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• This week's episode of CSI: Miami, "Rock and a Hard Place", featured the Asylum Research MFP-3D atomic force microscope (AFM). "I was really surprised when CSI: Miami producers called me to use our MFP-3D AFM," said Terry Mehr, Director of Marketing. "Only days earlier, I had received an email from our VP of Asia Pacific telling me about a customer that was interested in doing forensics on our AFM and how great it would be to have our AFM on CSI. Then lo and behold, I get a call from the producers asking to use the equipment. It's exciting to have our AFM featured in the episode." (Source)

• "It's Microsoft's world, kid. I'm just living in it," said Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) in the CSI: New York episode "Admissions". It took all of 1.2 seconds to utter the first part of the sentence, but that was enough to be worth $35,731, according to iTVX (a leading provider of data and analysis in the field of branded entertainment). "It has more quality and will impact the viewer more than a second of commercial time," Stephene Kelley, chief strategic officer of iTVX, told The Seattle Times.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's Eric Szmanda (Greg Sanders) produced the site erockstar.com with childhood friend (and business partner) Tyler Malin. The site was launched by Clear Channel Radio on May 2. According to Szmanda:

  Our main focus will be on quality and we're going to give a lot of bands that don't have a chance to be heard on the radio that opportunity. We want to be playing everything from indie rock to hip-hop to classic rock to soul to dance rock…Clear Channel came to me with the chance to be a kid in the candy store. Now, erockster is giving all fans an outlet to listen to a wide variety of music, discuss bands, concerts, and really anything that we have an opinion or comment on that's music-related.

  The original article is from New Mexico Business Weekly.

• The May 14th episode of New York ("Taxi") will feature the Fuma-Dome fingerprint development system. The device uses cyanoacrylate (Super Glue) fumes to develop fingerprints. "With this unit, fingerprints come up in 10 to 30 seconds and you’re not exposed to the fumes," creator David Weaver explained to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. The dome on the system contains the fumes, and Weaver added a fluorescent dye to make it easier to spot the fingerprints. Weaver plans to watch the episode "with trepidation. I have no control over how they depict the technology."

• The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Marg Helgenberger (CSI's Catherine Willows) will appear in a "Got Milk?" ad premiering in the May 12 issue of Shape Magazine. The campaign targets mothers, or "chief health officers". Helgenberger's page reads:

  In my role on TV and as a mom, I never miss a thing. So here's a clue: Studies suggest the nutrients in 3 glasses a day of lowfat or fat free milk can help you maintain a healthy weight.

• Daily Game is going to give away three copies of the DVD of A Good Man is Hard to Find, which stars New York's Hill Harper (Sheldon Hawkes). The deadline for entries is 11:59pm PST on June 15, 2008. Visit the site for more information and a copy of the entry form.

• When asked if he had a desire to write an episode of CSI, Chuck Lorre (one of the Two and a Half Men writers who penned tomorrow's episode, "Two and a Half Deaths"), he replied, "The only burning desire inside of me was to do an autopsy on a sitcom diva." (Source: Chicago Sun-Times)

• Melina Kanakaredes (Stella Bonasera on CSI: NY) served as mistress of ceremonies at the Children's Brain Tumor Foundation 6th Annual Dream & Promise Gala on May 6th in New York City.

  For more information, visit PR Newswire.

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