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Tornado touches down in Joplin, Missouri
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A tornado touched down yesterday in Joplin, Missouri, causing widespread damage. At least 89 were killed.
The path of the tornado was reported to be from one half to three quarters of a mile wide. City spokeswoman Lynn Onstot estimated the path to be nearly four miles long; Jasper County emergency management director Keith Stammer put its length around six miles.
You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That's really what it looked like.
—Kerry Sachetta, principal of Joplin High School
Witnesses described entire blocks of buildings destroyed. Steve Runnels of the National Weather Service said "We have reports of significant structural damage to strong buildings. Automobiles have been flipped, bark was stripped off trees."
Among the properties damaged was a local hospital, St. John's Regional Medical Center. Some patients were hurt, and all were evacuated to other regional hospitals. The local high school, Joplin High School, was also hit. Describing the damage, its principal, Kerry Sachetta, said "You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all that with the bombing. That's really what it looked like. I couldn't even make out the side of the building."
Joplin has a population of about 50,000.
President Barack Obama has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support state and local efforts in response and recovery. He issued a statement with condolences to the families of victims.
Richard Esposito, Leezel Tanglao, Keven Dolak. "Tornadoes Rip Across Midwest; 89 Dead in Joplin, Mo." — ABC News, May 23, 2011
Kevin Murphy, Reuters. "Tornado kills at least 30 in Joplin, Missouri" — Chicago Tribune, May 23, 2011
Kurt Voigt, Associated Press. "Missouri Officials Fear Tornado Killed at Least 24" — ABC news, May 23, 2011
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Arkansas Foster Parents of the Year Recognized
The Arkansas Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) celebrated and honored its foster parents of the year on Friday at a banquet at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.
As part of that celebration, the agency named Ashley and David Daniel of Rogers as its 2019 Statewide Foster Parents of the Year.
DCFS Director Mischa Martin said the Daniel family was selected primarily because they fully support the value that all kids deserve a safe, stable, and nurturing home every day and they work closely with the biological families of the children in their care.
"Ashley and David are amazing foster parents and pour all their energy into their children," said Martin. "In addition to their commitment to helping safely return foster children to their families, the Daniels have made a name for themselves through their ability and willingness to be ambassadors and powerful voices for foster parenting."
Ashley and David were humbled by the award but proud to accept it on behalf of the dozens of children and families that have touched their lives over the past four years they have been foster parents. "Our intent since we began fostering was to work alongside the biological parents and to support them in any way we could," said Ashley. "That's been our number one priority as a foster family…making sure they remember what they're fighting for."
David agreed, noting that they even re-introduced members of their adopted son's family back into his life and theirs after the adoption. "It was important to him and it was important to us. The more people who love him, the better," Ashley commented.
David added, "Sometimes, all these kids need is structure, support, and someone to say, 'I'm here for you.'"
One winner from each area of the state as well as the overall winner were chosen by DHS/DCFS staff based on several criteria, including reunification efforts with biological families, partnership with the agency, support for other foster parents, and advocacy for the children in their care.
Area winners were:
1. Ashley and David Daniel (Rogers)
2. Krista and Chris Morland (Fort Smith)
3. Chrystal and Adam Baker (Alexander)
4. Jennifer Stuart (Magnolia)
5. Julie and Matt Rothacher (Vilonia)
6. Allison and Ted Bowsman (North Little Rock)
7. Nora Cooney (Lonoke)
8. Teri Ann and Stephen Bearden (Rector)
9. Adrienne and Tony French (Searcy)
10. Dorothy and Emmanuel Kiyumbi (Palestine)
To see video and B-roll from the event, click here.
To see the video featuring the Daniel's, click here.
DCFS is responsible for the safety of children in the state and has approximately 4,300 children in foster care, most of whom are placed in home settings with foster families. The state is divided into 10 service areas, and nominations for outstanding foster families were submitted from each area by caseworkers, other foster parents, and child advocates.
For more information about the foster care system in Arkansas or to begin the application process to become a foster family, visit FosterArkansas.org.

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'Dude' finds comfort on campus
Teresa Gaines, [email protected]
He is known on campus as "hammock dude" or "slack line dude." That's because it's pretty hard to miss the guy sleeping in a hammock in front of the math building or a small crowd of people gathered around to watch or try their own foot at his slack line stretched between two trees. But although he is known for his physical presence, there is actually a dark-humored, pensive and artistic mind that is "slack line dude."
22-year-old Ronnie Truong hasn't always enjoyed getting a lot of attention. Growing up, he never thought of himself as outgoing. But he found himself increasingly captivated and changed by the satirical and black humor of comedians such as George Carlin and Louis C.K. He credits his outlook on life to these comedians and their philosophical social commentary. Now he feels comfortable enough to leave a joke for each of his teachers at the end of the tests he takes.
"I just realized there are eight billion people on Earth –– ten of them don't like you. Who cares about that ratio? Why would you put your happiness in someone else's hands?"
In his spare time, Truong writes in a journal that consists of his own personalized sections such as "advice and tips," "jokes," "story time," "superb humans" and "phrases (vocabulary) & quotes."
He is not one to forget a line in a TV show or stand-up routine that he feels resonated with him. Instead of loving it in the moment and potentially forgetting, he writes it down in order to remember and reflect on it. He said he also wants to pass it on to his kids and that everyone should write their thoughts down more often.
"I know ten years from now, hell, probably just in one year, I'll read this again. If your life is worth anything, create. Tattoos, or writing, in ten years you'll look back and think I'm so glad I did that. Your brain is art. But I can't help but think that too many people just sit and do nothing."
Truong considers himself to be an artist. He made the hammock and slack line you see on campus. To be technical, you actually see the eighth hammock he has ever made.
"People at my old school loved it and so I left the hammock up for them to enjoy. But it got cut down, so I put up another one. Then that one got cut down and I put up another one. I was about to put up a permanent one with chains but it was too expensive and too much effort."
He utilizes any materials he can in order to make his visions come to life, "My first hammock was just pure shoe strings, crosshatched. The first thing when I buy shoes is take out the shoestrings and replace them with zip ties. Can you tie your shoestrings in a second? I'm efficiently lazy. For example, how would you close the door when you're lying in bed? I tied a shoestring from my bedpost to my door so I can pull it and not get up."
He also creates and sells small items such as jewelry, hacky sacks and transmission shift knobs but has not had any luck with them on the market. He understands that it is hard to make a living selling his own art, "I continue making my art but I just don't have an outlet to people. People think my stuff is really cool and then say no to buying it. I don't mind, I'll still make stuff."
The closest solution he could think of was to become a welder. He has a full schedule of welding classes at Los Medanos and feels that it is a profession that allows him to make money and stay in touch with his drive to create.
And if that doesn't earn him enough, he also is working to achieve a real estate license. Ultimately he said, "My goal is to make enough money to spoil my parents. I want more pieces of paper on my bedroom wall. Without pieces of paper, you can't get a job, you can't go out and socialize, can't have fun. It's sad that you need a piece of paper to live, unless you want to go out and live in the wild," Truong said adding, "I want to be the definition of independent; I want to know how to take care of myself. Turn nothing into something. I had the idea that, maybe if I got a really long clothe and rope and made a hammock? And it worked. Welding is the next step."
He even had a keychain hanging off of his backpack that he sauntered himself. It was a metal heart with a dollar sign within it. "My motto is 'love and funds.' I mean, you can't do anything in life that you love without the funds. I have a lot of projects I want to start on but don't have the money," Truong said.
If you wonder what he does on his hammock for hours between classes, he is most likely thinking. Troung has many thoughts to share with others about how he perceives the world and those who are in it with him, ""All anyone does anymore is smoke pot and play video games. I was hanging out with friends by the marina and I put a bunch of toys in the back of my truck, fencing swords, boxing gloves, a boomerang, a unicycle; some people saw us and said 'man, you guys got everything in that truck! But I'll out-smoke you though!' I hate when people act like it's a skill. Breathing is not a skill. Put down the blunt and pick up a book. Learn a skill. I have fun, but I'm productive, I try."
Truong may have a lot of strong opinions and take great pride in his art and work, but he keeps up a fun-loving attitude throughout it all.
"Comedy will keep you young. It makes you think and laugh like a child. My favorite quote: be a child, fight endlessly for things you care about, and be happy for no reason. Because when you're happy for a reason, that's when you're in trouble because that reason can be taken away from you."
Teresa Gaines, Staff Writer
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Home starts near 10-year high, as employment, resale market boost sales
Hank Daniszewski
Dec 09, 2016 • Last Updated December 9, 2016 • 2 minute read
London area home builders and home sellers will have a lot to celebrate this New Year's.
For the first time in a decade, the London area is set to break through the 3,000 mark in housing starts.
The November starts bring the year-to-date total to 2,923, with a month left to go.
The last time the London area had more than 3,000 housing starts was in 2007 before the major recession in 2008.
Home sales in 2016 are poised to top the 10,000 annual sales mark for the first time. The strong resale market means supply is tight, with listings down 36 per cent from a year earlier.
"With a restricted supply, we're seeing some spillover from the resale market," said Trevor McKenzie, president of the London Home Builders' Association
"It's a sellers' market and people are getting caught in multiple-offer situations and are looking at new homes as an option."
A growing number of buyers from the Greater Toronto Area is boosting sales of both new and existing homes, McKenzie said.
London is an attractive alternative with Toronto house prices jumping another 20 per cent in the past year, he said. The average price of a detached home in Toronto is $1.3 million, compared to $303,675 in London.
"People are being pushed out of the Toronto housing market but still want to live in single-family homes. There is plenty of choice between here and Toronto but this is the largest, most affordable urban centre from them," McKenzie said.
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) said there were 225 starts in London-St. Thomas in November, compared to 128 in the same month last year. The November starts include 141 single family homes and 84 multi-family units.
Starts bottomed out in 2011, with only 1,748. In 2015, there were 2,104 starts.
CMHC analyst Anthony Passarelli said housing demand in the London area has been boosted by better employment numbers and an overall increase in population.
Across Canada the estimated annual number of housing starts fell to 184,000 units in November from 192,300 in October. Most of the pullback was due to a cooling of the Toronto condo market.
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Single-detached 141 96
Multi-family 84 32
Single-detached 1,313 962
Multi-family 1,610 1,042
Total 2,923 2,004


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\section{Introduction}
This paper presents a $q$-analogue of an extension of the tensor algebra given in [I].
Using this algebra, we can easily prove the $q$-Schur--Weyl duality
(the duality between the quantum enveloping algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}_n)$
and the Iwahori--Hecke algebra of type $A$).

