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This chapter deals with fire hazards that may be encountered at UTMB, effective methods for preventing or minimizing them and emergency procedures to follow in case of fire.
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Rent a Car in Just 0, 60, 240 or 1,217 Seconds? Comparative Usability Measurement, CUE-8
Rolf Molich, Jarinee Chattratichart, Veronica Hinkle, Janne Jul Jensen, Jurek Kirakowski, Jeff Sauro, Tomer Sharon, Brian Traynor
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 6, Issue 1, November 2010, pp. 8 - 24
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The following sections discuss that CUE-8 is not a scientific experiment, the measurement approaches, computing time-on-task, reporting uncertainty for time-on-task, qualitative results, reproducibility of results, participant profiles, satisfaction measurements, handling failed tasks, productivity, contaminated data, measuring time-on-task, and the usability of a remote tool.
CUE-8 Is Not a Scientific Experiment
From previous CUE studies (Molich, 2009) it is known that there is a wide range of approaches by professional teams when undertaking qualitative evaluations. The main motivation for CUE-8 was to see to what extent there was variation in approach to quantitative measurement.
The teams who participated were essentially a convenience sample. They were not recruited specifically to provide either best practices or state-of-the-art measurement techniques. For this reason we abandoned one of our original goals, to investigate whether usability measurements are reproducible. Nevertheless, there was a good mixture of qualifications between teams within CUE-8. Although the range of variation was wide, it could well be wider if a more systematic random sample of teams over the world was taken, but such a comprehensive systematic study would most likely be cost prohibitive.
The results from CUE-8 cannot therefore be generalised or summated into averages with sampling confidence intervals to produce overall trends. Methodological purity of this kind is not accessible in the real world. What we present is essentially 15 separate case studies showing 15 different approaches to the quantitative measurement and reporting of time, performance, and satisfaction. The benefit of CUE-8 is that in this area of quantitative evaluation, we can comment on what appear to us to be the strengths and weaknesses within each case study and present them as take aways.
Measurement Approaches
Team C discouraged participants to think aloud. Team K and N on the other hand explicitly asked participants to think aloud. At the workshop it was discussed whether think aloud increases or decreases total time-on-task. Some argued that the mental workload increases when thinking aloud, thus causing additional problems to arise. It may also impact task completion time, as participants tend to occasionally pause their task solving to elaborate on an issue. Others argued that think aloud forces participants to consider their moves more carefully thus decreasing time-on-task. This would be an interesting variable to investigate further.
A take away from the study was that instructions and tasks must be precise and exhaustive for unmoderated, quantitative studies because there was no moderator to correct misunderstandings. Even in moderated studies the moderator should not have to intervene because this influences task time. Unfortunately, this often means that tasks get quite long, so participants don't read all of the instructions or tasks. For example, in order to provide the necessary details, task 1 and 4 became so wordy that some participants overlooked information in the tasks. Some teams declared measurements from misinterpreted tasks invalid; others did not report their procedures. Instructions and tasks should be tested carefully in pilot tests.
Our study shows that task order is critical; there is a substantial learning effect as shown by the two teams who repeated task 1 and 2 after task 1-5.
A few teams presented the tasks in random order. At the workshop it was pointed out that this conflicts with a reasonable business workflow; task 1 or 2 should be first because the vast majority of users would start with one of these tasks.
Computing Time-on-Task
There is substantial agreement within the measurement community that measures such as time-on-task are not normally distributed because it is common to observe a positive skew in such data, that is, there is a sharp rise from the start to the center point of the distribution but a long tail back from the center to the end. Under such conditions, the mean is a poor indicator of the center of a distribution. The median or geometric mean is often used as a substitute for the mean for heavily skewed distributions (Sauro, 2009). Using the median censors data or discards extreme observations.
There are, as alternatives, a variety of statistical techniques that will "correct" a skewed distribution in order to make it symmetrical and therefore amenable to summary using means and standard deviations. Team F and G used such an approach. The rest reported time-on-task the way it is usually reported in the HCI literature: untransformed data are the norm.
Reporting Uncertainty in Time-on-Task
At the workshop it was argued that usability practitioners mislead their stakeholders if they were not reporting confidence intervals. Understanding the variability in point estimates from small samples is important in understanding the limits of small sample studies. Confidence intervals are the best way to describe both the location and precision of the estimate, although the mathematical techniques of computing confidence intervals on sample distributions from non-normal populations are still a matter of controversy in the statistical literature.
In order to compare teams' confidence intervals, all teams must meet the same screening criteria for participants. As discussed in the Participant Profiles section, this was not the case in this study where convenience samples were often employed.
If the sample on which the measures were taken is from a normally distributed population, the mean is a useful measure of the average tendency of the data, and the variance is a useful measure of variability of the data. The confidence interval is a statistic that is derived from the computation of the variance and also assumes normality of population distribution.
Because time-on-task is not normally distributed, means, variances, and confidence intervals derived from variances are possibly misleading ways of estimating average tendency and variability. There are a number of ways of getting over this as was displayed in our teams: some teams used medians (which are not sensitive to ends of distributions), others used a transformation that would "normalize" the distributions mathematically (Sauro, 2009).
Qualitative Results
As shown in Table 2, four of the reports included 10-20 qualitative usability findings. This seems to strike a useful balance between reporting informally a few quantitative findings, which 6 teams did, and reporting a high number of qualitative findings, which team L and N did (68 and 79 findings, respectively).
