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New County Commission signals change is coming
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After decades of a Republican majority on the San Juan County Commission, a new Democrat-controlled Commission is signaling a number of changes in San Juan County.
The Commission considered several issues at the February 5 Commission work meeting. Commission Chairman Kenneth Maryboy introduced five resolutions for consideration. They were not listed as action items on the agenda, but may be voted on in future meetings.
The proposals include resolutions to:
1)- re-establish a transfer station in Bluff;
2)- hold regular meetings of the County Commission in southern portions of the county;
3)- have San Juan County Attorney Kendall Laws prepare a comprehensive list of civil litigation the county is involved in;
4)- rescind previous Commission resolutions opposing Bears Ears National Monument; and condemn the reduction of the monument and restore the original designation;
5)- withdraw county participation in lawsuits against the restoration of the monument; and terminate agreements between the county and the Mountain States Legal Foundation.
After Maryboy introduced the resolutions, County Attorney Laws discussed the proposals, stating that several of the items involving litigation would need to be discussed in closed session.
Laws said state law does not allow Commission meetings to be held away from the county seat. "You can hold public hearings in other locations, but Commission meetings need to be held in the county seat," said Laws.
Public comments were received from a number of area residents, who expressed concern for, or support for, the resolutions.
Blanding resident Jed Lyman stated, "We no longer have a member of our community to represent us on this board. This is unacceptable. We no longer have a voice in this county, but we expect to be treated fairly."
In addition to changes at the county level, the new political leadership in San Juan County is exercising influence at the Utah State Capital.
February 4 was American Indian Caucus Day at the Utah State Legislature. Jonathan Nez, the new president of the Navajo Nation, was involved.
The legislature approved a resolution honoring Navajo Code Talkers on August 14 and possibly designating highways in San Juan County to honor the Code Talkers.
In a meeting with Governor Gary Herbert, Utah Dine Bikeyah (UDB) asked for restoration of Bears Ears National Monument to its proposed 1.9-million acre boundary.
In addition, UDB asked the Governor "to provide leadership to overcome ongoing racial challenges in San Juan County, where incidents of bullying and intimidation against Native American citizens… are happening daily."


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Olin Award-winning research: Sifting inhuman options for human choices
After $22 million return in one week, Alibaba adopts model devised by Olin faculty
By Kurt Greenbaum April 8, 2019
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Dennis Zhang and Jake Feldman's research started as a debate between Washington University in St. Louis faculty members — a little like the Reese's candy commercial pitting peanut butter lovers against chocolate lovers. In the end, they combined the ingredients to come up with something bigger.
In the case of their Olin Award-winning research, however, when Feldman got "customer choice modeling" in Zhang's "machine learning" and Zhang got "machine learning" in Feldman's "customer choice modeling," the result was 28% higher revenue in a week's time for Chinese online retail giant Alibaba.
The result came about because the pair collaborated to create a new customer choice algorithm designed to better populate six available slots for products in online stores hosted by Alibaba. Those six products appear because the platform instantly crunches millions of variables to display options with the highest likelihood of driving a sale.
Zhang and Feldman, both assistant professors of operations and manufacturing management at Olin Business School, thought the platform could do better — but not before they realized they could combine their disparate approaches into a new mathematical model for presenting product choices to customers.
The pair partnered with Alibaba researchers on their working paper, "Taking Assortment Optimization from Theory to Practice: Evidence from Large Field Experiments on Alibaba," under consideration by a top journal.
"I worked at Google as a machine learning scientist," Zhang said. "I was a true believer of machine learning, which can basically crack most problems. But Jake is a hardcore believer of (customer choice) optimization. In order to convince each other, we started working on this project by combining machine learning with optimization."
For Alibaba and other online retailers, the problem goes something like this: Among thousands of available products, which ones should the platform recommend to maximize revenue and give customers the most useful choices? Alibaba had relied on machine learning to quickly gauge a visitor's past purchasing history, age, location, the history of similar customers and a million other variables to come up with a selection of choices to display.
But while machine learning can instantly weigh those variables and display customized product choices, it's a poor tool for providing wider variety, often displaying products that overlap with or cannibalize other products.
As Feldman describes it, the problem is two-tiered: The first tier is about estimating what customers might like. Machine learning is good at that. The second is optimizing the choices based on what other choices are available and who the customer is — a weak spot for machine learning.
The machine learning-based system might present shoppers with two very similar shirts, or shirts with very different price points — products that don't offer the right variety or might undermine the retailer's ability to maximize revenue. It's particularly troubling when one product is not quite right, but the shopper isn't given a suitable substitution option.
So, Feldman turned to mathematical models for optimizing customer choices from half a century ago. "They're not as robust as these machine learning models," he said. "But what that buys us is, we can then solve a more sophisticated optimization problem."
The researchers tested their new algorithm against the traditional machine learning model Alibaba had used. In a weeklong experiment in March 2018, watching 14 million customers on Alibaba-owned shopping sites, the new combination model showed 28% higher revenues — or nearly $22 million. The results were so conclusive, Alibaba adopted the new product selection model.
The pair agrees that the next step in their research — already underway with Alibaba — is tweaking the model to include data about products in which the shopper has shown interest by clicking on them without a purchase. The new model also breaks when more than one product choice is appealing to the customer — another area ripe for further study.
But for now, the pair is very happy with the blending of ideas in this first collaboration. The results, Zhang said, "seem very inspiring to me because it shows my field and Jake's field are actually important in the real world of business."
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The UK will host the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 1–12 November 2021. This will be the largest international climate change summit the UK has hosted, bringing together more than 30,000 delegates – including heads of States, climate experts and campaigners – to agree on coordinated action to tackle climate change.
Ahead of and beyond COP26, the British Council is launching an innovative programme of activities and engagements to bring together people – especially the young – from across the world. We are working with partners in the UK and worldwide to support the success and legacy of COP26 by using our global network to create opportunities for cooperation, dialogue and action in arts, education and science which address the shared challenge of climate change. The Rivers of Life, under the Country Innovation Fund initiative, is one of the activities that the British Council in Viet Nam is delivering locally in the run-up to COP26.
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FA Cup debut for Wymondham
Wymondham Ladies, buoyed by a fine win at the weekend, host Chelmsford in the team's debut in the Women's FA Cup on Sunday.
Kick-off is 2pm at King's Head Meadow.
Wymondham Ladies' good home form continued as they beat Waveney Ladies 4-0.
Wymondham started well and scored through Gemma Hamilton from a Woody corner and continued when Woody scored a penalty and then a right footed effort from 25 yards.
The defence was looking organised and the full backs of Sarah and Sophie especially made it very difficult for Waveney. Half time 3-0.
The second half started slower than the first, but Wymondham were in full control and looking very dangerous on the counter attack and their final goal came from Gemma after a mix-up in Waveney's defence led to Gemma tapping the ball into an empty net.
It was very pleaesing to see Wymondham make light work of getting three points with a very good team performance. Player of the match: Difficult when everybody played so well, but Sarah Knight didnt put a foot wrong in the whole game, impressing for the whole game.


Process of law should not be permitted to be frustrated by non-service of summons on the accused, the bench said.
In order to enforce the presence of the accused in Aircel-Maxis deal case, the Supreme Court has proposed to restrain earning of any revenue by using the 2G spectrum licences, which were originally granted to Aircel Telecommunications. A three-judge bench of the apex court also stayed selling and trading in 2G spectrum.
The Bench headed by Chief Justice of India JS Khehar said it is open to the accused, Augustus Ralph Marshall, Ananda Krishna Tatparanandam, Astro All Asia Networks Limited and Maxis Communications Berhad, Malaysia, to enter appearance within two weeks, failing which the proposed order shall be passed. All four face charges in a case linked to the multi-crore 2G spectrum corruption scam, which is under trial before a Special CBI Court in Delhi and they have been evading the summons ever since.
The court also directed the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology to devise ways and means, whereby earlier subscribers can be transferred provisionally to some other service provider, in case the necessity to pass the proposed order arises. "The restraint of use of 2G Spectrum would obviously entail adverse consequences, to the spectrum subscribers. We do not wish our order to have any such impact," the court said.
Directing the Union of India to publish this order in two leading newspapers in Malaysia, the bench said in case the proposed order is passed, it would not be open to any of the accused to raise an objection with reference to any monetary loss emerging out of the proposed order. The court posted the case for further consideration on 3rd February.


