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Opinion piece on HB1797
By Julia Brida
The purpose of HB 1797 was to enforce a surcharge on environmental contamination. It would tax companies fifty percent of the cost price in hopes to shift their lack of concern for the repercussions of their actions. This bill would be in regards to any air, land, and water pollution that are harmful to humans, other species, and the environment.
I find this bill to be very important, and I support Representative Jim McConnell's dedication to protecting the environment through it. Since I am currently studying public health, this bill would be beneficial for the general publics well being, something I value. Companies from neighboring states, like Vermont, are coming into New Hampshire because of the more lenient environmental regulations. They take advantage of the lack of requirements, and thus are polluting and harming the public's resources. This in turn harms the public's health. They end up drinking polluted water, or breathing in polluted air, which can result in diseases, cancers, and in the longer-term could lead to death.
It is the companies' fault in terms of polluting a public space, not the citizens that live in it. Therefore, they should not be the ones having to pay the price. This bill would support enforcing stricter requirements and regulations on companies coming into New Hampshire to take advantage of the state. I am all for the HB since it will help protect public health and promote better well being.
The New Hampshire Public Health Association, a stakeholder for this bill, proposes viewpoints on environmental protection, and say they are in favor of regulation that protects citizens. They believe that clean air, water and land are essential to the public's health, which is exactly what this bill would support. As a citizen of New Hampshire, I would hope that my state is doing its best to protect my well being and making sure I had clean drinking water or air.
The bill did state that the taxed portion would be put into the state general fund. It did not state the specifics of what the money would be used for, which I think is important to elaborate. I think to reach more people's interest, the bill should specify what they would use the money for, such as more funding for public schools or installing more parks and walking trails, to name a couple. It lacked some specific details, which might be why people aren't fully supporting the bill. It should influence a rewrite of the bill. The intentions of it are strong; the writing is just a little broad.
I firmly believe it is the polluter's responsibility to pay, and have awareness of their impact. By initiating a surcharge, it would become a motivator for the affected companies to be more conscious and develop alternative, safer practices that will not result in them polluting. Again, it is not fair to citizens to have to suffer because a company doesn't express much concern for the pollutants they are producing. I'm sure if it directly impacted their families or themselves, then they would agree that their actions need to be accounted for and held to a higher standard.
By Samantha Cantone
To begin I am for this bill but do think that there should be some small revisions that need to be thought of so it could be passed next term. Throughout this bill there could be a few revisions that could take place. First of all, "pollution" defined by dictionary.com means, "the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects" is not properly defined in the bill but this is what the whole law would be about. It is a very vague bill which is why a lot of questions were brought up. If revisions were made to this bill making it more specific about the laws that are already in place it would be very beneficial. I believe that it is a smart bill that would make companies question moving their business to New Hampshire for the fact that they would have to pay a fine for polluting if they did. This bill is adding a 50% charge to people who are liable for contamination of soil, water and air. Contamination is defined by dictionary.com as, "making or being made impure by polluting or poisoning". Within the bill it does not state what contamination is either, it seems that it would be clear to the people but in these types of statements everything should be laid out. I do believe that the bill should have went through since it would be a benefit to the people living in the communities around where the water, air or soil could have been polluted. When Jim came to my class talking about this bill he mentioned that mBTE, a gasoline additive and PFOA's, a fire retardant carcinogen that have been seeping into the ground and getting into the groundwater, causing people to get cancer, especially children. This bill could have stopped companies that use these two types of chemicals from being in New Hampshire because they would not want to pay the 50% fine that would come with the bill being passed. This would keep companies away that know they polluted which would be a good thing because they would stay out of New Hampshire and not ruin our environment by polluting with very dangerous chemicals. I can see why they did not pass the bill because it was very vague, but defining a few words and making it more clear I believe the bill would pass. Especially if it is causing many people to get sick by drinking the water or even having pollution flowing through other communities by the wind. People should take into consideration that these chemicals are not only hurting our environment but hurting the people who are living within it. I believe people should not have to worry about the water they are drinking or the air they are breathing in. This bill will make that happen because companies who have a risk of polluting will not want to move to New Hampshire if they have to pay such a large fine. This bill could help many families and the environment if it is revised and put back into the system next year and passed by the house and the different committees.
By Jake Anderson
I believe that the house bill 1797-FN-A addresses an important issue, however, I think it needs to be clarified further in order to have my full support. One of my major questions is if this penalty can be covered by insurance. When a company puts in an underground tank in New Hampshire, they either need to prove they have the money for clean up and remediation in the case a leak does occur or take out an insurance policy covering a leak. This is what originally brought up the question of, can the fine be paid for by an insurance policy? If an insurance policy can cover the penalties then the fine does not really punish the company who polluted but, rather, the insurance company. Furthermore it would punish all the other companies who are not polluting by raising their insurance rates and taking away from their profit which would in turn increase the price of their products. This would also deter potential industry from moving to New Hampshire, which would be moving in the wrong direction for all of the communities who are struggling right now due to local high unemployment. As a result, we do not want to increase these issues or cause high unemployment to occur in other parts of the state. Another potential issue I see with this bill is cost of a cleanup, and this is already extremely costly for a company, plus the additional 50% fine on top of remediation which is likely to be more than many companies can afford and stay in business. While, I do not see this as an issue for a company who is knowingly polluting and did not decide to act on it. I see smaller companies who are unaware of their pollution who would be good members of the community that will be put out of business by the fine for what was a true accident.
I think it is very important to keep companies with the intent to pollute out of New Hampshire or from being in business at all. New Hampshire has a tourism industry that revolves around the natural attractions of our state. Pollution and the bad publicity that comes with it would destroy the industry of which so many citizens and small companies rely on for income and that all citizens get to enjoy. I believe a bill aimed at keeping the current New Hampshire companies from polluting and preventing polluting companies from coming into New Hampshire is needed. However I do not want to see companies go bankrupt because of an accident that may occur. A small fuel company could easily have a truck crash next to a water source and leak oil into the water shed, easily surpassing the one million dollar cut off for the fine. If the company could survive paying for the cleanup and remediation they surely would not be able to pay another 50% fine on top of it. This is not the intent of the bill and it needs to be altered in a way to make sure that this isn't what the effects of the bill are.
