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Over the last several years, community members have expressed concerns about Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200's fund balance and tax levies. To help address those concerns, the school board created a new Finance Advisory Committee that will recommend guidelines to the board about the target range for the fund balance, the timing and size of a future operating referendum, and the amount of this year's and future tax levies.
The 15-member committee includes eight members of the community and members of the faculty, administration, and board. Community members on the committee are from both Oak Park and River Forest and bring expertise in school finance, private sector finance, financial planning, pensions, state finance, public finance law, economic development, and government leadership. We are grateful to everyone involved for their time and varied perspectives.
The Finance Advisory Committee held its first meeting in July and plans to meet every two weeks until December. Meetings are open to the public and are also videotaped and available at www.oprfhs.org. To date, we have explored the basics of school finance; the school's current budget, most recent enrollment study, and five-year projections; and the potential impact on the budget of Illinois pension reform. We have also reviewed the school's historical experience in containing costs, a history of the fund balance, and a variety of financial comparisons with similar districts.
Tax levy requests are an inexact science with key information unavailable to the board when requests need to be made. In addition, since the adoption of tax caps in the mid-1990s, Illinois school boards have faced a dilemma. The law limits annual tax increases to the consumer price index (CPI) or 5%, whichever is less.
But the bulk of a school's costs are related to salaries and benefits, which have steadily increased by more than the CPI. In response, many tax-capped school districts build up reserves after a referendum, anticipating that annual costs will eventually exceed annual revenues and those reserves will need to be spent.
D200 has followed this common practice, but its fund balance, now nearly $123 million, has grown unusually large due to a controversial decision (known as the "phase-in") and rapid real estate value increases in the mid-2000s, together with cost containment measures that have been more successful than anticipated. This fund balance represents about 20 months of annual expenses and is one of the highest per student fund balances in the state.
As chair of the Finance Advisory Committee, I am committed to having its work be transparent and available to the community. I am also optimistic that the committee will develop recommendations that balance our common interest in a high-quality education for all students at OPRF and the need to address the significant tax burden on Oak Park and River Forest citizens. We welcome community input and invite you to either watch or join our meetings, including our next session on Sept. 9.
Jeff Weissglass is vice president of the District 200 school board.
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Posted: September 6th, 2013 7:02 PM
I suggest adding more items to your list: trying to figure out why some librarians at OPRF earn more than this guy: http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/4-4-2013/Seleb-brings-plenty-of-experience-to-Oak-Park-library/ And why are we paying Dr. Ed and PE teachers as much as the Calculus and Physics teachers? And do PE/Dr. Ed teachers "need" Master's degrees and more? Let's try to be "progressive" in OP and not chase out the last middle-class homeowner in town due to ever-increasing prop taxes!
Posted: September 6th, 2013 5:22 PM
@Mr. Middle (and Mr. Weisglass): how did "rapid real estate value increases" have ANYTHING to do with the D200 surplus? Have you noticed how DECLINING property values have no effect upon on our property tax bill (or the surplus)? No, Witham and company gouged OP and RF taxpayers and I can only conclude that greed or stupidity motivated them. I am, though, open to other suggestions like hmm, "ignorance?"
John Ide from Oak Park
Posted: September 6th, 2013 3:04 PM
I commend Jeff and the FAC for taking on the difficult, but necessary, task of openly analyzing and making recommendations on District 200's large fund balance. I look forward to seeing your recommendations.
Mr. Middle
Posted: September 4th, 2013 8:46 PM
The paragraph that begins D200 has followed...is one of the most honest statements I have heard about this issue and I congratulate Mr. Weissglass. Keeping it honest and treating tax-payers as equals will take you far.
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You're so right about Lent food being tasty rather than bland, as most people think. The fact that we can't use specific ingredients makes us more creative and innovative. This beautifully presented dish of yours is a proof of that.
bravo – this kind of meal does not even hint at being vegetarian and lenten
I am also doing lots of lent dishes these days. This one looks delicous.
Maria, looks elegant, and even though just garnish – when one stick the sprig of thyme or rosemary in a hot meal, the aroma is very inviting and really integral to the meal..
This is definetly a hearty dish Maria…I've never prepared eggplant this way. Looks beautiful.
Kali Sarakosti! I love the purple fruit! Do you fast for the entire lent? I do… good bye cheese!
