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120 years ago
Some of the biggest logs of the season came down Main Street last Saturday. Citizens of Susanville were caught out this winter without enough wood to see them through, so the teamsters are doing a good business.
70 years ago
Forty men, some to them returning to their old labors and others transferred from other departments, started the box factory at the Lassen Lumber and Box Company this week.
45 years ago
Lassen County businesses listed a 7.6 percent increase during the previous 10 years. Susanville enjoyed a 9.6 percent increase and Westwood showed a 44 percent gain in the number of listed businesses for the 10-year period.
30 years ago
The Lassen High Grizzlies won the 31st annual Lassen Invitational Basketball Tournament by defeating Chico High 52-44.
It marked the first time in 10 years the Grizzlies won the LTI championship. Mike Bertotti led the Grizzlies with 26 points.
25 years ago
The National Labor Relations Board was scheduled to conduct more hearings on the disputed union election held in January at Lassen Community Hospital. In that election, hospital employees voted overwhelming in favor of unionization, but the voting eligibility of 35 workers had been challenged by the hospital's operators.
The challenged ballots were sufficient enough to affect the outcome of the election.
20 years ago
Technically the spotted owl hooting season begins March 1, but the heavy snowfall in Plumas County means the people in charge of the Plumas National Forest's annual owl count may have to wait to get into some areas until the snow melts.
Last year hooters found 213 owls in the forest, which ranks third among all forests surveyed in California.
To find the owls, surveyors go out after the sun sets, hike into the wilderness, and imitate the call, which has been described as "like a small dog barking," and then wait for a response. The spotted owl's call is normally one hoot, two short hoots and then one long one hoot.
15 years ago
The Susanville City Council voted last week not to support a Caltrans proposal to restripe Main Street. Caltrans planned to eliminate parking on one side of Main Street east of Weatherlow Street in order to add a center left turn lane in those sections which do not have one.
Caltrans also recommended eliminating four lanes in the Uptown District, making the section of Main Street only three lanes — one lane in each direction and center left turn lane, Susanville merchants overwhelmingly opposed the plan.
10 years ago
Robert Burns, Lassen County's district attorney, said his office is investigating the circumstances surrounding the injuries Harold Abbott, 81, allegedly suffered during an early afternoon raid on a Main Street residence on Jan. 14.
Abbott, a former Lassen County district attorney, broke both hips when he allegedly was pushed down in a chair by a Lassen County deputy sheriff, according to a suit filed last week in Sacramento.
Five years ago
The Susanville Police Department joined with the Lassen County Sheriff's Department and created an interagency Special Weapons and Tactics team combining what the sheriff's department already had into a bigger team.
The new interagency team, staffed with eight members from the sheriff's department and five members from the police department will be used for high-risk search warrants, barricaded subjects and other incidents that would call for the specialized training and equipment, said Police Chief Chris Gallagher.
One year ago
On Saturday, Feb. 14, deputies from the Lassen County Sheriff's Office arrested two juvenile boys who were booked in the Lassen County Juvenile Detention Facility and are being held without bail on charges of burglary, vandalism and a hate crime at the Honey Lake Valley Assembly of God Church.
According to a press release from the sheriff's office, upon investigation it was discovered the juveniles allegedly entered the church using a blunt object.
Once inside the building, the juveniles allegedly vandalized the church resulting in thousands of dollars in damage.
In addition to the vandalism and theft, satanic symbols were carved into the building. Church officials estimate damage to be in the $15,000 range.
At 3:45 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, deputies responded to the church building, located on Standish-Buntingville Road, for a report of a burglary in progress.
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Sweet Treats
There's nothing quite like Valentine's Day in grade school. Friends exchange small gifts and there are classroom parties with festive decorations. One of the first holidays since late December, it's an excuse to let people know you care. And maybe eat a candy heart or five.
The B.ig day is only a week away. Are you still searching for creative ideas about what your wee ones can bring to school on February 14? If so, you're in luck! We've combed the internet to come up with these suggestions just for you.
For many, Valentine's Day is all about candy. The options are endless: there are heart-shaped boxes full of chocolate, lollipops wrapped in red, and conversation hearts printed with sweet sayings.
- Personalized matchboxes from inchmark are adorable—and hold a perfectly petite portion of your favorite sweet treat.
- Gabrielle Blair, better known as Design Mom, always has ingenious Valentine's ideas. We're blown away by these portraits-turned-lollipop-holders. (Bet they'd work with pencils too!)
- These See-Through Valentines (made by Kelli Wilson) are elegant enough to bring to a big kid's party—or gift to your sweetheart.
Maybe you prefer to think outside the (candy) box? Lots of schools have started enforcing sugar-free celebrations. We love the idea of Valentines that last a little longer than a candy stash.
- Mer Mag's color theory cards make our designer hearts sing. We're considering making a set for every holiday this year.
- Simply wrapped, bouncy balls become a unique and very boy-friendly treat. Thanks to Super Mom Moments for the super idea.
- These beautiful painted rocks from Aesthetic Outburst are a fun craft and a sweet memento. There's no better way to say 'you rock!'
