Letter from D. S. Myer to Senator Langer Regarding Demands by James Black Dog et al. for an Audit of All Tribal Moneys Collected and Expended since 1910, March 5, 1952

This letter, dated March 5, 1952, from D. S. Myer, Commissioner of the United States (US) Bureau of Indian Affairs to US Senator William Langer, makes reference to Langer\u27s letter of February 14 describing a resolution shown to Langer by James Black Dog of Elbowoods, North Dakota demanding an audit of all tribal funds collected and expended by the Three Affiliated Tribes since 1910. Myer explains that prior to June 29, 1936 authority to administer funds was vested in the US Department of the Interior, and since then the Constitution and bylaws of the Three Affiliated Tribes have provided for annual audits and the maintenance of accurate and complete public accounts of the affairs of the tribes, (emphasis in original) including credits, debts, debits and assignments, as well as an annual report and balance sheet submitted to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Myer writes that, given the exiting audits and documentation, an audit by the US Department of the Interior should not be necessary. Myer goes on to address Black Dog\u27s request for information regarding interest earned on the monies paid to the tribe in return for lands taken in connection with the construction of the Garrison Dam, explaining the interest rates and policies regarding the use of principal and interest, before enumerating the efforts made by the Tribal Council and Bureau of Indian Affairs to keep tribal members informed on the particulars related to tribal funds in general and funds related to the compensation for damages associated with Garrison Dam in particular.https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/1462/thumbnail.jp

A study of the selection and the training of restaurant workers in Boston, Massachusetts

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The Flip Side: An Investigation into the Depersonalization of Communication

The author investigated the depersonalization of student communication in grades six through twelve. The Flip Side Survey was run to focus in on whether or not the use of instant message programs and text messages via cellular telephones is depersonalizing communication between 6th through 12th grade students (N=213). Depersonalization was broken down in to five constructs: empathy, compassion, conversational cue usage, personal communication skills, and consequence recognition. Each construct was measured in relationship to face-to-face communication and each question was repeated in relationship to text message and instant message communication. The results showed little evidence to support the depersonalization of communication due to the use of text/instant messaging

Perfect State Transfer in Laplacian Quantum Walk

For a graph $G$ and a related symmetric matrix $M$, the continuous-time quantum walk on $G$ relative to $M$ is defined as the unitary matrix $U(t) = \exp(-itM)$, where $t$ varies over the reals. Perfect state transfer occurs between vertices $u$ and $v$ at time $\tau$ if the $(u,v)$-entry of $U(\tau)$ has unit magnitude. This paper studies quantum walks relative to graph Laplacians. Some main observations include the following closure properties for perfect state transfer: (1) If a $n$-vertex graph has perfect state transfer at time $\tau$ relative to the Laplacian, then so does its complement if $n\tau$ is an integer multiple of $2\pi$. As a corollary, the double cone over any $m$-vertex graph has perfect state transfer relative to the Laplacian if and only if $m \equiv 2 \pmod{4}$. This was previously known for a double cone over a clique (S. Bose, A. Casaccino, S. Mancini, S. Severini, Int. J. Quant. Inf., 7:11, 2009). (2) If a graph $G$ has perfect state transfer at time $\tau$ relative to the normalized Laplacian, then so does the weak product $G \times H$ if for any normalized Laplacian eigenvalues $\lambda$ of $G$ and $\mu$ of $H$, we have $\mu(\lambda-1)\tau$ is an integer multiple of $2\pi$. As a corollary, a weak product of $P_{3}$ with an even clique or an odd cube has perfect state transfer relative to the normalized Laplacian. It was known earlier that a weak product of a circulant with odd integer eigenvalues and an even cube or a Cartesian power of $P_{3}$ has perfect state transfer relative to the adjacency matrix. As for negative results, no path with four vertices or more has antipodal perfect state transfer relative to the normalized Laplacian. This almost matches the state of affairs under the adjacency matrix (C. Godsil, Discrete Math., 312:1, 2011).Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl

Frio Brine Pilot: lessons learned and questions restated

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