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Mississauga Santa Claus Parade , November 30, 2008 / Mayor Hazel McCallion
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Hazel McCallion, CM (born February 14, 1921) is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, the sixth largest city in the country. McCallion has been Mississauga’s mayor for 30 years, holding office since 1978. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel"[1] by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.
She is one of Canada’s best known and longest-serving mayors. At the age of 86, she was easily re-elected in November 2006 for her 11th consecutive term, holding a 91% majority of the votes, and has often been reelected without even needing to conduct an actual campaign.
Hazel McCallion was born in Port Daniel on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec. Her father owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother was a homemaker and ran the family farm. She had two sisters, Linda, and Gwen and two brothers, Lorne, and Lockhart. After high school she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but financially her family could not afford it. After working in Montreal, she was transferred by Canadian Kellogg company to Toronto.
Mississauga’s Streetsville Neighbourhood, where Mayor McCallion is often seen walking and shopping.
She met and married her husband, Sam McCallion, soon after in an Anglican Church congregation. As a marriage present from McCallion’s in-laws, a piece of land in what would later become Mississauga, near the village of Streetsville, was given to the newlyweds. She has two sons, Peter and Paul, one daughter Linda and a granddaughter Erika. McCallion has often stated, such as on TVOntario’s Studio 2, that her husband was always encouraging and supportive of her political career. Prior to becoming Mayor, Hazel and her husband founded The Mississauga Booster community newspaper, a paper that her son now edits and publishes. In 1997, Sam McCallion died of Alzheimer’s disease. The Sam McCallion Day Centre was created by the Alzheimer Society of Peel to honour Sam, the founder of the annual Streetsville Bread and Honey Festival. Hazel still resides in Streetsville.
McCallion is well known in Canada for her love of hockey. She played for a professional women’s team while attending school in Montreal. One of her friends is Hockey Night in Canada commentator Don Cherry, who joked during her 87th birthday that while 98 per cent of the city voted for her, he was looking for the remaining 2 per cent that didn’t.
In a first-person account for Canadian magazine Confidence Bound, McCallion credited her faith with giving her the energy her job demands. "Having a life filled with purpose and meaning and living my life in a Christian-like manner helps to motivate me and keep me energized," she said.
She also revealed that she does everything around the house herself. "I do my own cleaning, grocery shopping, gardening… The assumption is that people in my position have others doing all these things for them but I like to be self sufficient. Housework and gardening are great forms of exercise and keep one humble."
At the age of 85, she was involved in an accident when her car crashed into a signpost around McLaughlin and Cantay. The front of her vehicle was badly damaged but she walked away from the accident without any major injuries. McCallion said she was looking at papers on her lap when the car hit the post.[2][3]
McCallion began her political career in Streetsville, Ontario, a village which has since merged into the city of Mississauga. Beginning as the chairman of the Streetsville Planning Board in 1967, she later became deputy reeve of Streetsville and was appointed reeve soon after. She was elected as Streetsville’s mayor in 1970, serving until 1973. By the time she was elected mayor of Mississauga, she had sat on virtually every committee in the Peel Region and the city of Mississauga. She has also served on the executive of many federal and provincial committees and associations.
McCallion’s leadership helped build a new city hall.
She was first elected Mayor in 1978, narrowly defeating the popular incumbent Ron A. Searle. McCallion had been in office only a few months when a public health and safety crisis occurred during the 1979 Mississauga train derailment. On November 10 a Canadian Pacific train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in a heavily populated area of Mississauga near Mavis Road. A large explosion and fire ensued as hazardous chemicals spilled. McCallion, along with the Peel Regional Police and other governmental authorities, oversaw an orderly and peaceful evacuation of the entire city. She sprained her ankle early in the crisis, but continued to hobble to press conferences and update briefings. There was no loss of life or serious injuries during the week-long emergency, and Mississauga gained international renown for the peaceful evacuation of its then 200,000 residents.
McCallion has overseen the growth of Mississauga from a small collection of towns and villages to one of Canada’s largest cities. This dynamic growth of the Toronto area occurred after the 1976 election of René Lévesque’s Parti Québécois government sparked an exodus of Anglophones and corporations from Montreal to Toronto.[4][5][6] As Toronto grew in national standing, Mississauga politicians worked to define their community beyond a bedroom community of Toronto.
