The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Poling, Shawn R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: Wylie, Chad
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Poling, Shawn R.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Speed of Presidential and Senate Actions on Supreme Court Nominations, 1900-2006 (open access)

Speed of Presidential and Senate Actions on Supreme Court Nominations, 1900-2006

None
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 2007 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 2007

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 24, 2007
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: Zavodny, Melanie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Zavodny, Melanie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 (open access)

The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Weekly student newspaper published in Hurst, Texas serving the Tarrant County College District that includes school news and information along with advertising.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
2010 Census: Design Shows Progress, but Managing Technology Acquisitions, Temporary Field Staff, and Gulf Region Enumeration Require Attention (open access)

2010 Census: Design Shows Progress, but Managing Technology Acquisitions, Temporary Field Staff, and Gulf Region Enumeration Require Attention

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The decennial census is a Constitutionally-mandated activity that produces data used to apportion congressional seats, redraw congressional districts, and allocate billions of dollars in federal assistance. The Census Bureau (Bureau) estimates the 2010 Census will cost $11.3 billion, making it the most expensive in the nation's history. This testimony discusses the Bureau's progress in preparing for the 2010 Census to (1) implement operations to increase the response rate and control costs; (2) use technology to increase productivity; (3) hire and train temporary staff; and (4) plan an accurate census in areas affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The testimony is based on previously issued GAO reports and work nearing completion in which GAO observed recruiting, hiring, and training practices in the 2006 test, and visited localities that participated in the Local Update of Addresses Dress Rehearsal as well in the Gulf Coast region."
Date: April 24, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007 (open access)

Yoakum Herald-Times (Yoakum, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Yoakum, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations (open access)

Iraq: Oil-for-Food Program, Illicit Trade, and Investigations

This report discusses the "oil-for-food" program (OFFP) as the centerpiece of a long-standing U.N. Security Council effort to alleviate human suffering in Iraq while maintaining key elements of the 1991 Gulf war-related sanctions regime. The program, in operation from December 1996 until March 2003, is detailed.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: Blanchard, Christopher M. & Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 2007 (open access)

The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 24, 2007

Weekly newspaper from Tulia, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 24, 2007 (open access)

The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 109, No. 20, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 24, 2007

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 24, 2007
Creator: Bush, Michael
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (open access)

Nuclear Weapons: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

None
Date: May 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
SAFETY BASIS DESIGN DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IMECE2007-42747 (open access)

SAFETY BASIS DESIGN DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES IMECE2007-42747

'Designing in Safety' is a desired part of the development of any new potentially hazardous system, process, or facility. It is a required part of nuclear safety activities as specified in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Order 420.B, Facility Safety. This order addresses the design of nuclear related facilities developed under federal regulation IOCFR830, Nuclear Safety Management. IOCFR830 requires that safety basis documentation be provided to identify how nuclear safety is being adequately addressed as a condition for system operation (e.g., the safety basis). To support the development of the safety basis, a safety analysis is performed. Although the concept of developing a design that addresses 'Safety is simple, the execution can be complex and challenging. This paper addresses those complexities and challenges for the design activity of a system to treat sludge, a corrosion product of spent nuclear fuel, at DOE's Hanford Site in Washington State. The system being developed is referred to as the Sludge Treatment Project (STP). This paper describes the portion of the safety analysis that addresses the selection of design basis events using the experience gained from the STP and the development of design requirements for safety features associated with those events. Specifically, the …
Date: September 24, 2007
Creator: GW, RYAN
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with G. C. Petit, October 24, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with G. C. Petit, October 24, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with G C Petit. Petit joined the Navy in 1943. He served aboard the USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) in the deck force and gunnery gang, beginning in 1944. Petit describes life aboard the ship. They were apart of task unit Taffy 3. They traveled through the Pacific, participating in battles at Saipan, the Philippines and Leyte Gulf. He provides some details of these battles, including the sinking of Gambier Bay during the Battle off Samar in October of 1944. He provides some detail of his time adrift in the water before being rescued. In 1945 he served aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). They transported troops from England to the U.S. He was discharged in early 1946.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Petit, G. C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 32, Number 34, Pages 5225-5522, August 24, 2007 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 32, Number 34, Pages 5225-5522, August 24, 2007

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: August 24, 2007
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Border Security: The Complexity of the Challenge (open access)

