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Adventures on the Jail Committee
Some people are suspicious, even envious, whenever they realize someone received some sort of appointment which they fantasize might have brought them prestige, influence or money. Conspiracy theorists may experience relief — or if they are sufficiently neurotic, disbelief — from learning about my recent Jail Committee experience.
How It Got Started
In late January I unexpectedly received in the mail a letter on Fayette County stationery, signed by the then newly-appointed chairman of the Board of Commissioners, Steve Brown.
I learned from it that the county wished to examine its options about what to do with the one-third of the old county jail that was still standing, empty and unused, next to the newer jail and to the Sheriff's Office which occupies the other, renovated two thirds. I was invited to participate in a Jail Committee that was being formed for that purpose and to phone my response to this invitation to the County Clerk.
Considering my experience with construction, demolition and jail buildings, it would have been easy for me to express my regrets about my inability to make a meaningful contribution, the more so because of my low opinion of committees' effectiveness in general, the vague nature of the committee, the unknown demands on my time, the obvious lack of compensation, and a host of factors.
I still don't know how I attracted Steve Brown's attention on this, and I could think of a lot of reasons to say no.
But there were reasons to say yes. This is the first time in my entire life I have been asked to help out a unit of our government. I am retired and thus have time to spare that does not cut into the production of extra income. And I attended Emory Law School which prides itself in instilling in its graduates a sense of public service.
Moreover I might learn something interesting about the jail, meet interesting people on the committee, and perhaps make a contribution by analyzing any financial options involved, an area of expertise for me, or writing a decent report along the way: lawyers are usually fairly good at preparing memos and reports.
Thus I phoned the County Clerk and told him that even though I didn't feel terribly well qualified and would not be offended if it turned out my services were deemed unnecessary, I would accept the appointment.
My comments apparently did not discourage the appointing power, which I think turned out to be Steve Brown himself, from putting me on the committee — by then more pompously renamed the Citizens Committee on Jail Infrastructure — and inviting me to its first meeting.
As it turned out, Steve Brown ended up chairing the committee and directing its work. In preparation for the first meeting he had county officials supply us with a list of fellow committee members and assorted documents about the old county jail and previously considered options on what to do about that old jail.
The Problem with the Jail
What do you do with an older yet still serviceable building that once served as a jail and is right next to the current jail and sheriff's office?
The answer can largely depend on whether you have any money to do something with it, be it to renovate it or tear it down, with or without replacing it with a new better building.
If money is not the problem, then the focus ought to be on what the county's needs are, currently or in the immediate future, for expanding the current jail. Just as Fayette County has recently learned it is not smart to build a school without having students to put in it, the same can be said for a jail and its involuntary guests.
Thus, it is a broad problem. Our committee learned along the way that it might cost roughly $1 million to renovate what's left of the old jail, or $10 million to replace it with a more modern and efficient unit. (Then it would have to be serviced and staffed.)
It should be understood, by the way, that the county jail consists of separate pods, or units. There can be one pod for female prisoners; one pod, with cells, for the more dangerous inmates; and one pod for the nonviolent or non-threatening inmates, who share a common room and a dormitory. There's also an infirmary.
The more flexibility the sheriff can have in allocating space among prisoners, the better it is. It is, after all, his responsibility to keep the jail safe for everyone in it.
So that's the sort of thing one learns from serving on this type of committee. That does not solve the problem, but it helps our understanding.
Do We Need More Jail Space?
It turned out that the Jail Committee was more of a sounding board for County Commission Chairman Brown than the sort of committee where the members receive information, argue, and vote. There never was a vote called about anything, which as it turns out was probably good.
Until July 1, 2012, stealing property worth more than $500 could earn the thief a felony conviction with a stay in a state prison, while stealing less could bring a misdemeanor conviction with a stay of up to one year in the county jail. You had to steal more than $500 to end up a guest of the state. On July 1, 2012, the $500 amount was changed to $1,500, and thus the fear arose we might have more guests avoiding a promotion to a state prison and staying in our county jail, and thus might need to expand our county jail.
This is where having a lawyer (like me) on the committee might have proven helpful.
It turns out, after I did some research, that our Georgia legislature raised that amount at the same time it decided to stop the expensive process of putting more and more nonviolent people in prison, and to devote funding instead to expanding its probation and supervision services.
Some legislators may have seen merit in making a greater effort at rehabilitation, and some may have simply liked the idea of saving money, but either way they reached the same conclusion.
The idea was not, as argued or feared by some, to slough off a bunch of prisoners on the counties so that their housing costs would be picked up by county taxpayers instead of the state. Some people entertain nasty ideas about everything right off the bat.
Sure enough, our own Fayette jail statistics are not yet showing a measurable increase in inmates. In 2012 we averaged 272 inmates daily in a jail that can hold 384, plus 20 in the infirmary. On average they stay 24 days. The averages were 291 in 2010 and 292 in 2011.
Keep in mind that the number of inmates fluctuates day by day, and that the sheriff has to be ready for the highest number that may come in, as he is not free to turn down guests because the hotel is full. Sooner or later, we will have to expand that hotel, just as sooner or later the school board's empty schools might fill up, so it's all a matter of timing.
Another discovery I came to make from serving on this committee, after doing some research, was that the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) publishes, on its website, a weekly Friday Report which shows the number of people in our Georgia prisons, and the number of people in our county jails (not individually by county but for the state as a whole). These reports, which offer details about the sex, age, race and types of crime of the inmates, are truly fascinating.
Over many months now, the Georgia inmate population has indeed been trending down. Our state prisons housed 61,482 inmates on July 27, 2012, and 58,324 on July 19, 2013; statewide our county jails held 38,372 inmates in June 2012, and 36,584 (77.7 percent of their bed capacity) in June 2013. That's a one-year decrease of 5 percent for each. That is good news for the taxpayers, and it may be a sign the criminal justice reforms undertaken by our Georgia legislature are working.
Some people have entertained the notion that if we built extra jail space we could possibly offset part of the cost by renting out some of our spare space to nearby counties with an overflow of inmates. But when inmate counts are going mostly down all across the state, how likely is the demand for that? As the sheriff bears some responsibility for the medical needs of inmates, it becomes easy to see that trying to turn a jail into a business might not be a good idea.
