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Random thoughts about Arizona vs. Xavier while wondering if Arizona can punch a ticket to the Final Four from southern California once again …
— Arizona is 10-8 overall in NCAA games at Los Angeles, Long Beach and Anaheim. The Wildcats have survived out of Los Angeles twice, both times leading to Final Four appearances — 1988 at Pauley Pavilion in the first and second rounds and 1994 at the L.A. Sports Arena in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight. The Wildcats have lost their lone game at the Staples Center, the Sweet 16 game against Ohio State two years ago. They lost in the Pac-12 tournament title games at Staples in 2011 and 2012. Everybody knows about Arizona's woes coming out of Anaheim. Can they reverse all that in southern California this time around? …
— The officiating assignments for the First Four, Second Round and Third Rounds were predetermined. The list for the Sweet 16 round has yet to be released. Twenty of the Pac-12's 28 referees were assigned to the first weekend of games last week. Tony Padilla worked the most games (three), including the First Four game between Dayton and Boise State. Twelve refereed multiple games. The only notable exclusion among the Pac-12 refs for the NCAA tourney is Bill Vinovich, who was the head referee in the Super Bowl in February.
— Kaleb Tarczewski is only 22 points shy of joining the top 10 center scorers in Arizona hoops history. He has 912 career points. Junior Crum (1945-49) is at No. 10 with 940. If Tarczewski stays for his senior season, he could conceivably crack the top five and join the likes of Bob Elliott (2,131), Channing Frye (1,789), Anthony Cook (1,590) and Sean Rooks (1,497).
— Tarczewski already ranks in the Top 10 in number of games started at 105. He is No. 10. If he comes back next year, he can challenge Jason Gardner's record of 135 starts between 1999-2003.
— Xavier senior post player Matt Stainbrook, a 2014-15 Big East second-team selection, has scored 1,464 points in his career.
— Xavier 6'10" sophomore forward Jalen Reynolds, who scored a career-high 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting vs. Georgia St. in the third round, was third in the Big East in field-goal percentage (62.0) and eighth in rebounding (6.9 a game). Reynolds joined the Musketeers in Los Angeles despite a school investigation into an undisclosed complaint from another Xavier student.
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— Arizona's record in the Sweet 16 when seeded higher than the opponent is 6-2. The Wildcats have won five consecutive games in that scenario. Their defeats were to No. 4 UNLV when seeded No. 1 in 1989 and to No. 3 Seton Hall when seeded No. 2 in 1991. Arizona is seeded No. 2 and Xavier No. 6 heading into tomorrow's game at the Staples Center.
— In three games against a high-quality opponent — Villanova — Xavier lost by scores of 88-75, 78-66 and 69-52. Expect Sean Miller and the scouting assistant to look over plenty of film of those games. In those losses, Xavier shot a combined 43.9 percent from the field and only 28.8 percent from three-point range. The Musketeers normally shoot 47.7 percent and 35.6 percent, respectively. In the end, Xavier is still dancing while Villanova is at home.
— Arizona goes from playing one of the best freshmen in the country — Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell — to playing the Big East's Freshman of the Year, forward Trevon Blueitt. The 6'5 wing player from Indianapolis turned down UCLA for the opportunity to play for Xavier. He took an official visit to UCLA on Aug. 30, 2013. Blueitt was also recruited by Arizona, Butler, Indiana, Michigan and Purdue. He averages 11.3 points and 4.3 rebounds a game.
— Arizona's rebounding margin of plus-9.2 is the best of Miller's 11-year coaching career. His previous best was 8.3 in his last year with Xavier in 2008-09.
— Aside from Miller's past affiliation with Xavier as its head coach, assistant Book Richardson came with Miller from there in 2009 as did former assistant James Whitford. The possibility existed that Miller would have brought current head coach Chris Mack with him too if Xavier hired somebody externally. Arizona director of basketball operations Ryan Reynolds also came with Miller from Xavier. He earned his bachelor's in sports management and a business minor in 2007. He earned his Master's in sport administration from Xavier in 2008.
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They've done it.
The Australian Matildas battled to a 3-2 victory over Brazil in the second leg of an International friendly match against at Macdonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle on Tuesday night.
The win for the Aussies marked their third-straight defeat of Brazil in recent months -- which is something they've never done before -- after dominating them 6-1 at the Tournament of Nations in the United States and then again 2-1 in Penrith in Sydney's west on Saturday.
The effort also equals their longest-ever win streak of five straight matches against other International teams -- but taking into account Tuesday night's win and also an earlier draw against Denmark in March, the Matildas are actually now on an eight match undefeated run of form.
But it didn't start as well as you would imagine for Australia's national women's team -- after just one minute of gameplay in Newcastle, the South American opposition made its intentions for the match very clear.
A perfectly picked cross from Brazil's Marta Vieira da Silva, who is often described as the best player right now in women's football, landed at the feet of Fabiana and was then sent rocketing into Australia's goal. 1-0.
From there the game was every bit as physical as the first contest over the weekend, with some hard knocks between players and free kicks being awarded for fouls all over the park.
Australia did manage to create its own opportunities in front of Brazil's goal, with super striker Sam Kerr always a reason to cause opposing defenders some stress.
But still, the Brazilians looked the greater side in much of the opening 45 minutes -- they were playing wider, more controlled and calculated football. It was creative and threatening, and that is exactly how you win matches.
But then, in one brief moment, the tide changed for the rest of the match -- and who else to bring the scores level once again but Kerr herself.
Standing almost on line of the 18-yard box during the 36th minute, the 24-year-old received a well-taken free kick from midfielder Emily Van Egmond straight onto her head, which was enough to send the ball lightly gliding straight into the goal. 1-1.
The match so far had been a lot tougher for the Aussies than Saturday's friendly series opener, but the result remained very much up in the air with 45 minutes still to be played.
And just like the Brazilians at the beginning of the first half, the Matildas started the second period of play just as strongly. After just two minutes, substitute winger Caitlin Foord managed to net the Australians another goal to take the lead.
And while it was well-and-truly a team effort that lead to that goal, it was Kerr once again who took control when she needed to in making a cracker pass and creating the opportunity.
It was messy and jumbled and there were players from both sides everywhere, but Australia was winning.
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From there, the Brazilians looked a little rattled by how strongly the Australians had taken to the restart in play and the Matildas looked to capitalise again, and again, and again.
Strike after strike, much of the next 15 minutes in the match featured Aussie players having a crack at Brazil's goal or at least getting close enough to cause a little worry. Kerr even managed to net another goal for herself, but it was called back as offside and disallowed.
