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Jan Grah is a Germanist and Russianist who is finishing his two-subject master's degree in German language and literature, and ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. He is particularly interested in medical anthropology and German linguistics. He wrote the text for e-ERIMm as part of the course Contemporary Migrations, Citizenship and Ethnic Minorities (held by Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen and Uršula Lipovec Čebron) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana.
Marijana Hameršak received her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. She has published the books Pričalice: o povijesti djetinjstva i bajke (Pričalice: on History of Childhood and Fairy Tales, 2011), Uvod u dječju književnost (Introduction to Children's Literature, with Dubravka Zima, 2015) and Frakture dječje književnosti: od slikovnica do lektire, od Agrama do El Shatta (Fractures of the Children's Literature, 2021). She is the co-editor of three anthologies: Folkloristička čitanka (Folklore Studies Reader, with Suzana Marjanić, 2010) and collections Proizvodnja baštine: kritičke studije o nematerijalnoj kulturi (Heritage Production: Critical Studies in Intangible Culture, with Iva Pleše i Ana-Marija Vukušić, 2013) and Kamp, koridor, granica: studije izbjeglištva u suvremenom hrvatskom kontekstu (Formation and Disintegration of the Balkan Refugee Corridor: Camps, Routes and Borders in Croatian Context, with Emina Bužinkić, 2017, English translation 2018). Together with Barbara Beznec, Sabine Hess, Andrej Kurnik, Marc Speer and Marta Stojić Mitrović, she edited a special issue of the magazine movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (2020) titled Frontier within: the European Border Regime in the Balkans.
Teodora Jovanović is a doctoral student at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. She is employed at the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. Her interests lie in the fields of refugeeship and forced migration and she is working on a dissertation on asylum seekers from Iran in Serbia.
Tisa Kučan Lah is a first-year master's student enrolled in the CREOLE program – Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes, at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. As part of her studies, she is particularly interested in medical anthropology. She wrote the text for e-ERIMm as part of the course Contemporary Migrations, Citizenship and Ethnic Minorities (held by Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen and Uršula Lipovec Čebron) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana.
Luka Kropivnik is a graduate Russianist and Slovenist. He completed his master's degree in Slovene studies and history, as well as ethnology and cultural anthropology and comparative literature at the University of Ljubljana. He is particularly interested in contemporary Slovenian literature, didactics of literature and international migration. He wrote the text for e-ERIMm as part of the course Contemporary Migrations, Citizenship and Ethnic Minorities (held by Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen and Uršula Lipovec Čebron) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana.
Uršula Lipovec Čebron received her doctorate at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana. She works at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. She has written the books Krožere zdravja in bolezni: tradicionalne in komplementarne medicine v Istri (Cycles of Health and Disease: Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Istria, 2008) and Medkulturna mediacija in zdravstvo v Sloveniji (Intercultural Mediation and Health in Slovenia, with Juš Škraban, 2021). With Jelka Zorn, she edited the anthologies Zgodbe izbrisanih prebivalcev (Stories of the Erased, 2011, Croatian translation 2013) and Once Upon an Erasure: from Citizens to Illegal Residents in Republic of Slovenia (2007), and the anthology Večjezično zdravje (Multilingual Health, 2019) with Nike K. Pokorn. With Sara Pistotnik, she edited a special issues of Časopis za kritiko znanosti (Journal for the Critique of Science) titled Balkanska migracijska pot (Balkan Migration Route, 2016).
Bojan Mucko is a doctoral student at the University of Zadar. He works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. His interests include multimodal approaches in researching the European migration regime.
Dagmar Nared is a master's degree student in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. She completed her bachelor's and master's studies in sociology at the universities of Ljubljana and Oxford. Her interests lie in gender and emotions in anthropology and the possibilities of transmitting experiences through visual media. She wrote the text for e-ERIMm as part of the course Contemporary Migrations, Citizenship and Ethnic Minorities (held by Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen and Uršula Lipovec Čebron) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana.
Igor Petričević is a doctoral student at Stockholm University. After completing his undergraduate studies in anthropology and sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, he graduated in social and cultural anthropology and European studies at the University of Leuven. He is interested in urban anthropology, anthropology of migration, and other areas.
Duško Petrović received his doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He works at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He is the author of the book Izbjeglištvo u suvremenom svijetu: od političkoteorijskih utemeljenja do biopolitičkih ishoda (Contemporary Refugees: From Political-theoretical Foundations to Biopolitical Outcomes, 2016).
Mojca Piškor received her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She works at the Department of Musicology of the Academy of Music in Zagreb. Her area of academic interest includes traditional and popular music of the Western and non-Western world; topics related to the nexus of music, sound and policies (racial imagination, gender), the intersection of various types of music and their discourse, the relationship between music and space, and the acoustemological aspects of the use of music as a means of torture in camps.
Iva Pleše received her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. She is the author of the book Pismo, poruka, mejl: etnografija korespondencije (Letter, message, e-mail: the ethnography of correspondence, 2014) and co-editor of two anthologies: Etnografije interneta (Ethnographies of the Internet, with Reana Senjković, 2004) and Proizvodnja baštine: kritičke studije o nematerijalnoj kulturi (Heritage Production: Critical Studies in Intangible Culture, with Marijana Hameršak and Ana-Marija Vukušić, 2013).
Meta Poklukar graduated in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Ljubljana with a thesis on drag performance and continued with her master's studies. Her interests vary from sensory anthropology to alpinism. She wrote the text for e-ERIMm as part of the course Contemporary Migrations, Citizenship and Ethnic Minorities (held by Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen and Uršula Lipovec Čebron) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana.
Romana Pozniak received her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research in Zagreb. Her academic interests include topics from political anthropology and the anthropology of humanitarianism, focusing on conceptualizations of humanitarian work in non-profit organizations.
Evelina Soršak is a graduate sociologist and historian and is completing the first year of her master's degree in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the University of Ljubljana. She is particularly interested in the anthropology of religion and medical anthropology. She wrote the text for e-ERIMm as part of the course Contemporary Migrations, Citizenship and Ethnic Minorities (held by Ana Sarah Lunaček Brumen and Uršula Lipovec Čebron) at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the Faculty of Philosophy in Ljubljana.
Marta Stojić Mitrović received her doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 2016. She is employed at the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade. She has co-authored the studies Governing the Balkan Route: Macedonia, Serbia and the European Border Regime (with Barbara Beznec and Marc Speer, 2016) and Dark Sides of Europeanization: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Border Regime (with Nidžara Ahmetašević, Barbara Beznec i Andrej Kurnik, 2021), and wrote the book Evropski granični režim i eksternalizacija kontrole granica EU: Srbija na balkanskoj migracijskoj ruti (The European Border Regime And Externalization of EU Border Control. Serbia on the Balkan Migration Route, 2021). Together with Marijana Hameršak, Barbara Beznec, Sabine Hess, Andrej Kurnik and Marc Speer, she edited a special issue of the magazine movements: Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies (2020) titled Frontier within: the European Border Regime in the Balkans.
Tea Škokić received her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. She works at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research. She has published two books, Ljubavni kod: ljubav i seksualnost između tradicije i znanosti (Love code: Love and sexuality between tradition and science, 2011) and Polutani dugog trajanja: balkanistički diskursi (Bastards of long duration. Balkanist discourses, with Andrea Matošević, 2014). She has co-edited the collections Između roda i naroda: etnološke i folklorističke studije (Between Gender and Nation, with Renata Jambrešić Kirin, 2004), Split i drugi: kulturnoantropološki i kulturnostudijski prilozi (The City of Split and Others: Essays in Cultural Anthropology and Cultural Studies, with Ines Prica, 2007), Horror, porno, ennui: kulturne prakse postsocijalizma (Horror, porno, ennui: Cultural Practices of Post-socialism, with Ines Prica, 2011) and Stranputice humanistike (Bypaths of Humanities, with Ozren Biti and Petar Bagarić, 2017).
Jelka Zorn received her doctorate at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana. She works at the Faculty of Social Work of the University of Ljubljana. She has co-authored the books Izbrisani: organizirana nedolžnost in politike izključevanja (The Erased: Organized Innocence and the Politics of Exclusion, with Jasminka Dedić and Vlasta Jalušić, 2003) and Brazgotine izbrisa: prispevek h kritičnemu razumevanju izbrisa iz registra stalnega prebivalstva Republike Slovenije (The Scars of the Erasure, with Neža Kogovšek Šalamon et al., 2010). With Uršula Lipovec Čebron, she edited the anthologies Zgodbe izbrisanih prebivalcev (Stories of the Erased, 2011, Croatian translation 2013) and Once Upon an Erasure: from Citizens to Illegal Residents in Republic of Slovenia (2007).
Drago Župarić-Iljić received his doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He works at the Department of Sociology of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. He has edited the collections Nacionalne manjine kao faktor stabilnosti u međunarodnim odnosima Hrvatske i Srbije (National minorities as a stability factor in international relations of Croatia and Serbia, with Dragutin Babić, 2010), Prvih deset godina razvoja sustava azila u Hrvatskoj (The first ten years of development of the asylum system in Croatia, 2013) and Contemporary Migration Trends and Flows on the Territory of Southeast Europe (with Marijeta Rajković Iveta and Petra Kelemen, 2018). He has co-authored the books Nacionalne manjine u Zagrebu: položaj i perspektive (National minorities in Zagreb: position and perspectives, with Dragutin Babić and Filip Škiljan, 2011) and Izazovi integracije izbjeglica u hrvatsko društvo: stavovi građana i pripremljenost lokalnih zajednica (Challenges of Integrating Refugees into Croatian Society: Attitudes of Citizens and the Readiness of Local Communities, with Dean Ajduković et al., 2019, English edition 2019).
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Katie Price For 'Celebrity Big Brother'? Jordan 'Already Being Lined Up For Next Series'
The new series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' hasn't even started yet but a certain Katie Price is already being lined up for the first series of next year, according to reports.
The 36-year-old former glamour model was reportedly all set to take part in the latest series, which starts on Channel 5 on Monday (15 August), but had to pull out because she fell pregnant with her fifth child.
Now show bosses are keen to get Pricey to sign up for the next series, which will air in January - and are willing to flash the cash to tempt her.
A source told the Daily Star: "Kate has been high on the list of dream CBB contestants in every series.
"This time she is determined to make it."
Katie is no stranger to celeb-based reality shows, having already appeared on 'I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!', but, until now, has yet to be tempted to enter the 'CBB' house.
Her ex-husband, cross-dressing cage fighter Alex Reid, won the show in 2010.
The next series of 'CBB' is already shaping up to be one of the best yet but magician Paul Daniels and his wife Debbie McGee have denied reports they'll be entering the house because of 'personal issues'.
Other celebs rumoured to be taking part include Kelly Brook's fiancé David McIntosh, former 'TOWIE' star Lauren Goodger, Josie Cunningham and 'George Gilbey of 'Gogglebox' fame.
See who else could be entering the house when the new series of 'CBB' kicks off on Monday, below...
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Executive Director of HOPE, Roy Crowne, gave insights into Christian leadership during a masterclass held at the Forum in Norwich as part of the Celebrate Norwich & Norfolk event in June. Keith Morris reports.
"With leadership, team is the key," said Roy, "you have to find a way to work together.
"You need to understand people's strengths and what they bring to the party. To do that you have to not be controlling but be consultative and consensual in today's world," said Roy.
Leadership is a function not a position – when it becomes positional, leaders have problems.
There is no secular/spiritual divide in leadership – we can learn from business leaders.
Successful leaders are clock builders not time tellers. If you are a clock-builder, the values that you introduce and influence you mean that whether you are there or not it will live on because you will have taught your team to tell the time themselves.
Maintain the core values but innovate on the edges – when it becomes successful then everyone will want it.
Constant re-alignment – be clear on your strategic plan, but if God kicks in and does something, then change the plan. You lead within a culture, which you need to understand, and which is constantly changing.
Build accountability and have reality checks – is what you are doing really working. Many Christian ministers never ask the hard questions.
Never underestimate people's intelligence but always underestimate their knowledge – they don't know what you know as a leader.
Make your vision plain and simple so people can easily follow it (Habakkuk 2:2).
Communication is the key to everything – don't blame the recipients of information. How did you tell them? We are in the communication business. People won't take in new information unless it fits within what they already know. Great communicators listen and tell stories about ordinary life.
Gather others who believe in what you are doing – but watch for opposition, it will come and often from those closest to you on your team. British culture hates success.
You need to finish well.
Be faithful in the small things – in finance, in accounts, in relationships.
Hold vision wisely and not tightly.
Don't grow up – be able to laugh at yourself, don't take yourself too seriously. All leaders are flawed.
Success is ok – God's wants to bless us with success.
How can ordinary people share their faith?
Roy also addressed the key topic of how do we help ordinary people share faith and talk about Jesus?
He outlined the recent www.talkingjesus.org research which shows that our culture is not opposed to talking about Jesus. "For example, 43% of people in Norwich believe Jesus rose from the dead," said Roy. "67% of non-Christians know a Christian and they like us, they think we are friendly and fun. We have used our research to change people's confidence in talking about Jesus."
The big question is how do you move someone who knows you are a Christian, and that you have a relationship with, to come to faith, said Roy.
The outcome of the project was to produce a sharing Jesus course for ordinary people around normal conversation. The course is based around small groups and how you talk Jesus in your world.
"Most leaders deal with the How and the What but not the Why – the motivation for what you want to do," said Roy. "If you want people to follow you, you must address the Why. We did this by producing films which answer the Why and provoke an emotional response so people feel 'I should be doing this'. It is aimed at motivating the 90% of people in your church who don't think they can talk about Jesus."
Talking Jesus Course Full Trailer from Vivid Broadcast on Vimeo.
Pictured top is Roy Crowne speaking at the Celebrate Norfolk event at the Forum in Norwich. Picture by Kevin Gotts.


