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A Haunting In Horicon *long*
#21 Guest_HelenaHandBaskettGStudy_*
Posted 18 June 2005 - 09:56 PM
Me:"So, how's the plumbing?"
Realtor:"Like new, as well as the carpets."
Me:"That's good to hear, is the house haunted?"
Posted 18 June 2005 - 09:59 PM
And btw.. Thanks Guardian!!! That was awesome info to add to the story.
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Posted 18 June 2005 - 11:07 PM
Thanks for sharing the article. It is cool reading all of that having just watched the episode so recently.
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 04:38 PM
Posted 01 July 2005 - 09:49 AM
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Posted 02 July 2005 - 10:43 PM
That's probably not something that you needed to hear right at that moment, but I sure the priest had good intentions!! This has become one of my new favorite stories. Funny thing was, I was having a really hard time trying to get into the book it was in, but I kept at it, and boy! was I glad I did!!!
#27 Guest_HelenaHandBaskettGStudy_*
Posted 09 January 2006 - 12:01 AM
Thanks for sharing the article. It is cool reading all of that having just watched the episode so recently.
I went out and bought the box set of "Unsolved Mysteries" Scariest Ghost Stories, and this one was on it like you mentioned DaleJr. What the story that I posted left out, was that the haunting began shortly after the use bunk bed they brought was brought upstairs. I thought this was a pretty freaky one!
Posted 22 January 2006 - 01:25 PM
I have been shopping for houses this past summer and one thing I did mention in what to look for and not to look for was that the house could not be haunted, nor could anyone have died in it....
I told this to a local realator.
I never heard back from him...
I do not know if Illinois has that type of law, but the way the guy talked after I told him that was nervous and dissapointing.
Guessing I freaked him out...
Like most cases like this, I wonder if the family still is haunted....?
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 09:37 AM
I miss Robert Stack...
On another note, it has been said that the family created the story because they were having financial difficulties. Any thoughts on that?
Posted 21 May 2010 - 11:33 AM
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 01:40 PM
Posted 21 May 2010 - 02:52 PM
Posted 21 May 2010 - 03:56 PM
I suppose it's always possible. I have noticed, however, that this seems to be the "go to" claim whenever an alleged haunting becomes somewhat famous.
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Posted 04 June 2010 - 06:15 PM
Posted 06 July 2010 - 06:54 AM
And it's also a trend to accuse anyone who questions these kinds of stories of being a non-believer. And I also question why some of these stories become so famous to start with, when there is absolutely NO evidence at all. No one at all except the family seems to have seen, heard, smelled, or otherwise sensed anything at all. We never even hear from the kids, just momma "quoting" the child. All anyone ever presents as "proof" is that the people are so "sincere".
I also question what "deal" the family made with the reporter, because all his "legwork" sounds a lot like illegal invasion of privacy to me. What business did he have calling all the relatives just to get his news story? What deal did he cut with the police chief to cause him to betray the families trust? Or maybe the whole back story of them hiding out is just a front. If no one outside the family saw anything, then how did the news get all over town about the haunted house unless the family told them.
And also I don't feel the pastors reaction was unusual, since that belief seems to be totally in line with his denominations beliefs.
Edited by Judecat, 06 July 2010 - 07:07 AM.
Posted 26 January 2018 - 06:57 AM
Bumping this Ghost Story
Reporting on the haunted house of Horicon
By Barrett J. Brunsman
'Devil be gone'
Douglas D. Glamann, the chief of police of Horicon, Wisconsin, first heard rumours of a ghost in his town on January.
"My nightshift officer came in to see me mid-morning that Thursday and said, 'Did you know that we have a haunted house,' " the chief recalls.
"I said, 'Right. Get outta here.' And I just dismissed it as, you know, someone was just screwing around. I never even bothered to pursue the matter."
By lunch time, five people had asked the chief about the haunted house.
"I was hearing it wherever I went," Glamann says. "I was catching this 'blood is oozing from the wall' and I was very skeptical because I thought, 'If it was your house and you had blood coming out of the walls, wouldn't you call me?' "
The Tallmann family -- husband, wife, two toddlers, and an infant who lived on Larrabee Street -- were the presumptive hauntees. Neither Allen nor Debbie Tallmann had called the chief.
Glamann, who didn't know Allen Tallmann, got on the phone and tracked the man down at work. Tallmann was edgy; he hadn't had much sleep because he had been staying up at night with his kids, who were frightened.
They had reason to be. Tallmann described the unnerving things the family had seen and heard in the four-year-old house since June 1987. On January 11 of this year, the family left home for good and moved in with relatives.
At the chief's urging, Tallmann and his wife came to the police station the next morning, a Friday.
Allen Tallmann sat in a chair, his head down, refusing to make eye contact, Glamann says. The man appeared deeply troubled; Debbie Tallmann's words were punctuated by nervous laughter.
Glamann became convinced that the Tallmanns were serious about what they claimed to have seen. The chief promised to search the house and to shield the family from the press and the public as best he could.
Late that night, however, Glamann and his men were nearly overwhelmed by the onslaught of people who came to gawk at the Tallmann home, a small, three-bedroom ranch house.
Ghost rumors had swept through the crowd at the Friday night basketball game at the local high school. Hundreds of cars swept down Larrabee Street past the Tallmann home. People walked through the yards of the other nine houses on the block, climbing over fences, peering into windows.
Drunks showed up -- they weren't afraid of no ghosts. They tried the doors and windows of the Tallmann home, intent on getting inside to prove their bravery.
When the police ordered the drunks and gawkers to stay away from the house, a few would-be ghostbusters told the cops to "go to hell."
Arrests for disorderly conduct were made; the street was barricaded.
But people began driving around the roadblocks. Others viewed the rear of the house from a parallel street. More arrests were made.
About 2:30 Saturday morning, a man from Waupun, Wisconsin, a small town about 15 miles from Horicon, showed up. After the police stopped him for driving erratically, they noticed he had open beer in the car -- and a Bible.
"I come to help you guys, you're my buddies," the man told police. "I'm going to perform an exorcism on the house and say, 'Devil be gone,' and it's going to be all over, and you guys can go home and go to bed."
"Super," Police Chief Glamann responded. "Thanks." The man was arrested.
Glamann worked more than 21 straight hours, from 8:00 a.m. Friday to 5:30 Saturday morning, as he attempted to keep the lid on and the drunks at bay.
The runaway snowblower
Midnight, Monday, January 25: Milwaukee Sentinel reporter James B. Nelson was alone in his apartment, catching up on some reading, when the telephone rang.
He picked up the phone to find the Sentinel's state editor, Richard Feyrer, on the other end of the line. Feyrer had a peculiar assignment for the reporter: a ghost chase in Horicon, 60 miles northwest of Milwaukee.
Nelson did not second-guess his editor, though the assignment was a far stretch from Nelson's last story: How low-calorie artificial fat developed by the NutraSweet Co. might affect the dairy industry in Wisconsin.
Nelson made the one-hour drive to Horicon early Tuesday morning.
Though it has a population of just 3,800, Horicon is one of Wisconsin's best-known towns, because it lies at the southern end of the Horicon Marsh, a major stopover on the Mississippi Flyway, a migratory route for fowl.
Each fall, Canada geese stop at the marsh for a few days, and sometimes weeks, on their journey to warmer climes. Last fall, more than 400,000 geese were at the marsh during the peak of the migration.
But on that day in late January, most of the giant birds had long ago departed. Instead of geese, the talk was of ghosts and of blood dripping from the ceiling of a house on Larrabee Street, of a hole to hell in the basement of the house, and of a snowblower that had been seen running up and down the driveway by itself.
Unfortunately, Nelson was unable to locate anyone who had seen any of these things.
Nelson stopped at the office of the chief of police, located in the basement of the Horicon Library, just across the street from Fat's Tavern.
The chief wasn't in, so Nelson sat down to wait.
An amazing story
Shortly thereafter, Connie Polzin Dornfeld, a reporter for The Daily Citizen in nearby Beaver Dam, dropped by the chief's office. What's the word on the haunted house? Nelson asked.
Dornfeld showed Nelson a clip from her page?one story from the previous day's edition of The Daily Citizen. The head read: "Haunted House in Horicon?"
The story said: "Rumors have it that furniture is flying about the house, blinds are going up and down, blood is dripping from the ceiling, lights coming on with the power off, writings on the walls, and green lights flashing...."
Says Nelson: "It was the most amazing newspaper story I had ever read."
