#supply chains are a lot more complicated than you realize and the store is probably understaffed anyway

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The 101 for Creating an Ethical Wardrobe

Do you know that 10 million pounds of clothing in the United States are dumped into landfills every year? Wouldn't it be great if we could open our closet doors, and stare into a sea of socially-conscious clothing made up of natural, sustainable fabrics, and know exactly where our clothing came from? We care about the food we eat, how much we exercise, and what beauty products we put on our face. Let's talk about what we are wearing. #whomadethis

Shop Small Big box retailers that carry the latest styles may have worked with several factories just to produce one article of clothing, let alone their whole spring collection - several very complicated supply chains are involved. With such complicated supply chains, it's hard for retailers to know whether their clothing is created by individuals in fair working conditions. Although we have come a long way with how large corporations are sourcing their merchandise, as consumers, it's important to take into consideration what we are supporting when we purchase an article of clothing.  By shopping at smaller stores, you're supporting artisans and small business owners - not child labor or unsafe working conditions which is common when the supply chain is more complicated and difficult to follow. Plus, your purchase makes a bigger impact on the business overall. We get it. When your favorite white tee gets an ugly stain that isn’t going anywhere and you need to replace it, it’s easy to order from the retailer you’ve been shopping at since you graduated college - but consider it an opportunity to branch out! With online retailers becoming the prime way everyone is shopping right now, the playing field has been leveled. Take a chance on some lesser known stores. If you’re concerned about returns, check the shop’s return policy before you place your order. It’s fun to find new brands and also have something slightly different than what most people are wearing. 

Shop Timeless Pieces That You Love Take a nod from Parisian women. They are notorious for having small, fashionable wardrobes with pieces standing the test of time. It’s very common for them to wear neutral colors. When they want to spice up their look they will, you guessed it, wear a scarf! (Okay and yes, totally shameless plug for FlourishBox right now). :-) By selecting high quality, timeless clothing over trendier pieces, you are not contributing to the landfill waste brought forth by fashion. 

Shop Second Hand This one can be tough depending on what you are looking for but websites like Poshmark have made it easier to find second hand pieces that still have a lot of life left. If you want to decrease your carbon footprint, try purchasing something that’s already been used. Not to mention, you can get some great items for a steal!

Shop Fair Trade How could we leave this one out? As a company that strives to only provide items that are traded fairly, this one really stands out to us. Do you know what it means to be fair trade? If not, check out our FAQ section. Essentially, it means that items are bought from workers and artisans at fair amounts that equal a liveable wage. This is a term that you'll probably see on various foods when you go grocery shopping or to your nearest local coffee shop - there are lots of opportunities to purchase fair trade coffee (but that's a whole other post). In buying fair trade clothing, you are supporting individuals in their craft and trade by paying them fair wages instead of going to big box companies where workers may only receive a small percent for their labor.  

Shop sustainability Synthetic fibers, like those found in polyester,  can take up to 200 years to decompose. Not to mention that every time a synthetic article of clothing is washed, over 700 microfibers are released into the water. These end up inside of smaller fish, which end up in bigger fish, which end up in fishing nets, and well, ultimately in our food supply. This is really a big issue with a small name - Micro Waste. Additionally, synthetic fabrics require various methods of manufacturing and contribute to the greenhouse gases emitted from manufacturing. If you want to be more green, we recommend natural fabrics such as silk, organic cotton, alpaca, hemp, and even fabrics like Tencel, pineapple fiber and sustainable bamboo. 

While we realize this is a lot to take in in just one post, we recommend just focusing on one of these areas to get started. Slowly, over time, you can begin to change your wardrobe and contribute to supporting companies that believe in sustainability, fair trade, and changing the world. 

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EQUIPMENT PROCUREMENT AND MATERIAL MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITAL

Medical equipment procurement is a critical factor in ensuring that the process of opening, moving, or even upgrading a medical facility is handled in a manner that both lets the doors open when planned, and delivers the level of service promised right from the start. Purchasing managers and facility equipment administrators across the country are becoming increasingly aware of the vital importance of bringing efficiency to this fairly complex undertaking as the healthcare marketplace continues to dictate the need to both cut costs and increase quality performance.

One of the best ways to effectively streamline the overall process, of going from an empty facility to one which is fully equipped and ready to go, is to evaluate getting from point A to Z in systematically achievable steps. With that in mind, let’s take a look at 5 Ways to Improve Medical Equipment Procurement Efficiency.

Reduce operational drag – A major move in the direction of increased efficiency and streamlined management is that of breaking free of traditional paper-based, multi-step procedures that call for numerous purchase orders, departmental authorizations, reviews, comparisons, filing processes and related steps. An automated procurement solution that helps to organize the process is a more appropriate option.

Minimize vendors – A preoccupation with cost reduction in equipment procurement scenarios often leads to a fixation on only price, thereby losing sight of the expanded expense demands of lost efficiency in dealing with a variety of vendors. Finding a proven vendor that can provide everything from competitively priced equipment all the way through to delivery and set-up is often a better overall solution than simply focusing on just the price of an item itself.

Streamline the logistics chain – One of the main advantages of dealing with a single full-service medical equipment provider is the efficiency this brings in going from identified need to the right piece of equipment being in the right location, fully operational and ready to use at the right time.

That is the bottom line in the medical equipment procurement processes from the point of view of the purchasing manager, the medical professional and the client at the service end of the operation.

Minimize potential problems – As with any complex procurement scenario, the chances for complications to create downtime exist. Employing a single procurement solutions’ provider both dramatically reduces the likelihood of such events, and minimizes their impact when they do occur.

Deliveries and service issues are integrated for increased operational efficiency; offsite storage fees are reduced; and damage repair and service issues are incorporated into the overall procurement process.

Leverage vendor experience – Seek out a vendor with years of experience working with a wide variety of medical facilities, helping those institutions pick the best, most cost efficient products to meet their needs, providing consultation regarding technological issues and locating difficult to find specialty equipment.

These five ways to improve medical equipment procurement efficiency essentially simplify what has historically been complex series of separate transactions and arrangements.

Keeping up with the advancements of the healthcare industry can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. When addressing medical equipment procurement, whether for new facility construction, building expansion or for an update to an existing one, having an efficient and cost-conscious process is critical.

The four things to look for in the procurement provider should be: National Presence Adequate Sales/Support Force Quick Delivery System Plans for Growth

What are some operational challenges that health systems are having with their supply chain?

The big one is product standardization. Your health system is in a growth mode. You’re adding hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices, urgent-care centers, retail clinics and home care. When you do that, you’re adding sites of care that probably aren’t using the same medical supplies and equipment as you. And you’re probably not ordering all of your medical supplies and equipment the same way. With the right supply chain partner, you can start tracking all that and identify opportunities to standardize products and product ordering across all your care delivery sites.

According to a recent survey of 100 hospital supply chain leaders, nearly half of respondents still use a somewhat manual process such as Excel spreadsheets and other less sophisticated/outdated tools to manage inventory, supply expenses and other supply chain activities.

What other operational challenges do health systems face in supply chain management?

Your challenge as a health system is how to get the right products to the right places in the right quantity at the right time. That’s why your health system needs a customized supply chain that extends into each and every corner of your operation that provides care to patients.

How have new market entrants influenced how health systems think about their supply chain?

