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|'Just in the Nick of Time' cast announced for Off Stage Productions
|Thursday, November 07, 2013 9:00 PM
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VAN WERT — Forty-seven cast members have successfully answered the call of becoming involved in live theatre with Off Stage Productions! Auditions were held and cast selected for Off Stage Productions upcoming Christmas production "Just in the Nick of Time" written by Linda Daugherty. The play is being directed by Dan Bulau and produced by Sara Ricker. Kids, teenagers and adults with a range of experience levels make up the cast putting on this perfect family-friendly holiday production set for Dec. 6, 7 and 8. The show will be held at Marsh Foundation Theater auditorium, 1229 Lincoln Hwy.
In the production, Christmas is coming but Santa Claus is missing. The vibrant citizens of the North Pole soon start losing their color and holiday spirit. It's up to Detective Red Mistletoe to get some answers, rescue Santa and save Christmas. Mark your calendar to see what countless others have volunteered to do with set, costumes, lights and sound in producing this must-see Christmas production!
The cast includes:
Red Mistletoe - Max Rice
Elf Girl 1 - Rebecca Rigdon
Elf Girl 2 - Najah Martin
Elf Girl 3 - Riley Jones
Toy Tester 1 - Ethan White
Toy Tester 2 - Jacob Wasson
Toy Tester 3 - Nathan Evans
Elf Chief - Lauren Leatherman
Elder Elf 1 - Hatti Bouillon
Elder Elf 2 - Hanna Bouillon
Fruitcake - Jennifer Rigdon
Doc Green - Emily Gehle
Mrs. Claus - Melissa Gehle
Elf Hannah - Hannah Kraner
Elf Brooklyn - Brooklyn Weaks
Elf Ashley - Ashley Call
Elf Aydreigh - Aydreigh Hanicq
Elf Christian - Christian Wallenhorst
Gumdrop Chief - Angel Kline
Orange Gumdrop - Romy Bruewer
Purple Gumdrop - Ryleigh Hanicq
Gumdrop Madilynn - Madilynn Thompson
Gumdrop Zoe - Zoe Coleman
Gumdrop Alayna - Alayna Cripe
Gumdrop Sydney - Sydney King
Gumdrop Raelyn - Raelyn Proffitt
Snowflake/Candy Cane Chief - Draya Rison
Snowflake Brook - Brook Hilleary
Snowflake Cylee - Cylee Grubb
Snowflake Veronica - Veronica Bruewer
Snowflake Caitlin - Caitlin Grubb
Snowflake Shannon - Shannon King
Snowflake Kaylee - Kaylee Jennings
Candy Cane Anna - Anna Wasson
Candy Cane Elizabeth - Elizabeth Gable
Candy Cane Emma - Emma Dolan
Candy Cane Karissa - Karissa Rusit
Candy Cane Ashlyn - Ashlyn Jennings
Candy Cane Carly - Carly Smith
Candy Cane Rachel - Rachel Spath
Christmas Tree Chief - Marcy Shoppell
Christmas Tree Faith - Faith Maurer
Christmas Tree Brooke - Brooke Miller
Bob Humbug - Joe Maurer
Holly Wreath - Kari Gall
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By Mary Hoff
I have needles but no thread. I have cones but no ice cream. I have bark but no bite. What am I?
If you guessed a pine tree, you're right! If you guessed a spruce tree or a fir tree or a cedar tree or a tamarack tree, you're right too. All of these are conifers -- trees with thin leaves called needles and fat seed containers called cones.
Conifers are the tough characters of the tree world. Some can survive super cold, snowy, and windy weather. Some can grow where there's barely any soil. Some can grow in soggy soil. Because they are so hardy, you can find them all around Minnesota. In fact, chances are good a conifer grows near you right now.
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Sometimes things that are ubiquitous are kind of -- well, boring. But conifers are anything but boring. Once you get to know them, you will be amazed at what interesting creatures they are. Minnesota has 10 native conifer trees.
*This great word ubiquitous applies to right-handed people, Labrador retrievers, salt and pepper shakers, cell phones, and mosquitoes as well as conifers. If you don't know what it means, look it up. Then use it! People will love hearing you say "you-bick-weh-tess."
Trees come in two kinds: trees that are conifers, and trees that are not. Conifers can be big and tall, or squat and small. Whatever their shape, they have several characteristics in common:
Leaves called needles. Most conifer leaves are narrow. They have a wax coating that helps keep water inside the plant in winter and other dry times.
Cones. Conifer seeds grow in cones. Most Minnesota conifers have male and female cones on the same tree. The male cones produce pollen. The female cones make eggs. The pollen and eggs combine to make seeds, which can grow into new trees.
Special Tubes. The tubes that carry water from a conifer's roots to its top are called tracheids. Conifer tracheids are small, so they are not likely to form big flow-blocking bubbles when air is released by water freezing inside them.
Blueberries and other plants grow in the soil beneath conifer boughs. Fungi grow in conifers' roots, and lichens live on their trunks.
Wherever they grow, conifers attract animals. Insects eat their needles and burrow under their bark. Nuthatches and squirrels pluck seeds from their cones. Red squirrels squirrel away cones in autumn and eat the seeds later, when fresh food is scarce. Beneath conifer boughs, deer, hares, and grouse find shelter from wind, rain, and snow.
