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Jennifer Cole
Executive Director, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University
Jen Cole is the Executive Director of Programs and Public Affairs at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. She also serves as Co-Lead, of The National Collaborative for Creative Work.
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Nadia Elokdah
Vice President, Grantmakers in the Arts
Nadia Elokdah is an urbanist and design strategist with more than a decade working at the intersection of public systems and cultural practice. She currently serves as Vice President & Director of Programs at GIA. Most recently she served as special projects manager with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs coordinating the City's monuments commission. Prior, she served as coordinator in the development of the City's first cultural plan, CreateNYC, in which she coordinated and led hundreds of engagements with a broad cross-section of the public, as well collaborating in the writing and production of the plan. She is devoted to civic engagement through culturally responsible, inclusive, and equitable design practice, exemplified in collaborations with the International Design Clinic, in.site collaborative, and Monuments Lab.
Tariana Navas-Nieves
Director, Cultural Affairs and City's Equity Leadership Team, Arts and Venues, City and County of Denver
Tariana Navas-Nieves, Director of Cultural Affairs for Denver Arts & Venues, City and County of Denver, has 30 years of experience in management, equity, race and social justice work; philanthropy; curatorial practice; translation and interpretation; television, and communications. She oversees the City departments of Public Art, Cultural Programs & Events, Creative Industries, SCFD Tier III (Tax District) funding, Arts Education, and the agency's numerous cultural investments and grant programs. Tariana is also on the City's Executive Leadership Team responsible for establishing the first Office of Social Equity & Innovation for the City, as well as oversight and implementation of the City's equity goals working with all City agencies and ~13K employees.
Navas-Nieves serves on national, regional and local boards including: Grantmakers in the Arts (Vice Chair), Philanthropy Colorado (Vice Chair), Philanthropy Colorado Arts & Culture Funders (Co-Chair), Denver Latino Commission, and the Community ACTS Fund focused on funding to support Black, Indigenous, Latino/x/e, Asian American & Pacific Islander and people of color, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and other historically marginalized communities.
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Jessica Stern
Senior Manager, Americans for the Arts
Jessica leads Americans for the Arts' local inclusive creative economy initiatives and drives strategies that assist local arts leaders to understand and activate solidarity economy practices.
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Tom Cahill-Jones
Partnerships Manager, Nesta
Tom is the Partnerships Manager for the PEC, always ready to have a conversation about creativity and innovation. He's interested in building relationships that help sustain the Creative Industries and supporting the generation of knowledge that reflects the state of the sector. His remit includes devising the PEC's partnerships strategy, overseeing the network of industry champions and contributing to research commissioning processes.
Prior to joining Nesta, Tom worked for Birmingham City University where he was responsible for developing STEAMhouse, BCUs centre for collaborative innovation. Whilst there he designed innovation support services and built a number of international consortia, notably focused on cross innovation, makerspaces, and STEAM (the intersection of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths). This work resulted in policy changes in local authorities across Europe and new methods for sharing ideas across different brain spaces. He also had a stint in concert programming at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
When not at work, Tom is known to play average piano and runs a studio for nine artists.
Jonathan Glus
Director, San Diego Arts & Culture
Jonathon joined the City of San Diego in November 2018. He leads and facilitates the strategic vision of the office. Prior to working in San Diego, he was the Director of Culture and Creative Economy for the City of Sacramento, CA where he led the city's first cultural planning process in more than 20 years. Jonathon set in place an assessment of Sacramento's film sector and an equity audit of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.
Prior to Sacramento, he served as the first CEO of Houston Arts Alliance (HAA) for more than nine years. While at HAA, he worked closely with a board of more than 30, multiple committees, staff and partner agencies including VisitHouston, the Greater Houston Partnership, cultural districts and universities. Jonathon co-chaired the tourism committee of VisitHouston, partnered on multiple cultural tourism initiatives, and led two studies on the creative economy in the Houston region.
He was also the chairman of the board of Texans for the Arts (TFA), a statewide arts advocacy organization. He was Executive Director of Arts & Culture for the City of Pasadena, CA where he led multiple cultural tourism initiatives and partnerships, represented that city with the Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition & Festival, and led the city's cultural planning process, in partnership with the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission. Jonathon began his career with city arts agencies in Evanston, IL, and his arts career with the International Sculpture Center, in Washington, DC where he wrote for SCULPTURE magazine and traveling exhibitions internationally.
He studied urban economics and public policy at Indiana University, and art and architectural history at University of Illinois. He also studied at University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, where he focused on British urban policy.
Roberto Bedoya
Cultural Affairs Manager, City of Oakland
Roberto Bedoya is the Cultural Affairs Manager for the City of Oakland where he most recently shepherded the City's Cultural Plan, "Belonging in Oakland: A Cultural Development Plan". Throughout his career Roberto has consistently supported artists-centered cultural practices and advocated for expanded definitions of inclusion and belonging in cultural sector.
His essays such as "Creative Placemaking and the Politics of Belonging and Dis-Belonging;" " Spatial Justice: Rasquachification, Race and the City;" and, "Poetics and Praxis of a City in Relation" have reframed the discussion on cultural policy to shed light on exclusionary practices in cultural policy decision-making. He is a Creative Placemaking Fellow at Arizona State University.
Felipe Buitrago
Former Minister of Culture, Republic of Colombia
Author of The Orange Economy & The No Collar Economy. Expert in public policy for culture, entrepreneurship, creative industries, & digital transformation. Former minister of Culture of Colombia.
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Laura Zabel
Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts
Laura Zabel is the Executive Director of Springboard for the Arts, an economic and community development agency run by and for artists.
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Laura Callanan
Founding Partner, Upstart CoLab
Laura Callanan has been senior deputy chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, a consultant with McKinsey & Company and associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Hollis Wong-Wear
Founder and Principal, hww.work
As a songwriter, musician, speaker, creative generator and community advocate who lives between Los Angeles and Seattle, WA. She is the lead vocalist of the electronic R&B trio The Flavr Blue, and was GRAMMY nominated in 2014 for her work with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis.
With her roots in spoken word and slam poetry through the nationally recognized Youth Speaks program, Hollis is passionate about how creativity and the arts fuel and shape civic discourse, and is dedicated to lending her voice and capacities towards vibrant social equity.
Hollis has been a featured speaker at conferences, conventions and speaker series, sharing her spoken word poetry and her candid insights on her experience as an independent artist and engaged activist. She has performed and spoken for an array of organizations and schools, including KEXP, WrapWomen, Planned Parenthood, University of Washington, YWCA and the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute, has been featured by TedX University of Washington, and has presented alongside such luminaries as Gloria Steinem, Kimberle Crenshaw and Eve Ensler.
A native of the Bay Area, Hollis graduated from Seattle University with a major in History and a minor in Global African Studies, and was recently named the recipient of Seattle University's 2016 Outstanding Recent Alumna Award.
Alberto Mejia
Deputy Director, NALAC (The National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures)
Alberto Mejia is the Deputy Director at NALAC. He holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington and a BA in American Cultural Studies and Political Science from Fairhaven College.
