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Last week, in a courtroom in New York City, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down a life sentence without parole to Ahmed Ghailani, a conspirator in the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in civilian court. The sentencing represents both a practical and moral victory for justice, fundamental rights and the rule of law.
Practically, by trying Ghailani in civilian courts, he was treated as the criminal that he is — not as a soldier, as those who advocate military commissions would have him be. I spent 30 years in the U.S. army fighting to defend the Constitution and protect our country. I know soldiers, and Ghailani is not a soldier. He does not deserve that status.
By denying Ghailani the distinction of a soldier, we’ve deprived him of the legitimacy that he and his cohorts want, demonstrating that the “clash of civilizations” theory al Qaeda uses to explain their actions is nothing but a fig leaf used to justify murder. They’re not soldiers in a war; they’re fanatic criminals. Terrorists need to inspire fear and awe to be effective. By stripping Ghailani of his war-fighter title, we’ve exposed him for who he is — a criminal — while not adding to the spectacle created by the terrorist act itself. We’ve sent a message to would-be terrorists around the world: You’ll find no glory in committing crimes against Americans and our allies. Insofar as you can deter a terrorist, what better way to do it than to blunt their ability to elicit terror?
The Ghailani sentencing also underscores the effective track record of civilian trials. The military commissions at Guantanamo Bay have only produced five convictions since 9/11, including three plea bargains. Two of the convicted men served short sentences and are already free. Meanwhile Replica Cartier watches, civilian trials have convicted scores of terrorists in that same time period — without producing drama or propaganda. The Ghailani case reminds us that even though military commissions might sound tougher than civilian courts, they are not.
Critics decry the fact that Ghailani was only convicted on one of the 285 counts that he was indicted on. They say that shows the weakness of the civilian court — as if only one life sentence is not enough. In the end, the result is the same: Ghailani will spend his remaining days in supermax prison with the likes of the Unibomber.
Others bemoan the fact that evidence was not introduced into the case because it was obtained illegally through torture. Yet Judge Kaplan admitted that rules of evidence would have been much the same in a military commission. The fact that Ghailani was convicted by a prosecution that had one legal hand tied behind its back due to the sins of the past is a tribute to civilian courts, which remain the most effective tool in dispensing effective, legitimate justice to terrorism suspects.
This leads me to the moral victory in the Ghailani trial. Despite the exclusion of evidence elicited through torture, Ghailani still ended up receiving a life sentence. In other words, Ghailani received a fair trial, was convicted and received a life sentence despite the fact that the strongest evidence against him was withheld. The American legal system stuck to its principles, based on the United States Constitution, and still won a life sentence. To me, that’s the definition of justice.
Looking more broadly, the Ghailani verdict reminds us that the legal system — along with our intelligence, military and diplomatic resources — is an essential component of America’s security apparatus. Bypassing our legal system and resorting to military commissions, perceived by many in and outside of the United States as ineffective Replica Omega watches, or worse, illegitimate, because they sound “tough,” is a bad move and one that ignores the facts in favor of rhetoric.
The case of Ahmed Ghailani saw justice served and underscores the effectiveness our legal system — both in individual cases and in winning the war of ideas. The overall lesson from the Ghailani case is that Americans should collectively have faith in, and admiration of, the U.S. criminal justice system — after all, it’s doing more than military commissions ever did to keep us safe.
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Traditionally, in psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, the term “character” has been used to refer to constellations or configurations of behavioral traits. “Anal characters” are said to be compulsive and perfectionistic; “hysterical characters” are described as histrionic; “passive-aggressive characters” show anger covertly by withholding; “narcissistic characters” are excessively self-centered; “borderline characters” form chaotic and primitive relationships and so on. How might character be understood from a perspective, like mine, that takes organizations or worlds of emotional experiencing as its principal focus?[1]
I have long contended that such organizations of emotional experiencing always take form in contexts of human interrelatedness.[2][3] Developmentally, recurring patterns of emotional interaction within the child-caregiver system give rise to principles (themes, meanings, cognitive-emotional schemas) that recurrently shape subsequent emotional experiences, especially experiences of significant relationships. Such organizing principles are unconscious Replica Cartier watches, not in the sense of being repressed, but in being pre-reflective. Ordinarily, we just experience our experiences; we do not reflect on the principles or meanings that shape them. The totality of a person’s pre-reflective organizing principles constitutes his or her character.
