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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06162/696766-254.stm The Hollywood Reporter By Paul Bond February 3, 2006

Patricia Heaton, the Emmy Award-winning actress from "Everybody Loves Raymond," and her husband, David Hunt, an actor whose credits range from episodes of "Falcon's Crest" to "Monk," are making the move into film producing.

They are serving as producers on Walden Media's "Amazing Grace," which wrapped principal photography two weeks go. Directed by Michael Apted, the film focuses on the 19th century British abolitionist William Wilberforce. And their FourBoys Films production company has also completed a documentary, "The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania," which has begun playing the festival circuit.

In "Coal Queens," Hollywood actress Sarah Rush returns to Carmichaels, Pa., (population 556) for the 50th anniversary of the Coal Queen Pageant, over which she reigned in 1972.

The movie is a result of a lunch Heaton had in summer 2003 with Rush and other friends. When Rush mentioned her reunion plans, Heaton says she immediately informed her husband of her desire to send a film crew to shoot a little documentary on the event.

Three weeks later, a crew of six professionals that included Hunt as director, along with a couple of interns, accompanied Rush to her celebration that coincided with the annual pageant activities.

In the docu, Hunt weaves interviews with the former queens (and in one case, the husband of one of them: 1950s heartthrob Fabian) with the performances of current contestants.

Heaton and Hunt are just now negotiating theatrical distribution, DVD and cable TV rights and they also hope to mount a musical stage play based on the movie. The film recently was featured at the American Film Renaissance Festival in Hollywood, where it was enthusiastically received.

Its entertainment value mostly stems from the eccentricities of some of the pageant participants, most notably the stage manager, who seems to delight in making teenage girls weep. Example: "They can't hear my taps," complains a contestant whose talent is, what else, tap dancing. "I'm not going to dumb things down," retorts the stage manager. "This is professional theater!"

The stage manager has since been fired, since Carmichaels and the surrounding coal communities take the pageant very seriously, and, the film argues, viewers should as well.

"This place was rich in immigrant history, which appealed to me, being a modern-day immigrant," said Hunt, a native of Great Britain. "I knew on the plane home that something happened in that place, that this could be a real sweet and funny movie."

The film goes beyond the beauty pageant into the surrounding community. Hunt takes his crew 750 feet below the Earth's surface, seven miles from the nearest elevator shaft, to show some of the former queens for the first time where their fathers and their fathers' fathers toiled. Among Hunt's interviews are those who lost family and friends in mining accidents and in picket-line violence.

The couple budgeted $45,000 for the film but ended up spending $350,000, mostly because of music licensing fees associated with the many snippets from the pageant's talent competition.

"It's a side of America people don't get to see," Heaton says. "It sounds cliche, but it is the kind of people that make this country great."

Says Hunt: "What I found in this community reminded me of why I wanted to become an American citizen in the first place, this combination of can-do spirit and a community ideal that is so easy to forget in a big urban environment like Hollywood."

=== Alyssa Corfont dance/1st runner up/tap/fame Elizabeth Gessner -- change the world Malana Piatt baton/all that jazz/miss congeniality Ryann Over dance/lipsync "Chicago" Jessica Levo: song/2nd runner up/vI Enjoy Being a Girl Christine Henry: dance Michelle Tanner: song/the rose Dana Bukovitz: dance/tap Abbey Lion: dance/runner up Laura Yost:  xylo Linda and Brice Rush: coal memorabilia Sara Ruth Leonard Baron squiffy cats/state theater center for the arts Mary Hawkins dance/queen

Sara Rush 1972 Nancy Davis 1955 Peggy Rae Forman 1957 Jayne Marie Laskey 1970 Frances May 1963 Andria Babcheck 1977 Jonella Wozny 1990 Heather Steinmiller 1992 Shellee Stephenson 1989 Vanessa Davidson 1983 Claire Ann Carney 1958 Andrea Patrick 1978 Autumn Marisa 1997 Joan Parker 1956 Christine Vavrek 1971 Jody Dankovich 1975 Georgia Brewer 1960 Cynthia Turco 1965 Tammy Croftcheck 1985 Lisa Elek 1981

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Stanwix
 John A. Stanwix (born 1943)

Stanwix is a 1960 graduate of Brighton High School. He worked as an assessor for the City of Rochester in the 1960s and the Towns of Henrietta and Rush in the 1970s.

