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Recommendations for Television Shows
The Old ManMember
I thought, after ten years, I'd take a swipe at trying to fix the original thread's title: "Reccomendations for TV Show's Thread." Besides the misspelling, the redundancy of "thread" always irked me.
Anyways Bosch is back and I'm so excited I'm actually holding back on watching so I can savor the moment of its opening credits in a day or two.
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What We Do in the Shadows, based on the movie about modern day vampires and their daily trials and tribulations. Very funny. On FX.
thelostverseMember
Bosch season five is excellent. What we do in the Shadows is pretty funny too, but I can't get my wife into it, so it's one I have to watch on my own time.
Probably won't watch Bosch until we get back from Portugal but happy to have it waiting for us. Great show
steve8Member
Started watching season 5 of Bosch last night. So far, so good after the first two episodes.
We watched episode 1of Bosch last night. Enjoyable as always
I've written about the great Brit Marling many times before. After a number of very interesting independent movies she created the Netflix series, The OA. This month the second part was released after more than two years. As always with her work there's intelligent thought given to the world she, and her writing partner, create. However the ending of this series is perhaps one of the most audacious, and I think successful, ever attempted on a serial television show.
sunnylea57Member
We're half way through Bosch S5 and I'd rate it slightly below the previous few seasons. Still extremely well done, though. Of all the seasons, this one most closely sticks to the plot from a single novel - although there have been some significant changes, particularly with the character of Honey Chandler. In the book the lawyer is Mickey Haller, not Chandler. But I suppose Matthew McConaughey wasn't available to play the part. 😂
A number of promising series coming up this year on HBO:
The Righteous Gemstones (Danny McBride & John Goodman)
Years and Years (Emma Thompson)
Catherine the Great (Helen Mirren)
His Dark Materials (Ruth Wilson)
Deadwood (YES! At last the series will get a proper conclusion)
I hope everyone has seen the latest edition of Bryant Gumbel's Real Sports. Besides a breathtaking segment on photographers for extreme sports, another is about another annual contest between centuries long rivals Oxford and Cambridge--blind wine tasting.
In addition, the first segment on Detroit is just plain depressing.
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Just finished the fifth season of Bosch. Not as good as some of the earlier seasons, but still very good.
There's a discussion on another thread where I think someone made a false equivalence between the actions of the US and of Russia (and other "bad" countries.) The US has done many wrong and underhanded things during its existence, but at least we mostly own up to them and they wind up in history books.
The new, HBO series Chernobyl shows how Russia dealt with the worst nuclear disaster in history. Though it is too fictionalized in its human drama stories, it displays all of Russia's techniques of bad government including; lying to the affected public, lying to the world, buck-passing, inefficient methods of decision-making and attempts to control media.
The Old Man posted:
One thing that I noticed in the Amazon Prime series, Hanna, is that it was very Eurocentric in keeping with the movie. And the bad guys? They were the Americans.
mneeley490 posted:
One thing that I noticed in the Amazon Prime series, Hanna, is that it was very Eurocentric in keeping with movie. And the bad guys? They were the Americans.
And there's no doubt we sometimes are. The best "fictional" source are in a number of John Le Carre's stories. And yet we remain the shinning beacon for the rest of the world--let's hope we'll survive this demagogue.
bomba503Member
Watched first five episodes of Billions on my flight home. Hope it stays as good over the rest of the series
Gonna start Barry - I heard good things and like Bill Hader
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali
Probably the best documentary we'll ever have on Ali. In 5th grade I used to bet on Ali. My classmates all hated that "N" (as their racist fathers had so instructed them.) So I won the bets on every fight.
bomba503 posted:
It does. If anything, it gets better in seasons 2 and 3. Currently watching season 4 and it's still excellent but lagging a little behind the previous 2 seasons.
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jcocktosten posted:
Season 2 episode 5 of Barry is one of the best episodes of any series I've seen in the past few years.
sunnylea57 posted:
Thx, looking forward to it
This month's "Real Sports" on HBO.
Intro from Gumbel to the first piece, "The number of thoroughbreds in this country who are chewed up and spit out by the so-called 'Sport of KIngs' is surprising, alarming and flat out disgusting."
I hope all supporters of this legal "sport" give it a watch. Horse lives matter.
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Caught up. Time for a new episode
😮 now that's what I call serious binging.
I am not uncertain about that
B brucehayesMember
The Hot Zone. Whoa.
Robert Redford's best film, 3 Days of the Condor, is currently on Amazon.
italianwinoMember
Starting tonight on FX at 10 PM is a show called the weekly put out by the New York Times. I think this could be a good worthwhile show to watch.
winetarelliMember
Good Omens on Amazon. Higher-brow mindless fun. And lots of fun. Only six episodes — binge watched over the weekend.
Watched this yesterday. Fun. The soundtrack and the technology did make me crack up several times, though.
Did anyone watch Good Omens?
Yes. Loved it. The best I can describe it is "high-brow mindless fun". Highly recommend in that unusual viewing genre space.
winetarelli posted:
Done - that is more than a good enough recommendation for me. Will likely watch it later this summer when FKG is out of town and I am on my own
Stranger Things season 3
Not as good as the first two seasons but still very enjoyable.
Taco Chronicles. Don't watch this when you're hungry.
billhikeMember
doubled posted:
I just watched the Al Pastor episode. Dammit.
I told you so. 😆
I'd never heard of this, but started watching last night. Thanks for the info.
I just watched the Carnitas episode of Taco Chronicles. Thankfully not while hungry. We visited some of the cities mentioned in Michoacán while on vacation in 2010. Cool to see the names of some places that I nearly forgot about such as Quiroga.
G gigabitMember
I just finished watching Seasons 1-5 of Bosch over the course of the last two months. Loved it!
gigabit posted:
Yes. I give art and architecture tours of LA. Think I might add a Bosch tour.
That's a great idea.
I started Good Omens - fun show. David Tennant is obviously having a ball
Glad you're liking it!
Fun. Subversive.
I enjoyed this very much. Set up nicely for a 2nd run, but apparently Gaiman is dead set against it.
Sad that Netflix cancelled The OA. You will never find a more audacious TV season ending than what occurred in its second season.
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No tears here. OK the ending was a surprise, but not worth the cringing done during the scenes with the "movements". The concept was OK and it started out well. One season would have been enough.
steve8 posted:
I do recommend Brit Marling's movies, particularly The Sound of My Voice. Like the TV show none of them are perfect, but they are always interesting. Also no matter what you think of the movements--SPOILER ALERT--the weirdness certainly might stop a gunman for a moment or two which could be just enough time for someone to take action.
Also read her bio about a good looking blond who discovered that "Hollywood" was going to type-cast her as arm candy for the male leads. She instead decided to write and star in her unique science fiction tinged movies. Very brave.
Chernobyl. Holy smokes.
Powerful, depressing and uplifting at the same time and well worth a watch.
I avoided this for months, just because it seemed like a morbid subject. It is.
Recommended, but not for the squeamish or faint of heart.
purplehaze posted:
The bio-robot sequence, in the 4th episode, is some of the most riveting television I've ever seen. It's amazing how they took a clip of the real event, and instead of simply replicating it, they place you in it.
Screwball in Netflix. It's about the Biogenisys, steroids, A-rod, Manny, Ryan Braun. Entertaining.
It was very intense. Glad to see Jared Harris and Stellan Skarsgård get Emmy nominations. I thought they were both very good. Skarsgård's transition from ignorant apparatchik to something resembling a human being was fun to watch.
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Always liked Harris since the great, pretty unknown, I Shot Andy Warhol.
G g-manMember
The naked director on netflix is whimsical, fun, albeit in that weird japanese raunchy kind of way.
A bit of a no brainer, and a time killer, not necessarily something you'd spend time thinking over or rewatch after the first time.
Finished "The Loudest Voice". I thought it was well done with a solid performance by Crowe, but any story about Roger Ailes is also a story about the rise of Fox News... and seven hour of that story is really effing depressing.
Just couldn't bring myself to watch it in the same way I didn't watch the movie about the great satan, Vice.
Succession is the best show on TV right now (especially since GOT is over). It makes you feel good about your own family.
I am enjoying City on a Hill (Showtime) and Yellowstone (Paramount), which is similar to Succession but in a different setting.
glennkMember
Just finished the first 2 episodes of After Life on Netflix. Haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Gervais mixing hilarious moments with sensitive ones. Looking forward to the rest.
glennk posted:
Good series. Finished well. Looking forward to S2.
Finished Good Omens last night - great series, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Comedy, religion, fantasy - a hell hound that looks remarkably like my 12 pound younger dog - all in all great fun and David Tennant looked like he really enjoyed himself
David and Olivia - Naked in Scotland. Amazon Prime. Very entertaining for me. The bonus is the scenery as the two main characters drive from Loch Lomond to Edinburgh Airport.
Looking forward to watching the final episode of Baskets tonight (I'm a night behind). Zack Galifianakis was excellent in this, as was the entire cast. But Louie Anderson as Zack's mother was beyond brilliant.
Dave Chappelle's new Netflix special; premiered yesterday.
Oh. My. G-d.
Only one person alive could tell those jokes and not need to go into the witness relocation program. I may have cringed once or thrice, but most of it was so, so funny. And even if I cringed a couple of times, the irreverence was a much needed huge breath of fresh air.
Let the credits run to 00:00 and then there is a 20+ minute epilogue.
(You should probably skip this whole thing if you are easily offended. Duh.)
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A big +1 on the new Chappelle. If you don't wince, the comedian isn't pushing the edge. Dave pushes the edge like no one else in modern comedy. Brilliant.
One of my favorite lines:
No matter what they say or how they make you feel, remember, this is your country, too, It is incumbent upon us to save our country. And you know what we have to do. Every able-bodied African-American must register,,, for a legal firearm. That's the only way they'll change the law.
Thanks for the heads up about Chapelle. Started watching it last night and will finish tonight. Wow.
+1 on the +1.
Spy, on Netflix. I enjoyed it. Sacha Baron Cohen is surprisingly good in this.
Finished Escape at Dannemora (yes, we're kinda slow). All four principal actors gave fantastic performances (Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Benicio Del Toro and David Morse), the story was compelling, and Ben Stiller's direction was solid and cinematic.
Arquette deserves whatever awards she wins (and has already won).
I see the necessity for the penultimate episode ("if you were rooting for these guys, here's why you shouldn't") and I understand the reason for inserting where they did, but it did disrupt the flow of the story.
S spoMember
Power - I like this quite a bit.
Mandalorian looks great, I might even subscribe to disney plus for that.
A show I'd like to watch but can't is The First about go people to Mars. It's has Natascha McElhone, who was so great in Californication but for me I go straight to the 2002 remake of Solaris. The problem is the lead is Sean Penn and I just can't stand the guy. I don't think I feel that way about any other actor.
On other other hand I started watching Killing Eve and all I can say is--wow. Also it's obvious, after only three episodes, why Jody Comer won an Emmy award in an unfortunate match up with the great Sandra Oh. It's so over the top, yet Comer's psycho killer can cause a chill with just the look in her eyes.