It’s exciting to think that you could order a box of surgical gloves over a voice assistant and have it delivered in two hours. But the excitement doesn’t always match the reality of what you need. And what you need is consistency. You want consistency of price, right? You don’t want the price changing all the time, and you don’t have the time to comparison shop for the best price every time you need something. You also want consistent availability. You never want the things that your patients need to be unavailable or out of stock.

What about delivery time from new market entrants? What do health systems say about that?

A lot of people that we talk to think that if you can get books the same or next day, you can get medical supplies the same or next day. There certainly are items that you can get the same or next day. But, those are general items for general use. When you dig deeper, you realize that your health system uses a lot of obscure items. One-time items. And our industry has a lot of obscure products that patients need. Getting that item from a new market entrant may take a week, two weeks or even three weeks. That just doesn’t work in healthcare. You need what you need in two days or less. Those are just table stakes for the healthcare supply chain.

What about the security of the supply chain? Should health systems be concerned about safety?

That’s always a challenge no matter who you buy from. You should know where your items are coming from. If you buy from a legacy distributor, you’re buying the original products from the original manufacturers who sell directly to the distributor. If you buy from a new market entrant, that line may not be so straight. The sellers may not be authorized distributors for the product. You don’t know where they got the product from. You don’t know who shipped and stored that product. If we’re talking about cold storage of drugs, that can be a real issue from a patient safety standpoint. You need to ask those questions of any of your supply chain partners.

Security is a hallmark of effective supply chain management. So is standardization. Yet new products come into the market all the time.

How can a health system access those items with its supply chain?

There is a lot of innovation happening right now. A lot of those vendors and suppliers are trying to sell into your health system. That’s a good problem to have, and your supply chain needs to be flexible enough to accommodate new things that can help you deliver the best care to patients. But, at the same time, you can’t be flexible in the quality and cost criteria that you use to determine whether you should buy an item or not. At most of the health systems we work with, a new product needs to run through quite a gauntlet to get on to the menu of things you can buy. Supply chain leaders are under a lot of pressure. But they are the gatekeepers who can look at these innovations objectively and decide in consultation with clinicians whether to adopt them or not.

Beyond the innovations, what other supply chain trends should health systems stay on top of?

The supply chain leaders at your health system will need the technology and the information systems to know where every medical supply, piece of equipment or device came from, how your staff used it, who used it and where it went.

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Women’s Things

Note: I promise I’m not dead. I’m just busy. There’s a lot of things I have in the works, I just gotta finish them. My life has kinda been taken over by law school, CSLB and other nonsense, but winter is coming and with it comes winter break. Hopefully I will get a lot of crap done during that time and maybe even finish A Once and Future Thing. But until then, enjoy this LP garbage. In this fic, Harrison is 15, Wes is 13, Beth is 11 and Neddy is 7. As always, it wouldn’t be possible without the nurturing and loving support of my favorite lady ever, @welllpthisishappening. Enjoy Daddy!Killian awkwardness! Summary: With his wife away, Killian Jones has to deal with his eleven-year old daughter’s first period by himself. Rating: T Word Count: 4,900+

“Dad,” seven-year old Neddy Jones said with a hint of impatience. He was staring at his father pointedly and doing what Killian considered to be a startling impression of his mother with his hands resting on his hips, lips twisted into a deep frown and eyebrows set low.

Killian glanced up from his book and looked at his youngest with raised eyebrows. Without even looking down, he dog-eared the page and closed his book. Whatever was bugging Neddy, Killian was sure it was going to take up a bit of his time. The child had a habit of dropping some pretty complicated situations on his lap.

“Yes?” he asked, leaning forward and giving his son an expectant stare of his own.

“You need to go yell at Beth,” Neddy replied, hands leaving his hips and crossing in front of his chest; once more acting older than his years. Killian privately blamed his older children for this.

“What for, may I ask?”

“She’s hogging up our bathroom. She has her own bathroom in her own room but she’s hogging ours like a jerk. She’s been in there for like an hour and I really need to pee. Bad.”

Killian’s eyebrows moved from their raised position and furrowed as he digested his son’s words.

“There’s more than one bathroom,” he said after a moment. “Can’t you use the one downstairs?”

“That one’s broken. Wes killed it two days ago, remember?” Neddy replied, voice still filled with childish annoyance. “Can you go yell at her? I really need to pee, Dad.”

Killian sighed.

“Look, if you really need to go, you can use the one in our room…just don’t make a mess. I’ll go and check on your sister. If she’s been in there as long as you say, she’s probably sick.”

Neddy didn’t even bother to give a response, he immediately sprinted down the hallway towards his parents’ bedroom with an urgency that Killian hadn’t expected considering the lack of pee dance. He shook his head and casually walked down the hallway to where the boys’ bathroom was located. Killian gave the door a tentative knock.

“Go away Neddy before I beat your face in!” Beth’s voice sounded through the wood.

Killian blinked, not expecting that response.

“Not if I have anything to say about,” he replied, frowning. “Minnow, are you okay in there? Neddy says you’ve been in there for a while.”

There was long pause and Killian shifted on his heels as he waited for a response. A sense of nervousness started to creep in as the seconds ticked by.

“Dad…” Beth’s voice called. It no longer held the same aggression as before. If anything, it sounded scared. Alarm bells went off in his head.

“Beth…” Killian tried to keep his tone calm. “Elizabeth, are you okay?”

“Daddy…” Beth cracked open the door slightly so that she could peek out at him. Her face was pale and she was looking up at him with large green eyes; looking more Neddy’s age than her eleven years. “I think I’m dying…”

Killian’s eyes went wide.

“What do you mean you’re dying? Open the door! What’s going on!?”

“No!” she said, violently shaking her head. “Don’t come in! It’s embarrassing!”

“I don’t give a damn if it’s embarrassing,” Killian replied firmly, pushing against the door. His efforts were thwarted by the old-fashioned lock chain. The door whined and the chain rattled under the force of his push but didn’t budge any farther. Beth took a step back, looking startled. Killian couldn’t tell if it was because of his cursing or by his sudden attempt to open the door. “If you’re hurt, I need to know about it.”

“No! I don’t want you to see!” Beth said firmly, face flushed as she shook her head forcefully. Beth had inherited her mother’s ivory skin and just like how it was with Emma, her face went bright red at the drop of a hat. Whatever it was going on, Killian’s daughter was very much embarrassed of it and he couldn’t possibly imagine what it was.

“What don’t you want me to see, Minnow?” Killian asked softly, tilting his head to get a better look at inside the bathroom. All he could see his daughter and an empty roll of toilet paper that had been thoughtlessly thrown on the floor. “I’m worried here. If you don’t want to show me what’s wrong, can you at least tell me so I possibly do something about it from out here?”

Beth teetered her spot by the door, leaning backwards and curling her fingers around the edge of the old beaten up sink. She bit her lip in a fashion that was similar to Emma’s when she was struggling with something; face still bright red.

“I’m bleeding,” she said after a moment. “Down there…”

She gestured quickly to the apex of her thighs and Killian’s eyes bulged comically as he suddenly realized the meaning behind her words. Without even thinking, he stepped back a few steps until his back hit the wooden rails that surrounded the stairway. His face turned its own shade of red as a sense of panic took hold. This was something he was not equipped for. This was a job for his wife, the Savior. He immediately turned around, clutching the rails like they were a lifeline and peered down at the ground floor below.

