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Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 01:18 pm |
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Saw the Douglass newsclip. I live in Easton, but was unaware of the monument and it's controversy. Was wondering what the opinions of the the boards participants are as to this issue? As an aside, several of my ancestors names are on the cw memorial in the courthouse square. Also, Douglass was at one time a slave of another ancestor. Unfortunately, there's essentially no mention of Douglass in the area other than a roadside plaque. My vote would be for the monument in the square. Even though he didn't serve in the army, he did have a huge impact on the events of the time. Why the opposition - lack of knowledge of his contributions, the "r" word, etc. ? Douglass, in my opinion, is the most influential black individual of American history, much more so than Dr. King, who himself was a great man. How could a black individual gain access to the white house and the president in the 1860's, other than as a servant, during this period? Who was one of the persons who influenced Lincoln for emancipation, blacks in the military, etc. ? Doc C |
Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 04:38 pm |
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I agree Doc sounds like they are being petty, why is the CH square only reserved for honoring veterans? It should be for whoever the people of the county wish to honor. Just as they should never remove the CS memorial they should not withhold honoring Douglas, especially since they apparantly agreed to do so. Putting the statue at a library seems to be relegating him to a place of less honor IMO, I'm assuming Easton is probably laid out like a small Texas town where the CH is the center of business activity. |
Posted: Tue Oct 30th, 2007 05:55 pm |
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David The library is actually right behind the CH and probably would have, in reality, more individuals who would actually see the monument in that location than in the CH square I'm planning to check with my friends at the county historical society where I volunteer to see if they have any information on this matter. Interesting, one source has told me more men were in the union army than the csa in this county. However, this area had many more csa officers/generals/wealthy land owners than those in the union army; i.e. men in position to erect a csa monument. Doc C |
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In terms of honor, the Douglass statue should go in the CH area. However, the CH square is rather small, in fact one has to go into the gates of the square then travel to the left in order to see the confederate monument. Even if the Douglass statue goes into the square it will most likely not be seen from the street, just because of space issues, thus fewer people will see the statue. Thus the quandry, do the honorable thing - place it in the square where only people such as me will know where it is or the library where hundreds of school children/adults pass and maybe a few will ask who the man, Frederick Douglass, was. ????? Doc C |
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either pos. for the statue would be good I guess for me the answer would be for the Libary area "library where hundreds of school children/adults pass and maybe a few will ask who the man, Frederick Douglass, was. ?????" Isnt that why monuments are made for people to see and reflect on the person and what they contributed seems to me more people coming by and seeing it is the goal. And think of the person would Douglass want his memorial next to a CSA Memorial I dont think he would IMO. |
Posted: Wed Oct 31st, 2007 03:09 am |
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Point well taken younglobo. Think the best place for the monument is the location where more can see and reflect on it. I'll keep the board posted after I learn more on this topic. Doc C |
Posted: Fri Nov 2nd, 2007 12:36 am |
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Here's the web site of the monument foundation and pictures of the CH where the proposed statue is to be placed. Though the pictures do show enough space, in reality it is quite small but possibly could work, depending on the monument. In speaking with the county historical socity reps., the foundation has not made any moves as of yet to aquire the land to place the statue. We do already have another county statue commemorating Douglas located at the public library in St. Michaels, approximately 10 miles away. http://www.frederickdouglassproject.org/siteplan.html Doc C |
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Doc C, Glad to see they want to honor Frederick Douglas. I was born and raised in Dorchester County in Maryland and I was suprised that there had never been a monument of Frederick Douglas or Harriet Tubman. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/20thMass |
Posted: Wed Nov 14th, 2007 04:57 pm |
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Actually there is a Fredrick Douglas statue in the county - in front of the new library in St. Michaels. In doing some additional investigation in regards to the proposed CH statue - 1) a request has not been made to place the statue in the CH, 2) apparently some of the individuals proposing the statue have ruffled (have no information as to how) some community leaders feathers 3) these same individuals have thus far not involved those in the county historical society which I have become greatly involved with since moving here 6 months ago. Another interesting aside on a related topic. We at the historical society are currently researching a slave uprising or "run" which occurred in the county. Doc C |
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At issue is a balloon-like bulge in the wall of the aorta, the blood vessel that runs like a river from the heart to the groin, with tributaries that branch off to carry blood around the body.
Those weak spots are fairly common where the aorta passes through the abdomen, especially in older people. Doctors diagnose about 200,000 abdominal aortic aneurysms, or "AAAs," each year, but suspect tens of thousands more people silently harbor one.
The pressure of pounding blood can burst open those aneurysms. AAAs kill 15,000 Americans annually.
For years, doctors could only replace the aorta's weak spot by sewing on a tough tubing, an arduous operation that required two months of recuperation.
But since 1999, doctors have repaired more and more AAAs with a far less invasive method: They thread a patch through a small incision up to the weak spot and wedge it into place. The patches are almost like a long sleeve, walling off the bulge with half the side effects and recovery time of open surgery.
Thousands of patients get those patches today with good results. But they're not perfect. They don't fit all aortas properly, meaning everyone's not a candidate.
Nor do doctors know how long they'll last compared to open surgery; studies are under way to try to tell. The Food and Drug Administration began issuing safety warnings in 2001 about deaths linked to patches that leaked or moved out of place, and by 2003 one troublesome model had been pulled off the market. And while the risks are small, recipients of all brands of so-called endovascular patches are supposed to get regular checks to make sure they're not working loose.
