Happy New Year!

Time to turn the page, change the calendar, and head out into another year and another decade.

And a time for those New Year’s resolutions.  Don’t have one?  Well, we’ve got one for you.  First, some background.

We continue to watch with excitement the biggest video event of the year — the upcoming release of the CBS movie Extraordinary Measures.  The movie, featuring Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell is set to open the third week of January.  Already biotech advocates in Colorado are using the event to raise money for their favorite cause and charity.  And we see Mommy bloggers promoting not only the movie but also the movie’s Inspirational Quilt.

We ask that you put the movie and its Inspirational Quilt on your New Year’s resolution list.

Upload a video.  Get people to vote for it — or vote for a favorite that you find already posted.  Help your organization or charity or cause earn the $10,000 prize that CBS Films will be offering.

If you’re a Facebook person be sure to become a fan of the movie’s Facebook page.  There you can get the latest movie updates and news feature.  Better yet.  If you’re interested in the real story behind the movie go to John Crowley’s Facebook page.  He’s the real person behind the amazing story of Extraordinary Measures.  I promise you’ll be inspired.

Not much else over the holidaze.  Here are a handful of videos that crossed our desktop.

SHAKEN BUT STILL STANDING – That’s the diagnosis of Glen Giovannetti, Global Biotechnology Leader, Ernst & Young in his assessment of how the biotech industry is managing through the latest economic and capital crisis.

ICH BEN EIN BIOTECH – Sorry to my German friends.  But for those who are into German theater, check out this video clip of the production PLASMA.  My German isn’t that good but according to the clip “Director and author Lukas Bangerter transforms the stage into a Petri dish and the current status of robotics and biotechnology into a carrier substance for dreamlike theatre images on the border between subject and object.”

NO TIME FOR FUN – That’s the subtitle of part of the news video clip of the departure of Teva’s General Director Israel Markov.  The piece covers Teva’s new leadership for 2010.

HOW YA LIKE THEM TOMATOES? - Speaking of Israel, here’s an interesting video on a potentially hot new export – biotech tomatoes.   According to this news report the tomatoes by Hazarah Genetics are the gourmet’s delight and “greenhouse gold.”

MISSED THE WORLD FOOD PRIZE SYMPOSIUM? – If so, no fear.  The folks at the Council for Biotechnology Information posted a short two minute clip featuring Bill Gates addressing the symposium back in the fall of 2009.