The red pine is Minnesota's state tree. It probably got its other name, Norway pine, because it reminded early settlers of a tree species that grew in Scandinavia. Its needles come two to a cluster. Its bark is reddish, and if you pick at it, it flakes off into bits that look like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Most common in northeastern Minnesota, red pines like to grow in sandy soil.
Fun Fact: A red pine in the prime of its life can produce more than 700 cones in a single year.
The white pine carries its soft needles in clusters of five. Its bark is gray and furrowed. White pines grow slowly at first and then speed up. A seedling might take five years to grow to be 12 inches tall. When older, this pine might grow more than 4 feet in one year! White pines regularly live for 200 years but occasionally survive to be more than 400 years old.
White pines were among the biggest of the big trees that brought logging companies to northern Minnesota in the 1800s. Loggers cut millions of huge white pines for wood to build houses, shops, hotels, and other buildings.
Fun Fact: It takes more than a year for the pollen that falls on a female white pine cone to fertilize the eggs inside.
The jack pine is a rugged-looking conifer. Like the red pine, it bundles its needles in clusters of two. It often has stubby, comma-shaped cones clustered in its branches.
In the spring, male jack pine cones release huge amounts of yellow pollen. The pollen can be so thick that it looks like a cloud above the trees. It collects on the edges of lakes and ponds, making yellow lines along shores.
Porcupines gnaw on jack pine bark. People use jack pine wood to make paper, telephone poles, railroad ties, and other items.
Fun Fact: Most jack pine cones need heat to open and spread their seeds. After a pine forest burns, jack pines are often among the first trees to sprout.
The black spruce thrives in soggy soil. It grows on peat and along the edges of wetlands. Its needles are short and sharp. Its broad, needle-covered branches make good winter shelter for squirrels, hares, spruce grouse, and other animals.
Along with sprouting from seeds, black spruce trees have another way to make new black spruce trees. Branches that droop down to the ground can sprout roots and a new stem. This way of reproducing is called layering.
Black spruce wood makes good paper. Long, tough fibers from black spruce roots are used to sew together birchbark canoes.
Fun Fact: Minnesota has 1.4 billion black spruce trees -- that's more than 250 for each Minnesotan! Only quaking aspen and balsam fir are more common than black spruce here.
This tree gets its name from a waxy whitish coat that covers its poky needles. A spruce's conical shape and flexible boughs help it survive winter. When it snows, the snow slides off rather than clinging to and breaking the tree's branches.
Young white spruce trees often grow from seeds that sprout on rotted wood on the forest floor. Like black spruce, white spruce also can reproduce by layering.
Squirrels, chickadees, and other birds eat white spruce seeds. Deer find shelter among spruce trees. Loggers harvest spruce trees to make paper and lumber for building.
Fun Fact: The biggest known white spruce in the United States grows in Koochiching County in northern Minnesota. In 1975 it measured 130 feet tall and 125 inches in circumference.
This small to medium-sized conifer has smooth bark with small blisters. Its soft, flat needles are arranged so branches are fairly flat. The cones are purple when young. They stand upright rather than hang down from the branches. Deer, snowshoe hares, and grouse use balsam fir for shelter in winter. People use balsam for Christmas trees, wreaths, and pulp for making paper.
Fun Fact: Balsam firs are famous for the pleasant-scented (but sticky) resin that collects in little blisters under their smooth, gray bark. When I see a balsam fir, I can't resist popping a blister with my thumbnail so I can smell the fragrant goo.
This conifer grows on dry, rocky soils and along the edges of big rocks. It has peely red bark. Its leaves are shaped like strings of soft, flat scales. Its cones look like blueberries. Cedar waxwings, ruffed grouse, rabbits, and coyotes eat the cones.
Unlike most other Minnesota conifers, eastern red cedar trees are dioecious -- male and female cones grow on separate trees.
Fun Fact: Although eastern red cedar cones and leaves can be poisonous, various parts of the plant have been used to treat colds, infections, arthritis, and rheumatism.
This tree has gray bark with ridges. Its needles are shaped like layers of overlapping scales. Its tiny cones are brownish yellow.
White cedar is also known as arborvitae, or "tree of life" in French. A French king gave it that name after he learned that tea made from its needles could help cure scurvy, a disease caused by eating too little food with vitamin C.
Some white cedar trees that grow in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness are more than 600 years old.
Because white cedar wood resists rotting, people like to use it to build decks and other things that will be exposed to weather.
Fun Fact: Manido Giizhigance (also known as the Witch Tree), a famous tree clinging to a rock at the edge of Lake Superior near Grand Portage, might be more than 700 years old.
Another name for the tamarack is larch. In northern and central Minnesota, this fast-growing tree with flaky gray bark sprouts in sunny spots in bogs and other habitats with damp soil.
The only deciduous Minnesota conifer, tamarack does not keep its needles over winter. In autumn its soft but bristly-looking clusters of needles turn yellow and fall off. A new set of needles grows in spring.
Fun Fact: Porcupines like to gnaw the inner bark from tamarack trees, sometimes killing the tree in the process.
Hemlock is only found in a few places in Minnesota. It grows very slowly but can survive in very shady places. Its feathery branches carry short, flat needles, usually in clusters of two. Its olive-sized cones turn from green to brown as they mature.
Fun Fact: In the 19th century, American manufacturers commonly used a chemical called tannin from hemlock bark to turn animal hides into leather to be used for shoes and clothing.