S seaquamMember
The problem is the lead is Sean Penn and I just can't stand the guy. I don't think I feel that way about any other actor.
Well, that's a bit odd.
I've never known him to say even one negative word about you ever.
Californication was almost certainly loosely based on the life of my college best friend and roomate. He became friends with an actress who ended up dating David Duchovny. She told him all about our friend and that he should do a show about him. Years later she bumped into DD and when she asked him his response was, stop talking to me, I cant talk to you about that, you'll sue me. If you knew my friend the parallels are uncanny outside of the drug/alcohol addictions which he did not have
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El Camino. Netflix. You will probably have problems accessing it. A wee bit of high demand. Do not be deterred. A must watch, if you're a Breaking Bad fan. If not... never mind.
10/11/195:22 PM
Just started in on Season 3 of Goliath. I'm three episodes and and frankly don't know what to think. It's definitely a lot weirder and whimsical than previous seasons.
I haven't started it yet. But I loved much of the first two seasons, but it sounds like it's problem of over the top bad guys (last season the bad guy was worse than the Joker) it continuing. It would be much better if it took the Bosch approach with more realism.
It would be much better if it took the Bosch approach with more realism.
Heh. I'm halfway through E5, and "realism" isn't a word I'd consider using for most of the season so far.
Man I keep hesitating to press play on this one.
10/15/1911:45 PM
Just watched it. I agree. I do miss Bryan Cranston's character though.
Agree... but he's dead! I appreciated Aaron Paul's characterization of Jesse Pinkman even more after watching this.
Aaron Paul did a great job. He didn't miss a beat.
Another series I just started is Glitch. First 6 episodes have been great. Highly recommend. Reminds me of Lost if I were to try to categorize it.
10/17/198:58 AM
I like the show too, but good luck understanding season three.
Just started Season 3 of Glitch. I think I know what you mean TOM. I'm losing sight of the plot lines.
If you are going to suspend disbelief, then I'd wish they'd spend more time exploring the premise of getting a second chance.
It's what happened to the at first interesting Mr Robot. When the second season started all I could think is, what the hell is going on?
F Francis123Member
So many posts abou Bosch that I decided to watch it. Thanks for sharing! After The Big Bang Theory finished, I can't find a good TV seriaes to watch. I hope Bosch will be also enjoyable.
Francis123 posted:
Well... It's not a laugh riot, but it's excellent.
For silly English comedy in the Fawlty Towers vein look at the IT Crowd, which is probably closest to the Big Bang Theory, Toast of London - - totally insane. Also the American series What We Do the Shadows. And perfect for Halloween the series Ash versus the Evil Dead. Even better if you're familiar with the three Evil Dead movies. All hail Bruce Campbell. No one does an evil spirit possessed hand better than him.
Started on The Boys on Amazon Prime. Pretty good so far.
Edit: Season 1 was great. Looking forward to Season 2.
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Season 2 of Jack Ryan released today. Fun stuff so far. For Clancy "purists," please be advised that this series bears very little resemblance to the books. Other than having a lead character named Jack Ryan a CIA analyst turned into field operative, and Wendell Pierce doing a really good job again as senior CIA James Greer, there is little that overlaps. I enjoyed Season 1 a good bit, and Season 2 looks likely not to disappoint. Recommended.
Thanks PH. Looking forward to binge watching Season 2 of Jack Ryan.
11/1/1910:31 AM
I liked it better after the conclusion than I did in the beginning. Topical, if a bit of a stretch. Hope there's a season 3.
11/1/195:07 PM
I like Bill Maher. There are a few things about him I don't like. One is his anti-science, anti-modern medicine views. Today, in his opening interview, he outed himself as an anti-vaxxer. If anyone has children in high school or college who'd like to do a report on logical fallacies, his comments could fill pages. You'd could fill a couple of pages just on his numerous straw-man arguments.
Now I'm clutching my pearls at the horror of it.
Yep. Really got into that. Looking forward to season 2, as well.
I'm in the same boat. I agree with him on the strong majority of things. And that's probably because he is usually interested in using knowable facts and objective logic. That makes his few anti-science stances that much more baffling. Some are fairly benign, but some are really dangerous; his anti-medical science stances chief among them.
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I just tried to watch the opening interview on Maher's show. I had to fast forward through a bit I was so enraged. "We don't know 100% about the human body so we should discount the things 99.8% of medical scientists say we do know." Wow.
As a complete aside, I'm on the spectrum; though, obviously on the milder end of it. I've struggled with it in my life, but I definitely prefer it to having polio.*
And as a further aside, given that we already know that psychiatric and learning disabilities are genetic and largely hereditary; what doctor looks at seven kids from the same family, four of whom have autism, and concludes that vaccines are the problem?
*I acknowledge that my learning disabilities and emotional disorders do not compare to some more afflicted. Something I do feel the need to point out.
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In addition, study after study shows no link between autism and vaccines.
FWIW one of the big logical fallacies for Maher's rant is the use of "The Argument from Ignorance (also, Argumentum ad Ignorantiam): The fallacy that since we don't know (or can never know, or cannot prove) whether a claim is true or false, it must be false, or it must be true."
Yep. As an aside, one my most loathed fallacies is, "because we don't know / can't know 100%, therefore we cannot know anything at all." It is like the climate change deniers who claim that since we cannot predict the weather perfectly on the daily, we therefore cannot know that climate change is real. It is the logical recourse of people set in their dogmas who have decided to be impervious to advances in knowledge. And they couch their dogmatic thinking as open-mindedness.
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Three episodes into Watchmen on Prime. I'm liking this a good bit more than I expected to.
Good to know. I have the first three episodes on my DVR, haven't watched yet.
FWIW, also and unrelatedly, I found The Deuce season 3 to be a complete letdown.
Binge watched the second season of Jack Ryan yesterday. Not as good as the first season, but alright, if you can overlook a few gaping plot holes.
I have to admit that I have very mixed feelings about this. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I believe in science, and the scientific method. I get my flu shot every year. But back in 1993, I watched my baby son go from seemingly normal, healthy behavior, to exhibiting symptoms of autism, within days of getting his scheduled round of vaccinations. This was when the vaccines were heavily laced with a mercury preservative, thimerosal, and autism was a word I wasn't even familiar with. I don't think even most of the medical profession was familiar with it back then, either. They first told us that his sudden lack of interpersonal skills probably meant that he was deaf. When he finally was correctly diagnosed (it took nearly a year), they told us that he would probably never learn to speak or write, and that we should consider institutionalizing him. A three year-old.
We pushed hard for him to be in regular school classes, even once having to hire a lawyer and threaten to sue the school district, because they weren't even fulfilling their state-mandated requirements for disabled children. Now he is 28, speaks and reads just fine, and plays all kinds of complicated video games on the internet that I don't understand. He doesn't have the ability to hold down a full day job, and is awkward in social situations, but other than that, he has come out of it very well.
I know all the studies that say that thimerosal wasn't the cause. They've since discontinued it. But it certainly depends on how much you trust Big Pharma, and who bankrolled those studies.
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Finished it as well. I agree. Some of the sequences and locations reminded me of Clear and Present Danger.
MNEELEY490, I'm sorry for what happened to your son. There just is no evidence that autism is caused by vaccination, even with any of the now removed additives. Does this mean that vaccinations are 100% safe? Absolutely not. Any medical treatment has its side effects and some of them can be devastating. However, you can look all those up and weigh the statistics and data for yourself. But you will not find any mention of autism. This is the most recent study out of many:
Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study
Such great stuff on television with the final season of The Man in the High Castle, the extended final season of Schitt's Creek and season three of The Crown. But pure goofy Canadian fun is to be found on Letterkenny on Hulu.
The Crown, Season 2 - very entertaining
And so is season 3.
It seemed to run out of gas towards the last 2 episodes or so. Otherwise, I greatly enjoyed it.
Crap. I meant Season 3, but Season 2 was very good as well.
Man in the High Castle, Season 4 is highly addictive. WTH happened to the ending?!
I knew that.
CantaloopMember
But they ended the second season of Mr Robot pretty strongly, don't you think?
John Adams, the seven-part miniseries on HBO (now available in Amazon Prime). Started watching it. Very entertaining especially the portrayal of Ben Franklin.
Cantaloop posted:
I don't know if this was to me, but I couldn't make it. Some of these new-fangled programs are a little to much for me to keep up with.
The Expanse - Season 4.
The greatest show on televisions (as Squirrely Dan might say), and certainly the most juvenile, is from Canada. No, not the beloved Shitt's Creek, but the demented Letterkenny. Meth heads, hockey jocks, hick farmers who never farm, and Natives all speaking this strange vernacular which requires, at least for this American, subtitles on.
N napacatMember
I love Bill Maher...extremely funny.
A bunch of random Joe Pera. Where has this guy been all my life? Like a quaalude for my overtaxed brain. Fun stuff.
Currently the greatest show on TV is from Canada. No, not the sublime Schitt's Creek, but Letterkenny. My friend put it best, "It's simultaneously the stupidest thing I have ever seen and the most brilliant show I've seen in a long time." That's a "hard yes."
I think even if you're from Canada it requires subtitles to be on.
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I might have to give it a look. Just watching the previews have made me cringe.
We recently finished watching Mad Men and liked it a lot. Now we started Peaky Blinders which is also excellent. Great soundtrack although it's probably going to ruin Red Right Hand for me.
I could not get through Peaky. Remember Letterkenny is also the stupidest show on television. Recommend Shitt's Creek perhaps first. (Break in gently into today's Canadian humor.)
Doctor Who marathon. Have to wait to New Years for new episode but I am still happy. Last Capaldi episode on now . It was a cracker
Finally watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel - tried when it came out but we had an issue with out streaming and never got back to it until now.
Very funny.
Letterkenny is really funny.
spo posted:
Hard yes. Ah, another person with a twisted sense of humor.
So our friends who own a local restaurant are big fans of the show. It turned out the lead singer from the Arkells was eating with his girlfriend the other day and talk turned to the show as one of them posed as a character from it on the restaurant's social media - the guy says he is really good friends with Jared from the show and shows pics on his camera of them together. Apparently after leaving, he came back to get my friend's phone number - the next day Jared from the show calls to thank them for being such fans of the show. The husband doubted it was true and eventually, Jared went into character and started performing. Anyway, apparently he is extremely nice. How Canadian
The language on the show is almost Shakespearean in its creation and use of wordplay. When they do one of their rhyming riffs, or go through the alphabet, sometimes you just shake your head in amazement.
Wheel, snipe, celly, boys. It's not just for hockey anymore.
Finally got around to watching the 6-part production of Les Miserables that aired in The UK and on PBS last year. Written by Andrew Davies, with Dominic West and David Oyelowo.
Binge watching Bosch. Excellent as others have already noted.
