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Margaret B. Bays - Resume

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CV
Margaret B. Bays
2002 Petunia Way
Birmingham, AL

 Summary
Graduated With Special Honors from Peninsula College
10 years of authoring experience (especially for Internet audiences)
Stunning fluency in English
Dedicated, group-oriented worker with a taste for specifics


Business Expertise
CabalArticles, New York City, NY
2001 - Present
Staff Manager
Responsible for arranging a global team of freelance writers to meet a demanding set of growth aims.
- Set records for production, improving output by 20% globally
- Accurately kept steady records of project distribution
- Addressed quality control for world-wide output across a significant team of freelance writers


Extra Skillsets


Competent in English
Superior skills using a huge choice of office software


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Calvin O. Mack - Resume

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Curriculum Vitae
Calvin O. Mack
3451 Vine Street
Chicago, IL

 Summary
Graduated With Special Honors from Belmont University
10 years of crafting experience (specially for Internet viewers)
Great competency in Spanish
Professional, group-oriented worker with a taste for details


Business Experience
CabalArticles, New York City, NY
2001 - Present
Group Leader
In charge of setting up a worldwide team of internet writers to fit a demanding set of assembly goals and objectives.
- Set unprecedented records for output, increasing output by 20% around the world
- Accurately managed consistent logs of task distribution
- Dealt with QC for international production across a significant team of writers


Extra Skillsets


Competent in Spanish
State-of-the-art proficiency with a extensive selection of office software programs


Examples of Published Articles

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• diy immersion circulator
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The Fate of TOAAW

I have come to a decision about TOAAW. TOAAW is done. No longer will posts be added.

However, that does not mean that I am done blogging. Far from it, in fact. When one thing ends, another begins anew. In this case, a group blog by strong women's voices.

As TOAAW goes off into the sunset, The Crone Speaks is rising.

I hope you join us.

Ciao, Baby

I am finding that I am increasingly tired, and having difficulty keeping up this blog. Mostly I am tired fighting the same fight over and over.

What has been accomplished from the revelations of Bush's domestic wiretapping scandal? Little, for domestic wiretapping still continues.

How about melamine-tainted pet food which led to revelations of tainted feed fed to hogs, chickens and farm-raised fish fed to humans? Nothing really has changed. China still sends tainted food around the world, money trumps lives. Look it up if you don't believe me.

As far as health care, and in particular women's reproductive health care, under the Bush regime, we as a nation, has slipped farther and farther into the abyss, where women's lives don't mean diddly. Maternal and infant mortality rates are disgustingly high for a nation that spends the most dollars on health care and gets pitifully poor results for their money. That's before you put in the racial and economic factors. Again, money trumps lives.

I'm sick and tired of the dems and repugnuts on the Hill that continually put big business over people's lives. Our nation loses many lives, from a multitude of different reasons, that track back to corporate whoredom. Your loved one died from a drug that went to market after the company suppressed information from their clinical trials? Too damn bad. Can't afford to put gas in your car to get to work? Tough shit. We'll have a hearing, but in the end, huge gifts will go to the oil companies and they will continue to raise prices at the pump while making record profits quarter after quarter. Say it with me, this time. Money trumps lives.

The scandals stemming from this administration are too numerous to list, but even after the dems took control of Congress, it's still business as usual for this administration. We have put dems in control that have no damn back-bone. They are openly pissing on the people as they back down from a time line for troop withdrawal, while placating the petulant children orchestrating the debacle known as the War in Iraq.

I am tired and I need a break.

Ciao!

ed: corrected spelling error

Food Stamp Challange on the Hill

A challenge was issued and only 4 members of Congress answered. The challenge was to eat for a week on $21, the average food stamp allotment.

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) stood before the refrigerated section of the Safeway on Capitol Hill yesterday and looked longingly at the eggs.

At $1.29 for a half-dozen, he couldn't afford them.

Ryan and three other members of Congress have pledged to live for one week on $21 worth of food, the amount the average food stamp recipient receives in federal assistance. That's $3 a day or $1 a meal. They started yesterday.

What was the shopping experience like?

McGovern and his wife, Lisa, did their food shopping for the week with help from Toinette Wilson, a D.C. resident and mother of three who relies on food stamps. Wilson gave him some tips, but it was still a struggle, he said.

"No organic foods, no fresh vegetables, we were looking for the cheapest of everything," McGovern said. "We got spaghetti and hamburger meat that was high in fat -- the fattiest meat on the shelf. I have high cholesterol and always try to get the leanest, but it's expensive. It's almost impossible to make healthy choices on a food stamp diet."

The WaPo article includes the lawmaker's respective blogs. Ryan, has included his receipt, and worries how he'll get through the week.

My biggest concern today is running out of food before the end of the week. One loaf of bread doesn’t make as many sandwiches as you’d think, and I’m running through my cottage cheese pretty fast as well. The budgeting was hard enough, rationing what I do have will present another challenge.

Right. It's not just what you buy it's how you use it.

Mrs. McGovern has the same worries, but also make an observation:

I'm also worried about Jim. This is a challenge for me but he's bigger than I am and used to more food. Not that I'd ever say he is a big eater. But these portions are tiny. And I know there are people out there who are cynical about politicians and think the worst. But I've been married to him for nearly 18 years and I know what a demanding schedule -- physically and mentally -- he keeps. Between his job and our two small children, life is full. Food fuels people's bodies and minds.