And it wasn't long until she made it count -- after 66 minutes and some some rapid-fire-fast play, Kerr smacked Australia's third goal to the jubilation of the packed crowd of more than 16,000 supporters.
And just like when she scored against Japan in August, she took off to celebrate in the best way she knows how -- with her trademark backflip.
Some late tension between the two sides saw things get even more physical within the last 10 minutes of the match. Emotions were high, the tackles were hard and the yellow cards were flying out of the hands of the referee before Marta was eventually awarded a penalty.
And when you give the best player in any sport the chance to do what they're best at, the result is pretty much always clear -- straight off of her preferred left foot, she converted the penalty into a goal to bring the score to 3-2.
But that was all there was for the match.
As the time ticked down to zero, the Matildas had sealed the victory. But more importantly -- judging by the looks on the faces of many of the fans around the stadium after the final whistle -- they'd also won Australia's love for them, as this country's current favourite national football team.


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No matter how I come across on the page, I can be quite negative at times. Sure, everyone has bad days. But we shouldn't use this as an excuse for not trying to be better today than we were yesterday.
Sometimes, I become lost in the questions without answers, drowned from a lack of patience which seems as crucial to my sanity as oxygen to the blood.
I've found that this variety of the blues, mild yet harmful if not contained, can be quelled by counting blessings and rolling thoughts all the way around in gratitude. Not the kind with sharp edges. (This is so great, except for that…) But the kind of consciousness that accepts the hard moments without dwelling on them, leaving room to celebrate the beautiful moments by savoring and sharing.
Today, I am grateful for:
1. Motherhood. More than anything else in my life, my children have shown me who I really am. Strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes. They surprise and challenge and delight me in extraordinary ways. No matter what happens to me or who I end up becoming, I will always be a mother and a step-mother.
2. Albert Einstein. (See above.)
3. Quality health care/insurance.
4. Barre3. An exercise method combining ballet barre, yoga and pilates; Barre3 bestows the gifts of good posture, longer and stronger muscles and, most importantly, some badass endorphins.
5. Libraries. Reading, both to the children and to myself.
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7. My cousin's brand new baby boy, Shay.
8. Signs of spring. Cherry blossoms. Grocery store tulips. Girl scout cookies. Chocolate eggs.
9. The space to be creative. The wisdom to know my passions. The presence of mind to pursue them.
10. Finding the courage to catch a grocer (and myself) off-guard with a friendly smile and my business card.
11. A new family tradition for the dinner table: sharing at least one thing *good* that happened that day. As it happens, the goodness generally overflows and we end up sharing our entire days.
12. Shedding the dreaded mommy-guilt. The universe conspired to bring me this message: I don't have to give 100% of myself to my family. I finally understand that giving too much of myself can be just as bad as not giving enough.
13. The banana-carrot-walnut muffins I created this morning. First time, no recipe, huge success. Other ingredients included almond flour, cinnamon, dates, oats, organic eggs & butter and slightly less than 1/2 cup of raw sugar. My cooking and baking disasters have evolved quickly with frequent experience and experimenting.
14. Aging. Gaining experience. Maturing. Becoming better. My golden birthday is coming up in May. I think I've been waiting my whole life to turn 28 on the 28th 🙂
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Some of My Favorite Books
Some books that you might like to read on mathematics and more
Serge Lang was one of the great number theorists of the last century, who is perhaps best known for his influential conjectures and his many books. His conjectures include: the Mordell-Lang conjecture, the Bombieri-Lang conjecture, the Lang-Trotter conjecture, and many others. His books include all kinds: monographs, graduate textbooks, undergraduate textbooks, and more.
Today I want to talk about books. I love to read books of all genres; although my favorites are: mathematics, history of mathematics, and history in general. I did just read "Under the Dome" by Stephen King, so I am not limited to nonfiction—that is fiction—right?
Since it is the end of the year, I thought that some of us might have time to catch up on our reading. So I plan to share a few of my favorite books—I hope that you might let me know some of yours.
I knew Lang when I was faculty at Yale University in the mid-seventies. During our spring break one year, Dick Karp visited for a whole week. It was great having Karp visit the Computer Science department, and he and I had many fun discussions. On the last night of his visit, Karp, Lang, and I went out for dinner. I recall on the way to my car, Dick causally asked Serge what he had done during the spring break? Serge quickly replied:
I wrote a book.
Karp seemed at a loss for a reply. I had nothing to say, but I immediately thought, what did I do this last week? Besides enjoyable conversations and general stuff I had no answer—I certainly did not write a book. I did nothing. I do believe Lang, since he wrote many many books—as I said earlier he was extremely prolific. Oh well.
Let's turn to reading books, not writing them.
My Book List
Here are some books that I have enjoyed, in no special order:
Math Talks for Undergraduates by Serge Lang. This book is a series of lectures for undergraduates. It is wonderful. He covers a wide range of topics, and demonstrates his great ability to explain things clearly. One example is the chapter on the famous ABC conjecture. This is due to Joseph Oesterlé and David Masser, and is:
Given , there exists a constant such that for all non-zero relatively prime integers with , we have the inequality
Here is defined as the product of the distinct prime factors of :
Note, where is a prime. Lang proves a version of the conjecture for polynomials, and explains why the conjecture is "the greatest conjecture of the century."
The File by Serge Lang. This is one of the strangest books ever written, but it is hard to not find it compelling. It is a collection of letters that Lang wrote and were written to him. One letter after the other.
The letters all concern Lang's campaign to keep a candidate out of the National Academy of Sciences. Lang was upset that the candidate, who worked in social science, was misusing mathematics to "prove" some point. Lang stated clearly in his letters against the candidate that this use of mathematics was not worthy of membership to the Academy. The defenders letters, of course, argued back the opposite point.
I was once given advice by a friend who is an attorney. He said:
Never throw out any letter you are sent, and never send anyone a letter.
This book is a tribute to this maxim. People wrote letters to Lang, and said things in those letters, that they never wanted to become public. But, they did become public.
Analytic Number Theory by Donald Newman. Analytic Number Theory is a deep and beautiful area. It is known for extremely technical proofs, which often require pages of complex formulas, careful estimates, and messy calculations. Yet, Newman takes you on a quick tour of some of the best results in 75 pages. He gives essentially full proofs of some of the major achievements of analytic number theory: Roth's Theorem, the Waring Problem, and the Prime Number Theorem. This is not a book to read to become an expert, or even to become well versed in the area, but there is something magical about this book. All in 75 pages.
