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NFL Week 2 Power Rankings: Patriots Remain No. 1; Browns Fall After Loss
by Chris Grenham on Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 8:00AM
The anticipation heading into Week 1 now is behind us. Football season officially is underway.
Overreaction to opening week results is commonplace among fans, but there certainly were some telling scores in Week 1.
Teams like the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs upheld their league-wide reputations, while the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers struggled in their respective season openers.
Let's get into our power rankings heading into Week 2.
1. New England Patriots (1-0, last week's rank: 1): The Patriots looked like a well-oiled machine in their season-opening blowout of the Steelers. New England has the luxury of adding All-Pro wide receiver Antonio Brown to the mix next week, making their offense seemingly unstoppable. Combine this with an incredibly deep defense and the Patriots keep the top spot with ease.
2. Kansas City Chiefs (1-0; 2): Losing Tyreek Hill to a collarbone injury hurts Kansas City's offense, but it appears Sammy Watkins will have no trouble stepping up in his absence. The Chiefs' offense looks like it's going to continue right where it left off last season.
3. Dallas Cowboys (1-0; 6): Dallas' impressive defense was on display in its 35-17 win over the New York Giants on Sunday, but it was Dak Prescott who shined with 405 yards and four touchdowns on 25-of-32 passing.
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4. Los Angeles Rams (1-0; 3): It wasn't easy, but the Rams were able to fight off the Carolina Panthers for a tough road win to begin their 2019 campaign. We'd be shocked if they didn't take home the NFC West crown at year's end.
5. New Orleans Saints (1-0; 5): Well, Drew Brees is still Drew Brees. The 40-year-old put together a surgical drive two-minute drill to lead the Saints to a comeback win over the Houston Texans. After coming up just short last season, New Orleans offense looks primed for another deep postseason run.
6. Minnesota Vikings (1-0; 15): Dalvin Cook looked very solid behind Minnesota's offensive line, collecting 111 yards and two touchdowns on 21 carries. If that can continue, we like the Vikings' formula moving forward.
The @Vikings are cookin' in Minnesota.@DalvinCook runs for the 19-yard TD! #ATLvsMIN
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7. Baltimore Ravens (1-0; 14): Yes, it was against the lowly Dolphins, but Baltimore's Lamar Jackson-led offense looked very good in its Week 1 win, hanging 59 points on Miami. If the Ravens can find consistent production in the passing game this year, they'll be a legitimate threat.
8. Green Bay Packers (1-0; 16): The Packers were tasked with going into Chicago to open their season and managed to get by the Bears' stellar defense. It wasn't pretty, but Green Bay got the job done, proving it's still in the thick of the NFC North race.
9. Los Angeles Chargers (1-0; 11): Despite lots of questions amid Melvin Gordon's holdout and Derwin James' foot injury, the Chargers looked solid in a 30-24 win over the Indianapolis Colts. If Austin Ekeler can carry the load in Gordon's absence, their offense may be able to keep them afloat.
10. Tennessee Titans (1-0; 21): The Browns may have been everyone's favorite pick heading into the season, but Mike Vrabel shut that down very quickly. Tennessee's defense squashed Baker Mayfield and Co., setting a surprising tone for their 2019 season.
11. Houston Texans (0-1; 10): Yes, we know they started with a loss, but Houston looked good in a tough, late-game loss to the Saints. Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins were in sync behind the protection of new offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil. The AFC South should be theirs if that continues.
12. Philadelphia Eagles (1-0; 4): The Eagles' offensive line should allow Carson Wentz to have an effective year with ample weapons. It took some time, but Philly looked to hit its stride late in their season-opening win over the Washington Redskins.
13. Chicago Bears (0-1; 8): Despite losing to Green Bay, Chicago's defense still looked very good. Mitchell Trubisky had a rough opener, which will need to change if the Bears want to find success.
14. Seattle Seahawks (1-0; 12): Seattle's secondary and offensive line remain a legitimate concern, but Pete Carroll's squad was relatively efficient behind Russell Wilson. A Jadeveon Clowney-led pass rush gives us confidence in their ability to smooth things out.
15. San Francisco 49ers (1-0; 18): The Niners picked off Jameis Winston three times Sunday in a 31-17 win. They'll continue to rely heavily on their defense led by Nick Bosa.
16. Cleveland Browns (0-1; 9): There was lots of anticipation heading into Sunday's opener, which was met with lots of disappointment. Cleveland had no answer for Tennessee's hard-nosed defense. The talent is there, but the execution was nowhere to be found against the Titans.
17. Carolina Panthers (0-1; 17): Christian McCaffery is awesome, that much we know. But Cam Newton looked relatively flat in a 30-27 loss to the Rams. Carolina's defense, however, will allow them to remain competitive if Newton fails to improve.
18. Pittsburgh Steelers (0-1; 7): Pittsburgh was killed by the Patriots in nearly every facet of the game Sunday night, but again, New England is a machine. Ideally, the Steelers will figure things out, as they have the weapons to be one of the AFC's best teams.
19. Indianapolis Colts (0-1; 23): The Colts pushed the Chargers into overtime without Andrew Luck. They don't lack talent, but the question remains if the execution will be there with Brissett under center.
20. Buffalo Bills (1-0; 25): Buffalo showed some nice resilience Sunday fighting back to score 14 unanswered fourth-quarter points to beat New York. But then again, they were losing 16-0 to the Jets, which isn't a great sign.
21. New York Jets (0-1; 19): The Jets were on the other end of the Bills fourth-quarter comeback, which isn't ideal. Adam Gase and Co. will need to bring their execution out of halftime if they want to win games.
22. Oakland Raiders (1-0; 28): Oakland's defense impressed Monday night against the Denver Broncos. No AB, no problem for the Raiders. We'll see how long that rings true.
23. Jacksonville Jaguars (0-1; 22): Jacksonville lost Nick Foles to a broken collarbone, while its defense got shredded in a loss to the Chiefs. Not a great way to open the season.
24. Detroit Lions (0-0-1; 27): Nothing like a tie to begin the year, right? Matthew Stafford failing to come away with a win against the Arizona Cardinals is concerning to say the least.
25. Atlanta Falcons (0-1; 13): Atlanta had an extremely slow start against the Vikings, and simply never got going in an ugly loss. Yes, the Falcons defense is expected to keep them afloat, but that won't be easy if they look as flat as they did Sunday afternoon.
26. Denver Broncos (0-1; 20): Denver's defense will get the job done, but its offense … well, that's another story. Joe Flacco and Co. had a tough debut against the Raiders on Monday night.
27. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-1; 24): Jameis Winston really struggled against the 49ers, tossing three picks in a horribly inefficient performance. He's done nothing to instill confidence in Bucs fans this season, and we're right there with them.
28. Washington Redskins (0-1; 26): Case Keenum looked surprisingly solid against the Eagles, but Washington's lack of late-game execution and defense. really hurt them. Divisional opponents like the Cowboys will take advantage of that in a heartbeat.
29. Cincinnati Bengals (0-1; 31): John Ross III finally showed some life, which was the biggest positive from Sunday's loss to Seattle. Cincinnati's defense, on the other hand, hasn't shown life in quite some time.
30. Arizona Cardinals (0-0-1; 29): When a tie is looked at as a positive, you know something's wrong.
31. New York Giants (0-1; 30): The Cowboys smoked New York by exposing all of its defensive issues, which are aplenty. Fans will focus on the Eli Manning vs. Daniel Jones debate, but it's the other side of the ball that's the real issue in the Big Apple.
32. Miami Dolphins (0-1; 32): They gave up 59 points to the Ravens on Sunday, which led to players attempting to get out of town. Things definitely could be better.


