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Advising FAQ's
Things to Consider
If you plan to transfer to a four-year college or university, there are several factors you should consider:
Academic Offerings
Is the major or degree program you're interested in available?
Is the cost of attendance within reason for you? Does the college participate in financial aid or offer scholarships?
Admission Requirements
Do you meet the admission requirements for the college? Does the major or degree program you're interested in have additional admission requirements?
Is the institution accredited by a regional accreditation board?
Quality of Education
Does the program or institution have a good reputation for providing high quality educational experiences?
Student Support Services
Are adequate and high quality student services available?
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Academic Calendar – The calendar giving start and end dates for each semester; the dates to drop a class and get a refund, dates the College is open and closed, the last date to withdraw for the semester, and other important dates. The Academic Calendar is published in the Credit Course schedule each semester.
Academic Catalog – The annual College publication that lists all majors and degrees, all courses and their descriptions, all academic and College policies, and current faculty and staff members. It is available online and in print. Students refer to the Academic Catalog to look up their major requirements and to learn college policies.
Advising – Meeting with an Advisor. The process of setting academic and career goals and creating an educational plan which includes developing strategies and using resources and services to reach your goals.
Audit – Taking an academic course, but not planning to earn the credits or receive a grade.
Course Descriptions – Overview of each course, including topics to be covered and pre-requisites needed to enroll in it; found in the Academic Catalog and Credit Course Schedule.
Credit Courses Schedule - The published schedule of classes offered each semester; gives days and times for each course along with required pre-requisites and descriptions. Students use the Credit Course Schedule to select classes and build their schedule each semester.
Credits –Units of credit assigned to a course based on the number of hours spent in class. Credits can be from 1 credit for a brief, once-a-week PE course to 4 credits for a science class that meets in both a lecture and a lab section each week.
Current Student - A student who is taking classes at FCC now, or has taken classes at FCC within the past two years.
Developmental English or Math - Classes that are intended to develop students' basic academic skills in preparation for college-level courses. Credits are based on contact hours for tuition, but do not count toward graduation as they are not college-level courses. Enrollment in developmental courses is based on placement testing.
General Education courses - Required courses from various academic disciplines that have been designated to provide a broad, general knowledge; courses are found on the General Education Course List published in the credit course schedule each semester and in the academic catalog.
Major – An academic area of study; also called a program of study.
New Student - A student who has not yet attended FCC, or who is beginning his/her first semester at FCC.
Placement Test – An assessment of academic reading, writing and/or mathematical skills to determine accurate placement of students into classes.
Pre-Registration – That time during the Registration period when students can sign up for classes and pay later! All current students are encouraged to register early during Pre-Registration.
Registration – Signing up for classes online using the Peoplesoft registration system or handing in a Registration form in the Registration and Records Center in J-101.
Semester – A timeframe for academic study. FCC has the following semesters: Fall, JTerm, Spring, and Summer.
Withdrawal – To officially discontinue attending a course which REQUIRES students to either drop the course online, or to complete the Drop section of a Registration form submitted to the Registration and Records Center in J-101. A student who stops attending a class, but does not officially withdraw, will receive an automatic F grade. Withdrawals must take place prior to the "last date to withdraw" listed in the Academic Calendar for each semester.
All new students start by completing the Steps for Admission which include applying to the college, submitting college entrance exam scores (SAT or ACT) or taking placement tests, and submitting high school or other college transcripts.
Students can check placement test exemptions at the Testing Center webpage.
New transfer students who have completed English Composition AND college-level Mathematics at their previous college do not need to take placement tests (official transcripts need to be sent. Click here for details. If you have completed credit in one area but not the other, you would need to take the placement test for the area with no transferable credit. For example, if you have transferable credit for EN101, but not for college-level math, you would need to take only the math placement test. Transfer students who do not have transferable credits in English or Math, but have appropriate SAT or ACT scores are also exempt from placement testing (see "new student" placement info above).
All new students initially meet with an advisor in the C&A Office or in the office from which they are receiving special services, such as the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities or Office of Adult Services. In subsequent semesters, students are advised according to their major. General Studies and Undecided students are advised in the C&A Office. Declared majors are advised by their faculty advisor, usually the department chair or program manager. Check the Advisor Contact List to determine the advisor for your major.
Students need to see an advisor to make sure they are taking the classes required in their major and are meeting any other degree requirements. Students also see advisors for planning future classes, selecting a major or career, creating a transfer plan, and obtaining referrals for academic services as needed.
Students should see their advisor during registration if they need help choosing classes. Current students are encouraged to see their advisor as early as possible during the registration period when all courses are open and seats are available. Students should also see their advisor, as needed, to discuss issues of concern, get a referral for academic support services or to do long-range planning.
Students work with an advisor to create an Individual College Academic Plan (ICAP), which is a comprehensive outline of all the things they need to do to complete their degree. Students are emailed a copy of their ICAP so they can follow up on recommendations outlined in their plan.
The "My Degree Plan" advising tool can be accessed online to track the classes you've taken, the grades you've received, the courses you still need for your major, the number of credits earned and your GPA. It is a great tool to use prior to meeting with your advisor or before web registering. Always check your "Degree Plan" using the PeopleSoft system to make sure the class you signed up for meets your degree requirements.
Academic Alert and Academic Probation are terms used to describe the status of a student's academic standing and occur when students do not make satisfactory progress in their courses. Click here for a complete description of each term and its consequences.
GPA is calculated based on a formula using numerical values for grades. Click here (link to GPA section) for a complete explanation and our GPA calculator.
The classes needed to complete each program of study are specified in each degree or certificate program and can be found by viewing the major/degree requirements in the Academic Catalog or by using your "Degree Plan" in PeopleSoft.