The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers by Ben Yandell. This is a book on the famous list of 23 problems of David Hilbert. What I like so much about this book is the history behind the solutions to the problems. In some cases Hilbert problems were "solved" for decades, yet eventually it was discovered that the solutions were wrong or had gaps. Part of my "hidden" agenda is to remind us all that even the immortals make mistakes, have proofs with gaps, and are human.
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea.
Poincaré's Prize by George Szpiro.
Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen. These three books are on the Poincaré conjecture and its resolution. The last one is the most recent, and it focuses mostly on Grigori Perelman as a person. The book discusses the question: Why did he turn down the Fields Medal? You will read that he had turned down awards before, but you will still be puzzled—I think—why he turned the Fields Medal down. The books approach the Poincaré problem and its history from different angles, and I enjoyed them all.
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire.
The Riemann Hypothesis by Karl Sabbagh. These books are on the hunt for a solution to the Riemann Hypothesis. The second book highlights the work of Louis de Branges who solved the Bierberbach Conjecture of Ludwig Bierberbach. This was a major open question in analysis, and de Branges deserves a great deal of credit for solving this difficult problem.
Unfortunately, since his great success he has been claiming that he is "about" to solve the Riemann Hypothesis. Sabbagh spent many hours with de Branges and presents a case study in how a mathematical problem can almost take you over. The Riemann Hypothesis is definitely a mathematical disease for some.
The Mathematician's Brain by David Ruelle. Ruelle is a first class mathematician and tells some wonderful stories about his views of everything—including mathematics.
Structure and Randomness by Terry Tao. Or anything else by Tao. This book is a collection of lectures from his blog posts of the year 2007. His ability to explain things is wonderful. For example, his section on ultrafilters is a classic. I thought I knew what they are, but I was wrong. Only after reading this did I really "get" what they are.
Kolmogorov's Heritage in Mathematics edited by Eric Charpentier, Annick Lesne, and Nikolai Nikolski. This is a collection of articles about one of the great mathematicians of the twentieth century.
Lost Horizon by James Hilton. A classic novel—the cover claims that it was the first paperback ever published. I do not know if this is correct, and I decided not to check.
Open Problems
What are some of your favorites? I would love to hear.
Anonymous permalinkDecember 21, 2009 9:12 pm
"The File" makes Serge Lang come off as an unfriendly, crazy person. You should also read his article here: http://www.ams.org/notices/199511/forum.pdf in which he also portrays himself as an unfriendly, crazy person (again, using his favorite technique of publishing correspondences that their authors thought were private messages to him). He was, of course, also an AIDS denialist.
December 22, 2009 3:14 am
Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers. It talks about numbers, proofs, infinity, approximations, multidimensional spaces, etc. I learned what numbers really are from Feynman's lectures, my high-school textbooks were pretty good about explaining infinity and limits, during college I `got' approximations, etc. But, later, I found the essence of all these things gathered in one little book. I wish I had it when I was 15. (Unfortunately, it wasn't written yet at the time.)
December 22, 2009 6:51 am
I was meant to purchase Lang's graduate algebra text as an alternate for my first year graduate class. I did, and found it impenetrable whereas Hungerford was an easy read. Others in my class concurred. But I never read anything else by Lang.
Thomas permalinkDecember 22, 2009 7:52 am
I loved " my brain is open: the mathematical journeys of paul erdös " by Bruce Schechter.
He is my favourite mathematician of all time.
I'm still waiting for a popular science book about the history of the p vs np question and related topics. That would be a wonderfull book 🙂
noname permalinkDecember 22, 2009 8:05 am
Thx for another nice post.
I want to mention two I recently read:
-Logicomix: a graphic novel coauthored by Papadimitriou. Probably there is not much new to those in the know, but it's an easy read and interesting. Particularly interesting was one of its themes: "people who do logic go crazy".
-Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, a biography of Tarski. He must have been one of the weirdest logicians ever. It has some history of logic in it. Related to this, I also liked Kreiseliana, which I read long ago. It is a memoir of Georg Kreisel, another weird logician. This was more of a collection of personal accounts, I remember.
Darf Ferrara permalinkDecember 22, 2009 11:21 am
Most of the books you recommend are very good. I would particularly agree with The Honors Class and Prime Obsession. Another favorite of mine is Fourier Analysis by Thomas Korner. It has a good mix of pure math, applications, and history.
I. J. Kennedy permalinkDecember 22, 2009 12:47 pm
Thanks for this post. My Amazon wish list just got even fatter.
My favorite math book is perhaps Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham. Until I saw that book, I thought complex analysis was just some ugly bastardization of calculus used by engineers. Needham's book showed me how wrong I was.
proaonuiq permalinkDecember 22, 2009 12:51 pm
"… and never send anyone a letter"…just write a comment in a blog !
IMO the Political Scientist was not alone in the misuse of mathematics: still today many papers in the orbit of the social sciences (including economics, AGT etc…), seems to me as a mathematization "avant la théorie" and therefore misleading as social science, althought maybe great as mathematics.
In any case he was polemic with or without Lang and in his later theses pointed correctly that identitary problems (to wich avalaible social theories has not answer, AFAIK) beeing it biological (such as racism), social (classism), cultural (i.e. different languages in a same political unit, also called nationalism) or ideological are the real problems. Heck…i forgot this is a mathematics-TCS blog!
Speaking about great books, for understanding why it is difficult to mathematize the social sciences, i would recomend Martin Hollis´s "The Philosophy of social sciences".
Mankutimma permalinkDecember 22, 2009 11:15 pm
In the history of Mathematics and biography genre, I recently read "The Man who knew Infinity" by Robert Kanigel. Biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan. A must read for anyone to understand the genius from South India. Being a South Indian myself, I could very much relate to the cultural expositions in the book. Also the character of G.H.Hardy is presented very well. A somewhat sketchy idea of the work of Ramanujan for the layman like me is also presented.
December 23, 2009 3:16 pm
IAS Professor Johnathan Israel published a short book this past November: A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy. Chapter 1 is available on-line (for free) at Princeton University Press.
IMHO, Prof. Israel might reasonably have been omitted the word "perhaps" from the final line. 🙂
Also, happy holidays to all, and my special appreciation and thanks are extended to Prof. Lipton for this great blog.
The last three decades of the eighteenth century were an age of much turmoil, instability, and revolutionary violence. But they were also an age of promise.
The emancipation of man via forms of government promoting the "general good" and life in a free society that accords protection to all on an equal basis, argued d'Holbach in 1770, is not an impossible dream: "if error and ignorance have forged the chains which bind peoples in oppression, if it is prejudice which perpetuates those chains, science, reason and truth will one day be able to break them" (si l'erreur et l'ignorance ont forgé les chaines des peuples, si le préjuge´ les perpétue, la science, la raison, la vérité pourront un jour les briser).