Just finished Cheer on Netflix. It wasn't my choice originally, but it reeled me in quickly. Inspiring and dark simultaneously. These are not the cheerleaders of my youth. Amazing athleticism and dedication by these young people. But... man. They take a hell of a beating.
First episode of the new season. Best episode in probably 4 or 5 seasons. Brilliant.
Indeed...excellent debut last night. My favorite show. Leon is hysterical...they all are really. Looking forward to this every Sunday.
Holy mole. Just brilliant.
Detectorists
Brit comedy created, written by, and starring Mackenzie Crook (Gareth from the original Brit version of The Office). He and Toby Jones play two members of an amateur metal detectorist club.
Three seasons of 6 episodes each.
Charming and funny. Here are some highlights from the first season:
https://youtu.be/Fi8I6RshTDs
Sorry to see The Crown end on the fifth season instead of the originally planed six. The fifth will feature the great Imelda Staunton as the queen. No, they won't get close to dealing with Megan and Harry.
Finished Season 3 of Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Very uneven, no?
SOTU.
billhike posted:
Indeed. Just an excellent speech! Home run. Now Mitch can tear up the bogus articles of impeachment!
napacat posted:
I was wondering if you would slither out of 45's rectum long enough to chime in.
Good to know your thinking of me..
Started watching The Boys. Three episodes in, interesting so far. Reminds me a lot of the Watchmen.
LoraMoserMember
TV-shows are not my favorite entertainment. I don't like them very much. But I've seen some through the years so I have a shortlist of those that I do like:
The lost room
IT-crowd (UK)
I loved The Boys.
LoraMoser posted:
Well, if we are going all-time:
Comedies (in descending order):
Curb (since the divorce)
Arrested Development (first 3 seasons)
Dramas (too many to list but what really sticks with me, in rough descending order, excluding GOT, which is its own thing):
The first season of Homeland
The first 7 episodes of the first season of True Detective
The first 3 seasons of The Sopranos
The first 3 seasons of The West Wing
Dexter season 4 (Trinity Killer)
W wine+artMember
Wonderful film too many don't know of.
Three Days of the Condor, what a piece of shit. Redford does some interesting early films of which Three Days is the best. Other overlooked gems include include the wry The Candidate with its great ending line and the well made Downhill Racer (directed by Michael Ritchie of all people.)
For extra credit, without looking it up, answer this question. Who was his character in his only Twilight Zone appearance, in the episode Nothing in the Dark?
vinoleMember
PBS's NOVA "Polar Extremes" 2/5/20 release.
I wouldn't normally recommend a single episode in this thread, but this 2 hr show kept me thoroughly engaged as it went through geologic time with the earth's climate and its drivers. Made very good comparisons to times when CO2 levels were higher. We are currently over 400 ppm, well above the 180-300 ppm range that has existed for thousands of years during this time of inactive volcanic activity. You'll come away with a much better understanding of climate change.
Wounded Cop/Angel of Death One of my favorites.
Bingo bingo. And don't forget the wonderful older actress Gladys Cooper.
They're making fun of you moron:
The idiot in chief doesn't get the joke's on him.
Already brilliant, so far this season is the funniest sitcom season I've seen in decades.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to really disagree. I think there was an odd scene at the beginning of the first episode that shows the problem. No spoilers; so I'll just say it concerned a selfie stick. Many parts of this season are like that scene. It's often very forced and takes Larry's misanthropic behavior to new heights that are unbelievable even for him.
I do like that they shot more than one scene at Lunetta by Day.
I hope I did not rain on your parade.
I too think this is the finest season thus far in many years.
The MAGA hat theme and the Jeff/ Weinstein storyline are hilarious imo.
Narcos Mexico Season 2 - Awesome!
wineart 2 posted:
I loved the first episode, but wasn't fond of eps 2 and 3. Still haven't watched last week's yet.
Huh? Sunny, you didn't like the scone episode? I thought it was hilarious.
Yeah, I'm not usually one to agree with TOM, but eps 2 and 3 felt forced. Part of the fun of the show is how Larry takes a handful of disconnected plot threads and links them all together by the end of the episode. Eps 2 and 3 just felt a bit obvious to me. I'm also tired of Susie's character.
I liked ep 4, though.
Final season of Homeland. Two episodes in and so far, so good.
Also really enjoying Baghdad Central airing on UK's Channel 4. I believe it will be on Hulu in the US/Canada, but not sure when it starts.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/JxQXiIjYiwo
The problem is he has to come up with more and more outrageous behaviors. He's really gone too far and is often out of character.
Good to hear about Homeland Sunny. Saving the episodes for binge watching.
Watched Counterpart again (Seasons 1 and 2) which is now available on Amazon Prime. Great cast. Great series. However There will not be a Season 3 if I remember correctly.
Going to watch Prisoners of War (aka Hatufim), the original Israeli series that the first seasons of Homeland was based on.
Best place to check for that kind of info: epguides.com
http://epguides.com/Counterpart/
You'll see at the top of the page that it's cancelled/ended.
Thanks Sunny.
Started Hunters on Amazon Prime. It's been great so far. I was skeptical of Pacino, but he's done a good job. Nice to see Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother). Some fresh faces like Jerrika Hinton and others.
Finished Season 1. I thought it was great except for the conclusion.
I wish Avenue 5 was good.
Season 2 of Formula 1 Drive to Survive series. Excellent so far.
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Apologies if it's been mentioned before, but Altered Carbon on Netflix is really good. An excellent watch for sci fi geeks like me. Season 2 recently released. Excellent production, good writing. Makes me want to get the books.
Speaking of things I like, I'm really digging Agatha's Christie's Poirot originally from the BBC. I originally watch the first couple seasons of this when they were shown on PBS in the early 90s. However, I just couldn't get into them and dropped out. Now upon watching them again I see they are just little gems with great characterizations, locations and attention to detail. They also do something that's hard to pull off: they go far from the words of the books and yet more than keep the spirit.
David Suchot pulled off the incredible feat of performing as Hercule Poirot in adaptions of all 70 Christie short stories and novels. The includes the final Poirot book that published during her life. The book Curtain, however had actually been written 30 years earlier. She originally planned to have it published posthumously as her detective's swansong. She changed her mind and released it a year before she died.
Another reason this show is so good is the budget was always kept at a solid level and that they are only making on average only six episodes a year. A reason why Columbo is so good compared to so much episodic television is it began as a rotation show on NBC's Mystery Movie. Unlike equivalent shows of the time like I Spy and Mission Impossible which cranked out at least 26 one-hour shows a season, Columbo only averaged six 90-minutes shows.
I've started watching Narcos Mexico. It's pretty good.
Nice that Curb is again using Three Little Maids From School Are We. Jon Hamm's Larry David was great. However Letterkenny is still the cleverest comedy on TV. (And of course the stupidest.)
Finished The Outsider, produced by Jason Bateman who also acts in it and directed some episodes. It's funny my daughter's boyfriend mentioned it went a little off track in starting in episode four. This is because it's when the Stephen King's (It's adapted from his book) influence rears its banal head. However it's perhaps some the best acting I've seen in a mini-series in some time. A really fantastic cast make this worth finishing.
Side technical note: I've have never seen a TV show, or movie, shot with such constantly shallow depth of field. It has a purpose, and it sometimes too much, but it is interesting.
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I'm having trouble getting into Homeland Season 8.
Really? I'm loving it. Best season in some time.
A friend told me about this Brit SkyArts series. We've watched both the 2018 and 2019 editions.
The current season can be found on YouTube (search for "Portrait Artist of the year 2020") where someone is posting each episode the morning after it airs in the UK. Two episodes to go in the current season.
Simple premise: in each episode 9 artists - some pros, some amateur - have 4 hours to paint a portrait of a celebrity sitter. Three judges then pick one artist to go on to the semi-finals. The ninth episode is the semi-final (with 8 artists), followed by the finals (with 3 artists). The winner receives a £10,000 commission to paint a celebrity portrait (the process of which is shown in episode 11). This season it will be Nile Rogers, and the portrait will hang in the Royal Albert Hall.
its a simple premise but it's hugely compelling to see all the different approaches to portrait painting.
Anyone else watching Dispatches From Elsewhere on AMC? It is freaky and confusing, but kind of wonderful in a way.
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I just finished Hunters. I agree completely with you Dom. The conclusion was meh. But I enjoyed it up till then.
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I just finished and agree about the conclusion. I also thought the intertwining of exploration-style filmmaking and the Holocaust sometimes didn't work because all of the Holocaust stories were quite realistic as to what actually happened so there is a sense of almost downplaying that I felt, though obviously that was completely unintentional. That said, it was quite well acted. I thought Pacino was great.
Just saw the last episode of Curb. What an amazing season this was!
Except for the made up chess game. The creator's excuse is laughable.
Yeah, I thought that the 2nd and 3rd episodes were letdowns after the stellar first episode, but it really picked up after that. Episodes 7-10 were exceptional.
Ok, it got better starting with Episode 3. I forgot how annoying the 15 minutes of promos before the episode begins.
Tiger King. Just wow.
Looking forward to season 3 of Ozark and Fauda on Netflix.
Yep. I'm 3 episodes in. This is unbelievable.
Watched the first season of Luther over the past few nights. A couple of episodes were a little over the top with the gore factor, but overall I like it. Episode 5 (and 6) was the stand-out.
Finished Portrait Artist of the Year 2020... as well as the 2019 and 2018 seasons. It is SO GOOD. I found the earlier seasons online (2013, 2014, 2017) so we'll watch those soon.
And also Landscape Artist of the Year (2015 through 2019).
Just finished season 3 of Ozark, my favorite of the three. Riveting from start to finish.
Good to know! The first 2 seasons have been great.
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27/10/2012: Embassy Tells Filipinos to Prepare for Hurricane Sandy (SECOND UPDATE)
ADVISORY/ANNOUNCEMENT (SECOND UPDATE)
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WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Philippine Embassy is urging the Filipino Community in the East Coast of the United States to take all necessary precautions and brace themselves for Hurricane Sandy which is expected to make landfall on Monday.
Ambassador Jose L. Cuisia said the Embassy has issued an advisory to members of the Filipino Community in at least 11 states that forecasters said would be affected by what is said to be the largest storm to hit the US Mainland.
Ambassador Cuisia said the Embassy and the Philippine Consulate General in New York have also activated 24-hour help desks to assist Filipino tourists travelling along the East Coast who may be affected by the hurricane.
Ambassador Cuisia said Filipinos who may require assistance may call the Duty Officer of the Embassy in Washington D.C at 202-368-2767 or the Consulate General in New York at 917-294-0196.
"We advise our kababayans staying along the path of Hurricane Sandy to stay indoors and avoid unnecessary travel until the storm has passed," Ambassador Cuisia said, adding that a team from the embassy is on standby in case of emergency assistance.
As part of their preparations, Ambassador Cuisia advised the more 310,000 members of Filipino-American communities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut to stock up on food and other emergency provisions and to monitor local media for regular updates.
He said Filipinos in the affected areas should be ready for heavy rains, strong winds, power outages, floods, falling trees and flying debris when the hurricane hits land with maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. ###

