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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."

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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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District	Senator
54	Michael Nozzolio
55	James Alesi
56	Joseph Robach
62	George D. Maziarz

District	Assemblyman
130	Joseph Errigo
131	Susan John
132	Joseph Morelle
133	David Gantt
134	Bill Reilich
135	David Koon
139	Stephen Hawley

Stanwix

'''John A. Stanwix''' (born 1943) Stanwix is a 1960 graduate of [[Brighton High School (Rochester, New York)|Brighton High School]]. He worked as an assessor for the [[Rochester, New York|City of Rochester]] in the 1960s and the Towns of [[Henrietta, New York|Henrietta]] and [[Rush, New York|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. <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1975-11-05 | title = Kurlander Appears DA Victor; County Legislature Race Close | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = 3A}}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1977-11-09 | title = Democrats Win 1st Time Since '35; Keep City Control | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = 1A}}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1979-11-07 | title = A Landslide Victory for Meloni; GOP Takes Legislature | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = 1A}}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1981-11-04 | title = A Vote for the Status Quo | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = 1A}}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1985-11-06 | title = Democrats Claiming Victory in County Legislature | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = 2A }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1989-11-08 | title = Stanwix Returns with 3,731 Votes | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = 3A}}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-02-25 | title = Stanwix pension rose in stages | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | url = http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070218/NEWS01/102250004 | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | pages = }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-02-25 | title = Stanwix defends benefits package | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | url = http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070218/NEWS01/102250005 | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | pages = }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-02-25 | title = Stanwix boosted deals for 5 others | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | url = http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070218/NEWS01/102250006 | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | pages = }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-02-25 | title = Stanwix giveback explored | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | url = http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070218/NEWS01/102250003 | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | pages = }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-02-25 | title = Water authority overpaid 6 nearly $500,000 | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | url = http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070218/NEWS01/102250002 | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | pages = }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-02-25 | title = Water board gets lots of perks | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | url = http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS01/702250340 | accessdate = 2008-07-27 | pages = }}</REF> 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.<REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2008-03-04 | title = Stanwix Challenges Charge | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = }}</REF><REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 2007-04-29 | title = Ex-Water Authority director challenges charge | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = }}</REF> ===Unused=== {{Citation | publication-date = 2007-04-29 | title = Judge rules today that Stanwix trial will go on | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = }} {{Citation | publication-date = 2007-04-30 | title = Judge decides Stanwix case will proceed | periodical = [[Democrat and Chronicle]] | publication-place = [[Rochester, New York]] | pages = }} ==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Thomas C. 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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.<REF>{{Citation | title= Alvin C. Eurich Dead; Former State U. Chief | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=May 29, 1987 | year=1987 | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE4D81E3FF93AA15756C0A961948260 | accessdate = 20080403 }}</REF> <REF>{{Citation | last = The [[State University of New York]] | publication-date = 1985 | title = Sixty-four campuses: the State University of New York to 1985 | edition = 1 | publication-place = [[Albany, New York]] | publisher = Office of University Affairs and Development | oclc = 12556911 }}</REF> 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.<REF>{{Citation | last1 = Ohles | first1 = Frederik | last2 = Ohles | first2 = Shirley | publication-date = 1978 | title = Biographical dictionary of modern American educators | edition = 1 | page = 440 | publication-place = [[Westport, Connecticut]] | publisher = Greenwood Press | isbn = 9780837198934 | oclc = 3447005 }}</REF> 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<REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1942-07-07 | title = OPA Moves to Aid the Consumer through New Price Policy Unit | periodical = [[The New York Times]] | publication-place = [[New York, New York]] | page = 14 }}</REF> 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<REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1946-07-14 | title = TRUMAN SETS STUDY OF HIGHER LEARNING | periodical = [[The New York Times]] | publication-place = [[New York, New York]] | page = 1 }}</REF> and helped organize the [[Stanford Research Institute]] and served as its chairman.<REF>{{cite web |url= http://www.sri.com/about/history/1940.html |title= History of SRI International, 1940s |accessdate= 2005-05-18 |publisher= [[SRI International]] }}</REF> He was named acting President of Stanford in 1948 after his predecessor's sudden death<REF>{{Citation | publication-date = 1948-02-05 | title = Named Stanford's Acting Head | periodical = [[The New York Times]] | publication-place = [[New York, New York]] | page = 27 }}</REF>, shortly before assuming the Presidency of SUNY.<REF>{{Citation | title=Stanford Acting President Will Be Executive of Trustees Directing Institutions—Sterling Will Succeed Dr. Tresidder at Palo Alto | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=November 20, 1948 | year=1948 | page=15 }}</REF> 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. ==References== {{reflist|2}} {{start box}} {{s-aca}} {{succession box | before= [[Donald Tresidder]] | title= [[Stanford_University#Presidents|President of Stanford University]] (Acting) | years= February 4, [[1948]] – | after= [[Wallace Sterling]] }} {{succession box | before= (Office created) | title= President of the [[State University of New York]] | years= [[January 1]], [[1949]] – [[August 31]], [[1951]] | after= [[Charles C. Garside]] (Acting) }} {{end box}} {{Persondata |NAME=Eurich, Alvin C. |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=None |SHORT DESCRIPTION=American Educational Psychologist and educator, first President of [[SUNY]] |DATE OF BIRTH=[[14 June]] [[1902]] |PLACE OF BIRTH=[[Bay City, Michigan]] |DATE OF DEATH=[[27 May]] [[1987]] |PLACE OF DEATH=[[New York, New York]] }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Eurich, Alvin C.}} [[Category:1902 births]] [[Category:1987 deaths]] [[Category:American educators]] [[Category:American psychologists]] [[Category:American university and college presidents]] [[Category:Northwestern University faculty]] [[Category:People from Bay City, Michigan]] [[Category:Presidents of Stanford University]] [[Category:Presidents of the State University of New York]] [[Category:University of Maine alumni]] [[Category:University of Minnesota alumni]] [[Category:University of Minnesota faculty]]