By Emma Coffey
New Hampshire State Representative, Jim Mcconnell, and 5 fellow co-sponsors proposed House Bill 1797 on January 3rd, 2018. As stated, "this bill adds a 50 percent charge to all amounts assessed to persons liable for costs of containment, cleanup, and mediation of water, air and soil pollution" (McConnell, 2018). Due to the lack of regulation, the hope for this bill if passed would be to deter large corporations from setting up business and discarding any of their pollutants into our pristine New Hampshire environment.
This bill makes a strong argument strengthening environmental laws in the state, however I feel as though it is too vague given the context. Jim McConnell is passionate about this state and protecting the health of its citizens as we have seen regarding having brought justice to a cluster if cancer cases allegedly caused by contamination in West Swanzey, NH. Through all the concern, it seems that representative McConnell did not efficiently analyze how this bill would effect of the well-being of others involved. Obligating polluters liable to pay an additional 50% of cost is a steep amount to request and is probably a major contributor to why the bill got turned away on January 30th, 2018. This large amount would most definitely deter corporations from entering New Hampshire however, it would shift the economy in the state.
In addition, there has never been any type of bill proposed and passed before with a fine quite like House Bill 1797. While conducting research, it was discovered that other states such as Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the east coast have penalties if found polluting the local land, water or air. Nevertheless, these penalties range from a few hundred dollars to a couple thousand and may include jail time. The largest amount found paid toward the state government was if a pipeline was leaked on Alaskan territory, in which case over a million dollars would be charged. House Bill 1797, if revised, would benefit by setting a minimum or maximum amount to the fine. The troubling part of the bill is that if $1,000,000 were spent on clean-up of a chemical leak in New Hampshire, and additional $500,000 would be paid to the state.
House Bill 1797 reads simply in only less than two pages. If attempted to get passed once more in upcoming year a good suggestion to make would be a more detailed version as the bill remains vague. The bill is unclear to where the 50% charge would go beside the state general fund. We are uninformed of how the money will be spent within the state; establishing better transportation systems, school education programs, health studios? The best solution would be to funnel the funds gained from these big polluters back in protecting the environment and the citizens living in the surrounding area. Conservation programs, sustainable energy and water quality, to name a few programs, should be the highlight of this bill. The bill must enlighten the State House and the public as to why it is so important. As stakeholders, they have interest in knowing how will they directly be rewarded or penalized in the future. This is a great beginning in establishing more regulations against major polluters on New Hampshire territory. With a few adjustments, House Bill 1797 has the ability to make it in New Hampshire State Legislation.
Works Cited
McConnell, Jim. (2018). House Bill-1797-FN-A AS INTRODUCED. LegiScan. Retrieved from https://legiscan.com/NH/text/HB1797/id/1661681.
My Opinion on HB1797
By Andrew Sgoifo
This is a proposed bill by Rep. Jim McConnell for New Hampshire. This bill adds a 50 percent charge to all amounts assessed to persons liable for costs of containment, cleanup, and remediation of water, air and soil pollution. When trying to analyze this bill I can say that I am somewhat for it. This bill could benefit New Hampshire citizens and the environment. As New Hampshire has very lax regulations when it comes to contamination. Because of this proposed bill it could help deter companies that are here in New Hampshire now as well as those looking to move here from coming just because of those not so strict regulations. This would definitely help lower the amount of pollution in New Hampshire, especially what comes from those companies. Also, the money that would be collected from the 50 percent penalty tax could be used towards helping the environmental service with funding and what not.
As of today, the bill has been voted on by the committee that represents New Hampshire. They ended up voting against the bill 15-4. The bill is still going to the House of Representatives to be voted on. I personally don't see it getting passed. The bill needs some revisions. First off, I think the 50 percent charge should get knocked down. I'm not sure what it should be, but 50 percent is pretty high. Maybe bring it down to 30 percent instead. Another problem I see with this bill is how vague it is when it comes to the specific violations they are trying to focus on. The bill should go more in depth about violations. The bill also mentions how all the penalty money goes in the state general fund. Money from the general fund is allocated to various services such as the Administration of Justice and Public Protection, Resource Protection and Development, Education, etc. The money is intended to go back to the state and its citizens to aid New Hampshire as a whole, however there may be other areas that could benefit more significantly from the revenue of the tax. Like focusing on the environment. I don't understand why a bill trying to benefit the environment wouldn't give most of the money to environmental services. All the money doesn't have to go towards environmental services, but I believe a good portion of it should. Something to note is that no other state in the United States have fines like the one in this bill. So, this is something new that could take some time to adjust it in order to get it passed as a bill.
In conclusion this bill has a good foundation to make an impact on New Hampshire. I can see it helping the citizens and environment for the better. Some revisions can be made though. It will surely need to be revisited in order to make it perfect. Pollution isn't good for New Hampshire's environment and the bill is one step in the direction of reducing this.
New Hampshire House Bill 1797
By Christopher Klem
Despite recently failing to pass in the New Hampshire House vote, HB 1797 is an important piece of legislation that requires more recognition and attention from the state government. The act of this bill would add a 50% charge to the costs of an environmental contamination, cleanup, and remediation. This would deter all current New Hampshire industries from being negligent about their environmental waste and pose a warning to all companies trying to set up their business here that the state is serious about environmental contamination. And in the event that any of these companies pollute in such a manner, the state fund will receive a generous amount of money in return, helping New Hampshire as a whole.
I believe this bill did not pass in its current form because law makers are worried this would deter new industries from coming to the state while simultaneously pushing other industries out the door. But this bill cannot be thought about strictly under the circumstances of money and business. It needs to be seen about through the eyes of protecting the natural landscape of New Hampshire for years to come. While revenue is the number one priority of the government, they should not continue to accept a steady revenue of money from companies that are destroying the natural beauty that the state has to offer. In the long term, this bill would do much more good than harm to the whole state of New Hampshire and its people.
This bill will go back to the committee and New Hampshire House again next year but must be altered in order for it to pass on to the senate. The alterations to this bill do not have to be drastic, but unfortunately, the changes must come to the large charge that Representative McConnell had initially placed on environmental cleanup and remediation. While I do support the 50% charge originally proposed by McConnell, I do believe this is the main reason the bill was not passed. The Representative from Cheshire and his sponsors for the bill must work closely with the state agencies over the next year to find a percent charge that is more realistic and gives the bill a greater chance to pass through the House. However, I do believe that in order for the bill to maintain its effectiveness when it is eventually passed into law, the additional charges to environmental contamination and cleanup can be no smaller than 25%. In an ideal situation, the percent charge will be somewhere around 35, or even 40%. That way the bill will still deter polluting companies from entering the state while providing the incentive for current industries to be more environmentally sound to avoid the additional charges.