From this perspective, there can be no character “types,” since every person’s array of organizing principles is unique and singular, a product of his or her unique life history. These organizing principles show up in virtually every significant aspect of a person’s life — in one’s recurring relationship patterns, vocational choices, interests, creative activity, fantasies Replica Rolex watches, dreams and emotional disturbances. Psychoanalytic therapy is a dialogical method for bringing this pre-reflective organizing activity into reflective self-awareness so that, hopefully, it can be transformed.
Early situations of consistent or massive malattunement to a child’s emotional experiences (situations in which the child’s feelings are ignored, rejected, invalidated, devalued, shamed, punished and so on) have particularly important consequences for the development of character as I have conceived it. One consequence of such malattunement is that emotional states take on enduring, crushing meanings. The child, for example, may acquire an unconscious conviction that unmet developmental yearnings and reactive painful feeling states are manifestations of a loathsome defect or of an inherent inner badness. A defensive self-ideal may be established, representing a self-image purified of the offending emotional states that were perceived to be unwelcome or damaging to caregivers. Living up to this emotionally purified ideal then becomes a central requirement for maintaining harmonious ties to others and for upholding self-esteem. Thereafter, the emergence of prohibited emotion is experienced as a failure to embody the required ideal, an exposure of the underlying essential defectiveness or badness, and is accompanied by feelings of isolation, shame and self-loathing. A person with such unconscious organizing principles will expect that his or her feelings will be met by others with disgust, disdain, disinterest, alarm, hostility, withdrawal, exploitation and the like, or will damage others and destroy his or her relationships with them.
A second consequence of significant emotional malattunement is a severe constriction and narrowing of the horizons of emotional experiencing so as to exclude whatever feels unacceptable, intolerable or too dangerous in particular relationship contexts. When a child’s emotional experiences are consistently not responded to or are actively rejected, the child perceives that aspects of his or her emotional life are intolerable to — and unwanted by — the caregiver. These regions of the child’s emotional world must then be repressed or otherwise kept hidden in order to safeguard the needed tie. Large sectors of the child’s emotional experiencing are sacrificed, and his or her emotional world may thereby become emptied and deadened. Such sacrificing may also take the form of aborting the process whereby emotional states are brought into language. When this is the case, emotions remain nameless, inchoate and largely bodily, and psychosomatic problems may develop.
How does character — that is, the array of a person’s pre-reflective organizing principles and the corresponding horizons of emotional experiencing — change as a result of a successful psychotherapeutic process? In regard to psychoanalytic therapy, there has been a longstanding debate over the role of cognitive insight vs. emotional attachment in the process of therapeutic change. The terms of this debate are directly descended from Descartes’ philosophical dualism, which sectioned human experience into cognitive and emotional domains. Such artificial fracturing of human experience is no longer tenable in a post-Cartesian philosophical world. Cognition and emotion, thinking and feeling, interpreting and relating — these are separable only in pathology, as can be seen in the case of Descartes himself, the profoundly isolated man who created a doctrine of the isolated mind, of disembodied, unembedded, decontextualized cogito.