The article, written in a light style, poured on the details, including reports that "exorcists" had come to Horicon from as far away as California, and that sight-seeing traffic near the house had gotten so bad that the mayor had declared that the commotion was "scaring the hell out of the children" in the neighborhood.
Dornfeld had not used the name of the family in her piece. Nor had she talked to the Tallmanns. Only the chief of police knew where to find them, and he wasn't telling.
When Nelson had first heard about the Horicon ghosts, he had figured -- as had his editor -- that pranksters might be lurking about, rather than ghosts. Nothing much would come of the trip to Horicon, Nelson had thought, other than a funny feature story.
But as Nelson skimmed the Daily Citizen piece, he sensed that a light approach might not be the right one for the Sentinel. If townspeople and others in the area were really that worked up over reports of a haunted house, maybe the Sentinel ought to report the story straight.
Shut down the bar talk
Chief Glamann finally arrived, and he ushered Nelson into his office. The interview was not enlightening.
Yes, there had been reports of a haunted house. Yes, the chief had been in contact with the family. No, he couldn't confirm any of the rumors. No, he wouldn't tell Nelson how to contact the family. In fact, the chief wouldn't even tell the reporter the name of the family.
Glamann wasn't playing fast and loose with the press. He had promised confidentiality; that promise was the only thing that had persuaded the Tallmanns to talk to him.
But Nelson was undaunted. He walked the five feet from the chief's office to the city clerk's office, where he ran a tax check on the address of the house, which he had obtained from the Daily Citizen reporter. The computer check, which took about 15 seconds, told Nelson the name of the house's owner, Allen Tallmann, the purchase price of the house, how much Tallmann paid annually in taxes, how long the family had lived there, and the name of the previous owner.
Then Nelson pushed on to South Larrabee Street, just a little more than a half mile from the police station. The reporter found the home, but he discovered that the family had moved out.
Neighbors said they didn't know where the Tallmanns had gone. And, no, the neighbors hadn't noticed anything strange about the house. Only one neighbor told the reporter that the family had mentioned weird events. But all the neighbors had heard the rumors.
Nelson then drove to the manufacturing plant where Allen Tallmann worked. Tallmann had taken a few days off, the reporter was told.
Nelson drove to several churches in the community, trying to find out where the family worshipped and whether church officials knew anything about the haunted house. The reporter tracked down the family's church, but the pastor refused to speak about the matter.
Then, it was on to the Dodge County clerk's office in Juneau, some 15 miles from Horicon. Nelson figured the couple's marriage license might provide a lead - the names of relatives with whom the family might be staying.
He hit paydirt. The marriage license included the names of the couple's parents, as well as the names of other relatives. Nelson then had the birth certificates of the Tallmann family members pulled, looking for any other details that might aid him in learning more about the Tallmanns and where they might be staying.
Armed with that background information, Nelson began calling relatives. Some hung up on him after he identified himself and said he was looking into the haunted house story; others seemed interested. In any event, the reporter succeeded in leaving the message that he would like to speak to Allen and Debbie Tallmann.
Nelson returned to the police station about 4:00 in the afternoon. He had amassed a lot of detail and a lot of hearsay, but he still didn't have enough information for the kind of story he wanted to file. So he had decided to take another crack at the chief.
"What in the name of God is going on around here," Nelson asked Glamann. "Rumors, rumors, rumors. I can't believe some of the crap that's flying around this town. Things are way out of hand."
The rumors were so bizarre that it was no wonder people were rushing to Horicon to take a gander at the house, Nelson said to the chief.
If the family would speak to the press, stating for the record what they had actually seen, perhaps the wild rumors could be quelled, Nelson argued. A complete story might "shut the bar talk down."
No 'Joe Idiot'
Nelson wasn't the only person to want the whole story to come out. Chief of Police Glamann wanted it, too. It might satisfy the curiosity of those who had been flocking in from all over the state. The situation had gotten out of hand. Glamann and his seven officers were being pushed to the limit in trying to keep order.
And, so far, news coverage -- which had been extensive -- had been of no help at all. If anything, it had made matters worse.
Though Nelson had shown up while the story was still fresh, other news people had been on the scene for two days.
The story about the haunted house was first reported Sunday, January 24, by WMTV in Madison, one of the most intellectually and culturally sophisticated small cities in the nation.
Horicon is about 40 miles from Madison, and WMTV News Director Brian Brosamle says the station learned of the haunted house after making a routine anything-happening-there phone call to the Horicon Police Department.
The station sent a crew to Horicon, and an item on the Horicon ghost was featured on Sunday's 10 o'clock news.
In Milwaukee, the state's largest city, the morning drive?time comedy team of Bob Reitman and Gene Mueller on WKTI-FM picked up on the story the next day, Monday. They milked it.
The Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, a 10,000-circulation afternoon paper, followed with its Monday page?one feature story.
WBEV-AM in Beaver Dam did a live interview with the police chief, and WISN?TV and other Milwaukee television stations sent feature reporters to Horicon to prepare pieces that would air that night. (It was the Monday night WISN story that tipped off the Sentinel's state editor.)
None of the reporters, however, was able to track down the Tallmanns to get the family's version of what had happened in the house. The reporters were content to report the hell-hole and oozing-blood rumors that were flying around town.
But, Glamann told The QUILL, there was something about the Sentinel's Jim Nelson, who arrived Tuesday, that led the chief to think that Nelson might be different; maybe the family ought to talk with the reporter.
"I didn't realize it till he appeared back at my door with a little smile on his face at four o'clock in the afternoon that he had been out pounding the pavement and doing his homework," Glamann says.
"He had all the answers to all of the questions. He sat down and went through the whole thing ... and he was on the money with everything he was talking about, so I knew I wasn't just dealing with Joe Idiot."
The Tallmanns, Allen and Debbie and the children, came to the station that Tuesday night, entering through a back door. Glamann suggested that they meet with Nelson, whom the chief had told to return to the station around 7:30.
The Tallmanns were wary. But they, too, were fed up with the rumors. They agreed to speak with Nelson.
Playing it straight
That night, Nelson filed his first story. The piece ran at the top of page one of the Sentinel's Wednesday, January 27, editions. It said, in part:
"HORICON -- A local couple Tuesday night told of terrifying experiences they said included months of paranormal events -- including an apparition of an old lady and flames shooting from their garage -- and vowed never again to live in the home they fled two weeks ago.
"Although rumors of mysterious incidents at the house have swept through this small Dodge County community ... Police Chief Douglas Glamann said that, until now, the facts about what happened to the young couple, parents of three children, had not been revealed.
"In an interview, the couple said the experiences began about six months ago when a clock radio in their son's bedroom kept changing stations by itself."
The story also said:
* That the couple had heard inexplicable strange noises; that a suitcase once had slid out from under their son's bed and back again by itself?, and that a baby?sitter had told the parents that a kitchen chair "had started rocking back and forth" on its own.
* That the mother had quoted her two-year-old son as having said, "I saw an old lady standing in the door of my room. A little old lady, really ugly, with long black hair and a glow about her like fire."
* That the father said he had "challenged" whatever mysterious entity had been causing the commotion. Nelson quoted him thusly: "I walked in the house yelling at the top of my lungs, 'Pick on me. Leave my kids alone. If you want to fight, I'll fight.' "
* That a day after making the challenge, the father said the entity had spoken. The father's quote went like this: "It said, 'Come here!' real loud. Then it was glowing inside the garage, an orange red. There were flames coming out of the overhead door. There were two eyes in the windows."
* That, around the beginning of January 1988, the father said the entity made a threat. The quote:
"This thing came right out of the floor. It was gassy and foggy ... it rose up there and that voice came out of there and it said, 'You're dead.'
"These green eyes appeared right out of this thing, and then I saw flames and it was gone."
The deluge
Nelson's story was a straight account of what the family had claimed to have seen. It noted that the police had found no evidence that any of the alleged paranormal events were pranks, that no damage had been done to the house, and that no family member had ever been harmed.
As a condition of the interview, Nelson did not name the family or report the address of the house. The story caused a stir.
The Associated Press rewrote the Sentinel piece for the wires, and it wasn't long before calls from media outlets throughout the country -- and from Canada and from abroad -- began coming in to the Sentinel, the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, and The Horicon Reporter, the town's 2,500-circulation weekly.
The Horicon Police Department was inundated. Chief Glamann did hundreds of interviews over the next three days, many of which were live radio interviews, including one with the BBC. Even The Times of London wanted an interview.
Glamann, his secretary, and the department's second in command "were on the phone all the time," the chief says. "And when you hung up the line, there was another one waiting to be answered.