Reproducibility of Results
Did the teams get the same results? The answer is no, but the reported measurements from several teams—sometimes a majority—agree quite well as you can see from Figure 2.
Eyeballing shows that the results from six teams (A, E, F, J, K, and M) were in reasonable agreement for all five tasks. Two more teams (B and L) agreed with the six teams for all tasks except task 1. Two teams (D and O) agreed with the majority for three tasks. On the other hand, five teams mostly reported diverging results. Team H and N consistently diverged from the other teams.
We examined the overlap between confidence intervals for any pair of teams for each task. Overlap scores were computed based on the overlap between confidence intervals in percent. For example, for task 1 team B reported the confidence interval [103, 163], while team E reported [145, 258]. Team B's overlap score is (163-145)/(163-103) = 30%, while team E's comparable score is (163-145)/(258-145) = 16%. The total overlap score for a team is the sum of the team's 14*5=70 overlap scores for the 14 other teams and 5 tasks. This scoring method favors teams that reported narrow confidence intervals that overlap with the wider intervals of many other teams, which seems fair. Team L did best by this scoring method, followed by team J and M. See the complete results in Figure 3.
Figure 3. Overlap between findings: This scoring attempts to quantify the eyeballing "Yeah, I think the overlap between team J, K, L, and M is pretty good."
An analysis of the teams' approaches reveals the following sources for diverging results:
- Equipment error, such as reporting a task time of zero seconds, which team H did. It is difficult to assess with complete certainty that any given reading at the extremes of a distribution is due to equipment error, although a task time of zero surely must be.
- External factors such as a poor Internet connection.
- Participants who did not follow instructions.
See the section Cleaning Contaminated Data.
- Participants who repeatedly had to consult task descriptions while they were working on a task, especially if it was awkward to move between the online instructions and the test site.
- Not recruiting sufficiently representative users of the site.
See the subsection Participant Profiles.
- Definition of "time-on-task"
See the subsection Measuring Time-on-Task.
- Lack of experience: All participating teams were professional in the sense that team members get paid to do usability work. A few teams acknowledged to having never conducted a quantitative usability evaluation before. Their motivation for participating may have been the opportunity of getting to know this specific area better. Whether or not they would have agreed to participate, had the evaluation been actual consultancy work for budget.com, rather than a workshop is not certain, but it is clear that the results reported by these teams differed from the rest.
Participant Profiles
Recruiting was an important reason that some teams reported diverging results. Not all teams seemed to use strict participant screening criteria; some used convenience samples.
The following are examples of questionable recruiting:
- Some of the participating European teams recruited participants who did not have English as a primary language. This caused both language and cultural biases. Task 4 (Loss Damage Waiver conditions) was particularly affected by this. One team selected participants mainly based on sufficient knowledge of English.
- Even if the European participants had good English, Budget.com is not for Europeans. Budget has separate websites such as Budget.be, Budget.dk, and Budget.co.uk for Europeans—even for renting cars in the U.S.
- Only team F, O, and P had resources to pay for their participants. Because of funding problems some teams recruited friends and colleagues (in particular, students) instead of a representative sample of Budget.com users. Some teams recruited only coworkers.
- Team F recruited users through usertesting.com. Similarly, team L's participants were all coworkers that were used to using an in-house online test tool and participating in the company's tests. Logistically, this worked well but at the workshop it was pointed out that the participants might be "professional" usability testers who conducted many test sessions per month. We don't know if and how this affected results.
Because we had no contact with Budget, it was not technically possible to recruit people who were actually visiting the site.
Satisfaction Measurements
As with many of the metrics collected, there was variability in the SUS scores the teams reported. The SUS scores are shown in Figure 4. An analysis of overall variance shows that there is a statistical difference between SUS scores, F(6,451)=6.73, p <.01, which can be attributed to variation between teams. There are two groups of scores that differ significantly from each other (between each group), but which do not differ statistically within each group.
One cluster of four teams (B, K, L, and G) generated SUS scores within 7-10% of each other (73, 77, 78, and 80). The other cluster of three teams scores (M, H, and P) were within 4-6% of each other (62, 65, and 66). Table 3 shows the mean and standard deviation for the teams' SUS scores in the two clusters.
Figure 4. Reported SUS scores for the seven teams that used the original SUS measurement
Table 3. Mean SUS Scores Organized by Clusters of Scores, Standard Deviation (SD)
Other researchers (Bangor, Kortum, & Miller, 2008) have pointed out that SUS has shown to be positively skewed with an "average" score for websites and web-applications of approximately 68 out of 100 (with a standard deviation of 21.5). The average SUS score for the first cluster of 77.1 suggests Budget.com is a better than the average website falling in the 66th percentile of the Bangor et al. dataset. The average SUS scores for the second cluster of 64.5 suggests Budget.com is a worse than average website falling in the 43rd percentile of the Bangor et al. dataset.
It is unclear whether or not the differences observed in the SUS scores are a reflection of SUS being inadequate for measuring websites. It is likely that many of the observed differences occurred due to the different participants and evaluation procedures used by the teams.
The SUS scores can be contrasted with the score from the one team who used WAMMI (team A). The Budget.com WAMMI Global User Satisfaction score was in the 38th percentile suggesting it to be a below average website (the industry average is at the 50th percentile). Because there was only a single WAMMI data point, it is not possible to know how much more or less WAMMI scores would fluctuate compared to the SUS scores.