The dichotomy between insight through interpretation and emotional bonding with the therapist is revealed to be a false one, once it is recognized that the therapeutic impact of analytic interpretations lies not only in the insights they convey, but also in the extent to which they demonstrate the therapist’s attunement to the patient’s emotional life. I have long contended that a good (that is, a mutative) interpretation is a relational process, a central constituent of which is the patient’s experience of having his or her feelings understood. Furthermore, it is the specific meaning of the experience of being understood that supplies its mutative power, as the patient weaves that experience into the tapestry of developmental longings mobilized by the therapeutic engagement. Interpretation does not stand apart from the emotional relationship between patient and therapist; it is an inseparable and, to my mind, crucial dimension of that relationship.
In a nutshell, interpretative expansion of the patient’s capacity for reflective awareness of old, repetitive organizing principles occurs concomitantly with the emotional impact and meanings of ongoing relational experiences with the therapist, and both are indissoluble components of a unitary therapeutic process that establishes the possibility of alternative principles for organizing experience, whereby the patient’s emotional horizons can become widened, enriched, more flexible and more complex. As the tight grip of old organizing principles becomes loosened, as emotional experiencing thereby expands and becomes increasingly nameable within a context of human understanding and as what one feels becomes seamlessly woven into the fabric of whom one essentially is, there is an enhancement of one’s very sense of being. That, to my mind, is the essence of character change.
References:
[1] Stolorow, R. D., Atwood, G. E., & Orange, D. M. Worlds of Experience: Interweaving Philosophical and Clinical Dimensions in Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books. 2002. Link
[2] Stolorow, R. D. Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections. New York: Routledge. 2007. Link
[3] Stolorow, R. D. (2011). World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis. New York: Routledge. 2011. Link.
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AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s Board of Environmental Protection has agreed to more stringent noise standards on commercial wind turbines that operate near homes and businesses.
In a 5-to-4 vote Thursday, the board agreed to reduce the allowable nighttime noise level from 45 decibels to 42 decibels, as measured from homes located within one mile of the turbines.
The board’s ruling was in response to a citizen’s petition that was brought before the board after residents in Vinalhaven, Mars Hill and Freedom said the noise from nearby wind farms were causing sleep disturbance, hypertension and other problems.
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In Michigan today, an impassioned President Obama accused Republicans in Congress of trying to score political points “at the expense of our country” and said that the “constant bickering” in Washington was partly to blame for the nation’s slow economic recovery.
“There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics,” Obama told workers at the Johnson Control Inc. advanced battery factory in Holland, Mich.
In the aftermath of the debt debate, the president told Americans that he shares their frustrations with the partisan gridlock in Washington.
“What we've seen in Washington the last few months has been the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock, and that gridlock has undermined public confidence and impeded our efforts to take the steps we need for our economy,” he said. “There are things we have to do to erase a legacy of debt that hangs over the economy. But time and again we've seen partisan brinksmanship get in the way, as if winning the next election is more important than fulfilling our responsibilities to you and to our country.”
Once again, Obama called on Congress to pass stalled measures that he said would help create jobs immediately, including investing in infrastructure, extending the payroll tax cuts and reforming the patent system.
“The only thing keeping us back is our politics. The only thing preventing these bills from being passed is the refusal of some folks in Congress to put country ahead of party. There are some in Congress
right now who would rather see their opponents lose than see America win, and that has to stop. It's got to stop,” he said.
But Obama admitted that “given the weakness of the economy, we need to do even more” and said that he is prepared to offer up additional proposals of his own to spur job growth and boost the economy.
“Over the coming weeks, I'm going to be putting out more proposals, week by week, that will help businesses hire and put people back to work. And I'm going to keep at it until every single American who wants a job can find one,” he announced.
Again, the president called for a long-term plan to reduce the deficit and reiterated that both parties have to be willing to compromise. “Everybody's got to do their part. Everybody's got to chip in. That's fair. You learn it in kindergarten,” he said. “The problem is not that we don't have answers. The problem is, is that folks are playing political games.”
The president, who is set to go on vacation himself later this month, also addressed the criticism he’s received for not calling Congress back from its August recess to focus on the economy.