"We believe they work," stresses Dr. Irving Kron, the University of Virginia's surgery chairman and a spokesman for the American Heart Association.
But the questions mean that surgeons often reserve the patches for AAA patients who, because of age or other disease, aren't likely to live for many years. For a younger patient who doesn't have a textbook aneurysm, "why take the chance of having to redo something?" Kron says.
Yet just because younger patients can tolerate grueling surgery doesn't mean they should have to, says Deaton, a pioneer of less invasive patching. Hence the hunt for a next-generation patch - and that's where the tiny stapler comes in.
Deaton compares it to combining the best of open surgery and patching. He threads a patch up an artery in the groin to the AAA. Then he threads in the tiny staple, made by Aptus Endosystems. Instead of wedging the patch into place, he staples it into what he deems the healthiest remaining sections of the aorta.
"It goes all the way into the tissue," explains Deaton, saying that means it should be as stable long term as the sutures used during open surgery.
Deaton and a colleague from New York's Montefiore Medical Center traveled to Venezuela last year to perform the first AAA repairs using the tiny staple; the two patients are reported to be faring well.
The new U.S. trial will enroll patients at Georgetown in the nation's capital, as well as Emory University in Atlanta and the University of Pennsylvania. "Time will tell," cautioned the heart association's Kron, if the stapler really will make a difference.
Mooney, 70, said Deaton offered to repair his AAA with today's standard patches, but that the idea of a possibly more precise fit made him volunteer for the experiment.
"I'm delighted this is repaired, because you're living with a time bomb," said Mooney, who feels fine two months later.


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- An Interdisciplinary Student Teaching Innovation: A Health Science and Arts and Sciences Teaching Synergy , University of South Dakota Provost Teaching Innovation Fund
- IDeA Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence, NIH
- TRPGR - Integrating the BioExtract Server with the iPlant Collaborative, NSF, (2011 - 2014)
- Cyberinfrastructure for (Comparative) Plant Genome Research through PlantGDB, NSF, (2006 - 2011)
- Lushbough, C., Bouhlal, Y., Jennewein, D., Phylogenetic Analysis Workflow Using the BioExtract Server, BioComp'11.
- Lushbough, C., Bouhlal, Y., Jennewein, D., Anderson, B., Reynoldson, J., Maamouri, W., Hentati, F., Amouri, R., (2011), Computational analysis of a novel SACS gene mutation with BioExtract server, J Mol Neurosci, vol. 44, iss. 1, pp. 53-8.
- Lushbough, C., Jennewein, D., Brendel, V., (2011), The BioExtract Server: a web-based bioinfromatic workflow platform, Nucl. Acids Res, vol. 39, iss. W528-W532.
- Lushbough, C., Kelley, B., (2010), : Experimental Learning and Student Attitudes, Academic Exchange Quarterly , vol. 14, iss. 1, pp. 170-174.
- Lushbough, C., Brendel, V., (2010), An overview of the BioExtract Server: a distributed, Web-based system for genomic analysis, Springer, vol. 680, pp. 361-369.
- Lushbough, C., Bergman , M., Lawrence, C., Jennewein, D., Brendel, V., (2010), BioExtract server--an integrated workflow-enabling system to access and analyze heterogeneous, distributed biomolecular data. , IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform , vol. 7, iss. 1, pp. 12-24.
- Lushbough, C.
- Lushbough, C. (2013, January). The BioExtract Server: a Web Based Bioinformatic Workflow Platform. Presented at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXI, San Diego, CA.
- Lushbough, C. (2013, January). Bringing the Biologist Closer to Computational Thinking. Presented at the The National Science Foundation's National Plant Genome Initiative Workshop, San Diego, CA.
- Lushbough, C. (2010, April). Plenary Address: Lushbough, C., "BioExtract Server – a Web-based, Distributed System for Bioinformatic Workflow Analysis. Presented at the South Dakota Academy of Science 95th Annual Meeting, Spearfish South Dakota.


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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
How Many Pineapples??
I'm piecing.
Yes. I know there is laundry to do and bathrooms to clean and bookwork to catch up on.
But I'm piecing.
I have to. Or I promise I will go stark raving mad from withdrawal!!
Wherever I teach, I give the students the option...to double sew their bonus units into 1/2 square triangle squares to be used in a future project, or to cut them off and donate them to me if they wish. These little corners trimmed from 2.5" squares sewn on the diagonal are the PERFECT size for all these little 5" pineapple blocks I've been working on and off with for the past couple of months.
It is so fun to sew with the scraps that have been gifted to me by students! Most of these are fabrics I don't have in my own stash, so that makes it extra fun.
I've also got this drawer where I throw little snippets of stuff that are too precious to toss out. Paper piecing projects are perfect for these because you don't have to iron them and rotary cut them to some specific size before you can sew them into something. As long as the pieces are big enough to cover where they need to go on the paper, they are PERFECT!
You know, some projects are just not a race? Some projects just don't need a deadline,but are there for the pure pleasure of piecing them! This is one of those projects.
I don't know how many I'll make...I don't know how big the quilt will be or whether it will have borders or not. I'm just making them in between everything else until that little voice inside my head says STOP!
