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California ("Land of the Free" Bans Large TV's
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(Could you move to chillout Forum please - pressed the Enter button by mistake on this section -- different keyboard this morning).
I suppose the rest of the world has always regarded California in general as something of a bit of a "strange" place - but this must be a First -- I read that they are going to BAN flat screen TV's with screens > 40 ins.
(My first reaction after initial disbelief) was perhaps the NTSC system is so horrible and grainy on large screens that nobody would buy them anyway --but there is GOOD HDTV in the US so this couldn't be the reason.
I've been in the states many times and enjoy watching sport in a Bar on a large screen.
If this is done in the name of Energy conservation - pure TOSH --California could create enough SOLAR energy to supply probably 40% of the ENTIRE USA's needs if it started on that road instead of stopping people enjoy one of the few relatively cheap pleasures left.
If the "Tree Huggers" want to be sensible -- try and get some decent and SAFE public transport in places like LA, Fresno etc etc.
Mind you California is no stranger to peculiar rules -- didn't Santa Monica actually BAN smoking cigarettes on the beach.
California to ban big-screen TVs?
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A huge TV is a human right!
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hmm, haven't heard anything about it.
I currently live in L.A, and I lived in Fresno for 8 years before that. Born and raised in California, certainly no tree hugger though.
Yes, they did ban smoking in Santa Monica, the whole city. Also, in public in the city of Burbank now too.
A huge TV is a human right!
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When I drove a Semi, I was in and out of LA quite a bit... In Ontario at one of the larger truck stops they tried to outlaw idling your truck overnight ... almost had a riot... Ontario Police refused to enter the truck stop and face 3k angry truckers ... the law was repealed...
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Wow, they've gone from Ban The Bomb, to Ban The Flatscreen TV, what a turn around.
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I believe that the ban - if it occurs and stands - is on plasma TVs because of the power consumption. Large screen LCDs would be OK, as I recall.
Yes, California COULD get a lot more solar and wind power, but (and there's always a but or two involved in these things) there are environmental studies, endangered species studies, yadda yadda to do before anything moves out there.
Example: Wind power - will it kill the birds that fly into the turbines? Are the turbines in the flight path of any migratory species? Will the construction harm the environment? Are there any endangered species whose mating would be disturbed by the noise? See how this goes? Solar is just as bad.
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We are missing the opportunity to fuel coal-burning power plants with dead birds.
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Hi there
One of the BIGGEST helps to Global warming would be to SALARY CAP every politician WORLD WIDE to around 200 USD PER WEEK.
That would stop them buying their expensive 25 room mansions (with only 3 people living on the estate), Gas guzzling cars and mega hungry power appliances. The energy saved would more than balance the consumption of a few TV sets.
Meanwhile I'm going to CONTINUE to enjoy watching sport on a HUGE screen - the bigger the better.
We've got unlimited geothermal energy which we can't export - so we might as well enjoy it - especially since our Banks have gone Bust so we are stuck at home a lot more now.
Surely there are a lot more URGENT problems on this planet than fiddling around with the size of TV screens people use -- Natural technological development will improve the power consumption of these devices anyway as people will want to reduce the size of their electricity bills as prices rise.
For example who uses CRT monitors any more (or even CRT TV's).
If the only problem the state of California has to deal with is power consumption of TV's people must be really lucky -- No crime, panhandlers, unemployment, bad schools, bad health provision for "un-insured" etc etc. Lucky them.
Last time I took a trip to downtown LA there seemed to be plenty of issues that needed attention having a far higher priority than this piece of nonsense.
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We are missing the opportunity to fuel coal-burning power plants with dead politicians.