“Swan!” he yelled. “Swan! I need you! Swan!”

No response.

“Swan!” he called again. “Come on, Swan!”

“She’s not here!” Wes called from he could only assume was the living room. The boy was becoming a regular couch potato. “She said she was going to talk to Regina about unicorn blood or something I kinda don’t care about but she said she would be gone for an hour and we all know that’s a lie.”

“Shit,” Killian muttered under his breath. He ran his fingers through his hair and glanced back at the bathroom where his daughter now looked terrified. He hadn’t seen her looked this spooked since she was four years old and having dreams about her heart being stolen.

“I’m dying aren’t I, Daddy?” she asked, tears starting to brim her eyes. It hurt him to see her like this. Beth, out of all of his children, was the most fearless and rarely ever cried. Not even when she broke her arm when she was six-years old had she shed a tear.

Killian swallowed and gave his daughter smile that was meant to be reassuring but only came off as uneasy. If she had been dying, this might have been simpler for him to handle but that wasn’t the case. His daughter now had…. women’s issues and he wasn’t entirely unprepared for it. When Killian had held Beth in his arms for the first time, he had imagined reading her bedtime stories and blowing raspberries against her baby belly. He never imagined this.

“No, sweetheart,” he said. “You’re not dying. What you’re going through right now is completely and utterly normal. You’re perfectly okay.”

“But it hurts…” she replied with a whimper that made Killian hate himself a bit.

“I know, I know,” he said gently. “And we’re going to do something about it. Why don’t you change and get some toilet paper to deal with…the mess…and how about we go shopping for some supplies to make you feel better? Sounds good, aye?”

“I’m not dying?” she asked again, still looking up at him with big eyes. The flush was gone and now she was pale again, freckles standing out in stark contrast against the pallor of her cheeks.

“No,” he said. “Not dying. Just change and we’ll go to the store and I’ll do my best to explain what’s going on…Honestly, this is something your mother is better suited for, but she’s with Regina so we’re going to have to make do, love.”

“Okay,” she mumbled, moving to close the door. Killian stepped forward and placed his hand against the wood to stop her efforts.

“Hey, listen to me for a moment,” he said softly.

Beth pursed her lips briefly but then stopped, nodded and waited for him for speak.

“I just need to emphasize that what is happening right now is completely natural and you are not dying. You’re perfectly and wonderfully fine right now. Unfortunately, what’s you’re going through is a woman’s thing and I don’t have a lot of answers, but what I do know is that you’re going to be okay. Do you believe me?”

She glanced down at her feet for a moment before she responded with a small nod. Killian let out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding.

“Good,” he said. “Now, get changed and we’ll go. Aye?”

“Aye.”

When she closed the door, Killian leaned back against the rails and placed his hand over his face. He sighed for a moment, rubbing his temples and laughing a bit because he couldn’t help himself. He had been woefully unprepared of this element of parenting.

Twenty minutes later, Killian was driving his daughter to Dark Star Pharmacy in what could be considered one of the most awkward and uncomfortable moments of his very long life. Beth was curled up in the passenger’s seat, wearing one of Harrison’s shirts, which were far too larger for her small frame and looked as if it were swallowing her whole. The questionable ensemble was complete with a pair of a yoga pants that Killian wasn’t sure were entirely appropriate to be worn in public at her age but considering the look of irritation on her face and his own experience of dealing with his wife while she was experiencing her courses, he knew better than to comment on her appearance. It was honestly the least of his worries as he was fumbling through the worst explanation of human anatomy in the history of the realms.

“What’s you’re going through…the blood and all that business…it’s called menstruation,” he said awkwardly after a moment.

“Menstruation,” she repeated, cocking her head to the side as if she were taking a moment to ponder the term. “But you said it’s a girl thing.”

“It is,” he confirmed with a nod, focusing on the road rather than looking at his daughter.

“Then why does it have the word ‘men’ in it?” she asked with a frown.

Killian blinked at the question.

“I…I don’t know,” he replied, wanting to shrug his shoulders. “It’s just what it’s called, but in this realm, I believe it’s often referred to as a period.”

Beth scrunched her nose, not looking at all impressed.

“Why?”

“Good question, but once again, I don’t know the reasons for the nomenclature…”

“Nomenclature?”

“That is a fancy term used to describe why people describe things the way they do. It was actually one of your brother’s SAT words for him to practice,” Killian replied, relieved to find another topic to discuss. He would much rather talk about the confusion and absurdity of SAT testing than female biology.

“I’m eleven, Dad,” Beth replied flatly. “SATs aren’t for like a million years away.”

“Right,” he chuckled. “My mistake.”

“So…this whole bleeding menstruation period whatever thing…why is it happening?” she asked, tentatively biting her lip and pulling her knees up to her chest.

Killian wanted to scold her about getting her dirty sneakers on the seat but thought better of it considering the circumstance. Beth seemed more inquisitive and compliant at the moment, but he knew if she were anything like her mother that was subject to change at a moment’s notice.

“Ummm…well,” Killian muttered awkwardly. He felt the strongest urge to scratch the back of his ear, but the curse of being one-handed meant that he had to keep his only viable hand on the wheel at all times. “It’s…it’s something that women deal with a monthly basis…so once a month it happens…and it’s kinda your body’s way of prepping and clearing out for a baby…”

Beth gave him a disgusted look, wrinkling her nose. Once more, Killian was reminded of his wife and how she looked whenever she was grossed out by something. Everyone loved to say that Beth was his baby, but her mannerisms and her iron spine were all from Emma. Sometimes he wondered if they should have named her Emma Junior, Emmalita or Emmaline rather than Elizabeth, considering how eerily similar she was to her mother at times.

“That’s gross! And stupid! I don’t want a baby,” she commented, resting her head on top of her knees.

“And you shouldn’t until you’re 35 years old and married,” Killian replied with a chuckle. “But your body doesn’t know that so it just does what it does just in case you decide you want to have a child, which is why you bleed every month. All just in case and to keep you healthy.”

“Wait! Wait! Wait!” Beth exclaimed, eyes going wide as she lifted her head up from her knees to look at him in sudden horror. “I’m going to bleed…down there…every month? Are you kidding me?”

“No, I’m not kidding. For roughly five days every month until you’re older.”

“That super sucks!” she groaned.

“Aye, it does suck but that’s biology for you, Minnow…”

“Do boys go through anything like this?” Beth grumbled, glaring at him.

“I’m afraid not,” Killian replied ruefully. “Boys have different things going on with them, but nothing quite like what goes on with girls…I’m not sure how to describe it to you aside from it’s just different.”

“Ugh, being a girl sucks. Why couldn’t I be a boy?!” Beth mumbled, banging her chin against her knees.

“Maybe, but not all the time. If you were a boy, you probably wouldn’t have gotten the room with its own bathroom. You would probably have to share with your brothers.”

“Yeah, that’s don’t make up for it,” Beth mumbled, narrowing her eyes at him.

“Fair enough,” Killian replied with a rueful grin.

The conversation lulled there into an uncomfortable silence between father and daughter. Beth decided to spend the time drumming her fingers against her right shin and glaring out the window as if she was pissed off with the world. Killian occasionally glanced at her out of the corner of his eye to make sure she was okay, but did little more than that until he had driven them into the parking lot of the pharmacy.