This bill is a huge step forward for protecting the state of New Hampshire and its environment and should be seen as a call for other states to adopt similar policies. If New Hampshire does not allow these polluting industries to operate on their land, then neighboring states will look to establish similar laws to keep the companies that refuse to operate in New Hampshire from coming to their state and polluting. While this bill has a long way to go before ever becoming law, or even passing through the House, I believe that small changes to the large charge will be made to convince other law makers to see the benefits over the potential costs. If and when this bill passes, it will be a great step forward in protecting the New Hampshire environment for generations to come and set an example for other states to do the same.
By Alex Gosselin
In New Hampshire, much of the land has grown into dense forest. The plants that build the canopy, help build an ecosystem for the surrounding organisms that inhabit the land. developing towns and cities, companies and industries need to follow the growth of desired products. Many industries focus more on the profit than anything else, and forget that some of the production waste that gets released into the ecosystem is not always good for our state. This is when authority needs to take over, to make sure the industry won't create a pollution that could cause a wide spread damage to the beautiful nature in New Hampshire. In 2018, a bill was created "Adding a 50 percent charge to all amounts assessed to persons liable for costs of containment, cleanup, and remediation of water, air, and soil pollution." House Bill 1797 could help with not just protecting the land, but making companies or industries become more efficient with how they release their waste. Industries that pollute more will most likely have a large clean up charge, and could lose more money for being less efficient.
I believe this is an important bill for the government to review because it offers a lot to the state of NH. Due to being interested in environmental studies, I have a good understanding that it could protect our land by reducing the waste that industries produce. With pollution being such a crucial issue in states and countries, passing this bill in New Hampshire could help influence other states to do the same with protecting the land they control. Multiple states around the country have already started to try and pass bills that either tax or charge the company for the waste production they release. With the climate changing and nature being depleted from human actions, this bill and others like it could help change and repair the pollution that has started to show up in water, ground, and air. These issues are not just affecting nature but they are also affecting humans that are located near these industries. Letting these issues happen, could create large problems in NH and could lead to a larger cost of clean up after the fact. This bill could influence a change to help protect the state and create an increase in efficiency whether through industries production or their technologies.
If HB 1797 gets passed through the government and officially signed off by Governor Sununu, I believe there could be a positive reaction to the outcome of the bill. Industries and companies may get a negative affect from this bill but with population still increasing, we can't keep polluting land that will start to become more urban and developed. There needs to be authority over industries that are polluting, before our land is too dangerous for us to live around. Either we as a state, change the habits of large industries or they will change the habitats of this great planet we live on. We the people of New Hampshire need to push for this bill before the cities, nature and individuals start to be affected by the land, ground and air pollution.
My Opinion on HB1797
By Erika Grand
I am personally for the proposed bill HB 1797. If passed this act would add a 50% charge to the costs of an environmental contamination, cleanup and remediation. I believe this is a good thing because big companies cannot get away with contaminating and polluting the environment, especially considering how fragile the Earth and environment is right now. People have always taught their kids that if they create a mess they are the ones responsible for cleaning it up, and companies are no different. This bill was also proposed because our neighboring state Vermont has extremely strict laws concerning companies polluting. However, New Hampshire currently has weak laws concerning contaminating and polluting and due to this a lot of big companies have decided to move into New Hampshire. New Hampshire is a beautiful state that generates a lot of revenue from tourism. This will suffer greatly if companies are allowed to contaminate and pollute and not get in serious trouble for it. There are other states who have similar laws to the proposed HB 1797 one. They have shown these laws work. If this bill were passed it would make the companies less tempted to try and get away with contaminating and/or polluting because it would cost the company a lot of money, more than it does now.
These companies also have a lot of money and would be able to pay for it. This would also protect the people who, without this law, would be paying for the consequences in a much more serious way and not with money— The citizens of New Hampshire. They should not have to deal with issues like contaminated water or air and they should not have to deal with big companies moving into their backyard polluting the environment and getting away with it. As I had sad before, the state of the environment right now is not good. Everyone needs to be cautious when it comes to the environment because we are right at the point of no return. If we keep doing what we've always been doing, we will be doomed as a society. The environment and all of its resources are extremely valuable and precious and should be protected at all cost. New Hampshire needs to be able to take a stand and let big companies know that they cannot just come into our state and pollute it because we have weaker laws than other states. This is something I personally believe in because I care about the environment so much I do not want companies to think they can run the show. I also certainly do not want them to be able to get away with polluting our environment. This bill would be a positive piece of legislation for New Hampshire to adopt. New Hampshire needs to make sure our beautiful state stays beautiful and that no one tries to come in and take advantage of us.
My Opinion on HB1797
By Clarissa Backus
The House Bill 1797, Adding a 50 percent charge to all amounts assessed to persons liable for costs of containment, cleanup, and remediation of water, air and soil pollution, would have been a positive affect for New Hampshire's environment. I believe this bill should revised because it will overall create a better community for the state and ultimately, our planet. Climate change has become a major crisis in our world today and if we don't start to change the way we live our environment will be non-existent. I do understand why the bill was not passed however, in my opinion persons who pollute our water air and soil should be held liable.
I reviewed the New Hampshire's stakeholders view on the bill, this includes: New Hampshire residents, industries currently in NH, potential incoming industries, government agencies, and insurance companies. The variety of these stakeholders are very important when determining the success of this bill. The stakeholders who were not for the bill were the business industries, both large and small. Having them pay a 50% charge will heavily affect their business development putting them at a competitive disadvantage and for smaller productions possibly put them out of business.
I believe this bill should be revised by lowering the percent charge. Lowering it to 25% or 15% is not much of a threat as 50%. I think more companies will agree to this charge because even though they still have to pay for the containment, cleanup, and remediation of the pollution, it won't seriously affect their business development. Also, with a 15-25% charge this will make companies stricken their environmental health and safety rules and procedures. As a safety major I have learned the importance of everyday security and the wellbeing of company's measures. Over the summer I interned at a medium size chemical company and recognized the real risk and liability that must be taken in every step of their operation. Two years ago, this company had an accident that greatly impacted them however, it was a realization that their EH&S department needed to be more on top of their daily processes and they have since improved their safety principles and have been accident free. This leads me to believe that with a charge on the line, companies will be more cautious with their actions.
