka). Honestly speaking, when I saw that director Joshua Logan was the same director of the 1956 film "Picnic," I became concerned that this drama would be unspectacular, and sure enough it was. It has not aged well, it is not that interesting, and therefore, it does not work on today's standards. Brando's consistent southern accent is quite annoying and not effective, like previously in the 1951 hit "A Streetcar Named Desire." James Garner adds nothing to this movie. I was ready to say "Sayonara" after 25 minutes watching this overly long picture. What a big disappointment, considering it took home two supporting acting awards (Buttons and Umeki, the Kelly couple and they are not bad at all).
Cody B
Five stars simply for the variety of Japanese theater genres shown, from matsubayashi to bunraku puppetry, this is like a perfect sampling of Japanese theater. The story itself is sad and moving (even though a bit dated, but can interracial disharmony and bigotry ever be dated?) and the acting is superb all around. Marlon Brando's mutterings at the beginning of the film clear up right after you tune into his line, "She has enormous... capacity to fill a bathing suit."


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Attorney here helps foreign workers get employment across country
By Editor | December 7, 2019 | 0
By DENNIS GRUBAUGH
Tiffany Baldwin has been helping businesses meet employee needs for more than two decades.
The Fairview Heights-based attorney owns Compass Immigration Law, which specializes in employment-based immigration law, finding ways to provide things like H-1B temporary visas and employment-based green cards for foreign workers who need them in the states. While she serves a number of professions, she primarily works with doctors.
"There is not a general practice immigration attorney that I know of. Everyone subspecializes. Within the employment category I'm primarily focused on physicians," she said. "We have a physician shortage across the country, particularly in Southern Illinois where it's expected to get really high, really soon."
She works with other professionals, like those in IT and engineering, "but the doctors are the bulk of it. I enjoy the aspect of them going into areas that have a need. It's kind of a win-win situation."
Even if a physician has worked for two decades as a doctor in his home country, he must go through a residency or a fellowship in the United States to get licensed.
Immigration is federal law and Baldwin said she has clients all over, including Southern Illinois.
"Cases come into this office and they go out to immigration service centers, which are remote. Most of the time we don't have to go to Immigration. Generally, I can be in Fairview Heights and do work for clients in places like Florida, Hawaii or Washington state."
Foreign physicians are increasingly going into rural areas and more are going into specialties that American doctors do not, like hospitalists, or inpatient physicians, who work seven on, seven off/12-hour shifts that are hard to fill.
Baldwin works on behalf of both companies and individuals. She is typically approached by a hospital, practice group or company that manages emergency rooms or in-patient services for hospitals. That involves doing work on behalf of doctors, nurses, medical technologists and physical therapists. There is an increasing shortage in those fields because of retirements and an aging population.
Baldwin's background was tailormade. As an undergrad at The American University in Washington, D.C., she was an international relations major. Things having to do with visas and immigration piqued her interest which continued while in law school at Washington University.
"I happened to take an immigration law class in law school, and the professor actually wrote the first casebook on immigration law for law schools. Near the end, there was an opening for a part-time law clerk at a firm, in their immigration department. I applied for that and got in. Their main attorney I worked for was one of the first immigration attorneys to focus on physician issues. It just kind of clicked."
Baldwin grew up in Fairview Heights. She worked for Greensfelder, Hemker and Gale for about eight years before going out on her own.
In her 22-year career, she's only practiced immigration law, which was unique at the start and less so now as more attorneys go to school for an immigration specialty.
She and her husband, Lew Thomasino, have a son, Silas, a high school junior, and a daughter Gemma, a seventh-grader. Right now, they are hosting an exchange student from Armenia.
This story appears in the December issue of the Illinois Business Journal. Other stories can be found online at ibjonline.com


I'm excited to tell our advocacy story this year! And the shift this year will be to include our policy story in conjunction with our legislative story. Our members will get to hear about the tremendous influence we have in making sure we all "get" to do business the way we do without government overreach; that we have influence with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in helping to take great care of our clients through the transaction process; and that we help to open the pathway to homeownership in the realms of fair housing, finance, affordable housing, and more. Couple that with our influence with decisions makers to enact proper legislation locally, and at the state and federal levels, and we have a FABULOUS story to tell!