First let us recall the algebra $\bar{T}(V)$ given in [I].
This algebra $\bar{T}(V)$ naturally
contains the ordinary tensor algebra $T(V)$
and the infinite symmetric group $S_{\infty}$.
Moreover, we can consider natural ``derivations'' on this algebra,
which satisfy an analogue of canonical commutation relations.
This algebra and these derivations are useful to study representations on the tensor algebra.
For example, we can prove the Schur--Weyl duality easily using this framework.

In this paper, we give a $q$-analogue of this algebra $\bar{T}(V)$.
This new algebra $\hat{T}(V)$ naturally contains the ordinary tensor algebra $T(V)$
and the Iwahori--Hecke algebra $H_{\infty}(q)$ of type $A_{\infty}$.
Namely we can regard this $\hat{T}(V)$ as a natural mix of $T(V)$ and $H_{\infty}(q)$.
We can also consider natural ``derivations'' on the algebra $\hat{T}(V)$.
These derivations are useful to describe the natural action of $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}_n)$ on $V^{\otimes p}$.
Moreover, using these derivations, we can easily prove the $q$-Schur--Weyl duality.

Some applications of $\bar{T}(V)$ were given in \cite{I}:
(i) invariant theory in the tensor algebra
(for example, a proof of the first fundamental theorem of invariant theory
with respect to the natural action of the special linear group), and
(ii) application to immanants and the quantum immanants (a linear basis of the center of
the universal enveloping algebra $U(\mathfrak{gl}_n)$; see \cite{O1} and \cite{O2}).
The author hopes that the algebra $\hat{T}(V)$ will be useful to study
representation theory and invariant theory related to $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}_n)$.

The author would like to thank the referee for the valuable comments.
\section{Definition of $\hat{T}(V)$}
Let us start with the definition of the algebra $\hat{T}(V)$
determined by a vector space $V = \mathbb{C}^n$.
We recall that the ordinary tensor algebra is defined by
$$
   T(V) = \bigoplus_{p \geq 0} T_p(V)
$$
with $T_p(V) = V^{\otimes p}$.
Noting this, we define $\hat{T}(V)$ as a vector space by
$$
   \hat{T}(V) = \bigoplus_{p \geq 0} \hat{T}_p(V),
$$
where $\hat{T}_p(V)$ is the following induced representation:
$$
   \hat{T}_p(V)
   = \operatorname{Ind}_{H_p(q)}^{H_{\infty}(q)} V^{\otimes p}
   = H_{\infty}(q) \otimes_{H_p(q)} V^{\otimes p}.
$$

Here the notation is as follows.
First $H_p(q)$ is the Iwahori--Hecke algebra of type $A_{p-1}$.
Namely this is the $\mathbb{C}$-algebra defined by the following generators and relations:
\begin{align*}
   \text{generators: }
   &t_1,\ldots,t_{p-1},  \\
   \text{relations: }
   &(t_r - q)(t_r + q^{-1}) = 0, \\
   &t_r t_{r+1} t_r = t_{r+1} t_r t_{r+1}, \\
   &t_r t_s = t_s t_r, \quad \text{for $|r-s| > 1$}.
\end{align*}
We define $H_{\infty}(q)$ as the inductive limit of
the natural inclusions $H_0(q) \subset H_1(q) \subset \cdots$.
Next, $H_p(q)$ naturally acts on $T_p(V) = V^{\otimes p}$ as follows (\cite{J}):
$$
   t_r = \overbrace{\operatorname{id}_V \otimes \cdots \otimes \operatorname{id}_V}^{r-1}
    \otimes t \otimes
   \overbrace{\operatorname{id}_V \otimes \cdots \otimes \operatorname{id}_V}^{n-r-1}.
$$
Here we define $t \in \operatorname{End}(V \otimes V)$ by
\begin{align*}
   t e_i e_j &=
   \begin{cases}
   q e_j e_i, & i=j, \\
   e_j e_i, & i>j, \\
   e_j e_i + (q-q^{-1}) e_i e_j, & i<j,
   \end{cases}
\end{align*}
where $e_1,\ldots,e_n$ mean the standard basis of $V$.
Note that we omit the symbol ``$\otimes$.''
Thus we have explained the definition of $\hat{T}(V)$ as a vector space.

Moreover, we consider a natural algebra structure of $\hat{T}(V)$.
Namely, for $\sigma v_1 \cdots v_k \in \hat{T}_k(V)$ and
$\tau w_1 \cdots w_l \in \hat{T}_l(V)$, we define their product by
$$
   \sigma v_1 \cdots v_k \cdot
   \tau w_1 \cdots w_l
   =
   \sigma \alpha^k(\tau) v_1 \cdots v_k w_1 \cdots w_l.
$$
Here $\sigma$ and $\tau$ are elements of $H_{\infty}(q)$,
and $v_1, \ldots, v_k, w_1, \ldots, w_l$ are vectors in $V$.
Moreover $\alpha$ is the algebra endomorphism on $H_{\infty}(q)$ defined by
\begin{align*}
   \alpha \colon
   H_{\infty}(q) \to H_{\infty}(q), \quad
   t_r \mapsto t_{r+1}.
\end{align*}
This multiplication is well defined.
With this multiplication,
$\hat{T}(V)$ becomes an associative graded algebra.

\begin{remark}
   In \cite{I}, the definition of $\bar{T}(V)$ was based
   on the \textit{left} action of $S_p$ on $V^{\otimes p}$.
   However, in this paper,
   we defined $\hat{T}(V)$ using the \textit{right} action of $H_p(q)$ on $V^{\otimes p}$.
   Actually we can also define a similar algebra using the left action,
   but we employ our definition because this is compatible with the action of $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$
   (see Section~\ref{sec:representation of Uq(gl)}).
\end{remark}
\section{The multiplication by $v \in V$ and the derivation by $v^* \in V^*$}
\label{sec:multiplications and derivations}
In this section we define two series of fundamental operators on $\hat{T}(V)$,
namely the \textit{multiplications} by vectors in $V$
and the \textit{derivations} by covectors in $V^*$.

First,
let $R(\varphi)$ denote the right multiplication by $\varphi \in \hat{T}(V)$:
$$
   R(\varphi) \colon \hat{T}(V) \to \hat{T}(V), \quad
   \psi \mapsto \psi\varphi.
$$
This operator is obviously fundamental,
and the following two cases are particularly fundamental:
(i) the case that $\varphi$ is a vector in $V$,
and (ii) the case that $\varphi$ is an element of $H_{\infty}(q)$.
Indeed the other cases can be generated by these two cases.
Note that $R(v)$ for $v \in V \subset \hat{T}_1(V)$ raises the degree by one, and
$R(\sigma)$ for $\sigma \in H_{\infty}(q) = \hat{T}_0(V)$ does not change the degree.

Next,
we define an operator $R(v^*)$ associated to a covector $v^* \in V^*$.
When $v^*$ is a member of the dual basis $e^*_1,\ldots,e^*_n$,
we define $R(e^*_i) \in \operatorname{End}_{\mathbb{C}}(\hat{T}(V))$ by
\begin{align}
   R(e^*_i) \colon
   \hat{T}_p(V) &\to \hat{T}_{p-1}(V),
\label{eq:definition of R(e^*_i)} \\
   \sigma v_1 \cdots v_p
   &\mapsto
   \sum_{r=1}^p
   \sigma
   k_i^{-1}(v_1) \cdots k_i^{-1}(v_{r-1})
   \langle e^*_i, v_r \rangle
   g_i(v_{r+1}) \cdots g_i(v_p).
\notag
\end{align}
Here,
$k_i$ is the linear transformation on $V$,
and $g_i$ is the linear map from $V$ to $H_2(q) \otimes V$ defined as follows:
$$
   k_i \colon V \to V, \quad
   e_j \mapsto q^{\delta_{ij}} e_j, \qquad\qquad
   g_i \colon V \to H_2(q) \otimes V, \quad
   e_j \mapsto
   \begin{cases}
       t_1 e_j , & i \leq j, \\
       t_1^{-1} e_j, & i > j.
   \end{cases}
$$
Based on this,
we define $R(v^*)$ in such a way that
$R \colon V^* \to \operatorname{End}_{\mathbb{C}}(\hat{T}(V))$ is linear.
We call this $R(v^*)$ the \textit{derivation} by $v^* \in V^*$.

