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A survey released April 29 found Ohio schools are making cutbacks in response to budget cuts previously approved by Republican Gov. John Kasich and the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature.
The 15-question survey from left-leaning Policy Matters Ohio, which received responses from 42 percent of the state's K-12 school districts in 82 counties, found 70 percent of Ohio schools made cuts for the ongoing 2012-2013 school year, 82 percent cut positions, 84 percent reduced or froze compensation and 62 percent expect budget shortfalls next year if the state doesn't increase funding.
"Long-term investment in education is the best way to build opportunity for Ohioans," said Piet van Lier, education researcher at Policy Matters Ohio, in a statement. "Instead, Ohio's cuts to school funding have forced schools to get rid of staff, reduce pay, cut materials and increase class sizes."
The survey found the cuts have led to a reduction in
education quality, with 43 percent of Ohio schools reporting larger
class sizes, 23 percent reporting less course options, 57 percent
cutting materials, supplies, textbooks or equipment for the 2012-2013
school year and 22 percent reducing extracurricular activities or introducing pay-to-play for them.
Policy Matters and Innovation Ohio, another left-leaning think tank, previously found Kasich's 2012-2013 budget slashed education funding by $1.8 billion.In his latest budget proposal, Kasich proposed increasing education funding, although in a way that disproportionately benefited wealthier school districts ("Smoke and Mirrors," issue of Feb. 20). Since then, the Ohio House passed its own budget bill that rejects Kasich's proposal and increases overall school funding in a more equitable way.
But Policy Matters says the increases aren't enough. Its analysis found school funding is failing to keep up with inflation, with 2015 funding projected to fall $1.2 billion short of what funding would have looked like if it had kept up with 2006's inflation-adjusted levels.
"Neither Gov. Kasich nor the Ohio House have adequately addressed the needs of Ohio's schools in their budget proposals," van Lier said in a statement. "The Senate must now lead the way in crafting a stronger, more predictable funding system for the next two years and beyond."
Cincinnati Public Schools said state funding cuts were one reason the school district needed Cincinnati voters to approve a school levy in 2012 ("Battered But Not Broken," issue of Oct. 3). The levy, known as Issue 42, passed in the November election.
Innovation Ohio previously found Kasich's budget cuts have led to levies all around the state, effectively increasing local taxes by $1.3 billion since May 2011.
"By cutting taxes primarily for the wealthy at the state level, Gov. Kasich and the Republican-controlled legislature have merely pushed the need for tax increases down to the local level," said Janetta King, president of Innovation Ohio, in a statement.
Kasich spokesperson Rob Nichols previously told CityBeat that the cuts were necessary to balance the budget, as required by state law. "The reality is we walked into an $8 billion budget deficit," he said. "We had to fix that."
In a memo to the mayor and City Council members last night, City Manager Milton Dohoney Jr. revealed the streetcar is facing a $22.7 million shortfall because construction bids were way over budget. The memo says $5.3 million of that budget gap could be brought down through cuts, but fixing the rest requires $17.4 million in additional funds. The memo comes at a time the city is attempting to balance its operating budget by laying off cops and firefighters. But as John Deatrick explained when the city moved to hire him for the streetcar project, the streetcar is part of the capital budget, which is separate from the operating budget and can't be used to balance the operating budget because of legal and traditional constraints.
The budget bill heading to the Ohio House floor would ban comprehensive sex education, defund Planned Parenthood and fund crisis pregnancy centers that pro-choice groups consider "anti-choice." Citing "gateway sexual activity," the bill would open teachers to up to $5,000 in fines for explaining the use of condoms and other birth control to students, and it also bans the distribution of any birth control on school grounds. The bill takes its anti-contraceptive measures to promote an abstinence-only education program. Research has found abstinence-only programs to be generally ineffective, while birth control programs ultimately save money by avoiding costly pregnancies and sexually transmitted infection treatment.
Councilman Cecil Thomas is stepping down, and he will be replaced by his wife of 32 years, Pam Thomas. The appointment has raised questions about how council members are replaced upon resignation, but Thomas says he's just following the rules. Under the current system, designees appoint successors to council seats, but the designees give great weight to the incumbent's input.
JobsOhio repaid $8.4 million to Ohio yesterday — fulfilling a promise it made in March that it would fully repay the state for public funding received since it opened on July 5, 2011. The sum is much higher than the $1 million state officials originally said would go to the agency. JobsOhio's finances came under criticism after it was revealed that Gov. John Kasich was redirecting public funds to the agency, prompting a closer look from State Auditor Dave Yost. JobsOhio is a privatized development agency that Kasich and Republicans established to eventually replace the Ohio Department of Development.
In light of the Boston Marathon bombings, Flying Pig Marathon organizers are evaluating security measures, but they're not sure whether additional measures are needed just yet. The Flying Pig Marathon is expected to draw more than 20,000 participants on May 5 — close to the 23,000 who typically attend the Boston Marathon. Still, only about 150,000 spectators are expected at the Flying Pig Marathon, while about 500,000 typically spectate the Boston Marathon.
City Council is expected to vote today in support of expanding mobile food vending in the city and make the program, which is handled by 3CDC, permanent. The new mobile vending spots will be near nightlife areas in Over-the-Rhine and during the day at Washington Park.
TriHealth and Mercy Health are among the top 15 hospital systems in the United States, according to a new ranking from Truven Health Analytics.
When renewing its contract with Sedgwick Claims Management Services Inc., Kroger asked the company to move its center from Des Moines, Iowa, to Cincinnati, bringing an estimated 55 new jobs to the city.
New surgical tape works like a parasitic worm for extra stickiness.
For the first time, scientists are being allowed to study psychedelics for potential medical treatments.
With Republican support and Democratic opposition, the Ohio House Finance Committee approved a budget bill today that would ban comprehensive sex education, defund Planned Parenthood and fund crisis pregnancy centers that pro-choice groups call "anti-choice."
Citing the possibility of "gateway sexual activity," the bill would make it so teachers can be fined up to $5,000 if they explain the use of condoms and other forms of birth control to high school students. It would also prohibit individuals and groups from distributing birth control on school grounds.
The bill pushes abstinence-only education to curtail any promotion, implicit or explicit, of gateway sexual activity. To define such activity, the bill cites Ohio's criminal code definition for "sexual contact," which is defined as "any touching of an erogenous zone of another, including without limitation the thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic region, or, if the person is a female, a breast."
The bill would also redirect federal funding to defund Planned Parenthood and shift funds to crisis pregnancy centers, which CityBeat covered in further detail here.
"Today the Ohio House Finance Committee voted to send our state back to the 1950s," said Kellie Copeland, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, in a statement. "The Ohio House is doing everything they can to restrict access to reproductive health care and medically accurate information that help Ohioans live healthy lives. (Gov. John) Kasich can stop these dangerous attacks on women's health care. We need him to speak out against these budget provisions and to line-item veto these dangerous measures when they reach his desk."
Researchers have found abstinence-only programs to be generally ineffective. A 2007 study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health found abstinence-only programs have no impact on rates for teenage pregnancy or vaginal intercourse, while comprehensive programs that include birth control education reduce rates.
A 2011 study from researchers at the University of Georgia that looked at data from 48 states concurred abstinence-only programs do not reduce the rate of teenage pregnancy. The study indicated states with the lowest teenage pregnancy rates tend to have the most comprehensive sex and HIV education programs.