Which Method of Transition is More Effective?
In view of the many changes that have been occurring in the economies of Eastern European countries, can we now say which method of transition is more effective, and which has been successful? I think not, for two reasons: Firstly, there shouldn't be a MORE effective method - simply because the success of transition is very much dependent on the situation in a country prior to the fall of communism. We will never know for sure if Poland's Big Bang could have worked in Hungary, because the two countries were in such very different positions in 1989. Secondly, five years is not nearly long enough for economists to sum up the transition period. The Eastern European countries are changing and adapting every day, and only decades from now will we be able to get the full picture.
Nevertheless, numerous statistics and facts are available that introduce the general reaction to the transition. Many of these bring forth mixed views. For instance, in Hungary, more than 50% of the population works in private businesses, small manufacturers are able to compete with state enterprises, private banks have opened and the stock market is attracting investors. Yet, the people are much worse off (an effect that was to be highly avoided by gradualism), and the society has been divided into two distinct classes of wealth. The Vienna Institute for Comparative Economic Studies concluded in July, that only in the next decade can Eastern Europe hope to match the Western market. In fact, only by the year 2010 will Czech equal Spain's per capita gross domestic product. Poland will match it only by one half, and Hungary by two third. And Romania will only be able to privatize state enterprises by 2035!
Poland underwent a drastic and fast transition period. It was also the first country to show growth. But by the end of this year it will produce only 90% of the pre 1989 gross domestic product. In Hungary, with its "safe", gradual transition, the economy shrunk by 18 % in the last five years and the buying power of wages dropped by 16%. People's attitudes have to also change: they have to cease to rely on the state and should become more independent. This can cause new problems: the University of Budapest had to introduce a new course this year - 'Business Ethics' as a result of a poll that estimated that nearly 80% of the population felt one had to cheat to get ahead in business! The people themselves have mixed views. About 47% of Hungary's population believe that their economic situation will improve in the next five years. Poland shows similar results. Over 30% of Hungarians feel that their family's economic situation will improve in the next five years, compared to 34% in Poland. But only 15% of Hungarians believe they might become self-employed in the near future. In Poland the number is a much higher 42%.
What do all these facts tell us? Certainly that the transition process in every country has been more difficult that ever anticipated. However, one should not skim over the positive effects. Most important, of course, is the fact that progress of some sort is being made. Nobody should have expected a smooth transition, and those countries that are having a particularly difficult time should not only look towards current economic policies for blame, but also towards the past communist system that was so effective in squeezing the life out of any hope for market survival.
1. HARE, P and REVESZ,T (1991) "Hungary's transition to the market: the case agains a 'big-bang'", Economic Policy, ed 14 April 1992. Cambridge University Press.
2. NEW YORK TIMES, Oct 7 1994 ed. Section A12.


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Kungsleden acquires 10 properties in Malmö for MSEK 180. The yield based on the purchase price is calculated at 6,6 %. The lettable area of the properties amounts to 16 600 sq.m, consisting mainly of elderly living, offices and residential apartments, with a rental value of MSEK 15,4. Possession changes hands on 20 June 2006.
Kungsleden sells the property Druvan 1 located in the central parts of Malmö for a sales price of MSEK 55. The sales price exceeds the book value with MSEK 1 and the purchase value with MSEK 14. The later is included in the dividend based result for 2006. The lettable area amounts to about 2 800 sq.m with a rental value of approximately MSEK 4. Possession changes hands on 1 September 2006.


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Nick Gibb (* 3. September 1960 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire) ist ein britischer Politiker der Conservative Party.

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Gibb besuchte die Bedford Modern School, die Maidstone Grammar School, die Roundhay School Leeds und studierte Rechtswissenschaften an der Durham University. 1984 wurde er Mitarbeiter beim Unternehmen KPMG, für das er bis 1997 tätig war. Gibb ist seit 1. Mai 1997 Abgeordneter im House of Commons, wo er den Wahlkreis Bognor Regis and Littlehampton vertritt. Von 2010 bis 2012 und erneut seit dem 15. Juli 2014 ist Gibb Staatssekretär im Bildungsministerium. Im Juni 2015 wurde in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt, dass er seinen Lebensgefährten Michael Simmonds heiraten wird, mit dem er über 29 Jahre zusammenlebt.

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 Forgotten Closed Shop: Case for Voluntary Membership of Student Unions, (gemeinschaftlich mit David Neil-Smith), 1985, Cleveland Press ISBN 0-948194-01-4
 Simplifying Taxes 1987
 Duty to Repeal, 1989, Adam Smith Institute ISBN 1-870109-71-6
 Bucking the Market, 1990
 Maintaining Momentum, 1992

