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Previous TRANSFERADE (held in November 2018) showed that there is a great research and innovation potential around Balkans. The 2019 Investors' day is an opportunity for universities and research institutes in the region to present their projects and ideas to investors and technology transfer professionals to bring their ideas forward.
Over the past few years, we've been working in the Balkans with industry, academia as well as national authorities. We've been doing the same in other parts of the world and we recognised that there is some great research, industry desperately seeking new technologies, but it takes experience to bring these two worlds together to establish a win-win collaboration.
That's why we are bringing internationally recognised experts who have been this road already to bridge this gap.
Professor at University of Kragujevac
Western Balkans Regional University Innovation Platform
Associate at Cleveland Scott York
Attorney with experience in industry and research
United Kingdom
Managing Director at Swansea Innovations
Head of IP at Swansea University
United Kingdom
CEO - i&i Prague commercialisation hub
Co-organiser of BioSpot Conference
Czech Republic
Founder and Managing Director - Oxandia Ltd
Technology Transfer Advisor
United Kingdom
9:30 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Opening speech
10:30 - 10:45
Overview of R&D funding opportunities
10:45 - 12:15
TRANSFERADE Investment Pitches
Production process of bread from hydrothermal and heat-treated millet, sorghum, rye and oat flours, without additives and enriched with natural fiber
Institute of Food Technology (FINS), Novi Sad
Biopolymer emulsion for active packaging, manufactured devices and other applications
Zorica Branković (Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade)
Marko Petković, Nela Papić, Vladimir Mladenović
Value-added food products based on by-product of tomato processing
Institute of Food Technology (FINS), Novi Sad
Automated Functional Screening of IgGs for Diagnostics of Neurodegenerative Diseases (AUTOIGG)
Andrej Korenić (The Centre for Laser Microscopy, Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade)
A New Antiviral Agent for protection against dangerous viruses and microorganisms
Uroš Andjelković (Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy, University of Belgrade)
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:45
TRANSFERADE Investment Pitches
Boiler with cigarette combustion of baled agricultural biomass
Dragoljub Dakić, Miloš Bijelić (Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science, University of Belgrade)
Device for removing carbon dioxide from combustion gases
Stevan Blagojević (Institute of general and physical chemistry, Belgrade)
Technology of experimental determination of wheel–rail contact forces and contact point position by using instrumented wheelset
Milan Bižić (Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in Kraljevo, University of Kragujevac )
Intelligent Cybersecurity Threat Detection and Protection System
Slavko Gajin (Soneco d.o.o., Belgrade)
Agricultural Spaying Drone Robin
Andrija Ekmedzić (Konelek d.o.o. / Devana Aero d.o.o., Belgrade)
Gluten-free cookies based on millet
Institute of Food Technology (FINS), Novi Sad
14:45 - 15:00
Closing speech
15:00 - 15:30
Networking coffee
Challenge to be solved
Increasing demands for the consumption of healthier and tastier foods causes the emergence of a new market of bakery products based on non-wheat cereals.
Creation of special types of breads mainly involves partial or complete substitution of wheat flour with flours from other sources. In that manner, rye, oat, millet and sorghum has received increased attention in recent years. How these types of flours do not possess the ability to form viscoelastic dough that can retain the gases generated during fermentation and baking, production of bakery products, especially bread, is a very challenging task. To overcome ths issue, use of various structural agents such as different types of hydrocolloids, starches, proteins and commercial enzymes becomes a common practice.
Although the use of different additives has a beneficial effect on different quality aspects of dough and bread, consumers adversely use such products in daily diets. In order to avoid the use of additives, based on the chemical composition of flour and rheological characteristics of the dough, it is necessary to modify the raw material or to modify the conventional technological processes of breadmaking. According to available literature, there are a very small number of studies oriented to improve the handling properties of the dough (in order to overcome the lack of gluten) and the sensory quality of the bread (poor crumb and crust characteristics, poor mouthfeel and flavour) based on rye, oat, millet and sorghum flour.
Despite the growing interest and making efforts in examinations of alternative approaches for non-wheat flour processing, there still exist areas for continued development. Concomitantly with the improvement in breadmaking performance, it is necessary to provide good sensory properties of the final product as the main criterion for consumer acceptance.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Description of the technology/project
The aim of the innovation was to develop a baking process suitable for the production of nutritionally valuable bread made from rye, oat, sorghum and millet flours. To improve the functional properties of these flours, a combination of dry heat and extrusion treatment has been applied.
For bread formulations, the blend of heat treated and extruded corresponding flours were used at ratio 70:30. The assessment of breadmaking potential of tested flours as well as the characterization of the final product involved studying the microstructure, rheological properties, baking quality and sensory evaluation.
As a result of the applied approach, the novel breads solely from rye, oat, sorghum and millet flours were created. The obtained breads were characterized by increased fibre content and satisfactory techno-functional and sensory properties. All breads had appearance similar to common wheat bread, with soft crumb characterized by well-developed pores. Breads produced from gluten-free flours were harder, less elastic with more granular structure.
IP Protection status
Publication of the patent application with search report. Intellectual Property Gazette of the Republic of Serbia 2018/7, response number 2018/8271 of 31.07.2018.
Technology / IP owners
FINS - Institute of food technology in Novi Sad
Challenge to be solved
A third of the food produced in the world goes to waste (1.3 billion tons) - enough to feed every undernourished person on the planet several times. The USDA estimates that supermarkets only lose about USD 15 billion annually in unsold fruit and vegetables alone.
It's a humanitarian, economic, but also an environmental concern. Food waste accounts for about 8% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Description of the technology/project
We developed new active packaging solution to reduce fresh food waste and improve food safety. Our products prolong shelf-life of the fresh food due to the effect of active components as it was confirmed by tests in certified laboratories. Unique formulations of aqueous emulsion consisting of biopolymers, essential oils, and metal oxide nanoparticles or metal salts, can be easily processed into thin durable films, sprayed as coatings, used for impregnation or formed into 3D structures.
The films are strong, water-insoluble, elastic, transparent, and exhibit significant antimicrobial and antioxidative properties. The nanoparticles synergize with the essential oils to enhance the antimicrobial and antioxidative properties of the material, and also slow down the release of volatile components.
State of development
IP Protection status
Biopolymer emulsion for active packaging, manufactured devices and other applications, International patent application, PCT/RS2018/000013, Date: Sept. 14, 2018.