I hope she remembers that when she finds out many of the working poor work at two or more jobs that are physically demanding.

What I really find disturbing about the Food Stamp Challenge is that only 4 members of Congress are bothering to do this. Perhaps the challenge should be mandatory so that all representatives of the people can relate to their own constituents.

CBP Breaks Privacy Laws

A GAO report lists how the Customs and Border Patrol under the Department of Homeland Security is breaking privacy laws.

"CBP's current disclosures do not fully inform the public about all of its systems for prescreening aviation passenger information, nor do they explain how CBP combines data in the prescreening process, as required by law," the report says. "As a result, passengers are not assured that their privacy is protected during the international prescreening process."

This is an issue with other governments, for international travel. Granted, the tried and true fearmongering reason the CBP does not inform the public on their data uses comes under the very broad heading of preventing terrorism. However, this is not a panacea for European countries.

But the GAO says Customs has failed to fully describe its methods to the public. The lack of disclosure has become an issue as U.S. and European officials renegotiate an agreement, due to expire in July, to share air passenger data. European officials are concerned that the data they already share are not adequately protected by the U.S. government.

So, what other data is being collected, besides name, address, credit card, travel itinerary, and why is it being stored for 40 years? I mean, 40 years seems to be a little excessive.

But, there is another side to the privacy issue -- that is the data being safe. Numerous government laptops have been stolen or lost over the past few years, containing personal information. obviously, there are no guarantees that the personal data of millions of people will be safe.

Then we have the false accusations of being a terrorist, even of our own citizens.

I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, but under the Bush regime, it really is quite hard. It really seems to be that we have moved into an Oceania state of government.

Bottom of the Pack

Another study was released showing that the US ranks last of industrialized nations for quality of and access to health care.

The US health care system ranks last among other major rich countries for quality, access and efficiency, according to two studies released Tuesday by a health care think tank.

The studies by the Commonwealth Fund found that the United States, which has the most expensive health system in the world, underperforms consistently relative to other countries and differs most notably in the fact that Americans have no universal health insurance coverage.

[...]The US ranked last in most areas, including access to health care, patient safety, timeliness of care, efficiency and equity. Americans were also last in terms of whether they had a regular physician.

“The US spends twice what the average industrialized country spends on health care but we’re clearly not getting value for the money,” Davis told AFP.

How does one respond to this? We, as a country, suck at taking care of our people. Period. Take a look at the summary of the report:

The findings indicate room for improvement across all of the countries, especially in the U.S. If the health care system is to perform according to patients' expectations, the nation will need to remove financial barriers to care and improve the delivery of care. Disparities in terms of access to services signal the need to expand insurance to cover the uninsured and to ensure that all Americans have an accessible medical home. The U.S. must also accelerate its efforts to adopt health information technology and ensure an integrated medical record and information system that is accessible to providers and patients.

While many U.S. hospitals and health systems are dedicated to improving the process of care to achieve better safety and quality, the U.S. can also learn from innovations in other countries—including public reporting of quality data, payment systems that reward high-quality care, and a team approach to management of chronic conditions. Based on these patient and physician reports, the U.S. could improve the delivery, coordination, and equity of the health care system by drawing from best practices both within the U.S. and around the world.

That would be a good start if we could implement these suggestions.

Breaking: Jerry Falwell Dead

Just got home to find that Jerry Falwell is dead.

The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly after being found unconscious in his office at Liberty University, a school executive said. He was 73.

Ron Godwin, the university's executive vice president, said Falwell, 73, was found unresponsive around 10:45 a.m. and taken to Lynchburg General Hospital. "CPR efforts were unsuccessful," he said.

Godwin said he was not sure what caused the collapse, but he said Falwell "has a history of heart challenges."

Okay, so the AP report gives Falwell kudos for bringing together conservatives, but neglects the horrid, nasty, bigoted things Falwell has said throughout his career. Sorry the man is dead, but...

When one lives a life promoting hate, it really is hard to work up any sorrow at his demise.

Define Terrorist

Are these 10 men and women, who participated in arson, really terrorists?

Their guilt isn't in question. The six men and four women already admitted being involved in a series of arson fires that did $40 million in damage to research facilities, a ski resort and other businesses in the West. But are they terrorists?

A federal was to hear arguments Tuesday on a motion by the government to add a so-called terrorism enhancement to their sentencing.

As Bush's program to spy on Americans unfolded, war protesters and ecology groups were found to be under surveillance.

Defense motions argue that none of the fires killed or injured anyone, and the terrorism enhancement is really a way for the Bush administration to claim a victory in its war on terror.

"The Government has Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' political agenda to advance with this case, and nothing else to lose if the Court declines to impose the enhancement," wrote attorney Terri Wood, who represents Stanislas G. Meyerhoff, who faces the stiffest sentence recommendation for his involvement in seven fires and toppling a high-tension power line.

But, what about the people that have bombed or sent anthrax to women's health clinics, that have, or could have, killed and maimed others? Was Eric Rudolph, who has killed and maimed abortion clinic workers, as well as bombing the Olympics, classified as a terrorist? Will the DOJ push to have Paul Ross Evans classified as a terrorist?

My point is, the "classification" of terrorist is being used selectively. Either use it in all cases where it is appropriate or not at all.

Breaking: Paul McNutly To Resign

Wolf Blitzer on CNN is reporting that Paul McNutly is resigning. I don't see this up on their website, yet, so no link.

However, Think Progress has an AP link.