Who Served on the Jail Committee
The media initially picked up the names of the Jail Committee members, and the county supplied me later with the list, which included Sheriff Barry Babb; Tommy Turner and Scott Bradshaw, both described as local businessmen; Bernie McMullen, former Peachtree City manager; Chuck Watkins, former county water committee chairman; Bob Ross, photographer; Bess Stevens; and Nova Brown.
It would be up to Steve Brown to explain why he chose these individuals. At the outset I had no idea who might serve with me on the committee, and mere names don't tell you much unless an individual happens to be an acquaintance or has somehow been in the news.
I did pick up somewhere that one of our members was the head of the Fayette Tea Party; a conversation with another member brought out that she had a master's degree in Criminal Justice.
As it turned out, our committee had the benefit of the presence of three members of the Sheriff's Department: the sheriff himself and two captains (Anthony Rhodes and Charlie Cowart) in charge of jail operations.
Their comments were most useful to our understanding of many aspects of jail operations and of the history that brought us to current conditions. As an aside, I might tell you that the physical size of these two captains would easily send to prisoners a message of don't mess with me.
Meetings of the Jail Committee
Steve Brown called our first meeting for the evening of March 5, and we eventually had a jail visit (March 27) and one more meeting (April 3), where a representative of the architectural firm of Mallett Consulting, Inc. provided information that supplemented two previous professional reports we were given to read about options for the jail.
Our meetings were skillfully run by Steve Brown, and everyone had a fair opportunity to speak and present his views.
I personally sent written memos (by email) to my fellow committee members on the results of my research on criminal justice reform and jail populations, and on the proper use of population statistics to forecast space needs, be they for schools or jails, as increases in retirees attracted by the charms of Peachtree City may swell the overall population but don't increase the demand for either jails or schools. I was able to expand on that at the meetings.
You can be sure that suggestions were made, but not by me, that we avoid jail expenses by keeping criminals out of Fayette County, either by warning signs or strategically placed patrol cars at the county line, with either a decoy or live patrolman; or that we hire retired (senior) judges to try people in our county jail sooner and get them out of there sooner. Upon reflection, that made the meetings more interesting.
You can sense the frustration of taxpayers who resent shelling out money for crime, though they might be the same people who contribute to sports figures' multi-million-dollar salaries and support a hugely expensive defense system which the Pentagon does not even want.
Where We Go from Here
As it seems the county does not have the money and the old jail presents no imminent threat or hazard, I suspect that, for a while at least, nothing will happen.
Meanwhile, we can watch what's happening to our jail population, the size of which depends in part on whether our judges embrace the criminal justice reforms that keep nonviolent people out of jail but under close supervision, working and supporting their family, or stick to the old harsh ways.
I am not unhappy to have been given the opportunity to present a different and more positive perspective on the whole issue of jailing people. Once in a while our elected officials need to hear from the citizens who don't join the howling hanging mobs, and I hope those who heard from me came to appreciate the calming effect of scientific research and sober reflection.
[A Fayette County resident, Claude Y. Paquin is retired lawyer and actuary who first met Steve Brown while making a scholarly presentation, in July 2000, to a large citizens group interested in financing the construction of new public schools with new taxes.]
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Harold Bost is one of the most caring people I know. He truly loves Fayette County and works every single day to make life better for all Fayette citizens. I've watched him give his time, knowledge and himself to any cause that affects the citizens here. More importantly, Harold is devoted to his family. He has cared for and sat up at night with his wife for months during many life threatening health issues.
I'm proud to know Harold and to call him my friend.
Steve Brown and our current commissioners have done more to open the very closed lines of communication between all Fayette citizens and our local government than any others in the last 45 years. He has made it a priority to bring in a host of talented and knowledgable people throughout the county to serve in various capacities. We are all better off for his efforts. Our county commission meetings have gone from sterile, somber, and down right scary to accepting, informative, and comfortable. In my opinion, the folks here who constantly ridicule Steve Brown have never attended even one of our commission meetings.
Personally speaking, the true mark of a man can be found in his love for his wife and children. The devotion, love, and pride shines all around Steve when he talks about, and interacts with his wife and daughters.
Plain and simple, the nay sayers here don't truly know Harold and Steve.
Just how are you so sure that Bost did not claim homestead exemption on his Florida home, Mr. Citizen Bob? Did you even live here then? I think not. You are just taking the old coot's word for it. Others had the facts in writing and presented it to him at the time and he resigned to save the public embarrassment. He should have had to pay for that special election just a couple of months into his second term.
Don't know Bost but if you would do your research (simple Google search works) you'll discover a video where Bost had a meeting and provided copies of documents proving that he did not claim Fl as a residence on Tax documents. And at this point, to quote a former Secy of State, "WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?"
Realize that the burden of proof rests squarely on you, not whom you accuse.
You may gain at least some credibility when you stop hiding behind y3 and own up to your opinions.
Bob Ross
P.S. What have YOU done for Fayette County?
You choose to believe the man.
Others see someone who resigned under a cloud of controversy, threatened lawsuits, but never followed through with the rhetoric. One must wonder why not.
In the business world when you need to let someone go (fired) and who may have been liked by some, you sometimes allow the person to save face. On the surface, this is what many perceive happened.
I don't know the truth, nor do I really care. All I know is that you nor anyone else has been able to provide proof either.
PS. I spent the day (7am - 6:30) on Memorial Drive downtown by the prison, providing my expertise free of cost to a non profit needing help.
- His Fayette County voter registration record, provided by the GA Secretary of State through the Fayette County Supervisor of elections
- A letter signed by the Supervisor of Elections in the county of his FL property, stating that he had never been registered to vote there.
- His Fayette County property tax record
- His spouse in the hospital
What I haven't seen is a single source document to support detractors' accusations.
Thank you for your community service, Bob Ross
First let me thank you for spending the time and effort on our behalf. Secondly, I find this missive to be enjoyable to read and informative. Finally, I have an idea on how to best use the old facilities. Don't do anything to them, keep them just the way they are, no lights, air conditioning, "facilities", etc. Then let's put some of the conspiracy bloggers on this site in a cell of their own, until they come to their senses.
Seems like some political barfly resurrects this fairy tale every few years- last time it was "Save Fayette".
Research the facts before attempting to publicly malign someone's character. And if you believe it enough to say it publicly, own up to your opinion with your actual identity instead of hiding behind a pseudonym.
