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For ten consecutive seasons, Angus T. Jones portrayed Jake in Two and a Half Men. After 10 seasons, he quit the show because of religious reasons. The American actor had grown to be a favorite to many. He left the show after he was baptized and claimed that the show clashed with his religious beliefs. Where is Angus T. Jones now?

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Why did Angus T. Jones retire? During the ninth season of the show, the actor was given adult scenes. He revealed that the new character he portrayed was awkward and unrealistic, and eventually he decided to leave the show. He also explained that the storyline did not sit well with his newly found faith. He went on to major in Jewish studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The actor was born on October 8, 1993, in Austin, Texas. He is currently 26 years old

How tall is Angus? The American actor stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 m). He weighs about 67 kg (148 pounds).

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He was born to Carey Lynn Claypool and Kelly Charles Jones. Both of his parents had a criminal past. His mom found herself on the wrong side of the law for punching a police officer and trespassing. His dad was taken into custody when he was found in possession of Marijuana and an unlicensed gun.

He has a brother called Otto Jones.

August T Jones had his acting debut in the 1999 film Simpatico. At the time, he was just five years old. In 2001, he was featured in See Spot Run. Even though the film was not well received, viewers appreciated his humorous role.

For his role in the film, Angus received a Young Artist Award nomination. He landed the role of Sammy in Dinner with Friends. The actor also appeared in an episode of ER with the role of Sean Gattney. The episode was titled Quo Vadis?

In 2002, he played Hunter Morris in The Rookie, a John Lee Hancock-directed film. He starred alongside Rachel Griffiths, Dennis Quad, and other big names in the industry.

In 2003, the actor had the role of Tye Powell in Audreys Rain. He went on to appear in Bringing Down the House as Georgie Sanderson. He portrayed the character of George Jr. in George of the Jungle 2.

Angus T Jones had roles in The Christmas Blessing (2005), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2008), Hannah Montana (2010) and Horace and Pete (2016).

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In 2003, the actor landed a major role as Jake Harper in Two and a Half Men. He starred alongside Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer. Jake Two and a Half Men character became a favorite to many for ten seasons of the TV show.

As he grew older, he started receiving adult storylines. He portrayed a sexually active teenager who abused drugs. When he turned eighteen, Angus T Jones revealed that he was uncomfortable with the new storylines. He did not appreciate the adult roles.

He later left the series citing religious reasons. He believed that the storyline of the show conflicted with his faith. He was replaced by Amber Tamblyn but appeared as a guest in season 12.

By the time he left the show, he was one of the highest-paid child actors. He also received several awards and nominations for the role. Here is a list of Angus T. Jones movies and TV shows:

The actor has appeared in the following movies:

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The actor had roles in these TV shows:

During his time as an actor, Angus T. Jones received a number of awards and nominations. They are:

On June 7, 2008, Angus alongside other actors like Dakota Fanning and Val Kilmer supported the Fist Star Organization in assisting abused and neglected kids.

In August 2008, Angus and other stars participated in the annual Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp. On October 4, 2008, he was part of the group that attended the Varietys Power of Youth benefit for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.

He is a supporter of Be A Star, an anti-bullying foundation started by The Creative Coalition and WWE.

Is Angus T. Jones dead? The answer is no. Some people might have assumed that the actor died because of his silence after he left Two and a Half Men. He did not appear in any film or TV show until 2013. He appeared in Tuna and later in Horace and Pete (2016).

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What happened to Jake from Two and a Half Men? After leaving the show, he enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder to take Jewish studies. He is currently part of the management team of Tonite, a media and event production company.

How much is Angus T. Jones net worth? The actor began making money at a very young age. When he was four, he was featured in several commercials including Volkswagen, Macaroni, Home Depot, Kraft Cheese, and City Cosmetics.

For his role in Two and a Half Men, Angus Jones made $350,000 per episode. While at the show, he was listed among the richest teen celebrities.

Combined with the salary from his other movies and TV shows, Angus Jones net worth is estimated at $ 15 million.

The actor's Jake Harper role was highly appreciated by many of the show's viewers. Out of all the other films and TV shows he has had roles in, Angus T. Jones gained fame because of Two and a Half Men.