General Education (Gen Ed) courses are intended to provide students with a broad, general knowledge in various academic subjects. Gen Eds are required in each college major and are clearly identified in the degree requirements. Students select courses from the General Education Course List published in the Academic Catalog and Credit Course schedules. Gen Ed requirements are also clearly specified in the "My Degree Plan" in PeopleSoft.
Students can check out the Career and Transfer Resources link "What can I do with a major in …?" to find out all the different jobs they can do based on their college major. The Counseling and Advising Office, located in J-201, has books and videos students can use to learn how their academic majors connect to their career choices.
Students can learn about their intended career field through Career Exploration links on the Career and Transfer Resources webpage, or by visiting the Counseling and Advising Office, located in J-201, for relevant books and videos, or by scheduling an appointment with one of our knowledgeable career advisors.
Students can learn about the transfer process by visiting the Career and Transfer Resources webpage or by visiting the Counseling and Advising Office, located in J-201, for books, videos, and application materials, or by scheduling an appointment with our transfer counselor.
Advising is the process of meeting with an advisor to review academic and career goals, develop a comprehensive plan to meet your goals, learn about your major's requirements, and select courses for your FCC degree and your future transfer school. Registration is the act of signing up for classes using web registration, or by completing a registration form to submit on campus in the Registration and Records Office in J-101.
Students can register online using PeopleSoft, or they can register on campus by completing a registration form and submitting it to the Registration and Records Office in J-101. It is important to note that students on Academic Alert or Academic Probation must meet with an advisor to have their registration form signed prior to submitting it to Registration and Records, and therefore, cannot web register.
Students who choose to drop a class must withdraw online using PeopleSoft or must complete the drop section of a registration form and submit it to the Registration and Records Office in J-101. Students receiving financial aid are strongly encouraged to check with the Financial Aid Office in J-301 (or at 301.846.2620) prior to withdrawing to fully understand how it may affect their aid package. Students who simply stop attending classes, but do not officially withdraw, will receive a failing grade for the course.
There are many important dates each semester that are critical for students to know: semester start and end dates, holidays and semester breaks, withdrawal dates when refunds are given, and the last day to withdraw from a class without a penalty. These dates and deadlines are specified in the Academic Calendar and can be found each semester in the Credit Course Schedule, and students are expected to know these important dates!
Students typically cannot be added to a full class due to classroom capacity. Students who have a dire need to access a course can meet with an advisor to explore alternatives. The advisor will forward the student's request to the department chair in extreme cases where the student's inability to access a course will result in delayed graduation.
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A photographic representation of a powerful three-day journey in which three women, with no previous connection to one another, were brought together and personally challenged to live into the fullness of their individual creative identities, honoring their intuition and artistic voice.
Three women. Three visions. Three days. One common purpose. Three days of light.
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Standard Portrait, 7.75×9.75 in, 20×25 cm
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- Publish Date Feb 24, 2009
- Tags fine art photography, self discovery, spiritual journey, women artists, sepia photography, color photography, Lisa Mauer Elliott, Sarah Rust Sampedro, Margaret Grosspietsch, photography
About the Creator
I've always been interested in all things visual. I am a graphic designer by trade, but for artistic expression I find myself particularly drawn to photography. My photographs tend toward explorations of textures, landscapes, people and inner workings of ordinary moments, expressed and framed through a reverent eye. I believe that photography can act as a voice and I am interested in having conversations that explore what is both beautiful and sacred about the world. I am often drawn to photograph the places where connections are made, if only for a moment—where the grasses meet the trees; the reflections on water as their forms are painted temporarily across the still surface; a Buddha form in the morning light—it is in those places where I find the truest sense of my own heart.
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One of the most beguiling folk records of the year has the bonus of ferrying along a Joel and Ethan Coen plot line. The songs within the brothers' new Inside Llewyn Davis move from balladry to blues to ancient British folk, adding an extra layer of lyricism and revealing a portal to another storytelling realm.
The selections highlight a moment when a perfectly realized stanza sung honestly in a smoky café could produce an audible gasp, reverberate throughout New York's Greenwich Village and, with luck or if your name were Bob Dylan, American culture.
At the centre of the story, set in 1961, is the singer Llewyn Davis, an expert but oft-unlikable artist, and a few pivotal performances, most significantly of Hang Me, Oh Hang Me, brought to prominence by singer Dave Van Ronk -- his memoir The Mayor of MacDougal Street and Inside Dave Van Ronk album cover supplied many of the period details for the Coens' fictional story. Hang Me, the most recent of a series of songs that the Coens have plucked from relative obscurity, is sung from the perspective of a rebel who "went up to the mountain, that's where I made my stand" and, having apparently failed, is bound for the noose.
Even more than the Coens' ode to rural country music, O Brother Where Art Thou, whose protagonists fall into the music business by happenstance, Inside Llewyn Davis examines an occupation, singing and songwriting, with wry affection.
'We didn't want things to be right on the nose, but sometimes they were lyrically related in interesting ways to what was happening'
Joel Coen said during a recent conversation that the new movie, on which they collaborated with music producer T Bone Burnett, is the product of "a funny conversation that we've been having with T Bone for decades, from project to project, starting with The Big Lebowski."
As such, it's a revelatory, loving and sometimes absurd look at the life of the musician, with a curated playlist starring actor-singers Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan and others. Moving in unison with the action during sets and sessions, the music scores our anti-hero's circular journey from Greenwich Village to Chicago and back again.
The Coens' precise touch is captured, for example, in a notable absence: a spectral Bob Dylan, then a freshman on the scene, whose arrival and impending fame are only suggested. At the beginning, we briefly hear him tuning his guitar onstage, but the Coens are following another touched singer, so the action moves elsewhere. That single shot teases a big American story developing just outside the frame: the tune-up to a whole movement that Dylan would help construct.