I am in the process of a big life change right now so please bear with me as I take my time writing posts and sharing recipes with all of you. I promise it's all great news, so please stay tuned.
To keep me grounded, secure, and warm I absolutely love lentil soup. Let's break free from the boring lentil soup of yesteryear and jazz it up with my two versions that are sure crowd pleasers AND good at any time! The best part? Make a larger batch of these soups on a Sunday night and eat for a few days! And the soup only gets better with time.
Cozy on up with a bowl of my herby lentil soup and lentil, kale and tomato soup.
1. Wash lentils thoroughly then cover with water (about 4-5 cups) in a small pot and bring to a boil. Once lentils are boiled, rinse once more and place in a larger (soup pot) pot filled with water (4-5 cups again).
2. In a saute pan, add 1 tablespoon of olive oil and saute shallots, garlic, celery and carrots and half the rosemary and thyme until translucent. Once fragrant and slightly translucent, toss into pot with lentils. Season with sea salt and pepper.
3. Stir to coat lentils completely. Add bay leaves and add stock.
4. Cook on medium low heat until most of the liquid is absorbed and lentils become soft. This takes about 20 minutes.
5. Turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. Toss in rest of the herbs and season with sea salt and black pepper as desired.
2. In a small pan, saute coconut oil, garlic, onion and celery. Once fragrant and slightly translucent, toss into pot with lentils. Season with sea salt and pepper.
3. Stir to coat lentils completely. Add bay leaves, tomatoes and stock.
5. Turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes. 5 minutes before serving stir in kale and let sit.
6. Garnish with cilantro and serve!
Now head on over to the kitchen and whip this up for dinner and eat for days!