"I occasionally stopped answering the phone to go on TV. I'd be doing the interview, and a lot of reporters [in the room] didn't have to ask me very much because while they were waiting to talk they got most of the information they needed just by listening to my conversation with the TV guy."
In response to a question, the chief declined to be specific about how the reporters acted.
"There are good reporters and there are bad reporters," he said, "Just like there are good cops and there are bad cops."
But he notes, when prodded, that some reporters, particularly TV reporters, were a little "more pushy" than others. They seemed offended when the chief refused to tell them how to contact the family.
"Do you know who I am?" was a phrase Glamann heard too often from television journalists.
Drive-time radio personalities of the zany persuasion from around the country joined the rush to interview Glamann. A few radio people did live remote broadcasts from Horicon, in which they needled the town and its response to the rumors.
Even "mainstream" radio stations had fun with the story. When Chief Glamann picked up the phone to do a live interview with WGN-AM in Chicago, a national heavyweight, he realized that the station was playing the theme from the movie The Exorcist in the background.
Glamann, who upon becoming chief of police had instituted a departmental policy calling for cooperation with the press, tried to meet every media request for an interview. He mentioned that the family was having a hard time dealing with the strange events and the attempts by the media to interview them. But he refused to expand the story beyond what Nelson had written.
In fact, Glamann would refer to Nelson's story during his interviews. The chief had highlighted quotes from the family, and he simply passed those quotes on to the press.
Some broadcast stations reported the address of the house and noted that it was owned by the Tallmanns. The family and the Tallmanns' neighbors were upset by that, telling Chief Glamann that they feared more gawkers would show up.
Glamann says he figured it might have been a good thing that the address of the haunted house was reported by the press -- since he had heard that someone might try to set fire to the house.
At least if someone did want to torch the vacant Tallmann home, Glamann thought, the arsonist would know the right address -- and not burn down a neighboring house with a family inside. Nothing came of the rumor that the house would be burned down.
In the meantime, the Tallmanns continued to duck reporters, except for Nelson. Only two media outlets, other than the Sentinel, were able to get anything from the couple.
A Current Affair, the quasi-news program produced by the Fox Television network, managed to get a brief voice-on-tape interview with the Tallmanns one night after the couple showed up to meet Chief Glamann at the police station. The arrogant attitude of the crew and the subsequent caustic story annoyed Glamann, who by then had become very protective of the family.
Milwaukee's WISN-TV also managed to get a brief voice-on-tape interview with Debbie Tallmann after bumping into the couple at the police station. Reporter Julie Matsko was polite, and she played the story straight.
But Nelson had the inside track on the story -- and for a week the Sentinel ran page-one scoops about the family, the house, and the parapsychologists called in by police to investigate.
'Herd journalism'
Peculiar by its absence, or rather by the absence of stories on the haunted house of Horicon, was The Horicon Reporter.
The local paper ignored the story until Thursday, February 4, when it ran a page-one column that said the Reporter hadn't run any stories previously because a "haunted house" was not a legitimate news story.
"The basic story did not really involve the people in the house, nor did it really involve the Horicon Police Department -- who were caught in the middle especially the middle of the media attention," wrote columnist Ed Marolla.
"What brought on the big media attention to Horicon around the state and the country was not so much what did happen in Horicon, but rather the reaction of morbid curiosity seekers and people who 'got their kicks' out of what might have happened to somebody else," Marolla said in his column.
And the "mass hysteria" that had gripped the town was the direct result of "cruel witticisms, gleefully recited by people who invented things out of thin air, plus irresponsible daily newspapers, TV stations and radio who kept playing up a story where a story didn't really exist," he wrote.
The columnist noted that the Tallmann family had never been physically harmed by any ghosts, and that the house itself had not been damaged. "The only real damage was done by the curiosity seekers, the rumor mongers, and the media that reported the rumors," he wrote.
Marolla bought The Horicon Reporter 30 years ago but has since retired, except for the column he writes. But his viewpoint was in harmony with that of his two sons, Ed junior and Julius, who put out the Reporter.
"It was a non-story," Ed Marolla Jr. said in a recent interview with The QUILL. "There was no story here; it was a case of herd journalism. Unless something is significant news, we're not going to run a story about it.
"We sympathize with the family," Marolla added. "This man believed he saw something, but that doesn't mean he did. It was just a minor incident that got blown out of proportion."
The Sentinel's stories "stank of sensationalism," Marolla added. "They were trying to sell papers. We don't have to do that; people buy the Reporter anyway."
Why discuss it?
While the Sentinel is Wisconsin's oldest paper, The Milwaukee Journal is the state's largest, richest, and most prestigious paper.
Both papers are owned by the Journal Company, a media conglomerate of modest size that embraces TV, radio, and commercial printing operations.
The Journal and the Sentinel share facilities -- the building (actually, two buildings, joined), presses, advertising staff, business offices, art and photography departments, even a cafeteria.
But the news staffs are separate, and hotly competitive.
Nevertheless, like the Horicon paper, the Journal ignored the story -- until Sunday, February 7, when the Journal ran a story by science reporter Paul G. Hayes.
Hayes quoted from the senior Marolla's column about the matter and then echoed the weekly's assertion that the "haunted house" didn't deserve coverage.
The science reporter took a not-so-subtle jab at the Sentinel, saying the police chief's "strategy" to quell the rumors, by introducing the family to Nelson, had "backfired."
"Instead of squelching the rumors, the publicity fueled them," Hayes wrote of the first Sentinel story, which had recounted what the family had claimed to have seen.
Hayes later amplified his criticism in a conversation with The QUILL.
"Why do we even have to discuss whether there's blood dripping from walls or other supernatural events," Hayes asked.
"We [at the Journal] just began with the presumption that this was just another claim of spiritualism. I don't doubt that belief in spiritualism is rampant, but reporting on it in a way that suggests that a daily newspaper believes in it is the real story here.
"That's not objective at all, to give credence to haunted houses," he adds. "Anybody can claim anything. That's just letting people get away with unsubstantiated claims.
"Ghosts never occur to the skeptical," Hayes notes. "Just because someone claims something and claims it sincerely doesn't mean we're obliged to run it. We're not the supermarket press; we have a certain obligation to our readers to test these claims."
As for the hometown paper ignoring a story that was the talk of the town, Hayes says:
"I'm a science reporter, and I think community newspapers ought to be pretty chary about reporting on supernatural events, even if the individuals claiming to have witnessed these events are sincere."
Adds Hayes: The Horicon Reporter had taken "an incredibly enlightened and responsible stand."
Chief Glamann disagrees with Hayes. He told The QUILL that the citizens of Horicon were well served by the Sentinel stories because they did end the wild rumors that had been circulating.
'Ghosts make news'
Not expectedly, Dick Feyrer, the Sentinel's state editor, takes issue with Hayes and The Horicon Reporter. "I don't buy the argument that because the local paper doesn't pick up on the story it is, by definition, improper for a major daily to do so," Feyrer says. "I think there's a wide interest in phenomenon such as this. At one meeting when the [Sentinel] editors discussed it, a senior editor said, 'Ghosts make news.'
"It never occurred to us that we couldn't cover a ghost story responsibly," Feyrer adds.
"There was no indication that this was in any way a publicity stunt," says the state editor. "I just felt it had to be treated as a legitimate news story."
Tom Luljack, news director of WTMJ?TV in Milwaukee, says he didn't see anything wrong with running the story, either -- as long as a station or newspaper didn't take the alleged paranormal events seriously.
"We took a light-hearted approach to the story, to be honest," Luljack said. "We did not report any of the supernatural occurrences up there as fact, and I think some people in this town -- the Sentinel and WISN -- came very close to taking the family at their word."
WTMJ's feature reporter handled the first story that the station aired, and a subsequent longer piece was promoted with the teaser "Spooky or Kooky?"
"We chose not to approach it in a serious way," Lu1jack notes. "If a ghost appears on camera on our five o'clock newscast, I'll change my mind."
However, said Lu1jack, the story could not have been ignored -- if for no other reason than because of the uproar in the community.
"For us to totally ignore the phenomenon is to ignore the definition of what news is," Luliack said. "It certainly was very important to the people of Horicon; it was interesting to the rest of our viewers.
"My advice is to be skeptical, but not to be blind to the fact that something is going on in the community," he added. "Don't simply spike a story because we say to ourselves that it can't possibly be true. These people were upset and excited. We had a responsibility to cover it."
