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Terps Continue Strong Performance In Classroom During Fall 2022 Semester
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – University of Maryland Athletics programs continued their strong performances in the classroom in the Fall 2022 semester. Maryland's student-athletes combined to record a 3.138 grade point average during the semester, the fourth semester in a row with a GPA of better than 3.0 and 11th time in 13 semesters with a better than 3.0 cumulative GPA.
The overall cumulative department GPA is now 3.180, the 11th consecutive semester that saw the overall cumulative GPA above a 3.0.
Maryland celebrated 25 student-athlete graduates this winter, following the fall semester and tied the department record Graduate Success Rate (GSR) with an 88 percent.
It was a standout semester as 24 student-athletes posted a perfect 4.0 GPA and 144 earned Dean's List recognition. Overall, 313 student-athletes achieved Athletic Honor Roll status for posting a 3.0 or better GPA.
"I love seeing our student-athletes performing at such a high level in the classroom," said Damon Evans, Barry P. Gossett Director Athletics. "Our Terps continue to rise up and perform at exceptional levels. We continue to be inspired by their dedication to their studies while competing with their athletic programs. Our GSAC staff is to be commended and celebrated as well for their commitment to education and fostering the consummate student experience. This is a time to celebrate our student-athletes, we are so proud of them."
"Congratulations to our student-athletes who not only compete at the highest level, but also excel academically," said Brady Rourke, Associate Athletic Director for Academic Services and GSAC Director. The University of Maryland is a top 20 public national university with phenomenal colleagues and academic programs of study. Terrapin student-athletes have an incredible opportunity to prepare themselves for life after sport by applying the focus, determination, and perseverance they learn within their teams to the classroom. Staff in the Gossett Student-Athlete Center for Academic and Personal Excellence (GSAC) are committed to providing the resources and mentorship necessary for student-athletes to maximize their potential in the classroom. On behalf of our GSAC team, congratulations to our student-athletes who remain committed to academic excellence."
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Where are the Australian Retailers?
Adobe delivers yet another larger than life experience in the form of their Adobe Symposium 2015, held this week in Sydney. I've been to quite a few of them now – 4 in Salt Lake City, 1 in London and I've lost count of the ones I've gone to in Sydney – and I have to say, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
What I think is really interesting is how much these events have grown – globally. At the first one I went to in Salt Lake City there were about 700 people attending, last year there were 7,500. Massive. And next year, they're having to move it to Vegas because they've now run out of space at the conference centre in Salt Lake. Vegas – oh that's going to be tough!
When I first attended the one in Sydney a few years ago, there were about 200 people and it was held in a couple of rooms at the Hilton. This year it was held at the Star Casino complex with 1,800 in attendance. And it was, to be honest, bursting at the seams.
But the thing that impresses me the most about attending these events over the years is the growth in interest for integrated marketing solutions. The number of companies that are either invested in them or considering investing in them continues to rise. It's not just the corporate world either, Government and Education are big investors as they re-platform and go through their own digital transformations.
Only it's not a desktop revolution – it's actually more likely to be a mobile revolution. This next generation, our kids, tend not to use desktops or laptops now – mostly everything they do is on a mobile device…Are we ready for that? Nowadays the ability to access information and transact on mobile devices is expected of brands. Those that don't…they simply lag behind.
But to me, the most surprising and also the saddest part of this is Retail. Well actually, the lack of Retail.
Where are you Retail? You're not here, are you hiding? You're big in the US. You're big in Europe. But in Australia you haven't caught up, you don't exist. And I wonder why? Is it because consumers in Australia aren't comfortable with buying online? Or is it that we feel the retailers don't provide good online retail experiences? Is it a catch 22? But if we don't like buying online, why has Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey announced the Government is considering imposing the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on all overseas online purchases? Clearly we're buying online, at least from overseas sites.
Banks, media, insurance, energy, tourism, entertainment and virtually every other vertical all have great digital experiences, many are investing in cross-platform experiences, many are starting to look at personalising those experiences. But Retail…Where Are You?
Also interesting to point out is that Adobe pitches the retail story, for very obvious reasons. At the essence of the Adobe story is the retailer that wants to customise experiences and deliver personalised content to individuals, based on their previous buying behaviour and their loyalty.
In a greatly simplified version of the whole thing, Adobe sells this vision using Experience Manager to deliver the experience and house all of the assets; Target to customise and optimise; Campaign to deliver out 1:1 multichannel campaign messages; Mobile services to deliver an integrated mobile solution; Analytics to measure the impact and easily figure out the reason for anomalies; Core Services to share the data and profiles across all platforms; Audience Manager to develop a core customer profile and pull in 3rd party data share that profile (everywhere) and then Media Optimizer to deliver an offsite personalised experience through paid media retargeting.
But in Australia, unlike in the US and Europe, the majority of retailers don't seem to be doing this, or even considering it properly.
So, my final thought…The financial sector seems to be driving us forward digitally down here in Australia. Should the Adobe story be adapted to life down under? Or do we inherently 'get it'? And if we inherently get it, why aren't more Aussie retailers interested in delivering exceptional digital experiences like their northern hemisphere cousins?
Are you a marketer in retail? How do you use digital to deliver customised experiences to your target audience? We'd love to hear your thoughts about any digital wins and losses you've experienced in the comments.
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Are you seeing a Facebook status circulating about 17 people dying on a roller coaster at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida? Don't click on it or you'll get hacked. The beat goes like this...
(Warning: Shocking Video) Fox News Flash : 17 passengers confirmed dead at the scene of one of the deadliest roller coaster accidents in history at Orlando, Florida Universal Studios Theme Park. The roller coaster appears to veer off the tracks mid air plummeting all 25 passengers into the pavement killing 17. There are 8 listed in critical condition at a local Orlando Hospital fighting for their life. Local law enforcement are at the scene investigating the accident. Technicians confirm that the roller coaster has malfunctioned during the ride causing it to veer off the tracks. Footage of the accident was captured through the CCTV system set up around the park and has been uploaded to the Fox News Team but will be restricted to air time due to the graphic material. As an alternative, video footage has been uploaded online and can be seen in the following link provided. Please be advised, this video contains graphic footage of the accident and is not for the faint of heart. Watch at your own risk : [And then there's a link which I'm not going to give.]
Be careful what you click on. It could be a trap, spam, a hoax, a hack. Likewise, the world will give you a lot of ideas that have the appearance of wisdom, but will lead to death. Consider the words for eternal life...
Jesus said, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
"And this is the judgment," he continues: "The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out by God."
John 3:36 goes on to say, "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains in him." Repent of your sins, that which is against the will of God, and believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ which he paid on the cross for our unrighteousness. Your works cannot save you. Only Christ can save you. Follow Christ, and you will be saved.
To follow Christ is not a momentary thing, but a daily pursuit. In the parable of the sower, Jesus said in Matthew 13:21 that those who do not take root in the word of God believe for a moment, but when trouble comes they fall away. Jesus said to his disciples in Mark 13:13 that he who endures to the end shall be saved. To truly know Christ, read his word, and do what it says.