For example, we have
\begin{align*}
   R(e^*_1) e_1 e_1 e_2
   &= \langle e^*_1, e_1 \rangle t_1 e_1 t_1 e_2
   + q^{-1} e_1 \langle e^*_1, e_1 \rangle t_1 e_2
   + q^{-1} e_1 q^{-1} e_1 \langle e^*_1, e_2 \rangle \\
   &= t_1 t_2 e_1 e_2
   + q^{-1} t_1 e_1 e_2.
\end{align*}

Let us check the well-definedness of the definition (\ref{eq:definition of R(e^*_i)}) of $R(e^*_i)$.
For this,
we consider a linear map $f_r \colon T_p(V) \to \hat{T}_{p-1}(V)$ defined by
$$
   f_r(v_1 \cdots v_p)
   = k_i^{-1}(v_1) \cdots k_i^{-1}(v_{r-1})
   \langle e^*_i, v_r \rangle
   g_i(v_{r+1}) \cdots g_i(v_p),
$$
so that $R(e^*_i) = \sum_{r=1}^p f_r$.
For the well-definedness of (\ref{eq:definition of R(e^*_i)}),
it suffices to show that $t_1,\ldots,t_{p-1}$ commute with $\sum_{r=1}^p f_r$.
Namely we only have to show the following lemma:

\begin{lemma} \sl
   For $s = 1,\ldots,p-1$, the following hold\textnormal{:} \\
   \textnormal{(1)}
   $t_s$ commutes with $f_r$ unless $r= s$, $s+1$. \\
   \textnormal{(2)}
   $t_s$ commutes with $f_s + f_{s+1}$.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
We put $e_J = e_{j_1} \cdots e_{j_p}$ for $J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p)$.
Let us fix $I = (i_1,\ldots,i_p)$ and $1 \leq s \leq p$,
and put
$$
   \gamma =
   \begin{cases}
      1, & i_s \geq i_{s+1}, \\
      -1, & i_s < i_{s+1},
   \end{cases}
$$
so that $t_s^{\gamma} e_I = q^{\delta_{i^{}_s i_{s+1}}} e_{I'}$
with $I' = (i_1,\ldots,i_{s-1},i_{s+1},i_s,i_{s+2},\ldots,i_p)$.
To show (1),
it suffices to show $t_s^{\gamma} f_r(e_I) = q^{\delta_{i^{}_s i_{s+1}}} f_r(e_I')$ for $r \ne s, s+1$.
When $r > s+1$,
this can be deduced from the relation
$t_2^{\gamma} t_1^{\varepsilon} t_2^{\delta} t_1^{-\gamma}
= t_1^{\delta} t_2^{\varepsilon}$
for $\gamma, \delta,\varepsilon \in \{ 1,-1 \}$.
We can show the the case $r < s$ by a direct calculation.

We can also show (2) by a direct calculation.
\end{proof}

\begin{remark}
   This well-definedness means that $R(v^*)$ commutes with the action of $H_{\infty}(q)$.
\end{remark}
\section{Commutation relations}
For the multiplications and derivations introduced in the previous section,
we have the following commutation relations.

\begin{theorem}\label{thm:commutation relations 1}\sl
   For $i<j$, we have
   \begin{align*}
      R(e_i) R(e_i) &= q^{-1} R(e_i) R(e_i) R(t_1) = q R(e_i) R(e_i) R(t_1^{-1}), \\
      R(e_i) R(e_j) &= R(e_j) R(e_i) R(t_1^{-1}), \\
      R(e_j) R(e_i) &= R(e_i) R(e_j) R(t_1),\allowdisplaybreaks \\[10pt]
      R(e^*_i) R(e^*_i) &= q^{-1} R(t_1) R(e^*_i) R(e^*_i) = q R(t_1^{-1}) R(e^*_i) R(e^*_i), \\
      R(e^*_i) R(e^*_j) &= R(t_1^{-1}) R(e^*_j) R(e^*_i), \\
      R(e^*_j) R(e^*_i) &= R(t_1) R(e^*_i) R(e^*_j),\allowdisplaybreaks \\[10pt]
      R(e^*_i) R(e_i) &= R(e_i) R(t_1) R(e^*_i) + K_i^{-1} = R(e_i) R(t_1^{-1}) R(e^*_i) + K_i, \\
      R(e^*_j) R(e_i) &= R(e_i) R(t_1^{-1}) R(e^*_j), \\
      R(e^*_i) R(e_j) &= R(e_j) R(t_1) R(e^*_i),
   \end{align*}
   where $K_i$ is the linear transformation on $\hat{T}(V)$ defined by
   $$
      K_i \colon \sigma e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p} \mapsto
      q^{\delta_{ii_1} + \cdots + \delta_{ii_p}} \sigma e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p}.
   $$
\end{theorem}

Namely we can exchange two multiplications by vectors putting
$t_1$ or $t_1^{-1} \in H_2(q)$ on the right of these two operators.
Similarly we can exchange two derivations
putting $t_1$ or $t_1^{-1}$ on the left of two operators.
The most interesting one is the commutation relation between a derivation and a multiplication.
This time, $t_1$ or $t_1^{-1}$ appears in the middle of these two operators.
We can regard these relations as an analogue of the canonical commutation relations.

\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem~\textsl{\ref{thm:commutation relations 1}}]
These relations can be checked by direct calculations
except for the commutation relations between two derivations.
Thus, we here prove the sixth relation, from which
the fifth relation is immediate.
We can prove the fourth relation similarly (actually more easily).

To show the sixth relation, it suffices to prove
$$
   R(e^*_j) R(e^*_i) e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^b
   = R(t_1) R(e^*_i) R(e^*_j) e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^b
$$
for $k_1,\ldots,k_m \ne i,j$,
because the derivations commute with the action of $H_{\infty}(q)$.
By the definition of derivations, we have
\begin{align*}
   R(e^*_i) e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^b
   &= \sum_{r=1}^a e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m}  e_i^{r-1} (t_1 e_i)^{a-r} (t_1 e_j)^b
   = \sum_{r=1}^a e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} t_r^{(a+b-r)} e_i^{a-1} e_j^b, \\
   R(e^*_j) e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^b
   &= \sum_{s=1}^b e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^{s-1} (t_1 e_j)^{b-s}
   = \sum_{s=1}^b e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} t_{a+s}^{(b-s)} e_i^a e_j^{b-1},
\end{align*}
where we put $t_k^{(c)} = t_k t_{k+1} \cdots t_{k+c-1}$.
Using these, we have
\begin{align*}
   R(e^*_j) R(e^*_i) e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^b
   &= \sum_{r=1}^a \sum_{s=1}^b e_{k_1} e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m}  t_r^{(a+b-r)} t_{a-1+s}^{(b-s)} e_i^{a-1} e_j^{b-1}, \\
   R(t_1)R(e^*_i)R(e^*_j) e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} e_i^a e_j^b
   &= \sum_{r=1}^a \sum_{s=1}^b e_{k_1} \cdots e_{k_m} t_{a+s}^{(b-s)} t_r^{(a+b-r)} e_i^{a-1} e_j^{b-1}.
\end{align*}
These are equal,
because we have $t_r^{(a+b-r)} t_{a-1+s}^{(b-s)} = t_{a+s}^{(b-s)} t_r^{(a+b-r)}$
by a calculation.
\end{proof}

It is natural to consider the operator algebra generated by
$R(v)$, $R(v^*)$ and $R(\sigma)$ with $v \in V$, $v^* \in V^*$ and $\sigma \in H_{\infty}(q)$.
We can regard this operator algebra as an analogue of the Weyl algebras and the Clifford algebras.

The following commutation relations with $K_i$ are also fundamental:

\begin{theorem}\label{thm:commutation relations 2}\sl
   We have
   $$
      K_j R(e_i) = q^{\delta_{ij}} R(e_i) K_j, \qquad
      K_j R(e^*_i) = q^{-\delta_{ij}} R(e^*_i) K_j, \qquad
      K_j R(t_r) = R(t_r) K_j.
   $$
\end{theorem}
\section{The natural representation of $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$ on $V^{\otimes p}$}
\label{sec:representation of Uq(gl)}
We can use the operators introduced in Section~\ref{sec:multiplications and derivations}
to study the natural representation of the quantum enveloping algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$
on $V^{\otimes p}$.

First, let us recall the definition of $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$.
For $V = \mathbb{C}^n$,
we define the $\mathbb{C}$-algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$
by the following generators and relations (\cite{J}):
\begin{align*}
   \text{generators: }&
   q^{\pm\varepsilon_1/2},\ldots,q^{\pm\varepsilon_n/2},
   \hat{e}_1,\ldots,\hat{e}_{n-1},
   \hat{f}_1,\ldots,\hat{f}_{n-1}, \displaybreak[0]\\
   \text{relations: }
   & q^{\varepsilon_i/2} q^{\varepsilon_j/2} = q^{\varepsilon_j/2} q^{\varepsilon_i/2}, \qquad
   q^{\varepsilon_i/2} q^{-\varepsilon_i/2} = q^{-\varepsilon_i/2} q^{\varepsilon_i/2} = 1, \\
   & q^{\varepsilon_i/2} \hat{e}_j q^{-\varepsilon_i/2} = q^{\delta_{ij} - \delta_{i,j+1}} \hat{e}_j, \qquad
   q^{\varepsilon_i/2} \hat{f}_j q^{-\varepsilon_i/2} = q^{-\delta_{ij} + \delta_{i,j+1}} \hat{f}_j, \\
   & \hat{e}_i \hat{f}_j - \hat{f}_j \hat{e}_i
   = \delta_{ij}
   \frac{q^{(\varepsilon_i - \varepsilon_{i+1})/2} - q^{(-\varepsilon_i + \varepsilon_{i+1})/2}}{q-q^{-1}}, \\
   & \hat{e}_i \hat{e}_j =  \hat{e}_j \hat{e}_i, \qquad
   \hat{f}_i \hat{f}_j =  \hat{f}_j \hat{f}_i
   \text{ for $|i-j| > 1$}, \\
   & \hat{e}_i^2 \hat{e}_{i \pm 1}
   - (q + q^{-1}) \hat{e}_i \hat{e}_{i \pm 1} \hat{e}_i
   + \hat{e}_{i \pm 1} \hat{e}_i^2 = 0, \\
   & \hat{f}_i^2 \hat{f}_{i \pm 1}
   - (q + q^{-1}) \hat{f}_i \hat{f}_{i \pm 1} \hat{f}_i
   + \hat{f}_{i \pm 1} \hat{f}_i^2 = 0.
\end{align*}
Here we denote $q^{a_1} \cdots q^{a_k}$ simply
by $q^{a_1 + \cdots + a_k}$.