Such deftness isn't surprising. The Coens' best musical placements over the years are memorable: There's the yodelled theme that chases Nicolas Cage's H.I. McDunnough through Raising Arizona. To the kidnapped Nathan Jr., Holly Hunter's character sings a tender lullaby, in fact a murder ballad called Down in the Willow Garden, signalling doom on the horizon. Lower East Side folk punks the Fugs' biting protest song CIA Man closes Burn After Reading; the scratchy Danny Boy recording coming from a Victrola in Miller's Crossing scores a machine-gun shootout.
Memorably, The Big Lebowski resurrected an obscure psychedelic rock song, Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In), turning it into a stoner anthem after it scored the Dude's bowling-themed dream sequence. O Brother, another Burnett-produced effort, featured the fictional Soggy Bottom Boys' rendition of Man of Constant Sorrow. It played a key role in that soundtrack going platinum -- more than half a century after the song's would-be heyday.
"The conversation expands in really interesting ways once we get T Bone involved in it," Joel Coen said. "He gets into the story, or the script, or whatever project we're working on, and takes it in places musically that we wouldn't have thought of, or didn't know about, and opens up all of these interesting things."
In Llewyn Davis, music levitates the story. As Davis, played by Isaac, travels from Upper West Side to the Village with an escaped cat that will come to haunt him, the song Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song) plays, suggesting a few different journeys to come. While a sofa-crashing Southern singer offers a gentle version of Tom Paxton's The Last Thing on My Mind and croons of "a lesson too late for learnin'," Mulligan's character informs Davis that she's pregnant.
Joel Coen said the placements came naturally and were part of the fabric of the script early on. The desire was to suggest, without being clumsy or heavy-handed.
"You're thinking about both what the song is lyrically," he said, "but what's the vibe of the song? What's the mood of it, even the tempo? What does it need here? We didn't want things to be right on the nose, but sometimes they were lyrically related in interesting ways to what was happening."
Burnett told me he's come to revel in the details that the filmmakers were able to convey through a combination of lyric and story. For example, the use of Fare Thee Well, placed on a fictional record by Davis and his late performing partner, contains a sly wink, Burnett said. "This is a movie about Timlin & Davis, a duet, who had an album called If I Had Wings -- and then the guy jumps off a bridge and decidedly doesn't have wings."
Granted, this isn't Ken Russell using the Who's rock opera Tommy as a storyboard. Lines aren't played out within the narrative. Rather, Ethan Coen described the process as "mushy," adding that "you feel out what's right for the character and the place in the story."
The choice, for example, to have Davis sing the haunting British ballad The Death of Queen Jane during an audition with a hotshot manager is revealing. "He goes to his big audition and he sings a song about an abortion," Burnett said, laughing. "There's so much stuff hidden in here. Every one of these songs, Hang Me, Oh Hang Me, Fare Thee Well, there's a distinct story being told in the libretto, really."
"The exercise there," Ethan Coen said, "is, what's the most beautiful song he could sing at this point that would also be the most self-destructive?"
Conversely, the playful Please Mr. Kennedy illustrates the lighter side of the folk scene, when topical ditties could sweep the nation. That song earned the Coens their first folk songwriting credit -- part of a collaboration with Burnett and Timberlake.
Burnett recalled that the seeds of Kennedy, which tells of an astronaut having second thoughts as he's blasting into outer space, sprouted while he and Timberlake were shopping at Norman's Rare Guitars in the San Fernando Valley. "I was talking to Justin about some lyrics, and I went kind of Ogden Nash and started writing those kinds of rhymes," he recalled.
They then gave the song to Ethan and Joel Coen, who refined it into what Burnett called "a real honest-to-God four-way collaboration."
Ethan Coen confirmed the process, adding that in another era he and his brother may have followed an alternate course: "We should have been around then, you know? Or maybe a little earlier, in Tin Pan Alley."
Songwriting, he added, "seems like a pretty fun job" -- suggesting that perhaps he hasn't yet absorbed the lessons of his own movie. Or maybe that there's yet another music-centred film to come.
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As natural gas futures drop below $2 per mmBTU for the first time in over a decade, now is a good time to discuss some of the fundamentals underlying the move lower, and explore some potential trading strategies for the commodity.
A drop in demand caused by mild winter conditions across the U.S., along with a record level of new supply from nascent shale gas technology (fracking) are the main economic drivers that have pushed natural gas prices 34% lower this year.
Regarding demand, the NOAA recently released a report finding 15,000 state and local temperature records were broken in the last month alone, making it the warmest March ever recorded in U.S. history. Over half of U.S. households rely on natural gas for their winter heating needs. The above average temperatures weighed heavily on demand, which fell nearly 20% below winter averages. This decrease in demand also pushed stockpiles toward a seasonal high of 2.5 trillion cubic feet, also a U.S. record for March. As warmer weather begins to drive electrify demand for running air conditioners, prices typically begin to firm up in late spring.
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From: Simon Carter <>
Subject: Re: Marquis of Cardigan?
Date: Fri, 08 May 98 21:34:08 +0100 ( + )
Hi Sue,
You wrote:
>Has anyone ever heard the Marquis of Cardigan? I have him in my husband's ancestry.
>His daughter Jennet married Griffith Jones. They had a son, Robert Jones b. 3-20-1743
>d. 4-15-1809 married to Jane Bolton b. 7-6-1744 d. 7-26-1826. They had a daughter,
>Rachel Jones b. 1785 d. 3-20-1867 married in 1803 to Lewis Evans b. 7-29-1783 d. 4-28-1858
>(His parents were Jeremiah Evans b. 1749 in Wales d. 5-14-1826 and Mary Evans (daughter
>of Abner Evans and Sarah Thomas)b. 1752 in Wales d. 1815, Jeremiah was the son of Lewis
>Evans b. in Wales and Mary Evans)
A Marquess is normally a title given to the elder son of a Duke, however there are Marquessates is their own right (e.g.