First a Democrat in the County Legislature, he switched parties in the 1970s and resigned from the legislature in 1992 to make an unsuccessful run for the state Senate. The following year, he lost a race for Mendon supervisor.

In January 2008, a grand jury indicted Stanwix with a single misdemeanor under New York's Section 1107 of the state Public Authorities Law for having an interest in Clark Patterson Associates, who employed him while he simultaneously purchased their services on behalf of the Water Authority.

Quality
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If the process portrayed in Figure 14.1 is static, meaning the process average remains centered at the middle of the tolerance, then approximately 0.002 ppm will be produced. But under the six-sigma concept, the process is considered to be dynamic, implying that over time, the process average will move both higher and lower because of many small changes in material, operators, enviromental factors, tools, etc. Recall from the graph in Figure 2.13 (p. 16) that most small shifts in the process average will go undetected by the control chart. For an n of 4 there is only a 50 percent chance a 1.5 sigma shift in mu is detected by the next subgroup after this change. By the time this next subgroup is collecte, my may have returned to its original position. Thus, this process change will never be noticed on the chart, which means no corrective action is implemented. However, this movement has caused the actual long-term process variation to increase somehwat because between subgroup variation is greater than within-subgroup variation. Note that estimates of short-term process variation are not impacted because they are determined form only within-subgroup variation.

Based on studies analyzing the effect of these changes onprocess variation (Bender, 1962, 1968, Evans 1970, 1974, 1975a, 1975b, Gilson), the six-sigma principle acknowledges the likelihood of undetected shifts in the process average of up to plus/minus 1.5 sigma. Because shifts in the average greater thant 1.5 sigma are expected to be caught and sigma is assumed not to change, the worst case for the prodeuctio of nonconforming parts happens when the process average has shifted either the full 1.5 sigma above the middle of the tolerance or the full 1.5 below it. For this worst case, there would be only 4.5 sigma (6sigma minus 1.5sigma ) remainin between the process average and the nearest specification limit.

 Alvin Christian Eurich (June 14, 1902 – May 27, 1987) was a 20th Century American educator who is most notable for having served as the first President of the State University of New York from 1949 – 1951.

Eurich was born in Bay City, Michigan and pursued degrees in Psychology at North Central College and the University of Maine. He supported himself by working as a speech instructor while in Maine. He earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 1929, where he worked as a professor and assistant dean of the College of Education from 1927 to 1936. In 1937 he left for Northwestern University and a year after that, he left for Stanford University. During World War II, he served as head of the educational relations branch of the Office of Price Administration and in the Navy, returning to take a Vice Presidency at Stanford University. He served on Harry S. Truman's post-war National Commission on Higher Education and helped organize the Stanford Research Institute and served as its chairman. He was named acting President of Stanford in 1948 after his predecessor's sudden death, shortly before assuming the Presidency of SUNY.

From 1958 to 1964, Eurich served as Executive Director of the Ford Foundation's Educational Division and in 1961 he co-founded the Academy for Educational Development and served as its chairman for many years. He also served as President of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies from 1963 to 1972.

Use
Quality characteristics are used at several stages of the product or service lifecycle:
 * In prioritizing features of the product design
 * In communicating requirements to vendors
 * In setting up acceptance sampling plans to verify the acceptability of materials from a vendor
 * In ensuring stable and predictable production
 * In auditing process output for compliance to the design

To effectively monitor and control processes, an organization must understand the process under consideration via Business Process Mapping or Value Stream Mapping and develop a plan to measure quality characteristics with the following considerations:
 * What method to use to measure?
 * When to measure? (Should each process output be measured or should the process output be sampled?)
 * Who is responsible for measuring? (e.g., automatic test equipment, machine operators, inspectors)
 * What procedures to follow if measuring detects significant nonconformity of the quality characteristic to its specifications?

Classification by criticality
Both products and processes have quality characteristics that can be prioritized in terms of criticality to quality:

The process of determinining quality characteristics and their importance to the customer is quality function deployment. Design engineers are in the best position to determine and classify product quality characteristics, while manufacturing engineers are in the best position to determine and classify process quality characteristics.

Classification by analytical type
Quality characteristics can be classified according to how they are analyzed which arises from how they are measured.
 * Variables data are measured in terms of continuous characteristics such as length, voltage, or viscosity. They are typically modeled using the normal distribution.
 * Attributes data are measured based on counts of discrete items or events—in other words whether a particular item has or doesn't have a particular attribute such as a defect. They are typically modeled using the binomial or Poisson distributions.