Prior to joining NALAC in 2020, he served as manager of Cultural Funding & Investments with the City of Austin, a senior director of Community Programs at Creative Action, Manager of the Dougherty Arts Center, Executive Director of Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in Seattle, WA and Community Engagement Manager at MoPOP in Seattle, WA. Alberto is an alumnus of NALAC's Advocacy Leadership Institute (ALI) and has served as panelist for local to national grant making programs including ARTPLACE and NEA Our Town.
Alberto is active in cultural policy issues & dialogue. Alberto is an artist in the in hip-hop genre and devotes time to the practice of indigenous cultural tradition, community building & dance.
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Adriana Gallego
Executive Director, Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona
Adriana Gallego is the Executive Director for the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona. As an artist at the service of other artists, Gallego's work is motivated by social justice, where she seeks to connect people with meaningful resources that grow capacity, build community, foster collaboration and bridge cultural understanding.
She serves on the national board of directors of Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) and MAP Fund. Previously, she was Chief Operating Officer at NALAC, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Educational Assistant at the Norton Simon Museum, and teaching artist throughout the Southwest.
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Randy Engstrom
Consultant, Third Way Creative
Randy Engstrom has been a passionate advocate and organizer of cultural and community development for over 15 years. He is currently an Adjunct Faculty at the Seattle University Arts Leadership Program and owner of Third Way Creative, a consulting practice focused on cultural policy, racial equity, and creative economy. Most recently he served as Director of the Office of Arts and Culture for the City of Seattle where he expanded their investments in granting programs and Public Art, while establishing new programs and policies in arts education, cultural space affordability, and racial equity.
In 2009 Randy received the Emerging Leader Award from Americans for the Arts and was one of Puget Sound Business Journal's 40 Under 40. He is a graduate of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, and he received his Executive Master's in Public Administration at the University of Washington's Evans School of Governance and Public Policy.
Director of Impact and Public Policy, WESTAF
David Holland is the director of impact and public policy at WESTAF. He joined WESTAF in 2019 to lead its advocacy and public policy programs and services and serve as the primary liaison with federal, state, and local agencies. His role has evolved to also drive the impact of WESTAF's field building programs and services.
He has authored the Creative Economies and Economic Recovery report in partnership with the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies; co-led the redesign of the Performing Arts Discovery program in partnership with regional and national partners; established the Western Arts Advocacy Network (WAAN); collaborated on developing new equity-focused relief and resilience grantmaking programs in the West and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; spearheaded WESTAF's Arts and the Rural West and Arts Leadership and Advocacy Seminars; and secured private and public investment for WESTAF's programs.
His prior roles include leadership positions at the Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, the VCU da Vinci Center for Innovation, VCU School of the Arts, ART 180, Arts & Business, the UK innovation foundation Nesta, and BOP Consulting. He is a Salzburg Global Fellow, Evan Carroll Commager Fellow, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Dee Schneidman
Senior Program Director, Research and Creative Economy, New England Foundation for the Arts
As NEFA's Senior Program Director for Research and Creative Economy, Dee oversees data collection, documentation, and creative economy activities at NEFA. These include the New England Creative Economy Reports on the creative sector and its nonprofit subset; CreativeGround: New England's online directory and research database of creative enterprises and artists; regional events such as the Creative Communities Exchange (CCX); knowledge-sharing projects and NEFA program evaluation.
Before coming to work at NEFA in January of 2006, Dee worked in a variety of non-profit and business settings, utilizing her background in the performing arts to develop trainings and workshops geared toward the personal growth and creative learning of both children and adults. She holds a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Virginia where she focused on empirical research in the fields of creativity, human development and assessment.
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Susan Soroko
Director, Creative Economy Arlington Economic Development
Susan Soroko currently serves as Director of Creative Economy in the Department of Economic Development of Arlington County, Virginia. She manages new cultural initiatives in Arlington that encompasses a wide range of creative sector development projects. Under the leadership of Arlington Economic Development,
Susan works to support both for profit creative industries along-side the non-profit arts organizations and artists. Before becoming Director of Creative Economy, Susan served as Acting Director of Cultural Development in the Cultural Affairs Division. In that role, Susan oversaw the Arts Grants Program, Lee Arts Center for professional printmakers and ceramic artists, and education and outreach programs. Piloting several public private partnerships while implementing a HUD grant award provided the groundwork for the Creative Economy initiative.
Zannie Voss
Professor; Director, SMU Data Arts
Dr. Zannie Voss is Director of SMU DataArts, the National Center for Arts Research and Professor of Arts Management in SMU's Meadows School of the Arts and the Cox School of Business.
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Hakim Bellamy
Deputy Director of Cultural Services, City of Albuquerque
Bellamy currently serves as the Deputy Director of the City of Albuquerque Department of Arts & Culture, and was the Inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Albuquerque (2012-2014). Bellamy is a W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellow and a Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow. In 2012 he published his first collection of poetry, SWEAR (West End Press/University of New Mexico Press), and it landed him the Working-Class Studies Tillie Olsen Award for Literature in 2012. His latest collection Commissions y Corridos is his seventh book and was also published by University of New Mexico Press in August of 2021.
With an M.A. in Communications from the University of New Mexico (UNM), Bellamy has held adjunct faculty positions at the University of New Mexico and the Institute of American Indian Arts. Bellamy has shared his work in no less than five countries, for His Holiness the Dalai Lama XXIV and continues to use his art to change his communities.
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Abdiel López
Independent Curator
Abdiel J. López is an independent curator and cultural writer whose work examines dissidence, failure, and alternative economies within art and culture across the US and Mexico. Abdiel is the founder of the independent art gallery, Arrullar ("a-roo-yahr"), which first opened in Abdiel's apartment closet in January 2020 and features BIPOC artists whose oeuvre breaks away from tradition and explores how art can be produced and shown outside the traditional white cube. Outside of their curatorial and written practice, Abdiel is the Program Manager at Purpose Foundation, which helps businesses and communities build equitable ownership, governance, and financing models. Abdiel's interest in alternative economic models stems from their tenure as the Program Officer at the Center for Cultural Innovation where they managed the time-limited, national portfolio, AmbitioUS. AmbitioUS invests in alternative economic models authored by and for BIPOC cultural communities in order to build wealth through ownership of assets and incubating trailblazing economic infrastructure.
Abdiel holds a B.A. in sociology from Grinnell College where they also studied art history and were a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Abdiel uses they/them pronouns, is rooted in Oaxaca, and currently lives in Los Angeles with their Pomeranian dog, Horchata.
Patton Hindle
Head of Arts, Kickstarter Arts
Patton Hindle is the head of arts at Kickstarter, where she oversees the Arts and Film team whose specialists work closely with visual and performing artists, filmmakers, arts organizations, museums, and cultural institutions around the world to help them realize creative and ambitious ideas. Hindle was previously the co-founder of Chinatown gallery yours mine & ours and the Director of Gallery and Institutional Partnerships at Artspace.
She is a co-author of the second edition of How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery and was a 2019 Catherine Hannah Behrend Fellow at 92Y Women inPower in New York. Additionally, Hindle regularly advises for-profit and nonprofit arts organizations on strategic business development. She serves on the Board of Directors of The Laundromat Project, the Board of Advisors of the Arts Funders Forum, and Americans for the Arts' Inclusive Creative Economy Advisory Group. Hindle was raised in London and attended university in Boston.