Chloe, as you can see, is supervising...in her own little stand offish way. She loves the back of this chair, which happens to be strewn with batting and backing for a little mini top just waiting to be machine basted so I can hand quilt it while on the road. I guess she wants me to take a part of her with me everywhere I go,which is pretty unavoidable anyway considering her furry purry bulk :c)
I even had a nap today....so I might be pineapple-ing to the wee small hours, and that's just fine with me.
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Bonnie you keep giving me so many ideas of things to make with my scraps. I had not thought to make such small squares like pineapple blocks with all my scraps. I think I need to get out some paper and start with the copier and keep a stack on hand and set up the sewing machine even if I only get to it a little each day.
http://karensquilting.com/blog/I love pineapples too. I see you have three light corners and one dark corners. What is the plan????
I have started two scrap plastic bins. One has the cut offs from bindings and the other has the bonus triangles. I have labels on them and they are filling slow but sure.
"You know, some projects are just not a race? Some projects just don't need a deadline,but are there for the pure pleasure of piecing them! This is one of those projects."
I so totally agree with your statement.
I too feel like I experience withdrawal when you are gone. I keep checking for a post...go to your calendar...then pray for safe travel for you.
XOXOXO SubeeDo you have the paper piece some where? Did you get it from a book or is it online? I've always wanted to make these, but they are way far back on my list of things to do. Maybe I need to move them up. :)
Moo Moo says "meowww and a hey baby" to Chloe. I saw him wink at her too. He's a winker, for sure.Beautiful scrappy pineapple blocks!
I was thinking about pineapples being a symbol of "welcome" in many cultures and how you are so welcoming and friendly, and spread your "quilty welcome" all over the country (now I have to say continent, since you've just been up here to Canada!) And your welcoming pineapples are made with fabric gifts from quilters you've met in places you've travelled to...isn't that so cool!?!?
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4.09 Student Employees
- Appointments to Classified Titles
Students appointed to positions not requiring enrollment as a student as a condition of employment should be appointed to the appropriate classified titles published in the current Classified Pay Plan. Students appointed in classified titles for 50 percent time or greater and four and one-half months or longer are considered regular employees and are subject to Teacher Retirement System, vacation, sick leave and holiday policies and are entitled to all other benefits received by classified employees. - Nonclassified Student Titles
The following student titles utilized at UTSA require enrollment as a student. However, during Christmas Break, Spring Break, and Summer Break students appointed to the following job titles can work a maximum of 40 hours per week (even if not enrolled in classes), only if the student is or will be enrolled in classes during the Spring or Fall semester.
- Tutor
- Student Intern
- Student Assistant II (Graduate Work Study)
- Student Assistant I (Undergraduate Work Study)
- Student Reader/Grader II (Graduate)
- Student Reader/Grader I (Undergraduate)
- Undergraduate Research Assistant
Students appointed to the following job titles require enrollment as a student without exception:- Teaching Assistant II (18 hours toward a Master's Degree)
- Teaching Assistant I (Bachelor's Degree)
- Graduate Assistant
- Graduate Research Assistant
- Assistant Instructor
- Appointment
- Pay Structure
- Benefits
- Resident Tuition Rates
- Qualifications and Limitations for Nonclassified Student Employee Titles
Certification by the director of admissions and registrar of the student enrollment status is required for a nonclassified student employee titles. The Certification of Student Status Form must be submitted to the employing department before requesting the appropriate administrator to approve an electronic appointing PAF. Student employees are required to be in good academic standing. - Student assistants' (work study students) work hours are limited to no more than an average of 19 hours per week over a four and one-half month period of time. Student assistants must be enrolled at least six hours and provide verification of award of financial aid to the employing department prior to approval of the appointing PAF. Paperwork and appointments are handled by the Office of Student Financial Aid.
- Tutors and student reader/graders' work hours are limited to no more than an average of 19 hours per week over a four and one-half month period of time. They are paid on an hourly basis. Students with these titles must be enrolled.
- Graduate research assistants and undergraduate research assistants are limited to total employment of 20 hours per week. Appointments for fewer than 20 hours per week should be on an hourly basis. Enrollment for at least six hours for each long session and a total of three hours during the summer sessions is required for the title of graduate research assistant. Enrollment for at least nine hours for each long session and a total of six hours during the summer sessions is required for the title of undergraduate research assistant. The primary duty for the graduate research assistant and the undergraduate research assistant is to assist faculty members or research staff on assigned research projects.
- Student interns paid by UTSA are limited to total employment of no more than 20 hours per week. Student interns must be earning academic credit for their appointments, which must be approved and coordinated by the appropriate academic unit. A student intern must be enrolled in an approved internship course to qualify for this position. An approved internship course form should be forwarded to the employing department prior to the creation of the electronic appointing PAF.
- Graduate assistants are limited to total employment of 20 hours per week and may be paid on an hourly or monthly basis. Enrollment for at least six hours for each long session and a total of three hours for summer sessions is required for this title. The primary duty of a graduate assistant is to assist with faculty or administration on assigned projects not directly related to research. This title does not qualify the student employee for resident (in-state) tuition.
