How soon do you archive information?

A recent story posted only last week, is mysteriously now REALLY hard to find and has been pulled a lot sooner than most articles of a sexual nature.

The Northwest Herald has done something it shouldn't have - at least not this soon after an incident. Curiously, the report from this paper was, by far, the most accurate account of the incident. No one was misquoted - when compared to all other coverage available at the time.
We all know to what incident I refer.

For a newspaper, I say you don't archive any story until it's solved or over. This story is far from over.

But, fortunately, BAD COP NEWS has kept it running.

Are background checks enough?

Well, are they? I think not in every case. I firmly believe that even as long as 20 years ago, more than a routine or even a deep background check should be made on:

Security personnel - all levels, serving any age
Actively teaching Faculty or non-teaching faculty - teaching/advising students age17 and younger, teaching/advising students age 65 and older
Medical personnel - treating 15 years and younger, 70 years and older with additional pediatric or geriatric training as appropriate

The checks I am referring to are two types:

One type is known and used in the Television Game Show / Reality Show divisions called Level 4 (with the addition of whether or not a previous record set has been expunged - if sworn officers)
The other type would be a Wonderlic test.

Well, there you have it, all the votes are in.

In an unrelated story

The following is copied from unknownnews.org who copied it from the Galveston Daily News:

Cop gets probation for boinking 16-year-old sex assault victim
Jan. 13, 2007 Galveston Daily News

Texas City, Texas — A 10th State District Court jury Friday sentenced a former deputy constable to probation for sexually assaulting a girl, 16. Charles Cribbs, 32, befriended the girl in 2004 after members of her family asked him to help counsel her.

She had been sexually assaulted the previous year, court officials said. Instead of counseling her, Cribbs started a sexual relationship with her. The girl was able to describe Cribbs' pubic area while testifying. A friend of hers also testified to hearing the two having sex.

Testimony at the trial established that Cribbs had sex with the girl six times, including once at her home and once at the Precinct 5 Constable's Office where he worked.

Even though the girl reportedly was not forced into sex acts, Texas law holds that a person younger than 17 cannot consent to sex.

Prosecutor Kayla Allen told jurors Cribbs had abused his public trust to satisfy his prurient desires. She asked jurors to sentence him to prison. The charge carried a possible prison term of two to 20 years, as well as a fine of up to $10,000.

After the trial, jurors told attorneys they gave Cribbs probation because they felt sorry for his young daughter.

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Entirely unrelated story.

Now that I have confused you all here, a charge of harassment can only be made when there is evidence of intent, not just because you feel harassed. Are ALL of the smart Lake County lawyers now Judges? Have we lost all the smart lawyers to these judgeships?
Also, although there are articles mentioning that communicating with witnesses in a criminal case is against state law, that only applies to the parties of the case; subpoenaed witnesses of fact (not character), both counsels and their attendant firms, bailiffs outside of their normal court duties, court reporters, active and alternate jurors, media allowed to observe trials in progress for the duration of the trial (reporters outside can still ask questions and contact assigned client attorneys) - a wife not suborned does NOT count. Also, as it is against the law if you ARE a party, THAT law is NOT a Class 2 Felony charge!

Evidence of Intent to Harass IS the Class 2.

Also recently reported is a set trial date of Feb 7th (after charges). NO.

Students will forget?

Q: If you are a parent that has promised a teen a new car IF they keep their grades at a B or above by the time they're 16 and ready for a new car (with the intention you know they never will fulfill the grade), and they maintain a 3.6 avg.; will your teen accept you NOT giving them the promised car?
A: Yes, in a Dreamworld, there is a 1% chance that 1% of teens will forgive your little "joke".

Q: If you are a future NFC champ and a future possible, but 6 months ago unlikely, Superbowl prospect, and you literally promise a Local Access TV cohort a room near and tickets for said Superbowl, and later try to wriggle out of your promise, are you wrong for not manning up?
A: In a Publicity Stunted world, yes, you are perceived as a cad and should pony-up.

Q: If an apparently - at least at one time - trusted guardian of your personal safety is found and admits to an entirely (by US 2007 standards) illegal action of sex with a minor, himself being over 30, AND you are a college student, will you forget?
A: Well, that depends. Here, in this article, I am alluding. However, CLC Really Local News has discovered that the CLC Chronicle IS going to at least investigate (and then perhaps publish) at least some thing about such an incident (involved a CLC employee with a highschool-aged non-CLC student from another county (does not live in Lake County). I think college students - at least media students - do NOT forget these things, and eventually do tackle them in the "appropriate" forum.

