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Welcome to the Seventh Annual American River Parkway Half-Marathon, the world's only Half-Marathon with two separate courses - one for Runners and one for Walkers!Speaking of courses, we are pleased to announce NEW ROUTES FOR THIS YEAR'S RACE. See below for details!
This race has two separate half marathon courses. One for runners and run/walkers and one just for walkers. Both courses are USATF certified and are out-and-back loops along the scenic American River Parkway. Both start and finish at William Pond park.THE RUNNERS' HALF MARATHON COURSE is for runners and run/walkers and features a fast, flat paved course that's great for a PR. The new route this year will travel over the "Little Golden Gate" suspension foot bridge and proceed through the "Lost Trails" section of Parkway. The balance of the course loops downstream along American River Parkway flowing through forests of Old Growth Oak trees, native riparian landscape and the beautiful Avenue of the Poppies. This course also has no motor traffic on the course. There are plenty of aid stations and entertainment along the course.THE WALKERS' HALF MARATHON COURSE is for walkers only (no running at any time) and features a generous time-limit course suitable for the most leisurely of paces! The Walkers' course winds upstream on the parkway trail along the most pristine portion of the American River Parkway. You'll see an abundance of wildlife and flora and walk though the famed Enchanted Forest. The route this year will cross the Sunrise Footbridge and proceed through the Sacramento Bar Park before turning around. No motor traffic anywhere on the course! As usual, there are water stations every mile, plenty of portable facilities, and no car-traffic to worry about!THE 5K TRAIL FOOTRACE course has been updated to include a trail section that travels through a very beautiful section of the Parkway.The 5K Course is open to walkers and runners and everything in between.
In addition to one of the most beautiful and scenic Half-Marathon courses in America, the race also includes: An unforgettable start-line procession including the return of the incredible and inspiring bagpipe marching band, Eco-friendly tech race shirts, live bands along both courses, bling-worthy finisher medals and awards, chip timing, perfect weather and loads of post-race food and entertainment.
• The Walkers' Half-Marathon starts at 7:15 a.m.• Runner's Half-Marathon starts at 7:45 a.m.• The 5k starts at 8:00 a.m.
Late registration (if the race is not full and it may be this year) and race day packet pick-up will be available at the race venue during the following times:• Walkers' Half Marathon: 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. • Runners' Half-Marathon and 5k: 6:00 a.m. to 7:30 a.m.
Participants may enter from the South or North Side of the River. There are three main routes. 1) South side of River: From HWY 50, take Bradshaw Ave North exit. Turn right on Folsom Boulevard. Turn Left on Rod Beaudry. Drive into River Bend Park (Formerly Geothe Park) and parking signage will direct you. 2) North side of River: From HWY 50 take Watt Ave Exit North. Turn Right on Fair Oaks and travel 2.5 miles. Turn Right on Arden and travel 1 mile to park entrance. 3) From Capitol City FWY (Business Loop 80) take Arden Way East Exit. Stay on Arden - it runs right into the park entrance.
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Age Divisions• Half-Marathons: 13-15, 16-18, 19-24; five year increments to age 74, 75+• 5K Race: 12 and under, 13-15, 16-18, 19-29, ten year increments thereafter to age 69, 70+.Awards will be presented to overall winners and age division winners on event day. Unclaimed awards will not be mailed, but you can contact us and we can make arrangements to get it to you!

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WASHINGTON (Yonhap) -- The United States government said Tuesday that it places a priority on addressing North Korea's human rights abuse.
"The United States remains deeply concerned about the human rights situation in the DPRK (North Korea), including forced labor camps," the State Department said in a press release. "Promoting human rights is a key component of our policy toward North Korea, and how the DPRK addresses human rights will have a significant impact on the prospects for closer U.S.-DPRK ties." The department said the U.S. raised human rights issues in a series of high-level talks with the North on ways to restart nuclear talks. An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 North Koreans are incarcerated in Soviet-style gulags, according to activists. |


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If You decide to make one Youself (DIY style) - precision will be horrible.
That is the kind of detail I am interested in : what is the difficulty in making precise robots? Are there special actuators that are required? If so, are such precise actuators available commercially?
I am also interested in what is the difficulty of using somewhat precise sensors in a robotic gripper. Are there no commercial and relatively inexpensive (compared to the insane $35000 price tag of the gripper I mentioned) options for sensors?
I understand that designing a precise robot is very difficult and expensive -- but I want to know if there are other, more "physical" constraints on building relatively inexpensive (say, with a price comparable to a car) robots.
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A Democrat who was challenging Hamilton County Commissioner Greg Hartmann in this fall's election has left the race due to work commitments.
Greg Harris, a West Sider who is a former Cincinnati city councilman, said Monday night that a contract awarded to his educational consulting firm means he will be spending a large amount of time outside of the region. Harris' firm, New Governance Group, recently was awarded a major contract with a nonprofit group in Delaware that seeks to improve public education in that state.
"When I filed (to run for commissioner), I filed in all sincerity," Harris said. "It was before I got this contract."
He added, "I feel bad. This was a race I really wanted to run in, but with all the traveling, I'm not equipped to give it the time it deserves."
Harris, 40, announced his candidacy in early December, when he filed paperwork to run against Hartmann, a Republican incumbent who is seeking his second term.
The Hamilton County Democratic Party now will be able to select a replacement for Harris on the Nov. 6 ballot.
Harris was appointed in January 2009 to Cincinnati City Council to fill the unexpired term of John Cranley, who was facing term limits. But Harris lost in an election that November, finishing 10th in balloting for the nine-member group, missing the final spot by about 3,400 votes. During his brief term, Harris angered the city's police and firefighter unions by suggesting changes that he said would improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Through his consulting firm, Harris had served as public policy advisor for Cincinnati-based KnowledgeWorks Foundation, a national education philanthropy that seeds educational practices and policy reforms.