Marquess of Quenesberry - of Rules fame). But there is no Marquessate of Cardigan, only an Earl of Cardigan (as in
the Charge of the Light Brigade). Their family name was BRUDENELL.
All well and good, but not I suspect anything to do with your lot. Burke does not mention any Jennet, I'm sorry.
Could this be a good story? Or a nick-name, even. I must admit my first reaction was that it was the name of a
ship! Cardigan was a major shipping port in the 18th/19th century.
Simon Carter
Researching: WADE, Fishguard & Cardigan and lots of others who were all called WILLIAMS and came from Verwick & Cardigan, sigh!
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Two of my current crochet projects. The first will be a pillow, more about it later. The second will be a blanket, 16 of these big granny squares are done. Waiting to be stitched together. The basic pattern is from this site {klick}, but I decided to make a bigger blanket with more colors. I think these are a really good match!
easter weekend
Easter weekend at my family's.
We revisited the finding place of the Venus of Willendorf, a small statuette of a female figure that was made about 26.000 BCE. It looks like the statue my sister and I are leaning against, only much much smaller ;)
Hope you had a nice Easter time, too!
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in the woods
We had some valuable time in the wood quarter. The air smelled so good from the freshly melted snow in the forest. Everything felt so clear and pure. Have a lovely weekend!
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I turned 35 on Sunday and I started a new crochet project with this pretty pastel colored wool. It's not as smoothly to crochet with it as I thought, but I won't give up and hope to be able to show you some progress soon. Sunny is always by my side, I could not love him more. First heralds of spring pop out of the ground, but the weather is still lousy. Have a good week further on!
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First of March
It's snowing right now!
So I will post some older pictures. This strange plant I am observing since over a year. It looked outstanding in summer and still does even though it is withered now.
I love the never-ending change of nature. Always something new to spot even though it's the same place.
R. and I are 9 years together today. Nine years!
Time to celebrate...
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Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 4, 1644-1646. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1802.
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Die Martis, 14 Aprilis, 1646.
THE Grand Committee of the House, according to former Order, sat, to take into Consideration, How all publick Taxes, Payments, and Charges, through the whole Kingdom, may be reduced into one Way of Receipt and Payment both for England and Ireland; and what these Payments shall be in and upon the several Cities and Counties.
Mr. John Stephens in the Chair.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Upon Mr. John Stephens' Report from the Grand Committee;
It is Ordered, That this Power be added to the said Committee; viz. That they shall have Power to present an Estimate of the Charge of the Forces by Sea and Land, and of the Garisons fit to be kept, and of Field-Forces to be maintained, in England and Ireland; and what Engagements lie on the Excise, and the other publick Charges and Revenue; and what further Improvement may be made of the Excise, and the other publick Charges and Revenues.
Mr. Maynard carried to the Lords, for their Concurrence, the Ordinance concerning the Disposal of Mr. Henley's Fine, and for Discharge of his Delinquency and Sequestration: Also the Ordinance for Fifteen hundred Pounds, with Interest, out of the Excise.
Ordered, That Caleb Haggar, Servant to Sir Gilbert Gerard, a Member of this House, and avowed by him to be his Servant, be forthwith discharged of his Imprisonment, he being arrested upon a mean Process: And that Paul Donsett, the Bailiff that arrested him, be sent for in safe Custody.
Ordered, That the Committee of Goldsmiths-Hall do, on Thursday Morning next, and so on every Thursday Morning weekly, make their Receipts of Compositions and Ordinances, and other Proceedings of that Committee with Delinquents.
Ordered, That the Petition of Robert Villiers Esquire be taken into Consideration on Thursday Morning next.
Mr. Lisle reports, from the Committee to whom it was referred to examine and find out the Printer and Author of the Book, intituled, "Some Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland, &c." the Examination and voluntary Consession of Robert Bostock, of one Harison his Servant; also the Examination of one Bell, a Printer; and of Robert Bostock's Wife.
Ordered, That the further Consideration for the examining and finding out the Author to the said Book be re-committed to the said Committee.
Resolved, &c. That a Conference be desired with the Lords, at such time as their Lordships shall think fit, concerning a Book, intituled, "Some Papers of the Commissioners of Scotland, given in lately to the Houses of Parliament, concerning the Propositions of Peace:" And that the Examination and Inquiry after the Author and Printer, and the Examinations taken in that Business, be read at this Conference: And that the Vote, Yesterday passed this House, concerning the said Book, be communicated to the Lords; and their Concurrence desired therein: And also, that the Lords be acquainted, That this House hath appointed a Declaration to be prepared touching this Book.
Sir Robert Pye went to the Lords, to desire this Conference.
Sir Robert Pye brings Answer, That the Lords will give a present Meeting, at a Conference by a Committee of the whole House, upon the Subject desired.
Mr. Lisle, and Sir John Evelyn of Wiltes, are appointed Managers of this Conference.
Ordered, That the Business moved by Mr. Sollicitor and Mr. Recorder, and debated in the House, be resumed, so soon as the House returns from the Conference.
Ordered, That it be referred to the Committee of the West, to consider of, and bring in, an Ordinance for continuing the Ordinance for Bristoll for Six Months.
Ordered, &c. That Mr. Lane, Mr. Sollicitor, and Mr. Recorder, be added to the Committee where Mr. Lisle hath the Chair: And that it be referred to the said Committee, to prepare a Declaration concerning the Intentions and Proceedings of this House with the King; the Course for Settling of the Church; the Desires of the Parliament for Peace; their Adhering to the Grounds of the Covenant, and Treaties with the Scotts; to declare their Intentions against the Exercise of any arbitrary Power upon the Subject; and the Reasons, Why the Propositions are not sent concerning the Bringing of Delinquents to Punishment; and to declare the Intention of the Parliament concerning their Engagement to the Well-affected; and upon whatsoever else they shall conceive necessary, to take off the Misrepresentation of the Parliament, and their Proceedings, to the People; and for giving Satisfaction to the People: And are to bring in the said Declaration by Friday Morning next.
