The foremost consideration in deciding how big footstool dimensions should be is safety. The user should be able to place a foot or both feet on a footstool without toppling it over. Here are some common footstool sizes.
Most mini stools are sized 15 x 11 x 11 inches. A height of 11 inches is just right for average persons to step on and reach heights further. That's almost a foot added to one's arm reach. The step height is also easy to climb. The standard stair riser or height is 0.20 to 0.25 meters. But with mini stools it may go as high as 0.30 meters or 11 to 12 inches. This is still manageable.
A step width of 11 inches is enough for the average foot size to be supported. Anything smaller may make balancing difficult. What matters is that part of the soles, the feet's arcs, and part of the heels are supported by the step width. When the user places the full body weight on the foot used on the stool, balance is easy, avoiding tipping it over. Bigger footstool dimensions, like a 1.3 or 1.5 feet width, are safer but the added weight and size may not make the stool convenient to move around anymore. Mini stools should also be easy to keep in small corners. Thus, footstool sizes should not be too bulky.
A length of 15 inches is enough to keep both feet on the stool step firmly. Anything shorter may keep both feet too close to each other. This makes balancing and moving difficult. The feet should at least be kept apart by 2 to 3 inches. Footstool dimensions providing 14 to 15 inches of length can be used crosswise or lengthwise with a single foot. Just make sure the stud supports underneath do not provide for ledges on both ends more than an inch each. Longer ledges or noses tend to make stepping on them prone to losing balance. Longer lengths may add to the weight and bulk unsuitably.
A height 11 or 12 inches from the ground is ideal. Anything shorter may render an ineffective reach; anything higher may be difficult for other persons to climb and cause loss of balance. Footstool dimensions where height is concerned should be carefully considered. Height sometimes makes or breaks the usefulness of a mini stool.
For extra higher stools, some people opt for 2 or 3 stepped stools. Some are easily assembled. Others are fixed. Footstool sizes should be adjusted. Like, the width should be smaller, about 9 to 10 inches, and the height should be shorter, with the riser about 0.20 to 0.25 meters.
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Briar Summers
ROLLER COASTER EP
"Your music, your soul and your voice transport us to a beautiful place."
- Kyung-A Lee, Huntsville Festival of the Arts
ABOUT BRIAR
Briar Summers is a singer-songwriter from Huntsville Ontario. Although only 17, she has performed on many stages throughout Muskoka and beyond.
She is completing Level 9 Royal Conservatory Piano and Theory with the help of her amazing teacher, pianist/composer Sarah Spring.
Briar is the recipient of several music and dance awards over the years, such as The Bill Waterhouse Award for the performing arts from the Town of Huntsville.
She has been involved in the Muskoka Pride Festival, Muskoka VegFest, Sawdust City Music Festival, OperaMuskoka Festival, Bala Cranberry Festival and Huntsville's Festival of the Arts. She has played countless other concerts and venues as well.
She is currently recording her first full-length album, set for release in Summer 2021! Recorded at Union Sound Company in Toronto & Rob Currie Recording in Gravenhurst, and mixed by David Bottrill, it features the talents of Ben Riley, Logan Coey, Chris Stringer, Rob Currie, Jamie Bestwick, Miranda Mulholland, Daniel Dennis, Jason Logue, and Dylan Teakle. Look for the first single, "stronger" (produced & mixed by David Bottrill) this spring! Mastered by Joao Carvalho.
Briar was recently selected by critically-acclaimed songwriter Kandle to be mentored by her, through a program offered by The Snow Lake Initiative. Briar and her music have been featured on CBC radio and in the local media as well.
"It is rewarding to acknowledge exemplary youth achievement in the arts in our community. Briar, you certainly have earned this recognition."
- Mayor Scott Aitchison, presenting Briar with the Town of Huntsville's Bill Award for the performing arts
LIVE PERFORMANCE - VIDEO
I Won't (original)
Something More (original)
From the Ashes (original)
Wingless Angel (original)
Ahead by a Century
Older Than I Am
In My Blood
La Di Da
You Say
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Winner of Huntsville's "Bill" Award for the performing arts, presented by Mayor Scott Aitchison in 2018
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Snow Lake Initiative mentorship recipient 2019, selected by Montreal singer-songwriter Kandle
Featured in The Huntsville Doppler's "Sound and Sight" series
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Briar believes that art has the power to make the world a better place.
She tries to give back to the community, and proceeds from some of her shows have supported several non-profit organizations like the Table Food Bank, Community Living Huntsville, Huntsville Festival of the Arts, Hunters Bay Radio, Atherley Community Centre, Gravenhurst Against Poverty, Muskoka Animal Rescue, Rotary Club of North Muskoka, and the Moose FM 105.5 Salvation Army Drive.
Briar also volunteers as the host of YourTV/Cogeco "Muskoka On Stage" highlighting all the amazing live entertainment in the area.
"During our Huntsville Kickoff Party, Briar Summers and her band mates did an amazing job playing for the crowd of 200. What a talented group of 13-14 year olds!"
- Muskoka Pride, press release
"A very gifted and delightful Briar Summers charmed and captivated the audience with her musicality, fun and stage presence... A bright musical future looks inevitable for this young performer!"
- Lee Boyes, Muskoka Concert Association review
"You have such a beautiful voice, and we're sure we'll be seeing and hearing more from you!" - Liz B, Toronto
"This AMAZING young girl... has powerful & enticing vocals that bang on delivered favourite Indie, Alternative & pop rock songs... Mark my words, this young talented girl WILL go far!!" - Sandy T, Orillia
"You were amazing at the Stockey....a wonderful talent."
- Mary Jane G, Parry Sound
Disney's "Newsies - The Musical" Algonquin Theatre
CONTACT BRIAR
Email: briarsummers@gmail.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/briarsummers_music
Facebook: www.facebook.com/briarsummers
Briar Summers is a singer-songwriter from Huntsville, Ontario
"A very gifted and delightful Briar Summers charmed and captivated the audience with her musicality, fun and stage presence..."
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All of our rings are made of 316 stainless steel and are comfort fit on the inside. The inside of the ring is actually rolled for comfort. You won't even know you have it on....except for the compliments you'll get. Because it's a high grade of stainless feel free to wear it in the shower, lake or ocean. We offer our rings in sizes from 3 to 15. The engraving is included and we can usually get from 20 - 25 letters on them. All of our rings have been in our inventory now for 12 years-- the reason?? We have had zero problems with them. All of our rings are "unisex", we've sold just as many black edge and dome to women as we have to men.
"The Flat" is just that. Flat in the center complemented by the outer decorative bands.
"The Rainbow Edge" is flat in the center and the two outside edges reflect the color that is near. This effect is caused by extreme heating an cooling. Sure to catch an eye.
"The Black Edge" is... yep, flat in the center with the two outside edges black. A lot of our rings are in Afghanistan right now because our men in uniform want to continue to wear their rings and this way if a ring happens to get lost they haven't lost a ring that cost hundreds.
"The Dome" is our widest band coming in at 8mm and the surface is domed, or has a slight curve. All of our rings are unisex however if there was a more popular ring for guys it would be a toss up between the dome and the black edge.
"The Original" has this name because when we first started this business this was the........? Original first ring we stocked. This ring has proven itself over time. It is THE shiniest ring we offer and it is enhanced on the edges with decorative trim. It is by far and away a big seller.
In addition to names or messages or slogans you might want to use one or more of these symbols to separate names or use at the beginning or end or both. Not to worry....they are included, however, when you count up your total letters you'd like to have on your ring, you must include spaces in between names and on either side of a symbol otherwise all the letters will run together. To give you an example, you might have your three children's name put on your ring. It would go like this....BRITNEY-heart-CALEB-heart-KELSEY. So in this example your total letter spacing would be 24.