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Kim Tignor
Executive Director, Intellectual Property and Social Justice
Kim Tignor is the creator and founder of Take Creative Control (TCC) and executive director of the Institute for Intellectual Property & Social Justice (IIPSJ). Kim has grabbed the attention of creators of color by shining a light on a barrier to opportunity that's been hiding in plain sight: our intellectual property laws.
We don't always connect the dots between social justice and IP law. Like most social justice issues in America, IP law is ingrained in our system, silently tipping the scales against equality and opportunity. Think of an up-and-coming graphic artist who discovers a big brand stole her work. Or an entrepreneur who has great ideas but no army of attorneys to defend his rights. Or a breakout music artist trying to navigate inner-workings of fair use legal jargon. Without millions of dollars in lawyers or lobbyists, IP law seems like an immovable object that too often ends up protecting those at the top – sometimes at the expense of creators of color.
This injustice served as the catalyst for TCC. Founded in 2018, Tignor started by hosting local creative clinics that mixed music, art, and conversation with free legal advice. Her first goal is to make sure that creators know their rights and what they need to do to protect themselves. But soon, TCC took off and hasn't slowed down. Tignor has built a growing community of artists, entrepreneurs, social justice activists, and top IP legal minds that collectively push for creative rights for creators.Tignor has been featured on the WashingTECH Tech Policy Podcast with Joe Miller, C-SPAN, and The Mike Muse Show. She has served as expert speaker at the 21 Ninety Summit, Artomatic, and the Copyright Office.
Before IIPSJ, she directed policy at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and worked to diversify the federal bench with the VENG Group. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Tignor received her JD from Georgetown University and her undergraduate degree in Economics and Information Technology from the College of William and Mary.
Cézanne Charles
Co-Founder, Rootoftwo
Cézanne Charles is a designer, curator, and researcher with 20 years of experience working at the executive and senior management level within the creative industries (USA/UK). Her work focuses on the intersection of art, design, technology, culture, economy, social justice, and public policy. Cézanne co-directs with John Marshall, rootoftwo. Their work uses participatory design methods to facilitate people to imagine and shape collective actions for more just, resilient, inclusive, and adaptive futures. From 2008-2019, Cézanne served as director of creative industries at Creative Many, where she led the design and implementation of the company's creative industries research. Here, Cézanne also designed and directed programs that empowered the practices of Michigan artists, designers, and makers, with a core focus on Detroit.
Cézanne serves on the Stewardship Board for Design Core Detroit's UNESCO City of Design initiative, the Allied Media Projects Board of Directors, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, the Americans for the Arts Inclusive Creative Economy Advisory, and the Michigan Central Curatorial Advisory Board. Charles has a MPA from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of Michigan and a BA in Theatre Studies from The Ohio State University.
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Sunil Iyengar
Director, Research and Analysis, National Endowment for the Arts
Sunil Iyengar directs the Office of Research & Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts. His office has produced dozens of research reports, hosted periodic research events and webinars, led strategic planning for the agency, and established research and data partnerships with the U.S Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Iyengar and his team also have executed long-term research agendas, founded a national data repository for the arts, and launched two award programs for arts researchers, including the NEA Research Labs initiative.
He chairs a federal Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development and contributes a monthly arts research blog and podcast to the NEA website and to Arts Journal. Iyengar has collaborated with organizations such as the Brookings Institution, the National Academy of Sciences, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to explore the arts in relation to such topics as health and well-being, economic development, and STEM and medicine. His office assists the Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, and directly supports the Sound Health Network, an NEA initiative in partnership with the University of California San Francisco.
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Althea Erickson
Former Vice President, Global Public Policy and Impact, Etsy
Althea Erickson was formerly the vice president, global public policy and impact, at Etsy, the global marketplace for unique and creative goods. Althea led Etsy's efforts to advance public policies that make it easier for Etsy sellers to start and grow their creative businesses by empowering Etsy sellers as advocates for themselves. Althea also guided the execution of Etsy's broader impact strategy, including delivering on its economic, social, and environmental impact commitments and its internal and external accountability strategy.
Prior to joining Etsy, Althea was the advocacy and policy director at Freelancers Union, where she led its successful campaign to repeal unfair tax laws, promoted legislation to protect freelancers from unpaid wages, and advocated for member-driven health insurance. Previously, Althea worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, where she focused on strategies to build economic security within the US workforce. She has a B.A in government and public policy from Wesleyan University.
Julie Baker
Executive Director, Californians for the Arts
As Executive Director of California's statewide arts advocacy organizations since 2018, Julie works to increase the legislative clout and visibility of the arts and culture communities by building coalition across the for and non-profit sectors of the creative industries, producing arts awareness and advocacy campaigns, and fighting for resources and legislation to support arts and culture workers. She serves as the co-chair of the Western Arts Advocacy network for WESTAF and California State Captain to Americans for the Arts. She is on the board of California Heritage: Indigenous Research Project and is an elected Nevada County school board member. Julie is the recipient of the 2021 Americans for the Arts Alene Valkanas State Arts Advocacy Award. Julie has owned a fine arts gallery for emerging artists, co-founded an art fair, operated a consulting firm, and curated an annual music series at a museum.
She was President of her family's arts marketing firm in New York City and worked at Christie's Auction house. Julie also served for eight years as the Executive Director of The Center for the Arts and California WorldFest in Grass Valley.
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Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning
Founder and Managing Director, Creative Business Cup
Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning is the founder and CEO of Creative Business Network (CBN), the global initiative for entrepreneurs, innovators and investors from the creative industries. With over 20 years of experience in the sector, he has served in key leadership roles within the EU and internationally.
He is former Managing Director of the Center for Cultural and Experience Economy, former Chairman of the European Creative Industries Alliance and co-chair of OMC Group on Access to Finance for Cultural and Creative Sectors.
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Director, Arts Strategy and Ventures, Kenneth Rainin Foundation
Ted Russell is Director, Arts Strategy & Ventures for the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. Ted leads the Foundation's strategic direction for the arts, supporting diverse, visionary artists and collaborating with artists, partners and funders to foster an equitable ecosystem.
Before holding this position, Ted was Associate Director, Arts Strategy & Ventures. In that role, he developed new initiatives, managed elements of the Arts Program's portfolio, and advanced learning and evaluation processes, including sharing knowledge about promising practices.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Ted was an organizational consultant who specialized in working with arts and cultural organizations and funders. He also served as the Senior Program Officer for the Arts Program at the James Irvine Foundation from 2005-2016. Earlier in his career, Ted was Director of Marketing at Montalvo Arts Center, Audience Development Manager for the San Francisco Symphony, Annual Fund Director at the La Jolla Playhouse, and Managing Director of Malashock Dance. In 2016, Ted was named a Faces of Theatre Bay Area 40@40 Celebration Honoree as one of 40 community members who have changed the face of theater in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2020, he received the AATAIN Award for Exceptional Merit and Commitment to Supporting the African American Arts Community from the African American Theater Alliance for Independence.
Ted is chair of the board of Grantmakers in the Arts, the only national association that brings together public and private arts and culture funders. Ted is also a founding board member of 43rd & 44th Street Garden, a community garden in Oakland's Temescal neighborhood.