- Teaching assistants are auxiliary members of the instructional staff at UTSA and are employed in that capacity to meet instructional needs of the university at the undergraduate level. They are limited to total employment of 20 hours per week. Concurrent appointments for teaching assistants are discouraged. However, with the advance approval of the department chair, the dean of the college and the dean of Graduate Studies, a student employee may concurrently hold more than one appointment so long as the total percent time does not exceed 50 percent time or 20 hours per week. Enrollment of at least six hours for each long session or a total of three hours during the summer session in which they teach is required for the title of teaching assistant. Teaching assistants are paid on a salaried basis regardless of the number of hours appointed each week. The primary duty of a teaching assistant is to provide instructional service. All duties performed by a teaching assistant shall be under the supervision and direction of designated regular faculty. Teaching assistants are subject to the Regents' Rules and Regulations, the UTSA Handbook of Operating Procedures, and the college in which they hold employment. Appointment procedures and qualifications are outlined in the Faculty Appointment Manual maintained by the Office of the Provost.
- Assistant instructors are graduate students who have been admitted unconditionally to doctoral candidacy, must have completed all the doctoral degree course work except the dissertation, and are registered for dissertation courses. Graduate students who meet this criteria may be appointed as assistant instructors. The percentage of time devoted to instruction is determined by the department chair in consultation with the dissertation advisor. The primary duty of an assistant instructor is to provide instructional service. All duties performed by an assistant instructor shall be under the supervision and direction of designated regular faculty. Assistant instructors are subject to the Regents' Rules and Regulations, the UTSA Handbook of Operating Procedures, and the college in which they hold employment. Appointment procedures and qualifications are outlined in the Faculty Appointment Manual maintained by the Office of the Provost.
- Selection of Nonclassified Student Employees
Selection of all student employees must be in conformity with UTSA's Affirmative Action policies. Each department or unit employing students is responsible for ensuring that all recruitment and employment activities are free of discrimination.
An electronic Personnel Action Form (PAF) must be used to appoint all nonclassified student employees. All nonclassified student employees must be paid within the established salary range for the title. Concurrent appointments are allowed with all positions if the student employee's total appointment does not exceed workload limitations stipulated herein.
Each dean or vice president is responsible for establishing and maintaining their respective nonclassified student pay structure. Although latitude is permitted within the established salary range, payment within the upper end of the range should be reserved for those with more extensive education and experience. These pay structures must be approved by Human Resources prior to implementation and should be updated annually.
All nonclassified student employee positions appointed for 20 hours per week and for four and one-half months or longer will be eligible for premium sharing and employee group insurance coverage. Such employees are not eligible for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or retirement.
The Texas Education Code, section 54.063, states that students employed as teaching or research assistants at least one-half time by any public institution of higher education in a degree program-related position with an effective date of employment on or before the official census date of the relevant term(s), may pay the same tuition while attending the employing institution as a resident of Texas for themselves, their spouses, and their dependent children, regardless of the length of residence in the state. The institution which employs the students shall determine whether the students' jobs relate to their degree programs.
The terms "teaching assistant" and "research assistant," as used in this section, are not intended as titles of positions that determine the entitlement of nonresident student employees to a waiver of nonresident tuition at institutions of higher education but are intended to describe the academic positions of the student employees who are entitled to such a waiver under Chapter 54, section 54.063, Texas Education Code.


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Thanks Elizabeth for your response, i've also had the same problem as many...i hit rank 40 during the leap year bug but didn't know it until a few days afterwards, as a result the "Choose The Impossible" trophy never unlocked & i only needed that for Platinum!
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
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Got to know about this forum through Jason Cohen blog. I actually just sent a similar email to Jason as well.
I have a bit of an issue that is proving to be very challenging and I thought of asking in here to see if I can get some insights.
I own a small software company the develops and sells consumer and professional backup software. I won't mention the name here as I don't want this post to seem like an advertising post. I would mention however if the mods are ok with it.
So .. my challenge.
I have an issue right now where I invest money in banner ads on reputable sites ( i don't believe that there is any click-fraud) and I am only getting 15% that download the product to actually install. I have a relatively good tracking system that can track most of these.
As an example - if I get 100 downloads then I only get 15% of those downloads that actually install.
I also created a funnel for a particular campaign I ran - I am attaching it to this post.
Actually being new I'm not allowed to post images so here goes:
A 100,000 Banner Ad Campaign (Banner delivered 4.5% CTR)
Landing Page Visitors > 4574
17% of Landing Page Visitors clicked download button (781)
15% that clicked download button actually installed (114)
39% that installed actually configured the product (3 step configuration wizard)
37% are still reported to be running after 7 days
Actual Sales - 3 Units!
My question is: Is this type of conversion rate 'normal'? I find it hard to understand how-come so many people decide to download but then do not even try to install the product.
We don't have any reports from customers of having installation problems (we track installs by automatically opening a getting started page once the product installs successfully).
I am destroying myself thinking about this stuff .. I would love some insights if possible.


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Observations and results
Were you able to see the curds when the hot milk and vinegar were mixed together, and could you scoop out the curds to make casein plastic?
After you add the hot milk to the vinegar, small, white chunks—or curds—should become visible in the mixture. This is because adding an acid (such as vinegar) to the milk changes the latter's pH (acidity) and makes the casein molecules unfold and reorganize into a long chain, thereby curdling the milk. You should be able to use a spoon to separate the curds from most of the liquid. Additional drying of the curds with the paper towels should make the curds ready to knead into a ball and use as casein plastic, which can be molded and decorated.