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Tom Cruise May Ruin What Could Have Been Our New Favorite Musical
By Kristy Puchko | Industry | July 28, 2015 |
I just don't know guys.
If we need to do teams about it, #TeamTomCruise4Eva vs. #TeamEnoughAlready, I'd be on the sidelines. Those Scientology stories make me cringe. But he was so much fun in Edge of Tomorrow, and did you guys see he hangs off the side of a plane in Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation!? Dude is a movie star who really gives a shit about thrilling his audience, unlike some I might name. But as someone who saw his ill-conceived musical Rock of Ages, I realize this drive sometimes leads to disaster. Which is to say, guys, I don't know if I want Cruise to sign on to the comedy Bob The Musical.
Its quirky plot centers on a man whose head trauma changes the world around him into one non-stop musical, where people belt out their "inner song." So, like that episode of Scrubs. Fun! Even better, Variety reports the long in-development musical is getting new life with Disney bringing on Michael Chabon and Bret McKenzie to write it. This means the novelist behind Wonder Boys and The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay on script, and songs by the Flight of Conchords member who won an Oscar for this little gem:
And to keep this musical comedy whimsical, Disney has attached The Artist helmer Michel Hazanavicius to direct, which has this reporter all like*:
But The Wrap reports Cruise is "circling" Bob The Musical with his eye on the title role. And yeah, Cruise killed it lipsyncing with Fallon, but this:
Bob The Musical doesn't sound like a sloppy excuse to swagger. Instead, it sounds like the kind of comedy Jim Carrey would have put out fifteen years back. And does that make sense for Tom Cruise? I just don't know. When it comes to his comedy chops, people love to roll out his weird supporting role in Tropic Thunder as the bombastic and abusive Les Grossman.
Fine. But a big part of the fun of this schtick is watching Cruise go crude. He's never done a PG comedy. With Disney making Bob The Musical, expect it to be family-friendly. They did hire the Muppet's modern music man after all. Can Cruise get "Man or Muppet" level loony? I'm just not convinced that Cruise's filmography—as storied and impressive as it is—suggests he's right for this role. And if you think his bankability means he's guaranteed any role he wants, remember that Edge of Tomorrow had to fight and scrap to get in the black.
Mission: Impossible - More Imposssibleness will likely determine Cruise's bargaining position with Disney. And from the sidelines, I'll be sweating it out.
*Kristy Puchko recognizes there's backlash over The Artist. But you're wrong. It's wonderful.
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Polonius:
Farewell, my blessing season this in thee!
Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78–82
To thine own self be true: this is another one of those expressions that we use all the time, albeit in modern English; it trips off the tongue but what's it really saying? Be selfish? That is it, isn't it? Look after numero uno. Do your own thing and sod the consequences.
How can one be true to oneself until one knows oneself, though? As we grow up we try on different selves, look in the mirror (literal or metaphorical) and go, "Nah." Then one day the person looking back doesn't appear so bad and we say, "You know, I could live with that," and we stop all the psychological dressing up and let who we are coalesce: this is who I'm going to be for the rest of my life. Later on, years later usually, we perchance to glance in that mirror and who we thought we were has started to crumble a bit, but we're not as pliable as we once were and change is hard; oftentimes we give up and settle, learn to live with who we have become even if we're not who we hoped we'd be by then.
I was a poet when I was a boy. I looked in the mirror and a poet looked back at me. But over the years layer after layer were slathered on top of him and eventually only I ever knew there was a poet there on the inside. It happens to us all. All of this I talked about in my 'Russian Dolls' post recently. But just because something is buried doesn't mean it can't be alive. Our hearts are buried in our chests and they're very much alive. I've certainly never seen my own heart – I sincerely hope I never do – but I know it's there and I do what I can to look after it. A whole new man has grown around that heart, one I really don't recognise when I look in the bathroom mirror these days, but my heart is true, it is still the heart of a poet.
That's another expression people use, "To thine own heart be true":
Dorothy:
When, yestereve, I knelt to pray,
As thou hast taught me to,
I seemed to hear the angels say,
"To thine own heart be true."
It's from a song by Sydney Grundy from the operetta, Haddon Hall, but the expression goes back generations no doubt.
You don't often hear the expression, "Be true to your own mind." "Know your own mind" is probably the equivalent.
The past is a big hill to climb and it's getting bigger day by day. When Beethoven studied music what was there? Haydn, Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart and no doubt a plethora of minor composers who were big in their day. Nowadays a modern composer has literally hundreds of years' worth of composers to study before he can clamber to the top of that hill and breathe. And, amazingly, new ones keep cropping up with their own unique sounds, e.g. Ligeti, Pärt, Glass. You would think that every tune that could have been written would have been written by now – let's face it they've only got twelve tones to work with – but apparently not. And yet when we listen to them it's nigh impossible not to hear echoes of all those who've gone before them. I remember listening to the soundtrack of Alien if memory serves me right (although it may well have been Aliens) and thinking, I know that tune and, after digging around in my music collection, there it was, a snippet from Barber's Piano Concerto. It may have been deliberate – composers do quote from each other often blatantly (Rick Wakeman incorporated a few bars of Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King into Journey to the Centre of the Earth) – it might be a coincidence or it might have even been unconscious; it doesn't matter.
We writers have a bit more scope – a whole twenty-six letters – and again new writers appear with wholly unique voices, e.g. Beckett, Brautigan, Bukowski. No sooner do they appear, however, than they begin to be imitated, which is flattering but it is right? It's certainly not wrong. It's natural. And imitation is the highest form of flattery. Beckett was so in thrall to James Joyce that he didn't simply emulate his writing style – anyone who has struggled through Dream of Fair to Middling Women will know exactly what I mean – but he even wore shoes that were the same style and size nearly crippling himself.
SB was sycophantic, imitating Joyce's posture, drinking white wine, holding his cigarette affectedly, and wearing tight shoes (Joyce was proud of his small feet). - The Grove companion to Samuel Beckett
When you consider what an original Beckett became it's cringeworthy to read about what he was like as a young man. (Beckett met Joyce in 1929 when he was twenty-three.) The simple fact is he had to get him out of his system. It's like a crush. You know it's a crush. You know it's not love and yet it won't let you go. In my experience there's not much you can do but wait for it to run its course and set you free. Enjoy it for what it is.
I think I've been quite lucky in that writers who have had the most profound effect on me have not been easy for me to imitate. This doesn't mean I haven't tried:
Poem to be Read in the Dark
(for S.B.B.)
That is how it is.
Still,
but for the clouds
and my breath.
for the footfalls.
for the angels of darkness.
Bright at last –
at the end.
It's not the worst thing I've ever written. I think of it more like a wee bit of fan fiction than a serious poem. Here's another that I would never have written had I not come across E. E. Cummings' poem about a falling leaf:
(fu
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It's the only poem in my canon like that and I never expect to write another. The same goes for this recent poem which I wrote after finishing reading a collection of Bukowski's poetry:
not a Bukowski poem
I am not Bukowski
but I am the kind of person
he would have written about
if he had lived in Glasgow
or I had lived in L. A..
he would have sat at his desk
with his shirt off,
watched me
and decided what kind of man
I was.
it's uncomfortable having the shoe
on the other foot.
Why did I write these three poems? Essentially to understand the mindset of the writer. You really don't understand a thing until you do it. You can analyse someone's work till the cows come home but nothing bests getting your hands dirty.
Question: What makes Beckett Beckett, Hemingway Hemingway and Kafka Kafka? The fact that the writing embodied them. None of the three poems above is really me. I wrote them but they're not my typical style. I've talked about finding my own voice before. I would hope that regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my approach. If you're new then there are links in the right-hand column to all the poems that are live online at the moment – please feel free to have a shuftie at a few. I'm not really sure how I would describe my voice but I definitely have one.
Let's try: I have my recurrent themes, there's no doubt about that, the nature of truth being way at the top of the tree, but it's more than that. There's certainly an aphoristic quality to most pieces, short pithy statements, and I do love a punch line that'll wind up my reader. The Bukowski poem is closest to my own style but that's one of the things I appreciated about his poetry and probably why I connected with it immediately.
My wife says my poetry is "naïvely twisted and brilliantly obvious. You look at everything as if it's the first time you've ever looked at it ... you make us see those obvious things in a different light." She said more but that was all I managed to get down accurately. I do believe I'm blushing under all this hair.
I think one of the hardest things for any writer is to march to the beat of his own drum. Especially when everyone around him is drumming so loud. The only way I found I could do it was to isolate myself. I read very little of other writers especially those with strong styles. You can't walk through the perfume section of Lewis's and not come out smelling of roses or of something anyway.
