Lost In Traffic

Traffic can drive me nuts.  Not that I am always in a hurry. You know, time is money. It's hard to have both at the same time.
I'm in Chicago and I grab my applications to extend my Chineses Visa.  The Chinese have a consulate in Chicago.  So does India, but that 's a story for another time.
I stay about 15 miles from the "Loop," Chicago's famed center. It takes me about 45 minutes to drive there.
I get lucky when I finally get there finding a parking space on the street no more than 2 blocks away.
I grab the applications and walk up to the consulate, open the door to the entrance, and stop dead in my tracks.
I really should have started pounding my head against the wall right then and there, except that I'm with someone and did not want to cause a scene.
I broke out laughing out loud. I had the applicatiobs, the preciuos applicationx that I determindly made certain I did not forget.
Sure as the sun wil rise though, I left the passports at home!  No passport no visa.
Yikes, what a dum-dum!
Like I said, you either have time or money, but I now realized I can sometimes have little of either!

CPIC Searches Cause Grief for NAPBS Pre-employment Screening Companies

Background Checks run through the CPIC (without fingerprints) will only return name matches.

Many NAPBS member companies have written and talked about the ineffectiveness of FBI, or state-wide searches, and CPIC.

Background Checks run through the CPIC (without fingerprints) will only return name matches.

You will then have to submit fingerprints and wait - sometimes weeks or months!

CPIC searches can cause more than grief for pre-employment screening companies.

Say good bye to the job candidate.

He's been hired by someone other than your client who has the knowledge to check the Provincial Court Systems for date of birth matches.

On the other hand, CPIC, and other national searches, are good sources for pointers.

Search first, but not last. Mixed or unclear results, now that's bad.

Obviously then, if you want to get fast results with date of birth identifiers, Canadian Provincial searches are your best bet.

A Joke for Every Boss

A lawyer, his secretary, and one of the office paralegals are walking through the park during lunch.  
They see and old bottle in the bushes, and when one of them picks it up and brushes the dirt off of it a genie appears.

The genie says "Usually I grant three wishes when I'm released.
 
Since there are three of you, I'll grant one wish each."
 
He asks the secretary what she wants.
 
She says "I want to be married to a super rich sugar daddy in Hawaii."
 
POOF! She disappears.

The genie asks the paralegal what he wants.
 
The paralegal says "I want to own my own tropical island populated by beautiful women."
 
POOF! He, too, disappears.
 
Then the genie asks the lawyer what he wants.
 
The lawyer says "I want those two back in the office ready to work right after lunch!"

Lifetime Likelihood of Going To State Or Federal Prison

If recent incarceration rates remain unchanged, an estimated 1 of every 20 persons (5.1%) will serve time in a prison during their lifetime.
Lifetime chances of a person going to prison are higher for

  -- men (9%) than for women (1.1%)
  -- blacks (16.2%) and Hispanics (9.4%) than for whites (2.5%)

Based on current rates of first incarceration, an estimated 28% of black males will enter State or Federal prison during their lifetime, compared to 16% of Hispanic males and 4.4% of white males.

Canadian Bankruptcies Online

This information is  provided free of charge from The Background Investigator

This bankruptcy database contains a record of all bankruptcies and proposals filed in Canada from 1978 to date.

It also contains a record of all private and court appointed receiverships filed in Canada from 1993 to date.
All petitions that have been registered in our offices are also available in the database.

There is a minimum $8.00 charge for each search, including those which result in "no record".

In the case of multiple hits, the charge is $8.00 for each group of ten matches or less, utilizing the same search criteria.

Users are able to redefine their search criteria to limit costs.

https://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mrksv/bankruptcy/bankruptcySearch/engdoc/