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Great pride is taken by the island nation of Sri Lanka in the making of clean, orthodox, high grade specialty tea. Such pride dictates that all tea grown and manufactured in the country be marked with the globally trademarked lion logo.
Formed in 1976, the Sri Lanka Tea Board is a government entity under the Ministry of Plantation Industries that is charged with ensuring the quality and promotion of pure Ceylon Tea. The Sri Lanka Tea Board owns the Lion Logo and enforces the following conditions:
The lion, a fitting symbol of pride, is also the national symbol of Sri Lanka and features prominently on the country's flag.
Unusual, one might think, as lions are neither indigenous to nor found roaming wild in the country (*see note below). So, why the lion? The answer is in fantastical legends that stretch back to the early centuries of Sri Lanka's early history. Prince Vijaya, the first recorded King of Sri Lanka (543-503 BCE), was from India and believed to be the part lion on his maternal side. When he arrived in Sri Lanka he brought a flag featuring a lion denoting his lineage. The powerful king of beasts became the symbol of the newly formed kingdom of Tambapanni through to present day Sri Lanka, so named since its independence from British rule in 1948.
Let's join Sri Lanka in celebrating its rich history and 150 Years of Ceylon Tea ~ be sure to look for the Lion Logo.
Note: "The Sri Lanka lion (Panthera leo sinhaleyus), also known as the Ceylon lion, was a prehistoric subspecies of lion, endemic to Sri Lanka. It appears to have become extinct prior to the arrival of culturally modern humans, c. 37,000 years BC. This lion is only known from two teeth found in deposits at Kuruwita." REFERENCE: www.encyclo.co.uk
This post was prepared by Linda Villano, SerendipiTea, reporting for The Tea House Times.IMAGE CREDITS: Sri Lanka Tea Board http://www.pureceylontea.com
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SOLD by JAMES CAMPBELL & HENSON ZHANG 9987 0011
Set at the quiet end of Hunter Street and only a 650m walk to Hornsby Train Station and Westfield shopping centre.
- Modern kitchen with easterly view
- Large open plan lounge and dining room
- 2 entertaining balconies
- High elevation so allowing a peaceful view
- 2 great sized bedrooms with built-ins
- Single lock up garage
- Spacious main bathroom and internal laundry
- Wonderful cross breeze making this a perfect home
Size: 86m2 Apartment
19m2 Garage
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Programs: The standard-bearer school district network is a national network of public school districts that use the schlechty center's system capacity standards to assess district and school-level capacity to support change. These districts have committed to using a systems approach to focus on engagement. The emphasis of all work is on transforming school districts from bureaucracies to learning organizations. Schlechty center senior associates and the leaders of districts committed to this network have, together, refined the tools and processes initially conceived for the network in 1998. The result has been a comprehensive set of options for approaching the work that take into consideration the district context and support the work from the boardroom to the classroom.
schlechty center national conferences are organized into three categories: designing engaging student work, designing systems to support the design of engaging work, and leadership development. The target audience for designing engaging work is teachers who learn to use our frameworks to design academic work that is engaging to students and that results in students' learning what is intended. The target audience for designing systems is principals and others who are responsible for creating the conditions to make it possible for teachers to design engaging work. Leadership development conferences are intended for role groups that range from the classroom to the boardroom. Their focus is on redefining roles
the superintendents leadership network was initiated in 1997 by the bellsouth foundation to offer a high-profile response to the need in the southeast for a focus on leadership development in the region's public school districts. The uniqueness of this network lay in its focus on district-level leadership; the network was launched with the understanding that strong school-site leadership, while essential for successful schools and high-achieving students, would last only as long as the school district could support, sustain, nurture, and continually develop that leadership. The sln has since evolved from a regional presence to a national one. Learning from other sectors is a major component of the work of the network. Institutes are held three times yearly, always in different cities and locales in order to take advantage of opportunities to learn from businesses, universities, and inspirational people in other sectors who have lessons to share about leading change and establishing systems to assure a change-oriented organization.
"the academies" - these annual academies are devoted to supporting school leaders who have a deep understanding of and commitment to providing leadership for the core business of designing engaging work for students and leading change. Over 200 school leaders from across the nation were served by the six academies hosted during the year. The curriculum focused on the pursuit of the core business of student engagement. Evaluations by many participants rated the academy as the most important, effective, and rewarding leadership training of their entire career.


