Funeral program for Tommie Glenn Dunson, III ("Trey"), born September 28, 1982 and died March 21, 2006. The funeral was held March 25, 2006 at Friendship Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. L. A. Williams. The funeral arrangements were made through Lewis Funeral Home and he was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.

Funeral program for Josephine Maxine Trembles, born March 12, 1916 and died March 20, 2006. The funeral was held March 25, 2006 at New Light Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. J. S. Smith. Funeral arrangements were made through the Lewis Funeral Home, and she was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas.

Mineral carbonation provides a potential option for the long-term storage of carbon dioxide. Serpentine has been chosen as the feedstock mineral, due to its abundance and availability. However, the relatively low reactivity of serpentine has warranted research into physical and chemical treatments that have been shown to greatly increase its reactivity. The use of sulfuric acid as an accelerating medium for the removal of magnesium from serpentine has recently been investigated. In addition to the challenges presented by the dissolution of serpentine, another challenge is the subsequent carbonation of the magnesium ions. A stable hydration sphere for the magnesium ion reduces the carbonation kinetics by obstructing the formation of the carbonation products. Accordingly, this research has evaluated the solubility of carbon dioxide in aqueous solution, the interaction between the dissociation products of carbon dioxide, and the carbonation potential of the magnesium ion.

We have measured the X-ray absorption and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) at the Mn L{sub 3,2} edges in ferromagnetic Ga{sub 1-x}Mn{sub x}P for 0.018 {le} x {le} 0.042. Large XMCD asymmetries at the L{sub 3} edge indicate significant spin-polarization of the density of states at the Fermi energy. The temperature dependence of the XMCD and moment per Mn of 2.67 {+-} 0.45 {mu}{sub B} calculated using sum rules are consistent with magnetometry values. The spectral shapes of the X-ray absorption and XMCD are nearly identical with those for Ga{sub 1-x}Mn{sub x}As indicating that the hybridization of Mn d and anion p states is similar in the two materials.

While the purpose of geologic storage in deep salineformations is to trap greenhouse gases underground, the potential existsfor CO2 to escape from the target reservoir, migrate upward alongpermeable pathways, and discharge at the land surface. In this paper, weevaluate the potential for such CO2 discharges based on the analysis ofnatural analogs, where large releases of gas have been observed. We areparticularly interested in circumstances that could generate sudden,possibly self enhancing release events. The probability for such eventsmay be low, but the circumstances under which they occur and thepotential consequences need to be evaluated in order to designappropriate site-selection and risk-managementstrategies. Numericalmodeling of hypothetical test cases is suggested to determine criticalconditions for large CO2 releases, to evaluate whether such conditionsmay be possible at designated storage sites, and, if applicable, toevaluate the potential impacts of such events as well as designappropriate mitigation strategies.

Computer simulation studies of the stability and transport properties of trapped non-neutral plasmas require the numerical realization of a three-dimensional plasma distribution. This paper presents a new numerical method for obtaining, without an explicit model for physical collisions in the code, a low noise three-dimensional computational equilibrium distribution. This requires both the loading of particles into an idealized distribution and the relaxation from that distribution toward an approximate numerical equilibrium. The equilibrium can then be modified through a slow change of system parameters, to generate other equilibria. In the present work we apply this method to a UC Berkeley experiment on electron confinement in magnetic geometries appropriate for the ALPHA anti-hydrogen experiment, using the three-dimensional Particle-In-Cell code WARP. WARP's guiding center mover and its option to switch between different solvers during a simulation are highly valuable because they speed up the simulations; they enable the practical use of the new technique for generating numerical equilibrium states of trapped nonneutral plasmas.

Agenda for the WASP board meeting held March 25, 2006.

Report on the feasibility of hiring an executive director to manage the WASP's administrative business, presented by the Ad Hoc Committee to the WASP Board of Directors on March 25, 2006.

Minutes from the WASP board meeting held March 25, 2006 in Nashville, TN.

Letter from Pauline Tominack to Eleanor Brown discussing Tominack's background and interest in the military. She mentions that she is putting together a collection of autographs from people who served during World War II and asks Brown for her autograph. A handwritten note at the bottom of the page says, "Responded to this request May 7, 2006."

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

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded a Comedy Night at the Muse over the weekend of March 24-25th, 2006. The footage features a clean-shaven male comedian wearing a newsboy cap facing the back.

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