Bob Ross
Peachtree City, GA
So Mr. Brown and Mr. Ross, give me the true facts as to why Harold Bost resigned from the county commission???????
That's why there was a need for a special election because he gave up his seat. Then he moved back to FC and is now Bost Hogg amongst the Tea Partiers.
What all of his acolytes will never discuss is how many illegals worked at the sweatshop ESTEX in Fairburn, Bost's former company that he has since sold. They will NEVER mention anything about that, just like Brown's previous position on district voting and his opinion on how bigoted everyone else was. Never hear a peep about that because they drink the Kool-Aid and accept it all 100% without question.
You're not dealing with the biggest thinkers on the planet here.
One question here: Did he do anything illegal? New subj: Azul Tequila. Been there yet? Originally Buckhead Brewery. Went for lunch last week. You'll find Menu items not found in the average Mexi restaurant. Food was good and Dos Equis Lager not bad either!
Haven't tried it yet and might have to do lunch there this weekend! I wasn't a big fan of El Reposo and the Buckhead Brewery was kind of so-so for the money. That's a nice building and I'd like something to make a successful run at the location.
First of all, half the people on this committee did not support my side in my election. But that did not matter as we wanted a well-rounded group of participants. And we got a great group.
Second, Naturegrl (channeling Lee Hearn) is trying - again - to convince people that Harold Bost switched his primary residence to Florida back when he was on the Board of Commissioners. That is just blatantly untrue. If it were true, I can assure you that the dark side would have had it on the front page of every newspaper - documented.
It's too bad that the opposition has nothing substantive to complain about, so they just try to distort the truth instead and hope people will believe it.
Claude Paquin is one of Fayette County's intelligent thinkers and I always enjoy getting his take on an issue. The sad part is he would have never been asked to participate by previous boards.
For the record, the Citizens' Committee on Ethics was assembled by asking the TEA Party to provide half the members and the NAACP to provide the other half. You cannot get more diversity than that. Those committee members, too, would have never been chosen by previous boards.
We get great work from both committees.
Whine, whine, whine!!!
The new guys are doing a great job and the haters can't stand it. Three cheers for the good guys. It's nice guys like Mr. Paquin now get a chance to participate!!!
They are all fine people. The majority just happen to be supporters of Brown. Just like past committees were a reflection of commission majority. Of course this is certainly more transparent because openings are posted.
Did not know the Chairman of the County Commission had the power to appoint his personal committees. Sure hope the rest of the County Commission, duly elected by the voters of Fayette County got a report and were invited to attend this meeting.
Why didn't you sit in on any of the open meetings? Have you provided any thoughtful input that county government can use to responsibly address the jail issue?
These committees are full of personal appointments. Mr. Paquin though is certainly a good selection based on his education. However if you take a look at other names on the committee, you will see that most are friends of the current commission.
Commission did post the opening on line. I contacted staff about the position, filled out the forms, but never sent it after considering my existing time constraints.
It was explained to me, that once the forms are submitted, commission vets the applicants, and approves those they want to sit. While I commend commission for posting the openings on the county website, it really is not as transparent as they want us to believe. It seems like it could be more of the same "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours process.
If you go to the county website, commission has posted a notice that they will be traveling together in August via chartered bus to Alabama in order to attend the introduction of former chairman Harold Bost's induction into the Air Force Hall of Fame.
The notice does not indicate who is paying for this trip, only that the quorum will not result in any official business.
Do you think they would go to the trouble to attend a former chairman's Frady or Smiths honorary induction into some notable cause? Doubtful.
It's politics. You scratch mine, I'll scratch yours. No different than any of our past commissions.
Bost, Brown, and Paquin are honorable men. I am PROUD that they live in this county.
Bost is a self made man. Something most can't say about themselves. He made it the hard way...he earned it.
He has worked to make this county better for many years. Never wanted any credit for it. Just trying to do the right thing.
I will never forget when I met him. He was at the house of a dying man, a wonderful man, trying to get him to run for the BOE. Not for any personal gain...just trying to help the children of this county. He is truly an unsung hero of this county.
I was proud to meet him, just as I'm proud to know Steve Brown.
It is very easy to be an armchair quarterback and belittle those who get out there and try. It seems you and I have had this same conversation about you being an armchair quarterback and those that get out there and try. Again, shame on you.
No I do not think the current commission should go to the former county commissioner Harold Bost anything. Bost had to resign from his commission seat office because he was caught having a Florida residence instead of Georgia residence. It cost the Fayette County tax payers close to $60,000 for a special election.
I am glad you applied for the position and wish you would have made it. I don't have a problem with Mr. Paquin being on the committee, however, as you state, the other appointees are personal friends of Brown and the other bobble heads. Most local tea party persons I have met are nuts. N U T S. No I do not think the current commission would attend any event honoring the prior commission. Sure hope someone other than tea party appointees runs for the upcoming commission seat of Brown. He needs to take a walk back to where ever he came from.
Guess Harold Bost will be funding his campaign just like he did the last three elected to office. ...........
I will be wise and see if my tax dollars paid for that stupid trip.
No I do not think the current commission should go to the former county commissioner Harold Bost anything. Bost had to resign from his commission seat office because he was caught having a Florida residence instead of Georgia residence. It cost the Fayette County tax payers close to $60,000 for a special election.
I am glad you applied for the position and wish you would have made it. I don't have a problem with Mr. Paquin being on the committee, however, as you state, the other appointees are personal friends of Brown and the other bobble heads. Most local tea party persons I have met are nuts. N U T S. No I do not think the current commission would attend any event honoring the prior commission. Sure hope someone other than tea party appointees runs for the upcoming commission seat of Brown. He needs to take a walk back to where ever he came from.
Guess Harold Bost will be funding his campaign just like he did the last three elected to office. ...........
I will be wise and see if my tax dollars paid for that stupid trip.
You're certainly entitled to opine about activities you think citizens should/not attend on their own time at their own expense, but it's obviously irrelevant.
The U.S. Air Force Enlisted Hall of Fame's selection of a Fayette citizen to its "Wall of Achievers" is a singular and prestigious accomplishment- so of course a number of people have chosen to attend Bost's induction. Learn about the organization here: http://afehri.maxwell.af.mil/pages/tour.htm
P.S. Readers are reminded to check the facts on the repeatedly debunked rumor you're attempting to perpetuate one more time about Bost's being a FL resident while serving as a commissioner- just ain't so.