- Do you have a drawer full of crayon nubs? Cottoncandycastle's heart-shaped mishmash crayons look soooo cool, are fun to use, and can teach a valuable lesson in recycling.
- Little ones will feel like the head zookeeper with these wild cards from Design Mom. Don't miss the free printable!
- Food coloring and shaving cream come together to make these awesomely crafty cards from Modern Parents Messy Kids. Our recommendation? Put the kids on shaving cream duty, keep the food coloring in adult hands, and have a camera close by!
Valentine's Day can also be the perfect time to teach your little ones about the importance of helping others. What better way to show your compassion than by providing opportunities to people who might not have them otherwise?
- Me to We has many Artisan-made gifts that would be just right to give to your loved ones. Our favorite? The mood elevator!
- Bee mine? A gift of honey bees via Free The Children can be life changing for families in need. If you ask us, that's sweeter than any box of chocolates.
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This fact is never more clear than when Teheran picks up the phone from Georgia.
"Sometimes I am little scared to talk," he said, acknowledging that his success leads to conversations with non-Spanish speakers. "But when I have to, I use total English."
Teheran scared off the pitching mound? Much easier to imagine the fear he incites while standing tall on it.
The Braves' No. 1 prospect registered season highs in strikeouts and innings -- seven apiece -- on Saturday evening in Triple-A Gwinnett's 3-2 victory over the visiting Toledo Mud Hens.
The performance, creating more interest in a possible return to Atlanta, gave him more practice with his second language.
"I would say this is the best outing" of my season, Teheran said, adding, "for sure."
The right-hander gave up one run on five hits, including Audy Ciriaco's second-inning solo homer.
"I tried to throw my fastball for a strike the first pitch and he was jumping to it," Teheran said. "I wasn't dissapointed."
Teheran threw 67 of 99 pitches for strikes but was most pleased with the command of his secondary offerings.
"I was excited to do the same thing I did in my last start," said the native of Colombia, who started looking like his old self in a six-inning appearance last Monday. "I tried to make the same pitches. I tried to throw my off-speed -- my curve and my changeup -- for strikes, and that was the big thing [the Braves] wanted me to do down here. When I throw my off-speed for strikes, I make the other team, the other hitters think [about] more than my fastball."
As a result, Teheran's ERA has dropped to 2.48 through seven International League starts. So -- aside from his non-native tongue -- what exactly is he working on?
"If I'm doing well, I just try to do every outing the same thing, work on my pitches and wait, wait for the callup," said Teheran, who made his first five Major League appearances in 2011 before struggling with consistency at Spring Training. "I am feeling like I am getting ready and working on what they want me to work [on]. I feel like I'm ready to get there and stay there."
The G-Braves grabbed an early advantage when Ernesto Mejia -- one of Teheran's would-be translators -- struck a three-run first-inning blast off Mud Hens starter Fu-Te Ni.
Ni (2-1) allowed two more hits over six innings while striking out four.
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Perpetrator (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
Perpetrators (Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity)
Perpetrators are those who initiate, facilitate, or carry out acts of genocide or crimes against humanity. Genocide and crimes against humanity involve many of the same acts; the distinction between them is primarily that of intent. For genocide, the goal is the elimination of a group in whole or substantial part, whereas for other crimes against humanity, the goal is primarily to render a group powerless. The motivations of the perpetrators in other respects are the same. In what follows, the focus will be on perpetrators of genocide in its various forms, because the study of perpetrators in that context is most advanced.
The Variable Characteristics of Perpetrators
Genocide may involve the forcible transfer of children from the victim group to that of the perpetrators, or systematic rape that is intended to contribute to the disintegration of the group. Perpetrators also inflict on members of the victimized group conditions of life calculated to bring about its complete or partial physical destruction, such as the inducement of famine, deportations into deserts, or sealing victims into disease-ridden ghettos. Although it can be argued that all perpetrators of genocide intend the elimination of a definable human group, it is important to recognize that individual perpetrators may play different roles and bear different degrees of responsibility within the overall genocidal project. Various scholars have dealt with this by contrasting the roles of decision-makers and direct perpetrators, "desk murderers" and "shooters," and ideologues and technicians. Similarly, courts have assigned punishment, not on the basis of a convicted perpetrator's proximity to violence, but rather in accordance to his or her degree of responsibility for it. There are also those who design and manufacture the implements of death, use slave labor, drive the vehicles used to transport victims to their death, or propagandize in order to incite violence, as in Rwanda, where radio broadcasts were used to tell the Hutu that "the graves of the Tutsi are only half-full."
The concept of perpetrator is complicated further by its blurred edges. Numerous Holocaust memoirs mention that the first blows struck against the Jews at Auschwitz were delivered by fellow prisoners. These accounts are filled with descriptions of the brutalities committed by the kapos (prisoner-functionaries who helped run the camps). Were these kapos perpetrators? Or, is another term necessary, such as victim-perpetrator? Similarly, bystanders might not generally be considered perpetrators, but what if they supplied the weapons, chemicals, or tools used to commit genocide? In an even grayer area, does an individual's inaction qualify him as a perpetrator if that inaction facilitates genocide?