1. Standards - Standards have to be continually updated as to new innovation/technologies which may apply to maintain business as well as Disaster Recovery Centers. BP's lack of maintaining and exploring new approaches of deep water containment has relied on traditional containment processes, while the disaster has pushed BP to explore new technologies and approaches to the detriment of US$ billions damage to the US economy. What are the industry standards, what are the US government standards? Why couldn't BP become the showcase on providing the best in class standards vs. being seen as the worst offender which will create new legislation and force further requirements down to industry costing billions. One should consider to always routinely review your standards as well as include latest and greatest innovation/technology designs/approaches. Become the best in class and set the bar, where clients and colleagues in your industry look to you as the leader.
2. Program – Programs have to be continually tested and tried quarterly to prepare for various scenarios including worst case scenarios. The Program should be a practice run encompassing all aspects of a disaster identifying all probable accidents, emergencies, and/or threats. BP's lack of maintaining the standards as well as lack of communication processes, has allowed for a quick detriment to the overall corporate well being (loss of capitalization, revenue and loss of cash) and reputation causing deeper concern with potential customers as well as investors. One should always have a strong Program with a Leader to take charge who has been tried and tested on all scenarios. The leader should also have a strong program of staff who are the cream of the crop within the organization.
3. Policies – are mandated by the management of an organization that are to be performed according to a design plan, and supporting all business functions within an organization inclusive of IT. These policies have to continually updated for refinement as well as feasibility and reality. It is nice to have policies in place, however, most policies have either lacked verification or have not included the proper buy in to provide practicality. BP's lack of maintaining their policies has created a complacent organization in which trust is lacking and buy in could have provided true practicality to quickly implementing the program. One should consider consistently reviewing your policies not only at a corporate executive level, however, test them out at the lower echelons to ensure practicality.
4. BC/BCM Plan – This is the actual plan itself which is a set of documents, instructions, and procedures which enable a business to respond to accidents, disasters, emergencies, and/or threats without any stoppage or hindrance in its key operations. Also called business resumption plan, disaster recovery plan, or recovery plan. While BP's may have had a BC/BCM in place for the Gulf Disaster, the plan seemed faulty due to communication management as well as now coherent approach to provide adequate leadership. BP's seemed to falter due to lack of administering and/or perception as well as maintaining an updated plan based on new technologies, approaches, requirements from the government, investors etc. Perfect case was the Plan included comments on protection of Walruses. One should consider making sure good leadership is involved, that communication is critical to a plan because it provides perception of you and your organization as well consistently update the plan as an evolving document not as static and dormant.
5. BC/BCM Planning – This is the actual planning of building the plan as well as testing all the procedures to ensure continuity of a firm's key operations in the event of an accident, disaster, emergency, and/or threat. While BP's plan was in place based upon planning, it seems that no true testing and/or true scenarios including worst case scenarios were ever tested like the Deep Water Horizon blow out. Why were they not tested? Did the plan and planning not include worst case scenarios and how to resolve and mitigate the risks to the US environment and to the fiduciary responsibility for its investors? One should consider to always test every scenario as well as develop new scenarios to plan for future disasters. One should always be thinking ahead versus being complacent.
6. Guidelines – are in place based on recommendations to a design and may be used or not depending on the situation or could be altered depending on the circumstance. BP's guideline were never fully communicated to the public, which made the public non-trusting of communication which continually shifted and or changed. One should always be very specific and follow the guidelines as long as the outcomes are becoming successful, if guidelines are not producing the results they were most likely not practical based on the testing of all the scenarios. These guidelines are your step by step approach to make things happen, one needs to consistently validate.
7. Procedures – provides the specifications for implementing the BCM Plan. While the procedures were in place for BP based on the outdated, un-tested plan. BP's procedures have been perceived as bureaucratic, lack of response, lack of leadership, lack of urgency. These procedures require strong leadership to drive decisions as well as break the barriers within the organization. This leader should have full authority to move the organization through the disaster. Just like war plans are based on scenarios, you must rely on your general in the field to make it happen. While these procedures may have been in place, they lacked a general to make things happen, which has further damaged BP's reputation and perception to the public.
8. Resource Planning and Deployment – this concept is to ensure when disasters and/or threats hit that proper resources are in place and have been targeted to deploy the solutions and support. BP seemed to lack the resources required to not only work on the Deep Water Horizon blow out, however, also the buoys for New Orleans, the Claims processing, the connection with local governments, etc. Disaster planning is not to provide someone a job, it should be your brightest and smartest within your organization by section/department. If as a company you can't provide the resources look outside for outsourcing arrangements, and have them partner with you. One must remember focus on your core competencies and allow others to support. If BP would have focused with partners in advance, several US$ millions or billions could have been salvaged as well environmental impact could have been less severe.
9. Organization Structure – this describes structure of the organization, leadership as well as the communication within the existing organization of how things will work and operate if a disaster occurs. This requires also redundancy of skill sets and expertise. While BP may have a vast set of employees and great pool of resources, we are unsure of whether BP really had described internally to all facets of the business about the business continuity/disaster team approach, as well as had the most dedicated and talented pool to manage the operation. One should consider always to place the best resources and leadership in the positions when disasters/problems occur, because they know the organization and its capabilities as well can provide better perception to the market place.
10. Business Impact Analysis - A business impact analysis is the primary tool for gathering information and assigning criticality, recovery point objectives, and recovery time objectives, and is therefore part of the basic foundation of business continuity. Good practice indicates that a Business Impact Analysis should be reviewed as a minimum annually but more frequently in the event of: (1). A particularly aggressive pace of business change; (2). Significant changes in the internal business process, location or technology, and (3). Significant changes in the external business environment – such as market or regulatory change. While BP may had an annual business impact analysis, it should have created a more frequent approach, due to (1). Pace for drilling in deeper water created significant business risks as well as changes; (2). By drilling deeper it created significant challenges internally as to process, and safety technology which was not proven; and (3). Huge down side to external business environment from local and state governments to now Federal government restrictions.
11. Security - this is one of the top priorities, especially in Disaster Recovery or within an IT department. Conformance has to be tested and validated regularly. Concerning BP's security audits there seems to be a failure not only from the Federal government audits and approval of broken equipment, but also from internally BP's audits. One should consider to outsource all audits to another company which would provide objectivity vs. totally relying on an internal audit or even your outsourced partner.
12. Documentation - This is an important aspect to constantly update your documentation for any procedural, guidelines, new technologies, contacts etc. BP as well as the whole industry seemed to be complacent around this area and continued to maintained existing wording regardless of the inherent risks and business impact analysis changes and or challenges.
13. Audit Management (Risk Analysis) - This is one of the most costly and time consuming approaches for business and is often seen as an evil or as an un-warranted insurance policy. Risk and Audit procedures should consistently be reported and provided to Senior/Executive Management as well as the Disaster Leader who would be responsible in case a disaster or threat occurs. All audits should provide weaknesses as well as remedies for action/resolution. Audits should be performed by outside parties, which would provide objective stance and not tied to over successful of BP's bottom lines. It seems that several of the auditors were courting for new jobs, thus providing acceptance to provide good will. This good will and lack of objectivity has cost not only BP's US$ billions, however, also has created an economic crisis for the America and its Industry leaders.
14. Service Level Agreements – This provides a written agreement between two entities which are operating whether internally or externally in nature. In IT, the SLA is usually between business and IT. BP's service level agreement most likely was in place between BP and Transocean, however, it seems that procedures of the SLA may not have been in place or was strong enough to warrant the cost cutting measures which put the Deep Water Horizon well into danger and risk, resulting in US$ billions for BP and America but also the loss of life. Service Level Agreements have to be solid and adhered to by both parties, and not subject to shorting the system and/or contract. Contracts are put into place for reasons and clarification as well as to protect alls interest. It seems that BP as well as Transocean both ignored their contractual obligations based on pressure to quickly access the well, however, just like in IT when you play with the triple constraints: Scope; Costs; and Schedule – one will impact the other detrimentally. When budgets are cut, schedules have to be shortend resulting in quality and processes not seriously being reviewed for major impacts.