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signalDataIn=csvread("..\\resample\\data\\ResampleOutput_SignalIn.csv");
timeIn=csvread("..\\resample\\data\\ResampleOutput_TimeIn.csv");
signalDataOut=csvread("..\\resample\\data\\ResampleOutput_SignalOut.csv");
timeOut=csvread("..\\resample\\data\\ResampleOutput_TimeOut.csv");

figure
plot(timeIn, signalDataIn, 'o', timeOut, signalDataOut, '.-');
legend('data','cpp polynomial fit')

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Tyson Gay, Tori Bowie take U.S. 100m titles; Carmelita Jeter hurt
By Nick ZaccardiJun 26, 2015, 11:59 PM EDT
American record holder Tyson Gay and Tori Bowie captured 100m titles at the U.S. Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Friday night.
Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross failed to qualify for the 400m final (race video here), meaning she will not run in the World Championships in Beijing in August.
In the 100m, Gay clocked 9.87 seconds for his biggest victory since returning from a doping ban last year and his first World Championships berth since 2009 (race video here).
"It means everything," Gay told Lewis Johnson on NBCSN. "Just being able to come back from a mistake, show the world that you can make up for the mistake."
"I think this is the most meaningful USA championship I've ever won," Gay said later on USATF.TV. "I feel like this is the most, I wouldn't say love, or respect that I've ever gotten. I've had so many people giving me high-fives, saying we love you, so glad to have you back, you're a breath of fresh air."
The U.S. men's 100m team at Worlds will include Gay, Justin Gatlin (who didn't run the 100m on Friday but has a bye as the 2014 Diamond League champion) and Trayvon Bromell, who finished second to Gay in 9.96, and Mike Rodgers, third in 9.97.
The Baylor rising junior Bromell's college coach said before the meet, "if he goes big up there this weekend, which by all accounts he probably will, it's going to be difficult for him to come back," according to the Waco Tribune.
Bromell, 19, said Friday he does not have immediate plans to turn professional.
"Only way I'm going to come out is if I get what I'm worth," Bromell said on USATF.TV. "I'm not like the average athlete that jumps when they see a dollar sign. … I don't want to seem like I'm asking too much or anything, but I don't want to be that person that gets gypped over and not get what they should get. I feel like if I'm not getting what I deserve, I'm going to stay in school because I guarantee my degree will get me what I'm worth."
On Thursday, Bromell ran the fastest wind-legal 100m of the U.S. Championships, a 9.84 in the first round.
"He's the future," Gay said of Bromell, who called Gay his idol. "When I was in the back room, talking to some guys, it was just a new era. I'm not familiar with a lot of faces."
Full U.S. Championships results | U.S. qualifiers for World Championships
Bowie took the women's 100m final in 10.81 seconds (race video here), tying for third fastest in the world this year behind Olympic and World champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
The soft-spoken Bowie, primarily a long jumper until spring 2014, qualified for her first Worlds team.
"It's a huge step," Bowie, the fastest woman in the world in 2014 in 10.80, told Johnson on NBCSN. "It's kind of like a dream come true almost. Oh my gosh, I worked so hard to get to this level. Honestly, I would've been content to just get top three, but I'll take first place any day."
Bowie is joined on the U.S. women's 100m team for Worlds by 2013 U.S. champion English Gardner, who was second in 10.86, and University of Oregon rising junior Jasmine Todd, who was third in 10.92.
The 2011 World champion Carmelita Jeter finished seventh, failing to make the U.S. team, and fell to the track after the race. The 35-year-old said she believes she tore her left quadriceps, according to Lewis Johnson.
Jeter suffered a right quad injury in May 2013 and went 10 months between races in 2013 and 2014.
Olympic silver medalist Trey Hardee won the decathlon with 8,725 points to join Olympic and World champion Ashton Eaton on the Worlds team. Eaton had a bye and didn't compete in the decathlon at Nationals.
Hardee's point total was his highest since he won the 2009 World Championship.
In the women's 400m, Olympic 200m champion Allyson Felix and 2014 U.S. champion Francena McCorory led the qualifiers into Saturday's final. Richards-Ross was fifth in her semifinal, failing to make the final.
World gold and silver medalists LaShawn Merritt and Tony McQuay were among the qualifiers into Saturday's men's 400m final, while 2004 Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner failed to advance out of the semifinals Friday.
In the women's 100m hurdles, 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper-Nelson, World champion Brianna Rollins and Summer and Winter Olympian Lolo Jones, along with the world's two fastest women this year, Sharika Nelvis and Jasmin Stowers, advanced to Saturday's semifinals. Rollins has a bye onto the Worlds team and will be joined in Beijing by the top three women from the final.
Diamond League champion Jenny Simpson led the qualifiers into Sunday's 1500m final, though Simpson has a bye into Worlds. She's joined in the final by Shannon Rowbury and Mary Cain, among others.
Brenda Martinez, Ajee' Wilson and Alysia Montano, who finished three-four-six at the 2013 Worlds, all qualified into Sunday's 800m final.
World silver medalist Nick Symmonds and Olympic fourth-place finisher Duane Solomon made Sunday's men's 800m final.
The U.S. Championships continue Saturday (NBC and NBC Sports Live Extra, 4-6 p.m. ET) highlighted by the men's and women's 400m finals.
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Q: Vertical equivalent of position_dodge for geom_point on categorical scale I would like to dodge overlapping geom_point's vertically, when I have a categorical y variable.
library(tidyverse)
# all possible points
df <- expand.grid(
  y_factor = paste0('factor_',1:5),
  x =1:100
)%>%as.tbl

# randomly missing and overlapping points
# every green point has a pink point underneath, and every blue point
# has a green point underneath it.
seed<-1
df_with_overlap<-df%>%
  sample_frac(0.5,replace = TRUE)%>%
  group_by(y_factor,x)%>%
  mutate(n=factor(1:n()))
p<-ggplot(data=df_with_overlap, aes(x=x, y=y_factor, col=n))
p+geom_point()

Dodging horizontally using position_dodge doesn't work because the data is too crowded on that axis, so some points still overlap and the visualization isn't clear.
p+geom_point(position=position_dodge(width=1))+
  ggtitle('position_dodge isnt what Im looking for.
          \nx-axis too crowded and points still overlap')

position_jitter kind of works because I can limit x jitter to 0, and control the degree of y jitter. But the randomness of the jitter makes it less appealing. I can kind of make out the 3 colours when they exist.
p+geom_point(aes(col=n), position=position_jitter(width=0, height=0.05))+
  ggtitle('Jitter kind of works.
          \nIt would work better if it wasnt random
          \nlike position_dodge, but vertical dodging')

Is there a way to dodge the points vertically?