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The floating timber market of Barisal was started in 1918 on a canal of Sandha river based on the logs coming from Sundarbans. Trading the signature "Sundari" tree of Sundarbans, the largest mangrove swamp in the world, was the main business here on that time. After putting ban by the govt. on trading Sundari tree in 1987 to protect the forest, the tradesmen started trading other trees on this market coming from different parts of the country.
Being located on the heart of Ganges Delta, Barisal has a great network of river connected to the whole country, which was the main reason for this market to become very popular. People could easily transport big logs here through the river from all over the country.
Transporting logs has become very easy and cost effective because of the river. They tie logs on both side of an engine boat floating on water and move very slowly. Sometimes there are 10-15 boats tied together with loads of logs tied both side of them, and an engine boat drag them from the front. This is a common scene before the 02 market days of the week – Monday and Thursday. They sell these logs sitting on the boats, which make this a floating log market. This is the largest market of it's kind in Bangladesh.
There are also permanent timber shops on the bank of the river. They dump the logs on the river bank and sell from here – 7 days a week. Every log has an unique number from the shop. Lifting and transporting the logs are done using the favor of tide, which makes it less laborious to do manually.
People come here from everywhere of the country. They buy logs, and chop them in the numerous saw mills according to their needs. There are about 200 saw mills around the floating timber market to do this. Buyers are mainly the owner of furniture shops from all over Bangladesh. About 13-14 hundred people work based on the floating timber market of Barisal. When there is no work, people gather in the huts on the shore drinking tea and socializing. It could be a great experience to have couple of cups of tea with them and hang around for a while and share culture.
Other business also flourished based on this market. A cottage industry is grown here to make local cricket bats because of the cheap timber available on this market. Also grown dozens of nursery to sell trees to plant, which itself has a different floating market in Barisal, and would be another story to tell.
Have you ever visited the floating timber market of Barisal in Bangladesh? How amazing have you found it? Share your thoughts and experience with us in comments. Check out our Backwater Photography Tour to experience life on Ganges Delta at Barisal including visiting the floating timber marker.


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Rudin (Penguin Classics)
by Turgenev, Ivan
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Turgenev is an author who no longer belongs to Russia only. During the last fifteen years of his life he won for himself the reading public, first in... Read more
France, then in Germany and America, and finally in England. In his funeral oration the spokesman of the most artistic and critical of European nations, Ernest Renan, hailed him as one of the greatest writers of our times: 'The Master, whose exquisite works have charmed our century, stand more than any other man as the incarnation of the whole race,' because 'a whole world lived in him and spoke through his mouth.' Rudin is the first of Turgenev's social novels, and is a sort of artistic introduction to those that follow, because it refers to the epoch anterior to that when the present social and political movements began. This epoch is being fast forgotten, and without his novel it would be difficult for us to fully realise it, but it is well worth studying, because we find in it the germ of future growths.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Xenophon's Anabasis: Books I - IV (Greek and English...
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Greek Paradigm Handbook: Reference Guide and Memorization...
Publisher: Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Co.
Type: Spiral-bound


GaN technology has matured to a point where it can challenge traditional silicon technology. Gallium nitride(GaN)-on-silicon low voltage power devices have enabled many new applications since commercial availability began in 2010. New markets, such as light detection and ranging (LiDAR), envelope tracking, and wireless power, emerged due to the superior switching speed of GaN. These new applications have helped develop a strong supply chain, low production costs, and an enviable reliability record. All of this provides adequate incentive for the more conservative design engineers in applications, such as DC/DC converters, AC/DC converters, and automotive to start their evaluation process. In this article, the factors leading to the rapid acceleration of the adoption rate are explored.


After Friday's 9.0-magnitude earthquake, the tsunami rushes through the city of Kesennuma in Miyagi prefecture, north-east Japan.
The cost of recovery will be staggering to the Japanese economy let alone the length of time it will take and to top it all off the nuclear problem. The world economy is sure to be shaken by this.


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Q: how to get index of element in phpquery I'm trying to get index of div which contains 'Shop Name'
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in JQuery $(".shop_item:contains('Shop Name')").index(); works
How can i find index using phpquery?

A: if ($doc->find(".shop_item:contains('Shop Name')")->length()){
$shop_index = $doc->find(".shop_item")->index(pq($doc->find(".shop_item:contains('.shop_item:contains('Shop Name')')")));
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A military family for about nine years with three boys, her husband left active duty while stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. But rather move home or away from Fort Campbell, the family decided to stay put while her husband joined a local National Guard unit and took a job as a truck driver. The family went through four deployments together while active duty.
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Does anyone have ANY idea what's going on? I don't even know where to start looking, and Googling for anything like this just brings back completely unrelated results because it's too specific.

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\section{Introduction}
Observational evidence from the past 80 years strongly supports the theory of a non-luminous matter component which comprises 80\% of all matter in the universe. The primary candidate for this dark matter particle is the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP). Direct dark matter searches seek to detect the presence of dark matter through detection of weak interactions between WIMPs and atomic nuclei.

Liquid xenon time projection chambers (TPCs) are a proven type of direct dark matter detector design. These detectors use photosensors (typically photomultiplier tubes, or PMTs) at the top and bottom of the detector volume to read out scintillation signals resulting from Xe nuclear or electronic recoils. An electric field drifts the resulting ionization from the recoil out of the liquid Xe volume and into a gaseous region above, where the electrons produce an electroluminescence signal. By measurement of both signals, these detectors make a measurement of the event recoil energy. The relative sizes of the scintillation and ionization yields are used to discriminate between nuclear recoils (NR) and electron recoils (ER) (the primary background for these detectors). Detector volume fiducialization, an important background rejection technique, is accomplished by analysis of the ionization signal hit pattern concentration within the photosensors for XY positioning, as well as the timing between scintillation and ionization signals for Z positioning.

The LZ program (LUX-ZEPLIN) focuses on the construction of two liquid Xe TPC detectors at the Sanford Underground Research Facility, or SURF. The first detector, named LZS \cite{LZSProposal2009}, will use 1.5 to 3~tonnes of liquid Xe as its target mass. After successfully running this detector, a 20~tonne detector, named LZD \cite{LZDProposal2009}, will be constructed. As will be discussed, this is the largest liquid Xe TPC dark matter detector that can be built before irreducible backgrounds are encountered. The LZ detector cross sections are drawn to scale in comparison to LUX in Fig. \ref{fig:lux-lz-comparison}.