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Stanley Glasser (Johannesburg, 28 februari 1926 – 5 augustus 2018) was een Zuid-Afrikaanse componist en muzieketnoloog.

Biografie
Glasser studeerde eerst economie in Zuid-Afrika, voordat hij in 1950 muziek studeerde in Cambridge en bij Mátyás Seiber. Van 1953 tot 1955 werkte hij als docent in Cambridge en keerde daarna terug naar Zuid-Afrika, waar hij veldonderzoek deed met de Xhosa en Pedi. Na drie jaar als docent aan de Universiteit van Kaapstad, keerde hij in 1963 terug naar het Verenigd Koninkrijk om les te geven aan Goldsmiths College, University of London, waar hij sinds 1969 hoofd van de muziekafdeling was en in 1989 werd benoemd tot hoogleraar. Hij is met pensioen sinds 1991. Sommige van zijn composities worden sterk beïnvloed door zijn wetenschappelijke betrokkenheid bij traditionele Afrikaanse muziek. Hij was ook de muzikaal leider en arrangeur van Todd Matshikiza's musical King Kong. In 1962 schreef hij zelf een musical met Mr. Paljas. Met The Square (1961, voor orkest en jazzensemble) schreef hij de eerste balletmuziek in Zuid-Afrika. Een van zijn belangrijkste werken is de cantate Zonkizizwe.