When looking at three ways to prevent unintended pregnancies for a 2012 study, the Brookings Center on Children and Families found the most cost-effective policy was to increase funding for family planning services through the Medicaid program. In other words, if governments increased spending on birth control programs, they would eventually save money.
Still, a 2010 study from a University of Pennsylvania researcher found abstinence-only education programs may delay sexual activity. The study, which tracked black middle school students over two years, found students in an abstinence-only program had lower rates of sexual activity than students in the comprehensive program.
At hearings on April 12, anti-abortion groups praised abstinence-only education for promoting chastity.
Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler's ruling last week has already led to the dissolution of one project,
according to Mayor Mark Mallory. The Kinsey Apartments project fell
through after City Council was unable to expedite a change in the
building's classification that would have enabled access to state tax
credits. Winkler's ruling effectively eliminated the city's use of
emergency clauses, which the city used to remove a 30-day waiting period
on passed laws, by ruling that all Cincinnati laws are open to
referendum. The ruling means the city can no longer expedite laws even in extreme cases, such as natural disasters. The city is appealing the ruling.
Council members Chris Seelbach and P.G. Sittenfeld are calling for a special session of City Council to get the city administration to answer questions about budget alternatives to laying off cops or firefighters. Mallory and other city officials claim the only way to balance the budget is to carry out Plan B, which would lay off 189 cops and 80 firefighters and make cuts to other city services. But Sittenfeld and Seelbach have proposed alternatives with casino revenue and cuts elsewhere.
The Ohio House may scrap Republican Gov. John Kasich's school funding formula to use a "Building Blocks" model championed by former Republican Gov. Bob Taft. The legislators say the formula will give more certainty to local officials by always providing a base of funding based on the average cost to educate a student, but the governor's office says the approach neglects recent increases in school mobility. Kasich's formula has come under criticism for disproportionately benefiting wealthy districts, which CityBeat covered in further detail here.
Ohio's per capita personal income rose at one of the fastest rates in the nation last year, according to an analysis from Dayton Daily News. The news is another sign of Ohio's strong economic recovery, but it remains unclear whether the rise will bring down the state's income inequality.
The Ohio Democratic Women's Caucus (ODWC) is criticizing Attorney General Mike DeWine's efforts to exempt more health providers from providing contraceptive coverage based on religious grounds. "DeWine wants to allow all employers to deny crucial health care services like birth control, cancer screenings and vaccines if they disagree with the services due to their personal or political beliefs," Amy Grubbe, chairwoman of the ODWC, said in a statement. As part of Obamacare, health insurance companies are required to provide contraceptive coverage — a measure that may save insurance companies money by preventing expensive pregnancies, according to some estimates. But DeWine and other Republicans say the requirement violates religious liberty.
Ohio and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are partnering up to use technology to crack down on fraud in the federal food stamp program that costs the U.S. taxpayer millions of dollars a year.
A public Ohio school is taking down a portrait of Jesus after being threatened with a lawsuit for allegedly violating separation of state and church.
Duke Energy reached a settlement that will allow the company to raise the average electric bill for its Ohio customers by $3.72 per month.
Hamilton County's SuperJobs Center and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' Veterans Program are partnering with 28 employers, ranging from the University of Cincinnati to Coca Cola, to host the annual veteran hiring event at the SuperJobs Center, located at 1916 Central Parkway, on April 4 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
The Midwest Homeschool Convention at the Duke Energy Convention Center will bring former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul and 15,000 visitors to Cincinnati.
President Barack Obama says he wants to fund a research project that would map the human brain.
By 2020, scientists estimate the world's solar panels will have "paid back" the energy it took to produce them.
Scientists are growing immune cells in space to study how astronauts' immune systems change in space.
A new Saperstein Poll suggests Ohioans have dramatically shifted on same-sex marriage,
with 54 percent now supporting a new amendment to legalize gay marriage
and only 40 percent against it. FreedomOhio's amendment would repeal
Ohio's 2004 same-sex marriage ban and instead grant marriage rights to the
state's many LGBT individuals. CityBeat covered the same-sex marriage amendment in further detail here and the inevitability of gay rights here. Last week, Gov. John Kasich reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage and civil unions, which likely holds bad political consequences because of changing demographics.
Will Portman, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman's son, wrote about coming out to his father and the experiences that followed in today's Yale Daily News. In the column, Portman explained why his father took two years to shift on same-sex marriage: "Some people have criticized my dad for waiting for two years after I came out to him before he endorsed marriage for gay couples. Part of the reason for that is that it took time for him to think through the issue more deeply after the impetus of my coming out. But another factor was my reluctance to make my personal life public."
If the Ohio Department of Education adopts the more rigorous school report cards demanded by lawmakers, many of the state's charter schools will get F's. Most schools would fall under the new standards, but 72 percent of charter schools would fail — an unwelcome sign for alternative schools often touted by Republicans for offering more school choice. The schools' advocates claim the discrepancy between charter schools and other traditional public schools is driven by demographics and greater diversity.
But Ohio's charter schools are also safer for LGBT individuals than traditional schools, according to StateImpact Ohio.
City Councilman Chris Seelbach announced Friday that City Council is poised to support a motion that will prevent companies and other groups from discriminating if they take public funds. The initiative is coming together after the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) was prevented from marching in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Western & Southern has launched the next phase of its ongoing legal attack to run the Anna Louise Inn out of the Lytle Park neighborhood: The financial giant is now accusing ALI and the city of lying and discrimination. In a letter to City Solicitor John Curp, Western & Southern's attorneys claimed ALI can't take federal funds and continue refusing services to men. The city and ALI are so far unsure whether Western & Southern has a case.
Cincinnati's Catholic schools have grown into the sixth largest Catholic schools network in the nation, serving 44,732 students in preschool through 12th grade.
New condos are opening in Over-the-Rhine.
Thousands of jobs are opening at Ohio's insurance companies.
Ohio gas prices are up this week.
A comet, not an asteroid, may have killed the dinosaurs. The study may provide fuel to those worried about an impending apocalypse: There are about two million asteroids more than one kilometer wide in the solar system, but scientists estimate that there are up to one trillion comets.
During Gov. John Kasich's term as governor, local government funding has fallen by nearly half — from nearly $3 billion to about $1.6 billion — and Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld is leading an effort to get that funding back. With the support of Democratic officials from around the state, Sittenfeld is launching a website called ProtectMyOhio.com, which is gathering petition signatures that will eventually be sent to Kasich and members of the Ohio General Assembly.
Hamilton County Judge Robert Winkler extended the temporary restraining order on the city's parking plan yesterday, potentially delaying any ruling on the city's plan to lease its parking assets to the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority for another two weeks. In response, the city said it's approaching a "pressure point" for budget cuts for fiscal year 2014, which must be executed by July 1.
Ohio House Republicans are looking to bolster education funding to poor districts in response to criticisms of Kasich's 2014-2015 budget proposal. A previous CityBeat analysis found Kasich's budget proposal disproportionately benefits the wealthy in a few ways, including education funding.
City Council did not vote on funding for a feasibility study for Westwood Square Wednesday, but the vote could happen as early as next week. The delay came after the Westwood Civic Association said in a letter that the plan needs more discussion.