Killian didn’t have much experience with feminine products. His dealings with them were generally picking up whatever brand Emma put down on the grocery list for the week and pushing past them in the medicine cabinet to get his razor. To say that he was overwhelmed with the massive number of products in the women’s health aisle was an understatement. He knew what Emma wanted, but he wasn’t necessarily certain that he wanted to purchase O.B. non-applicator tampons for his eleven-year old daughter who probably had no idea what to do with them.

Oh.

Oh shit.

A new horrifying thought entered his brain. Was he going to have teach her how to use them? The very idea made him want to be violently ill. He had a basic concept of how tampons worked but it was one thing to know how they worked, it was an entirely different thing to explain and teach his daughter how to use them. He desperately needed Emma. He couldn’t do this.

“Are you having trouble, young man?” A kind elderly woman asked him as she grabbed a package of Poise liners off the shelf next to him.

“I have no idea what I’m doing,” Killian responded without giving much thought, scratching at the patch of skin behind his ear.

“Well, what’s the issue?” the woman asked, raising her eyebrows at him.

“My daughter…she…she’s experiencing…ladies’ issues for the first time,” he said awkwardly. He turned to gesture to his daughter only to find she wasn’t there. He went pale for a moment, eyes frantically scanning his surroundings for where she might have gone to.

“I’m assuming your daughter is the grumpy little girl in the very large shirt over in the candy aisle,” the woman said in amusement.

“Sounds like her,” he muttered, face flushing red. “But yeah, I have no idea what to get her. This isn’t my element, I’m afraid.”

“Well, i can’t say I’m surprised. Most men avoid the subject like the plague. My husband wouldn’t ever have thought to deal with this on his own, let alone step a foot in this aisle. It’s nice to know that some fathers aren’t afraid of a little biology,” she replied. “How old is she?”

“Eleven,” Killian responded with a small smile.

“That’s a little on the young side,” the woman commented, nodding. “Normally most girls don’t experience that until they’re twelve, but it’s not unheard for some girls as young as eight to get it.”

Killian nodded, unable of what else to say to something like that. He genuinely had no real basis on the subject aside from his observations of his wife and what he had read about when it came to human anatomy.

The woman didn’t seem to be looking for a response however. Instead she was scanning the shelves that Killian had just been perusing. After a moment, she pulled a pink and blue box covered in multicolored stars and hearts off the rack and handed it to him.

“I’m not sure how familiar you are with feminine products, but these are sanitary napkins aimed at young girls like your daughter. They come with pretty self-explanatory instructions, so you shouldn’t have to do too much.”

“Thank you,” he replied, shifting in place and nodding. He looked at down at the box that read “Kotex Tween,” feeling a bit foolish. He couldn’t help but feel like the little stars and hearts were mocking him a bit for not noticing them before. He gave the woman a small smile and shook the box at her in absence of a wave. As he turned to leave, she placed a hand on his arm.

“I know this probably wasn’t the most comfortable thing for you to deal with, but I’m glad you met it head on instead of just relying on your wife to handle “women’s things.” And for that, I want you to know that I think you’re a great dad,” she said gently. “And I’m going to give you a little more advice. I don’t know your daughter but most girls are little sensitive around this time. Be gentle with her. Get her chocolate. My granddaughter loves Cadbury so I recommend that. Lots of water and some Advil help. A hot water bottle or a heating pad do wonders.”

“Thank you truly,” Killian repeated with a small smile, mentally filing away the information she had just given him. “I’ll keep all of this in mind.”

When he went to find his daughter and check out, she was still in the candy aisle and staring at the assortment of chocolates with some akin to desperation in her eyes. Upon seeing her, Killian switched the Kotex box over to balance on his left hip so he could hook his arm around Beth. He leaned over to place a kiss on the crown of her head. Beth squirmed a bit under the attention, but didn’t push him away.

“See something you like?” he asked her gently, smoothing his hand down her shoulder.

“I really, really, really want chocolate, Dad,” she muttered, looking up at him with those big green eyes of her eyes. The pitiful pleading look she gave him was complete with a small pout.

“Well, just pick whatever you like, Minnow. We can have a nibble and watch some movies,” he replied with a chuckle.

“Really? Anything I want?” she asked excitedly. For the first time since the incident began, Killian saw his daughter smile.

“Aye,” he responded, giving her another kiss on the head. “Whatever you want. I have good authority that Cadbury is a good brand to go with.”

“Cadbury,” Beth repeated. She glanced at the rack where a stack of purple chocolate bars baring the name “Cadbury” were placed and cocked her head at him. “That’s expensive though. Mom never lets me get that stuff.”

“Let me worry about that, okay?” Killian replied with a smile.

Beth tentatively reached for one of the Cadbury bars on the rack, looking at him with questioning eyes. He nodded encouragingly at her. She took one of the larger bars which had been labeled as milk chocolate. Internally, Killian cringed at her choice. While he wasn't much of a chocolate person, he did have a preference for dark chocolate over milk chocolate; the latter was too sweet for him. He preferred his confections a little on the bitter side.

"You sure you just want one bar?" he asked, nodding his head back at the variety of candy bars in front of them.

"You mean I can have more than one?" she asked, blinking.

"Of course. Though this is more of a special occasion thing, love. Don't think every time we go to the store I'm going to let you buy more than one," he said, soothing a hand through her hair.

"Cool," she grinned, grabbing another bar from the rack. This time it was a dark chocolate bar. She smiled and handed it over to him. "Now we can both have one."

"I don't need chocolate, Minnow," he said, shaking his head and placing the bar back on the rack. "It's a lovely thought but this is about you."

"Yeah but I want you to have one too,” she replied with a frown.

“I don’t need any chocolate, Beth,” he repeated.

Beth gave him a hard look, once more reminding Killian of his wife. She pursed her lips for a moment before picking up the dark chocolate bar again. This time she didn’t hand it to him.

“This is what I want,” she said firmly. “But you gotta promise on the Jolly Roger that if I get full that you’ll finish it for me.’

“You want me to promise on the Jolly Roger?” Killian repeated, eyebrows raising.

“Yup,” she replied, popping the ‘p’ and giving him a smirk that was more Jones than Swan. “And on Mom too. That’s how I know you’re serious and won’t break your promise.”

Killian couldn’t help it, he laughed; shaking his head at the absurdity of the moment.

“Alright,” he chuckled. “I swear on both on the Jolly Roger and on your mother, bless her, that I will finish your candy bar if you get full.”

The smile that he received after he finished speaking made it worth the ridiculous promise. Beth was grinning ear-to-ear, looking more like the child he knew than the grumpy little girl he had gone into the store with. She reached for his hand, intertwining their fingers and swung them merrily between them as they approached the counter and made their purchases.

Upon arrival back at the house, Killian handed the plastic bag to his daughter and gave her a gentle smile.

“Everything you need is in there, love. There’s directions on how to use…the things…I’m going to kick your brother off the couch and get you a heating pad and we’ll have a quiet afternoon. Sound alright?” Killian said gently.

Beth blinked.

“You’re kicking Wes out of the man cave?” she asked dubiously.

“It’s not a man cave, love,” Killian replied with a snort. “It’s our living room and he can’t monopolize the television forever. If anything, this is good for him. I’m starting to get worried that he’s putting down roots.”