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Q: Include properties for ActiveModelSerializer only if called within has many I have a rails app with the following models.
class Project
  has_many :project_clips
  has_many :clips, through: :project_clips
end

class Clip
  has_many :project_clips
  has_many :projects, through: :project_clips.
end

class ProjectSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
  attributes :id, :name
  has_many :clips
end

class ClipSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
  attributes :id, :name
end

I was wondering if it's possible to display the values of the associated project_clip, if the clip has been called within the context of project.
Let's say the ProjectClip model, has a field called priority. I want the results to show up like this.
{ projects: { "id": 1, "name": "ipsum", "clips": [{ "id": 1, "name": "lorem", "priority": "high"}] } }

I don't want the values of project_clips to be included, just a few properties when returning the data for projects.

A: If I'm getting your question right, you can do something like:
res = project.clips.collect{ |clip| [clip, clip.project_clips] }

or if you want to return hashes and not objects, you can do:
res = project.clips.collect{ |clip| [clip.attributes, clip.project_clips.collect{|pc| pc.attributes}] }

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Watch 182 million tons of dust ride the wind out of Africa's Sahara Desert in 3D, as tracked from 2007 through 2013 by lidar, thanks to CALIPSO, the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation satellite.
Phosphorus is, among other things, a plant food that's often washed away into the Amazon's ever-draining streams, rivers, and flooded lands, making this trans-continental dusting — "dust picked up from the Bodélé Depression in Chad, an ancient lake bed where rock minerals composed of dead microorganisms," for example, — a key process that feeds the rain forest.
How does the amount of nutrient dust change from year to year, and what causes the variations? As our climate changes in the coming decades, how will this effect the dust distribution? Read more about the project at NASA.gov.
Related videos include Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms, Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain, wind, dust, deserts, rain forests, and the Overview Effect.


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I love DC in the spring! Where are the Osyters from? I am always in for Oyster Happy Hours!
i am loving instagram too. even though these photoaday things are getting old, it's fun to look back! and unlike *real* photos, there's no pressure. if i want to post a crappily-lit, over-filtered picture of a cupcake, i do!
and the flowers and blooming trees are getting really close to pulling me out of this funk. so pretty.
Love this glimpse into your life lately, Lady!
This is one beautiful set of photos. Thank you.
i agree - more instagram and less blogging seems to fit perfectly with the springtime. more time out and about and less time in front of a computer. great pics!
I love Instagram too. Your photos are fantastic! Love the houses, love the letterpress and love baby L! How cool you got to hang out with blogger friends in Dallas.
Agree as I am stalking all of your photos and Erin's as well. Immediate satisfaction.


Historically rich 'Walk in the Past' trail in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
The 'Walk in the Past' is a short, relatively easy and historically fascinating, interpretive hike from the Kicking Horse Campground to the 'Big Hill'. The trail begins at the far end of the Kicking Horse Campground past Monarch Campground. Both campgrounds are near the beginning of the Yoho Valley Road off the TransCanada Highway a short distance east of Field in Yoho National Park, British Columbia. The return hike is 2.7 KM (1¾ miles) long with an elevation gain of about 120 m (394 ft) to a maximum elevation near 1,375 m (4,510 ft).
'A Walk in the Past' hiking trail resides in the Kicking Horse Pass National Historic Site at Yoho National Park in British Columbia.
Trailhead Sign at Kicking Horse Campground for A Walk in the Past Trail in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
The trail begins near the washrooms at the overflow camping area. A large sign sets the tone. Be certain to take a Self-Guiding Trail Brochure with you. The brochure is available in the two official languages of Canada, French and English. This brochure explains the seven interpretive stations along the route.
The trail passes a carved log nameplate, then ascends to a small platform on the edge of Yoho Valley Road. The trail indicator finger points the way to another platform on the opposite side of the road.
On the far side, the trail descends quickly then begins gradual ascent through lush, aromatic forest to Marker # 1 which sets the stage for this historical hike. This narrow trail leads to a broader portion that was the original supply road used for railway construction in 1884.
Marker # 2 invites today's hiker to reconstruct observations made by early explorers in the 1800's which included James Hector of the 1858 Palliser Expedition. The trail continues to climb through dense old growth forest until the sound of traffic begins to invade the silence of the forest, Soon a large bridge appears which is part of the TransCanada Highway. Vehicles use the top of the bridge and trains pass underneath.
A Walk in the Past Trail approaches a TransCanada Highway Bridge in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Mount Ogden looms in the background.
There seems to be a finger missing at the top of the hill which approaches the bridge. To continue along the Walk in the Past Trail, it is necessary to cross the tracks diagonally to pick up the trail on the other side of the bridge being certain there will be no locomotives rushing toward you from either direction during the crossing. The surrounding scenery can be mesmerizing and the noise of traffic overhead could mask the sound of an oncoming train.
Marker # 3 instructs hikers to be on the watch for the soot and cinder base of an original 1884 rail bed. Tools and implements begin to show up at Marker # 4 which draws attention to steep grade and the locomotive fuel and effort required to deliver passengers and freight to the top of the 'Big Hill'. Following further ascent, the trail pops out onto a gravel road.
Marker # 5 is a few meters to the left and addresses the downhill issues of the original rail line on the 'Big Hill'. Next, along gravel road, Marker # 6 teaches and provides fascinating commentary about safety measures taken to arrest the downhill momentum of runaway trains. The reason for the engineering marvel known as Spiral Tunnels becomes obvious. The trail passes a plank bridge over a picturesque creek and within a very short distance arrives at the final Marker # 7 for the exhibit which is clearly the highlight of the interpretive trail.
The wreckage is a Baldwin #7717 Steam Locomotive. The plaque below, which can be enlarged for reading, explains more about the locomotive and how it was used for construction of the main rail line.
Walk in the Past Trail, Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada.
The return hike is a reverse of the approach but much quicker on nearly total descent. Along the upper gravel road, where a mud slide has cleared the forest, there is a spectacular view, across the TransCanada Highway, of Cathedral Mountain.
This short, easy trail is a must-do for any railroad aficionado and it would be remiss to avoid adding The Spiral Tunnel Viewpoint to the agenda. Spiral Tunnels was a massive, innovative and brilliant construction project to reduce the risk for trains and passengers negotiating the infamous 'Big Hill' in a fascinating area which is incredibly rich in the relatively short span of Canadian history.
The entire day has been grand for hiking at Herbert Lake, Bow Glacier Falls, Field Cemetery and finally, A Walk in the Past Trail.
The trick in life may be to build more positive memories in life than bad ones. Grand memories form a portfolio which pays perpetual dividends. Collecting things, perhaps not so much.
Photographs for this post were captured on June 24, 2014.


How nursery leaders and managers developed their self-evaluation skills to improve their settings' practice.
Nursery managers overcame their wariness and learned from visiting each other's settings on a course run by Laura Henry.
Our series on training for self-evaluation concludes with a look at how nursery managers actively value their staff, by Laura Henry.