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Santos hold Sundowns to 1-1 draw
Santos put on their best home performance and were held to a 1-1draw by defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns in an Absa Premier League soccer match at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night.
The home side should have held at least a 3-0 lead at the interval. Instead, they went into the break with a 1-0 lead, thanks to a penalty by Erwin Isaacs, who was
fouled in the box.
In the second half, Santos again were the playmakers but failed to score.
Sundowns bounced back with precision football. They did, however, get the equaliser from a goal-mouth scramble as Patrick Kiru steered the ball past keeper Lee Langevelt.
Calvin Marlin, in goal for Sundowns, saved his side from defeat with some brilliant saves. In the last minute of the game, substitute Ryan Chapman saw his header beat Marlin as the ball hit the crossbar and bounced back into play.
Mogogi Gabonamong, Thando Mngomeni and Tawonga Chimodzi shone for Santos, while Brent Carelse, Dillon Sheppard and Josta Dladla kept the Santos defence busy. - Sapa


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I primarily use the amara minimal view face mask. That one seems to create bags under my eyes. I alternate with the full face mask, which is more comfortable, but leaves deep lines down my face that last until dinner time.
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21 August 2007
Dying Tree In Front of My House
3 comments:
- Andrew said...
Ah...the memories of that tree
Love the silhouette...good photo.
- 23 August, 2007
- judithe & francine said...
This blog is one cool cat. Who are we, you ask? I couldn't even begin to think about knowing how to answer that question.
Keep posting, keep spewing creative, keep rockin' in the free world.
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- 29 August, 2007
I stumbled on your Blog because it came up in my Google monitoring. From someone who is a Tenenbaum to someone who wants to be one, your blog ROCKS. Whoever you are, from what I've read, you have outstanding taste in music and authors.
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The films of producer Irwin Winkler will be the subject of a three-day retrospective at the American Cinematheque, set for Dec. 1-3, it was announced Monday.
On Dec. 3, Winkler will be joined by director Martin Scorsese for a conversation about the movies they have worked on together, which will include clips from Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street and the upcoming Silence, which Paramount is set to release Dec. 23.
The retrospective will include Raging Bull, screening on Dec. 1 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood; Goodfellas, Dec. 2 at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica; New York, New York, Dec. 3 at the Egyptian; and the conversation with Scorsese, Dec. 3 at the Egyptian.
Read more: Irwin Winkler to Receive PGA's David O. Selznick Achievement Award


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Prehistoric Adventures – Fire Stryker
These colossal creatures stand a towering 8′ tall and 16′ long and are anatomically correct, with incredibly realistic eye blinking, tail swooshing, and a mighty roaring sound.
Introducing, "FIRE STRYKER" a smoke blowing, fire breathing, wing flapping, one of a kind Dragon. Led around on a leash by a "Viking" handler, as large crowds gather to get up close and personal to this incredible flying beast.
Prehistoric Adventures provides a fascinating and thrilling experience that will captivate both adults and children alike!
Strolling thru the fair – three (3) times daily for 30 minutes