Today, Mississauga is home to a mix of commercial, residential, industrial, and recreational areas. According to a Canadian relocation service, "Mississauga has 9,730 businesses, widely diversified in manufacturing, distribution and business services."[7] As well, there are approximately 9,000 retail businesses." The McCallion government also spearheaded the development of a ‘downtown’ Mississauga area. The building of the shopping centre Square One in the Hurontario Street and Burnhamthorpe Road section of the city during the 1970s has evolved into a centre of commercial and recreational activity.
Mississauga’s Central Library.
The Civic Centre, including a new city hall, Central Library, and Mississauga Living Arts Centre, along with a Mississauga Transit terminal and shopping and entertainment options now populate the former fallow farm land. This city centre helped unite residents of the different towns that made up Mississauga without destroying the smaller villages. The construction of Highway 403 in the 1980s eased access to this area of the city. In the 1990s, the Hershey Centre, a hockey arena and concert venue, was built near Matheson and Tomken Road facilitating the creation of the Ontario Hockey League’s expansion team Mississauga IceDogs.
Some of McCallion’s initiatives have been unsuccessful. Under Ontario law, Mississauga is part of Peel Region, along with Brampton and Caledon. McCallion and Mississauga council have asked that their city be made a single tier municipality, but so far that request has been denied by the Ontario government. Mississauga has so far obtained two additional seats on the regional council which still gives it less representation than its proportionate share by population or by municipal tax base. This has created controversy within the region. Brampton and Caledon politicians argued against McCallion, saying that Mississauga’s growth has slowed down and it was the chief beneficiary of Peel’s 1970s infrastructure projects.
McCallion has also been unsuccessful in collecting the taxes owed[citation needed] to the City of Mississauga, when the federal government appropriated land for Terminal 3 of Toronto Pearson International Airport, which has cost the city millions directly. Others argue that it can be considered an investment towards helping expand Canada’s largest international airport which benefits Mississauga. Gridlock on the arterial roads continues to plague Mississauga as in the rest of Peel Region. There are other issues affecting residents, such as a lack of affordable housing—another Peel Region responsibility. Currently, residents who qualify to receive social housing must wait many years before units are made available by Peel Region, which is instead directing the region’s .2 billion accumulated tax reserves toward the provincial mandate for water treatment expansion and repairs, which must be completed by 2010 to comply with environmental regulations developed as a result of the Walkerton Commission reports.[8]
In 1982, McCallion was found guilty of a conflict of interest on a planning decision by the Ontario High Court of Justice due to not absenting herself from a council meeting discussing a matter in which she had an interest. However, it was found to be a bona fide error of judgment and she was not required to vacate her seat.[9]
McCallion has been easily elected for the last twenty years, with no serious challengers coming close to unseating her as mayor of the city. Due to her popularity, she does not campaign during elections and refuses to accept political donations, instead asking her supporters to donate the money to charity. She is currently beginning her eleventh consecutive term as mayor.
She was lauded as a hero in April 2006 during a police standoff involving a distraught man threatening to kill himself. The five hour standoff promptly came to a peaceful end when McCallion showed up on the scene and demanded he stand down so that police, paramedic and fire personnel could attend to more important matters.[citation needed]
Mayor McCallion has worked with a variety of federal and provincial governments, and has not expressed a consistent party preference, preferring to work with each elected official.[citation needed]
Her principles are grounded in the belief that a city should be run like a business; thus, she encourages the business model of governance. Her family’s business background, her education and prior career in a corporation prepared her to approach government with a business model. Mississauga is one of the few cities in Canada that is debt-free; it has not had to borrow money since 1978.[10] She has been described as a "small-c" conservative.[11]
Although McCallion is one of the most prominent women currently holding political power in Canada, it is difficult to categorize her as a feminist. She is able to express support for women’s equality in Canada, and internationally, without being typecast ideologically.[12] She was chosen one of the "American Women of the Year" in Who’s Who of American Women[13] as well as "Women of the Year 2001" by an international business lobby.[14]
McCallion’s spiritual home is Trinity Anglican Church on Queen Street in Streetsville.