A commonly held view of the perpetrator is that only those who are mad, bestial, evil, or primitive commit genocide. While it is true that madmen and sadists are found among those who commit genocide, it is unlikely that the thousands, and sometimes hundreds of thousands, of perpetrators necessary to carry out genocide are insane. Likewise, if the perpetrators of genocide were invariably mad, no one could be held responsible for the commission of this, the worst crime that can befall a people. The charge that those who commit genocide must be bestial in nature is equally false, for the perpetration of the crime of genocide requires distinctly human capacities, such as abstraction, symbolization, and organization, in order to envision and carry out the destruction of entire human groups. Humans are the only animals that commit genocide.
The charge that the commission of genocide is something that is done only by primitive peoples is equally untenable. The crime has, in fact, been committed by peoples well-versed in science, technology, medicine, and the arts. Not only that, but in many instances, those who actually initiate and manage the destruction in such societies are often highly educated: professors, doctors, lawyers, skilled technicians. Finally, evil people for the most part are not the source of genocide, but the result: prolonged involvement in killing tends to dehumanize the perpetrator and removes from them any pity for the suffering of the victims. In rare cases, however, hardened criminals are recruited to augment the forces available for killing and rape. This was the case most notably in the Armenian genocide.
The view that perpetrators of genocide and other massive crimes against humanity are utterly different from average folk derives from the human desire to believe that this is a just and orderly world, composed mainly of persons who would harm others only in self-defense. In fact, however, genocide is committed by ordinary persons, more or less normal, more or less moral, who are caught up in a particular set of circumstances.
Contexts and Justifications
Genocide is not inevitable; it occurs because those in power choose to resolve political and social issues by eliminating the groups that are said to constitute the problem. Nor is genocide a discrete act. Rather, it is a process, typically initiated by the state, legitimated by tradition or ideology, carried out through a variety of organizations, and requiring the cooperation of individuals, some of whom may be bystanders, others perpetrators. It most often occurs when the state and society have been weakened by defeat in war, economic collapse, the breakdown of old ideologies, or demands by minority groups for autonomy or independence. Nationalism, new ideologies, demands for security, and the increasing dehumanization of the "other"sually a subgroup who can be blamed for the current social illsome to the fore. War is another natural context for genocide: the centralization of power, absence of restraints on the use of violence, a heightened sense of fear, and the pre-existence of organizations dedicated to killing, provide a cover for and justification of the elimination of the targeted group.
Those who initiate genocide do so for a variety of reasons: conquest, revenge, economic gain, monopolization of power, and, where a utopian ideology is involved, as in Nazi Germany and Cambodia, the purification of society leading to salvation for the nation. For individuals who become perpetrators, the motives are also varied and usually mixed. These depend in part on the mode of participation in genocide and the perpetrator's location with regard to the commission of genocidal acts. Some perpetrators act in obedience to orders; others become involved because of peer pressure, fear, careerism, and opportunities for material benefits, ideology, or dedication to a "higher cause." Some are drawn into committing acts that they would otherwise condemn because the circumstances provide them with permission to do so, others are encouraged through role playing, and some "learn by doing," starting with small acts of cruelty that lead to acts of increasing brutality until atrocity begins to seem normal because it has become routine. But whether they are conscripted into their roles or, more commonly, assume them voluntarily, individuals who become perpetrators enter into a continuum of destruction, in which their very behavior transforms their values and beliefs. Moreover, perpetrators operate not as isolated individuals, but as members of groups. Groups provide a shared view of the world and rewards for conformity, both of which facilitate the shedding of inhibitions.
The Role of Authority
The types of groups and organizations most often involved in genocide are authoritarian in structure, provide strong incentives for obedience, and encourage perpetrators to develop a psychological distancing from the victims through an emphasis on bureaucratic routines and the dehumanization of the group under attack. For example, bureaucracy was crucial in the Holocaust, and in less developed forms, it has been important in all of the genocides of the twentieth century. Perpetrators can sit at their desks and impersonally issue orders that send millions to their death. Logistics, communications, and technology used in the commission of genocide or other massive crimes against humanity must all pass through the hands of bureaucrats, who are culpable for their roles in the crimes but remain far from the killing fields or the routes of deportation.
Military and paramilitary organizations are also common institutional structures used to facilitate the perpetration of genocide or crimes against humanity. Such organizations enforce obedience, encourage conformity, provide training in violence, desensitize their members' responses to killing, and provide absolution. In some cases, pre-existing military organizations are used, but new ones may be created specifically for the commission of genocidal acts. Such was the case for the SS of Nazi Germany, and the creation of the "Special Organization" in Turkey in 1915, whose sole purpose was the destruction of the Armenians.
This latter group was a secret Young Turk organization that controlled elements of the army, police, and local officials, and brought into the killing process thousands of Kurds and Turkish peasants. Most notably, however, it released some 30,000 criminals from jail, placed them under the control of the Special Organization, and gave them permission to murder, rape, and kidnap Armenians. Neither the peasants nor the criminals were under strict control. Rather, they were given permission to work their will on helpless people, with those in charge of the Special Organization knowing full well what that would mean. In contrast, militias and paramilitary groups, along with regular army troops, have played major roles in the perpetration of genocide in East Timor, Bosnia, and Rwanda. In East Timor and Rwanda, many of those in the militia were teenagers; in Bosnia, many were also young, recruited from soccer club hooligans, and some of the leaders were criminals. In each case, members of the militias were trained and armed by the military and had governmental support, but could be officially disavowed, fending off any international criticism.