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Planning East Harlem
By • November 11, 2015 • News
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In the coming years, wide swaths of New York will land on the city's drawing board for comprehensive rezoning. In September 2015, the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP) released the East New York Community Plan. The plan, now in its public comment period, calls for increased density and affordable housing via mandatory inclusionary zoning in a largely low-income Brooklyn neighborhood. A city initiative, the planning process was organized by the DCP with input from local groups.
In East Harlem, however, residents, community groups, and facilitators flipped the script. Stakeholders are collecting residents' feedback on their neighborhood for the DCP's input. The group's project, the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan, began in May 2015 and targets the area governed by Community Board 11 (CB 11). The project's meticulous approach to community-based planning has the potential to impact neighborhood planning citywide.
The project partners are city council speaker (and area representative) Melissa Mark-Viverito, CB 11, the Manhattan borough president's office, and social justice advocacy group Community Voices Heard. New York's WXY Studio and Hester Street Collaborative are facilitating the development of a draft of the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan. Other participating organizations include a charter school, labor unions, a tenants' association, the New York Restoration Project (NYRP), and El Museo del Barrio. These groups lead steering committees that help draft and approve recommendations.
To all parties, planning goes beyond zoning to encompass the individual and social context. Adam Lubinsky, WXY's managing principal, emphasizes that the planning is entirely community driven, and is not about showcasing the vision of a particular designer or firm. So far, hundreds of residents have participated in the process. Ultimately, Lubinsky hopes that East Harlemites "put together key principles and ideas so city planning will look at that and understand that" for the official zoning ultimately adopted by the DCP.
The process starts with a series of community visioning workshops for residents to voice what they love and what they would change in East Harlem. Workshops include a discussion of policies that affect the neighborhood. A session on zoning and land use, for example, uses participatory visioning strategies that "get people thinking about the nature of the area," said Lubinsky.
Ideas from the workshops are taken up by 11 subgroups, each facilitated by a different stakeholder. Topics include open space and environment, culture, education, childcare, housing preservation, affordable housing, NYCHA, economic and workforce development, senior citizens, health and safety, and transportation. A proposal from a committee headed by the NYRP, for example, suggests that "developers [should] provide green infrastructure within and/or adjacent to new developments" to fortify East Harlem against "threats from climate change."
The subgroups create proposals that are refined in a public comment period. The final plan will be presented in early 2016 to the DCP to inform the final neighborhood rezoning.
Will WXY and Hester Street be involved in the design? Hopefully, Lubinsky states, the "capacity-building process is self-perpetuating. I don't know if they'll need us."
httpsGETwww.archpaper.com/2015/11/planning-east-harlem/-PUBLIC


Praying Mantis Account by C.
Dear Jim G., I had my first experience with mantis type beings when I was about 6 to 9 years old. My memory of the account was brought about by viewing a piece of artwork by M.C. Escher, which is basically a picture of a giant praying mantis on top of a coffin or sarcophagus of a pope (or some other religious fellow) in St. Peters (I believe, I could be mistaken). My experience was in our front lawn in broad daylight.
I will call it a memory due to its nature. The memory is of me as a boy lying on the ground near where our car was parked. On top of me was what I can only describe as a giant praying mantis. From my perspective I could see its face which seemed larger than my head, and below its head (i don't know if it was attached to the being or was a tool of some sort) was what appeared to be a green see through gourd (sort of like a green bubble) that had a green tube coming out of it which believe it or not was inserted into my solar plexus (the area above your stomach but below your rib cage. It felt like time had stopped or we were in between frames or something because this seemed to go on forever. I just remember thinking I can't breathe, then realizing I did not need to breathe (perhaps this apparatus was breathing for me), and just laying there staring into these bug eyes. This being did in fact resemble an actual praying mantis, not just the shape of it as you described in your experiences. Its eyes were giant green spheres on the side of his head and his pupils were little red dots. Well as a youngster I dismissed this as a dream due to the high level of strangeness. At this age I did spend countless hours in our backyard looking at the stars through my telescope. This incident was in the seventies in New Mexico. My first conscious ufo sighting was around 1990 or 1991 when I was 18 or 19 years old. Me and a friend were mountain biking next to a river in Albuquerque. We stopped to take a break and looking at the sky over the tree-line when we noticed a ball of light in the sky over the trees. My first thought was that it was a helicopter searching for an escaped convict or scientists conducting a nature study. The ball of light eventually went higher and started doing loop de loops, zig-zags, swirls, they would skip from one part of the sky to the next as if time is an illusion. Eventually it was joined by about 5 to 7 other balls of light all displaying the most amazing aerial acrobatics either of us had ever witnessed. This went on for who knows how long, until one of the balls kept getting closer and closer till eventually you could see it was a perfect sphere of light with no features or blinking lights on it. It was completely silent, no noise what so ever, as it descended upon us.