Time for an anecdote:
A novelist I know went on a blind date with an optometrist (built-in irony!), and she not only suggested new glasses for him, but after the movie they saw, she spoke about which actors had contacts or needed glasses. He spoke about the film in literary terms, of its "character arc" and "turning points." Their specialties made them see the film in different ways. – Christoper Meeks, 'Finding your voice'
Like a lot of writers I'm quite an introspective guy. It's probably why I've walked into so many (metaphorical) walls in my life because I've not been looking where I was going. Who am I? Who the hell am I? I'm unique that's what I am. I have a mindset and an accompanying set of experiences and knowledge that sets me apart from every other person on the planet which is why you'll be just as likely to find me prattling on about Alan Moore's tenure as Swamp Thing's writer in the eighties as I might end up discussing the rape of Tamar (which I thought about referencing when I was talking about crushes but it would have needed too much explaining). As I grow older my palette expands and I expect to continue to grow into myself until the day I drop dead.
So what's Swamp Thing to do with anything? In 1982, DC Comics revived the Swamp Thing series, attempting to capitalize on the summer release of the dire Wes Craven film of the same name. When Alan Moore took over the project not long after he had a problem. Was he going to do the same as DC did with the Batman comic after the TV show in the sixties turned the whole thing camp (and basically ruined a great character for twenty years until Frank Miller came along and saved him?) or was he going to, like Miller would, do his own thing? He chose the latter and, after one issue, killed off the character and began reinventing him in what came to be a landmark series that culminated in the abandonment of the CCA's Comics Code. That's what Swamp Thing has to do with it. Moore took a muck-encrusted monster whose outdated book was expected to be cancelled before too long and transformed it into the most important ongoing series at the time.
It's easy to do what works. The Model-T worked. It got people from A to B. Stephenson's Rocket worked. It's not enough to just work. Moore could have continued with the storyline that Martin Pasko had left him. Well, he did kinda have to which is what his first issue does, it takes up the reigns and drives the whole thing over a cliff. From there on Moore did his own thing. You can actually download the entire second issue (#21) here if you're interested.
There are a lot of people out there who want to tell you what works. Stories with beginnings, middles and ends work; the three-act structure in films works; haiku that are seventeen syllables long work. There's nothing wrong with any of these. They are established, tried and tested. So why go against the grain? Quite simply because there's more than one way to skin a cat.
I don't think that rules are made to be broken, I like rules, I like driving on the left and knowing that no one is going to plough into me because he felt like driving on the right that day. There are some areas of our life where we need hard and fast rules. Writing is not one of those areas though. All the rules people made up in the past are simply guidelines as far as I'm concerned. I can make up new rules any time I like, and you can't say you need no rules because that's plain daft. When Moore threw out the rules book in issue #21 of Swamp Thing he immediately established his own. The first story is called 'The Anatomy Lesson' in which he sets down what the true nature of the beast will be from now on but he does it without pooh-poohing all that went before him. If I can use a musical analogy, he modulates from one form to another: from a man who thinks he's been transformed into a monster by the kind of accident that befalls most comic book heroes (Peter Parker being bitten by the spider, Bruce Banner being exposed to gamma radiation) to an elemental creature who only thinks it's human. Genius.
Being true to oneself requires a certain level on confidence. This wasn't Moore's first gig. He'd been writing for about ten years beforehand in which time he had developed his own style. He had his heroes too and has been called "a disciple of Kurtzman's style"; that would be Harvey Kurtzman, founding father of magazines like MAD and Help! Will Eisner and Jack Kirby are also cited as influences along with a load of non-comics-related people. I'm not sure I can see any Jack Kirby in his work but I'm happy to be corrected.
After standing on the shoulders of giants Moore has become a giant in his own right and his influence is being openly acknowledged:
His talent for unflinchingly showing people what they really are has made him an inspiration for everyone from Joss Whedon to Lost producer Damon Lindelof to director Christopher Nolan, who has noted the influence of Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke on The Dark Knight. – Andrew Firestone, 'The Wizard of "Watchmen"', The Salon, Mar 5th 2009
Everyone starts off somewhere. I started off talking about Shakespeare and ended up talking about Alan Moore. It's all grist to the mill.
Sitting in front of a blank screen can be a lonely place but in reality we're never alone. There are so many voices all clamouring for attention and what we have to learn to do is not listen to them. It can be done. In a busy bar you can block out everything that's going on around you and focus on the person you're with. It simply takes effort.
Listen to your own voice. Yet another pat expression like all the others I've incorporated in this article. But how can you trust it? Your elders and betters are wiser and more experienced than you, surely if they say to go this way you should listen to them? Maybe. If they're telling you not to jump out of a third-story window because no one is buying your paintings then that's pretty good advice. You never know, they might have felt exactly the same forty years earlier. Nothing changes, not really. I remember the alternative comedians of the early eighties, the likes of Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle, who are now the establishment and people use the word "classic" to describe their most famous efforts.
It's a gamble. Different is not always good. Vincent Van Gogh was different, so different that he famously only ever sold one painting in his lifetime and yet he doggedly persisted, doing his own thing and if he could see people forking out tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars I wonder if he would feel vindicated or that some people simply had way too much money. There are others: Gerard Manley Hopkins was the most experimental and most challenging of the Victorian writers and almost unknown in his own lifetime; much the same is true of William Blake, H. P. Lovecraft, Johann Sebastian Bach can you believe, Søren Kierkegaard, Wilfred Owen and some bloke called Nostradamus apparently.
Time will tell. Actually there's no rule that says time has to tell anybody anything. It can keep completely schtum if it so desires. And it has done many, many times. Time only remembers those who happened to be in the right place at the right time or, as in the case with Kafka, not in the right place at the right time. Had he lived he may very well have destroyed everything that made him famous today. If fame is your goal you'll probably fail. So few of us ever get famous for more than fifteen minutes. I doubt any of the above sought fame; most were just looking to earn a buck but at the same not compromise their own artistic integrity. George B. Stauffer has this to say in the cover notes of a recording on Bach's preludes:
The preludes display a wide range of experimental designs and styles and reflect Bach, the bold innovator. The fugues combine sophisticated four- and five-part counterpoint with bravura passagework and illustrate Bach, the polyphonic master.
It's hard to imagine Bach as an innovator. But he was. And yet in an article on Bach's fugues, John Stone, remarks that "stylistically, there is much in the fugues that looks backwards to the so-called stile antico practices of Palestrina and other Bach predecessors." No one is without their influences.
Think about it, without the past what would we have to rebel against? The past is our cocoon and the struggle to free ourselves from it is what enables us to fly but more than that, it forces blood into our wings and gives them colour. If you're gonna fly, fly in style.
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Jim -Sod the consequences - you just convinced me. I'm going to be me and quit making apologies. My daughter keeps saying, "Own it!" She's right. If how I feel or write or perform doesn't fit into Kuhn's or anybody's paradigm, so be it.
Interesting that you mention Pärt, he's one of my favorites. So sparse, yet emotional.
I love these 3 poems, even if you were trying on different styles. Sometimes imitation is good - a point of departure is necessary.
Recently, when I listen to my own voice, it sounds like Ginsberg. I just want to howl and swear.
I really enjoyed this post. You inspired me.
Sorlil said...
Great post. I agree, imitation is a great way maybe even an essential part of the process of learning to write. But there comes a point where you have to break free and trust your own voice regarless what everyone else is doing.
Ditto ditto ditto, Jim, to the two commenters above, Kass and Sorlil, I couldn't agree more.
We, only three of your female admirers - I suspect there are many more - are grateful. We bask in the sunshine of your encouragement.
But as you say : 'Being true to oneself requires a certain level of confidence.'
It takes time and experience to get past all the hype of how we should be and how much we should follow rules.
I like to know the rules before I dare to break them. I like to have a firm grasp on what's acceptable or not before I'll slip over the edge into lawlessness, but lawlessness must have meaning for me.
I agree with you Jim, you have a distinctive voice and I imagine it's one that's taken you some time to develop.
You are fortunate to have such a supporter in your wife, Carrie. I love the way she describes your poetry. She should know, she's read it all, I imagine, and no wonder you blush. High praise indeed.
I enjoy your reviews Jim, but I especially enjoy the bits of autobiography you occasionally offer.