Steve Olszyk, news director of WISN-TV, one of the media outlets that treated the story straight, echoes Luljack's viewpoint that the story deserved to be covered -- particularly because of the town's reaction to reports of ghosts.
"Everybody in Horicon was talking about it before the first newspaper story or the first television story, and to ignore something that everybody is talking about is ridiculous."
As to his decision that the station should cover the story without making light of it, the WISN-TV news director has no regrets.
"These people were very, very genuine people," Olszyk said of the Tallmanns. "I was able to do some background checking, and they're as solid as the day is long."
The Sentinel's Nelson echoes that point: "The thing that should really be stressed is that all the way down the line, the family wanted to avoid the media they didn't want to be news.
"They were offered $5,000 to be news," Nelson says, alluding to an offer The National Enquirer made in an attempt to get an interview with the family. "And when they became news, they hid because they were afraid of being exploited.
"They were staying with relatives in another town, Nelson adds. "They did not return to their house at all. And eventually, they moved to a motel, and then on to another one because they were afraid the media would be able to track them down....
"I don't care whether they saw a ghost or not," Nelson says. "They've lost their home, they've moved out of their home, they're living in a motel. It's not like they're sitting on a flagpole trying to draw attention to themselves."
With regard to how the family views the press coverage, Nelson says: "My impression is they are just stunned by how the media did this. I felt sort of funny being a part of the pack, though they trusted me. They knew I wasn't going to turn around and make fun of them. I mean, it's not our job to make fun of them."
Jeff Hovind, editor of the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, acknowledges that his paper treated the story as less than serious at first -- but he adds that it wasn't long before the paper changed its approach.
"The question I had at the outset was, 'Is this a joke? How do you cover a ghost story? Is this something that actually happened to the family?' " Hovind says. "It was definitely the brunt of many jokes in the area, and in our newsroom too.
"So, do you cover it as a legitimate ghost story?" the editor says he kept asking himself. "Or do you cover it as a troubled family?
"From our perspective, the focus of the story changed from, 'Is there a ghost or isn't there, did these things happen or didn't they,' to, 'This is happening to this family.'
"And our stories from that point on took a more sympathetic approach," Hovind says. "It was basically based on my perception that we weren't going to answer the question, 'Was there an apparition or not?' "
Hovind dismisses assertions that the haunted house story didn't merit coverage. "How can a guy say it's a non?story? It's what everybody in the whole town was talking about. It's probably the most newsworthy thing to come out of Horicon in as long as I've been here, eight years. For anyone to say it's a non?story, when it's the big event in town -- that's just mind-boggling."
Defining 'news'
Whether the haunted house of Horicon merited the coverage it got depends on how one defines "news" and "newsworthy."
For some -- particularly The Milwaukee Sentinel- - the story was the definitive example of what news is at its most basic: the talk of the town.
For others, such as The Milwaukee Journal, the story was not legitimate, except insofar as they might comment on how bizarre it was for others to treat it as if it were.
For many news operations -- especially out-of-state media -- the story was just something to be mined for yuks, for further proof that anything can happen amid the barns and silos out there in the boonies.
But for the Tallmann family, the story was just one long nightmare. The apparitions they saw, or that they think they saw, prompted them to abandon their home. And their desire to avoid the media glare caused them to move from the home of relatives to a motel room then to another motel room, living, as Chief Glamann told The QUILL, "like criminals."
Though the Tallmanns may never know what caused the strange sights and sounds they experienced, or thought they experienced, they have decided that the events were somehow linked to a second?hand children's bunk bed set that the couple had bought for $ 100.
On February 19, Nelson reported in the Sentinel that the family had buried the bunk beds in a private landfill in the Horicon area where no one is likely to build a house.
That story also noted that the Farmers Home Administration, which held the mortgage on the Tallmann's $50,000 house, had agreed to assume title. Mrs. Tallmann estimated that the family would lose about $3,000 on the deal.
The wire services picked up the Sentinel's bunk-bed article, and papers and broadcast stations in the area -- and nationwide -- reported the final chapter of the Horicon ghost story.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin's paper of record, The Milwaukee Journal, was content to let the rest of the press cover the burying of the beds, much to the approval of science reporter Paul Hayes.
"Do you think we ought to run stories about quartz crystals being a cure for cancer?" Hayes responded when The QUILL asked why the Journal hadn't run the bunk bed story. "Do you think we ought to report as fact that UFOs will determine the fate of Milwaukee?
"In fact, ghosts are a little more preposterous than UFOs -- at least there's a percentage of a chance that other forms of life exist out there in the universe.
"It's far easier to explain this as the imperfectability of the human brain," Hayes says, noting that people throughout the United States have claimed to have witnessed paranormal events.
"Many people throughout the country believe in the supernatural," Hayes adds. "In that respect, Horicon is no different from any other place.
"What was different about the events in Horicon was that no one bothered to ignore the story."


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- Supports resolutions of up to 1920 x 1200 pixels @ 60 Hz
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The ST122DVIA DVI splitter lets you share one DVI video and audio source on two displays and acts as a signal amplifier that allows you to locate your DVI monitors up to 33ft (10 m) away from your computer or DVI signal source.
With support for high definition resolutions up to 1080p (HDTV)/1920x1200 (PC), the DVI splitter delivers a simple and convenient DVI video solution that suits virtually any application or operating environment (classroom, healthcare, professional A/V, control centres, retail POS environments).
The DVI video splitter/distribution amplifier is easy to install, providing you with flawless digital video that will help you get the most from your DVI-enabled monitors, projectors, or plasma screens.
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|Maximum Digital Resolutions
|1920x1200 @ 60Hz
|Wide Screen Supported
|Connector A
|1 - 3.5 mm Mini-Jack (3 Position) Female
|1 - DVI-I (29 pin) Female
|Connector B
|2 - 3.5 mm Mini-Jack (3 Position) Female
|2 - DVI-I (29 pin) Female
|LED Indicators
|1 - Green - Power/Link
|2 - Green - Link
|Center Tip Polarity
|Output Current
|Output Voltage
|Plug Type
|Power Consumption (In Watts)
|Power Source
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Digital Visual Interface (DVI) is a video display interface that can contain different types of signaling, based on the application. DVI cables and ports are created using different connector types to identify what application they are intended to be used in. The connector types are identified by the number of pins on the DVI connector. DVI comes in the following five different connector types:
- DVI-A (17 pin).
- DVI-D Single Link (19 pin).
- DVI-D Dual Link (25 pin).
- DVI-I Single Link (23 pin).
- DVI-I Dual Link (29 pin).
Single and Dual link DVI indicate the maximum resolution capabilities of the video source or video destination. The maximum resolutions are Single Link (1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz) and Dual Link (2560 x 1600 @ 60Hz).
Note: The maximum resolution of your video source and video destination are ultimately determined by the technical specifications of the devices. The connector type is not a definitive indicator of the maximum resolution.
DVI-A carries only analog (for example, VGA) with no digital component. DVI-D carries only digital video (for example, HDMI) with no analog component. DVI-I combines DVI-A and DVI-D connections to include both analog and digital components. A DVI-I port may be on either your video source or display, but whether or not a display carries either or both analog and digital sources depends on the technical specifications of your device.
This device has a DVI-I connector, but is only compatible with digital DVI video signaling. For more information about the different DVI connectors, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/faq/video_signal_converters_dvi_interface
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When you troubleshoot issues with a video splitter, there are some quick tests that you can complete to rule out potential problems. You can test to make sure that the following components are working correctly and are not the source of the issue:
Video cables
Video splitter
Video source (such as a DVD player or computer)
Video destination (such as a monitor or projector)
Note: When you are testing setup components, you should avoid using video adapters. For example, if you are converting a VGA source to HDMI for use with an HDMI splitter, you should use an HDMI source when you test the components.
To test your setup components, try the following:
Use the cable, video splitter, video source, and video destination in another setup to see if the problem is with the components or the setup.
Use a different cable, video splitter, video source, and video destination in your setup to see if the problem persists. Ideally, you should test a component that you know works in another setup.
When you test your cables, it is recommended that you do the following:
Test each cable individually.
Use short cables when you are testing.
When you test the video source and video destination, it is recommended that you do the following:
Remove the video splitter from your setup and test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together without the video splitter.
Test to make sure that the video source and video destination work together at the resolution that you want to use.
Note: In order for your setup to work properly, the video source, splitter, and destination all need to support the resolution that you are using.
