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Featured Link - FoodSafety.gov

There have been so many food recalls lately that some of us are losing weight just worrying about the safety of what we eat. The federal government has a site filled with information about food safety. There's lots of good stuff here. Here's the description from the site:

FoodSafety.gov is a gateway website that provides links to selected government food safety-related information. Not every government web site is listed. When more than one government web site provides similar information, links will be provided to only one or two of those sites. Individuals with different backgrounds review all potential sites for inclusion on the FoodSafety.gov web site. This web site is part of the National Food Safety Information Network. It is maintained by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Featured Link - Web 2.0 Directory

Are you one of those baffled by all the talk of Web 2.0? Here's the Wikipedia definition:

Web 2.0 is a trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to facilitate creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004.^[2][3] Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use webs.

But the Featured Link is a cool directory of Web 2.0 sites, each represented by the company logo and searchable by category. As of now, there are more than 2300 sites represented at Go2Web20. Check it out.

Featured Link - Internet Crime Complaint Center

The federal government has a Web site where you can report all those Internet scam e-mails you get every day. Not that it will do any good, but maybe you'll feel better after complaining. Here's the explanation from the Internet Crime Complaint Center:

The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).

IC3's mission is to serve as a vehicle to receive, develop, and refer criminal complaints regarding the rapidly expanding arena of cyber crime. The IC3 gives the victims of cyber crime a convenient and easy-to-use reporting mechanism that alerts authorities of suspected criminal or civil violations. For law enforcement and regulatory agencies at the federal, state, local and international level, IC3 provides a central referral mechanism for complaints involving Internet related crimes.

The site does have a good section on Internet crime prevention that is well worth reading.

Featured Link - Case Management Resource Guide

The Case Management Resource Guide is an online listing of  over 100,000 individual medical facilities,  programs, companies, and organizations. The site is sponsored by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.

Featured Link - Public Library Of Law

The Public Library of Law bills itself as the world's largest free law library. For lawyers on a budget, or motivated non-lawyers, it's a great resource. Here's the site's description:

Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That's why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law -- to make it easy to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the world, because we assemble law available for free scattered across many different sites -- all in one place. PLoL is the best starting place to find law on the Web.

What is available on PLoL?

• Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals
• Cases from all 50 states back to 1997
• Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states
• Regulations, court rules, constitutions, and more!

PLoL also includes free links to paid content on Fastcase. PLoL is already the Web's largest free law library, but with additional links from Fastcase, it is one of the most comprehensive law libraries in the world.

Featured Link - The American Chronic Pain Association

The American Chronic Pain Association has a great deal of information and resources on their Web site. Many of our personal injury clients and Social Security disability claimants must deal with chronic pain for long periods of time, and sites like this help our clients cope with their pain.

Here is the Mission Statement of the American Chronic Pain Association:

• To facilitate peer support and education for individuals with chronic pain and their families so that these individuals may live more fully in spite of their pain.
• To raise awareness among the health care community, policy makers, and the public at large about issues of living with chronic pain.

Featured Link - NoEthics.net

The Web site NoEthics.net is interesting, to say the least. It reports information on lawyers, judges, and legislators deemed by the site's author to be unethical.

I applaud this effort, and wish there was more public awareness of such ethical lapses as mentioned on this site. My concern with some similar sites is that often people forget that anyone can file an ethics complaint against a lawyer, with or without a valid reason. It's important that we not libel or slander lawyers who have done nothing wrong, simply because a disgruntled client makes up a false complaint.

Here is the mission statement from NoEthics.net:

The Committee continues to focus primarily on exposing attorney and judicial misconduct. The Committee is neither interested in nor engaged in the sport of lawyer bashing. However, the Committee is interested in performing a service for the public that the legal profession is loath to do. Which includes, exposing attorney and judicial misconduct, providing advice on various legal matters, and discussing the numerous faults in our legal system and suggesting improvements.

I formed the Committee in 1993 after realizing the legal profession was not really interested in exposing misconduct or incompetence of it's members. After repeated victimization by several dishonest attorneys from 1980-1991, I discovered that the Toledo Bar Association and Ohio Supreme Court were not interested in disciplining it's own. Therefore, I decided to act in their stead. For any individual to take on the legal profession as I have done and continue to do is tantamount to engaging in sado-masochism.

My Web Page allows the browser the opportunity to review detailed treatments on the following subject matters, some of which are completed and some of which are under construction:

• Advice on the need for and employment of an attorney.
• Advice on settling your own claims without employing an attorney.
• Advice on how to determine your legal rights.
• Advice on determining if your attorney is dishonest or incompetent.
• Your legal rights to no-fault benefits if you reside in a no-fault state.
• Names and locations of dishonest and/or incompetent attorneys which are listed by State and/or Regions.
• Exposing attorney and judicial misconduct.
• Why contingent fee contracts should be declared unlawful.
• Why the jury system should be changed.
• Why losers in civil cases should pay.
• Why election of Judges should be declared unlawful.
• Why the procedures to discipline attorneys should be revamped.
• Anatomy of a Venal, Vindictive and Dishonest Judge.
• Expose on the Misconduct of Chief Justice Thomas A. Moyer of the Ohio Supreme Court.
• Anatomy of a Dishonest Psychologist.

Featured Link - Texas Fights I.D. Theft

The State of Texas, though the Attorney General's office, has put up a good new Web site about how to fight I.D. theft -- the nations's fastest-growing crime. Check out this site. You'll find some good tips and resources there.

Featured Link - OnGuard Online

Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the United States. There are a number of good Web sites with tips for protecting your identity. One of the best for online tips is OnGuardOnline, from the U.S. government. Check it out.