Border Security: The Complexity of the Challenge

This report is the first in three-part series of CRS reports that make use of analytical frameworks to better understand complex problems in border security and cast them in terms that facilitate the consideration of alternative policies and practices.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: Lake, Jennifer E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Murray Brown, October 24, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Murray Brown, October 24, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Murray Brown. Brown dropped out of high school and joined the Navy in November 1941. He was assigned to the ammunition ship USS Pyro (AE-1), on which he served for two years as a boatswain’s mate. Brown sailed throughout the Pacific, from the Aleutian Islands to Espiritu Santo. After two years on the Pyro, he was transferred to the USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) as an officer in charge of the second division. In the fall of 1944, when the Gambier Bay was attacked in the Battle off Samar, Brown ordered his men to abandon ship. He was afraid that he would go down with the ship, but he carefully climbed down the monkey lines while the ship was at a forty-five degree angle. It would be two days and nights before he was rescued, and men all around him were going mad from dehydration. For their safety as well as his own, Brown confiscated their knives and tossed them away. Following his rescue, Brown was reassigned to the USS Knox (APA-46), but he developed a leg malady that put him in sick bay until the end of the …
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Brown, Murray
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Federal Transit Benefits Program: Ineffective Controls Result in Fraud and Abuse by Federal Workers (open access)

Federal Transit Benefits Program: Ineffective Controls Result in Fraud and Abuse by Federal Workers

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Under the federal transit benefits program, federal employees receive transit benefits (e.g., Metrocheks) to encourage them to commute to work via public transportation. Based on information provided by the Department of Transportation, as of July 2006, the National Capital Region had 120,000 participants claiming roughly $140 million in benefits. Recently, inspectors general (IG) of various agencies have found numerous prior instances of fraud, waste, and abuse in this federal program. Based on both the significance of these IG findings and the amount of federal money spent on transit benefits, GAO was asked to (1) investigate allegations that federal employees in the National Capital Region are involved in fraud and abuse related to the transit benefits program, (2) identify the potential causes of any fraud or abuse that is detected, and (3) estimate the magnitude of fraud and abuse in the National Capital Region in 2006. To address these objectives, GAO identified federal employees selling their transit benefits on the Internet and obtained additional data from these sellers' employing agencies to determine whether more widespread problems existed. GAO also obtained the policies and procedures governing the transit benefits program …
Date: April 24, 2007
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with G. C. Petit, October 24, 2007 transcript

Oral History Interview with G. C. Petit, October 24, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with G C Petit. Petit joined the Navy in 1943. He served aboard the USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) in the deck force and gunnery gang, beginning in 1944. Petit describes life aboard the ship. They were apart of task unit Taffy 3. They traveled through the Pacific, participating in battles at Saipan, the Philippines and Leyte Gulf. He provides some details of these battles, including the sinking of Gambier Bay during the Battle off Samar in October of 1944. He provides some detail of his time adrift in the water before being rescued. In 1945 he served aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). They transported troops from England to the U.S. He was discharged in early 1946.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Petit, G. C.
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Feliz, October 24, 2007 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Feliz, October 24, 2007

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with George Feliz. Feliz was drafted into the Navy in 1943. Upon completion of signal and radio school, Feliz spent a month on an aviation crash boat before becoming a plank owner of the USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73), as a signalman striker. He initially sailed to Pearl Harbor and recalls anchoring directly above the sunken USS Arizona (BB-39). The Gambier Bay earned its first battle star at Saipan, where Feliz observed the action from the starboard catwalk, prepared to provide emergency steering as needed. Later, while sailing to Hollandia, Feliz spotted a ship on which his cousin was a quartermaster and managed to communicate with him by light and semaphore. In the fall of 1944 when the Gambier Bay was struck, Feliz abandoned ship on an empty stomach, feeling extremely queasy when he hit the water. As time went on, he was surrounded by delirious sailors who had consumed too much salt water. After two days and two nights, he was eventually spotted floating in an airplane tire innertube. Feliz was reassigned to the USS Siboney (CVE-112), where he remained until the end of the war.
Date: October 24, 2007
Creator: Feliz, George
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 30, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 24, 2007 (open access)

The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 30, Ed. 1, Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Tri-weekly student newspaper from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: January 24, 2007
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 142, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 24, 2007 (open access)

Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 115, No. 142, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Daily newspaper from Perry, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 24, 2007
Creator: Brown, Gloria
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History