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December has passed very quickly this year. I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas. Mine was lovely, but the time went so quickly and I didn't even take any photos! Heaps of fabric came into the shop during the last two weeks and when Flirt arrived I just had to make this journal cover/sewing pocket for Leanne.
A huge Thank You to Leanne for all the work she has done for me this year. For working whilst I had a holiday and all the quiltinq that she has done and even making great samples like the Fernhill quilt below.
Many Thanks to Kim as well, we miss you heaps!
A few people may remember that I started a BOM by Lisa Cantelay from Fig and Berry Creations last year. After making the centre block (below) work stalled but I am pleased to say that now I have made great progress and I have finished five blocks with work on the remaining four well underway.
These stitcheries were finished this weekend (sorry they are sideways) and the BOM should be ready to start in February.
At this time of the year I seem to make grand plans to start and finish off many projects. One I pulled out today may well get finished in the new year. Breast of Friends has been packed away in a big yellow box for quite some time! I didn't like the original setting and had plans for another design. This hasn't happened and now I think a simplified design is on the cards. The stitcheries took quite a while to work and I think it would be a pity for them to stay in the box any longer. Keep watching for more progress.
Also starting in the New Year is Libby Richardson's new BOM "A little bit Country"
Have a Happy and Enjoyable New Year.
Hi Lillian, love your new look for your blog. Happy New year to you and Terry, I look foreward to another great year of quilting and working in the shop, buying beautiful fabrics that you order and making beautiful samples.
Thank you for your kind words, they mean alot.
lots of lovely projects. Hope you get your breast of friends finished. Your blocks looks lovely and it does look great all together.


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External Identification: Make sure your dog has a collar with an ID tag. Make sure you include your name, address, and phone numbers.
Microchip identification: Have your dog microchipped either at the Cabot Animal Shelter or at your local veterinarian to ensure the dog's return to you if picked up.
Make sure your dog receives his/her vaccinations against rabies and other diseases. Heartworms are extremely common in our area, so we recommend keeping your dogs on a monthly heartworm preventative all year. This medicine can only be obtained through a licensed veterinarian.
Spay or neuter your dog: It eliminates the risk of reproductive cancers and reduces the likelihood your pet will want to run away.
Give your dog enough exercise to keep him physically fit. It is also important to make sure your dog has appropriate toys to keep him/her busy when you are not at home.
Our staff if always happy to give advice on behavioral issues or problems. We want to help you have a happy, healthy relationship with your pets.


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La place des Capucins est une voie du quartier des pentes de la Croix-Rousse dans le  arrondissement de Lyon, en France.

Situation et accès

Elle commence rue des Capucins et se termine par les escaliers de la rue Sainte-Marie-des-Terreaux. Elle forme un L uniquement accessible aux piétons.

Origine du nom

Le nom de la place vient de l'ordre des frères mineurs capucins.

Histoire

Après s'être installé à Paris, les capucins fondent en 1575 leur second couvent de France à Fourvière. En 1622, un banquier génois du nom d'André Coste achète une propriété sur les pentes appelée le Petit-Forez pour y fonder un deuxième couvent de capucins. La reine Anne d'Autriche assiste à la pose de la première pierre de l'église qui est consacrée en 1635 et placée sous le vocable de saint André.

Les religieux sont chassés à la révolution et leur bâtiment vendu comme bien national. L'église devient le Théâtre des jeunes artistes. Dans le jardin des religieux on perce des rues et on construit des maisons et des magasins de soieries. Une loi du 9 décembre 1807 ordonne l'acquisition de différentes parties de ce terrain pour y construire un bâtiment spécialement destiné à la condition des soies.

Notes et références

Place dans le 1er arrondissement de Lyon
Pentes de la Croix-Rousse

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Co-op airs UK's first live TV ad to highlight food waste
Co-op has confirmed that it won't be airing a "traditional multimillion pound" Christmas commercial this year.
The retailer is instead producing the UK's first ever live advert to highlight community solutions to food waste.
During tonight's (Friday's) Coronation Street, there will be a live link to a Community Fridge within the Afghanistan and Central Asian Association Community Centre in Feltham.
The slot will be hosted by Dermot O'Leary and TV chef and rapper, Big Zuu. They'll show how community fridges are bringing people together to "eat, connect, learn new skills and reduce food waste."
"Where I grew up, community was a way of life. People came together to support one another and for me, food is a mechanism for that not just at Christmas, but all year round," explained Big Zuu.
"It brings people together and ultimately when people come together good things can happen. I'm proud to be working with the Co-op to eradicate food waste and inspire local communities to come together and support each other."
The Co-op is to provide funding to double the network of Community Fridges to 500, which, it says, will save 34m meals from going to waste annually
"Christmas is a great time to shine a spotlight on the things that matter most to us," added Ali Jones, Customer and Community Director at Co-op.
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Alamy Stock Photo Brendan Rodgers (file pic).
# Stability
Brendan Rodgers reveals he turned down offers from two clubs
The Northern Irishman has found himself under pressure this season.
LEICESTER BOSS Brendan Rodgers says he has twice turned down offers to leave the club.
The Northern Irishman has found himself under pressure this season after the Foxes' difficult start to the campaign saw them lose six successive games.
But Rodgers says he never felt his position was under threat and says that the loyalty between the two parties has run both ways after revealing he had the chance to leave the club twice.
He was linked with the Arsenal job before Mikel Arteta got it in December 2019 and was also courted by Newcastle after Steve Bruce's sacking last year.
When asked about his support from chairman Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha, who was at Monday's 4-0 win over Nottingham Forest, Rodgers said: "I don't need it. I really don't.
"I spoke to Top before the game but he has been over for other games when we have been losing. He and his family and the other staff here have always been super supportive of me.
"They understand the challenges we've had over the summer. They understand the difficulties and where I'm coming from.
"But they know they have total respect from me so I don't need Top or anyone to sit me down. They trust I can do the job.
"They know my loyalty to here because I stayed when maybe I could have left.
"But that doesn't mean they owe me anything. I want to do it for the club, the fans, the supporters and they trust me to do that. And if I don't they'll tell me."
Asked directly when it was he had the opportunity to leave, Rodgers said: "It's a different story. Twice."
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@saraxo I went to school for environmental but only focus on civil work now. It'll all come back to you once you study! If you struggle with it I recommend an online course to help referesh your memory.
@waternerd I would just make sure they're the updated practice books for PPI. They created new ones based on CBT so chances are that $15 one you're looking at is an old edition. I think my PPI booklet (reflecting CBT) was around $80.
I agree with @txjennah PE on that as well. @engineer123 I recommend getting the practice exams too and running through a few "practice test" trials before your exam. I blocked off 4 hours and took the exams trying to reflect the same conditions as the actual test. I used the handbook pdf online and used a dry erase board to do my calcs. It helps you get a feel for how your timing is per problem, and it trains you to know when to skip something and go back. Then I'd do the NCEES exam the same way.
^ I'd have to agree with @txjennah PE. The first time I ran through some of those problems I panicked because I didn't know any of the content. I have bough a lot of practice problem booklets and I believe the ones that reflect the exam the most comes from PPI and NCEES.
@vee043324 @txjennah PE @RBHeadge PE thank you! I will definitely report back, keep you fingers crossed for me!
@engineer123I certainly hope so! I took the paper exam in October as my first attempt and unfortunately did not pass. I do blame a lot of that on spending a lot of (unnecessary) time "tabbing" and trying to locate solutions to problems rather than actually learning the content. I feel pretty comfortable with the reference handbook for my studying this time, my only concern now is how many theory questions may pop on the exam, which I doubt will be found in the handbook. Best of luck in your studying, fingers crossed the CBT helps rather than hurts!
@engineer123You got it! I also noticed it was incorrect a couple months ago and was worried they wouldn't update it, so I feel your pain haha.. When are you schedule to take the exam? I signed up for April 8th but I'm getting worried, it seems like everyone is waiting to take it until the first CBT "victims" post their experience.
The most current Environmental Reference Handbook has the equation shown as P=1-(1-(1/T))^n. You may be using an older version of the handbook.