Regarding fact reporting and sequestering: sequestering is only reserved for jury members. And, by reporting any information or handing someone a report of information to potential callable (non eye-) "character" witnesses, is clearly not a violation of federal law so the Chronicle AND CLC Radio Really Local News are legally on rock-solid ground - even for just hinting, as we think we are. It's all alleged anyway. Whatever - read on.

Recently a co-worker suggested that "students forget [this kind of thing when it doesn't happen within their immediate sphere of consciousness]..." This co-worker has said this on more than one occasion and on each has been wrong. I also disagree with any person on this issue.
In this recent case of mutually consensual "relationship" behaviour - they would also be wrong.

CLC Radio Really Local News is holding any reports of the scandal until more refutable evidence is presented by the Chronicle - because we like to poke fun at them, although last semester they made our job of poking really difficult!

But, that ain't nothin'; read the next link above and you might discover what true marital love can be all about (talk about a woman standing behind his man!):

Hooboy, College of Lake County does it again

I paste this due to another inconvenient truth; that students in a club run by students are being led down an invasive and evasive path by their advisor of non-learning a most obvious truth: the truth behind stats. Another inconvenient truth that CLC has a club that attaches itself - apparently - to ideas unsubstantiated by or based on actual recognised climate expert scientific agreement; not the "findings" of ad hoc panels formed at the behest of personal whims.

It does not matter whose idea it is to show "An Inconvenient Truth", it is an adviser's job to advise. So either the information below is included for discussion of the inconvenient truth or the better advise would be to ignore "The Inconvenient Truth" - the movie.

List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Various surveys have been conducted to determine a scientific consensus on global warming. Only one has been conducted within the last ten years.

[edit] Oreskes, 2004

In December 2004, an article by geologist and historian of science Naomi Oreskes summarized a study of the scientific literature on climate change.^[1] The essay concluded that there is a scientific consensus on the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The author analyzed 928 abstracts of papers from refereed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003, listed with the keywords "global climate change". The abstracts were divided into six categories: explicit endorsement of the consensus position, evaluation of impacts, mitigation proposals, methods, paleoclimate analysis, and rejection of the consensus position. 75% of the abstracts were placed in the first three categories, thus either explicitly or implicitly accepting the consensus view; 25% dealt with methods or paleoclimate, thus taking no position on current anthropogenic climate change; none of the abstracts disagreed with the consensus position, which the author found to be "remarkable". It was also pointed out, "authors evaluating impacts, developing methods, or studying paleoclimatic change might believe that current climate change is natural. However, none of these papers argued that point."

The Oreskes essay in Science claiming a consensus for man-made global warming was falsified within weeks of its appearance by Appell and Peiser, leading to an embarrassing correcton from Oreskes in the same journal, admitting that she had reported a literature search based on the words 'climate change' but in fact had used the term 'global climate change'. When this literature search was repeated by Peiser it was found that only 1% of the scientific research paper abstracts for the period in question explicitly supported a man-made origin for recent climate change. http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Scienceletter.htm

Science curiously refused to publish further details of the falsified Oreskes work submitted by Peiser, whose own work was criticised, but this proved to be groundless as the additional confusion had actually arisen due to further sloppy reporting by Oreskes who had also failed to make it clear that her original search was on 'articles only' rather than on 'all document types'.

Peiser subsequently set out every one of the abstracts, by year, for others to see for themselves that Oreskes' survey findings were indeed false. http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Oreskes-abstracts.htm

This outcome hasn't prevented individuals and organisations from continuing to report, wrongly, this summarily discredited literature search as somehow supporting anthropogenic climate change.

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Pasted due to the volatile nature of the lack of reporting elsewhere.

Just in case you can't make up your own mind, try this for size in your pee-brain!

And, in some perverse twist of my own self-foisted irony, I have created a media monster in that of promoting the very thing I wished not to promote: that bull*hit movie. So, then I give you another righteous shameless plug:

Learn about Comedy at the College of Lake County

Ha! You fell for the old "sure sounds like a PR stunt to get us to sign up for a comedy class at CLC" trick. Works very time.