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T.W. Food Is Closing to Make Room for a 'Totally Unique' New Restaurant
Tim and Bronwyn Wiechmann's fine dining institution sticks around through February 19.
By Jacqueline Cain·	 2/8/2017, 2:10 p.m.
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A pillar of the Boston area's fine dining scene is saying goodbye to the tasting menu format. T.W. Food will shutter after service on February 19 to make room for a "totally unique" new concept from chef Tim Wiechmann, he says. Boston Restaurant Talk first reported the changes.
The establishment has offered an ever-changing, seasonal menu of refined, French-inspired courses, which was pretty edgy when he and his wife, Bronwyn, debuted it 10 years ago, Wiechmann says.
But these days, "People still want luxury, but they want it to be faster, more accessible, and more easy-going," he says. The new menu will still be refined, "it still has the sensibility of me and Bronwyn," but they're ready to do things differently, Wiechmann says.
The chef won't share details about the new concept just yet—and he says it doesn't have a name at this point—but the cuisine is going to be "much more international," he says. "And it will be totally unique, that is for certain. It will give people a chance to see a collection of food ideas that reflect a bunch of stuff I've done, travel-wise, and my interpretations of these things."
Wiechmann has applied to upgrade for a full liquor license (T.W. Food has always served just beer and wine), though don't expect a bar to go into the small space. The Cambridge dining room will get a cosmetic facelift, though, and a kitchen renovation. Wiechmann hopes to reopen the new restaurant by late March.
"It's sad, but it's so awesome. What a great run the restaurant has had," Wiechmann says. "We love the restaurant, but we just want to do something different."
Since debuting T.W. Food, the Wiechmanns have expanded their business with the casual bierhaus Bronwyn, and for a time, operated a Balkan-inspired sandwich shop, Playska.
For the next week-plus, the chef will continue to pay homage to the style of dining that put him on the map. It's business as usual at T.W. Food, with duck liver pâtá and mangalista pork rillettes, ricotta agnolotti with winter squash, pistachio streusel with citrus meringue, and more classics on the three-course menu, and reservations still available for Valentine's Day and beyond for a final intimate evening at a romantic original.
Stay tuned for more on T.W. Food's next life.
377 Walden St., Cambridge, 617-864-4745, twfoodrestaurant.com.
Jacqueline Cain	Deputy Food Editor at Boston Magazine jcain@bostonmagazine.com
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Q: Few questions regarding formal vector bundles on formal completions. This question is regarding formal vector bundles on formal schemes. The formal schemes that I'm interested are formal completion of a scheme along a closed sub-scheme. The category of formal coherent sheaves form an abelian category. 1)Given a short sequence of formal vector bundles is it true that the sequence is exact iff its pullback to all $n$-th thickenings are exact? 2) Is it true that formal vector bundles are closed under extension? i.e. given a short exact sequence of formal coherent sheaves if the kernel and co-kernel are formal vector bundles then the same is true for the extension.
If these are not true then consider the following extra conditions.
Now assume that the closed subvariety satisfies the effective lefschetz condition i.e. category of vector bundles on it is equivalent to the category of vector bundles on some neighborhood of the closed subscheme. Then 1) becomes obviously true, since you can lift the exact sequence to a nbhd. How about 2?
If true I wonder whether there is a reference for these.