Technology / IP owners
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Challenge to be solved
Nowadays, with World's population growth, an ever-growing need for resources such as food, the food industry has the challenge to speed up the production process, increases the quantity, and raises the quality of the nutritious products. For these reasons, each food processing company must increase its efficiency.
Food processing should be kept the high levels of antioxidants in fruits and vegetables drying them different process parameters (temperature, dehydration type, various conditions of fruit/vegetable cultivation etc.).
One of the significant fruits is chokeberry, which has exceptional properties that are not completely used in food processing. Our innovative technology involves the specific process of drying, which is the very important food dry processing and preserves useful nutrients almost up to 90% in the chokeberry. With this, we produce chokeberry powder for high-quality bread and croissants, fillings for biscuits and cakes, chocolate desserts (pralines), candies (chewing gums, hard and soft candies), dressings for pastries and many many other food products.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Conventional air drying process leads to the degradation of bioactive compounds that are strongly dependent on the drying method. The degradation of total anthocyanins was 80–90%, total flavonoids about 50% and total phenols about 65–75%. The next phase of thermal degradation (the baking process) will complete the degradation of bioactive substances, which will remain in traces.
The attempts to keep and increase the antioxidants content in bakery products (bread, croissant, biscuits etc.) and developing functional bread would be technical challenges. Future experiments will include studies based on dehydration methods of chokeberry, such as lyophilization (freeze drying).
Freeze drying is the most gentle process for drying products. It is based on the physical phenomenon of sublimation, i.e. the direct conversion from solid to gaseous state. Once the "free water" has been removed from the product, it is also possible to remove the"bounded water" by means of very low vacuum. This part of the drying process is referred to as final drying (desorption). And most importantly, the content of bioactive components in dried samples can be up to 4 times higher than in samples dried by other methods (spray drying, convective drying etc.).
The final product, such as fruit croissant, has approximately 20 25% of fruit fillings, in which the fruit content is 30%. Other ingredients are sugars and additives (preservatives, acidity regulators, gelling agents, stabilizers etc.). Replacing the flour with the lyophilized fruit powders, consumers do not input unnecessary amounts of sugars (saccharose, glucose) and additives.
Freeze drying enables especially gentle preservation and retains the colour, texture and flavour of the foods. If the lyophilized products are subsequently stored in airtight containers and protected against moisture, light, and oxygen, they can be kept for years at room temperature.
The application of lyophilized products are wide; from astronauts in space missions to consumers who enjoy in molecular cuisine, which focuses on biochemical and physico-chemical processes in the preparation and consumption of foods. And, of course, the biggest challenge will be to win the battle for high cooking temperatures.
Description of the technology/project
Among the different fruit species, chokeberries have attracted great attention for their bioactivity. Chokeberries have a very high content of phenols (phenolic acids), proanthocyanidins, anthocyanins, flavonols and flavanones, and vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibers.
Chokeberry products area valuable source of nutritionally important substances in human nutrition. Due to the high content of natural bioactive materials, their consumption could bring health benefits (lower incidences of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases). One of the most important fruit product is fruit powder, obtained after the drying process of fresh fruit or juice. Fruit powders are commonly used as intermediates, natural food colorants, and supplements.
A part of wheat flour could be changed by the chokeberry powders, obtained after the drying process of fresh chokeberries with the traditional conventional air drying method. The new, functional product (bread, croissant, biscuits etc.) has more attractive sensory properties, refreshing fruit flavor and a slightly higher content of bioactive substances and dietary fibers.
The content of bioactive substances depends on the wheat flour substitution with chokeberry powders. The new "magic" food is very attractive to consumers, especially to the young population, whose needs with traditional carbohydrates (e.g. starch, saccharides) are reduced.
IP Protection status
Technology / IP owners
Marko Petković, Nela Papić, Vladimir Mladenović
Challenge to be solved
Large quantities of tomato processing by-products are generated by tomato industrial processing plants, representing serious economic and environmental problem. This waste material is called tomato pomace and consists mostly of skin and seeds, containing up to 60% of dietary fibre per dry weight.
According to the opinion of European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), dietary fibre intake of 25 g per day is considered to be adequate for normal laxation in adults. Beside normal bowel function, consumption of dietary fibre provides other health benefits, of which lowering of blood glucose and cholesterol levels and prevention of colon cancer are the most important.
The aim of this research was to upgrade tomato processing by products into value-added products by application of adequate technological processes.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Description of the technology/project
A range of value-added food products based on fresh and freeze dried tomato pomace was developed.
The products fulfil all quality and safety requirements for the corresponding food category. All developed products can be manufactured using standard processing equipment.
Five products with increased dietary fibre content were produced:
State of development
Ready for implementation
IP Protection status
Technology / IP owners
FINS - Institute of food technology in Novi Sad
Challenge to be solved
Neurodegenerative brain diseases are incurable and debilitating conditions that result in progressive degeneration and death of neuronal cells, which causes problems with movement or mental functioning.
The European Brain Council indicated that brain disorders currently affect 165 million people or 40% of EU population, and represent 35% of the burden of all diseases in Europe. An especially worrying fact is that out of 10 individuals affected by a brain disorder 3 to 8 remains untreated due to lack of timely detection and diagnosis, although appropriate treatments are available.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Live imaging is a powerful technique, that allows to study effects of various compounds in cell culture, quantifying responses of individual cells.
Perfusion chambers and fast application systems which are commonly used for live imaging have many advantages, however we aim to improve consistency of experiments with help of microfluidics, fast and automated acquisition, as well as contemporary data analysis methods.
The idea to use IgGs for in vitro diagnostics in NDs is genuinely novel. Based on previous experimental results, it offers a robust multipurpose processing of a single sample on cell cultures that can give a complex information based on different cellular signalling responses.
Description of the technology/project
As early diagnosis and treatment are both economically and clinically favourable, the project aims to design a biomedical device for the automatic evaluation of diagnostic potential of immunoglobulins (IgGs) from sera of ALS patients, employing primary astrocytes and neurons in culture in the first phase and more standardized cell lines in the later phase.
The design of the device within the project is planned to reach the prototype level. This innovative device should offer a wider field of applications in respect to possible neurodegenerative / neuroinflammatory phenomena as well as other plated cell populations (stem cells, cell lines etc.).