As I mentioned before, I believe all persons responsible for the contamination of water air and soil, should be held liable for their actions. Having a 15-25% charge is just a start, in the future the charge can slowly be increased and we can eventually get to 50% or even more. In order to make a change we need to take these baby steps, not just for this bill but when taking on all environmental issues. This bill will put in place the responsibilities that companies should already be liable for, and create safer procedures in everyday operations, and ultimately create a better community for the state of New Hampshire.
My Opinion on HB1797
By Michael Chipman
The piece of legislation I will be focusing my writing on is House Bill 1797-FN-A, which is being proposed by NH representative Jim McConnell, as well as the support of other political figures within the NH state government. The bill would add a 50 percent charge to all amounts assessed to persons liable for costs of containment, cleanup, and remediation of water, air and soil pollution. The committee representing NH voted against the bill 15 to 4, but the bill will still be sent to the house of representatives where they will again vote on the bill.
Due to the very lenient and almost non existent laws in New Hampshire that would limit and hold responsible large corporations and other companies for contaminating the air, soil, and water around their headquarters or wherever they are polluting the environment. I personally agree with house bill 1797-FN-A which was proposed by Jim McConnell. However I would recommend some ideas that could help get the bill pass in the house of representatives. What I would recommend is splitting the additional 50 percent fee to 25 percent instead. I personally believe that the state government wont pass a bill that is as extreme as this bill is. I believe that because New Hampshire doesn't have any law in place that is similar to house bill 1797-FN-A it would be difficult to have the bill pass right away. However though I agree their should be a 50 percent additional fee, I think getting the bill passed would be easier and more realistic if the additional fee was 25%.
I would also change one part of the bill. I believe that instead of sending the additional fee that is collected to the New Hampshire state funds, instead have it go to those who are directly or indirectly affected by the pollution of the corporations and other smaller businesses. Instead of putting money back into the government I think that the money should cover the costs of the people who were affected and also go towards the New Hampshire environmental protection agency in the hope of possibly helping deter these actions of dumping hazardous waste by companies. Though I understand that the New Hampshire state funds could put the money towards those things, I personally believe that it would be better to give the money directly to those previously stated instead of giving the money to the state funds and it being indirectly contributed to those affected and helping out the new Hampshire environmental protection agency. I would also recommend giving money back to the community as well to help smaller businesses prosper and eliminate the need for larger corporations within a community.
In conclusion I agree with what Jim McConnell is trying to create as a policy in house bill 1797-FN-A. I believe that the additional fee would help deter pollution from companies as well as compensate those affected, give help to the state environment protection agency, as well as possibly giving back to the community. I believe this bill will help deter the crime of pollution as well as give back to the state.
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I was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan on October 17, 1946 at the old Union Hospital. It was at my grandpa's farm I when I first heard Ukrainian music. Grandpas' old radio was tuned in to a Ukrainian program which played very traditional and authentic music. It was at summer camp at Madge Lake when I first heard of the Everly Brothers singing their big hit "Bye, Bye Love." I spent many hours in church singing along with my dad and learned to sing the mass by memory. I grew up in Ituna, Sask. and to this date, I have many fond memories and have positive feelings about my childhood days there. We only had a radio in the house to listen to but we found many other ways to entertain ourselves. I would listen to the "mailbag show" on the radio from Moose Jaw which played many fiddle tunes and other old time music. I always wanted to be better in sports but I guess my talents were in music for which I am very thankful because my music talent gave my life a completely new direction later on and gave me opportunities that I wouldn't have had otherwise. I admired and had a passion for the teaching profession ever since I was a child and I think the teachers I had were partly the reason for this passion developing. This was also when we began our music career. We played and sang for different occasions in Ituna and Dysart
After that, I was enrolled into St.Vlad's College in Roblin, Manitoba. I sang in the choir, did some Ukrainian dancing and played in the college band. I do give St.Vlad's credit for the training I received regarding my Ukrainian culture. We traveled a lot performing concerts in various towns and cities. After Roblin, I attended Ituna High School for my grade 12. Later on Dave and I moved to Winnipeg to begin classes in the fall of 1969, three and one-half years after working at the Farm Credit Corporation. For the first time in my life, there was hope for becoming a teacher.
Dave and I even played for a couple of dances at the Ukrainian Hall on Main Street with a couple of other guys. At that time Ukrainian music was very popular and many recording artists such as Mickey and Bunny played in hotels. This is when I met Bill Woloshyn and his Interlake Polka Kings. They were my idols and one day I built up enough courage to audition for them. They liked what they heard and I played with them a few times in hotels such as the Bell Hotel or the Kings Hotel. This was the beginning of the Panio Brothers Band because through Bill Woloshyn I met Herb Brittain with UK Records. One day I played a tape I made for him to see what he would say about making a record. The songs on the tape were "Play Oh Gypsy Play" and my own composition, "I Once Had a Girl." He liked it and suggested I get the Interlake Polka Kings to back me up and record them. I discussed the idea with Bill Woloshyn and he wanted to record them under his band's name. I could not accept his offer and decided to record these songs with my brothers Dave and John on a 45 RPM. Soon after that Dave and I moved back to Regina where we continued our education at the University of Regina and prepared to record our first record album, "Songs of Joy." This was a very thrilling experience. The record was made and Herb Brittain was satisfied. This was the beginning of a long musical career. When we returned to Regina we began playing for weddings and dances. I sent a copy of our record to some radio stations including one to Dan Chomlak in Camrose, Alberta. He liked the record and began playing it over the air on seven different stations. Then one day Dan needed a band to play for a dance after a cymbaly contest in Canora, Sask. Incidentally, I won a trophy during this contest for playing the cymbaly and mouth organ at the same time. I won in the "Novelty" category. Dan hired us for the dance and was impressed with our performance. We did a show and dance at the Bonaventure Hotel in Edmonton. The show began with the "Don River" song and there were over 800 people in the audience. You couldn't hear a sound as we sang. This was totally unreal, unbelievable and wonderful.