Ordered, &c. That the Committees of either House, and all other Committees, that act by Authority of both or either House, do take care, and they are hereby injoined, not to hear, determine or intermeddle with the private Interest, Right, or Title of any particular Person or Persons, or with any Matter depending, or in Difference, between Party and Party, unless they be thereunto expresly authorized by Ordinance of Parliament.
The Lords Concurrence to be desired herein.
The Question was propounded, Whether the Order of this House, for Stay of Proceedings at Law, concerning some Tobaccoes of Mr. Alderman John Warner's, seized for not Payment of Custom, should be discharged; he giving Security in the Exchequer to pay such Customs and Duties, as are payable for the same by any Act or Ordinance of Parliament:
The Question was put, Whether this Question should be now put:
The House was divided.
The Noes went forth.
|Sir Mich. Lucy,
|Tellers for the Yea:
|Mr. Bond,
|With the Yea,
|Sir Rich. CAnslowe,
|Tellers for the Noe:
|Sir Tho. Middleton,
|With the Noe,
So the Question passed with the Affirmative.
The Question itself being put;
The House was divided.
The Yeas went forth.
|Sir Mich. Lucy,
|Tellers for the Yea:
|Mr. Bond,
|With the Yeas,
|Sir Tho. Middleton,
|Tellers for the Noe:
|Sir Martin Lumley,
|With the Noe,
So the Question passed with the Affirmative.
Ordered, upon the Question, That the Declaration, in Answer to divers Papers of the Scotts Commissioners, published some Months since, be forthwith printed.
Mr. Maynard brings Answer, That the Lords do agree to the Ordinance for the Disposal of Mr. Henleye's Fine; and to the Ordinance for One thousand Five hundred Pounds, out of the Excise, for the Earl of Denbigh, in Part of his Arrears.


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Why are fewer women having children?
A recent report from the Office of National Statistics shows that the number of women without children is steadily increasing - one in five women aged 45 is childless today, compared to one in nine a generation ago.
Here Mumsnet Blogger Paola Buonadonna explains her decision not to have children - and asks whether we are doing enough to make motherhood attractive to the next generation.
Was the choice to have children (or not) a straightforward one for you? Will the number of women choosing to swerve motherhood only increase? Tell us what you think, on the thread below.
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The number of women without children, we are told by the ONS, is steadily increasing. One in five women of my generation is hitting 45 without any signs of babies in the nursery.
The culture, from books, to films, to the tabloid media, loves this issue because - even more than the working/non-working mummy palaver, it allows them to whip up entirely artificial divisions among women. And if women who reproduce are under constant scrutiny (for having children out of wedlock, too many children, only one child, children with different fathers, children they cannot support, children they leave in the care of others in order to earn a living), childless women offer a whole new avenue for vivisection and chastisement.
They are blamed for being career obsessed, for leaving it 'too late', for being too picky in their choice of mate, for having youthful abortions that they're made to tearfully renege on. They are pushy, selfish, self-obsessed. The only type of child free woman given any slack is the tearful, infertile one, particularly if she's had the decency to ruin her heath, marriage and bank account by going through several rounds of painful IVF. This doesn't mean she's a proper woman. But she is tolerated and pitied. There is a script for her.
I belong to a difficult-to-quantify subspecies of female who is unabashedly child-free by choice. I'm certainly not alone - but there is still no script for us.
I first became aware of my predicament when, having kissed every available frog in both Italy and Britain, I finally met my wonderful husband at the age of 36 and realised that had no desire to reproduce at all. Or rather, if it had been a matter of handing over some genetic material and tell my partner to get on with it, I probably would have done it. I would have been a dad, at a pinch . But being a mother was an unpalatable proposition, once the possibility existed in practice.
From pregnancy to decisions about work, then childcare, then the juggling of the two, the running of the house and so on I knew with absolute certainly that, wonderful husband notwithstanding, having a life that could accommodate children in it (not even at the centre of it) would have been my problem to solve.
I don't know how to explain it, other than to say that I felt none of the hormonal pull towards it, whilst at the same time experiencing these realisations:
1) I wanted my life to continue to be about me. The new fathers I knew seemed to have been able to add 'children' to their life's CV, whilst their partners had gone from being women to being mothers. Motherhood described them and circumscribed their lives completely.
2) My mother and most of the mothers of friends my age all seemed, in different ways, to have felt cheated by motherhood, the very thing they were so desperate to sell us. Most seemed bitter and hypercritical. Many were depressed. These are older women I'm talking about, for whom the trials and tribulations of raising a family were firmly in the past. It struck me that they'd spent their lives expecting some special reward for all the selflessness they'd had to endure, and none was forthcoming. This, I thought to myself, is what happens when you live your life for someone else.
3) There was no structure 'there' to make motherhood happen like any other rite of passage, any other phase of life, other than my willingness and desire to put everything else on hold and go for it. From pregnancy to decisions about work, then childcare, then the juggling of the two, the running of the house and so on I knew with absolute certainly that, wonderful husband notwithstanding, having a life that could accommodate children in it (not even at the centre of it) would have been my problem to solve.
When strangers ask me about children I've adopted a shorthand response – we met too late but we have many nephews and nieces. My face and demeanour says: I know, I'm pitiful yet somehow I will manage to be strong. Inside I'm dancing the Samba , giddy at the thought that I'm allowed to get away with living my life for myself.
These are the things I love: I love my husband, working, writing, sleep, travel and time to read. I love living in London's zone 2, in a minuscule house with a relatively tiny mortgage, I love the cultural events I can attend because I live there and disposable income I can spend on them. And I love lots of children, from my sister's little Mouse to several friends' offspring, many of whom I have somehow become a godmother to.