Glasser was geïnteresseerd in alle facetten van hedendaagse muziek en schreef in 1959 zelfs toneelmuziek voor The Emperor Jones, waarbij gebruik werd gemaakt van de verworvenheden van elektronische muziek. Hij opende dergelijke kansen ook in onderzoek bij Goldsmiths. Zo kocht zijn muziekstudio een van de eerste sample-ready Fairlight CMI-synthesizers. De studio daar is vandaag naar hem vernoemd. Hij schreef ook The A - Z of Classical Music (Londen 1994). De mondharmonicavirtuoos Adam Glasser is zijn zoon.

Onderscheidingen
In 1952 ontving hij de compositieprijs van de Royal Philharmonic Society.

Overlijden
Stanley Glasser overleed in augustus 2018 op 92-jarige leeftijd.

Werken (selectie)
 1961: The Square
 1970: The Chameleon and the Lizard
 1977: Lalela zulu, voor zangensemble (tekst van Lewis Nkosi).
 1991: Zonkizizwe
 1999: A Greenwich Symphony

Discografie
 1962: Mr. Paljas (Gallotone, met Chris McGregor, Hugh Masekela, Dudu Pukwana, Dennis Mpali, Danny Josephs, Maud Damons e.a.)
 1998: Lalela Zulu – King's Singers Street Songs (RCA Victor Red Seal)

Zuid-Afrikaans componist

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Today sees the start of a new challenge at Here Comes The Boys, where we would like to see your male orientated creations with 'Lots Of Layers'. The prize this time is a pack of assorted charms from my shop Ewe 2 Can Craft.
I decided to create a paper torn owl for my DT card. Each piece is hand torn from thick handmade mulberry paper - it makes your fingers a bit sore, but is well worth the effort in my view.
This is gorgeous, he looks so sweet & fluffy!
What a fabulous owl! The effect of this is lovely, he's so cute! Thanks for joining in with our Handmade Embellishments challenge over at the Craft-Room.
Wow! I love your little owl, Sharon - what a clever technique.
Thanx for joining us at the Alphabet Challenge.
This is so cute, love your little owl.


Thursday night marked the first major sporting event in Boston since Monday's bombings of the Boston Marathon. Prior to the Boston Bruins' game against the Buffalo Sabres at TD Bank Garden, the Bruins observed a moment of silence for the victims and survivors of the bombings. The public address announcer then directed fans to singer Rene Rancourt for the national anthem. Rancourt didn't even get through the first verse before lowering the microphone as the entire Boston crowd sang along at nearly full volume. You can hear the fans in the video above.
The Bruins also aired a special slideshow montage of photos from the marathon attack rescue efforts set to Philip Phillps' "Home" on the video board during the game. Sports —and the unifying nature they often have on a community — can help a city heal more quickly. Thursday's show of patriotism in Boston was perhaps the start of that process for the town and its people victimized by Monday's attack.


PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A string quartet from The Philadelphia Orchestra made a lengthy flight delay quite enjoyable for a plane full of lucky passengers in China.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) � A string quartet from The Philadelphia Orchestra made a lengthy flight delay quite enjoyable for a plane full of lucky passengers in China.
Two violinists, a cellist and a viola player were aboard a flight that was delayed for three hours on the tarmac in Beijing on Friday. They took out their instruments and played an impromptu concert for the appreciative � if captive � audience. Several passengers whipped out their smartphones and began recording as the orchestra played a selection from Dvorak's "American" string quartet.
The instrumentalists were greeted with cheers and applause as they wrapped up their five-and-a-half-minute performance.
A video of the quickie concert was posted online.
The ensemble recently launched a tour of China, 40 years after it became the first U.S. orchestra to visit the country.