Inventory management has become a popular word in the last few years, but do you know what it means? According to some definitions, inventory management is a type of management focused on planning and organizing of all the products that are part of some business. So, this activity includes management of finished products as well as raw materials. A good eCommerce inventory management system provides a few key features for the simplification or doing business. eCommerce companies find it very important to use multiple sales channels for all or some of their products and this is why practicing an effective inventory management strategy is a must. With the help of eCommerce inventory management systems, owners can cut operational costs and lower wastage.
If you want to manage inventory for your eCommerce business, you must know learn a few things. We will use this article to explain these things. We suggest using Shopify as a point of sales system as it is one of the best options you have.
Although good eCommerce inventory management software can help you make a balance of demand and supply of all products, there is still a need to keep a buffer stock of crucial items for your business operations. This safety stock/buffer stock usually consists of your company's essential, bestselling and/or finished products. It can also include some raw materials needed for your business.
Providing supply-demand balance – In case you are not handling your inventory in the best way, you will probably witness the emergence of excess stock. This also means that your cash will be stuck in stock. If you want to witness steady growth of your eCommerce business or to grow your new small business, you must evaluate the expenses associated with the inventory. Once again, you should know that reliable inventory management software can help you with this process. .
Providing local specialization – Thanks to inventory management, your business can reap the benefits from specific local activities. A specific location may offer a more acceptable cost of labor and other places may have inexpensive raw material. As you are probably aware, the cost of goods is different in different locations. A well-developed eCommerce inventory management system can cut the costs.
The emergence of online shopping and the introduction of innovations in this sector have made inventory management more important than ever. If this process is not automated, the risk of mistakes is great. However, by implementing a good management system, situations like this can be avoided.
In any case, eCommerce business owners must learn more about inventory management. They must understand that continuous monitoring of this aspect of the business is a must. Next, they must implement a working tracking system in the process. Finally, with the help of proper inventory management, they can avoid stockpiling.
Improving inventory predictions- A sound eCommerce inventory system can help business owners get precise predictions at least when it comes to supply and demand. This forecasting will tell you what your customer base may need and want when they will need these products and in what number/quantity. Analyzing demand patterns and thorough market research can definitely help you in this case.
Dividing products into non-essential and essential groups – Every business, regardless of the industry, has specific core/essential products that they sell all the time regardless of the season. Of course, most of them have so-called non-essential products in their offer too. These items are sold from time to time. For example, if you are selling home decorations, you know that Christmas decorations are usually sold in December. By implementing a well-thought-out inventory management strategy, you will avoid a shortage of essential and non-essential items.


Hollingsworths were delighted to sponsor the 2018 Niche Award for the Best New Business.
The award was presented to Pik Pancholi of Pattersons - so we even kept it in the Legal Family! Well done to Rik and his team, and congratulations to the other finalists, Nucleus HR and MD Signs.


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Jewish World Review July 6, 2001 /15 Tamuz, 5761
Stanley Crouch
Wes Pruden
America's democracy
has a music to it
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- WHEN Louis Armstrong died in Queens on July 6, 1971 -- 30 years ago today -- it was thought that the New Orleans genius was 71 years old because his birthday was believed to have been July 4, 1900.
Armstrong was actually born Aug. 4, 1901. But he might as well have arrived on our Independence Day because he, more than anyone else, defined the individual nature of American music as a high art that rose up from the popular arena.
As an improviser who worked in the collective context of the jazz band, Armstrong represented the freedom of the individual to make decisions that enhance the collective effort, which is the democratic ideal.
Our country is built on the belief that we can be free and empathetic enough for both the individual and the mass to make decisions that improve our circumstances. Just as the improvising jazz musician can dramatically reinterpret a song he or she once recorded another way, we Americans revisit issues and remake our policies when we think we can improve on previous interpretations.
So when Armstrong revolutionized American music in the 1920s, he was giving our political system a sound that transcended politics, color, sex, region, religion and class. Instrumentalists, singers, composers and dancers all understood that there was something in what Armstrong did with music that could apply to them. Like the Wright Brothers, he opened up the sky, and anybody who developed the skill to fly was welcome to take the risk of leaving the safety of the ground.
The propulsion Armstrong used to lift the music became known as swing. It was a particularly American lilt in the rhythm. That lilt had no precedent in all world music. It was a new way of phrasing the endless potential for individual interpretation. One could call it the sound of the pursuit of happiness. That may be why it was so charismatic and why it influenced so many, in and out of jazz -- from Duke Ellington to Bing Crosby to Charlie Parker to Elvis Presley to Wynton Marsalis.
While this has been a particularly bad year for jazz because so many true greats have died -- J.J. Johnson, John Lewis, Billy Higgins, Chico O'Farrill and, this week, Joe Henderson -- the Armstrong legacy remains alive and more than well.
Young musicians continue to come forward, bravely ignoring pop trends in favor of the jazz art.
Just last week at the Village Vanguard, drummer Lewis Nash led a band that included perhaps the next great young trumpeter. His name is Jeremy Pelt. He is 25 and possessed of a fat golden tone, plenty of soul, sophistication and swing. With every note, Pelt held high the banner of independence that declared American freedom within the collective. He is an example in which we see the U.S.A. once again reaffirming itself.
It is through the decisive bravery of reaffirmation more than anything else that our system and our art maintain themselves.
JWR contributor and cultural icon Stanley Crouch is a columnist for The New York Daily News. He is the author of, among others, The All-American Skin Game, Or, the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994, Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, and Don't the Moon Look Lonesome: A Novel in Blues and Swing. Send your comments by clicking here.
06/29/01:The soul and pluck of women are to this nation's development
06/22/01: This history is music to my ears
06/08/01: A School Succeeds, A Union Fails
06/05/01: Sharpton's rise and fall
05/25/01: Third World Unity? Sorry, It's Just a Dream
04/13/01: Two murderers, two twisted fantasies
04/06/01: The problem with art is artists
03/16/01: Bush still has some pretty serious image problems he better address ASAP
03/09/01: Of gangsters, gangstas --- and spin
© 2001, NY Daily News


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Fabulous opportunity in Ruxton awaits your special touch. Originally a circa 1942 traditional cottage, this gem now includes thoughtful contemporary spaces which beckon the outdoors in. A Catherine Mahan designed patio garden and sparkling saltwater pool open your views to over an acre of sweeping grounds. 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths.