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As the number of products available for the iPhone 4 increases, more and more unique products seem to be rising to the surface. Each of these products appeal to different aspects of the consumer. For instance, some cases appeal to a sense of style, a sense of utility, or a sense of unparalleled protection. Some products even attempt to be the jack of all trades and offer something that they think will appeal to all of our sensibilities. Fairly few accessories, however, appeal to one's environmental ethos, or one's tendency to cling to nature. One such product is the Grove Bamboo iPhone 4 Case.
My initial impressions of the grove case were very positive. The case is attractive, well packaged, and durable. Additionally, the case is padded, cushioned, and contoured in all the appropriate ways to both preserve the phone and it's various interfaces. The laser etching on the back was as intricate as it is beautiful, and I found myself entranced in examining the etching, and admiring the way that the etching complimented the grain of the wood.
The Grove Bamboo Case for iPhone 4 has a certain natural quality that makes it stand out among the competition. However, often, form takes precedence over function, or vice versa. I am pleased to note that this is simply not the case with the Grove case. After inspecting the case thoroughly, I found the the cutouts were smooth, perfectly sized, and seemingly sanded out to remove the abrasive finish that sometimes accompanies such a cut. Particular attention has been paid to details on this case. For instance, the silver bezel of this case is just as durable, scratch-resistant, and precisely engineered as the remainder of the case.
This product is manufactured in part to appeal to a very particular audience: The environmentally conscious. And Grove has really gone all the way to ensure that this product is made in as environmentally sound a manner as is possible. Not only is the case itself manufactured from earth-safe bamboo, which grows faster and is far less impacting to use than traditional wood, but even the packaging materials are environmentally friendly, being constructed from a mixture of waste products from the manufacturing of the case, as well as post-consumer recycled cardboard. What's more, the outer packaging for this case doubles as a picture frame, as demonstrated below.
The Grove Bamboo Case for iPhone 4 really appeals to me. It has become a way for me to show that, even though I have succumbed to the allures of the technology world, I still have not forgotten when that technology comes from nature. The Grove case makes this point brilliantly, while at the same time providing a truly quality product. For it's quality, durability, and gorgeous design, I award the Grove Case a 4.5 out of 5.
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Is Amazon's private label a threat?
Debby Garbato
With global sales of $280 billion, Amazon is the e-commerce industry's benchmark for efficiency and reliability — a pioneer in AI-driven search and recommendation engines that is known for creating highly personalized product experiences. This is complemented by a sophisticated distribution network that provides affordable, next-day delivery to millions of locations daily.
So it is true that Amazon is a master of online fulfillment, but it is not quite a powerhouse in private label or physical retailing — yet — two factors it wants to change.
First, in 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods (and its store brands such as the esteemed 365 Everyday Value brand). Then the retailer launched its cashierless Amazon Go stores in 2018 and has been expanding since with locations in Seattle, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and in California.
Now, there's Amazon Fresh, the e-tailer's full-fledged grocery format that just opened its doors Aug. 27 in Woodland Hills, Calif. A North Hollywood location is set to follow, as well as two stores outside Chicago. The stores offer various ways for shoppers to shop from using an Amazon Dash Cart, a smart cart that syncs up with the shopper's Amazon app, mobile payment, as well as traditional checkout experiences. The grocery store also launched two brand-new private brands: Fresh, a meat, seafood, bakery, salsa and fresh food brand, and Cursive, a line of red and white wines.
The Amazon Fresh stores also carry 365 Everyday brands, Amazon Brand Solimo items, Happy Belly dairy products, Wag pet care, Amazon Kitchen prepared foods, Amazon Elements supplements and more. The concept showcases the retailer's true potential of its private label in the brick-and-mortar space.
And when it comes to private label, Amazon is also facing the lingering investigation by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee into its alleged use of third-party seller data to enhance its private label products, a policy Amazon said it does not tolerate but one that CEO Jeff Bezos couldn't guarantee has not been broken during testimony late July. He said during his opening statement that roughly 60% of its sales come from third-party sellers and it hosts more than 2.5 million third-party sellers in its online marketplace (more on the investigation in the sidebar on page 20).
That aside, over the past decade, Amazon has been slowly building an online private label program across multiple categories. In 2019, this business grew 28%, generating sales of $1.3 billion, per Matt Pace, senior director, client insights and account management at 1010data, in the company's "1010reveal" report. Amazon itself has said that private label currently only accounts for less than 1% of its total sales, far less than a traditional grocer hovering around 25% of sales from store brands.
Of its private brand portfolio, fashion is the leading category. Coresight Research reported that of the nearly 150 private brands under Amazon, three-fourths are apparel. However, in CPG, Amazon's private label growth is outpacing that of its total private label business. CPG grew 81% in 2018 and represents about 10% of Amazon's private label offerings, according to Numerator's April 2019 report, "Amazon's Private Label Proliferation."
Still, traditional retailers and their private label suppliers are not losing sleep. Amazon's private label success across various food, beverage and CPG categories has been mixed, with most activity in convenience-driven categories (e.g., diapers) and opening price point products where shoppers can be brand agnostic.
"Nobody has called out in the market place that business is being damaged by Amazon's private labels," said Gene Bornac, senior vice president of retail at Envista. "[Basic] consumables are open for them to take. These are boring, everyday products that tend to be in mass off-price categories."
But there are areas of dominance.
Batteries, marketed under its largest private brand umbrella, AmazonBasics, are Amazon's top battery label with a 30% share of category sales on its site, according to 1010data. Amazon's private label diapers and baby wipes, Amazon Elements and Mama Bear, command 9% of category sales.
"Nobody has called out in the market place that business is being damaged by Amazon's private labels. [Basic] consumables are open for them to take. These are boring, everyday products that tend to be in mass off-price categories."
Gene Bornac, senior vice president of retail at Envista. "
Sales of Amazon Brand Solimo, encompassing CPG and other categories, grew nearly four-fold to $81 million in 2019 and is Amazon's second-largest private brand, said 1010data. Another brand, Presto!, saw sales nearly double in 2019. Presto! includes paper goods, laundry detergent, kitchen items and other products. Presto! paper towels (11% share) and Presto! Toilet paper (10% share) are the number three and five brands in their categories (note that numbers are pre-coronavirus).
Amazon's private label coffee pods, trash bags and motor oil are gaining ground. But private label vitamins, supplements, beauty, body care, dog food and salty snacks are "struggling to gain traction," 1010data said.
If Amazon's brick-and-mortar stores take off, private label sales could further escalate, driven by added exposure and the ability to physically merchandise higher end private labels. This subsequent brand awareness could also buoy online sales.
Amazon already has massive online reach. Today, more than 55% of searches begin on Amazon, Bornac said. "And 100 million households have Prime. This gives them a massive leg up."
Already, sales of Amazon's opening price point basics are driven by some shoppers' brand agnosticism. Chris Perry, vice president of global education at Edge by Ascential, said 66% of consumers click the first search results that appear. "When you type 'trash bags' on Amazon, there's three sponsored ads for national brands and one for Solimo. So, some private brands can disproportionally win online."
Amazon under investigation
For more than a year, the House Judiciary Committee has been looking into digital markets, including how Amazon allegedly uses data from third-party sellers to fuel private label brands it develops. However, in late April, following a report from The Wall Street Journal, congress stepped up pressure against Amazon on the issue.
Congress leaned on the article and its claims of Amazon collecting third-party seller data to develop competing products. Amazon denied its use of third-party seller data in this way, citing an internal policy against it, and CEO Jeff Bezos said in a letter that the "use of store data is the norm across retail."
The Judiciary Committee continued to call for Bezos to testify and finally got its wish during a hearing July 29, along with CEOs form Apple, Google and Facebook. Bezos couldn't guarantee that Amazon had not broken the policy.
As for the argument from the traditional retailing side, Paul Armstrong, a writer about Amazon, including a newsletter "What Did Amazon Do This Week," said that the concern is Amazon views the third-party sellers that use its platform — and put money directly into Amazon's pockets — as research to build a competing private label and not as a joint partner, which is where a traditional grocer may partner more with a CPG. He said Amazon uses its wealth of data to continually inform decisions such as recent forays into health and food. "Traditional retailers don't have the scope, variety, and resources to do what Amazon can because of the size and ubiquity of goods on Amazon," he said. "An unfair advantage that multiple government organizations and external entities are looking at closely. The costs to develop these for brands that aren't Amazon are much higher for these companies, Amazon is effectively getting free research and insights that companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for."
TRADITIONAL GROCERS CARRY BETTER BRANDS
For traditional retailers, a key factor that minimizes competition with Amazon is that they have stronger, lifestyle-driven private brands that are are not driven by price alone.
Bornac pointed out Target's Good & Gather. Introduced August 2019, it emphasizes dairy products, produce and other foods sans artificial ingredients. "It's less generic and more lifestyle focused, speaking to quality ingredients. It's competitive with 'real' brands."
Well-developed private brands from Target and other grocery, mass and club retailers have dedicated followings. According to Cadent's 2019 consumer survey, "Building Private Label Brand Equity," 54% of millennials said their store choices are influenced by the retailer's brand. But consumers do not make these associations with Amazon's private brands, certainly not outside its apparel lines, where there is some consumer loyalty.
"Building loyalty takes time," said Anthony Laudiero, vice president of operations at Manassas, Va.-based Consorzi Foods, which supplies private label pasta and other Italian fare. "I associate Amazon with efficiency, not food. With stuff I'm agnostic on, like kitchen tools or batteries, I'll buy Amazon private label. I don't know that I'd buy specialty Amazon tea. I'd buy it at Kroger or Whole Foods." (Whole Foods' 365 brand is offered on Amazon.)
Kroger, Target and other retailers have spent decades building trust in private labels, allowing them to create successful specialty lines. Cadent said 44% of these lines are driven by trends, particularly organic. This further differentiates them from Amazon.
Cadent found consumers value awareness, trustworthiness, uniqueness, quality and clear positioning in private labels. The top five overall rated brands to emerge from Cadent's study were Publix' Premium and Greenwise, Kroger's Simple Truth and Private Selection, and Albertsons' O Organic.
Kroger's Private Selection — along with its HemisFares brand — emphasizes mid- to upper-tier gourmet foods. "HemisFares involves very curated, specialty foods, including handmade pasta from a specific part of Italy," said Laudiero, whose company supplies Private Selection pasta. "Nobody cares where Amazon gets plastic cups." HemisFares also includes delicacies like truffle Afredo pasta sauce and green castelvetrano olives.