Beth shook her head, once more giving him a doubtful look.

“Yeah, good luck with that,” she muttered under her breath as she made her way up the stairs.

As expected, Killian’s thirteen year was lazing on the couch in the living room, watching some cartoon show. His feet were swinging absently in the air and Killian was certain that there was a mark on his cheek from holding his head in the cradle of his palm for too long. His overgrown blonde hair was pulled into a haphazard bun, but Killian still could see the greasiness of it that heralded it’s unwashed state. It was quite obvious that his son had not showered the entire weekend. As he walked into the room, Wes made no move, not even a grunt in acknowledgement, but Killian wasn’t expecting any. At least, not until he took the remote laying abandoned on the couch and promptly shut the television off. The effect was immediate. Wes turned around and glared at him.

“I was watching that,” he said in annoyed tone.

“Yeah, and now you’re going to be a good lad and take a shower,” Killian replied, unimpressed with the attitude. “You reek.”

Wes promptly raised his arm and tilted his head to give himself a quick sniff. He took a moment to consider the smell and then shrugged casually.

“I’m not too bad. I’ll take one later,” he said dismissively, reaching for the remote.

Killian pulled it out of his reach.

“No,” he said firmly. “You’re taking a shower now and your sister and I are going to have a turn with the television. She’s not feeling well.”

“If she’s not feeling good then she should go to bed, sleep and not being such a whiner,” Wes responded, crossing his arms in front of his chest. “You know things would be much easier if you just let us have our own televisions.”

“Not on your life,” Killian replied, frowning at him. “You would never leave your room if we did that. Though, now that I’m thinking about it, that isn’t necessarily such a bad thing.”

“Hilarious Dad,” Wes responded, rolling his eyes. “But in all seriousness, I will go take a shower and even let you have the TV for the rest of the day if you and Mom get me my own TV that I don’t have to share with anyone.”

“This isn’t a negotiation,” Killian said, narrowing his eyes at him. “I think you forget who the captain of this ship is. Go upstairs, take a shower and maybe do your homework for once. Your time with the television is done.”

“And if I don’t?” Wes asked, raising an eyebrow challengingly.

Killian gave him a mirthless smile, drawing himself to his full height and narrowing his eyes at the boy. Killian Jones, fun-loving Dad, took a seat on the bench as Captain Hook took over.

“If you don’t, then you’re grounded. No television. No phone. No computer. No Gideon. And I will make you scrub the entire deck of the Jolt by yourself. Sound like fun?”

Wes glared at him, letting out a moody huff before getting up and stomping out of the living room. Under his breath, he muttered unkind things about his father and something about “ not fair.” Killian just shook his head, running his fingers through his hair. Honestly, why had they decided to have kids again?

Killian set up the Netflix queue before going into the downstairs closet near the bathroom and pulling out Emma’s old heating pad. It hadn’t been used since Neddy was a toddler, but Killian couldn’t imagine it not still working. As he was setting it up, Beth returned downstairs. She was still wearing Harrison’s gigantic football t-shirt, but she had changed into a different pair of leggings.

“You alright?” he asked gently.

“Yeah,” she said, tugging her hair behind her ear. “I feel like I’m wearing a diaper though.”

Killian blinked, giving her a perplexed look.

“I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing,” Killian responded, chuckling a bit. “You’re going to have to ask your mother about that.”

“Speaking of Mom, we can make her milk dud popcorn,” Beth asked, swinging the plastic bag that held the chocolate bars and giving him another pout.

“I think the chocolate is enough, love. I’m trying to make you feel better, not give you any more cavities than you already have. I may not take you to the dentist, but I’ve seen the bill,” Killian replied dryly.

Beth hopped on the couch, sighing dramatically.

“Worth a shot,” she mumbled, before turning a bit on her side to face him. “What are we watching?”

“Whatever you want to watch,” he said with a shrug. “When your mother isn’t feeling well, she loves to watch Princess Bride, Love Actually and She’s the Man. I’m willing to suffer through them if that’s what you want to watch.”

Beth wrinkled her nose at him, leaning up a bit to give him an unimpressed look.

“Really? Chick flicks? Do I look like Grandma Snow to you?” she scoffed and rolled her eyes in the most teenager way possible. He had no doubt she learned that one from her brothers. “What about Men in Black? Or Mad Max? Or the Terminator?”

“I’m pretty sure you’re too young for any of those movies,” Killian remarked, raising his eyebrows.

“Oh, but I love them! Especially the Terminator! Arnold is like bigger than Har and super awesome!” Beth responded before lowering her voice to make one of the worst Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions that Killian had ever head. “Come with me if you want to live!”

“Alright,” he chuckled, settling down next to her and kissing her hair. “We can watch the Terminator, but you have to swear on the Jolly Roger that you won’t tell your mother about this.”

Beth snorted.

“I swear on the Jolly Roger that I won’t tell Mom about this,” she said with a roll of her eyes. “Not that matters because you’re going to totally tell her anyway.”

“Perhaps,” Killian remarked as he reached over to grab the remote and searched for their feature film on the Netflix queue. “But that’s up to me. Now hush and let’s watch your movie.”

[nickgerlich]

Going Forward From COVID-19

The Road Ahead:  After COVID-19 Five weeks in to a pandemic, and the amount we have learned and changed thus far is enough to fill volumes. We have learned about how the human animal reacts when confronted with the very real fear of being locked up for weeks. We have seen shoppers go crazy over basic items the likes of which were taken for granted the week before this all happened. We have seen people struggle with boredom and ennui, to the point of gathering at the playground anyway for an impromptu game of hoops, or the sudden urge to stroll the aisles of Lowe’s just to get out. We have tried to shelter-in-place, but it’s tough. We’ve seen 16 million people (so far) furloughed from jobs. We have started to wonder how many of those jobs will come back once the curtain of disease is lifted. We wonder how many abandoned restaurants and retail shops will litter the landscape down the road. If we are among the lucky, we have worked from home, having realized the offices in which we once congregated are luxury and probably not all that necessary. We have started pondering if there will be school and university this fall like we once knew it, or whether all academic institutions will be virtual. We have taught from home, we have studied from home. We have Zoomed like a boss, held office hours in our pajamas, and typed profound lectures and essays for our students. Like this one. We have cooked with reckless abandon, and more than we did in the previous five years combined. We have baked bread and added the word “artisanal” to our vocabulary. We now know more ways to cook beans than we ever thought imaginable. We have cauliflowered, Brussels sprouted, and squashed to the point that everyone is at least half-vegan now. We have gloved, masked, and covered to the point that no one recognizes us in public. We can visualize six feet now, we know that we shouldn’t reach in over someone else’s shoulder (well, most of us), and we are aware that we should give way on the bike and hike path so we can all safely pass without inhaling another person’s exhaust. We have found the end of Netflix, cleaned out the garage and basement, organized old photos, and alphabetized our closets. We’ve mowed, mulched, and planted (even if we did violate shelter-in-place orders to go to Lowe’s). We’ve clicked “Add To Cart” to the point of getting a blister on our right index finger. We’ve got enough empty boxes around the house now to start a small shipping company. I could wax poetically for many more paragraphs, but suffice it to say that this is only the beginning. Sure, someday the virus will have run its course and we will be free to carry on. But we will emerge into a very different world once more, one unlike we are experiencing right now mid-pandemic, but also unlike the one we left behind in February. If you’ll pardon me while I slip on my crystal ball gazers, here’s what I see in that brave new world post-COVID, and if you look at these through the correct lens, you will see a wellspring of opportunities for savvy businesspersons. What We Will See All buildings will be reimagined so that people can come and ago with little or no physical contact. We’re all going to be germaphobes anyway, so now is the time to start preparing. Entry ways will have optical sensors to automatically open and close doors, or, at minimum, doors will have handles that can be in such a way that does not require people to use their hands. Public restrooms do not need doors at all; instead, they can be designed or reconfigured to have L-shaped doorless entries. This does not solve the problem of doors on the stalls, but it is a move in the right direction. Beverage coolers and freezers will have automated doors as well. The same goes for office doors; there’s no reason we can’t use retina scanners or ID cards that can be scanned or tapped. Companies able to ramp up to this new reality will do well in the future. And don’t get me started on mass transit and airplanes. Those are going to be tough, but precautions can be taken, even if it means having crews disinfect everything on a regular basis. In addition to soft drink and candy machines, as well as cologne and condoms in public restrooms, we will see vending machines for gloves, masks, hand sanitizers, and other disinfectants. While supplies of these will hopefully be better in the future, it is inevitable that people will be caught out in public without one or more of these new survival essentials. Having them available, and, most importantly, knowing that these machines are ubiquitous, will ease fears wherever we may roam. This change does not require any advances in technology, other than machines that do not require any touching, especially if people have a special tool with them at all times for when they have to revert to old-school. Oh, and the mass transit and airplanes I mentioned a minute ago would be well-served by these machines at train and bus stations, as well as airports. Which brings up devices like the CleanKey, being promoted heavily on Facebook and Instagram right now. It is a handy little tool that attaches to your keyring, and functions either as a door puller, or like an iPad stylus to push buttons or sign names. Until contactless payment systems are installed, products like this will serve as an effective bridge.