A: Thanks to @aosmith for suggesting ggstance::position_dodgev(). It's exactly what I was looking for. I increased the oversampling so the effect is more obvious.
df <- expand.grid(
  y_factor = paste0('factor_',1:5),
  x =1:100
)%>%as.tbl

seed<-1
df_with_overlap<-df%>%
  sample_frac(1.5,replace = TRUE)%>%
  group_by(y_factor,x)%>%
  mutate(n=factor(1:n()))

ggplot(data=df_with_overlap, aes(x=x, y=y_factor, col=n))+
  geom_point(position=ggstance::position_dodgev(height=0.3))

A: I would transform y_factor to numeric and use continuous y-axis. Trick is to add to "noise" y numeric values by n group.
df_with_overlap <- df_with_overlap %>%
    # Transform y factors to numbers
    mutate(y_num = as.numeric(y_factor)) %>%
    # Add scaling factor by n group
    mutate(y_num = y_num + case_when(n == 1 ~  0,
                                     n == 2 ~ -0.1,
                                     n == 3 ~  0.1))

# Plot y numeric values
ggplot(df_with_overlap, aes(x, y_num, color = n)) +
    geom_point() +
    # On y-axis put original labels and no one will notice that it's actually a continuous scale
    scale_y_continuous(breaks = 1:5,
                       labels = levels(df_with_overlap$y_factor)) +
    labs(y = "y_factor")

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Q: Some indefinite integrals evaluate in 11.2 but not in 11.3 - what can be done? Bug introduced in 11.3 and fixed in 12.0.0

Reported to Wolfram: [CASE:4032137]
These integrals evaluate in version 11.2 on windows but
when I tried them under version 11.3 they returned unevaluated.,
What to do to make them evaluate under 11.3?
Integrate[Log[x^2 + Sqrt[1 - x^2]],x]
Integrate[(1 + x^2)/((1 - x^2)*Sqrt[1 + x^2 + x^4]),x]
Integrate[Sqrt[1 + p*x^2 + x^4]/(1 - x^4),x]
Integrate[Sqrt[d + e*x^2]/(x^2*(a + b*x^2 + c*x^4)),x]
Integrate[(x^2*(d + e*x^2)^(3/2))/(a + b*x^2 + c*x^4),x]
Integrate[x^4/((d + e*x^2)^(3/2)*(a + b*x^2 + c*x^4)),x]
Integrate[1/((d + e*x)^2*Sqrt[a + b*x^2 + c*x^4]),x]
Integrate[Sqrt[a + b*Sec[c + d*x]]/Sqrt[Cos[c + d*x]],x]
Integrate[(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(3/2)/Sqrt[Cos[c + d*x]],x]
Integrate[(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)/Sqrt[Cos[c + d*x]],x]
Integrate[1/(Cos[c + d*x]^(5/2)*Sqrt[a + b*Sec[c + d*x]]),x]
Integrate[(c + d*Sec[e + f*x])^(3/2)/Sqrt[a + b*Sec[e + f*x]],x]
Integrate[(Sec[e + f*x]*Sqrt[a + b*Sec[e + f*x]])/Sqrt[c + d*Sec[e + f*x]],x]
Integrate[Cos[c + d*x]^(3/2)*(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(3/2)*(A + B*Sec[c + d*x]),x]
Integrate[Cos[c + d*x]^(3/2)*(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)*(A + B*Sec[c + d*x]),x]
Integrate[((a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)*(A + B*Sec[c + d*x]))/Cos[c + d*x]^(3/2),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x])/(Cos[c + d*x]^(5/2)*Sqrt[a + b*Sec[c + d*x]]),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x])/(Cos[c + d*x]^(5/2)*(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x])/(Cos[c + d*x]^(7/2)*(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x] + C*Sec[c + d*x]^2)/(Sqrt[Cos[c + d*x]]*Sqrt[a + b*Sec[c + d*x]]),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x] + C*Sec[c + d*x]^2)/(Cos[c + d*x]^(3/2)*Sqrt[a + b*Sec[c + d*x]]),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x] + C*Sec[c + d*x]^2)/(Cos[c + d*x]^(3/2)*(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)),x]
Integrate[(A + B*Sec[c + d*x] + C*Sec[c + d*x]^2)/(Cos[c + d*x]^(5/2)*(a + b*Sec[c + d*x])^(5/2)),x]

A: Using Rubi in Mathematica 11.3.0
While the issue clearly is to be resolved eventually by WRI, a solution to the problem of obtaining symbolic solutions to indefinite integrals may be to use Rubi which is short for Rule-based Mathematics - Symbolic Integration Rules by Albert D. Rich. It is written in the Wolfram Language and can be easily used via a Notebook in 11.3.0.
After downloading the zip-file and extracting it into a directory of choice, there is a notebook called Rubi4.14.nb. Setting the parameter $LoadShowSteps = False; in the notebook to supress showing intermediate steps (for now), we can do:
Int[ Log[x^2 + Sqrt[1 - x^2]], x ]

-2 x-ArcSin[x]-Sqrt[1/10 (1+Sqrt[5])] ArcTan[Sqrt[2/(1+Sqrt[5])] x]+2 Sqrt[1/5 (2+Sqrt[5])] ArcTan[Sqrt[2/(1+Sqrt[5])] x]-Sqrt[1/10 (1+Sqrt[5])] ArcTan[(Sqrt[1/2 (1+Sqrt[5])] x)/Sqrt[1-x^2]]+2 Sqrt[1/5 (2+Sqrt[5])] ArcTan[(Sqrt[1/2 (1+Sqrt[5])] x)/Sqrt[1-x^2]]+2 Sqrt[1/5 (-2+Sqrt[5])] ArcTanh[Sqrt[2/(-1+Sqrt[5])] x]+Sqrt[1/10 (-1+Sqrt[5])] ArcTanh[Sqrt[2/(-1+Sqrt[5])] x]-2 Sqrt[1/5 (-2+Sqrt[5])] ArcTanh[(Sqrt[1/2 (-1+Sqrt[5])] x)/Sqrt[1-x^2]]-Sqrt[1/10 (-1+Sqrt[5])] ArcTanh[(Sqrt[1/2 (-1+Sqrt[5])] x)/Sqrt[1-x^2]]+x Log[x^2+Sqrt[1-x^2]]

In the same vein one can tackle the other integrals: Using the Rubi-notebook and its Int command each of Nasser's integrals can be integrated in Mathematica 11.3.0.
Optimal Antiderivatives?
Rather interesting is the comparison of results for the antiderivatives obtained using Mathematica 11.2.0 and Mathematica 11.3.0 using Rubi.
$Version
Integrate[(1 + x^2)/((1 - x^2)*Sqrt[1 + x^2 + x^4]), x] // FullSimplify // TraditionalForm

11.2.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (September 11, 2017)

$Version
Int[(1 + x^2)/((1 - x^2)*Sqrt[1 + x^2 + x^4]), x] // TraditionalForm

11.3.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (March 7, 2018)

The third integral will be an even more striking comparison:  The output given by Mathematica 11.2.0 is rather too large to print (FullSimplify will take "forever") while the result obtained using Rubi fits neatly into a single line (appearing almost immediately):
11.3.0 for Microsoft Windows (64-bit) (March 7, 2018)

So let's wait for the Mathematicians about the validity of the results. But if the results obtained fast and neat using Rubi's rules of integration are valid, then we may see some truth in this classical verdict:

"Only the best is good enough." - Voltaire

References

*

*David Jeffrey and Albert D. Rich (2016). Developments in RUBI: Rule-based integration. Presentation.

*Albert D. Rich and David J. Jeffrey (2015?). A knowledge repository for indefinite integration based on transformation rules. Workingpaper.

*Albert D. Rich and David J. Jeffrey (2010). Reducing expression size using rule-based integration. Workingpaper.