A noble and beautiful thought, no doubt, but was he right? That perhaps, is the question of our time.
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December 23, 2009 3:28 pm
Oh yeah … Daina Taimina's Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes had a terrific impact on our QSE Group's geometric understanding of ruled state-spaces in quantum system engineering.
Bill Thurston wrote the introduction (which is terrific), and Taimina also references a 1991 article by Barry Mazur Number theory as gadfly that is both prescient (regarding the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil Conjecture) *and* terrific.
Many pages (including Thurston's introduction) are browsable on Google Books.
This book is fun all the way through.
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@article{Mazur:1991uq, Author = {Barry Mazur}, Journal = {Amer. Math. Monthly}, Number = {7}, Pages = {593–610}, Title = {Number theory as gadfly}, Volume = {98}, Year = {1991}}
Josh permalinkDecember 23, 2009 5:19 pm
There are several good books on the history of specific branches of mathematics (as opposed to math in general). Some of my favorites:
Felix Klein and Sophus Lie by I. M. Yaglom. (A history of group theory leading up to Klein's Erlangen Program.) The first time I read it I only got through the first couple dozen pages and put it down. The second time I picked it up I couldn't put it down — it's worth given it a second chance.
Beyond Geometry: Classic Papers from Riemann to Einstein (Dover), Peter Pesic, ed. Shows very neatly how general relativity was the culmination of more than 50 years of ideas on geometry. Very nice in that it includes editorial comments and introductions to each article, and all the articles are translated into English. Particularly interesting was the close entanglement between geometry and physics in the 19th century (in particular, back then "geometer" and "physicist" were more or less synonymous).
Graph Theory: 1736-1936 by Norman Biggs, E. Keith Lloyd, and Robin J. Wilson. History of graph theory from some leading graph theorists, up through 1936 (with an appendix on developments thereafter). Again, introductions and editorial comments on excerpts of translations of the original papers. Interesting to see how topology (in particular algebraic topology) originally grew out of graph theory.
December 26, 2009 6:08 pm
Can add to Noname's Dec. 22 comment above that Logicomix made TIME Magazine's list of Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2009:
December 26, 2009 6:11 pm
Oops, must have mis-HTML'ed the link—here's the text of the link too. Seeing Christos Papadimitriou among the listed authors is what caught my eye.
Phil Harmsworth permalinkDecember 27, 2009 10:23 pm
My best for 2009 is The Unravelers Mathematical Snapshots, edited by Dars, Lesne and Papillault (AK Peters). It's a series of photographs of mathematicians working at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, accompanied by personal essays containing their reflections on the nature of mathematics, on doing mathematics, their personal mathematical development, collaboration, and much more. If you can't have coffee with leading mathematicians, this book is the next best thing. (French original: Les déchiffreurs, Éditions Belin).
Sokal and Bricmont, in their book Intellectual Impostures (Profile Books), systematically expose the misuse of mathematics and physics terminology as props for philosophical and sociological arguments. (Same goal as Lang's The File, but the presentation and argument is considerably better.)
On the recreational side, Tomoko Fusè's Unit Origami Multidimensional Transformations (Japan Publications) only needs time, plenty of paper, and patience, as the author notes. In a similar way, Fink and Mao's The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie (Fourth Estate) is an excellent way to slow down the morning rush to work. (It includes a basic introduction to knot theory.)
Josef Svenningsson permalinkDecember 30, 2009 7:53 pm
Thanks for all the wonderful suggestions. A good book is a wonderful thing.
I'd add "The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number" by Mario Livio. There has been a lot of nonsense both said and written about the golden ratio. Livio clears up a lot of the false notions but also makes room for all the wonderful things that are actually true.
I second the recommendation for "The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie ".
grenzenlos permalinkJanuary 21, 2010 11:08 pm
Hi everyone,
I would like to add two books which I find very stimulating, both written by Saunders MacLane:
– Mathematics: Form and fuction, and
– A mathematical autobiography.
JSC permalinkMarch 14, 2010 2:48 am
One of the best autobiographies I ever read was by Paul Halmos – "I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography". To say this is a good read is an understatement. This book changed my life.
none permalinkMarch 15, 2010 3:40 am
The Mathematical Coloring Book, by Alexander Soifer. All kinds of cool combinatorial stuff, some of it infinitary like the Hadwiger-Nelson problem (whose answer depends on what axioms of set theory you choose).


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The fridge is full of energy drinks. Heads hover motionless, inches from illuminated screens. An arcade machine sits tucked in a corner. Gorgeous concept art, in various stages of completions, drapes itself on all four walls.
Sanzaru feels like a place where video games are being made.
The open area studio is littered with print-outs; messages left by developers to their fellow employees. This door leads the way to the men's toilets, this is a warning that Robot Dance Parties are completely forbidden - understandable. This one signifies the rechristening of their Street Fighter Alpha machine as the 'Supreme Beatdown Fortress' and I have no idea what Willy Wonka is doing blu-tacked to the wall…
This is the language that gamers and developers share.
But pride of place, on a single large scale wall, in clear view of the entire studio, is the centre piece - a collection of letters. Hand-written, hand drawn - magnetised onto the space like finger paintings. Placed front and center so everyone can see.
A large note sits in the middle delivering the most important message of all…
"Fan Mail. Read it!"
"First off I am so grateful that you took up the challenge to make Sly 4."
That one's from Maddie, aged 13.
"Ever since I beat Sly 3 I wanted a Sly 4 and that's been almost two years now… but with Sucker Punch working on Infamous so much, there was no telling how long it would be until the next Sly game. When the Sly collection came out with the teaser trailer I was jumping for joy. And then E3 this year got me really excited so thank you so much. ☺"
With fans like Maddie cheering on Sanzaru, pushing them to make sure Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time lives up to the Sly legacy, how could they fail?
After putting in a stellar shift with The Sly Collection, a HD upgrade of the first three Sly Cooper games on PS3, Sanzaru were given the keys to the kingdom - a shot at creating the next entry into the Sly Cooper franchise. It's letters like Maddie's - from fans who adore the series - that constantly remind the team of their responsibility to those who love Sly Cooper.
"Sly Cooper fans are all super excited about the game and, when they send in pictures and stuff, all that does is make me want to work harder," says Caley Roberts, Producer. "Because there are times when you're sitting in this cube for 20 hours and you're like, 'I just want to get this level done, and you stop caring as much because you're tired and you're supposed to already be finished.
