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Information Security: VA Needs to Address Long-Standing Challenges (open access)

Information Security: VA Needs to Address Long-Standing Challenges

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to face long-standing challenges in effectively implementing its information security program. Specifically, from fiscal year 2007 through 2013, VA has consistently had weaknesses in key information security control areas (see table)."
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Supporting Material for: Thermochemical Investigations of Solute Transfer into Ionic Liquid Solvents: Updated Abraham Model Equation Coefficients for Solute Activity Coefficient and Partition Coefficient Predictions (open access)

Supporting Material for: Thermochemical Investigations of Solute Transfer into Ionic Liquid Solvents: Updated Abraham Model Equation Coefficients for Solute Activity Coefficient and Partition Coefficient Predictions

This document includes supplemental material to an article titled "Thermochemical Investigations of Solute Transfer into Ionic Liquid Solvents: Updated Abraham Model Equation Coefficients for Solute Activity Coefficient and Partition Coefficient Predictions," published in Physics and Chemistry of Liquids.
Date: February 25, 2014
Creator: Stephens, Timothy W.; Chou, Vicky; Quay, Amanda N.; Shen, Connie; Dabadge, Nishu; Tian, Amy et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1068 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: GA-1068

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, Greg Abbott, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Implementation of section 601.123 of the Transportation Code, concerning the establishment of financial responsibility by making a deposit with the county judge (RQ-1176-GA).
Date: June 25, 2014
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wilbur Vantine, March 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Wilbur Vantine, March 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Wilbur Vantine. In June, 1943, Vantine joined the Merchant Marine. He delivered aviation fuel to Milne Bay in New Guinea on his first voyage and bombs to New Caledonia before returning to the Merchant Marine Academy in New York and earning a commission in the Navy Reserve in April, 1945. Once he graduated, Vantine was assigned to a liberty ship and went to Liverpool. He was in New York on VJ Day. In 1957, he became a Panama Canal pilot and retired in 1997.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Vantine, Wilbur
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Paul Weiblen, November 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Paul Weiblen, November 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Paul Weiblen. Weiblen signed up to be a flying cadet in the Army Air Forces when he was almost finished with high school. In May 1945, he was inducted into the Army and trained as an artilleryman. He was still in training when the war ended and was sent to Germany with occupation forces in November, 1945 and worked in a medical dispensary around Nuremburg. Weiblen managed to visit the war crimes trial at Nuremburg one afternoon and heard Russians reading evidence into the record. He was discharged in 1947 and went to school. Before the Korean War ended, Weiblen served as a case officer in Korea for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Date: November 25, 2014
Creator: Weiblen, Paul W
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Esensee, March 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Esensee, March 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gilbert Esensee. Esensee was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, on 6 August 1925, into a family of eight children. In 1944, he joined the Army and took basic training at Camp Roberts, California. He was then sent to La Havre, France, where he joined the 29th Infantry Division, 175th Infantry Regiment. Esensee was involved in combat action along the Roer River, where he was wounded. He also tells of German soldiers swimming the Elbe River, to avoid capture by Russian troops.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Esensee, Gilbert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cecil Groves, March 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Cecil Groves, March 25, 2014

The National Museum of The Pacific War presents an oral interview with Cecil Groves. Groves was born in a small hamlet in Arkansas in 1920. He quit school in seventh grade to help his father make a living for a family of ten. Drafted in 1941, he underwent basic training at Miami Beach. He was sent to Fresno, California where he was assigned to the Signal Corps and attended telephone linesman school. Completing school, he was sent to New Guinea where he was assigned to the communication section in the 54th Troop Carrier Wing. He tells of being assigned to various bases including the Port Moresby Airfield Complex, Clark Field in the Philippines, and Tachikawa, Japan. He was discharged in 1945.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Groves, Cecil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Galvin, August 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with William Galvin, August 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with William Galvin. Galvin joined the Navy in October of 1942. During boot camp at Great Lakes he was selected to complete Field Medical School at Camp Pendleton. He traveled aboard a Dutch freighter with Merchant Marines picking up and delivering troops. He traveled to Pago Pago in Samoa, New Caledonia, picking up wounded soldiers and delivering them back to the U.S. He continued this work on the SS Lurline. After getting into trouble on leave, he was given an opportunity to join the Marines to have all charges against him dropped. In early 1944 he was assigned to the 5th Marine Division. He provides details of training with the Marines at Camp Tarawa. Galvin was in the second wave going ashore at Iwo Jima. He describes his experiences as a medic through the battle. After getting wounded he was sent on leave, and later returned for duty as a Corpsman at Farragut Hospital. He was discharged in 1946.
Date: August 25, 2014
Creator: Galvin, William
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Imogene Hill, September 25, 2014 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Imogene Hill, September 25, 2014

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Imogene Hill. Hill joined the Navy in September 1943 and received basic training in New York. Upon completion, she was assigned to San Diego as a telephone operator. She was discharged in January 1946 and later married Raymond Hill, a member of the Air Force stationed at Kelly Field. She lived with him in Morocco while he was stationed abroad between 1955 and 1957. When they returned to the States, she became a telephone operator for Sears.
Date: September 25, 2014
Creator: Hill, Imogene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Ethics Commission Campaign Finance Guide for Candidates and Officeholders Who File with the Texas Ethics Commission (open access)

Texas Ethics Commission Campaign Finance Guide for Candidates and Officeholders Who File with the Texas Ethics Commission

Campaign finance guide for those who file with the Texas Ethics Commission with instructions and guidelines for those running for office.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Texas Ethics Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
DART accelerates opening date for DFW Airport Station (open access)

DART accelerates opening date for DFW Airport Station

News release about the opening of DART's light rail extension to DFW airport, ahead of schedule and under budget.
Date: March 25, 2014
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sponsors Announced for DART to DFW Events (open access)

Sponsors Announced for DART to DFW Events

News release about grand opening events celebrating the opening of the DART light rail extension to DFW international Airport.
Date: July 25, 2014
Creator: Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark
System: The Portal to Texas History