Next, we define
$\hat{E}_{ij}$ and  $\hat{E}_{ji} \in U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$ for $1 \leq i<j \leq n$
by
$$
   \hat{E}_{i,i+1} = \hat{e}_i, \qquad
   \hat{E}_{i+1,i} = \hat{f}_i
$$
and recursive relations
$$
   \hat{E}_{ik} = \hat{E}_{ij} \hat{E}_{jk} - q \hat{E}_{jk} \hat{E}_{ij}, \qquad
   \hat{E}_{ki} = \hat{E}_{kj} \hat{E}_{ji} - q^{-1} \hat{E}_{ji} \hat{E}_{kj}
$$
for $i<j<k$.
Moreover, for $i<j$ and $a \in \mathbb{C} \smallsetminus \{ 0 \}$, we put
$$
   \hat{E}_{ij}(a) =a^{-1} q^{-(\varepsilon_i + \varepsilon_j -1)/2} \hat{E}_{ij},\quad
   \hat{E}_{ji}(a) =a q^{(\varepsilon_j + \varepsilon_i -1)/2} \hat{E}_{ji},\quad
   \hat{E}_{ii}(a) = \frac{a q^{\varepsilon_i} - a^{-1} q^{-\varepsilon_i}}{q-q^{-1}}.
$$
We call this $\hat{E}_{ij}(a)$ for $1 \leq i,j \leq n$ the $L$-operator.

We denote by $\pi$
the natural representation of the quantum enveloping algebra $U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))$
on $V^{\otimes p}$.
This is determined by the following actions of generators (\cite{J}):
\begin{align*}
   \pi(\hat{e}_i)
   &= \sum_{r=1}^p
   k_i^{1/2} k_{i+1}^{-1/2} \otimes \cdots \otimes k_i^{1/2} k_{i+1}^{-1/2}
   \otimes \underbrace{E_{i,i+1}}_{\text{$r$th}}
   \otimes k_i^{-1/2} k_{i+1}^{1/2} \otimes \cdots \otimes k_i^{-1/2} k_{i+1}^{1/2}, \\
   \pi(\hat{f}_i)
   &= \sum_{r=1}^p
   k_i^{1/2} k_{i+1}^{-1/2} \otimes \cdots \otimes k_i^{1/2} k_{i+1}^{-1/2}
   \otimes \underbrace{E_{i+1,i}}_{\text{$r$th}}
   \otimes k_i^{-1/2} k_{i+1}^{1/2} \otimes \cdots \otimes k_i^{-1/2} k_{i+1}^{1/2}, \\
   \pi(q^{\pm\varepsilon_i/2})
   &= k_i^{\pm 1/2} \otimes \cdots \otimes k_i^{\pm 1/2} = K_i^{\pm 1/2}.
\end{align*}
Here $k_i^{1/2}$ and $E_{ij}$ are the linear transformations on $V$
defined by
$$
   k_i^{1/2} \colon e_h \mapsto q^{\delta_{ih}/2} e_h, \qquad
   E_{ij} \colon e_h \mapsto \delta_{jh} e_i.
$$

We can use our operators to express this representation $\pi$:

\begin{theorem}\label{thm:expression of pi} \sl
   We have
   $$
      \pi(\hat{E}_{ij}(1)) = R(e_i) R(e^*_j).
   $$
\end{theorem}

\begin{proof}
We can check the assertion by a direct calculation when $i=j$.

Let us show the case $i \ne j$.
We note that
$$
   \pi(\hat{E}_{ij}(1)) = q^{-1/2} K_i^{-1/2} K_j^{-1/2} \pi(\hat{E}_{ij}) , \qquad
   \pi(\hat{E}_{ji}(1)) = q^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} K_i^{1/2} \pi(\hat{E}_{ji})
$$
for $i<j$.
Thus, it suffices to show
\begin{equation}\label{eq:key relation of the expression of pi}
   \pi(\hat{E}_{ij}) = K_j^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e^*_j) K_i^{1/2}, \qquad
   \pi(\hat{E}_{ji}) = K_i^{-1/2} R(e_j) R(e^*_i) K_j^{-1/2}
\end{equation}
for $i<j$.
We can check these relations for $j = i + 1$ by a direct calculation.
To show the other cases, we put
$$
   F_{ij} = K_j^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e^*_j) K_i^{1/2}, \qquad
   F_{ji} = K_i^{-1/2} R(e_j) R(e^*_i) K_j^{-1/2}
$$
for $i < j$.
Then, we have
$$
   F_{ik} = F_{ij} F_{jk} - q F_{jk} F_{ij}, \qquad
   F_{ki} = F_{kj} F_{ji} - q^{-1} F_{ji} F_{kj}
$$
for $i<j<k$.
Indeed, using Theorems~\ref{thm:commutation relations 1} and~\ref{thm:commutation relations 2},
we see the first relation as follows:
\begin{align*}
   &F_{ij} F_{jk} - q F_{jk} F_{ij} \\
   &\qquad= K_j^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e^*_j) K_i^{1/2} K_k^{1/2} R(e_j) R(e^*_k) K_j^{1/2} \\
   & \qquad\qquad
   - q K_k^{1/2} R(e_j) R(e^*_k) K_j^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e^*_j) K_i^{1/2}
   \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   &\qquad= K_j^{1/2} K_k^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e^*_j) R(e_j) R(e^*_k) K_i^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} \\
   & \qquad\qquad
   - K_k^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} R(e_j) R(e^*_k) R(e_i) R(e^*_j) K_j^{1/2} K_i^{1/2}
   \allowdisplaybreaks \\
   &\qquad= K_j^{1/2} K_k^{1/2} R(e_i) (R(e_j) R(t_1) R(e^*_j) + K_j^{-1}) R(e^*_k) K_i^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} \\
   & \qquad\qquad
   - K_k^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} R(e_j) R(e_i) R(t_1^{-1}) R(e^*_k) R(e^*_j) K_j^{1/2} K_i^{1/2}
   \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   &\qquad= K_j^{1/2} K_k^{1/2} R(e_i) (R(e_j) R(t_1) R(e^*_j) + K_j^{-1}) R(e^*_k) K_i^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} \\
   & \qquad\qquad
   - K_k^{1/2} K_j^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e_j) R(t_1) R(e^*_j) R(e^*_k) K_j^{1/2} K_i^{1/2}
   \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   &\qquad= K_k^{1/2} R(e_i) R(e^*_k) K_i^{1/2} \\
   &\qquad= F_{ik}.
\end{align*}
We can show the second relation similarly.
Combining these, we have (\ref{eq:key relation of the expression of pi}).
\end{proof}

\begin{remark}
   Theorem~\ref{thm:expression of pi} is quite similar
   to the natural action of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{gl}(V)$ on $\mathcal{P}(V)$
   the space of all polynomial functions on $V$.
   This action $\mu$ can be expressed as
   $$
      \mu(E_{ij}) = x_i \frac{\partial}{\partial x_j}.
   $$
   Here $x_i$ means the canonical coordinate of $V$,
   and $E_{ij}$ means the standard basis of $\mathfrak{gl}(V)$.
\end{remark}

Using Theorems~\ref{thm:commutation relations 1} and~\ref{thm:commutation relations 2},
we have the following relations:

\begin{proposition}\label{prop:commutation relations 3} \sl
   We have
   \begin{alignat*}{2}
      R(e_i) R(e_j) R(e^*_k) &= R(e_j) R(e^*_k) R(e_i) &\qquad
      &\text{when $i \lessgtr j$ and $i \lessgtr k$}, \allowdisplaybreaks\\
      R(e_i) R(e_j) R(e^*_k) &= R(e_j) R(e^*_k) R(e_i) &&\\
      &\qquad
      \pm (q-q^{-1}) R(e_i) R(e^*_k) R(e_j) &\qquad
      &\text{when $j \lessgtr i \lessgtr k$}, \allowdisplaybreaks\\
      R(e_i) R(e_j) R(e^*_i) &= R(e_j) R(e^*_i) R(e_i)
      - K_i^{\pm 1} R(e_j) &\qquad
      &\text{when $i \lessgtr j$}, \allowdisplaybreaks\\
      R(e_i) R(e_i) R(e^*_j) &= q^{\pm 1} R(e_i) R(e^*_j) R(e_i)
      &\qquad &\text{when $i \lessgtr j$}, \allowdisplaybreaks\\
      R(e_i) R(e_i) R(e^*_i)
      &= q R(e_i) R(e^*_i) R(e_i) - K_i R(e_i) && \\
      &= q^{-1} R(e_i) R(e^*_i) R(e_i) - K_i^{-1} R(e_i).&&
   \end{alignat*}
\end{proposition}

Moreover we have the following proposition.
Indeed, using Proposition~\ref{prop:commutation relations 3},
we can rewrite $R(v_k) \cdots R(v_1) R(v^*_1) \cdots R(v^*_k)$
as a sum of products of $R(v)R(v^*)$ and $K_i$.