IP Protection status
Expecting prototype patent
Technology / IP owners
AUTOIGG Consortium
Challenge to be solved
New antiviral agents should be used with or without those already used, to improve efficiency of virus spreading and transfer prevention, virus inactivation or inhibition of its infective activity.
A newly found agent should affect the virus before entering the cell, should not be harmful to host cells, should prevent virus spreading and release to uninfected cells, prevent death and cellular dysfunction, to act on wide range of breeds and virus isolates, and more than one type of virus, to be stable and resistant to degradation in physiological and environmental conditions, and to be produced easily and with reasonable expenses.
Challenge to be solved
Biomass is the largest potential source of renewable energy in the Republic of Serbia (≈60%). ≈40% of it is the forestry and the rest is agricultural biomass. Most of the agricultural biomass can be collected in the fields in the form of bales.
Baled biomass is the single largest potential of renewable energy in Serbia. Globally, so far there were no technologies good enough to utilize this form of biomass. At the moment, most used technologies in Europe require a series of mechanical operations needed for chopping and shredding the bales in order to combust it on grid.
In accordance with the recommendations of the EU Energy Institute (Peten-Holland), we have developed to industrial applications a cigarette combustion system with biomass bale as fuel in the same form as it is collected in the fields. This greatly reduces investment costs and the consumption of electricity of the combustion system.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
The advantages of the developed combustion system of baled agricultural residues are numerous in comparison to those currently used the most in Europe and offered by European boiler manufacturers.
The main advantages are lower investment costs due to the lack of a biomass cutting system, drastically lower operating costs due to incomparably self electricity consumption, lower maintenance costs due to reduced number of moving parts and wearing elements, the possibility of easy power control and automated handling of the combustion process, and a well controled combustion temperature and emission of harmful gases.
The boiler is a unique patent-protected design.
Description of the technology/project
Through a long-term R&D process, an industrial hot-water boiler with cigarette combustion of biomass has been developed. The boiler, with power 1.5-2 MW, is used for heating 1ha of greenhouses. The industrial demonstrational facility was built near Belgrade and can be presented.
The boiler consists of a hydraulic bale feeding system, an adiabatic furnace where the coke residue from the bale is burnt in a fluidized bed of ash, a two-direction heat exchanger with vertical flue pipes, and a flue gas system. Boiler has been working 10 years, without and one day of delay during the heating season.
The electricity consumption of bale manipulation and feeding system is minimal (2kWel). Until today, there were absolutely no interventions in the adiabatic furnace, covered with chamotte bricks. We consider this to be a unique example in our country and beyond, which proves the success of the whole plant. The boiler operation is fully automated.
IP Protection status
Serbian patent nr. 51771 / 31.12.2011.
Technology / IP owners
Owner: Vinča Institute of Nuclear Science
Coowner: TIPO Ltd. Authorized for production and cooperation with other companies
Challenge to be solved
A significant increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere and the climate change caused by its presence is one of the fundamental global environmental problems.
In order to reduce CO2 (fully removal) emissions in the atmosphere, the devices for CO2 conversion into a series of economically cost-effective products: nanowire NaHCO3, nanocomposite CaCO3, methanol, motor gasoline, various types of algae and bio-oil will be developed.
Description of the technology/project
IP Protection status
Techology / IP owners
B. Adnađević, full professor at Universirty of Belgrade, Faculty of Physical Chemistry, and Institute of General and Physical Chemistry, Belgrade.
Challenge to be solved
The technology gives a unique solution for continuous measurement of the wheel-rail contact forces and contact point position by using instrumented wheelsets.
The measurement of these forces is necessary for assessment of the quality of newly designed railway vehicles from aspect of derailment risk, in certification process accordance with international standards UIC 518 and EN 14363. The problem is very complex because the unknown wheel-rail contact forces, during the running of the tested vehicle, must be determined in an indirect way, based on measurement of the strains of the wheels of instrumented wheelset. Considering that measured wheel strains are not caused only by unknown forces, but also by many other stochastic parameters, it is very difficult to develop proper algorithm of inverse identification. In addition, there are a number of other problems related to placement of sensors - strain gauges on the wheels of instrumented wheelset, way of their connection in Wheatstone bridges, neutralization of temperature and vibration effects, etc.
It is obvious that it is very difficult to achieve a high measurement accuracy which depends from the success in solving all these coupled problems.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
The most important advantage of the developed technology is that it is universal and can be applied in development of any new instrumented wheelset intended for testing of freight wagons, passenger wagons, locomotives and similarly. With certain modifications and adjustments of the measuring system, the technology is applicable to existing instrumented wheelsets in order to increase their accuracy.
The whole approach is based on various analysis performed on the numerical model of the wheel that can be any type of wheel of the commercial wheelset predetermined for instrumentalization.
That provides a very fast development process of any instrumented wheelset with significant reduction of its costs, because expensive experimental tests during development process are avoided.
Description of the technology/project
Within the technology, the ways of solving of key problems in development of instrumented wheelsets are defined. They are related to the determination of optimal locations, layout, number and way of connection of strain gauges, as well as the development of the inverse identification algorithm.
Based on the results of the testing performed on the numerical model of the wheel, a high accuracy of the developed method and inverse identification algorithm which is based on the method of blind signal separation (BSS) using independent component analysis (ICA), is founded. Deviations between the wheel-rail interaction parameters obtained by the developed algorithm and really placed parameters in the numerical model are in range of 2%, while the measurement error that stems from the imperfections of the algorithm lies in the range of 0.5 %.
In order to validate the developed technology, the experimental tests on the real object are also performed. Signal-to-noise ratio is identified as the main parameter influencing the accuracy of experimental determination of the wheel-rail contact forces and contact point position using the developed method. The developed method enables measurement of vertical force Q, lateral forces Y, as well as the ratio Y/Q, with errors that are in the range of 10 %, while the error of measurement of contact point position is in the range of 15 %. At the flange contact and the higher values of ratio Y/Q or Y force, these measurement errors are reduced, which is extremely important for reliability and quality of assessment of safety against derailment according to the standards mentioned.
Experimental tests confirm that the developed technology is very applicable in the development of instrumented wheelsets and enables highly accurate determination of parameters in the wheel rail interaction, with measurement accuracy that is in the range of the most contemporary world solutions.