The controversial election bill moved through the Ohio House yesterday despite calls for more time for debate. The bill, which will now head to Kasich to be signed into law, limits the referendum process by giving referendum and ballot initiative petitioners 10 days to get more signatures if the initial batch is found to be inadequate. Under current law, petitioners can continually search for more signatures while the secretary of state and ballot board sort through signatures. Republicans argue the change makes the petition process fair and uniform, but Democrats say it goes too far in weakening ballot initiative and referendum powers.
The state's $7.6 billion transportation budget, which includes plan to fund transportation projects around the state with Ohio Turnpike funds, breezed through the Ohio Senate Wednesday. It will reach the House for a scheduled vote today.
Attorney General Mike DeWine announced new efforts to help sexual assault victims around Ohio by ensuring each county has adequate services. The efforts are in response to a survey that found 59 percent of counties don't have comprehensive services and eight counties have very few or no services. "It is our goal to ensure that a quick and compassionate emergency response is available to any victim of sexual assault at any time of the day, any day of the week and in any area of the state," DeWine said in a statement.
The federal government released data that shows serious safety violations in hospitals that occurred since Jan. 1, 2011, and the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and Christ Hospital are both on the list.
Hamilton County ranked No. 65 out of Ohio's 88 counties for health in a new survey from Patrick Remington at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. The study found suburban counties fare much better than urban counties, and premature death is at a 20-year low.
Accusations of inappropriate teacher behavior in Ohio are on the rise.
Voyager 1 is or may soon become the first object humanity has ever sent out of the sun's reach.
The Ohio Board of Education named Richard Ross, one of Gov. John Kasich's top education advisers, to the state school superintendent position. Ross' appointment links the Ohio Department of Education more closely with Kasich, according to StateImpact Ohio. Ross is replacing Stan Heffner, who resigned in August after an ethics investigation found he had misused state resources for personal matters and testified in favor of legislation that could have benefited a company he planned to work for.
In a study that should be out next month, Ohio and Kentucky officials are reviewing the Brent Spence Bridge project to make it more affordable. Many officials want to use tolling to help pay for the bridge, but northern Kentucky residents and elected officials have pushed back because they're concerned tolls will divert traffic to other bridges in Ohio and hurt the local economy.
In a press conference in front of the Ohio Statehouse yesterday, more than 100 educators and members of the Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools (CORAS) asked Kasich to rework his education reform proposal in a way that would raise per-pupil funding, fully fund transportation, career technical and special education programs and pay for new initiatives like the Third Grade Reading Guarantee. Under Kasich's current proposal, the state is reducing aid from $5,700 for each student to $5,000, but CORAS says funding should be increased to $6,270. CityBeat covered Kasich's budget proposal, which includes his education reform plan, here.
While funding in Kasich's plan is mixed for traditional public schools, charter schools will get 4.5 percent more funding, according to the Legislative Service Commission. Conservatives typically tout charter schools for providing more "school choice," but in a previous report, Policy Matters Ohio, a left-leaning policy research group, found more choices may bring down results from teachers and students.
Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan and friends and family of fire victims are pushing for a review of Cincinnati's fire ordinance codes to avert fire deaths. The proposed changes include more required fire exits, annual inspections, a mandatory fire drill at the beginning of each school semester, the removal of all exceptions in the code and a measure that would prevent air conditioning units from being placed on windows that are supposed to act as exits. Quinlivan is also encouraging the University of Cincinnati to restart a certified list of preferred rental locations around campus, which would only include housing properties that pass fire safety inspections.
The first public hearings on Kasich's budget proposal to expand Medicaid contained mixed testimony, with supporters touting greater accessibility to health care and improved health results and opponents claiming that Medicaid leads to worse outcomes and will discourage people from improving their economic situation. Previous studies, which CityBeat covered along with the rest of Kasich's budget proposal here, found Medicaid expansions led to lower mortality rates and better health outcomes in certain states. The Health Policy Institute of Ohio says the Medicaid expansion will save the state money in the next decade and provide health insurance to 456,000 Ohioans by 2022.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has posted the full lawsuit filed against the city's parking plan, which is set to have a hearing in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court on Friday. CityBeat wrote more about the lawsuit here.
Judge Robert Ruehlman ruled that Elmwood Place can't collect on tickets from speed cameras that he recently deemed a violation of motorists' due process. The city and police are filing an appeal to the initial ruling, which halted the use of the cameras.
Eighteen percent of Greater Cincinnati's chief financial officers plan to hire for new professional-level positions in the second quarter, while 66 percent say they will only fill jobs that open in the next three months.
Ohio joined 37 states and the District of Columbia in a $7 million settlement with Google yesterday that is expected to net $162,000 for the state. The case centered around Google collecting data from unsecured wireless networks nationwide and taking photographs for its Street View service between 2008 and March 2010.
The effort to effectively ban Internet sweepstakes cafes passed an Ohio House committee.
The federal government may not need to balance its budget at all, according to Bloomberg.
Trained Soviet attack dolphins with head-mounted guns are on the loose.
In February, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, from 7.9 percent in January, and the nation added 236,000 jobs. Many of the new jobs — about 48,000 — came from construction, while government employment saw a drop even before sequestration, a series of across-the-board federal spending cuts, began on March 1. Economists seem quite positive about the report.
In January, Ohio's unemployment rate rose to 7 percent, from 6.7 percent in December, with the number of unemployed in the state rising to 399,000, from 385,000 the month before. Goods-producing and service-providing industries and local government saw a rise in employment, while jobs were lost in trade, transportation, utilities, financial activities, professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, state government and federal government. In January, U.S. unemployment rose to 7.9 percent, from 7.8 percent in December.
A new report outlined renovations for the city-owned Tower Place Mall, which is getting a makeover as part of Cincinnati's parking plan. A lot of the retail space in the mall will be replaced to make room for parking that will be accessed through what is currently Pogue's Garage, but two rings of retail space will remain, according to the report. The parking plan was approved by City Council Wednesday, but it was temporarily halted by a Hamilton County judge. The legal contest has now moved to federal court, and it's set to get a hearing today.
Meet the mayoral candidates through CityBeat's two extensive Q&As: Roxanne Qualls and John Cranley. Qualls spoke mostly about her support for immigration, the parking plan and streetcar, while Cranley discussed his opposition to the parking plan and streetcar and some of his ideas for Cincinnati.
A Hamilton County court ruled against the controversial traffic cameras in Elmwood Place, and the Ohio legislature is considering a statewide ban on the cameras. In his ruling, Judge Robert Ruehlman pointed out there were no signs making motorists aware of the cameras and the cameras are calibrated once a year by a for-profit operator. The judge added, "Elmwood Place is engaged in nothing more than a high-tech game of 3-card Monty. … It is a scam that motorists can't win." Bipartisan legislation was recently introduced to prohibit traffic cameras in Ohio.
JobsOhio, the state-funded nonprofit corporation, quietly got $5.3 million in state grants, even though the state legislature only appropriated $1 million for startup costs. JobsOhio says it needed the extra funds because legal challenges have held up liquor profits that were originally supposed to provide funding. In the past few days, State Auditor Dave Yost, a Republican, has been pushing Republican Gov. John Kasich and JobsOhio to release more details about the nonprofit corporation's finances, but Kasich and JobsOhio have been pushing back.