Video splitters take the output for monitor port 1 and mirror it to the remaining outputs. By default, the first output port is the master port that is mirrored to each additional monitor. Make sure that you use the first output port when you use the video splitter. The master port is labeled on the splitter boxes from StarTech.com. On the splitter cables from StarTech.com, the master port is the top port.
If you are having issues with a splitter interpreting the incorrect port as the master port, try the following:
Unplug all of the video connections.
If the splitter is powered, power cycle the splitter.
Plug in all of the video connections again.
Make sure that the first video connection plugged in is the one that you want to be the master port.
You might encounter resolution issues when you use a video splitter. This can occur because the information and resolution on one display are being copied and sent to each of the additional displays. You should make sure that all of the displays that you are using can support the output resolution. For more information, refer to the following FAQ: https://www.startech.com/faq/video_splitters_correct_port_usage
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GameSpot has an editorial called "Black or White: Making Moral Choices in Video Games" about morality in video games. Among others (sadly only developers of some recent titles, not any of the older ones with great morality systems), they talked to Fallout 3 lead designer Emil Pagliarulo. Here's a fragment:
"When Bethesda first looked to acquire the Fallout licence, one of the things that stood out for the publishers was the way the series handled morality. While the game's Karma system tracked players' good, evil and neutral deeds, there was also a strong sense of moral ambiguity, meaning choices and actions went beyond the simple 'good' or 'evil'. Bethesda found this complexity convincing, and sought to implement a similar morality system in Fallout 3 that, while mechanically different, had the same spirit.
Emil Pagliarulo, lead designer for Fallout 3, says this has less to do with a well-designed morality system, and more to do with the players becoming invested in the game world."I've always felt that Bethesda's style of games --typically first-person, with high-detail environments-- lends itself very well to this, simply because the environments are so believable so it's much easier to get immersed and feel like you're closer to the world and its characters," Pagliarulo said."
And another one:
"In Fallout 3, Pagliarulo and his team tried to ensure the morality meter was neither fleeting nor predictable. For example, while players know that stealing from someone's house when they're not around will be registered as a morally bad action by the game's Karma system, there are a lot of situations that are left morally grey on purpose. Pagliarulo says the reason for this is because he didn't want players to feel like the developers were the ones deciding what was right and what was wrong. "We wanted players to make their own determinations. It was a real challenge for us to try and balance all this stuff out and to provide players with gameplay that was completely morally grey in some instances while having a Karma system that tracked specific good and bad actions in other instances.""
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Dining Down Under With David Chang
The compliments aren't going to his head, David Chang says.
The 34-year-old chef behind the growing Momofuku empire opened his first restaurant outside New York last year with Momofuku Seiobo in Sydney. With 30 seats and a 175 Australian dollar tasting menu, Seiobo has gotten a warm reception from local food critics.
But Mr. Chang says the restaurant is still finding its stride. "We're not there yet," he says. "The style of cooking is still not there."
Over the past two years, he spent roughly six months in Sydney familiarizing himself with the local food scene. He adapted his menu to the region's specialties and developed a newfound appreciation for ingredients down under.
"They have access to arguably the best shellfish," he says. "The spiny lobsters? I don't even like lobster, but I like those."
Where does he eat when he's there? Mr. Chang shared his five favorite restaurants in Sydney.


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Mars rover Curiosity: No surprise in 1st soil test
Mon., Dec. 3, 2012
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Results are in from the first test of Martian soil by the rover Curiosity: So far, there is no definitive evidence that the red planet has the chemical ingredients to support life.
Scientists said Monday a scoop of sandy soil analyzed by the rover's chemistry lab contained water and a mix of chemicals, but not the complex carbon-based compounds considered necessary for microbial life.
The latest findings reported at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco came from an instrument aboard the six-wheel rover that baked the soil and analyzed the gases released.
Curiosity landed in Gale Crater near the Martian equator in August on a two-year mission to study whether the environment on Mars could have been favorable for life.
The dirt at Curiosity's landing site appeared similar to that found in regions visited by other Mars spacecraft, scientists said. It contained water, sulfur and possibly perchlorate, a compound made up of oxygen and chlorine. NASA's Phoenix lander, which touched down near the Martian arctic, previously found perchlorate in the soil.
The rover did find a simple carbon compound, but scientists have yet to determine whether it's native to the red planet, or came from elsewhere.
Scientists think the best chance of finding complex carbon is at Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high mountain rising from the crater floor. Curiosity won't trek there until early next year.
A comment two weeks ago by the mission's chief scientist led to speculation that Curiosity had made a major discovery that would be announced Monday. But NASA last week said that wasn't the case.
The rover is the most sophisticated spacecraft sent to Mars. The rover Opportunity has been exploring craters in Mars' southern hemisphere since 2004. Opportunity's twin, Spirit, fell silent in 2010 after getting stuck in a sand trap.
NASA: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
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Real Boxing™ is a stunning boxing simulation game powered by Unreal Engine 3. Journey from amateur to pro in one of the most comprehensive handheld sporting games ever created. Real-time deformation technology portrays every bone-crunching punch and jaw-shattering uppercut - the fight is on!
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BOTHELL, Wash. – Real time "utility dashboard" displays have been installed on the campus shared by UW Bothell and Cascadia Community College. The touch screen displays provide students, staff and the community with data on the campus's consumption of natural gas and electricity, and on the energy generated by the campus's solar arrays.
The system offers several ways to view energy usage. Data can be viewed by day, week, month or year; by number of people in the building; or in alternative units such as equivalent car mileage, energy required to cook a given quantity of hamburgers or cost in dollars. A unique feature of the dashboard is its ability to compare consumption between buildings on campus. The comparison feature enables the system to serve as a platform for energy-savings competitions between campuses or buildings.
Three dashboard monitors have been installed. According to Tony Guerrero, assistant vice chancellor for facilities services, the university will evaluate the project's success in terms of how well it reinforces awareness and utility conservation behaviors on campus. If successful, more monitors may be installed. The campus is also purchasing special water meters in order to view water use on the dashboard.
Says Guerrero, "The dashboard system is an important component in a comprehensive energy conservation initiative that is estimated to generate about $2 million in savings over the next ten years." The interactive displays can be found in buildings UW1, CC3 and in the campus library. Some of the data displayed on the monitors can also be viewed online at http://www.buildingdashboard.net/uwb-ccc/.
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The whole family went into Manhattan for a preview of Hotel Transylvania - which we loved. The full review is here at BaristaKids.com.
On Momtrends, I reviewed the All-in-One Toddler Sleep Mat from Woolly Boo - which just happens to be a Jersey Mom company.
Over at New Jersey Family magazine, I've got:
- Stylish School Supplies - with fun ideas like mini staplers and how to create glam lockers.
- National Geographic Photography Contest - young shutterbugs can enter through October 31, 2012.
- Delicious and Healthy After-School Snacks - fruit kabobs, popcorn balls, and more. Yum!
What are you doing this week? And what are you, your kid, your dog and your house going as for Halloween?


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Wireless Video Intercom System
Stylish premium wireless model
Panasonic introduces a video intercom that uses wireless communication to keep your entire house safe. The handy sub monitor can be easily carried about, so you can greet visitors from anywhere in the house, and check conditions at any location you want. You can also add on the optional Wireless Sensor Cameras and the sub monitors, and they're all wireless, so no wiring work is needed and installation is fast and easy. This flexible system lets you install the cameras and monitors wherever you want, to match your family's needs. A recording function is also included, so safety is assured even while you're away from home. See how wonderful it is to feel safe, sound and comfortable.


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Kakao Chocolate & Coffee Cafe
415 Westlake Ave N
Seattle, WA
(206) 833-5467
I admit freely to having some cravings for sweet stuff and giving in. The times are few and far between though, so thankfully I'm not on a permanent sugar high like some people I know who guzzle litres of pop a day or never are without a sugary doughnut with their morning coffee, a candy bar at their work desk, or pass on a daily dessert at dinner time. When I do crave something with chocolate as its primary ingredient, its often a dark variety bar.
Earlier in August, I was exposed to a variety of sample product from a Vancouver-based XOXOLAT ahead of a private function. The use and dedication to serving single origin chocolates struck a chord with me, as it reminded me of what a segment of the coffee scene is like with its strive to procure ingredients from reputable and solo operations.
While on this recent trip to Seattle, we came upon the Kakao Chocolate & Coffee Cafe, located right by the Tesla showroom and an outpost of Serious Pie. A very large and open concept space, outfitted with a mishmash of comfortable looking and more stiffer wooden furniture. Big bright windows and high ceilings, led me to think this used to be some kind of industrial or commercial storage facility before it was transformed to the people-friendly business it is today. While primarily concentrated on the chocolate realm, they do give ample attention to their coffee beans as well for their espresso (provided by Seattle roaster Herkimer Coffee) and the loose leaf tea on the menu is from Miro Tea.


