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• Former CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) will take part in the Ian Harvie Show on December 10, where she and other guests will discuss holiday memories. Proceeds from the event will benefit Equality California. (For more information, visit Jorja All Around.)

• Eva La Rue (Natalia Boa Vista) successfully made the transition from soap opera to primetime drama. A show like CSI: Miami has far less dialogue to learn, which La Rue said is a good thing. However, she said it's hard to make the scientific jargon sound convincing. "It is like singing Japanese sometimes," she told the Kansas City Star.

• Forensic pathologist Gary Telgenhoff, a consultant for CSI, will deliver the first convocation of 2009 at the Skinner Memorial Chapel on the campus of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota on Friday, January 9. The convocation is titled "Speak for You: Telling the Tales the Dead Can't Tell" and focuses on the work Telgenhoff does to uncover the mystery behind a person's death. (Source)

• Vanessa Ferlito (Aiden Burn) left CSI: New York after the show's first season because a procedural drama wasn't for her. The actress may have left the show set in the Big Apple, but she still lives in New York City, where she was born and raised. "I still live in my neighborhood in Brooklyn so I don't get star treatment like that," Ferlito explained. "I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop that I worked in as a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart. I left but I never really left."

  The original quote is from an interview with MoviesOnline.

• Schools in the North Somerset district of the United Kingdom are fighting against theft by using SmartWater to mark property. SmartWater, which was featured in the CSI: NY episode "You Only Die Once", is a colorless liquid with a chemical code that is unique to each bottle. The liquid is nearly impossible to remove and glows under ultraviolet light. If stolen property marked with SmartWater is recovered, the chemical code makes it easy to pinpoint who registered the original bottle of liquid. Sergeant Hayward from Weston Police Station said, "SmartWater will reduce thefts and burglaries at schools allowing teachers and pupils to work unhindered by missing equipment and damaged classrooms. It will allow the police to easily identify stolen property and bring offenders to justice." (Source: Avon and Somerset Police)

• Minor spoilers ahead!

  Craig T Nelson has signed on to do a three-episode guest-appearance on CSI: NY. The character, Robert Parker, will be a publishing magnate and a nemesis for Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise).

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