Advocates for Ohio's charter schools say Kasich's budget amounts to a per-pupil cut, with funding dropping from $5,704 per pupil to $5,000 plus some targeted assistance that ranges from hundreds of dollars to nothing depending on the school. A previous CityBeat report on online schools found traditional public schools get about $3,193 per student — much less than the funding that apparently goes to charter schools.
Fountain Square will be getting a new television from Cincinnati-based LSI Industries with the help of Fifth-Third Bank and the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC). The new video board will have better image quality and viewing angles, but it will also come with more screen space for sponsors.
Ohio's casino revenues rose in January. That could be a good sign for Cincinnati's Horseshoe Casino, which opened Monday.
In light of recent discussion, Popular Science posted a Q&A on drones.
A YouTube video that went viral over the weekend may have broken the rosy illusions the average American has about wealth and income inequality.
Using data from Mother Jones,
Dan Ariely, ThinkProgress and CNN, the video compares the average American's ideal distribution of wealth, what the average American says wealth inequality looks like and how wealth is distributed in reality — ultimately showing that the average American says the nation is much more equal than it really is.
The video suggests investment income as one of the drivers of inequality. The top 1 percent wealthiest Americans hold 50 percent of the nation's stocks, bonds and mutual funds, while the bottom 50 percent of Americans only hold 0.5 percent of such investments, according to the video.
"The average worker needs to work more than a month to earn what the CEO makes in one hour," the narrator says.
In the past, the United States was a lot closer to equality. As the video points out, the top 1 percent only took home 9 percent of the nation's income in 1976. Today, that number is up to 24 percent.
Ohio isn't immune to the trend. A previous report from the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found Ohio's income gap — the income difference between the rich and poor — is wide and growing, and low-income and middle-income Ohioans have actually seen their incomes drop since the 1990s.
The video doesn't make any suggestions on how to fix the problem — it simply shows massive inequality exists — but there are plenty of ideas out there. A paper from the Congressional Research Service suggested the tax system may be playing a role in driving up income and wealth inequality: "However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be correlated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution. … The statistical analysis in this report suggests that tax policy could be related to how the economic pie is sliced — lower top tax rates may be associated with greater income disparities."
In December, The Washington Post posted 10 empirically supported ideas, which included funding preschool education, making unions easier to join and promoting trade in highly skilled professions.
In his 2013 State of the Union, President Barack Obama suggested raising the federal minimum wage to help combat poverty and income inequality — a policy that economist Lawrence Mishel of the Economic Policy Institute recently advocated.
Here is the full video:
While fact checking an interview, CityBeat discovered it will be possible to circumvent the parking plan's cap on meter rate increases through a multilayer process that involves approval from a special committee, the city manager and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority. The process adds a potential loophole to one of the city manager's main defenses against fears of skyrocketing rates, but Meg Olberding, city spokesperson, says raising the cap requires overcoming an extensive series of hurdles: unanimous approval from a board with four members appointed by the Port Authority and one selected by the city manager, affirmation from the city manager and a final nod from the Port Authority. Olberding says the process is necessary in case anything changes during the 30-year time span of the parking deal, which CityBeat covered in detail here.
Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley launched DontSellCincinnati.org to prevent the city manager's parking plan, which semi-privatizes the city's parking assets. The website claims the plan gives for-profit investment companies power over enforcement, guarantees 3-percent rate increases every year and blows through all the money raised in two years. The plan does task a private company with enforcement, but it will be handled by Xerox, not a financial firm, and must follow standards set in the company's agreement with the Port Authority. While the plan does allow 3-percent rate increases each year, Olberding says the Port Authority will have the power to refuse an increase — meaning it's not a guarantee.
Arnol Elam, the Franklin City Schools superintendent who sent an angry letter to Gov. John Kasich over his budget plan, is no longer being investigated for misusing county resources after he paid $539 in restitution. CityBeat covered Elam's letter, which told parents and staff about regressive funding in Kasich's school funding proposal, and other parts of the governor's budget in an in-depth cover story.
To the surprise of no one, Ohio's oil lobby is still against Kasich's tax plan, which raises a 4 percent severance tax on oil and wet gas from high-producing fracking wells and a 1 percent tax on dry gas.
Local faith leaders from a diversity of religious backgrounds held a press conference yesterday to endorse the Freedom to Marry and Religious Freedom Amendment, an amendment from FreedomOhio that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state. Pastor Mike Underhill of the Nexus United Church of Christ (UCC) in Butler County, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp of Temple Sholom, Pamela Taylor of Muslims for Progressive Values and Mike Moroski, who recently lost his job as assistant principal at Purcell Marian High School for standing up for LGBT rights all attended the event. CityBeat covered the amendment and its potential hurdles for getting on the 2013 ballot here.
Vanessa White, a member of the Cincinnati Public Schools board, is running for City Council. White is finishing her first four-year term at the board after winning the seat handily in 2009. She has said she wants to stop the streetcar project, but she wants to increase collaboration between the city and schools and create jobs for younger people.
The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles' (BMV) policy on providing driver's licenses to the children of illegal immigrants remains unclear. Since CityBeat broke the story on the BMV policy, the agency has shifted from internally pushing against driver's licenses for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to officially "reviewing guidance from the federal government as it applies to Ohio law." DACA is an executive order from President Barack Obama that allows the children of illegal immigrants to qualify for permits that enable them to remain in the United States without fear of prosecution.
A survey from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments found locals are generally satisfied with roads, housing and issues that affect them everyday. The survey included 2,500 people and questions about energy efficiency, infrastructure, public health, schools and other issues.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine revealed 7,000 Ohioans have received more than $280 million in consumer relief as part of the National Mortgage Settlement announced one year ago. The $25 billion settlement between the federal government and major banks punishes reckless financial institutions and provides relief to homeowners in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Ohio received a $3 million federal grant to continue improving the state's health care payments and delivery programs.
Cincinnati home sales reached a six-year high after a 27-percent jump in January.
CityBeat's Hannah "McAttack" McCartney interviewed yours truly for the first post of her Q&A-based blog, Cinfolk.
Crows have a sense of fairness, a new study found.


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Mr Brown who worked with us and his crew partner brought a Bike Friday Tikit and Tern Link P9 to Taiwan travelled safely despite the Bike Friday Tikit Safety warning. Nonetheless we took steps to ensure that his bike was inspected and he is off AGAIN
Cross post from Mr Brown:
I am leaving for the U.S. next week to speak and meet up with overseas Singaporeans at Ann Arbor (Wednesday, 24th Oct), Chicago (Friday, 26th October) and Seattle (Saturday, 27th October). Click on the dates for details.
The Overseas Singaporean Unit also interviewed me for their website (where I stole this photo from). You can read it on their site.
I will also be doing some cycling in the three cities on my Bike Friday Tikit (thanks to sponsor My Bike Shop) and I will share my cycling experiences too.
See you all in America next week!
P.S. This is the SECOND time I've gone to the U.S. during an election. The last time I was there was Obama vs McCain during September/October 2008. Haha!