It's such a treat to read about your vagaries, your thoughts on life and reading and poetry and the meaning of it all. It's wonderful to get a deeper sense of where you're coming from.
A terrific post here. Thanks.
It's an interesting expression, Kass, 'going to be me', as if who we are is something ahead of us, in the future, that we have to work towards. It's all metaphorical of course. If we talked about 'setting free the real me' we encounter the same problem, that 'me' is something apart from the rest of us. And I think that's true. There is no 'real me' but there are aspects of me that I can choose to construct that me. The thing is not to be embarrassed that I didn't choose to emphasise other facets to my personality. The 'real me' is a thing we decide up. I suppose some lucky buggers discover it quite by chance but that's not been my experience.
I own a lot of Pärt's music. One of my favourite albums contains only three works played twice: Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano followed by Für Alina for solo piano; then we have Spiegel im Spiegel for cello and piano and the album concludes with Für Alina for solo piano again. It is an inspired bit of programming. You can read about it here.
I think most people do go that way, Sorlil, but I was never so besotted by any writer nor did I associate with other writers and so, although I was lonely, I think this helped me develop my style. It also means that stylistically I work with a limited palette but I've learned to live with that.
And, Elisabeth, you know what, when it boils down to it I have to own up to not being a particularly confident person. I'm intelligent and so I can fake confidence but the evidence speaks for itself. I have been content to potter away on my own for most of my life not so much for fear of rejection of my writing – I know I can write – but out of embarrassment, out of an awkwardness, a not knowing the rules, the protocol, the etiquette, whatever.
Most of my writing has been done with only a sketchy knowledge of what was acceptable. What I've learned about writing has been by osmosis and by doing it. I'm actually glad that I never went to any writing classes. I suspect that I would have wasted several years writing something I thought might get me published rather than writing what came into my head.
I'm glad you find the little autobiographical snippets of interest. I wouldn't feel comfortable devoting a whole post to them but where I think something that's happened to me is relevant to the general theme of the blog I'm happy to oblige.
Art Durkee said...
I still own those Moore Swamp THing issues. That's when John Constantine was invented, by Moore and Bissette, who remains one of my favorite characters of all time. (The look of John was originally modeled Sting, BTW.) Now Constantine is as great a character as ever was, and is constantly quoted himself.
The music for the original Star Trek series, by Alexander Courage, contains a couple of almost direct quotes from Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Mahler. (In the scene with the green-skinned Orion dancing girls, it's right there.) Hindemith actually influenced or was quoted by a lot of TV and film music composers in the mid- and late-1960s. "Steal from the best," is what my own composition professor, William Bolcom, used to say in class.
I think of the period of imitation in writing poetry as part of the necessary apprenticeship. You read so thoroughly in a favorite great poet that you cannot help but take on their voice, albeit temporarily. I had a Rilke period, among others; most of those poems haven't survived. But it's a necessary apprenticeship served on way to finding your own voice. I don't have a problem with it; as long as a learning poet doesn't stay stuck there.
I keep meaning to do a post or two about comics, Art, but there's only so much time. Swamp Thing would be way up there. I think The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen are pretty well known but I was buying Swamp Thing month by month at the time and I couldn't wait till the next month I'll tell you. The one stand out issue for me was the vampire story (with a group of vampires living under water) although the werewolf tale (that links lycanthropy to the menstrual cycle) was memorable too. I did know that Constantine was modelled after Sting by the way. At least Keanu Reeves didn't try and fake the accent in the film; he does not do a good English accent.
I have Mathis der Mahler but I don't know it well. You won't catch me singing it in the shower put it that way. I will give it a listen to to see if I can pick up on the theme you're on about. I have Hindemith's best known pieces but he's not a favourite.
I was like you, waiting in eager anticipation for each new issue of Swamp Thing.
Ditto when Hellblazer first started up; I think I have the first 100 issues or so. At some point I couldn't buy every month, as I was moving or otherwise in turbulence, but I do have several of the book collections thereafter.
I have to say, I'd like to see you write about comics as serious literature. I imagine we agree on that point, and I think you'd do a good job writing on it. Consider that a request. :)
Interesting post, Jim, a subject that has always exercised me.
There's this question of how many mes and which one I should be ture to, for example. The me they see at the rugby club is not the one they see in church. I remember Sangster (I think it was) asking "Why did you stop being you when you went into the forces?"
And then your story of the optometrist and the novelist reminded me of an occasion when I was studying for my diploma. We were shown a film of a chameleon on the prowl and asked to study it carefully. Well, what do you watch? You watch how it changes colour. Afterwards we were asked to describe the way it moved. Then we were shown the same film again - and saw an entirely different film.
I'll bump that up the to-do list then, Art.
And, Dave, your example of the chameleon is an excellent one. My parents only ever saw me as their son. That was who I had always been. When I became other things like a husband, a father or a writer it was as if I'd taken one step further into the shadows and away from them. I feel exactly the same about my daughter, as if I'm losing her one day at a time, but that's life.
I was walking along the other day and thinking, 'what makes me any different from the hundreds of thousands of other writers out there trying to catch a break?'
The conclusion I came to was that I have been doing it so long and so consistently that I have at least found my own voice in my writing. You have to keep writing and reading and watching to eke that out of yourself.
So, I concluded, at least that is something.
How does this relate to the post. Not sure. It's what I thought after reading it. Maybe that's something too.
What we have to remember, Ken, is that we are all unique. We have to have a unique voice in there. Think about bats. I was watching some nature programme a week ago and there was this cave full of bats, thousands of bats, baby bats, and their mothers would fly into a cave full of screeching, fluttering creatures and locate its offspring by its call. The problem is over familiarity. I have been listening to me talk (out loud and on the page) for half a century and nothing I say startles me very often and I am genuinely puzzled when people go on about how I say things. How else would I say them? We need not to worry about such things, not at our age anyway. Our voices have broken, literally and metaphorically.
Reading and watching stuff is all fine and good but we're echo chambers and our responses to what we see and read are going to be uniquely, and subtly, different to everyone around us. I've never met anyone with your particular take on life. I've met a lot of witty and insightful people, but your peculiar mix of wit and insight is what attracts and helps you hang onto readers.
Just thinking... what an interesting blog your collected responses to your readers' comments and your comments on blogs (mine included) would make.
Honestly. :)
You're right, Ken, and I have written two or three blogs which started out as comments I've made which were just too good to waste as it where. Part of the introduction to my new poetry collection started life as a comment I made to someone.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs are back in the AFC championship game.
How they returned to the brink of their first Super Bowl appearance in 50 years was unlike anything anybody could have imagined.
After digging a 24-0 hole against Houston early in the second quarter Sunday, Patrick Mahomes and the rest of the high-flying Chiefs embarked on the biggest comeback in franchise history. Their young superstar proceeded to throw for 321 yards and five touchdowns, Travis Kelce and Damien Williams reached the end zone three times apiece, and Kansas City reeled off 41 consecutive points in a 51-31 victory over the Texans in the divisional round of the playoffs.
The Chiefs (13-4), who lost to the Patriots in overtime in last year's conference title game, will play Tennessee next Sunday for a spot in Miami. The Titans stunned Lamar Jackson and the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night.
Kelce finished with 10 catches for 134 yards, Williams ran for two scores while catching a TD pass, helping the Chiefs win their seventh consecutive game and reach back-to-back AFC title games for the first time.
Watson, meanwhile, threw for 388 yards and two touchdowns while running for another, but not even his heroics could bail out the Texans (11-7) after they were outscored 28-0 in the second quarter. They continued to allow Kansas City to pull away during a dismal third, their epic collapse leaving the reborn Houston franchise 0-4 in the divisional round.
The Chiefs certainly gave them the perfect opportunity to finally break that streak in the first quarter.
On defense, Kansas City blew overage on Kenny Stills on the opening possession, allowing him to walk into the end zone from 54 yards. On offense, they wasted timeouts, dropped a series of easy passes and managed just 46 yards. And on special teams, the Chiefs had a punt blocked for a score and fumbled a return that set up another touchdown.
Indeed, the Texans were humming right along after finishing on a 22-3 run to beat Buffalo last week, while the mountain of miscues made by the Chiefs made them only the fourth home playoff team to trail 21-0 after the first quarter.
Then it was the Texans' turn to struggle.