I moved to Saskatoon to take my first teaching job at St. Edward School. I was assigned to a grade 4 classroom. I also taught Music and Ukrainian at various grade levels. I loved the job and the kids loved me. My students did well at concerts and festivals. . After a year, I decided to accept a grade 5 teaching position in Moose Jaw and drove to Regina for evening and summer classes. In 1975, after graduating with a Bachelor of Education degree, I accepted a position with the Wolseley Catholic School Division as a Principal of an elementary school. . In 1977, I was offered a teaching job in Humboldt, Sask. I taught grade 6 and Division 11 Music. The Panio Bros. Band played all over Saskatchewan as well as parts of Alberta and Manitoba. Even today I meet people who tell me that there aren't too many people who haven't heard of the Panio Brothers band. . I also distributed records and tapes all over Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba. I recorded my solo album entitled "Ukrainian Country" on August 1, 2010. The Panio Brothers were given a "Legendary Achievement Award" which was a great honor and reward for all that I have done in the field of Ukrainian music. It all began when Brother Dave and I moved to Winnipeg to attend university. As I mentioned earlier, I played with the Interlake Polka Kings for a short time and eventually created the "Panio Brothers Band." I must acknowledge that Aunt Katie and Uncle Peter Bulych in Winnipeg were a great influence in creating an interest in Ukrainian music in my life because they had a great collection of Ukrainian records which I listened to and since Uncle Peter played the violin, I had an opportunity to play music as a young kid. Also, it was Aunt Katie who gave me my first accordion, which enabled me to be a self, taught accordion player. On July 2, 2010 the Panio Brothers Band was invited to play for Ituna's 100th anniversary so John and I performed a 2-hour concert at the arena with Dave, Bill Lewchyshyn Garnet Ripplinger and Leonard Romanson. It has been great performing with the Panio Brothers Band especially because of the great musicians we were able to get for our performances. I still get my musicians together once in a while to play at places like "Danceland" at Manitou Beach, Sask.
I am also very happy to be back in the classroom once in a while to do some substitute teaching.
Two of my high school friends, my brother John and I got together in 1963-64 to form a musical group to play for some school dances, anniversaries and so on. We did this for a while and then in 1969 my brother Dave and I decided to attend the University of Manitoba to become teachers.
It was during this period of time when Vlad met Bill Woloshyn and the Interlake Polka Kings. After Vlad played with the Interlake Polka Kings on a few occasions, he was introduced to the manager of UK Records and was given the opportunity to get together with his brothers to record a 45 RPM record. Vlad, Dave and John then got together and as a trio recorded their first 45 RPM single with the song "I Once Had a Girl" (written by Vlad) and "Play Oh Gypsy, Play". UK Records was pleased with the recording and asked us to record a complete album. Vlad, Dave and John the recruited Bill Lewchyshyn and Henry Panagabko to create their first album in 1969 which was called "Songs of Joy".
The record was played on several radio stations including Dan Chomlak's Ukrainian hour in Yorkton, Saskatchewan and Camrose, Alberta. This led to the Panio Brothers doing several concerts in Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as playing for wedding, cabarets and dances throughout the Prairie Provinces. The band played for hundreds of occasions over many years which led to The Panio Brothers Band receiving the Hall of Fame Legendary Achievement Award. Vlad and John, the remaining original members, have recorded another three albums together after "Songs of Joy" as well as recording a variety of music as solo artists. The band is presently together again and playing occasionally for their many fans.

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Sat. July 11, 2015:
Connecticut to New York
Our second day of vacation was off to a much better start, partly because we stopped at the Dunkin' Donuts in the airport on our way to catch a shuttle to the rental car place. I was tempted, but I did not end up getting a donut, as we still had snacks left over from the previous day. Across from the Dunkin' Donuts I spotted a LEGO model of Mark Twain's house. It was not 100% accurate, as it was missing us in the parking lot tailgating (last time we were in Hartford).
In the shuttle on the way to Payless Rental Cars, we passed by the old airport which had been abandoned and was being slowly torn down. It looked pretty cool. The guy at the car rental place was awesome. He was very nice and chatty. He said Connecticut was the most boring place ever and he wondered why we were visiting. He was incredibly good at his job, trying to up-sell us to a bigger car and everything (which did not work, but still a good effort).
As soon as we got on the road, the license plate game began. It also helped me to stay awake instead of drifting off to sleep as I usually do. The license plate game picked up almost immediately. Soon I had a possible Maryland and an unidentifiable one because everyone else was flying past us, even though we were also going over the speed limit. Trucks were great for my game, however I limited it to only the front or the back license plate, not both for that would be cheating.
A great cheer went up in the car, hands raised as we shouted NEW YORK! Now we were in New York state. There was a sign for a rest area that was advertised as a "text stop" so people could check their phones. As we drove we had a 99% Invisible podcast marathon. We passed by a prison and all the inmates were outside on the baseball diamond.
Our first stop of the day was the Dia:Beacon modern art museum. We got there right at open. The plan had originally been to see this museum the day before, and now we had to cram it into our Saturday plans. Luckily the museum was not that big and the art pieces themselves were quite big, thus we were done in less than two hours. While I am not a huge fan of contemporary art, for some reason it just felt good to look at it, especially the installation that was just a series of tube light bulbs in various arrangements. There were also these giant metal sculptures in one room, and it was unclear if you could actually go inside or touch them. As I later found out, yes you were allowed to. All I missed out on was some mild claustrophobia. The highlight of the museum was their collection of photographs by Berndt and Hilda Becher, the only artists in the collection whose work I was previously familiar with.
Afterwards we drove to a nearby park associated with the museum in the hopes of seeing one more art installation. Turns out the park was just named after the artist and there was no artwork there, just the Hudson River and some canoes for rent. The view of the river was beautiful and I joked that it was because we were upstream from the New York/New Jersey bridge where they dump all the bodies.
We stopped in Newburgh, NY to gawk at Washington's headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Because our plans from the previous day had to merge, we did not have enough time for the originally planned tour of the place. It did not look like we had missed much, the place was small and the town was crappy. There was even a guy sleeping on the lawn of the historic building. We stopped in New Paltz, NY to view the downtown, which consisted of one street, Main Street and it was really busy. There was a biker gang meet-up at a restaurant and the place was swarming with motorcycles.