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Maybe you've noticed convention centers popping up like daisies across the national landscape, even in heretofore unlikely locations. Over the past decade, public capital spending on convention centers has doubled, with 4 million to 5 million square feet of meeting and exhibition space in the next few years adding to the existing 61.9 million. One person questioning if this kind of investment makes sense is Heywood Sanders, professor of public administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
In his controversial article "Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy," published in January by the Brookings Institution, Sanders contends that the market is oversaturated, that demand will not catch up with supply any time soon, and that convention centers, by and large, are not meeting economic impact expectations. He argues for 36 pages that in city after city, millions of taxpayer dollars were tapped for new or expanded convention centers that have not paid off as predicted.
The Brookings report sparked widespread media attention, especially in cities in which new or expanded convention centers are being considered. It also provoked angry responses from CVBs and industry associations.
"Heywood Sanders' conclusions are so superficial and so misleading, they have painted a terribly inaccurate picture of the value, the condition, and the future of this industry," says John Marks, president and chief executive officer at the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. "I'm shocked and disappointed that an institution as well respected as Brookings would attach their name to this."
Some say it's just the latest chapter in Sanders' longstanding bias against convention center investment. But Sanders disagrees. "I don't view this as a crusade. A lot of folks don't necessarily understand what it is that professors do — professors do research," he says. "I view this as an opportunity to get some really serious analysis and hard data in a place where it often doesn't exist."
On the Trail
Sanders, a 56-year-old Harvard PhD and professor in the department of public administration at UTSA since 2001, became interested in convention centers in the 1980s. That's when he received a grant from the 20th Century Fund to study the downtown revitalization projects in several U.S. cities. "I'm a political scientist, not an economist," he says. "My principle interest has long been in public investment and public decision-making, particularly as it's focused on downtowns around the country."
At a time when the physical infrastructure of many American cities was falling apart, Sanders was struck by the number of municipalities investing in convention centers as an economic revitalization strategy. He wrote "Building the Convention City: Politics, Finance and Public Investment in Urban America," which the Journal of Urban Affairs published in 1992. He argued that many cities were investing in convention center and stadium projects instead of necessary infrastructure improvements, largely for political reasons — i.e., money flowed to these projects in many cases from powerful backers with local political clout.
Sanders revisited the subject of convention center investment in 1997, when the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research tapped him to do a study on the proposed (now open) Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. "Much of the justification [for the new center] involved the argument that there was a growing convention business and lots of cities were seeing a great deal of success in the economic impact from new centers," he says. Sanders challenged those assumptions, and pointed to the history of the existing convention facility in Boston, the Hynes Convention Center, which he said had not met its economic impact projections.
The new Boston center opened last summer, hosting about six events and 65,000 attendees in 2004, far short of projections. Room-night projections for 2008 are one-third of estimates in the feasibility study, Sanders says. But city officials are taking a long-term view, saying that 20 years from now, the center will be viewed as a milestone in the city's growth, and will spur economic development in the South Boston area.
Race for Space
Sanders' research for the Brookings Institution report, conducted over nine months, posits three main findings:
One, the overall convention marketplace is declining in a way that suggests a recovery is unlikely to yield much increased business for any given community. Attendance at the top 200 trade shows is languishing at 1993 levels, he says, citing Tradeshow Week data. Some convention centers, including those in top-tier destinations, have seen attendance declines of up to 50 percent since the late 1990s.
Two, cities have engaged in an "arms race" to host meeting and conventions by investing in new and expanded centers. Convention space has grown by 50 percent to 61.9 million square feet since 1990, and 44 new or expansion projects are in the pipeline. Over the past decade, cities' capital spending on convention centers has doubled to $2.4 billion annually.
Three, faced with increased competition, many cities are investing in additional amenities, including publicly financed hotels, and many are offering deep discounts or free rental space. As a result, few centers can meet their operating expenses. Convention centers are considered loss leaders; they are not intended to generate revenues to cover the cost of their construction but to create economic impact by bringing outside visitor dollars to the local economy. But with operating losses increasing, demand slowing, and supply growing, Sanders says economic impact is evaporating.