I. Introduction Michael O. Leavitt holds the distinction of longest economic expansion in modern Utah state history. His governorship consists of eight consecutive years of three percent or higher job growth. This had never happened in Utah since about 1950. Net migration in a year during Leavitt's term was never lower than 9,700 and during many years was as high as 30,000 which meant during his entire term more people were entering the state than leaving. This created many new problems and challenges for the state of Utah. The major issues revolving around this increased growth were transportation, air quality, land conservation, water quality and water conservation. These were part of the authority of state government and also outside of state government. People were starting to talk about the need for something besides state government which brought on discussions for the creation of Envision Utah. The Coalition for Utah's Future with Robert Grow and Stephen Holbrook had some of these discussions. Leavitt entered the scene in 1992 and ideas started to percolate. By the middle of 1993 the question had spread and it was a live discussion. II. Growth Summit In 1995 the Growth Summit was created. The Summit brought all of the discussions and all of the players together and created a really complete discussion. Growth Summit was the leader in Utah's efforts in Quality Growth and became the defining moment. Transportation, water, and open space were the three major things the summit addressed. The set up of the Growth Summit was to have several different meetings all over the state occurring simultaneously but in different locations. At these meetings everyone got a chance to discuss the issues and present their ideas and opinions. Then a number of these leaders met directly with the governor in Salt Lake City where they vent all the different ideas they gained from the previous meetings of how to work on the issues and how to resolve them. Eventually all of the ideas and resolutions would be brought together into a planner. The Growth Summit received an hour and a half of prime time television on every station with preempted programming. Educational data was aired beforehand and then they showed the discussions. Vicki Varela is the one who handled all of the negotiations with the television stations. Other major players to get the Growth Summit going were Mel Brown, Frank Pignanelli, and Lane Beattie who was President of the Senate at the time. The Growth Summit was a place to discuss the major issues, but also a place to lay some groundwork for future issues and things which the governor might want to work on in the future. For example air quality was an idea in the background but was not a main focus. Today the issue of air quality would be much closer to the top. Also in the back of everyone's mind was I-15. Norm Bangerter's administration tried to face that problem of transportation but never really got to that point. The summit was an opportunity for the governor to plant the seeds and take the first steps to be able to get I-15 done. These discussions morphed into the idea of the Centennial Highway Fund. Ideas about water conservation, even though it was not very important then, were born in the environment of the Growth Summit. Regarding open space, Utah had never done anything in that arena before and the summit was the first time it had really been discussed in a major way. Growth Summit developed great documents and reports on solutions in water and land and transportation that poured in from local government and business associations. A hallmark of the summit is that the process was all-inclusive and brought everyone in. It was not just something for the executive branch to take care of. The planning office assembled the documents and reports into a planner and these led directly to other efforts by the governor, specifically in the form of executive orders. The first executive order issued in relation to the discussions that took place at the Growth Summit created the critical lands conservation committee. This was interesting because of the fact that it is not called "open space" even though essentially that is the issue they were dealing with. Critical land was more specific. Open space was a concept that was questioned and criticized from the beginning. "What's open space? We've got lots of open space, why do we need more? 60% of the state is open space." Calling the issue "critical lands" created a real fundamental shift in a lot of non-urban people's thinking to get them to come to the table. The issue was not to create open space for the sake of open space, but to preserve critical lands like water life habitat, water sheds, agricultural lands, etc. Critical lands put the focus on what was really important. In creating the critical lands conservation committee, Utah went back to central, basic environmental philosophy and created their plan. The philosophy of environmentalism is often so broad and open ended that it is impossible to really get your arms around it. The planning office was trying to get their arms around it and make it a practical and pragmatic process. They did not just adopt the language and a plan from somewhere else, the ideas had to be homegrown and meet the needs and philosophies of the public of Utah. They found a plan that worked for Leavitt and Brad Barber, but there were other expectations from people like Mel Brown. These two philosophies combined and created something better. The result was the original concept of critical lands. Staff members did not use the word open space, only critical land was discussed. In the same vein, Utah did not use smart growth with Envision Utah; it was Quality Growth because it was their homegrown vision. The second executive order requested all state agencies to look for property for land they owned that would be important to try and conserve. This was issued to agencies like the Department of Transportation and was something that had never been done before. The background discussion that led to this also led to further discussion about the partnership between business and local government in dealing with these issues. This discussion led to the official creation of Envision Utah from 1997 to 1998. III. Envision Utah The launch of Envision Utah was a significant move for Leavitt because a similar initiative was the issue that cost his father the election to governor. Leavitt's father, Dixie Leavitt, was running for governor in 1974 when a big land use planning act went to ballot. Dixie was supportive of that bill and in the planning office mean letters were coming in making accusations of Dixie being a Marxist or Stalinist. There were a lot of misconceptions as Dixie was far from a Marxist. He just thought the initiative was a great idea and this contributed to his loss of the campaign. Because of this, Mike Leavitt was ideally prepared to handle this type of initiative because he had seen his father fail at it. Leavitt had no experience of his own to deal with the issue but he did have the experience of his father. For Leavitt to take on the same issues that cost his father an election also required a great deal of courage because he also learned from his father's experience how these things can hurt you. He still pushed forward because it was the right thing. Leavitt called on the experience of other giants of Utah as well when preparing the minds of Utahns in dealing with land issues. A powerful idea was hatched in a meeting to have Brigham Young himself come to the launch of Envision Utah and speak to Utahns. So in 1997 Brigham Young came to the launch at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City to give Utah a pep talk and share some more of his vision. Historian Leonard Arrington was hired to play the part of Brigham. Brigham, played by Leonard, essentially said at the launch, "You guys have done some pretty good stuff since I was here last but I'm not happy with everything. There's been a lot of great things done but my vision for this valley, this city… you guys have got some work to do." Leonard was short and portly and dressed up for the part. Leonard came up with the speech himself as well. He was given some concepts to work with and then given freedom as far as how to say it. Leonard had done things like this before but never in the context of growth. His knowledge of the history of Brigham and city building made the speech extremely effective and truly powerful. The approach to launching Envision Utah was to create a cooperative partnership. Envision Utah consisted of over a hundred big partners. These partners sometimes had a vision that was a little bigger or a little more powerful but it was Leavitt who insisted that things be done in a cooperative fashion rather than pushing these ideas on people with a lot of mandates. Many like Robert Grow and others in the beginning would have opted for more forced action with mandates and a lot of heavy planning. Thus when Leavitt came along and wanted to work together with people they were anxious to speak up as well as listen. Envision Utah was created to get as much done without coercion and to offer more rewards rather than punishment; use carrots when appropriate and keep the stick small. At the launch, Leavitt also delivered a very powerful speech that followed up to Brigham Young. It was written by Vicki and Brad and described the direction which Envision Utah hoped to take the state of Utah and how he wanted to do it. Because of the things Envision Utah was out to do, many people would get upset. One example is when Ellis Ivory went the governor asking for Brad Barber's head on a plate. A scenarios analysis process was run which gave an idea to the people at Envision Utah where they should start making their major efforts. The scenarios analysis used modeling and looked at density issues and how that plays out in respect to infrastructure cost and water use and air quality and determining the costs of different development patterns. This process with the scenarios analysis process was what created the foundation to come up with the strategy for Quality Growth. At times this could be thought of as the largest public private partnership on Quality Growth and has incredible name recognition. The numbers that came out of this analysis made Ellis Ivory very unhappy. Ellis liked to go and buy a bunch of raw agricultural land and put up Ivory Homes one after another. Ellis did not feel like Envision Utah and its talk of clustering and town centers and more density was supportive of his usual way of doing business. After receiving the numbers, Ellis went directly to the governor to raise his complaint. Ellis called the meeting and Brad was asked to go to the meeting but Brad was not aware what the meeting was regarding except Envision Utah. So the meeting with Brad, the governor, and Ellis convened and straightaway Ellis starts quoting numbers. He tells the governor how awful these numbers are and that someone's head ought to be on the platter. Leavitt turns to Brad and says, "Defend these numbers." Brad did not even know that they would be discussing the numbers from this analysis so he had not spent any time recently looking over them. So Brad did not know what to do. He said, "Well, this is a complex model, uh, give me a couple of hours" but that did not sit well with the governor. The situation was very testy and Brad and the governor agreed to spend more time with Ellis to work out the problems. The situation was eventually resolved but there were many situations similar to this. Brad recalls three different times when someone, instead of sitting down with Brad and going over the issue, they would go directly to the governor. These situations show how people were ready to just do away with the process. Natalie Gochnour also had a run-in with Ellis Ivory. Today she has Ellis' daughter working with her and she is certainly a fan of the Ivory's but during this time there were many collisions. Natalie was speaking on a panel regarding Quality Growth with Ellis and another person and Ellis was really attacking them and specifically attacking Natalie. There was a Deseret News story by Lucinda Dillon that starts out, "Natalie Gochnour is reminding herself lately of a deer in a Far Side cartoon. It's a classic by Gary Larson: two deer talking, one with a target on his chest. Caption: 'Bummer of a birthmark, Hal'" ["Predicting Utah's growth creates pains and strains, Builder disputes figures, methods used for research" by Lucinda Dillon, Deseret News 09 December 1998]. On these panels and in these discussions they were dealing with some really tough politics and philosophies so it got very personal very quickly. There were a lot of tough things along the way with Envision Utah but today it is very well accepted throughout the state. At that time, the governor being pro-transit was extremely scary publicly but today the environment has totally changed. Envision Utah is the foundation for the downtown rides available today and the most other ideas it represents are really a standard for quality growth. It is not nearly the controversy it was coming out of the gate. Envision Utah prevailed partly because of the smart political savvy of Mike Leavitt helping to steer though the obstacle course of tough politics. People were so skeptical and upset at the time that the legislature ordered an audit of the agency to make sure no public moneys were going to it inappropriately. Today Envision Utah is stronger than ever. IV. Quality Growth Act In 1998 the discussion on the Quality Growth Commission was started and then the Quality Growth Act was passed in 1999. The creation of Envision Utah was extremely helpful in getting the Quality Growth Act passed. Of course, Leavitt himself was also very helpful in pushing the legislation. This was definitely his deal and his legislative leadership was very important in passing the act. Earlier it was discussed that Envision Utah was the cooperative approach to the issue- using carrots. The Quality Growth Act was the stick but also the money to support it and create more of those incentives. A. Background The Quality Growth Act was sponsored by Kevin Garn in the House of Representatives and Lane Beattie in the Senate. There were two major parts of the bill. First was to incentivize, direct and lead state agencies and local government towards meeting these Quality Growth goals. Second was to create the money funding mechanism for critical lands. The bill went through a million iterations and got watered down so it was not as powerful as when it was first introduced. Even with all of the watering down it was difficult clear until the end to try and get that bill passed. The bill had the support of the governor, the support of the senate president, and the support of the house majority leader yet even with all of that political punch it still met a lot of opposition. One of the more interesting events in the state legislature was on the last day of the debate on the issue. Marty Stevens is the Speaker and Mel Brown is ex-speaker on the floor with Kevin Garn as the sponsor. Mel Brown stands up to oppose and amend the bill. Brown started to do some very inappropriate things and executing all sorts of strategies to kill this bill. Marty gets very furious and turns the podium over to someone else and marches down to the floor to debate Mel. That was unprecedented. Marty was not doing this just out of love and support for Leavitt, but because of his distaste in ex-speakers taking him on. Behind the scenes Kevin, Marty, the governor, Layne, and everyone worked and came up with a plan that they can all live with and then Mel came along to try and muck it all up and destroy it. So Marty in all of his fury takes the floor with Brown and enters into a very heated debate. Then there was a vote and it passed. It passed with a little bit of room even. [To listen to the last day of the debate on the Quality Growth Act click here] In the Senate it was also a tough vote. Lane Beattie did well in the Senate to get it done and really carried the way. It was not easy here either but it passed and this bill provided some great steps to move forward and create some real money for land conservation. B. Funding- Lee Ray McAllister The issue with coming up with the money for land conservation was a brilliant strategy. Many people hated this and did not understand why the state needed money for open space. Again, "We have enough open space; we don't want to put money into this.
Let's put it towards roads." It was also very much an issue of urban versus rural as Salt Lake City really wanted to try and preserve some open space in the city but in the rural areas there was already plenty of it. There was a meeting in the governor's office where they discussed this issue and realized that this has a long way to go to try and get some financial support. They just needed to get it done and put some real enthusiasm into it. The idea was hatched to put Lee Ray McAllister behind it. Lee Ray McAllister was senator at the time and was beloved by all and chair of the Appropriations Committee; he had the money and he had a great love for parks and trails. Basically, no one would dare to vote this funding down if it had Lee Ray's name on it. Governor says, "Let's get Lee Ray in here," so they did. Brad got Lee Ray who was also a professor of accounting and McAllister was very humble about it but he agreed to do it. Putting Lee Ray McAllister's name on that fund carried that part of the bill and even though it has not been that long, Lee Ray has passed away and a lot of great things are being done in this. That fund created sixty thousand acres of land, leverage, and all kinds of money and really made a huge difference. A simple example of those great things being done is the once-vulnerable Grafton land which is now preserved along the Virgin River. Every county, both rural and urban, has been affected by this. Some years it has had more money than others but it has endured. Legislators have tried to kill it. Kevin Garn tried to rob it to use on some other things he wanted to do but the governor would not allow it. Garn fought tooth and nail to try and get that money but every year the governor was there he went back and made sure that it stayed intact. Huntsman has done the same thing even though he has changed a lot of other things that the Leavitt administration did. Huntsman was loyal to the cause that Envision Utah and the Quality Growth Act were working towards because he shared in that vision with Leavitt. The work done here in Envision Utah and the Quality Growth Act left a legacy that people involved in the arena of Quality Growth will stand up and applaud day in and day out. V. Twenty-First Century's Communities Program A rural component of growth planning was also created which was entitled the Twenty-First Century's Community Program. Leavitt, probably more than any other governor at this time, really had compassion and understanding and a vision about rural Utah. He knew where things were and could see where things were going. Rural is often kind of backward looking in the arena of Quality Growth so in many ways Leavitt was ahead of the people in rural Utah. He had a great vision for rural communities and was able to lift everyone's sights by the time all was said and done. Leavitt got people in rural Utah thinking in terms of planning. Although things in the Wasatch front were booming, the rural economy was still pretty weak. Rural counties and communities had very limited capacity to deal with anything in terms of staff and they really liked to complain about public lands. In rural Utah there were two extremes of growth, either zero pressure or extreme pressure. For example, St. George was booming, but Loa was not booming at all. The governor was able to see what was coming and take necessary measures to encourage these rural communities to do some planning to preserve some of those critical lands and facilitate the right kind of growth for when it did come through the Twenty-First Century's Communities Program. Brad Barber and Natalie Gochnour drafted the outline for the Twenty-First Century's Communities Program. Wes Curtis spearheaded the program. They ended up with a white paper that laid out a plan for Twenty-First Century's Community Program. The visions itself was very grandiose. There were big signs, billboards at entrances of cities, cash rewards, and big celebrations. They did not have the money for all of that stuff. Twenty-First Century's Community Program recognized the communities who achieved certain levels of planning success. A community that achieved these standards could receive bronze, silver, or gold levels in the Twenty-First Century's Communities Program. Achievement was determined by completion of a series of community assessments. Then the assessment tool was put online which was a very new concept for the time. Some communities did not even have access to the internet so modems were set up. Different assessments were set up for different categories of growth. They included: economic development, public safety, healthcare, transportation, infrastructure, natural resources, and portable housing. To become a gold level they had to do a certain number of these categories and bronze and silver awards were stepping stones along the way toward gold. In the beginning some communities were hesitant to engage but a few stepped up and went for it. As soon as they got success the program recognized and encouraged their efforts and then others began to catch on as well. By the end there were 135 communities who were participating in the Twenty-First Century's Communities Program. Somewhere around fifty to sixty of those achieved a gold level. That is progress. The level of planning sophistication in the beginning was low but by the end of this process the bar had been raised dramatically. There were regional planners, planning and zoning commissions, community and county leaders who were conversant and understood the issues. Those planners are still in place today and working in rural Utah. The theme of the program was "Skating to where the puck will be." The communities that hit these levels were given bronze, silver, and gold pucks placed in plaques. Leavitt's vision proved true. Since 1998 there has been a dramatic change in rural Utah in terms of growth and economic diversity. VI. Lessons Learned A. Regrets/Mistakes There were a lot of lessons learned during Leavitt's years working on Quality Growth. One mistake or regret includes the BLM West Desert Wilderness issue. That West Desert Wilderness bill was very controversial and no one was happy with it. For one side it was too much and for the other it was not enough. At a meeting in Washington DC as the bill was going into Congress and being debated, Bruce Babbit and the rest of the wilderness committee surrounded the governor and said, "You've got to give us more. We have to have more wilderness in this bill. We just have to have more to get this done." Bruce Babbit said to Leavitt if he worked really hard he could do it and get more. The governor just looked at these people and said, "You have got to be nuts. What I've done is lay my political career on the line to get this done. The Republican Party in Utah thinks I'm nuts. They're ready to string me up. The rural county commissioners want my head on a platter and you've got the nerve to come in here and say you've got to have more. I cannot. Meeting over." Leavitt really did lay his career on the line to try and pass the bill. He pushed the conservatives and pushed the county commissioners to the edge trying to compromise and find that place. The bill never did pass. When Leavitt was resigning as governor there's always the one big question that people ask. "Do you have any regrets? What do you wish you could have accomplished that you didn't?" Leavitt did not hesitate. The deep regret was never getting the BLM wilderness thing taken care of. He was open about this regret. He invested a lot but those harsh divisions and extremes made it impossible to find middle ground. The situation was a lesson in extremes. The opportunities that Leavitt once had have now been squandered and all the things he invested have just evaporated in the past several years. The opportunity was lost and the tide has turned. Legacy Highway was another issue that garners some regret, not because of what was done, but because of how it was done. The end result of the Legacy Highway was great and in the end very successful. However getting there was a very nasty battle. In making the Legacy Highway happen some painful and expensive situations were created that might have been handled differently to save cost of sanity as well as money. B. Positive Lessons Overall, Quality Growth had few regrets and was successful. There were a variety of things that made the governor successful as a leader of Quality Growth and more simply as a governor. People were truly motivated to work with him and be a part of what he was working towards. Natalie Gochnour remembers when Leavitt was first running for governor on the republican side of the ticket. It was down to Stuart Eyre and Michael Leavitt. Eyre had a great TV presence and was an excellent speaker and Gochnour thought Eyre would take it. Natalie was at a conference with Bud Scruggs, a political insider and former chief of staff, and when Scruggs was asked who he thought would be the next governor he said Leavitt. Natalie thought to herself, "I don't even know who he is. An insurance salesman being the governor?" Then Leavitt won. He gave an inaugural address that really took on the federal government. Gochnour was slightly horrified in a way because Leavitt's speech was extremely bold and gave an impression to others that he was a "sagebrush rebellion" kind of person. However, even with all of her doubts, within six to eight weeks Natalie was completely won over by this man. He sat down and talked with the staff and Natalie saw that he was actually quite moderate. She went from skepticism to full support in six to eight weeks. An important move for Leavitt was his decision to keep people from the previous administration on board for his own. For Brad Barber in the state planning coordinators position, it was a highly political time. A new governor easily would have moved Barber out of that position and 75% of the time that is what happens when someone is left over from another governor. Leavitt called Charlie Johnson as budget director and he also became Leavitt's first chief of staff. Johnson was a big fan of what was happening in the planning office and recommended to Leavitt that he keep all of them, so Leavitt did. In the state planning office, Leavitt embraced the environment that was already in place. He enjoyed having a diverse opinion and opposing ideas around him; he liked diversity. In the arena of Quality Growth, land preservation and public lands he wanted people with an environmentally progressive perspective. He did not always agree with them and was not always willing to go all the way with them but was willing to discuss it and be creative. Brad Barber was one of these diverse opinions that Leavitt inherited on his staff from the previous administration and having Barber by Leavitt's side kept many people in support of Leavitt. In a lot of issues people from either side might not like where Leavitt was going but they loved Brad. Brad set Quality Growth up for success with his academic and professional background which created his philosophical orientation. Brad was able to open up the governor's mind in a way that a tried and true republican would not have. For Leavitt to recognize the talent in Brad and empower him is a huge lesson to future governors. Leavitt recognized and kept the right person for the job and as a result he saw success. An impressive thing that Leavitt did right away was he would just walk into Brad's office and say, "I need this and I need this and I need your help." Bangerter never did that. The impression Leavitt gave to people was that he wanted to involve you and he had the influence that made you want to do your best to help him. He did his best in his work to get his hands dirty and was not afraid to use a little elbow grease. This work ethic inspired those around him to give as much as he gave to accomplish their common goals. The selection of Wes Curtis is another circumstance where Leavitt recognized the right man for the job. The rural summit was held at Southern Utah University that year and it was a big event. Everyone knew that he would be announcing a rural czar because he made that a big priority. He wanted to lift a person from rural Utah and put him in the governor's office and that is essentially what he did with Curtis. At the Summit the governor announced Wes and said, "I've picked one of your own." The crowd gave a standing ovation. Wes understood rural Utah because he was rural Utah. He had been involved in a lot of things but strictly on a volunteer basis so this was a new environment for him but he was evidence that Leavitt really cared about the interests of rural Utah. Leavitt showed concern for rural Utah in dealing with growth issues in other ways as well. The governor attended every one of the Rural Summits from the time he started to when he left office. That has not happened since. Rural Utah was not an afterthought like it so often is with other governors. Rural Utah was very important to Leavitt and he truly cared. He made these summits a big deal and his attendance really bolstered the enthusiasm and the attention that they got from the rest of Utah. VII. Conclusion The major effect that Leavitt created in Quality Growth was just breaking the ice and getting people to be at least willing to talk about these issues. Although not a lot was necessarily accomplished at the time, today we see a lot of results of these initial discussions. Collaboration and the partnership cooperative approach is so embraced and very well accepted today. That environment opened a lot of doors. For example "open-space" is not the dirty word it used to be. Also, air quality is something that was not discussed at the time but today that is something that would certainly percolate up to the top. That is the next frontier for Quality Growth discussions. Water issues have gone a long way as well. Water conservation was not even part of the picture back then but today it is a way of life. How to get these things done is also something that Leavitt introduced. Rather than trying to make these major changes state wide it is better to break it up and pull it apart and do it piece by piece, focusing on the needs and wants of a more specific area rather than the whole state. This was exemplified in the Washington County piece and it got done and that is the only way things are going to get done. In terms of Quality Growth, Leavitt was an agent of change. It was just one more thing to pollute his life and add complexity to his administration. There were a lot of battles at the legislature and he had people in his own party opposing him. He was even booed at his own convention. Part of Leavitt's legacy was that as a republican he embraced things like Trax and open lands. His openness in dealing with the issues of growth got Envision Utah and Quality Growth thinking. This attitude got people talking about these issues in a way that you could not when Leavitt first started. The important thing in all of this is that the state gained. Had these moves not been taken the state would certainly be in trouble today.


