Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Semiweekly newspaper from Carthage, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

Bimonthly publication of the San Antonio Chapter of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, containing news and events related to the organization and its members.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Robert Turner. Turner was commissioned as an officer in the Navy in April 1943. He trained as an aeronautical engineer and was assigned to Utility Squadron 2 (VJ-2). Turner discusses the missions his unit performed from target towing to personnel transport. He describes his duties repairing SN-1s and a time when he made emergency repairs on a Grumman Duck. Turner was stationed on several islands before being rotated back to the US. He left active duty in May 1946.

Program for the a performance featured by the Black Academy of Arts and Letters as a part of the Academy's annual summer youth arts program. The performance took place on June 29-30, 2007 at the Dallas Convention Center Theatre Complex.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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.

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "H.R. 928, Improving Government Accountability Act, contains proposals intended to enhance the independence of the inspectors general and to create a Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. This testimony provides information and views about the specific proposals based on GAO's prior work. We believe that effective, ongoing coordination of the federal oversight efforts of GAO and the Inspectors General (IG) is more critical than ever, due to the challenges and risks currently facing our nation including our immediate and long-term fiscal challenges, increasing demands being made for federal programs, and changing risk. Close strategic planning and ongoing coordination of audit efforts between GAO and the IGs would help to enhance the effectiveness and impact of work performed by federal auditors. In May of this year the Comptroller General hosted a meeting with the IGs for the principal purpose of improving the coordination of federal oversight between the IGs and GAO. Working together, and in their respective areas, GAO and the IGs can leverage each other's work and provide valuable input on the broad range of high-risk programs and management challenges across government."

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Ruben Peterson. Peterson grew up in Madrid, Iowa and attended Iowa State College under the Navy’s V-5 Aviation Program, where he enrolled in flight training. He was transferred to the University of Georgia in January 1943 where he continued flight training. After three months he was transferred to Pensacola where he received his wings. He trained in Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers, but he preferred fighter aircraft and volunteered to fly night fighters. In June 1943 Peterson was transferred to Quonset Point, Rhode Island, where the Navy established a base to train night flying on carriers in Grumman Hellcats. He qualified in carrier night flying and was transferred to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He embarked on the USS Independence (CVL-22) on 1 September 1943 and sailed to the South Pacific. While there, he shot down a Japanese bomber, and made bombing runs on freighters and ships near Leyte, flying only in daylight due to Admiral Halsey’s aversion to night carrier missions. Admiral Halsey’s relief had no such reluctance, and night flying became common. He remembers one close call at night in thick fog when he could not locate the …

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Kurt Muller. Muller joined the Marine Corps soon after 7 December 1941. He describes his training as an officer candidate. Muller was sent to the 2nd Marine Division as a replacement and landed on Saipan and Tinian. He describes the brutal combat including a large scale banzai charge on Saipan. Muller was sent to Nagasaki as a part of the occupation and describes the damage caused by the atomic bomb.

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Jerry Weasmer. Weasmer was drafted into the Army in June or July 1943 and sent to Camp Roberts, California for basic training. He sailed from San Francisco in late 1943 on the USS America, a big luxury liner that had been converted to a troop ship, to New Caledonia. Not long after, he was sent to New Zealand and put into a rifle company in the 43rd Infantry Division. He was a replacement and after training in New Zealand, the 43rd was sent to Wewak, New Guinea. After a while, Weasmer transferred to an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon and received additional training on New Guinea. The division was relieved by the Australians and he was shipped to the Philippines on the USS DuPage (APA-41), going ashore at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon on 9 January 1945. Weasmer was in the first wave. As soon as they hit the beach, they received heavy artillery fire. His intelligence and reconnaissance platoon went inland about a mile and a half but saw nothing. The 43rd Division was on the left flank. Weasmer was on Luzon for about five months and provides a good …

The report is about regulatory and policy issues in Broadband over power lines.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Doane. Doane joined the Navy in December of 1942. He completed aviation ordnance school and gunnery school in Oklahoma. He served as a gunner with a night flying outfit in Quonset Point, Rhode Island. He also worked with the radio and radar aboard the plane. He provides some details of practicing in night flights to and from the USS Independence (CVL-22) in the Pacific. In 1944 they participated in the Palau operation and the Battle of the Philippines. Doane provides vivid details of their strike duties against targets in the Philippines and Japan. Doane was later transferred to train in a torpedo bomber. Doan was discharged shortly after the war ended.

Daily newspaper from Altus, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.

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.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Sydney Pinkston. Pinkston joined the National Guard in the 1930s, before he was old enough, but he was paid in cash and no one asked any questions. After the war started, he joined the Army at Fort Sill. From there he was assigned to a muleskinner outfit at Fort Carson, chosen for his size and strength, hoisting 121-pound Howitzer pieces onto mule’s backs. During the 45-day trip to Port Moresby, Pinkston shoveled manure into the ocean, doing so at night so as to avoid detection by submarines. He arrived with the 6th Ranger Battalion and helped train an Australian pack artillery unit. At times, he encountered the enemy, but he was always able to evade them. While participating in campaigns at Luzon and Leyte, Pinkston contracted malaria and worms, the latter treated by fasting, followed by a meal of porridge and castor oil. When the war ended, Pinkston was sent to Japan on occupation duty. He removed his Sixth Army patch, as Tokyo Rose had dispersed misinformation about them that terrified locals. He returned home and remained in the Army until the 1950s. He then helped to form …

Weekly newspaper from Rio Grande City, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Hood of Indianapolis, Indiana. He discusses entering the U.S. Navy in September of 1942 without basic training as he was a college graduate. After being sworn in at Wabash College he was sent to Harvard Business School for Supply Corps for 4 months before being assigned to a ship in Pearl Harbor despite having no sailing training. Mr. hood was assigned to the Cummings DE643, he was supposed to be on the Samuel B. Roberts but the naval officer over him changed his mind last minute and 37 days later the Roberts sunk. While in Tulagi, Mr. Hood was involved in shooting down a Kamikaze plane, even receiving a ribbon for it after the war. He was also involved in the Battle of Okinawa and even saved two shells and years later had them signed by U.S. pilot Paul Tibbets. Mr. Hood was discharged from the Navy on February 28th, 1946, at Santa Ana, California as a Full Lieutenant. He was recalled to the Navy for the Korean War on March 2nd, 1951, and discharged for the final time on March 30th, 1953, as a Lieutenant Commander.

This is the summary report of the third annual Optical Networking Testbed Workshop (ONT3), which brought together leading members of the international advanced research community to address major challenges in creating next generation communication services and technologies. Networking research and development (R&D) communities throughout the world continue to discover new methods and technologies that are enabling breakthroughs in advanced communications. These discoveries are keystones for building the foundation of the future economy, which requires the sophisticated management of extremely large qualities of digital information through high performance communications. This innovation is made possible by basic research and experiments within laboratories and on specialized testbeds. Initial network research and development initiatives are driven by diverse motives, including attempts to solve existing complex problems, the desire to create powerful new technologies that do not exist using traditional methods, and the need to create tools to address specific challenges, including those mandated by large scale science or government agency mission agendas. Many new discoveries related to communications technologies transition to wide-spread deployment through standards organizations and commercialization. These transition paths allow for new communications capabilities that drive many sectors of the digital economy. In the last few years, networking R&D has increasingly focused …

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