An Illinois native, Harris moved to the region in 1993 to attend graduate school at Miami University in Oxford. He stayed here after graduation and served from 2000-05 as executive director of Citizens for Civic Renewal, a nonprofit public advocacy group that promotes good government, volunteerism and civic involvement.
Harris ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic challenger to U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Westwood) twice, in 2002 and 2004. He also was prepared to challenge Hartmann for the Hamilton County Commission seat in 2008 until Democratic Party leaders cut a deal with the GOP and asked Harris to step aside and let Hartmann run unopposed. A reluctant Harris complied.
As part of CityBeat's continuing election coverage, we've once again sent a questionnaire to the non-incumbent Cincinnati City Council candidates to get their reactions on a broad range of issues.
Nine of the 14 non-incumbents chose to answer our questions. Others either didn't respond or couldn't meet the deadline.
During the next few weeks, we will print the responses from the non-incumbents to a different topic each time.
Today's question is, "What are your thoughts on consolidating some city and county services? If you support the concept, are there specific services that should be considered for consolidation? Conversely, are there specific services that should be deemed off-the-table?"
The rollback saves property owners $70 in taxes for every $100,000 of valuation. For the next two years they will be paying an extra $35 per $100,000 of their home's value.
The money will be used to balance the stadium fund, which faces a $7 million deficit. The rollback reduction is expected to raise about $10 million. The board voted 2-1 for the proposal, with sole Democrat Todd Portune dissenting.
"The property tax rollback measure that has been advanced so far buys us only one year, and next year we will be doing the same thing we are doing today," Portune said.
Portune favored raising the sales tax by 0.25 cents — to 6.75 — per dollar, which would have raised more than $30 million over 10 years. His proposal, which failed to receive any support, would have expired after the 10 years and gone up for review annually after the first five.
Portune said his proposal was more equitable. He said reducing the property tax rollback was going to affect only Hamilton County residential property owners, whereas a sales tax increase would affect everyone who spends money in the county, including visitors from neighboring Kentucky and Indiana.
Portune billed the tax increase as a long-term solution that would raise more than was needed currently but would keep the fund stable in years to come.
Board President Greg Hartmann, who authored the rollback reduction proposal, called Portune's plan "a bridge too far." He said it was too large of a tax increase and not a targeted approach to solve the deficit problem. He said he didn't trust future commissions to allow the tax increase to expire.
Hartmann called the property tax rollback reduction flexible, scalable, clean, immediate and certain.
Commissioner Chris Monzel, who provided the deciding vote, said he didn't like either and had to go against his principles with either choice.
"No way I walk out of this without breaking a promise. No way I walk out of this winning," he said.
Monzel said he hopes that savings from the Affordable Care Act would allow the county to lower its property tax rates to make up for the rollback reduction.
Monzel also introduced a successful proposal that will include an annual review of the tax budget to make sure property taxes don't change, a provision requiring parking revenue from The Banks to be used to develop The Banks and a directive for the county administrator to work with Cincinnati's professional sports teams on concessions they can make to help out with the stadium funding burden.
He was hired by Republicans, and now he's been fired by Republicans.
Hamilton County commissioners voted 2-1 today to fire County Administrator Patrick Thompson. Republicans Greg Hartmann and Chris Monzel voted to terminate Thompson, with Democrat Todd Portune opposed.
Amid the recent controversy about possibly adding more publicly subsidized housing for the poor in Green Township, local Republicans will hold a special forum tonight to discuss methods for blocking the expansion.
Apparently, some Republicans across Ohio disagree with their GOP colleague, Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters.
In a motion filed Wednesday with the Ohio Supreme Court, the County Commissioners Association of Ohio (CCAO) seeks to intervene in the complaint that Hamilton County commissioners filed against Deters. The CCAO, which is a bipartisan group that has numerous Republican members, asks to join the case as a "friend of the court" on the commissioners' side.
Here we go again.
This week's Porkopolis column in the CityBeat issue that hit the streets today details how a recent plan by two Hamilton County commissioners to close a deficit in the county's stadium account by delaying a payment to Cincinnati Public Schools was pushed despite knowing school officials wouldn't agree, thus scuttling the proposal.
Tongues are wagging over a harsh e-mail exchange between two of Hamilton County's top Democrats about who should be appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board of Elections (BOE).
The e-mail exchange Monday between Hamilton County Commissioner Todd Portune and Hamilton County Democratic Party Chairman Tim Burke revolves around what criteria should be used when selecting a board member.