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American Ethnic Studies
AES 499W Senior Capstone in AES (1)
This course provides the opportunity for culminating experience in American Ethnic Studies, one in which students integrate their knowledge from coursework with their own intellectual curiosity and professional interests. As the capstone course for the major, students may select between an internship supervised by on-site professionals, or a thesis for which they conduct original research. Through the internship, students spend 12 to 15 hours each week working for a community organization, institution or program in the Oregon community, and develop an applied research project. Students selecting the thesis will apply their knowledge gained in the major to an original research question of their own choosing, which they will develop and test over the course of the semester. Through a program of directed reading, research and writing, seminar discussion and peer review, the internship/thesis project will allow students to consider the range of theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches to examining how race and ethnicity relate to history, power, culture and voice in the United States.
- General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing-centered
- Prerequisite: Senior standing with a minimum of 6 AES electives, AES 330 and consent of instructor.
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After a remarkably quiet start to the severe weather season in the USA -- which included the fewest number of tornadoes in March in several decades -- signs are pointing to a more active pattern for April.
This includes the possibility of an outbreak this week in the central USA.
This week's severe weather outbreak "is likely to be the worst of the season so far," AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski says, with the greatest threat Tuesday in the central and southern Plains, and Wednesday in the mid- to lower Mississippi Valley.
An online report from the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, Okla., warns of "a setup favorable for potentially significant and widespread severe weather" on Tuesday and Wednesday. The center says that the cities of Dallas, Oklahoma City and Kansas City, Mo., are most at risk Tuesday, and that St. Louis and Memphis are at greatest risk for severe thunderstorms on Wednesday.
Meteorologists define severe thunderstorms as any thunderstorm that produces either tornadoes, hail of at least one inch in diameter, and/or wind gusts of 58 mph or greater.
The severe weather threat this week will likely only be a preview of coming attractions, as the typical peak of severe weather season -- from mid-April through May -- approaches: "The Deep South is going to be under the gun during April," AccuWeather meteorologist Dan Kottlowski says.
During the heart of the severe season, when the threat of tornadoes is usually at its highest, AccuWeather reports that areas to watch will be the lower Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Little Rock, Memphis and Nashville are among the cities that lie in the zone of greatest risk for severe weather throughout the spring.
The SPC reports that so far this year, according to preliminary data through April 4, there have been only 155 reports of tornadoes across the country, which is far below the average of 286.
March was especially quiet, due primarily to the cold air that kept severe weather at bay: Only 17 tornadoes were tallied across the nation in March 2013, according to Weather Channel severe weather expert Greg Forbes.
If this preliminary total holds up, Forbes says, this would be the lowest U.S. tornado count for the month of March in 35 years -- since March 1978 when only 17 tornadoes were counted.
The most recent March with a lower U.S. tornado tally was 1969, with only eight tornadoes. An average March sees 98 tornadoes in the USA. Last March, there were 154 tornadoes and 43 deaths, Forbes says.
So far this year, only two people have been killed by tornadoes, the SPC reports: one in January and one in February.
Tornadoes and severe storms continue to be one of the nation's top weather phenomena in terms of economic damage: A recent report from insurance firm Lloyd's of London found that annual losses from severe thunderstorms -- including tornadoes -- account for more than half of all U.S. catastrophe losses since 1990.
"The U.S. experiences more tornadoes than any other country in the world," according to the report. "Every year an average of 1,200 tornadoes kill up to 60 people, injure 1,500 and cause at least $400 million in economic damage in the U.S."
The report shows how tornadoes have become a rising risk in the USA due mainly to urbanization: "As populations have increased, so has urban sprawl, and fewer areas remain completely unpopulated," the Lloyd's report says.
And although the number of tornado reports has increased by an average of 14 per year since the mid-50s, "a large proportion of this can be attributed to population movement to rural areas and increased communication around and understanding of the nature of tornadoes."
Doyle Rice, USA TODAY
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County signs off on Labor Day fireworks
GOSHEN — Elkhart County will temporarily lift restrictions on fireworks at the end of this month.
The Elkhart County Board of Commissioners voted Monday to allow residents to light consumer fireworks in unincorporated areas of the county during a four-day window around Labor Day, which falls on Sept. 3.
Fireworks will be allowed between 5 p.m. and two hours after sunset Aug. 31 through Sept. 2 and between 10 a.m. and two hours after sunset on Sept. 3. The amendment only applies to this year, Commissioner Frank Lucchese noted. Since 2007, the county has prohibited the use of fireworks at all times except for a 10-day span around July 4, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
"They are not permitted right now," Lucchese said.
Commissioner Mike Yoder added that not everyone is on board with the county's decision to allow fireworks for the Labor Day, but he's received several phone calls from residents asking when they can ignite leftover fireworks bought for the Fourth of July. The county was under a burn ban that restricted the use of fireworks from June 15 until the end of July, so many people who bought fireworks for the holiday did not get to light them, Yoder said.
As of Monday afternoon, 30 Indiana counties were still reporting bans on open burning.


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Maria Sharapova may not be making her welcomed return at next week's Indian Wells tourney after all.
According to Maria Sharapova Blog, an inside source has confirmed the Russian glamazon will be pulling out due to the slow recovery from her shoulder injury and surgery. The former top lady baller hasn't been seen on the court since last August but was scheduled to compete at the Paris Open + Dubai before withdrawing. She had been spotted recently practicing at Nick Bollettieri's in preparation for her return to the WTA Tour.
Shrieka's still entered in the draw at the newly-name PNB Paribas Open, however, while her website has remained mum on the rumor.
If it's true, let's hope she gets healthy quickly and returns to action. However, I think at this point it's fair to say her long-term prospects have come seriously into question.
(image via topnews.com)
Friday, March 6, 2009
THE LOW DOWN: Is Shrieka preparing to withdraw from Indian Wells?
Labels: gossip, Indian Wells, injuries, Maria Sharapova, tennis
13 comments:
I hate to say it, but I guess it is true.ReplyDelete
The one, who posted it on tennisforum is usally spot on with what he says.
So it's save to say that Masha will NOT play IW.
However, the woman who posted these youtube clips said that Maria would fly to L.A on saturday. Maybe to do some promotional work for the tournament... Hopefully she'll finally speak up about her plans for the future.
My guess is, that she just didn't want to play IW and Miami back-to-back and chose Miami over IW!
Anyway, I truely miss her on court :(
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM
why would she want to play IW more than Miami? Because she had a lot more chance to go far in IW than Miami...the williamses are also playing Miami.ReplyDelete
This is very sad news, this injury is much more serious than she thought. Hope she will be back for Miaimi.
Good question anon - she's also won IW but hasn't won Miami either so you would think she'd want to return someplace where she's had more success.ReplyDelete
Clearly travel isn't a huge concern like it may have been for paris + dubai since she has homes relatively close to both tourneys.
if it's true it would def be really worrying news for shrieka
Maybe she chose Miami because it's the Sony Ericsson Open, with SE being one of her biggest sponsors, as well as IMG event.ReplyDelete
At least that's what I thought.
Honestly, I don't know, but I think it's about damn time that someone from her camp finally speaks out!
I really don't understand why they would want everybody to keep guessing instead of releasing a statement that would set the record straight.
All this silence begins to scare me tbh!
True enough Maja - why don't they try to preempt these rumors by releasing the info first? To make it a Maria Mystery Moment??ReplyDelete
It's all cryptic. It seems they're sorta winging it or something with no plan or strategy. Bad PR!