\begin{proposition}\label{prop:R(v)^kR(v^*)^k} \sl
   For any $v_1,\ldots,v_k \in V$ and
   $v^*_1,\ldots,v^*_k \in V^*$,
   we have
   $$
      R(v_k) \cdots R(v_1) R(v^*_1) \cdots R(v^*_k) \in \pi(U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))).
   $$
\end{proposition}
\section{$q$-Schur--Weyl duality}
We can use our results to prove the following Jimbo duality,
namely the $q$-analogue of the Schur--Weyl duality.
This theorem was first given in \cite{J}, and several proofs have been given (see \cite{H}, \cite{Z} for example).

\begin{theorem
\label{thm:q-Schur--Weyl duality}\sl
   Assume that $[p]! \ne 0$.
   Let us denote by $\rho$ the natural action of $H_p(q)$ on $V^{\otimes p}$.
   Then $\rho(H_p(q))$ and $\pi(U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V)))$ are mutual commutants of each other.
   Namely we have
   $$
      \operatorname{End}(V^{\otimes p})^{\rho(H_p(q))} = \pi(U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V))), \qquad
      \operatorname{End}(V^{\otimes p})^{\pi(U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V)))} = \rho(H_p(q)).
   $$
\end{theorem}

Here $[k] = [k]_q$ is a $q$-integer, and $[k]! = [k]_q!$ is a $q$-factorial:
$$
   [k]
   = \frac{q^k-q^{-k}}{q-q^{-1}}
   = q^{k-1} + q^{k-3} + \cdots + q^{-k+1}, \qquad
   [k]! = [k] [k-1] \cdots [1].
$$

To prove this theorem, we consider the following analogue of the Euler operator:
$$
   \mathcal{E} = \sum_{J \in \mathcal{J}} \frac{1}{J!}
   R(e_{j_1}) \cdots R(e_{j_p}) R(e^*_{j_p}) \cdots R(e^*_{j_1}).
$$
Here we put
$$
   \mathcal{J} = \{ (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathbb{N}^p \,|\, 1 \leq j_1 \leq \cdots \leq j_p \leq n \}.
$$
Moreover we put $J! = [m_1]! \cdots [m_n]!$ for $J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathcal{J}$,
where $m_i$ is the multiplicity of $j_1,\ldots,j_p$ at $i$\textnormal{:}
$$
   (j_1,\ldots,j_p)
   = (
   \underbrace{1,\ldots,1}_{m_1},
   \underbrace{2,\ldots,2}_{m_2},\ldots,
   \underbrace{n,\ldots,n}_{m_n}).
$$
For this $\mathcal{E}$, the following relation holds:

\begin{lemma}\label{lemma:Euler type operator}\sl
   We have
   $\mathcal{E} \varphi = \varphi$ for any $\varphi \in V^{\otimes p}$.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
We put
$$
   \Phi_i(a)= \frac{q^aK_i - q^{-a}K_i^{-1}}{q - q^{-1}},
$$
and moreover
$$
   \Phi_i^{(m)}
   = \Phi_i(0) \Phi_i(-1) \cdots \Phi_i(-m+2) \Phi_i(-m+1).
$$
Then we have $R(e_i)R(e^*_i) = \Phi_i(0)$
and $\Phi_i(a)R(e^*_i) =  R(e^*_i)\Phi_i(a-1)$,
so that
$$
   R(e_i)^m R(e^*_i)^m
   = \Phi_i^{(m)}.
$$
Thus, for $1 \leq j_1 \leq \cdots \leq j_p \leq n$, we have
$$
   R(e_{j_1}) \cdots R(e_{j_p}) R(e^*_{j_p}) \cdots R(e^*_{j_1})
   = \Phi_{j_1}^{(m_1)}
   \Phi_{j_2}^{(m_2)}
   \cdots
   \Phi_{j_{p-1}}^{(m_{p-1})}
   \Phi_{j_p}^{(m_p)},
$$
where $m_i$ is the multiplicity of $j_1,\ldots,j_p$ at $i$.

Moreover, we consider
$1 \leq i_1,\ldots,i_p \leq n$,
and let $l_i$ be the multiplicity of $i_1,\ldots,i_p$ at $i$.
Then we have
$$
   \Phi_i(a) e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p}
   = [l_i + a] e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p}.
$$
Hence, we have
\begin{align*}
   &R(e_{j_1}) \cdots R(e_{j_p}) R(e^*_{j_p}) \cdots R(e^*_{j_1}) e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p} \\
   & \qquad
   = [l_1]^{(m_1)} \cdots [l_n]^{(m_n)} e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p}\\
   & \qquad
   = \begin{cases}
   [m_1]! \cdots [m_n]! e_{i_1} \cdots e_{i_p}, &
   (l_1,\ldots,l_n) = (m_1,\ldots,m_n), \\
   0, &
   (l_1,\ldots,l_n) \ne (m_1,\ldots,m_n).
   \end{cases}
\end{align*}
Here we put $[l]^{(m)} = [l][l-1]\cdots[l-m+1]$.
The assertion is immediate from this.
\end{proof}

Using this lemma, we can prove Theorem~\ref{thm:q-Schur--Weyl duality} as follows:

\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem~\textsl{\ref{thm:q-Schur--Weyl duality}}]
We can check by a direct calculation that these two actions are commutative.
When $[p]! \ne 0$, the algebra $H_p(q)$ is semisimple (\cite{GU}).
Thus, by the double commutant theorem (\cite{GW}),
it suffices to show
$\operatorname{End}(V^{\otimes p})^{\rho(H_p(q))} \subset \pi(U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V)))$.

Assume that $f \in\operatorname{End}(V^{\otimes p})^{\rho(H_p(q))}$.
Then, for any $\varphi \in V^{\otimes p}$, we have
\begin{align*}
   f(\varphi)
   & = f(\mathcal{E}\varphi) \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   & = f(\sum_{J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathcal{J}} \frac{1}{[J]!}
   R(e_{j_p}) \cdots R(e_{j_1}) R(e^*_{j_1}) \cdots R(e^*_{j_p}) \varphi) \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   & = f(\sum_{J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathcal{J}} \frac{1}{[J]!}
   R(e_{j_p}) \cdots R(e_{j_1}) \sigma_J) \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   & = f(\sum_{J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathcal{J}} \frac{1}{[J]!}
   \sigma_J e_{j_1} \cdots e_{j_p}) \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   & = \sum_{J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathcal{J}} \frac{1}{[J]!}
   \sigma_J f(e_{j_1} \cdots e_{j_p}) \allowdisplaybreaks\\
   & = \sum_{J = (j_1,\ldots,j_p) \in \mathcal{J}} \frac{1}{[J]!}
   R(f(e_{j_1} \cdots e_{j_p}))  R(e^*_{j_1}) \cdots R(e^*_{j_p}) \varphi.
\end{align*}
Here we denote $R(e^*_{j_1}) \cdots R(e^*_{j_p}) \varphi$ simply by $\sigma_J$.
This $\sigma_J$ is an element of $H_p(q)$,
and $f$ commutes with the action of $H_p(q)$,
so that the fifth equality holds.

Thus, by Proposition~\ref{prop:R(v)^kR(v^*)^k},
we see that $f \in \pi(U_q(\mathfrak{gl}(V)))$.
\end{proof}

\begin{remark}
   For any group $G$, every map $f \colon G \to G$ commuting
   with all right translations is equal to a left translation.
   This fact is proved quickly as follows.
   Let $e$ be the identity element of $G$.
   For any element $x$ of $G$, we have $f(x) = f(ex) = f(e)x$,
   because $f$ commutes with the right multiplication by $x$.
   Thus $f$ is equal to the left multiplication by $f(e)$, as we claimed.
   It should be noted that
   our proof of Theorem~\ref{thm:q-Schur--Weyl duality}
   is based on the same principle
   (the operator $\mathcal{E}$ plays a role of the identity element $e$).
\end{remark}

Theorem~\ref{thm:q-Schur--Weyl duality} holds, if and only if $q$ satisfy $[p]! \ne 0$
(this condition is also equivalent with the condition that $H_p(q)$ is semisimple).
Indeed, when $[p]! = 0$, this proof fails because there exists $I$ such that $[I]! = 0$.
It is interesting that the condition $[p]! = 0$ appears this way.

I hope that the algebra $\hat{T}(V)$ and the differential operators on $\hat{T}(V)$
will be useful to study invariant theory in quantum enveloping algebras.