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Emley är en by i Kirklees i West Yorkshire i England. Byn är belägen 21,3 km
från Leeds. Orten har  invånare (2016). Byn nämndes i Domedagsboken (Domesday Book) år 1086, och kallades då Amelai/Ameleie.

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Q: Connecting GWT application with database in Intellij I am switching to Intellij from Netbeans on  a gwt project
I want to know how to connect My application to the database (Mysql) in netbeans it was easy to do , but in intellij i don't know how ..
Does anyone know how . and can you show how to do it ?

A: The answer is that you need to add a datasource from

View -> Tool Windows -> Database

after configuring the datasource according to your database , you need to assign it to your JPA persistence.xml
left click on the persistence file in JPA configuration browser not in the project file tree ,
and click "Assign Datasource" and chose the datasource you created before
Thanks everyone


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Q: How can I put retrieved data from firebase to a widget in Flutter?   final String uid;
  final firestoreInstance = Firestore.instance;

  void printData() async{
    var firebaseUser = await FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser();
    firestoreInstance.collection("users").document(firebaseUser.uid).get().then((value){
      print(value.data);
    });
  }

So this function prints to console the retrieved data from firebase firestore when I press the button.  But I want to put them into a widget and display them in my app. For ex: Text(printData()) - but it's not allowed. How can I do that?

A: You need to use a FutureBuilder to display data that you are getting asynchronously, therefore create a method that returns a Future:
    Future<DocumentSnapshot> getDocument() async{
    var firebaseUser = await FirebaseAuth.instance.currentUser();
    return Firestore.instance.collection("users").document(firebaseUser.uid).get();
  }

Then in the FutureBuilder assign the method to the property future:
body: Container(
  padding: EdgeInsets.all(10.0),
  child: FutureBuilder(
    future: getDocument(),
    builder: (context, AsyncSnapshot<DocumentSnapshot> snapshot) {
      if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.done) {
            return Text(snapshot.data["name"].toString());
      } else if (snapshot.connectionState == ConnectionState.none) {
        return Text("No data");
      }
      return CircularProgressIndicator();
    },
  ),

Assuming you have the following db:
Collection ("users") ----> Document (userId) ---> fields name : your_name

Read more about future:
https://api.dart.dev/stable/2.9.1/dart-async/Future-class.html
https://dart.dev/codelabs/async-await
https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/widgets/FutureBuilder-class.html


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Going Private?
For companies tired of taking a beating in the market, deregistration may be a temporary shelter in the storm.
C.J. Prince
This story appears in the December 2003 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
Webhire Inc.'s stock was trading at 50 cents on Nasdaq when the company's executives decided they'd had enough pummeling on the open market. The Lexington, Massachusetts, company wasn't the first to get fed up with the market's prolonged dry spell, but it wasn't just another late '90s flash-in-the-pan start-up, either. Webhire, which makes Web-based software for companies to manage their hiring processes, has been around since 1982. Its financials were fairly solid: multiple straight quarters of positive cash flow and sales in the $14 million range. But its pitiful stock price and deflated market cap were enough to scare away not just investors, but potential business partners and customers, too. At the same time, the company was spending roughly $400,000 per year on the document filing, legal work and audits required of public companies. New Sarbanes-Oxley regulations would only add to the bill.
Going totally private, though, would have cost a small fortune as well, as it would have required the company to do either a reverse split or a tender offer to buy back all outsider stock, notes Steve Allison, the company's CFO. "You need legal advice and a fairness opinion from an investment bank, and then there's the cost of the transaction," he says, adding that the company would have had to pay a premium over the share price to avoid raising shareholder ire. "In these litigious days, you have the danger of being sued."
But for Webhire, there was another way out, a kind of down-market purgatory known as becoming "deregistered"-still public, but with a fairly private life. According to current SEC rules, as long as a company has fewer than 300 "holders of record" (one institutional record holder could represent hundreds or thousands of individual shareholders but still be counted as one), it can file a form with the SEC applying to deregister and be almost immediately dropped from the exchange. The stock moves over to the pink sheets, where it can be traded, should anyone want to buy it, and the company no longer has to keep up with all the SEC's onerous reporting requirements.
Webhire's deregistration was completed in March 2003, and so far, says CEO Susanne Bowen, 42, it's been positive. "Not only did we achieve significant cost-savings," she says, "but we've also had the opportunity to enjoy the positive impact on cash flow and focus our team on what we need to do to grow the business."
In addition, Webhire avoided being delisted by Nasdaq. Philip Colbran, a partner with New York City law firm Chadbourne & Parke LLP who specializes in corporate finance and securities law, agrees that taking the step voluntarily is far better than waiting for it. "Then you can spin it the way you want to spin it."
That's exactly what Web-hire did. After getting buy-in from major shareholders, the company positioned the move as a win-win for both Webhire, which would no longer be burdened financially and competitively, and for shareholders, who it said would maintain liquidity and could hope for a better price on the stock in the future.
Deregistration is really just a holding pattern, though. Eventually, the company will have to tender an offer for shares and really go private, or sell the company for a decent price if it wants to satisfy shareholders. As far as the stock going anywhere, "I think once you file this, you're done," says John Cavallone, a principal with New York City accounting firm Rothstein Kass & Co.
It's still possible for deregistered companies to relist the stock again at some point. Problem is, the meter continues to run from the time the company deregisters. "So they'd have to get current on all their filings," says Cavallone. In other words, if a company deregistered in 2003 and wanted to get back into the public eye in 2005, it would have to do all its quarterly filings and audits for 2003 and 2004. "It's very expensive, which is why a lot of companies are opting not to be public."
Indeed, more and more small or closely held public companies are seeking shelter from the storm. According to The Wall Street Journal, 421 U.S. companies had deregistered as of July, compared with 675 for all of 2002. Says Colbran, "It's certainly a move that more and more companies are going to be looking at taking."
C.J. Prince is executive editor of CEO Magazine. She can be reached at cjprince@chiefexecutive.net.


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The banner for The 2018 Terry Fox Run on the Chilliwack Airport on fence on Young Road before it was stolen some time before Aug. 18 and 22. (Submitted)
Chilliwack Terry Fox Run co-ordinator laments theft of banner
'I was really upset to think that someone would steal it off the fence on purpose'
Aug. 27, 2018 2:13 p.m.
The co-ordinator for Chilliwack's Terry Fox Run found out the hard way that thieves will steal just about anything.
Volunteers for the annual cancer research fundraiser put a 30-foot-by-three-foot banner up on the fence on Young Road by the Chilliwack Airport on Aug. 13.
Run co-ordinator Diane Pinder said she drove by on Aug. 18 and saw it had been partly torn off. She fixed it up as best as she could and carried on.
The on Aug. 22 after work she drove by again, but it wasn't until she got all the way home that it sunk in: The banner was gone.
"I have a really open heart but I was really upset to think that someone would steal it off the fence on purpose," Pinder said Monday, pointing to the fact that it was obviously ripped off as the grommets and zap straps were left on the ground.
So why would someone steal a banner?
There seems to be no logical explanation for anyone to be opposed to the message, so there's only one thing: "I'm thinking it's used as a shelter. It's about 30 feet long and I believe around three feet wide and really good quality, stronger than tarp material.
"I don't understand why anyone would take it unless they needed it."
The banner wasn't terribly expensive at $400, but for a charity operating with zero budget that gives 82 cents on the dollar earned to cancer research, $400 is terribly expensive.
"Everything we do is begged and borrowed," Pinder said. "Our runs are all volunteer operated."
The other problem with the disappearance of the banner is it had the correct location for the Sept. 16 run, which unfortunately is incorrect in The Chilliwack Leisure Guide ad. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. and is at its regular location at The Landing Sports Centre (on Spadina Avenue) not The Landing Leisure Centre (on Corbould Street).
As for the banner, Pinder said that story has a bit of a happy ending in that local entrepreneur Barry Ross who runs Ross Graphics offered to donate a new banner. Pinder said the "amazing" offer is greatly appreciated and is very generous considering Ross runs a one-man operation.
"He has such a huge heart," Pinder said.
The Chilliwack Terry Fox Run is Sept. 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at The Landing Sports Centre. The fun event is suitable for bikes, wheelchairs/strollers, even rollerblades. Dogs on leash are also welcome. There are three distances: two kilometres, five kilometres and 10 kilometres.
Volunteers are always needed. You can email donna.white@terryfoxrun.org if you are interested.
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SN 1997be – supernowa odkryta 8 marca 1997 roku w galaktyce A124040-0023. W momencie odkrycia miała maksymalną jasność 23,10.