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On top of thoroughly enjoying The Help book and movie, the music was scrumptous as well. Of course, I'm a sucker for early '60s tunes, but whoever chose the soundtrack really hit the nail on the head.
Mary J. Blige contributed a moving and lovely song about struggle and triumph, The Living Proof, but other than that, the soundtrack is vintage "Camelot".
My Johnny Cash love is well documented, but knew I was going to enjoy the movie when the first song of the movie was Jackson…
Then, there's the rockabilly I Ain't Never by Webb Pierce. You can just feel young couples dancing at the Friday night dance.
There's a strong "faith" message within the story, so naturally, Dorothy Norwood's Victory is Mine fits perfectly and brings some triumphant spirit to the film.
To bring the message home in a big way, we have Mavis Staple's Don't Knock:
Other '60s staples that help to set the mood and timeframe:
Sherry, Frank Valli & The Four Seasons
Let's Twist Again, Chubby Checker
The eclecticness of the soundtrack is demonstrated by some real R & B via Ray Charles and Bo Diddley:
Hallejuah, I Love Her So, Ray Charles
The Road Runner, Bo Didley
And finally, as if escorting us into the coming change, Mr. Bob Dylan:
Don't Think Twice (It's Alright)
A pretty good finish…
The only conspicious absence on this soundtrack is Elvis, who was literally a God in early 1960's Mississippi — among both races. And, it was the height of Elvis movies…
Something like Follow That Dream…jus' sayin'. ELVIS!! Unh!


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Black bean chilli
This chilli is great for casual entertaining - just lay everything out and let people add their own toppings
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- Vegetarian
- kcal339
- fat10g
- saturates1g
- carbs50g
- sugars20g
- fibre8g
- protein17g
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- 2 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
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- 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 large onions, chopped
Onions are endlessly versatile and an essential ingredient in countless recipes. Native to Asia…
- 3 tbsp sweet pimenton (Spanish paprika ) or mild chilli powder
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- 3 tbsp ground cumin
An aromatic spice native to eastern Mediteranean countries and Upper Egypt. This warm,…
- 3 tbsp cider vinegar
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A member of the nightshade family (along with aubergines, peppers and chillies), tomatoes are in…
- 2 x 400g (2 x 14oz) cans black beans, rinsed and drained
- a few, or one, of the following to serve: crumbled feta cheese, chopped spring onions, sliced radishes, avocado chunks, soured cream
In a large pot, heat the olive oil and fry the garlic and onions for 5 mins until almost softened. Add the pimenton and cumin, cook for a few mins, then add the vinegar, sugar, tomatoes and some seasoning. Cook for 10 mins.
Pour in the beans and cook for another 10 mins. Serve with rice and the accompaniments of your choice in small bowls.


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Thanks to these boot sales I find I am now buying records faster than I can listen to them. I'm doing a very good job of catching up on all the albums that were on my wish lists in the 70s (and, to a lesser extent, 80s) but never quite reached the top. A lot of these fall into the general pop/rock category. But of course I'm also on the lookout for tasty soul, funk, and reggae.
For example my haul from a couple of weeks ago was fairly typical:
Rod Stewart – Never A Dull Moment (LP, with inscrutable sleeve in mint condition)
Kate Bush – Never For Ever (LP)
The Style Council – Café Bleu (LP)
Nina Simone – 1982 Charly compilation (LP)
Long John Baldry – Let The Heartaches Begin (LP)
The Equals – Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys (President 45)
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band – Hi! (UK Piccadilly mono EP)
(total outlay £6)
Last Saturday's haul, however, was a bit different. I spent a miserly £2.50 and only bought four records, but it was definitely a case of quality not quantity!
An O'Jays 45 from 1975 pairing "Give The People What They Want" with "What Am I Waiting For" proved to be a good honest starter. Both sides prepared to perfection.
By way of a pallet freshener I settled on David Sylvian's "Brilliant Trees" album, his first after separating from Japan in the mid 80s. This turned out to be the only record on the menu that wasn't black orientated. I don't really know what genre you would place David Sylvian's music in. I'll just call it beautiful – in a bleak and windswept sort of way.
At the same time I chose the wine to go with my anticipated main course. A perfect accompaniment to fine food is a good glass of red wine and would you believe it for 75p I found an album called "Red Red Wine". The cover of the album looked like it had been designed by a five year old on their first excursion with PhotoShop! Except that PhotoShop hadn't been invented in 1969 when this album was released. The Trojan logo and the tracklisting on the back cover pointed to the fact there was obviously reggae of some form in the grooves. Tony Tribes's original reggae version of "Red Red Wine" was listed, and most of the other tracks were credited to Dandy or Audrey. I guessed, correctly as it turns out, that Dandy was Dandy Livingstone and a bit of research has now told me that Audrey is Audrey Hall. The record itself is good quality heavy vinyl, typical of UK releases of the time and the label – Downtown – was one of a number of Trojan offshoots started in the sixties. The whole album is wonderful – the unmistakable sound of sixties reggae. Most tracks are covers, including Audrey Hall's cover of the great Barbara Lynn's "You'll Lose A Good Thing". All in all, a fine vintage.
Now for the main course. I have to say I struggled a bit with the menu at this point. In front of me on the edge of a pasting table were three piles of 45s. As I looked through the first pile there was nothing that caught my imagination. The second pile proved no better and the way they were stacked made it difficult to look through them easily. My appetite was waning, maybe it wasn't worth looking through the final pile. But then I thought – "What am I here for? And the third pile is a bit smaller. And what I have seen so far hasn't been totally predictable, just not in any way mouth watering". So I carried on and there, in the middle of the pile, I found the perfect platter. I knew the track (thanks I think to Scholar from one of his older posts), I love the track, I have it on mp3, so in a way you could say I had already savoured the aromas of it cooking. But here it was in my hands, the prefect main course. And it had an extra bit of spice, because I thought this track had only ever existed on a US released album. But here it was in 45 form, and on a UK label that I had never heard of before! A record so rare it's blue? And it was on the menu for only 50p! So it is that I have been gorging myself ever since (with no hint of indigestion) on Kellee Paterson's (sic) sumptuous take on Barry White's "I'm Gonna Love You A Little More Baby".
(I have now learnt that this did get a US 45 issue - on Shadybrook, and that there is at least one other copy of the UK Mint release in circulation as Manship has one for sale at £100! – I'm happy!).
I'm off for a post prandial nap!
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Conservation action involving several countries brings large scale benefits to nature and helps resolve social and political conflicts, a new IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) publication shows.
The book, Crossing Borders for Nature: European examples of transboundary conservation, draws on cross-border conservation in Europe, highlighting its challenges and benefits. It was published as part of a project led by IUCN and the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) which aims to improve transboundary conservation in the mountainous border zone between Albania, Macedonia and the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo.
"Due to isolation in the past and recent political instability in the area, the border between those countries was strictly guarded for decades," says Tomasz Pezold, IUCN's Project Officer and one of the publication's editors. "As a result, it now represents one of the last intact natural sites in Europe with some of the largest populations of species such as bear, wolf and lynx. Cross-border conservation in this region creates the opportunity to preserve this unique natural heritage in its integrity and brings together countries that were isolated for years."
Transboundary conservation brings with it large-scale ecological benefits by protecting extensive natural areas, supporting species migrations and reducing the risk of biodiversity loss. It also encourages former enemies to start talking, generates additional income opportunities, and helps resolve political conflicts.
"Many examples illustrate the benefits transboundary cooperation brings to protect natural and cultural heritage, improving the lives of local communities, reducing tensions and re-establishing friendly neighbourly relations," says Prof. Dr. Beate Jessel, President of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN). "Although effective cross-border conservation involves overcoming political, economic and social differences across borders, countries and protected area managers increasingly recognize its potential."
In the Prespa Lakes area, a region of unique diversity of species and geological structures which lies within Albania, Macedonia and Greece, transboundary conservation action is used as a means to ease political tensions between the three countries.
In the East Carpathians Biosphere Reserve, which includes Poland, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine, cross-border cooperation to protect the area's nature has helped to rebuild friendly relationships between nations that lost tens of thousands of people in armed conflicts in the 1940s and suffered years of isolation under the Communist regime.