Ted has a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University and an MBA in Arts Management from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Naaima Khan
Principal/Owner, Create Good
Naaima Khan is Owner and Principal of Create Good, where she helps organizations design equity-centered strategic planning and evaluation design. Naaima has worked with nonprofits for 10+ years as a strategic planner, facilitator, content creator, grant manager, evaluator and equity/inclusion leader. Naaima coaches her clients by using principles of antiracism, human-centered design and restorative justice. Prior to starting her own business, she worked in philanthropy, advocating for grantmaking practices to be more equitable for BIPOC communities. Naaima has spoken about race equity and inclusive design at Ignite Minneapolis, Black Ignite, Minnesota Council on Foundations, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, National Alliance of Mental Illness - South Dakota and TEDx Mahtomedi.
Naaima holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs with a concentration in nonprofit studies. She has served on the boards of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network - Twin Cities, Islamic Resource Group and the advisory board for Saint Olaf College's Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community. She participates in restorative justice circles to divert community members from involvement in the court system. She is currently a member of the Minnesota Evaluation Association (MNEA) board.
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Mytoan Nguyen-Akbar
Impact & Assessment Manager, Seattle Government
Mytoan is Impact and Assessment Manager at the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Culture. She came to this work by way of a Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Public Fellows position, which places PhDs in government and nonprofit organizations to demonstrate the impact of the humanities and social sciences beyond the academy.
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg
International Policy Advisor, Creative Economy and Economic Development
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg is economist and became well-known for her pioneering work in shaping the research and policy agenda about the creative economy and its development dimension. She had an international career of 30 years at the United Nations in Geneva. In 2004, she set-up and became Chief, Creative Economy Programme at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – UNCTAD. She directed and is the main co-author of the UN Creative Economy Reports 2008 and 2010, and launched the UNCTAD's Global Database on Creative Economy providing world trade statistics for creative products. She articulated intergovernmental policy debates, implemented projects and promoted partnerships and networking among governments, practitioners and academia.
At present, she is Vice President of the International Federation on Internet and Multimedia – FIAM. Member of the International Council of the UK's Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Center. Associated expert at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research – UNITAR. She was member of the jury that designated the World Design Capital 2014. She collaborates with universities in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. She gives lectures and provide advisory services to governments and institutions in different parts of the world.
Karen Hofmann
Provost, Art Center College of Design
Karen Hofmann is the provost at ArtCenter College of Design overseeing the undergraduate and graduate educational departments, academic, faculty and student affairs and ArtCenter Extension.
Prior to being named provost in July 2018, she served as chair of ArtCenter's Product Design department since 2009 and began teaching at the College in 2001. In 2018, she was presented with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) Education Award in recognition of her significant and distinguished contributions to the field of industrial design education. She was similarly recognized in 2010, when DesignIntelligence, published by the Design Futures Council, named her one of their Most Admired Educators. During her tenure on faculty and as chair at ArtCenter, Hofmann led numerous initiatives including the development and launch of the Color, Materials and Trends Exploration Laboratory (CMTEL), the Wearables & Soft Goods concentration in the product design program, and co-led a unique study abroad program with INSEAD International Business School.
She is the founder of the innovative project model DesignStorms® (3-day creative immersions with ArtCenter faculty and students) collaborating with corporate partners exploring future market opportunities and emerging technologies. She is a co-creator of ArtCenter's executive education programs focused on design-driven workshops and creative leadership seminars.
Srini Srinivasan
CEO, Lumium
Srini Srinivasan is a highly accomplished designer & entrepreneur in creative design and technology development, with over 30 years of work experience in the Silicon Valley, United States and India.
Presently, Srini is the President of WDO (World Design Organization, formerly Icsid), working with its global members to promote design for a better world. In this role, he interacts with UN Agencies, Foundations, as well as City Governments across the globe to initiate and execute design led programs to create an impact for global challenges.
Srini is the Chairman & CEO of LUMIUM Design at Tongji College of Design & Innovation, Shanghai and also a member of its International Advisory Board. He is on the Advisory Board of Indus Design School, Indus University; Pearl Academy Mumbai and Wllingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai, India. In his role as Advisory Board member, Srini helps and mentors several technology start-ups as well as educational institutes.
Srini has been a Keynote Speaker on leading Design Conferences across the globe on Innovation & Design topics. He has been a Chairman/member of the Jury on several well-known Design Awards across the globe.
Srini is an active member of IDSA, the professional body for Industrial Designers in the US. Srini also had been a Jury of Core77 Product Design (2016); India Design Mark (2018); Innovations Judge at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for four years (2016-2018, 2012); and IEEE Panel "Design for Usability" in January 2013 at Las Vegas. He is currently one of the judges for "Eureka Park Climate Change Award" for 2019.
Srini attended UC Berkeley for his executive education in Product Management. Presently, Srini is pursuing his Ph.D. in Sustainable Development.
Srini lives in San Jose, California and travels extensively around the globe. He is also an avid singer, golfer and an occasional pilot.
Carlton Turner
Lead Artist/Director, SIPP Culture
Carlton Turner is an artist, agriculturalist, researcher and co-founder of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture). Sipp Culture uses food and story to support rural community, cultural, social and economic development in his hometown of Utica, Mississippi where his family has been for eight generations.
Carlton currently serves on the board of First People's Fund, Imagining America, Project South and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance. Carlton is a member of the We Shall Overcome Fund Advisory Committee at the Highlander Center for Research and Education and is the former Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS. He is also a founding partner of the Intercultural Leadership Institute.
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Lulani Arquette
Executive Director, Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
Lulani Arquette (Native Hawaiian) is in her 12th year as the President and CEO of the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF); a national nonprofit located in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to advancing equity and Native knowledge with a focus on arts and cultural expression that helps support American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native artists, organizations and communities. She brings over 30 years of professional experience steering organizations to their highest ability and potential.
Through her leadership and NACF's work centered on transformative creativity and Native resilience, artists have advanced their careers, increased their national and international visibility, and strengthened relationships with their communities and stakeholders. In 2020, NACF accepted the donation of land and a building in Portland, Oregon that will become its new headquarters and the unique Center for Native Arts and Cultures that will provide artist maker space, and exhibiting and presenting opportunities.
Arquette, a theatre performing artist herself with a BA in Theatre Arts and MA in Political Science, has performed in stage productions and executive-produced film projects. Lulani received the 2021 Berresford Prize from United States Artists that honors cultural practitioners who have contributed significantly to the advancement, wellbeing, and care of artists in society.
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Noni Session
Executive Director, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Collaborative
