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CRESTVIEW � The regional International Thespian Society competition's local winners have faced intense opposition. District 1, of which Crestview High School is a member, is the state's largest region, stretching from Pensacola to Tallahassee.
CRESTVIEW � The regional International Thespian Society competition's local winners have faced intense opposition. District 1, of which Crestview High School is a member, is the state's largest region, stretching from Pensacola to Tallahassee.
After becoming the best in the district during a competition last month at Northwest Florida State College, the cast of Bulldogs will compete in what former Thespian Society President Ryan Vance said is the "biggest student-run Thespian event in the entire country."
The state Thespian Society's annual gathering � coming March 20-23 at the David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa � will be more than a competition, Ryan said. Spread among the center's five theaters, rehearsal hall and Patel Conservatory classrooms, the event will allow students to hone their stagecraft skills in acting and behind the scenes.
Workshops and seminars offer instruction in acting, set design, costume design, lighting, makeup, house management and other theatre-related skills. Instructors and judges will include theatre professionals along with college and high school drama faculty.
"It�s incredible, the amount of stuff we learn," Ryan said. "There�s tons of workshops there that I want to attend. I get so much from them. It�s a great experience."
Ryan plans to major in theatre arts upon graduation from Crestview High in June, following example from one of his best friends and theatre mentors, Jesse Hinton, who graduated last year.
In this year's Jan. 4-5 regional competition, the Crestview High School Thespians earned five more "excellent" ratings � the highest awarded in a student performing arts competition � than last year, Thespians adviser and drama teacher Annette Gebhardt said.
"We earned seven excellents this year � up from two last year, so we are really excited about that," she said. "It was our best performance ever."
"We did really, really well in our competition," Ryan said.
However, because only one excellent-scoring performance can advance to state competition, Ryan, who has performed at state level, offered the honor to his friends whose small group musical also scored an excellent.
"Taking the group would allow the most people to perform," Ryan said.
"Representing us at state in March will be Angeles Alexander, Brittany Agee, Madeline Gebhardt and Bridget Worth for their small group musical," Annette Gebhardt, Madeline's mother, said.
The girls will reprise their district-winning performance of "Paris Original" from the 1960s musical comedy "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying."
"It was kind of bittersweet performing his year because I'm a senior and will be graduating," Ryan said. "I�m still excited to go and it�s exciting to see people who hadn�t performed (at state competition) get the chance to go."
However, Ryan did score a state-level honor during the district competition for his performance in the one-act Susan Glaspell play �Trifles.� Performing with Jerrod Miller, Wesley Barlow, Brittany Agee and Madeline Gebhardt, Ryan was selected for state all-star cast.
"They take one actor from each of the one-acts and they form the all-star cast," Ryan said. "I was really humbled and honored to be chosen."
To help fund their way to Tampa next month, the Crestview Thespian Society will sponsor the second annual Bulldog Idol show, 7 p.m. Feb. 21 at Crestview High's Pearl Tyner Auditorium. Tickets are $5 each, available at the door the night of the event.
Crestview's winning Thespians
Crestview High School's International Thespian Society chapter brought home seven "excellent" scores at district-level competition.
Winners were as follows:
Pantomime:�The Music Man,� Jack Barr, Keidra Perdue, Kyle Porte, Alex Andrews and Mac Sticha
Solo Musical:"The Wild Party," Catherine Hanna
Ensemble Acting:Scene from "Rumors," Mac Sticha, Wesley Barlow, Madeline Gebhardt and Bridget Worth
Monologue:Ryan Vance
Small Group Musical:"Paris Original" from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," Angeles Alexander, Bridget Worth, Madeline Gebhardt and Brittany Agee
Set Design:"Legally Blonde," Briana Schiro
Costume Construction:Mayzie from "Seussical: The Musical," Caitlin Prestridge
Contact News Bulletin Arts and Entertainment Editor Brian Hughes at 850-682-6524 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbBrian.


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It is heartbreaking to see the destroyed homes, scattered possessions, and lives shattered by recent tornadoes in Alabama, Missouri and elsewhere. Many have lost loved ones and businesses while large parts of communities have been tragically leveled. Yet creating a new federal program would not be a worthy response to the plight of those affected by the twisters.
However, the Obama Administration—known for, in the words of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, not letting "a good crisis go to waste"—wants to use the recent disaster to grow government unnecessarily, again.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary James Loy and former Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator James Lee Witt are blatantly using the recent destruction and weather-related headlines to renew a push for a federal program at a cost that will far outstrip any claim made today of savings for taxpayers.
Their plan, outlined in POLITICO, is to create a "private-public partnership" that acts as an insurance pool against future catastrophic events at "little" cost to taxpayers. Of course, there is no such thing as "little" cost in Washington. The result would actually be another centralized bureaucracy incapable of serving devastated areas efficiently or effectively.
Witt and Loy disingenuously claim that "Washington has been involved in rebuilding communities after catastrophes strike for more than 200 years." Yes, there are very limited circumstances, where the federal government has appropriately involved itself in helping to rebuild communities after a major catastrophic event.
But, involving the federal government in every major or potential weather event, regardless of actual national impact, is bad policy, and does a disservice to the affected communities who would benefit from localized command over resources, aid and redevelopment.
Witt and Loy's idea produces results like spending $50 million for a cloudy day in Houston because FEMA "leaned forward" with Hurricane Dean, which never came close to touching American soil. It also results in the bankrupt National Flood Insurance Program that repeatedly gets flood plains wrong and encourages people to rebuild in known flood zones.
