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Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter
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Death provides us with some of our very best folklore. Some fear it, some embrace it, and most have pretty firm ideas about what happens when we die. Although some people may not want to talk about dying, it’s the only thing that happens to all of us–and there’s no way to get around it. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society examines the lore of death and whatever happens afterward. The first chapter examines places where people are buried, either permanently or temporarily. Chapter Two features articles about how people die and the rituals associated with funerals and burials. The third chapter explores some of the stranger stories about what happens after we’re gone, and the last chapter offers some philosophical musings about death in general, as well as our connection to those who have gone before.
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December 15, 2008
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Texas Folklore Society
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jean Elizabeth Sheppard Hatcher, December 11, 2008
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Interview with Jean Elizabeth Sheppard Hatcher, a veteran of the Coast Guard Women's Reserves from Illinois, regarding her experience her experiences growing up during the Depression, serving in the military during World War II, and her family life after that. Hatcher discusses her background, military experience, waitressing and clerical work, discharge, marriage, and involvement with Ridglea United Methodist Church.
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December 11, 2008
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin & Hatcher, Jean Elizabeth Sheppard
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Alexander Hatcher, December 4, 2008
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Transcript of an interview with William Hatcher, a World War II Army veteran (29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force). Hatcher discusses concerning his his childhood and education; family's experiences in the Great Depression; decision to attend University of Tennessee-Knoxville and major in mechanical engineering; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to join U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942; 1943 call-up; basic training at Ft. Belvoir, Va.; instruction in engineering, communications, and radar repair at City College of New York and Chanute Field, Ill.; assignments to Truax Field, Wis., and Boca Raton, Fla.; meeting future wife, Jean E. Sheppard, at USO Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.; transfer to B-29 unit and bases in Neb. And Kan.; deployment to Guam with 29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, March 1945; details of high-altitude radar repair work; aspects of daily life for American soldiers stationed in Guam; descriptions of devastation of Japan, including Hiroshima; transfer to base on Tinian; return to U.S. in February 1946; wedding; return to UT-Knoxville using GI Bill benefits; work at Oak Ridge; decision to transfer to University of New Mexico for Mrs. Hatcher's health; career with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Convair Corp. of Fort Worth; …
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December 4, 2008
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin & Hatcher, William Alexander, 1923-
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The UNT Digital Library
Abrupt Climate Change: Final Report
This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAP) described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. This report is meant to reduce uncertainty in projections of how the Earth's climate and related systems may change in the future. It provides scientific information for supporting the decision-making audience and the expert scientific and stakeholder community.
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December 2008
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Climate Change Science Program (U.S.). Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
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The UNT Digital Library
ACCELERATED PROCESSING OF SB4 AND PREPARATION FOR SB5 PROCESSING AT DWPF
The Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) initiated processing of Sludge Batch 4 (SB4) in May 2007. SB4 was the first DWPF sludge batch to contain significant quantities of HM or high Al sludge. Initial testing with SB4 simulants showed potential negative impacts to DWPF processing; therefore, Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) performed extensive testing in an attempt to optimize processing. SRNL's testing has resulted in the highest DWPF production rates since start-up. During SB4 processing, DWPF also began incorporating waste streams from the interim salt processing facilities to initiate coupled operations. While DWPF has been processing SB4, the Liquid Waste Organization (LWO) and the SRNL have been preparing Sludge Batch 5 (SB5). SB5 has undergone low-temperature aluminum dissolution to reduce the mass of sludge for vitrification and will contain a small fraction of Purex sludge. A high-level review of SB4 processing and the SB5 preparation studies will be provided.
Date:
December 1, 2008
Creator:
Herman, C
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The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 23, No. 21, Pages 16943 to 17710, November 17 - December 5, 2008
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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December 2008
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United States. Federal Communications Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 23, No. 22, Pages 17711 to 18701, December 8 - December 31, 2008
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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December 2008
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Northwest Texas, December 2008
List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Northwest Texas area.