It's common courtesy to attend the recognition ceremony for a friends induction into this prestigious Hall of Fame. Especially when this friend supported their campaign.
Commission was transparent and posted this on the county website as they should. However, the county post made no reference to who was financing the travel expenses. One had no way to identify who was paying for this. (County, Tea Party, or everyone paying their own fair share) If they are going to pay for this themselves, good for them. This should have been addressed in the post as it caused undue speculation.
Back in those days I was a wee bit more politically active than I am today. One day I received a phone call from a fellow vice chair within the Fayette GOP informing me that a Fayette County employee had discovered that Harold Bost had listed a Florida address as his primary residence on his tax forms. I was further informed that another individual within the party had given Bost 48 hours to resign or he would go public with the information. Six days later Bost resigned citing his role as caregiver to his wife. Whatever the cause, the taxpayers of Fayette County had to pay for a special election.
There never was any rumor (at least in those days) that Bost had actually moved to Florida. I would agree with you that readers (and bloggers) need to check the facts.
Since I have no horse in that particular race I agree that Fayette County should have some sort of representation at the Air Force ceremony -especially if the attendees are funding the trip out of their own pockets. My personal observation is that this appears to be a Tea Party trip as much as anything.
correct on the issue of Mr. Bost not being a Florida resident at the time of his election and the time that he served. As I recall, Mr. Bost had a very sick wife at the time and was attempting to balance his public and private life. He did so, and based on the tripe here, he made the right decision.
If the entire county wants to go over and see Mr. Bost be honored, then they can hire a bus, go individually, or just fly over. That includes the Fayette County Commissioners, their family, friends and associates.
As long as it doesn't cost the taxpayers anything, then what difference does it make? Does someone on this board have any facts that this trip will cost us anything. If so, speak up now or forever hold your peace.
I hope well, he is really a nice guy


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A rare opportunity to search for the 150 million year old prehistoric dinosaur footprints in the Mount Morgan clay caves can be organised for budding enthusiasts to explore. Celebrated as some of the best examples of Jurassic footprints in Australia, the caverns were man-made by miners for fire brick clay.
Heading downstream, the Dee River boasts a suspension bridge built in the 1890s to provide access from the town to the mine and was one of six swinging bridges at that time in Mount Morgan. However, only one bridge remains today to remind visitors of the colonial days.
For an old fashioned yarn, head to the 'Running the Cutter' statue illustrating a famous mining tradition from Mount Morgan. Between 1900 and 1918, buying a beer in 'billy' cans and drinking the beer outside was a common custom for Mount Morgan miners after a day's work that is symbolized in this unique statue.
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I am attempting with no success at all to use the cogo commands in AutoCAD Map 3D 2012. It takes me thru the entire process only to cancel at the very end.
I start by selecting the Az/Dist command. I select the starting point, plug in the Azmith and distance and watch as the program draws the line I am wanting to see only to abruptly cancel the command when I hit <Enter> key.
I will also say that we are using the Map 3D program as a stand alone with no civil or survey package. I have thought that maybe that is the reason but I have no idea one way or the other.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
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I've had trouble on and off in the same way, and judging by this thread, it appears I hadn't been using the command correctly. (Though it refers to ACAD Map3D 2010, in testing it on 2012, it seems to work.)
Hope it helps.
I am getting the same results. I enter my data, hit "calculate" and it will show me a nice graphic of what's going on but that's it. As soon as I exit the dialog box the graphic disappears and I'm left with no objects to work with.
I played around with it a little more. As someone mentioned in another thread, it's transparent command so you have to use it while inside of another command.
If you start the line command, pick a start point, then go to the COGO drop down and pick Azimuth/Distance and it will let you input the your data and draw the line per your specifications.
Also, typing 'zd while in the line command will do the same thing.
Entering data directly through the COGO dialog box gave me mixed results as to whether it worked or not.
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This Week's Debate: Money and Politics
Plenty of leeway this week to discuss all kinds of interesting tidbits and grand concepts. I was inspired by an issue involving some arguably unscrupulous debt collection tactics and the intense lobbying that's backing them up. (Details in an upcoming post.)
We'll get into proposed lobbying reforms and the influence of big money on politicians over the next several days.
Any specifics you'd like to discuss?
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How about the role the complacent press plays in all this? Certainly, if we had a better American press, less corruption would take place. Stephen Colbert's recent performance has shown what side the Washington press is on when it comes to big money and big politics. Some call it 'access journalism', some call it 'mouthpiece journalism', but regardless of what it is called, it s very transparent now that the press and the politicians they cover are too close for comfort.
Posted by: ErrinF | May 3, 2006 08:10 PM
there are a bunch of things that I would like to see brought up and debated, here is just a small sample. How about political ads that appear on TV that state that "This ad is paid for by XYZ Group" and when you try to research that group the difficulty you face trying to figure out exactly who that group is mainly funded by. Should this information be posted along with the ad?
How about different types of insurances ie: medical , car, home owners, malpratice, etc. Who sets the rates and how they are decided, the actual effect of lawsuits on insurance rates, especially medical malpratice and who is telling the truth the insurance companies or the lawyers? Who should pay for natural disasters, should insurance companies be able to just drop a client or group of clients even if they have never filed a claim?
How about earmarks or other laws that congress attaches to bills knowing full well that they will pass because say they are a stop gap spending bill to keep the government open or funding for the war/troops etc. that wouldn't be passed if they stood alone. Or like the prescription drug law that went into effect that your doctor/pharmacist is required to report to the DEA any and all prescriptions they write /fill for you. Even better yet Ethics in general. I have more, but right now I must take a sample to another lab about 5 miles away for an analysis that I can't do in my lab.
Posted by: Lab Rat AKA Jim Fox | May 4, 2006 09:56 AM
The "business as usual" crowd that serve in Congress is a disgrace to our system of government. Please help put pressure on Congress to stop the practice of huge contributions to Congressional Campaigns from Corporate PACs that profit from earmarks favorable to their business interests, provided by Congressmen whose campaign committees benefit.
This is not just the appearance of impropriety, it is impropriety!
Bribery of Congress has become a Cottage Industry in D.C.
