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T-R PHOTO BY MIKE DONAHEY — Outgoing Police Chief Mike Tupper, center , was honored and presented a plaque with his badges from Ottumwa, Nevada and Marshalltown during a reception at the Police/Fire building on Friday afternoon. Pictured alongside Tupper are several of his MPD colleagues: Lt. Chad Hillers, Lt. Sadie Weekley, Lt. AJ Accola, new Chief Chris Jones and Capt. Kiel Stevenson.
Older brothers have inspired younger brothers and siblings towards countless career paths.
However, for retiring Marshalltown Police Chief Mike Tupper, 55, his younger brother Jeff of Dubuque motivated him to pursue a career in law enforcement.
“Jeff was — and still is — a member of the Dubuque Police Department,” Tupper said in a recent telephone interview with the Times-Republican.
Now, after 32 years as a policeman — and 13 plus years as Marshalltown’s chief — Tupper’s last day, perhaps for a while in law enforcement, ended at 5 p.m. Friday.
That afternoon, he was the guest of honor at a reception sponsored by community leaders.
T-R PHOTO BY ROBERT MAHARRY — Tupper, left, accepted a Distinguished Service Award from Mayor Joel Greer, right, during Monday night’s city council meeting. Tupper spent a total of 32 years in law enforcement, including the last 13 plus years in Marshalltown.
Tupper said he had been attending the University of Dubuque in Dubuque when he qualified for placement on Ottumwa’s civil service list for police officers. He was hired in 1993.
“In the early 1990s, it was challenging to get a job in law enforcement,” Tupper said. “One had to apply in a number of communities.”
In Ottumwa, he worked his way up from patrolman to detective to sergeant. In 2004, Tupper was hired as Nevada’s chief of police. He held that position until 2011, when he was hired to take over the same position in Marshalltown.
Ever since, he has emphasized the practice that all MPD officers be actively engaged in local community projects and show respect to Marshalltown’s diverse populations. Consequently, it was common to see MPD officers co-managing blood drives, sponsoring efforts to collect canned food and packaged products for Marshalltown’s Emergency Food Box and serving as volunteers and board members for numerous not-for-profit organizations and civic groups.
Tupper served on the board of directors of Marshalltown’s House of Compassion – an entity providing a nightly free meal, supply closet and assistance for those seeking employment. He also served on the board of the YSS of Marshall County.
He also instituted the local “Coffee with a Cop” program where the public can talk with members of the MPD at local restaurants and coffee shops several times a year.
Early on in his tenure as local police chief, he and his colleagues recognized that the former MPD headquarters at 22 N. Center St. was woefully inadequate for efficient police work and the safety of crime victims and witnesses.
He and former Marshalltown Fire Chief David Rierson provided critical leadership to resolve the issue. They were joined by a group of citizens on an ad-hoc committee chaired by local attorney Paul Peglow. Their mission was to convince voters to approve a bond issue to build the current joint MPD/MFD complex – a state-of-the-art facility in the 900 block of South Second Street. The bond issue passed by a significant margin in 2016 after a police only bond issue had failed the year before.
Tupper also worked enthusiastically with the T-R to co-sponsor “Marshalltown Police Officer of the Year” – awarded annually to a deserving officer of all ranks after evaluation by a MPD committee, It was followed with the award presented by the T-R at a Marshalltown city council meeting during National Police Week.
“When Chief Tupper was hired to lead our agency in 2011, he brought a much-needed collaborative philosophy,” said new Marshalltown Police Chief Chris Jones in an email to the T-R. “His experience working within other communities taught him that if he was to be successful, he needed to garner public support. He began by working closely with local organizations and relaying our willingness to support local efforts to improve the quality of life here. He fostered an ardent desire to network with supporting area law enforcement agencies and help our department understand the value of working together to accomplish common goals. He has played a pivotal role in furthering the professionalism of our staff and has been steadfast in maintaining exact standards in the personnel we have hired and developed during the last 13 years. Our community’s positive support for local law enforcement is due to his hard work and continued dedication to the citizens of Marshalltown. He will be missed!”