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Blog | Oct 30, 2012 | 4:32 PMIn the FBI's 2011 crime statistics report released Monday, the rate of auto thefts dropped 3% from 2010. Auto thefts ??? attempted or successful ??? were 174.9 per 100,000 Americans in 2011, down from 180.3 in 2010. In 2007, it...... -
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text: Home Culture Review: 'Is Marriage for White People?' An upcoming book instructs black women to marry outside of their race to solve their relationship woes. By: Jenée Desmond-Harris Posted: June 21 2011 12:34 AM 0 Thinkstock When titles for this book were being considered, perhaps Why Middle Class Black Women Can't Find a Man and How the Whole Problem Could Be Solved if They Would Just Marry White Guys didn't have quite the ring the publisher was after. But that's pretty much what Stanford Law professor Ralph Richard Banks' Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone (in stores this September) is all about. The provocative, headline-grabbing big question (inspired by a journalist's 2006 account of her conversation with an African-American sixth-grader) turns out to be there mostly to signal, "Attention, black bloggers, hosts of urban radio shows and white people, too: This is about to be a controversial analysis of marriage and race. Get ready for a lively debate with lots of interrupting." By the time you reach the solution presented at the end of the book -- that black women should shift the power balance by opening themselves to interracial marriage -- you realize the author hasn't even attempted to explore, let alone answer, the cover's quandary. Oh, and the argument that the subtitle promises to make about how blacks' marriage decline affects everyone? You can forget about that, too. Presumably added to broaden the scope of the book's appeal, the topic gets a few nods in the background chapters, "The Marriage Decline" and "What Has Become of Marriage?" with tacked-on attempts at inclusiveness such as, "With respect to marriage and childbearing, white follows black, a pattern that exemplifies the universality of the African-American family experience." Proclamations like this would probably be fascinating if they were fully unpacked, but alas, that's all we get. It's safe to say that the solution offered up in the final chapter (marry interracially!) is less than universal. It's presented solely to black women looking to "shift the power balance" between themselves and black men. Thus, anyone else who picks up this book hoping to discover how the plight of the women whose stories animate its pages (39-year-old "smart, funny, well-educated, attractive" consultant Audrey, who says, "At this point in my life I thought I'd be married with children"; or Cecilia, a University of Michigan grad who struggles with her "blue-collar brother" husband, to name two) relates to their own lives will be left without much to take away. That is, unless you count new insights into the cultural forces that can make natural hair a challenge when dating black men and the nuances of "swag." It's no wonder Banks tried to hide the real content of the book behind a decoy of a title. This project reveals itself to be the latest in a seemingly never-ending conversation analyzing the prospects of unmarried, professional, African-American women. Black women are sick to death of this topic, and understandably so. It's been rehashed unsatisfyingly and, at times, infuriatingly, in recent years, peaking with a Nightline special, "Why Can't a Successful Black Woman Find a Man?" It was co-hosted by Steve Harvey. In the words of Melissa Harris Perry, "The serious, interesting and sensitive social and personal issues ... were hijacked by superficial, cartoonish dialogue that relied heavily on personal anecdotes and baseless personal impressions while perpetuating damaging sexism." Is Marriage for White People? will have to answer to some of the same critiques, starting with the initial choice to dramatize the dilemma facing African-American women for whom "unmarried has become the new normal, single the new black," and blaming the "problem" on simple individual choices, instead of a complex set of issues with many causes, effects and stakeholders. But we can tire of the way the issue is framed without boycotting attempts to get it right. And there are chapters nestled in the middle of the book that should be applauded for accomplishing Banks' stated goal: to tell the stories of single black women and "capture their lives as they experience it." He explains that he supplemented personal stories with insights gained from literature, fusing insights from social science research and personal interviews. In chapters 3 through 6: mission accomplished. Banks promises the reader to attempt to understand why so many black women are single by considering the challenges they face when looking for a mate. And he does that. These barriers are outlined in the chapters that follow: "The Marriage Decline," "The Man Shortage," "The Market," "Power Wives" (income disparities within marriages) and "What About the Children?" (pregnancy out of wedlock). Page 1 of 2 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre


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The New York Post reports that Roc Nation, the entertainment company founded by music producer and entrepreneur Jay-Z, is targeting Portland Winterhawks blueliner and potential first overall NHL pick Seth Jones as a client. "When Seth comes to the NHL draft in June, his family, agents at CAA (Creative Artists Agency) and Roc Nation are going to have a powwow to see if he'll sign with them," a source told the newspaper on Tuesday. Jones, the son of Nets assistant coach and former NBA player Popeye Jones, is represented by CAA - which is already a partner of Roc Nation. The Post's Kristen Fleming adds that Jay-Z's group wants to strike a deal to be involved in the Jones's marketing and branding. Roc Nation already represents a large stable of artists, producers and songwriters and is reportedly looking to expand into sports representation.


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In Sicily, Defying the Mafia
Fed up with extortion and violent crime, ordinary citizens are rising up against organized crime
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Until recently, Ernesto Bisanti could not have imagined he would face down the Cosa Nostra (Our Thing)—the Sicilian Mafia. In 1986 Bisanti started a furniture factory in Palermo. Soon after, a man he recognized as one of the neighborhood's Mafiosi visited him. The man demanded the equivalent of about $6,000 a year, Bisanti told me, " 'to keep things quiet. It will be cheaper for you than hiring a security guard.' Then he added, 'I don't want to see you every month, so I will come every June and December, and you will give me $3,000 each time.' " Bisanti accepted the deal—as had nearly all the shop and business owners in the city.
The arrangement lasted for two decades. "Sometimes he showed up with a son in tow," Bisanti recalled, "and he would say, 'Please tell my son that he has to study, because it's important.' It became like a relationship." A stocky man with gray hair, Bisanti, 64, told me the money wasn't that burdensome. "In their system, it's not important how much you pay. It's important that you pay," he said. "It's a form of submission."
Then, in November 2007, police arrested Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the head of Palermo's Mafia. A notebook found in Lo Piccolo's possession contained a list of hundreds of shop and business owners who paid the pizzo—an ancient word of Sicilian origin meaning protection money. Bisanti's name was on the list. The Palermo police asked him if he would testify against the extortionist. Not long ago, such a public denunciation would have meant a death sentence, but in recent years police raids and betrayals by informers have weakened the Mafia here, and a new citizens group called Addiopizzo (Goodbye Pizzo) has organized resistance to the protection rackets. Bisanti said yes, took the witness stand in a Palermo courtroom in January 2008 and helped send the extortionist to prison for eight years. The Mafia hasn't bothered Bisanti since. "They know that I will denounce them again, so they are fearful," he said.
This sun-drenched island at the foot of the Italian peninsula has always been a place of conflicting identities. There is the romantic Sicily, celebrated for its fragrant citrus groves, stark granite mountains and glorious ruins left by a succession of conquerors. The vast acropolis of Selinunte, built around 630 B.C., and the Valley of the Temples at Agrigento—described by the Greek poet Pindar as "the most beautiful city of the mortals"—are considered among the finest vestiges of classical Greece, which ruled Sicily from the eighth to the third centuries B.C. In the ninth century A.D., Arab conquerors built frescoed palaces in Palermo and Catania; few churches are more magnificent than Palermo's Palantine Chapel, erected from 1130 to 1140 by Sicily's King Roger II during a period of Norman domination. Natural splendors abound as well: at the eastern end of the island rises Mount Etna, an 11,000-foot-high active volcano, beneath which, according to Greek mythology, lies the serpentine monster Typhon, trapped and entombed for eternity by Zeus.