*David J. Jeffrey, Albert D. Rich, and Junrui Hu (2015). RUBI and integration as term re-writing. ACM Communications in Computer Algebra. 49. 34-34. 10.1145/2768577.2768649.

A: Too long for a comment:
It seems that V11.2 was slightly wrong about the first integral.  I think an antiderivative ought to be differentiable, hence continuous, at least over the connected components of the domain of a continuous function.  It seems the real part of the integral is a correct real integral, but strictly speaking Re[ad] is not differentiable. Better branch checking might make the V11.2 answer be rejected in V11.3, but that's just a guess.
Plot[Log[x^2 + Sqrt[1 - x^2]], {x, 0, 1}, PlotLabel -> Row[{"Version ", $Version}]]

ad = Integrate[Log[x^2 + Sqrt[1 - x^2]], x];
Plot[Evaluate@ReIm@ad, {x, 0, 1}, PlotLabel -> Row[{"Version ", $Version}]]

The discontinuity is at x == Sqrt[1/GoldenRatio]
ad /. x -> (Sqrt[1/GoldenRatio] - $MachineEpsilon)
ad /. x -> (Sqrt[1/GoldenRatio] + 0.)
ad /. x -> (Sqrt[1/GoldenRatio] + $MachineEpsilon)
ad /. x -> (Sqrt[1/GoldenRatio]) // FullSimplify
(*
  -1.99674 + 1.23488 I
  Indeterminate
  -1.83736 - 1.23488 I
  Indeterminate
*)

There is a branch cut on the real axis for x > 1, but I do not see how this justifies the discontinuity in the integral far away from x == 1 ("far away" = separated by open disks):
Plot3D[ReIm@Log[x^2 + Sqrt[1 - x^2]] /. x -> z + I y // Evaluate,
 {z, -0.1, 1.1}, {y, -1/2, 1/2},
 PlotLabel -> Row[{"Version ", $Version}], AxesLabel -> Automatic]

A: I haven't check these integrals myself, but we did fix some bugs related to branch cuts where indeed incorrect answers were produced.  My guess is that some of these indeed had subtle issues, and others were probably collateral damage where potentially problematic branch cut issues were avoided.

A: It seems your voice has been heard!  All of the integrals you list are now again evaluated, in MMA 12.0.0 (for Mac).  Note, however, that the new outputs may not be different from those originally generated by 11.2.0.  I don't have the latter running to do a comprehensive check, but 12.0.0 does give results identical to 11.2.0 for the examples shown in the posts by gwr and Michael E2.
Here is a table comparing the respective (unsimplified) leaf counts of the integrals in Nasser's table, in MMA 12.0.0 and Rubi 4.16.0.2 (running within MMA 12.0.0), respectively.
Rubi can evaluate all of these except for integral no. 12:
Int[(c + d*Sec[e + f*x])^(3/2)/Sqrt[a + b*Sec[e + f*x]],x]

The MMA results for the remaining 22 integrals are, on average, substantially (160–fold, by leaf count) larger than those from Rubi.  Evaluating all 22 integrals together in a single cell on a fresh kernel takes 19 times longer in MMA than Rubi.

[Equipment:  Mid-2014 MacBook Pro, 2.8 GHz Core i7 (4980HQ Haswell/Crystalwell), MacOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra).]
One other notable distinction between MMA and Rubi (referring to Michael E2's post) is that, when the integrand has non-integrable singularities, Rubi typically (though not always) returns antiderivatives whose discontinuities "match" (i.e., occur at the same points in the domain) those of the integrand, while MMA (especially for more complicated antiderivatives) often does not.  Furthermore, I've found that, for intervals over which an integrand is real-valued, Rubi's integrals are much more likely to be real-valued than MMA's (unless the integral is relatively simple, in which case both will be real-valued). For instance, here is the integrand from Michael E2's example (integrand no. 1 from Nasser's list):
expr = Log[x^2 + Sqrt[1 - x^2]];
intRUBI = Int[expr, x];
Plot[{expr, intRUBI}, {x, -2, 2}, PlotRange -> All, PlotLegends ->    {"integrand", "Rubi integral"}]

Here's a related example, taken from a WRI blog, of an integrand that is continuous on the reals, but has simple poles elsewhere in the complex plane (https://blog.wolfram.com/2008/01/19/mathematica-and-the-fundamental-theorem-of-calculus/):
expr = 1/(5 + 4 Sin[x]);
intRUBI = Int[expr, x];
intMMA = Integrate[expr, x];
Plot[{expr, intRUBI, intMMA}, {x, -10, 10}, PlotRange -> All, PlotLegends -> {"integrand", "Rubi integral", "MMA integral"}]//Quiet

Note the blog is from 2008, and doesn't mention Rubi, which may not have yet been publicly released; it just happens that the "alternative" antiderivative to which the author compares the MMA result is the one that Rubi generates.  Let's call the integrand $\mathcal{h}(z)$, and its MMA and Rubi antiderivatives $\mathcal{H}_1(z)$ and $\mathcal{H}_2(z)$, respectively.
An implicit message of the blog seems to be that $\mathcal{H}_1(z)$'s discontinuities on the reals do not make it an inferior result to $\mathcal{H}_2(z)$, since if the integrand has simple poles, discontinuities somewhere in the antiderivative are unavoidable: "Moreover, if a meromorphic integrand $\mathcal{h}(z)$ has simple poles in the complex plane, it is impossible to choose an antiderivative $\mathcal{H}(z)$ continuous along every imaginable path in the complex plane–because of branch cuts in $\mathcal{H}(z)$."
Specifically, the author explains that while $\mathcal{H}_1(z)$ may have discontinuities in the reals that aren't present in $\mathcal{H}_2(z)$, $\mathcal{H}_2(z)$ has discontinuities elsewhere in the complex plane that aren't present in $\mathcal{H}_1(z)$.  For instance, he shows that $\mathcal{H}_2(z)$ has a discontinuity at $z = \frac{3}{2} + i \ln(2)$, while $\mathcal{H}_1(z)$ does not. I.e., it's a wash.
However, this notion (that $\mathcal{H}_1(z)$ and $\mathcal{H}_2(z)$ are equivalent merely because they both have discontinuities) doesn't make sense to me, since it ignores the importance of where the discontinuities occur.  Here there is a choice between an antiderivative that is continous along the reals and one that is not, and I think the former is typically a more convenient choice.  Yet, even when an antiderivative that is continous on the reals exists (which is generally the case if the integrand is continous on the reals*), Mathematica often instead provides one that is not.
*With the possible exceptions, as Daniel Lichblau points out, of "complex-analytic antiderivatives, or a different notion of integral e.g as might exist in the world of generalized functions".