I've said for a while now that I think it's more serious than they want to let on. These tournaments stand to make money and Maria has a lot of endorsements, she has to keep them guessing and expecting.ReplyDelete
We often read that tournaments know that players won't be there but keep their name on the programs etc. to see the tickets on name recognition.
Her name isn't even on the player list at Indian Wells anymore, and it was last week I believe.
Jennifer Capriati anyone?
Umm .. that should read sell tickets, not see tickets. I wish this thing had an edit button.ReplyDelete
Maria Mystery Moment!lol...ReplyDelete
@Pamela: Yeah, I thinks it's more serious as well.
Someone pointed out that in the last video you can see Maria receiving treatment on her shoulder in the background.
I her last doodle, Maria said she was perfectly healthy and just needed strenght and practise.
Maybe it's nothing and she just got a massage or sth, but maybe her shoulder still needs some time to fully recover...
oh come on that "shoulder" thing is getting old....ReplyDelete
Yes she withrew from IWReplyDelete
its sad
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2009 at 4:15 PM
You guys are reaaly tough. Of course she is going to treat the shoulder gingerly. She has the potential for a long career. She is just beeing cautious which is smart.ReplyDelete
- WesterlyMarch 6, 2009 at 7:09 PM
It has nothing to do with being tough. I think this latest withdrawal suggests that this shoulder injury is a lot more serious than the public has been led to believe.ReplyDelete
I'm no Maria fan, but I think the WTA needs her in the mix so...yeah. Not good news.
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2009 at 9:45 PM
she's still playing in IW but only in the doubles event with elena vesnina. i saw it on 2 tennis blogs now, they say that the news is from matt cronin.ReplyDelete
as for the injury, yeah, it's kinda reminding me of what happened to j-cap. but i think that she and her team are being smart about it and taking their time to get her back into shape. hopefully, it pays off in the end. i need her back in the mix. it should've been her at the new york msg event instead of jj.


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These general principles of work made for hire come to life in a recent federal district court case in the Southern District of Florida, Hermosilla v. The Coca-Cola Company, 10-civ-21418 (February 23, 2011). Coca-Cola hired the plaintiff to adapt a song to include a verse of Spanish language lyrics for a marketing campaign. Providing lyrics is not a work made for hire, but in an exchange of telephone calls and email messages Mr. Hermosilla agreed to a proposal from the Vice President of Marketing that he receive credit for the work in exchange for an assignment. He stated in his email: "For the adaptation, you may consider it a work for hire with no economic compensation to that respect." As a matter of law, receiving credit for a work is deemed adequate consideration to support a copyright assignment. The court cited an Indiana state court decision for this proposition.
Mr. Hermosilla attempted to withdraw the assignment because the Coca-Cola contract did not provide for him to receive credit, but it was too late. He had already accepted Coca-Cola's offer; and Coca-Cola had accepted his counter offer for "credit." Section 204 of the Copyright Act provides that "(a) A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signed by the owner of the rights conveyed or such owner's duly authorized agent." Courts have found that emails constitute signed writings. In a 9th Circuit case, the court held that "Section 204's writing requirement is not unduly burdensome.... The rule is really quite simple.... It doesn't have to be the Magna Charta; a one-line pro forma statement will do."
Mr. Hermosilla, however, is not without a remedy, but it cannot be in federal court. The court stated in a footnote that the plaintiff's "remedy for any such violation would be a claim for breach of contract, and no such claim is properly before this court."
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Team Murray is at it again getting in more clay-specific training and fitness work at Roehampton during their week off from tourney play. Incidentally, Murr has already made his way to Madrid via his Tweet last night:
So the top photo shows Jez Green and the soon-to-be World No.3 practicing what they're calling Sumo squats but what I usually call a first date. BTW, I'm thinking (or hoping?) Murr's holding a dumbbell between those thighs. Either that or Little Murr got burnt somehow. *scratches head*
Here the 21-year old performs a plyometric exercise to help build lower body strength and fast, powerful movements. No comment (fine - this comes in handy on the second date.)
And of course, no Team Murray training session would be complete without their trademark ice bath orgy. According to his site, one of these boys had to do the deed sans knickers. I have no idea who that person might be in full monty mode but question: where is Treacle's right hand and why is he smiling so?
(images via andymurray.com)
Thursday, May 7, 2009
PHOTO OP: Murr gets in more training, still tries to out-arse Rafa (no chance)
Labels: Andy Murray, photo op, tennis, training, Twitter
9 comments:
*flove this*
Out-arse Rafa, never. Still love Andy, though.
Thanks, Rich!
- AnonymousMay 7, 2009 at 9:22 AM
He is right about Chelsea, they got robbed. Either way I could care less, I'm a Manchester United fan :DReplyDelete
- Tennis ObserverMay 7, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Treacle's hand is in Andy's ass. Did I win?ReplyDelete
CC: no prob!ReplyDelete
T.O.: ding ding (or dong?)!!! we have a winner. and a weener apparently. i might be smiling too. shhhh!
- AnonymousMay 7, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Is Andy a Chelsea fan or just a casual observer?ReplyDelete
lolol I love this post. Their ice baths are killing me.ReplyDelete
Work it Andrew, work it! And hand me over those silver Nikes while you're nekkid in the ice bath.
Ah, gotta love the Muzz and his ice-bathing ways.ReplyDelete
Out-arse (flove that word) Rafa??
But his booty is still nice alright. :)
And waiting 4 years for bags? BWHA! That always happens to me, too! :D
"Little Murr"???ReplyDelete
No no no no.
I feel nauseous thinking about it.
After reading that, I need an ice bath for my BRAIN.
- AnonymousMay 10, 2009 at 10:40 PM
ewwww...oh pphluezzzeeee....spare me these over the top yucky press pictures releases....it is way over trying hard and its just isnt done....gross....ReplyDelete


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Electric Barracuda (Paperback)
Serge Storms, that lovable thermonuclear vigilante, has been leaving corpses strewn across the Sunshine State for more than a decade. The authorities notice the body count, and send a task force to track down Serge. Could his luck finally have run out? Meanwhile, armed with his perpetually baked sidekick, Coleman, Serge decides to resurrect his Internet travel-advice website where you, too, can learn how to experience Florida through the eyes of a fugitive.
Off they go, blogging along a getaway route through the state's most remote bayous, back roads, and bars, where the number of cadavers begins stacking up like Serge's website hits. Clues and questions mount: Who are all the women being photographed in the swamp? And what made Coleman draw on his face with Magic Markers? In the meantime, Serge's grandfather's old Miami Beach gang suddenly has their life savings wiped out, and there's a good bet it was no accident. Too much action for Serge to juggle? Not when it involves his favorite new obsession: tracking Al Capone's little-known escapades in the Everglades.
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[Verse 1: 2Pac]
Perhaps I was addicted to the dark side
Somewhere inside my childhood witnessed my heart die
And even though we both came from the same places
The money and the fame made us all change places
How could it be? Through the misery that came to pass
The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask for currency
But you could run to me when you need and I'll never leave
Honestly, someone to believe in, as you can see
It's a small thang to a true, what could I do?
Real homies help you get through
And come to knew he'd do the same thang if he could
Cause in the hood true homies make you feel good
And half the times we be actin' up call the cops
Bringin' a cease to the peace that was on my block
It never stops, when my mama ask me 'will I change?'
