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Background Check Buyer Beware
Aug 14th
In today’s world background checks on other people have become a necessarypart of our business and sometimes, personal life. What parent now days wouldnot first check a person’s background before they hire a nanny for theirchildren, for example? And what small business wouldn’t check the background ofa person hired to manage the bank accounts of that business? Large businessesissue Requests For Proposals to c...
Pre-employment Screening Tips
Aug 9th
So you know all about Negligent Hiring and how to protect yourself and yourcompany against a Negligent Hiring lawsuit. You know all the reasons why it isso imperative that you conduct pre employment screening on potential employees.You know that you need to check for criminal pasts, verify an applicant’seducation, references, licenses and previous employment. What you really wantto know is where to start and what...
The Fallacy of Ignored Consequences
Aug 4th
Normal 0On October 3, 2003, Charles T. Munger, the largest shareholder in BerkshireHathaway after Warren Buffett, gave the Herb Kay Undergraduate Lecture to theEconomics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara afterwhich, I have no doubt, he was soundly applauded. Unfortunately, the lessons hetaught made not a single impression on the minds of the attendees.Although he made many salient points, on...
Electronic Medical Records – The Pros and Cons
Jul 29th
In this digital age, more and more bulks of information which used to bepaper-based, from library catalogues to telephone books, are digitized andstored in a central location for easy access. The idea of EMRs started about 40years ago.The main proponents of EMRs cite the following advantages:(1) The use of EHRs supposedly reduces errors in medical records. There isno doubt that handwritten records are subject to lo...
Hurricane Alex: What’s in a Name We Ask?
Jul 24th
What is in a name? Well if you live near water these names meantsomething to you Betsy, Inez and Beula in the 60’s – Celia,Agnes and Frederic in the 70’s – Allen, Gloria and Hugo in the 80’s – Opal, Fran, Andrew in the 90’s – Katrina, Rita and Ike in the2000’s. This is 2010 and we start a new decade of Hurricanes we are on alert becauseof the devastation they can b...
Attorney FAQ
Jul 20th
Can someone please help me?When my EX beat me up in anotherstate( years ago), and I took him to court, I was given a court appointedattorney. There was a restraining order, but it for some reason, was no longervalid after a while. I am now living in FL, he’s from another state, and theysaid.Can someone remain silent even after an attorney becomespresent?Let us say that a suspect is being questioned by the policea...
Covert War on Rock by Alex Constantine Summary
Jul 14th
COVERT WAR ON ROCK BY ALEX CONSTANTINE SUMMARY(re: what the” POWERS-THAT-BE “have done to MUSICIANS for decades AND notall of them have survived it. This includes mind-control and surveillance andmurder by the alleged CIA AND FBI and other forces of destruction, on civilrights activists and other AWAKE people in the WORLD OF MUSIC comments,questions, feed-back and requests are welcome)Acknowledgements:OPERATION...
Unsettled Ideology in Washington is Disturbing
Jun 12th
Whoâs Steering The Ship, Congress Or The President?Washingtonâs currant lawmakers and others, (including civil servants andcontractors) have forsaken the public interest in adopting an attitude ranginganywhere from âdonât give a hootâ to âdownright hostile.â A common consensus amongst tax payers is that there are entirely too manycivil servants and even worse, everyone agre...
The Incredible Transition Of The Movement
Jun 11th
School children today may wonder: why did the white South make there be thefour different restrooms, one for each combination of people? Well, it did makefour “water closets” available, two apiece for each sex, which admittedlyallowed for somewhat easier restroom availability. But it also undermined thedignity of the American Deep South, which was thus stuck moving from the lackof fair human rights to the promo...
Jim Crow and Civil Rights in North Carolina
Jun 10th
Jim Crow and Civil Rights in North Carolina
Segregation shaped black-whiteinteractions in the post-Civil War North Carolina, where it reigned from thewhite supremacy revolt of 1898 until the 1960s. Jim Crow period was a crucialphase of race relations in American society. However, racial segregation hadfar deeper roots in the North Carolina past. Before the Civil War, slaveholdersneeded few regulations to isolate s...