Handling Failed Tasks
Ten out of 15 teams chose to include time-on-task for tasks where participants gave up or obtained an incorrect answer in their calculations of mean or median time-on-task. For the failed tasks they used the time until the participant gave up. At the workshop, it was successfully argued that these figures are incompatible. The time until a participant gives up or finds an incorrect result is irrelevant for time-on-task; reported time-on-task should include only data from successfully completed tasks. Failed times are still useful as their own metric called average time to task failure. If you only report one measure, then report task completion times and exclude failure.
Some teams argued that three separate results are of equal importance: time for successful completion, success rate (or failure rate), and disaster rate—that is, the percentage of participants who arrive at a result they believe in but which is incorrect.
It is useful to differentiate between task success and failure in satisfaction results. For instance one may report that "X% of participants who successfully completed task 2 gave a satisfaction score higher than Y%."
Some teams opted for using a binary code for task success, whereas other teams used error-based percentages to classify success (0/50/100% or even 0/25/50/75/100%).
Productivity—Team Hours Spent per Participant
In examining the average times spent on moderated versus unmoderated or hybrid studies (60 hours vs. 37 hours), there was surprisingly a lot of overhead for unmoderated tests.
Productivity varied remarkably from 4 minutes per participant (team L) to 9 hours per participant (team B). Median productivity was 2:22 hours per participant.
Unmoderated studies pay off when the number of participants gets large. For example, team L ran 313 unmoderated participants in 21 hours, which is about 4 minutes per participant, whereas team D ran 14 unmoderated participants in 28 hours, which is about 2 hours per participant, similar to the moderated test ratio. Team L had both the largest number of participants (313) and the lowest person hours used (21). This impressive performance, however, came at a cost as described in the next section.
Cleaning Contaminated Data, or Killing the Ugly Ducklings
Teams who used unmoderated sessions all reported some unrealistic measurements.
Table 2, row "Minimum time," shows that few observed participants were able to complete the rental task in anywhere near 60 seconds. Teams agreed that it was impossible even for an expert who had practiced extensively to carry out the reservation task (task 1) in less than 50 seconds. Yet, team H reported a minimum time of 0 seconds for successful completion of this task; 22 of their 57 measurements were below 50 seconds. Team L reported a minimum time of 18 seconds for successful completion of the same task; 6 of their 305 measurements for this task were below 50 seconds.
Some of the teams decided to discard measurements that appeared to be too fast or too slow, in other words, they decided to "to kill the ugly ducklings." For example, the cleaning procedure used by team L was to delete
- any participants whose total time for the study was less than 4 minutes (10 participants),
- any participants who got none or only one task correct (8 participants),
- any individual task time <5 seconds because the participant was probably not doing the task in earnest, and
- any individual task time >600 seconds because the participant was probably interrupted.
It is not clear from the reports how teams came up with criteria for discarding measurements. Apparently, the criteria were based on common sense rather than experience or systematic studies. Team M used click path records to check measurements that looked suspicious; they also discarded measurements where "the test tool must have encountered a technical problem capturing page views and clicks across all tasks."
The teams hypothesized that participants had either guessed or pursued other tasks during the measurement period. However, by discarding data based solely on face value, teams admitted that their data were contaminated in unknown ways. It could then be argued that other data that appeared valid at first glance were equally contaminated. Example: Team F analyzed the data from their unmoderated videos and found measurements that appeared realistic but were invalid. They also found a highly suspicious measurement where the participant used almost 17 minutes to complete the rental task, which turned out to be perfectly valid; the participant looked for discounts on the website and eventually found a substantial discount that no one else discovered.
Measuring Time-on-Task
In both moderated and unmoderated testing it is difficult to compensate for the time used by the participant to read the task multiple times while solving the task. In unmoderated testing it is difficult to judge if the participant has found the correct answer unless they include video recordings or click maps, which may take considerable time to analyze. Multiple-choice questions are an option, which was used by some teams as shown in Figure 5. However, some of the answers changed during the period where the measurements occurred making all choices incorrect, and some participants might have been able to guess the right answer from the multiple choice list.
At the workshop, team M argued that automated unmoderated tools such as Userzoom, which they used, allowed them to validate answers also by URLs (reaching a certain page as a way to validate the successful or unsuccessful completion of a task). Team M argued that they had more issues with moderated sessions where moderators and participants were discussing issues while the clock was measuring time-on-task.
Figure 5. Multiple choice answers for task 1 and 2 used by team L for determining if their participants had obtained the right answer in unmoderated sessions. For task 1 participants were asked to find the label of the button that performed the rental; the correct answer is "rent it!" For task 2 the answer varied. Most often the rental price was in the $176-$200 range, but on some days it was more than $200.
The discussion at the workshop concluded that it is not completely clear what you are measuring as time-on-task in an unmoderated session: Time to complete task? Time to comprehend and complete task? Time to comprehend and complete task plus time to remember to click the "Task finished" button? Time to complete test task and other parallel tasks? Also, irrelevant overhead varied considerably from participant to participant. Some grasped a task almost instantly, some printed the task, and some referred back to the task description again and again. In moderated sessions, in comparison, the moderator ensures some consistency in measuring time-on-task.
Usability of Remote Tool
The ease of use of the remote tool, the clarity of the instructions, etc., has a considerable impact on unmoderated participants' performance. For example, one of the teams used a tool that hid the website when participants indicated that they had completed a task; this made it unrealistically difficult for participants to answer the follow-up questions that checked whether or not the task was completed correctly.