Numbers of Perpetrators Needed
Genocide of any magnitude requires a sizable number of participants, but the extent to which this is true varies from case to case. The number required is partly determined by the technology that is employedome forms of genocide are labor-intensive, others less sond whether or not the victims are concentrated in one area or over a large territory. A further determining factor is the extent to which the victims are able to resist. In addition, some regimes, such as that of Ugandan President Idi Amin, restrict genocidal acts to an elite killing force. Others, such as Ottoman Turkey, Indonesia, and Rwanda, involve the participation of large segments of the population.
The decision to utilize a large number of perpetrators may also be influenced by certain political objectives. Those who initiate genocide may seek to gain support for their actions by allowing elements of society to satisfy their passions and greed at the expense of the victims. Alternatively, by plunging large numbers of the population into murder, the forces encouraging genocide may more tightly bind the perpetrators to the regime. In other cases, such as that of Nazi Germany, the intended magnitude of destruction is so great, and the victims so scattered, that most social and political institutions must be harnessed to the overriding aim of taking life.
Gender and Genocide
During the three thousand years for which genocidal acts have been documented or inferred, perpetrators have been predominantly males. For the most part, women have been involved in subordinate roles, but in rare cases female rulers, such as the first-century Celtic queen Boadicea, have also initiated genocide. One explanation for the relative absence of women from direct participation in genocide is the claim that women are naturally less aggressive and more compassionate. However, twentieth-century women have committed atrocities in Nazi Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. It is therefore more likely that women's lesser participation in genocide, historically speaking, is because they have been excluded by males from active involvement in the crimes. This exclusion derives from basic tenets of patriarchal society: women are weak and dependent, and their sexual and reproductive capacities too valuable to risk in war and genocide. In this view, the function of women is to produce life, whereas the function of men (at times) is to take life. Women are viewed as resources and, particularly in societies with small populations, were therefore far too valuable to risk in battle.
In the twentieth century, however, there were three major examples of women directly participating in genocide: in Nazi Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. There were some three thousand female SS who supervised the numerous Nazi concentration and extermination camps for women from 1939 to 1945. Most were labor conscripts and few were members of the party. They came from all social classes and occupations, and most appeared normal. Nonetheless, they learned quickly to whip and club their female prisoners, to work them to the point of exhaustion, and to assist in the selection process that sent many victims to their deaths. For the most part, it was the more sadistic women who rose to the top of the women's SS, but there were also female kapos who carried out much of the administration of the camps and made beatings and brutality of every sort a part of the inmate's daily existence.
Women were also deeply involved as perpetrators of genocide in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, but the contrast with female perpetrators in Nazi Germany is striking. First, the Cambodian genocide was directly controlled by the Khmer Rouge, and the entire country functioned as a labor camp. Second, the scale of participation was greater: instead of the approximately three thousand (primarily conscripted) female prison guards in Germany, tens of thousands of Cambodian women served as leaders and guards, and the roots of their participation and commitment were much more varied. Perhaps the greatest motivator for female (as well as male) Cambodian perpetrators was the need to establish a more secure identity in the face of ongoing warfare. Participation also provided a means of dealing with bewildering changes in government. A further motivation arose from the widely shared fear that Khmer culture was being destroyed by both Vietnamese and Western influence. Cambodian women were involved in the whole process of destruction: enforcing the killing pace of work, maintaining close surveillance over individuals and families, using violence to whip people into line, and direct killing. Moreover, Cambodia presents one of the few modern examples of a woman (Ieng Thirith) being one of the initiators of genocide.
Rwanda's political leaders attempted to involve as much of the nation's Hutu population in the genocide of Tutsi (and Tutsi sympathizers) as possible. Among the initiators of this genocide were at least three womenhe wife of the assassinated President and two cabinet membersut many thousands of others joined in the killing, incited the militias to attack, betrayed the hunted, looted the dead, and encouraged men to rape Tutsi women. Some women were coerced into killing, but many joined in enthusiastically. Rwanda is a largely male-dominated society, however, and few women were members of the main organizations that carried out the genocide: the army, police, and militias. But, the women who did participate in the genocide were a cross-section of the country: peasants, teachers, nurses and doctors, nuns, journalists, school girls, local administrators, and even staff members of international aid organizations.
Enlisting the Children
If genocide's perpetrators include women, they also include children. In Cambodia, a large number of those who carried out the genocide were male and female children between the ages of twelve and seventeen. The pervasive role of children in the Khmer Rouge stemmed in part from their availability (the young generally comprise a large part of guerilla movements, worldwide). There was also a strong ideological dimension. In their quest to inaugurate an entirely different kind of society, the Khmer Rouge eliminated distinctions between adults and children.