Over the last decade, Noni Session has put her efforts toward combating displacement for people of color in Oakland and the Bay Area. As a third-generation Oakland native, Noni has a personal interest in improving the conditions of low-income Bay Area neighborhoods where race, disenfranchisement and environmental injustice intersect. As a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow with UNDP-Kenya, Noni developed a keen ethnographic analysis of international humanitarian strategies for developing communities globally. Her work abroad led her to imagine new pathways for ameliorating resource disparities in her West Oakland community. She has since put her energy toward a grassroots Council campaign in Oakland where she garnered more than 43% of the vote. She subsequently joined efforts to tackle rapid displacement and economic instability in People of Color communities throughout the Bay Area by building cooperative networks and opportunities for collective economic action. Today, Noni is the Executive Director of the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative. EB PREC supports BIPOC and allied communities to finance, purchase, occupy and steward collectively owned land and housing. Rather than losing more homes and communities to the devastations of the speculative housing market, her efforts ensure "development without displacement" by creating permanent, affordable, community-controlled housing.
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Mallory Rukhsana Nezam
FORWARD Curator of Partnerships and Programming, Forecast Public Art
Mallory Rukhsana Nezam is a cross-sector culture-maker who loves cities and believes that we have the tools to make them more just and joyful. Through her cross-sector practice, Justice + Joy, she engages government, artists, advocacy groups, elected officials, community members and urban planners to de-silo the way we run cities and build new models of creative, interdisciplinary collaboration. She has helped build inaugural arts & culture teams at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council of Boston, Transportation for America and PolicyLink. She was a 2020 Monument Lab Transnational Fellow, a 2019-2020 inaugural Practices for Change Fellow at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute of Design & the Arts and a 2018 National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellow and is currently the Curator of Partnerships and Programs for FORWARD, a publication by Forecast Public Art.
Raised in St. Louis, MO, she is the founder of St. Louis Improv Anywhere, and co-founder of the St. Louis Artivists. Through her art practice she disarms and disrupts public space norms using play and participatory performance. She holds a Master of Design from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. She seeks to be in every room she's not supposed to be in.
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Allentza Michel
Program Officer for Arts & Humanities, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Allentza Michel is a planner, social practice artist, poet, writer and researcher with a background in community organizing and program design and implementation. She has 17 years of diverse experience across arts administration, placemaking, economic and workforce development, education, food security, public health and transportation. As the Program Officer for Arts and Culture at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences she works with the Academy's national Commission on the Arts, conducting policy and advocacy research and administration.
Ms Michel has a Masters in Public Policy from Tufts University's Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy program, a graduate certificate from Boston University's School of Business, Bachelors in English and Social and Political Systems, as well training in Civic Media and Art practice from Emerson College, and Design and Policy from Rhode Island School of Design. She was the inaugural fellow for the Association for Community Design in 2015 and a 2016 Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies. Ms. Michel has founded and co-founded several non-profit organizations and community initiatives and has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Lauren Ruffin
Co-Founder, crux.black
Lauren Ruffin is a thinker, designer, & leader interested in building strong, sustainable, anti-racist systems & organizations. She's into exploring how we can leverage new technologies to combat racial and economic injustice. She frequently participates in conversations on circular economies, social impact financing, solidarity movements, and innovative, non-extractive financing mechanisms. Lauren is a co-founder of CRUX, an immersive storytelling cooperative that collaborates with Black artists as they create content in virtual reality and augmented reality (XR). Lauren is currently the interim Chief Marketing Officer of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), where she focuses on amplifying the stories and activism of the YBCA community. Prior to joining YBCA, Lauren was co-CEO of Fractured Atlas, the largest association of independent artists in the United States. In 2017, she started Artist Campaign School, a new educational program that has trained 74 artists to run for political office to date.
She has served on the governing board of Black Girls Code and Main Street Phoenix Cooperative, and on the advisory boards of ArtUp and Black Girl Ventures. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a degree in Political Science and obtained a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law.
F. Javier Torres-Campos
Director, Thriving Cultures, Surdna Foundation
F. Javier Torres-Campos is currently the Director of Thriving Cultures at Surdna overseeing a $10M annual grantmaking portfolio dedicated to investing in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) to prototype racially just systems and structures with their communities and build a more just world. Javier's career has been committed to building just and sustainable communities through power building and cultural.
Prior to Surdna, Javier was the Director of National Grantmaking at ArtPlace. In his role, he built a comprehensive set of demonstration projects that illustrate the many ways in which arts and culture strengthen the processes and outcomes of the planning and development field. Before his time at ArtPlace, Javier was Senior Program Officer for Arts and Culture at the Boston Foundation and prior spent six years as the Director of Villa Victoria Center for the Arts. Javier was a founding member of the Constellations Fund and currently serves as a funding and evaluation partner for the Mosaic Fund and Network at the New York Community Trust.
Moana Palelei HoChing
Principal, Crazy Horse Consulting; Senior Policy Analyst, WESTAF
Moana Palelei HoChing serves as WESTAF's senior policy analyst, a consulting role that manages key public policy and advocacy programs and provides counsel to the director of impact and public policy. HoChing contributes to WESTAF's research and policy communications and works with its grassroots advocacy network, engaging with a range of arts and cultural policy issues through an equity lens.
HoChing previously served as the assistant director of educational outreach of the Honoring Nations program at the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development based in Harvard Kennedy School . HoChing is a proud alumna of the National Pacific American Leadership Institute (NAPALI), Harvard University's Administrative Fellowship Program (AFP), and WESTAF's Emerging Leaders of Color (ELC) program.
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Installation image. mmmm.... Photo: Mark Ashkanasy, RMIT Gallery, 2017.
Mmmm... collective, 'Human Rabbits', 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
Mmmm... collective, 'Bull's Head', Madrid, 2013. Courtesy of the artist.
Madrid-based mmmm…, a collective of four Spanish artists, has been producing art in the public space across the globe since 1998.
Interact, communicate and interfere – these intentions have been at the forefront of Spanish collaborative mmmm…'s performative projects since they burst onto the European public art scene 18 years ago.
Projects included an intriguing public art 'action' in 2013, in which 50 people wearing large cardboard bull's heads walked upright and proudly through the streets of central Madrid, then scattered and dispersed into the corners of the city. With the figure of the bull representing the resistance, courage and character of the Spanish people, the event was aimed at bringing optimism into a city heavily affected by the global financial crisis.
A public art installation of urban furnishing called the Meeting Bowls in Times Square, New York City, gave the public another vision of what the most crowded street in New York City could look like with just a simple design.
The public art sculpture BUS in 2014 presented the Highlandtown neighborhood of Baltimore with a 14-foot-tall, 7-foot-wide three-letter bus stop that typography spelt out the word BUS.
In 2002, the Spanish artist collective manufactured a moment of mass with Kiss Invasion, where 100 couples placed in crowds around the city centre kissed simultaneously.
These are just some examples of more than 50 creative projects in public spaces that artists Alberto Alarcón, Emilio Alarcón, Ciro Márquez and Eva Salmerón have produced since mmmm… was founded.
This retrospective exhibition presents a survey of the Madrid-based collective's playful and thought-provoking projects from 2000-2016, exploring the common ground among their seemingly disparate ventures.