Ryan Keller of YSS, who has worked closely with the chief on the implementation of the Marshalltown Police and Community Team (MPACT) program, identified another Tupper trait.
“Chief Tupper has always struck me as a leader who understands the importance of a balanced approach toward law enforcement and community,” said Keller in an email to the T-R. “Throughout the time I was privileged to work with him through the MPACT program, it is this understanding of balance and a love for community that motivated him toward leaving a positive impact on those he served here in Marshalltown. Tupper developed the idea of having social workers within the police department to respond to non-criminal issues alongside police officers. He reached out to (YSS of Marshall County Director of Community Engagement) David Hicks to figure out the best way to make that idea a reality. I have witnessed his compassion with families who have lost a loved one, his encouragement to MPACT and police staff after a particularly demanding situation, and his ability to take on difficult challenges and find solutions.
Marshalltown Fire Chief Christopher Cross became acquainted with Tupper nearly nine years ago.
“I came to work for the city in 2016 as the deputy fire chief,” said Cross in email to the T-R. “As a ‘transplant’ to the public safety community, Chief Tupper and his staff were truly kind and welcoming to me and my family. Mike and I have worked together on some big events and projects throughout our tenure together, and through it all one thing is clear. He loves this community and has retained his motivation to serve the members of his department and those we swore to protect. Mike is now and will always be “all in” on taking care of people. I thank him for his leadership, mentorship, and friendship and wish him well as he begins the next chapter of his life.”
Marshalltown Mayor Joel Greer has spoken effusively of Tupper ever since the former was first elected to the Marshalltown city council to represent the Second Ward.
“In 2011, before he was hired, my wife and I went to the council chambers to meet several police chief candidates, including Tupper,” wrote Greer in a recent email to the T-R. “We were impressed with his wife Sarah, a fellow lawyer and prosecutor. We were extremely impressed with Mike, who mentioned the broken window phenomenon of what can happen if a city’s structures are not kept up. After the mayor recommended him and the council approved his hire, we were impressed with his communication skills and the way he made sure the police department volunteered and participated in community events and embraced our diverse population. The outreach was fantastic, with the continued and growing citizens police academy, the blood drives, the ‘Coffee with a Cop’ events, and similar interactions.
Greer also commended the chief for his leadership during a particularly challenging time for law enforcement across the country — the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 in Minneapolis.
“When George Floyd was killed by officers in the Twin Cities, there were riots and protests in other places, and there was concern by downtown businesses about potential vandalism. A rally was planned here and the organizers asked Tupper to be a primary speaker. In other cities, there was anti-police sentiment. Here, our diverse community trusted our police chief and his force to keep the good relations going,” Greer said. “His speech was spot on. Marshalltown experienced no violence or destruction. What I will not miss are the 3 a.m. text messages about a crime or the 6 a.m. texts about a capture. I will also not miss having a good police chief because he helped groom at least three internal candidates that I would have easily asked the council to approve as his replacement. What we all will miss in Marshalltown are his steady hand, sense of humor, and wickedly skillful writing skills. But I look forward to watching where he next works, because he is too young and creative to stay retired.”
A retirement reception for Tupper was held at the Police/Fire building on Friday afternoon, and a combination of coworkers, law enforcement colleagues from other communities, family members and friends piled into the conference room to pay their respects to the chief. After several fellow officers including Jones and Capt. Kiel Stevenson had delivered their remarks and presented gifts, an emotional Tupper, who joked that he wasn’t sure if anyone would show up, stepped forward to reflect on his tenure in Marshalltown.
“I love this job. I’ve loved it from day one, and I’ve loved every moment. Even the hard stuff, I’ve appreciated because it was an opportunity to do something good for my community,” he said. “And I’ve worked with so many great people, and I would not have made it this far without countless people supporting me and helping me, teaching me, having a lot of patience and grace, showing me a lot of tolerance at times and believing in me.”