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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 15, 2021) — "We cannot understand where humanity has been and where we are going without Black Studies."
This is the mantra of the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies (CIBS) — a multidisciplinary research institute based in the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Sciences' Department of African American and Africana Studies.
The institute hosts more than 50 nationally and internationally recognized researchers with expertise in fields such as Black futures and 21st century race in digital cultures; slavery and inequality in Central Kentucky; race and sport; global Blackness (from Appalachia to Zimbabwe); and gender and sexuality in Black lives. These affiliated faculty represent 11 colleges across UK, and they are developing initiatives that look at intersections of Black studies within their colleges' subject fields. These efforts help to diversify curriculums not only in the College of Arts and Sciences, but across campus.
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Organisations involved in the fight against malaria need to change their messaging to encompass the multiple benefits of fighting insect-borne diseases, in addition to malaria, as well as the vast health improvements offered to mothers and young children.
It is important that they do so because it cannot be automatically assumed that funding for the fight against malaria will carry on at current levels and yet campaigners battling against the deadly disease face some very testing challenges.
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However, just as this extra push is required to carry on encouraging early momentum, the public's attention seems to be shifting towards neonatal care. Hence, organisations need to concentrate on getting over a message that when you tackle malaria there are multiple knock-on benefits, particularly in protecting the health of mothers and their babies.
That is the conclusion of Richard Allan, founder of the Mentor Initiative which is the only organisation of its kind to have people on the ground in multiple conflict and disaster areas. It specialises in fighting malaria, as well as other insect-borne diseases, at the same time as training other aid agencies and local health care professionals in dealing with malaria. The aim is to provide help when it is needed during conflict or a natural disaster for as long as it takes until it is, hopefully, no longer needed.
"Malaria campaigners really need to get over the more bang for your buck message," he says.
So, Allan thinks that malaria organisations may have missed a trick in concentrating on a message around one condition when so many disfiguring and fatal diseases can be prevented at the same time as malaria.
Also, he has a feeling that as attention has shifted partly from malaria to the health of mother and new-borns, organisations in the battle against malaria need to refine their message to align themselves with the shift in public thinking. The person in the street may not realise that the best way of supporting mothers and babies is preventing them from getting malaria or treating them for the condition.
"Governments and the public only have a certain amount of time before their attention shifts, and that's completely understandable," says Allan.
"If you look at Comic Relief and many aid organisations' literature and web sites now, the real interest seems to have shifted slightly to include pre- and post-natal care of mothers and their children. Again, this is an area where organisations involved in preventing and treating malaria need to be on the front foot.
So, as attention shifts, organisations involved in the fight against malaria need to get more vocal about the knock-on effects of killing dangerous bugs and improving neonatal care.
In fact, the Mentor Initiative also hopes to have some new technology to start talking about later in the year. With support from Comic Relief it is testing new prevention tools, including insecticide treated wall linings, that use a new combination of insecticides, and against which malaria mosquitos have no resistance. Allan hopes to have positive results when a full scale Phase 111 trial reports its final findings in October. If successful, the wall linings will provide a long term malaria prevention solution for many communities.
They have also successfully tested the first mosquito nets designed specifically for people who sleep outside. They are designed for the third of Africa's sub-Saharan population who are nomadic pastoralists and so sleep outside with their cattle. These are the forgotten people who standard nets have not been able to protect, because they cannot withstand the sun or rough outdoor conditions. These new "Demuria" outdoor nets have proven highly effective and can withstand the extreme conditions for almost two years. They have proven to be immensely popular with the many families that now rely upon them for protection.
"We believe it's going to be revolutionary in fighting malaria because people tend to forget that a third of the people in sub-Saharan Africa sleep outside and so a regular mosquito net can't be used," Allan says.
Allan is hopeful that when current trials are reported on in October, the news will be very positive and that campaigners will have their first effective tool to take the fight against malaria in to remote areas where sleeping outside is the norm.


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Orders of the Day — Multilateral Trade Negotiations
Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 29th June 1979.
Mr Cecil Parkinson , Hertfordshire South 12:00 am, 29th June 1979
Yesterday, the OPEC Ministers took the decision to put up the price of oil. Today, in Tokyo, my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the other leaders of the West will be discussing ways of dealing with the energy crisis and other pressures on the world economy.
One of the dangers facing the West is that the OPEC decision will give a new impetus to those who see protectionism as an answer to our problems. It is against this background that we are today discussing the outcome of the Tokyo round of the multilateral trade negotiations, one of the main barriers to protectionism.
As the House will know, this latest round of multilateral trade negotiations, as they affect the United Kingdom, was launched by my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Walker), now Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in 1973 when he was Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. The negotiations took a very long time to get started seriously, and even after the necessary United States legislation had been passed at the beginning of 1975, serious negotiations had to await the outcome of the United States presidential elections and the appointment by the new President—President Carter—of Ambassador Robert Strauss as his special trade negotiator. Unlike some international negotiations which have been in the doldrums and have subsequently foundered, however, these have been brought to a successful and worthwhile conclusion.
The Commission, negotiating on behalf of the countries of the EEC and the other negotiators—largely from developed countries—initialled agreements on most of the subjects that had been under discussion in the multilateral trade negotiations in Geneva on 12 April of this year.
Many developing countries are currently considering whether to accede to some or all of the agreements. The Government earnestly hope that they will feel able to do so. That was the course I urged on them at UNCTAD and during my subsequent trip to the ASEAN area. I understand their feelings that they were to some extent "bounced" in the later stages of the negotiations. It is true that the need to get the agreements ready for the United States Congress to consider them this summer did not permit the more thorough negotiation that would have been desirable.
I explained to the Ministers of a number of countries whom I met in Manila that the multilateral trade negotiations were not a charter for protectionism, as some of them saw them, but were, rather, a vital weapon in the armoury of the Governments of the Western countries that should enable them to resist protectionism. I found that many Ministers representing rather less democratic countries than ours find it hard to understand that the impetus for protectionism in a country such as ours does not come from the Government. It is a pressure which comes from the people and which Government are resisting.
The agreements are important, but how they are put into practice and how they will work is just as important. In evolving the necessary codes of practice and the new techniques that will be necessary if we are to implement the multilateral trade negotiations, the developing countries can play, in our view, a most important part.
I shall not attempt now to expound the detailed provisions of the agreements. Anyone who has examined those texts, which have been made available to the House, will see that they are very complicated. The texts are being finalised. Once they are in their final form, the Government will have them printed and laid before Parliament in the usual way. My Department has prepared for this debate a background paper which tries to set out the points which we consider are of real economic and political importance. I hope that those interested will have been able to have had a look at them.
Looking round at the rather less than crowded House, I was tempted to come to the conclusion that many Members, having looked at the paper, had decided that it was not a subject for them and had been frightened away. That was not the Government's intention in putting that paper in the Vote Office.
Before I turn to the general intent of the agreements, I shall say something about their importance in rather more general terms. The Tokyo round negotiations were launched before the oil crisis—and by that I mean not the 1979 oil crisis but the 1973–74 oil crisis—so many of the objectives that Ministers set themselves in Tokyo proved incapable of complete fulfilment in the light of the recession that followed the oil price increase in the middle of the 1970s.
That recession and the rise in unemployment in the developed world naturally led to considerable protectionist pressures in many developed countries—mainly from industries that found themselves in difficulties. It has been the general consensus amongst the leaders of the Western world, at their successive economic summits since 1975, that it would be disastrous to give way to such pressures, and that the route of protectionism is not one that it would be wise for the Western world to follow. That does not alter the fact that there can scarcely ever have been a time when it seemed less appropriate to be discussing the liberalisation of trade than during what has proved to be a prolonged and very stubborn recession.
It is against that background that I pay tribute—I hope that it will not embarrass him too much—to the right hon. Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. Smith) and to his predecessor, Mr. Edmund Dell. This was their attitude, in direct contrast to the policy advocated by some of their hon. Friends, who argued strongly in favour of a protective wall of import controls behind which British industry was supposed to revive itself through increased demand.
Apart from the fact that adopting generalised controls is a policy closed to us by our international obligations and our membership of the EEC, and would almost certainly provoke retaliation, I do not believe that the removal of the stimulus of overseas competition would assist in improving domestic industrial efficiency. The fact that the consumer has a choice and is prepared to use it if British companies do not provide what he wants when he wants it at a price that he is prepared to pay, is the best spur that British industry has to increase its competitiveness and productivity.
The fact that multilateral trade negotiations were going on and creating a real prospect of a further step towards the liberalisation of world trade and better and more up-to-date rules for it, and for the settlement of disputes about it, has been an important element in enabling Governments to resist the pressure for piecemeal protection.
If the negotiations had failed—and at times an outcome as successful as the one that has been achieved seemed very far from a foregone conclusion—there were real grounds for fears that the alternative would have been steadily increasing protectionist actions by Governments. That the negotiations succeeded was due very largely to the contribution from the United States side and, in particular, from Ambassador Strauss. Many people regard his appointment by President Carter as the special trade negotiator as probably the main turning point of the negotiations.
I also pay a compliment to those who have negotiated on behalf of the EEC and those unsung heroes, the officials of the Department of Trade, who played a very substantial part in keeping the negotiations moving.
I now touch on the most important elements of the package agreed. Industrial tariffs are to be cut by somewhat under a third over a period of eight years. That average naturally conceals considerably different tariff bargains between the main negotiating partners. The most far-reaching is probably the bargain between the EEC and the United States, with clearly balanced cuts of about 30 per cent. on each side, where the cutting process was pursued as far as the negotiators judged practically possible. The outcome of the negotiation with Japan, with cuts on applied tariffs of 25 per cent. on their part and 20 per cent. on the Community's part, was a little disappointing.
The industrial tariff cuts offered by Australia and New Zealand to the Community are relatively modest, but they reflect the fact that the reciprocal concessions by the Community had to be found, and that they were found with some difficulty in the agriculture sector. I shall return to that aspect of the negotiations later.
(Citation: HC Deb, 29 June 1979, c832)