The LZ detectors will greatly benefit from research and development performed for the LUX experiment \cite{LUXProposal2007,LUXwebsite}. The LZS detector has been designed such that it will be able to be deployed in the existing LUX laboratory space at the Homestake 4850~ft level, and will even be able to effectively use the existing LUX water shield for suppression of external backgrounds. Many LZ technologies benefit from research and development on LUX systems. A review of LZ technologies is described in Sec. \ref{sec:LZ-Technologies}.

Liquid Xe TPCs face a background composed primarily of gamma rays generated from natural radioactive decay, as well as neutrons from both radioactive decay and muon interactions in cavern rock and detector materials. As with LUX, the LZ detectors will reduce backgrounds from external sources (primarily cavern rock) through the use of a water shield. Internal backgrounds will be moderated through a rigorous material selection and screening program. Consideration has also been given to examination of backgrounds which had not previously been relevant for much smaller liquid Xe TPC experiments. Background models and expectations are discussed in Sec. \ref{sec:Backgrounds}.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=135mm]{lux-lz-comparison.pdf}
\caption{Size comparison of the LUX, LZS, and LZD detectors, including LZ scintillator volumes. LZS and LZD represent mass scale-ups beyond LUX by factors of $\times$5-10 and $\times$60, respectively. The modest increase in linear dimension for the LZS active region allows the detector to make use of the existing LUX water tank. LZD will require a 12~m $\times$ 12~m water shield in a separate lab space.} \label{fig:lux-lz-comparison}
\end{figure}

\section{LZ Technologies}
\label{sec:LZ-Technologies}

\subsection{PMTs}
\label{sub:PMTs}

LZ will use $\sim$200 and $\sim$1000 7.6~cm PMTs for instrumentation of the LZS and LZD active regions, respectively. These PMTs are very similar in construction to the 5.7~cm diameter Hamamatsu R8778 PMTs used and extensively tested by LUX, but with a photocathode area a factor of $\times$2 larger. Prototype Hamamatsu 7.6~cm diameter R11065 PMTs have been tested in liquid Xe, and have been found to perform comparably to the LUX R8778 PMTs (Fig. \ref{fig:R11065-testing}).

PMTs generally represent a major radioactive background source for liquid Xe TPCs. This is due to both the complexity of their construction and their proximity to the active region. A screening program to identify ultra low-background PMTs has been undertaken for LZ construction, with a goal towards bringing the PMT background contributions subdominant to other background sources (see Sec. \ref{sec:Backgrounds}). The leading candidate for use in LZ is the Hamamatsu R11410~MOD, identical to the R11065 but utilizing extremely low-radioactivity components. This 7.6~cm PMT yields 90\% counting limits of $<$0.4~$^{238}$U / $<$0.3~$^{232}$Th mBq/PMT, representing a combined factor of $\times$1/15 in gamma emission and $\times$1/18 in neutron emission as compared to the R8778 PMTs used in LUX.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{R11065_testing_notitle.pdf}
\caption{Single photoelectron and gain measurements with a 7.6~cm Hamamatsu R11065 PMT. The PMT was tested in liquid xenon (-100$^\circ$~C) at 1500~V. These tubes are shown to perform comparably in liquid xenon as compared to the 5.7~cm R8778 PMTs used in LUX.} \label{fig:R11065-testing}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Cryogenics, Circulation, and Purification}

The cooling and Xe circulation systems used in LUX were extensively tested with the LUX~0.1 prototype. This LUX prototype consisted of 55~kg of Xe and 270~kg of Al displacer, as well as a fully-functional central TPC with 0.5~kg of liquid Xe and four R8778 PMTs, all housed within a stainless steel double-walled cryostat built to contain the full LUX experiment. Using a novel heat exchanger design which has since been implemented in LUX, the cooling power required for the detector was reduced from 500~W to 20~W. This heat exchanger, coupled with a circulation system that uses a weir to set the liquid height and a commercial gas-phase getter for purification, produced a $>$1~m electron drift length (the greatest length measurable with the 5~cm high TPC) on a time scale of $\sim$4 days, as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:lux01-purification}.

The LUX and LZ detectors will be cooled by thermosyphons, comprised of closed loops of N$_2$ which efficiently cycle heat from the detector internals to a liquid N$_2$ reservoir. Each main LUX thermosyphon is capable of delivering $>$1~kW of cooling power, while the projected power required for cooling the detector itself is of order 10~W. This means that the LUX thermosyphon system can easily be scaled and used for LZ, with no significant improvements in technology required.

LUX will test a charcoal-based system for the removal of Kr traces from Xe. Of particular concern is $^{85}$Kr, a beta emitter with an endpoint at 687~keV, which can contribute significantly to internal backgrounds (Sec. \ref{sub:Intrinsic-Backgrounds}). The LUX system will be able to purify Xe at levels $<$5~ppt, sufficient for subdominance of the $^{85}$Kr signature for WIMP searches. This technology is directly scalable for the LZ detectors, with orders of magnitude improvement possible.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{lux01_purification_vs_time_notitle.png}
\caption{Electron drift length in liquid Xe over time in the LUX~0.1 experiment. 1$\sigma$ and 2$\sigma$ error bars are shown for each measurement. 55~kg Xe were circulated and purified while testing final designs for the LUX heat exchanger and weir. The initial purification time constant was measured at 9$\pm$1~hrs, unprecedented for a detector with a thermal mass comparable to LUX~0.1. The system will be tested with LUX during initial running, and is directly scalable for the LZ detectors.} \label{fig:lux01-purification}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Internals and Material Selection}

Through the use of a large water shield instrumented with an active veto, external backgrounds have been rendered subdominant to background goals for the LUX experiment. From background modeling work for LZ, internal radioactivity is expected to be the most significant source of backgrounds for these detectors as well. In order to maintain low backgrounds from internal components, major internal components are created using materials known to have high radiopurity, e.g. OFHC Cu, HDPE, and PTFE. A radiopurity screening program, similar to that used for LUX, will be implemented for selection of materials for all major internal items, ensuring that internal backgrounds are limited below goals.

The LUX collaboration identified several highly radiopure samples of Ti ($<$0.4~mBq/kg $^{238}$U, $<$0.8~mBq/kg $^{232}$Th, $<$1.6~mBq/kg $^{40}$K), enabling the use of that material for construction of the inner and outer cryostat vessels. Ti is a very attractive option for cryostat construction due to its strength, cleanliness, and relative transparency to gamma rays, in comparison with steel and Cu which are typically used for construction of cryogenic vessels. Gamma transparency is attractive when using an external scintillator veto, which can catch escaping gammas to provide rejection of some intrinsic backgrounds (Sec. \ref{sub:Scintillator}).

Under investigation is the use of ``active internals,'' which would be separately-instrumented scintillator plastics used in place of Cu or HDPE in the construction of several of the major internal components. Though OFHC Cu is extremely radiopure, it can also shield gammas from scattering in the external scintillator veto. The projected background reduction factor from using scintillating internals is currently under investigation.

An addition of particular interest is the use of a fiber optic camera in the interior of the detector. This will enable direct monitoring of liquid surface conditions, sparking events, and grid condition. A prototype of the LZ camera system is being prepared for use in a future data run in LUX.