Purchase a copy of the recently published by botanist Welby Smith Trees and Shrubs of Minnesota
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This month, our deity is New York and Hollywood drag legend Coco Peru, whose CV includes guest appearances in the 1999 independent film Trick, starring Tori Spelling, TV show Will & Grace, and the voice of "Mama Hippo" in the 2006 animated Disney feature The Wild.
Thou shalt spread the word of Coco Peru throughout the land and rejoice in my arrival.
Thou shalt not put on airs to try and impress me, perpetuating the myth that the British are polite, proper and posh. I just spent three months in southern Spain, and the British were just as loud, drunk, and obnoxious as us Americans.
Thou shalt come to see my show at the Soho Theatre and tell me that I look much younger in person than in my films. Lying to boost Coco's ego is not a sin.
Thou shalt not make fun of me for wearing sensible shoes. After all, I'm a cripple, both physically and emotionally.
Thou shalt invite me to Balans for lunch… often. Hey, the dollar is weak and a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to eat!
Thou shalt visit my website at www.misscocoperu.com and send me lengthy love letters… or just nude pics of yourself… or anybody.
Thou shalt not tempt me with baskets of sweets and chocolates from Harrods. Give me the cash instead.
Thou shalt not mention the name "Tori Spelling" around me.
Thou shalt not turn on any fluorescent lighting near and/ or around me for, as my mother, Helen, would say, "Oh dear, that's just not pretty".
And finally, thou shalt not take my name in vain, except when saying something like, "I fucking love that fucking Coco!"


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|Delphos man leads 2nd Amendment Rally
|Monday, February 25, 2013 3:24 PM
Veteran Jim Redmon holds a rifle while explaining to the crowd the importance of protecting the 2nd Amendment at a rally held Saturday at the Veterans Memorial Park. The rifle is one some would like banned. (Delphos Herald/Nancy Spencer)
DELPHOS — More than 20 concerned citizens gathered at the Delphos Veterans Memorial Park Saturday afternoon to stress the importance of the 2nd Amendment.
Event organizer Jim Redmon, Desmond Redmon and Don Hammond educated the crowd on the Bill of Rights, its origins and how important they feel it is to protect those rights.
"These rights were given to the people by our Founding Fathers," Jim Redmon said. "They weren't given to Congress to give or not give to us."
Redmon went on to express his concern about how far the government will go.
"Historically, whenever a country has fallen under totalitarian rule, the first thing the government did was take weapons away from the civilians," he said. "Our Founding Fathers intended the general public to have weapons to defend their property as well as the country from threats both foreign and domestic. The need for that hasn't changed."
Desmond Redmon spoke on the importance of holding the Bill of Rights near and dear.
"We can't let the government start taking our rights," he said. "If they manage to take away our right to bear arms, where will it end? Will they then take away our freedom of speech? How about our right to assemble? If they did, we wouldn't be standing here right now."
Gun control is a hot topic right now after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting left 28 dead, including the shooter and his mother, who he killed at her home.
The incident is the second deadliest shooting in United States history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. It is the second-deadliest mass murder at an American elementary school, after the 1927 Bath School bombings in Michigan.


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City, Cubs Narrow Waveland & Sheffield For Preliminary Wrigley Work
I was going to write something in my game recap about the narrowing of Sheffield and Waveland Avenues by the city of Chicago so they could do preliminary work in advance of the Cubs' Wrigley Field renovation project, but a torrential downpour got in the way of that.
The view from Ferguson ten days after the killing of Michael Brown
Before I moved back here to Chicago, I was a reporter in Saint Louis for five and a half years.
In Chicago's war zones, the tragedy extends beyond the kids who die
Like many Chicagoans, Latoya Winters was stunned by the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Shamiya Adams at a sleepover in July.
2 teens critically wounded in South Side shooting
Chicago police talk to an emotional person near the scene of a multiple shooting at 39th Street and Lake Park Avenue.
Prosecutors push to link Jason Austin to fatal shooting of cop
Jason Austin, after his release from Cook County Jail in 2008. Austin was convicted of federal drug trafficking but at a sentencing hearing today, prosecutors are seeking to tie him to the slayings of a police officer and his companion.
Leo Lionni's Frederick Set for Chicago Children's Theatre, 10/15-11/16
A raucous, playful new production of Leo Lionni's Frederick, a world premiere musical based on beloved children's author Leo Lionni's Caldecott Award-winning book about Frederick the mouse, is the big kick off to Chicago Children's Theatre's 10th birthday season.
Pharmakon releases her primal scream on 'Body Betrays Itself'
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Moscow Ballet holds two Chicago auditions for 2014 'Nutcracker'
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago premieres Kyle Abraham's 'Counterpoint'
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The eighth annual Chicago Dancing Festival kicks off tomorrow night, and this year's edition has some exciting firsts with three CDF-commissioned world premieres - the most the festival has ever commissioned - and their first time simulcasting a performance to the giant screen at Pritzker Pavilion.
What Chicago dads encounter when they take their daughters to public bathrooms
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Women's Tennis Falls to Gardner-Webb 5-2
Women's Tennis falls to Gardner-Webb 5-2
Fort Myers, Fla. – The Eagles Women's Tennis team lost for the fourth straight match, 5-2 to the visiting Bulldogs of Gardner-Webb Saturday morning. The Eagles record drops to 1-5 on the year, 0-3 in A-Sun play, while the Bulldogs record improves to , in conference.