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Peter Valentin 08 M.S. has been named to an American Academy of Forensic Sciences board that puts him at the forefront of overseeing the organizations that accredit forensic scientists from across the country.

March 20, 2020

By Jackie Hennessey, contributing writer

When Peter Valentin 08 M.S., a forensic science lecturer, talks with students in his Crime Scene Investigation class, he tells them they should always be working on two parallel tracks.

You document everything, take notes and photographs, record a video, and make a map, he says. The other part is that youre continually thinking about what could have happened here. What scenarios are possible, what stories exist in this scene? If this a home invasion, what would that look like and where would the evidence be? I tell them youre the one who decides what the context is. No one has set up markers to show you where the evidence is.

It takes thinking like a detective and a scientist, he says, investigatively and analytically.

Valentin knows this firsthand, from his career as a forensic scientist and a Connecticut State Police detective with the Major Crime Squad, investigating homicides, suspicious deaths, and major crime scenes across the state until his retirement from the state police in 2011.

I became a trooper so I could work on crime scenes, and I saw how valuable it was to have a scientist there, he says.

Today, he says, Im blessed to be teaching the next generation of forensic investigators.

He is keenly interested in the strength of the field of forensic science, making certain that those who are investigating crime scenes and sharing findings with juries are highly educated and expertly trained.

He will be at the very forefront of that work as one of the newest directors of the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board (FSAB) for the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. The FSAB is charged with assessing, recognizing, and monitoring organizations or professional boards that certify individual forensic scientists or other forensic specialists. It was established in 2000 with the support of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the National Forensic Science Technology Center, and the National Institute of Justice .

Having this opportunity shows the continued status and reputation of the forensic science faculty at University of New Haven within the greater forensic science community, says Tim Palmbach 82, 86 M.S., chair of the forensic science department.

Professor Valentin says hes proud to be taking on the role, and he says he will work to continually refine and improve the standards of the field and conduct site visits of the organizations that do the accreditations.

Heres what we have to be careful of in forensic science, he explains. I could create a certification program, and someone could tell a jury theyre certified in something, but what does that actually mean? To someone on a jury, they have no way of understanding whats a really coveted title and what is a meaningless title that all you need to do is send in a check to get. The FSAB accredits the agencies that provide accreditation, weeding out those that claim to be something they are not.

Accreditation, he says, becomes shorthand for you looking at someone and understanding that they know what they are doing in this field. Are we rewarding the right kind of knowledge and experiences? Thats one of the things that intrigues me the most about this.

In the coming years, Prof. Valentin says the forensic science field will be moving to a place where certification is mandated for some specialties particularly anyone handling or analyzing evidence.

While he wants to be sure accreditation remains extremely rigorous, he also wants the process to be easier for qualified people to stay certified and, at the same time, ensuring marginally qualified people arent able to come in and get something they arent entitled to.

My real hope is that we foster a path for scientists to be at crime scenes all the time, he continues. Right now, we dont do that. We should, but we dont. You cant just grab someone from forensic lab to come to a crime scene the one time you think you need them. You need that person to be with you all the time, every time you go to a crime scene as part of your team.

Valentin brings with him to the FSAB position extensive experience in the field and comprehensive training on a variety of forensic investigative techniques, including bloodstain pattern analysis, bombing and explosives investigations, alternate light sources for evidence collection, crime scene photography, and disaster crime scene management.

He takes on his new FSAB role while teaching five courses, pursuing his Ph.D. in nanosciences and advanced technologies through the University of Verona in Italy, and doing private crime scene construction for his own firm. Thats important because it keeps me current, he says.

As a former member of Connecticut's elite Urban Search and Rescue team, he looked for evidence of criminal activity at major disasters while working as a rescue specialist focused on saving injured and trapped victims. Hes also part of the Federal Government's disaster forensic team responsible for human remains identification during a terrorist event or disaster.

It is an exceptionally busy life full of work that he says he loves.

Were doing some of the most important work, providing information so that justice can be done, offering information to give you confidence that the justice you sought was correct, and ensuring that youve arrested the right person and that you understand what crime was actually committed or if a crime has been committed, Professor Valentin says.

A lot of responsibility hinges on these details.