As The Heritage Foundation has extensively noted, instead of creating another federal program that results in a majority of taxpayers subsidizing other Americans for the well-known risks of living in certain locations (earthquake zones, hurricane zones, tornado zones, and flood plains), Congress should scale back FEMA's involvement and get it back to being a national catastrophic response agency. That's what it was until Witt became the FEMA Administrator in 1993.
The reality is that the federal government played no role in most natural disasters in America from 1787 to 1992. Beginning in 1993, when FEMA first was run by a politician from the states, the federalization of natural disasters began.
In the short span of 16 years, the yearly average of FEMA declarations tripled—from 43 under President George H. W. Bush to 89 under President Bill Clinton to 130 under President George W. Bush. In less than two and a half years, President Barack Obama has issued 343 declarations without the occurrence of one major hurricane landfall or large-scale earthquake, which puts his yearly average at 137 declarations per year.
In the first five months of 2011, President Obama has issued 127 declarations, which puts him on a breathtaking pace of .81 declarations per day for a year-end estimate of 295 declarations—the most by far in FEMA history. The current record was set by Witt in 1996 when FEMA issued 157 declarations during President Clinton's reelection campaign. As Witt famously noted, disasters are "inherently political events."
President Obama already owns the single-year record for Major Disaster Declarations, with 81 in 2010. Again, that record was set without a single hurricane striking the United States and no earthquakes above 7.0 on the Richter Scale.
Instead of another federal program, Congress should establish clear requirements that limit the types of situations in which declarations can be issued—eliminating some types of disasters entirely from FEMA's portfolio.
One way to accomplish this is to align declarations with the various scales used for disasters (e.g., the Saffir–Simpson Scale, the Richter Scale, and the Fujita Scale).
Another way to accomplish this is to raise the minimum dollar threshold for requesting disaster declarations. Doubling the minimum per capita with a minimum damage threshold of $5 million (and a maximum threshold of $50 million) would significantly reduce the number of events that would warrant a federal disaster declaration.
Congress also should reduce the cost-share provision for all FEMA declarations to no more than 25 percent of the costs. This will help to ensure that at least three-fourths of the costs of a disaster are borne by the taxpayers living where the disaster took place. For catastrophes with a nationwide impact, such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, a relief provision could provide a higher federal cost-share where the total costs of the disaster exceeds a certain threshold amount.
Natural disasters that take lives, homes and causes economic damage are heartbreaking. But the federal government must be better at prioritizing when, how and if it needs to be involved. Most of the time, the answer is they should not.
America is broke. The last thing the federal government needs is another program that will lead to the same outcome as past federal programs: more spending, more waste, and less federalism.


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After I finished my active duty time, I came back to PA and did get an Associates in Applied Science in Accounting degree. Unfortunately online classes were not an option back when I was at Quantico. Prior to going into the Marines, I spent two semesters at Edinboro University of PA as a Music Performance major. I auditioned and was accepted into the Marine Band field. My MOS was 5563, a percussionist. I can play drums and all the other stuff too. At both units that I was stationed with, I was the Supply NCO. I have been working for the local Sears store for 17 years now. My official title it MCA (merchandise and customer assistance), but as one I am what is also known as an OOS (Out of Stock Specialist). Comes from running two unit supplies, I guess. I do still do some music with the Premier Choir at church, though.
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Jet Strip, which bills itself as "LA's Friendliest Gentlemen's Club," put $1,200 in the Lennox Little League's stirrup socks after the league was hit with a sharp increase in regulations and fees from the local school district that owns the fields it uses. An additional $1,600 in donations from local groups will keep the league functioning this year. But the league's players come mainly from impoverished families, and organizers fund most of the league's operations by selling food. To continue to do so, they have to build a snack shack, the materials for which cost $65,000. Which is a lot of $1 bills.
Update (10:40 a.m.): The Los Angeles Times just reported that the Lennox Little League has decided to turn down Jet Strip's donation because taking it would be "inappropriate."
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Miranda Lambert was overcome with emotion at last night's CMA Awards as she accepted the Song of the Year award with her husband Blake Shelton for their duet "Over You."
The song holds a deep personal meaning for the couple, as it was written for Shelton's older brother Richie, who was killed in a car accident in 1990 when Shelton was 14. Shelton reportedly credits his brother with fostering his love of country music.
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Though Lambert never met her brother-in-law, Shelton asked her to perform the song with him and it appears on her 2011 album Four the Record.
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"This ain't right!" bellowed Cosby attorney Brian McMonagle, an olive-complected coil of rage who at one point apologized to for his "Irish-Italian" temper during his pyrotechnic closing argument.But I couldn't find it in The Washington Post. I could only find the sentence on another website that quotes and links to the Washington Post article, "'This ain't right!': Bill Cosby's attorney calls assault claim a lie." But the quote is not there at WaPo. Instead, we get:
"This ain't right!" bellowed Cosby attorney Brian McMonagle in his closing argument. Earlier in the day, he had raced through a startlingly brief, six-minute defense, bringing to a close testimony in the sexual-assault case against the 79-year-old comedian.The "'Irish-Italian' temper" is still there, but gone is the characterization of the man as "an olive-complected coil of rage." A search of the comments — there are 749 right now — turns up nothing for "olive-complected" or "coil" or "rage."
McMonagle apologized at one point for his "Irish-Italian" temper during his pyrotechnic closing argument....
I can't find the older version in Google Cache or Archive.org. I wish I'd taken a screen shot.