Sound funny? Well, on Friday, January 26th, "the first ever" night of comedy, dubbed "Lancer Laughapalooza", came to CLC with performances by Rosie Tran, Arnold Avevedo (Latino Laugh Festival) and Wyl Sylvince (HBO's Def Comedy Jam). The show was to begin at 8 p.m. in the C- 005 Auditorium. It proved, in this reporter's ears and eyes and belly, to be rather successful over the usually daunting and nerve-racking venture - even for 4 year college! But, as I hinted, the show's start would not be until 8:25pm.
Not to worry, however, as my very own finger dance kept people amused and distracted from the casual start time.
I say "usually daunting", as above, due the casual (professional) delivery of the decidedly liberal comic material - not too far afield from what you might hear at NIU or UofI at their comedy club nights these days! (Remember, back only 5 years ago Dennis Miller himself said in many interviews that playing colleges then was a sure way for even the best comic to lose his or her confidence in a barrage of conservative heckling - causing the intellectuals such as Garafalo, Miller, Miller, Martin, Rock, etc. all Liberal powerhouses to resort to dick jokes or cancellations - no joke.)
Also, like the Big Colleges, Felicia Ganther designed the night ala HBO Comedy Specials, playing her part as DJ Felli-Fell (?) while playing the talent on and off stage just like Master P do, with amusing R&B selections from her personal library. The microphone adjustments were well tuned to the room (which in comedy is either s crap-shoot or serious item on a contract rider!). The lighting suited well as both stage and audience were well lit (normal for comedy). As well the show plot was professionally done, starting with the usual suspects of Music, introducing the MC, then the "Opener', to MC, the "Middle", MC again, then the Headliner, then back to the MC (this last bit is unusual, as most MC endings following the Headliner is usually customarily a final bow of all the comics, with little rebuttal from the MC, but in this case, being amused further by him was well received).

Now to be sure, delivered was very liberal material over all at the "first ever" Lancer Laughapalooza, and there were the usual "toe dip" amount of dick jokes as well as vag jokes (hey don't bitch at us, CLC is doing presenting, "The Vagina Monologues") - but, who really cares? We sure don't care of such things here in the CLC Radio Really Local News Bed. We look forward to many more Knights of Comedy such as was the caliber of tonight' s performance. CLC is college, we are adults, and we deal with adult issues all too few in a faux PC world. Anyway, even the opener could sense when she went "too far, did I go to far?".
However, one technical thing that bothered me of the night's performance was the M.C.'s consistent plugging of the show in the following light: (paraphrasing) "Tonight is CLC's first-ever comedy night...". Well, looking at the process that would certainly ring true in comedy law. But, in comedy spirit, absolutely not true. Only 4 years ago the CLC Program Board presented Carlos Mencia in the JLC, on his way up the Brown Comedy Ladder then and hugely, now with his own show. CLC has been host to the designer of the Ministry of Silly Walks from heyday of Monty Python's American TV re-airings. We have had others in between.
So, although not The First comedian, definitely A First FULL Night of Comedy! And a good one!

BTW, if you found this article to be offensive, then good, and you better attend the CLC Theatre Department's presentation of "The Vagina Monologues" - if only to complain how "raunchy" it was, afterward! And, if you just found this article on the web - offensive or not - congratulations!
So to quote one of the talent tonight, "Hey, it's comedy, get over it!".
Yep, we're all for gettin' over and gettin' over IT.

Disclaimer: the liberal use of the words "dubbed" and "caliber" and the apparent misspelling of the word Knight in the article above are really just veiled attempts at humor: Medieval Style.

BTW, the M.C. of the night could be arguably the best comedian of the night, as with every entre to the stage, he just kept getting better. His deft use of feigning hearing, he would take what an audience member was clearly mumbling, and then twist the words to his own comic desires - soon to become our comic desire to see this comedian up on the HBO soon! His handling of hecklers was impeccable (as we know, RSVP to hecklers can always be a nail-biter).
Really, the only awkward moment was "the Opener's" comment of simulating ardor for too-young highschool-aged man-sex for her! Yipes! Sort of a local NIGHTMARE.

College of Lake County and its very near future!

Well, folks, we don't yet know which future CLC has in store for itself, nor which future will be planned just yet, but pleat many ideas and ARE underway right now to add to the FY2008 budget monies to accomplish a great many ideas. To actually DO SOMETHING GOOD, EFFICIENTLY, AND WITH A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF SKEPTICISM MIXED WITH A "COULD BE A WORSE IDEA NOT TO" DO ATTITUDE.
These ideas are being sought by decision makers down the ranks as well as by the students up through to administrators who - for the time being - look and sound like they care about the largest issue facing the Grayslake Campus to date (and for the last 15 years), its space allocation and use issues of its existing space use.
True, not everyone is currently being asked for their opinion, directly, but enough emails and press releases have borne out the same message - all employee groups as well as student groups can send their ideas (presumably easiest through emails) to those they feel will carry through those ideas into action and crucial, yet smart, spending. Of money. And time. And resources.
We'll be waiting.
And watching.
On the CLC Radio Really Local News Bed.

OK, look; we are being purposely vague and holding back any details, because:
1. our GM has already published his design ideas back in September or October of 2006, and
2. there are no details to report.

Be patient.