This is a 1963 video about Midtown Plaza in Rochester.

SOURCE:

http://www.snopes.com/crime/cops/judd.asp

I think it’s a shame that we live in a society that makes fun of adults who believe in Faeries or who tell of an encounter they have had with them. I am a Wizard, A Hellenist and a practitioner of Witchcraft, and most who know me know that I believe in Faeries and other magickal creatures very strongly.

Now I won’t try to force my beliefs on others, but I do wish people would stop trying to label believers like me as “delusional.” If I don’t try to force my beliefs on you, don’t try to force yours on me, or anyone else for that matter. To assume that someone is “stupid, ” “crazy, ” or “delusional, ” because they don’t believe the same as you, is arrogant. It’s all right to have debates, but don’t be disrespectful.

I think that people who do not believe in Faeries have this fallacy that because they have not experienced proof, that no one else could possibly have, and therefore Faeries cannot exist. They compare their experiences to that of all people. But the fact of the matter is that there are countless sightings by adults from all over the world who have had encounters with Faeries and little folk.

The people I have talked to who have encountered Faeries are, like myself, perfectly sane. One such website where you will find many Faerie sightings is: http://www.fairygardens.com/sightings/adult4.html.

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Today at Gov. Paterson’s campaign kickoff the (perhaps overly) confident-seeming official announced that he’s in it for another four years. "There is one rumor that I will confirm: I am running for governor this year—and I will win this year," Paterson said to about 400 people gathered at Hofstra University. "They haven't knocked us down yet and they never will,'' he added, addressing rumor-mongers who’ve spread talk of sex and drug scandals in the build-up to the announcement.

He continued: "Innuendo and ridicule and false rumors, they leave a long and lasting effect. And it's no surprise that it comes in the middle of a budget process where special interests have a lot to lose, and at the beginning of a campaign...This is not about me. This is about the people of New York,'' he said. Though Paterson taled big, few supported him, reports the Times. The only fellow Dem on stage with him was the mayor of the village of Hempstead, Wayne Hall. A few others were in the audience, but most didn’t attend. Many are thought to be siding with his probable opponent for the Democratic seat, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has the edge on Paterson in terms of campaign money and voter support.

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[U]nless you tinker with Buzz's settings, a partial list of your most-emailed Gmail contacts might be automatically made public (see this post over at Silicon Alley Insider; it appears that contacts  those who already had a Google Profile account before Buzz are at risk; also see this excellent and very angry post at CNet for additional background. UPDATE: Google has promised to fix some of these problems).

Yes, that's right: without you ever touching Google Buzz's privacy settings, the entire world may know who you correspond with (yes, including that secret lover of yours and that secret leaker at the White House).

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Countries without statutory damages would need to add those to their laws.  Countries without DMCA-style anti-circumvention rules or a notice-and-takedown system would require those changes.  Countries without anti-camcording rules or new border enforcement measures or a host of other ACTA-related provisions would need to address those concerns.

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Universal Music, EMI Music, Sony BMG and Warner Music are demanding one million Swedish kronor from two Pirate Bay founders. A Swedish court banned them from operating the site last year, and the labels argue that they have failed to comply.

Both Pirate Bay founders currently live outside Sweden, and aside from their whereabouts, it will be hard to prove that either of them is still actively involved in the site’s operation without monitoring their every move.

Commenting on the announcement, Fredrik Neij said: “I am no longer involved in the operation of The Pirate Bay, so there is no opportunity for the penalty to be issued. I think the law is quite clear on this.”

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Both Pirate Bay founders currently live outside Sweden, and aside from their whereabouts, it will be hard to prove that either of them is still actively involved in the site’s operation without monitoring their every move.

Commenting on the announcement, Fredrik Neij said: “I am no longer involved in the operation of The Pirate Bay, so there is no opportunity for the penalty to be issued. I think the law is quite clear on this.”

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f you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential files onto the internet. (Hat tip: Watts Up With That)

When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest:

Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more.

One of the alleged emails has a gentle gloat over the death in 2004 of John L Daly (one of the first climate change sceptics, founder of the Still Waiting For Greenhouse site), commenting:

“In an odd way this is cheering news.”

But perhaps the most damaging revelations  – the scientific equivalent of the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal – are those concerning the way Warmist scientists may variously have manipulated or suppressed evidence in order to support their cause.

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