"The decision to build or expand is predicated on the assumption, 'If you build it, they will come,'" Sanders writes in his report. But with a 16 percent decline in business and convention travel between 1999 and 2003, according to the Travel Industry Association of America, and consolidation in many business sectors, particularly technology, he argues that "they" are coming less frequently, creating a glut of convention space.
Quoting attendance figures from Tradeshow Week's list of the top 200 trade shows, he says attendance began dropping from a high of 5.1 million in 1996 to 4.5 million in 1999 to 4.1 million in 2003. Some of the largest events, National Hardware Show, COMDEX (before it folded in 2004), and CONEXPO, saw attendance declines of 59 percent, 80 percent, and 21 percent, respectively, from 1999 to 2003. With fewer mega-shows, many larger centers are expanding to accommodate a greater number of smaller meetings simultaneously, thus dipping into the pool previously fished by second-tier cities. Sanders argues that the Internet, mergers and acquisitions, and new ways of marketing and communicating have fundamentally downsized the need for exhibitions.
He also looks at convention center attendance figures provided by individual centers. In city after city, the data show downward trends for most. Two exceptions are Orlando, Fla., and Las Vegas, which Sanders calls the two "emergent national powers." But even those centers have had their share of bumps in the road. The Las Vegas center has seen attendance dip in recent years, due in part to the emergence of privately owned convention centers such as Mandalay Bay and the Sands. Bookings in Orlando have climbed back up after a sharp decline in 2001, but they are still below 2000 levels in terms of attendance.
Industry Response: "Dead Wrong"
"His interpretation of how we look at business is just dead wrong," says Marks, CEO of the San Francisco CVB. "We base [the Moscone Center's economic impact] around room-night production," not building attendance, one of the performance gauges that Sanders uses. Since Marks took over the job 18 years ago, the Moscone Center has been expanded twice, and both times the decision to do so was based on generating additional room nights, Marks says.
"In each case, we've out-produced the room-night number called for," he says, noting that last year the Moscone Center was responsible for 1.2 million room nights, up from 950,000 in 2002 and 1.1 million in 2003 (when Moscone West opened). That number is expected to reach 1.25 million in 2005, Marks says. From overnight hotel guests alone, the center generated $117 million in visitor spending in 2004, Marks estimates.
"Pure [convention center] attendance is a nonsensical approach for some cities," Marks says, noting that boat shows, for example, could have high attendance but not fill hotel rooms. He and others say the report focuses too much on attendance and not on visitor spending and room-night generation.
Steven Hacker, president of the International Association for Exhibition Management, minced no words in rebutting the Brookings report. "If it were a vessel at sea, it would sink due to its own dead weight," he stated in a press release. The report is "based upon a random number of generalizations that support the author's own opinions, leaving readers to accept the generalities as if they were facts," Hacker said. "It's nothing more than a three-year snapshot in a decades-long success story."
IAEM released a white paper a few weeks later that, among other things, takes issue with Sanders' omission of TIA data for 2004 and beyond, which indicates business travel is on the rise. According to TIA, person-trips climbed to 143.7 million in 2004 and are expected to reach 148.9 million in 2005. By 2008, the number is expected to return to 1999 levels, about 165 million. (The TIA data for 2004 and beyond was published after the Brookings report.) The white paper also cites Center for Exhibition Industry Research and Pricewaterhouse-Coopers data that indicate a turnaround in convention center attendance.
Doug Ducate, president and CEO of CEIR, a nonprofit group that collects data on industry trends as well as promotes exhibitions as a marketing medium, does not understand why Sanders would overlook CEIR research.
"His clarion call for national data from a nonprofit organization has existed for 28 years," Ducate says. CEIR's numbers depict an industry that is slowly recovering. "He ignores the fact that for 15 years up to 2000, we had a 7.3 percent compounded annual growth rate [in terms of number of events]." And attendance for the more than 10,000 events that CEIR tracks dropped just 2.9 percent in 2001, he says, and by 2004, it is expected to be back to 2000 levels.