The writer of the article is Manuel Roig-Franzia. According to his profile at WaPo, he was born in Spain. I used Google Translate to get the Spanish word for the English "olive-complected" and got "oliva," which might be a polite descriptor in Spanish. (Let me know, native Spanish speakers.) But if I go backwards, Google Translate gives me "olive" for "oliva," so I don't know where "complected" came from. Who talks like that nowadays? I haven't heard it in casual speech since the 1960s, and it was on the way out back then.
"Olive-complected" was especially bad next to "coil of rage." I get that McMonagle called attention to his own ethnicity to explain his manner of expression and his apparent emotional state, but that's his own choice for his own purpose (which is getting an acquittal for Bill Cosby), and the reporter shouldn't be participating in the ethnic stereotyping. The reporter should describe what happened and not get caught up in the fog. I don't know if there was any overt discussion of race at the trial, but there is race in the background, and McMonagle is a lawyer, using language to persuade.
If it wasn't bad, why was it changed? There's no note saying that it was changed and no comments referring to the phrase, so it seems aggressively, furtively cleaned up.


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MOBILE, Ala. Alfred Fincher drew up enough courage to approach Bill Parcells Wednesday for a conversation that Fincher called the best story of his life.
Just as Fincher began to introduce himself to the Tuna, Parcells stopped Fincher cold.
"I know who you are," Parcells told Fincher, the University of Connecticut linebacker and arguably the least heralded player in Saturdays Senior Bowl.
"It really got me fired up ... almost too riled up (for practice later in the day) because a man like that tells you something ... I really took it to heart," Fincher said. "He told me I was a great linebacker and that Im going to be a helluva linebacker (in the NFL) someday. I dont know how he knew about me, but he did. And right away he went to the stories about how he used to coach linebackers, and he started talking about Foxboro because he knew Im from Massachusetts.
"At the end of the conversation, he told me I was going to be a real good linebacker in the NFL someday. Thats special, man. I almost had a tear."
Fincher has been the eternal underdog, whether at Norwood High School or at UConn. One is the total number of Division I-A schools that recruited Fincher, and even that school was in a transition from Division I-AA.
By NFL standards, the 6-foot-1, 237-pound Fincher may be undersized. He also may not be the fastest linebacker on the stopwatch. But he proved to have superb instincts at UConn, and here hes created enough of a buzz to pique the interest of the likes of Parcells, two-time Super Bowl coach of the Giants and current coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He also has drawn the attention of John Dorsey, a UConn All-America linebacker and the director of college scouting for the Green Bay Packers.
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Fincher has grown weary of being low on the radar screen, tired of being an afterthought when the top linebackers in the country are discussed.
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Fincher didnt find out he would be joining teammate Dan Orlovsky at the Senior Bowl until about four days before he had to report. But when he got the call from a Senior Bowl official, he responded by promising that they wont regret it. Thats all he ever asked for the opportunity. He hasnt failed with it yet.
"The word around has been pretty good," Fincher said. "They are starting to notice me. You know what, Tom Brady was a sixth-round draft pick. Maybe they just keep pushing me back and wont get the hint. But when I get there, theyre going to know, because I cant hide on national TV every Sunday.
"Coach (Randy) Edsall always said, You put it on film, you put it on tape, they cant hide from it."
With hundreds of scouts converging on Mobile this week, theyre all looking for the prototype this or that. Its the age-old debate between an overachiever who produces versus maybe the underachiever who projects better at the next level.
Fincher didnt even dazzle college recruiters coming out of high school, so how is he supposed to make them take notice now, playing against the top seniors in the country?
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The radar screen is picking him up now.
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Competing Failure Modes Analysis
Often, a group of products will fail due to more than one failure mode. One can take the view that the products could have failed due to any one of the possible failure modes, but since an item cannot fail more than one time, there can only be one failure mode for each failed product. In this view, the failure modes compete as to which causes the failure for each particular item. This can be viewed as a series system reliability model, with each failure mode composing a block of the series system. Competing failure modes (CFM) analysis segregates the analyses of failure modes and then combines the results to provide an overall model for the product in question.
CFM Analysis Approach
In order to begin analyzing data sets with more than one competing failure mode, one must perform a separate analysis for each failure mode. During each of these analyses, the failure times for all other failure modes not being analyzed are considered to be suspensions. This is because the units under test would have failed at some time in the future due to the failure mode being analyzed, had the unrelated (not analyzed) mode not occurred. Thus, in this case, the information available is that the mode under consideration did not occur and the unit under consideration accumulated test time without a failure due to the mode under consideration (or a suspension due to that mode).
Once the analysis for each separate failure mode has been completed (using the same principles as before), the resulting reliability equation for all modes is the product of the reliability equation for each mode, or:
- [math]R(t)={{R}_{1}}(t)\cdot {{R}_{2}}(t)\cdot ...\cdot {{R}_{n}}(t)\,\![/math]
where [math]n\,\![/math] is the total number of failure modes considered. This is the product rule for the reliability of series systems with statistically independent components, which states that the reliability for a series system is equal to the product of the reliability values of the components comprising the system. Do note that the above equation is the reliability function based on any assumed life distribution. In Weibull++ this life distribution can be either the 2-parameter Weibull, lognormal, normal or the 1-parameter exponential.
CFM Example
The following example demonstrates how you can use the reliability equation to determine the overall reliability of a component. (This example has been abstracted from Example 15.6 from the Meeker and Escobar textbook Statistical Methods for Reliability Data [27].)
An electronic component has two competing failure modes. One failure mode is due to random voltage spikes, which cause failure by overloading the system. The other failure mode is due to wearout failures, which usually happen only after the system has run for many cycles. The objective is to determine the overall reliability for the component at 100,000 cycles.