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About 150 protesters march against Illinois' school face mask mandate
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With the COVID-19 pandemic raging across the country and amid an uptick in cases in Sangamon County, up to 150 protesters demonstrated against the state's mandate requiring that students and adults wear face coverings in school buildings this fall.
The protest came just weeks before the new school year is set to begin. Districts across the state are currently scrambling to figure out whether to return to in-person learning or to continue remote learning as COVID-19 cases — and Illinois' positivity rate — continue to climb.
But the group of people who gathered at the steps of the Capitol was clear about what they want: a return to in-person learning without a mandate that students wear masks.
Many held signs that read "By choice, not force" and "My child, my choice," maintaining that they have no problem with those who choose to have their children wear face coverings. But, they said it should be voluntary.
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Organizers dubbed the protest as the "Million Unmasked March," though the number of actual demonstrators came nowhere close to even "Reopen Illinois" rallies held earlier this year.
Nearly all protesters declined to wear masks or maintain six feet of social distance, ignoring the recommendations of public health officials and medical experts, who say that wearing a mask is one of the most effective ways of curbing the spread of the virus.
"You know if you need to wear a mask and that's all right," said state Rep. Darren Bailey, R-Xenia, one of the event's speakers. "I know I don't need to wear a mask and I'm not going to told to wear a mask."
On Friday, Sangamon County Public Health Director Gail O'Neill said that face coverings are "really the only physical tool that we have to help combat this virus situation."
Studies have shown that people who wear face masks can reduce the likelihood that they transmit the disease to another person.
O'Neill said a large outdoor gathering is better than an enclosed setting, but that a large group of people not wearing masks and not distancing "does add to the risk of our community."
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"It just seems like as we're moving along here, everybody seems to start knowing someone who is positive and our positivity rate has been steadily increasing as well."
In recent days, the city of Springfield and Sangamon County have taken steps to beef up enforcement of capacity limits and social distancing guidelines in bars and restaurants, which they say have contributed to the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases due to large groups gathering in close proximity without face masks.
The protesters received some push back Saturday as a handful of counter protesters held signs and occasionally heckled from across the street at the southeast corner of Second Street and Capitol Avenue.
Counter protester Trevor Good, 16, held a sign that read, "My teachers are elderly. Stop trying to kill them."
"I want to go back to school, don't get me wrong," Good said. "The safest way to do that, and the only way I would feel safe going back to school, is if everyone had to wear a mask."
Good said he was motivated to show up after hearing about a Facebook post from Patrick Phipps, the Ball-Chatham School Board secretary, in support of the march. Good considered that a "dangerous" position.
Another counter protester, who declined to be identified, carried a sign that read ""Keep room in your yearbooks for the 'In Memoriam' pages."
Though protesters clearly outnumbered counter protesters, most polling shows broad support for state face mask mandates.
A Politico/Morning Consult poll released last week found that 72% of Americans, including 58% of Republicans, support such measures.
A female protester was arrested by Springfield police after spitting on a counter protester. Her identity and possible charges being brought against her were not immediately disclosed.
Brenden Moore: bmoore@sj-r.com, twitter.com/brendenmoore13.


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Former diplomat Michael Kovrig is "suspected of collecting state secrets and intelligence," while businessman Michael Spavor is suspected of "stealing and illegally offering state secrets" abroad, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a regular briefing.
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Days after Meng's extradition was announced, China said it suspected Kovrig, who works for the International Crisis Group think tank, of spying and stealing state secrets, and alleged that Spavor — who organised trips to North Korea — had provided him with intelligence.
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Foreign ministry spokesman Lu said "Chinese judicial authorities are handling the cases according to law", and that Spavor and Kovrig's "legitimate rights and interests are fully guaranteed".
A group of Canadian parliamentarians had earlier complained to Chinese officials that the two have been denied access to lawyers, and remain in "completely unacceptable" detention conditions.
Meng is allowed to live in her Vancouver mansion, although her mobility is limited. She made her latest court appearance last week as she fights extradition to the United States — a process that could take months or even years.
She has been ordered to wear an electronic monitoring device and hand over her passports after being released on bail in mid-December on a Can$10 million (US$7.4 million) bond.
She recently wrote in open letter to supporters that "despite restrictions on my permitted range of movement, the colour and scope of my heart have never been so rich and broad."
Two other Canadians convicted of drug trafficking, meanwhile, have been sentenced to death. Canada has called the death penalties for Fen Wei and Robert Lloyd Schellenberg "cruel and inhumane" asked for clemency on their behalf.
Beijing also recently blocked Canadian shipments of canola and pork worth billions of dollars.
Ottawa has rallied the support of a dozen countries, including Britain, France, Germany and the US, as well as the EU, NATO and the G7, in its diplomatic feud with China.
Washington meanwhile stepped up its battle against Huawei on Wednesday, effectively barring the company from the US market and restricting US sales to the firm.
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Businesses most likely to have projects of varying duration, having different resource requirement, benefits or objectives. But it is project portfolio management implemented correctly, helps us accomplish the main goals of the business itself by selecting right projects mix. Thereby portfolio managers can avoid projects with similar outcome, duplication of resources/efforts, assign appropriate resources with right skills for correct duration to given set of projects.
The project portfolio management helps organisation to balance risks and opportunities identified in projects portfolio. In the context of project portfolio, balancing of project risks means minimising the risk impact and maximising the opportunities or returns, through diversification of projects.
There are different levels at which these risks are assessed for impact, probability and benefits. Project manager usually looks from project context perspective and tries to save project (and in turn itself) whereas, portfolio manager when looks at risks across projects in a given portfolio, it tries to reduce the risks by selecting right mix of projects thereby diversifying projects in its own portfolio. On the other hand, executive managers looking at multiple portfolios across departments or organisation, they are in much better position to balance project-contextual-risks for larger benefit of the business. It can involve rationalising projects across portfolios, having contingent plan for risk(s) reported in project(s) in same or different portfolio(s).
There is always a trade-off between playing safe and being happy with sub-optimal returns vice-versa: taking considerably higher risks to reap greater returns by reaching full potential of the team-project-department and at the same time get ready for failure or losing everything.
This is exactly what sound PPM practices will allow you to balance out. It helps management to draw a median path between playing too-safe to dealign with extremely high risk projects across portfolio.
We all know, the real world has finite resources. By resources I mean – funds, people, instruments, time, etc. Obviously, it means any new/proposed project or ongoing projects have to compete with each other to acquire these limited resources. When there are competing entities (projects, project managers, clients, stakeholders), the onus to allocate optimum resources falls on portfolio managers. The word we have underscored is optimum. Project portfolio management allows executive managers to evaluate, equate and prioritise projects in order to identify high value projects for the business. Once projects are classified, ordered, allocation of resources becomes easier and justified (rather than being questioned as biased, complex, nerve-wrecking). The funds requested, people with specific skill set required, timeline extension sought in different projects can be ascertained and approved by management in more prudent manner.
In short, executive management can do optimal resource allocation which is fair, based on facts, numbers, which is also beyond personal bias.
Unless project performance issue is identified or highlighted, portfolio manager or executive manager can not take any corrective action. PPM allows project performance to be assessed and reported. Only after the performance number of a project falls below threshold or acceptable level (in business language we call it project KPIs e.g. overshot project budget by 20%, margins falling below 15%, earned value less than 70%, customer reported and open issues more than 30%).
So before we get into addressing project performance issue, we must understand that performance should be identified, reported/highlighted. There has to be an escalation matrix defined. Once a business starts using right project portfolio management software, it starts providing all applicable indicators, reports and dashboard useful for management. PPM allows stakeholders across the board to have greater visibility to project portfolio performance, almost real time. So department heads, portfolio owners, executive management have access to project portfolio performance dashboard. Having them onboard ensure visibility which in turn leads to their involvement. Such kind of arrangement can not only, quickly highlights project performance issues but also are addressed more easily.
Thus, like any best business practice, addressing project performance issues right from the time they are identified, can save project from those issues getting out of control. Though PPM can not guarantee 100 percentage success of project but can greatly help in identifying, escalating and addressing such issues early on and on a regular basis and thus keeping project progress on the right track.
Missing engagement with project sponsor – lower management support, etc.
Properly implemented project portfolio management enables businesses ensure that, such loose ends are tied well, minimising uncertainty, bring more predictability within project delivery. PMO processes coupled with PPM tools allow businesses to use project scheduling functionality to plan projects more accurately depending on resource capacity, availability, realistic estimation of project cost, evaluation and prioritisation of projects for better alignment with business strategy. PPM + PMO increases the chances of successful project selection, planning, execution as well as delivery thereby resulting an increased value to the business.
There is one more report, which claimed that 87% of high performing businesses it researched use project management software.
Project portfolio management solutions (not just processes), enable stakeholders to gain more visibility to project portfolio data, collaborate seamlessly with team members, clients, portfolio managers or executive management.
Unfortunately, many businesses still use age old tools & techniques for planning projects, tracking progress, reporting and creating dashboard. It can get as bad as using Microsoft Excel for project planning and tracking, reporting. There are so many challenges with these tools & techniques – data security, data-loss issue, project information sharing, tracking real status is so difficult and it get even worse when multiple Excel files are floating around and no-one understand which is the correct (?), latest (?) one to refer. Project analysts, managers keep calling team members, asking status update in a meeting, using email to know/inform task status, entering status update to Excel or MS Project file, etc.
The amount of time project professionals waste using age old tools and techniques is highly concerning. The data is not real time, it is versioned, duplicate, confusing, conflicting and inconsistent.
As mentioned earlier, executive management needs real status of project portfolio in order to make right decisions. If a business use these tools & techniques to arrive at a decision where underlying data is highly questionable; such decision becomes a risky bet.
For sound PPM implementation, the processes should be complemented with right PPM software: the PPM tool that gives real time access to project data, easy ways to update progress without manual email/call/status-meetings, gives insights to project status. Gaining clear visibility to real status of project is very important for project manager, portfolio manager as well as executive management. It not only brings transparency, accountability but also significantly saves resources time through collaboration and leads to higher productivity.
Using easy to use & effective PPM tools, managers can expect to save time spent on administrative activities by more than 20%, which effectively adds to bottomline of a project.
Broadly speaking, PPM enables project manager, portfolio managers, PMO team members in enterprise organisations to allocate & manage resources, budget, timeline of projects, set/manage inter-dependency, processes to identify & resolve/mitigate issues, risks, control change requests and get visibility into scheduling of team activities to achieve optimal project delivery timeline & financials. Portfolio managers usually identify, define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to check portfolio alignment with company strategy on a regular basis.


