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Supporting Arctic Science 1: A Summary of the White House Arctic Science Ministerial Meeting September 28, 2016- Washington, DC (open access)

Supporting Arctic Science 1: A Summary of the White House Arctic Science Ministerial Meeting September 28, 2016- Washington, DC

Summary report of the first-ever meeting of the Arctic Science Ministerial. Includes meeting list, participating countries (24 countries and EU), White House fact sheet, media reports and a Joint Statement of Ministers. Includes goals, points of contact, policy, research initiatives and research infrastructure.
Date: September 28, 2016
Creator: United States. Arctic Research Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transgender Service in the U.S. Military: An Implementation Handbook (open access)

Transgender Service in the U.S. Military: An Implementation Handbook

This is a handbook to aid transgender Service members with their transition, assist commanders with rules and regulations, and teach Service members of polices.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0113 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0113

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Procedures for requesting video surveillance of special education settings pursuant to Education Code section 29.022 (RQ-0103-KP).
Date: September 13, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0112 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0112

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the State is required to assume liability when a local retirement system created pursuant to title 109 ofthe Texas Civil Statutes is unable to meet its financial obligations (RQ-0101-KP).
Date: September 6, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings (open access)

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Conference. The notes and presentation focus on the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Public Utility Rulebook Updates: September 19, 2016] (open access)

[Public Utility Rulebook Updates: September 19, 2016]

Memorandum providing updates to rulebook related to public utilities with revised pages containing amendments and instructions for inserting the new pages into existing books.
Date: September 9, 2016
Creator: Texas. Public Utility Commission.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Creativity Connects: Trends and Conditions Affecting U.S. Artists (open access)

Creativity Connects: Trends and Conditions Affecting U.S. Artists

This report analyzes the demographic shifts within the population of growing and diversifying arts in the general public.
Date: September 2016
Creator: Center for Cultural Innovation for National Endowment for the Arts
System: The UNT Digital Library
Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden (open access)

Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden

Declassified and heavily redacted intelligence report. From Executive Summary: "In June 2013, former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden perpetrated the largest and most damaging public release of classified information in U.S. intelligence history. In August 2014, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) directed Committee staff to carry out a comprehensive review of the unauthorized disclosures. The aim of the review was to allow the Committee to explain to other Members of Congress--and, where possible, the American people--how this breach occurred, what the U.S> Government knows about the man who committed it, and whether the security shortfalls it highlighted had been remedied."
Date: September 15, 2016
Creator: United States. Congress. House. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
System: The UNT Digital Library
Municipal & Industrial Wastewater Outfalls (open access)