Posted by: Roger Waun | May 4, 2006 11:54 AM
There's got to be a solution, an easy way out. I wonder what it is.
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Here I am again with my next question regarding my dad's large Monstera deliciosa. The other day he found a mushroom growing with his Monstera. Any ideas how he can stop this from happening and if it is damaging the plant? The picture is of the mushrooms we dug out. Gross. |
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this again has to do with water retention i.e. soggy soil, like the gnats. there are some great threads on it here. short term just let the soil dry more before watering. long term check through the info here and switch to more porous soil mixes. someone on this forum had a great line that helped me understand watering. it was something like over watering is a misnomer its more like under drying. ready made soils don't provide good enough drainage and hold way too much water. no damage to plant from the shrooms either. I had some really funky yellow looking ones a couple years ago, scared me to death lol |
The only way to prevent the mushrooms from appearing again is to repot and rinse the roots. BUT, this type of fungus does no damage to the plant. It's feeding on and decomposing the potting medium. Not good in the long run, as the texture of the mix will become mucky over time. By the way, the real fungus body consists of a big network of underground mycelium and hyphae doing the job all the time, all year round. The mushrooms are merely temporary, seasonally fruiting bodies. You can yank them out as soon as they appear but the decomposing will go on. |
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About me and my passion for cars
Before I got my license I first laid eyes on a hot Charger that cruised by my house out in the country. I fell in love. After I got my license in 1980 I bought and sold several hot cars of all the big 3 brands. I liked many of the cars alot. My 70 Chevelle was a very nice car and decent on gas. Had a 72 Grand Prix that was a real sleeper. Ran 13.60's with it. Great cruiser too. My 72 Cuda 340 was just plain cool. This is just a few of the cars I owned as a kid. I didn't know anything about mechanics when I got my first car but got had to learn to work on them cause I couldn't afford to pay someone to do it for me. Took auto mechanics in high school my junior and senior years and graduated first place in class. Back when I was a kid I'd work on buddies cars for free cause I liked it so much. I'm about to finish a restoration of a 68 Cuda I bought 4 yrs. ago. In 92 I married a great gal that likes cars as much as I do and she has helped what she can on the Cuda restoration. When she can't help with it she has done extra work around the house so I have more time to work on the car. Now can you beat that!!! Thanks Cat. Your the greatest!!!
My first car
Technically my first car was a 65 Chevelle but I never got to drive it cause I got it nearly a year before I got my license and didn't know the head gaskets were leaking antifreeze in the oil. The engine ended up siezing up on it. The 1st. car I drove when I got my license was ahuge barge. A 1966 Chrysler Newport. My grandma bought it for. God Bless her soul. It was big but a nice cruiser. And that 383 would smoke the right tire for a block.
Car I wish I still had
This is tough cause I had a few that I really liked. Probably have to say if I had any back it would be my 72 Grand Prix. Sunset orange with a white top. Man it was an eye catcher, and a real sleeper too.
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This is a tough one too cause theirs so many out there I'd love to have. Probably have to say a black on black 69 Hemi Charger with a blown 800+hp Hemi. Mini tubbed with big-n-littles. And lots of chrome to polish.
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The Las Vegas Springs Preserve, a 180-acre protected nature area just a few miles west of the Strip, may seem an unlikely location for a giant showcase of energy efficiency and sustainable living. Among the miles of hiking trails, the $250-million project includes a green Desert Living Center with earth-rammed walls and a water-collecting roof; a living bat cave; a gallery containing a simulation of what it would feel like to be in a flash flood; and an 1,800-seat amphitheater for concerts under the stars. Visitors can wander the trails for free, through a dramatic desert landscape dotted with cacti, acacia and mesquite trees, and re-created Pueblo Indian dwellings, complete with pots, baskets, and tools. Admission: Gardens and trails are free. Tickets for the Origen Experience (three galleries) and the Desert Living Center are $18.95 adults; $17.05 seniors and students; $10.95 children (5-17); free for children under 5.
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For Sadie's birthday she wanted to do a themed photoshoot, so I asked her what she wanted her theme to be. With an almost devious smile, she immediately said "Good versus evil!" And thus we began brainstorming. I took her out shopping for a dress and we chose a location (Selby Gardens). We hooked up with our friend, Haley Staack, who provided Sadie's makeup and we headed out for a few hours in the hot, muggy, Florida sun to document a struggle as old as humanity – Good Versus Evil.
My personal inspiration was the contrast of good vs evil while coming of age. The internal process of growing up, facing life, gaining confidence, and becoming a different person – for better or worse.
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30th Annual Ray Bradbury Creative Contest
Fahrenheit 451
Waukegan-native Ray Bradbury and author of Fahrenheit 451 understood the importance of reading, writing, and education to a successful society, saying "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Bradbury saw the slow destruction of books and the written word and was fearful. In Waukegan, not only do we see the rising popularity of eBooks, acronyms, and textspeak today, we live and work with those who do not even have the foundation of basic reading and writing skills in English or in Spanish. As the written word continues to disappear, the future of libraries, literacy, and free access to knowledge is uncertain. In your contest submission, please consider a future without the written word. What would society look like? What would happen if your freedom to read and learn disappeared? How do you feel about banning books?
Eligibility: The contest is open to all age groups. The age groups are defined as Elementary, Middle School, High School, and Adult.*
Categories: Submissions will be separated into the categories of Elementary, Middle School, High School, and Adult.
Entries: Limit of one entry per individual. Entries must be titled. Untitled entries will be disqualified.
Formats accepted:
Text: Must be typed, 12 point, double-spaced, on white 8 1/2" x 11" paper, 1 copy. Text should be no longer than 2 single-side pages. Entries longer than 2 pages will be disqualified.**
Visual Arts: Submissions of sculptures, paintings, photographs, and drawings will be classified as visual art. A statement of how the piece is relevant to the contest topic must be submitted with the visual art on a note card. Entries without a statement card will be disqualified.**
Deadline: All entries must be received on or before March 15, 2014. Entries may be hand-delivered or emailed on or before the deadline. Mailed entries must be received by the deadline or sooner. Late entries will not be accepted.