In Rwanda, on the other hand, young men and, to a lesser extent, teenage girls, were involved in the killing. This was, again, partly a matter of availabilityore than half the population was under twenty, and many young people were unemployed, without prospects for the future. Where extreme deprivation exists, material rewards may be all that are needed to bring the young into the killing process. However, in Rwanda it was also a matter of how the genocide was organized. Political parties had formed youth groups to attack opposing political groups, and these groups were later converted into local militias to carry out the genocide.
Whether in Cambodia, Rwanda, or some other place, it has not been difficult for adult perpetrators to recruit children to help with the dirty work. There are a variety of techniques that can be used to turn child members of the perpetrators' group into killers. Some may simply need encouragement, others may be forced into doing brutal acts, sometimes beginning with killing, but always ending there. Children learn by doing, but they also learn by seeing the acts of others. When children commit brutal acts that are sanctioned by authority, and when, over time, such acts become routine; they learn to define morality strictly in terms of loyalty to the group. These children can be seen as victims, but they also are perpetrators. How they are to be legally judged is problematic.
Aftermath for Perpetrators
Few survivors of genocide ever free themselves from the horrors they have experienced. Most perpetrators, however, seem able to distance themselves from the acts they committed and go on with their lives. Nor is there evidence that many suffer from a guilty conscience. Those involved in direct killing are brutalized by the very process, becoming desensitized to the sufferings of others. In addition, many perpetrators of genocide participate in the killing from a distance. These, too, frequently show no remorse. Both the individuals directly, physically involved in the killing and those who participate bureaucratically may overcome remorse through individual psychological mechanisms, such as denial and repression. Further, they can attempt to find excuses for their actions, the main varieties being: "I knew nothing," and "I was only obeying orders." More powerful, however, are techniques of neutralization that combine both excuses and justifications. These include the denial of responsibility (an inability to control the situation, self-defense), denial of the humanity of the victim, transforming the victim into the perpetrator and condemning the condemners, (by asserting that theyictim or condemnerave done worse deeds), and appealing to a higher loyaltyo race, class, God's will, the good societys the motivation for the violence. All cultures encourage responsibility, but also provide escape routes (excuses, distancing, justification) for offenses both minor and grave. Perpetrators seize upon the cues society provides for neutralizing responsibility, magnifying them to a self-serving extreme. Paradoxically, while many survivors feel guilt for being alive, those who perpetrate genocide more frequently are able to look back upon their actions with consciences at rest.
Understanding Why
There are many approaches to understanding the behavior of perpetrators and why humans resort to genocide. Psychologists once focused on the "authoritarian personality," but later started focusing on a combination of social identity, culture, and historical context. Political scientists tend to focus on the policy process, institutions, leadership, and international relations. Social science offers three overlapping approaches that help to explain specific portions of the behavior of perpetrators. Structuralism explores how the social environment shapes choices: structures of authority, group dynamics, and bureaucracy. Functionalism, in contrast, is concerned with how particular structures perform various functions. Applied to the study of genocide, it can illuminate the role of various organizations in the process of destruction. Perhaps more important, however, a functional approach can help to illuminate the many purposes that genocide actually serves: physical, material, political, and psychological. For instance, rape may be encouraged to reward the perpetrators while simultaneously terrorizing and shaming the victim group, making resistance to genocide or ethnic cleansing more difficult. It poses a series of questions: Why do perpetrators so often engage in acts of cruelty or perform rituals of degradation? What do these acts mean to the perpetrator? Symbolic interaction theory can also help explain the formation of social identity, the growth of stereotypes, and dehumanization of those who will fall victim to genocide.
All of these approaches and disciplines have their uses, but none is adequate in itself. Moreover, much investigation of perpetrators requires a moral theory that allows distinction between different kinds of responsibility (criminal, moral, political) and acknowledgement of different degrees of responsibility. To arrive at such a moral theory, philosophers must grapple with the fundamental question of the nature of "good" and "evil."
SEE ALSO Collaboration; Memoirs of Perpetrators; Psychology of Perpetrators; Sociology of Perpetrators
Alvarez, Alex (2001). Governments, Citizens and Genocide: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approach. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Browder, George C. (2003). "Perpetrator Character and Motivation: An Emerging Consensus?" Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17:48097.
Browning, Christopher R. (1992). Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins.
Jones, David H. (1999). Moral Responsibility in the Holocaust: A Study in the Ethics of Character. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
Hirsch, Herbert (1995). Genocide and the Politics of Memory: Studying Death to Preserve Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Kelman, Herbert (1973). "Violence without Moral Restraint: Reflections on the Dehumanization of Victims and Victimizers." Journal of Social Issues 29:251.
Kuper, Leo (1982). Genocide: Its Political Use in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
Milgram, Stanley (1974). Obedience to Authority. New York: Harper and Row.
Smith, Roger W. (1987). "Human Destructiveness and Politics: The Twentieth Century as an Age of Genocide." In Genocide and the Modern Age, ed. I. Wallimann and M. Dobkowski. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
Smith, Roger W. (1994). "Women and Genocide: Notes on an Unwritten History." Holocaust and Genocide Studies 8:31534.