The Eagles earned the doubles point with wins from the #1 and #2 doubles pairs. FGCU's Maria Braniecka & Jordan Vaughn defeated GWU's Laura Kriett & Rita Gouveia 8-0 at the #1 position and Maria Maggorini & Lauren Pfieffer coasted past Jenny Gomez & Amy Beavers 8-1 at #2. Monica Walser & Allie Mills won the #3 doubles match for Gardner-Webb, defeating Brett Kinley & Leah Johnson 8-4.
In singles play Gardner-Webb dominated winning 5 of the 6 matches. Maria Maggiorini (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was the lone winner for FGCU, defeating Jenny Gomez (Rincon, Ga.) in a tight match 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 at the #2 position.
The Eagles will be back in action tomorrow afternoon at the FGCU Tennis Complex taking on Villanova at 3 PM.


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Turtles and Tortoises
News about turtles and tortoises, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jul. 4, 2014
Group of turtles known as diamondback terrapins, who live in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge just south of Kennedy Airport, again appear on airport's Runway 4L despite steps to keep them away; wildlife experts have some theories about why the turtles are drawn to the runway, since those that wander are of sexual maturity; turtles first appeared marching across the airport's tarmac in 2009 and again in 2011. MORE
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Philippine National Police arrest 11 Chinese fishermen who were caught with endangered sea turtles in part of the South China Sea that is claimed by both nations; fishermen are being held on charges of violating wildlife protection laws and face up to 20 years in prison. MORE
Mar. 22, 2014
Vanessa Barbara Op-Ed article notes American red-eared slider turtles, species native to southern United States, have become one of 100 worst invasive species in the world; says turtles' spread is being fueled by international trade and owners who release them into wild once they become too large to keep as pets. MORE
Mar. 18, 2014
Researchers have used satellite tracking to determine that loggerhead turtles travel 124 to 2,672 miles in Atlantic Ocean and stay mainly near surface. MORE
Jul. 2, 2013
Taxidermists are preparing Lonesome George, giant Galapagos tortoise whose death in 2012 signified extinction of the Pinta Island subspecies, for display at the American Museum of Natural History; turtle will be shipped to Galapagos Islands for permanent display after exhibit at AMNH ends. MORE
Oct. 30, 2012
Profile of paleontologist Tyler Lyson, who spent his childhood escorting researchers to dig sites near his hometown of Marmarth, North Dakota; Lyson went on to lead research into turtles and has founded the nonprofit Marmarth Research Foundation to support paleontological research and public education in the area. MORE
Jul. 3, 2012
George, the last giant tortoise of his subspecies in the Galapagos Islands, is found dead of natural causes in his corral at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Puerto Ayora; his death comes as a shock to his caretakers, who had hoped that George, who was thought to be around 100, would survive for decades to continue his line. MORE
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Study by ecologist Lucy Wright published in journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B finds that male and female green turtles in northern Cyprus are breeding in nearly equal numbers, despite the fact that far more females are born than males; how the gender balance evens out by adulthood continues to be a mystery. MORE
Dec. 5, 2011
New York City residents take little notice of city's latest audacious animal getaway and have greeted the escape of an eastern box turtle from the Inwood Hill Nature Center with a collective shrug. MORE
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A group of diamondback terrapins appeared on Runway 4L yet again, despite recent steps aimed at keeping them away.
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Tiny cameras are recording the actions of people, animals and police departments.
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Recent research revealing that reptiles' brains are less primitive than previously thought could offer new insights on cognitive evolution.
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Town Square
Result of Atherton Destroying Police Complaints
Original post made by Kristallnacht on Mar 11, 2013
Last month, the Wiest/Lewis dominated city council, owned by the police union, decided to destroy all records of complaints Atherton residents made against officers, deeming them trivial.
Immediately thereafter, David Metzger was promoted to sergeant.
[Portion removed; don't accuse people of improper or illegal behavior without evidence.]
This is an individual who does not deserve to be an Atherton police officer (or a police officer anywhere), let alone a sergeant.
This is why records of complaints should not have been destroyed.
Comments (12)
on Mar 11, 2013 at 10:19 am
Renee Batti is a registered user.
For the record: The council did not decide "to destroy all records of complaints Atherton residents made against officers, deeming them trivial." The action allowed the destruction of 18 police files, all of which were at least five years old and none of which were related to cases involving possible lawsuits or ongoing problems with individual police officers, according to City Attorney Bill Conners.
Here's a link to the Almanac's story about the council's action:
Web Link
Also, Police Chief Ed Flint said Officer Metzger has been rotated into a vacant sergeant's position temporarily; he was not promoted. The department will be recruiting a new sergeant.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 10:43 am
Have you verified whether the complaints against Metzger have been destroyed? That's where the rubber meets the road on this one. I believe the only complaint NOT destroyed is the record of the Clark Yee golf club theft. And that's not even so relevant anymore since Yee is no longer an Atherton police officer. Please do some fact checking here. If the APD has kept around one complaint and says "we haven't destroyed everything," that is highly misleading.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 10:44 am
Sorry, meant to add the way to fact check this is to ask the question if 18 were destroyed, how many were NOT destroyed? this is the way to get around the secrecy requirements the unions have put into place.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 11:17 am
With the exception of Ms. Batti's post, this thread is an excellent example of unsubstantiated claims taking on a life of their own. Let the vitriol flow.