At about 50 feet above us as its coming down my friend exclaims "I am getting out of here". He jumped on his mountain bike and rode off, leaving me alternating my head from descending ball of light to friend leaving. I looked back and forth three or four times before I said "wait for me" or "me too" or something like that. I forgot this event for a year or two until I was shrooming one time and it all came back to me.
Since then I have seen many ufo's and had more strange experiences than I could possibly name. Well you should look for that Escher drawing if your already not familiar with it. Another thing I wanted to mention is: have you ever watched space ghost coast to coast? There is an alien praying mantis on that show named Zorax. Peace, brother take it easy, if they wanted to crush us they could have when they planted us here. Everything is out there you (and in there) you just got to focus.


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High Manxiety: Thirtysomething Men Are The New Neurotic Singles
First Comes Love
Think thirtysomething single women are the only ones stressed about their dwindling options for marriage and kids? Turns out, men are the new Carrie Bradshaws.
Hannah Seligson
Updated Jul. 12, 2017 2:57PM ET / Published May. 04, 2014 6:45AM ET
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"In your twenties, you think you are just going to live forever," said 35-year-old Jonathan Yevin, owner of the Brooklyn-based landscape company M.U.D. "But then you get to a point where you see an old dad and you think, 'I'm going to be that guy.' That's what a lot of my angst stems from," said Yevin, who is not married but has a girlfriend.
Call it 'mangst" or "manxiety." Either one describes the bouts of anxiety single guys in their thirties feel about their marital status. Like its feminine counterpart, manxiety stems, in large part, from doing life math. It sounds like this: "If I met the girl today, I'd be 45 when my son or daughter goes to kindergarten." Now, as it turns out, men are fretting about their closing window to meet someone and have kids.
Circa 2014, there are an unprecedented number of single, educated men in their thirties—the medium age for a first marriage is as high as 32 in the District of Columbia, trailed by 30 in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, according to census data. And some of them are finding that being single at 34 is not as much as fun as it was at 27, bringing about an existential crisis that, in many ways, mirrors the fears that have been exhaustively chronicled about single women in legions of books and television shows. Men, too, are concerned about the lack of options as they get older, falling behind their peer group and, now, their biological clock, brought on by a rash of new research and attention to the health risks of older fatherhood.
"I see the vast majority of my single guy friends wishing they weren't," said Ben Lerer, 32, founder of Thrillist Media Group, an e-commerce site focused on young men. "I think it's just as acute as the female angst about being single," he said.
Lerer points to Exhibit A: his best-looking guy friend, who is 29 and "slaying it" in the dating world. "He can't avoid getting laid when he goes out, but behind closed doors it's a different story. He is desperately looking for someone to love, a girlfriend. He is so fearful of being alone," said Lerer, who tied the knot at 28.
Mangst sets in, according to Lerer, when all their other male friends get married. "It's not just then that they don't have a girlfriend, they don't have any guys. They lose that camaraderie. Being single when your friends are single is amazing, but it's no fun to go out alone."
"Men when they are 28 or 30, in that pre-adulthood stage, have less consciousness that their life is in a temporary arrangement," said Kay Hymowitz, author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys.
But it's not only about losing all their bros to matrimony and having no one to hit the bars with on Saturday night; marriage and parenthood, despite clichés of the commitment-phobic bachelor, are important life goals for men, particularly once they reach their mid-thirties.
The share of middle-age to older men—those over 35—who say that a successful marriage is one of the most important things in their life has increased nine percentage points since 1997 and is nearly equal (36 percent) to women in that demographic, according to 2012 research from Pew Research Center.
And something seems to shift at 35 for men—only 29 percent of men in the 18-to-34 group say a successful marriage is one of the most important things, which has dropped off from 35 percent since 1997, also according to Pew.