Tupper called those who choose to pursue law enforcement “superstars” and said he had been blessed to work with many of them throughout his career. He admitted that he struggled with the thought of leaving his position but felt it was time and was happy to be walking away with his head held high.
“Every community has been special to me, but Marshalltown has embraced the Tupper family like you would not believe. And it’s really been home, and I appreciate that,” he said. “And it hasn’t always been easy, but we’ve gotten through a lot of stuff.”
He also credited his wife and children for enduring the stress of the job and the criticism that often comes with a position like his.
“When you stand up in front of an organization, it’s your responsibility to take those arrows, but the families sometimes have to take the arrows too. So that’s the unfortunate part,” he said. “But by and large, it’s been a great job, and there’s been a lot of love. And I’m walking away today with my heart full of love for this job and this profession and the people that I’ve worked with. And Chris Jones is gonna be a great police chief. He’s gonna be way better than the last guy, and I look forward to seeing what he does next. And I look forward to seeing what the department does because we have so many good people in this police department.”
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Web developers will soon find it easier to work with dates and times in JavaScript, thanks to emerging browser support for JavaScript’s Temporal object, according to Mozilla.
Implementations of the new Temporal object have begun shipping in experimental releases of browsers, said Brian Smith, staff technical writer on the MDN Web Docs team at Mozilla, in a blog post on January 23. Applications relying on scheduling, time-sensitive data, or internationalization can use Temporal for precise, consistent dates, times, calendars, and durations.
However, stable, cross-browser support for Temporal has not been reached yet, and changes may be made as implementations develop, Smith said. Mozilla’s Firefox browser appears to have the most-mature implementation at this juncture, with support being built into the Nightly version behind the behind the javascript.options.experimental.temporal preference, he said. The main browser bugs that track Temporal implementations include Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
JavaScript Temporal was designed as a full replacement for the JavaScript Date object, to make date and time management reliable and predictable, Smith said. The date object has supported a user’s local time and UTC, with no time zone support. It also has had unreliable parsing and Date is mutable, a situation that can produce hard-to-trace bugs, according to Smith. Also, there are problems with Date across daylight savings time and historical calendar changes.
By contrast, Temporal offers support for time zone and calendar representations and many built-in methods for conversions, comparisons, computations, formatting, and other capabilities. Key concepts in Temporal include unique points in history, wall clock times, and durations. With experimental implementations landing, it is a good time to try out Temporal and become familiar with it, said Smith. MDN has online documentation on Temporal.

Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld, focusing on coverage of application development (desktop and mobile) and core web technologies such as Java.
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In high school, he knew he was going to be a pastor because his report cards indicated he talked too much in class. His teachers even said he gabbed like he was going to be a pastor.
Marty Walker, 61, not only went on to become a pastor, but he’s also been participating in the Chaplains Program of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is a group of religious leaders who volunteer their time to provide for the spiritual and personal needs of Sheriff’s Department personnel and their families.
“One of the things that turned me on to the program is that, as a pastor, I so relate to cops,” Walker said during a recent telephone interview. “No. 1: There’s never one around when you need one. Some people say, ‘There’s never a cop around when you need one.’ Same with pastors. Like, ‘I need to show up at the hospital. Why wasn’t my pastor here when I had surgery?’ So, I felt like I connected with cops.”
Walker added that pastors can also relate with cops because so many people expect them to be perfect. They might similarly ask a pastor or a cop, “How come your son has long hair and is hanging out at the skate park?”
Walker’s answer to that question: “Because he’s 15 years old.”
It’s true, Walker said, both cops and pastors make mistakes, and they both have problems just like everyone else.
“Anyway,” he said, “I got to hanging out with them (sheriff’s deputies from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station), and one of them approached me and said, ‘You’ve got to do chaplaincy.’ I’m like, ‘What’s that?’”