Better yet, though, would be the proliferation of stores like Amazon Go, the one currently still in west coast prototype that allows people to enter, check-in to an app, and then shop without ever having to touch a thing other than the products they are adding to their basket. Cutting out the payment gateway, whether it be with a clerk or a self-check, will cut down on virus vectors. But until then, though, we will see more stores with self-check options. Yes, I know this means the elimination of many cashier jobs, but who wants to be a cashier these days anyway? Yes, the pay has historically been among the highest in the store, but you are exposed to hundreds of people and their germs every day. Self-check, along with the CleanKey, allows us to take care of ourselves and once again cut down on contacts. Speaking of stores, once the pandemic is over, I surely hope that everyone offering online ordering and curbside pickup has perfected this process. It’s a great idea to order online and pick up the order later, but there has gotten to be such long wait times, as in multiple days, that it is hardly worth it anymore. I am certain that people would happily allow for the potential germs of the order picker in lieu of having to share space and oxygen with dozens or even hundreds of other shoppers. Efforts will no doubt be made to get turnaround times back to a couple of hours instead of early next week. Education will forever be changed. While we in the College of Business have been teaching online since 1997, the same cannot be said of other parts of my university, and certainly at many other schools. Professors and Instructors will have to rethink everything in the future, including how quickly a class could be flipped to online should the need arise. Furthermore, the entire K-12 curriculum will change, since that environment seldom if ever involved online teaching. While the use of Zoom for class meetings is a laudable short-term adaptation, everyone will have to consider how to make everything asynchronous, just as the online pioneers did from Day 1. It defeats the purpose of being online if you have to be somewhere at 11:00am every Monday and Wednesday, even if that was the original class meeting time slot. The pandemic has thrown everyone’s worlds upside-down, and that 11:00 reference point may no longer be viable. Manufacturers and their supply chains will work better in the future to try to avert shortages in the event of panic buying. While it has been widely reported that toilet paper manufacturers have long been running 24/7 at full capacity, that left zero room for any shift in the demand curve. While it is laudable to not have any unused capacity, it is just as unlaudable to be caught unable to respond. The ability to produce and distribute more toilet paper suddenly became as complicated as the Titanic trying to avoid an iceberg, and it shouldn’t be. Shifting gears between consumer and commercial production must be easier in the future. Similarly, supply chains for agricultural crops must be able to turn on a dime. The state of Florida is now reporting massive amounts of vegetables that are either being plowed under or allowed to rot, all because commercial contracts dried up. While there are indeed big differences between foodservice and institutional users on the one hand, and supermarkets on the other, once again rigid thinking has made it impossible for growers and distributors to change gears quickly. Since we’re talking about food, buffets have got to go. They are a pandemic waiting to happen. Think about how careless people have been in the past, at everything from Golden Corral to massive Las Vegas casino buffets. In fact, restaurants in general will have to rethink everything, from sit-down dining to takeaway and drive-through. Everything from filthy-dirty menus to tables wiped with the same nasty rag the bus boy used yesterday needs to be revisited. Gloves and masks for everyone, regardless of whether they work as well we would hope, because they at least instill a little confidence in customers. Every kind of event will have to work through the reality of a pandemically-aware population. From churches to concerts, sports arenas, bars, and anything else that attracts large numbers of people, heightened attention must be paid to allowing participation without putting everyone in peril. It’s going to be tough. I think back to all of the concerts I have attended, from the mosh pits of the 1970s to more sedate seating in my later years, there’s still a lot of humanity all sharing the same space. I will think twice before I go to church or another concert again. New home construction would be wise to include expanded pantries so that people can stockpile their pandemic stash. My 1980-ish house may have a lot of cabinets, but could sure use a walk-in pantry. We will all need a place to inventory toilet paper, paper towels, disinfectants, non-perishable foodstuffs, and more. The pantry will become a very important room in the house, almost as important as the kitchen to which it is attached. Everyone must embrace e-commerce, not just Walmart and Amazon. This means even the smallest of shops, the mom-and-pop stores who for too long have dismissed technology and are now wondering how they can ever survive. If you want to make the sale, you must go where the people are, and I suspect that post-pandemic, more of us than ever before will be online. One somewhat scarier proposition is that contact tracing will become a way of life, whether we like it or not. This means that government bodies, working in partnership with cell phone carriers, will easily be able to track us, our comings and goings, and people with whom we may have come in contact, even strangers. Given that this is an enormous invasion of a privacy we once took for granted, we will have to weigh the benefits of trying to shorten infection vectors with less personal privacy. This is not going to be a fun one, as we are already finding out with some states moving in this direction. But the most important thing we will see from the COVID era is an emphasis on agility and preparation. Many companies have already learned their lesson the hard way. In many regards, we were all caught flat-footed and empty-handed. From PPEs to toilet paper, from inability to process and fulfill online orders for curbside pickup to restaurants too stuck in place to consider converting to takeaway, the survivors will have figure out all of this, and will continue to refine their operations so that they can adapt on a moment’s notice. It’s OK to be a sit-down restaurant with perhaps only a small portion of orders sold to-go, but the ability to pivot on a dime is needed to be able to modify operations quickly to react to a changing environment. The same goes for manufacturers and supply chains. No amount of whining and complaining is going to fix things in the short-run; only those prepared and willing to make major changes now, not in a few years, will continue to stay in business. Five Weeks And All This Yes, this is a lot to process after just five weeks, and the changes confronting businesses in many regards pale compared to the divisions within broader society. People either accept the statistics, warnings, and precautions as gospel, or they defy and deny everything, living their lives as if nothing has happened, and fearful that our liberties are gone and a totalitarian state is imminent. I’ll let the social scientists worry about the people part; my concern is how to prepare future business leaders for the road ahead. I hope and pray that all of my charges pay heed to the seriousness of the matter, the implications, and how they should respond. I’ll see you on the other side. Dr “Stay Safe, Stay Healthy” Gerlich

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[brandynamsbaugh1992]

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[iamsielow]

China has a HUGE problem … And Trump will ultimately win.