Since the establishment of the Bavarian Forest and Šumava National Parks, located between Prague in the Czech Republic and Munich in Germany, tourism has become an important component of the regional economy, providing additional jobs and income.
"Nature doesn't stop at borders or man-made boundaries and nor should our efforts to conserve it," says Maja Vasilijević, co-editor of the publication. "Transboundary conservation is increasingly important in protecting and maintaining large ecosystems and enhancing the socioeconomic development in the areas."
For more information or to set up interviews, please contact
Borjana Pervan, IUCN Media Relations, m +41 79 857 4072, e email@example.com
For high-resolution images of the regions, go to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/33017018@N04/sets/72157627222255192/


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Apes and monkeys are types of primates found on Azeroth.[citation needed] The term "primate" is actually never used in World of Warcraft and possibly not in any other Warcraft-related materials. This term is used by players to associate types of creatures. Druids are able to summon several species as nature's allies.[1]
Gorillas have been seen mostly in jungle-like regions, such as Stranglethorn Vale, Feralas, and Un'Goro Crater. World of Warcraft does not distinguish between apes and gorillas. They are all considered gorillas.[2]
Primate species
- Monkey
- Ape
- These powerful omnivores resemble gorillas but are far more aggressive; they kill and eat anything they can catch. An adult male ape is 5-1/2 to 6 feet tall and weighs 300 to 400 pounds. Apes tear prey apart with their mighty claws. They live in warm forests.[3]
- Dire ape
- Dire apes are found on Azeroth and in the Emerald Dream.[4] They are larger species of standard ape standing about 9 feet tall and weighs from 800 to 1,200 pounds. It is a large gorilla with silver down on its back. It has a shaggy coat that does little to hide the muscles in its frame, which bulge far more than normal muscles should.[5] They can also be summoned by druids.[1] Some druids choose them as their an animal companion.[6] Dire apes attack anything that enters their territory, even other dire apes. If an opponent's armor foils a dire ape's attacks, the creature attempts to grapple and pin, then rend the prone opponent.[5]
- Gorilla
This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.
Evolution of humans from Vrykul
The Vrykul, ancestors of Warcraft Humans may have descended from primates in a similar way to the real life theory of evolution. In this scenario, primates are not only connected to Vrykul and humans, but came before them. Another theory is, that the primates devolved from Vrykul or humans, possibly as an advanced form of the "curse of flesh", similar to how some of the earthen devolved into troggs. This could very well be plausible. This theory is, of course, highly speculative, but it is a possible explanation for the existence of primates on Azeroth. It is worth mentioning that the ancestors of humans, the Azotha were likely created from the curse of flesh. Judging by the Azotha ruins in Stranglethorn Vale, it is likely that the Azotha lived there before, or during their time in the Arathi Highlands. The fact that there are countless primates in Stranglethorn adds credence to this theory.
Conspiracy theories in real life have stated that Alien races have visited planet earth and genetically engineered ape-like creatures into modern Humans, shaping the apes into the Image of Creators, who would have been Human like. This would explain Titans having a similar relationship in "shaping" the Azeroth, with the possibility of shaping the Vrykul from primates.
- ^ a b World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, 345
- ^ See Groddoc Ape is pet type Gorilla at Wowhead.
- ^ Monster Guide Web Supplement, 3
- ^ Shadows & Light, 145
- ^ a b Monster Guide, 31
- ^ World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game, 70


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Following the initial adoption by the ALA Council of "Access to Electronic Information, Services and Networks: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights" in January, 1996, the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee produced a sample set of questions and answers to clarify the interpretation's implications and applications.
As librarians, we have a professional obligation to strive for free access to all information resources. However, many of the questions concerning digital information will not have a single answer. ALA recognizes that each library needs to develop policies in keeping with its mission, objectives, and users. Librarians also need to be cognizant of local legislation and judicial decisions that may affect implementation of their policies.
Rationale for Digital Access
1. What are the factors that uniquely position American librarianship to provide access to digital information?
Electronic media offer an unprecedented forum for the sharing of information and ideas envisioned by the Founding Fathers in the U.S. Constitution. Their vision cannot be fully realized unless libraries provide free access to digital information, services, and networks.
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and others laid the basis for a government that made education, access to information, and toleration for dissent cornerstones of a great democratic experiment. With geographic expansion and the rise of a mass press, American government facilitated these constitutional principles through the creation of such innovative institutions as the public school, land grant colleges, and the library. By the close of the 19th century, professionally trained librarians developed specialized techniques in support of their democratic mission. In the 1930s, the Library Bill of Rights acknowledged librarians professional and ethical responsibilities to the Constitution promise of access to information in all formats to all people.
2. What is the library's role in facilitating freedom of expression in an digital arena?
Libraries are an essential part of the national information infrastructure, providing people with access and opportunities for participation in the digital arena. They are fundamental to the informed debate demanded by the Constitution and for the provision of access to digital information resources to those who might otherwise be excluded.
3. Why should libraries extend access to digital information resources to minors?
Those libraries with a mission that includes service to minors should make available a full range of information necessary for young people to become thinking adults and part of the informed electorate envisioned in the Constitution. The opportunity to participate responsibly in the digital arena is also vital for nurturing the information literacy skills demanded today. Librarians need to remember that minors also possess First Amendment rights. Although parents and legal guardians have the right to restrict their children's access to digital resources, federal and state legislation as well as institutions' policies also impact minors' access to digital information. Libraries should extend as much access as permitted under the law.
Rights of Users
4. Do the policies of ALA regarding intellectual freedom and ethics apply to digital information, services and networks in libraries?
Yes, because information is information regardless of format. Library resources in digital form are increasingly recognized as vital to the provision of information that is the core of the library's role in society.
5. How can libraries help to ensure library user confidentiality in regard to digital information access?
Librarians must be aware of patron confidentiality laws on library records for their particular state and community. In accordance with such laws and professional and ethical responsibilities, librarians should ensure and routinely review policies and procedures for maintaining confidentiality of personally identifiable use of library materials, facilities, or services. Electronic records on individual use patterns should be strictly safeguarded. Software and protocols should be designed for the automatic and timely deletion of personal identifiers from the tracking elements within digital databases. System access to computer terminals or other stations also should be designed to eliminate indicators of the research strategy or use patterns of any identifiable patron. For example, the efforts of the last user of a terminal or program should not remain on the monitor or be easily retrievable from a buffer or cache by subsequent users. Methods used by libraries or institutions to monitor reserving computer time and the amount of time spent in digital information resources also must protect the confidentiality rights of patrons
Databases and other digital resources provided by the library should allow anonymous searching and should not require users to reveal personally identifiable information. In their contract negotiations with vendors/network providers/licensors, librarians should ensure that these third parties will protect any personally identifiable information obtained from users in accordance with confidentiality law and the ALA Code of Ethics.
Libraries and their institutions should provide physical environments that facilitate user privacy for accessing digital information. For instance, libraries should consider placing terminals, printers, and access stations so that user privacy is enhanced. Computer accessories, such as privacy screens, offer additional protection. Where resources are limited, libraries should consider time, place, and manner restrictions.
Finally, libraries must be sensitive to the special needs for confidential access to digital information sources by patrons with disabilities.
6. Our library is just one of many autonomous institutions in a consortium. How can we be sure that our cooperating partners honor the confidentiality of our library users in a shared network environment?
This is a contractual and legal matter. The importance of confidentiality of personally identifiable information about library users transcends individual institutional and type-of-library boundaries. Libraries should establish and regularly review interlibrary and interagency cooperative agreements to ensure clear policies and procedures that obligate all members of a cooperative or all departments and branches within a parent institution to maintain user confidentiality.
7. Why shouldn't parental permission be required for minors to access digital information?
As with any other information format, parents are responsible for determining what digital information they wish their own children to access. Library staff may need to help parents understand their options, but should not be in the position of policing and enforcing parental restrictions within the library. In addition, libraries cannot use children as an excuse to violate their Constitutional duty to help provide for an educated adult electorate.
The Library Bill of Rights—its various Interpretations (especially "Free Access to Libraries for Minors," "Minors and Internet Interactivity," "Access for Children and Young People to Nonprint Materials") and ALA's "Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Policies, Regulations and Procedures Affecting Access to Library Materials, Services and Facilities"—also endorse the rights of youth to access library resources and information as part of their inalienable rights and the passage to informed adulthood. Digital information access is no different in these regards.
Equity of Access for Users
8. Do libraries need to develop policies about access to digital information, services, and networks?
In view of the complex issues associated with access, creation, distribution, retrieval, and archiving of digital information, the ALA strongly recommends that libraries formally adopt and periodically reexamine policies that develop from the missions and goals specific to their institutions.