Upon learning about the program, the pastor was all in. That was about 15 years ago. He’s been a part of it since.
Walker was born and raised in Pacoima. In 1989, he was a pastor at a church in Woodland Hills when he learned about a church in the SCV called The Sanctuary, which he described as being “empty.”
“There was nobody going to this church and it needed some pastors,” he said. “They had a building, they had a parking lot, but there were 15 people.”
Moving to the more rural Canyon Country from the trendier neighborhood of Woodland Hills, which he said was populated with people who drove BMWs, was a major culture shock.
Walker clarified: “I didn’t drive a BMW, but everyone else did,” adding that people in Woodland Hills also dressed much differently.
“I’m in gabardine slacks,” he said. “I’ve got a ponytail, I wear bolo ties all the way up to the collar — this was the ’80s. And so, I came to Canyon Country, and I’m like, ‘Where are we?’”
Walker would come to proudly call the SCV his home. He said he fell in love with the people. And he’s still at the Sanctuary Church.
When he started working with the chaplains program at the SCV Sheriff’s Station, he immediately saw the value he could bring. It was a perfect fit, he said. He especially likes doing ride-alongs.
Walker insisted that when he’s with deputies, he’s not always sharing the word of God. In fact, most of what he does is simply converse.
“My job isn’t to lead someone to Jesus,” he said. “I’m there to be for these deputies.”
He explained what that meant — to be “for” the deputies.
“I think the world looks at us — at the church — and says, ‘Oh, we know what the church is against,’” Walker said. “I think it’s time for the world to know what the church is for. We are for deputies. We are for the city.”
He added that he’s also for a clean city. He won’t litter and he’ll even pick up trash if he sees it around town. He’s for the parks. He’s for the schools.
As a congregation, Walker’s church, for example, has served dinners for the Golden Valley High School football team.
“These deputies need to know that we’re for them,” he said. “Because they’ve learned to not trust people. When someone says, ‘I was just here, I wasn’t doing anything.’ ‘Well, I have three witnesses who say you did.’ Everybody lies to them. So, who do they trust? Who can they trust? I’m trying to break through going, ‘You can trust us. We’re chaplains, and we’re here for you.’”
Sometimes, it’s the small conversations that helps sheriff’s personnel come to trust Walker. He’s related with deputies over the trials and tribulations of installing a pool, or over the only slightly less than gigantic feat of raising a teen. Walker’s four kids are now in their 20s and 30s, but he has quite the life experience, including 40 years of marriage, that informs what he shares.
“I’m not their mentor by a long shot,” Walker said. “But I’m this older guy who understands them.”
During ride-alongs with deputies, Walker will even assist with lighting and setting flares around a traffic collision on the road or writing a suspect’s name and driver’s license number on the bracelets they get when going to jail.
The pastor pointed out that he never does anything like handcuff a suspect. But the first time he was told to put on a bulletproof vest made him think twice about the work.
“I was like, ‘What am I doing here? I’m a pastor,’” he said. “But for me, I go, ‘If I’m not putting my life on the line, then I’m not really with these guys.”
At a certain point, sheriff’s personnel must’ve recognized Walker’s conviction. It’s not like he was getting paid. He was volunteering his time. And those connections he was making must’ve been real. Many deputies stopped calling him “sir” and began calling him “Chap.” That’s when Walker said he knew he was on the inside.
In the past year, he’s spent his time in the chaplains program at North County Correctional Facility in Castaic. And while he embraced the challenge, being there for facility personnel, he said he wasn’t able to get as much conversation time in with those folks because they haven’t had that time together in vehicles on patrol. So, Walker feels less impactful, but it’s important work, nonetheless.
SCV Sheriff’s Station Capt. Justin Diez expressed the importance of the department’s chaplains during a recent phone interview, saying that their service is invaluable, and a part of the deputy wellness services that the station offers.