\subsection{Electronics}

LUX currently uses a VME-based acquisition system with 128 separate channels, with a custom-built 16-channel FPGA-based DDC-8 trigger system. The trigger system, extremely flexible in terms of implementation of pulse analysis algorithms, and allowing advanced data cuts to take place before pulse acquisition, can easily be expanded to hundreds of channels. For the LZ detectors, the DDC-8 system will be expanded to provide separate channels for all individual PMTs. The same digitizers will also provide data acquisition functionality, replacing the VME-based LUX DAQ system.

\subsection{Calibrations}

The self-shielding properties of liquid Xe are extremely advantageous in the rejection of gamma backgrounds. Unfortunately, the self-shielding makes it extremely difficult to calibrate the detector with external gamma sources. For liquid Xe TPCs the size of LUX or greater, external calibration sources are grossly inefficient at producing low-energy ER events within the fiducial volume. For this reason, internal calibration sources are being developed and deployed for testing in LUX, with an eye toward adaptation for the LZ detectors. These sources will maximize calibration efficiency at the center of the detector for both fixed- and variable-energy calibrations, which will set the light yield scale at the WIMP search region and determine ER rejection capability, respectively.

For fixed-energy calibrations, $^{83}$Kr$^{\text{m}}$ is a favored candidate \cite{Kastens2009,Kastens2010}. $^{83}$Kr$^{\text{m}}$ generates two conversion electrons at 32.1 and 9.4~keV, separated by a characteristic time of 154~ns. The characteristic time separation is long enough to be easily distinguished during analysis. The 1.8~hr half-life of $^{83}$Kr$^{\text{m}}$ quickly reduces the source activity below appreciable levels on the time scale of days, and the signature of the isotope allows any residual contamination to be easily rejected during dark matter searches.

Variable-energy calibrations can be accomplished with a beta emitter. One particular candidate under investigation is tritium, with a Q-value of 18.6~keV. Tritium would be introduced in the form of tritiated methane. Removal of tritiated methane at ppm levels from gaseous Xe has been achieved with efficiencies exceeding 99.98\% \cite{Dobi2010}. Significant advances in purification must be attained before use in liquid xenon, as background subdominance of the tritiated methane beta signature requires it to be present at levels $<$10$^{-25}$~g/g in Xe in LUX, and $<$10$^{-28}$~g/g in LZD, during WIMP searches.

\subsection{Scintillator}
\label{sub:Scintillator}

A major addition to the LZ detectors is the presence of an organic scintillator volume surrounding the active region. The scintillator will be instrumented with large-area PMTs, and will serve primarily to enhance rejection of internal backgrounds, as discussed in Sec. \ref{sub:Internal-Backgrounds}. The scintillator will likely be operated at liquid Xe temperatures to enhance light yields \cite{Britvich1999}, though development work remains to be completed to determine the impact of temperature on scintillator transparency, as well as explore an optimal cooling strategy and additional cryogenic safety concerns.

\subsection{Water Shield}

The LZ detectors will use a water shield to eliminate external backgrounds in a configuration similar to that of LUX. The LUX 8~m $\times$ 6~m water shield is equipped with 20 large-area PMTs which allow the water shield to provide Cherenkov veto functionality. The LZS detector will use the existing LUX water shield, as the LZS active region represents a modest scale-up in linear dimensions, and the layer of scintillator surrounding the active region will greatly supplement background reduction. LZD will use a 12~m $\times$ 12~m water shield with comparable or improved Cherenkov veto efficiency, which reduces external backgrounds far below significance (Sec. \ref{sub:External-Backgrounds}).

\section{Backgrounds}
\label{sec:Backgrounds}

Liquid Xe detectors greatly benefit from increases in mass, as the efficiency of their self-shielding capability dramatically increases as well. For a gamma or neutron to create a false WIMP signature, the particle must pass several cm into the detector, scatter through a small angle corresponding to a low energy deposition, and escape the detector without scattering again. The probability of escape drops exponentially with increases to linear detector dimension.

The increased size of the LZ detectors (50~cm $\times$ 50~cm for LUX; 85~cm $\times$ 85~cm or 1~m $\times$ 1~m for LZS 1.5 or 3~tonne respectively; 2~m $\times$ 2~m for LZD) will greatly aid rejection of backgrounds from both external and internal sources. However, background requirements for these detectors also become much more stringent as experiment running times increase. The increase in Xe mass and detector surface area also increases sensitivity to backgrounds which were not significant for smaller detectors. An extensive search has been performed to understand these background sources.

\subsection{External Backgrounds}
\label{sub:External-Backgrounds}

External backgrounds are generated primarily from muon spallation events in the rock, as well as muon capture in the detector water shield itself. Both event types produce a high-energy neutron flux which is able to penetrate to the fiducial volume of the detector with non-negligible efficiency. Extensive modeling work performed for the LUX experiment indicates that these background sources will remain subdominant to internal backgrounds. As LZS will use the existing LUX water shield and will offer enhanced self-shielding, these backgrounds are not considered to be significant for LZS either.

Modeling of LZD (Fig. \ref{fig:lzd-rock-n-bg}), with a 12~m $\times$ 12~m water shield with 4~m radial water thickness and a 1~m thick scintillator shows that the neutron backgrounds generated from cavern rock are moderated to nearly an order of magnitude below PMT backgrounds, before application of analysis cuts. The simulation and subsequent analysis does not consider correlations with muon showers, which is expected to provide additional veto capability using muon Cherenkov light generated in the water shield. Early studies of neutrons generated within the water shield by muon capture show that they result in a rate of high-energy neutrons which is about half of the rate of neutrons from muon spallation in rock.

\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{lz-rock-n-bg_notitle_bw.pdf}
\caption{Simulated nuclear recoil energy spectrum in LZD resulting from high-energy neutrons generated from muon spallation in cavern rock, before (dark) and after (light) application of a scintillator veto cut with a 100~keV threshold. The simulation assumed a 12~m $\times$ 12~m water tank with a 2~m $\times$ 2~m liquid xenon target at its center, surrounded by an additional 1~m thick liquid scintillator region (modeled as water). The initial neutron energy spectrum was obtained from \cite{Mei2005}. Within simulation statistics, standard fiducialization and single-scatter cuts eliminate all background events at $>$99.9\% efficiency. The simulation was performed using the LUXSim package.} \label{fig:lzd-rock-n-bg}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Internal Backgrounds}
\label{sub:Internal-Backgrounds}

As with LUX, LZ backgrounds are expected to be limited by activity from internal components, in particular the PMTs. A rigorous material screening program will enforce this goal by combining detailed Monte Carlo modeling with counting results for construction materials used for all major internal components. The use of R11410~MOD PMTs (Sec. \ref{sub:PMTs}) significantly reduces the PMT contribution to the internal background. For LZD, the R11410~MOD PMTs will reduce PMT background contributions to a level an order of magnitude below the predicted background contribution from neutrino scattering (Sec. \ref{sub:Neutrino-Backgrounds}).

As the detector surface area increases, stringent precautions must be taken to limit exposure of detector internals to airborne Rn during construction. Rn progeny can plate out on detector surfaces and generate neutron backgrounds through ($\alpha$,n) interactions with the surrounding detector components, particularly fluorine-rich targets such as PTFE. As with LUX, care will be taken during the manufacturing process to keep all major internals under active N$_2$ purge in order to limit Rn exposure.