But Sicily is also known as the birthplace of the Mafia, arguably the most powerful and organized crime syndicate in the world. The term, which may derive from the adjective mafiusu—roughly "swaggering" or "bold"—gained currency in the 1860s, around the time of Giuseppe Garibaldi's unification of Italy. It refers to the organized crime entrenched in Sicily's then-isolated, largely rural society. When Allied forces invaded Sicily during World War II, they sought help from Italian-American mobsters with Sicilian ties, such as Vito Genovese, to secure control of the island. The Allies even allowed Mafia figures to become mayors there. Over the next few decades, the Cosa Nostra built relationships with Italian politicians—including Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti (who served seven terms between 1972 and 1992)—and raked in billions through heroin trafficking, extortion, rigged construction contracts and other illegal enterprises. Those who dared speak out were usually silenced with a car bomb or a hail of bullets. Some of the most violent and consequential Mafia figures came from Corleone, the mountain town south of Palermo and the name novelist Mario Puzo conferred on the American Mafia family central to his 1969 novel, The Godfather.
Then, in the 1980s, two courageous prosecutors (known in Italy as investigating magistrates), Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, using wiretapping and other means, persuaded several high-ranking mobsters to break the oath of silence, or omerta. Their efforts culminated in the "maxi- trial" of 1986-87, which exposed hidden links between mobsters and government officials, and sent more than 300 Cosa Nostra figures to prison. The Mafia struck back. On May 23, 1992, along the Palermo airport highway, hit men blew up an armored limousine carrying Falcone, 53, and his magistrate-wife Francesca Morvillo, 46, killing them and three police escorts. Borsellino, 52, was killed by another bomb, along with his five bodyguards, as he walked to his mother's Palermo doorway less than two months later.
But rather than crippling the anti-Mafia movement, the assassinations—as well as subsequent Mafia car bombings in Milan, Florence and Rome that killed a dozen people—galvanized the opposition. In January 1993, Salvatore ("The Beast") Riina, the Cosa Nostra's capo di tutti i capi, or boss of all bosses, from Corleone, who had masterminded the assassinations, was captured near his Palermo villa after two decades on the run. He was tried and sentenced to 12 consecutive life terms. Riina was succeeded by Bernardo ("The Tractor") Provenzano, who shifted to a low-key approach, eliminating most violence while continuing to rake in cash through protection rackets and the procurement of public building contracts. In April 2006, police finally tracked down Provenzano and arrested him in a crude cottage in the hills above Corleone; he had been a fugitive for 43 years. Provenzano went to prison to serve several consecutive life sentences. His likely successor, Matteo Messina Denaro, has also been on the run since 1993.
Even before Provenzano's arrest, a quiet revolution had begun to take hold in Sicilian society. Hundreds of businesspeople and shopkeepers in Palermo and other Sicilian towns and cities began refusing to pay the pizzo. Mayors, journalists and other public figures who once looked the other way started speaking out against the Mafia's activities. A law passed by the Italian parliament in 1996 allowed the government to confiscate the possessions of convicted Mafia figures and turn them over, gratis, to socially responsible organizations. In the past few years, agricultural cooperatives and other groups have taken over mobsters' villas and fields, converting them into community centers, inns and organic farms. "We've helped local people change their views about the Mafia," says Francesco Galante, communications director of Libera Terra, an umbrella organization led by an Italian priest that today controls nearly 2,000 acres of confiscated farmland, mainly around Corleone. The group has created jobs for 100 local workers, some of whom once depended on the Cosa Nostra; replanted long-abandoned fields with grapes, tomatoes, chickpeas and other crops; and sells its own brands of wine, olive oil and pasta throughout Italy. "The locals don't see the Mafia anymore as the only institution they can trust," Galante says.
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This is a good report on the debacle of mafia and the menace therein, the story tells that people shouldn't see themselves gods among men. No one can stand with God!!
Posted by gabriel on June 25,2013 | 06:20 AM
jesus christ i must admit i'm impressed by the turn out against mafia crimes i myself a victim of a terrible act a quoted sicilian car bomb blew up my skull by the grace of god i survived suffering a coma for three days crushed eye socket eye ball contusion blindness cranial damage crushed nasal arch injury to my spine and brain stem suffering traumatic brain injury life long illness and injury i am very pleased with this out come god bless you all
Posted by yolanda jones on December 18,2011 | 01:48 PM
I am really impressed with the guts of those who would stand up to the Mafia. I for onr will reward them by taking a trip to Scicily and spending my tourist dollars.
Posted by Lee Robinson on December 9,2010 | 06:18 PM
Joshua Hammer's article is brilliant. However, it's a shame that the mayor of Corleone, (my home town), Nino Iannazzo didn't tell you about the anti mafia centre in the centre of Corleone that was created with government and UN money in the year 2000 to create a firm standing point to fight the mafia adopting an educational and cultural route. The reason? Well I and five other people used to work there, servicing over six thousand visitors per year; many from GCT travel in the states. When Iannazzo won his term in office, he couldn't be bothered to seek funding for the centre, citing a legal battle with the outgoing mayor, Nicolosi, for control of the centre as his excuse; thus we areout of work. Fair enough, but now that he has control? He isn't capable of obtaining funding. Instead he has opened a centre promoting anti mafia using a confiscated building. Why spend money there when you already have an anti mafia centre? Well he took care of some of his friends. It's also a shame he didn't explain why he sold the public water network in Corleone and placed it in private hands………..the reason? Take a look at some of the new employees…………..all friends of the mayor! Our water bills have now quadrupled! Nino is a competent lawyer, no doubt, but a "hands-on anti mafia campaigner? NO. Under his administration, we haven't taken such a retrograde step in years.