Staub, Ervin (1989). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Weitz, Eric D. (2003). A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Roger W. Smith
Source: Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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We've just finished updating #TheDigitals leaderboard and we've found that @Danbarker is STILL topping the charts!
Well done to Dan, who's managed to keep up a steady flow of content all week, sharing and creating knowledge about the digital landscape, and staying on top of some very tough competition!
There's been some great action on the board this week - let's look at some of the new faces and new changes...
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It's been yet another busy week on #TheDigitals leaderboard, with over 6,000 of you tweeting and sharing some amazing content that you think is worthy of an illustrious Digital award. Thanks for all your tweets and contributions, we're really building up a huge library of outstanding digital content.
The familiar face of @DanBarker is still sitting proudly at the top of the board for a second week, managing to clock up an astounding 210 mentions in the last week! Well done again Dan – influence in action!
So the question is: Who can knock him off the top spot and be our next Digital Superstar?
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To celebrate the launch of our new digital marketing and ecommerce awards, #TheDigitals, I've rounded up five brilliant examples of innovation in social media.
To avoid any accusations of bias, these are all examples that fall outside the eligibility period for the current awards, but give an idea of the sort of thing we are looking for.
#TheDigitals are the new awards that recognise the best in digital marketing and ecommerce. Award entries must be submitted online before the deadline March 13, 2013.
Award categories cover both industry and platform specific areas. There are special categories for best new technology, rising star (free to enter) and the overall Grand Prix winner. Further information on categories and entry requirements is available at thedigitalsawards.com
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Australia's location, time zone and existing creative community makes the country an ideal incubator for this and, when the National Broadband Network is rolled out in the next few years, the country will have a vastly improved global reach.
It is because of these factors that digital economists believe Australia has the critical ingredients needed to succesfully compete in the near future with the world's leading digital economies, such as the United States.
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Last night we announced the winners of our Innovation Awards for 2012, which celebrate the best examples of innovation in digital marketing and e-commerce from the past year.
These included Debenhams, Tesco, first direct, Vodafone and bmibaby, while Redweb took home the award for most innovative digital agency for the second time in a row.
by Vikki Morgan 24 February 2012 10:45am 7 comments
Econsultancy will be hosting our 2012 Innovation Awards at the Park Lane Hilton in London this evening.
In the run-up to the glittering award ceremony, we've been speaking to our shortlisted candidates to get their take on all aspects of innovation in business.
We've looked at fostering the right kind of environment to get those ideas flowing, budgeting make sure plans don't impact your bottom line, and looked back at some great ideas to help get you inspired.
Of course, even a great idea can be outdone. The industry has never advanced as quickly as it does today, with some truly awe-inspiring ideas rolling out every day.
With all this competition to factor in, we thought we'd close our series by asking our nominees about keeping ahead of the innovation curve.
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Over the past month we've spoken a lot about the nature of innovation in business, and during the course of these posts we've looked at ways to foster an innovative spirit within your company, as well as justifying the cost and protecting the budget.
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A large number of our Innovation Awards entries come from agencies, which have to work doubly hard to justify unusual or experimental campaign choices, yet still manage to deliver some of the most exciting new ideas every year.
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This is my first project from Sewing Vintage Modern Book. I used red lace fabric and red silk crepe-de-chine that I had inside my stash for so long.
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After a comprehensive review, the Board of Trustees has, at my recommendation, voted unanimously to eliminate our intercollegiate football program in order to redirect those resources toward academic initiatives and need-based scholarships.
This decision is not a budget reduction, but rather a strategically driven reallocation of resources. We have no plans for any further major changes to our Division I athletics program, which we believe is an integral part of a fully textured university experience. We will continue to host 17 intercollegiate sports and to continue to invest significantly in our athletics program. However, at the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly known as Division I-AA) level, football could not attain significant national recognition, and it has had low student, community and media interest, attendance and financial support. In addition, the football program, the largest of the athletic programs, is by far the most expensive. In the end, we could not continue to justify the expense of football compared to the benefits it brought to the University.
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Simply stated, academic excellence has been and will continue to be our highest priority. Hofstra has made significant strides in the past decade, dramatically improving the credentials of entering classes, adding new professorships and chairs, creating national centers such as the Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency and the National Center for Suburban Studies, and establishing the Hofstra University School of Medicine in partnership with North Shore- LIJ Health System. Hofstra's potential is limitless, and there are many exciting and new possibilities for the future, including enhancements to our hard science and engineering programs, including new graduate programs, as well as new programs in public health and other health related fields.
Our first priority, at this time, is to work with the 84 football student-athletes to ensure that they manage this transition in whatever manner is most comfortable for them. We hope that they will continue to make Hofstra their academic home, and will fully honor their scholarships so they can complete their degrees. However, we will also understand if they decide to transfer to continue playing football while attending school. Whichever they decide to do, we will provide the necessary assistance. We are grateful to all of them, and to our coaching staff, for their dedicated efforts for our University. All of our students and alumni are valued members of the Hofstra family, and we respect and honor the contributions of our football student-athletes over the years.