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The Hills Beauty Quiz: Episode 8, "Can't Always Get What You Want"
We're eight episodes into the new version of The Hills, and now that we've all given it a fair chance, I'm curious to know what you think. Is it just as good? Better? Worse? At any rate, this week's show centers around Kristin's love life, although it looks like her relationship with Brody has come to a halt, as he's decided to get back together with Jayde. Did I mention that Jayde and Kristin had yet another cat fight? In the meantime, Heidi concocts a sneaky plan to get pregnant, and it involves tossing out the birth control and seducing Spencer over dinner, in which she thanks God for her outfit. Seriously. Now it's quiz time. Were you paying attention to the beauty details of this episode? Take my quiz below to find out, and be sure to check out Geek's tech quiz, along with CelebStyle for some fashion.
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|Plessy v. Ferguson
|Argued April 13, 1896
Decided May 18, 1896
|Full case name
|Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson
|163 U.S. 537 (more)
16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L. Ed. 256; 1896 U.S. LEXIS 3390
|Prior history
|Ex parte Plessy, 11 So. 948 (La. 1892)
|Subsequent history
|The "separate but equal" provision of private services mandated by state government is constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
|Court membership
|Case opinions
|Brown, joined by Fuller, Field, Gray, Shiras, White, Peckham
|Brewer took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
|Laws applied
|U.S. Const. amend. XIV; 1890 La. Acts 152
|Plessy v. Ferguson
|Argued April 13, 1896
Decided May 18, 1896
|Full case name
|Homer A. Plessy v. John H. Ferguson
|163 U.S. 537 (more)
16 S. Ct. 1138; 41 L. Ed. 256; 1896 U.S. LEXIS 3390
|Prior history
|Ex parte Plessy, 11 So. 948 (La. 1892)
|Subsequent history
|The "separate but equal" provision of private services mandated by state government is constitutional under the Equal Protection Clause.
|Court membership
|Case opinions
|Brown, joined by Fuller, Field, Gray, Shiras, White, Peckham
|Brewer took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
|Laws applied
|U.S. Const. amend. XIV; 1890 La. Acts 152
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".[1]
The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1 with the majority opinion written by Justice Henry Billings Brown and the dissent written by Justice John Marshall Harlan. "Separate but equal" remained standard doctrine in U.S. law until its repudiation in the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education.[2]
After the Supreme Court ruling, the New Orleans Comité des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens), which had brought the suit and had arranged for Homer Plessy's arrest, in an act of civil disobedience in order to challenge Louisiana's segregation law, replied, "We, as freemen, still believe that we were right and our cause is sacred."[3]
In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed a law (the Separate Car Act) that required separate accommodations for blacks and whites on railroads, including separate railway cars.[2] Concerned, a group of prominent black, creole, and white New Orleans residents formed the Comité des Citoyens (Committee of Citizens) dedicated to repeal the law.[3] They eventually persuaded Homer Plessy to participate in an orchestrated test case. Plessy was born a free man and was an "octoroon" (someone of seven-eighths Caucasian descent and one-eighth African descent). However, under Louisiana law, he was classified as black, and thus required to sit in the "colored" car.[4]
On June 7, 1892, Plessy bought a first class ticket at the Press Street Depot and boarded a "whites only" car of the East Louisiana Railroad in New Orleans, Louisiana, bound for Covington, Louisiana.[5] The railroad company, which opposed the law on the grounds that it would require the purchase of more railcars, had been previously informed of Plessy's racial lineage, and the intent to challenge the law.[6] Additionally, the committee hired a private detective with arrest powers to detain Plessy, to ensure he was charged for violating the Separate Car Act, as opposed to a vagrancy or some other offense.[6] After Plessy took a seat in the whites-only railway car, he was asked to vacate it, and sit instead in the blacks-only car. Plessy refused and was arrested immediately by the detective.[7] As planned, the train was stopped, and Plessy was taken off the train at Press and Royal streets.[6] Plessy was remanded for trial in Orleans Parish.
In his case, Homer Adolph Plessy v. The State of Louisiana, Plessy's lawyers argued that the state law which required East Louisiana Railroad to segregate trains had denied him his rights under the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution.[8] However, the judge presiding over his case, John Howard Ferguson, ruled that Louisiana had the right to regulate railroad companies as long as they operated within state boundaries. Plessy was convicted and sentenced to pay a $25 fine. He immediately sought a writ of prohibition.
The Committee of Citizens took Plessy's appeal to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, where he again found an unreceptive ear, as the state Supreme Court upheld Judge Ferguson's ruling.[6] Undaunted, the Committee appealed to the United States Supreme Court in 1896.[8] Two legal briefs were submitted on Plessy's behalf. One was signed by Albion W. Tourgée and James C. Walker and the other by Samuel F. Phillips and his legal partner F. D. McKenney. Oral arguments were held before the Supreme Court on April 13, 1896. Tourgée and Phillips appeared in the courtroom to speak on behalf of Plessy.