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December 2008
Creator:
Primary Care Case Management
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The Portal to Texas History
World at Risk: The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism
This book outlines the findings of the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, established to build on the work of the 9/11 Commission. The Commission's report examines the government's current policies and programs, identifies gaps in prevention strategy and recommends ways to close them. It sets forth the possible threats to the United States if terrorists acquire weapons of mass destruction and provides thirteen recommendations for unilateral and international actions that could increase worldwide safety.
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December 2008
Creator:
Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (U.S.)
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The UNT Digital Library
Last Known Position
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Most of the nine stories in Last Known Position were written upon James Mathews’ return from combat deployment to the Middle East with the D.C. Air National Guard. Life under fire provided the author with both dramatic events and a heightened sense of observation, allowing him to suggest the stress of combat as the driving factor behind extreme yet believable characterization and action. Military experiences and settings cause certain human elements and truisms to emerge more profoundly and dramatically. These stories portray desperate characters driven to make desperate choices. Always on the edge of a dark and unpleasant reality, Mathews’ characters survive by embracing fantasy, humor, violence, and sometimes redemption. Each story bears its own brand of hopeless quirkiness. Four teenagers on an army base steal a grenade and are stalked by a parade horse. A drifter returns home to rob the grandparents who raised him. A national guardsman faces a homicidal superior officer in Iraq on the eve of war. An elderly man worries that his wife’s new house guests are unrepentant cannibals. Always tense, sometimes ridiculous, and never dull, Last Known Position brings the reader to places unknown before and unforgettable after.
Date:
November 15, 2008
Creator:
Mathews, James
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The UNT Digital Library
Adobe in Texas
This report is based on research in West Texas to serve as a field guide to identify, document, and evaluate historic-age adobe buildings in the state. It provides a description of historic context, a narrative of common building types, a framework for evaluating the significance of adobe buildings, a list of resources, and a step-by-step guide to conducting field research.
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November 2008
Creator:
Newlan, Ralph
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The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 23, No. 20, Pages 16005 to 16942, November 3 - November 14, 2008
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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November 2008
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Texas Legislative Information, 81st Legislature
Reference guide for information about the Texas legislature including the legislative process, relevant websites, publications, and relevant services. "The purpose of this publication is to help legislators, other state officials and employees, and interested citizens in researching the work of past legislatures and in tracking the work of the current legislature" (p. v).
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November 2008
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
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The Portal to Texas History
Trends in Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Substances, Ozone Layer Recovery, and Implications for Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure
This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP 2.4) focuses on the Climate models. Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer by human-produced ozone-depleting substances has been recognized as a global environmental issue for more than three decades, and the international effort to address the issue via the United Nations Montreal Protocol marked its 20-year anniversary in 2007. Scientific understanding underpinned the Protocol at its inception and ever since. As scientific knowledge advanced and evolved, the Protocol evolved through amendment and adjustment. Policy-relevant science has documented the rise, and now the beginning decline, of the atmospheric abundances of many ozone-depleting substances in response to actions taken by the nations of the world. Projections are for a return of ozone-depleting chemicals (compounds containing chlorine and bromine) to their "pre-ozone-depletion" (pre-1980) levels by the middle of this century for the midlatitudes; the polar regions are expected to follow suit within 20 years after that. Since the 1980s, global ozone sustained a depletion of about 5 percent in the midlatitudes of both the Northern Hemisphere and Southern Hemisphere, where most of the Earth's population resides; it is now showing signs of turning the corner towards increasing ozone. The large seasonal depletions in the polar regions are …
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November 2008
Creator:
US Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
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The UNT Digital Library
Collective phenomena in non-central nuclear collisions
Recent developments in the field of anisotropic flow in nuclear collision are reviewed. The results from the top AGS energy to the top RHIC energy are discussed with emphasis on techniques, interpretation, and uncertainties in the measurements.
