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• "Tunnel Vision", the upcoming episode of CSI: Miami, will feature the XPAK portable explosives defense system from RedXDefense. "By detecting trace amounts of explosives on people, packages, vehicles and many other surfaces, the XPAK serves as a useful tool for gathering evidence on bomb-making facilities and bomb-makers," said RedXDefense CEO Dr. Regina E. Dugan. (Source: Centre Daily)

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star Gary Dourdan (Warrick Brown) will present musician Taylor Swift with the Superstar of Tomorrow Award at the 10th Annual Young Hollywood Awards this weekend in Los Angeles.

  The original news is from the Cleveland Leader.

• Adam Rodriguez (CSI: Miami's Eric Delko) was one of the fans in attendance at Kanye West's "Glow in the Dark" concert last week at the Nokia Theatre, according to Hollyscoop.

• "I can tell you that I think most people will enjoy the crime scene investigation gallery because that area will be the most interactive," said Janine Vaccarello, chief operating officer of the Crime and Punishment Museum, which is set to open in May in Washington, DC. The "CSI Experience" section of the museum gives visitors a chance to look at a murder scene (in this case a bedroom with bullet holes and blood spatter) and attempt to solve the crime.

  For more about the Crime and Punishment Museum, visit the GW Hatchet.

• Fans of Miami's Emily Procter (Calleigh Duquense) have less than two days left to bid on the puzzle piece she designed to be auctioned off to support Autism in Action. Visit the Waco Tribune-Herald to find out more.

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Two and a Half Men switched writers for one episode, and those two episodes will air the week of May 5. George Eads (Nick Stokes) will have a cameo in the Men episode "Fish in a Drawer". The CSI episode, "Two and a Half Deaths", will feature Katey Sagal guest-starring as a sitcom diva that is brutally murdered while filming in Las Vegas. (Source)

• CSI's Paul Guilfoyle (Jim Brass) comments on the poem "Casualty" by Seamus Heaney in Jason Schindler's book The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry that Inspires Them:

  This poem reminds me of when I was a little boy in the 1950s. It was different. Starting as a child I remember there was WORK [sic] and Mass and work and Camel untipped cigarettes and work and parades and soda bread and work and scully caps and beer and whisky and work and callused hands and music and boxing and a coughing kind of laughter and yelling and blood and work and no loose change, all money either saved or spent.

  You can read a review of the book at Blogcritics Magazine.

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