"Then you look over and you realise that the stuff you're working on translates directly into joy for kids. And damn, that feels really good."
It's a sentiment that feeds directly from the top down. Sanzaru Predident Glen Egen receives the fan mail. It was his decision to post it on the wall for all to see, as a reminder of precisely how high the stakes are. Sanzaru is working on a franchise people are heavily invested in, and Glen wants the entire team to be aware of that fact.
"It's so inspirational to see how people just connect with the characters," says Glen. "Just having a sense of that greater collective experience is sort of core to our work. That's something we've really bought into."
Matt Kraemer, Lead Designer on Sly, agrees.
"It's motivating, because you're working on the game and then you get stuff in the mail, and I'm like, 'the team should see that stuff', because everyday you're sitting and your desk working on something - in the future fans are going to be writing fan mail about that stuff."
"Remember that one visitor," begins Matt. "The one who came to the front door?"
One cold San Francisco morning, the front bell rings. On the other side of Sanzaru's glass entrance stood a determined 12 year-old boy, flanked by a supportive, but seemingly bemused mother.
His objective was simple - he wanted to check up on the progress of the new Sly Cooper game. He wanted to make sure the folks at Sanzaru were on the right track.
"He came in with his mum," laughs Glen. "He was about 12 years old.
"He just said, 'I wanted to make sure everything was okay, and you guys were taking care of the game. Are you taking care of it? I'm just making sure, because it's really important to me!'"
The stakes are high.
The team at Sanzaru Games want to satisfy established fans, but Sly Cooper must also have the capacity to bring back fans of the original games, and reach out to new fans in that age bracket. Unashamedly, Sanzaru is shooting for a broad audience.
"We're definitely trying to pull that off," says Glen. "It's not like we're trying to create a game that excludes any audience. Thieves in Time is very broad, in the writing, in the different layers…
"That variety allows lots of different age groups to get engaged. The writing is quite layered."
Matt agrees.
"There's stuff for the younger audience," he says. "And then there's stuff for the parents who are sitting behind."
"Yeah, like all the references that only parents will get," continues Glen, finishing Matt's sentence. "All that kind of stuff is just layered in there to give the game that broader feel."
It makes perfect sense, studios in Hollywood have been pulling off this magic trick for decades - attracting a younger audience with the high concept, then seducing the parents with extra layers of quality, via the minutiae of detail and sneaky asides. If Pixar and Disney can do it, why not Sanzaru? Why not Sly?
"I wish more games would try it," says Glen.
"I don't think the desire to appeal to both sets of audiences changes any design decisions, but we both have kids and we want them to able to sit and enjoy it with us. We just have to make sure we have a lot of variety.
"The one thing with Sly is it there are so many different types of gameplay in the games: you've got big boss battles, you have the stealth, you have driving sections you've got mini games, you have puzzles, you have upgrades… there's just so much to the game, and that appeals to the broad audience."
In the early 2000s the market was teeming with games like Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time - games that skirted the line between demographics. High quality platforming experiences, games with accessible fun platforming mechanics; video games that refused to take themselves seriously. Fast forward a decade, in a world where the po-faced shooter is King, a game like Sly Cooper is an anomaly. Sanzaru is aware of the challege.
"It's just breaking through to those people, that's the important part," says Matt. "We do focus testing, we get guys that would normally be interested in Modern Warfare. They sit down and play, and then they're like, 'dude… that was great. I would never have bought this game but when it comes out I'm going to buy it."
I ask Matt if that worries the team, the fact that adult focus testers are delivering the line, 'I would never have bought this game, but…'.
"Yeah," he admits, "they just have that perception that it's a kid's game."
'A kid's game' - there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. Toy Story, technically, is a kid's movie. Harry Potter is, technically, a children's book. People who play video games have children and - a decade on - those who grew up playing Sly Cooper on the PS2 have children. Given these circumstances, there little reason to doubt that a game like Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time can't bridge the gap.
To date, Sanzaru hasn't received any hand written fan mail from adults, most of it comes from kids in the 7-13 age bracket.
But that may change with the release of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.
Mark Serrels is the EIC for Kotaku Australia. You can follow him on Twitter!
Republished from Kotaku Australia with permission.


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Rossi poised to run again for governor
Announcement is expected to come Thursday
Dino Rossi, who lost to Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire by 133 votes in the 2004 election, will make a long-expected announcement Thursday that he's running against her again next year.
Jill Strait, who identified herself as a Rossi campaign spokeswoman, wouldn't confirm Monday that Rossi is about to make his all-but-obvious candidacy public, but other Republican sources confirmed it.
Strait said the Sammamish Republican will announce something at the Village Theater in Issaquah at 10 a.m. and at the Doubletree Hotel in Spokane at 4:30 p.m.
The theater is in the 5th Legislative District, which Rossi once represented in the state Senate, and was where he kicked off his 2004 campaign.
Strait said that Afton Swift, who ran Rossi's 2004 campaign, will manage his 2008 effort. His 2004 fundraising consultant, Amy Barnes of Fundraising Partners Northwest, is also expected back.
Many of Rossi's top 2004 advisers, including J. Vander Stoep, a lawyer and political consultant who was former Sen. Slade Gorton's chief of staff, are at the core of his new campaign, too.
While no announcement of Thursday's events has been made, Republicans are quietly being urged to turn out for them. News media calls to Rossi's phone were referred to Strait.
"There's an event; I'm not sure what it's about. Can it be possibly that he's running for governor?" King County Republican Chairman Michael Young said facetiously, declining to confirm or deny Rossi's long-obvious candidacy.
The conservative political blog Sound Politics first reported Monday morning that Rossi would announce his candidacy Thursday.
Republicans have been fired up about a Gregoire-Rossi rerun since 2005, when a Chelan County judge validated Gregoire's election in a lawsuit filed by the state Republican Party after two hotly contested recounts.
They stemmed mainly from ballot-counting foul-ups in King County.
Rossi has said he wouldn't decide on a candidacy until he and his family had discussed it. He has been the only Republican considered to be a viable challenger to Gregoire.
The state Republican Party buildup to his candidacy has been carefully orchestrated.
The theme of the state party's annual fall dinner Oct. 10 was "Run Dino Run"; the keynote speaker was Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, chairman of the Republican Governors Conference, who personally urged Rossi to run.
Rossi, as he has said many times, told the enthusiastic crowd that he was still evaluating whether to become a candidate.
Rossi and GOP officials have been circumspect about discussing his potential candidacy because of a complaint filed by the state Democratic Party and now being investigated by the state Public Disclosure Commission. It contends that a public policy foundation created by Rossi has served as an illegal front for his de facto campaign for governor.