A quality characteristic (QC) is any measurable property of a product, process, or service that is intrinsic to its nature. It is measured relative to a specification to determine product acceptability or process capability and is the focus of Quality-related activities, most notably process capability analysis, Statistical Process Control, and acceptance sampling.

Product quality characteristic (PQC) and critical-to-quality characteristic (CTQ) are its synonyms.

Examples include:

• Physical characteristics for products (taper, flatness, surface finish, concentricity, angularity, roundness, straightness, tensile strength, casting hardness, particle contamination, hole location, etc.)
• Time and satisfaction characteristics for services (Latency, throughput, abandon rate, first time resolution)

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:

Classification	Product quality characteristic	Process quality characteristic
Critical	Renders product useless or dangerous if outside specification	Causes significant and unacceptable average long-term nonconformities in process output if significantly outside specification
Major	Makes product unable to perform its intended function if outside specification	Causes unacceptable average long-term nonconformities in process output if measurably outside specification
Minor	Makes product perform its intended function poorly if outside specification	Causes small unacceptable average long-term nonconformities in process output if measurably outside specification
Incidental	Has no unsatisfactory effect on customer	Has no average long-term effect on nonconformities

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.

See also

CTQ tree

References

Process capability = histogram of observations plotted against specification limits. Juran, Joseph M. (2004), Architect of Quality: The Autobiography of Dr. Joseph M. Juran (1 ed.), New York City: McGraw-Hill, p. 98, ISBN 9780071426107, OCLC 52877405

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Ellingson

Mark W. Ellingson (5 June, 1904 – 13 February, 1993) was the fifth President of the Rochester Institute of Technology, succeeding John Randall, from 1936 – 1969. He rose from a teacher at the institute to the presidency, and oversaw a major expansion of the RIT endowment, a 1937 merger between the Empire School of Printing, the 1944 renaming to "Rochester Institute of Technology" (it had previously been named the Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute), and the planning for the construction of, and 1961 transfer to, the current campus in Henrietta.

Ellingson was born in Magrath, Alberta, but was raised in Idaho.

Ellingson earned an Associate's Degree in Education from University of Idaho before earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gooding College in 1926. He successfully completed a Master's degree at the University of Rochester in 1930 and a Ph.D. at the Ohio State University in 1936.

Mark Ellingson Hall (Building 50A) on the RIT campus

He joined the faculty of the Mechanics' Institute in 1926 as an Economics instructor and coached the wrestling team. He became the first Director of the Institute's School of Photography in 1930. He was named acting President before fully assuming the Institute's Presidency in 1936 after the abrupt departure of his predecessor.

During his tenure, he grew the endowment from USD 1.5 million to USD 22 million, full-time enrollment from 550 to 5,000, and evening enrollment from 1,700 to 11,000. He introduced academic programs in Science, Engineering, and Business Administration. He brought both the Empire School of Printing and The School for American Craftsmen to RIT.

He served on the boards of several civic organizations, including the George Eastman House, the Rochester Community Savings Bank, the Rochester Chamber of Commerce, and the Rochester Center for Governmental Research

In 1958, he helped found the Rochester Area Educational Television Association, which later became WXXI-TV; he served as a trustee of the association from 1958 to 1983.

Ellingson married the former Marcia Randall, daughter of his predecessor and raised one daughter.

He died at 12:40 am, February 13, 1993, at his East Avenue home in Brighton, New York.

References

• Saffran, Michael (March 2007), "RIT's presidential history", RIT News & Events, vol. 39, no. 11, Henrietta, NY: Rochester Institute of Technology, retrieved 2008-01-18.
• Wagner, M. Kathleen (February 14, 1993), "'Mr. RIT' dies at 88; former president led school 33 years", Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New York, p. 1 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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