Ouachita seniors win second place and Dr. Chris Brune honored at Arkansas Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition

Ouachita Baptist University seniors Chandler Blake and Chris Clark won second place in the undergraduate division at the Arkansas Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition for their business plan, WinterTerm.com. The competition was held March 29-30, and awards were presented at a luncheon April 18. Dr. Chris Brune, associate professor of finance and holder of the George Young Chair of Business at Ouachita, also received the C. Sam Walls Entrepreneurship Educator Award at the luncheon

The Ouachita Circle Summer 1993

Commencement: Tommy and Dorothy Rice of Wabbaseka congratulate their son, Chris, following commencement on May 8. With Chris\u27 graduation from Ouachita, all 11 Rice children have received college degrees. Campaign Funding & Development: Decade of Progress Campaign focuses on Little Rock, alumni; Ouachita awarded $40,000 Union Pacific grant On Campus: Everett named holder of endowed chair; Riley-Hickingbotham Awards granted; Global Focus Week; Tiger Traks; The Music Man production; Alumni Weekend Faculty & Staff: Sabbaticals, retirements, grants Campus Briefs The Financial Adviser, Summer 1993 Sports Memorial Contributions Class Notes Faculty Poetryhttps://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/alumni_mag/1042/thumbnail.jp

Oklahoma! (1982 program)

Performed November 5-6, 1982. Cast:Aunt Eller: Kim HudsonAli Hakim: Charles DupreLaurey: Kathy EatonJud Fry: Kevin BayCurly: Jeff JohnsonGertie Cummins: Sara DeanAdo Annie: Sherry AlkireIke Skidmore: Tim JohnsonWill Parker: Joe AaronCord Elam: Paul LockhartAndrew Carnes: Danny Campbell Dream Sequence:Curly: Rod SmithLaurey: Tracie CrumCowboys: Bret Atchley, Todd Wilson, and Chris DavisJud\u27s Girls: Marneda Wade, Debbie Grant, and Jo Ellen NolandBridesmaids: Lynn Depaul, Lorie Horn, Kathy Cody, and Karen DoerrTwo Flirts: Lorie Horn and Lynn Depaul Men\u27s Chorus: Bret Atchley, Steven Bender, Robin Cannon, Keith Sliter, and Gregg Sublett Women\u27s Chorus: Shelly Bookout, Linda Counts, Anna Dinkins, Julie Holder, Kerrie Horn, Tania Houk, Merrill Maxwell, April Messick, June Middleton, Cynthia Redman, Deborah Taylor, Lisa Taylor, Veronica Williams Children: Robin Bendickson, Troy Bendickson, Bobby Boaz, Heather Ellis, Heather Holder, Michael Organ, and Christy Sharphttps://scholarworks.harding.edu/theatre-history/1092/thumbnail.jp

A Review and Evaluation of Elastic Distance Functions for Time Series Clustering

Time series clustering is the act of grouping time series data without recourse to a label. Algorithms that cluster time series can be classified into two groups: those that employ a time series specific distance measure; and those that derive features from time series. Both approaches usually rely on traditional clustering algorithms such as $k$-means. Our focus is on distance based time series that employ elastic distance measures, i.e. distances that perform some kind of realignment whilst measuring distance. We describe nine commonly used elastic distance measures and compare their performance with k-means and k-medoids clustering. Our findings are surprising. The most popular technique, dynamic time warping (DTW), performs worse than Euclidean distance with k-means, and even when tuned, is no better. Using k-medoids rather than k-means improved the clusterings for all nine distance measures. DTW is not significantly better than Euclidean distance with k-medoids. Generally, distance measures that employ editing in conjunction with warping perform better, and one distance measure, the move-split-merge (MSM) method, is the best performing measure of this study. We also compare to clustering with DTW using barycentre averaging (DBA). We find that DBA does improve DTW k-means, but that the standard DBA is still worse than using MSM. Our conclusion is to recommend MSM with k-medoids as the benchmark algorithm for clustering time series with elastic distance measures. We provide implementations in the aeon toolkit, results and guidance on reproducing results on the associated GitHub repository

The Secret Garden (1995 program)