They had stretched the lead to 24-0 before the Chiefs, whose largest deficit overcome had been 21 points, put together a comeback for the ages. Mahomes hit Williams with a quick touchdown toss to begin it, then Houston curiously faked a punt at its own 31-yard line and was stuffed, giving the Chiefs a short field and another easy touchdown.
On the ensuing kickoff, Texans return man DeAndre Carter had the ball pop loose and into the arms of Darwin Thompson, whose return set up a second Mahomes-to-Kelce touchdown in a matter of seconds. And a third came after the Chiefs forced a punt — a successful one, for a change — and they drove 90 yards to take a stunning 28-24 halftime lead.
The comeback became a clobbering by the time the third quarter ended.
The Chiefs' breezed downfield to start the second half, and Williams finished the drive with his first TD run. Their overhauled defense under coordinator Steve Spagnuolo sacked Watson on fourth down to get the ball right back, and Mahomes and Co. required just six more plays to position Williams for another TD run and a 41-24 lead.
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It was the most unanswered points in a playoff game since the Jets had 41 against the Colts in the 2002 wild-card round.
Even when the Texans finally cracked the scoreboard, when Watson scrambled to his left and dived over the pylon, the Chiefs rendered the touchdown moot. In four plays they went 72 yards to set up the fifth TD pass by Mahomes, the strike to little-used tight end Blake Bell giving coach Andy Reid's team a postseason-record seven straight TD drives.
It also gave a festive crowd that turned out early in freezing weather and a slight drizzle a chance to celebrate early.
Houston played without S Jahleel Addae (hamstring) and TE Jordan Akins (hamstring). They also lost RT Chris Clark to a knee injury early in the game, and backup Roderick Johnson struggled against the Chiefs pass rush the rest of the game.
Kansas City sat defensive tackle Chris Jones, who strained his calf muscle late in the week and couldn't make it through pregame warm-ups. WR Tyreek Hill left briefly after a hard hit but eventually returned to the game.
The Texans will spend the offseason wondering how they let a 24-0 lead slip away, and the Chiefs will begin preparing for the Titans in the AFC title game. Kansas City lost lost 35-32 at Tennessee in Week 10, when Derrick Henry ran for 188 yards and two touchdowns against them. It was the most recent time the Chiefs lost a game.
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What's My Age Again? Children have become increasingly violent since the 1970s. Today more gangs exist and homicides occur than in the past thirty years. Crime rates have only dropped slightly in the five previous years (Vieregge n.p.). Now that more juvenile delinquents are entering the justice system, the question arises as to how they should be tried. Being tried in a juvenile court for a serious offense is much like a slap on the wrist.
Sure, they can be sent to an adult correctional facility if sentenced to it in a juvenile court, but the longest amount of served will be twenty years. In contrast, trying a juvenile as an adult guarantees that the youth will be held accountable for his or her actions. Children commit violent acts throughout the United States and believe that they cannot be held responsible for their actions; such a practice should change and violent juvenile should be used as examples to the rest of the countrys youth by being tried as adults in the United States Justice System. Overall, the crimes of juveniles have become much larger and the ages of the delinquents have dropped considerably since the first juvenile court was established in 1899. The main purpose of this court was to deal with miscreants that threw bricks or rocks through windows (Butterfield 154). Today, the juvenile courts have a much harder task at hand. In 1985 and 1986, Howard Snyder found an increase of 75 percent among juveniles for crimes involving drugs (Hurst 2).
The crime rates seem to have sky-rocketed ever since the early 1980s. The fastest growing crime has become possession of a loaded gun. Yet, the youth of America are not just carrying those loaded guns and not using them. The year of 1991 produced armed robbery exceeding drug-related offenses (Kramer 213). The two previous years had brought a 26 percent increase in juveniles arrested for murder and non-negligent manslaughter.
Those same two years lead to a 17 percent increase in aggravated assault (214). As the reader can clearly see, crimes committed by juveniles have drastically risen in the past twenty years. Today, with a little over twenty-two million Americans between the ages of thirteen and nineteen (Vieregge n.p.), many criminologists expect a new surge in crime (Butterfield 154). Among these new delinquents is an alarmingly large number of young girls. Between the years of 1965 and 1985, the arrest rate of young women involved in serious crimes grew ten times faster than the arrest of males for the same crime. Now, fifteen years after that initial study, girls make up one in every four arrests for serious crimes, as opposed to the one in six such arrests twenty years ago.
According to the American Correctional Association, if the trend of females becoming increasingly participant in violent crimes continues, young girls will embody 50 percent of all juvenile arrests before the 21st century is half over (Hurst 2). Just as the number of delinquent girls has increased, so has the number of delinquents for the African American race. A 1994 study of National Youth Survey data found that twenty year-old African Americans were five-times more likely to be accused of a violent crime than a Caucasian of the same age. This same study suggests that the statistics are the way they are because young African Americans receive fewer economic opportunities, thus leading to a likelihood that they will fall victim to gang-related activities (Geraghty 38). The number of delinquent African Americans may be related to the recent changes in the court system.
Due to the changes in crime, the court system has had to change accordingly. As stated earlier, the original juvenile court was created in 1899 (Butterfield 154). Eight hundred years prior to that, in 12th century England, under the reign of Henry II, no distinction was made between adult criminals and juvenile offenders. The were place the in the same rat-infested jails under the same revolting conditions (Stewart 7). The early 1900s brought about that much needed change in the court system, although it was not until the early 1960s that the change became drastic.
For the first time, juveniles could attain the services of a lawyer and were given the same protections afforded to adults (Kramer 212-213). Because the crimes of youths have become more aggressive, the punishment they receive has also had to become more aggressive. In last ten years, states have turned to criminalization in response to the increase of violent criminal behavior among juveniles the right to a trial by jury (Geraghty 39). Justice administrators are finally beginning to realize that without strong repercussions, juveniles are just going to become increasingly more violent. Who is going to fall victim to the negligence of the United States Justice System? The innocent, law-abiding citizens who pay the wages of those heedless officials are going to be the exploited ones! Finally, a new law in Virginia has decided that public safety and the rights of the victim are just as important as protecting the accused childs interests.
This new law states that any child fourteen years or older that has been charged with murder will be tried as an adult. As though a challenge had been issued to increase punishment of juvenile offenders, New York Governor George E. Pataki pushed the New York state legislature to increase the minimum sentence for the numerous juvenile offenders in the state. He argued for the transferring of all sixteen-year-old youths, held in detention centers run by the State Division for Youth, to adult correctional centers. Pataki also reasoned that by sharply increasing sentences for youths convicted of a second felony, there would be a decline in the number of adolescents convicted a third time (Butterfield 155). On the other hand, in Illinois, juvenile court judges must consider eight factors when deciding if a child under the age of fifteen should be tried as an adult.
These are the eight factors considered: whether enough evidence has been provided for a grand jury to return an indictment. whether evidence proves the crime was committed in a premeditated and aggressive manner, the minors age, the minors previous history, whether facilities are available to the Juvenile Court for the rehabilitation and treatment of the minor, whether the best interest of the minor and the security of the public may require that the minor continue in custody or under supervision for a period extending beyond his maturity, whether the alleged offense was committed with a deadly weapon in the possession of the minor, and whether the alleged offense was a felony offense in school under the Cannabis Control Act (Geraghty 26). Those eight factors can be the difference between a lesser sentence in the juvenile court as opposed to a dramatically stronger punishment in the adult court system. Just as controversial as how a juvenile should be tired is what causes the juveniles actions. Although no one factor has been determined as the cause of youth violence, the media and Hollywood play a very large role. Violence is a common thing to see on any given television program. Television programming in the United States is now considered the most violent in the advanced industrialized nations (Hepburn 91).
Broadcasting companies claim that violence sells; but what about it sells? The shows that portray serial killers as normal people who just made a few mistakes are the shows that are corrupting todays youth. What must the six oclock news go into in-depth details about how a mass murderer carved his initials in his victims stomachs? A typical evening of television includes at least six or seven references to violence, not including the number of times the offenses are shown (Vieregge n.p.). Several decades ago, a few psychologists hypothesized that by viewing violence in the unreal television world, viewers would actually have a reverse reaction and violence would be reduced in the real world. Such a theory has been proved incorrect. L.R.