Instead of “spending more time arguing in D.C.,” the president, who is about to embark on a three day Midwest bus tour, said, not surprisingly, that “they need to spend more time out here listening to you and hearing how fed up you are. That's why I'm here.”
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MANILA, Philippines – Actress Andi Eigenmann is raring for her showbiz comeback, just months after giving birth to daughter Adrianna Gabrielle.
"Doble na kayod ngayong second chance. Gusto kong ipakita sa ABS-CBN na dine-dedeserve ko itong chance, especially now that I have Ellie," Eigenmann said.
Because of her daughter, she said she prefers to focus on her projects and isn’t keen on entering a new relationship.
"Hindi pa ako umaasa sa lovelife dahil nabigo na ako," Eigenmann said in jest.
But she quickly added: "Masaya ako, hindi ko ni ra-rush."
Eigenmann also thanked Jake Ejercito Replica bell ross watches, son of former president Joseph Estrada Replica cartier watches, who, she said, has been very supportive of her.
But the actress stressed that she and Ejercito are good friends.
"He will always be special to me," she said.
Last month, Eigenmann admitted that she’s still dating Ejercito.
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Goldie Hawn Pays Tribute To Late Cinematographer Richard Waite
Actress Goldie Hawn has paid tribute to her longtime friend and celebrated cinematographer Richard Waite, who passed away on Saturday (18Feb12).
He died at the age of 78 but little details of his passing were made available at the time WENN went to press.
The director of photography was born in Wisconsin in 1933 and he went on to lend his artistic talents to a number of hit films, including Footloose, Sylvester Stallone thriller Cobra, Patrick Swayze drama Red Dawn and Eddie Murphy’s 48 Hrs.
Remembering her late pal with a post on Twitter.com on Sunday (19Feb12), The First Wives Club star writes, “My dearest friend Ric Waite Passed away yesterday. The movie industry lost one talented dr of photography, I lost a beloved soul mate. Rip”
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Angelina Jolie ’s directorial debut ‘In The Land Of Blood & Honey’ is all wrapped up and ready for release in February of this year, and if you spoke to the partner of Brad Pitt, she couldn’t be more relieved. That was the impression given by her recent words to Cbs News as she admitted the hardships and turmoil she’d faced in putting the picture together.
“I had a complete emotional breakdown in the shower and Brad [Pitt] found me crying,” she said, “I felt this huge responsibility and I felt very small. I thought, ‘Who am I to take this on?’…I had a complete meltdown.” It’s evidently been a tough old time for Jolie who questioned whether she’d even go back to directing again. ‘I didn’t plan to become a director, and I still have trouble saying I’m a director, I just wanted to tell this story and I ended up, by default, being the director. It was a pleasure but I wonder if it would be a pleasure with another cast and crew, and a subject matter that wasn’t so special.”
For the difficulties she had in making it, Jolie can at least take solace in the fact she’s up for a Golden Globe Award, with the film up for an award in the ‘Best Foreign Film’ category.
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The cover art for Adam Lambert’s sophomore album Replica Omega watches, ‘Trespassing’ was unveiled today.
Adam Lambert’s sophomore album, a follow-up to debut For Your Entertainment, is expected to hit stores in March, and today, the album cover was revealed. Unlike the kitch and semi-irony of his debut’s cover art, Trespassing’s has the American Idol Season 8 runner-up looking a bit more serious. Then again, that has been Lambert’s aim for this release. Earlier this year, he said: “This album is different in that it has a more serious tone. There is definitely fun, upbeat music on there too. This album has a thread of honesty in that it is real and personal. The last album was more of a fantasy and this album is a search for my identity.”
Lambert recently premiered one of the album’s tracks Replica Cartier watches, “Better Than I Know” on The Tonight Show, and Trespassing is considered one of the most anticipated releases of 2012. Yet, unlike the glam character of his debut (and his run on Idol), Trespassing goes in a different direction. He explained: “[The album is] an exciting journey through the past two years of my life. It’s been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I’ve experienced. All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.