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Here's a guide to the career of Lucifer actor D.B. Woodside, who's amassed an impressive body of work. D.B. Woodside started his career with a role inlegal dramaMurder Onefrom NYPD Blue creator Steven Bochco. Woodside joined during the show's second season and following its cancellation, he made guest appearances on shows like The Practice and The Division. He also made his movie debut with 1998 thriller Scar City and later co-starred with Jet Li and Aaliyah in 2001 action filmRomeo Must Die.

Inbetween guest stints on both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, D.B. Woodside landed one of his first big roles on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Woodside played Robin Wood on the series, the principal of Sunnydale High who turns out to be a vampire hunter with a very personal grudge against Spike. Woodside joined the show in its final season and managed the impressive feat of surviving to the very end.

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D.B. Woodside's next big role was on 24 as Wayne Palmer, brother of President David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert). Wayne served as David's Chief of Staff in season 3 and was the more morally flexible of the two, leading to some ethical clashes. Wayne returned in a key supporting role in season 5 helping Jack uncover a major conspiracy involving new President Charles Logan. By season 6 he became President himself, but despite Woodside putting in a good performance, the sixth season is considered one of the show's weakest due to illogical plotting and recycled storylines. Wayne ended his time on 24 in a coma, though his true fate following this was never resolved, and Woodside has expressed disappointment with how his final season played out.

Following his 24 exit, D.B. Woodside appeared on a selection of hit shows, including Grey's Anatomy, Monk and Castle; he also starred in notorious TV flop Viva Laughlin. He then had recurring roles in shows like Single Ladies and Parenthood in the years that followed. He also had occasional film parts during this period, including Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2. His next major TV role came when he appeared on Suits as Jeff Malone, the boyfriend of Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres). Woodside would later join Gina Torres on Pearson, a spinoff of Suits that lasted for one season.

His most recent role is as Amendadiel on Lucifer. Amenadiel is an angel sent to persuade Lucifer, his brother, to return to Hell. After he resorts to dubious tactics to achieve his goal he's stripped of his divine powers and becomes human. Outside of the show, D.B. Woodside also made an appearance on the rebooted S.W.A.T. series in 2018.

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Its pronounced Paw-rick, not Pad-raig. Now thats out of the way, a brief introduction. Padraig has been writing about film online since 2012, when a friend asked if hed like to contribute the occasional review or feature to their site.A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games he even (arguably) had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU - where Hawkeye is clearly the best character - to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.He's super modern too, so his favorite movies include Jaws, Die Hard, The Thing, Ghostbusters and Batman. He can be found as i_Padds on Twitter making bad puns.

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On Monday, January 13, Chief Kenneth Brown of the Milford Police Department presented Larry Simpkiss with the Milford Police Department Civilian of the Year Award. Simpkiss is the Crime Scene Investigator with MPD.

Since he has been here, Larry has helped us solve many crimes that may not have been without his expertise, Chief Brown said. His knowledge is outstanding and we are very lucky to have him with us.

Simpkiss, who is originally from New Castle County, served in the United States Army for four years before accepting a position as a police officer in South Florida. He worked in that capacity for seven years before moving his family back to Delaware.

When I came back to Delaware, I was hired by Dover Police Department and I stayed there for 21 years, Simpkiss said. While working for Dover, they sent me to the National Forensic Academy where I attended classes for ten weeks. At the time, we did not have a crime scene department at Dover. Those classes opened my eyes to what we had been missing in crime scenes.

Simpkiss began his training in crime scene investigation at the Law Enforcement Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee. It is one of the best law enforcement training programs in the country and includes what is known as the Body Farm.

When someone donates their body to science, they could be sent to the Body Farm, Simpkiss said. On the farm, they bury them, place them in sheds, in woods, various locations. The process allows them to notate how a body decomposes in various settings. What they learn through their research there, they pass on to us in crime scene investigation so that when we find a body somewhere, we are able to determine how long it has been there.

Simpkiss explained that in all his years in law enforcement, from a road officer, accident investigator and even a detective, being a crime scene investigator has been the most fascinating.

It is like putting together a puzzle, Simpkiss said. Piecing together evidence and trying to determine what exactly happened. What we find through our investigation may not be what the detective is leaning toward and it may actually reveal something that does not fit with what witnesses are saying. The evidence does not lie. It can be interpreted in different ways but it does not lie.