Her Christian faith also contributes to her concern for the public good. A member of Trinity Anglican Church in Streetsville, her charitable work now includes Hazel’s Hope, a campaign to fund health care for children afflicted with AIDS and HIV in southern Africa. Accordingly, she has been lauded as "an international ambassador for the city and a world citizen" by a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization advancing the concerns of cities internationally.[15]
In 2007, McCallion responded to the federal government’s refusal to give one cent of the GST to the cities, a funding source long requested by many municipalities across Canada, by planning to levy a five per cent surcharge on property taxes in the city. She was able to have the levy introduced and approved on the same day by Mississauga council, in contrast to Mayor David Miller of Toronto who was unable to get increased tax revenue approved for months. Most media coverage, as well as Toronto mayor David Miller, noted that McCallion was arguably one of the only mayors in the country with the political capital to implement such a strategy.[16]
McCallion has also expressed pessimism over Miller’s ‘One-cent now’, saying that "I can assure you our citizens [of Mississauga] can’t point out to us where there’s a lot of waste. Toronto, unfortunately, has that situation, in which their citizens are saying it, as well as their board of trade has been saying it and even their own councillors are saying it. If my councillors were saying we were wasting money, I’d be really concerned. I think we give value for tax dollars; we run our city like a business." Toronto councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong made a comparison; "Hazel McCallion runs a tight ship. David Miller’s ship has leaks all over the place,” and some commentators suggested this allowed Mississauga to make a more credible case to the federal government. She unveiled her own plan known as ‘Cities Now!’ to get federal funding for municipal infrastructure.[17][11]
McCallion hosts an annual gala in Mississauga to raise money for arts and culture in the city. Attendees at the 2008 gala, which also marked the 30th anniversary of McCallion’s election to the mayoralty of Mississauga, included former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario Lincoln Alexander and American talk show host Regis Philbin.[18]
* In 2005 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
* She ranked second in the 2005 international World Mayor poll, behind only Dora Bakoyannis of Athens.
* The University of Toronto at Mississauga has named their new library and academic learning centre after McCallion, in appreciation for the support offered the campus in its growth and development.
* The Peel Board of Education has named a school after her: the Hazel McCallion Senior Public School.
* Four different Hazel McCallion bobblehead dolls have been made.[19]
* Bell Mobility commemorated her achievements with a ringtone featuring her saying "Answer the phone! This is Hazel McCallion calling from the great city of Mississauga." All proceeds from the ringtone sale will go to charity.[20]
* She was named "American Woman of the Year" in Who’s Who of American Women, as well as "Woman of the Year 2001" by an international business lobby.[21]
* The Delta Meadowvale Hotel has a Hazel McCallion Room in her honour
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Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and the Criminal Insanity of Ethanol Subsidies (g1a2d0036c1)
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ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND (ADM) AND THE CRIMINAL INSANITY OF ETHANOL SUBSIDIES
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 36: Communication 1
IronBoltBruce’s Kleptocracy Chronicles: 22 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0036c1)
According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI),
"Subsidies to companies that blend corn ethanol into gasoline, coupled with
a mandate to market billions of gallons of that gasoline annually, cost
taxpayers billion a year. Using corn for fuel leads to higher prices for
corn and foods with corn ingredients – all for a program without significant
environmental benefit."
www.cspinet.org/new/201110131.html
But according to Straight Dope columnist Cecil Adams, the CSPI was incorrect
in saying ethanol is "without significant environmental benefit" because it
actually offers no environmental benefit at all: "The capper … is the
claim that it takes more energy to make a gallon of ethanol than you get by
burning it. One of the most vocal proponents of this view is Cornell
University ecology professor David Pimentel. In an analysis published in
2001 in the peer-reviewed Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Technology,
Pimentel argued that when you add up all the energy costs – the fuel for
farm tractors, the natural gas used to distill corn sugars into alcohol, and
so on – making a gallon of ethanol takes 70 percent more energy than the
finished product contains. And because that production energy comes mostly
from fossil fuels, gasohol isn’t just wasting money but hastening the
depletion of nonrenewable resources."
And according to Energy Tribune writer Robert Bryce, the actual cost for
taxpayers to subsidize ethanol is almost triple the CPSI’s billion
figure: "Last year, the Congressional Budget Office reported that the cost
to taxpayers of using corn ethanol to reduce gasoline consumption by one
gallon is .78. This year, the corn ethanol sector will produce about 13.8
billion gallons of ethanol, the energy equivalent of about 9.1 billion
gallons of gasoline. Using the CBO’s numbers, the total cost to taxpayers
this year for the ethanol boondoggle will be about .2 billion. In short,
ethanol subsidies are nearly four times as great as those provided for oil
and gas, even though the domestic drilling sector provides about 36 times as
much energy to the U.S. economy." (As if oil companies should be
taxpayer-subsidized either!)