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Niobium used as catalyst in fuel cell
Glycerol fuel cell can replace batteries in cell phones and laptops, and could be used in future to run electric cars and supply power to homes (niobium crystals. image: Artem Topchiy / Wikimedia Commons)
By José Tadeu Arantes | Agência FAPESP – Brazil is the world's largest producer of niobium and holds about 98% of the active reserves on the planet. This chemical element is used in metal alloys, especially high-strength steel, and in an almost unlimited array of high-tech applications from cell phones to aircraft engines. Brazil exports most of the niobium it produces in the form of commodities such as ferroniobium.
Another substance Brazil also has in copious quantities but underuses is glycerol, a byproduct of oil and fat saponification in the soap and detergent industry, and of transesterification reactions in the biodiesel industry. In this case the situation is even worse because glycerol is often discarded as waste, and proper disposal of large volumes is complex.
A study performed at the Federal University of the ABC (UFABC) in São Paulo State, Brazil, combined niobium and glycerol in a promising technological solution to the production of fuel cells. An article describing the study, entitled "Niobium enhances electrocatalytic Pd activity in alkaline direct glycerol fuel cells", is published in ChemElectroChem and featured on the cover of the journal.
"In principle, the cell will work like a glycerol-fueled battery to recharge small electronic devices such as cell phones or laptops. It can be used in areas not covered by the electricity grid. Later the technology can be adapted to run electric vehicles and even to supply power to homes. There are unlimited potential applications in the long run," chemist Felipe de Moura Souza, first author of the article told Agência FAPESP. Souza has a direct doctorate scholarship from FAPESP.
In the cell, chemical energy from the glycerol oxidation reaction in the anode and air oxygen reduction in the cathode is converted into electricity, leaving only carbon gas and water as residues. The complete reaction is C3H8O3 (liquid glycerol) + 7/2 O2 (oxygen gas) → 3 CO2 (carbon gas) + 4 H2O (liquid water). A schematic representation of the process is shown below.
"Niobium [Nb] participates in the process as a co-catalyst, assisting the action of the palladium [Pd] used as the fuel cell anode. The addition of niobium enables the amount of palladium to be halved, lowering the cost of the cell. At the same time it significantly increases the power of the cell. But its main contribution is a reduction in the electrolytic poisoning of the palladium that results from the oxidation of intermediates that are strongly adsorbed in long-term operation of the cell, such as carbon monoxide," said Mauro Coelho dos Santos, a professor at UFABC, thesis adviser for Souza's direct doctorate, and principal investigator for the study.
From the environmental standpoint, which more than ever should be a decisive criterion for technological choices, the glycerol fuel cell is considered a virtuous solution because it can replace combustion engines powered by fossil fuels.
Several other researchers participated in the study besides Souza and Santos: Paula Böhnstedt, supported by FAPESP via a scientific initiation scholarship; Victor dos Santos Pinheiro, supported by FAPESP via a doctoral scholarship; Edson Carvalho da Paz; Luanna Silveira Parreira, supported by FAPESP via a postdoctoral scholarship; and Bruno Lemos Batista, supported by FAPESP via a Young Investigator Grant.
The article "Niobium enhances electrocatalytic Pd activity in alkaline direct glycerol fuel cells" can be retrieved from: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/celc.201901254.