Tourgée built his case upon violations of Plessy's rights under the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery, and the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees the same rights to all citizens of the United States, and the equal protection of those rights, against the deprivation of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Tourgée argued that the reputation of being a black man was "property", which, by the law, implied the inferiority of African-Americans as compared to whites.[9]
In a 7 to 1 decision handed down on May 18, 1896 (Justice David Josiah Brewer did not participate because of the death of his daughter),[10] the Court rejected Plessy's arguments based on the Fourteenth Amendment, seeing no way in which the Louisiana statute violated it.[6] In addition, the majority of the Court rejected the view that the Louisiana law implied any inferiority of blacks, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Instead, it contended that the law separated the two races as a matter of public policy.[11]
When summarizing, Justice Brown declared, "We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff's argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it."[12]
While the Court did not find a difference in quality between the whites-only and blacks-only railway cars, this was manifestly untrue in the case of most other separate facilities, such as public toilets, cafés, and public schools, where the facilities designated for blacks were poorer than those designated for whites.[13]
Justice John Marshall Harlan, who decried the excesses of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote a scathing dissent in which he predicted the court's decision would become as infamous as that of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). As heralded as this dissent may be, in which Harlan called for a "color-blind" constitution, it should be noted that he did not view all races as equal. In his dissent, Harlan highlighted the plight of blacks by pointing out that the Chinese, a race he viewed as inherently "different", could still ride with whites. "There is a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race", he wrote.[12]
New Orleans historian Keith Weldon Medley, author of We As Freemen: Plessy v. Ferguson, The Fight Against Legal Segregation, said the words in Justice Harlan's "Great Dissent" originated with papers filed with the court by "The Citizen's Committee".[14]
The case helped cement the legal foundation for the doctrine of separate but equal, the idea that segregation based on classifications was legal as long as facilities were of equal quality. However, Southern state governments refused to provide blacks with genuinely equal facilities and resources in the years after the Plessy decision. The states not only separated races but, in actuality, ensured differences in quality. In January 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty to the violation and paid the fine.[6]
Plessy legitimized the move toward segregation practices begun earlier in the South and provided an impetus for further segregation laws. Legislative achievements won during the Reconstruction Era were erased through means of the "separate but equal" doctrine.[15] The doctrine was further justified by a previous Supreme Court decision in 1875, which limited the federal government's ability to intervene in state affairs, only guaranteeing Congress the power "to restrain states from acts of racial discrimination and segregation".[16] The ruling basically granted states legislative immunity when dealing with questions of race, guaranteeing the state's right to implement racially separate institutions requiring them only to be "equal".[17] The prospect of greater state influence in matters of race worried numerous advocates of civil equalities including Supreme Court justice John Harlan who wrote in his dissent of the Plessy decision, "we shall enter upon an era of constitutional law, when the rights of freedom and American citizenship cannot receive from the nation that efficient protection which heretofore was unhesitatingly accorded to slavery and the rights of the master."[18] Harlan's concerns about the entrenchment on the 14th Amendment would prove well founded as states benefited to institute segregation based law that would become popularized as the Jim Crow system.[19]
The effect was immediate as noted through significant racial differences in educational funding emerging in the late 1890s that would prove enormous by the 20th century. States which had previously successfully integrated elements of their society abruptly adopted oppressive legislation that erased reconstruction era efforts.[20] The principles of Plessy v. Ferguson were reaffirmed in Lum v. Rice (1927), which upheld the right of a Mississippi public school for white children to exclude a Chinese American girl. Despite the laws enforcing compulsory education, and the nonexistence of public schools for Chinese children in Lum's area, the Supreme Court ruled that she had the choice to attend a private school.[21] Jim Crow laws would spread northward in response to a second wave of African American immigration and would eventually extend to segregated educational facilities, separate public institutions such as hotels and restaurants, separate beaches among other public facilities, restrictions on interracial marriage among numerous other facets of daily life.[20] Unfortunately, the separate facilities and institutions accorded to the African American community were consistently inferior[22] to those provided to the White community and contradicted the vague declaration of "separate but equal" institutions issued after the Plessy decision.[23]
Jim Crow legislation related to voting would quietly disenfranchise the Southern African American by requiring of prospective voters proof of land ownership or literacy tests at poll stations. African American community leaders who had achieved brief political success during the Reconstruction era lost any gains made when their voters disappeared. Historian Rogers Smith noted on the subject "lawmakers frequently admitted, indeed boasted, that such measures as complex registration rules, literacy and property tests, poll taxes, white primaries, and grandfather clauses were designed to produce an electorate confined to a white race that declared itself supreme", notably rejecting the 14th and 15th Amendments to the American Constitution.[24] The "separate but equal" doctrine would characterize American society until the doctrine was ultimately overturned during the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.[25]
Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson, descendants of the players on both sides of the Supreme Court case, have announced the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation for Education and Reconciliation. The foundation will work to create new ways to teach the history of civil rights through film, art, and public programs designed to create understanding of this historic case and its effect on the American conscience.[26]
Historians gathered with the Plessy and Ferguson families and a member of the Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans on February 12, 2009, to unveil a historical marker recalling the case.[6] "It is no longer Plessy v Ferguson. It is Plessy and Ferguson", said Keith Plessy in a Public Broadcasting radio interview.[27] The marker was placed on the corner of Press and Royal Streets, near the location of the former railway station where Plessy had boarded his train.[27]
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The death toll in a landslip at Kadavoor in Ernakulam district rose to five today with the recovery of the body of a man, police said.
Heavy rains lashing parts of Central Kerala yesterday had claimed four lives in the region — three in a landslip and another who died of a heart attack after witnessing the incident.
Police, fire force and naval personnel were engaged in search operations since early this morning to recover the body of one more person.
Seven houses were damaged in the landslip with huge boulders and mud covering the dwellings. Police said the inmates of two houses were not at home when the landslip occurred.
Water Resources Minister P.J. Joseph, Revenue Minister Adoor Prakash, and Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar visited the area to get a first-hand knowledge of the devastation caused due to the landslide.
Sivakumar told reporters that the Government would give an emergency relief of Rs 10,000 to the dependents of the five persons killed.