QuiltCon has been over for 7 days, and I am definitely missing the camaraderie and constant inspiration.
If you've been keeping up with the Instagram hashtag #quiltcon or #quiltcon2015, you can see most if not all of the quilts that appeared in the show, the ribbons, the vendors, the selfies, the food, etc. I only posted a few photos during the convention because I was trying to take it all in...in real time, instead of from behind my camera phone. You can check out The MQG recaps which show more photos, here and here.
"Hi, we've never met; but...."
One of the most surreal and impossible things to explain was when people would approach me wanting to take a photo, chat with me about my quilts, my blog, or my work in general. How does that happen?
The other surreal thing was seeing my Holy Sh*t Sherlock quilt pop up all over Instagram, and even appearing on TV for a few seconds too (1:17). Hopefully you aren't sick of seeing that particular quilt just yet, as it's story is not yet finished.
So, how did the Pin Swap go? Well, I'm not entirely sure how many I ended with as I found several hiding in various pockets or pouches; but at last count I believe it was 75. I'll be making a mini-quilt so I can display all of them.
QuiltCon of course is not all about the quilts and the people though. For those who signed up, there were many opportunities to take a workshop or hear a lecture, of which I participated in both.
My first workshop was Improv piecing with the Quilters of Gee's Bend. It was inspirational to be surrounded by these women who have such stories to tell, and of course when they told me to "add some green" to the piece I was working on, I did as instructed.
While I have done EPP many many years ago, I lost touch with it, and was looking to be inspired again. So when the opportunity to learn EPP from Katy appeared, I knew that I had to take her workshop, as I have admired her work for quite some time.
I attended quite a few lectures, from Color Theory to Social Media Marketing and everything in between. I learned more in some then in others; but all were worthwhile.
Coming back home is always rough...laundry needs to be done, bills need to be paid, oh and there is this crazy thing called Work that gets in the way.
At least we don't have to wait two full years for the next QuiltCon, since it has now moved to every year. I've already booked Pasadena (2016) and Savannah (2017).
I was a white glove person on Saturday afternoon. I can say with all confidence that your Sherlock quilt had the most people saying, "come over here.....you HAVE to SEE this!"
I'm so glad we got to hang out! See you again next year!!
miss you, love you , you're freakin awesome!


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It's time for the Annual General Meeting of the Parent Council. We'll look back over our achievements and set out our plans for the coming year. Exciting times!
Who will be on Burnside Parent Council this year? It could be YOU!