Posted by Gino Felicetti on November 4,2010 | 07:14 AM
Joshua Hammer makes reference to "stark granite mountains" and "dramatic granite ridges". Quite probably the only granite in Sicily is on kitchen counter tops. Mr. Hammer is most likely referencing the limestone hills that dot the central Sicilian plains and are a fascinating geological story in themselves.
Posted by Rick Whitman on October 21,2010 | 03:51 PM
I was born in Sicily,I red the article and it took me back to my town. The writing is absolutely interesting, the pictures re visualized my memory. I will read any new article written by Mr Hammer,related to Sicily. Also hope to see things get better for the locals dealing with this for ever environment. Beautifully written.
Posted by Nick Cervegnano on October 18,2010 | 04:44 PM
Joshua Hammer's outstanding article, "Defying the Godfather"(October 2010)was a revelation about courageous Sicilians taking on the Mafia. Interestingly, the Mafia's prime nemesis in past years was Benito Mussolini. As distinguished historian,Robert Leckie noted, "He waged successful war against Sicily's entrenched Mafia, putting 400 top mafiosi in prison and reducing Palermo Province's annual murder rate from 278 to twenty-five."
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The bar will be called The Joinery and will open this autumn after Underworld moves out of its temporary premises and back into the revamped factory. It looks like Nick also offers the manager's job to ex-wife Leanne.
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No surprise there, it's the Leanne connection he's milking, innit? Peter isn't going to like that one bit!
- 9 August 2010 10:37
How can another bar be successful in 'the street'?
Of course Nick is setting it up with Leanne in mind.
It would provide a new venue for action but Liz shouldn't worry too much; can't see it being a feature for long as The Rovers is the 'only place in town' for regulars to gather! - 9 August 2010 12:21
Do I smell opening night on a certain 9th December 2010?
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opening night... right in time for the tram crash! Obviously that's going to destroy the bar or else the construction of it is what weakens the viaduct to cause the crash.
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Good theories Seanie and Tvor.
- 9 August 2010 15:14
Great bar shoutout to ben price a.k.a nick hes amazing and georgeous!x
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Mayopoulos told the conference that his counterpart at Freddie Mac, Donald Layton, also is trying to build a new and improved infrastructure for housing finance.
Meanwhile, Carol Galante, acting commissioner for the Federal Housing Administration, told the conference that her agency's future role is tied to the future of the GSEs, National Mortgage News reported. Any adjustments must be synchronized so all borrowers are covered.
Matthew Feldman, president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, cited the secondary market programs of his 12 FHLBs as models for what future mortgage programs could be. He told the conference that one of the most significant elements of the FHLBs is the requirement that lenders have "skin in the game" for loans sold into its Mortgage Partnership Finance program.
Feldman noted that in the future, the FHLBs presence in the secondary market could be either as aggregators or as financial intermediaries, and noted the "MPF Extra" program, which currently sells loans to Fannie Mae and is being expanded to sell to other groups, National Mortgage News reported.
Feldman told the conference that securitization does not need to occur at the FHLB level, but at a point where it offered the greatest benefit for its members, National Mortgage News reported.


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Airport and air navigation facilities.
Every airport and air navigation facility owned and operated by the United States which the Secretary determines is actually used in connection with the administration of a Federal program will be deemed a Federal installation under the provisions of section 3(e) of the Act, and the Secretary will determine the smallest practicable tract which shall enclose such Federal installations. Such Federal installations are not public lands as defined in the act and are therefore not lands available for selection under the provisions of these regulations.
The surface of all other lands of existing airport sites, airway beacons, or other navigation aids, together with such additional acreage or easements as are necessary to provide related services and to insure safe approaches to airport runways, shall be conveyed by the village corporation to the State of Alaska, and the Secretary will include in the conveyance to any village corporation any and all covenants which he deems necessary to insure the fulfillment of this obligation.
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Biographies of
omen Mathematicians
Alphabetical Index
Chronological Index
Did you Know Archive
Ingrid Daubechies
has been awarded the 2012 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, one of the largest monetary awards in the United States honoring outstanding achievements in mathematics. She was recognized "for her numerous and lasting contributions to applied and computational analysis and for the remarkable impact her work has had across engineering and the sciences." For more information, see the
in the August 2012 Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
Cheryl Praeger
has been elected as Vice President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction at its July 2012 General Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. The ICMI was founded in 1908 to foster efforts to improve worldwide the quality of mathematics teaching and learning.
Sarah Hermann, Julia Huang, Danielle Wang, and Victoria Xia represented the United States in the first European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad at Murray Edwards College in England, April 12-13, 2012, with the team coming in 4th among the 19 countries participating. Danielle and Victoria won gold medals while Sarah and Julia won bronze medals. For more details, see the
EGMO website
Lisa Sauermann, a resident of Germany, is ranked No. 1 in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame, having won four gold medals (2008-2011) and one silver medal (2007) in this international mathematics competition. She received a perfect score of 42 on the 2011 exam, the only participant to do. She is currently a student at the University of Bonn.