I tell her yea, but it's clear I'll always be the same
Until the end of time
[Hook: R.L. Huggar]
So take, these broken wings
I need your hands to come and heal me once again
(Until the end of time)
So I can fly away, until the end of time
Until the end of time
Until the end of time
[Verse 2: 2Pac]
Please Lord forgive me for my life of sin
My hard stare seem to scare all my sister's kids
So you know, I don't hang around the house much
This all night money making got me outta touch, shit
Ain't flashed a smile in a long while
An unexpected birth worst of the ghetto childs
My attitude got me walkin solo, ride out alone in my lo-lo
Watchin' the whole world move in slow-mo
For quiet times, disappear, listen to the ocean
Smokin' 'Ports, think my thoughts, then it's back to coastin'
Who can I trust in this cold world?
My phony homie had a baby by my old girl
But I ain't trippin I'm a player I ain't sweatin him
I sex his sister, had her mumble like a Mexican
His next of kin, no remorse it was meant to happen
Besides rappin the only thing I did good was scrappin'
Until the end of time
[Verse 3: 2Pac]
Now who's to say if I was right or wrong?
To live my life as an Outlaw all along
Remain strong in this planet full of player haters
They conversate but Death Row full of demonstrators
And in the end drinkin Hennessy made all my enemies envy me
So cold when I flow eliminatin' easily
Falls to they knees, they plead for they right to breathe
While beggin' me to keep the peace (haha)
When I conceive closer to achieve
In times of danger don't freeze, time to be a G
Follow my lead I'll supply everything you need
An ounce of game and the trainin' to make a G
Remember me, as an outcast Outlaw
Another album out, that's what I'm about, more
Gettin raw 'til the day I see my casket
Buried as a G while the whole world remembers me
Until the end of time
...maybe it's the thug in me
Artist: 2Pac
Album: Until the End of Time
Released: February 18, 2001
Recorded: 1996
Genre: Hip Hop, R&B
Producer: Johnny "J" & Trackmasters
"Until the End of Time" is a posthumous single from a 2001 2Pac album of the same name. The song was very successful and was a big contributor to the album going 4x Platinum. The song features R.L. Huggar from the R&B group Next. An alternate version features Mr. Mister's lead singer and bassist Richard Page on vocals and bass. The music video for the song contains a compilation of unreleased footage of Shakur. It charted at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The song's beat is a sample of Mr. Mister's popular 1985 #1 song "Broken Wings".


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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Public schools would be required to teach the strengths and weaknesses of the scientific theory of evolution under a bill being considered by a Missouri House committee.
The House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee heard testimony Wednesday on a measure that would require state officials to develop guidelines for teaching evolution in public schools.
Supporters said the measure would empower teachers and help students develop critical thinking skills.
A Democrat on the committee said he was concerned the bill would open "Pandora's box" and lead to having religion taught in public schools.
The measure is sponsored by Republican Rep. Andrew Koenig, of St. Louis. The committee did not vote on the proposal.
The evolution bill is HB179 Online: Legislature: http://www.moga.mo.gov
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Editor's Summary
Recalling his start in information science studies, 2012 ASIS&T Research Award winner Kalervo Järvelin explained that reading seminal books in the field influenced his academic and research path. A call to devise a curriculum for classification, indexing and information retrieval drew him away from computer science and firmed his career focus. Driven by the idea that information should be fully accessible for all, regardless of format, language or location, Jarvelin pursued studies on the contribution of natural language processing, ontology-driven query expansion and feedback, cross-language information retrieval and metrics for retrieval evaluation. He spoke of challenges for information retrieval, including morphologic complexity of his native language and others, vocabulary mismatch between query and text, and optimal methods for assessing relevance of search returns. Järvelins current research is on information retrieval in specific task settings and simulating human information behavior for more efficient analysis. An extensive list of publications and awards provides evidence of Järvelins significant contributions to information science.
career development
information retrieval
multilingual retrieval
query processing
query expansion
Bulletin, February/March 2013
Special Section
A Career in Information Retrieval Research
by Kalervo Järvelin
Editors Note: Each year that the ASIS&T Research Award is given we invite the recipient to share his or her research goals and discoveries with Bulletin readers. This years recipient is Kalervo Järvelin, professor and vice chair at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. He can be reached at Kalervo.Jarvelin<at>uta.fi.
Originally aiming to become a librarian, I was first introduced to information science and information retrieval (IR) by my first professor, Sinikka Koskiala, at the University of Tampere in 1972. She guided me to read F.W. Lancasters Information Retrieval Systems: Characteristics, Testing and Evaluation (1968), Manfred Kochens The Growth of Knowledge (1967), Gerard Saltons Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval (1968) and several other excellent texts. The ideas gained from them remained in my mind while I studied computer science, database management in particular, and nearly stayed in that area as a researcher. Accidentally, I returned to information science in the early 1980s and assumed the responsibility of developing the curriculum for classification, indexing and information retrieval at one of the predecessors of my current school, the School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland.
My initial research efforts were split between information seeking and knowledge-work augmentation on the one hand, and relational database management on the other. Both interests have continued to date, but IR has formed my main research area since the early 1990s. For the curious reader, my publications are listed at http://people.uta.fi/~kalervo.jarvelin/KalPubl.html, but most of them may be found through Google Scholar.
The initial driving aim in my research in IR was that all information should be available to anyone desiring it and in an accessible form, no matter in which form or language it is stored or where it is located. Today, much of this availability has been realized in the form of the web, its search engines and the resources accessible through them. With my colleagues in the research group FIRE, I have been happy to contribute to IR in the areas of natural language processing (NLP) method evaluation for IR, ontology-based query expansion and relevance feedback, cross-language IR (CLIR) methods/evaluation and IR evaluation metrics. This work has been great fun.
Originally, IR methods were developed for English, which is a morphologically simple language. This characteristic means that very simple methods of stemming are sufficient to make documents accessible as far as language is concerned. My native language is Finnish, which is highly inflectional. Every noun may have some 2000 inflectional forms, for example, in contrast to four forms in English. This complexity means that high recall is difficult to achieve with simple methods in Finnish which has given Finnish benchmark-language status in NLP and CLIR experiments. Lemmatizers (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmatisation) were seen as necessary instead of stemmers for document representation. We also noted that many other languages are, while morphologically simpler than Finnish, clearly more complicated than English. We have not created stemmers or lemmatizers for any language ourselves but have evaluated their effectiveness for document representation in a range of languages. However, such tools cannot always be applied if one has no control over database production or be available at all for many languages. We have created lightweight statistical lemmatizers for indexing, and morphologically smart query-time tools for expanding the original query words to their most frequent inflectional forms of each language. We have shown such methods to be effective. These findings are good news in the global information access scene, where many languages are not nearly as well equipped as English.
One of the basic tough problems in IR is vocabulary mismatch: the searchers query words do not match with the words in relevant documents. Ontology-based query expansion and relevance feedback are two approaches to solve the problem through query reformulation. Both expand the query with new words that are semantically, syntagmatically or (at least) statistically associated with the original ones and hopefully better match the relevant document texts. We were among the first to analyze the effectiveness of various query structures in semantic query expansion in best-match IR in late 1990s and identified the effective synonym structure for expansion. Interactive relevance feedback, while not really popular in practice among searchers, has been an appealing idea for query modification for a long time. Here the searcher examines the result of an initial query and identifies the relevant results for the search engine. We have shown through a number of simulation studies that an effective approach is to provide feedback only on a few first results. This finding holds even if the first results are of marginal relevance and one aims to retrieve only highly relevant documents.