One of the most challenging parts of his job as a crime scene investigator is testifying in court as a crime scene may have a considerable amount of evidence.

You have to have a really good memory and take excellent notes, Simpkiss said. When you are testifying, you must rely on your notes and memory to answer questions and you cannot stray from them. You may also have a defense attorney who is trying to trip you up or confuse you, but since I am the only crime scene investigator in Delaware, my credentials go a long way when I am in a court room. It isnt often the defense attorneys try to confuse me.

According to Simpkiss, anyone who is thinking of going into a career as a crime scene analyst should get a college degree in biology or law enforcement, something he did not do but wishes that he had. All of Simpkiss education he learned on the job and through specialized classes his departments sent him to over the years.

Anyone who wants to do this work would definitely benefit from a degree in forensic biology, Simpkiss said. A lot of what we do is related to biology. You also need to have a very strong stomach because there are smells you will never forget. Looking at the photo of a decaying body is one thing but the smell can be extremely unpleasant. An attention to detail is also very important as any missed detail could make a difference in solving the case. For example, you may ignore a cigarette butt on the ground because there are several of them. DNA in that cigarette butt may provide you with evidence that could solve the case, so you dont want to miss anything.

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Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop stars in the world. From her self-titled 2006 debut album to 2019s Lover, Swifts fans have seen her popularity explode and her style evolve. Plus, of course, her love life has fueled constant rumors and speculation over the years.

But in addition to her personal life and day job as a global music superstar Swift has also quietly eased into acting. Although she has just a few credits to her name, the singer, as we recently learned, almost had a role in one of the biggest movie franchises in recent memory: the Twilight saga.

Of course, music and movies have gone hand in hand since the early days of Hollywood. But Swift has mostly kept her acting efforts separate from her music. Sure, her elaborate music videos have an undeniable cinematic element to them. But Swift the actress didnt really debut until a 2009 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

Just a year later, the singer released her first movie, with a role in the ensemble romantic comedy Valentines Day. In that film, she notably shared the screen with Twilights Taylor Lautner, whom she dated briefly during production. Until recently, Swifts only other credits are a voice role in The Lorax, a 2013 episode of New Girl, and the 2014 film adaptation of The Giver.

In 2019, she made a brief but splashy appearance in director Tom Hoopers Cats. For that film, Swift even co-wrote a Golden Globe-nominated song, Beautiful Ghosts, with composer Andrew Lloyd Webber. Though Cats was a notorious bomb, Swift is poised to recover with her 2020 documentary Miss Americana, which received a warm reception during its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Early in her acting career, Swift apparently made an effort to get cast in one of the Twilight movies. Chris Weitz, director of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, shared the story on a recent episode of Blank Check: Special Features, the Patreon-exclusive spinoff of the popular Blank Check podcast. While Weitz guested on the show to discuss Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which he co-wrote he brought up how Swift nearly ended up in his movie.

My agent said, Listen, Taylor Swift is a huge Twilight fan. She would love to be in this movie. She would be, like, an extra. Heres the a**hole that I am: I was like, I dont know. I think that would throw from the movie too much seeing Taylor Swift. So I said no. Now I look back on it like I could have been friends with Taylor Swift. But I was like, Its going to throw from the movie about sparkly vampires and werewolves. What an idiot.

At the time, seeing Swift pop up in Twilight could have distracted some moviegoers. After all, she was crossing into the mainstream pop charts around then with Love Story and You Belong with Me. Then again, Swifts and Twilights core audiences probably do overlap. So perhaps this was a missed opportunity to squeeze in a fun Easter egg for fans, a la Ed Sheerans Star Wars cameo.

Swift never did get the chance to appear on-screen in a Twilight movie. But Saturday Night Live did give her the next best thing. During a 2009 SNL Digital Short, Swift starred in a parody of Twilight called Firelight.

Doing her best Kristen Stewart impression, Swift plays Stella, a high-schooler who falls for new student (and teenage Frankenstein), Phillip (Bill Hader). The three-minute sketch pokes fun at Twilight, while also giving Swift the chance to tap into her own fandom of the series.

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