Try to do at least a minimum of fact checking BEFORE you make these claims. A quick call to Ms. Batti could have saved you several seconds of furious typing on your keyboard.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Give me a break. You people post in anonymously and use the real names of public employees willfully maligning their character and integrity without facts and often making up crap just for effect. Total cowardice. Just to make yourself feel better?
These people have real lives, real families, real homes to return to at night. They go to work each day to do their jobs. I have never seen regular employees abused so much in the press and by the public in any other private business. Most people wouldn't dream of berating a mid-level worker at the local grocery store or or private company by name in a public blog - only here does that crap go on. Childish and cowardice.
These people have families. Friends. Loved ones. These people may be seeking other employment elsewhere where they inevitably do Internet searches and find this crap. It damages them irreparably.
It's cowardice and crap. Get a life.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 12:39 pm
The facts posted (and deleted by the Almanac) are true: multiple and many residents have made complaints about the behavior of this officer.
The Almanac can fact check this by calling a handful of people if they wanted to.
It's a bit disingenuous to state things can't be proven in a system in which all of these "facts" are stored in a star chamber where cops adjudicate their own behavior (and then shred the complaints that were made).
If anyone can refute the fact that many residents made complaints about this officer, be my guest. They can't. The best they can do is grumble, threaten, and demand the proof (which has now literally been destroyed).
Ironically, the original point of this thread. (Mis) behavior of police officers is a topic of public interest and concern.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Sorry, but FACTS are important. Here's the precise quote from the original post:
"...decided to destroy ALL [EMPHASIS ADDED] records of complaints Atherton residents made against officers, deeming them trivial. Immediately thereafter, David Metzger was promoted to sergeant."
Turns out that neither claim was true. I'm no fan of the past misdeeds of the Atherton Police Department but facts matter when you make a claim like that.
Perhaps a simple apology would be in order... but I'm not holding my breath for that level of integrity.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 12:49 pm
Read your quote carefully, and how it restricts destruction to complaints residents made.
I believe it is true. It certainly hasn't been shown to be false. The Almanac can ascertain the details if it wanted to (and should). I believe other records were retained that were not resident complaints.
Metzger was promoted to sergeant. "Acting" in his title doesn't negate that.
The Palo Alto Post wrote a scathing editorial about the complaint shredding.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 3:31 pm
When you ignore facts, you simply lose credibility.
From Ms. Batti's post: "For the record: The council did not decide "to destroy all records of complaints Atherton residents made against officers, deeming them trivial." The action allowed the destruction of 18 police files, all of which were at least five years old and none of which were related to cases involving possible lawsuits or ongoing problems with individual police officers, according to City Attorney Bill Conners. ... Also, Police Chief Ed Flint said Officer Metzger has been rotated into a vacant sergeant's position temporarily; he was not promoted. The department will be recruiting a new sergeant."
The assertions of the original post are simply untrue.
on Mar 11, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Sorry, you're wrong on this one. So is Ms. Batti. The fact that Atherton didn't destroy all police misconduct complaints that are over five years old does not equate to Atherton not destroying all RESIDENT-ORIGINATED police misconduct complaints that are over five years old. The latter is a subset of the former. I admit Ms. Batti drew this conclusion in her post, but logically it does not follow, and unless she is aware of circumstances that she should elaborate on, she may be incorrect.
The assertions in the original post may or may not be true, but until the Almanac verifies the facts, there is no way of maintaing it is false.
We do know Atherton destroyed 18 files. We do not know, from the post by Ms. Batti above (or from the information released by APD) if a single file remained after the destruction of the 18 that is over five years old. It is possible that there were no complaints that fell into the exception categories of "possible lawsuits or ongoing problems." It is possible that some did, but were not complaints originated by residents.
There is a very easy way Ms. Batti can check this. The simple question she can pose is: after the 18 files were destroyed, how many were left? How many were left that were Atherton resident complaints of misconduct?
on Mar 11, 2013 at 8:23 pm
Hmmmm -
I stand corrected. You make a valid point - apologies!
Let's see if Ms. Batti's conclusion is substantiated.
on Mar 12, 2013 at 10:15 am
There are two points that must be made:
First, is this simply an attack on the police department by someone who is disgruntled?
No. Other officers have been recently promoted to sergeant from within, such as Brad Mills. Because he has conducted himself as a professional, there was no objection to this decision by anyone, and just praise, quite frankly. But this individual is a different story. Just ask the residents who have been abused by his behavior.
Second, the misleading press pablum by the APD over how many complaints were destroyed. Hmmm picked up on this. If it was 18 out of 18 destroyed and deemed "trivial," or 18 out of 1800, makes a huge difference in public perception. It's more like 18 out of 18, and that's why the APD wants to leave their comment as it stands and provide no further detail. Certainly the Lewis/Wiest purchased council did not ask for any further detail.
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But if you knew she spent three years in prison because of stolen medication and her admitted use of heroine, would this be the woman you want taking care of your loved one?
We're exposing information about a nurse working at Lakeridge Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, a place caring for about 86 patients with physical impairments.
Cox has been employed by Lakeridge more than just once. In fact, she worked there and at two other rehab facilities when she was convicted in 2000 for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud.
Her charges included getting Lortab, a pain medicine, through bogus prescriptions, stealing a patient's Lortab at a facility in Littlefield and getting narcotics unlawfully at the Slaton Care Center.