China has a HUGE problem … And Trump will ultimately win.

China has a HUGE problem. Actually China has about FIVE HUGE problems and because of this Trump will, ultimately, win in his actions against them.

First China is a corrupt place.  Like MANY Communist countries, China cannot exist without lying; lying to itself, lying to other countries, lying to its citizens.  While I admit many countries have leaders who lie to their subjects, they usually do so for power.  China lies to its people not only for power but to survive, to continue to exist.

The harshness of China's history, the mandatory lies created by a Communist system and its endless sea of citizens leads to the complications causing it problems in today's world.

For today's post, let's concentrate on the HUGE problem China has when it comes to farming.

China has no qualms about executing farmers who do not meet their quotas.  China also has no qualms about executing regional farming directors whose farmers miss their quotas.  Due to this unique process of encouraging job productivity, the farmer lies about his expected crop yield.  The regional directors collect these estimates and happily report to their superiors that all is well and the expected crop yields will be whatever the country's leadership demands it to be.  They know the data is probably false, but reporting the values demanded keeps them alive for another day.

 In the past, at whatever administrator level the Truth was finally admitted to, that person's boss might have the person admitting the Truth executed and every bureaucrat and farmer under him executed as a lesson to all farmers what happens if you fail to meet expected quotas.  Once executed, another farmer and another bureaucrat from the endless supply of both would chosen to replace those who were "forced into retirement" and all would be well until the next harvesting season started.

It is, in the end, Communism working as intended.

This history of quickly solving any production problems with a bullet to the head works its way up the chain of command until you reach the people who have options available to avoid the quick "employee adjustment" option which makes their wives widows.  The simple answer is they purchase American grain to make up any shortfall in the expected yields of the farmers and administrators below them.

In other words, they use American grain, sometimes purchased on the black market, to "balance the books."

This process has been going on so long it has become second nature.  The farmers inflate the expected yield to government demanded levels. Their regional directors make sure all reported values come within expected goals.  Up the ladder the figures travel until the national directors factor in the expected crop yields into their urban planning.

The actual farming yields then come in well below needs, the regional directors nervously report the short fall up the chain to equally nervous supervisors until it eventually reaches the people who have wider options.  These people have additional discretionary spending options.  These options include purchasing the nice, clean, abundant, INEXPENSIVE USA grain to feed the hungry nation.

The Chinese citizens get fed, the centralized government doesn't ask questions, and the various farmers and quota counters survive another year.

This process makes the current world events very complicated for the Chinese leadership.  They look at the falsified data and assume that American grain is merely a small additive to the country's food supply; that if needed, the country can easily survive without it.  A false conclusion built upon a process that originated as a defense in China's lack of respect for human life.

So when Donald Trump comes along and doesn't put up with China's endless game of saying one thing and doing another, the Chinese leadership begins trenching in to do battle with Trump, assuming that any missing USA grain will simply be a small distraction to the action.

It's not.

It's a HUGE issue.

It's an issue which China will shortly discover will condemn its people to what is called the "North Korean Banquet."  The North Korean Banquet mainly consists in mixing in a LOT of soil into your meals to make up for the lack of real food.

But China has another (of several) issue(s)!  If you have followed my advice and watched some of the YouTube videos produced by "China Uncensored" you would have seen the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arNiV5_W5Ck) in which the channel interviews Chinese citizens vacationing in Hong Kong (more on that in a minute).

While the subject of the video is important, you should have realized something else while watching it: Hong Kong, due to its freedoms and available western goods, is considered a vacation goal for mainland Chinese based workers.  Watching this video, notice that all the people being interviewed basically look like office workers who came to Hong Kong like an American citizen might plan a vacation to Michigan.  They wear comfortable, causal clothing, have dorky hair cuts, and wear fashionable glasses. They are relaxed, well fed and have money to spend -- spend in Hong Kong.

In the 1950's, 1960's and even the 1970's, China had an abundance of farmers and laborers it could draw upon to throw into any conflict it engaged in.  Vietnam?  Korea? Just grab a few hundred thousand ignorant farmers from their fields, shove a rifle into their hands, point them at the American outpost you want overwhelmed and warn them not to slip in the blood of their fellow farmers as they rush the American positions.

Now, however, you lack as many of those ignorant farmers that China once had.  Instead you have a sizable number of accountants, bookkeepers, school teachers, computer support specialist and other infrastructure people vacationing in Hong Kong.

Just like American citizens vacationing in Georgia.

Today's Chinese citizens understand guns and killing in concept but in their entire lives they have never actually killed anything to eat it.  Just like in America, hamburger comes from the grocery store, not your neighbor's cow.  Shove a gun in their hands and order them to storm an outpost?  "Surely there's a less violent solution, right?  I have to have the Wang report on my boss's desk by Friday."

In short, a LOT of Chinese are actually enjoying their lives.  The concept of simply throwing those lives away is something they will actively avoid. Oh, on command they will still shout "China! China! We the Best! We can take on the West!" but in real life they are mainly worried about producing reports on next month's Chu Widget production.

In addition to this, it has been known for some time that during the May Day parades, as the Communist countries proudly march their military might down the main street of the capital cities, some of the missiles on display are made of cardboard, some of the rifles being carried are held together with duct tape.  Faked constructs created to hide the failings of missile production and true military status of the country.  Just like in Iraq and North Korea, if anyone knew how badly the Chinese missile and weapons program were being handled the country might fear organized attacks led by Falun Gong mother-in-laws.

Then there's Hong Kong (I told you I'd get here).  Because of all the structured lies in the Communist system, the government of China is proceeding with its planned absorption of Hong Kong fully into the Communist controlled, Chinese bureaucratic structure.  The Hong Kong people, having grown accustom to their freedoms AND having more access to more diverse information than the average Chinese citizen, understand what this means.  The funny thing is it's not just the loss of freedoms they object to, but the endless levels of corruption of the Chinese system that disturbs many of the Hong Kong citizens. The Chinese triggering event for the recent actions, the arrest of a Hong Kong citizen for deportation into the Chinese "justice" system, sent chills through any person who has seen the Richard Gere movie " Red Corner*" more than once.

*If you haven't seen the 1997 movie, it details the level of corruption and lack of TRUE due process that exists in the Chinese court system; a system where you are guilty until you can be tortured until admitting to being guilty, no matter what your true status once was.

In any case, the Chinese government, due to the corrupt status of its nature, has over estimated the ease in which Hong Kong would join the greater Chinese governing system.

Then there is the Chinese gender problem (which will be detailed in a future post) which only adds to the continuing Chinese Taiwan problem.