"Ambition animates Daniel Blake Smith's sweeping account of a nineteenth-century American family, but the genius of Our Family Dreams turns on the inner doubts and unfulfilled visions that decorate the Fletchers' as well as our own 'American Dream'--in ways readers will find at once eerily familiar and utterly astounding."
In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream.
In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War.
Through letters and diaries, we find that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day.
"Mr. Wonderful, by Daniel Blake Smith, is the touching tale of Brian Fenton, a college professor in the throes of a crisis like none he has ever faced. . . Smith weaves an intricate story of love lost between parents and children. . . . I have to give Mr. Wonderful an emphatic 5 stars out of 5. Smith's use of the alternating first person points of view creates a deep connection between readers and characters. The Fenton family and their trials are not to be missed."
"A character-driven literary novel, Smith writes flawed but fascinating characters. There are many amusing and poignant moments that will be having you nodding your head in recognition, and this breezy relatability propels the novel along. Mr. Wonderful is a comforting read because of its core humanity, and for how Smith skillfully crafts recognizable characters."
"A man's struggle to keep his family and his life from falling apart plays out artfully in author Daniel Blake Smith's novel Mr. Wonderful. A dramatic look into the life of modern academia and the struggle of a family man with an ailing father, a troubled adult son and a strained job put him on a path of self-discovery. This book was fantastic. The writing was honest and vivid inits imagery. Delving into themes of hope, dreams and challenging the definition of family, this story takes the reader on a journey with the characters not only to discover themselves but their place in the world.
It's a breathtaking study of family relationships, the complicated ties we have to family and how the past can affect the present and the future. Mr. Wonderful is a brilliant read that deserves your attention."
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The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears. "An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears," written by Daniel Blake Smith, explores the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting that have never been examined in detail.
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Essays · Feminism · Women in Film · Work and Workplace
Making Space: Proxima Reckons with Working Motherhood in the Movies
Megan Feeney
Sarah is a good astronaut because she is a mother, not in spite of it. And she is a good mother because she is a good astronaut. If Sarah were to deny her own self-actualization, she would be denying the same for Stella. The logic follows that Stella would also have to forego any professional aspirations when she becomes a mother, an intention Stella announces in her first scene. Sarah is determined not to bequeath Stella such a paltry legacy.
"When do you float?" asks the protagonist's daughter in the voice-over prologue of writer-director Alice Winocour's Proxima (2019). Literally, the question is about the physics of space travel, about the point at which a launched rocket and its passengers are no longer subject to the Earth's gravity. The mother addressed here, Sarah Loreau (Eva Green), is an astronaut-in- training, about to embark on a one-year stint at the International Space Station. Figuratively, we come to understand, the question is about psychology and sociology, about the point at which Sarah – and the figure of the working mother she represents – might be released from the competing demands of motherhood and professional ambition, opposing forces threatening to tear her in two. In this sense, then, the opening question about floating conjures the famous 1970s and '80s advertising campaign in which frazzled working mothers implored "Calgon, take me away" – from screaming babies and shouting bosses alike. But Proxima offers something better than a bubble bath, not least of all to the much-discussed, exponentially frazzled working mothers of Covid-19 quarantines, which the film's release preceded by mere months. Proxima offers a deeply empathetic exploration of the dilemma of working mothers, envisioning a space not just of survival but of full self-actualization.
To better appreciate Winocour's achievement, Proxima should be situated in (film) history. Mainstream American cinema has not been kind to the working mother, not even she of the white and white-collar variety on whom I focus here. When not ignoring her as a figure of dramatic interest altogether, Hollywood's tendency has been to dramatize her impossibility, running her through the wringer of the motherhood vs. career dualism punishingly. As the ur-text of this tendency, Mildred Pierce (1945) worked to discipline a generation of Rosie the Riveters back out of the workforce after World War II, by showing what happens to a woman – even one as glamorous as Joan Crawford in broad-shouldered power suits – who deludes herself that she can have both children and a career (as owner of a restaurant franchise): to wit, the death and homicidal derangement of her youngest and eldest daughters, respectively. As film scholar Pamela Robertson Wojcik argues, Mildred Pierce's mash-up of women's melodrama and the masculine genre of film noir does much of this ideological work, with the latter policing the protagonist back into her "proper place" in the former. In Mildred Pierce, the working mother is rendered regrettable, unfeminine, unnatural, even criminal, a threat to her children and, as such, society at large. With the rise of pop psychology, mom-blaming was as rife in the postwar era as any.
Things didn't improve much with the advent of the second-wave feminist movement in the 1960s, since which women (again, especially white women) have been encouraged to aspire to the highest professions, even as cultural norms continue to place the onus of child-rearing and household chores at their feet, resulting in an unsustainable "double duty" unmitigated by helpful public policy, like paid family leave and subsidized daycare, enjoyed by working women in other countries. Nor have cinematic representations offered much help, continuing to ignore the working mother or treat her as a psychically divided contradiction in terms and/or the source of children's maladjustment, even monstrously so in horror films. In the 1970s and '80s, "career women" were often represented as frigid ice queens, unnaturally suppressing their maternal instincts, though some of them might yet be thawed in comedies. Take Baby Boom (1987), which argues explicitly that a woman cannot "have it all." When career-driven management consultant J. C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is unexpectedly burdened, nay blessed, with an adopted baby girl, her attempt to work and mother is a laughable disaster. So she abandons her career (and power suits) in Manhattan for a life of domestic bliss (and bathrobes) in rural Vermont, even if the film tries to have it both ways by making J. C.'s Vermont kitchen the base for a successful baby food business, which is more than Mildred Pierce was allowed at least.
Skipping ahead twenty-five years, even after working motherhood had served as a well-worn battlefield of the culture wars and mommy wars alike, I Don't Know How She Does It's (2011) caricature of working motherhood offered no real solutions, just as its title suggests. To the explicitly asked question again of whether women can "have it all," the answer is still no, not really. I Don't Know's working mom, Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker), suffers the dualism of motherhood vs. career messily, her dishevelment played for laughs. She is late for everything, plagued by guilt, worried that her absences for work trips – and her broken promise to build a snowman – will render her daughter sociopathic (the film shows us Kate's nightmare of a future mom-blaming newscast). Trying to "keep all the plates spinning," Kate keeps ridiculously long to-do lists: "You might as well add 'Dock the Space Station,'" her husband (Greg Kinnear) says with exasperation. Professionally ambitious to a fault, Kate is a direct descendant of Mildred Pierce (Kate's absence also ends with a kid in a hospital bed) and J. C. Wiatt. And I Don't Know's resolution to Kate's struggles are as unhelpful: the deus ex machina of a suddenly enlightened boss and an unearned optimism about Kate's capacity to be a better "juggler."
That same year, 2011, We Need to Talk about Kevin – about a mother, Eva (Tilda Swinton), devastated by her son Kevin's (Ezra Miller) act of mass murder – elaborated Kate's nightmare about rearing a sociopathic child to feature length. And though We Need to Talk presents the issue of mom-blaming with sensitivity, it nevertheless presents working motherhood as psychic disaster. After all, motherhood had ripped Eva away from her soul-filling career as a travel agent, and she resented it, regardless of whether that resentment affected Kevin's derangement. In other words, even if Eva didn't "ruin" Kevin, Kevin (and motherhood) surely ruined Eva (and her chances at professional self-actualization). In We Need to Talk, cinematic working motherhood verges again into horror, as have more recent films, like Hereditary (2018) and Shirley (2020), in which careers in the arts – the most selfish of professions – are rendered horrifically incompatible with motherhood.
Enter Alice Winocour's Proxima. As an established feminist filmmaker (writer-director of Augustine, 2012, and co-writer of Mustang, 2015) and a mother herself working in a highly demanding, male-dominated field, Winocour set out to argue for the possibility of the working mother. Though French-produced, the film is designed to speak to global audiences of mainstream American cinema and to subvert its long-standing tropes of working motherhood. Winocour cast (one-time Bond Girl) Eva Green and Matt Dillon, and she scripted dialogue in English, as well as French, German, and Russian. And Winocour made an inspired (sub)genre choice: the astronaut-in-training drama, with all the big-budget ambition and Hollywood tradition it connotes, from The Right Stuff (1987) and Apollo 13 (1995) to First Man (2018). Associated with masculinity, the astronaut-in-training drama offered a made-to-order metaphor for breaking the glass ceiling in the highest of professions, an aspiration so lofty – docking the space station – that it was a joke in I Don't Know (see above). Moreover, to be an astronaut is an aspiration associated with unimpeachable higher purpose. Astronauts are the best of us, peak physical and spiritual specimens, heroes modeling grace under pressure. Thus, the subgenre purchases a baseline of sympathy for Winocour's protagonist Sarah: This is not a woman intent on making obscene money from restaurant franchising, management consulting, or investment banking (like Mildred, J. C., or Kate, respectively) – nor, worse yet, is she a self-absorbed artist. This is a woman in admirable pursuit of scientific advance and human progress.