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Abstract We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to estimate the transient attributes of a scene from a single image. Transient scene attributes describe both the objective conditions, such as the weather, time of day, and the season, and subjective properties of a scene, such as whether or not the scene seems busy. Recently, convolutional neural networks have been used to achieve state-of-the-art results for many vision problems, from object detection to scene classification, but have not previously been used for estimating transient attributes. (continued)
Abstract Estimating the focal length of an image is an important preprocessing step for many applications. Despite this, existing methods for single-view focal length estimation are limited in that they require particular geometric calibration objects, such as orthogonal vanishing points, co-planar circles, or a calibration grid, to occur in the field of view. In this work, we explore the application of a deep convolutional neural network, trained on natural images obtained from Internet photo collections, to directly estimate the focal length using only raw pixel intensities as input features. (continued)
Abstract While face analysis from images is a well-studied area, little work has explored the dependence of facial appearance on the geographic location from which the image was captured. To fill this gap, we constructed GeoFaces, a large dataset of geotagged face images, and used it to examine the geo-dependence of facial features and attributes, such as ethnicity, gender, or the presence of facial hair. Our analysis illuminates the relationship between raw facial appearance, facial attributes, and geographic location, both globally and in selected major urban areas. (continued)


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Multistar MS50SS
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DocumentationMathematicaBuilt-in FunctionsNumerical ComputationMatrix Operations
Inverse[m] gives the inverse of a square matrix m.
Inverse works on both symbolic and numerical matrices.
For matrices with approximate real or complex numbers, the inverse is generated to the maximum possible precision given the input. A warning is given for ill-conditioned matrices.
Inverse[m, Modulus->n] evaluates the inverse modulo n.
Inverse[m, ZeroTest -> test] evaluates test[ m[[i, j]] ] to determine whether matrix elements are zero. The default setting is ZeroTest -> (# == 0 &).
A Method option can also be given. Possible settings are as for LinearSolve.
See Section 1.8.3 and Section 3.7.6.
Implementation Notes: see Section A.9.4 and Section A.9.4.
See also: PseudoInverse, LinearSolve, RowReduce, NullSpace, LinearSolveFunction.
Related package: LinearAlgebra`Tridiagonal`.
New in Version 1; modified in 3.
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Salt of the Earth Trailer (2006)
13 July 2006 Drama, Crime 114 mins
They were four friends in heart and soul. Blood Brothers that were that were bound together by their army experience. They were good people and decent citizens. They had love, careers, hopes, a future - but they wanted more. And they wanted to commit the perfect crime...
Watch the official Salt of the Earth 2006 trailer in HD below or find more Salt of the Earth videos on Vidimovie.


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Bookselling since 1999. Out of print, used and new military and reference books from Poland and Russia: uniforms, decorations, arms and armor, military vehicles, aviation and transport, modeling references, military and civic heraldry and vexillology, folk dress and folk art.
Terms of sale for Mikhail Barkovskiy Shipping calculation reflects 1 kg average book weight. I will adjust the shipping to the real costs: for smaller books costs will be reduced, heavy books may require extra postage. Books are shipped as registered letters (up to 2kg) or parcel (2kg +). Insured shipping upon request. Shipping through Polish Post. Books and their condition are described as correct as possible. Please, refer to attached pictures (where available). No returns, please, due to the "wrong book".


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FLATYZ (Two wick flat candles) - Angels & Fairies Set
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The Jam Series NC Stop: August 25th
The Jam Series has been moving up and and down the East Coast this Spring/Summer and has stopped at some of the best parks the east has to offer! A lot of miles have been clocked and only two more stops to go and we will be stopping at The Factory Skate Park in Wake Forrest NC August 25th! Check out who is going to the East 10 Championships and more at thejamseries.com
One Skateboard Co. Demo in NC
Some of the guys and gal at One Skateboard Co will be heading to the Factory Skate Park Wake Forrest NC for The Jam Skate and Create Series to throw down some original lines and have some fun with The Jam Series skaters. Come and check out some of the riders from this new East Coast company at this brand new skate park!