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Protecting Your Mental Health During COVID-19: A Message from the Maryland EIP
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The Maryland EIP and our partners are taking measures to support public health during these difficult times. We acknowledge the stress of coping with COVID-19 among providers, consumers, friends, and family. To that end, please find specific resources below on coping with COVID-19 and adjusting during this time. As a reminder, there are also helpful early psychosis resources that are available online at www.MarylandEIP.com.
General Resources and Info on Protecting Your Mental Health
Our Strive for Wellness Clinic has dedicated a whole page of their website to COVID-19 information and related resources.
The National Alliance on Mental Illness in Maryland (NAMI-MD) has a list of resources for coping with COVID-19 that they continue to update. NAMI-MD also recently launched a survey to better understand the needs of the local community.
The Mental Health Association of Maryland has compiled a list of resources to protect your wellbeing at this time (this will be updated daily).
The Maryland Coalition for Families (MCF) has resources for recovery supports during this pandemic, including for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and Gamblers Anonymous (GA) groups. MCF is also still offering family peer support (virtually). Other services include 1:1 support via phone calls and texts, video conferencing, and emails. All services are offered at no cost to families.
The Suicide Prevention Resource Center also has a number of resources for coping with COVID-19.
NAMI's national office has also released a comprehensive guide to answer frequently asked questions regarding the intersection between COVID-19 and mental health, in addition to an article on coping skills to use during this time.
For general information on COVID-19 and information on ways to protect your mental health, please visit our partner's resource guide at the National Center for School Mental Health.
SAMHSA's Disaster Distress Helpline also provides 24/7, 365-day-a-year crisis counseling and support to people experiencing emotional distress. Call 1-800-985-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 to connect with a trained crisis counselor. More information can be found here.
If you, or someone you care about, are feeling overwhelmed with emotions like sadness, depression, or anxiety, or feel like you want to harm yourself or others call 911.
The Maryland Department of Health's Behavioral Health Administration has a comprehensive list of resources for the community and providers.
Behavioral Health System Baltimore has COVID-19 Prevention and Response Resources for providers, including specific state guidance on mental health services. Further Baltimore-specific resources can be found here.
Maryland Association of Behavioral Health Authorities also offers county-specific information for providers in Maryland.
The American Psychological Association has a free office and technology checklist for telepsychological services and has also made their Telepsychology Best Practice 101 Series freely available.
Early Psychosis Resources
Our website now has a revamped Resource area with extensive early psychosis information for providers, consumers, family, and friends.
Maryland's Behavioral Health website has 24 free modules on early psychosis for individuals interested in supporting youth/young adult mental health
Please follow us on Facebook for weekly updates and more information.
The Maryland EIP
Maryland EIP in the News
Identifying psychosis in its earliest stages
October 28, 2013 - Baltimore Public Radio
Maryland Morning host Sheilah Cast interviews Jason Schiffman, a leading staff member, on Maryland's early intervention program and new gun laws. Sheilah and Jason discuss mental illness with psychosis, the process and importance of early identification, the connection between mental health and violence, and the services that the program offers.
The Center for Excellence on Early Intervention for Serious Mental Illness aims to catch the earliest signs of psychosis
October 23, 2013 - Baltimore Sun
This editorial discusses the Maryland Early Intervention Program.
New Maryland mental health initiative focuses on identifying and treating psychosis
This article examines the connection between psychosis and violence and highlights Maryland's plan to establish the early intervention program. Brief interviews with Gloria Reeves, Jason Schiffman, and Robert Buchanan, who are all involved in the development of this project, are also included.
New Center for Excellence on Early Intervention for Serious Mental Illness aims at promoting safety
October 9, 2013 - Stateline, The PEW Charitable Trusts
This article, written by Michael Ollove for Stateline, provides a brief overview of the new Maryland initiative. Citing the connection to a wave of recent violent acts, including the events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Mr. Ollove examines Maryland's new efforts to provide immediate treatment for early psychosis or high risk of becoming so. This article also includes brief interviews with Jason Schiffman and Robert Buchanan, key staff members of the program.
October 9, 2013 - USA Today
Citing the connection to a wave of recent violent acts, including the events at Sandy Hook Elementary School, this re-print of Michael Ollove's Stateline article examines Maryland's new efforts to provide immediate treatment for early psychosis or those at high risk. This article also includes brief interviews with Jason Schiffman and Robert Buchanan, key staff members of the program.
Early Intervention for Psychosis in the News
Halting Schizophrenia Before it Starts
October 20, 2014 - National Public Radio (NPR)
In "Your Health" on NPR's Morning Addition, Amy Standen from member station KQED in San Francisco, CA, reports on an approach to fighting schizophrenia, by aiming to catch the disease before it really starts. They highlight a number of early intervention programs in California.
Early Intervention for Psychosis in Wake of Tucson Shootings
February 9, 2011 - Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
In "Newshour" on PBS, the importance of early diagnisis and treatment services for serious mental illness is discussed. Via a "Robin Hood tax" in California, early psychosis intervention programs have been funded and established, including the PREP Program, Prevention and Recovery in Early Psychosis.
Psychosis in Social Media
Would You Tell The World You Have Schizophrenia On YouTube?
January 27, 2016 - National Public Radio (NPR)
In "Only Human," Rachel Star Withers says that video blogging about schizophrenia and depression has helped her manage the disorders. She decided that schizophrenia was really not that scary. Professionals in the field even think that social media and videos like Withers' have helped lower stigma around mental illnesses and have helped bring awareness to accessing appropriate and, importantly, timely treatment.
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Jean-Paul Gauzès (ur. 1 października 1947 w Tuluzie) – francuski polityk, ekonomista, eurodeputowany, kawaler Legii Honorowej.