Performed October 25, 27-28, 1995, in the Benson Auditorium as part of the Homecoming festivities. Cast:Lily Craven (Archie\u27s wife): Misti PlankArchibald Craven: Chris WagleyMary Lennox: Claudia StockstillIndian Servants: Julie Clements, Jolene Dennis, Shannan Hibbard, Heather Holder, Dana Lynn Simpson, Mayumi Terada, and Kimberlee WatneAlbert Lennox (Mary\u27s father): Allen CoxRose Lennox (Mary\u27s mother): Rochelle RoseMinions (evil spirits): Marie Allison, Kerri Branch, Julie Clements, Eve Clevenger, Melody Colyer, Jolene Dennis, Kelly Gibson, Shannan Hibbard, Ashley Hickerson, Heather Holder, Dena Jones, Amy McAngus, Carla McCarty, Jamie Murphy, Emilie Shepherd, Dana Lynn Simpson, Kimberlee WatneBritish Party Guests: Nathan Golightly, Carmen Greer, Laura Harvey, Aaron Ivey, Sara Kirkpatrick, Kim Knight, Russell Lawyer, Shawn Lee, Ami Merritt, Austin Nesbitt, Carrie Owen, Stacey Randolph, Jeff Shepherd, and Doug WaddillHolmes: Paul HuebnerWright: Justin LawsonDr. Neville Craven (Archibald\u27s brother): Micah ParkhurstMrs. Medlock (Archibald\u27s housekeeper): Jennifer BarrettBritish Servants: Melinda Gardner and Jenny MosesMr. Shelley: Britt LynnMrs. Shelley: Ashley HickersonMartha (Maid): Summar CabanissBen Weatherstaff (head gardner): Marcus NeelyDickon (Martha\u27s brother): Ben HoweColin Craven (Archibald\u27s son): Landon McLainColin\u27s Nurse: Katie BoydAyah: Shannan HibbardMrs. Winthrop: Jamie MurphyFaux Lilies: Laura Harvey, Dena Jones, Kim Knight, and Ami Merritthttps://scholarworks.harding.edu/theatre-history/1175/thumbnail.jp

Blank Page, Blue Sky, High Risk: An Interview with Chris Lowney, President of Jesuit Commons

Chris Lowney, formerly a Jesuit seminarian, later served as a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan & Co in New York, Tokyo, Singapore and London until leaving the firm in 2001. He served on J.P. Morgan\u27s Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Investment Banking Management Committees. His first book, Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World, was the #1 ranked bestseller of the CBPA and was named a finalist for a 2003 Book of the Year Award from ForeWord magazine. It has been translated into ten languages. He is also author of Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World, and A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain, which was nominated for La Corónica award. Chris was featured in the PBS-aired documentary, Cities of Light, which echoed many of the book’s key themes. He currently serves on the board of Catholic Health Initiatives, a healthcare system comprising more than 70 hospitals across the United States. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University, where he also received his M.A. He is holder of five honorary Doctoral degrees. In 2009, Lowney was asked to serve as the Volunteer President of Jesuit Commons, a start up project that attempted two pioneering initiatives, one to serve refugee communities through online-enabled university education, and the second, to create a “virtual commons” online, where different parts of the Jesuit network could collaborate, share resources and generate financial resources for worthy projects. In 2012, Lowney has stepped away from his leadership of Jesuit Commons. Marie Friedemann, General Editor of Jesuit Higher Education, asked Chris Lowney to reflect on the Jesuit Commons and Jesuit Commons: Higher Education at the Margins, as well as the future of the two initiatives

UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 71, No. 45

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Regular features include: Just a Second Campus Line For the Record / Crime Reports People Poll Sports Diversions Movie Reviews Classifieds Articles in this issue: Lucas, Fred. Student Government Association Wants President to be From Within Wright, Jennifer. Students Lie, Cheat for Gain Hall, Jason. Internet Policy Unique in State Davis, Courtney. Musicians Discuss Being Professional Women Lenz, Rebecca. Shuttle Service Moves to Avoid Fee Faculty Code of Ethics to be Discussed Looking at Pictures Not Harassment Lemmo, Alfred. Abortion is Wrong Holder, Philip. Café Voltaire Has to Protect Parking Hall, Jason. Students Ignored Again at Western Vanderpool, David. Hazing too Broadly Defined Simmons, Darryn. Government Denouncement of Black Leaders Wrong Van Winkle, Cara. Speaker Pursues Happiness – David Myers Faculty Appreciation Celebrated LaBelle, Charboneé. Students Divided on Whether Images are Sexually Harassing Stamper, John. Go Green! – Vegetarians Sanderford, Aaron. NBA Possible for Topper – Chris Robinso

The Contemporary Confucian-Christian Encounter: Interreligious or Intrareligious Dialogue

The discipline of comparative religions has paid little attention to perhaps the most important religious phenomenon of the late twentieth century: interreligious dialogue. Available scholarship on this topic is largely written by and for participants in various dialogues. This scholarship is mainly on the normative issues that concern participants, thus leaving the need for descriptive, analytical scholarship largely unfilled. This essay engages in descriptive analysis of a relatively new twentieth-century dialogue—the Confucian-Christian dialogue—which, nevertheless, has deep historical roots. The essay turns, first, to history, summarizing two different periods of past Confucian-Christian encounter: the period from Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) to the World\u27s Parliament of Religions (1893), and the twentieth-century period leading up to the recent international Confucian-Christian conferences. It turns, second, to the specific nature of the first, second, and third international Confucian-Christian international conferences (1988, 1991, and 1994). In its analytical efforts, the essay employs two key conceptual tools: the intrareligious/ interreligious distinction (which differentiates the interior dialogue of a person interested in two traditions from exterior dialogue between two traditions), and “dual religious citizenship” (which designates the simultaneous participation in two distinct traditions). These particular tools are used to show that the contemporary Confucian-Christian dialogue has an unusually strong intrareligious dimension, relative to other existing dialogues, and, moreover, has great promise for teaching those in other dialogues and in comparative religions important lessons on the issue of “dual religious citizenship.

Nevada Southern Rebels vs. San Bernardino Valley College Indians

Team roster for both schools