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Sartorius Stedim Biotech introduces advanced system for agar and membrane transfer

Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading global supplier for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, is introducing Microsart @media to complement Microsart @vance, a product line for microbiological quality control in these sectors.

Microsart @media are agar media dishes for Microbial Limits Testing according to the USP (Chapter <61>) and EP (Chapter 2.6.12). They are pre-filled with various agar media types, such as Tryptic Soy Agar or R2A Agar, sterile packaged and ready-to-use in combination with Microsart @filter units. Moreover, the Microsart @media features an innovative patented lid that allows touch-free transfer of the filter membrane onto the media without using any tweezers. In addition, easy access to the colonies after incubation is given due to the liftable lid. The intelligent design and ease of use eliminates almost all handling mistakes.

The combination of Microsart @media and Microsart @filters introduce a brand-new agar and membrane transfer concept. Thanks to their concerted development the matching Microsart @media active lid fits perfectly onto the Microsart @filter base. The few steps required between sampling and incubation save time and labor, while delivering more reliable results. The touch-free membrane transfer eliminates membrane manipulation and handling, thereby minimizing a major source of secondary contamination.

About Sartorius The Sartorius Group is a leading international laboratory and process technology provider covering the segments of Bioprocess Solutions, Lab Products & Services and Industrial Weighing. In 2012, the technology group earned sales revenue of 845.7 million euros. Founded in 1870, the Goettingen-based company currently employs around 5,500 persons. The major areas of activity of its Bioprocess Solutions segment cover filtration, fluid management, fermentation, cell cultivation and purification, and focus on production processes in the biopharmaceutical industry. The Lab Products & Services segment primarily manufactures laboratory instruments and consumables. Industrial Weighing concentrates on weighing, monitoring and control applications in the manufacturing processes of the food, chemical and pharma sectors. Sartorius has its own production facilities in Europe, Asia and America as well as sales subsidiaries and local commercial agencies in more than 110 countries.

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News media representatives are invited to attenda behind-the-scenes tour of the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center's hangar in Palmdale, Calif., andthe center's main campusat Edwards Air Force Base on Tuesday, May 20, 2014.A morning briefing will focus on the Alternative Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise Emissions (ACCESS-II) flight experiment in Palmdale, followed by a tour of the NASA Armstrong main campus at Edwards in the afternoon.

Participants should plan to meet at the center's Palmdale Visitor Control Center at 7:15 a.m. PDT.The event will give journalists and social media users an opportunity to learn more about scientific research being conducted on the effects of alternate fuels, including synthetic and biofuel formulations, on engine performance, emissions and aircraft-generated contrails at altitudes typically flown by commercial airliners. In addition to a full briefing of the experiment, participants will also have a chance to ask questions of aircraft crew, pilots and scientists involved in the research process.The ACCESS-II experiment will include aircraft and scientific contributions from multiple NASA centers including Glenn and Langley research centers, as well as international partner agencies the German Aerospace Center and the National Research Council of Canada.

At 11:30 a.m., participants will depart Palmdale for NASA Armstrong's Edwards campus. Activities will resume at 1 p.m. with a tour that will include:

-Hangars housing various science, test, and unmanned aircraft

- A look at current aeronautics technology research and testing

- A tour of the model shop where scale concepts are developed

-A tour of the Experimental Fabrication Machine Shop

- Q&A with NASA research pilots-An interactive flight suit demonstration

Media representatives interested in participating in the ACCESS II project update and AFRC tour should confirm their plans to attend by contacting Peter Merlin at the NASA Armstrong Public Affairs office no later than 3 p.m. Thursday, April 24, at 661-276-2679, or emailpeter.w.merlin@nasa.gov.For more information about the ACCESS II project, visit:

http://1.usa.gov/1gRxQfz

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Media Invited to Briefing, Tour Highlighting Alternative Jet Fuel Research

PowerDVD 14 Ultra $100.00

Support for Blu-ray, 3D, Ultraviolet, 4K and h.265 make PowerDVD the closest thing to an all-encompassing multimedia center you'll find. But it's still a few features short.

Tired of constantly switching between iTunes, Windows Media Player, VLC, and other programs for different media tasks? I am. Cyberlinks PowerDVD, with its support for Blu-ray and 4K as well as most other types of video, audio, and images has the potential to be that all-in-one media solution weve been searching for. The latest iteration, PowerDVD 14, is close but no cigar due to some missing basics. However, the addition of support for up-and-coming technologies such as h.265 and the UltraViolet media delivery system make it a uniquely powerful player.