Having intermittent issues with TA900 Gen2 and Vertical Summit PBX. Calls will just drop. Incoming, outgoing, etc and has happened on every number on TA. Not sure if it drops all simultaneous calls at once.
Attaches is an approx 10 minute debug. Don't know if it occurred during this time. If there is someone that can comb through it, it would be much appreciated.


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Utah Couple Purchases Historic Hale Memorial Church At Online Auction
Published May 26, 2021 at 3:44 PM CDT
Hale Memorial Church
The future of the historic Hale Memorial Church on the West Bluff is now in the hands of a Utah couple.
The church, which the City of Peoria says needs significant work to avoid potential demolition, was purchased by Michelle Carpenter and her husband at an online auction.
"There's been so many efforts to restore it and everything, so that's how we found it. We saw it online and we fell in love with it. We thought it was a stunning building, and we went for it," Carpenter said.
Recently, the building was purchased by a suburban Chicago investment firm at a Peoria County property tax auction. The church was repossessed after Yaku Peoria, a not-for-profit art collective that attempted for several years to convert the space into a community art center, failed to pay property taxes for three years.
That group, North Illinois Investments LLC, flipped the property after discovering the extent of the repairs needed at the church that was built in 1901 in honor of a Peoria abolitionist.
Carpenter said she and her husband have long dreamed of restoring an old church. She grew up in Davenport, Iowa, a city she likens to Peoria.
They don't know exactly what they want to do with it yet, but it's likely to be kid-centric.
"My husband has helped in Utah, where we live currently, to start a couple STEM maker spaces for youth," Carpenter said.
That includes 3D printing and computer science.
Carpenter, a published author, said she would like to add the arts into the mix, too.
"I would love to try to do some children's theater, and try to make it a STEAM program," she said.
The Carpenters plan to relocate to Peoria. The couple is traveling to the city for the first time this weekend to take a look at the church, 401 W. High St.
Carpenter said while she and her husband do have their own funds set aside for the restoration, they'll also likely need community and private donations.
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We use an electric griddle (the ones most people cook pancakes on...) I can cook a lb of bacon at once. I put the temperature at 375 and it takes about 15-20 minutes to cook. I too like crispy bacon and the flat griddle allows it to stay straight. The griddle also has a drip tray that neatly collects the grease for other cooking.
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(July 22) Moody's downgrades Pennsylvania on pensions, budget
By KAREN SHUEY
Monday, July 21, 2014 3:59 pm | Updated: 9:13 pm, Mon Jul 21, 2014.
Moody's Investors Service lowered Pennsylvania's credit rating on $11.1 billion worth of bonds in part due to the recently passed state budget that it said relied too heavily on one-time money transfers and failed to address the pension crisis.
The rating for Pennsylvania's general-obligation bonds was lowered to Aa3 from Aa2 in a move announced Monday that also included a downgrade by one notch on $2 billion in other bonds.
The ratings service called out the government officials for avoiding a "growing structural imbalance" that includes the $29.1 billion budget and what it said was a deteriorating fiscal condition due to gimmicks in the budget.
"The expectation that large and growing pension liabilities coupled with modest economic growth will limit Pennsylvania's ability to regain structural balance in the near term," Moody's said.
Full story: Moody's downgrades Pennsylvania on pensions, budget By Karen Shuey, Lancaster Online, 7/21/14
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Paul J. Crutzen was bornon December 03, 1933 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dutch, is Atmospheric Chemist. Paul Jozef Crutzen is a Dutch atmospheric chemist, well-known for his work on ozone depletion and global warming. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in atmospheric chemistry, particularly concerning the formation and decomposition of ozone. He was born in early 1930s, around seven years before Netherlands came under Nazi occupation. Brought up under a harsh condition by his working class parents, he managed to complete his schooling in time; but missed getting a university stipend. Therefore, he enrolled at a Middelbare Technische School and worked his way up to become a civil engineer. Later he joined the Department of Meteorology at the University of Stockholm as a computer programmer and at the same time began enhancing his academic qualifications, acquiring first a MS and then a PhD on photochemistry of atmospheric ozone. Later while working as a postdoctoral fellow in England he established his theory of ozone depletion and also demonstrated that increased use of nitrogen-rich fertilizers and fossil fuel is responsible for such a phenomenon. The work later earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He spent his later years working on global warming and is one of promoters of the theory of nuclear winter. He believes that, "Nuclear war could easily mean the destruction of not only our race, but most of the planetary life as well".
To assign a more specific date to the onset of the "anthropocene" seems somewhat arbitrary, but we propose the latter part of the 18th century, although we are aware that alternative proposals can be made (some may even want to include the entire holocene). However, we choose this date because, during the past two centuries, the global effects of human activities have become clearly noticeable. This is the period when data retrieved from glacial ice cores show the beginning of a growth in the atmospheric concentrations of several "greenhouse gases", in particular CO2 and CH4. Such a starting date also coincides with James Watt's invention of the steam engine in 1784.
In addition to the Nobel Prize, Crutzen has won several other awards. this is a partial list, a full list can be found on Crutzen's website.
Crutzen's childhood began just a few years before the start of World War II. In September 1940, the same year Germany invaded The Netherlands, Crutzen entered his first year of elementary school. After many delays and school switches all caused by events in the war, Crutzen graduated from elementary school and moved onto "Hogere Burgerschool" (Higher Citizens School) in 1946, where he became fluent in French, English, and German. Along with languages he also focused on natural sciences in this school, from which he graduated in 1951. After this he entered a Middle Technical School where he studied Civil Engineering. However his schooling would be cut short as he had to serve 21 months of compulsory military Service in the Netherlands.
In 1956 Crutzen met Terttu Soininen, whom he would marry a few years later in February 1958. In December of the same year, the couple had a daughter by the name of Ilona. In March 1964, the couple had another daughter, Sylvia.
Crutzen has conducted research primary in atmospheric chemistry. He is best known for his research on ozone depletion. In 1970 he pointed out that emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a stable, long-lived gas produced by soil bacteria, from the Earth's surface could affect the amount of nitric oxide (NO) in the stratosphere. Crutzen showed that nitrous oxide lives long enough to reach the stratosphere, where it is converted into NO. Crutzen then noted that increasing use of fertilizers might have led to an increase in nitrous oxide emissions over the natural background, which would in turn result in an increase in the amount of NO in the stratosphere. Thus human activity could affect the stratospheric ozone layer. In the following year, Crutzen and (independently) Harold Johnston suggested that NO emissions from the fleet of, then proposed, supersonic transport (SST) airliners(a few hundred Boeing 2707s), which would fly in the lower stratosphere, could also deplete the ozone layer; however more recent analysis has disputed this as a large concern.
He lists his main research interests as "Stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry, and their role in the biogeochemical cycles and climate". Since 1980, he works at the Department of Atmospheric Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, in Mainz, Germany; the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego; and at Seoul National University, South Korea. He was also a long-time adjunct professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and research professor at the department of Meteorology at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Crutzen was also a leader in promoting the theory of nuclear winter. Together with John Birks he wrote the first publication introducing the subject: The atmosphere after a nuclear war: Twilight at noon (1982). They theorized the potential climatic effects of the large amounts of sooty smoke from fires in the forests and in urban and industrial centers and oil storage facilities, which would reach the middle and higher troposphere. They concluded that absorption of sunlight by the black smoke could lead to darkness and strong cooling at the earth's surface, and a heating of the atmosphere at higher elevations, thus creating atypical meteorological and climatic conditions which would jeopardize agricultural production for a large part of the human population.
In a Baltimore Sun newspaper article printed in January 1991, along with his nuclear winter colleagues, Crutzen hypothesized that the climatic effects of the Kuwait oil fires would result in "significant" nuclear winter-like effects; continental-sized effects of sub-freezing temperatures.
Steve Connor, Science Editor of the Independent, wrote: Professor Paul Crutzen, who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for his work on the hole in the ozone layer, believes that political attempts to limit man-made greenhouse gases are so pitiful that a radical contingency plan is needed. In a polemical scientific essay that was published in the August 2006 issue of the journal Climatic Change, he says that an "escape route" is needed if global warming begins to run out of control.
In January 2008, Crutzen published findings that the release of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in the production of biofuels means that they contribute more to global warming than the fossil fuels they replace.
He has co-signed a letter from over 70 Nobel laureate Scientists to the Louisiana Legislature supporting the repeal of Louisiana's creationism law, the Louisiana Science Education Act. In 2003 he was one of 22 Nobel laureates who signed the Humanist Manifesto.