State of development
Verified in the laboratory
IP Protection status
Technology / IP owners
Railway Vehicles Centre - Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in Kraljevo, University of Kragujevac
Challenge to be solved
According to Microsoft, online data volumes will be 50 times greater in 2020 than they were in 2016, while Cyber Security Ventures reports that zero-day cyber-attacks on businesses are expected to rise, from one per week to one per day, by 2021. At the same time security threats continue to evolve rapidly in terms of scale and sophistication.
Even now, the increasing complexity in the enterprise network creates many blind spots, and according to Ponemon Institute, average time to detect a breach is 191 day. For that reason it is not surprising that 92% of security professionals see value in behavioral analytics tools, and 74% of them who rely on automation to reduce the level of effort, according to Cisco 2018 Security Capabilities Benchmark Study. These challenges are becoming issues not only to highly sensitive banking and financial sector, but also to any modern business relying on IT services.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Unlike other existing solutions, we will make a technology shift using state-of-the-art highly efficient and scalable open-source software ElasticStack to develop new threat detection and protection module, complementing our existing NetFlow Analyzer product. Constantly improved by a large development community, it has become extremely popular for data analytics and visualization, providing high-performance no-SQL database and search-engine for both structured and unstructured data. Simple but extremely efficient for data processing, inherently providing horizontal scalability and multi-tenancy, it will also open a huge space for further improvement of data correlation and deep drill-down forensic.
For the success on the global market, almost equally important part of the innovation, that will bring competitive advantages, is the development of an intuitive and powerful front-end user interface with the outstanding user experience (UX). Even now, our existing world-wide customers (such as The Walt Disney Company and Palo Alto Networks) see the advantages in some of our unique features, and how we achieved analytics with great user experience
Description of the technology/project
As a response to the increased market needs, we will provide a solution for permanent traffic anomaly detection and automated proactive reaction, saving a valuable engineers time and achieving significantly better security threat detection and almost immediate protection.
To do so, the first step is to provide network traffic profiling and behavior analysis in order to detect unusual network events. For the available telemetries with strong periodic behavior we will provide prediction of normal behavior, based on baselining, with margin based on standard deviation.
Our recent research and already developed, proof of concept, algorithms confirm the efficiency of entropy based approach in anomaly detection, which is consistent with the existing scientific literature.
Additionally, our approach takes into consideration top contributors in distribution of different telemetry features and achieves better insight into root cause of the anomaly. Once the unusual traffic is detected, false positive and false negative alarms need to be minimized.
The most efficient machine learning algorithms that are widely reported and analyzed in the scientific literature, will be used to recognize security threat and classify them correctly.
Our innovation will come into the play to select the right set of telemetry features that give the best results and to provide user feedback in re-learning the system with the right rules of normal and anomaly behavior. User will be able to configure specific actions to be applied as soon as a threat is identified, with high rank of significance. And finally, the solution will to provide easy, but efficient, user interface for proper monitoring, evaluation and fine tuning of the system.
To address the needs of manage service providers and leave potential room for cloud-based business models in the future, the solution will be developed in multitenant and scalable fashion.
State of development
The existing NetFlow Analyzer module is market ready, with the current development focused to implement ElasticStack technology.
IP Protection status
We do not plan to develop any patent since software is hardly patentable under European law. According to our business model, we are planning to keep the IP as a corporate secret and exploit the benefit of it by achieving a competitive differentiation and advantage on the market.
Technology / IP owners
The owner of the IP is Soneco Company itself with no obligation to other companies, institutions or persons.
Challenge to be solved
To reinvent Tractor for the 21st century making unmanned aerial vehicle which will for a short time, to dusting or spraying with as much surface as possible on inaccessible areas for mechanization with less consumed liquids, without crops damage and without risk to human health due to exposure to the liquids and fumes of pesticides with carbon foot print zero.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Description of the technology/project
UAV (or drone) is fully electrical vehicle; it uses brushless multiphase current engines from rare earth magnets which have very low weight.
The structure is made mostly by carbon composite materials with the addition of advanced aluminium alloys for some specific components where required.
The motors are powered by four Lithium Ion Polymer batteries of the latest generation with 52 volts, 60Ah each in 18kg package having about 150Wh/kg energy density. Autopilot or flight controller is capable to stabilize the drone in the horizontal flying condition up to 28,8km/h od wind speed.
The drone is capable of lifting 50kg of weight/liquid; it can stay airborne 10-15 minutes under full load. Dimensions of the drone is 3 x 2 x 1 [m] with spray width 4-8 m. In one flight drone can spray area of 2.5 ha.
State of development
We have developed a first prototype of the multipurpose UAV with the main application in agriculture.
IP Protection status
Technology / IP owners
Konelek / Devana Aero
Challenge to be solved
Coeliac is a lifetime intestinal disorder related to an immunological reaction to the gliadin fraction of wheat and the prolamins of rye, barley and oat. The only effective treatment for celiac disease is to follow a strict gluten-free diet. People who suffer from celiac disease should completely exclude these four cereals from their diet, as well as all the products made from these cereals. For the nutrition of this target group of consumers, it is imperative to create gluten-free products with satisfactory sensory attributes. Although gluten plays a limited role in defining the processability and end product quality of cookies, there is a need for creating gluten-free formulations which could provide physico-chemical characteristics similar to those of cookies made from wheat flour.
The market of gluten-free products offers at present a good range of gluten-free cookies primarily based on maize starch mixed, greater or lesser extent, with gluten free flours. On the other hand, commercial gluten-free cookies made from gluten free flour without the addition of functional ingredients are quite rare.
Advantages of the technology over existing solutions
Description of the technology/project
The main goal was to create optimal formulations for the production of gluten-free cookies based on millet flour which, in spite of the absence of gluten protein and hydrocodollids, will allow industrial production of cookies with satisfactory textural and sensory properties and better nutritional profile. In that context, three formulations were created and obtained final products characterized from technological and nutritional point of view.
The products are:
State of development
Ready for impementation
IP Protection status
Technology / IP owners
FINS - Institute of food technology in Novi Sad
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Will make you sit back and think: Sea of Trees by @robhollywood #review
Sea of Trees
Written by Robert James Russell
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Genre: General Fiction, Suspense
Book SynopsisSwirling mystery permeates Sea of Trees as Bill, an American college student, and his Japanese girlfriend Junko traverse the Aokigahara Forest in Japan—infamous as one of the world's top suicide destinations—in search of evidence of Junko's sister Izumi who disappeared there a year previous.