Ducate argues that the rush to build and expand new centers is not so much about space. "What he labeled a space race is really a technology race. The city that elects not to update their building is electing to get out of the race." Centers are also expanding to add more meeting space because the first-generation centers had about an 80-20 ratio of exhibit space to meeting space, which doesn't cut it in today's marketplace.
Others take issue with the time period of the study. The technology bust and subsequent recession, 9/11, corporate scandals, war in Iraq, and the SARS outbreaks are all unusual circumstances that have had major effects on the business world, notes Michael Gehrisch, president and CEO of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus. Many cities were in the process of building or expanding new centers when the economy started going south in 2001, Gehrisch says.
He does agree with Sanders on two points. "One, proper due diligence, integrity, and research is absolutely necessary when you're looking at proposing a new or expanded convention center. Two, more accurate data would be helpful and desirable, particularly as far as attendance numbers go."
As to whether demand will catch up with supply, "It's a market-by-market thing," Gehrisch says. "Many convention centers have had a lot of success, and there's probably been some markets that shouldn't have built centers."
Rethinking Investment
To the criticism that he doesn't take into account the extraordinary circumstances of recent years, Sanders says the effects of these circumstances were what prompted him to do the study. Red flags went up when he saw that attendance declines, on a percentage basis, were steeper than that of other industries, including hotels and airlines. "There is a laundry list of things that have affected these events, but what's striking is how broadly and how deeply." Sanders says his research goes back to 1991, so it's not just focused on the recession period.
In defense of the charge that using Tradeshow Week's data on the 200 largest shows too narrowly defines attendance trends, Sanders says it's a minor piece of his research, but notes that it's the source that consultants have traditionally used to gauge growth and demand. For a broader view, he also looked at the performance of individual centers over the past 15 years.
To the criticism that he puts undue emphasis on attendance instead of room-night generation, Sanders says the attendance data in the Brookings study is based on convention and trade show attendance — not consumer shows, except in cases where centers don't report the numbers separately. The fact that private developers won't build headquarters hotels in many destinations illustrates the problem, he says. (The performance of publicly financed hotels is his next project, followed by a book on how centers have done compared to the feasibility studies).
While Sanders agrees that convention centers can be an asset for "certain highly competitive" destinations, he says "it's abundantly clear" that they cannot redeem a downtown core or address the problems of poverty, decay, and population loss that plague many cities. He hopes to get municipalities to take a hard look at convention center investments and not just make decisions based on estimated economic impact. He encourages cities to get independent audits or reviews of feasibility studies, which are far too often rosy predictions that fall short of projections.
"We need to talk about the substance of what was supposed to happen, what actually happened, and what it cost," Sanders says. "I certainly would not say to any city, 'You shouldn't do this.' That's a local choice. But I would say, 'Do this with a clear and cold eye to the reality of [convention center] performance in other cities.'"


