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editta braun company: planet LUVOS (clip, 4:30)
planet LUVOS dance movement research: Scaron;pela Vodeb, Dorota Karolina #321; #281;cka, Andrea Maria Handler, Marcella Mancini, Katja Bablick, Sandra Hofsttter, Martyna Lorenc dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau, composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff, lightdesign: Peter Thalhamer, choreographic assistance: Barbara Motschiunik, Juan Dante Murillo Bobadilla, choreograpy: Editta Braun What remains is greater than man "planet LUVOS", the editta braun company #39;s fascinating dance premiere at the Bruckner Festival - Upper Austrian News, September 29, 2012 The Salzburg choreographer Editta Braun leads us through a blue underwater world back to the origins of life. In her new piece "planet LUVOS", she completes the round dance of surreal body worlds, which began with "Lufus" (1985) and continued with "Lufus, vol. 2", about the dangers of genetic engineering. The viewer sinks into a blue, bubbling waterworld. The only sign that humans exist is the distant sound of a steamship whistle, somewhere far away. And a woman who suddenly finds herself in a kingdom full of strange, but peaceful beings. Seven dancers (Katja Bablick, Andrea Maria Handler, Sandra Hofsttter, Dorota Karolina Lecka, Martyna Lorenc, Marcella Mancini and Spela Vodeb) constitute this symbiotic, sensitive collective. Their legs wave in the air like anemone arms, each movement reacting as fast as lightning to the other . Their bodies lose their humanness and become entities. Naked torsi move like alien beings across the stage ...From:edittabrauncompanyViews:0 0ratingsTime:04:31More inEducation

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PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH! Yes to Prop 37 mdash; it #39;s your right to know what #39;s in your food!
PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH The Wonderful World of GMO Concerned Citizens: James Franco Elijah Wood Adrian Grenier Rosanna Arquette Daniel Masterson Eric Warehiem Amy Ferguson Ana Calderon Oliver Cantu Sonmanto Team: Richard Head played by John Pick Suey Slinger played by William Lemon III Dr. Rodney Miracle played by Alex Wallman Created by: Alex Wallman Ana Calderon Directed Edited by: Kyle McCullough, Ryan Kuhlman Alex Wallman After Effects by: Ryan Kuhlman Written by : Alex Wallman Corn Man Animation by: Daniel Cardenas "Yes on 37" plate photo by: Bart Cooke Audio techs: Juan Palacio, Ryan Kuhlman and Kyle McCullough Spanish Translation by: Pedro Cheryl Calderon Oliver Cantu Further articles: French study in which rats that were fed genetically modified corn grew tumors: http://www.huffingtonpost.com A short video clip about the above: http://www.youtube.com Germany bans genetically modified corn: http://www.nytimes.com Study showing crop yields not increased by genetic engineering: http://www.ucsusa.org This video brought to you courtesy of concerned citizens of California who demand the right to know what #39;s in their food! VOTE YES ON PROP 37!From:Alex WallmanViews:4481 77ratingsTime:04:00More inComedy

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Port Townsend Food Coop: A Sad Story of GMO Crop Cross Pollination
In front of the Port Townsend Food Coop, member Jim Salter tells a story of a friend of his in Canada that lost his organic crops because a neighbor #39;s GMO crop spread into his fields. I-522 is an initiative to the Washington State legislature to establish mandatory labeling of foods produced through genetic engineering. As recommended by the Secretary of State, the LabelitWA group needs to turn in at least 320000 signatures to ensure they have 241153 valid signatures by December 31, 2012 in order to get on the November 2013 ballot. I-522, "The People #39;s Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act," is simple. The initiative would require food sold in retail outlets to be labeled if the ingredients are produced through genetic engineering. An estimated 70 percent of non-organic processed foods contain some #9472; or several #9472; genetically engineered ingredients. http://www.labelitwa.org http California 2012 Prop 37 Playlist http://www.youtube.com Sponsor RAAW Foods (Non-GMO Project Verified) http://www.raawfoods.comFrom:digitalreporterViews:0 0ratingsTime:02:42More inTravel Events

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Enter the rainy season and I turn to my inside chores...removing dried seeds from their seed pods.

And catching up on my reading ... checking up on what is new in the world of seeds. Namely, in the genetic engineering sector.

I stumbled onto an article about the difference between the GE and GMO designation. This author stated there is a definite difference between the two terms ... and she is right to a point.

Technically, GMO ... genetically modified organism ... refers to any plant that has been hybridized through pollen transference ... by humans, bees or any other natural process. So any cultivar such as 'Early Girl' tomato and Hosta 'June' are, in fact, GMOs.

'Early Girl' has been purposely bred by hand pollination to produce an early-ripening tomato. 'June' arrived on the gardening scene as a naturally-occurring sport of another hosta ... 'Halcyon'.

The GMO designation also holds true for those varieties that have been crossed within their own family ... broccoli with kale, apricot with plum, plum with cherry. These have all been done by humans using conventional pollen-transfer methods. Sounds a bit weird perhaps, but a perfectly plausible possibility in nature.

I do not think the pluerry ... the plum/cherry cross ... has been released to the market just yet. But the others are available.

In fact, cherry-plum hybrids have been around since the late 19th century. I found one reference listing over 20 different cultivars.

As for the apricot-plum hybrids ... they are called Pluots if the plant has predominantly plum parentage or Apriums if the parentage leans to the apricot side. Both are registered trademark names.

Then there is broccolini ... also known by several other names such as Asparation, brocoletti and Tenderstem. (The first and last are both trade registered names.) This is a natural cross between broccoli and kai-lan, a Chinese broccoli.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/kknlff/therapeutic) has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd's new book "Therapeutic antibody engineering: Current and future advances driving the strongest growth area in the pharmaceutical industry" to their offering.

Therapeutic Antibody Engineering examines all aspects of engineering monoclonal antibodies and analyses the effect that various genetic engineering approaches will have on candidates of the future. Chapters in the first part of the book provide an introduction to monoclonal antibodies, their discovery and development and the fundamental technologies used in their production. In the following chapters, the book covers a number of specific issues relating to different aspects of antibody engineering, including variable chain engineering, targets and mechanisms of action, classes of antibody and the use of antibody fragments, among many other topics. The last part of the book examines development issues, the interaction of human IgGs with non-human systems, and cell line development, before a conclusion looking at future issues affecting the field of therapeutic antibody engineering.

Key Topics Covered:

- Introduction to biologics and monoclonal antibodies

- Value proposition for therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and Fc fusion proteins

- Antibody structure-function relationships

- Fundamental technologies for antibody engineering

- Sources of antibody variable chains

- Variable chain engineering - humanization and optimization approaches

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