The sound, specifically, is: “Nine Inch Nails meets ‘Saturday Night Fever’. […] There’s party music, sex music Replica Tag heuer watches, f*cked-up-relationship S&M music. But every song explores something real.”
Although Trespassing is garnering a fair amount of attention, a fight with his boyfriend outside a Finland club has been the singer’s most recent media mark. According to reports, Lambert and Sauli Koskinen, a reality TV celebrity in the Scandinavian country, started to argue inside a club Replica Rolex watches, and after the two were kicked out, their disagreement escalated on the street.
Considering the controversy over the cover art for Lambert’s debut Replica Breitling watches, what do you think of Trespassing’s?
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Polyus Leads Gain as Oil Rises for Third Year Rus
By Leon Lazaroff
Jan. 3 (Bloomberg) — Russian equities in New York rose as investors purchased shares from the world’s cheapest emerging market and oil capped a third year of gains, trimming a 2011 decline for the Bloomberg Russia-US 14 Index.
The index of Russian companies traded in New York added 0.7 percent to 90.56 on Dec. 30, led by Polyus Gold International Ltd., the country’s biggest gold producer. The gauge dropped 10 percent last year, its first annual loss since a 70 percent decline in 2008. Russia’s 30-stock Micex Index Replica Cartier watches, trading at 5 times analysts’ earnings estimates for member companies, ended the year 17 percent lower. United Co. Rusal, the world’s largest aluminum producer, rose 0.6 percent to HK$4.95 in Hong Kong trading as of 11:32 a.m. local time.
Oil, Russia’s biggest export earner, advanced 8.2 percent last year on speculation a U.S. economic recovery will bolster demand and concern escalating tension in the Middle East may disrupt supplies. The Micex has lost 6.9 percent since parliamentary elections on Dec. 4 sparked the biggest anti- government protests in more than a decade. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin aims to win a first-round vote in a March presidential ballot.
“Oil’s strength has been Russia’s saving grace,” Michael Shaoul, chairman of Marketfield Asset Management in New York, which oversees $1 billion, said in a telephone interview. “Looking into 2012, shares will continue to get a discount because of concerns about the quality of local corporate governance and growing political instability. If oil drops from here, it’s only going to make a bad situation worse.”
Oil’s Advance
Crude for February delivery retreated 0.8 percent to settle at $98.83 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Dec. 30 after surging 25 percent in the final quarter. The futures gained 1.4 percent in electronic trading today.
Brent oil for February settlement dropped 0.6 percent to $107.38 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange, a 13 percent advance in 2011. Urals crude, Russia’s chief export blend, lost 1.3 percent to $105.69 on Dec. 30 for a 15 percent gain on the year.
The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Total Return Index of commodities fell 0.1 percent to 4,885.30 on Dec. 30 as the gauge dropped 1.2 percent in 2011 on concern that the sovereign-debt crisis in Europe and a cooling Chinese economy will sap demand for raw materials.
Russia’s economy, which grew 4 percent in 2010, may have expanded as much as 4.5 percent in 2011 and gross domestic product may rise 3.7 percent this year, the government forecasts. Growth in the U.S., the world’s biggest economy, will quicken to 2.1 percent in 2012 from 1.8 percent in 2011, a Bloomberg survey of banks and securities companies shows. U.S. jobless-benefit applications over the past month fell to a three-year low, data showed Dec. 29, and a report this week is forecast to show that U.S. payrolls increased in December.
RTS Moves
The RTS Index in Moscow gained 1.2 percent on Dec. 30 to 1,381.87, 22 percent lower for the year. The Micex, the cheapest among the 21 emerging markets tracked by Bloomberg, advanced 1.1 percent to finish 2011 at 1,402.23. The RTS Volatility Index, which measures expected swings in the index futures, fell 7.6 percent to 38.13 points, its lowest closing level since Aug. 5.