Mental health, Diez said, is a big issue in the community, and the station provides four programs, including a peer support group, a doctor from the psychological services bureau, a peer support canine, and the volunteer chaplains program.
Chaplains, the captain added, are trained and credentialed through the Sheriff’s Department chaplains program, and Walker is one of about six chaplains who volunteer at the station, each of those chaplains from a different place of worship within the Santa Clarita Valley.
In addition to the chaplains going on ride-alongs with deputies, Diez said they also offer their services at briefings and on the scenes of traffic collisions, homicides, baby-not-breathing calls — any major incident, really. During fires, he said they’ve gone out to command posts to make themselves available to deputies and the station personnel.
Asked about the effectiveness of the program, Diez said it can’t be quantified.
“Any conversations — a deputy’s formal conversations, any spiritual guidance they’re seeking with the chaplains — is completely anonymous,” he said. “So, there’s really no way to quantify it, nor am I allowed to ask about it or even try to quantify it.”
The services, he said, are there for any needs anyone at the station might have.
On average, Walker will volunteer through the sheriff’s chaplains program twice a month, usually about four hours each time. He’s particularly excited with some news he got just a couple weeks ago. He learned he’d be reassigned to ride-alongs. It’s where he feels he shines most.
Diez seemed to also believe that Walker does well in that capacity.
“It’s very, very, very easy to connect with him (Walker),” Diez said. “He’s got a great skill where he can come down to anybody’s level and really just interact with that person. He’s got that gift. That’s why the guys and gals here really like him and take to him.”
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GEYSERVILLE, Calif. — Every day at noon, three tiny bells ring in Sonoma County’s Wine Country, and every day, people visiting the little town of Geyserville are welcomed inside a temple covered in hieroglyphics, at Isis Oasis Sanctuary. The lush 10-acre property is spiritual retreat inspired by an ancient Egyptian goddess.
“Isis is like the supreme goddess of ancient Egypt and, of course, you know, she’s had that name for millennia at this point. It’s not to be confused with any other ISIS, organizations,” sanctuary director de Traci Regula said.
The goddess Isis is a figure of many things, including healing, peace, celebration, and motherhood.
“Our foundress Loreon Vigné felt that, you know, the male side of spirituality had gotten plenty of attention,” Regula said.
Isis Oasis was founded in 1978 by the late Loreon Vigné, a Bay Area art shop owner who catered to Beat Generation poets from the 1950s and ’60s.
“She was an artist, a visionary, a priestess, a writer and a businesswoman. And all of these things combined to create what she considered a grand art project of Isis Oasis Sanctuary,” said Regula.
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Temple of Isis was formally recognized as a church in the state of California in 1996. De Traci said the property has been a magnet for musicians like the Grateful Dead and the former home of activist Dennis Perron.
“He is known as the Father of Medical Marijuana legislation, and he was the executive assistant to Harvey Milk,” Regula said.
Isis Oasis also welcomes overnight guests in their grand lodge. Each room is uniquely decorated with the theme of different goddesses. If you are looking to start a family, the Isis room might be what you are looking for.
“Supposedly, we’ve had a number of guests who have conceived in this room, and we actually get people who request this room specifically because they are trying to have a baby,” Regula said.
If you are looking to get in touch with nature, take a short walk up to the earthen fairy houses. The rooms are cozy and near a series of exotic bird cages and animal pens. Isis Oasis is not just a sanctuary for people but for unwanted or neglected animals as well.
There are more than 70 animals on the property. Regula said Isis Oasis founder Loreon Vigné loved animals and even helped care for endangered felines.
“She was also considered to be the one of the first, if not the first person to successfully breed ocelots in the United States,” Regula said.
Isis Oasis Sanctuary is a place for peace, art and exploring. A place that welcomes all to experience the property in their own way.
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ChainCatcher news, the Tensor Foundation announced on social media that the Season 4 airdrop rewards are now open for claims.
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