Cross-language IR methods gained in importance along with the global development of web IR. We developed in the late 1990s the dictionary-translation method for CLIR based on synonym structure. In a bilingual translation setting, the target language translation equivalents (for example, in English) of a single source language word (for example, Spanish) are all put into a synonym set in the target query without attempting to disambiguate various word senses. This simple method proved very effective and served as a challenging baseline in CLIR for a number of years. However, dictionary translation in CLIR may be bogged down by OOV (out-of-vocabulary) words. These words may be proper names spelled differently in different languages or technical terminology not covered by a machine-readable dictionary. We developed novel and effective approximate string-matching methods and statistical transliteration-based methods to overcome the OOV problems during 2000-2010.
My search engine is better than yours. Statements like this one are often sought after in IR research and are based on IR evaluation, which is sometimes referred to as a hallmark and distinctive feature of IR research. In the early years of the U.S. National Institute of Standards Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), in the 1990s, test-collection based evaluation used binary relevance assessments with a very liberal relevance criterion. In addition, the evaluation itself was dominated by a scenario where the (simulated) searcher was exhaustively searching for relevant documents. We asked the questions: What if most documents are of marginal value, others being highly relevant? What if early retrieval of a relevant document, of any degree of relevance, is far more valuable than late retrieval? These questions led to the development of evaluation methods by highly relevant documents and, in particular, to a family of evaluation metrics based on cumulated gain. Among the latter normalized discounted cumulated gain, the nDCG, became very popular in IR evaluation and also in operational development within search engine companies.
While the progress in the field of IR is astonishing and impossible for anyone to follow-up in all detail, I currently believe that we can do a much better job in supporting information access in peoples tasks and focused everyday-life information need situations. My current work focuses on task-based IR and interactive IR, including simulation of multiple query IR sessions.
Regarding task-based IR, we have collected comprehensive qualitative data in two task settings, research tasks in molecular medicine and administrative tasks in city administration. We are planning to continue these efforts in public administration and commercial companies. The data collection methods include interviewing, task performance shadowing, client-side interaction logging, photo logging through SenseCam and questionnaires. We have found how information needs in simple tasks are satisfied through one or a few organizational information systems, while complex tasks require a range of sources and traversing through several types of systems, not just one search engine. We also classified barriers in information access by their character (conceptual, syntactic and technological) and by their context of appearance (work task, system integration, or system) and analyzed how these depend on task complexity.
Taking the human searcher as an actor (and thus, a variable) in IR research design poses many challenges. Humans learn, get tired and are expensive to hire for experiments. At any step in an interaction, they may take a range of decisions that may lead to the termination of their search session with either success or frustration. Such decisions depend on many factors such as their personal traits, work task and search task, current situation in the search, search strategy, the quality of document representation or search platform among others. Human information access behavior can be modeled, to some degree, through behavioral probabilities observed in real life. This ability provides an opportunity to simulate interactive sessions in the computer economically and without (unprogrammed) learning effects or fatigue. In fact, one may run in reasonable time (hours) experiments involving many million interactive sessions and identify which kind of decisions or behaviors are likely to lead to successful results. We have recently shown that expected human fallibility in providing relevance feedback does not deteriorate search results and how important it is to consider time factors as opposed to plain ranking quality in IR evaluation.
A Short Biography
Kal Järvelin (http://people.uta.fi/~kalervo.jarvelin/) is professor and vice chair at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland. He holds a PhD in information studies (1987) and two MSc degrees (library and information science, 1978, and computer science, 1983) from the same university where he started as a student in 1972. He was academy professor with the Academy of Finland in 2004 2009.
Kal Järvelins research covers information seeking and retrieval, natural language processing and ontological methods in IR, IR evaluation and database management. He has co-authored over 250 scholarly publications and supervised 17 doctoral dissertations. Several of his former students have a recognized standing within information science. He has an H-index of 27 in Google Scholar and 13 in Web-of-Science (December 2012). He is particularly well cited for the work he has co-authored on IR evaluation methods, task-based information seeking and the integration of information seeking and retrieval research.
He has frequently served the ACM SIGIR conferences as a program committee member (1992-2009), conference chair (2002) and program co-chair (2004, 2006, 2014); and the ECIR, the ACM CIKM and many other conferences as program committee member. He was an associate editor of Information Processing and Management (2008-2012).
Kal Järvelin has received many awards beginning with the Finnish Computer Science Dissertation Award 1986 and continuing with several best paper awards with co-authors, including the ACM SIGIR 2000 Best Paper Award for the seminal paper on the discounted cumulated gain evaluation metric; the ECIR 2008 Best Paper Award for session-based IR evaluation; the IIiX 2010 Best Paper Award for a study on task-based information access. He also received the Tony Kent Strix Award 2008 in recognition of contributions to the field of information retrieval, and, most recently, the ASIS&T Research Award 2012 in recognition of contributions to the field of information science.
Some Key Publications
- Järvelin, K., & Kekäläinen, J. (2002). Cumulated gain-based evaluation of IR techniques. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (ACM TOIS) 20(4), 422-446.
- Ingwersen, P., & Järvelin, K. (2005). The turn: Integration of information seeking and retrieval in context. Dortrecht, NL: Springer. ISBN 1-4020-3850-X
- Byström, K., & Järvelin, K. (1995). Task complexity affects information seeking and use. Information Processing & Management 31(2), 191 - 213.
- Pirkola, A. & Hedlund, T. & Keskustalo, H., & Järvelin, K (2001). Dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval: Problems, methods, and research findings. Information Retrieval 4(3/4), 209-230
- Kumpulainen, S., & Järvelin, K. (2010). Information interaction in molecular medicine: Integrated use of multiple channels. In: Belkin, N. et al. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIiX 2010), New Brunswick, NJ, August 2010 (pp. 95-104). New York, NY: ACM. ISBN: 978-1-4503-0247-0.
- Keskustalo, H., Järvelin, K., Pirkola, A., Sharma, T., & Lykke Nielsen, M. (2009). Test collection-based IR evaluation needs extension toward sessions - A case of extremely short queries. In: Lee, G. & al. (Eds.).
Proceedings of AIRS 2009, the 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, October 2009 (pp. 63-74). Heidelberg: Springer. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5839).
Kalervo Järvelin, professor and vice chair at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tampere, Finland, is the 2012 recipient of the ASIS&T Research Award. He can be reached at Kalervo.Jarvelin<at>uta.fi.
Articles in this Issue
Third ASIS&T Student Design Competition: The "Truthiness Challenge"
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
James Cretsos Leadership Award: What ASIS&T Means to Me
SIG/SI 8th Annual Research Symposium a Success!
The 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: A Report
The History of ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology
Evolving and Emerging Research Methods: 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium
From Vision to Reality: The Emerging Information Professional
Edward Chang: Mobile Opportunities
Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
A Career in Information Retrieval Research
IA: Slip-Sliding Away: Real World Challenges Await Us
RDAP Review: Looking Out For the Little Guy: Small Data Curation


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