The Market Vectors Russia ETF, a U.S.-traded fund that holds Russian shares, advanced 1.6 percent to $26.65, paring its decline for 2011 to 30 percent.
Polyus Gold gained as futures rose for the first time in a week, leading a rally in precious metals on speculation that the lowest prices in five months will spur demand from jewelers and investors. Polyus shares traded in New York rose 2.8 percent to $2.95 on Dec. 30. Gold futures for February delivery climbed 1.7 percent to $1 Replica Omega watches,566.80 an ounce on the Comex in New York, ending a six-session slump that was the longest since March 2009.
Lukoil, Gazprom
OAO Lukoil, Russia’s largest non-state oil producer, gained 1.2 percent to $53.20 after shares climbed 1.1 percent on the Micex to 1,703.30 rubles, or $53.01. One ADR represents one ordinary share.
OAO Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural gas exporter, rose 0.7 percent to $10.68 after shares in Moscow gained 0.5 percent to 171.37 rubles, or the equivalent of $5.33. One ADR represents two ordinary shares. The Moscow-traded shares lost 11 percent on the year while the ADR fell 16 percent.
OAO Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russia’s gas export monopoly, gained 0.3 percent on Dec. 30 to finish the year at $23.33, an 11 percent advance for the year, topping the Bloomberg Russia-US 14 Index. Gazprom Neft shares in Moscow fell 0.9 percent to 148.18 rubles, the equivalent of $4.59, and a 16 percent gain for the year.
Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegas
All of the stocks on the index declined in 2011 except for Gazprom Neft and OAO Surgutneftegas, a Russian oil producer, which rose 0.6 percent last year to close at $5.09. Surgutneftegas shares in Moscow gained 0.8 percent on Dec. 30 to 16.50 rubles, the equivalent of 51 cents. One ADR is equal to 10 ordinary shares.
The Micex’s 17 percent decline in 2011 compares with an 18 percent slide for Brazil’s Bovespa index, which trades at 9 times analyst estimated earnings, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Shanghai Composite Index dropped 22 percent last year and trades at 10.6 times estimated earnings while the BSE India Sensitive Index, down 25 percent in 2011, has a ratio of 13.5.
–Editors: Brendan Walsh, Marie-France Han
To contact the reporters on this story: Leon Lazaroff in New York at llazaroff@bloomberg.net
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Eva Longoria – Eva Longoria Awarded ‘Woman Of The
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Eva Longoria Awarded ‘Woman Of The Year’ Title
Eva Longoria stopped to talk to reporters on the red carpet at the Nevada Ballet Theatre’s Black and White Ball, about her philanthropic work, the end of Desperate Housewives and her ‘Woman of the Year’ Award, bestowed upon her by the Nevada Ballet Theatre itself. On-screen, Longoria is probably best known for playing the role of Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives, the long-running TV drama which comes to an end after eight series, this May (2012). When asked how she expects to feel when the show finally comes to an end, Eva said that she will most likely be “a complete blubbering mess.” It was the series that propelled Longoria to fame, though she will not be resting on her laurels once the show is done and said that she’ll be keeping herself occupied in 2012, taking “a lot of time” to campaign for Barack Obama’s re-election as well as visiting Israel and doing some film-making according to Las Vegas Review-Journal. Talking about her Woman of the Year award, Eva said “I don’t like to be awarded for my philanthropic work that I actually enjoy and I get more back from it.” She accepted the award, though and praised the Nevada Ballet Theatre for its outreach work and community projects, crediting her dancing experience as having helped with her confidence, saying “dancing was really at the root of my performance bug.” Longoria is a frequent donor to a number of charitable causes and in 2006 founded Eva’s Heroes, a charity for developmentally disabled children. The Nevada Ballet Theatre awarded Longoria their Woman of the Year accolade to recognise her extra-curricular philanthropic work.