In the original plans, our day was supposed to start at the Mohonk Mountain Inn with an early morning hike. There are only a limited amount of parking spaces for day visitors and we were worried that because it was a Saturday the place would be full. Lucky for us there were still a few spots left. We took a shuttle from the guest parking lot to the main lodge, there was no point in walking half an hour to the trailhead. When we bought the hiking passes the lady gave us a trail map. The lodge had miles and miles of trails, it looked like a pile of string had been thrown on the map.
There were two different trails we could take to Skytop Tower, one was relatively easy and the other entailed scaling rocks and squeezing between boulders. The choice was obvious: we had to take the easy way, with my bad knees and DSLR there was no way I was going to take the difficult route. Before we left the car we had put on sunscreen just in case, even though I figured if we are hiking how much sun exposure can there be? Lots apparently. It was less of a hike and more of a pleasant, uphill, sometimes stair-climbing half hour walk. There was not much tree cover, and so we had gorgeous views of the lake and the lodge down below. It was a giant resort set in front of the Catskill Mountains. It reminded me of the resorts in Dirty Dancing and The Shining. Periodically there were breaks in the trees below and we could see the difficult trail. From the overlook we looked down and watched people squeeze between boulders and climb up rickety wooden ladders. We had made the right choice.
From the top the view was breathtaking, you could see for miles. You could see even further from the tower, you could also look down into the reservoir. We had read that you could see six states from the tower, looking out we tried to name them. We had five. Turns out you could see Ohio, how were we supposed to know? Trying to get back to the lodge we got lost, we took a wrong turn and had to back-track. At this point it was starting to get really hot. I really wish I had worn shorts, but I had been expecting a woods-y hike so I wore longer pants. The shuttle was there when we got back to the parking lot, perfect timing.
Back in the car it felt so good to take off my socks and running shoes. The car was an oven. I made the mistake of sipping from the bottle of Coke we had left in there- it was as warm as a cup of tea. Driving to Bethel, NY (where Woodstock took place) we took the scenic route through the backroads. We passed a sign for "foot golf" and I got confused: do you use your foot as a club? As we got closer to Bethel we saw a lot of hippy signs, such as the one for a restaurant called Peace, Love & Ice Cream. There were also some not-so-hippy-inspired signs like the Fat Lady Café billboard, or the one advertising a bar called Sports TVs & Topless. We also passed a peace sign standing in a field.
The entrance to the Bethel Woods Art Centre had speed limit signs that said "drive peacefully." There was going to be a Def Leppard concert that evening at the centre, therefore the place was already packed with concert goers. We had to park on the lawn and make our way around the tail-gating concert-goers to get to the museum itself. The tail-gaters sure did love corn-hole, barbeque and beer. The museum was small and mostly consisted of information panels and re-printed photographs. There weren't a lot of artifacts, but then again what could they really display? There were a few original tickets, scribbled notes about the concert line-up and a Volkswagen beetle covered in peace signs and bright colours. In the basement they had a special exhibit about fashions from that time period and you could play dress-up, but we did not feel like waiting behind a large group who clearly had no intention of finishing up anytime soon.
Before getting in the car and trying to leave, we walked around and tried to figure out the easiest way to leave. The field was crawling with people tail-gating. It was a slow and stressful drive out, thankfully the people were not yet drunk and thus moved out of the way. We also got some quizzical looks, like "why are these people leaving?" As we left we stopped at the Woodstock monument to get a view of the field where it all happened. There was a peace sign cut into the grass. The field was a lot smaller than I had expected, I also did not realize that it was actually on a hill.
The peanut M&Ms we had left in the car had melted the perfect amount, contrasting with the crunchy shell. However the shell colour had also started melting off, making them annoying to eat. Our hotel was less than ideal, the vending machine would not dispense any soda, it would not even take my coins. We settled in and got ready for our fancy dinner plans.
We drove to the Beaverkill Inn for dinner. On the way we saw some deer by the road. The male and female were across the road from each other and it made for a tense situation as we shouted at them to not go in the road. I joked that because they were young (the male had tiny antlers) they were out on a date, it was Saturday night after all. Apparently there was another deer up on the hill, but I never saw it. When we got to dinner it turned out we were very overdressed. Everyone else who was eating there was dressed in regular clothes, whereas we were in dressy clothes. And our plans for a fancy dinner, at least justifying our outfits, were quashed. For some reason dinner that night was being served buffet style. The worst part was that we were not staying there, we could not just go back to our room and change outfits. We had at least been expecting fresh caught trout from the nearby brook, but at least the salmon was still really good. Once we were done dessert had not yet been brought out, we sat there eagerly awaiting it. There was no way we were skipping dessert, it was buffet after all. It was worth the wait, a dark chocolate pot de crème with fresh fruits. I really did wish we had seconds.
Back at the hotel we settled in and queued up Netflix. Brent checked his email and we found out we could have flown through Montreal and got into Hartford, CT at 9pm. It was a little too late for that.


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China – Same old same old
We are back to the old China story. It seems almost as if China is the only hope for world economy to recover, but that cannot be true either. The country is a net exporter and a still pretty low income structure cannot contribute much to a recovery on a global perspective. That job is still firmly in the hands of the US, and its not looking too good.
Nevertheless growth in China is impressive and has remained far ahead of the US and Europe where output is in deep contraction. Louis Kuijs, Senior Economist for World Bank, thinks it is too early to say if China's economy has really bottomed out but growth will remain respectable. According to Michale Buchanan, Managing Director and Chief Asia Pacific Economist, Goldman Sachs, China's economy will recover faster than other countries because of a limited impact of the financial crisis.
China's first-quarter GDP grew 6.1 percent over the previous year, which may be a strong performance in the global context but is the lowest rate for China in many years. China's urban fixed-asset investment in the first five months rose 32.9 percent year on year. However, the robust growth was mainly a result of investment on government-sponsored infrastructure projects.
The sequential growth rate quarter over quarter is very strong and in the moment it looks like a V-shaped recovery is on its way. In the end it will be up to its western trading partners how fast the global economy will be able to recover. Even in China exports are down almost 30 percent compared to last year, shrinking for the sixth consecutive time in May.