A Lubbock judge placed her on probation for seven years. Her nursing license was even taken away from her. Just two years into her probation, she was sent to prison after testing positive for cocaine and pain medicine and admitted to shooting heroin on a daily basis.
Cox is out of jail now and was able to convince the Texas Board of Nurse Examiners to give back her nursing license two years ago. She's back at Lakeridge as the nursing director.
So how is it that a convicted felon who admits to having an addiction to pain medicine be in charge of nursing staff here at Lakeridge? We went inside Lakeridge to get some answers, but were greeted by staff and led to the administrator Beverly Pratt's office.
"We'd like to talk to Tammy Cox or if you can answer some questions about her criminal history and why she's the director of nursing here?" asked NewsChannel 11's Cecelia Jones.
"You can turn your camera off because I haven't given you permission for you to film me," said Pratt.
You see, two months ago, a drug audit revealed missing pain meds at Lakeridge and Pratt told all the nurses who had access to a locked narcotic box to take a drug test. This report shows that Cox's test came back positive for opiates.
NewsChannel 11 was able to get proof, that not only did she fail her drug test, but she admitted to having access to drugs at the nursing home. A statement was signed by her boss, the same person who told us to turn off our camera.
This test got Cox suspended, then she quit. One month later, Lakeridge hired her again. Why? We tried to ask the owner of Lakeridge. Terri Ruble refused to meet with us, that's why I had to talk to her on the phone.
"Why do you keep rehiring this woman? Why is she still the nursing director knowing she has a drug problem? Really? Because she admitted to using heroin and cocaine and she tested positive for opiates in January. She's still the nursing director, why is that? Should people feel comfortable with that?," asked NewsChannel 11.
We wanted to ask Cox that question, but they wouldn't let us talk to her. However, Ruble says Cox explained why her test came back positive. Cox said it was because her doctor gave her a prescription for pain pills. Remember, Cox admitted in her own writing to being addicted to pain pills.
As part of getting her license back, she is supposed to let the board of nurse examiners know if she gets a prescription for pain meds. We called the board in Austin to confirm her story, but they wouldn't say if she had done that.
But we do know, by this letter dated February 5th, 2007 addressed to Ms. Pratt, Cox is under investigation by the board. "Is the Texas Attorney General investigating this place for drug diversion? You don't know if the AG's office is investigating this place?" asked NewsChannel 11.
The owner wouldn't directly answer most of our questions. And since NewsChannel 11 started investigating, we've received anonymous phone calls letting us know a new assistant director of nursing was appointed to monitor Cox, his name is Billy Jewell. You may be interested to know he was the former owner who is also Ruble's father.
Jewell, by the way, got in trouble with the federal government nine years ago. He was convicted of using fraudulent visa petitions to bring foreign nurses into the United States. The Texas Nurses Association also filed a wage complaint against Jewell on behalf of the nurses for cheating them out of their pay. According to the federal document we got from the federal courthouse, he spent 37 months behind bars and three years on probation. He was ordered to pay back one $1.5 million to the Department of Labor.
The Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services confirmed they are investigating Lakeridge. This means that three state agencies are looking into the conduct of this nurse and the facility.
Monday, we received this statement from the owner, Terri Ruble, even though she refused to give us a comment two weeks ago when we visited the facility."The state regulatory agency for long term care facilities, The Department of Aging and Disability Services, has completed its investigation of this allegation and found it unsubstantiated and cited no deficiencies. The nurse mentioned in your investigation has passed all of her drug screens and had a one time prescription for the medication that she tested positive for. She has complied with all of her board of Nurse Examiner's stipulations and continues to serve her clients and her employer in an exemplary manner. As always, quality care for our clients is our number one goal and we continually strive to maintain that goal."
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Throwback Thursday strikes again on the red carpet with Sophie Turner's 90's-inspired deep side swoop (trendy braid, included) at the Game Of Thrones premiere in New York City. We've been seeing a lot of 90's hair-spo lately, like these minimalist ponytails from the Kate Spade runway at NYFW and Jennifer Lawrence's sweptback hairstyle at the Oscar's earlier this month. Sophie kept her look sleek by creating a distinguished side part and pulling the right side into a tight French braid behind her ear, letting the rest of her shiny red locks flow over her shoulder.
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Backpacker Magazine – January 2009
Two years after hurricane-force winds and rain ravaged hundreds of miles of trail in Mt. Rainier National Park, the true damage is finally becoming clear. And what it's telling scientists is alarming: Bigger, more frequent–and more destructive–storms may be coming.
Damage Assessment
How big a hit did Rainier take in the November 2006 tempest? How will it fare in the future? From top to bottom, here's a complete report card.
The Climbs
Rainier's higher elevations escaped the storm's fury and won't see much change in the foreseeable future. But mountaineers are already coping with climate-induced changes lower on The Mountain. In 2007, collapsing snow bridges, gaping crevasses, and increased rockfall chased climbers off the popular Disappointment Cleaver route and onto an Emmons Glacier detour by midsummer. Climbing ranger Mike Gauthier says that's the earliest he can remember in 19 years on the peak. Other Rainier vets agree there's less snow, and the Inter Glacier , the main avenue to Camp Schurman, is a half-mile shorter than 50 years ago.