Amazon has dabbled in some private label gourmet items. Under its Wickedly Prime label, it launched specialty teas that included ded pu'er, a fermented Chinese tea, and wulong, a semi-oxidized tea. Without a strong record in private label, they "didn't seem to move," said Jason Walker, marketing director at Firsd Tea North America. "They were too niche, too premium and out of the average consumer's range. Their Solimo brand tea is in a better price range, with more popular flavors like green tea with a little mango flavor."
Walker, who supplies Fairway, said "tea with a twist" performs better than exotic offerings. The Fairway Collection offers classics like English breakfast and jasmine green tea; its Urban Forager line emphasizes teas with digestive and wellness properties.
Amazon is more effective in coffee. In addition to its successful coffee pods, AmazonFresh Organic Fair Trade Peru Ground coffee is one of the site's top-rated brands. "They're still finding their way," said a private label coffee supplier. "The AmazonFresh name helps generate loyalty. There's organic coffees, fair trade certified and different roasts. I'm impressed with their portfolio. Clearly they've done their homework."
SNACKS, JUICE & FRESH FOOD
Some categories simply seem to struggle online. Snacks, for one, are generally purchased close to time of consumption, with consumers "grazing" store aisles to make decisions.
"You don't pantry load them," said Scott Reindel, vice president of business development and retail strategy at Trophy Nut in Tipp City, Ohio. "The snack aisle has the highest conversion rate in the store. It's a treasure hunt. It's hard to do that online."
Juice has also been challenging. An Amazon private label juice supplier said Amazon has struggled to meet production minimums and only offers core items. Product weight is also a problem. "It's a slow build and they're not really innovating. They want to add flavors, but that's probably a year from now."
Doing business with Amazon is challenging since Amazon interacts differently than traditional retailers and suppliers. "They try to avoid in-person meetings and aren't very personable," she added. "All work is by phone and they don't give you access to people."
Amazon has struggled with private label fresh food, too. The business is regional and not all warehouses can accommodate it. "They get good ratings on some consumables, but private label food penetration is extremely low," said Bob Anderson, president and CEO of Store Brand Consulting. "Building food warehouses is expensive and they have to regionalize them. Plus, people can't sample the food. Amazon has a huge private label learning curve."
A FUTURE THREAT?
Down the road, Amazon's private labels could present more competition for traditional retailers, particularly if it rolls out myriad grocery stores and creates aggressive marketing around the brands in Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go stores. "Ten years from now, I wouldn't be surprised if they have 2,000 stores," said Bornac. "They see the disadvantage in not having physical stores."
The COVID-19 crisis could also help Amazon's private label. In addition to not wanting to visit physical stores, many consumers turned to Amazon's private labels because national brands were sold out on Amazon and elsewhere as consumers hoarded certain products. Many new customers may continue purchasing Amazon's private labels.
During the crisis, Amazon also de-prioritized non-Prime customers and deliveries on merchandise not in high demand to maintain better in-stock positioning on desired items. "This demonstrates Amazon's ability to react compared to other retailers," said Bornac. "If their private labels meet demand, they're ahead. We'll be in a different situation in a few months. The question is, 'how will customers remember the experience?'"
Overall, some experts believe Amazon is still testing the waters. "They've launched about 400 private labels over the last few years," said Perry. "Some do well, some don't. It's all about figuring out what works. Then they'll move ahead."
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Eastern North Carolina: Culture eroded by capitalism
By Erin Mezgar posted on August 13, 2017
Poisonous swine waste from corporate farms in North Carolina.
Eastern North Carolina residents are fighting to save their ancestral lands and waterways from corporate contamination. Generations of poor Black and Brown residents have lived and worked the coastal plain of North Carolina, but capitalism's insatiable hunger for profit threatens to devour, not only working-class communities, but the foundation of life itself.
A unique history of labor and culture
Eastern North Carolina's coastal plain is a place made up of barrier islands, brackish wetlands, rich arable soil, longleaf pines and sandhills. Its estuaries, including the Neuse and Cape Fear rivers, act as veins that connect communities by way of a common heritage. Prior to the arrival of white settlers, for over 12,000 years Indigenous people, including Algonquian, Iroquoian and Siouan groups, used the soil and all that the waters produced to sustain themselves — making use of plants, nuts, game and fish, as well as farming corn, potatoes, beans and tobacco.
European settlers' occupation of the land decimated Native populations through disease and forced removal, and today just 62,403 Native people remain in the region.
Under the settler system of slave labor, Africans brought with them their own traditions of sustenance in an ecosystem unfamiliar to Europeans. During the U.S. Civil War, the Union Army could not have navigated the region's rugged wetlands without the help of expert Black water guides.
Leading up to and during Reconstruction, a complex history of Black maritime work began to unfold. Black fishers, pilots, ferry pilots and sailors commanded the waterways. Free Black residents — the largest population in the existing U.S. — were responsible for Wilmington's economic rise as a seaport during the 19th century. Descendants of enslaved Africans, the Gullah-Geechee, used their knowledge of the coastal plain to farm their own land and build a cultural community and language that stretched from Cape Fear, N.C., to Jacksonville, Fla.
Three centuries after white settlers arrived, the land looked very different from what Indigenous people had transformed it into. Half of the state's wetlands were drained for agriculture and other human use. Roads, bridges, canals, sewage systems, dams and deforestation had permanently altered the landscape. Eastern North Carolina's economy had begun to shrink as the seat of power moved from Wilmington to Raleigh, creating a distinct working-class cultural divide that stands to this day.
Now, the area is mostly rural, but anchored by cities like Fayetteville, Jacksonville, Greenville and Wilmington. A quarter of the residents live in poverty — and the majority are people of color. Agriculture is a top industry in a region boasting cheap land and labor, and migrant Latinx workers are filling the demand for farmworkers.
Ninety percent of that workforce is undocumented, still denied the most basic labor rights and minimum wage. In recent years, at least nine farmworkers have died from heatstroke, and countless others are subjected to racism, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement intimidation, long work hours and numerous hazards to their health.
Corporate profits take priority
North Carolina's declining tobacco industry has been replaced by a growing meat industry experiencing rapid consolidation over the past 30 years. In 1985, the top four pork producers made up 32 percent of the market. By 2007, their share had increased to 69 percent. The state is now the second top producer of pork and the third leading producer of poultry in the U.S.
In just 20 years, meat farming went from several family farms to thousands of concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs. Duplin County's 60,000 residents, living at the center of the fight against industrial agriculture, are sharing their land with 18.5 million confined animals.
Wiith millions of animals come tons of waste — more waste than an ecosystem can take. The region's shallow waters, frequent precipitation and extreme weather make it especially susceptible to contamination from CAFOs. The only solution that the industry has come up with is to dump bodily fluids filled with pathogens, antibiotics and harmful nutrients into human-made lagoons.
When the lagoons become full, the contents are liquefied and sprayed onto nearby land, including residents' homes. Waste capable of filling some 15,000 Olympic pools is sprayed each year, causing hypertension, nausea, asthma, anxiety, stress and disruption to residents' daily lives. They report they cannot even leave their homes or open their windows due to the stench that hangs in the air.
When the residents do speak out, they are met with threats, intimidation, job loss, violence and racism. The state's Black residents are 1.54 times more likely to live within three miles of a CAFO than white residents, while Latinx residents are 1.39 times and Native residents are 2.18 times more likely. This leads to the conclusion that these acts by the meat industry are nothing less than environmental racism.
Residents have been in a decades-long battle to save their lands from CAFOs, but the meat industry refuses to pay for existing technology that would convert methane from waste into sustainable energy. Only 10 of the 6,500 farms in the state are voluntarily using the technology.
Numerous solutions to the contamination have been proposed, but all are deemed too expensive for the U.S. meat industry generating $864.2 billion annually. In March, industry-bankrolled politicians passed a bill (HB 467) by override capping the amount of damages residents can seek when the value of their homes and land decrease due to their proximity to a CAFO or forestry operation.
Meat production is responsible for more water pollution than all other industries combined, and its contributions to climate change are numerous. The longterm effects of meat farming on the region's ecosystem will disproportionately affect poor people in North Carolina. The wetlands where some live are eroding at the rate of 800 acres per year and, along with that, the culture that connects them.
Many residents remember 1999's Hurricane Floyd and the images of thousands of pig carcasses floating in the flood waters of the coastal plains. Nearly 20 years later, not much has changed. Last September, hog farm flooding caused by Hurricane Matthew brought a stark reminder to state residents that corporate profits continue to take priority over human life.
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Friday night is pizza night in our house! I don't have a signature combination of toppings, with 6 different opinions I can't land on any one thing. The hubs and I love goat cheese. I have a Hawaiian lover and an olive-obsessed little princess, so that is always changing. What doesn't change is the need for a simple sauce.
I know, you can just use pasta sauce. My problem is with the jar half full of sauce that gets lost in the fridge. I came up with this solution one Friday when I didn't have a jar of pasta, and since then I haven't cracked open a jar for pizza ever again. The texture is better and it takes two minutes and five ingredients I bet you already have on hand.
Combine all ingredients. Stir with a fork until all is combined. Spread on pizza. Should be enough to cover 2 large pizzas. You could use 1/2 and then freeze the other half. So if it is this easy, why would you ever buy pizza sauce?
Very cool. I love pizza. Good to know it is so easy to make!
Thanks for sharing at Simple Meals Friday.
Love that you have a pizza night!! Our big thing is taco night! Please come share at Foodtastic Friday!
Thank you for this recipe, it sounds awesome and I love that it only takes a couple of minutes! I make homemade sauce but I have to simmer it for a half hour, which is not convenient :) I will definitely try your recipe! Thanks for linking up at Thrifty Thursday!
This is a great recipe that I can't wait to try! Hope you are having a fabulous weekend and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Homemade sauces really are so much better! They taste better and you know exactly what is going in them which I like - no random odd ingredients.
I feel silly asking this question, but what is a tetra-pak?
Tetra-paks are the boxes that tomatoes are packaged in, or like shelf-stable milk. Pomi brand is the most common tetra-pak tomato company. They are preferred because they are not lined with BPA like cans, but are harder to find and usually more expensive.
I love pizza more than one girl should :) I make a simliar recipe, but use stevia. Thank you for sharing this on Wildcrafting Wednesday!
Thank you Nichi. I agree unique is always better than average!