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Medeiros captured the event in a time of 1:01.39, outdistancing Kaela Bjornberg of Siena by .29 seconds. Sophomore Maureen Quirk (Wakefield, Mass./Wakefield) also swam well in the event, placing fifth in a time of 1:04.09. In the 1000-yard freestyle, freshman Kerry Silva (Seekonk, Mass./Seekonk) posted a hard-fought second-place finish in 10:52.61, beating out Andrea King of Boston College for second. Sophomore Monique Haney (Rialto, Calif./Bloomington), last year's Northeast-10 Rookie of the Year, finished fifth in the event in a time of 11:15.08.
In addition to her success in the 100-yard butterfly, Medeiros also swam well in the 100 freestyle, placing fourth in a time of 56.69. Silva swam well in the 200 freestyle as well, touching in sixth place with a time of 2:02.93. Sophomore Carly Eckles (Sherborn, Mass./Dover-Sherborn) placed fourth in the 100-yard backstroke in 1:03.22, while freshman Elise Prayson (Dayton, Ohio/Archbishop Alter) came in sixth at 1:11.99 in the 100-yard breaststroke. Prayson also performed well in the 200-yard breaststroke, finishing in fourth place in 2:36.09.
Haney swam her best individual race of the meet in the 200-yard butterfly as she placed second in 2:12.92, following to Stephanie Ng of Boston College by just 1.44 seconds. In the 200-yard backstroke, the Hounds had two top finishers as Eckles came in third at 2:16.12, along with sophomore Jill Burke (North Andover, Mass./Central Catholic) in sixth at 2:18.29.
In the 500-yard freestyle, the Hounds placed three swimmers among the top seven finishers, led by Silva and Haney in second and third place, respectively. Silva touched in a time of 5:24.42, followed by Haney at 5:27.52. Sophomore Meaghan Shea (Orlando, Fla./Orlando Lutheran Academy) finished in seventh at 5:40.76, missing on a top-five showing by less than one second.
In the relays, the Hounds had two teams place among the top four, led by a second-place finish by the 400-yard freestyle relay team of Silva, Quirk, Jennifer Ryan (Weston, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas) and Haney in a time of 3:52.37. The 400-yard medley relay team finished in fourth in their race, touching in a time of 4:11.63.
As a team, the Hounds registered victories over Holy Cross (193-147), Le Moyne (202.50-129.50) and Regis (260-41), while falling to Division I foes Boston College, Iona and Siena.
Assumption is back in action on Saturday, October 29 as the Hounds travel to Gannon University to take on Gannon and Lake Erie, beginning at 1 p.m.


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Citing his work in political advocacy pushing for gun control and Obamacare, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul threatened Wednesday to place a hold on President Obama's Surgeon General nominee.
In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Paul explained his objection to Dr. Vivek Murthy, Obama's choice for the position.
"I have serious concerns about Dr. Murthy's ability to impartially serve as 'the Nation's Doctor'. The majority of Dr. Murthy's non-clinical experience is in political advocacy," Paul, himself a medical doctor, wrote Wednesday. "As you know, Dr. Murthy is the co-founder of Doctors for America, born out of the campaign organization Doctors for Obama, and it is a project of the left-leaning think tank Center for American Progress and has worked closely with Organizing for America, President Obama's political organization."
According to Paul, Murthy's "primary policy goals" have been pushing stricter gun control laws and Obamacare, and that Murthy refers to "guns as a public health issue on par with heart disease and has diminished the role of mental health in gun violence."
"As a physician, I am deeply concerned that he has advocated that doctors use their position of trust to ask patients, including minors, details about gun ownership in the home," Paul wrote. "His organization has also advocated that physicians collect and report data on gun ownership to the Federal Government and increasing Federal funding for gun control research."
Paul argued that Murthy's political activity has disqualified him from "being Surgeon General because of his intent to use that position to launch an attack on Americans' right to own a firearm under the guise of a public health and safety campaign."
In placing a hold on the nominee, Paul will object to any unanimous consent agreement or waiver of any rule, meaning the Senate will need to invoke cloture to advance the nominee, which under new rules requires 51 votes.


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Grades: K - 7 | 74 students
Oak Lane Day School is an independent, co-ed elementary school that honors each child's unique individuality while fostering intellectual, creative, academic and personal growth within a diverse community of active, engaged learners.
School Overview
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|Grades Offered
|Grades Kindergarten - 7
|Learning Difference Programs
|Learning Programs Supported
|Learning Skills Program for capable students with a documented learning disability
|Year Founded
Student Body
|Total Students
|74 students
|Student Body Type
|% Students of Color
State avg.: 20%
|Students by Grade
Academics and Faculty
|Total Classroom Teachers
|10 teachers
|Student : Teacher Ratio
National avg.: 13:1
|Average Class Size
|12 students
|List of Courses Offered
|Link to List of Courses
|Classroom Dress Code
Finances and Admission
|Admission Deadline
|None / Rolling
|Tuition Notes
|$6,125 for part-time preschool -$16,600 Sixth Grade
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|Carina Urbach
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- Thursday, January 21, 2010, 9-10:30 a.m. (Campus Tours)
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- Sunday, April 18, 2010, 2-4 p.m. (Open House)
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More GRE Score Info:
First, a caveat: almost every one of the top private universities in the country expressly state on their graduate admissions website that there are no minimum GRE scores required for admissions into their graduate programs. So breathe a little easier, okay?
However, some of these top private universities also state that the average GRE scores of their incoming students reflect the average GRE scores they are looking for in potential grad students, as well.