Municipal & Industrial Wastewater Outfalls

This is used to identify the geographical locations of wastewater outfalls within the state of Texas.
Date: September 27, 2016
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Warren Bateman, September 6, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Warren Bateman, September 6, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Warren Bateman. Bateman joined the Navy in October of 1942. He went to Great Lakes, Illinois for boot camp. From there he went to Miami, Florida as Third Class Storekeeper. He was then assigned to the USS PC-1126 that was being built in Bay City, Michigan. In 1943 his crew escorted a convoy from Miami to Panama, then to San Diego where he was transferred to the USS Roberts (DE-749). In January 1944 he went to midshipman’s school at Northwestern in Chicago and received his commission as ensign in May 1944. From January through December 1945 Bateman served on Fleet Admiral Nimitz’s CINCPAC staff detachment on Guam. He was one of three ensigns serving as Nimitz’s censors. He served as Chief Censor and Education Officer. He had personal contact with Admiral Nimitz and provides detail of his interactions with him. He later became a Intelligence Officer serving 20 years in the Navy.
Date: September 6, 2016
Creator: Bateman, Warren
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles White, September 8, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Charles White, September 8, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Charles White. White joined the Navy in June, 1945 and went to Great Lakes for basic training. He caught his ship, the USS Pawnee (ATF-74) at Okinawa in August, 1945 and began pulling ships off the beach after a typhoon. They also tugged barges around Japan for a few weeks after the surrender, the Philippines, too. White returned to the US and was discharged in August, 1946.
Date: September 8, 2016
Creator: White, Charles
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Fred Heyer, September 21, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fred Heyer, September 21, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Fred Heyer. Heyer joined the Navy in March 1945. He went to Great Lakes in Chicago for boot camp. He provides detail of his boot camp experience. From there he went to the U.S. Navy Receiving Station in Seattle where he received and dispatched Army personnel. He then served aboard the USS Clamour (AM-160) beginning October 1945. They were working to put the ship out of commission. His work aboard the ship was clerical, office work, and bringing the crews’ personnel records up-to-date and other duties to de-commission the ship. He was discharged in July 1946. He later re-enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve program December 1946, and was recalled to active duty in January 1947. He was assigned as a station keeper at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Millington, Tennessee. He worked in a school for veterans assisting with automotive repair, clerical work and helping veterans organize their service activities. He was released from active duty in August 1948, and released from the Naval Reserve in July 1950.
Date: September 21, 2016
Creator: Heyer, Fred
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Richard Werner, September 23, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Richard Werner, September 23, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Richard E. Werner. Werner joined the Army in September of 1942. He served in the Medical Detachment with the 1106th Engineer Combat Battalion, 7th Army. They were transferred to England, and participated in infantry combat and built pontoon bridges during the Normandy invasion and traveled as far as the Rhine River when Germany surrendered on 8 May 1945. Werner served with the occupation in Germany and returned to the US in November, receiving his discharge.
Date: September 23, 2016
Creator: Werner, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert J. Gettelfinger, September 18, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert J. Gettelfinger, September 18, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert J Gettelfinger. Gettelfinger joined the Army Air Forces in June of 1942. He completed Cadet School in San Antonio. He served as a C-46 pilot and was deployed to Chabua, India in 1943. He recalls flying the Hump, transporting fuel, munitions and supervisory staff to Kunming, China. Gettelfinger also completed missions to Burma. He returned to the US in November of 1944 and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He continued his service in the Air Force as a career officer for 27 years, retiring as a colonel in the Strategic Air Command.
Date: September 18, 2016
Creator: Gettelfinger, Robert J
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Horace Johnson, September 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Horace Johnson, September 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Horace Johnson. Johnson joined the Navy in February 1942 and received basic training in Norfolk. Upon completion, he was assigned to the Seabees and sent to Port Hueneme. From there he set sail for the Pacific, where he constructed airstrips and aviation refueling stations in Suva, Funafuti, and Samoa. He returned to the States on 8 June 1944, and his battalion was decommissioned. Johnson did a second tour, stationed at an advanced base construction depot on Manus. He volunteered for the invasion of Luzon aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3). On 12 January, a suicide plane killed several men aboard ship, and they were buried at sea. Johnson returned home and was discharged in November 1945. He stayed in the construction industry and traveled all over the world building roads.
Date: September 17, 2016
Creator: Johnson, Horace
System: The Portal to Texas History
Meeting Minutes for TXSSAR Arlington Chapter #7, September 10, 2016 (open access)

Meeting Minutes for TXSSAR Arlington Chapter #7, September 10, 2016

A document that records the meeting minutes from the September 10 meeting of the Arlington Chapter of TXSSAR. Sections are given to each formal portion of the meeting's proceedings and smaller notes are included beneath the larger headers.
Date: September 10, 2016
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus on food and fun, not stress and driving at the fair (open access)

Focus on food and fun, not stress and driving at the fair

News release about DART transportation options to the State Fair of Texas.
Date: September 12, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tigers and Panthers Can DART to Classic October 1 (open access)

Tigers and Panthers Can DART to Classic October 1

News release promoting DART transportation options to the "State Fair Classic" football game between Grambling State Tigers and Prairie View A&M.
Date: September 19, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fight crime: spend an evening with DART Police (open access)

Fight crime: spend an evening with DART Police

News release about a "National Night Out" event to be hosted by the DART Police. National Night Out is an annual, nation-wide crime-prevention and community-police bonding program.
Date: September 29, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART's Gary Thomas Named Outstanding Public Transit Manager (open access)

DART's Gary Thomas Named Outstanding Public Transit Manager

News release about DART's president/executive director, Gary Thomas, being honored by the APTA as an outstanding public transportation manager.
Date: September 1, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Former X Factor Contestant Kicks Off DART Music Station Series in Plano (open access)

Former X Factor Contestant Kicks Off DART Music Station Series in Plano

News release about a music performance by former X-Factor contestant, Panda Ross, at DART's Downtown Plano Station.
Date: September 12, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
New DART Transit Solution Available in Collin County (open access)

New DART Transit Solution Available in Collin County

News release about DART's subsidized taxi service for elderly and disabled persons living in Collin County to account for the withdrawal of the Texoma Are Paratransit Service.
Date: September 20, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
D-Link and Dallas Farmers Market are throwing a party, and you're invited (open access)

D-Link and Dallas Farmers Market are throwing a party, and you're invited

News release about DART offering free D-Link service to the Dallas Farmers' Market.
Date: September 13, 2016
Creator: Ball, Mark & Wilkins, Rebecca
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART Says Plan Ahead for TX-OU Oct. 8 (open access)

DART Says Plan Ahead for TX-OU Oct. 8

News release about expected delays in DART services to be caused by high volumes of traffic going to and from the 2016 "Red River Showdown" football game between the University of Texas and Oklahoma University.
Date: September 26, 2016
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History