More to explore
Polymer Basics from Polymer Science Learning Center, Department of Polymer Science, the University of Southern Mississippi
Casein from Plastics Historical Society
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J.P. Morgan faces six separate investigations from the U.S. Justice Department, according to the filing, three of which hadn't previously been disclosed.
The bank also said in the same filing that it is responding to questions from an antibribery unit of the Securities and Exchange Commission about its hiring practices in Hong Kong. The agency asked the bank to provide information about J.P. Morgan's "business relationships with certain clients," according to the filing. The New York Times NYT +1.04% New York Times Co. Cl A U.S.: NYSE $13.55 +0.14 +1.04% Dec. 12, 2013 4:03 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 517,412 AFTER HOURS $13.47 -0.08 -0.59% Dec. 12, 2013 4:36 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): P/E Ratio 17.14 Market Cap $2.01 Billion Dividend Yield 1.18% Rev. per Employee $352,201 More quote details and news » reported Saturday that the SEC was specifically looking into the bank's hiring of Chinese officials' children and how those hires may have helped the U.S. bank win business.
The bank is "fully cooperating with regulators," a spokeswoman said, referring to the SEC investigation. The company declined further comment about its larger regulatory issues. A spokeswoman for the SEC declined to comment.
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The newly disclosed problems open up a another set of challenges for J.P. Morgan and its chief executive officer, James Dimon, as the bank tries to move past the 2012 "London whale" trading fiasco that raised larger questions about oversight at a company that emerged from the financial crisis with a reputation as Wall Street's best risk manager. It already is operating under four enforcement actions requiring fixes to various risk-management and anti-money-laundering controls, more than any other big bank, with more expected. Hundreds of employees have been redeployed within the bank to deal with the mounting requests.
Privately, bank officials say they are erring on the side of caution and disclosing inquiries they might not have revealed before. The SEC inquiry, for example, was a voluntary request for information as opposed to a more serious subpoena, said a person close to the bank. Still, bank executives acknowledge it will take years to address all its problems and regain the trust of regulators.
The heightened scrutiny from U.S. overseers is emerging as the toughest challenge for Mr. Dimon since he became CEO in 2005.
The 57-year-old bank boss anticipated the intense scrutiny from Washington, D.C., when the bank revealed billions in losses last year from a series of botched trades, said a person familiar with Mr. Dimon's thinking. Inside the bank he has identified compliance as the bank's top priority, while putting new projects on hold so his team could focus on the many problems. One person close to him close to him said he has been intensely focused on these issues from the start, and has been vocal and energetic about fixing problems.
But some current and former executives say it took Mr. Dimon too long to shed a combative stance with regulators and devote meaningful resources to the compliance effort. In April the bank's two top regulators told Mr. Dimon and his board that they had lost trust in management, said people familiar with the meeting.
The internal effort to deal with a litany of problems ramped up late last year. The bank added a new companywide Oversight & Control Group that now supervises more than 20 initiatives designed to improve J.P. Morgan's internal controls. J.P. Morgan Chief Operating Officer Matt Zames is overseeing the effort. Frank Bisignano, a longtime lieutenant of Mr. Dimon, had been helping Mr. Zames with the effort, but Mr. Bisignano left the bank in April to become chief executive of Atlanta processing firm First Data Corp.
"We are approaching this entire effort with the same level of rigor and discipline we bring to everything we do, from major mergers to large-scale re-engineering programs," Mr. Dimon said earlier this year in a letter to shareholders.
What is likely to drag out the pain for J.P. Morgan is that regulators and government investigators are still working through a backlog of cases focused on banks' activities during the housing downturn and financial crisis. The bank said earlier this month that the Justice Department has reached a preliminary conclusion that civil securities laws were broken while J.P. Morgan sold mortgage-backed securities from 2005 to 2007. The Justice Department also is conducting a criminal investigation into the matter.
The Justice Department, the SEC and the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program also have asked the bank for information surrounding a review of "communications with counter parties in connection with certain mortgage-backed securities transactions."
One other new headache revealed by J.P. Morgan in its recent filing is an investigation by federal regulators and attorneys into its compliance with specific rules concerning the origination of mortgages that it had insured by the Federal Housing Administration, a government mortgage program. Similar action already has been taken against rivals Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of America, and Citigroup Inc. C +0.39% Citigroup Inc. U.S.: NYSE $50.91 +0.20 +0.39% Dec. 12, 2013 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25.03M AFTER HOURS $50.90 -0.01 -0.02% Dec. 12, 2013 7:51 pm Volume (Delayed 15m): P/E Ratio 12.74 Market Cap $153.80 Billion Dividend Yield 0.08% Rev. per Employee $368,734 12/11/13 3-D Printing Stocks Catch Wall... 12/06/13 Los Angeles Sues Wells, Citigr... 12/05/13 Citibank Website Down for Seve... More quote details and news » Wells is contesting the government's claims in court, while Bank of America and Citigroup have reached settlements.
Other banks that have disclosed investigations recently include U.S. Bank, SunTrust Banks Inc., and PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
The FHA has stepped up enforcement actions over the past two years as rising losses have threatened to wipe out its reserves. The Obama administration in April forecast a potential loss of less than $1 billion for the FHA this year.