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Not Fit for Dinner: Rand's Influence on Ryan
August 17, 2012 by C. Ryan Knight
Not Fit for Dinner: Rand's Influence on Ryan August 17, 2012 C. Ryan Knight
Each Friday in Not Fit for Dinner, C. Ryan Knight explores political issues and the preconceptions guiding our understanding of and responses to them.
The national spotlight is on Congressman Paul Ryan more than ever before, now that Mitt Romney chose him as his running mate. This week has been a crash course in which we've glimpsed Ryan's childhood pictures, learned about his voting record, and heard about his position on nearly every election issue.
One area of particular interest—or concern—is Ryan's devotion to Ayn Rand, a famous novelist and thinker who emigrated from Communist Russia to America and heralded individualism over collectivism (or statism). Conservatives have often praised Rand's political views: severely limited government, free markets, individual liberty, and the likes. Her ideological fervor can make Barry Goldwater and Milton Friedman seem like lightweights.
Christian conservatives who have had a crash-course on Rand's ideas worry about her influence on Ryan, a Catholic, for Rand was a staunch atheist (at one point she described Christianity's values as "the best kindergarten of communism possible") and believed only in what can be perceived through reason of the natural world. In the words of Rand scholar Craig Biddle, her philosophy, known as Objectivism (though it's hardly objective), is
fully secular and absolutist; it is neither liberal nor conservative nor anywhere in-between. It recognizes and upholds the secular (this-worldly) source and nature of moral principles and the secular moral foundations of a fully free, fully civilized society.
Had Rand believed in hell, she would have cast faith, altruism, social welfare, and just about every public official and bureaucrat in it, had she the power to do so.
As Ryan's devotion to Rand's ideas have come under increased scrutiny, he's had to emphasize his rejection of her philosophy, accepting only her political and economic views. On Fox News, Ryan said Rand's Objectivism is "something that I completely disagree with." Instead, Ryan simply "enjoyed" her novels—Atlas Shrugged specifically—and thought they were "interesting."
This is quite a different story from his statement at a 2005 Atlas Society event, where he had this to say:
I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It's inspired me so much that it's required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.
We can probably accept that Ryan rejects Rand's atheism, but his statement from 2005 makes it very hard to believe some of Rand's principles that are antithetical to, say, Christianity have not made their way into Ryan's thinking.
If Paul Ryan just played Video Games he would know that BIOSHOCK disproved Objectivism in 2007.
I won't go into the literary quality of Rand's novels, which is, to quote Flannery O'Connor, "as low as you can get." If I'd received a copy of Atlas Shrugged for Christmas as a present from Ryan (a favorite present of his to give others in years past), I would have considered it the closest I've ever come to getting coal in my stocking.
Instead, I think it's important to point out that Rand used her fiction to apply (and probably develop) her basic philosophical principles. As Rand scholar Jennifer Burns explained in her recent book on Rand's influence on conservatism, numerous businessmen admired and praised Rand's fiction, find it (in Burns' words) "a perfect fit for [their] corporate efforts."
But Rand's Objectivism is the starting point for her political and economic philosophy. It makes certain assumptions about human nature and traces the ripple effects of those assumptions. In this case, the egg (Rand's Objectivism) comes before the chicken (her fiction). So the notion that readers like Ryan are able to separate Rand's philosophy from her fiction, as well as her political and economic beliefs, is wishful thinking. The ideas in Rand's fiction stem directly from her Objectivist principles, for better or worse.
More like Abjectivism.
We can't simply pretend a thinker's foundational principles, political affiliations, or beliefs have no bearing on their work in other fields. When we reject a thinker's foundational principles, it is our job to carefully probe the thinker's ideas we accept to see what effect(s) the thinker's foundational principles have upon those ideas. Contrary to Marvin Olasky's call for conservatives to "show what in Rand they agree with and what they spurn," I argue we can't simply pick and choose what we like and reject what we dislike. Ideas don't appear without strings. They carry traces of their origins with them.
I agree with many writers that Romney's selection of Ryan is helpful in that it forces the national debate to deal with ideological beliefs in addition to current issues (Medicare, Medicaid, energy, etc.). But as we move in this positive direction, we have to carefully investigate how basic principles inform and guide ideas about politics, economy, and so forth. These ideas may very well affected—perhaps even tainted—by the foundational principles from which they derive.
Next week Benjamin Bartlett will explore these questions and others about Ryan in a feature article.
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Great analysis, Ryan.
It's odd that your points have been used time and time again against liberation theology and progressive politics in the church ("it all goes back to Marx and since he was an atheist you're buying an atheist worldview if you believe in social security"), but often the right has been desperate to "save" Rand's conclusions from her anti-Christian premesis.
Christians should not accept any philosophy–political or otherwise–because the conclusions happen to agree with their own views. I think both conservatives and progressives can build arguments that flow from biblical principals; and to do otherwise–baptizing Marx or Rand–is a serious compromise with serving two masters, and intellectually dishonest.
BTW, I am ignorant of your reference to "Bioshock" as my computer gaming experience is centered around Civilization and The Sims…how did this address Rand?
Alan Noble
Daniel, there are a number of sources that can detail the relationship between BIOSHOCK and Objectivism, but here's a start: http://kotaku.com/354717/no-gods-or-kings-objectivism-in-bioshock
Essentially, the world of BIOSHOCK is an Objectivist society that goes horribly wrong, thus suggesting that maybe an Objectivist society wouldn't be good after all.
Geoffrey R.
Ryan,
I think I partially agree with your conclusion. I do think, however, that at times Christian and other worldviews may come to complementary perspectives via different routes, or that aspects of non- (or even anti-) Christian worldviews might still be compatible with Christian understandings. Of course, in order to make such judgments, the foundational philosophies must first be ruthlessly interrogated. As you and the commenters note, we must avoid baptizing a view into our own set of beliefs simply because we already like or agree with it; but it might be appropriate to suggest of any particular thought, "This position can be extrapolated from such-and-such non-Christian worldview; but it could also be arrived at through a Christian understanding."
To use an example from Scripture: I think it would be fair to say that the book of Hebrews derives at the very least some of its language, and probably some of its concepts, from some form of Platonism. Yet of course Plato and his later disciples were by no means necessarily Christian. It would seem safe to suggest that the author of Hebrews, while aware of several very different underlying assumptions in Plato, found some aspects of such language or thought appropriate. Or, to use an alternate example, one could find a philosophical basis for loving one's neighbor in Buddhism, ut since one can also find it in Christianity, that does not make it an un-Christian proposition. Thus, in theory, I would contend that it would not be intrinsically problematic for Paul Ryan to adopt aspects of Ayn Rand's thought even if he rejects its foundational premises–provided those aspects could also find complementary foundations in Scripture.
The problem, however, is that, like you, I anyway find no such complementary foundations. I think that in the particular instance of Ryan's apprehension of Ayn Rand, he has not sufficiently interrogated the assumptions underlying her thought.
So, in summary, I agree with you that it is essential to think responsibly about how we approach belief systems outside the church, and I agree with you that we ought not go willy-nilly cherry-picking this or that uncautiously. But we as Christians still can learn to understand our own faith better through non-Christians who have through general revelation understood certain aspects of truth particularly well. Ultimately, however, I don't think the Ryan-Rand connection is an example of such fruitful adoption.
Loved the article. I agree with you that we must be careful about the ideas the we associate ourselves with, but I also appreciate Geoffrey's caveat. I do indeed believe that all truth is God's truth, regardless of its source. I haven't read Rand's work, but I am somewhat familiar with the basics of her ideas and her objectivism. I would love to see a more in depth analysis (perhaps by you even… no pressure) of her ideas. You argue that, for Christians, her political and economic philosophies are flawed because of their intrinsic connection to her objectivism. I would love to see the particulars of this spelled out and explored in depth. This may be helpful for more than just me, given the rise of libertarian thinking in the church. Thanks!
C. Ryan Knight
Geoffrey and Peter, thanks for your input. I agree with your caveat, Geoffrey; I neglected to make that important point you raised in the column, so I'm grateful you've raised it in your comment. It's certainly possible to have the right conclusions but to have reached them erroneously or accidentally. We should be glad when people hold the right conclusions, even if they didn't reach them correctly — and dialogue about the different ways each party reached the correct conclusion would surely be fruitful.
Peter, to clarify a little, what I argue (or mean to argue, at least) is not quite that Rand's politics and economics are de facto wrong because they're tied to her Objectivism. I mean to say only that they (her politics and economics) are directly affected and conditioned by her Objectivism.
To give a rather simplified example: a foundational principle of Rand's Objectivism is her praise of rational egoism (basically, "every man for himself") and her condemnation of altruism (self-sacrifice, or giving of yourself for the benefit of others). Such a premise is the foundation for her political dichotomy of individualism vs. collectivism. No doubt, collectivist totalitarianism is a great danger. But the rejection of altruism can easily lead to the rejection of "collectivist" things like social services (social workers, for instance), charity, emergency relief, etc. that play an important role in helping people rebound. Someone applying the principles of rational egoism in the political sphere would be hard-pressed to support such forms of aid since they require some degree of sacrifice.
Great response, Ryan.
Your response made me think about how most conservatives greatly admire the military and view self-sacrifice in that context–dying for one's comrades and country–as one of most heroic, if not THE most heroic acts. Objectivism would be completely contrary to this concept, and ultimately it is anarchistic.
Great example! I've often thought that libertarianism was an overglamorized form of social Darwinism.


