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I don't know if it was a compliment or an insult. Not that I or anyone else with basic video editing skills couldn't insert the audio of someone yelling "Kill Him!" after the fact.

I prefer to look at facts like what the Secret Service investigation found, rather than a questionably sourced video. I guess that makes me a troll to those that find the truth inconvenient.

-- Len

Other newspaper articles - many related to this matter - have links at this page:

    http://www.timesleader.com/news/hottopics/judges

While the current story is interesting, it's even more interesting to read the history leading up to it, including this story detailing his earlier resignation and the responses of locals.

It's funny because I tried submitting it at 3:45pm using this article http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/living/ health/13520225.htm which contains a hell of alot more detail about the year's weather including wild fires in Alaska. And like any story I submit, it got rejected but yet this watered down, wikipedia-centric story gets the prize. Do you see a pattern emerging here Scully?

Mr. Thomas Hesse
President, Global Digital Business
Sony BMG Music Entertainment Company
550 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022-3211

I wrote this guy last summer after reading a piece in the New York Times featuring him discussing Sony's oh-so-wunnerful SunnComm copy protection. I can't locate the original NYT article, but this one says almost exactly the same thing.

I didn't receive a reply. I thought I stood a good chance of receiving one since I couched my language in civil terms and didn't call him a pig fucker. So, see what works for you.

You're an idiot and here's proof: http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/9553250 .htm

Counterfeiters don't waste their time with small bills. They make hundreds, fifties and twenties. Maybe some make tens, but it would cost too much to make convincing small bills. That is why ones and fives haven't been redesigned with anti-counterfeiting measures.

Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)

Police are investigating and are not saying if the mother will face criminal charges. Story By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER

HAZLE TWP. - Prosecutors have not yet decided if charges will be filed against a 20-year-old woman who gave birth to an infant found dead in a toilet in the Wal-Mart Super Center restroom Thursday night.

The woman, a Wal-Mart employee, was discovered inside the restroom in active labor. She was transported to Hazleton General Hospital, where she gave birth to a second infant who survived, said state police in Hazleton.

The first infant, a female at 32 to 34 weeks gestation, was pronounced dead at 11:30 p.m. at the hospital. The second infant, also a female, was born at the hospital, then transferred to Lehigh Valley Medical Center.

Luzerne County District Attorney David Lupas said Coroner George Hudock performed an autopsy Friday afternoon and determined the dead infant was born alive. But Lupas said Hudock needs to perform further analysis of the infant's organs and tissue to determine the cause and manner of death, which will determine if charges should be filed.

The identity of the woman is being withheld pending the determination on charges, Lupas said. He said she remained hospitalized Friday. He said Luzerne County Children and Youth Services had been called into the case, but he did not know if they had taken charge of the surviving infant.

Lupas said co-workers and customers discovered the woman. Police believe she gave birth to the first infant between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. He said investigators are still trying to pinpoint the time more precisely and determine whether the woman told anyone she was in labor.

"It's obviously a strange and unusual occurrence. We're trying to get to the bottom of it," he said.

Twins, whether fraternal or paternal, are in separate amniotic sacs within the mother. In normal vaginal births twins are usually born within five to 20 minutes of each other, but the time frame can stretch to several hours, said a obstetrics nurse with Wyoming Valley Health Care System.

Lupas said state police and county detectives are continuing to interview employees and customers. Anyone who was in the store, located off the Airport Beltway, or the restroom between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. is asked to call state police at 459-3890.

Wal-Mart corporate spokeswoman Sharon Weber said the company would not release any information about the incident or the employee involved. "We really don't know what happened, and we're just cooperating anyway we can. It's really just a sad situation."

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I agree that by and large Wilkes-Barre is a dying town inhabited for the most part by people who can't (or won't) read a stop sign.

But it does have some redeeming qualities, Wilkes University being the foremost among them. Wilkes has one of the top rated schools of pharmacy in the country. The school of pharmacy is so good that it was the primary reason that a huge employer recently opened up shop in the area.

Not to mention that Wilkes has one of the best computer science programs in Pennsylvania. They are so forward thinking it's scary. Every computer that a CS student must use has Linux installed. And in the more general computer labs they have the computers configured to duel-boot so they can have the best of both worlds. If you ever want a poster boy for schools leveraging the power of open-source, Wilkes is it. Heck, even one the assignments for the networking class involves installing Linux. The CS department is staffed with some of the most amazing faculty around. Including John Koch whom solved the century-old Four Color Problem.

It's not just the computer science department either, technology permeates through every aspect of the Wilkes campus. Just take a look at the web page for the radio station and there automation system and tell me it's not cool. Anything that tells you what the name of the song is ,while it's still playing, is a good thing in my book.

It's just too bad that Wilkes-Barre is run by an incompetent mayor that uses the local collage students as a scape-goat for everything and is inhabited by an elderly populace that is too busy trying to kill the collages to realize that they are the only thing keeping Wilkes-Barre alive.

All in all, Wilkes-Barre is a great place to go to school, but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live here forever.