—Nick Timiraos and Jean Eaglesham contributed to this article.
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Schools in both the Cleveland City and Bradley County School systems are asking for fees to supplement individual school budgets.
Bradley County Director of Schools Johnny McDaniel said school fees are requested to cover the needed supplies a school system's budget cannot cover.
"Even things people would probably think comes from central office, it does not," McDaniel said.
While each county school is given some supplies at the beginning of the year, any additional items are paid for by the individual school's operating budget, the county director explained.
McDaniel said it would be "a great world," if schools did not have to ask for fees, but that is not the reality for any school system.
Additional funding is needed, but the school system cannot limit a student's participation in a class due to a family's inability to pay fees.
"All fees are requested. If you don't pay, it does not mean you cannot participate, it just means it is absorbed. No child is going to be told no," said Doug Moore, Cleveland City Schools public relations director.
"We ask. We do not require. That is the state rule," McDaniel said.
A state attorney general's opinion four years ago determined school fees could not be required.
Moore said the city school system does not ask students on the free and reduced lunch program to pay voluntary fees.
"Our percentage of students with free and reduced lunches is 60 percent," Moore said.
Fees associated with extracurricular activities, such as clubs and athletics, may be mandatory. These fees are often covered through fundraising efforts.
A general fee for students in Bradley County high schools is $30. Moore said the general fee, also known as the "activities fee," is $25 for city schools.
This fee offsets the cost of necessary items, like printer paper. Moore, who served as principal at E.L. Ross Elementary for 10 years, said printer paper is a major cost for schools. Money received from general fees often goes toward providing that supply and classroom materials for teachers.
"I buy a certain amount of copy paper and give it to the schools. Whatever they use beyond that, they have to fund it somehow," McDaniel said.
Costs associated with field trips during regular school hours are also considered a voluntary fee by the state.
"If you are doing a field trip during school time, then no child has to pay for a field trip," Moore said. "The middle school used to take a huge trip to (Washington), D.C. They would go on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the weekend. It was about $700 to $800 per student and it was a great trip."
According to Moore, the trip was cut due to an increasing number of students who could not foot the bill. The school was unable to supplement the overwhelming costs of so many students.
Revenues from class-specific fees are used to cover materials needed for the particular course. Principals approve all school fees within both systems.
One example of a class-specific fee is the $5 math fee requested at Cleveland High School to cover the cost of batteries for calculators, Moore said.
At Walker Valley High School, fees for freshman classes range from $5 to $20.
Department heads at each school determine most course-specific fees in Bradley County high schools.
The number of students served in a class cannot be limited by students' inability to pay. These costs are absorbed into the schools' budgets. However, limited school budgets may necessitate changes to the course if the school does not have enough funding to cover the supplies.


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Politics in the B.C. Legislature has become toxic. That has been perhaps Christy Clark's most astute observation since becoming premier at her party's behest a year and a half ago.
But it's long past time that Premier Clark took that observation one step further, and tried to search out the source of the toxicity that has been putrefying the legislative environment in Victoria. We're pretty sure that she would find it close to home.
An in-depth report in yesterday's Province newspaper details the source of only one of the toxic spills that have been fouling B.C.'s democratic process - a source that Premier Clark can find in her own mirror.
It turns out that one of the BC Liberals' own special versions of political toxicity, an attack website aimed at NDP leader Adrian Dix, has been funded at least in part from provincial coffers - which makes it a particularly smelly brand of toxicity.
Of course, Premier Clark might not approve - at least, no specific approval has been traced back to her.
The taxpayer-payrolled people involved earned a verbal warning. and that's it.
In what appears to have become standard political protocol in B.C. - and federally, too, for that matter - there have been no serious repercussions for a serious breach of the public trust. The cantafforddix.ca website scandal is just a natural extension of tax-funded advertising whose clear aim is really to promote the governing party.
The sad fact is that this sort manipulation of democratic principles has become so ubiquitous, that the general public expects the same sort of behaviour after the provincial election in May - regardless of whether or not the anti-Dix toxicity is successful in changing the currently anticipated outcome. We've come to expect it from all politicians.
And Premier Clark's edict shutting down that "toxic" legislature in Victoria for nearly a year means pertinent questions won't be asked, and that only makes it all the more difficult to clean up the spill.
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When you use find-in-files and do NOT specify that results go to edit window, the results come to a new window at the bottom of the editor frame. However, the tab stop value in this new window reverts to a value like 8 even though I have tab stop set to 2.
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At its regular meeting on Dec. 9, the Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioners approved a motion to impose a moratorium on permitting private construction and demolition (C&D) landfills pending adequate financial assurance for closure. Prior to the commissioners approving the motion without objective, there were discussions about the details of the moratorium.
Commissioner Bob Cole suggested a provision to account for new technology be included in the permitting process, which was discussed. County Engineer Roger Blaylock noted that new landfills must also be approved by the state, which would impose the latest requirements of the Department of Environmental Protection.