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Watch the BBC's Interview with Xavier Jugelé, the Gay Officer Killed in the Recent Paris Terror Attack
Written by Christophe Martet on April 24, 2017
This post is also available in: Français
When journalist Nick Garret saw the face of Xavier Jugelé on the BBC News website, he recognized it immediately. Garret had interviewed Jugelé, the openly gay police officer killed in the April 21 assault on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, on November 2016 in front of the Bataclan music hall during the hall's reopening concert one year after the November 2015 terrorist attack that killed 89 people at Bataclan and dozens more throughout Paris.
Gay nights at the Bataclan music hall
Jugelé — an openly gay, married member of Flag!, an organization which includes LGBT policemen and gendarmes — was stationed elsewhere during the 2015 terror attack, but on the evening of November 2016, he came to the Bataclan music hall with his partner because the place had long hosted gay events, in particular the very popular queer dance party Follivores.
The BBC recently re-broadcasted Garret's interview with Jugelé from that night, and it's a conversation that can't be listened to without great emotion.
When the journalist asks Jugelé why he's there, he replies, "I was here many times because of gay events and many concerts. That's why I'm here with my friend: to celebrate life and to say no to terrorism."
The journalist then asks him if does not feel strange to be here. "It doesn't feel strange at all because it's the same place, just repainted. It's still the same, it looks the same," Jugelé replies in good spirit. That evening in November, Sting was performing at the Bataclan in a tribute to victims of the attack.
Showing support and solidarity through crowdfunding
Jugelé's fellow police officers of the 32nd brigade have launched a crowdfunding campaign in solidarity with Jugelé's family. In just a few days, more than 2,647 people have already contributed.
The Prefecture of Police has set up a register of condolences in Jugelé's memory that will be passed on to his family.
The national tribute to Jugelé, presided over by François Hollande, takes place this Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Paris.
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Investigating the Loss of Language
By medweb Nov 6, 2012
Unlike Alzheimer's, which affects memory, primary progressive aphasia involves a decline in the ability to communicate, as nerve cells in the part of the brain that control language are destroyed. Above are images of a healthy brain, at left, and the areas of the brain damaged in PPA.
Home to some of the world's most-recognized programs of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) research, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has for the past year been the site of a unique multi-laboratory collaboration working to uncover how this debilitating form of dementia develops.
First identified in the early '80s by M. Marsel Mesulam, MD, Ruth Dunbar Davee Professor in Neuroscience, PPA leads to a loss of language function. Other intellectual faculties such as memories and personalities tend to be maintained for many years, but patients often become mute and may eventually lose their ability to understand written and spoken words. The condition, a "cousin of Alzheimer's disease," often occurs in individuals in their 50s and 60s, an age that physicians don't usually associate with neurodegenerative illnesses.
The medical school's most recent project is a three-laboratory collaboration supported by a seed grant from the Josephine P. and John J. Louis Foundation.
"The Louis Family came to us to see if we could propose something truly unique that would lead to major progress in our understanding of PPA," said Mesulam, director of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center (CNADC). "We prepared an unusual proposal to combine the established PPA research programs at the CNADC and my laboratory with two world-class laboratories that had never before worked on PPA but could introduce unique synergies for collaborative research in this area."
Mesulam will work alongside John Csernansky, MD, chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and Robert Vassar, PhD, professor in cell and molecular biology in this endeavor. The investigators will focus their efforts on a specific type of PPA, characterized by abnormal accumulations of the protein TDP-43, one of three known causes of the disease.
In Mesulam's lab, researchers will study autopsied brain specimens from patients who had the TDP-43 type of PPA in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the protein and the death of nerve cells in language centers.
These findings will be compared to what Vassar's lab discovers in a mouse model of the disease. The overlapping areas will allow researchers to focus on those parts that are directly relevant to PPA in humans.
Csernansky's lab is responsible for creating both behavioral and imaging processes to identify PPA-related changes in the brains of living mice so that similar approaches can be developed to detect them in humans. Since physicians can currently confirm a diagnosis of PPA only via autopsy, having processes to identify the disease while the patient is living would allow doctors to better prescribe and monitor treatment, Csernansky said.
Beyond these three core laboratories, the project will tap into Northwestern's unique set of resources, like the CNADC Brain Bank in Chicago and the Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI) in Evanston.
CAMI was created to drive interdisciplinary research, bridging the gap between basic science and science-based medicine, and provides researchers with access to a wide range of imaging instrumentation.
"CAMI provides a number of modalities, can image from molecule to mouse, and has partnered with experts to provide state of the art volume rendering and visualization tools on site," said Thomas Meade, PhD, CAMI director.
Building upon the availability of the CAMI, CNADC, and the laboratories involved, the ultimate goal of the study is to find treatments that will slow or halt the progression of the disease
"I am not sure that this project could take place anywhere else in the world given the exhaustive series of experiments and amount of cross-correlated data involved," Vassar said. "To look at human disease and mouse models from multiple angles is very important. We are still in the early stages, but by mid-winter we will have results to analyze and can begin to write a paper for publication."
With data collection likely to be completed in December, the New Year will present an opportunity for all three laboratories to come together and evaluate results, draw conclusions, and determine the future direction of the project.