PowerDVD 14, which runs on Windows PCs, comes in three flavorsthe $50 Standard version, which handles DVD and HD files; the $80 Pro, which adds Blu-ray and 4K support; and the $100 Ultra which throws in 3D and the companys Power Media Player app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone. All three versions include PowerDVD Remote for iOS and Android which allows you to use your mobile devices asyou guessed ita remote control for PowerDVD.

In terms of what you see on the screen, PowerDVD 14 is the best Blu-ray/DVD/video player out there. Normal playback includes hardware acceleration, but theres also a CPU mode with TrueTheater enhancements which will make a lot of materialprimarily DVDslook more high-def. The interface is handsome and well thought out, with the notably unintuitive exception of having to click on the fast forward icon to slow down a video. Theres also a ten-foot interface for use from your couch with the aforementioned remote software.

PowerDVDs 10-foot interface is much like Windows Media Centers.

My initial encounters with PowerDVD 14 were frustrating, due to the way it handled background tasks such as media collection and network path scouting. A pre-release update mostly fixed this; however, I still ran into instances where the program would seem to hang, especially at first run. The only other issues I ran into were the inability to drag files from an archive directly to PowerDVD (VLC can handle this), and just the audio portion of certain FLV videos being played.

In my other codec support tests, PowerDVD 14 played AVI/PCM, DivX 5, DivX HD, MPEG 1/2/4, Xvid, most FLV, Quicktime, AVCHD, WMV, h.264, and OGG Theora. Audio track support includes AAC and 5.1 Dolby Digital. PowerDVD 14 now also supports HEVC, the High Efficiency Video Codecmore on that in a bit.

In my music tests, PowerDVD 14 played 5.1 surround, FLAC, WMA, MP3, OGG Vorbis, APE, lossless WMA, Apple lossless (new), M4A, and all types of wave files up to 96kHz/32-bits (the max my system supports). PowerDVD also supports JPEG, BMP, TIFF (compressed and uncompressed), and PNG photos, and it offers some nice fades when you play a group as a slideshow. The photo browser is top-notch and presents your images in calendar style according to the data taken. Alas, theres no tag editing for photos or music files.

PowerDVD lets you browse your photos by calendar date. It also supports a wide variety of music files.

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Cyberlink PowerDVD 14 review: Media playback app has what you need -- almost

Hollywood actor Michael Douglas urged young people to use social media to push for arms control on Tuesday, as he launched a United Nations educational booklet on proliferation aimed at school and college students.

The book "Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do" offers a list of ways grass-roots activists can get involved in arms control efforts, such as organizing film screenings and discussion groups, or mounting a campaign via Twitter.

"To the youth here today I just want to tell you you guys you hold an enormous power, the power to make changes and make this world a better place to live," Douglas told an audience of students.

"Facebook, Youtube... and now Twitter are shaping the news and public opinions and attitudes.

"You can start a Twitter campaign or create a club... I encourage you to spread this message and be the new leaders of change."

Douglas, 69, said he was keenly aware of the issues surrounding nuclear weapons, noting that his father Kirk Douglas's parents had hailed from the Belarus city of Gomel, affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Douglas has been a UN Messenger of Peace since 1998, and regularly campaigns for disarmament.

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane meanwhile told Tuesday's audience that $4.4 billion were spent on the military across the world every day.

"The world is overarmed and peace is underfunded," she said.

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US actor Michael Douglas fronts disarmament initiative

Hollywood actor Michael Douglas has urged young people to use social media to push for arms control, as he launched a United Nations educational booklet on proliferation aimed at school and college students.

The book, Action for Disarmament: 10 Things You Can Do, offers a list of ways grass-roots activists can get involved in arms control efforts, such as organising film screenings and discussion groups, or mounting a campaign via Twitter.

'To the youth here today I just want to tell you you guys you hold an enormous power, the power to make changes and make this world a better place to live,' Douglas told an audience of students on Tuesday.

'Facebook, YouTube... and now Twitter are shaping the news and public opinions and attitudes.

'You can start a Twitter campaign or create a club... I encourage you to spread this message and be the new leaders of change.'

Douglas, 69, said he was keenly aware of the issues surrounding nuclear weapons, noting that his father Kirk Douglas's parents had hailed from the Belarus city of Gomel, affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Douglas has been a UN Messenger of Peace since 1998, and regularly campaigns for disarmament.

UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane meanwhile told Tuesday's audience that $US4.4 billion ($A4.7 billion) were spent on the military across the world every day.

'The world is overarmed and peace is underfunded,' she said.

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