30 units are tested, and the failure times are recorded in the following table. The failures that are due to the random voltage spikes are denoted by a V. The failures that are due to wearout failures are denoted by a W.
*Failure times given are in thousands of cycles.
To obtain the overall reliability of the component, we will first need to analyze the data set due to each failure mode. For example, to obtain the reliability of the component due to voltage spikes, we must consider all of the failures for the wear-out mode to be suspensions. We do the same for analyzing the wear-out failure mode, counting only the wear-out data as failures and assuming that the voltage spike failures are suspensions. Once we have obtained the reliability of the component due to each mode, we can use the system Reliability Equation to determine the overall component reliability.
The following analysis shows the data set for the voltage spikes. Using the Weibull distribution and the MLE analysis method (recommended due to the number of suspensions in the data), the parameters are [math]{{\beta }_{V}}=0.671072\,\![/math] and [math]{{\eta }_{V}}=449.427230\,\![/math]. The reliability for this failure mode at [math]t=100\,\![/math] is [math]{{R}_{V}}(100)=0.694357\,\![/math].
The following analysis shows the data set for the wearout failure mode. Using the same analysis settings (i.e., Weibull distribution and MLE analysis method), the parameters are [math]{{\beta }_{W}}=4.337278\,\![/math] and [math]{{\eta }_{W}}=340.384242\,\![/math]. The reliability for this failure mode at [math]t=100\,\![/math] is [math]{{R}_{W}}(100)=0.995084\,\![/math].
Using the Reliability Equation to obtain the overall component reliability at 100,000 cycles, we get:
- [math]\begin{align} & {{R}_{sys}}(100)= {{R}_{V}}(100)\cdot {{R}_{W}}(100) \\ & = 0.694357\cdot 0.995084 \\ & = 0.690943 \end{align}\,\![/math]
Or the reliability of the unit (or system) under both modes is [math]{{R}_{sys}}(100)=69.094%\,\![/math].
You can also perform this analysis using Weibull++'s built-in CFM analysis options, which allow you to generate a probability plot that contains the combined mode line as well as the individual mode lines.
Confidence Bounds for CFM Analysis
The method available in Weibull++ for estimating the different types of confidence bounds, for competing failure modes analysis, is the Fisher matrix method, and is presented in this section.
Variance/Covariance Matrix
The variances and covariances of the parameters are estimated from the inverse local Fisher matrix, as follows:
- [math]\begin{align} & \left( \begin{matrix} Var({{{\hat{a}}}_{1}}) & Cov({{{\hat{a}}}_{1}},{{{\hat{b}}}_{1}}) & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ Cov({{{\hat{a}}}_{1}},{{{\hat{b}}}_{1}}) & Var({{{\hat{b}}}_{1}}) & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & \cdot & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdot & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdot & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & Var({{{\hat{a}}}_{n}}) & Cov({{{\hat{a}}}_{n}},{{{\hat{b}}}_{n}}) \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & Cov({{{\hat{a}}}_{n}},{{{\hat{b}}}_{n}}) & Var({{{\hat{b}}}_{n}}) \\ \end{matrix} \right) \\ & ={\left( \begin{matrix} -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial a_{1}^{2}} & -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial a_{1}^{{}}\partial {{b}_{1}}} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial a_{1}^{{}}\partial {{b}_{1}}} & -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial b_{1}^{2}} & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & \cdot & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdot & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdot & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial a_{n}^{2}} & -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial a_{n}^{{}}\partial {{b}_{n}}} \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial a_{n}^{{}}\partial {{b}_{n}}} & -\frac{{{\partial }^{2}}\Lambda }{\partial b_{n}^{2}} \\ \end{matrix} \right)}^{-1} \\ \end{align}\,\![/math]
where [math]\Lambda \,\![/math] is the log-likelihood function of the failure distribution, described in Parameter Estimation.
Bounds on Reliability
The competing failure modes reliability function is given by:
- [math]\widehat{R}=\underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\mathop \prod }}\,{{\hat{R}}_{i}}\,\![/math]
- [math]{{R}_{i}}\,\![/math] is the reliability of the [math]{{i}^{th}}\,\![/math] mode.
- [math]n\,\![/math] is the number of failure modes.
The upper and lower bounds on reliability are estimated using the logit transformation:
- [math]\begin{align} & {{R}_{U}}= & \frac{\widehat{R}}{\widehat{R}+(1-\widehat{R}){{e}^{-\tfrac{{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var(\widehat{R})}}{\widehat{R}(1-\widehat{R})}}}} \\ & {{R}_{L}}= & \frac{\widehat{R}}{\widehat{R}+(1-\widehat{R}){{e}^{\tfrac{{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var(\widehat{R})}}{\widehat{R}(1-\widehat{R})}}}} \end{align}\,\![/math]
where [math]\widehat{R}\,\![/math] is calculated using the reliability equation for competing failure modes. [math]{{K}_{\alpha }}\,\![/math] is defined by:
- [math]\alpha =\frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi }}\underset{{{K}_{\alpha }}}{\overset{\infty }{\mathop \int }}\,{{e}^{-\tfrac{{{t}^{2}}}{2}}}dt=1-\Phi ({{K}_{\alpha }})\,\![/math]
(If [math]\delta \,\![/math] is the confidence level, then [math]\alpha =\tfrac{1-\delta }{2}\,\![/math] for the two-sided bounds, and [math]\alpha =1-\delta \,\![/math] for the one-sided bounds.)