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October 20, 2008
Creator:
Voloshin, Sergei A.; Poskanzer, Arthur M. & Snellings, Raimond
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The UNT Digital Library
Andersonvilles of the North: the Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
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Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the Confederacy, while Southerners vilified Northern prison policies to show the depths to which Yankees had sunk to attain victory. Over the years the postwar Northern portrayal of Andersonville as fiendishly designed to kill prisoners in mass quantities has largely been dismissed. The Lost Cause characterization of Union prison policies as criminally negligent and inhumane, however, has shown remarkable durability. Northern officials have been portrayed as turning their military prisons into concentration camps where Southern prisoners were poorly fed, clothed, and sheltered, resulting in inexcusably high numbers of deaths. Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to “whitewash” Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful reader disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable …
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October 15, 2008
Creator:
Gillispie, James M.
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The UNT Digital Library
Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley
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Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949--1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, “If I Could Only Fly." It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the countercultural 1970s. Rosen offers a firsthand witnessing of Foley’s transformation from a reticent hippie musician to the enigmatic singer/songwriter who would live and die outside society's rules. While Foley's own performances are only recently being released, his songs have been covered by Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, and John Prine. When he first encountered “If I Could Only Fly," Merle Haggard called it “the best country song I've heard in fifteen years." In a work that is part-memoir, part-biography, Rosen struggles to finally come to terms with Foley's myth and her role in its creation. Her tracing of his impact on her life navigates a lovers' roadmap along the permeable boundary between life and death. A must-read for all Blaze Foley and Texas music fans, as well as romantics of all ages, Living in the Woods in a …
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October 15, 2008
Creator:
Rosen, Sybil
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The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Requests for Legislative Appropriations For Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011
Report submitted by the University of North Texas to the Texas 81st regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund university programming and activities. It includes an overview of the university's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, and supporting documentation.
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October 15, 2008
Creator:
University of North Texas
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene Fowler, Jr., Joel D. Fowler, Joe W. Specht, and Melody S. Kelly, October 11, 2008
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Interview with Eugene Fowler, Jr., Joel D. Fowler, Joe W. Specht, and Melody Specht Kelly. The interview includes their personal experiences about the Duke and Ayres Store and the University of North Texas Lab School. The Fowlers and the Spechts talk about childhood and education, enlisting, family histories, the Denton square, various jobs, and race issues in Denton. The interview includes an appendix with photographs and articles.
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October 11, 2008
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Mears, Michelle M.; Fowler, Eugene, Jr.; Fowler, Joel D.; Specht, Joe W. & Kelly, Melody Specht
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The UNT Digital Library
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011, REVISED
Revised report submitted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality containing background information on the commission, and summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2010 and 2011 with supporting documentation.
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October 10, 2008
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
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The Portal to Texas History
Hadronic Correlations and Fluctuations
We will provide a review of some of the physics which can be addressed by studying fluctuations and correlations in heavy ion collisions. We will discuss Lattice QCD results on fluctuations and correlations and will put them into context with observables which have been measured in heavy-ion collisions. Special attention will be given to the QCD critical point and the first order co-existence region, and we will discuss how the measurement of fluctuations and correlations can help in an experimental search for non-trivial structures in the QCD phase diagram.
Date:
October 9, 2008
Creator:
Koch, Volker
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Detection of hexavalent uranium with inline and field-portable immunosensors
An antibody that recognizes a chelated form of hexavalent uranium was used in the development of two different immunosensors for uranium detection. Specifically, these sensors were utilized for the analysis of groundwater samples collected during a 2007 field study of in situ bioremediation in a aquifer located at Rifle, CO. The antibody-based sensors provided data comparable to that obtained using Kinetic Phosphorescence Analysis (KPA). Thus, these novel instruments and associated reagents should provide field researchers and resource managers with valuable new tools for on-site data acquisition.
Date:
October 2, 2008
Creator:
Melton, Scott J.; Yu, Haini; Ali, Mehnaaz F.; Williams, Kenneth H; Wilkins, Michael J.; Long, Philip E. et al.
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The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 23, No. 17, Pages 13759 to 14567, September 22 - October 3, 2008
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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October 2008
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 23, No. 18, Pages 14568 to 15222, October 6 - October 17, 2008
Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
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October 2008
Creator:
United States. Federal Communications Commission.
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The UNT Digital Library