\subsection{Intrinsic Backgrounds}
\label{sub:Intrinsic-Backgrounds}

The increase in xenon mass for the LZ detectors brings a corresponding increase in sensitivity to intrinsic xenon backgrounds which were not considered for previous detectors. Of particular concern are a class of isotopes which undergo ``naked'' or ``semi-naked'' beta decay, meaning that the decay has a significant probability of emitting a beta without an accompanying gamma which would enhance veto capabilities. Naked beta decays produce no accompanying gamma, while semi-naked beta decays produce an accompanying gamma with enough energy to potentially escape the active region. One notable example of a naked beta emitter is $^{214}$Bi, a member of the $^{238}$U decay chain, which can be introduced into the xenon through Rn emanation from detector internals. Activation of Xe through muon capture, neutron capture, or fast neutron activation is also of concern.

The dominant intrinsic background has been found to be xenon isotopes generated by fast neutron activation and thermal neutron capture. The most important isotope is $^{137}$Xe, which has a 2/3 probability of emitting a naked beta with a 4.1~MeV endpoint, and a 1/3 chance of emitting a semi-naked 3.7~MeV beta in coincidence with a 450~keV gamma. This background source yields event rates approximately two orders of magnitude below those expected from neutrinos, as discussed in Sec. \ref{sub:Neutrino-Backgrounds}, and is thus not a concern for LZ.

Kr is present in commercial Xe in $\sim$ppb concentrations. $^{85}$Kr, a naked beta emitter, is present within natural Kr at concentrations of $\sim$10~ppt. As Kr is not removed by the getters planned for use in LZ, a separate charcoal-based system is under development which will reduce Kr concentrations below 5~ppt for LUX, and is scalable with modest efforts. LZS requires a Kr concentration below 0.5~ppt, while LZD requires a concentration below 0.05~ppt. These levels can be achieved by scaling the LUX charcoal system.

\subsection{Neutrino Backgrounds}
\label{sub:Neutrino-Backgrounds}

LZD is expected to be the ultimate liquid xenon direct detection experiment, as the scale of the experiment expands its sensitivity to ER and NR signatures from neutrino scattering. This represents a fundamental ``noise floor'' for liquid xenon detectors, after which new technologies will be needed to further improve detection statistics. In particular, coherent neutrino scattering creates an unavoidable nuclear recoil background \cite{Strigari:2009bq}

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\centering
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{LZ20T_NR_diff_rate-eps-converted-to.pdf}
\includegraphics[width=80mm]{LZ20T_ER_lowE_diff_rate-eps-converted-to.pdf}
\caption{(Left) LZD NR backgrounds from neutrino coherent scattering. The low-energy range (1-50~keV$_{\text{r}}$) where WIMP signatures are most prevalent include coherent scattering contributions from three different neutrino sources: $^8$B solar neutrinos, neutrinos from cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere, and diffuse supernova background neutrinos. Due to the steepness of the spectrum, the $^8$B solar neutrino contribution is convolved with the expected detector energy resolution in order to estimate leakage into higher energies in the WIMP search energy range. Overlayed for comparison is the predicted neutron background spectrum for both fission and ($\alpha$,n) contributions from the PMTs, assuming the use of R11410~MOD PMTs. WIMP recoil spectra for 100~GeV particles are shown for interaction cross-sections of $10^{-47}$~cm$^2$ and $10^{-48}$~cm$^2$. A NR acceptance of 50\% is assumed. (Right) LZD ER backgrounds from p-p solar neutrinos, $^7$Be solar neutrinos, and two-neutrino double-beta decay from $^{136}$Xe, assuming a $2.1\times10^{21}$~yr lifetime as recently reported in \cite{Ackerman2011}. Overlaid are projected ER background activities from $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th decays within the PMTs, assuming the use of R11410~MOD PMTs. A 99.5\% rejection factor is applied for neutrino and gamma spectra. Overlaid are WIMP signatures converted into the ER energy scale, assuming a conversion of keV$_{\text{r}}$/keV$_{\text{ee}}$=0.3 and a NR acceptance of 50\%.} \label{fig:LZD-NR-neutrinos}
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\caption{Projected detection performance of the LUX and LZ detectors \cite{DMTools}. Dashed lines correspond in descending order to LUX (1~background event in 30,000~kg~days), LZS 1.5~tonne (1~background event in 72,000~kg~days), and LZD (10 and 1~background events for dashed and dotted, respectively, in $1.4\times10^7$~kg~days) for spin-independent interactions. Comparison is given to the lowest current limit from XENON100 (solid) \cite{Aprile2011}. } \label{fig:limit-plot}
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As shown in Fig. \ref{fig:LZD-NR-neutrinos} (left), the primary NR backgrounds expected for LZD come from a combination of atmospheric, solar ($^8$B), and diffuse supernova neutrino coherent scatters. Shown for reference is the activity predicted from neutrons generated from $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th isotopes in 7.6~cm diameter PMTs, including ($\alpha$,n) backgrounds as well as $^{238}$U fission. Overlayed are predicted signatures from 100~GeV WIMPs with SI interaction cross-sections of $10^{-47}$ and 10$^{-48}$~cm$^2$; for WIMPs with lower interaction cross-sections, the WIMP signal is significantly masked by neutrino coherent scattering signatures. Electron recoils backgrounds are also limited by neutrino scattering signatures, as shown in Fig. \ref{fig:LZD-NR-neutrinos} (right). In particular, signatures from ER scatters by neutrinos from the solar p-p chain dwarf the signatures from PMT $^{238}$U and $^{232}$Th decays for energies up to 200~keV. Above 60~keV, significant contributions are present from two-neutrino double-beta decay from $^{136}$Xe, recently measured in \cite{Ackerman2011}.

\section{Projected Performance}

The projected performance for LZ WIMP detection is shown in Fig. \ref{fig:limit-plot} \cite{DMTools}. LUX projected sensitivity, assuming 1~NR background event in 30,000~kg~days, will be able to place a 90\% confidence level exclusion limit at $7\times10^{-46}$~cm$^2$ for a 100~GeV WIMP. LZS, assuming a 72,000~kg~day exposure with 1~NR background event, will improve this limit by over an order of magnitude, at $4\times10^{-47}$~cm$^2$. LZD will be able to establish a limit of $3\times10^{-48}$~cm$^2$, assuming 10~NR background events in $1.4\times10^7$~kg~days, or $5\times10^{-49}$~cm$^2$ assuming 1~NR background event for the same exposure. As mentioned in Sec. \ref{sub:Neutrino-Backgrounds}, LZD represents the limit of liquid xenon technology for WIMP detection, as signatures from neutrino coherent scattering ultimately limit these types of direct detection searches.

\begin{acknowledgments}
This work was partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under award numbers DE-FG02-08ER41549, DE-FG02-91ER40688, DOE, DE-FG02-95ER40917, DE-FG02-91ER40674, DE-FG02-11ER41738, DE-FG02-11ER41751, DE-AC52-07NA27344, the U.S. National Science Foundation under award numbers PHYS-0750671, PHY-0801536, PHY-1004661, PHY-1102470, PHY-1003660, the Research Corporation grant RA0350, the Center for Ultra-low Background Experiments at DUSEL (CUBED), and the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT). We gratefully acknowledge the logistical and technical support and the access to laboratory infrastructure provided to us by the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) and its personnel at Lead, South Dakota.
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Using 32 weeks of data from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey, factors associated with receipt of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 vaccinations among U.S. children during October 2009 through February 2010 are examined.
Logistic models estimated receipt of first dose by January 1, 2010 for all children aged 4.5 months through 17 years and receipt of second dose by February 1, 2010 for children aged 6 months through 9 years who received a first dose, using demographic characteristics and measures of family structure, parental education, family income, access to health care, and chronic condition status. All analyses were weighted to yield nationally representative results for the U.S. child population.
Receipt of a seasonal influenza vaccination in the 12 months prior to October 2009 as well as race/ethnicity, family structure, and various measures representing family socioeconomic status were statistically significant correlates of receipt of the first pH1N1 dose, while children's asthma and chronic condition status were not.
In the event of future pandemics, public health officials may utilize these findings to target particular segments of the U.S. child population that may have been underserved during the 2009 influenza pandemic.
Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 7(3):383-392.