The variance of [math]\widehat{R}\,\![/math] is estimated by:
- [math]Var(\widehat{R})=\underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\mathop \sum }}\,{{\left( \frac{\partial R}{\partial {{R}_{i}}} \right)}^{2}}Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
- [math]\frac{\partial R}{\partial {{R}_{i}}}=\underset{j=1,j\ne i}{\overset{n}{\mathop \prod }}\,\widehat{{{R}_{j}}}\,\![/math]
- [math]Var(\widehat{R})=\underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\mathop \sum }}\,\left( \underset{j=1,j\ne i}{\overset{n}{\mathop \prod }}\,\widehat{R}_{j}^{2} \right)Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
- [math]Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})=\underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\mathop \sum }}\,{{\left( \frac{\partial {{R}_{i}}}{\partial {{a}_{i}}} \right)}^{2}}Var({{\hat{a}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
where [math]\widehat{{{a}_{i}}}\,\![/math] is an element of the model parameter vector.
Therefore, the value of [math]Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})\,\![/math] is dependent on the underlying distribution.
For the Weibull distribution:
- [math]Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})={{\left( {{{\hat{R}}}_{i}}{{e}^{{{{\hat{u}}}_{i}}}} \right)}^{2}}Var({{\hat{u}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
- [math]{{\hat{u}}_{i}}={{\hat{\beta }}_{i}}(\ln (t-{{\hat{\gamma }}_{i}})-\ln {{\hat{\eta }}_{i}})\,\![/math]
and [math]Var(\widehat{{{u}_{i}}})\,\![/math] is given in The Weibull Distribution.
For the exponential distribution:
- [math]Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})={{\left( {{{\hat{R}}}_{i}}(t-{{{\hat{\gamma }}}_{i}}) \right)}^{2}}Var({{\hat{\lambda }}_{i}})\,\![/math]
where [math]Var(\widehat{{{\lambda }_{i}}})\,\![/math] is given in The Exponential Distribution.
For the normal distribution:
- [math]Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})={{\left( f({{{\hat{z}}}_{i}})\hat{\sigma } \right)}^{2}}Var({{\hat{z}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
- [math]{{\hat{z}}_{i}}=\frac{t-{{{\hat{\mu }}}_{i}}}{{{{\hat{\sigma }}}_{i}}}\,\![/math]
where [math]Var(\widehat{{{z}_{i}}})\,\![/math] is given in The Normal Distribution.
For the lognormal distribution:
- [math]Var({{\hat{R}}_{i}})={{\left( f({{{\hat{z}}}_{i}})\cdot {{{\hat{\sigma }}}^{\prime }} \right)}^{2}}Var({{\hat{z}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
- [math]{{\hat{z}}_{i}}=\frac{\ln \text{(}t)-\hat{\mu }_{i}^{\prime }}{\hat{\sigma }_{i}^{\prime }}\,\![/math]
where [math]Var(\widehat{{{z}_{i}}})\,\![/math] is given in The Lognormal Distribution.
Bounds on Time
The bounds on time are estimate by solving the reliability equation with respect to time. From the reliabilty equation for competing faiure modes, we have that:
- [math]\hat{t}=\varphi (R,{{\hat{a}}_{i}},{{\hat{b}}_{i}})\,\![/math]
- [math]i=1,...,n\,\![/math]
- • [math]\varphi \,\![/math] is inverse function for the reliabilty equation for competing faiure modes.
- • for the Weibull distribution [math]{{\hat{a}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]{{\hat{\beta }}_{i}}\,\![/math], and [math]{{\hat{b}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]{{\hat{\eta }}_{i}}\,\![/math]
- • for the exponential distribution [math]{{\hat{a}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]{{\hat{\lambda }}_{i}}\,\![/math], and [math]{{\hat{b}}_{i}}\,\![/math] =0
- • for the normal distribution [math]{{\hat{a}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]{{\hat{\mu }}_{i}}\,\![/math], and [math]{{\hat{b}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]{{\hat{\sigma }}_{i}}\,\![/math], and
- • for the lognormal distribution [math]{{\hat{a}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]\hat{\mu }_{i}^{\prime }\,\![/math], and [math]{{\hat{b}}_{i}}\,\![/math] is [math]\hat{\sigma }_{i}^{\prime }\,\![/math]
- [math]\begin{align} u=\ln (t) \end{align}\,\![/math]
The bounds on [math]u\,\![/math] are estimated from:
- [math]{{u}_{U}}=\widehat{u}+{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var(\widehat{u})}\,\![/math]
- [math]{{u}_{L}}=\widehat{u}-{{K}_{\alpha }}\sqrt{Var(\widehat{u})}\,\![/math]
Then the upper and lower bounds on time are found by using the equations:
- [math]{{t}_{U}}={{e}^{{{u}_{U}}}}\,\![/math]
- [math]{{t}_{L}}={{e}^{{{u}_{L}}}}\,\![/math]
[math]{{K}_{\alpha }}\,\![/math] is calculated using the inverse standard normal distribution and [math]Var(\widehat{u})\,\![/math] is computed as:
- [math]Var(\widehat{u})=\underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\mathop \sum }}\,\left( {{\left( \frac{\partial u}{\partial {{a}_{i}}} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{{{a}_{i}}})+{{\left( \frac{\partial u}{\partial {{b}_{i}}} \right)}^{2}}Var(\widehat{{{b}_{i}}})+2\frac{\partial u}{\partial {{a}_{i}}}\frac{\partial u}{\partial {{b}_{i}}}Cov(\widehat{{{a}_{i}}},\widehat{{{b}_{i}}}) \right)\,\![/math]
Complex Failure Modes Analysis
In addition to being viewed as a series system, the relationship between the different competing failures modes can be more complex. After performing separate analysis for each failure mode, a diagram that describes how each failure mode can result in a product failure can be used to perform analysis for the item in question. Such diagrams are usually referred to as Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD) (for more on RBDs see ReliaSoft's System Analysis Reference and ReliaSoft's BlockSim software).