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By Amy Bickel - The Hutchinson News - firstname.lastname@example.com
COVERT - The old barn, in need of a coat of paint, still stands, situated by a field of turning milo - the site where Fred Kaser pulled the trigger the eve before he was to go on trial.Stones in a graveyard just down the way mark the graves of his brother, Albert, his wife, Nellie, and their six children - 2-year-old Katie, the youngest, buried in her mother's arms.
But just what happened the night of May 31, 1928 that left a family of eight dead and caused the main suspect to kill himself stays a dark family secret - ghosts of a past that are fading away with this Kansas ghost town.
Mona Kennedy reminisces of the tale as she walks the weed-covered streets of Covert. The once manicured lawns are overgrown with grass and trees - mixed in with a few dilapidated structures. The murder story is nearly 85 years old - happening long before Osborne County became a hodgepodge of vanishing villages, before paved highways and Wal-Mart.
"It's a family tragedy," she said of the murders that remain unsolved today.
The trees are turning too early, Kennedy notes as she takes the gravel road 13 miles north from the small Russell County town of Waldo toward the ghost town of Covert.
The blue hills of Osborne County have suffered amid the drought. Yet rain not in the forecast until the next day made it a perfect outing to venture through Covert's abandoned streets, she said.
The history of Covert - the town where she grew up - has been the 76-year-old's quest for the past four years. And the Kaser murder story is just one of many detailed in her new book called "Covert, Kansas: An Evolution of a Ghost Town."
Kennedy, who lives in Luray, has written two historical books already, one about her life growing up on Covert Creek and another on the ghost community of Grande Centre. But it was a trip to the dead town with her grandson that led her to write the book.
"He asked how Covert got to be a ghost town and it kind of stumped me," she said. "So, I decided to write a book."
Covert's history starts in the 1864 when a man named James Covert and companion E.V. Carr were on a buffalo hunt and Indians attacked their creek-side camp. Covert was shot and Carr escaped. Thus, they named the little tributary Covert Creek, said Von Rothenberger, an Osborne County promoter and historian who is publishing the book through his company, Ad Astra Publishing.
In 1873, a log cabin post office began near the future town site about 15 miles southwest of Osborne.
Around 1880, James and Mary Bradshaw came to the area. They built a stone house, then Bradshaw decided to plat a town. He called it Covert after the nearby creek, Rothenberger said.
The town soon began to grow. Among the establishments was a hotel, a blacksmith, general stores, a bank and two churches.
It was around 11 p.m. the night of May 31, 1928, when H. A. Moore and Ray Cronk - returning home to Covert from Osborne - noticed a blaze of orange coming from the Albert Kaser farm. The mass of flames had engulfed the residence and the two began to notify residents in town. A call was sent out on rural telephone line that summoned the entire neighborhood.
Past a point the fire could be controlled, residents watched the fire eventually burn out. They then sifted through the ruins, finding the body of Albert near the front door of the home. His wife, Nellie Kaser, 30, along with their children, Raymond, 12; Alberta, 10; Iona, 8; Margarete, 6; Alvin, 4; and Katie Lee, 2, were all in what remained of their beds.
Someone found empty revolver shells outside the house, but no significance was attached to the discovery. They took the bodies to brother Fred Kaser's home to examine. Nevertheless, murder wasn't immediate on the minds of residents. They buried the family, blaming the horrific deaths to the tragic fire presumably caused from an oil stove that the family left burning, which caused fumes that overcame the family before the house caught fire.
Rumors, however, began to spread soon after the funerals that the deaths were the result of more than a fire.
By 1910, Covert had a population of 75 people, according to the census. In 1916, a high school was built and eventually an elementary school.
The school was too tiny for most sports, but like many rural Kansas schools, it centered on basketball.
For several years, Covert produced successful basketball teams, including girls' teams. However, in the fall of 1925, the school board decided it couldn't afford to pay anyone to coach the boys team the upcoming season.
Senior John Locke approached the board with a request to coach the team, Rothenberger said.
Thus, that fall, Locke became player and coach. His coaching talent and basketball skills led to the school's only appearance in the Class B State Tournament in Topeka.
They lost in the first round, but Locke had found his calling. He graduated from Fort Hays State University and returned to his alma mater of Covert, leading the school's high school teams to 135 wins and only 18 loses between 1933 to 1944.
From there, Locke moved to Natoma then eventually Stockton before returning to Natoma. He coached both boys and girls basketball games at all three schools.
All total, Locke won 732 games and tabulated just 203 losses, won 14 substate titles and three state championships, according to the Kansas High School Sports Hall of Fame.
Up until a few years ago, he had the most wins of any Kansas high school coach and remains the winningest high school boys basketball coach in the state, Rothenberger said.
Locke died in 1990 and was inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.
Scholars, however, know Covert for its meteorites. Discoveries near town helped pave the way to modern meteorite exploration, Rothenberger said.
In 1923, a McPherson College professor named Harvey Nininger watched a meteor streak across the sky, according to the Meteorite Times. Nininger began a quest to hunt down the fallen meteorite. For several years, he talked to newspapers, interviewed eyewitnesses.
While talking at a school in Paradise, in Russell County, a boy slipped out and returned with a large stone, Rothenberger said.
"He asked him if this was what he was looking for," he said.
Other stones were discovered in the area, as well, Rothenberger said, including one that had been used as a doorstop. Residents first discovered meteorites in the area as early as 1896.