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An Elegant Epigraph: Galway Kinnell on Inspiration and the Poetic Process
Galway Kinnell was born on this date (February 1) in 1927. In his honor, readers are reminded of the following comments by Kinnell concerning his sources of inspiration and the initiation of the process for writing a poem.
"I produce most and write best when I have no schedule at all, when I'm able to wander where whim carries me—both physically, through a city or countryside, and mentally, in reading, talking, scribbling, thinking, whatever. Poems don't come to me often when solicited. More usually it's when I turn my back on them, and become absorbed in something that is not a poem—a thing, a creature, a moment, a face, a fantasy, a memory—that an understanding happens between me and that other, an understanding that brings with it its own words. Then I don't feel I'm making up the poem; rather my pen has to race to keep up with words that seem to be given." — Galway Kinnell
—From an interview of Galway Kinnell with Don Bredes and David Brooks, which first appeared in Colorado State Review and is included in Galway Kinnell's Walking Down the Stairs: Selections from Interviews (University of Michigan Press, 1978).
["An Elegant Epigraph" serves as the recurring title for a continuing series of posts with entries containing brief but engaging, eloquent, and elegant excerpts of prose commentary introducing subjects particularly appropriate to discussion of literature, creative writing, or other relevant matters addressing complementary forms of art and music. These apposite extracts usually concern topics specifically relating to poetry or poetics. Each piece is accompanied by a recommendation that readers seek out the original publication to obtain further information and to become familiar with the complete context in which the chosen quotation appeared as well as other views presented by its author.]
Readers are invited to visit other posts on "One Poets Note's" regarding Galway Kinnell, which include audio or video of the poet performing: "Galway Kinnell: A Question of Life or Death" and "Galway Kinnell: The Book of Nightmares."
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Nigeria's military has stated that the reason they have been unable to score a decisive victory over Boko Haram is because the group "rebranded" itself.
According to the army chief, the original Boko Haram that started insurgency in the Northeast has been decisively dealt with "but they keep changing their names like we have Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) now.
"I want to tell you that, even if we finish with ISWAP, those people behind these things will snowball to another name and they will go on and on," Buratai continued.
The article is captioned "Why anti-terror war is difficult to win, by Buratai."
It is quite scary to realize that Nigeria's army and the nation itself is in the hands of this type of clearly confused army chief.
What has the brand name of a terrorist organisation got to do with its battle capacity?
Does it use the brand name to take loans from the bank? Or does it use the brand name to get better spiritual powers from voodoo men?
Perhaps a commentator can explain what the CoAS meant by implying that allegedly rebranding from Boko Haram to ISWAP brought the "defeated" terrorists back to life, and how when he defeats ISWAP, its ghosts will again rebrand and come back again and "on and on" as he said.
One wonders what similar wondrous directives in this line of convoluted and astonishing thinking Buratai gives our soldiers.
Perhaps we need to change the name of the Nigerian army to get an actual victory? The Nigerian Comedy?
It has become rather obvious that Buratai is obsessed with names, brands and images. The army's disturbing focus on media men and engaging in media wars over the actual Boko Haram battle makes this clear. Perhaps Buratai, perplexingly on extended tenure, would have been better placed as social media spokesperson of the Nigerian army, or Chief of Brand Imaging Matters, CoBIM.
Now just to clarify for Nigerian civilian readers and our soldiers in the battlefront. "Boko Haram" was never the name of the group. "Boko Haram" is a nickname Nigerians gave to the group first nicknamed "Nigerian Taliban" by intelligence departments under Obasanjo. The nickname "Boko Haram" was given by us to the group in reference to its condemnation of "Boko"= westernization/western education as being 'Haram"= unIslamic. Because they preached with that phrase often, we called them so.
Similarly "ISWAP" is not its new name. OMG! I crack up as I write this. "ISWAP" which means "Islamic State in West African Province," is an international intelligence moniker used to refer to the ISIS-linked terror groups operating in West Africa.
"Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad", which means "People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad". This is Shekau's faction.
"Jamaa'atu Ahlis-Sunnati Lid-Da'wati Wal-Jihad". This is the deadly Sheikh Bukar Al-Barnawi faction. Different from the Shekau faction. this Barnawi-led group does not indiscriminately stage attacks on civilians but only levies them.
"Jama'atu Ansarul-Muslimiina Fii Bilaadis-Sudaan", aka "JAMBS", meaning "Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in the Lands Of the Sudan/Black Africa", the faction of Abu Usamah Al-Ansori/Muhammad Haruna Bello.
At this point it is quite disturbing to see the false and rather meaningless information being spewed by the man who is in charge of military and civilian lives in Nigeria.
Continuing to defend the initial false news of a defeat of Boko Haram, by claiming that the defeated terrorists simply rebrand and become armed and capable again is an insult at Nigeria's collective intelligence and a latest blatant adventure into politics by the Nigerian military which should be professional and apolitical.
Boko Haram is not defeated and never was. Boko Haram affiliated with ISIS and got nicknamed "ISWAP" since Abubakar Shekau made a pledge in March of 2015 under the then Jonathan government, before Buhari took over and while Buratai was into army procurement business and purchasing his properties in Dubai and not yet army chief. The affiliation was meant to be deadly, not the name. They did not rebrand, they simply became affiliated with ISIS.
And at this point, let us even look at ISIS or "IS" from where the "IS" in "ISWAP" comes. ISIS is not even the name of the terror organisation in the Levant. It's real adopted name is "ad-Dawlah al-Islāmiyah fī 'l-ʿIrāq wa-sh-Shām". ISIS and ISIL are interpretative monikers given by intelligent organisations.
The name conscientious IS-detractor Arabs gave ISIS was "Daesh," which is an insult and can mean felon or dust. Thus smart Arabs gave the group a debasing name to help decrease its popularity. This is the opposite of what the Nigerian military is doing by seeking the use of names to increase the group's reputation.
It is time for Buratai to retire or be retired.
It is past time for a total overhaul of all Nigeria's service chiefs.
The presidency should think first about protecting Nigerian lives and not their personal political security.
We can no longer tolerate what can only be described a Tramadolized security setup.
We are tired of dying for nothing!