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Scottish distiller, salmon smoker form new partnership
Nicki Holmyard
A new collaboration between Scottish distillery Glenglassaugh (pronounced Glenglassa) and smoked salmon producer Sutherlands of Portsoy, has led to the creation of a luxury smoked salmon infused with Glenglassaugh Peated Torfa Single Malt Whisky.
The new product took several months to perfect, and is the result of extensive testing with a range of whiskies from the distillery, Sutherlands Managing Director Elaine Sutherland told SeafoodSource. The Sutherland family has been smoking salmon using traditional methods since the early 1900s and is one of the oldest producers in Scotland, she said.
"The rich peated flavor of Torfa compliments the unique flavor of our smoked salmon and we believe it will become a great addition to our range and a product to be enjoyed by discerning customers everywhere," said managing director Elaine Sutherland.
She explained that salmon from selected farms is expertly prepared, salted, then cold-smoked in stainless steel kilns. Smoke is fed into the kilns from adjacent fireboxes, where oak shavings from whisky casks are burnt. No artificial chemicals or preservatives are used.
Once smoked, the salmon is infused with Torfa whisky, using a "trade secret" process.
According to Alan Stewart, whitefish procurement manager for Gourmets Choice, of which Sutherlands of Portsoy is a trading style and brand name, the company was already experienced at producing whisky-infused smoked salmon, and had been considering a tie-in with a distillery for some time.
"We were therefore delighted when Glenglassaugh approached us with a view to using one of their whiskies. We were given three different single malts to trial and our taste panel was unanimous in choosing Torfa for the new product," Stewart told SeafoodSource.
Glenglassaugh's Master blender Rachel Barrie agreed that it made perfect sense to pair up with their neighbors, Sutherlands of Portsoy, and that infusing the hand-crafted traditional salmon with Torfa whisky had created a perfectly balanced product.
"Torfa is made using traditional whisky making methods with ingredients that include richly peated malted barley dried over peat infused kilns. This gives the whisky its unique smoky flavor, and its peaty, phenolic nature is a unique expression, which is quite different to the usual style of whisky produced in the Highlands," Barrie said.
The distillery, which stands on the Moray Firth in the northeast of Scotland, dates back to 1875, but was mothballed 100 years later, and lay silent and forgotten for over two decades. It was brought back to life and reopened in 2008 and has since created an award-winning range of boutique young whiskies, including the peated Torfa.
The perfected smoked salmon was ready in early December 2018 and has been delighting customers ever since. Increasing consumer demand for provenance and distinctive premium products, together with a strong social media campaign driven by Glenglassaugh, has ensured a steady stream of interest.
The product is currently available in independent retailers, restaurants, and hotels in the United Kingdom, but both companies intend that it will be available for export sale in the near future.
Whisky-flavored or infused smoked salmon is not a new idea, but is one that is growing in popularity. For example, John Ross Jr. produces a Balvenie whisky-infused smoked salmon and Loch Fyne have a Glengoyne whisky marinated smoked salmon.
Whisky is also a favorite ingredient with salmon smokers seeking to produce a "special" for the lucrative Christmas/holiday market. Several companies, including Inverawe Smokehouses, have successfully used the highly-peated Laphroaig single-malt whisky, made on the island of Islay, for such pairings. Major retailer Tesco also followed the trend, by including a smoked Scottish salmon with Laphroaig whisky in its Finest Christmas range, with the strapline "discovering wondrous festive tastes."
"Doctor Seaweed" pairs with "Oyster Lady" to spread the word about seaweed benefits
JCS launches Signature smoked brand for UK retail
Chicken of the Sea expands tuna cup line nationwide
French firms dominate 2018 Seafood Excellence Global awards