So who are you and I – American taxpayers – annually gifting (what
"subsidizing" really means) this billion ethanol corndoggle to? The
biggest beneficiaries are of course the major corn ethanol producers like
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), who along with Monsanto and other Big Ag (Big
Corn) cronies contributed heavily over the past several years to many
members of this bipartisan group of 15 U.S. senators who last November
signed a letter demanding an extension of these economically and
ecologically unjustifiable government giveaways:
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)
Sen. Christopher ‘Kit’ Bond (R-Mo.)
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.)
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.)
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.)
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.)
Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Neb.)
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.)
ADM’s share of the corndoggle take is substantial, and it’s only part of the
corporate welfare ADM’s been been receiving from Uncle Sam – you and me -
for many years. According to a 1995 article by James Bovard of the Cato
Institute, "At least 43 percent of ADM’s annual profits are from products
heavily subsidized or protected by the American government. Moreover, every
of profits earned by ADM’s corn sweetener operation costs consumers ,
and every of profits earned by its ethanol operation costs taxpayers
."
www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-241.html
In an outstanding article entitled "Starvation, Obesity, and Corporate
Welfare: Archer Daniels Midland and U.S. Policy", Charles Krakoff of
EmergingMarketsOutlook.com gives us the rest of the story:
"ADM has exerted a strong influence on U.S. agricultural policy for at least
40 years. In 1973 Earl Butz, President Nixon’s Agriculture Secretary,
engineered a shift away from the New Deal policies of farm price supports,
which included limiting production of corn and other major commodities, to
encouraging farmers to produce as much as they could, regardless of price.
The government henceforth would pay direct subsidies to farmers to make up
the difference between the market price and what it considered an
appropriate floor price … providing a windfall to major corn processors…
Except it wasn’t precisely a windfall, since ADM had done a great deal to
engineer this outcome. During the Watergate investigation, Special
Prosecutor Archibald Cox indicted then-ADM CEO Dwayne Andreas for giving
0,000 in illegal contributions to Hubert Humphrey’s 1968 Presidential
campaign. But Andreas was nothing if not bipartisan. Richard Nixon’s
secretary Rose Mary Woods testified that during Nixon’s 1972 campaign
Andreas handed her an envelope containing 0,000 in 0 bills. Between
1975 and 1977 Andreas gave ,000 in ADM stock to the children of David
Gartner, senator Humphrey’s chief of staff at the time, whom President Jimmy
Carter in 1977 named to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (he
was later forced to resign when the details of the ADM gift came to
light)…"
"ADM continues to lavish huge sums on candidates for high office. During
the 1996 Presidential campaign ADM gave 0,000 to Bob Dole’s Better
America Foundation, provided numerous free rides on ADM’s corporate jets to
Senator and Mrs. Dole, and gave over .5m in soft money to the Republican
National Committee. Though Bob Dole lost his Presidential race he remained
highly influential as a Senator and helped arrange the 54-cent per gallon
ethanol tax credit of which ADM, producer of more than 60% of America’s
corn-based ethanol, is the main beneficiary. ADM also contributed to
Clinton’s and George W. Bush’s campaigns. Although Barack Obama apparently
has received no direct campaign contributions from ADM – ADM was, however, a
major sponsor of the 2008 Democratic National Convention – as a Senator from
ADM’s home state of Illinois Mr. Obama was one of several farm-state
Senators who staunchly opposed a Bush Administration proposal to lower the
prohibitively high import duties on Brazilian ethanol made from sugar cane.
During his Presidential campaign Mr. Obama vigorously defended the corn
ethanol subsidy, and as President he has kept the policy firmly in place…"
"If rigging U.S. agriculture, trade, and energy policies to its advantage
weren’t enough, ADM has also conspired with other agro-processing giants
such as Cargill and Ajinomoto to fix prices for lysine, citric acid, and
corn syrup. It paid a 0m fine in 1996 for lysine price-fixing in a plea
bargain that led to two-year prison sentences and 0,000 fines for Michael
Andreas, Dwayne’s son and heir apparent, and Terence Watson, another ADM
executive. At around the same time, ADM, Cargill, and the British sugar
company Tate & Lyle were indicted by the U.S. government for conspiring to
fix the price of high-fructose corn syrup. Though they were cleared of
criminal charges in 1999, they subsequently settled a lawsuit brought by
U.S. food and beverage manufacturers, Cargill paying m, Tate & Lyle
0m, and ADM 0m…"
"The funneling of taxpayer dollars into ADM’s bottom line continues
unabated… Then there is the effect of ethanol subsidies on world hunger.