A reliability block diagram is made of blocks that represent the failure modes and arrows and connects the blocks in different configurations. Note that the blocks can also be used to represent different components or subsystems that make up the product. Weibull++ provides the capability to use a diagram to model, series, parallel, k-out-of-n configurations in addition to any complex combinations of these configurations.
In this analysis, the failure modes are assumed to be statistically independent. (Note: In the context of this reference, statistically independent implies that failure information for one failure mode provides no information about, i.e. does not affect, other failure mode). Analysis of dependent modes is more complex. Advanced RBD software such as ReliaSoft's BlockSim can handle and analyze such dependencies, as well as provide more advanced constructs and analyses (see http://www.ReliaSoft.com/BlockSim).
Failure Modes Configurations
Series Configuration
The basic competing failure modes configuration, which has already been discussed, is a series configuration. In a series configuration, the occurrence of any failure mode results in failure for the product.
The equation that describes series configuration is:
- [math]R(t)={{R}_{1}}(t)\cdot {{R}_{2}}(t)\cdot ...\cdot {{R}_{n}}(t)\,\![/math]
where [math]n\,\![/math] is the total number of failure modes considered.
In a simple parallel configuration, at least one of the failure modes must not occur for the product to continue operation.
The equation that describes the parallel configuration is:
- [math]R(t)=1-\underset{i=1}{\overset{n}{\mathop \prod }}\,(1-{{R}_{i}}(t))\,\![/math]
where [math]n\,\![/math] is the total number of failure modes considered.
Combination of Series and Parallel
While many smaller products can be accurately represented by either a simple series or parallel configuration, there may be larger products that involve both series and parallel configurations in the overall model of the product. Such products can be analyzed by calculating the reliabilities for the individual series and parallel sections and then combining them in the appropriate manner.
k-out-of-n Parallel Configuration=
The k-out-of-n configuration is a special case of parallel redundancy. This type of configuration requires that at least [math]k\,\![/math] failure modes do not happen out of the total [math]n\,\![/math] parallel failure modes for the product to succeed. The simplest case of a k-out-of-n configuration is when the failure modes are independent and identical and have the same failure distribution and uncertainties about the parameters (in other words they are derived from the same test data). In this case, the reliability of the product with such a configuration can be evaluated using the binomial distribution, or:
- [math]R(t)=\overset{n}{\mathop{\underset{r=k}{\mathop{\underset{}{\overset{}{\mathop \sum }}\,}}\,}}\,\left( \underset{k}{\mathop{\overset{n}{\mathop{{}}}\,}}\, \right){{R}^{r}}(t){{(1-R(t))}^{n-r}}\,\![/math]
In the case where the k-out-of-n failure modes are not identical, other approaches for calculating the reliability must be used (e.g. the event space method). Discussion of these is beyond the scope of this reference. Interested readers can consult the System Analysis Reference book.
Complex Systems
In many cases, it is not easy to recognize which components are in series and which are in parallel in a complex system.
The previous configuration cannot be broken down into a group of series and parallel configurations. This is primarily due to the fact that failure mode C has two paths leading away from it, whereas B and D have only one. Several methods exist for obtaining the reliability of a complex configuration including the decomposition method, the event space method and the path-tracing method. Discussion of these is beyond the scope of this reference. Interested readers can consult the System Analysis Reference book.
Complex Failure Modes Example
Assume that a product has five independent failure modes: A, B, C, D and E. Furthermore, assume that failure of the product will occur if mode A occurs, modes B and C occur simultaneously or if modes D and E occur simultaneously. The objective is to estimate the reliability of the product at 100 hours, with 90% two-sided confidence bounds.
The product is tested to failure, and the failure times due to each mode are recorded in the following table.
The reliability block diagram (RBD) approach can be used to analyze the reliability of the product. But before creating a diagram, the data sets of the failure modes need to be segregated so that each mode can be represented by a single block in the diagram. Recall that when you analyze a particular mode, the failure times for all other competing modes are considered to be suspensions. This captures the fact that those units operated for a period of time without experiencing the failure mode of interest before they were removed from observation when they failed due to another mode. We can easily perform this step via Weibull++'s Batch Auto Run utility. To do this, enter the data from the table into a single data sheet. Choose the 2P-Weibull distribution and the MLE analysis method, and then click the Batch Auto Run icon on the control panel. When prompted to select the subset IDs, select them all. Click the Processing Preferences tab. In the Extraction Options area, select the second option, as shown next.
This will extract the data sets that are required for the analysis. Select the check box in the Calculation Options area and click OK. The data sets are extracted into separate data sheets in the folio and automatically calculated.
Next, create a diagram by choosing Insert > Tools > Diagram. Add blocks by right-clicking the diagram and choosing Add Block on the shortcut menu. When prompted to select the data sheet of the failure mode that the block will represent, select the data sheet for mode A. Use the same approach to add the blocks that will represent failure modes B, C , D and E. Add a connector by right-clicking the diagram sheet and choosing Connect Blocks, and then connect the blocks in an appropriate configuration to describe the relationships between the failure modes. To insert a node, which acts as a switch that the diagram paths move through, right-click the diagram and choose Add Node. Specify the number of required paths in the node by double-clicking the node and entering the appropriate number (use 2 in both nodes).