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Aug 21st 2008 9:56PM its 3am here now and dont got time for to search the posts for what im about to type so if i do im sorry.
i read that the its gonna reduce rage generation but wont it infact increase it? the harder u hit the more u generate. i could be wrong in saying that but when i go fury on my warrior and get 1.6k white crit (in raid) i get what would seem like 30+ rage. so if a 2h hits for 1.6 (rough guess. brain failing at this hour lol) wouldnt it generate the same rage on a melee swing and ALOT more when it crits? feel free to correct me or do the maths behind this. brain is starting to fry now thinking


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Laurie Angel, division fiscal manager of CSULB's Office of Physical Planning and Facilities Management, led a cheer recently as the president of the volunteer North Long Beach Community Action Group (NLB CAG) when the organization won the national "Neighborhood of the Year" Grand Prize for documenting and permanently archiving the history of North Long Beach since 1924, when the area was annexed to the city of Long Beach. The group was recognized at Neighborhood USA's (NUSA) national conference held in May in Hampton, Va.
NLB CAG also won first place against four competitors in the category of "Social Revitalization – Single Project" for its "Back to the Future – North Long Beach History Project," winning the overall competition in a field of 25 finalist cities throughout the USA in three categories.
The task of documenting NLB's history was pursued by a team including Angel; Dan Pressburg, NLB advocate and former Long Beach Cultural Heritage commissioner; Linda Ivers, project initiator and 8th City Council District field representative; Kaye Briegel, emerita lecturer in history at CSULB; and T. Beth Hall, a professional historical archaeologist. Each member lives and has roots in NLB for several generations.
"This is a pretty incredible award," said Angel, who joined the university in 1996 after earning her bachelor of science degree in business with an emphasis in accounting and a master's degree in business administration from CSULB. "It's the first time Long Beach ever won this award and it has been around since the 1970s. It's quite an accomplishment to be recognized for work in our community. There has been a perception of NLB as not meeting the standards of the rest of the city. The truth is, this award draws positive attention to our part of the city and says we have a strong community here."
The history project collected and preserved historical and cultural elements, newspaper articles, photographs, oral history interviews and family stories from longtime residents. "It's the most incredible feeling for our neighborhood to be recognized in Long Beach, much less nationally," said Angel. "Maybe we'll help to set an example for neighborhoods throughout the country to undertake history projects to bring pride and recognition to their communities."
The project created a permanent NLB archive for integration into the collection of the Historical Society of Long Beach (HSLB), which recently moved to Bixby Knolls. The project's ongoing focus is to document the history, people and cultural elements of the NLB community, and to create and sustain a more fulfilling and positive sense of community.
"There has never been a history written about NLB until now," she said. "Remember, NLB was annexed by the city of Long Beach in 1924. We've always been a kind of appendage. We're not part of the city's mainstream. Long Beach is the fifth largest city in California and the 35th largest in the U.S. This isn't a small city. It's a big city. It is a city of neighborhoods and each one has a story. Ours was lost and we were determined to let people know it's been found again."
One goal of the project's research is to foster a sense of community. "Our goal is to inform people and bring them together," she explained. "Unless you have a sense of community, you lose a big piece of life. That sense of community seems to be lacking nowadays, especially in southern California."
At CSULB, Angel is responsible for managing Physical Planning and Facilities Management's complex annual budget now approaching $300 million. She is a former member of the budget advisory committee for the Long Beach Unified School District and a member of North PAC (as homeowner representative) since 1996. She has more than 25 years of financial experience from advising small businesses on financial matters to providing financial management for multi-national corporations and public agencies. At the Orange County Transportation Agency (OCTA), she served as the senior financial analyst with responsibility for financial analysis, long range forecasting, and developing and administering grants with the Federal Transportation Administration, the state of California, the Southern California Association of Governments (the LA area regional planning agency) and other regional government or non-profit funding agencies. In addition, she was the principle financial analyst in developing OCTA's 15-year Road Map to Recovery after the Orange County bankruptcy.
The NLB History Project has its roots in March 2006 when the Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association awarded NLB CAG a $10,000 grant to fund a historical survey of targeted redevelopment sites in NLB and to create a NLB archive for the HSLB. The Long Beach Navy Memorial Heritage Association exists for the purpose of historic preservation as a result of the federal government relinquishing control of the Long Beach Navy Base and its subsequent demolition.
"We put together what we thought was a good project to survey properties along corridors we knew would be targeted for redevelopment," she said. Using the $10,000 grant, they surveyed and began documenting around 100 NLB properties. Of those, between 40 and 50 are now leveled. Each property was photographed and described. "We wanted a record of what existed before it was gone," she said. "Working with various departments within the city of Long Beach, we began collecting documentation to determine whether any of those properties had any historical significance."
But the full scope of documentation proved elusive. After six months the city was very slow to support their efforts and time was running out on the grant. "We actually had to formally request a change of focus for the grant," she said. "As a part of the project we reviewed local newspapers beginning around 1924 to determine historical context. What we found was that the local NLB newspaper, The Argus, was falling apart. We shifted focus to include digitizing most of the full run of the paper, from the 1920s to the 1960s from actual print and microfilm media, creating a searchable record to aid in research. It's really pretty fascinating and a wonderful resource because now The Argus is preserved forever with DVDs at the main library, HSLB, and for each team member. As the opening exhibit in HSLB's new home the development of the NLB archive created an incredible set of circumstances. Everything came together beautifully."
There were plenty of surprises along the way. "A property that had once supported a Church of the Latter Day Saints for 70 years became Grace Park, named for Grace Wiley, a rare professional herpetologist who lived in NLB and the church. Some of the seniors we interviewed recalled cauliflower fields and a community of Swiss dairy farmers in NLB, which we found by reviewing census data. The Los Angeles River, the discovery of oil in the 1920s, and the Long Beach earthquake, play important roles in the development of NLB. It's pretty interesting and there are still plenty of stories to discover, preserve and tell."


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Amistad | |
Theatrical release poster
Directed by | Steven Spielberg |
Produced by | Debbie Allen Steven Spielberg Colin Wilson |
Written by | David Franzoni |
Starring | Morgan Freeman Anthony Hopkins Djimon Hounsou Matthew McConaughey Nigel Hawthorne Stellan Skarsgård Harry Blackmun Anna Paquin |
Music by | John Williams |
Cinematography | Janusz Kamiński |
Edited by | Michael Kahn |
company |
Distributed by | DreamWorks Pictures |
Release dates
Running time
154 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $36 million |
Box office | $44,229,441 |
Amistad is a 1997 historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg based on the notable uprising in 1839 by newly abducted Mende tribesmen who took control of the ship La Amistad off the coast of Cuba, and the international legal battle that followed their capture by a U.S. revenue cutter. It became a United States Supreme Court case of 1841.
Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, and Matthew McConaughey had starring roles. David Franzoni's screenplay was based on the book Mutiny on the Amistad: The Saga of a Slave Revolt and Its Impact on American Abolition, Law, and Diplomacy (1987), by the historian Howard Jones.
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In 1839, the schooner La Amistad is carrying Africans abducted from Sierra Leone and sold in Cuba into slavery. One of the slaves, Sengbe Pieh, most known by his slave name "Cinqué", initiates a rebellion on the ship. Most of the crew are killed. The Africans keep the ship's owners alive, believing they can navigate the vessel back to West Africa.
Six weeks later, the vessel is low on food and fresh water when they sight land. Unsure of their location, a group take a boat to shore to fetch fresh water. La Amistad is found by a United States military vessel; the Spaniards tricked the Africans, sailing up the Atlantic coast. Amistad is impounded. The Africans are imprisoned while a court determines ownership of the vessel and whether the slaves will be freed. Great Britain, the United States and Spain have prohibited the international slave trade, but the Spanish owners claim the slaves were born on a Cuban plantation and are thus legal domestic slaves.
In Washington, D.C., John Quincy Adams, former President and sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, meets leading abolitionists Theodore Joadson, a freed slave, and activist Lewis Tappan. Intent on gaining the Amistad Africans' freedom, the men seek Adams' help with the court case. Adams claims he neither condemns nor condones slavery.
The current President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, is under pressure by the 11 year old Spanish Queen Isabella II, who demands compensation for the ship and the market value of the slaves. At a preliminary hearing, the Africans are charged with "insurrection on the high seas". The case has conflicting claims of property ownership by Spain, the United States, the Spanish owners of the slaves and of La Amistad, and the American captain and first mate of the US vessel that took the ship into custody, as laws of the sea entitle them to salvage rights, including the slaves. The abolitionists enlist the help of an attorney specializing in property law: Roger Sherman Baldwin.
Baldwin and the abolitionists, along with Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr., a professor of linguistics, try speaking with the Amistad Africans, but neither side can comprehend the other. As the hearings drag on, Baldwin and Joadson approach Adams for advice. Adams advises them that, in court, the side with the best story usually wins. Unable to tell Adams what their story is, they realize it is imperative they communicate with the Africans. At the city docks they find a black sailor in the Royal Navy, James Covey, who speaks an African language.
Using Covey as a translator, Baldwin and his companions speak with Cinquè. He is allowed to give his account, through Covey, in the courtroom. Cinquè claims that he was a farmer and family man, kidnapped by slave-hunters and taken to Lomboko, an illegal slave facility in Sierra Leone. He and hundreds of other captured Africans were loaded onto the transatlantic slave-ship Tecora. Upon arriving in Cuba, Cinquè was sold at a slave market and purchased by the owners of La Amistad.
District Attorney William S. Holabird and Secretary of State John Forsyth press their case for respecting property rights, dismissing Cinquè's story as fiction. While exploring La Amistad for evidence, Baldwin finds a notebook that gives accounts of their illegal slave-trading.
Presenting the notebook as evidence, Baldwin calls expert witnesses, including Captain Fitzgerald, a British naval officer assigned to patrol the West African coastline to enforce the British Empire's anti-slavery policies. Judge Coglin dismisses all claims of ownership of the Africans. He orders the arrest of the Amistad's owners and authorizes the United States to convey the Amistad Africans back to Africa.
Speaking with the Spanish Ambassador to Washington, Senator John C. Calhoun from South Carolina attacks President Van Buren; stressing the economic importance of slaves in the South, Calhoun suggests that if the government frees the Amistad Africans the South will go to war. President Van Buren orders the case appealed to the US Supreme Court, which is dominated by Southern slaveholder justices.
Joadson and Baldwin break the news to Cinquè. Needing a knowledgeable ally, Baldwin and Joadson meet again with John Quincy Adams. Aware that Cinquè refuses to talk to Baldwin, Adams invites Cinquè to his home. After speaking with him, Adams decides to assist the case.
At the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams passionately defends the Africans in a long speech. Miraculously, all the judges except one are moved by the speech and they authorize the release of the Africans and their transportation to Africa, if they so wish. Cinquè bids farewell to his American companions.
British Royal Marines assault the Lomboko Slave Fortress, freeing Africans from its dungeons. With the fortress evacuated, Captain Fitzgerald orders it destroyed. Van Buren loses his re-election campaign. Cinquè and his fellow Africans return to Sierra Leone accompanied by James Covey. Cinquè finds his country in civil war and his wife and child missing, likely sold into slavery. Isabella II continues to argue with seven more US Presidents about the Amistad case over the next 30 years, but her hopes for "compensation" finally perish when the American Civil War erupts, ending slavery.
- Morgan Freeman as Theodore Joadson
- Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren
- Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams
- Djimon Hounsou as Sengbe Pieh / Joseph Cinqué
- Matthew McConaughey as Roger Sherman Baldwin
- David Paymer as Secretary of State John Forsyth
- Pete Postlethwaite as William S. Holabird
- Stellan Skarsgård as Lewis Tappan
- Razaaq Adoti as Yamba
- Abu Bakaar Fofanah as Fala
- Anna Paquin as Queen Isabella II of Spain
- Tomas Milian as Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Ens. James Covey
- Derrick Ashong as Buakei
- Geno Silva as Jose Ruiz
- John Ortiz as Pedro Montes
- Ralph Brown as Lieutenant Thomas L.Gedney
- Darren E. Burrows as Lieutenant Richard W.Meade
- Allan Rich as Judge Andrew T.Juttson
- Paul Guilfoyle as Attorney
- Peter Firth as Captain Fitzgerald
- Xander Berkeley as Ledger Hammond
- Jeremy Northam as Judge Coglin
- Arliss Howard as John C. Calhoun
- Austin Pendleton as Professor Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr.
- Pedro Armendáriz Jr. as General Baldomero Espartero
- Harry Blackmun as Justice Joseph Story
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun appears in the film as Justice Joseph Story.