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Below is my speech at the wonderful International Women's Day event in Frankfurt. • 15 year old Malala Yousefzai shot by the Taliban for defending girls' education. • Egyptian atheist Aliaa Magda ElMahdy's nude scream against misogyny and hypocrisy. • The outrage over the assassination of socialist leader Chokri Belaid in Tunisia. • The "Harlem …
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Mar 10 2013
Impossible not to see
Feb 16 2013
La lucha continua
Atheist blogger, 35 year old Ahmed Rajib known by his online identity Thaba Baba, had his head hacked apart with a machete one day after attending anti-Islamist protests in Bangladesh. This is the usual Islamist response to any opposition: assassination, decapitation and sheer barbarity. But nothing – not even the brutal murder of yet one …
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Nov 13 2012
Iran: two sides to the story
Jafar Panahi's "This is Not a Film" provides an important glimpse into the extent and nature of the Islamic regime of Iran's oppression and the injustices of Sharia law. His entire film-making career has been – in his own words – "constructed around the notion of restriction, limitation, confinement and boundaries". Take any week in …
Sep 23 2012
This is about politics not religion
Below is my speech at the 22 September National Secular Society conference in London: Sometimes I really don't know what more to say. What else can be said about Sharia law that– at least in your gut – you don't already know? It is based on the Koran, the Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence. Its criminal …
Sep 13 2012
The other film: The Innocence of Muslims
Another film that has hit the headlines – 'The innocence of Muslims' – merits comment particularly since it has sparked protests that have resulted in the death of several US officials in Libya. Have you seen the film? It is absolutely ludicrous. It's low budget (though they say they spent $5 million on it), poorly …
Jun 20 2012
You're on the wrong side
I was recently criticised for 'picking on Iran'. Well, yes if you side with the Iranian regime, or don't see anything wrong with it, then my opposing it may seem this way to you. It is all about taking sides really. The same applies to the discussion we are having here on the veil. You …
May 16 2012
Conspiratorial nut-jobs, Nazis and extremists
Here's a wonderful letter I received recently from a thoughtful ex-member of the far-Right British National Party. There is a lot we can learn from Alistair Barbour in challenging the far-Right. As I have said before, when the pathetic excuse of an 'anti-fascist' and Post-modernist Left allies itself with Islamic fascism, it leaves the space …
Feb 10 2012
To Human Rights Watch: Separation of religion from state is the most basic guarantee of rights
An Open Letter to Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch Dear Kenneth Roth, In your Introduction to Human Rights Watch's World Report 2012, "Time to Abandon the Autocrats and Embrace Rights," you urge support for the newly elected governments that have brought the Muslim Brotherhood to power in Tunisia and Egypt. In your …
Jan 22 2012
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Human Rights Watch director Kenneth Roth says in the group's annual report that the past year's Arab Spring uprisings across the region have shown it is vital for the West to end its policy of backing 'an array of Arab autocrats' in exchange for supporting Western interests. So far so good. But then the organisation …
Jan 19 2012
We are behind you
The UCL Atheist president has resigned. To those who have resigned and the ones who will take their places: Don't worry. Don't be afraid. We are behind you and we aim to win… As an aside, the UCL Union said in a statement: 'The atheist society has agreed they will take more consideration when drawing …
Jan 18 2012
It's not just about you or Jesus and Mo
Recently, there have been a number of high profile attacks on free expression by Islamists often supported by educational institutions and others. What I find most absurd about it all is how the fundamental debate on Islam and free expression has become framed within a context of offence, racism and discrimination. What has happened here …
Dec 28 2011
That is better
Do you remember I posted a link to the Islamic Diversity Centre team where the women were all represented by one photo of the same woman in a niqab with only her eyes showing. Well, they have now removed the photo for the women on their team altogether. Much better! (Via Anne Marie Waters)
Dec 25 2011
And again, Merry Christmas!
Ho, Ho, Ho, Merry Christmas… (Via Inna Kholondovych on Facebook)
Dec 06 2011
The truth surrounding Rafiq Tagi's assassination must come to light
The below letter by writers and campaigners, including Taslima Nasrin and Salman Rushdie, will be submitted to the EU today when Mina Ahadi meets with delegates about the need for a condemnation of and investigation into writer and Islam critic Rafiq Tagi's assassination:
Nov 29 2011
If it's alright with the Guardian, we won't welcome Islamism
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Nov 24 2011
They finally killed writer Rafiq Tagi
In 2006, Ayatollah Lankarani issued a death fatwa against Azerbaijani writer Rafiq Tagi for his writings. In 2007, a Baku court sentenced him to three years in jail for criticising Islam and Islam's prophet Muhammad. He was pardoned and released later that year. But now they have finally killed him.