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Negative Effects of Becoming a Registered Sex Offender
Being convicted of a sex crime can result in some of the harshest penalties an individual can face. Courts are often dedicated to prosecuting individuals convicted of sex crimes to the fullest and most severe extent. Even after jail sentences are served and fines are paid, individuals may still deal with the costs of a sex crime conviction for the rest of their lives.
One of the most lasting and damaging consequences of being convicted of a sex crime is the legal obligation to register as a sex offender. Even for minor offenses, the registration lasts for a lifetime and is made public information for all to see. Being listed as a registered sex offender can have a huge impact on your ability to carry on with a normal life well after you have finished serving your time, making the consequences of a sex crime conviction extremely serious.
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Unlike other crimes that allow a fresh start after conviction, registering as a sex offender ensures that your offense will follow you for the rest of your life. With such serious implications at risk, it is imperative that you seek the help of an experienced and skilled defense attorney to help you fight these charges.
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This black headband is soft and stretchy. Perfect for sports, party, dance or just wear it daily. It will keep you a wonderful looking and also absorb your sweat.
Headband is very soft. Nd I love to wear it when I go for my morning run ♂ with my colourful socks .
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Ленгебиз () — село в Ахсуйском районе Азербайджана.

География

Расположено у подножий Ленгебизского хребта, к юго-востоку от районного центра Ахсу.

История

«Описание Ширванской провинции, составленное в 1820 году, по распоряжению главноуправляющего в Грузии Ермолова, приводит сведения об «татарской» (азербайджанской) деревне Ленгевисъ Кошунского магала Ширванской области. Деревня являлась собственностью родственников Ших (Шах) Али-бека и все доходы кроме сурсата и червонцев шли им же. На то время в ней имелось 30 семейств, из которых 27 платили подать, а 3 были свободны от неё.

Население

В своде статистических данных о населении Закавказского края на 1886 год сообщается о численности, этническом и конфессиональном составе села. Согласно этим данным, в Ленгебизъ Кабристанского участка Шемахинского уезда Бакинской губернии насчитывалось 86 дымов и 600 жителей (333 мужчины и 267 женщин). Жители — азербайджанцы-сунниты, из них 15 являлись беками, 12 принадлежали к духовенству, а остальные 573 — крестьяне на владельческой земле.

Согласно материалам Азербайджанской сельскохозяйственной переписи 1921 года Ленгебиз с казмой В. Ленгебиз, сёлами Биджов, Алпаут татарский и другими близлежащими населёнными пунктами образовывали Ленгебизское сельское общество Шемахинского уезда. В Ленгебизе проживали — 398 человек и имелось 89 хозяйств. Преобладающей национальностью являлись азербайджанские тюрки (азербайджанцы).