I love them because I love their mothers. They are under no obligation to love me back or make me proud or happy or give me things to look forward to. They are little people I hope to know for the rest of my life (they are bound to become interesting any day now) but whose possible failure, unhappiness and neurosis won't be pinnable on me.
Had the conditions for motherhood have been different would I have gone for it? Ah, now that is a question, and one our leaders might want to start asking themselves. You see, I'm sure a sizeable proportion of those 20pc of childless women have chosen not to go for it, at some level.
It seems to me if we want to stop women (at least those lacking the natural urge to reproduce) from opting out of parenthood we need to make motherhood more attractive: less of an often lonely, and always (it seems to me from the outside) superhuman, struggle to keep all the balls in the air, all the trains running on time, everybody else happy and safe. It should be an easier, lighter load, more equally shared in the personal and political sphere.
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If I am honest with myself, given the knowledge and experience I now have with being a mum of one, I probably should not have considered parenthood.
On the other hand, I wouldn't have known what a great person my child would turn out to be.
Women are having less children or none at all, and that is their considered choice. But then I know one female colleague, who said, God didn't bless me with children so in addition to women choosing not to have kids, some simply can't.
Before Little Mole came along I was considered weird for debating my desire to be a parent. My older cousin never wanted kids, and my aunt was hurt by her decision! She liked her life and didn't want it to change to accommodate a child.
Totally agree.
Well said Elizabeth
Personally, I think that the way to do it is a) write blogs and opinion pieces about parenthood, not motherhood and b) refuse to defend one's own private decisions about whether or not to have children
Absolutely agree with that ^ Buffy.
I know this is just my experience, but outside of the media I haven't seen that many people being judged harshly for not having children. Quite a few of the women in my family have chosen not to have them and have got to their 60s and 70s just living their lives and doing their thing. Most of the time, no one in real life actually cares whether or not you've reproduced.
Which is why I think articles agonising over 'motherhood' don't really help. I find it strange that the blog post on one hand suggests that mothers need more help (and of course they often do, from employers and government and fathers). But, on the other hand, the blogger seems to have swallowed wholesale the idea that women have to be the ones responsible for childcare and 'running the household' - which shouldn't be the case if you have children with an unselfish, unsexist partner.
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Procrastinating and Buffy - also I think the point about bitterness is relating to women of an older generation (her mother and her mother's friends) and I do recognise that in some women of that generation and I suspect it is because that generation simply didn't have the power to make choice that she has.
'As Alan Bennett said- every life has its losses, every life has its consolations'
That's a lovely quote Still and very true. No-one has it perfect.
BuffytheElfSquisher - fair enough but as it is the focus is still on women's choices. You're right we could try and shift the debate but the debate out there in the media is all about women and their choices, hardly anything about men. So perhaps women who make the choice not to have children feel undermined even though as she says her choice was great for her which I don't think she is implying it's a great choice for everyone. She makes it clear that she loves children but doesn't want to have her own.
And you are right we should stop defending our choices but you must admit it is hard to do so in a media environment that favours one set of choices -be it for men or women- over others.
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My blog post would be 'Do I look like a bitter martyr pushing this pushchair or what?'
She is justifying her choices by telling me my choices look crap from where she is standing.
Buffy is right, nothing need defending here.
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I am not quite sure why so many of you are hostile to this blog. The blogger is speaking about her personal experience and the whole point that people shouldn't be judged by their choices. She's not judging mothers. It seems that her having a strong opinion about this issue has got some of your heckles up.
It's simple, we should all be allowed to make the choices we want and she is right that women are often judged by these choices, whether they choose to have children or not.
I have two children who I adore but I can quite easily see how someone would prefer another sort of lifestyle. As amazing as children are, having them does not suit everybody and surely if you are self aware enough to know it doesn't suit you, you don't only have the right to make that choice but you also have the right to speak about it without being bashed over the head!
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bump, so i can read Procrastinating...
I don't judge the childless for their choice, it is entirely up to them. I don't like being judged for my choices though.
Of course there is a structure for parenthood, what are maternity leave, health visitors, child benefit, nurseries, christenings, pre-school etc etc etc if not parts of a structure?
And, OP if making decisions about how to fit children into your life would have been your job, then maybe your husband isn't so 'wonderful' after all.
So I can read the lovely Buffy.
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Is the blogger not going to contribute to the discussion?
'I'm not a sad victim who has made a bad choice.'
Neither are the childless .
And can I just add- having a child does NOT automatically make you less 'selfish'. (In fact, I'd like to ban the S word). If every woman really found motherhood to be a life affirming experience where she was able to subjugate her own ego to that of the dependant child- where have the all the fked up adults come from?
As Alan Bennett said- every life has its losses, every life has its consolations.
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Do what you like, but you can't judge what parenthood is like from the outside.
I have 3 children, a career and a husband who does 50% of the childcare. It is a rich and worthwhile life, I'm not living for other people. I'm not a sad victim who has made a bad choice.
in my experience, childless people in the 30-40s are often very happy with their choice to be child-free. From anecdotal evidence, it is not until they hit mid-50s and 60s, they start questioning their life-choices and wondering what if? should I have? Personally, I know quite a few people (men and women) who regret not having children when they were younger, and of course, they cannot turn the time back. I am yet to meet a parent in their 60s who said I wish I did not have children and lived my life for myself.
But regardless of all that, it is fantastic that women are more in control of their reproduction than they ever used to be.
Wanting a child is not a guarantee that motherhood will be plain-sailing. There are mothers who wanted children terribly and then suffer with PND when motherhood hits them and vice versa, mothers who had unplanned pregancies and will not change their suprise child for the world now. There are no hard and fast rules.