You may remember the commodities price boom in the first half of 2008,
before the housing market crash, when the oil price hit 7 a barrel, the
corn price went to .65 a bushel, and more than 30 countries, including
Bangladesh, Cameroon, Egypt, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Mozambique, and
Senegal, suffered widespread and deadly food riots. The spike in the corn
price was caused largely by the diversion of roughly a third of America’s
corn crop to ethanol production. This had a knock-on effect on wheat and
rice prices. Numerous grain exporting countries, including Argentina,
India, Vietnam, and Russia, imposed export bans, which contributed to
shortages and price rises in countries dependent on food imports. The same
phenomenon may be about to repeat itself…"
"You can’t blame ADM for hot weather in Russia. But if you had to identify
one principal cause of what seem to be recurring food shortages and price
shocks, you’d have to look at U.S. agricultural policy, and if you look at
U.S. agricultural policy you have to look at ADM. Ethanol subsidies and
tariff protection divert cropland from food production to energy production.
It’s as if you cut down a corn field to put in a power plant, except a power
plant has a much smaller footprint than the thousands of acres of corn
fields needed to produce an equivalent amount of energy. The competition
for cropland intensifies, food prices shoot up, and the world becomes much
less stable. Starvation abroad and obesity at home, ADM is one corporation
with a lot to answer for."
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THE IMPOTENCE OF ELECTIONS
Our Kleptocracy-controlled media focuses on America’s two-year election
cycles as if who wins or loses was a matter of life or death, when in fact
even at the Presidential level it makes no more difference than who wins on
Monday Night Football, American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, or Hillbilly
Handfishing. U.S. elections are staged primarily to give Sheeple the
illusion of control so they will (a) vent their frustrations and expend
their energy, emotions and resources supporting or attacking the Puppet on
the Left hand or the Puppet on the Right, and consequently (b) never
recognize and challenge the common omnipotent Puppetmaster.
There was no real change in 2008. There was no real change in 2010. There
WILL be real change in 2012, but it won’t be coming from tele-brainwashed
couch potatoes, manipulated voter lists, rigged voting machines or
predetermined ballot counts. It will be coming from us…
The 99 Percent
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I AM NOT ANONYMOUS. I AM AN AMERICAN.
I am not just a Consumer. I am a Citizen.
I will no longer be labeled Left or Right, Liberal or Conservative,
Demopublican or Republocrat.
I will no longer follow Puppets labeled Left or Right, Liberal or
Conservative, Demopublican or Republocrat.
I am the People. And I am coming for the Puppetmasters.
I am part of the 99 Percent. And I demand the following:
1. End the Fed.
2. Reverse Citizens United.
3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.
4. Expose 9/11 Truth.
5. End Profit Wars.
6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.
8. Single Term Limits.
Or, if these demands are not addressed promptly:
1. Regime Change.
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WHY WE MUST END THE FED
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These GAO proposals are toothless, too little and too late:
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www.gao.gov/products/GAO-11-696
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LABELS (A POEM OF PROTEST)
"Democrat", "Republican",
The parties of the system;
Puppets both, for sale their votes,
No character or wisdom.
"Liberal", "Conservative",
For change or status quo?
Pick either one, the change is none,
All charlatans and whores.
Far "Left" we place the Anarchists,
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Great Egret (Ardea alba) on Morro Strand State Beach, CA
Image by mikebaird
This is a somewhat manipulated version of my Great Egret photo posted at flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/501821581/ – Great Egret (Ardea alba), Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, CA 16may2007 – Canon 20D 100-400mm IS handheld – photo by Mike Baird bairdphotos.com – this "manipulation" was attempted because the horizon was not perfectly level in the original, and straightening the image would have clipped a bit of the top wing of the Great Egret… by comparing each image you can see where I have cloned pieces of the sky, water, and tips of the top wing and tips of the feet to complete the composition. Comments welcome… Mike Baird mike at mikebaird dot com\
To use this photo, see access, attribution, and commenting recommendations at www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit – Please add comments/notes/tags to add to or correct information, identification, etc. Please, no comments or invites with badges, images, multiple invites, award levels, flashing icons, or award/post rules. Critique invited.