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У социологији, девијантност представља свако понашање које одступа од норми и вредности, прихваћених у некој друштвеној средини, друштвеној скупини или друштву као целини. Само постојање неког нормативног и вредносног оквира нужно претпоставља и облике одступања од општекорисног, које може имати крајње позитивне последице, преко безазленог, до кршења норми које штите приватно власништво или грубо напада на темељне вредности као што су здравље и живот. Зависно од облика одступања, остварује се и друштвена реакција од награде преко незаинтересираности до благе и тешке казне.

Девијантност је релативна, што значи да не постоји апсолутни начин да се дефинише девијантан чин. Девијантност се може дефинисати само у односу на неки одређени стандард, а нема стандарда који би били фиксни или апсолутни. Као таква, девијантност варира од времена до времена или од места до места.

Социолошки приступ девијантности

Крајем деветнаестог и почетком двадесетог века, социолози озбиљније и целовитије приступају проблему девијантности. Два ранија приступа у којима социологија покушава да да свој другачији допринос проучавању девијантности, називају се социјална патологија и социјална дезорганизација.

Социјална патологија
Социјална патологија је покушај примене биолошке концепције девијантности на друштвене оквире, јер представници ове теорије полазе од уверења да здраво друштво има неке универзалне законе, па исто тако може развити патолошке и абнормалне појаве, као што су криминал, самоубиство, алкохолизам, насиље, зависност, проституција и менталне болести.
Девијантност се објашњава из две перспективе:
 Болест унутар друштва
 Болест појединих особа
Узроци су: лоше наследство, психички поремећаји, ментална заосталост, ментална поремећеност, алкохолизам, недостатак образовања, индивидуалан неморал, па особинска неприлагодљивост или болест.
Социјални патолози не сматрају битном чињеницом временске и просторне промењивости девијантног, које не може бити упоређено с болешћу какав је рак, који је универзално и увек болест. Људи који се слажу око тога шта значи "здрав организам" нису сложни око тога што значи "здраво друштво", што је здраво или болесно понашање, или шта је уопште девијантно а што нормално.

Социјална дезорганизација
Умножавање културалних различитости у друштву и питање егзистенције универзалних вредности, значили су крај социјално-патолошке концепције. Посебно су значајне друштвене промене проузроковане Првим светским ратом и Великом светском кризом, праћене општим усељавањем, урбанизацијом и индустријализацијом у САД. Непрегледно мноштво "новопридошлих" особа из разних културних окружења у урбана америчка подручја, покренуо је брз развој чиниоца потребних за пораст девијантности. Била су нужна нека нова објашњења. Потреба за оквиром је задовољена с развојем теорије социјалне дезорганизације, које су изворно поставили Томас Знанијецки и Чарлс Кули 1918. године. Корен проблема види се у друштвеним нормама и активностима заједнице, а девијантност је резултат неједнаког друштвеног развоја, с много друштвених промена и сукоба који делују на индивидуално понашање.
Социјална организација постоји када је видљив високи степен унутрашње кохезије, која повезује појединце и институције у друштву, а подразумева велико слагање око циљева и око норми које равнају понашање. Насупрот томе, када је консензус важних вредности и норми изврнут и када се традиционалне норме не примењују, наступа социјална дезорганизација. Друштвене промене су често праћене друштвеном дезорганизацијом, међутим, мало се пажње посвећује питању зашто неке промене за последицу имају социјалну дезорганизацију, а неке поспешују социјалну организацију.

Теорије девијантности

Биолошке теорије
Значај органских чиниоца, као узрока девијантног понашања први је нагласио италијански војни лекар Чезаре Ломброзо  теоријски обликујући "рођеног злочинца"  . Од 1885. до 1915. године деловало је светски познато Друштво за криминалну антропологију, а потом све до 1969. године Друштво за криминалну биологију. Криминална антропологија се бавила "мерењем" телесних садржаја, на основу чега је изводила закључке о криминалном понашању, док криминалну биологију занима однос између наследства и окружења, наглашава значај околине за криминално понашање, сматрајући злочин биосоцијалном појавом.
Истраживање биолошких чиниоца људског понашања тек у новије време поприма значај који му припада. Оно не само да обухвата правац експерименталне психологије, него и остале правце. Посебно место заузима правац истраживања о хуманој генетици која се односи на тзв. кромосомске аберације. Кромосомска аберација се јавља код полних хромозома. Тамо се уз нормалну XX и XY комбинацију појави и предбројни Y хромозом, те на тај начин добијамо женски кариотип XXY и мушки XYY. Код женских особа са кариотипом XXY је установљен нижи раст, ментална заосталост, а понегде и стерилност. Код мушких особа са кариотипом XYY јавља се чешћи високи раст, јака ћелавост, кратковидост и мања ментална заосталост. Неки истраживачи су установили везу носиоца XYY кариотипа са склоношћу криминалним делима без мотива, и то у време раније младости, што је после оспоравано, јер су уочени XYY кариотипи који никада нису били склони криминалу. Истраживања у хуманој генетици су на овом пољу актуална, а у неким се земљама користе и у судској пракси (САД).
Биолошке теорије о девијантности еволуирале су од облика "биолошког апсолутизма" до жеље која жели издвојити само релативне и научно доказиване органске чињенице и процесе који су повезани с неким облицима девијантног понашања. Тиме су пружиле своје резултате и закључке као могући прилог општем, научно обухватном тумачењу девијантности.

Психолошке теорије девијантности
Међу најзначајнијим психолошким приступима девијантном понашању припадају радови С. Фројда, Е. Х. Ериксона и Е. Фрома. Фројд говори да је структура личности тродимензионална, а чине је Ид, Его и Суперего. Ид је урођена компонента личности и садржи све оно што је код особе психолошко и наслеђено, пре свега инстинкте и нагоне. Делује примитивно, неограничено, неспутано. Затим, не познаје никаква правила и законе, па је извор свега анималног и неорганизираног у човеку. Его делује по начелу реалности. Захваљујући томе, напетост створена у организму због пораста инстинктивне активности, остаје сачувана све док није откривен реалан циљ који ће задовољити неки нагон. Суперего се поступно усваја и развија социјализацијским процесом, под утицајем позитивних и негативних санкција. Будући да тежи идеалном, Суперего не делује по начелу реалности и непрестано се сукобљава с Егом, Идом и реалношћу.
Као и онда када је у питању закон, тако и онда кад је реч о образовању и психоанализи, свесни су своје неодлучности око границе након које можемо на одговарајући начин користити термине као што су асоцијално, деликвентно, криминално.
Ерик Е. Ериксон, уместо Ида, главним покретачем свих психичких процеса сматра Его.
Ерик Фром спада у скуп тзв. неопсихоаналитичара који су настојали да докажу већи утицај социјалних и околинских фактора на развој и психопатологију појединца, а склоност криминалном понашању анализира у контексту људске деструктивности и карактера. Успоређујући људску и анималну деструктивност, Фром поставља хипотезу о бенигној и малигној агресији.
Бенигна агресија служи животу, а заједничка је људима и животињама. Тежи неутрализацији опасности, деструкцијом или уклањањем извора угрожености.
Малигна агресија нема биолошко већ социјално порекло и искључиво је карактеристична за човека. Њене главне манифестације су: жеља за убијањем и окрутношћу без икакве друге сврхе. Будући да је социјално условљена, аутор је сматра искорењивом.
Фром спомиње и трећи облик - псеудоагресију. То су агресивна дела која могу проузроковати штету, али им то није намера - нехотична агресија.

Социјализацијска теорија
Социјализацијска теорија или теорија учења заступа тезу да је девијантно понашање феномен који се учи. Као што се социјализацијом уче норме и вредности које друштво прихвата, охрабрује или награђује, иста начела учења појављују се и код усвајања девијантних норми и вредности, које друштво одбацује и кажњава.
Габријел Тард  је је 1905. године у Паризу објавио "La logica social", где наводи закон имитације као основу девијантног понашања, која почиње као мода, а затим прелази у навику. Имитација се стално шири међу људима тако да почне у вишим друштвеним слојевима које затим опонашају нижи слојеви. Тард примећује како су некад монопол на пијанство, скитњу, тровање и убиства имали само барони и краљеви, а данас је то доступно свима.
Тард се посебно бавио професионалним преступницима - убицама, џепарошима, варалицама и крадљивцима, који се "школују" за обављање својих активности и слично другим занимањима, уче "занимање" од ране младости по улицама и трговима.
Едвин Сатерленд  наводи карактеристике девијантног :
 	девијантно понашање је научено - што значи да девијантност није наслеђена нити је резултат мањка интелигенције, оштећења мозга и слично;
 	девијантно понашање је научено у интеракцији с другим особама у процесу комуникације;
 	главни део наученог девијантног понашања јавља се у блиским групама - највише комуникацијом мас медија - телевизије, часописа, новина - играју секундарну улогу у учењу девијантности.
Статистички подаци говоре како је међу ухапшеним и осуђеним особама више мушких особа, нижег социо-економског статуса и из урбаних подручја, а мање припадника виших слојева. Теорија диференцијалне асоцијације објашњава ову равнотежу већом изложеношћу неких група девијантним нормама и складно томе већом могућношћу учења и примене тих "девијантних" норми. Теорија је примјењива и с обзиром на службену заступљеност жена у криминалу, које показују да су оне традиционално оданије закону, осим у кратко време рата, када је забележен пораст, потом глобални пад после рата, с поновним порастом у модерно време. То се може објаснити повећаним могућностима учествовања у друштвеном животу (изван куће и породице), посебно током Другог светског рата, када је велики број мушкараца био мобилизован, а жене су преузеле битну друштвену улогу у јавном животу и тако постале изложеније девијантним нормама, што је карактеристично и у новије модерно време када са променом традиционалних улога, расте и могућност, па и изложеност учења девијантног понашања.
Социјализацијска теорија узима у обзир готово све учеснике који се појављују на путу учења, укључивање и живљења друштвене стварности, а због озбиљности којим се и данас примењује у објашњењу девијантних форми, насталих након њених почетних теза, можемо јој приписати и изванвременску релативност. Може се ипак приговорити да је девијантност готов производ, који се једноставно мора догодити.