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ASSEMBLY, No. 1869 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 217th LEGISLATURE
04 Apr ASSEMBLY, No. 1869 STATE OF NEW JERSEY 217th LEGISLATURE
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ASSEMBLY, No. 1869
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
217th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2016 SESSION
Assemblyman BENJIE E. WIMBERLY
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
Assemblywoman VALERIE VAINIERI HUTTLE
District 37 (Bergen)
Assemblywoman SHEILA Y. OLIVER
District 34 (Essex and Passaic)
Assemblywoman CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER
District 28 (Essex)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Assemblymen Benson, Singleton, Assemblywoman Jimenez, Assemblyman Giblin, Assemblywoman Lampitt, Assemblymen Schaer, Danielsen, Assemblywomen Spencer, Caride and Assemblyman Holley
Establishes Division of Minority and Women Business Development and State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor efforts to promote participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning participation by minority-owned and women-owned businesses in State contracting and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. There is established in the State Department of the Treasury a Division of Minority and Women Business Development. The division shall administer and monitor policies, practices and programs that further this State's efforts to ensure equal opportunity for minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises in purchasing and procurement by State departments and agencies, including independent State authorities.
The head of the division shall be the State Chief Disparity Officer. It shall be the duty of the State Chief Disparity Officer to monitor the State's public contracting process for the purpose of compiling information on the awarding of contracts to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, the total value of all contracts and the percentage of the value of those contracts awarded to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises. The State Chief Disparity Officer shall periodically submit to the Governor, and to the Legislature pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), reports of the officer's findings, including information on any disparities noted between the number and value of contracts awarded to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises and the prevalence of these businesses in the marketplace. Every State department and agency, including independent State authorities, shall cooperate fully with the State Chief Disparity Officer in meeting these objectives and each shall designate a high-level officer or employee as its disparity officer to act as a liaison with the State Chief Disparity Officer.
2. The provisions of P.L.1986, c.195 (C.52:27H-21.17 et seq.) providing for the certification of minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises shall be fully implemented in order to assist the State Chief Disparity Officer in compiling data on participation of these businesses in the State contracting process. No self-certification process, under which businesses themselves determine whether they meet the criteria for certification, shall be used.
3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a small business set-aside contract to be awarded pursuant to P.L.1983, c.482 (C.52:32-17 et seq.) that has an estimated value of less than $200,000 shall be awarded without public advertising for bids and, instead, shall be publicly announced prior to being awarded and negotiated with qualified small businesses on the basis of demonstrated competence and qualifications for the type of goods or services required and at a fair and reasonable compensation, using a competitive contracting process that is modeled on the provisions of P.L.1997, c.399 (C.52:34-9.1 et seq.).
4. This act shall take effect immediately.
This bill establishes in the State Department of the Treasury a Division of Minority and Women Business Development to be headed by a State Chief Disparity Officer. The division will administer and monitor policies, practices and programs that further this State's efforts to ensure equal opportunity for minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises in purchasing and procurement by State departments and agencies, including independent State authorities. The State Chief Disparity Officer will monitor the State's public contracting process for the purpose of compiling information on the awarding of contracts to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises, including the total value of all contracts and the percentage of the value of those contracts awarded to minority-owned and women-owned business enterprises. The officer will periodically report the officer's findings to the Governor and the Legislature. The bill directs each State department and agency, including independent State authorities, to designate a disparity officer to act as a liaison with the State Chief Disparity Officer.
The bill also requires that provisions of existing law concerning State certification of minority-owned and women-owned businesses be fully implemented and prohibits self-certification by these businesses. In addition, the bill provides that contracts awarded through the State's small business set-aside program that are valued at less than $200,000 will not be publicly advertised for bids but will, instead, be negotiated with small businesses using a competitive contracting process.
The bill's provisions are necessary to ensure that the equality of opportunity guaranteed by federal and State law are available to minority-owned and women-owned businesses in this State. It is based, in part, on legislation recently enacted in New York State.


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Taliban will be marginalized by 2011: Top Canadian general
By Michelle Lang, Calgary Herald December 22, 2009
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Bolstered by thousands of American troops, Canada's top general in Afghanistan is predicting the Taliban will be marginalized from most of Kandahar's population by the time the Canadian military mission ends in 2011.
Brig.-Gen. Daniel Menard said that with more than 5,000 Canadian and U.S. soldiers under his command, coalition forces will be able to hold areas in the violent province far more effectively than in recent years.
"What I can do is marginalize the insurgency in our area and they can become irrelevant to 85 per cent of the population of Kandahar province," said Menard, when asked what he could achieve before Canadian troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan in the summer of 2011.
"This is what I think I can certainly achieve."
The comments, made to reporters during a conference call Tuesday, come as the number of American soldiers under Menard's command grows.
In total, three American battalions are now part of Canada's task force in Afghanistan and Canada's responsibility in Kandahar is shifting to focus on securing the areas in and around Kandahar City.
Menard said Tuesday he will not take an area without holding it — a goal that has often remained beyond Canada's grasp in recent years.
In some parts of Kandahar, Canadian soldiers have secured terrain only to see the areas slip back under Taliban influence because the troops were spread too thin.
Menard has vowed to reverse this trend now that the number of forces in the region has grown.
At least one observer said the goal is likely realistic now that there is a sufficient number of soldiers to foster stability.
Retired colonel Alain Pellerin said there are now about 10 times more troops than in 2006 when Canada took on its current combat role in Kandahar.
"We were alone in the whole of the province . . . We were like a fire brigade trying to extinguish fires in 2006," said Pellerin, executive director of the Canadian Conference of Defence Associations.
"Now we're more like a robust police brigade."
On Tuesday, Menard said Canadian Forces in the province are currently working on securing areas and focusing on development projects in advance of the spring fighting season.
He suggested that by next summer, the Canadian Forces will see a new type of "campaign" season.
"I believe we will be in a position to deal with them on our own terms, we will be directly in charge and have the lead in . . . how we engage them," he said.
mlang@theherald.canwest.com
Canadian Armed Forces Activities