05 June 2008 Creative Commons usage note: Hi Mike, My name is Kenneth Jonsson. I want to thank you so much and inform you about a music video I have made. Two of your (fantastic) images are in it. flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2181766735/ flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/507188808/ The Willet pic mainly and the Egret pic as a shadow. Youtube clip here www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SrelA7kD3A and better resolution clip for download here www.adrive.com/public/433532addb6fa5c060520b8ac342302c770…
Once again, Thanks. It’s such a pleasure to work with this truly amazing material. best regards. Kenneth
09 June 2008 usage note: This image is one of six of mine that were used in a video under the Creative Commons Attribution License by artist Kenneth Jonsson www.flickr.com/photos/24671917@N04/ , kenny_is [at} yahoo d o t com youtube.com/user/fadernsonen at youtube.com/watch?v=Zl4oHzEgq1U and (high-res) adrive.com/public/9d069ed4500c879c86d4d035d682d38764a3efc...
The six images used are:
flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/507188808
flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/324317766
flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/501782892
flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/501819857
flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/2328444918
flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/666135766
also used at www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GyqLnxd9TU&sdig=1
Creative Commons use at a blog
10 Match 2010 EPA The Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds (OWOW) to use this image as the cover for their annual report; (approved) patriciascott61 has sent you a message on Flickr.
Subject: Permission to use Egret Photo for epa
Date: 10th March, 2010
Hi Mike: I'm interested in using your egret photo for the cover of our Annual Report for 2009. I work for the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds. Here's the link to your image:
www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/507188808
Can you let me know in writing if I have permission to use your photo? How do you want the photo credit?
Can you please let me know today? Thanks!
email is scott.patricia [at} epa d o t gov phone is 202-566-1292
06 Oct 2010 Creative Commons use approved for California AAA
I am pleased you will be using my "Great Egret (Ardea alba) on Morro Strand State Beach, CA" image in an upcoming AAA publication. The image is sourced at
www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/507188808/
Login with a free ID there and you can see Action> View-all-sizes to get to the 5400x3600 original at www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/507188808/sizes/o/
to farm1.static.flickr.com/191/507188808_ddacd7376b_o.jpg
www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit
answers every question ever asked about using one of my photos under Creative Commons (CC) Attribution: How to attribute, access full-resolution versions, how to link back to the image page, and how to please comment on the image used linking to your use. "Mike" Michael L. Baird, mike [at} mikebaird d o t com; Bairdphotos.com 2756 Indigo Circle, Morro Bay, CA 93442
flickr.bairdphotos.com photomorrobay.com eysu.org
iPhone (805) 704-2064 (primary #, text, voicemail); alt home (805) 772-2044.
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Glenn Silloway wrote: Hi Mike: California AAA actually wants to highlight Morro Bay and the festival in an upcoming issue, and asked us for photos. I downloaded your flying great egret (copy attached) and sent it to them -- they liked, but it's too small for their print needs. Can you send them a suitable photo (they mentioned 4 X 6 at 300dpi)? If yes, please send to bailey.april {at] aaa-calif d o t com and anderson.lori [at} calif-aaa d o t com. I asked them in the first place to make sure to attribute to you and told them it was from Flickr with Creative Commons license. If you need anything else, of course add it. Thanks. (please let me know whether/if you send this). Glenn
22 June 2011 Creative Commons use note:
I am a Project Editor with EF English First in Shanghai, an English as a Foreign Language company. We are currently developing a new set of textbooks for teenage learners and are planning to use your image www.flickr.com/photos/mikebaird/507188808/ in a unit about photography. The books should be released in mid 2012. We will try to get you a copy when it’s released. Thanks for sharing your images! Best, Jared Moore Jared.Moore [at} ef d o t com
I did not receive my free annual credit report, and the site says i have. What should i do?
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I am a colorado resident, and did not receive my free annual credit report. I went through the proper procedure, put in all of my information and it says i have already gotten it this year. This concerns me even more as i am sure i have not. I am wondering what i should do about this, as i think it may suggest that someone has been using my social security number when they shouldnt have. Please help me on the proper course of action for me to take…
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i dont know
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