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"It is one of the hardest roles to play, not just a living person but one who is part of our everyday lives in Britain. ... I hope that my performance has conveyed a sense of Elizabeth the woman as well as the queen." -- Helen Mirren, in a statement on her best-actress bid for "The Queen."
"I'm in frighteningly good company. It is very nice of the queen to allow me in for a minute." -- Judi Dench, best-actress nominee for "Notes on a Scandal," with a nod to Helen Mirren, in a statement from London.
"Without a doubt, receiving this nomination will stand out as one of the highlights of my career." -- Eddie Murphy, supporting-actor nominee for "Dreamgirls."
"I am going to be screaming and whooping all day long. I really thought I wasn't going to get a nomination. I am really going to try to enjoy this moment. I'm speechless." -- Kate Winslet, best-actress nominee for "Little Children."
"Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance." -- Mark Wahlberg, supporting-actor nominee for "The Departed."
"On a professional level, what's really wonderful about it is to be part of a film that dealt with these difficult and painful and contentious events." -- Paul Greengrass, best-director nominee for "United 93," speaking on BBC television.
"The biggest effect it's having on little kids is they all want to go to tap-dancing lessons." -- George Miller, director of animated feature nominee "Happy Feet."
"If each one of them got nominated on their own, that would be great, but the fact that they all did ... that's just too much for one little girl this early in the morning." -- Salma Hayek, nominations announcer, on a slew of bids for Hispanics, including friends Penelope Cruz ("Volver") and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ("Babel").
"If you get put in a list with those guys you've done pretty well." -- Stephen Frears, director of "The Queen," talking to BBC television about fellow best-director nominees Clint Eastwood ("Letters From Iwo Jima") and Martin Scorsese ("The Departed").
"I think the Academy responded to the movie on an emotional level." -- Jon Kilik, a producer of best-picture nominee "Babel."
"I am now going out to buy a new dress." -- Susanne Bier, director of Denmark's foreign-language nominee "After the Wedding," talking to Copenhagen's TV2 News.
"It's sort of like asking who your favorite child is. We're thrilled for both the films, the filmmakers." -- Jonathan Sehring, president of IFC Entertainment, which distributed two foreign-language nominees, "After the Wedding" and "Days of Glory."
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È considerato uno dei primi registi e produttori cinematografici afroamericani della storia del cinema.  In trent'anni di carriera, diresse 41 film dei quali, oggigiorno, ne resta solo una decina.

Biografia
Nato nell'Illinois, iniziò a lavorare come agricoltore nel Sud Dakota. Nel 1913 pubblicò il suo primo romanzo, intitolato Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer, seguito da The Forged Note, pubblicato nel 1915. Nel 1917 scrisse il suo terzo romanzo, The Homesteader. Con il ricavato delle vendite porta a porta del libro, Micheaux riuscì a fondare una casa editrice, la Western Book and Supply Company, che nel 1918 si trasformò in una casa di produzione cinematografica: la Micheaux Book and Film Company.

Il terzo romanzo di Micheaux arrivò a due fratelli produttori afroamericani, che avevano intenzione di trarne un film western. Il progetto però sfumò, per l'insistenza di Micheaux nel voler dirigere il film e non solo produrlo. Micheaux riuscì comunque a trovare 15.000 dollari per realizzare il film da solo, vendendo alcune azioni della propria società. Riuscì quindi a girare il film, intitolato The Homesteader, con un cast di attori esordienti. Il film uscì nel 1919 ed ebbe un successo notevole. Molti critici cinematografici notarono che il film mostrava per la prima volta una storia d'amore tra un uomo afroamericano e una donna bianca, che alla fine si sposano.

Forte del successo del suo primo lungometraggio, Micheaux abbandonò la letteratura e si dedicò alla regia, alla sceneggiatura e alla produzione cinematografica. Nel 1920 diresse il suo secondo film, Within Our Gates, che denuncia il razzismo e fu realizzato come risposta a La nascita di una nazione di David Wark Griffith. Il film fu criticato a causa della violenza e non ebbe successo. Micheaux polemizzò con gli afroamericani, rei a suo avviso di non aver sostenuto il suo film.

Il terzo film di Micheaux fu The Brute, uscito sempre nel 1920. Il film, che narra le storie di un malvivente e di un pugile, ebbe un gran successo presso il pubblico e consacrò il regista come autore, ma fu accolto male dalla critica che accusò il film di incoraggiare la violenza e le scommesse clandestine, e di proporre un ritratto scandaloso delle donne.

I film successivi di Micheaux furono snobbati dalla critica. Nel 1921 riprese il tema del linciaggio, già affrontato in Within Our Gates, in The Gunsaulus Mystery, una detective story basata sul caso che coinvolse Leo Frank. Nel 1924 diresse quello che è considerato il suo film muto più significativo, Body and Soul, storia di un reverendo alcolizzato e violento. Il film uscì in diverse versioni, dovute alle pressioni della censura e alle proteste di molte associazioni come la NAACP.

Nel 1931 Micheaux diresse The Exile, considerato il primo film sonoro diretto da un regista afroamericano. Nel 1941 tornò alla letteratura, scrivendo altri quattro romanzi. Nel 1948 diresse il suo ultimo film, intitolato The Betrayal.

Micheaux morì nel 1951, a causa di un infarto.

Filmografia

Regista
The Homesteader (1920)
Within Our Gates (1920)
The Brute (1920)
The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
The Hypocrite (1921)
Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)
The Dungeon (1922)
Deceit (1923)
The Virgin of Seminole (1923)
Birthright (1924)
A Son of Satan (1924)
Body and Soul (1925)
Marcus Garland (1925)
The Devil's Disciple (1926)
The Conjure Woman (1926)
The House Behind the Cedars (1927)
The Broken Violin (1927)
The Spider's Web (1927)
The Millionaire (1927)
When Men Betray (1928)
Thirty Years Later (1928)
Waged of Sin (1929)
A Daughter of the Congo (1930)
Easy Street (1930)
Darktown Revue (1931)
The Exilee (1931)
 The Girl from Chicago (1932)
Black Magic (1932)
Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
Harlem After Midnight (1934)
Temptation (1935)
Murder in Harlem (1935)
Underworld (1937)
Swing! (1938)
God's Step Children (1938)
Lying Lips (1939)
Birthright (1939)
The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
The Betrayal (1948)

Note

Bibliografia
Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer (1913)
The Forged Note (1915)
The Homesteader (1917)
The Wind from Nowhere (1941)
The Case of Mrs. Wingate (1944)
The Story of Dorothy Stanfield (1946)
Masquerade, a Historical Novel (1947)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Registi afroamericani
Attori afroamericani
Produttori cinematografici statunitensi del XX secolo
Scrittori statunitensi del XX secolo

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