Shrinking capital – FDI in China down
Foreign direct investment in China is down 20.4% year on year in the first five month of 2009. Only 34.05 billion US dollar poured into the country from January to May this year. In May alone FDI is down 17.8% at 6.38 billion dollar. This is its eighth straight monthly fall.


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We didn't bring Europa home sadly. Or did we? Seeing as The Emirates Stadium will be one of two places in England to watch the Europa League competition next season, its coming home innit?
Personally I don't have a problem against playing in the Europa League. You sometimes get what you deserve especially in football. What I actually don't get are the fans who said The Europa League was a tin pot competition and are now upset that their club lost. Please take a full dose of 'make up your mind mycin'.
And talking about what you deserve, a case can be made that the Arsenal fan base, especially the Anti-Wenger lot, deserve nothing after years of campaigning at the top of your voices that:
- Top 4 wasn't good enough
- Back-to-back trophies was papering over the cracks
- Shouldn't be losing by big margins to other clubs
- Another manager will win big with this squad
Hopefully you lot now have the humility to eat your words or hide your face in shame.
From Day One, I have always insisted that Unai Emery like every other Premier League manager deserves three transfer windows before you can judge him or before he can make the team his own. If you allowed same privilege to Guardiola and Klopp, why not to Emery?
I hope Emery is sincere in saying he feels very comfortable in the club and he is part of a rebuilding process. I hope the club is as positive with his first year as the joint CEOs have said and they stick with him for a while. Rebuilding isn't a one-season process. Nobody wants to be like Manchester United post Alex Ferguson.
If there are any pro-Wenger/anti-Emery fans out there taking delight in the current state of things, please be aware that Arsene Wenger only wants positive things for Arsenal. You are desecrating the legacy of Wenger with your anti Emery moaning.
By the way, please lay off Kroenke. He has like one billion pounds riding on Arsenal's success. If there is a one percent drop in Arsenal's enterprise value, Stan is losing about ten million pounds. You don't have as much a stake in Arsenal as he does. Concentrate on supporting and not running the club or criticizing the owners for not playing monopoly with real money for your benefit.
Will Emery Have Time
Hopefully Emery will have all the time the club wants him to have. If truth must be told, it is difficult to see the direction of travel on the basis of what we have witnessed this season. Yes we have won more points than last season but last season isn't the gold standard. Points won in any season depends on so many variables that comparing one season with the other on the basis of points is useless. So what if Liverpool won 97 points in the just concluded season and that would have been sufficient to win the league since Jesus Christ was born? The fact remains that Liverpool didn't win the league in the season they got 97 points. How is there performance this season better than the last time they finished second? How can you reasonably say they are better than the league winning Manchester United or Arsenal sides who won with fewer points?
While I never expected much for this season as it was meant to be a transitional one, for us to get to where we were in Week 32 after the Everton game at Goodison Park was remarkable. It doesn't matter what your opinion of our performance pre and post this stage of the league was. If you say we were lucky; others were terrible; the results glossed over the performance etc. It all counts in football. What matters though is we then proceeded to lose 'Top Four' final games against Crystal Palace, Wolves, Leicester and Brighton. The last one was a 'loss' from the Top 4 perspective. We have topped of those losses by losing the Europa League final.
Shocking 2nd half
I didn't see a lot wrong with the first half but the second 45 minutes was shocking. Others have observed that the tunnel cameras showed how relaxed the Chelsea boys were at the start of the second half while the Arsenal players looked all nervous. Maybe the Arsenal players wanted it so much they froze. But conceding three goals per game has been the hallmark of our last few weeks of football. I do not think this is a coincidence.
Our form in the Europa League like our form in other competition has been patchy. Our performances against Sporting Lisbon both home and away were indifferent. We lost to Bate Borisov away while playing badly. We also lost to Rennes in a self destructive way. Our away performance against Napoli was poor. We were on the ropes against Valencia at The Mestalla for 16 minutes until Aubameyang popped up with his first goal on the night. The high I felt after the Valencia win has been deflated by this limp performance in the Europa League final.
You can make a case for every single one of the eleven starters departing if that is how they perform in a season defining game. Our game changing strikers received little or no service. Final balls were delayed or over hit and fair to say the Chelsea defence appeared well prepped to deal with the cutbacks from the wingbacks that is now Emery's signature way of playing.
Ozil, Koscielny and Maitland Niles
On his performance during the Europa League final, Ozil did not help his case and that of his admirers. Yes the manager's tactics doesn't play to his strength but the game plan would have required him to contribute something in the role he played. If the manager's style doesn't suit you, shouldn't you be ironing this out before the game?
While I greatly admire Koscielny, I will recommend that he grabs the two-year contract he is after if any club offers it to him. Why Koscielny and Cech can get done by a bread and butter goal from Olivier Giroud is bewildering. It is not as if they don't know him.
Ainsley Maitland Niles gifting two goals to Chelsea is beyond comprehension. I have always told anybody who cares to listen to me that football comes too easy to AMN and that is why he makes those gaffes. Sometimes we have been lucky to get away with his errors. The young man needs to grow up fast, it is remarkable that he is the only one of his Arsenal generation to break into the first team but he won't remain in the first team if he continues to commit match defining errors. No team, not even a team of football's Harlem Globetrotters should win a game after gifting their opponents two goals.
Yes, we lost a final. It is painful when that happens. But we only lost a game albeit a very important game that could have helped the club, its players and manager evidence that little bit of progress. The manner of the loss is upsetting. Even if it had ended in a respectable score line, based on the performance, we weren't assertive enough and appeared too cautious. Critically, one of our usual game changers gifted the opponent a goal instead of scoring against them.
On balance, I have been to Wembley twice to watch Arsenal take on Chelsea and we were a huge underdog in one of those games, nobody gave us a chance and we won. So win some lose some.
Baku Hypocrisy
On the choice of Baku for the final, I find all the criticism and the digging out of UEFA risible. The venue of the final was known before the start of the competition. Any club that qualified for the final had 16 opportunities not to qualify for that last game in Baku and took none of it. Arsenal could have deliberately lost to Valencia and saved themselves all the wailing about the distance and logistics of going to Baku or seeing as we are sponsored by Emirates Airline, it wouldn't have been too much for Arsenal to arrange special package via Dubai that didn't involve extra flights or near £1,000 flight tickets. Or they could have boycotted the final. We did none of that. It smacks of hypocrisy to me.