For the sixth year in a row the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute will be sending eight of the brightest young women in mathematics to participate in the 2012 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad. The competition was originally established as a regional competition for teams of female high school students from China and other eastern Asian countries (including Russia). Several years ago China expanded the competition to countries from around the world, with the USA, Canada, South Africa, and Australia among the invitees. The team will spend three weeks preparing for the competition at the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program offered by the Mathematical Association of America on the campus of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. The Olympiad will be held from August 8-12 in Guangzhou in the Guangdong Province. The members of the USA team are Courtney Guo, Laura Pierson, Gabriella Studt, Alicia Weng, Jingyi Zhao, Cynthia Day, Danielle Wang, and Victoria Xia. For details, see the
press release
from MSIR, and for updates from team members visit the
MSIR website
The Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University will present a Program for Women and Mathematics on 21st-Century Geometry from May 14 to May 25, 2012. The program will bring together research mathematicians and women undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral scholars for an intensive workshop held on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. For an application (due Feb. 20, 2012) and more information, go to
Rebecca Burks, Christina Chen, Sarah Herrmann, Elaine Hou, Julia Huang, Danielle Wang, Tiffany Wu and Victoria Xia, members of the United States team at the 2011 China Girls Math Olympiad, all won medals at the competition held July 28 - August 3 in Shenzhen, China. Wang and Xia each won gold medals, while a silver medal was awarded to Huang. The remaining team members each won bronze medals. The tenth annual Olympiad drew 192 girls from countries such as Japan, Russia, the United States, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and China. For more information and an online travelogue from the team members, visit the
of one of the team's sponsors, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), or read the
MSRI press release
Shijie (Joy) Zheng, a member of the class of 2011 at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, is the only girl among the twelve winners of the 40th U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad. The USAMO is a six-question, two-day, nine-hour essay/proof examination with problems requiring pre-calculus methods to be solved. Joy also won the The Wendy Ravech-Akamai Mathematics Scholar Award, presented for the first time at the Mathematical Olympiad Awards Ceremony that took place on June 6 at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C. She received a gold medal for the U.S. team at the 2010 China Girls Mathematics Olympiad. For information about the USAMO winners, see the
press release
from the Mathematical Association of America.
Legacy of Light
is an award winning play by playwright Karen Zacarias that features
Emilie du Châtelet
as one of the characters. The play intertwines the stories of Châtelet and Voltaire with that of a modern day couple where the wife, an astrophysicist, is struggling to balance a yearning for science with the emotional pull towards having a child. Parts of the play describe Chatelet's mathematical interests. Look for a production at a local playhouse.
The 14th Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will be held January 27-29, 2012. This is a national showcase for research of undergraduate women in the mathematical sciences. Plenary speakers will be Sara Billey from the University of Washington and
Ingrid Daubechies
from Duke University. The conference will also include talks and posters by undergraduate women and panel discussions on careers using mathematics and choosing a mathematics graduate program. Registration opens October 10. For more information, visit the
conference website
The Association for Women in Mathematics is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2011! In September the AWM held its "40 Years and Counting: AWM's Celebration of Women in Mathematics" at Brown University in Providence, RI. For more information about AWM anniversary events, visit the
AWM website
George Csicery's film
Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem
will be shown on public television stations via syndication by American Public Television beginning on October 2, 2011. This one-hour biographical documentary tells the story of
Julia Robinson
, an important American mathematician, against a background of mathematical ideas. For scheduled airdates, click
Irena Lasiecka, professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia, has been awarded the 2011 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize, one of the top international prizes in the field of differential equations and control theory. She is the first woman to receive the prize since its inception in 1994 by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Professor Lasiecka earned her Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Warsaw in 1975. For more information see the University of Virginia
press release
"In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age. Sixty-five years later their story has finally been told."
Read more
about about the new documentary "Top Secret Rosies: The female computers of World War II," available on some public television stations through American Public Television, Inc. Included are the stories of Doris Polksy, her sister Shirley Melvin, Marlyn Meltzer, and Betty Jean Bartik -- four of the 100 women recruited by the U.S. Army to do calculations and ballistics work.
Maria Monks is one of fourteen Churchill Scholars for 2010-2011. Maria received her BS degree in mathematics from MIT, with a minor in physics and a concentration in music. She was the recipient of the 2009 Alice T. Schafer Prize from the Association for Women in Mathematics and is already the single or joint author on five mathematical papers. Maria was also on the MIT Varsity Cross-Country team for four years, earning Most Valuable Player in 2006 and 2007. After her year at Cambridge University she will begin graduate studies in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. For more information about Maria, read the
MITnews press release
Of the eight high school girls who participated on the two U.S. teams at the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, seven students won top honors with five gold medals, one silver medal, one bronze medal, and one honorable mention. One of the two U.S. teams placed second overall behind a team from China. There were 48 teams of girls from about ten countries throughout the world. The competition was originally established as a regional competition for teams of female high school students from China and other eastern Asian countries (including Russia). Several years ago China expanded the competition to countries from around the world, with the USA, Canada, South Africa, and Australia among the invitees. For more information and an online travelogue from the team members, visit the
of one of the team's sponsors, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI).
Oscar winner filmmaker Alejandro Amenabar (of
The Others
) is the writer and director for a new movie called
, a historical drama set in early Egypt. According to one reviewer, "The film focuses on one of the most impressive female figures in history –
, a leading thinker in the Rome-governed Alexandria, considered to be the first notable woman of mathematics. She studied philosophy and astronomy, and both pagan and Christian students from far and wide came together to study under her." Oscar-winning actress Rachel Wiesz plays Hypatia, who "fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world." The film has recently been released to American theaters. For more information and links to trailers, see the
IMDb website
The International Conference of Women Mathematicians (ICWM) 2010 took place in Hyderabad, India, on August 17 and 18, 2010, over the two days immediately before the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. The meeting was aimed principally at women mathematicians attending the ICM (though men were also very welcome to attend), and in particular at young women mathematicians and women from Asia and from developing countries. An August 18, 2010
blog posting
from PLUS Magazine features a story about the conference and a podcast with conference delegates.