The story is a simple one, as befits Winocour's intent, as she explained in an interview, to present Sarah as "a metaphor of this dilemma [of the working mother] that you don't have to go to space to experience." When the film begins, Sarah works at the European Astronaut Centre near Cologne, Germany, and has just been selected for the Proxima Mission: she and two male colleagues, Mike (Dillon) and Anton (Aleksey Fateev), will spend a year at the International Space Station, in part to gather data for upcoming Mars missions ("proxima" is Spanish for "next"). For Sarah, the assignment is a professional triumph, the fruition of a childhood dream and years of hard work. But there's a catch: Sarah will be leaving behind her eight-year-old daughter Stella (Zélie Boulant). Proxima's story develops over the next two months, as Sarah prepares for the mission and her leave-taking from Stella, first on a three-week training stint to Star City in Russia and then on a two-week quarantine near the launch site in Kazakhstan – the on-location filming of which separated Winocour from her own young daughter for months at a time.
With palpable empathy, Winocour makes us feel the competing pulls of career and motherhood on Sarah, the "modern" expectation of "getting it all done," as Sarah puts it wryly in one scene. In between intensive training sessions, Sarah arranges to leave Stella in the care of her father, astrophysicist Thomas Akerman (Lars Eidinger), from whom Sarah has recently separated and who lives in Darmstadt, 200 kilometers from Cologne. (The math equations scrawled on Thomas's kitchen cupboards suggest his presumption that he can combine his new domestic responsibilities with his professional life.) Sarah brings Stella to meet with Wendy (Sanda Hüller), a counselor assigned to help Stella with the logistical and emotional challenges of her mother's departure, accompanying Stella on visits to Star City and Kazakhstan while monitoring her separation anxiety. And Sarah seeks to carve out quality time with Stella: to release pet newts into a stream, to draw skyscrapers, to swim in hotel pools. But there is never enough time. Sarah is always running late, and always disappointing someone: a TV interview crew, a Star City trainer, Thomas, and (mostly) Stella, with whom she breaks promises at least three times due to work demands.
Winocour is aware of the tropes of working motherhood, and invokes their tight hold on us in order to unwind them. She suggests a certain coldness to Sarah, particularly in Green's performance and the harsh light and techno-industrial mise-en-scène of Soviet-era space training facilities. Sarah is defeminized. In lieu of the usual power suit, Sarah's female body is contained in androgynous blue jumpsuits and oversized spacesuits specifically designed for male bodies (as a recent debacle at NASA underscored). Sarah seems determined to suppress her maternal instincts and, along with them, Stella's needs and fears about the legitimate dangers of space travel. "It's no big deal," "It'll be fine," and "You won't have a problem," Sarah tells Stella dismissively. In one sequence, Sarah deadens her own maternal worries with a sleeping pill, and then fails to awaken in the morning to say goodbye, as Wendy gently ushers Stella away. For these failings, including offloading her maternal responsibilities onto Wendy and Thomas, Winocour confronts us with our temptation to judge Sarah harshly. She uses sweet Stella to pull on our heartstrings and invoke the dread of a child's maladjustment, an innocent lamb sacrificed on the altar of Sarah's ambition. Transplanted to Darmstadt, Stella struggles to adjust socially and academically. In her mother's absence, she spikes a fever and breaks an arm; in her mother's (distracted) presence in Star City, she goes briefly missing. With each of these, Winocour teases us with a sense of foreboding, activating our cinematic muscle memory: Are we on the verge of disaster here, for which our only recourse will be mom-blaming?
Against these impulses, however, Winocour argues avidly for Sarah's right to a fully realized professional life. Over and over again, she gives us Sarah at work, in scenes that celebrate her extreme competence, pride, and joy. In virtual reality and underwater exercises, Sarah floats ably through simulated space walks. In simulated space travel, she holds together against tremendous g-forces, and hangs inverted, practicing "seeing the world upside down," without gravity. Typical of the astronauts-in-training drama, we linger on Sarah's physical fitness, high IQ and EQ, technological proficiency, dogged determination, and bravery. Sarah has wanted to be an astronaut since age eight (not incidentally Stella's age), even though her own mother told her "it was not a job for girls." And, as if this dream-squelching mother were not enough, Winocour gives us a similarly heavy-handed foil in Dillon's sexist character Mike, who takes on the role played by James Spader in Baby Boom and Seth Meyers in I Don't Know: the male co-worker unburdened by parenting (whether because he's childless or has a stay-at-home wife), ready to pounce should the working mother stumble, to replace her with a man.
Of course, Mike is wrong. Sarah is the right woman for the job. She has "all the right stuff," as Thomas assures Stella: "Your mummy. She loves this stuff. She's made for it." Sarah is not cold, not robotically emotionless. Rather, she is "solid," as the profusely admiring Russian hostess in Star City argues female astronauts must be. Indeed, that Sarah is an astronaut in a female body is all the more impressive, Winocour argues. She shows us Sarah telling a doctor she will opt to keep her hair long and menstruate in space, refusing to suppress the latter inconvenience with pills. In a scene that suggests a hospital delivery room, a team of scientists mold a capsule seat to fit Sarah's female form, which Winocour shows us naked in three shots throughout the film, intentionally rejecting her disembodiment.
In contrast to Mildred Pierce, which wields its gendered genres hierarchically in order to argue that women don't belong in "male" spaces, Proxima blends its gendered genres to argue the opposite. Especially as the film progresses, there is fluidity between Sarah's home life and professional life, between her relationship to Stella and to her job. We see a montage of Sarah training in Star City, as we hear voice-over of her describing it, lyrically, in an email to Stella; the sequence ends with Sarah's voice replaced by Stella's, reading the email in Thomas's apartment. This blend is repeated – and Sarah's and Stella's perspectives blurred – as the two exchange phone calls, emails, videos, and, finally, Sarah's handwritten letter to Stella, to be read after liftoff.
The point is that Sarah is a good astronaut because she is a mother, not in spite of it. And she is a good mother because she is a good astronaut. If Sarah were to deny her own self-actualization, she would be denying the same for Stella. The logic follows that Stella would also have to forego any professional aspirations when she becomes a mother, an intention Stella announces in her first scene. Sarah is determined not to bequeath Stella such a paltry legacy. This determination is given symbolic expression when Sarah, looking for a departing gift for Stella, bemoans the usual plastic toy dishes in a Kazakhstan store: "always the same." As Winocour reminds us at least four times, Sarah was once a child, just like Stella, with dreams of space travel.
Winocour emphasizes this mother-daughter likeness not only with Stella's name and her telescope, but with a constant mirroring of Sarah and Stella, facilitated by great casting and plenty of dialogue: "You look like your mother"; "She's quite adventurous like her mother." In an opening scene, Sarah plays liftoff with Stella on her back. Visiting the European Space Agency, Stella's figure appears silhouetted before a giant screen depicting the interior of the ISS, in which Stella appears to float. We see Stella learning to ride a bike triumphantly, just after Thomas has associated bike-riding with Sarah's professional ambitions. Sarah and Stella cling to each other in a hotel pool, and mirror each other in the glass that separates them while Sarah is in quarantine in Kazakhstan. Wincour argues that mother and daughter are inextricably connected, even as she lends a positive valence to their (superficial) separation and, with it, Stella's emerging independence: natural, inevitable, healthy. All the catastrophic thinking about Sarah's absence proves overwrought: Stella's fever resolves; her broken arm proves a boon (a chance for new friends to sign her pink cast); she acclimates well to her new surroundings (like the released newts). She is resilient, and profoundly proud of her mother.
In this sense, Stella is the titular "Proxima," which actually means both "next" and "near," in the feminine. When Sarah finally launches into space at film's end, she brings Stella with her, gazing into her daughter's school picture – attached to a mirror, in which we also see Sarah's reflection – as the rocket shudders jarringly upward, towards floating. Fittingly, then, the final shot is from Stella's point of view. Riding in a bus away from the launchpad in Kazakhstan, she smiles to see wild horses running free, the foals drafting the mares' paceline, benefiting from a space of less resistance carved out by their mothers.
Images are screenshots from the films discussed.
Tags: Baby BoomcinemafilmmotherhoodmothersmovieProximawork
— Megan Feeney
Megan Feeney has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and recently (2019) published Hollywood in Havana: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959 with the University of Chicago Press.
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