As the two follow clues and journey deeper into the woods amid the eerily quiet and hauntingly beautiful landscape—bypassing tokens and remains of the departed, suicide notes tacked to trees and shrines put up by forlorn loved ones—they'll depend on one another in ways they never had to before, testing the very fabric of their relationship.
And, as daylight quickly escapes them and they find themselves lost in the dark veil of night, Bill discovers a truth Junko has hidden deep within her—a truth that will change them both forever.
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Sarai's Review
I was surprised at my reaction to this book. I am not sure what my expectations were going in, but coming out I was shocked at how much it haunted me. I had a few minor issues with this book and I have to admit I still don't quite understand ending (no spoilers I promise). That being said this book does stick with you. The writing alone is beautifully haunting in its description.
During the book we learn of different people that have come to Aokigahara Forest to end their lives and why. We also learn that Junko's sister Izumi was one of those people. From my experience and background I figured out pretty early on why Izumi killed herself, but I can see where it was a mystery to others.
The forest is beautifully described and each suicide was written in such a way I connect to most of the people. It drove me to understand why they would go forth with ending their lives.
The best part was learning about a different culture. Too many times when I read books like this I tend to see it in an American setting with only Americans. This time not only did I feel as if I was in Japan, but I understood a little more about their culture.
I wish Bill would have helped with that as an American visiting, but most of the imagery came from the writing itself and the suicide notes. Again it is a good book a little heavy, but one that will make you sit back and think. I enjoyed it and would like to see more from this author.
Review Disclaimer: This book was provided free of charge in exchange for an honest review. The above review was not influenced in any way, including financial.

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Continued pay discrimination is still discrimination. I don't see why the first discriminatory act matters at all. If I pay someone less because they're a woman or minority today, that's not OK just because I did it for 10 years before today!But as usual, the Republicans will not even acknowledge the problem. As far as they're concerned there is no pay gap, and there is no discrimination. They shouldn't feel "proud" to have voted against this remedy. They didn't have a better legislative alternative, their policy was the status quo, making it nearly impossible to address pay discrimination.Of course it is a pity that we have only one party left these days. Having two proposed solutions to choose from, or a compromise, is usually for the best. Until the republicans find a way out of the fever swamp that's not going to happen.
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GMAT is an International Examination that is accepted by a large number of Bschools across the world.
While most of these Bschools require a certain level of work experience to apply, some Bschools in India accept students without work experience. At the same time, some Bschools in USA and Europe have also launched Masters in Management program for students who do not have work experience.
Students who have work experience (2-3 years +) can apply for 1 year Executive Mgt program at ISB Hyderabad and the PGPX program at the IIMs as well as premier MBA programs in Global Universities.
Structure of the Exam
When you apply for the GMAT you can select a date and Test centre at your convenience. The exam can be taken round the year and the score is valid for 5 years.
GMAT is a computer adaptive test. The candidate can view and answer one question at a time. The next question is selected by the program based on whether you get the first right/wrong. Getting it right gets you a relatively tougher Q while getting it wrong gets you another Q of the same level or easier.
Now this makes it very critical to get the first few Qs right as that sets the base for your performance.
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The Exam itself is divided into 4 Sections.
Quantitative Ability
37 Qs in 75 min. Scoring Range 0-60
The questions include conventional problems from mathematics as well as Data sufficiency Qs. For Engineering students with a strong maths background, the Qs are easy to moderate.
Verbal Ability
41 Qs in 75 min. Scoring range 0-60
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A score of 45+ in VA and 53+ in QA can give you a 99%ile and a score of 760/800. A score of 40 in VA and 50 in QA can give you 89-90%ile and a score of 700.
Should I do an MBA abroad or in India?
First thing to realize is that there are 1000s of Universities in USA, Europe and other countries and only some of them are really good. So make sure that you do your research and check the rankings from sites like Financial Times.
Second, while the best Bschools are in the USA, the costs are prohibitively high. An MBA program at Ivy League Bschools can cost between 60-80 lacs. And financial assistance and scholarships are very rare. For those on a budget, Singapore, Canada and some Bschools in Europe are cheaper.
Third, the exposure at some of these Bschools is truly worth it. Interaction with global business leaders, management guru's as well as the cultural exposure or learning and living with students from across the world is valuable
Finally, unlike in Indian Bschools, Ivy League Bschools do not 'ensure' 100% placement. While placements are good, there is no guarantee. Also one should thoroughly research the visa terms. For example UK has made it very difficult for students to stay back and work post MBA. And mind you, a degree from a foreign Bschool may not be well recognized if you come back to India.
On the whole, if you do well in GMAT and apply to carefully researched Bschools, you could be well on your way to a global management career.
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The Trump administration has finalized a rollback of school lunch regulations championed for years by former first lady Michelle Obama.
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FACT CHECK: What's Happening On The U.S.-Mexico Border?
The situation at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry has been chaotic and confusing in recent days. And reactions from the American public suggest that photos and footage from the scene serve as a sort of Rorschach test.
Trump's New Executive Order Restricts Asylum at US-Mexico Border
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Washington Post: Michelle Obama Says In Memoir She'll 'Never Forgive' Trump For Endangering Her Family
Former first lady Michelle Obama discusses her dislike of President Donald Trump — as well as personal details of her life before and during her time in the White House — in her highly anticipated memoir, "Becoming," The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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Trump Falsely Blames Obama For Family Separations At Border: ANALYSIS
President Donald Trump mangled the facts Thursday when addressing immigration and falsely claiming – more than once – that former President Barack Obama was responsible for family separations at the border.
Analysis: Trump Is Making Racism Boring Again
President Donald Trump may be on the verge on doing something that arguably no American leader has ever done: Make racism boring. When Trump released an ad Thursday demonizing Mexicans and blaming Democrats for allowing an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of killing police officers to stay in the United States, some called it Willie
Trump's Attack On Birthright Citizenship Is His Latest Attempt To Rile Up The GOP Base
Trump has floated a series of last-minute policy proposals as Republicans aim to defend their congressional majorities in next Tuesday's midterm elections.
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Some of his plans appear less than feasible with Congress out of Washington.