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2020 Native nutrition conference
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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community led the Seeds of Native Health campaign. The tribe convened several strategic partners with expertise in nutrition, food production, public health, education, policy, and law.
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) committed $11 million to improve the nutrition of Native Americans through its Seeds of Native Health campaign. The SMSC is a federally recognized, sovereign Dakota tribe located southwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The SMSC has a deep-seated tradition of helping other tribes and Native American people. This campaign represents a new extension of its long history of philanthropy, by committing a portion of its annual charitable giving to a dedicated purpose. Having donated more than $325 million since opening its Gaming Enterprise in the 1990s, as well as loaning more than $500 million to other tribes, the SMSC is the largest philanthropic benefactor for Indian Country nationally and one of the largest charitable givers in Minnesota.
The SMSC hopes the campaign will build on the work already being done to improve Native American nutrition, bring more resources to the table, and ultimately put Indian Country on the path to develop a comprehensive strategy, which does not exist today.
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is the global authority on diabetes and since 1940 has been committed to its mission to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. To tackle this global public health crisis, the ADA drives discovery in research to treat, manage and prevent all types of diabetes, as well as to search for cures; raise voices to the urgency of the diabetes epidemic; and provide support and advocacy for people living with diabetes, those at risk of developing diabetes, and the health care professionals who serve them.
The ADA's What Can I Eat program has demonstrated early successes in both rural and urban African-American communities. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community provided a $225,000 challenge grant to the ADA to adapt the program in culturally appropriate ways for use in Native communities. Pilot programs are planned for six sites across Indian Country. It will involve improving dietary risk factors within the cultural, social, historical and environmental context of daily life in those communities. The ADA will partner with a research university to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the program in Native settings. If the program is successful, the program could be expanded across Indian Country.
The American Heart Association is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. It teams with millions of volunteers to fund innovative research, fight for stronger public health policies and provide lifesaving tools and information to prevent and treat these diseases. Through Voices for Healthy Kids, a joint initiative of the American Heart Association and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the AHA is working with communities across the country to increase access to healthy foods and safe places to be active.
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American Indian Cancer Foundation
The American Indian Cancer Foundation (AICAF) is a Native-governed nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the burden of cancer for Native Americans by improving access to prevention, early detection, treatment, and survivor support. The health organization partners with tribal and urban community members and health care providers to identify and co-create effective, sustainable cancer solutions.
AICAF partnered with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) and American Heart Association (AHA) starting in 2017 on the Fertile Ground Campaign, which provided grants, leadership development, and technical assistance, and supported movement-building activities that promote Native-led health advocacy. AICAF served as the intermediary partner for the campaign's Fertile Ground Grant Program, administering the program and providing technical assistance to grantees. AICAF also provided technical assistance for the campaign's Policy Innovation Fund.
AmeriCorps VISTA, operated by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency, is the national service program established specifically to help alleviate poverty. Founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965 as the domestic version of the Peace Corps, VISTA taps the skills, talents and passion of more than 8,000 Americans annually to build the capacity of nonprofit organizations or local government agencies to carry out programs that tackle poverty.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community partnered with the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative to create a cadre of "Native Food Sovereignty Fellows." The 21 initial fellows will be AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers working in teams in 10 low-resource Native American communities to establish and stabilize food sovereignty efforts, food systems, and tribal economies that build economic opportunities around food and agriculture. The SMSC provided a $200,000 gift to fund the cost-share for VISTA members' living allowance in the first year of the program. This represented the first time in VISTA's 52-year history in which a tribe provided funding to deploy VISTA members nationally.
Casey Family Programs is the nation's largest operating foundation focused on safely reducing the need for foster care and supporting communities for children and families across the country. Founded in 1966, the foundation collaborates with communities at local, state, tribal and national levels to nurture the safety and success of every child.
Casey Family Foundations contributed $20,000 to the Healthy Children Healthy Nations Fund, established by Seeds of Native Health and Better Way Foundation. This collaborative fund was the first donor-advised fund dedicated to supporting the innovation and expansion of early childhood development and childhood nutrition programs in Minnesota's Native communities. The fund awarded grants to tribal governments and Native nonprofits in Minnesota for promising models, capacity building, knowledge sharing and effective programming to help Native children thrive in reservation and urban settings.
Better Way Foundation
Better Way Foundation, a family foundation rooted in catholic social values, invests in systemic, holistic and evidence-based approaches that support the positive development of all children. It helps others create healthy, sustainable, supportive environments where children can properly develop, learn and thrive. The foundation's partners are finding a better way to build a future where child well-being contributes to strong families and communities.
Better Way Foundation and the Seeds of Native Health campaign each committed up to $85,000 to fund the development of a strategic plan to improve early childhood development (ECD) and childhood nutrition in Minnesota's Native communities. The plan identified best practices and promising models; determined critical needs in Native communities around these issues; and built consensus around strategies and funding recommendations to improve the well-being of Minnesota's Native children and future generations. This project resulted in producing an action plan in late 2017 to strengthen Native ECD and childhood nutrition efforts in Minnesota.
Center for Indian Country Development at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the 11 other Federal Reserve Banks serve specific regions of the country foster the stability, integrity and efficiency of the nation's monetary, financial and payments systems to promote optimal economic performance and maintain public confidence. The Minneapolis Fed's Center for Indian Country Development (CICD) encourages attainment of economic development goals for self-governing communities of American Indians in the United States. It provides energy and coordination to Indian Country development initiatives across the Federal Reserve System and takes a lead role in forging Federal Reserve partnerships with other national and regional organizations.
The CICD served as an academic research and convening partner in Seeds of Native Health's Healthy Children, Healthy Nations initiative with the Better Way Foundation.
First Nations Development Institute
A 35-year-old economic justice organization, First Nations Development Institute is the only Native American-controlled nonprofit dedicated to asset-based, sustainable development. First Nations is committed to building healthy economies in Indian Country based on a strategy that puts Native American communities in control of their assets. It supports comprehensive initiatives that translate assets into jobs, health, education and more.
Founded in 1980, First Nations began its national grantmaking program in 1993. Through 2014, it has successfully managed 974 grants totaling $22.2 million to Native American projects and organizations in 37 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. Territory American Samoa.
In 2002 First Nations launched the Native Agriculture and Food Systems Initiative (NAFSI), which strengthens Native American food systems in an effort to eliminate food insecurity, build the health of communities and support entrepreneurship and economic development.
In the initial stage of the campaign, First Nations received $1.4 million from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community for re-granting to projects relating to food access, food sovereignty, and community capacity building. The nonprofit was also a partner on the Fertile Ground Campaign, which provided grants, leadership development, and technical assistance, and supported movement-building activities that promote Native-led health advocacy. First Nations administered grant-making for the campaign's Policy Innovation Fund, the largest pool of funding ever created for grant-making in direct support of Native nutrition and health policy work.
Johns Hokpins University Center for American Indian Health
Established in 1991 and based at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Center for American Indian Health (CAIH) works in partnership with tribes to raise their health status and health leadership to the highest possible level. The center's innovative programs are now reaching more than 100 tribal communities across the country, addressing critical issues such as obesity, suicide, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, early childhood development, educational attainment, and access to healthy food.
CAIH implemented Healthy Futures, a comprehensive pilot program designed to significantly improve health and nutrition in tribal communities. The collaboration included a $250,000 grant from the SMSC through its Seeds of Native Health philanthropic campaign to improve Native American nutrition; a $150,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation; and support from the Michael and Ellen Kullman family.
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger
Founded in 1985, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national nonprofit organization working to end hunger in the United States and Israel. Through its three interrelated strategies – advocacy and education, partnership grant making and strategic initiatives – MAZON is acting to ensure that hungry people have access to the nutritious food they need today and working to develop and advance long-term solutions so that no one goes hungry tomorrow. MAZON's Rural and Remote Initiative is committed to reducing hunger and increasing access to nutritious food in rural and Native American communities throughout the U.S.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and MAZON jointly funded the Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative's model tribal food code project. This was an unprecedented coalition that brought together a prominent university, Native American tribe, and national Jewish nonprofit to advance an innovative solution to a systemic national problem.
Notah Begay III Foundation
The Notah Begay III Foundation (NB3F) is the only national, Native American-led nonprofit organization dedicated solely to the issue of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes prevention for Native American children. Since 2009 the nonprofit has served 24,000 Native American children and families in 13 states by investing more than $7.5 million in the development of evidence-based and model sports, nutrition, health and wellness programs, food access pilots, and research. Additionally, NB3F has provided more than $1.8 million in grants to support obesity and diabetes prevention for Native American youth in 13 states.
As a part of the campaign, NB3F received $1.1 million from the SMSC to provide grants that increased access to healthy food and nutrition education among Native American youth.
University of Arkansas School of Law's Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative
The University of Arkansas School of Law's Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative is the first of its kind nationally, focusing on enhancing food, agriculture, health and wellness, and business and economic development; youth and professional education in food and agriculture; strategic planning and technical assistance, research and publications in the areas of health, nutrition policy, traditional knowledge; financial markets and asset management; and tribal governance, law and policy.
Seeds of Native Health supported a landmark project to develop a long-needed, comprehensive set of model food and agriculture codes to be customized and adopted by tribal nations. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's leading gift of $250,000 through Seeds of Native Health and MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger's gift of $50,000 through its Rural and Remote Initiative supported the first phase of an anticipated three-year project.
The University of Minnesota is one of the top research and educational institutions in the country, with extensive competencies in agriculture, food science, public health, nutrition, and Native American culture. The university and the SMSC have had a deep relationship for more than two decades.
The university has served as the convening partner for a series of annual conferences on Native American nutrition; developed appropriate cultural interfaces between academic research and its application by Native communities; and created a repository of best practices and national expertise.
Seeds of Native Health is supported by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
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Fiesta Bowl | Defense keeps punchless Buckeyes in game for while
Tim May
GLENDALE, Ariz. " Ohio State failed to make an impression on offense from beginning to end.
If it had been a heavyweight bout, it would have been called after three rounds for lack of punch from the team in white. If the OSU offense were a fish, it would have been a flounder.
It couldn't run, and it couldn't throw. The Buckeyes' defense kept their team in the game most of the way, but Deshaun Watson " the runner-up in Heisman Trophy voting " couldn't be contained all game long.
Gareon Conley gave the Buckeyes their first shot at making it a game with an interception on Clemson's second play from scrimmage, but the setup at the Tigers' 33-yard line was squandered when Tyler Durbin missed a 47-yard field-goal attempt. Malik Hooker thwarted a Clemson scoring threat in the second quarter with a running interception in the end zone. Linebacker Raekwon McMillan was in on 15 tackles, including a sack.
Unsung workers
The defensive line did a decent job of creating pressure on Watson at times, and it was a major part of a goal-line stand midway through the third quarter when Clemson first threatened to go up by 24. But the dam finally broke.
Strategically speaking
The Buckeyes came out throwing for the most part, but that didn't work. They also opted to run several side-to-side plays that Clemson's fast defense ate up more often than not. For some reason, Ohio State didn't try to run straight at the Tigers, at least in the first half. Tailback Mike
Weber had just one carry in the half, for 5 yards, as the emphasis was more on getting the ball to Curtis Samuel and the receivers.
The offensive line had trouble protecting J.T. Barrett again. Although the Tigers were credited with just one sack through the first half, they pressured, harassed and chased Barrett often when he threw, batting away four passes. The passing game's inconsistency continued into the second half, and it was as much on Barrett's shoulders for some just-off-target throws as it was other factors.
Stat that matters
0: Points Ohio State scored. Can't win if you don't score; it's the ultimate stat.
Freshman left guard Michael Jordan suffered an apparent sprain of his right ankle on the second play of the Buckeyes' second possession. He was replaced by Demetrius Knox before returning to play the second half. Linebacker Jerome Baker left in the third quarter, but there was no word on his injury.
2: It was just the second time in 47 bowl games that Ohio State was shut out. The other was in the first, a 20-0 loss to California in the Rose Bowl after the 1920 season.
2: Field goals that Tyler Durbin missed, making him 1 for 5 in his last five attempts.
There is nothing left for the 2016 Buckeyes. The biggest question headed into the offseason is who among the eligible underclassmen " including Raekwon McMillan, Gareon Conley, Marshon Lattimore, Malik Hooker and Curtis Samuel " might leave for the NFL draft.
tmay@dispatch.com
@TIM_MAYsports


THE 20-year-old son of a leading figure in the organic food movement has become the first white British male known to be identified as having joined Isis.
Letts, a keen footballer and highly regarded student, admitted to his parents that he was with Isis in Syria in September 2014.
His father, John, is an organic farmer and archaeobotanist who specialises in growing and milling heritage grains. His mother, Sally, is a former books editor.


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Q: Does the pronoun 'we' contain the listener? I know that the pronoun WE is first person plural.
Does it contain the listener?
When I am referring to a group of people, sometimes it seems to have the listener in the group. Sometimes doesn't.
Can somebody give me a clear definition?

A: There are at least 4 variations of "WE" :
The normal cases are :
(1) "WE" including the speaker & the listener & others.
A Parent telling the other Parent "WE should get ready early tomorrow to go to the Picnic" , with the "WE" including the kids.
(2) "WE" including the speaker & the listener , excluding the others.
The Parent continuing with "WE should hide the snacks until we reach the Picnic Destination" , where the Initial "We" excludes the kids.
(3) "WE" including the speaker & others but excluding the listener.
A neighbour asking about the Picnic , & being told "WE are going to the National Park" , where "WE" excludes the listening neighbour.
The unusual case is :
(4) "WE" including the speaker but excluding the listener & all the others. [[ this is the royal WE ]]
A Monarch (Queen Victoria ?) saying "WE are not amused" , where "WE" is the Monarch.

A: There is no definition; the speaker and listeners must figure out who "we" refers to by context.
In spoken English, the speaker may use open hand gestures to signal an inclusive "we".
In writing, additional words can clarify the degree of exclusivity: "We Canadians ..." or "As parents, we ...". The antecedent may be clear from the preceding text, eg,

Canadians have long loved hockey.  We're learning to love soccer, too.

or

Q: "What are you up to today?"
A: "We're going to the park."

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