So, keep that in mind when you're studying for the GRE. Choose the school you want to get into, and go for the score that most of the admitted students have achieved.
Average GRE Scores for the Top Private Universities
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
Verbal: 580
Quantitative: 796
Writing: 5.3
Stanford University:
Verbal: 590
Quantitative: 780
Writing: 4.8
California Institute of Technology (CalTech):
Verbal: 600
Quantitative: 780
Writing: 5.0
Duke University:
Verbal: 600+
Quantitative: 600+
Writing: 4.5
University of Chicago:
Verbal: 580+
Quantitative: 780+
Writing: 4.0+
Northwestern University:
Verbal: 600+
Quantitative: 600+
Writing: 5.0+
Washington University in St. Louis:
Verbal: 617
Quantitative: 601
Writing: 5.0
Johns Hopkins University:
Verbal: 650
Quantitative: 710
Writing: 4.8
Rice University:
Verbal: 610
Quantitative: 750
Writing: 5.0
Emory University:
Verbal: 500-800
Quantitative: 500-800
Writing: 4.0-6.0
University of Notre Dame:
Verbal: 680
Quantitative: 763
Writing: 5.3
Vanderbilt University:
Verbal: 562
Quantitative: 772
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For deep snow, big packs, large loads, all of this and more on a remarkably light pair of large snowshoes. The Crescent Moon Silver 17 Expedition Snowshoes are designed to provide maximum floatation for snowshoers up to 300lbs and features the simplified SPL binding which will accommodate up to size 11 and keeps your feet centered and comfortable without loosening or twisting like other binding designs (for larger sizes up to 15 consider the Gold 17 model). 3 claw aluminum crampon system provides good traction on hard and icy surfaces and even though they're large, still very easy to navigate, even with a load. The Silver 17 will get you out there, and back. The bindings are the most important part of any snowshoe and all of the Silver models have a modified version of the award winning SPL binding. The Silver series feature a simple cam-locking cinch buckle while overthe-foot buckles are nylon cinch mechanisms. The Silver series of snowshoes also have aluminum crampons vs. stainless steel claws and polished aluminum frames. The Silver series of shoes feature 6063 aircraft grade aluminum, TIG welded tear-drop shaped frames, PVC free decking material called TGS (the good stuff), and polyurethane harness which forms the stirrup section of the SPL binding. All of the models in the Silver series of snowshoes feature a fixed-rotation" hinge system, which means the snowshoe lifts off the ground with each step this is the opposite of a free-rotation" shoe which drags the tail of the shoe along the ground and will never lift any snow. Crescent Moon snowshoes are more responsive, maneuverable, and athletic than free-rotation shoes, but, you will never get snow thrown on you with the free rotation design, even though you may not be as maneuverable. The choice is yours, but Crescent Moon feels the snowshoes should closely follow the natural motion of your foot and the mechanics of your normal gait.
- Altrec Outdoors
Like its Gold cousin, the Silver 17 is one big-daddy snowshoe. It is recommendedfor snowshoers and their gear (that's a big picnic) up to 300 lbs. But the shoes themselves are very lightweight and even if you're carrying a load you'll appreciate the simple cam-locking buckle binding system and lightweight maneuverability of the Silver 17. Although the Silver 17s are one of the largest snowshoes on the market they're by far lighter and easier to navigate than traditionally shaped shoes and feature a binding system that won't freeze or come loose even in the wettest conditions.
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Beginning with the single-pull loop (SPL) binding system and continuing with a lightweight aluminum frame and three-claw crampon, the Crescent Moon Silver Series 17 snowshoes deliver a winter combination of value and performance. The Silver binding is an all-foot-encompassing polymer step-in with an SPL (single pull loop) system. Toe claw provides purchase on steep frozen snow and ice. Weather-resistant nylon buckles across the foot; Hypalon strap system wraps around the heel. Hypalon nylon straps will not freeze or expand, staying tight all day long. Integrated foot plate, stirrup, and toe piece harness increase comfort and support. Proprietary TGS (the good stuff) decking material is stable and durable in all snow conditions. Aircraft-grade aluminum frame is lightweight and gives long-lasting performance. Lightweight aluminum three-claw crampon. Teardrop shape allows a more natural stride and better maneuverability. Made without PVC. Made in the USA with wind-powered energy; waste materials are recycled.
The Crescent Moon Silver Series 17 Expedition snowshoes are designed for larger snowshoers looking for outstanding flotation in the deepest powder and a glove-friendly SPL binding. Light, durable, and easy to use, these snowshoes take only seconds to get into and out of for great escapes. Recommended for snowshoers over 215 pounds, for heavy backpacking, and deep snow conditions. * All Crescent Moon Snowshoes are handmade in Colorado and have highly protective powder coated frames and a lightweight, abrasive resistant decking that contains no PVC.
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Crescent Moon Silver Series 17
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Last night I stopped by my friends' restaurant. I was hoping to get out of there early, just enjoying a meal with them and skeedaddling, but as is often the case, I got sucked into staying and drinking too much!
We actually ate a delicious meal of gochujang buldeji - which is pork, kimchi, and onions in a delicious spicy sauce. I tried to replicate this meal at home on Sunday and failed, though the concoction I cooked up (which included tofu as well) wasn't that bad at all. Just as dinner was finishing up, though, a woman I met months earlier came by and screamed with delight at meeting me again! She insisted we drink some soju, and since it's unheard of to drink soju without some kind of food, she ordered more meat. Only I'm not sure intestines are considered meat.