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Absolwent Instytutu Nauk Politycznych. Uzyskał także licencjat w zakresie nauk ekonomicznych, odbył studia wyższe z prawa publicznego, w 1972 specjalizował się jako adwokat.

Od 1969 do 1972 pracował jako asystent na Uniwersytecie Nauk Społecznych w Tuluzie. Następnie do końca lat 70. kierował departamentem w biurze kształcenia administracyjnego Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W latach 1980–1994 praktykował jako adwokat przy Trybunale Administracyjnym i Sądzie Kasacyjnym. Od 1998 do 2007 zajmował dyrektorskie stanowisko w banku.

Od 1983 wybierany na urząd mera Sainte-Agathe-d'Aliermont, pełnił tę funkcję przez 30 lat. Od 1993 wybierany do rady regionalnej Górnej Normandii, w 1998 krótko był przewodniczącym tego regionu. W 2004 uzyskał mandat posła do Parlamentu Europejskiego. Zasiadał w grupie Europejskiej Partii Ludowej i Europejskich Demokratów. W 2009 został wybrany na kolejną kadencję.

Należał do gaullistowskiego Zgromadzenia na rzecz Republiki. W 2002 wstąpił do powstałej m.in. na bazie RPR Unii na rzecz Ruchu Ludowego.

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Francuscy posłowie do Parlamentu Europejskiego
Francuscy samorządowcy
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Politycy Unii na rzecz Ruchu Ludowego
Politycy Zgromadzenia na rzecz Republiki
Urodzeni w 1947
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Chief Executive Erik Samuelson has spoken about his hopes for 2013/14 and the challenges that AFC Wimbledon face ahead of their third season in the Football League.
During an interview for Dons Player, Erik said that Neal Ardley is a "very capable, thoughtful and energetic young manager" who is capable of lifting Wimbledon to greater heights during his first full campaign in charge.
We today publish part one of our in-depth interview with Erik, which appeared on our premium site on Wednesday.
Though we still remember the dramatic events of Wimbledon's final-day escape, what lessons do you think need to be learned from last season overall?
It was a dramatic and very exciting final day and we all ended up on a high as a result of that. But when you stop and think that we were only 18 minutes away from returning to the Conference, it is important to make sure that we do learn lessons. I think the most substantial one is probably the importance of getting recruitment right. We have to ensure that we bring in the right players who fit into the right pattern of play. The manager is determined to do that for the coming season. With that in mind from February onwards the management team put a lot more effort into looking for players to be recruited during this summer. We also put more money into next season's budget so that we can continue to do that and do our talent recruitment more effectively than in the past. That will hopefully increase the chances of getting exactly the right players that we want.
What did last season also tell us about finances at the club?
Another important lesson is that had it not been for the televised FA Cup games against York City and Milton Keynes then we would have struggled to provide enough money for Neal to strengthen the squad in January. I think it is reasonably well known that I did not want to play Milton Keynes and I did not go to the game, but the money we made was very valuable. Neal was able to strengthen the team and that made all the difference in the end. When we look forward the lesson from that is we have to raise more money to give Neal a better chance of building a solid team that will not just ensure we are safe, but be competitive in the coming season.
Off the pitch, the Nongshim Stand has transformed things. Towards the end of last season it was full every week. I know that we had all sorts of problems with the stand at the start of last season, but now that it's there it gives us an opportunity to improve facilities and the matchday experience for families. It has improved the experience for younger fans and supporters who wanted to sit and watch games in comfort. I am looking forward to seeing that full every week next season because it is a fantastic sight. It is a major improvement and attraction for fans coming to games.
How much of a challenge has it been to keep the playing budget competitive for next season?
It has been a big challenge. The way that we do the budget is quite simple really. We work out all the income that we generate and the costs that we are committed to and what is left is the amount that we can spend on the playing squad. We bump up the income as much as we can and keep the costs as low as possible, but it is the nature of business – and we are a business – that by and large the costs rise faster than what we want them to.
It has been a massive struggle just to be able to give Neal the same starting point for a playing budget that we had for the season that has just ended. We have managed to do that, but only by really stretching ourselves to the limit. That has given us the base from which we can add the money from the We Are Wimbledon Fund. That was a brilliant idea, very effectively implemented and we have been able to add the £70,000 that was raised to provide an increase to the playing budget.We are getting close to the limit though of what we can currently generate in terms of income. We have shirt sponsorship, stadium name sponsorship, back-of-shirt and shorts sponsors. There is not much more we can sell. The pressure to keep the playing budget at the same level in future years is going to get tougher and tougher. We have to look for even more ways to raise funds to help Neal make us more competitive in the league.
What are your hopes for next season?
You can still apply for a season ticket and spread the cost over nine months. To view more details click on Season Tickets to view our latest article on the official website.


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is one of the most popular action/adventure franchises of all-time. Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are blockbuster fan-favourites, and anticipation is huge for the 4th instalment, bowing in 2008 and starring iconic legend Harrison Ford.
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Kostel svatého Jiljí je římskokatolický farní kostel v Jaroslavicích stojící na svahu pod zámkem. Je chráněn jako kulturní památka České republiky. Jde o farní kostel farnosti Jaroslavice.

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Jednolodní podélná stavba s odsazeným půlkruhovým uzavřeným kněžištěm. Ve věži kostela je zvon umíráček z roku 1777, další zvon věnovali místní rodáci v roce 1992. Kostel byl v minulosti spojen se zámkem krytým klasicistním schodištěm z let 1788-91, jehož torzo je ve špatném stavu.

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K původnímu vybavení patří barokní vyřezávané lavice. Okna jsou malovaná. Kónická křtitelnice pod kruchtou je snad pozůstatkem středověké křtitelnice. Dřevořezba Krista na kříži, která byla původně součástí hlavního oltáře, je dílem sochaře Ondřeje Schweigla. Oltářní obraz Glorifikace sv. Jiljí z roku 1819 je od Johanna Nepomuka Höfflera.

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 Oficiální stránky Obce Jaroslavice
 www.hrady.cz
 Krásné Česko
 Jaroslavice - kostel sv. Jiljí a fara

Literatura

Jiljí, Jaroslavice
Jiljí Jaroslavice
Jaroslavice
Kulturní památky v okrese Znojmo
Jaroslavice


Elgin Academy offers rolling enrollment until classes reach capacity. Please contact the Admission Office as soon as possible at 847.695.0303 or admissions@elginacademy.org.
What is required as part of the admission application?
We require an application form, previous school transcripts, copies of standardized testing results, recommendations, campus visit/shadow day and an age-appropriate admissions test.
If I am not able to travel to visit the campus, how can I set up an interview?
We accept interviews over Skype. This can be set up by contacting the Admission Office at admissions@elginacademy.org.
What should I expect on a visit day?
Prospective students will experience a typical day in the life of an Elgin Academy student. They are also given time to talk with an admissions representative, chat about their day and have questions answered.
Does my student have to take an entrance exam?
Fifth through twelfth graders are required to take an Independent School Entrance Exam.
Where is the admission office and where should I park?
The Admission office is located at the Main Entrance of the Rider Center on the corner of Academy Place and Kimball Street. Visitors are encouraged to park in the designated spots on Academy Place. When you enter the Rider Center proceed to the reception desk where a member of our staff will assist you.
Does Elgin Academy offer Tuition Assistance?
An Elgin Academy education is an investment in your child's intellectual, personal, and emotional growth. Our goal is to make an Elgin Academy education affordable for as many students as possible.
Does Elgin Academy offer tuition payment plans?
Elgin Academy students can pay in full (in June) or use FACTS Online Payment Options to pay in either 2 payments (due June and November) or 11 monthly payments (April through February).
The "New Family Heritage Fee" is a one-time fee for NEW FAMILIES with students enrolling in grades K-12 who are joining Elgin Academy and becoming a part of our school's heritage.


This is a common complaint of many educated parents in India who would love to be involved in their kids' school and classroom, with projects, field trips, special workshops and sessions, and such. It seems like such a no-brainer - I can think of no good reason for schools/teachers to keep parents out, especially, with the varied talents that parents bring.
It is interesting that it is quite the opposite in the US where schools welcome, and in fact, expect, parents to be involved - in private schools especially, but in public schools as well.
I think parental (and community) involvement is an indicator of the quality of education a school imparts.
I do completly agree with what you say about parent school involvement. Parents are natural teachers, and can have much to offerr in terms of their talent,enthusiasm,latent energy and what not. If only our schools could understand this, and involve parents rather than take their interest as interference and intrusion.The students could really benefit by the renewed vigour and a happy break from the monotony of regular teaching.It's time we seriously considered this.


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