The following figure shows the completed diagram.
Click Analyze to analyze the diagram, and then use the Quick Calculation Pad (QCP) to estimate the reliability. The estimated R(100 hours) and the 90% two-sided confidence bounds are:
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HOUSTON – When a woman first receives the devastating diagnosis of breast cancer, her first thought immediately turns to fighting the cancer as best she can.
But another important part of the picture is breast reconstruction, which studies have shown can have a tremendous impact on survival and quality of life.
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Weight Watchers Results +3 pounds.
Oh hell where did I go wrong? Was it the fried chicken dinner? Was it the Mississippi Mudd Pie? Was it the three days on end that I didn't count my points at all?
This week has been a total failure. I am annoyed.
I'm also experiencing some sort of ovarian discomfort. Ovulating? Pregnant? I am not good at keeping track of these things, but I think it is ovulation. I took a Tylenol and hope it goes away as I have a crapload of packing to do today.
In work related fun, we had a huge brouhaha today over a package insert that was being sent to our customers. It featured "adult" lingerie items complete with nudity! Turns out the VP who signed off on it is a notorious degenerate tit-freak so there was a lot of sniggering AT him as he got his head handed to him by the BOSS. He is bitter, mostly at me, as I brought it up, and at my boss who took it to THE boss. But our customers were really freaking out about it. Who would have ever suspected we had such a large Puritan customer base? It was a laugh riot most of the day as the chaos ensued to STOP the flow of those items out of our warehouse.
I am not hopeful for my weight this next week, as it's a long weekend at the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH. How in the world am I supposed to lose weight there? Hell we go there just for the restaurants in many cases!
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November 29, 2012
With all the police horror stories we are constantly deluged with, a story about a good cop is sometimes necessary to remind everyone that there are still police out there who don't take part in the crazed, lunatic brute-cop goon-squad mentality, and who instead stand up for humanity, freedom and what is right.
Enter Jennifer Foster and her cellphone camera. According to a post that appeared on the NYPD's Facebook page, she and her husband visited New York's Time Square earlier this month and stumbled upon an interesting photo opportunity where a selfless act of kindness was being perpetrated by none other than one of "New York's finest."
"Right when I was about to approach, one of your officers came up behind him. The officer said, 'I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let's put them on and take care of you.' The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man. The officer expected NOTHING in return and did not know I was watching," the post on the NYPD's Facebook page says.
Since then, the tale of the altruistic cop's act has garnered massive popularity, and been a major driver of traffic to the department's Facebook page "boosting subscribers to the department's 5-month-old page by 7,000, to 95,000," the Huffington Post reports.
As Foster's post explains, she's also in law enforcement, but has never witnessed such a courageous, charitable act: "I have been in law enforcement for 17 years. I was never so impressed in my life."
At the time the photo was posted, NYPD had no idea who the officer was, but it began attracting massive hits almost immediately, unexpectedly catapulting officer Larry DePrimo into Internet stardom, albeit unbeknownst to him.
The post went up Tuesday night, and "By Wednesday evening, the post had been viewed 1.6 million times, and had attracted nearly 275,000 "likes" and more than 16,000 comments," reports the New York Times. Total "likes" as of writing this stand at 391,108.
"It was freezing out and you could see the blisters on the man's feet," DePrimo recalled during an interview. "I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold."
According to the Huffington Post, it was then the officer decided to go to a store and pick up some boots for the man: "The officer walked to a Skechers store on 42nd Street and shelled out $75 for insulated winter boots and thermal socks. He returned to the man, knelt down and put the footwear on him."
Deprimo says the man "smiled from ear to ear," adding, "It was like you gave him a million dollars." The officer also told Newsday, "I didn't think anything of it."
Earlier today, we reported on another surprising good cop story in which an Albany County Deputy Sherriff upheld his oath to protect the rights laid out in the Constitution.
"Deputy Sheriff Stan Lenic, the cop who stood up for the First Amendment by refusing to impede the free speech rights of activists at Albany International Airport, has become an Internet icon, with messages of support flooding in to the Albany County Sheriff's Office and Lenic being honored with a commendation," Paul Watson wrote.
The video, which has since gone viral, has invited overwhelming support from the online community, some of who expressed their gratitude in Youtube comments. "Finally a cop that does his job properly. Makes a change from all of the bad cop films we've seen lately. Hats off to the man," one person said. "This Sheriff is an absolute paragon for justice," added another.
Undoubtedly, these officers are two sterling examples of nobility after which all LEOs should model their behavior.
Jennifer Foster's final words to the NYPD serve as a reminder to other law enforcement officers that their main purpose is to help the people: "It is important, I think, for all of us to remember the real reason we are in this line of work. The reminder this officer gave to our profession in his presentation of human kindness has not been lost on myself or any of the Arizona law enforcement officials with whom this story has been shared."
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Los Angeles: An Excellent Mexican Burger at Border Grill
Border Grill
1445 4th St., Santa Monica CA 90401 (map); 310-451-1655; bordergrill.com
Cooking Method: Griddled
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Want Fries with That? No; they're freshcut but not so well executed. Get some rice and beans instead!
Prices: Chile Relleno Burger (w/fries), $14.50; Border Classics sampler plate, $15.75
These days Los Angeles restaurants change menus like starlets change red carpet outfits, but not so at Border Grill. Amid the smog of the Los Angeles restaurant war this modern Mexican restaurant has blossomed into one of the city's culinary icons because its so damn reliably good. The juggernaut of culinary and personal appeal behind it all, chef duo Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, isn't so much a breath of fresh air as a reassuring hug of an old friend.