Trump Plans to Sign Executive Order Curbing Birthright Citizenship: Report
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Kellyanne Conway reflects on ethics law: 'Blah, blah, blah'
The phrase "blah, blah, blah" has a surprisingly rich history in modern Republican politics. In 2017, for example, then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly used it in an email to dismiss concerns from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
Around the same time, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was asked about the prospect of Democrats reclaiming the majority on Capitol Hill. "Blah blah blah blah blah is what I think about that stuff," he replied. A year earlier, confronted with questions about his obvious dishonesty surrounding his position on the war in Iraq in 2003, Donald Trump said, "Blah, blah, blah."
In October 2015: Jeb Bush, asked about his campaign's difficulties at the time, told reporters, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, That's my answer. Blah, blah, blah." In February 2014: then-House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), facing questions about the substantive details in his party's tax reform package, said at a press conference, "Blah, blah, blah." In October 2008: then-Sen. John McCain, asked about nuclear safety and waste issues, said, "Well it has to be safe, environment, blah, blah, blah."
All of which brought us to yesterday, when White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway used her position to go after former Vice President Joe Biden's Democratic presidential campaign. A reporter reminded her that there are ethics laws that are supposed to prevent her from doing this.
When reporters noted the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) found she violated the Hatch Act with two interviews she gave in late 2017, Conway was dismissive.
"Blah, blah, blah," she said as one reporter recounted the OSC's findings.
"If you're trying to silence me through the Hatch Act, it's not going to work," Conway said.
"Let me know when the jail sentence starts," she added.
In effect, a top White House official yesterday boasted – to reporters, on the record – about defying a federal ethics law.
This comes on the heels of Lynne Patton, a Trump family "event planner" who now holds a senior position at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, engaging in similar political activities. Patton wrote on Facebook last week that her efforts "may be a Hatch violation. It may not be. Either way, I honestly don't care anymore."
As we discussed yesterday, the Hatch Act is a nearly century-old ethics law that prohibits nearly all federal employees from engaging in political activities. It's a law, incidentally, that Conway has already been accused of breaking.
And evidently, as of yesterday, it's also a law Conway is comfortable ignoring again.
I can appreciate why the Hatch Act may seem obscure and perhaps trivial. Those who break it are not felons, and as Conway made clear in her derisive comments, violators are not subject to prison sentences. When compared to some of the other offenses Donald Trump and his team have been accused of, it's easy to see an ethics law like this one as unimportant – the practical equivalent of political jaywalking.
But my concern is less about the Hatch Act itself and more about the conditions that allow federal officials to publicly declare their indifference to legal limits.
Donald Trump has already indicated that, in some cases, he believes following the law is optional. The more that sentiment spreads to others in his administration, the larger the scope of the problem.


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This month we attended World Travel Market in force to check the sector's healthy pulse, tried to gain some clarity around Brexit's future impact on business, walked (yes walked!) from Gatwick to Heathrow for a life-changing charity, as well as plenty of exciting client developments…
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Having promoted OPP – UK leaders in psychometric testing – and its products for many years, Flagship is now supporting the promotion of The Myers-Briggs Company which has resulted from the unification of two businesses, OPP and CPP to create one of the world's largest business psychology providers.
Its aim is to help organisations harness 100 percent of their talent by enriching self-awareness. Building on the heritage of the MBTI psychometric tool and the new company's position as a Certified B Corporation, Flagship will be focusing on promoting its viewpoints in teamwork, leadership, diversity and other complex people challenges.
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Brexit: What can your business do to prepare in this time of uncertainty? Claire Nelson attended a recent Brexit briefing, hosted by a group of legal specialists, to give you the low down. From the transfer of goods and the recruitment challenges in industries where there is an over reliance on EU workers, you can find out more here.
Radhika also took the 'travel temperature' and gained valuable insights into the sector along with colleagues. Future trends, growth areas, niche experiences and the possible impact of Brexit were all revealed. Read her WTM snapshot is here.
Gatwick to Heathrow – by foot!
But that's what Belinda did on Sunday November 25.
She was part of a team of 30 celebrating and raising money for ABTA's LifeLine – now in its 30th year. TTG 30 Under 30 were up for a challenge and wanted to give something back to the industry that we're so proud to be a part of.
ABTA LifeLine provides life-changing support to friends and families across the industry whether they're dealing with a personal crisis, the loss of a loved one or disability funding.
Year after year the travel industry helps make dreams come true but it's easy to forget that sometimes not everything goes as planned. ABTA LifeLine has been on hand for 30 years awarding grants to help ease serious financial hardships, bereavement, domestic violence and so much more.
We'd love to hit £3030 to celebrate 30 years of ABTA LifeLine so please give generously.
The link for donations is here.
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by Dr. Elaine Marie
What we eat, how we eat and when we eat tells us about the way we see ourselves and the world around us. The author, Luce Giard argues that eating serves not only to 'maintain biological machinery of the body, but to make concrete one of the specific modes of relation between a person and the world, thus forming one of the fundamental landmarks in space-time'.
In other words, eating practices are an integral part of one's body. Moreover, they also mark our body's relationships to a range of socio-cultural contexts. They could be tied to ethical and political commitments. For example, vegetarianism and veganism could be adopted as a way of ethically engaging with food production and committing to a 'greener' lifestyle. Eating practices are also linked to a whole range of histories. Religious reasons for eating certain foods, or killing meat in specific ways, are developed through the history of one's faith and adherence to it. In this context, food and eating practices are not simply timeless or simply contained in a box that we can name as one specific culture or another.
In contemporary (often middle-class) terms, food is linked to the notion of self-governance. We are continually given advice in popular magazines about how to lose weight, how much to eat, what to eat, what the celebrities are eating in terms of their diet and so on. Much of this advice is also gendered. While we may come across popular women's magazines that will tell you how bad this continual advice is for young teenage girls, the dominant mode of advice is to tell women that you cannot be beautiful unless you are thin. Such advice, of course, has to be framed within a capitalist mode of selling magazines as well as medicines. In this context, eating practices link us to socially gendered and racialised ways of being. The perfect body in Australian and other western or westernised contexts is often white. And if it isn't, the shape of the body resembles that of its white counterparts.
Looking at the list of a recent edition of the magazine FHM PHILIPPINES' Top 100 Beautiful Women showcases this. In this list, all 100 women are light skinned and if they are somewhat brown are not blatantly so. Not all these women are Filipina, but include American actresses such as Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox. There are no dark skinned women on the list. In fact, the woman who came First on the list is described in terms of her glowingly light skin.