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The Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will be held January 28-30, 2011. The Conference is open to outstanding undergraduate women mathematicians at all stages of their careers. The bulk of the program will be talks given by the undergrads on their own research; there will also be a poster session for students who prefer to present their work that way. In addition,
Fan Chung
and Linda Petzold will give plenary lectures and there will be representatives from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, in addition to women mathematicians who have pursued a range of careers, both in and out of academia. There will be several panel discussions on topics such as graduate school, summer activities, and careers in mathematics, as well as break-out group discussions. There's more info on the web at
The first six programmers of the first electronic, digital, general-purpose computer, ENIAC, were all women, four of whom had majored in mathematics in college. The profiles of these women — Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence, and Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum — can be found on the website at the
Women in Technology International Hall of Fame
, along with links to additional information about the women and a video from their induction in the Hall of Fame. Each woman also has an entry on Wikipedia.
Kate Alexandra Geschwind (Mayo High School, Rochester, MN, "Explaining Wind Farm Output Using Regression Analysis"), Almas Abdulla (West Shore Junior/Senior High School, Melbourne, FL, "Universal Law for the Distribution of Odd Periodic Cycles within Chaos in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: A Fine Classification of Odd Cycles (Year III)"), and Evgeniia Iskanderovna Alekseeva (GOU Lyceum "Vtoraiia shkola", Moscow, Russia, "Hyperbolic Triangles of the Maximum Area and Two Fixed Sides") were Third Place Menger Award winners at the 2010 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in San Jose, California. For more information, see the
news release
from the American Mathematical Society.
Erika DeBenedictis, 18, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, won the top award of $100,000 in the Intel Science Talent Search 2010 for her project developing a software navigation system to help improve spacecraft travel through the solar system. Erika's research found that the gravity and movement of planets create "easy transit routes," which will ultimately help spacecraft move faster and with less fuel. She will be attending the California Institute of Technology starting in fall 2010. Watch a
YouTube video
of Erika describing her research project and its applications, or read her report at her
home page
Lynnelle Ye, 18, from Palo Alto, California, received a $40,000 award for her fourth place project that provided strategies for winning at a computer game titled "Graph Chomp." Katherine Rudolph, 18, of Naperville, Illinois, received a $20,000 award for her eighth place math project that investigated dense packing of identical spheres, the results of which can be used in fields from chemistry to cryptology.
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing was held in Atlanta, Georgia, from September 28 to October 2, 2010. The celebration is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. For more information, see the
conference website
Kirsten Wickelgren and Melanie Matchett Wood have been selected as this year's Five-Year fellows of the American Institute of Mathematics. Wickelgren received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and her PhD at Stanford. She will use her fellowship to continue her research at Harvard. Wood, a graduate of Duke University with a Master's degree from Cambridge University and a PhD from Princeton, will work at Stanford University. For more information, see the
from the AIM or the Autumn 2009 AIM
(pages 4-5).
The 2009 Felix Klein Medal was awarded to Gilah C. Leder from La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia, in recognition of her more than thirty years of sustained, consistent, and outstanding lifetime achievements in mathematics education research and development. This award is named for Felix Klein, the first president of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction. For more information about Professor Leder, see the
from the ICMI.
The seven members of the USA team for the 2009 China Girls Math Olympiad, held August 11-16 in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, all won metals. Pictured in the front row, from left to right: Carolyn Kim, Patricia Li, Jing-Jing (Shiyu) Li, Joy Zheng, Cynthia Day, Ramya Rangan, and Elizabeth Synge; behind the team in the second row are the teams' coaches: Jennifer Iglesias (a member of the US CGMO team in 2007 and 2008) and Zuming Feng, of Phillips Exeter Academy and academic director of the USAMO Summer Program since 2003. Shiyu Li and Joy Zheng each received a Gold medal, while the other five received either a Silver or Bronze medal (for the full results, see the
MSRI press release
). Read their
online journal
at the website of one of the team's sponsors, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). The journal describes their experiences at the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program at the University of Nebraska and their trip to China. The website also has links to past US teams' travelogues.
"An analysis of contemporary data has provided new evidence discrediting the notion that females are innately less capable than males at doing mathematics, especially at the highest level."
Read more
about the report from Janet E. Mertz and Janet S. Hyde of the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library.
On May 1, 2009, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematicians (SIAM) announced the inauguration of the SIAM Fellows Program to recognize members of SIAM distinguished for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied mathematics and computational science. Included among the 163 initial members of the SIAM Fellows Class of 2009 are
Ingrid Daubechies
Irene Fonseca
Nancy Kopell
Cathleen Morawetz
, and
Margaret Wright
. For additional information, see the
SIAM Fellows Program
online magazine: "Victoria Gould has led unusual parallel careers: not only has she been a successful actor, she is also a mathematician, working first as a researcher and now as a teacher and communicator of maths. Recently she helped develop theatre company Complicite's production 'A disappearing number', which perfectly brought together the mathematical and theatrical sides of her life. We talk to Victoria about her life in mathematics, and her life in theatre, and how the two work together." Read the interview in the
December 2008 issue
Alison Miller, a co-winner of the 2008 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics from the Association for Women in Mathematics, was awarded a Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University. Alison received her B.A. degree with Highest Honors in Mathematics from Harvard in 2008. She already has a mathematics research paper published in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. In 2004 she became the first girl to win a gold medal for the USA at the International Mathematical Olympiad. She was also a twice winner of the USA Mathematics Olympiad and twice won the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize as the top female college student in the Putnam Mathematics Competition. After her year at Cambridge, she will enter the Ph.D. program in mathematics at Princeton. Read the
for Alison's Schafer Prize at the AWM website.
