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Thursday, October 22, 2009

A body found in a Georgia landfill is that of missing 7-year-old Somer Thompson. Sheriff Rick Beseler said that the identification was based on clothing on the body and a birthmark that matched an "odd-shaped" mark on Somer Thompson's left shin. Investigators followed garbage trucks from the neighborhood where Somer disappeared on Monday to a landfill in Georgia where they discovered the body after searching through 100 tons of garbage.

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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

NASA's "comeback kid" has done it again.

After astronauts of the space shuttle Atlantis made a risky servicing mission in May, the Hubble Space Telescope is back and better than ever, once again capturing astonishing images of the cosmos and sending them back to Earth

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Dominick Dunne, a best-selling author and special correspondent for Vanity Fair, died today at his home in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause of death was bladder cancer, said his son Griffin Dunne.

Dunnewho joined Vanity Fair in 1984 as a contributing editor and was named special correspondent in 1993famously covered the trials of O. J. Simpson, the Menendez brothers, Michael Skakel, William Kennedy Smith, and Phil Spector, as well as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton. He wrote memorable profiles on numerous personalities, among them Imelda Marcos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elizabeth Taylor, Claus von Blow, Adnan Khashoggi, and Warren Beatty and Annette Bening. His monthly column provided a glimpse inside high society, and captivated readers.

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

"Make sure you get plenty of sleep before going to court. Clifton Williams didn't and he's been sentenced to six months in jail for yawning. "I was flabbergasted because I didn't realize a judge could do that," [said] Williams' father, Clifton Williams Sr.,"... "It seems to me like a yawn is an involuntary action." Williams, 33, attended his cousin's July hearing at Will County Courthouse in Joliet. His cousin, Jason Mayfield, pled guilty to a felony drug charge. As the judge sentenced Mayfield to two years probation, Williams let out a yawn, an involuntary faux pas in such a formal setting. Circuit Judge Daniel Rozak thought the yawn was criminal and sentenced Williams to six months in jail, the maximum penalty for contempt of court without a jury trial."

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Comments

DIABLO

The amazing stimulus package has driven my corp out of business, so I will be here rarely if ever for a while. Thanks for the forum, Rcade. It is a well thought out and fun website.

Sorry to hear of your employment problems. Seriously, why even with serious business troubles can't you blog on DR? Or, with this new change, do you just plan on being much busier now looking for work elsewhere?

No need to answer if you don't wish, but do you plan on relocating and/or looking for a different type of job? I ask because you shouldn't feel hestitant (or too proud) about putting out here on DR what type of work you're looking for or your basic resume.

Others on here know a lot of different people and maybe someone can hook you up with another person they know in the same field. And you could always exchange emails (for privacy) once you made an initial contact if you wanted to go into more detail.

Best of luck to you and your family, Diablo.

I'm very soon now going to go through some (to me) scary changes and unknown future plans within the very next month or two (moving to new state and having to try to find an apt. to live, then look for work, etc.) and the uncertainty of it all is the worst of the entire deal as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure "uncertainty" is not a word you're having much fun dealing with right now either. But life has a habit of tossing things our way that can smack you upside the head when you least expect it.

You'll do okay, Diablo. There's another job out there no matter how dismal it may seem to you now. Like I said, the uncertainty and not knowing part is the worst but things will change for the better for you. It probably just doesn't seem like that now but you'll pull through and probably be all the better man for it. Let us know how you're doing.

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