The Glaciers
The University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group forecasts a 1°F increase in regional temperatures in the next 20 years, equal to the entire gain of the past century. This means the Northwest's glaciers will continue to shrink. Satellite photos show Rainier's Nisqually , Winthrop, Tahoma, South Tahoma, and Carbon Glaciers at or approaching their historic minimum size; the Nisqually alone has retreated more than a half-mile since 1936. A sliver of good news: The tipping point may be far away. Scientists think Rainier's elevation will preserve glaciers on its upper flanks for the foreseeable future, and some believe a climate change-induced increase in precipitation could help some glaciers grow.
The Forests
Mt. Rainier and Olympic National Parks contain the last temperate old-growth forests in the Lower 48, with trees up to 1,000 years old and more than 200 feet tall. But rising riverbeds threaten these forests. The White River's bed has risen enough to begin suffocating acres of ancient Douglas fir, cedar, and hemlock. The Ohanapecosh River flooded during the 2006 storm, depositing three to four feet of silt in the Grove of the Patriarchs.
The Guides
Business for climbing guides on Rainier has been good in part because the Nisqually River Road has been a dependable artery to Paradise , the gateway for the mountain's most popular routes. So it was with some concern that Peter Whittaker, co-owner of Rainier Mountaineering, Inc., watched trucks rumble past his Ashford office carrying car-size boulders to rebuild the road. The Nisqually's bed sits higher than the pavement in places, and park officials expect challenges keeping the road open. Says Whittaker, who has summited Rainier more than 200 times, "We hope we can maintain that road, [but] we may be fighting a losing battle."
The Meadows
Covering nearly a quarter of the park, Rainier's subalpine meadows are a major draw. But trees are now growing in areas at Paradise that have been open for more than a century. And a 1996 study concluded that warmer summers will encourage additional growth in west-side meadows like Spray Park, where snow cover is deep and melts off more slowly because of the cooler, northerly exposure.
The Campsites Before 2005, there hadn't been a lahar on Pyramid Creek in the park's recorded history. But on September 30, five inches of rain fell, and a debris flow–one of four on Rainier that day–wiped out two tent sites at Pyramid Creek Camp , located along the Wonderland Trail in the southern tier of the park. A November 2006 lahar finished off the camp. No other backcountry camps have seen such catastrophic damage–yet. But rangers now warn backpackers to run like hell uphill if they hear the sound of a train approaching near any creek or river: It could be a lahar.
The Wonderland Trail
For almost two years, backpackers could not thru-hike this classic circumambulation because of washouts in Stevens Canyon (150 feet of trail gone) and along the Carbon River (1,500 to 2,000 feet of trail). The Stevens Canyon section reopened in August 2008, but hikers are still using a reroute around the Carbon. Of course, the storm didn't just hit the Wonderland: Wilderness permits dropped to 2,195 in 2007 due to limited access, down about 1,200 from an average year. Thanks to park and volunteer trail crews, 2008's numbers rebounded to 4,135 permits.
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Oh god, another global warming debate. Must... resist..... but I can't. Ok, my two cents:
It has been incredible to me to watch this entire debate unfold over the last 15 years or so. Watching the various opinion camps form and coalesce around various data points, and then attempt to effectively debate each other - almost always using incomplete science and cherry-picked data that seems to support their argument, has been almost as interesting (and disturbing) as watching the actual science of climatology evolve.
And while some positions use more factual evidence than others, no "side" is without fault. Yes, at this point a dispassionate reviewer of ALL AVAILABLE DATA from credible research institutions can reach no conclusion other than anthropogenic warming is real, but that doesn't leave the global warming proponents without fault. Al Gore, for instance, is a bit of a simplistic hypocrite. Yes, "An Inconvenient Truth" brought awareness to the masses... however, it's such dumbed-down science that it almost endangers the whole argument. AND he's profited off it in a big way. AND his own lifestyle reflects almost none of the changes he proposes we must make.
Politics notwithstanding, however, pure science does not lie. So do not get your data on this subject from Al Gore, Rush Limbaugh, or the Heartland Institute. Get it from the source. Start by reading and really UNDERSTANDING the IPCC briefs. Then, realize that the IPCC is not in and of itself a research institution. It's a collaberation between scientists AND industry representatives. That's right, EVERY SINGLE WORD in an IPCC brief has to be signed off on by not only scientists, but reps from the oil companies, power generation utilities etc. THAT'S why the IPCC briefs have been so conservative. They've been the worst scenarios that industry has thus far been forced by a mountain of data to agree to. And they're still pretty scary.
I'll be dead before the real change happens. And I have no kids. Since 1790 1/4 of the family tree has stopped branching
There was once a man named Charles Darwin. He saw the processes of evolution within animals and I have seen the same thing in our weather all over the globe. We are not going to heat up globally 10 degrees in our lifetime and it is not going to happen anytime soon.
Storms evolve through the evolutionary pattern of global climate cycles and within those cycles there are extreme cold and warm periods depending on how far we are away from the sun in the Earth's orbit. The Earth's orbit changes over a period of thousands of years and will continue to do so. We have been both warmer and colder in the past than we are now.
Get ready for the climate change ride and learn to deal with it and quit complaining about it.
Yawn. The 'common sense' global warming denialism is soooo simplistic. Whenever someone says "scientists have just concluded that we are at the beginning of a 30-year-cooling trend..."
I click off.