9. My library recognizes different classes of users. Is this a problem?
The mission and objectives of some libraries recognize distinctions between classes of users. For example, academic libraries may have different categories of users (e.g., faculty, students, others). Public libraries may distinguish between residents and non-residents. School library media centers embrace curricular support as their primary mission; some have further expanded access to their collections to include use by parents and community members. Special libraries may vary their access policies, depending on their definition of primary clientele. Establishing different levels of users should not automatically assume the need for different levels of access.
10. Must our library make provisions for patrons with disabilities to access digital information?
Yes. The Americans with Disabilities Act and other federal and state laws forbid providers of public services, whether publicly or privately governed, from discriminating against individuals with disabilities. All library information services, including access to digital information, should be accessible to patrons regardless of disability.
Many methods are available and under development to make digital information universally accessible, including adaptive devices, software, and human assistance. Libraries must consider such tools in trying to meet the needs of persons with disabilities in the design or provision of digital information services.
11. Does the statement that "digital information, services, and networks provided directly or indirectly by the library should be equally, readily, and equitably available to all library users" (a phrase from "Economic Barriers to Information Access: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights") mean that exactly the same service must be available to anyone who wants to use the library?
No. It means that library staff should provide reasonable accommodations to barriers to accessing digital information and services, such as providing adaptive technology or alternate formats, and should do so in a timely manner. For example, if a library has determined that all students should have access to interlibrary loan services free of charge, then a student with a disability should not be charged for needing interlibrary loan material in a special format. It also means that arbitrary distinctions, such as age or the presumed ability to use technology, should not be used as the basis for restricting access.
12. Which is a higher priority: offering more information or deciding to charge no fees? Does this mean my library cannot charge fees?
The higher priority is free services. Charging fees creates barriers to access. That is why ALA has urged librarians, in "Economic Barriers to Information Access," to "resist the temptation to impose user fees to alleviate financial pressures, at long-term cost to institutional integrity and public confidence in libraries."
13. Does "provision of information services" include printouts?
Whenever possible, all services should be without fees. In any case, fees should not create a barrier to access. Applied to the digital environment, this means that some libraries will provide the text on the screen at no charge, but might charge for printouts.
14. If my library has no "major support from public funds," can we then charge fees?
Yes, but ALA advocates achieving equitable access and avoiding and eliminating barriers to information and ideas whenever possible.
15. Do libraries need a use policy for digital information access? If so, what elements should be considered for inclusion?
Access questions are rooted in Constitutional mandates and a Library Bill of Rights that reach across all media. Library policies related to access to digital information should be informed by a library's mission and institutional objectives and consistent with ALA's policies and guidelines, including "Economic Barriers to Information Access: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights," "Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Policies, Regulations and Procedures Affecting Access to Library Materials, Services and Facilities," "Services to Persons with Disabilities: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights," and "Minors and Internet Interactivity: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights."
Reasonable restrictions placed on the time, place, and manner of library access should be used only when necessary to achieve significant library managerial objectives and only in the least restrictive manner possible. Libraries should focus on developing policies that ensure broad access to information resources of all kinds. Policies should not limit the kinds of information accessed by which patrons and in what manner.
16. What do you do if one person monopolizes library technologies such as Internet-accessible terminals?
Libraries should address this issue in their use policies. Time, place, and manner restrictions should be applied equitably to all users.
Selection and Management Issues
17. How does providing connections to "global information, services, and networks" differ from selecting and purchasing material for an individual library?
Selection begins with the institution's mission and objectives. The librarian performs an initial selection from available resources, and then the user makes a choice from that collection. Many digital resources, such as DVDs, are acquired for the library's collection in this traditional manner.
When libraries provide Internet access, they provide a means for people to use the wealth of information stored on computers throughout the world. The information available through the Internet is always changing and is created, maintained and made available beyond the library. The library also provides a means for the individual user to choose for himself or herself the resources accessed and to interact electronically with other computer users throughout the world.
18. How can librarians use their selection expertise to help patrons use the Internet?
Librarians should play a proactive role in guiding users, especially parents and their children, to the most effective locations and answers. Library Web sites are one starting place to the vast resources of the Internet. All libraries are encouraged to develop Web sites, including links, to Internet resources to meet the information needs of their users. These links should be made within the existing mission, collection development policy, and selection criteria of the library.
19. Should the library deny access to constitutionally protected speech on the Internet in order to protect its users or reflect community values?
No. "Publicly funded libraries have a legal obligation to provide access to constitutionally protected information" ("Access to Digital Information, Services, and Networks: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights"). The library should not deny access to constitutionally protected speech. People have a right to receive constitutionally protected speech, and any restriction of those rights imposed by a library violates the U.S. Constitution. Only a court of law can judge speech to be outside of the protection of the First Amendment. "If a library uses a technological measure that blocks access to information, it should be set at the least restrictive level in order to minimize the blocking of constitutionally protected speech" ("Access to Digital Information, Services, and Networks").
20. Does using software that filters or blocks access to digital information resources on the Internet violate "Access to Digital Information, Services, and Networks: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights"?
This interpretation states that libraries and librarians should not deny access to constitutionally protected information. "Adults retain the right to access all constitutionally protected information and to ask for the technological measure to be disabled in a timely manner. Minors also retain the right to access constitutionally protected information and, at the minimum, have the right to ask the library or librarian to provide access to erroneously blocked information in a timely manner. Libraries and librarians have an obligation to inform users of these rights and to provide the means to exercise these rights" ("Access to Digital Information, Services, and Networks" and United States, et al. v. American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003)). The use of filters presents a number of complex legal, technical, and ethical issues. For discussion of these issues librarians should review information located on the Office for Intellectual Freedom Web page, "Filters and Filtering," at http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oif/ifissues/filtersfiltering.cfm/.
21. Why do libraries have an obligation to provide government information in digital format?
The role of libraries is to provide ideas and information across the spectrum of social and political thought and to make these ideas and this information available to anyone who needs or wants it. In a democracy, libraries have a particular obligation to provide library users with information necessary for participation in self-governance. Because access to government information is rapidly shifting to digital format only, libraries should provide access to government information in this format.
22. What is the library's role in the preservation of information in digital formats?
The digital medium is ephemeral and information may disappear without efforts to save it. Libraries may need to preserve and archive digital information critical to their mission.
23. Do libraries have a role in supporting the creation and distribution of digital information by patrons?
Library services should reflect the library's specific mission and the objectives of the institution. For example, some schools may have budgeted funds to support the creation, storage, and distribution of student-generated content; others may not have such resources. Academic libraries may have resources for "creation and distribution" to which their enrollees would have access but the community users would not, including their intranet and campus e-mail. Public libraries generally must consider all eligible users rather than a minority when offering services.
24. Does "must support access to information on all subjects" mean a library must provide material on all subjects for all users, even if those users are not part of the library's community of users or the material is not appropriate for the library?
No. The institution's decisions about digital resources, like those of other formats, will be based on its mission and objectives.
25. The Interpretation states that libraries should not deny access to resources solely because they are perceived to lack value. Does this mean the library must buy or obtain every digital resource available?
No. The institution's decisions will be based on its mission and objectives as well as its selection policy. Selection of digital resources, like those of other formats, is based on selection policy criteria and fulfilling a collection (or user) need, taking economic resources into consideration. For additional explanation of this issue librarians should refer to "Diversity in Collection Development: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights."
26. How can libraries impact vendors/network providers/licensors who attempt to limit or edit access to digital information?
Librarians have an ethical responsibility to be strong advocates of open access to information. Therefore, when purchasing digital information resources, librarians should conduct contract negotiations with vendors/network providers/licensors to ensure the least restrictive access in current and future products.
27. How can the library avoid becoming a game room and still provide access to digital resources?
Just as libraries do not make value judgments on print materials in their collections, so libraries should not judge games as having less value than other digital content or resources. The library can avoid becoming a game room by developing policies that address time, place, or manner restrictions when determining the use of digital technology and resources. Policies can allow for more equitable access to digital content, without censoring specific types of digital content.
28. Do copyright laws apply to digital information?
Yes. Librarians have professional and ethical responsibilities to keep abreast of copyright and fair use rights. This responsibility applies to the library's own online publications, contractual obligations with authors and publishers, and informing library users of copyright laws that apply to their use of digital information.
American Library Association
June 5, 1997; rev. November 17, 2000; rev. January 16, 2010