Yes, duchesse, the last post is hidden for me, and I find it irritating that the blog is repeated as an OP.
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More Important than Saving Private Ryan?
by Adam Wodon
I just saw a movie. It might be the best movie I've ever seen. After all, how can you not like a movie that champions every fundamental philosophy you live your life by?
Sometimes, when I lie awake at night, I dream about making a movie that says everything I want to say, and try to figure out how in the world I'd pull that off. Now I don't have to.
"Pleasantville," directed by Gary Ross, is far from a "pleasant" movie, which is never a commentary on effectiveness. "Saving Private Ryan" is getting a lot of praise for being an "important" film, and rightfully so. But, Pleasantville portrays the essence of life better than any other piece of art I've seen.
"Pleasantville" is about two modern teenagers who are zapped into a '50s sitcom. The town of Pleasantville literally lives in '50s-TV-style black and white, but the teenagers become catalysts for transforming the town and its citizens into color, ultimately achieved through a series of epiphanies that open the heart and mind.
In the process, "Pleasantville" explores many themes. For example: "Modern times are not all that bad," and "Progress is good even if the world becomes a little more dangerous, scary and uncertain as a result."
These concepts may sound simplistic, but it's amazing how disagreeable they are to many people. What makes the film great is how these themes are explored; the execution is so subtle and well done, that most of the audience doesn't realize what's going on until more than halfway through the film.
"Pleasantville" shows us that the mysteries of life, while scary, are something to be embraced. It says, life cannot always be perfect, but uncertainty does not have to be a negative; that without mysteries and negatives lurking around every corner, the positive isn't as good or interesting; that, in order to fulfill one's experience as a human being, you must feel and appreciate all of life's emotions. These are general philosophies that have guided my life, which is what makes "Pleasantville" so powerful.
These concepts are an encapsulation of larger ideas, and in this film we find support for many of the most progressive philosophies of the last 300 years. Einstein, of all people, was the perfect symbol to embody these notions both scientifically and philosophically. And Francis Bacon, and Voltaire, and the existentialists, and many more.
To watch these ideas I so strongly believe in be portrayed so elegantly on film, was an emotional experience that I can't overstate.
Of course, the ideas in and of themselves don't make for a great movie. It's all in the execution. And the acting is superb.
Tobey Maguire, playing the lead teenager, should get more roles. He was solid in "Ice Storm" and again here as that average kid, making a name for himself by good acting and not by teen idol looks. Reese Witherspoon, who plays Maguire's sister, is coming into her own (I loved her in "Freeway"). William H. Macy is under-appreciated but continues to amaze, playing a role as the father that could have become farce if not done right. And Joan Allen should be an Oscar nominee for her heartfelt portrayal of the '50s mom.
The film does start to over-indulge when it steers towards pure politics, delving into topics like book burning, censorship, totalitarianism and segregation. This is when the philosophies the film espouses become more overt, and not as subtle -- and thereby, not as strong -- as the rest of film. And Maguire's closing courtroom heroism was a bit cliche.
These overt parts, nevertheless, were strongly redeemed because the film does, in fact, do a great job of depicting the process by which these totalitarian and segregationist systems come about. You can empathize with the film's white male dads -- who are desperate to hold onto their pristine universe -- even though you know they are wrong-headed. You see clearly how fear begets oppression begets violence.
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The world is opening up to the citizens of Pleasantville, beginning with its teenagers. An emotional, intellectual and sexual awakening is taking place, and -- though with some trepidation -- the teenagers are embracing the change. As a result, their world is no longer black and white ... it's now multi-hued ... colored.
The teenagers are learning independence, are starting to explore, to learn, to feel -- to be human. The town's books, previously blank, suddenly spring to life, and kids are reading "Huck Finn," "Catcher in the Rye" and "Lady Chatterly's Lover" for the first time.
Their parents, especially their dads, are unsure of what's happening to their kids. When they catch on, they resist the changes because they are upsetting the peaceful, comfortable lives these people have grown accustomed to. For the men, the heads of the household, there had never been anything to worry about. Their wife and kids were happy, their kids were doing well in school, they were making good money, they came home and their wife happily greeted them with a prepared meal.
Not knowing what else to do, the town tries to get things back in order by enacting restrictive laws, and by "separating out the things that are not so pleasant."
But, as history shows, once the cat is let out of the bag (can you say "Glasnost"?), it's hard to get it back in with anything short of a Stalinist dictatorship.
Of course, not coincidentally, the aforementioned books are some of the many that have been typically banned over the years for simple-minded reasons. Yet the beauty here is, we see, in a simplified way for sure, how those reasons come about: The books are symbols of anti-establishment change, threatening the comfortable world of those in power.
If anyone needs more modern symbols of the establishment feeling threatened by off-center behavior or thinking, look to pop culture and Ozzy Osbourne or, more recently, Marilyn Manson. (And if you say that Manson is far worse than "Catcher in the Rye" then you are missing the point.) When the world of the Pleasantville dads is no longer comfortably the same, it's these symbols that are the first to be blamed.
Some reviewers believe the adult male characters in the film were too simple. But they were supposed to be vanilla simpletons. They were portrayed perfectly -- as authority figures unwilling to accept the change happening around them. And, properly, we see them as victims of society as much as anyone else. They may have had merely the facade of social prosperity, but at least it was something. But ultimately, they sense their world was just a facade, and that must be soul-shattering.
This has happened through the course of time. Those people having that soul-shattering experience can't really articulate it. They want nothing more than to restore their world to the comfort they once knew. Instead, feeling lost and confused, they turn their blame outward. And the sense of loss is so visceral that the reaction is strong, angry, and sometimes vengeful.
Some have also been critical of the transition in Reese Witherspoon's character, who goes from a self-professed "slut" to college-bound scholar. They say this contradicts the film's message that sexual openness is a positive. But this is silly criticism.