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Changes to our mobile lineup
The last couple of weeks have been busy in the world of Skype on mobile. We've announced our partnership with Verizon in the US to deliver free Skype-to-Skype calls in the US and internationally to its 91 million subscribers – a significant step.
As part of our continual review of our mobile range, we've decided to make a few changes to our lineup. Skype Lite and Skype for Windows Phones are no longer available for download. This isn't a decision we've taken lightly, but the reason is simple. Neither of these apps offered a great Skype experience.
Skype Lite only works in a small number of countries. Where it does work, making a call requires you to use up your allocation of minutes from your mobile network, making the Skype-to-Skype calls sort-of-free-per-minute rather than actually-free-per-minute. And with the latest version of the Windows Mobile OS, it's been increasingly challenging for us to maintain an app which behaves as you'd expect on a wide range of handsets without working with a mobile operator partner.
And that's why we've removed these apps from our site. However, if you already use one of these apps, you can carry on using it – we're not disabling them. If that's the case, we're assuming that you're aware of its limitations, so we don't want to prevent you from carrying on. Additionally, where we can work with mobile operators to make these apps work well – which is what we're doing with Verizon – we'll do just that.
Finally, where we can make downloadable Skype apps truly great, we'll shout from the rooftops. And if you haven't already tried it yet, you should try Skype for Symbian. Alternatively, if your phone isn't on our list of supported devices, you should grab a Skype To Go number to make great value calls to phones abroad.
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jespermohl said 3 years ago
I used skype from the start… but now its time to look to google voice.
luis.m.cabral said 3 years ago
One simple advantage of having skype mobile was that I could travel and at any time/ wireless spot I could call home (fix phone, at skype price). I have no idea what "mobile experience" you are trying to prove but I see no benefit to me and my new Android.
Now I have to walk around with my windows mobil wich has the skype installed.
You can have taken a good deal with Verizon but you took the last Euro from me. -
sheatrenbeath said 3 years ago
what. the. hell, skype. 90% of my friends and family live abroad around the world, and i use skype on my mac to talk to them everyday. not calling them, just messaging and video chat. i have t-mobile here in the states, and just bought an android, with the intention of using skype so i don't have to be at home to talk to everyone i know.
but now, i can't. thanks skype. oh, and there's no way i can switch to verizon. my international student plan i have through my school is t-mobile. thanks for bending me over a table and reaming me a new one.
tomek.mda said 3 years ago
I'm pretty speachless. Shame on you Skype.
I was using Skype since beginning, then using it on my WM phones and PDAs also, as soon as it was available.
Now it is time to look for another solution.Good luck Skype. You just shoot your foot.
You lost lots of customers, angried another bunch of them, and lost a trust people had in you. And you just made niche which will be filled by other company soon enough.Farewell.
jean_for said 3 years ago
I used skype beta on my t-mobile G1. And now no more. I just got a Samsung Galaxy S and cannot get Skype for it…. What's wrong with this company? Are you on drug or what?
diemster said 3 years ago
What could be the excuse to not develop skype on windows mobile 7 ????? This is in no way less experience that an Android…
Please explain…
kmacdowell said 3 years ago
Sad to see they discontinued Skype for Android G1s. Worked great for me. I hard to do a hard reset (not because of Skype) and was disappointed to see it was no longer available for download. I got a message telling me to get an Andriod 3g phone. Apparently they do not realize G1s are 3g.
terchoo said 3 years ago
Respected Mr.Peter!
i do appreciate your work. but i am shock you stop working on skype for windows mobile due to unable to provide good experience instead of make it correct.
i am surprise you stop providing service to FRING
the reason i do not know.
i am surprise you are working on ANDROID, Iphone, Symbian but not for WINDOWS MOBILE.
even you do not care of your customers who are using windows mobile.
today you and your SKYPE is successful because you are caring your customer and providing them GOOD quality service.
but this time you are totally ignoring US which is not fair.
any ways….BEST OF LUCK SKYPE -
billejones said 3 years ago
I really really hate skype for this.
Now I see that I can get Skype on certain televisions – but not on my windows phone. How ridiculous is that – and totally eliminates the argument that its because oif userbase – I'd guarantee that use among WM users is many orders of magnitude higher than users of skype on their television.Oh-man – I wish I could drop skype use. I freakin hate them hate them hate them. I've been using Skype mobile for 5+ years, I've bought skype credits – Heck – I'd PAY for Skype mobile on WM and I'm being shut-out – discarded. Punk Fargin Bastages.
aidan.keating said 3 years ago
I am absolutely schocked at your lack of devotion and focus to users of windows mobile phone users.
Firstly, I had no issues whatsoever when calling or writing using Skype over my 3G connection with my HTC touch2 in the past. Skype to Skype involved no extra costs as internet connectivity is part of my mobile plan.
Secondly, I just had to get my phone repaired and now I find myself incapable of downloading Skype again. This means, I can no longer save money by calling skype to skype.
If you notice some people CAN in fact use it, it would be kind of you to leave it available for them to download the application and not simply forget that segment of your market. Who may very well change voIP providers in passing if this is not resolved.


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The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has opened dozens of fraud investigations of taxpayer-funded daycare centers following an overhaul launched earlier this year meant to detect abuse in the state program.