I have had this whole week off work. It has been really nice, but also packed with activities. We have very little on the docket for this weekend and I am looking forward to some down time at home. I am linking up with Tif, Katie, Della and Becky for High Five For Friday.
1.) Miss. E had swimming lessons this week and she is doing quite well in them. I am glad she is getting comfortable in the water because Hubby and I enjoy being in the water.
2.) Our pooch Penny got groomed yesterday. She looks so pretty! She is so soft and even smells like shampoo. Miss. E was super impressed that the groomer put a pink bow on her collar.
3.) I went for my 20 week ultrasound yesterday. Baby is doing well and it was so fun to see the little one moving around.
4.) Miss. E got her stitches out on Monday. She did really well and her cut is healing nicely.
5.) I bought a bedroom set on an online garage sale site and it came with a mate's bed and headboard, a six drawer dresser, and a small secretary's desk. I got a great deal on the set. Miss. E will get the mate's bed, the dresser will go in the baby's room and the desk will go in the living room. I am excited to be one step closer being ready for our new baby. Miss E is excited to get a new bed and she will have so much more room in her bedroom.
How was your week? I hope you all have a great weekend!
I am so happy for you that you are getting things in place now. Waiting is highly iladvised! Haha. I'm jealous of your week off. I love those kinds of weeks. Glad your 20 week ultra sound was good! Happy weekend!
I am currently in nesting mode. Ha ha. I told my Hubby that I am going to embrace it as I doubt that I will have any energy in my 3rd trimester. I hope you have a great week!
Aww I hope Miss E enjoys swimming lessons! I had them as a kid and, despite loving them, I retained nothing haha. Yay for your 20 week ultrasound!!!
20 weeks! Yay, half way there! I'm glad Miss E has enjoyed swimming lessons. We are thinking about having our son take them next summer.
I think that the lessons are great. Miss. E was really timid around water and now I have to pull her out of the pool. Ha ha. She loves them!


In her 1963 book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt argued that many of those who had engaged in the atrocities of World War II were ordinary, even mundane sorts of people. Adolf Eichmann, she wrote, coordinated the genocide of European Jews without being a mustache-twirling villain or raging psychopath. Her notion of "the banality of evil" elicited outrage from readers who accused her of trivializing the atrocities of the Second World War.
Forty years later, a related tendency in our culture goes largely undecried—call it "the humanization of evil." In literature, film, and television, evil characters have become objects of intense fascination.
Morality and art was the subject of a previous column. In it, I praised the great novelist and moralist, George Eliot, who felt, like other Victorians, that art had a moral responsibility to society. The Edwardians revolted against that seemingly priggish idea, and the modernists coolly opposed it—though much modernist literature still clings to a kind of moral code, even as it thumbs its nose at custom and decorum.
It's not that people haven't been fascinated by evil since time immemorial, it's that the nature of their fascination has changed. The beginning of the trend might be traced to the landmark movie Bonnie and Clyde, which gave degenerate characters a glamorous if not a sympathetic presentation. Or perhaps we should look to early gangster movies, like Scarface, where the gangster, though represented as irredeemable, nonetheless drives the action and interest in the film. In these movies, however, the villainous characters are ultimately punished. Moreover, as movies, they don't go on so long that we invest in them in any significant way.
Postmodernism changed this. One thinks of novels like Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho or Umberto Eco's Prague Cemetery, which have degenerate characters for their protagonists. The advent of television series with villains at their center is even more significant in this respect. TV shows give prolonged life to a character, sometimes over years of episodes. The Sopranos and, more recently, Breaking Bad are dramatic examples. Both series situate a morally degenerate individual at their center and then go about giving this monstrous behavior a human component by exposing us to the individual over time.
The difference between a movie like Scarface and a series like The Sopranos is that in one the trajectory is simple and short-lived. We may be drawn briefly to a charismatic, murderous character, but we don't have time to learn about his inner workings in an intimate way. But through television, we essentially come to live with him—to share his day-to-day life and thus to share his world.
This postmodern presentation of villainy is not based on antihumanism but on a new kind of humanism that understands where degeneracy comes from. The origins of this sensitivity could be traced to the beginning of modern psychology, which gave rise to more humane methods of treating criminals. But what are the full implications of this new humanism when brought into the domain of representation? I like to watch shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad—they are riveting television—but I also distrust my enjoyment of them. When an atrocity happens, like the Newtown shootings, I wonder about how my fascination for this new kind of humanized villain has helped to create a society in which more villains are produced.


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[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 37. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S2] Peter W. Hammond, editor, The Complete Peerage or a History of the House of Lords and All its Members From the Earliest Times, Volume XIV: Addenda & Corrigenda (Stroud, Gloucestershire, U.K.: Sutton Publishing, 1998), page 74. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage, Volume XIV.
[S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 377. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage.
[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 81. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
Her married name became Glemham.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 408.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 27.
[S18] Matthew H.C.G., editor, Dictionary of National Biography on CD-ROM (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1995), Carleton, Dudley. Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography.


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"We Work to Reduce Digital Gender Inequalities"
Amalia Toledo is an historian and lawyer from Puerto Rico. She is currently a project coordinator at the Karisma Foundation. Amalia leads the organisation's work on gender and technology. Photo: Private.
The Karisma Foundation is a digital rights advocacy organisation that works to reduce gender inequalities. This year, the organisation applied to the Innovation Challenge 2018 and is one of four winners. Their plan is to produce an innovative podcast that will lead the audience to reflect and critically examine how online narratives often exclude women.
The struggle for gender equality is ongoing in probably every country in the world. But many parts of society are still dominated by male narratives, and the increasingly important digital space is not an exception.
Amalia Toledo, project coordinator at the Karisma Foundation, and her team presents an innovative toolkit of five podcast episodes that will unpack women's struggles and fights, and give women tools to challenge the narrative online.
"This is, in a way, a recognition of the courage and the work that this group has done in the defence and realisation of women's rights. We hope that it will be a space that offers useful information to women human rights defenders in an inventive way," said Amalia Toledo.
"The great thing about this idea is that the Karisma Foundation has identified a real need for content and will thus be able to fill a very specific gap," said Jac sm Kee, Innovation Challenge jury member and Manager of the Women's Rights Programme for the Association for Progressive Communications.
In addition to providing relevant tools, the podcast will also use storytelling to present the work of women human rights defenders, feminist groups and women's human rights organisations, in particular from Latin America.
"We believe this is important because it will give women, whether young or already working in the sector, arguments and evidence to fight the male narrative. And hopefully, along the way many men will also learn something and begin to reflect on these issues," said Amalia Toledo.
Karisma's team visiting a self-managed organic farming project. Choachí, Colombia, August 2018.
The Karisma Foundation is one of four winners of the Innovation Challenge 2018. Read about the other three here:
Cristo & team, "SugarCube User Interface"
Abir Ghattas and Dan Ó Cluanaigh, "Unboxing Digital Security"
Derechos Digitales, "Digital Security Cards"
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Civil Rights Defenders is excited to announce the opening of our annual Innovation Challenge! The competition, which is financed by the Swedish Postcode Lottery, is open for anyone to apply. The missi...
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A total of 101 creative applicants entered the Innovation Challenge 2018. They all brought forward ideas on how to increase the protection and efficiency of human rights defenders at risk. Today, Civi...
"SugarCube will Allow Human Rights Defenders to Expand Their Investigative Toolkit"
One of the greatest challenges for many human rights defenders is to inform the public about the continuous human rights abuses in their environments. SugarCube – one of the winning applications in th...
"We Help Journalists Avoid Risks and Visualise Digital Security"
Latin American journalists often become targets of violence and threats, online and offline. In order to meet this worrying trend, the organisation Derechos Digitales – winner of the Innovation Challe...
"We Hope That It Will Help LGBTI People Stay Safe"
Laws, technology and oppressive methods used by governments can change quickly. In order to stay on top of things and avoid unnecessary risks, human rights defenders need access to the latest security...