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Actress and director Debbie Allen had run across some books about the mutiny on the ship, La Amistad, and brought the subject to HBO films, which chose to make a film adaption of the subject. She later presented the project to DreamWorks SKG to release the film, which agreed. Steven Spielberg, who wanted to stretch his artistic wings after making The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), was interested in directing it for DreamWorks, which he also co-founded as well. Spielberg was an unlikely person to tackle the Amistad story, since his previous picture about black characters, The Color Purple, had been badly received by the black community.
Filming took place in the Marble House mansion which was used for the exterior and interior court scenes. Filming moved to Sonalyst Studios, with the opening scene using a sound stage in Universal Studios was used. Production then went to Puerto Rico for the Africa scenes and the fortress building.
Post Production work was done rarely with Spielberg, due to his commitment to another DreamWorks film, Saving Private Ryan.
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Released | December 9, 1997 | |||
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No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
1. | "Dry Your Tears, Afrika" (vocals performed by Pamela Dillard) | 4:18 | ||||||||
2. | "Sierra Leone, 1839 and the Capture of Cinque" (vocals performed by Pamela Dillard) | 3:39 | ||||||||
3. | "Crossing the Atlantic" (vocals performed by Pamela Dillard) | 3:21 | ||||||||
4. | "Cinque's Theme" | 4:12 | ||||||||
5. | "Cinque's Memories of Home" | 2:35 | ||||||||
6. | "Middle Passage" | 5:18 | ||||||||
7. | "The Long Road to Justice" | 3:16 | ||||||||
8. | "July 4, 1839" | 4:01 | ||||||||
9. | "Mr. Adams Takes the Case" | 7:15 | ||||||||
10. | "La Amistad Remembered" | 5:08 | ||||||||
11. | "The Liberation of Lomboko" | 4:09 | ||||||||
12. | "Adams' Summation" | 2:55 | ||||||||
13. | "Going Home" (vocals performed by Pamela Dillard) | 2:02 | ||||||||
14. | Untitled | 3:37 |
The lyrics from "Dry Your Tears, Afrika"m a 1967 poem by French-speaking Ivorian poet Bernard Binlin Dadié. The words are primarily in Mende, one of Sierra Leone's major languages.
Historical accuracy[edit]
The Supreme Court decision reversed District and Circuit decrees regarding Africans' conveyance back to Africa. They were to be deemed free, but the U.S. government could not take them back to Africa, as they had arrived on American soil as free people.[1]
Many academics, including Columbia University professor Eric Foner, have criticized Amistad for historical inaccuracy and the misleading characterizations of the Amistad case as a "turning point" in the American perspective on slavery. [2] Foner wrote:
" | In fact, the Amistad case revolved around the Atlantic slave trade — by 1840 outlawed by international treaty — and had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery as a domestic institution. Incongruous as it may seem, it was perfectly possible in the nineteenth century to condemn the importation of slaves from Africa while simultaneously defending slavery and the flourishing slave trade within the United States. | " |
" | Amistad's problems go far deeper than such anachronisms as President Martin Van Buren campaigning for re-election on a whistle-stop train tour (in 1840, candidates did not campaign), or people constantly talking about the coming Civil War, which lay twenty years in the future. | " |
The film version of Adams' closing speech before the Supreme Court and the court's decision bear no resemblance to the much longer historical versions; they are not even fair summaries.[3][4]
Several inaccuracies occur during the film's final scenes:
- During the scene depicting the destruction of the Lomboko Fortress by a Royal Navy schooner, the vessel's captain refers to another officer as "ensign". This rank has never been used by the Royal Navy.[5]
Critical response[edit]
Amistad received mainly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 76% based on reviews from 59 critics, with an average score of 6.9/10.[6] Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today summed up the feelings of many reviewers when she wrote: "as Spielberg vehicles go, Amistad — part mystery, action thriller, courtroom drama, even culture-clash comedy — lands between the disturbing lyricism of Schindler's List and the storybook artificiality of The Color Purple."[7] Roger Ebert awarded the film three out of four stars, writing:
"Amistad," like Spielberg's "Schindler's List," is [...] about the ways good men try to work realistically within an evil system to spare a few of its victims. [...] "Schindler's List" works better as narrative because it is about a risky deception, while "Amistad" is about the search for a truth that, if found, will be small consolation to the millions of existing slaves. As a result, the movie doesn't have the emotional charge of Spielberg's earlier film — or of "The Color Purple," which moved me to tears. [...] What is most valuable about "Amistad" is the way it provides faces and names for its African characters, whom the movies so often make into faceless victims.[8]
Box office[edit]
The film earned $44,229,441 at the box office in the United States, debuting at No. 5 on December 10, 1997.[9]
Amistad was nominated for Academy Awards in four categories: Best Supporting Actor (Anthony Hopkins), Best Original Dramatic Score (John Williams), Best Cinematography (Janusz Kamiński), and Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter).[10]
See also[edit]
- United States v. The Amistad, an 1841 U.S. Supreme Court case concerning a slave rebellion on the ship
- Tecora
- List of films featuring slavery
- White savior narrative in film
- Supreme Court of the United States in fiction
- Trial movies
- ^ Story, Joseph. "The United States, Appellants, v. The Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, Her Tackle, Apparel, and Furniture, Together With Her Cargo, and the Africans Mentioned and Described in the Several Libels and Claims, Appellees", Supreme Court of the United States 40 U.S. 518; 10 L. Ed. 826 (January 1841 Term), Cornell University Law School. Accessed December 8, 2011.
- ^ Foner, Eric. "The Amistad Case in Fact and Film", History Matters. Accessed December 8, 2011.
- ^ "The United States, Appellants, v. The Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad...".
- ^ "JQA Adams Before the Supreme Court", History Central.
- ^ British Royal Navy ranks (including relevant time period) "Officer Ranks in the Royal Navy", Royal Naval Museum. Accessed February 15, 2012.
- ^ "Amistad Movie Reviews, Pictures". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
- ^ Wloszczyna, Susan. "Amistad review", USA Today. Accessed December 8, 2011.
- ^ Ebert, Roger (December 12, 1997). "Amistad :: rogerebert.com :: Reviews". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved Dec 8, 2011.
- ^ "Amistad". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
- ^ "Academy Awards: Amistad". Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
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