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Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of the Pear Story: Beshot

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Beshot Khullar of Phaaidaam Village.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Robert (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Robert

Transcription of Robert Leivon narrating "The Pear Story," a popular story that is a commonly-used linguistic tool, including an English translation.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Utt, Tyler P. & Khular, Sumshot
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Dilbung Kennedy

Transcription of a retelling of the Pear Story as narrated by Kennedy Dilbung of Charangching Khunkha village.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Daniel (open access)

Transcription: Retelling of The Pear Story: Daniel

Transcription of a retelling of Naaspati paomin (the Pear Story), as narrated by Daniel Tholung Thamlakhuren and translated by Sumshot Khular into English and inputting in SayMore.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi
System: The UNT Digital Library
EPA Releases First Ever National Wetland Condition Assessment (open access)

EPA Releases First Ever National Wetland Condition Assessment

This presentation provides an overview of the National Aquatic Resource Survey (NARS), including background information, accomplishments, and milestones.
Date: June 16, 2016
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
System: The UNT Digital Library
DEA Fact Sheet (open access)

DEA Fact Sheet

This fact sheet by the DEA provides the DEA's mission statement, leadership, core values, and other information.
Date: June 2016
Creator: United States. Drug Enforcement Administration. Office of Congressional and Public Affairs.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contesting Disagreed Audits, Examinations, and Refund Denials (open access)

Contesting Disagreed Audits, Examinations, and Refund Denials

A guide to taxpayers rights and how they may contest the results of audits, examinations, and refund denials.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0095 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0095

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 a rental property owner's use of an online payment option that is accompanied by a convenience fee involves the imposition of a credit-card surcharge in violation of state law (RQ-0084-KP).
Date: June 16, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0097 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0097

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: The legal status of real property described by section 12.128 of the Education Code that is returned to the State from a charter school (RQ-0086-KP).
Date: June 20, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0100 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0100

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 Fort Worth Independent School District transgender guidelines violate chapter 26 of the Education Code and whether the superintendent had authority to adopt the guidelines without a vote by the school board or public comment (RQ-0107-KP).
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0099 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0099

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 a school district board of trustees may enter into a contract for legal services under a flat fee arrangement (RQ-0088-KP).
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0094 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0094

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: The extent to which a judge may refuse to apply the law of a jurisdiction outside ofthe United States in certain family law disputes (RQ-0083-KP).
Date: June 15, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0096 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0096

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: Application of section 39.112 of the Education Code to a board of managers m specific circumstances (RQ-0085-KP).
Date: June 20, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0098 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0098

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: Requirements for a municipality's posting of notice regarding the carrying of handguns (RQ-0087-KP).
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sharing Session Handout on Tabletop Game Genre Terms (open access)

Sharing Session Handout on Tabletop Game Genre Terms

Handout for the American Library Association's Games and Gaming Round Table sharing session "A Winning Game Plan: Using Genre Terms to Enhance Discovery of Tabletop Games" demonstrating bibliographic and genre authority records for tabletop games.
Date: June 13, 2016
Creator: Yanowski, Kevin; Robson, Diane & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections (open access)

Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections

This abstract describes the presentation "Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections," comparing two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Chudnov, Dan & Jacobs, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with James Imlay, June 16, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Imlay, June 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with James Imlay. Imlay’s sister, Barbara Burton, relays information about the World War II service of her brother, James Imlay. Imlay was in the Navy aboard the USS Pope (DD-225), which was sunk off Borneo in March 1942, and was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for the duration of the war in the Pacific. A commendation letter for Pope crew members is read into the record.
Date: June 16, 2016
Creator: Imlay, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frank Tooze, June 7, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank Tooze, June 7, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Frank Tooze. Tooze joined the Navy V-12 program in July of 1943, and began his naval service at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He graduated in October of 1944 from the Midshipmen School Program as an ensign. He then reported for duty aboard the USS Biscayne (AGC-18). In February 1945 they set sail for Luzon, Philippines. Their orders were to provide close-in support during the Battle of Iwo Jima. They were there from February 19 through March 26. From there they provided support for the Battle of Okinawa beginning April of 1945. Tooze provides details of his experiences and what he witnessed at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He provides some detail of the death of news correspondent Ernie Pyle. In December of 1945 they returned to the States. Tooze was discharged in March of 1946, then participated in the Naval Reserve until 1951.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Tooze, Frank
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Willard LaCounte, June 9, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Willard LaCounte, June 9, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Willard LaCounte. LaCounte was drafted into the Army in September, 1943 and trained as an antiaircraft artilleryman at Camp Haan, California. In late 1943 he was assigned to the 118th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion as a jeep driver in an industrial section of England and recalls defending it against German air raids. He landed at Normandy one day after the invasion. His unit eventually set up in Holland and shot down buzz bombs heading across the Channel. After the war LaCounte helped arrange R&R trips for soldiers.
Date: June 9, 2016
Creator: LaCounte, Willard
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with LeRoy Brunner, June 16, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with LeRoy Brunner, June 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with LeRoy Brunner. Brunner joined the Army Air Forces in September, 1945 and trained in San Antonio. He attended officer candidate school where he received a commission before going to radar school and being assigned to a meteorology school in Illinois. He served at a weather station in Alaska prior to the outbreak of the Korean War. Brunner discusses his long career in the Air Force.
Date: June 16, 2016
Creator: Brunner, LeRoy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James Ulbrich, June 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with James Ulbrich, June 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with James Jennings Ulbrich. Ulbrich joined the Navy in February of 1945. He was transferred to Brown Field Airport, San Diego. He worked in ships service, selling merchandise, food, maintaining Coke machines. Ulbrich made the rank of Third-Class Petty Officer. After the base was decommissioned, he was transferred to El Centro and performed shore patrol duty and guarded prisoners. He was there when the war ended. Ulbrich continued his service until his discharge in August of 1946.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Ulbrich, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Green Day, June 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Green Day, June 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Green Day. Day shares his memories of growing up during the Great Depression. He completed trade school to be a machinist. He joined the Navy around 1944. In May 1945 he was assigned to USS Halford DD-480, and they traveled to Pearl Harbor. They provided escort duty to Borneo, and Day served with the deck department helping to maintain the ship. In late 1945 Day experienced a typhoon aboard the ship. He was discharged in July of 1946.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Day, Green
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Albert Machaud, June 17, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Albert Machaud, June 17, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Albert Machaud. Machaud joined the Army Air Forces on 27 June 1946. He served as a control tower operator with the 128th Army Airways Communication System Squadron. He traveled throughout the Pacific, including Johnston Island, Wake Island, Kwajalein, Okinawa and into Tokyo by January of 1947, directing aircraft on new airstrips that had hastily been built during the war. He speaks of his experiences during his 2 years in occupied Japan. Machaud was discharged on 26 June 1949.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Machaud, Albert
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Dyches, June 25, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Robert Dyches, June 25, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Dyches. Dyches joined the Marine Corps in April of 1944. He served with the 4th Marine Division, 24th Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Company G. Dyches traveled to Maui for additional training. He participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima. On his fifth morning on the island he was seriously wounded from an exploding grenade thrown into his fox hole. Dyches spent over a year and a half in various hospitals recovering from his wounds and was awarded the Purple Heart. He was honorably discharged in August of 1946.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: Dyches, Robert
System: The Portal to Texas History