Dispute With Neighbor

Are you having a dispute with your next door neighbor?

You definitely might want to see this...

Feuding neighbors halve tree 1:42

An Omaha man said he was forced to split a tree down the middle to satisfy a neighbor, KETV reports.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/05/29/pkg.ne.tree.cut.in.half.ketv

U.S. Legal Work Booms in India
New Outsourcing Industry Is Growing 60 Percent Annually

Interesting article in the Washington Post on Sunday, May 11, 2008, on page A20...

Key points:

In the past three years, the US legal outsourcing industry here has grown about 60 percent annually. According to a report by research firm ValueNotes, the industry will employ about 24,000 people and earn revenue of $640 million by 2010.

The explosion of opportunity here was triggered by what are known as "e-discovery laws," a set of U.S. regulations established in 2006 to govern the storage and management of electronic data (any kind of electronic document or file) for federal court actions. Overnight, the volume of information to be stored, archived, filtered and reviewed for litigation swelled. But there were not enough affordable lawyers or paralegals to do the work in the United States.

Because of the sensitive nature of legal work, Indian outsourcing companies have tried to allay the concerns about confidentiality. They have installed closed-circuit televisions, network safeguards and hack-proof servers. Many outsourcing companies in India already have those security measures in place because they have been handling the credit card and banking operations of global companies for more than a decade. Industry members say that outsourcing of legal work to India is a natural next step.

An interesting sign of the times!

However... consider this... at the time of this writing, I could not make even ONE of the email addresses listed for one Indian firm, Quatrro Legal Services (Quatrro BPO Solutions Pvt Ltd) work... even though one of their executives lives up the street from me. This, of course, would not provide me with a very high degree of comfort with the quality of their services.

Roadblocks and Stops Inside the United States

This stop was supposedly recorded 50 miles INSIDE the United States border.

Notice the driver repeatedly asks two questions:

"Am I being detained?"

"Am I free to go?"

What are your thoughts and comments?