Why? Because what they would say IF THEY WERE REMOTELY ACCURATE is that a couple aging contrarian scientists, many of them totally unrelated to the disciplines of climatology, botany, biology, or paleontology, have concluded that...usually by doing surveys of existing literature rather than primary research.
And people who buy into that are merely looking for a quick and convenient answer so they can get back to whatever.
It's not about climate change. Duh. It's about the SPEED of climate change...namely, too fast for natural communities to adjust. So we'll see these partial extinctions decimate numerous plant and animals species, along with the constricting habitats.
The only reason pop media punditry (and its slavish fan base) thinks this is normal climate change is because they see any long-term change as slow in relation to the hourly news cycle. But, ice-wise, we've seen about 5,000 years of 'normalish' shrink-back within the last 170 years. And pine beetles aren't about 'beetle infestations,' they're about warm/short/dry winters not killing back the normal population of beetles.
All that is a manifestation of rapid climate change.
Besides, Al Gore isn't the basis for climate change alarmism; Scientific data is. The various IPCC reports, issued periodically, were watered down due to the exact pushback that many posters here display.
Now, year by year, we're seeing IPCC reports revised into more dire - and accurate - orientation as new data comes in and the evidence becomes ever more overwhelming.
Why don't we blame the cavemen for building too many fires warming the earth and ending the ice age?
Holly please tell me you are not buying into Al Gore, he is an idiot and an alarmist (I invented the internet). Here in the UP we have had four consecutive years that are probably the coldest and snowiest in 30 years. We are still at the end of an ice age and nature is cyclical. We shall all see in the next 10-20 years. I too have belonged to this magazine for over a decade and there is more green crap in here than backbacking anymore, so I am also probably on my way out.
Ron J..UP, Michigan
As noted above there have been numerous ice ages. What stopped them? Global warming. What led to them? Global cooling. Amazing natural changes have occured since the earth was formed.
Nothing is static. Nothing has ever been static. We must be good stewards of the planet, but let's us never shy away from informed debate. Those seeking truth shouldn't fear opposing opinions. Rather we should welcome them.
After all, only with rigorously researched facts can we solve problems, whatever they may be.
Argue all you want about "global warming" but climate change, for whatever reason, is happening with many local changes. Some areas are wetter with stronger storms and some are drier with other problems. Mud Mountain Dam on the north side was rehabilatated to accomodate up to about 200 ft of debris filling in the river. The upper reaches of many ridges are debris flow remains from 5,000 years ago. Mt Rainer is not stable. Get ready for more changes. There was a comment about hydropower but this is the part of the country that wants to remove dams that generate electricity. We do need to make changes but we can not have our cake and eat it too. What to do, what to do?
Scientist have just concluded that we are in the
beginings of a 30 year cooling trend, so you can put your Global Warming scare tactics aside until
at least 2039...
What data over the last decade are you looking at? The top 5 warmest years on record are all within the last 10 years. Computer climate models have accurately predicted or UNDERestimated climate changes due to global warming for years, so why would we question the newer more accurate models when the 20 year old primative ones were close? Oh... its snowing in the east a lot this year... global warming is a myth... come on! I hear this kind of stuff every time is gets cold outside. Its all a bunch of alarmest crap? Go talk to the people living in the Arctic where its now warmer there than it has been in thousands of years. The permafrost that literally holds the ground together is melting. We have lost ice that we know has been on the planet for tens of thousands of years, and from all the science we can muster we have found that this dramatic rise in temprature has only started in the last 100 years and more dramatically the last 50. Natural changes cannot happen this fast. There is no mechanism barring some sort of global disaster (meteor strike, massive volcanic eruption) that can cause the climate to shift in the way we are now seeing. CO2 and methane in the atmosphere have risen sharply, physics tells us that those gasses trap more heat, and the rise can be directly linked to human activities. Global temps are rising, given these facts any rational person must conclued that global warming is real. Knowone seems to argue that CFC's caused the hole in the Ozone layer. So we banned CFC's. The government came to that comclusion using the same science that is now telling us about global warming. Is it that you really don't believe or that actually doing something about global warming in just too much of a hassel?
I work in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Some of the islands I work with their highest peak is less than 20 feet. These islands are concerned about rising tides which equate to land loss and being submerged. Global warming warming is a natural cycle. Pacific islanders have known this for who knows how long.
Regarding the comment on Mt St Helens glaciers "recovering" since the May 18th, 1980 eruption; Indeed one new glacier has sprouted - highly unusual and fascinating - but it is NOT due to that fact that climate is conducive to glacier formation but rather to the fact that there is now a brand new 3,000 foot north facing CLIFF that wasn't there before where the new glacier is being created. The previous glacier system around the flanks of the original peak - now 1,300 feet lower than before - have NOT reformed. Let�s get our facts straight, OK folks?
There is no debate that the earth's average temperature has risen and it is only explainable in relation to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions which are themselves indisputably human caused. There is also no debate that even if we ceased ALL GHG emissions today, we are in for additional warming. Glaciers and ice sheets nearly everywhere on this planet are in retreat, and this article describes one serious issue arising from this retreat that I had not considered.
Hey Steve - wake up and listen to what all the scientists are saying. Global warming is real. Cap and Trade will help reduce carbon emissions and will raise capital for future energy independence. How can you breathe with your head in the sand?
I just want to say that Holly B's comments are like a fairy tale - It's pure fantasy.
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