Sana Raoof, a senior at Jericho High School, Jericho, NY, received a 2008 Intel Young Scientist Award and a $50,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation for her mathematics project on "Computation of the Alexander-Conway Polynomial on the Chord Diagrams of Singular Knots." She used mathematical knot theory to investigate and solve problems in biochemistry. Read about Sana in an
from the Rediff India Abroad, and listen to Sana explain her project at
The U.S. team won two gold, one silver, and five bronze medals at the 2008 China Girls Math Olympiad, led by Lynnelle Ye with a score of 87. For more information about the Girls Math Olympiad and comments from the U.S. participants, visit
On Friday, September 21, 2007, the NPR show "Science Friday" featured a story on "Girls, Women, and Math." The second hour of the show featured a segment on the eight high school girls who represented the US at the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (see next item). Guests included team member Jennifer Iglesias and one of the team coaches, Melanie Wood. Also appearing on the show was Dr. Maria Klawe, president of Harvey Mudd College and a Ph.D. mathematician, and actress Danica McKellar. For more information on both women, see the entries below. Information about the NRP show and podcasts of the show are available at
Sherry Gong, a 12th grader at the Phillip Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., earned a gold medal and tied for first place at the
2007 China Mathematical Olympiad for Girls
, held in Wuhan, China, August 11-16, 2007. Sherry had previously tied for second in the 2007 USA Mathematical Olympiad where she was the only girl among the top twelve winners. After a second rigorous team selection test, she was one of six members chosen to represent the United States at the 2007 International Mathematics Olympiad in Hanoi, Vietnam, July 19-30, 2007. Sherry was a member of two previous International Mathematics Olympiad teams when she competed with the 2005 U.S. team and the 2004 Puerto Rican team. For more details about the 2007 Olympiad, see the
at MAA Online. Read more about Sherry Gong when she was named the
2005 Clay Olympiad Scholar
in recognition of the most original solution to a problem on the 2005 USA Mathematics Olympiad.
The actress Danica McKellar, perhaps better known as Winnie from
The Wonder Years
, has written a math book for middle school girls called "Math Doesn't Suck". Danica graduated with highest honors from UCLA with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics, and is the co-author of a mathematical research paper published in the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. Her accomplishments in mathematics have been profiled in the New York Times, July 19, 2005 (section F). Listen to her February 11, 2006,
on NRP Weekend Edition in which she discusses this paper. Or visit the mathematics link on her
to read about her interest in mathematics.
In 1998 Melanie Wood became the first high school girl ever to win a spot on the United States Mathematical Olympiad Team. Melanie was the subject of the 2007 AWM Contest Grand Prize winning essay by Leena Shah, a middle school student from Brighton, Michigan. Read Leena's
from the AWM website. While a student at Duke University, Melanie was the first American woman, and second woman overall, to win the Putnam competition—a prestigious math competition for college students. Read her
in Math Horizons, September 2004, or the 2003 Duke University
about her accomplishments in math.
Frances E. Allen, who earned a masters in mathematics from the University of Michigan and is currently a fellow emerita of the T. J. Watson Research Center, received the 2006 A. M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery for her "pioneering contributions to the theory and practice of optimizing compiler techniques that laid the foundation for modern optimizing compilers and automatic parallel execution." She is the first woman to be honored with the Turing Award. For more information, see the ACM
press release
or the
about Allen. The ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory awarded its Knuth Prize to Nancy Lynch (Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her "influential contributions to the theory of distributed systems" and for her "seminal impact on the reliability of distributed computing systems." She is the first woman to receive the award. See the ACM
press release
Maria Klawe, who received her B.S. and PhD in mathematics from the University of Alberta, was inaugurated as the first woman President of Harvey Mudd College on February 2, 2007. For more information, see the
at MAA Online.
Ramdorai Sujatha of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research has been awarded the 2006 Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) for her work on the arithmetic of algebraic varieties and her contributions to noncommutative Iwasawa theory. For more information, read the article from
BBC News
Sarah Flannery gained fame when as a sixteen year old she became the winner of the 1998 Esat Young Scientist Exhibition and received both the 1999 Irish Young Scientist of the Year Award and the European Young Scientist of the Year Award for her work in the development of the Cayley-Purser algorithm in cryptography. In 2002 Sarah wrote a book called
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
about public-key cryptography, her work in developing this algorithm, and her enjoyment in solving mathematical puzzles. In 2003 she graduated from Peterhouse College of the University of Cambridge with a BA degree in computer science, went to work for Wolfram Research, and now works for Electronic Arts, a leading video game developer and publisher. Read a
of Sarah's book from the 2003 Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
On May 23, 2006, the Swedish mathematician Lennart Carleson received the Abel Prize for 2006 from the Queen of Norway. The next day Carleson presented his Abel Lecture. Three other prominent mathematicians were invited to give lectures in honor of the Abel Laureate. Two of these were
Lai-Sang Young
from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, who spoke on "A mathematical theory of strange attractors," and
Sun-Yang Alice Chang
from Princeton University, who spoke on "Conformal invariants and differential equations." Read more about the 2006
Abel Prize
The TV show
The Simpsons
often contains references to mathematics. A show called
Girls Just Want to Have Sums
aired on Sunday, April 30, 2006, and explored the topic of women in mathematics. See Dr. Sarah Greenwald's SimpsonsMath
at Appalachian State University for more details including a link to an interview with one of the writers for this episode.


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What have emerged instead are instances where members of the general public have taken up arms and killed innocent people.
Garbarino also points to a culture of gun violence, where killing people may seem like a viable and available solution to life's problems.
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The good news is that most people who have these risk factors will never take the next step, Garbarino said. They may play violent video games, talk about violence with friends and research it on the Internet, but they would never implement a full plan.
A major problem is that often, interventions happen when a person becomes dangerous or threatening. A young person should receive help when he or she is merely "troubled," Levin said -- for instance, if he or she is being bullied and harassed, and feels a profound sense of powerlessness.
Anti-bullying laws can help, he said. Parents, teachers, principals and school psychologists should step in when they realize a young person feels terrorized in school, Levin said. Most school shooters had been bullied chronically; bullying is not necessarily just a part of growing up.
"When we see those red flags in the life of a youngster, we should intervene," Levin said. "Not to prevent a murder, but to do it because it's the right thing to do.
"We would improve the quality of life for lots of people," he added, "and in the process we probably would prevent a murder or two."