Beefeater Longwall based in Oxford is currently recruiting for a Head Chef to join their team. Beefeater is part of the Premier Inn group, the UK's leading hotel business, which has over 785 hotels and more than 72,000 rooms across the UK. Our unique joint site model means that more than half of our hotels are located alongside our own restaurant brands. With an average of 2 hotel openings a month and an ambitious growth plan, there is no better time to start your career with us.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our business as a Head Chef. In this role, you will lead a team of 12 ensuring a first-class service and excellent food quality to our guests.
Report directly to the Restaurant Manager and work together to ensure the continued growth and success of the business.
So, what can we offer you I hear you ask?
So, is it time to get your teeth into a role that not only offers immediate satisfaction but also long-term career development opportunities? If so, then apply now.


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After a while of looking at this intensely, I came to the conclusion that this is no less than brilliant. It is clearly the viewpoint of one looking up at a green Aurora Borealis while in a dense forest of pine trees. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.


Come in anytime to see a beautiful display of miniature Christmas trees decorated by local businesses, schools, groups and families. You might even get to take your favorite one home to enjoy during the holidays! Raffle tickets will be available for purchase while the trees are on display at the library. Buy your tickets at the front desk.


A rather soft, fleshy and attractive grass found in a variety of wet places such as drainage ditches, choked-up canals, streamsides etc. Rather rare, but widely distributed.
All names: Catabrosa aquatica (L.) P.Beauv.


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Bounds, D. G., New Optimization Methods from Physics and Biology, Nature 329, 215-218, 1987.
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Goldberg, D. E., Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989.
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Metropolis, N., Rosenbluth, A.W., Rosenbluth, M. N., Teller, A.H. and Teller, E., Equations of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines, J. Chem. Phys. 21, 1087- 1092, 1958.
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Randelman, R. E., and Grest, G.S., N-City Traveling Salesman Problem - Optimization by Simulated Annealings, J. Stat. Phys. 45, 885-890, 1986.
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Today morning I logged in to Gmail and was pleasently surprised to see a yellow information announcing Themes in Gmail. Looks like Google is enabling themes on a step by step basis for everyone. If themes have been enabled in your account, go to this link.
This is how the themes UI looks like. Click on the image for a bigger view. Has it been enabled for you?


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The Glenwood Springs Lady Demons are 2-0 in league and 6-7 overall. Whereas Rifle is 1-1 in league and 1-8 overall. Their only win is against the Steamboat Sailors on Saturday January 12. Grand Junction Central has yet to play a league game but is 5-8 overall.
On Friday night's game, Senior Ximena Gutierrez (32), lead the teams in deflections (7) and tied with Senior Logan Nieslanik (5), in rebounds (5). Nieslanik also lead the team in assists (6) and charges (1). Senior Emily Worline lead the team in both 3-pointers made (5) and total points (17). Sophomore Maddie Moser (1) lead the team in steals (4). Moser also tied with Senior Ashley Barragan (4) and Junior Qwynn Massie (23) in Free Throws made (2).


Figure 1. Evolution of best reported thermal FOM for delta-sigma modulators (o) and Nyquist ADCs (#). Monotonic state-of-the-art improvement trajectories have been highlighted. Trend fit to state-of-the-art points for DSM [1984–2000] (dotted), and Nyquist [1982–2012] (dashed). Average trend for all designs (dash-dotted) included for comparison.
The thermal FOM considers error power rather than amplitude (as in the Walden FOM), and therefore the value of FB1 improves by 4× (rather than 2×) for every additional bit of resolution. This matches the theoretical 4× minimum increase in power if ENOB is limited by kT/C-noise  and the architecture remains unchanged . It was shown in  that the thermal FOM represents a better description of the state-of-the-art power-resolution tradeoffs according to empirical data than the Walden FOM for ENOB ≥ 9.
As seen in Fig. 1, there is a significant difference between DSM and Nyquist ADCs with respect to FB1. With the exception of two early 14-b designs -, the global state-of-the-art is defined entirely by delta-sigma modulator implementations while Nyquist ADCs lag distinctly behind. A possible explanation could be that the thermal FOM favors converters whose power dissipation is truly limited by thermal noise, and that high-resolution ∆-∑ ADCs are more distinctly driven into the thermal noise limit than their Nyquist counterparts. Another point is that many scientific DSM implementations use an off-chip (i.e., zero power) decimation filter implemented in software. This will give DSM an unfair advantage over Nyquist, although it can hardly be the only explanation for a one order of magnitude FOM difference.
Since the thermal FOM for Nyquist converters has evolved over a rather uneven path, I'll not make any elaborate interpretations of its shape. The trend (dashed) is simply fitted to all the state-of-the-art points from 1982–2012, revealing an average improvement rate of 2× every two years. The DSM envelope appears to have three main segments with breakpoints at 1990 and 2000, respectively. For simplicity, a single trend was estimated for the envelope until Naiknaware , after which the thermal FOM has evolved significantly slower. From Fiedler  to Naiknaware, the average improvement rate is 2× every 17 months (1.4 years) – again faster than Moore's Law - – whereas from year 2000 to present day , the state-of-the-art points fit to a more modest 2×/5.5 years slope. Even if the latter is from a fit of only four data points, and the exact slopes can be discussed, it is clear from Fig. 2 that the thermal FOM for DSM experienced a distinct slowdown after year 2000. This coincides with the breakpoint where the relative noise floor – approximately the denominator in (1) – also goes into saturation. It can further be noticed that it coincides with the accelerated evolution of FA1 as well. A possible, but perhaps speculative interpretation is that the ADC community first focused on thermal noise performance and related design optimization, and after hitting the noise floor around year 2000 moved on to focus on power efficiency.
If you wish to suggest other explanations, please share them below.
As a small postlude, a follow-up post will list known prior art ADC surveys for those of you that (like myself) have an insatiable appetite for technology trend estimations and empirical data dots.
C. Wulff, and T. Ytterdal, "Design of a 7-bit, 200MS/s, 2mW pipelined ADC with switched open-loop amplifiers in a 65nm CMOS technology," Proc. of NORCHIP, Aalborg, Denmark, Nov., 2007.
R. J. van de Plassche, and H. J. Schouwenaars, "A Monolithic 14 Bit A/D Converter," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. SC-17, pp. 1112-1117, Dec., 1982.
T. Sugawara, M. Ishibe, H. Yamada, S.-I. Majima, T. Tanji, and S. Komatsu, "A Monolithic 14 Bit/20 µs Dual Channel A/D Converter," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. SC-18, pp. 723-729, Dec., 1983.
R. Naiknaware, and T. Fiez, "142dB ∆∑ ADC with a 100nV LSB in a 3V CMOS Process," Proc. of IEEE Custom Integrated Circ. Conf. (CICC), Orlando, USA, pp. 5–8, May, 2000.
H. L. Fiedler, and B. Hoefflinger, "A CMOS Pulse Density Modulator for High-Resolution A/D Converters," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, Vol. SC-19, pp. 995-996, Dec., 1984.
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import Link from "@material-ui/core/Link";

class Welcome extends Component {
  render() {
    return (

This is your public-facing component.

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    );
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}
export default Welcome;

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Code calling the above component
import { BrowserRouter, Route, Link } from 'react-router-dom';
import Welcome from './Welcome';
import Secured from './Secured';
import Logout from './Logout';
import './App.css';

class App extends Component {

  render() {
    return (
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<Link to="/">public component</Link>

<Link to="/secured">secured component</Link>

          <Route exact path="/" component={Welcome} />
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      </BrowserRouter>
    );
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}
export default App;

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import './index.css';
import App from './App';
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