Consequently, there is a certain relationship to food and eating practices that is continually constructed in these kinds of advice and with the template of a specific type of woman/person to model oneself after.
Giard suggests that every food practice 'depends on a network of impulses (likes and dislikes) with respect to smells, colours, and forms as well as to consistency types; this geography is as strongly culturalised as the representations of health and good table manners and thus is just as historicised'. In this context, our likes and dislikes in relation to food depend on a network of impulses which are also organised in relation to our familial or community's cultural histories. In this sense, if we want to locate and read the politics of food and migration, we have to place it in historical, economic, political, social, and cultural contexts.
In our Australian context, it is important to analyse the politics of food and migration through a discussion of nationalism and whiteness. Suvendrini Perera discusses whiteness as a 'series of investments and interests also unevenly inflected by factors such as class, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, rather than as a monolithic structure of power, or a self-evident category'. In other words, whiteness is not some natural or monolithic category. It is unevenly produced through categories of class, ethnicity, gender and sexuality. In this sense, white identities also shift, compete and collude. For instance, Pauline Hanson's status as a white Australian and her popularity was marked by representations of her as a 'Fish and Chips' shop lady. Such a status made clear her British Australian ethnicity, but also signified white Australianness through the production of an ethnic food—fish and chips.
However, middle-class white Australian derision of Pauline Hanson as a redneck, fish and chip shop lady also marks another form of whiteness, and this is perhaps a more interesting and complex form of whiteness which is important to analyse in relation to contemporary multiculturalist discourses in Australia.
For instance, the consumption of Italian or Greek or Vietnamese foods becomes a way of marking the cosmopolitanism and sophistication of classed white subjects. In fact, contemporary discourses of food and multiculturalism through cooking shows, recipe books, and narratives of sophisticated eaters construct this notion of cosmopolitanism and sophistication through the practice of consuming non-British foods.
In contemporary television shows about food, this cosmopolitanism is constructed in relation to the consumption of 'Asian' foods. In terms of Vietnamese food, Master Chef regularly highlights the Vietnamese restaurant, Red Lantern in Surry Hills and its owner as an example of good 'Asian' food.
While the proliferation of different kinds of foods are celebrated, the point from where these cuisines are judged continues to reflect an Anglo-Australian culture as the standard, as 'nativised' to the point that it becomes the recognised as the 'genuinely' natural Australian taste.
Contestants cover and are inspired by a range of culinary and cultural influences. For instance, there is Jimmy who specialises in 'Indian' food (but what kind of Indian food-whether Northern, Southern, is not stated in the show) and Marion whose Thai mother influences her own cooking.
These points of 'difference', in that they are different to the dominant Anglo-culture in this country' are not derided or castigated, but are made to be points of special interest and skill.
For example, in a past Masterchef season, there were a variety of non-Anglo contestants. Two of them were Jimmy and Marion. Both were Australian with Asian heritage and both their 'Asian' influences and heritages were continually constructed as 'other'. More specifically, they were intimated as 'another kind of Australian' and not simply Australian. This is to the point that Claire, an Anglo-Australian contestant was brought to tears during a challenge when she bemoaned the fact that, in her words, she did not have the influences the others had. She lamented that she felt 'simple' and not cosmopolitan/sophisticated because of this. While this seemed to be favouring a non-white Australian culinary culture, this also served to situate Anglo-Australianness as the norm through which points of exotic, 'strange' otherness is measured and defined. Another example of this is during a past challenge that asked the contestants to cook a 'home style meal'. The celebrity guest judge, Margaret Fulton, (who is a well-known and influential cook and recipe book author, essentially a doyenne of Anglo-Australian cuisine) commented that it was 'great' that such a variety of dishes were available to eat now. This is discounting the fact that these 'variety' of dishes and cooking styles were eaten and known by citizens of Australia since the time Arab traders and Chinese miners. But, now it has become trendy to eat such food as it has been properly sanctioned and neutralised by the dominant Anglo culture.
This also serves to stereotype and pin contestants to a specific type of cuisine based on their ethnic heritage. For instance, in the first season of Master Chef, the runner up, Poh's audition to enter the show began with her making a French style meal. After tasting the meal, the judges asked her to come back and make something she 'was more familiar with'. Here, they made a judgement about what she looked liked and what she was more capable of doing. Poh is Malaysian-Chinese. In comparison, Anglo contestants (and Anglo chefs) are rarely (if at all) told to stick with what they are 'familiar' with if they cook dishes that do not stick to their cultural background.
How do we then rethink the politics of food in regards to multiculturalism? How do we begin to see multiculturalism beyond the standardised prism of Anglo-Australian whiteness? Importantly, how do we consume, produce and 'taste' our food as a celebration of all our differences? Not just dishes that are different to an Anglo-norm? Just some food for thought.


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Amber Harper-Young
Amber was a finalist in BC's Funniest Female 2014. Her performing highlights include: The Comics Lounge-Melbourne Australia, The Del Close Marathon NYC (Improv), Yuk Yuk's comedy clubs - Toronto/Ottawa/Vancouver and various other comedy clubs and touring shows across Canada. In 2015, Amber co-created/co-hosted and performed in a live series of Tragedy Comedy Shows at Yuk Yuk's. She also co-hosts Vancouverite, an independent monthly show that was selected to be a part of the JFL NorthWest Comedy Festival in 2016. Amber's absurd colourful style of self-deprecating comedy is based on her upbringing and adult life.
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LAHORE, Apr 15 (APP):Under-16 boxers reached the finals of 10 weight categories after scripting victories in the semifinals of Annual Sports Calendar second phase boxing competitions at Nishtar Park Sports Complex Gymnasium Hall here on Monday.
Director General Sports Punjab Nadeem Sarwar said on Monday, said that young boys and girls are taking part in Annual Sports Calendar's second phase events with great passion and we are quite confident to find several talented players from these competitions.
It may be mentioned here that the Annual Sports Calendar's second phase divisional sports competitions are in progress at various venues of Lahore city under the banner of Sports Board Punjab (SBP).
According to details, Lahore's MoeezcKarim will face Ali Zain of Sargodha in 36 weight category while Hashim Ali (Lhr) and Akram Hussain (Bwpr) thrashed their opponents in semifinals to set up title clash in 40-kg category.