Mary Sue hardly disavows her sexual openness -- she "teaches" the entire teenage population of Pleasantville not to be afraid of exploring their sexuality. Just because she personally has moved on from the "the slut thing" does not mean the general point is lost. She did, after all, read "Lady Chatterly's Lover," the first book she ever finished. The point, as evidenced also in the nude painting created by Jeff Daniels' character, was that there is nothing wrong with being more open about human sexuality, and Mary Sue heading to college does not contradict this. She has, in fact, gone beyond it.
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Many people in the theater clearly did not know what they were getting themselves into. In one sense, I am glad they were there and I hope they stumbled in and got something out of it in the deep recesses of their brain. But on the other hand, they kept wanting to laugh, which was annoying. There are funny moments, don't get me wrong, especially at the beginning, but there comes a point where even a statue can see what's going on and what the larger point is. And if you can't figure it out, the (brilliant) soundtrack should clue you in.
For example, there's a scene where the William H. Macy character comes home and says his standard, "Honey, I'm home." It's something he's obviously repeated ad infinitum every day for as long as he can remember. But this time, there's no answer, and no dinner, and the lights aren't on, as he keeps repeating the same line. That is not funny. It's actually sad and poignant. Remember, it was only when he could recognize his feelings and admit to his loneliness that he turned to Color.
Later, some shop owners in town put up a "No Coloreds" sign, and some people were still chuckling, immediately recognizing the correlation and perhaps thinking at first that it was pure satire. But at that point the whole theater finally said, "Hey, are we supposed to be laughing?" and realized that a point was trying to be made. So, yes, this was less philosophically subtle -- that pretty much hammered home the point -- but perhaps that was necessary.
Two powerful scenes stand out among the many. One, when it starts raining and Maguire stands in it while the other kids look on with fear. The other, when Maguire helps his mother cover her "colored" face with gray makeup. This could easily have been farcical, but in context, these scenes were as visceral as any in Saving Private Ryan.
A small but nice touch would have been the creation of a negative situation after the town started changing colors. For example, after the townspeople walked out of the courtroom, I kept expecting someone to be hit by a car or something, just to symbolize how more openness also leads to more danger. Remember, however, the anti-repressive revolution was just beginning, and at the end of the movie when the modern-day mother is sobbing, Tobey Maguire tries to soothe her by saying that there are no right answers, and sometimes screwed up things happen for no reason. Very existential. Smart kid. (I admit to having a soft spot for movies where youth teaches us.)
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It has been said the '50s are being unfairly picked upon in "Pleasantville." And, surely, there were many centuries past that were more repressive than 20th century America. But in a relative sense, repression is what the '50s were all about. Coming out of the war, the '50s returned America's focus to its puritanical roots, the worst manifestation of this being, of course, McCarthyism. And, suddenly, we had utopian televisions shows to tell us what the ideals should supposedly be.
The filmmakers had to know, as we do, that behind the facade of television, the '50s had as much evil as any other period. They used the '50s analogy, however, because the TV shows were all in black and white and because it's so obvious how transparent they are now. It's useful to "use" the '50s as the symbol of repressed purity because it's easy, thanks to television, to make the comparisons.
And while this film was not necessarily trashing the '50s, it has been said that burgeoning technologies and creation of the mass media in the first half of this century was making the West more uniform than ever. Remember, this was a time when brutal totalitarian governments thrived and our own Red Scare created a nation of ... well, colorless people.
Repressing thought and feeling may make us seemingly happy, but in a very superficial way. You cannot really be happy until your mind is free. Though "happy" may not be the appropriate word, because, as this film shows, openness also means accepting potentially bad times. But having an open mind of free will makes us more human, and since we are humans, that has to be better in the long term. The key is to then embrace all that there is about being human.
Life today, more dangerous and scary, is also more honest and open. Not as much as it could be, but leaps and bounds more than it once was. The fact that there is more cursing, killing, rape, molestation and nudity on television and movies are not, necessarily, signs of the degradation of humanity. In some ways, they are a sign of progress, a sign of openness and awareness that is positive, for if we can understand these things and realize that they exist in reality without sweeping them under the rug, then we can better move on from them without worrying as much about it. And in the process, we feel better because we let our humanity come out.
"Pleasantville" is brilliant in subtly trying to convey to its audience that the world today ain't so bad, and there are numerous things that are better. Diet is better, or at least awareness of it, as pointed out in numerous scenes. Hygiene is better; whenever I see a period movie about ancient times or even pre-1900, I cannot help think how they do not accurately depict the way people's teeth must have been wretched, and how their skin was probably more blemished, and their hair rattier.
There is also a tremendous amount more diversity today, which seems to be a very recent exponentially-increasing phenomenon. If you think about it, yeah, '50s rock came on the scene and was a revolution for all kids, but today, kids go in a million different directions musically and they are all reasonably accepted. Even in "my day" of the '80s there was the fringe music I wouldn't/couldn't listen to that I had to learn to appreciate later on.
There is more diversity of clothes, styles and just plain attitudes too. There is more individuality and acceptance than ever before, and though there are many things that are still taboo in mainstream America, those things are less and less. Whoopi Goldberg said recently that when she first came on the scene, people thought she was a freak because of her hair. Now, no one cares, and not just because she is a celebrity -- they don't care for anyone who wears their hair like that, at least not the large majority of culture. It's no longer taboo to talk about condoms, birth control, masturbation, and so on. This is not a bad thing. Sure, referencing these topics has often manifested itself in unnecessarily vulgar or gratuitous ways, but it's a net positive.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "... [T]he ultimate good desired is better reached by the free trade of ideas -- that the best test of truth is in the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. ... [A]ll life is an experiment."
In this case, as an experiment in movie making, Pleasantville worked. It's a film that makes me grateful to be alive.


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