As people get married later these days, perhaps 35 for men is what 30 is for women, a personal reckoning that puts their desire to have a family on the front-burner? Close to half (47 percent) of young men say that being a good parent is the most important thing in their life, up from 39 percent in 1997. And, presumably, parenthood is linked to marriage for most of these men.
"All the surveys suggest that people, men and women, want a family life. And who wants to be alone, for God's sake?" said Hymowitz, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a New York-based policy institute.
So what happens when this new generation of men finds itself alone after 35?
Some are taking concrete steps to take control of their waning youth. At 42, Dan Crane, a Los Angeles-based writer, froze his sperm, an experience he chronicled in The New York Times. "I think the problem for me was that up until a few years ago, we all just assumed that men were off the hook for these problems and we could all just keep pretending we were in our twenties until the right girl came along and we could have a kid in our mid-forties, but studies have suggested that's not the case, which was the impetus for freezing my sperm and for being slightly panicked," said Crane, now 43, who divorced recently and is childless. The research Crane was referring to has linked older fathers to schizophrenia and autism in children. Also, sperm quality declines with age, making conception more difficult.
Many say studies about older fatherhood have given them pause, but not enough to freeze their sperm. "There is an appeal to be a younger, active dad when you see how crazy your friends' kids are," said Mike, a 33-year-old New York-based entrepreneur, who asked that his first name only be used for professional reasons. Mike says his manxiety flares up most acutely when he is thinking that he is the last single guy at the party, a worry that's allayed when he looks at friends who are 40-something and single. "At least I'm not that guy," he said.
Mike believes one of the causes of the ambient anxiety men in their thirties feel about being a single guy is exacerbated by online dating tools, such as Tinder and Hinge, which make age a constant part of your profile. "Ten years ago, you could lie about your age if you met someone at a bar, now these dating sites have reduced people to data, with your age a constant and flashing indicator. Men are becoming more self-conscious about it [their age]," Mike told me.
Part of the mangst is also work-related. "Men are delaying marriage and settling down because they want to be set in their careers," said Sonya Rhodes, author of The Alpha Woman: How Today's Strong Women can find Love and Happiness Without Settling. "Young men probably can't see their career path as clearly as their father who worked with the same law firm for his whole life."
In the interim, as many of these educated young men lead a peripatetic lifestyle and switch careers, sometimes into their thirties, they find themselves unmoored to a city, job, or spouse. Some of this the transience of the early adulthood years, while fun and exhilarating, also contributes to the unease of hitting your mid-thirties without a spouse.
"This is the first time, at 35, I've decided I want to stay in one place for the foreseeable future," said Charles, a policy analyst in Washington, D.C., who asked that his first name only be used for fear of never going on another date again. Charles says the general instability of his job and life is one contributing factor to his angst, which has been on a slow boil since his mid-twenties when all of his friends got married. "I've sort of been freaking out since. Most of my friends' kids will be in college by the time I become a father," he said. "That's the disturbing part: when I work backwards, 'I'm like, Oh shit, I don't want a kid in high school when I'm in my sixties.'"
Then there are also the fears, Charles says, about the changing dynamics of dating in one's mid-thirties. First is the worry that everyone who is left on the dating market is damaged goods. But worse is the anxiety surrounding the additional pressure on a relationship in the early going. He no longer has the luxury, he says, to date someone for five years before tying the knot. In fact, a few dates is usually all he will stomach with someone he's not really into. "The fun of experimentation gets replaced by an impatience for the end result—'Will this work out?'" Charles confided.
Is freezing your sperm the solution? Crane, for one, says he was surprised that more young men didn't reach out to him after his story ran on the cover of the Sunday Styles section. "I wish I had done it in my twenties," he admits.
At least for now, Crane seems to be a bit of an outlier, even though one fertility doctor told Crane that he's seen an uptick of men freezing their sperm in places like San Francisco. That might be because the disquiet and foreboding feelings single men in their thirties (and forties) have about their future as husbands and father is less acute than their female counterparts. For one thing, men, typically, have more options as they get older. "I can date someone who is 25 but also someone who is in her forties," Yevin points out. (Thirty-five-year-old women don't brag about having the same range.) And the female biological clock does tick faster—and, for that matter, comes with a cutoff that men don't face.
Still, even if men, ostensibly, have more time and options than women, that doesn't make dating in one's thirties look appealing to those on the other side. "I know I would not be a good single person," Lerer conceded. "I would wallow in my loneliness."