This report discusses the report discusses whether the MICE absorbers can be characterized to {+-}0.3 percent, so that one predict absorber ionization cooling within the absorber. This report shows that most solid absorbers can be characterized to much better than {+-}0.3 percent. The two issues that dominate the characterization of the liquid cryogen absorbers are the dimensions of the liquid in the vessel and the density of the cryogenic liquid. The thickness of the window also plays a role. This report will show that a liquid hydrogen absorber can be characterized to better than {+-}0.3 percent, but a liquid helium absorber cannot be characterized to better and {+-}1 percent.

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

Funeral program for Vivian Mitchell Bouldin, born July 22, 1929. The funeral was held Monday, February 20, 2006 at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, officiated by P. G. Wilkinson, Sr. Funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and she was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas. Includes a remembrance card.

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "As Eugene Peterson translates John 1:14, he says "The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood." What does God look like in our neighborhood? Let's find out what this means for our lives together."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "The gospel demands that human boundaries be dissolved for the sake of God's kingdom. This class explores effective ways of defining, facing and enjoying the rewards of crossing ethnic and cultural differences."

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Thomas Burke. Burke was born in Kendall, Kentucky 26 March 1917. After graduating from Monroe High School in Rochester, New York in 1935 he attended Union College, Schenectady, New York majoring in electrical engineering. He graduated in 1939. On 1 December 1941 he entered the US Navy at New London, Connecticut. He entered Submarine Officer’s School at New London with three months training on the submarine USS O-6. Upon graduation he was assigned to the USS Flasher (SS-249) as the communications officer. Burke describes four of the six combat patrols the Flasher made while he was aboard and mentions the shipping tonnage sunk by the boat. He also tells an interesting story involving two Chinese seamen who were picked up after the Flasher sank their sampan. After returning to San Francisco for an overhaul, the submarine made a seventh and uneventful patrol from which they were recalled, as Japan had surrendered. The submarine was taken to the New Orleans Navy Depot and Burke was discharged soon thereafter.

This report describes the results of research performed on a new generation of low friction, wear resistant carbon coatings for seals and bearings in high speed rotating equipment. The low friction coatings, Near Frictionless Carbon (NFC), a high hydrogen content diamondlike carbon, and Carbide Derived Carbon (CDC), a conversion coating produced on the surfaces of metal carbides by halogenation, can be applied together or separately to improve the performance of seals and bearings, with benefits to energy efficiency and environmental protection. Because hard carbide ceramics, such as silicon carbide, are widely used in the seals industry, this coating is particularly attractive as a low cost method to improve performance. The technology of CDC has been licensed to an Illinois company, Carbide Derivative Technologies, Inc. (CDTI) to implement the commercialization of this material.

One scheme for harmonic generation employs free electron lasers (FELs) with two undulators: the first uses a seed laser to modulate the energy of the electron beam; following a dispersive element which acts to bunch the beam, the second undulator radiates at a higher harmonic. These processes are currently evaluated using extensive calculations or simulation codes which can be slow to evaluate and difficult to set up. We describe a simple algorithm to predict the output of a harmonic generation beamline in the low-gain FEL regime, based on trial functions for the output radiation. Full three-dimensional effects are included. This method has been implemented as a Mathematica package, named CAMPANILE, which runs rapidly and can be generalized to include effects such as asymmetric beams and misalignments. This method is compared with simulation results using the FEL code GENESIS, both for single stages of harmonic generation and for the LUX project, a design concept for an ultrafast X-ray facility, where multiple stages upshift the input laser frequency by factors of up to 200.

This is the final report for the work done by our research group at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center for the US DOE Atmopheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. We were involved from the beginning of the ARM effort; we designed the Multi-filter Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer (MFRSR) which was widely deployed (and still operational in ARM) and through the years did a wide variety of data analysis on the returned data from these instruments. We also developed the Rotating Shadowband Spectroradiometer, which ARM deployed and also still deploys. Many scientific papers have been written using the data from these instruments, and the ongoing data streams remain part of the current ARM effort. Earlier reports contain our progress from previous grant periods, this report covers the last period and provides references to published work.

The "free will" data of Benjamin Libet and the predictionsof quantum theory considered by Einstein, Podolsky,and Rosen, both posepuzzles within aconceptual framework that, simultaneously, is compatiblewith the theory of relativity and allows human subjects to freely choosehow they will act. The quantum theoretic resolutions of these puzzles aredescribed.

A document about an event hosted by The Latino Cultural Center during its 2006 Literary Series. The event is a panel discussion and lecture about the study and support of the Mayan language and a reading from the panelists' works. The release also includes information on books written about the subject by those taking part in the panel and descriptions about them as well. Contact information for the group is also listed at the end.

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

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "In recent years, songwriters have blessed the church with numerous pieces for worship. While these songs have blessed the church, their range of both themes and exploration of biblical texts has been somewhat narrow. This class explores the possibilities for songwriting with the Gospel of John in mind."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "Reflections on an example of how God is working through leadership to change the hearts and minds of an older congregation of under 300 members. Observations on how it is happening and important lessons that were learned during the process."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "This class discusses the research that has been done on why Christians lose faith. We will describe how it comes about, what can be done to prevent it, and how to help those who have fallen away."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Leadership development should occupy the attention of all churches. These sessions focus on helping church leaders develop maturity and leadership among men and women in the local congregation."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "A well-informed understanding of how Hollywood communicates morally, sparks theological conversation, and culturally impacts our youth and churches will allow Christians to speak with a voice that is both redemptive and critically engaging."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Why are so many of our young people leaving our churches? In this session, three generations of a "CofC" family explore questions like these, and in doing so, explore the dynamics of tradition, commitment, truth, inheritance, love, trust and faith."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "Pilate's question for Jesus echoes through the ages into our day. Is Pilate a pre-modern postmodernist? These classes will discuss the claims about truth in John's Gospel and in our current culture."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 9:45 AM at Abilene Christian University: "How we see the problem is the problem! "Faith is the power...to understand those things which are not perceived by worldly senses." This class moves us from "self-realization" to "savior realization.""

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "The question of what to pray and how to pray are determined in part by the question "to whom do we pray?" Let's consider together Jesus' picture of prayer in the Sermon on the Mount."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 8:30 AM at Abilene Christian University: "In 1906, the United States Department of Commerce conducted a religious census of the nation, marking the first "official" recognition of the division between Stone-Campbell churches that had been coming for decades. How did 1906 become symbolic of the division, and can the centennial of the census become a rallying point for reconciliation?"

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 3:15 PM at Abilene Christian University: "No one would deny the importance placed in Scripture on the unity of Christ's followers. Yet the reality of division is stark. How can churches concerned with fulfilling Christ's prayer for unity actually live within it? A panel of leaders will pursue this important question."

Lecture given Monday, February 20, 2006, 2:00 PM at Abilene Christian University: "These four - a counselor, social worker, children's minister, and English professor - discuss what it is like to live prayerfully with John 3:16 in relation to the worlds they inhabit. Lectio divina meets our world."