The Forward Washington Foundation, bearing the same name as Rossi's 2004 campaign agenda, paid him $75,000 a year to be its part-time president and speak to friendly audiences across the state until he resigned last month, apparently to start organizing his 2008 campaign.
"Republican Dino Rossi has been campaigning illegally all year with his sleazy front group, so the only surprise here is that he's finally decided to follow the law," state Democratic Party spokesman Kelly Steele said.
Gregoire hasn't announced her equally obvious candidacy yet, either, but last month her fundraising for 2008 passed the $3 million mark, and she has more than $2 million in the bank.
Rossi will be starting from scratch to raise money, but the GOP's Young said he will be able to raise money quickly.
"I think that a lot of people have been waiting four years to write him a check," Young said. "You might even call it a pent-up demand."
Rossi soon will have an opportunity to catch up with Gregoire's campaign fund. As a state elected official, she will be barred from raising money from 30 days before the 2008 legislative session begins in January until it adjourns.
The session is scheduled to last 60 days, which would mean a three-month dry spell for the governor's fundraising.


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The service branches on Thursday showed off advances in technology in development for the future battlefield - from better blast protection and improved aircraft guidance systems, to an unmanned jet ski and longer-lasting pizza.
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said the displays represented the cutting edge of military science aimed at "retaining our technological superiority" against an enemy.
"Technological superiority is not an American birthright. We assume it," but the U.S. lead in advanced weaponry was now under threat from other nations, Work said. The labs of the service branches were "going to help us avoid technological surprise," Work said.
More than 100 exhibits featuring more than 60 innovations from the Army, Marines, Navy, and Air Force medical laboratories and engineering centers across the country were on display in the Pentagon's courtyard at the military's first ever "Lab Day."
Among the exhibits was the Army's CAMEL -- or Concept for Advanced Military Explosion-Mitigating Land demonstrator - the largest vehicle on display.
The hulking vehicle mockup meant to test safety advances and blast protection in future Army vehicles featured a radical change in design concept, said Dr. Mary Williams, a special assistant to Alan Shaffer, the assistant secretary of Defense for Research.
"We thought what if we turned (military vehicle) design on its head and started with the human and designed out from there," Williams said. The result was that the CAMEL was "designed around the occupant, not around the mission," said Joseph Kott III, the project leader on blast mitigation at Army TARDEC (Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center).
The CAMEL on display featured an improved V-hull design over the current ones on the MRAP (Mine Resistant-Ambush Protected) to deflect the blast energy of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that were the major cause of casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In addition, the CAMEL also had an enlarged cabin and form-fitting seats that could slide up to absorb the force of a blast. The floor of the cabin was not welded to the sides and could also slide up and ease the blow of the slam-down as the vehicle settled back on the road.
"Everything is about the vehicle absorbing the force of the blast to save the occupants," said Williams.
At another corner of the Pentagon's courtyard, Jeremy Whitsitt, deputy director of the Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Soldier Research Center, was serving what could be called Army oer d'oeuvres - or items to be found in Meals Ready to Eat of the future.
The idea was to come with military rations that were "nutritionally dense and lighter in weight" through new food processing technology that allowed the Army to "inject energy into the product," Whitsitt said.
The result was micro-dried pomegranates, micro-dried mango powder, brownies enriched with Vitamin D, and "shelf-stable pizza." Whitsitt said the long-lasting pizza might be ready for distribution to the troops by 2017.
Other exhibits included the Air Force' "BATMAN" display - short for the Battlefield Air Targeting Man Aided kNowledge program -- aimed at improving the gear carried by troops in the field. One innovation was methanol batteries that lose weight as they are used up, lightening the load for troops.
The Navy displayed its "Magic Carpet" - a new series of flight-control algorithms in development to allow for smoother carrier landings for FA-18 Super Hornets.
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I had an estimate from Lynch Landscape & Tree Service Inc two months ago for log clean up and pruning of trees as well as shrubs. I actually did not have the work done but I really want to say how pleased I was with them for being a good sport about it. They were extremely courteous the entire time. They spent all the time I needed to give me a detailed estimate. They broke it down several times and we went back and forth a few times on the estimate. The day before they were due to come, I decided not have the work done. They were extremely understanding and professional about that and said that they still hope to see me in the future. They were extremely in good terms. I had been concerned that they would show unhappiness because I cancelled the job with a very short notice but they were extremely professional and nice about it. Their responsiveness was very good.
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I went Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 in the late afternoon and evening to the reunion fundraiser at the school. It was unfortunately a poor turnout but fortunately a fun time nonetheless. I saw our class picture and all the others in the hallway. Unfortunately I did not see anyone from our class but saw two from the class behind us – John Sears and Chick Clam.
One of the oldest there besides myself was Rich Loritz, class of '54, who has a law office in Orland Park and whose uncle was Dr. Anthony Loritz who had a medical office at 84th and Ashland on the west side of the street. Rich's father had a dental office there too and Rich opened his first law office there before the neighborhood changed. His brother, Bob, was in the class after us and he has an older brother, Ralph who I believe was from the class of '52.
The Mass was celebrated by Fr. Gavin Quinn, a Carmelite who helped out at St. Ethelreda from 1967 through 1972. He was and still is an excellent homilist. He was supported by the St. Ethelreda Choir which did an excellent job. The children helped give tours of the classrooms if you wanted help or you could just browse the classrooms and halls your self or with others. The building and classrooms are very well maintained although the desks are more modern than when we were there. The rooms and the cloak rooms evoked many pleasant memories and the computers and class room equipment brought me to the reality that we are now in the age of computers and electronic education. It amazes me that the Mercy Sisters were able to teach 45 to even 50 or more in the classrooms which had to be crowded then and yet I do not remember ever feeling crowded. You can tell from old pictures of our classrooms that they were somewhat crowded despite my memory fooling me.
After the Mass I did my tour and then there were a variety of prizes being raffled off that you could bid on sort of like last year at Bourbon Street. There also was a very nice buffet style dinner followed by visiting and music (not as loud as Bourbon Street thank goodness) and the raffle drawing. I think we can be proud of St. Ethelreda and the good it is still doing in our old neighborhood. Mrs. Denise Spells, the principal of St Ethelreda School, the faculty and staff and the students and families are keeping the St Ethelreda Traditions alive in our former community. .St Benedictine University is and has been a partner assisting St. Ethelreda. We had an excellent turnout from our class year at Bourbon Street. I hope next year if there is a St. Ethelreda School Reunion again that our class attendance will improve over just me being present to represent our class and hope I can make it again (God willing). I realize many live outside of the Chicago area and others may be in poor health or have other problems making it difficult or impossible to attend this event but those of us who live locally and are still able to ought to try make it because it helps others less fortunate than we were and keeps alive the school that played such an important role in our growth.