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This week's Jinn and Tonic Show
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Remember Calendar Girls when a group of women posed nude to raise money for charity? As a follow up to the photo of Israeli women who stripped in solidarity with Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, why not make a calendar of Nude Photo Revolutionaries in homage to Aliaa and also to raise awareness on free …


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I do take issue with Hummers, but honestly I wouldn't care if it said Prius on it. It's not safe for a 2yr old IMO, and we don't have the space. Not to mention, I am actively trying to reduce the amount of plastic that moves through our lives. I'm not a purist. I didn't say anything about the gigantic plastic pirate ship/toybox they bought him that now resides in ds' bedroom.
Dh pulled the TIME OUT letters of the bench, painted it, and now it sits on the patio for ds. I don't know where the paddle went, but for a while ds used it to hit balloons around.
I don't think they do it on purpose to bug me, but they do also know I don't like it. When they told me about it, stepFIL started the conversation laughing and saying "You're really going to hate us for this -- guess what we got him?"
I am going to have an honest, gentle, conversation with MIL and explain my concerns and why it should stay at their house. I won't even bring up the Hummer issue because they already think I'm : Or as she puts is "we know how you are".
If they insist on bringing it here, then I will insist that battery be removed before it arrives so ds does not see it move. Once he sees that it moves, it's all over. They are excited to see him drive it, so I think that will settle the problem.
Regardless of my feelings, I try real hard not to deprive them of having fun with my child. But the size of this makes it a little exceptional. I usually try to keep the peace.
Just wondering (half-joking here) what do you think would happen if you were to be as cavaleir about their feelings as they seem to be about yours. or your preferences... I mean, what if you said:
- "You're gonna hate me for this, I know, but I sold that Hummer on eBay and donated half the $ to the Biodeisel folks! The other half was used to go on a picnic in the woods. Ha ha!"
- "I know you're gonna hate me for this, but the only way ds will get the joy of riding that sucker is at your house... (laughing, smiling benignly) Bring it here, and I can't promise he'll even know it exists... Ha ha!"
Would they laugh with you and say, "That's ok dear! We'll keep it at our place."?


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bobguild76 wrote:1. Start the wheelchairs first.
2. End of story.
It really is that simple; and nothing else makes any sense at all.
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It really is that simple; and nothing else makes any sense at all.
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Now that WC is part of the World Marathon Majors, Kebede can clinch his $500K by finishing in the top 4 at the WC. (He has a commanding 24 pt lead over Kipsang.) He won't be getting any appearance fees, but he may get some bonus from his sponsor (as well as the Ethiopian federation/Olympic Committee) if he wins the title. And his future appearance fee will go up with the world title, and so could his shoe contract.
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Is there a link to a replay of the wheel chair incident?
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put london wheelchair collision into Youtube and there you go.
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Thanks, Conor
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The whole set of wheelchair contestants were at fault. The are coming up at a speed of about 20mph, the come in on the left side between the aid station and the runners. Now, the wheelchair athletes that cause the actual collision were a bit further back, as was the aid station itself when the first in the line race through on the left. However, there was (almost certainly) an indication that the aid station was coming up and was on the left side.
One problem with having the wheelchair athletes leaving before the women start and them being ahead of the men, in this case by an hour, is that the latter part of the course is active for an even longer period of time.
Still, placing them either on a different part of the course (on the other side of barriers, etc., which might lead to different distances (along the same general route) and hence a slightly altered start and/or finish.
Also, remember that the top women are not at all used (like, it virtually NEVER happens to these athletes) to being past by someone that they were not running with in the last 5, 10, 20 seconds
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Upon the announcement that he had won, he was congratulated by Superintendent W. L. Trey Folse, III, and other School System officials who had attended the banquet.
Flanigan was selected as the Regional Student of the Year earlier this month.
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The St. Tammany Parish Public School Systems Striving Readers Literacy Grant program recently added more pediatrician offices to its outreach with a special kick-off program held at Slidell Memorial Hospitals Family Medicine Center. The event ended with officials handing out colorful and entertaining books to children who had been eagerly awaiting for them.
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