Adeel Shahid (Srgdha) and Mohammad Umair (Lhr) will lock horns in 45-kg title clash. Ali Hamza (Mul) and Saif Ali (Lhr) also emerged winners in 48 weight category semifinals. Saood Ishfaq (Gujwala) and Mohammad Nadeem (Lhr) will contest the final of 50 kg weight category bout.
The final of 54-kg weight category will be fought between Jabran Israr (R.pindi) and Talha Bashir (Fsb) while Saif Ullah (DGK) and Aurangzeb (Gujrwla) will face off in 57kg weight category final bout. The final bout of 60 kg weight category will be contested between HarmainTalib (Lhr) and Usama (Srgdha). Ihtsham Haider (Mul) and MianSaeed (Gujrwla) also booked a place in 63-kg weight category title clash when they trounced their rivals in their respective semifinals.
Abdul Hannan (Lhr) and TalhaIqbal (Fsbd) also cruised into the final of 66kg weight category after tasting victories in their respective semifinals.
Three matches were decided in the Annual Sports Calendar second phase Women Cricket event. In the first match, Bahawalpur defeated DG Khan by 55 runs while Sargodha edged out Rawalpindi by 19 runs.
The third match was played between Faisalabad and Gujranwala. Faisalabad girls emerged triumphant by 45 runs in this contest.
In Annual Sports Calendar second phase kabaddi event, Sargodha toppled Rawalpindi by 21-3 to win the clash by 18 points while Bahawalpur (36 points) thrashed Multan (19 points) by 17 points.
Faisalabad (32) boys outplayed DG Khan (16 points) by 16 points in the third match.


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Biographical entry Shaw, W. Hudson
- Occupation
- Aviation historian
W. Hudson Shaw researched Australia's pioneer aviators. Notes and correspondences relating to his work on Lawrence Hargrave are held at the National Library of Australia.
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
- W. Hudson Shaw - Records, 1954 - 1977, MS 5661; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Shaw, W. Hudson, 'Lawrence Hargrave - an Appreciation', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, 96 (1963), 17-30. Details
- Shaw, W. Hudson, 'Lawrence Hargrave: Fact and Fallacy', Records of the Australian Academy of Science, 1 (3) (1968), 45-52. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9680130045.htm. Details
- 'Shaw, W Hudson (1910-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-576263. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 31 August 2005
- Foundation Supporter - Committee to Review Australian Studies in Tertiary Education


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UPDATED 6/3/2016: Azusa City Council to RECONSIDER the Laemmle Theatre Mixed-Use project for Block 36 on Monday, June 6th at 7PM! Click here for details.
ONE FINAL UPDATE: Unfortunately, the Azusa City Council did NOT select our project for Downtown Azusa.
Sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to speak and email. The overwhelming display of public support at the council meeting warmed our little lamb hearts. We appreciate all of you. <3 <3 <3
UPDATE: On Monday, May 16th at 7:30PM the Azusa City Council is scheduled to vote on our proposal to build a new movie theater in Downtown Azusa and we hope you'll support us by speaking at the meeting! Click here for details.
Our proposal to build a movie theater in Downtown Azusa has been selected as a finalist by the Azusa City Council!
In November, the City of Azusa requested proposals for a mixed use development opportunity on the southeast corner of East Foothill Boulevard and North Azusa Avenue in Downtown Azusa (referred to as "Block 36"). Our project was selected as one of two finalists in this process!
Our proposal includes a five screen movie theater (with programming similar to our Pasadena venue), 108 residential units, retail/restaurant space, and an outdoor plaza. It is estimated that our theater will draw approximately 75,000 people per year to Downtown Azusa.
Public support and outreach for the project and at upcoming City Council meetings is critical. You can help by emailing Azusa Councilmembers in advance so they have written evidence that the community supports this project. Please email them before their next meeting on May 2nd. Here are their email addresses:
Mayor Joseph Romero Rocha – firstname.lastname@example.com
Mayor Pro Tem Angel A. Carrillo – email@example.com
Council Member Edward J. Alvarez – email@example.com
Council Member Robert Gonzales – firstname.lastname@example.com
Council Member Uriel E. Macias – firstname.lastname@example.com
City Manager Troy Butzlaff – email@example.com
Thanks for your support!


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Drinks and activities! I'll allow you endless opportunities to give me pointers on my golf stance/swing.
Wouldn't it be cool if we did axe throwing, or an escape room!?
The perfect date for me would be a nice workout at the gym, followed by a stroll in the park. Finally cooling off under a tree with a nice picnic in the park.
A round of golf or a morning cup of java on a beautiful morning can make for a joyful meet and greet. I am always in on either with conversation and laughter at the forefront.
Golf, paddle board... There are so many fun things to do!
Bowling, miniature golf inside , painting , something fun but inside !
Hitting a few tennis balls or playing a mixed doubles match. Also like nice dinners.
we could ice skate, then go to the music, listening to some music
hiking or walking or biking
Nine holes of golf followed by lunch
I like to Participate in Sports followed by a Picnic Lunch or outdoor Restaurant
Top fun date ideas: 1. Have an early tee time followed by a leisurely afternoon of brunch., 2. Live music, tapas and a cocktail or glass of wine, 3. museum exhibit and cocktails
In the weather. Snow, sun, wind, water, salt....


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I'm directing anyone who wonders why I have been swept away by musical theatre to find a clip of Bernadette Peters singing "Children and Art," from Sunday in the Park With George. Preferably the whole show, available on DVD, but if only one song, make it this one.
There is no turning back from work this good.
I'm afraid to play the thing again for fear I'll vanish into a puddle of tears or forget who I am or something.
At first, when asked to explain what moves me about musical theatre, I would babble about the necessary suspension of disbelief being so freeing, so open, so powerful. Something about "it must be the fact of music, which in some form every human being knows."
"Children and Art" gets beyond all that. To see and hear Peters, playing a ninety-eight-year-old grandmother in a wheel chair, singing of what came before in the world and what will be left, as her grand-son kneels, holding her hand . . . in Peters' gorgeous soprano that has aged so well . . . and with her comic genius always at hand . . .
And I haven't mentioned Mandy Patinkin, the grand-son, who is superb, or the first act of the play, in which MP plays the painter Georges Seurat, and BP a figure in Seurat's famous A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte.
Give this song a listen somehow. And while you're at it, catch a clip of Patinkin doing "The Day Off (Dog Song)" from the same show.
Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Today, the Musical, Part Five
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