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Report Roundup
International Data
"Education at a Glance 2008: OECD Indicators"
The United States is among the highest-spending countries on education, joining Denmark, Iceland, and Korea in allocating at least 7 percent of their gross domestic products to schools, says the annual report on the status of education around the world from the Organization for Economic and Cooperation and Development.
The 525-page report features data on educational access and attainment, the relationship of educational levels to earnings, characteristics of education systems, and school climate in more than three dozen countries, many of which participate in international comparisons conducted by the Paris-based OECD.
The report finds increases in salaries of starting teachers in Australia, Denmark, England, and Scotland between 1996 and 2006, as well as for mid-career educators in Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The most experienced teachers in Finland and Greece got a salary boost in that time.
The report focuses extensively on the growing numbers of students entering higher education around the globe.
Vol. 28, Issue 04, Pages 4-5Published in Print: September 17, 2008, as International Data
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Over the Top Fed Actions Feed Conspiracy Thinking
Given the fact that it is the target of more than a few conspiracy theories since it was created in 1913, the Federal Reserve System, more commonly known as the "Fed," in media and finance parlance, could be acting with a bit more prudence during these dark economic times. But no, it's gone ahead and damned the depression by doing what the New York Times described as the "unthinkable": bailing out Bear Stearns while giving away hundreds of billions to banks and other institutions whose labyrinthine securitization of our debt economy started this whole mess in the first place.
In other words, rewarding the criminals and screwing the victims.
That kind of behavior is only going to make the conspiracy theorists even cozier. When you already think the Fed has made a serious living from doing everything from transferring public wealth to private hands to signing off on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, you're not going to start thinking better of them when they offload billions onto Bear Stearns, which is a securities firm and not a bank at all. You're not going to get the opposition to stop parroting the usual party lines about the Fed being a privately owned bank that screws Americans by charging interest or compromises the overall interests of the United States by unconstitutionally printing up money like it was going out of style. You're only going to further invigorate them.
That, my friends, is known as reality.
Which is something the Fed doesn't seem to be connected to anymore, judging by how it has, in the words of Bloomberg's Craig Torres, "thrown out four decades of monetary history" in favor of not only bailing out obvious criminals, but also taking on their worthless debt as collateral. The move makes zero sense to anyone outside of those who understand the back channels of America's tangled financial networks, which are beginning to look more and more like Ponzi schemes by the minute. The fact that the Fed has taken on America's prodigious debt, and the already drowning Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have loosened their capital requirements to do the same, there's nowhere to go but down, down, down for the economy, no matter how many billions of dollars -- or "liquidity" -- the Fed or their partners in crime manage to inject. In other words, to mangle Shakespeare, the Fed's recent actions are full of money and fury, signifying nothing.
"The Fed is trying to encourage more reckless borrowing and spending," argues Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital and a longtime caller of bullshit on the irrational exuberance that debt securitization. "Obviously, its bailout of Bear Stearns creditors means that Americans are going to absorb their losses. The Fed is monetizing the mess and spreading out the losses among those who own dollars, whether in their savings or income. They're the ones being asked to shoulder the burden."
What kind of burden? It depends on who you ask. I'm not alone in arguing to anyone within earshot that the recession we're in -- and if you don't think you're in one, I'll have what you're smoking -- will rival if not outdistance the Great Depression. Others, like the Bush administration, who kick-started this recession with a program of easy money, batshit spending and rampant militarism, seem to think, as the president laughably asserted, that "our financial institutions are strong and that our capital markets are functioning efficiently and effectively." But that suspiciously rosy estimation could not be further from the truth.
"We've never had this type of this crisis before," Schiff adds by phone, on the way to a television appearance where he no doubt delivered the same doom prophecy, "and we never had this type of Fed trying to hold onto the economy. Why is it up to the Fed to stop this from happening? If recession is what we need, then postponing it won't help. We've got to restore order to the economy, and the Fed doesn't want to process that short-term pain, so its replacing the pain with one that will hurt even worse later."
"Where are we?" asks Danny Schechter, award-winning producer for CNN and ABC, graduate of the London School of Economics and the man behind the prescient debt economy documentary In Debt We Trust. "We're in a disaster zone. It's like bird flu in the financial system. Buyers overseas who bought all of these securities have found out that they've been scammed. No one knows how to value this stuff. The Fed has unsuccessfully injected hundreds of billions into the system as well as slashed rates. But it hasn't solved the problem."
Why? If the Fed is just a bunch of highly credentialed money wonks rather than the dark-hearted star chamber that conspiracy theorists make it out to be, then why wasn't it smart enough to realize that just throwing money at the wall wouldn't stick? After slashing rates down as low as 2.25 percent and handing out billions in duffel bags like Wall Street was Baghdad, how is it possible that the collective economic genius of the Fed hasn't been able to make a single noticeable dent in the oncoming depression? How could so many smart people be so stupid?
The answer is as boring as you think: greed.
"Nobody ever wants to upset the apple cart," Schiff explains. "No one wants to tell taxpayers that they've stumbled on a new get-rich-quick scheme where home ownership takes the place of hard work and savings, especially since they're making a lot of money. We've learned nothing from the past at this point. What we've done to ourselves with this attitude is create a situation where there is no way to postpone the unbearable destruction."
Yet destruction and creation come in one package. In other words, while Ma and Pa Kettle are losing equity like Britney's losing listeners, some are commanding interstellar earnings.
"If you're one of the 2 million American families losing your house this year, it's a depression," argues Greg Palast, BBC investigative journalist, author of Armed Madhouse and onetime student of neoconservative privatization guru Milton Friedman. "If you're a mortgage shark, happy days are here again. The difference between the Great Depression and this one is that, back then, everyone was in it. Now, it's a selective mangling. Exxon's profit hit $40 billion, the highest of any corporation since the pharaohs. So how can you say the economy is going down? For whom?"
Palast's point is well taken, even as it is ignored by everyone from the Bush administration to the financial (which is to say, entertainment) media and all the way to homeowners who ignorantly refinance so they can buy that new Hummer: Your life may suck ass, but others around you are sucking you dry. And most importantly, they're crushing the dollar on their way out the door to Dubai, or wherever suits hide in the New World Order's afterlife.