There are 64 open investigations in 21 counties of state-funded daycare centers, according to information from ODJFS obtained through a public records request. That includes seven investigations in Montgomery County, nine in Hamilton County and one in Butler County.
Those daycare centers, operated both out of homes and small businesses, are run by private providers that are reimbursed by the state for watching children of low-income, working parents. In January, the state spent $6 million to switch to a new billing method meant to try to weed out dishonest daycare centers billing for nonexistent childcare. In March, ODJFS announced the creation of an anti-fraud unit.
Ben Johnson, spokesman for ODJFS, declined to provide additional information about the 64 open investigations, other than to say they are ongoing.
"Some of them will most likely result in more serious action," Johnson said. "In at least a couple cases, local law enforcement is involved."
The number of fraud investigations is in stark contrast to 2011. When the Dayton Daily News contacted the state last year for a story about the program, state officials said they weren't aware of any documented instances of child care fraud.
"It's like night and day," Joel Potts, executive director of the Ohio Job and Family Services county directors association, said of the state's attitude toward preventing fraud in the program. He said publicity about vulnerabilities in the program and fraud charges for child care providers in Lima and Columbus may have jolted the state into taking the issue more seriously.
"They're (the state) finally starting to see what we've been saying all along: Yhere are certainly opportunities for abuse in the system, and the few are making it bad for the many," Potts said.
Federal funding has been available since the welfare-to-work initiatives of the 1990s to subsidize day care costs for low-income working parents. The program in 2010 paid $600 million for Ohio families to day care providers.
In January, the state brought online an electronic billing system that replaced an old paper-billing method.
Here's how the new billing system works: Each child is assigned a unique identification card, which their parent or guardian uses to swipe them in and out at state-licensed child care centers. That information — showing when the child was in day care down to the minute — is sent to the state, which in turn sends money to the providers for the number of hours of care provided.
Data analysts also pore over the billing activity for suspicious patterns — for instance, children who check in and out at the exact same time every day.
Before January, parents filled out paper time sheets that documented when their children were at a center. Those time sheets were largely based on the honor system, and critics said they were easy for dishonest providers and parents to fake.
Since making the billing changeover, the state has launched at least 80 investigations of possible fraud, either in response to allegations from the public or as a result of data analysis.
Of those, 16 were closed, including one in Montgomery County, after state officials determined fraud wasn't taking place. The most common allegations that led to the investigations were reports of daycare providers who were improperly keeping parents' swipe cards and suspicious swipe card activity.
The investigations for all of the closed cases were ended a few days after they were opened. On the other hand, the open cases provided to this newspaper have been open for weeks or months, with one in Montgomery County dating back to April.
Potts didn't have direct knowledge of the open cases, but said: "I would assume … if it's not dismissed quickly, that means they've looked at it and said there's something more here."
There have been two fraud-related prosecutions of taxpayer-funded daycare centers in Ohio this year.
Last February, the owner of a home-based daycare center in Columbus was charged with stealing more than $18,000 from the program for delivering non-existent child care. A trial is scheduled for Dec. 10, according to Franklin County court records.
And in July, the owner of two child care centers in Lima was convicted of racketeering and theft among other charges for billing the government for providing $27,000 worth of non-existent care for 17 children. Another 14 people, including parents and child care center workers, have since pleaded guilty to various crimes for their roles in the scheme.
Besides cracking down on fraud and abuse, the new swipe card system is supposed to save money by shifting billing responsibilities from counties to the state and streamlining the process. That hasn't happened yet, at least according to Erin Thomas-Brodine, budget office supervisor for the Clark County Department of Job and Family Services.
"We're all saying it should (save money), but it hasn't happened yet," Thomas-Brodine said. "We're almost 11 months into this …we don't see our workload decreasing at all."
In fact, Clark County's administrative workload has increased, possibly doubling or tripling, she said. This is in part because many parents or guardians fail to bring their swipe cards when they drop off their children, or when they pick them up.
When that happens, the provider basically takes down an IOU, which the county is required to spend time verifying and processing. The bureaucratic process from start to finish to handle these manual claims can take two months, resulting in delayed payments for providers, Thomas-Brodine said.
"It's putting a lot of burden on the counties and the daycare centers," she said.
Potts with the state county JFS directors association said he thinks parents will start remembering their cards if daycare providers and counties toughen up.
"We don't let people go into the grocery store and say, oh, I forgot my EBT (electronic benefits transfer, more commonly known as food stamp) card. Let me just write on a piece of paper that I owe $100 worth of groceries. Just send it to county JFS," Potts said. "No, that would be insane."
Johnson with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said the state has cut off some daycare providers that refused to switch to the new electronic billing system. Otherwise, the state is working with counties to try to improve the paperwork process, he said.
"We're pleased with the system, and we like everything we've seen so far. But we're only nine or 10 months in, and there are certainly changes we can make that will make it work even better," Johnson said.
Staff Writer Josh Sweigart contributed to this story
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The I-Team contacted the state to follow up on changes launched this year meant to reduce abuse of its daycare system. We will continue to monitor the impact of these changes.
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