По материалам издания «Административное деление АССР», подготовленного в 1933 году Управлением народно-хозяйственным учётом АССР (АзНХУ), по состоянию на 1 января 1933 года в Ленгебизе Шемахинского района насчитывалось 526 человек (124 хозяйства), среди которых было 289 мужчин и 237 женщин. Национальный состав одноимённого сельсовета состоял на 100 % из тюрков.

Известные уроженцы

В селе родился азербайджанский поэт и полицейский по профессии Шахмамед Шахмамедов.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Ахсуйского района


Since the weather continues to be abnormally Spring-like, I would invite you back into my garden. The flowers have taken hold in every corner and I would walk you around the property to show you. We will need to avoid the ants, which become a nuisance this week when I stepped into a nest. Since I only bought this house in the fall, I never know what will pop out of the naked branches. Each day something new shoots up. I'll finish the tour with the Quince, a huge bunch of dead looking sticks now exploding with petals.
As we sip coffee and snack on sweet, chocolaty goodies, I'll tell you how I've been writing outside or in front of a window pretty much everyday. I'm going back and forth between working on a ghost story novel I started over the summer and trying to finish the heist novel. The first one is going great, and the second one just went through Beta readers, so it has tons of things to fix.
I'll tell you it wasn't all good this week. My homeschooling chemistry lab on Friday was a flop, and we failed (despite repeated attempts) to generate measurable gas levels from a galvanized nail in a muriatic acid solution. You listen kindly, but since you don't home school your kids I'm not sure you get it. We both agree homeschooling is not easy for the mom, or the kids.
To change the subject we talk about books. I tell you I started reading my fifth novel of the year yesterday. That puts me well ahead of my 24-book Read Harder goal. So far only one novel disappointed me. That book earned one and a half stars. Oddly enough, it was the book I was most interested in reading. You remind me that sometimes you can't judge a book by its blurb. I mention the one down side to my new reading program: I'm attempting to use GoodReads. I'm forced to admit I have no clue what I'm doing. You remember my first failed attempts at blogging, Twitter, and Facebook, so you reassure me it will get better.
You ask about the blog. Of course you saw the new blog badges on the sidebar. I confirm the good news about the Very Inspiring Blogger Award, and that we signed up for the Blogging A to Z Challenge. This is our second year, and this time we have a theme picked out. You ask about the theme, but I just smile and remind you it's a secret.
On the plus side, I tell you what a great blog month it was. It was the best comments month we have ever had! Really, just fantastic. Our old friends welcomed us back after the long winter vacation and new friends showed up on our front page and said hello.
On that note, I'd tell you we were looking for some new guest bloggers. We already have two lined up, but I'd ask you to pass along the information to anyone with a writing-related topic they might want to share. At that moment my kids burst out the patio door and make a bee line for the trampoline. Amid the shouting you decide it's time to head home. But you promise me you will be back.
If We Were Having Coffee is a blog hop inspired and run by the lovely and talented Diana, over at Part Time Monster.
Please drop by her place for coffee. You can also see what other bloggers are hosting a coffee party by checking out the hashtag: #WeekendCoffeeShare on Twitter.
I'd love to have a hot chocolate with you (never learned to drink coffee) and discuss that garden. Just got my first seed catalog today and can't wait to "read" it. My garden, like most of the commentators, is under a layer of snow and it's hard to get to the compost to add to it, but the official first day of spring is only 45 days away. AND I can set my seeds now to give them a head start–the ones I transplant anyway. I got a new gardening book for Christmas, too, so I can read and plan even when the snow falls and the wind blows.
Hot chocolate sound perfect, I'll join you. I'm less into seeds at this point and more into plants. I think I want to add some more trees to the yard, perhaps an apricot, or an apple. I love to garden! The yard is my happy place. I wish you luck with yours, your planning to get a jump on spring sounds ideal.
I am a public school teacher and have taught just about anything you can imagine at church. It doesn't matter where you are teaching, lessons will fail at some time. Doesn't matter how much research, planning, preparation, or even how fool-proof they are, every plan will fail at some time. And it's uber annoying and frustrating whether I'm working with a small group or a large one.
The size of the group doesn't change the impact on my emotions or sell-esteem. But, we get up and do it again, and know that it isn't us, it's the way of life! The best lessons happen in the failures not in the successes. I actually encourage students to fail. Be willing to be wrong. That is where we learn the most!
I linked to your post in my post. I hope that was ok. I found an ah-ha in your post today that I needed to not beat myself up over a missed goal. Thank you for that!!!!
I'm glad you liked the post. Linking is just fine, people do it all the time and we consider it an honor. Thanks for stopping by and for the kind words about teaching. We all have those days when things don't go right, but it's helpful to remember it's not just us it happens too.
I live in the mountains, so I should have snow at this time of the year. If not at my house, than at least near by. But it has been warm all winter.
Oh, I wish we had room for a garden! I've lived in the country for most of my life, with plenty of grass and trees and room to grow things. We don't have a proper yard right now–just a bricked over patio in the back and a little playground across the street. I miss greenery.
I also home school (currently 8th grade), and we also have the occasional "failed" experiment. I do get frustrated when things don't work out as planned, but I try to look at it as teaching the more aggravating parts of science. 🙂 And I totally agree with you that home school can be tough on mom (or, in my case, stepmom)…so much planning and work and research and, sometimes, disappointment. The really awesome parts of home school make things totally worth it though. 😀 I enjoyed having coffee with you!
I'm really happy to have another homeschooling mom and stepmom, chime in. There are some challenging days, and science and math are the hardest for me to cope with. We did it this year because of moving to a new town. My eldest was really concerned about changing school mid year. Thanks for the encouragement. I'm sure it will get better and it is nice spending time with my eldest. I don't have that many years left that he will be interested in hanging out with his mom.
The chocolate is appreciated as well as the garden tour. Do you make anything with the quince fruit? I like the idea of writing outside for a change of pace. I have been thinking of trying new places and spaces for writing. You have reminded me to try it.
I just bought this house a few months ago. I don't even know what kind of quince I have yet. If I have one of the good types, and I get enough fruit, I will make jam from them.
I love to mix up my work space, mostly because I work off the kitchen in a little mud room space. I'm in the process of renovating a cottage that's in the way back of my yard. It's not a huge space, but I'm really looking forward to having my own office. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks so much for the tour, it was lovely, and the chocolate treats…yum! Home-schooling can be terribly hard, and I know this from experience. I home-schooled my daughter for a year, and it was a stressful time for us both, but we got through it and it helped her through a difficult time. You already know I'm doing the Read Harder challenge and I've started my first book, so I'm way behind you! I have chosen the complete list though, so I'm excited to get stuck in. As for the A to Z, I'm excited about it myself. On my other site (Writing Room 101) I'm planning a practice run in March, and all of the posts will be writing related (tips and tricks), so I'd be happy to guest post one of these. Thanks again for the coffee. I hope you have a lovely weekend…watch out for those ants!
I think that's the nature of being a mom. You always think you can do better.
Thanks for the pep talk! I needed that.