"Regardless of what the Fed does, the dollar is going to keep going down," Schiff agrees. "If the Fed keeps doing what it is doing, it won't make it out of this as a functioning currency."
"I'm sorry to tell you this," Palast adds, "but higher oil prices and weak dollars is not a failure of policy. That is the policy. Clinton had a strong dollar policy and Bush hated it. The weak dollar is a way to temporarily hike exports to create short-term pretend juice for the economy. But the weak dollar also made it easier for foreigners to buy up U.S. assets. The capitalists are cashing out of America. They're keeping condos in New York, Palm Beach and Malibu, but their investments are where the returns are fatter: Malaysia, China, India. A weak dollar helps the transfer of capital ownership."
And that is where this depression gets scarier than any we have survived so far, in America's comparatively short history. With the onset of global warming about to throw huge parts of the United States into environmental disarray, and melting ice about to create a gold rush of insane proportions in parts northward, America may have entered the beginning of a phase of its existence that has no parallel to any yet experienced. With the Bush administration and its friends in the energy, banking, housing, finance and real estate sectors cashing out what remains of American solvency and offloading its debt onto the public, the future has become one giant question mark. And it won't matter who takes the reins of the United States going forward if the newly crowned candidate doesn't start coming up with some serious resolutions.
We are entering uncharted territory on a variety of fronts, although the economic one is hitting most Americans where it hurts at the moment. But that throbbing pain has barely subsided behind our previous ills, from our rampant, expensive militarism in the Middle East to tornadoes or floods that seemingly come out of nowhere to destroy our cities, crops and futures. And if that doesn't scare you, I have a house I need to flip your way, no questions asked.
"No one is going to come out of this unscathed," concludes Schechter. "This is a disaster. It's a 50-state Katrina, and then some."


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The Great Bowel Movement: One Woman Shares How Blogging About UC Helped Her Cope
Research shows that blogging can help manage the emotional toll of a chronic illness such as ulcerative colitis.
In 2008, Megan Starshak who has ulcerative colitis (UC) met Andrea Meyer, who has Crohn's disease. They were both volunteering at Camp Oasis, a summer camp for children who have an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), when they began discussing the power in being open about their conditions and sharing stories with others.
After the camp, the two kept in contact, often talking about how others with ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's talk about their conditions. Starshak and Meyer wanted to be more open about their IBDs and, in 2008, decided to make T-shirts that say, "Ask me about my Crohn's disease" and "Ask me about my colitis." They took that idea further in 2010, creating a Facebook page. Starshak thought that since she and Meyer liked the shirts others would, too.
They were right. The Facebook page was a success, and the two women were inundated with orders. Fans were also posting a lot of questions about the social and emotional aspects of living with an IBD. People wanted to know how to come to terms with the disease, how to accept it, and how not be ashamed, Starshak says. Yet again, Starshak found an opportunity to develop another resource for people living with a chronic condition.
Thus began the nonprofit and blog the Great Bowel Movement.
"It makes me feel like I'm finding a purpose in my disease," says Starshak, who was diagnosed with UC at the age of 18.
"All the severely hard, frustrating, and lonely times that I have been through, other people have been through it, too," Starshak says. "So when I can turn around and tell them, 'I've been there, and this is what I did to get through it,' or just to say, 'There's hope for you,' [it] brings a purpose."
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Dealing with the news of an ulcerative colitis diagnosis can elicit a range of emotions, from denial and anger to feelings of fatigue and depression. Day-to-day coping is an uphill battle that produces a great deal of anxiety.
One way that people deal with these difficult circumstances involves finding others who understand their situation and can provide the perspective that doctors and family members often can't. Many turn to support groups to learn new coping strategies and to share like experiences.
Social media, blogs, and message boards are becoming vital in providing a supportive space for those battling a chronic illness. A study published in October 2012 in the Journal of Medical Internet Research found that blogging about illnesses helped decrease the feeling of isolation, promoted self-worth, and fostered a sense of community. Participants in the study also noted that keeping an illness blog provided them with the chance to not only tell their stories but to gain a better understanding of their experiences, increasing their resolve postdiagnosis.
But revealing such personal thoughts is a unique venture. WhileStarshak felt comfortable writing about her story, she does understand that everyone has some apprehension when it comes to divulging their battle with a chronic illness.
How to Build a UC Community Through Blogging
Blogs come in many different forms. Some are like memoirs for friends and family; others build online communities and offer some form of clarity for others with the same condition. Starshak says that whatever that purpose is, to chronicle your life or to aide others, find it and dive in.
Here are some of Starshak's tips for how to get started blogging:
- Write what you know. Being authentic is key, she says, in establishing that relationship with others, helping yourself, and building a network that people trust and can relate to. "Don't try to be something that you're not. Don't try to be everything to everyone. There's no way someone can be an expert at all aspects of everything," says Starshak.
- Build on a topic that resonates with readers. During Starshak's journey, she found that the stories that may appear too revealing are often those that hit closest to home. Latching on to those stories that touch people the most is a terrific way to uncover your voice.
- Don't be afraid. Blogging about a chronic illness is a personal endeavor, but there isn't a clear formula on how to approach a blog. Some bloggers use comedy to share their stories; others take a more emotional approach. Don't be afraid to try different tactics, and don't get discouraged if something doesn't work as planned because, ultimately, it's about helping others and sharing. "Figure out what works and what doesn't. Don't be afraid to learn and change and update. Just go for it," says Starshak.
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It's OK if blogging isn't for you. There are tons of other ways to get involved with an IBD community online, including these:
- Follow or create your own vlog. YouTube is a great place to easily post videos and find vloggers who post regularly, such as Vince Lia, who suffers from UC and focuses his channel on healthy food options.
- Join a community. If you aren't comfortable starting your own outlet, there are tons of online groups you can join to further the conversation or find answers. Facebook is a great source to find online communities. I Have UC and the Ulcerative Colitis Support Group both provide substantial information for those dealing with UC, from personal stories to questions and answers.
- Get active on Twitter. With its constant feed, Twitter is another good source for getting involved and better understanding colitis and Crohn's. Two must follows are Colitis and Me and Crohn's and Colitis UK.
Now 33, Starshak has spent her entire adult life battling colitis. But she doesn't view that as a negative, "I honestly can't imagine who I would be if I never got diagnosed, and I can't imagine who I would be if I wasn't part of the Great Bowel Movement community," she says. Now when she travels to events or other cities, it's never a challenge to find a familiar face. "It just opened the world to me," she says.
The Great Bowel Movement is currently getting a makeover and is set to relaunch sometime in November 2017 with more personal stories, news articles, and podcasts.