I am looking forward to fans from all over complaining about London in 2020 when Wembley hosts the European Championships. The stuffy underground trains, the smelly and disgustingly racist people who don't like foreigners, the expensive meals and the atrocious taxi fares.
Personally I had a great time albeit a very short one. The little I saw of Baku looked beautiful to me. With a bit of smartness, any Arsenal fan could have traveled to Baku from London for less than £500 return. The final in Baku afforded many overseas Arsenal fans the opportunity to watch their team in an European Cup final. There were many fans from Eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Africa. These fans are what make Arsenal the big club it is.
I want to join Helen Steiner Rice in saying that 'after the clouds, the sunshine, after the winter, the spring, after the shower, the rainbow …. after the night, the morning …. after life's cares and sorrows, the comfort and sweetness of peace'
Yes. I am now a philosopher, courtesy of Arsenal.
@babagrumpy resides in England and diligently supports Arsenal, traveling to the ends of Europe this past season. He sometimes writes for The Cable in his native Nigeria.


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With today being the 73rd birthday for George A. Romero I figured this was the ideal time to post this.
This entry was posted on February 4, 2013 at 2:07 pm and is filed under Night of the Living Dead Photo Gallery with tags George A. Romero, Lobby Cards, Night of the Living Dead, Posters. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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amazing gallery! great job!
Thanks Vic.
Love the foriegn releases artwork. The tag line "They Won't Stay Dead" – it reminds me of something I bought in the supermarket last week 🙂 Stay Dead – zombie killer in a can! One spray and all your zombie worries are gone! lol
Yeah I also like the foreign art work as well.
That sounds awesome I must find it lol
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Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
I have read the notes regarding the topic that Jean has brought up. I agree with him. I have observed photos that really do not belong on TE. I only make comments and critques to pictures with the "proper" notes accompanying it. Sometimes, there photos so good and outstanding but without any notes, I make my comments but I request that a note be added next posting. As of now, I will try to notify the member if the photo does not belong and will keep on requesting for an accompanying note. It is up to people who runs this site to delete or to notify the member if he or she is violating the TOS.
Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
Good morning everybody,
Thanks a lot to all who have brought their 2 cents, yens, guaranies, ...
I see a lot of your messages point towards the ToS violation feature, as I have written before it's good to have it but it lacks some transparency, so here we possibly have a first message for Adam.
There is also a softer method, a NR critique with the following text (or a similar one), I used that text recently:
Hello ,
PLease consider the following:
ToS point 8.
As the purpose of TrekEarth is to learn about the world through photography, shots of common objects (like closeups of garden plants, water droplets, toothbrushes etc.) tend not teach us anything without a suitable note, so unless there's a suitable note they will be liable to deletion at our discretion. If you wish to post these types of image please consider using our sister site TrekLens.
Complete ToS
Thanks for your understanding,
What do you think about this method ?
Also sometimes it's a bit hard to correctly draw the line between TE and either TL or TN, while flower or insect macros are imho obvious TN subjects, a wapiti, tasman devil or zebra shot does have a TE learning dimension if the note says the visited region is populated by this animal.
Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
Salut Francis,
I understand and respect tiltizm as a photographic expression that can add value to some photos.
That being said, because titltizm is currently in, some posters have begun to tilt just anything, regardless of the artistic creativity, these are the posts I refer to as tilted horrors.
Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
ToS point 8 was one of the last rules added to TE, about 2 years ago I believe, in response to an inordinate number of water droplet and rose macros being posted at the time.
"while flower or insect macros are imho obvious TN"
Actually, the TN ToS is extremely strict such that many flower shots wouldn't be allowed there. And notes are not optional as well.
Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
j'accepte volontiers que les photos de gouttes d'eau, fleurs, insectes, animaux soient plutôt sur TL ou encore sur TN particulièrement... mais je trouve que des éléphants africains ou indiens dans leur environnement naturel, c'est à dire dans un plan général et non un plan rapproché, ça devrait convenir pour TE qui est quand même d'apprendre le monde et les conditions de vie / culture de pays.
La différence de cadrage / point de vue, faisant la différence avec une photo naturaliste...
pas facile évidemment de trier mais la régle édictée par Adam est une référence.
Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
Oui Pierrot je suis d'accord avec toi sur la dimension TE de certaines photos animalieres, ce que j'ai indique plus haut dans la langue de Shake & Speare, le cadrage et surtout la note, un element trop souvent neglige, font la difference.
"Learn about the world through photography" they said...
I agree with you to an extent. I find that I would rather comment and give points to a blurred not technically perfect photo which in my mind is a real TE shot, rather than a brilliant photographic shot that teaches me nothing about the world. Sometimes I think that people use TE just as a gallery to show their outstanding photos, nice, but, this isnt the place for that.
Re: "Learn about the world through photography"
Thanks for the precisions Adam.
The notes importance popped up in this thread and reviewing the ToS by the word I did not find any point mentioning a compulsory note, only point 8 stresses the note importance that could make the difference for common objects shots. Is it intentional or just something forgotten because it seemed obvious ?
Jean Yves,
I dont want to replace Adam in the answer but I recall several times where he answered to the request of compulsory notes saying in more or less the same Ive mentioned previously, i.e., making notes with some extent obligatory is not a good idea. Nowadays we see some members adding the complete EXIF info to the note, as extra info. If this were obligatory people would do this just to comply with the rule not adding any real information about the place.
People could also setup a text mentioning copyright notices and all kind of garbage just to pass through the note filter. There are many turnarounds to this issue. In this matter the best thing is for members always ask for a note when it is not present. From my experience most of the members end up updating the photo with a note, or adding a note in the following photos.
There are things that can be more easily solved by the community life, than by rules.
Impossible task
Well, as mentioned before it is a fine line between which pictures are teaching anything and which do not.
I for one don't find any educational vaulue in a close up of a kid regardless if it's my neighour or a child in the most remote village of the world, cute kid is a cute kid.
I don't find any educational value in a photo of the tree in a fog regardless what note you put in. This is simply bloody tree in a god damn fog, what's there to learn.
I don't find any educational value in a picture of a road, no matter how educational the note may be.
How many of you who agree with Jean-Yves (and that includes JY) who participate in this thread can honestly say that all their pictures meet the educational values and don't violate any TOS?
Please raise your hands.
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