Here they are, all gooey looking and plopped on the grill.
They are actually tubes - as you can understand, and they grill up all tubular.
Until you cut them down the middle, and then into bite sized slices.
And you eat them with other stuff, in this case a bowl of bean sprout soup, some garlic and some bean paste, another bowl of special intestine sauce which I'm sure is bean-paste based, but includes spicy green peppers, evil sesame leaf (I hate the stuff) and peanuts. Oh, and a bowl of sliced onions with some kind of brown sweetish sauce and wasabi. Yummy.
My friends' restaurant is very 'old school' - with rocks for a floor. I've watched men at other tables spit and drop bits of bones into the rocks. I guess they figure because it's not an actual floor, it's okay to be gross. My friend tells me they have a hell of a time cleaning up when someone pukes in the rocks. They've got to scoop them up into a bucket and wash them. Gross.
Pig intestines and puke. This is a charming post.
My buddy, who really doesn't speak any English at all, was happy.
Then she was getting really upset, because she didn't seem to believe that I understood how much she loves me. I mean, she loves me. Really, really loves me. Berry Berry much lobuhs me.
I was laughing and told her I understood, but she was getting more and more agitated. I was kind of worried she was going to cry.
But then she passed out.
And the intestines were getting over-cooked because no one was eating them.
The Demonic OverLord Soju, and his Evil Henchmen Beer and Smokes.
Oh, you wicked trio, what a headache you give me. You make me so tired and hungover. I don't love you. I berry berry hate you. Stop laughing, you asses. I'm serious!!
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Thread: tickets
06-28-2004, 03:23 PM #21Hall of Famer
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"magicci" wrote:
what if you call the ticketmaster in the minnesota area at the time they go on sale over there
1. You'll still have to have a credit card.
2. You may get stuck getting a busy signal, or get answered but put on hold by a machine, where your call is taken in the order received. Depending on how many games/tickets the people on line ahead of you are purchasing, you could be on hold for awhile.
If you can't be at the stadium, buying the tickets over the Internet at TicketMaster.com is definitely the way to go. I'd further advise you to do it from a high speed internet connection as opposed to dial-up. I've done the dial-up thing before, and when ticket demand is high the system response is really slow. It can, in effect, release the tickets that you are offered for purchase before the system can confirm your purchase. Once the system offers some tickets to you, you have five minutes to complete the purchase or the tickets are released back into the system. I've seen the system so bogged down that the five minutes will actually expire while you are waiting for screens to load to complete your purchase. It is extremely frustrating. That is one reason I became a season ticket holder, so I never have to deal with that pain again (and will always have the chance to buy playoff tickets at face price).SKOL VIKINGS!
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I did go check out that stub hub and by far they have the lowest ticket prices of the ticket brokers that I have seen. The reason there is a couple $50.00 tickets for the Packers is because they are single tickets meaning they only have one in that location and most people do not go to games by themselves but if you don't mind sitting by yourself that is an awesome price otherwise they jump up in price to like 90.00 a ticket where there is more then one ticket available. But who cares if you are sitting by yourself there is always plenty of fun viking fans around you to talk to.
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I just remembered another good way to get tickets. I didn't personally purchase these I won them at work in a united way week raffle but if you go to vikings.com and the ticket section you will notice a spot for VIP tickets. They usually have quite a few available for single game purchase they are more expensive but if you are going to shell out big bucks to a ticket broker this would be the better way to go. I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed the VIP tickets. First of all not only do you get parking passes that let you park really close to the dome but before the game you get to go to the VIP tent and they have beautiful tables with this huge buffet serving everything from Prime Rib to made to order omelets the buffet is just huge also you have one waiter/waitress for your table bringing you all the free drinks you can handle. During this VIP tent experience you will have various viking alumni come in and you can get autographs etc and then also included in the price is a lower level ticket. It is something I would recommend to experience once if you are looking for a special way to enjoy the game. It was a great time and a cool way to meet other vikings fans. We met a couple from New York the guys wife was a vikings fan he bought her tickets to celebrate her birthday it was really cool. Just a thought if you are willing to spend a little money.
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This cottage is near Ouray, Colorado, which is a quaint Victorian era mining town, nestled in a steep walled canyon with breath taking views of Colorado's San Juan Mountain Range and nearby waterfalls. The Ouray area is often referred to as the Switzerland of America, and gem of the Rockies.
Located in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Southwestern Colorado, this warm and inviting cottage sits next to a small creek. This charming cottage is furnished in a country style, is very clean and is well suited for a couple or small family as it has two bedrooms, one with a queen bed and the other with a double and twin bed. There is one bathroom. The kitchen is well stocked with dishes, silverware, pot, and pans. The living room is cozy with sofas, overstuffed pillows, and a wood burning stove. The cottage is equipped with TV and VCR/DVD player, and an out door grill.
activities and attractions in Ouray Colorado
The town of Ouray has a natural hot springs pool for swimming, and the great beauty of the surrounding area invites you for hiking, fly fishing, horse back riding, mountian biking, four wheel driving, sight seeing, and golf. Ouray and the neighboring towns of Ridgeway and Telluride have many good restaurants for your enjoyment. If you come in late September, there are also great views of the autumn foliage.
vacation rental rates
The rental fee for the cottage is $995/week (Fourth of July week at $1250/week), or $180/night with a four night minimum. The cottage is non smoking, and because of the swift moving water in the creek near the cottage, no children under the age of eight please.