Certainly the pair have embraced the celebrity culture of being a chef these days; they were among the first wave of Food Network's chef stars with their show Two Hot Tamales, and more recently both have done a turn on Top Chef. But what makes them stars in my book is how they've maintained the integrity of Border Grill, the restaurant that made them chefs worthy of our attention. I've spent more evenings there than I can count, soaking my liver with their near perfect margaritas and mojitos while gorging on panuchos so good that you question why you eat anything besides Mexican food.
Of course, we all know the answer to that: because there are burgers. A recent lunchtime excursion to the Santa Monica outpost (the original) of Border Grill meant I could have it all, which, as you'd guess, I did.
The burger on Border Grill's lunch menu is the Chile Relleno burger ($14.50). No surprise what the star topping is, but the (very clever) addition of a cheese-stuffed pepper to this burger fiesta is just the beginning of why this is such an excellent riff on the American standard. The patty is six beautiful ounces of an 80/20 chuck and brisket blend that is all natural and antibiotic-free Angus beef from Meyers Ranch. The pepper is a roasted poblano stuffed with manchego, panela, and cotija cheeses, and is accompanied by a little Romaine lettuce and a splash of salsa. The bun is Rockenwagner's brioche, which—as we've seen before—is very good and not so much like a traditional brioche. It gets a hit of chipotle Thousand Island.
The first bite was a revelation. The ridiculously rich and flavorful beef had a fantastic char from the grill that stood tall against the cheese and pepper. The chile relleno, which I worried might overpower the patty, was much less the bully than I'd feared. Rather, the beautiful crunch from the frying gave wave to a perfect ooze of creaminess to match the char. This burger managed to overwhelm me and comfort me all at once. Its powerful combination of flavors and textures betrayed the balance that is a mark of a great chef (or two in this case). All the Mexican flavors, rather than distracting, makes this a burger—and its cultural blend—all the more American.
The brioche bun was able to hold all of the beef and toppings together. It's so much more pliable than its name would suggest; this is a brioche that makes this burger all the better.
The side of fries—fresh-cut, twice-fried Kennebec potatoes—didn't strike me as the equal of this impressive burger. In large part I'd say it was due to the dusting of cumin they get. It's a powerful and demanding spice that doesn't work for me on french fries.
That said, I did find room to sample the Border Classics plate ($15.75) that comes with green corn tamales, plaintain empanadas, and those magical panuchos. If you head to Border Grill for the first time it's almost a moral imperative you order this sampler. When I had it on this most recent visit, it was like eating them all again for the first time. Or, perhaps better stated, just as good as the first time.
Indeed, that's what I like so much about what Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger do with this restaurant. The dedication to reliably excellent food is apparent with each visit. This isn't to say there's nothing deliciously new at Border Grill. After speaking with Milliken I was surprised to learn that they'd resisted a burger addition to their menu for years. It took the memory of a delicious burger they'd made years before at a previous restaurant and a bit of creative epiphany to get a burger on the menu. The chile relleno would make the burger something special. What's even better? That I can count on it being just as good the next time I come back.
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After you elected traveling abortion provider Dr. X as Woman of the Year, she got in touch with us to share a message about her work. Here's what she had to say:
I'm very pleased to be 'Woman of the Year'. And — since the voters at Jezebel know little about me personally — I believe the honor is an expression of appreciation for all abortion providers. None of us — and none of you and no one — is 'pro abortion'. We provide a needed service to women of this country. As you know, over 1/3 of American women have had an abortion. At some point in their lives — because of family, economic and personal concerns — they felt that abortion was the right decision. Please consider this fact, and your appreciation of us, when you vote in 2012. Please talk about this to your friends and neighbors and try to make sure that our right to make such decisions and to obtain a needed service safely, privately and respectfully is not compromised.
In a time when that right is being compromised pretty much constantly, her work — and your support — have never been more important.
Earlier: Jezebel's Woman Of The Year Is An Anonymous Abortion Doctor
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A Structure for the Affective Domain in Relation to Science Education
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Science Education v 60 n 3, p. 299-312
This paper establishes a system for considering the affective domain while teaching science. The author presents a detailed matrix that integrates affective behaviors with scientific activities, scientific events and scientific inquiry. There is great detail in breaking science down, not into topics but into ideas about how science is done and general concepts of the scientific method. There are several examples of how various statements fit into the matrix. For example, the statement, "a student enjoys the challenge of formulating a theory to explain observations" shows the affective behavior of "satisfaction in responding to information" and also pertains to "the process of scientific inquiry." There are not specific examples or recommendations about how to use this system. The paper only presents the structure itself.
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Second Blast in Russia Stokes Olympic Security Fears
Suicide Bombing Is Volgograd's Second Within 24 Hours
MOSCOW—A suicide bomber struck in the southwest Russian city of Volgograd on Monday, killing at least 16 people in the city's second terrorist attack in less than 24 hours and stoking security fears in the country ahead of the Winter Olympics.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered security to be tightened around the country after the second attack, which comes less than six weeks before the games are set to start in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. The repeated bombings, and risk of additional violence, threaten to tarnish...
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Photographer Jacki Bruniquel's hair got too close to a candle and caught fire while shooting Murray and Emma Burton's wedding ceremony. Thankfully, one of the groomsmen quickly ran after her to extinguish the flames and everyone started to laugh. Because, let's admit it, people burning is fun. At least in South Africa.
The moral of the story: don't get married! I mean, watch out for killer candles if you are a photographer in a wedding. And don't get married. [Petapixel]