Rothenberger said he bought his own small square of Covert meteorite for $200 a few years ago. A piece currently is selling on eBay for $1,200.
However, despite being on the map for basketball and meteorites, it was the story of the Kaser family murders that fascinate Rothenberger and Kennedy.
The town gossip continued that the family buried just weeks before had been murdered. Some residents said they had witnessed a quarrel between the Albert and Fred just a few weeks before in the Covert general store.
The state fire marshal got involved and the bodies were exhumed. Albert Kaser was shot in the chest, his wife in the abdomen. The children had not been shot. Law enforcement found Fred had a gun that used bullets similar to those found in the bodies.
Evidence was circumstantial, but they put the bullets in the Covert bank vault and Fred was arrested for the murders nearly a month after the incident. Officials planned to bring him to trial.
Fred's father, David, posted his bond.
Covert peaked for about a 20-year period then, like many rural Kansas towns, began a slow decline.
"I think it never stood a chance," Kennedy said. "It didn't' have a railroad. It didn't have a paved highway. The main economy was agriculture and that couldn't sustain business."
The last prospect for the railroad was in 1916 when the Salina Northern Railroad said it was going to put a track through town, Rothenberger said. It never materialized.
The high school burned twice, first in 1923 then again in 1951, when Kennedy was a sophomore. The small school water tower, which stored water pumped from a nearby windmill nearly two blocks away, was the town's only water source besides individual wells. The school's tower wasn't big enough to fight the fire.
The elementary school closed about a decade later - not many years after the general store closed, Kennedy said the Roe family, who ran the store, said suppliers would no longer travel the dirt roads into town.
The final postmark from the post office shows it closing in 1966, Kennedy said.
Hundreds packed the tiny Osborne County courtroom to hear Fred's preliminary hearings in August 1928. Throughout the hearings, Fred maintained his innocence.
"I've never seen a guilty man who talked so straight," the judge later said in a story published in The News. "He looked me straight in the eyes and said he was innocent. I did not want to him to talk with me about the case, but he insisted on it."
His trial date was set for Oct. 24, 1928.
Within a few weeks of the trial, Fred's attorney quit because Fred's father, a well-to-do farmer, refused to bear the expense of the case. Maybe Fred had taken everything to heart as he wrote a last note to his wife and five children and to his father.
Dear Wife and Children: I love you with all my heart, but this is more of a burden than I can stand, when I never had nothing to do with it. But forget me and enjoy life...- Dear Father, will you please give my share of the money to Vera (Kaser's wife) to keep the children with. You would not help me, but please help them. Your son, Fred Kaser.... I am in the barn, call help before you come to the barn.
The front pages of The Hutchinson News chronicled the murders from June 1 to Oct. 24, 1928. The headlines told the story, as well - ENTIRE FAMILY BURNED AS FIRE DESTROYS HOME; DEATH OF EIGHT MAY HAVE BEEN MURDER; and finally MURDER CASE TOO MUCH FOR YOUNG FARMER.
"It even made the New York Times," Rothenberger said.
The events didn't leave the minds of residents here for quite some time. Kennedy, who was born eight years after the murders, recalls the stories, even her relatives gesturing to her the location of Albert Kaser's burned farmstead.
For many, however, the incident wasn't discussed publicly, she said.
"It's still sensitive," Kennedy said.
Rothenberger, however, sees promise in the town as a tourist attraction. People love ghost town history, he said, Covert is perfect with its unsolved murder still lingering, along with the basketball and meteorite past. Now, with Kennedy's book on Covert's history being released in the next week, more visitors could soon travel the dirt roads to Covert.
An organized effort several years ago started the process, which included putting up street signs and moving the old log cabin post office that had been on display at Waldo back to the town site. Restoration began to save it, although more work needs completed.
"Communities don't know what they have," he said of the old towns that dot the prairie.
Covert already is drawing visitors. Don and Dayana Patterson traveled from New Mexico to research Don's family history. That included a stop in Covert where a relative once lived.
"It must have been a wonderful place to live at one time," Dayana Patterson said after walking Covert's former streets.
There are remains of grade school, including the stairs that once ushered students inside. Today, they lead to a hole in the ground filled with rubble from the building falling in. What remains of the playground - a merry-go-round - sits rusting about 20 yards away.
Foundations of old houses and businesses can still be seen. The gas-topped gas pumps to the Roe store is among a pile of dirt and rubble. Chunks of sidewalk leading to the high school still exist for those who know where to look.
The white water tower at the high school still stands. Then there is the cemetery with the eight stones marking the Kaser family. Fred and his wife, Vera, have a grave located not far away.
Kennedy won't speculate publicly what she thinks happened - her book is filled with accounts taken from newspapers regarding the murders. One newspaper account talked of the father favoring the older son, Albert, over his younger son, but Rothenberger questions if it was motive enough to commit a crime.
"Someday the story will be told," Kennedy said with a smile.
Reporter Amy Bickel is chronicling the "Dead Towns" of Kansas. If you have a suggestion for a town Amy should research, email her at abickel@hutchnews .com. For more information on Covert, visit her blog at www.hutchnews.com/deadtowns.
Mona Winder Kennedy's book new book "Covert, Kansas: An Evolution of a Ghost Town" is available for $25. To order the book, visit www.adastrallc.com/whatsnew.html or call (785) 525-7784.