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Funeral program for Luevene Elizabeth Connor, born July 19, 1916 and died December 6, 2006. The funeral was held December 11, 2006 at St. Paul United Methodist Church, officiated by Rev. Charles Purnell. The funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and she was buried in Columbus City Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.

Funeral program for Sheliah Yvette Wilson Haynes, born November 9, 1954 and died December 11, 2006. The funeral was held Monday, December 11, 2006 at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. R. L. Archield, Sr. Host Pastor. Funeral arrangements were made through D. W. Brooks Funeral Home and she was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas.

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This report includes a historical background of the Sunni-Shiite split and discusses the differences in religious beliefs and practices between and within each Islamic sect as well as their similarities.

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This report discusses the national security problem of China's role in weapons proliferation and issues related to the U.S. policy response, including legislation, since the mid-1990's.

This report discusses legislation regarding the death penalty in the 109th Congress. The USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act (Reauthorization Act) contains a number of death penalty related provisions. Some create new federal capital offenses; some add the death penalty as a sentencing option in the case of preexisting federal crimes; some alter the procedural attributes of federal capital cases. Other proposals offered during the 109th Congress would have followed the same pattern: some new crimes; some new penalties for old crimes; and some procedural adjustments. Only one of the other proposals, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, passed, although at least one House approved several others. Three proposals do not fit the pattern; they either would have abolished the death penalty as a federal sentencing alternative or would have imposed a moratorium upon executions.

This report provides a systematic guide to understanding the use of financial derivative contracts in the energy industry, focusing specifically on the petroleum and natural gas sectors.

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Concern has grown in Congress and elsewhere about China's military modernization. The topic is an increasing factor in discussions over future required U.S. Navy capabilities. The issue for Congress addressed in this report is: How should China's military modernization be factored into decisions about U.S. Navy programs?

This report considers the issues the 110th Congress was confronted with in relation to agriculture and the issues inherited from the 109th Congress. The report also includes details about the upcoming farm bill and the usual problems that are examined with the creation of a new farm bill.

This report provides an abridged look at Capital Punishment Legislation in the 109th Congress regarding the Death Penalty.

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This report provides statutory and Congressional Rules on Emergency Spending which has significance in both procedural and budgetary terms. BEA placed statutory limits on the level of federal spending.

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This report provides the policy considerations related to guest worker programs on immigration.

This report summarizes the research performed on the LDRD project 02-ERD-071 to develop a quantum-limited microwave amplifier based on a dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (dc-SQUID). This project began in June 2002 and concluded in May 2005. This project produced the lowest noise temperature amplifiers ever produced, both in absolute terms and in relation to the Standard Quantum Limit. Being an order of magnitude lower in noise than the best HFET devices available, they are of great interest to a number of groups. Potential applications are numerous, from dark-matter searches to national security applications in Quantum Information Processing. Collaborations started during this project are continuing with the goal of single-spin detection using the rf-SET. Publications are forthcoming covering both the experimental results and the theoretical modeling. The most important publication with the noise temperature results will appear after the low frequency follow-up experiment. The other publications in production cover the input impedance measurements and the resulting transmission line models.