Теорија етикетирања
"Labeling" или теорија етикетирања спада у развојне концепције, углавном усмерене социјалној психологији девијантности, а бави се претпоставкама девијантности на индивидуалним и малим групним нивоима.
Одговарајући на питање зашто неки појединци почињу да се девијантно понашају, представници ове теорије наглашавају важност друштвених дефиниција и негативних друштвених санкција које су повезане с притисцима на особу и које условљавају више девијантних дела. Пажња је од индивидуалног деловања преусмерена на социјалу реакцију, тј. динамику друштвеног дефинисања појединих активности особа као девијантних. Развојни процес којим резултира девијантност садржи различите иницијације, прихваћања, усвајања и затварања у девијантну улогу због утицаја других.
Сви се теоретичари слажу да ознаке девијанта производе темељне промене у природи и примања девијантности за особу која је етикетирана, тако, службена етикета као деликвент, криминалац, хомосексуалац, наркоман или проститутка може имати озбиљне последице за даље понашање. Битна је разлика између примарне девијантности која се састоји од девијантних дела пре оних који су јавно етикетиране и које укључују опасност и могућност условљавања секундарне девијантности, које Лемент описује као понашање особе помирене с улогом девијанта, што је проузроковано с ознаком коју носи.
Етикетирање особе као девијанта може за резултат да има наставак девијантног деловања и развој девијантне каријере до степена секундарне девијантности и жеље за одвајањем од учествовања у друштвеним групама и организовању унутар девијантних групама.
Неки девијанти устају против својих етикета покушајем реафирмације својих вредности и изгубљеног друштвеног статуса. Такви терцијарни девијанти могу се придружити друштвеним покретима за борбу, како би порекли да су девијанти. Они се разликују од секундарних, јер они активно протестују против својих ознака покушавајући "да одбаце одбаченост", док су секундарни девијанти пасивни примаоци и носиоци својих етикета, који се адаптирају на процес етикетирања.

Теорија социјалне контроле
Сврстава се међу најпопуларнија објашњења девијантности, а више је усмерена ка проблемима криминала и деликвенције него другим девијантним формама. Будући да почетна претпоставка говори о девијантном понашању као резултату одсутности социјалне контроле или спречавању девијантности, аутори се углавном слажу да би "без контроле" људи били слободни да чине све што им се учини као природна потреба, док се мишљења разликују у погледу потребног степена контроле у друштву.
Теорија контроле наглашава да је свако мотивисан за криминални чин и да нема посебне мотивације неопходне за објашњење девијантног понашања, па стога није неопходно појаснити мотивацију. Разлог деловања неких особа с таквом мотивацијом је у чињеници да притисак других особа на ту особу повремено попушта и на крају нестаје.
Травис Хирши објашњава како друштвена контрола неутрализује склоност девијантности:
	оданост - односи се на повезаности особе с групом кроз осећаје и афекте, поштовање и кроз социјализацију групних норми;
	обавеза - описује степен до ког особа развија најниже нивое конформистичког понашања, знајући да девијантни чин који угрожава друге условљава санкције;
 	укљученост - се односи на телесне активности недевијантне природе, због којих остаје мало времена за деликвенцију (пример-бављење кошарком, трчањем, физичким радом…)
 	веровање- значи склоност особа доминантном вредносном саставу.
Теорија социјалне контроле посебно тежиште у објашњењу развоја криминалног понашања ставља на адолесцентни период, јер су обавезе адолесцента према породици, школи и другим социјалним институцијама, па и будућој радној улози, екстерни извори социјалне контроле, који изазивају одбојан став према криминалу. Примарни интерни извори су сопствени ставови, вредности и веровања. На индивидуалном нивоу, утицај формалних институција социјалне контроле (полиција и судови) зависи од сопствених ставова према поштивању закона, ставова према полицији и судовима, што спада у интерну контролу, док се екстерна контрола односи на предвидив ризик од полицијске присиле и легалног санкционисања од стране правосудног састава.

Конфликтно гледиште
Конфликтна перспектива наглашава плуралистичку друштвену природу и различиту расподелу моћи између друштвених група. Због моћи које посједују, неке групе могу да креирају друштвена правила, посебно законе, који ће служити остварењу њихових властитих интереса, често искључујући интересе других. Имајући то у виду, конфликтне перспективе посматрају друштво у односима група, које се међусобно надјачавају у заступању властитих интереса. Тако се често налазе у супротстављеним, па и конфликтним односима, а групе које остваре више моћи, тиме и доступност креацији и норми и закона, имају гаранцију да ће њихови интереси бити остварени. Према конфликтном начину гледања, девијантност представља сукоб између интереса различитих друштвених делова и жељене моћи да се обликује јавно мњење и друштвена политика.
Заступници конфликтних теорија сматрају криминал непромењивом чињеницом капиталистичког друштва, што значи да се главна одговорност и извор девијантности налазе унутар друштвене структуре, а особе девијанти нису одговорни јер су присиљени да такви постају, па складно томе не могу бити криви за своје понашање.

Функције девијантности

Функционалистичко гледиште
Сви се функционалисти слажу да су механизми друштвене контроле потребни да би обуздали девијантност и тако штитили друштво. Међутим, многи тврде како одређена количина девијантности има позитивну функцију, како доприноси одржавању и добробити друштва.
Емил Диркем тврди да је злочин неизбежан и нормални аспект друштвеног живота, како је саставни део свих здравих друштава. Неизбежан је, зато што сваки члан друштва не може бити једнако одан заједничким вредностима и моралним уверењима друштва.
Злочин није само неизбежан, он може бити и функционалан. Диркем тврди да он постаје н нефункционалан само кад му је стопа необично висока. Он тврди да свака промена у друштву почиње неким обликом девијантности. Да би наступила промена, оно што је јуче била девијантност, данас мора постати нормално. Будући да је одређена количина промене здрава за друштво, да би напредовало уместо да стагнира, девијантност је такође потребна.
Ако је злочин неизбежан, која је функција казне? По Диркему без казне, друштвене установе изгубиле би моћ да контролишу понашање и стопа злочина достигла би степен на којем злочин постаје нефункционалан, тако здравом друштву требају и злочин и казну. И једно и друго је неизбежно и функционално.

Стенли Коен примећује како неки девијантни поступци могу послужити као корисно упозорење, које показује да један део друштва лоше функционише. Они могу скренути пажњу на тај проблем и подстакнути мере које ће га решити. Тако ученици који беже из школе, дезертери из војске или бегунци из малолетничких поправних домова могу да открију неслућене узроке незадовољства и да доведу до промена које подижу делотворност и морал.

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