In short, the Chinese Government is currently built on sand.  This means their underlying base has been weakened by endless years of solving problems with a bullet to anyone stupid enough to Truthfully report the dangers in the aspects of the Chinese infrastructure.  They built their government on a system where lying for effect means surviving another day.

China is also still controlled by aging generals who lack a clear understanding of what today's society is like and an understanding of the actual love of life the current citizens have.  They have elder members of the ruling party who actually think that sacrificing a few million citizens will not affect those who remain to fill in for the ones who were eliminated.

They do not understand that while one farmer can replace another (no offense), no one understands the Wang Reports like the person who was just forced to join the military.  Because of this, China will soon have some serious Wang issues.

These false beliefs in the sturdy nature of the Chinese government are contributing heavily to China's HUGE problem.  With the American President, Donald Trump, actually holding China accountable to the corruption other USA presidents have looked away from, when his push comes to Chinese shove, the Chinese system will soon buckle and collapse like a ... Well, like attempting to launch a cardboard missile.

Eventually, the Chinese leadership will begin to see the citizens growing even more restless than they already have.  They will discover that in the current age, the availability of an endless supply of short lived and short-life farmers that can be converted into soldiers has been drastically changed into happy people expecting long, happy lives.

Even among the farmers!

No Communist system can survive long when trying to govern happy people.  Not even China's.

There is more to this. As we move forward I will document this further and explore other insights I have gained in my exploration of this world.

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MimbleWimble simplified (better Scalability and Privacy than Bitcoin today)

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MimbleWimble simplified (better Scalability and Privacy than Bitcoin today)

Hey Cryptogang Welcome to a different LamboLife video. Blockstreams Andrew Poelstra says Mimblewimble would exchange Bitcoin. Its extra scalable and exclusive. Thats daring in poor health dice up the Mimble protocol and verify how useful it particularly is. Unwell additionally evaluate it to similar applied sciences. Lets start. It all began with when an nameless cryptographer via the identify of Tom Elvis Jedusor showed up at a bitcoin study channel. This identify is genuinely French for Tom Riddle, which was the real identify of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter sequence. Now he posted a link to a whitepaper known as Mimblewimble.In the beginning, no person noticed it, but as quickly as they learn it, they realized this was a quite giant deal! This cryptographic protocol, that used to be left by using a ghost, had the skills revolutionize the way bitcoin works. Theres some Harry Potter trivia in the whitepaper. Apparently now we have a fanboy here. Mimblewimble is absolutely a spell in Harry Potter, that ties the targets tongue robbing him of his capability to converse obviously. As a consequence, the source of peoples misconception that Mimblewimble is in general just a privateness protocol, however thats now not precisely right. It is peculiarly a scaling solution and secondarily a privateness solution. Thats due to the fact the scaling advantage is higher than the privacy benefit in Mimblewimbles case.So how does Mimblewimble scale? To start with, theres specific approaches of scaling. Lets discover them first. The blockchain conceptually appears like this: a series of blocks that represents a history of transactions. Bitcoin plans to scale through offloading most of its trasactions offchain with its 2nd layer, the Lightning community. For my part, that is the most effective scaling solution and is in most cases above any others. Unluckily, in these days it is nonetheless unstable and might have an extended approach to go before its capable for mass adoption. Bitcoin money however, has an immediate resolution by means of growing the block measurement. But theres additionally a third alternative. Which is to compress the transaction information. Thats what Mimblewimble does. Alternatively of constructing bigger a blocker, it makes the contents within smaller. You see, BTC has accelerated its blocksize earlier than, however the community has agreed that doing this without end is catastrophic. Why? Take a look at this graph. The fee of develop of Bitcoins blockchain shouldn’t be linear, its exponential. Presently now we have about 200000 megabytes; or 200 gigs, which is the amount of difficult force area you have to established your own full node, supplied that your hardware has ample bandwidth aid and computing vigour.As time goes via and historical past unfolds, storing this history turns into more and more stressful; because the memory quintessential to retailer the data in every block also needs to expand, as well as the computing energy wanted to validate them. If all we do is expand the blocksize endlessly, we are practically stopping the common man from being able to run a full node, due to the fact that of the excessive fees required to set it up. And thus, permit mining cartels and monopolies to have various influence, hurting decentralization. Bitcoin money is doing this block dimension develop just a little conservatively, however Bitcoin SV went all out, which is most likely insane. Now whats intriguing with Mimblewimble, is that it permits Bitcoins transaction historical past to be compacted and swiftly validated with normal computing hardware even after a long time of chain operation. The outcome? A faster and extra scalable blockchain! You might actually start up a full node in your clever telephone, and just about immediately synchronize your full node to the blockchain.Mimblewimbles privacy aspects are derived from distinctive cryptographic innovations. For simplicitys sake unwell best incorporate the major components. First is confidential Transactions. This allows the senders to encrypt the quantity of crypto they need to ship utilizing what you call blinding motives. Again for simplicity, blinding reasons are comfortably random numbers that mess up the inputs and outputs and make it appear complicated for an outside observer. So in this scenario, handiest the sender and receiver are conscious of the amount. Nonetheless, 0.33 events can still make sure that the transaction is valid, by way of evaluating the number of inputs and outputs; but as far as they’re can see, its simply uniform random things went in, and uniform random things went out.And if both inputs and outputs are the same, then the transaction is legitimate. This process ensures that no bitcoins have been constituted of nothing. But, this isn’t adequate. There is the possibility of an omniscient observersomeone who has the assets to do a graph analysis of Mimbles transaction historical past, feel CIA or a chinese hacker army. If that’s the case, they might still discover some information you dont need them to grasp. Fortunate for us, Mimble additionally leverages another cryptographic innovation referred to as CoinJoin. Coinjoin is a mechanism through which transactions sent by means of a couple of spenders are combined to type a single transaction. Now for the reason that of this, its problematic for an outsider to examine which fee was once intended for whom, including even more confusion and misdirection So now you probably questioning.How will we ensure that nobody is cheating? What form of consensus model does Mimble have? Good, it’s particularly exceptional from Bitcoins consensus mechanism. You see, with Bitcoins Proof-of-work algorithm, its extra intricate; the whole blockchain have got to be downloaded, the historical past of a transaction outputs must be analysed; all to ensure validity. This takes up numerous time, and is quite tough to scale, for that reason, the need for a 2d layer resolution like Lightning.However with Mimble, theres a easier technique to preserve the integrity of the process. Mimblewimble blocks only encompass a list of inputs, a record of outputs, and signature information. This offers tremendous area savings in blocks, in view that other transaction information not need to be stored, handiest inputs and outputs. And via subtracting the complete inputs from the complete outputs, that is to say guaranteeing that the change is zero, the blockchain is validated, on account that no new coins had been created out of skinny air. With innovation, theres continually matters that have to be extended on. In any other case, there wouldnt be growth. Mimblewimble has probably the most nice privacy aspects, but its not really best.Even with all its privateness ways, Mimble will not be one hundred percent anonymous. Theres nonetheless the very small threat that some whale or multi million buck organization can override your anonymity, will have to they desperately wish to. However its no longer some thing thats relatively anticipated to happen customarily or ever relatively. You see, the privateness and scalability aspects of Mimble are intertwined. The more it could scale, the extra users it could possibly control. And the extra customers, the improved the privacy. Weve already situated that private transactions are usually not sufficient. And coinjoin needs more transaction quantity to be strong.With low transaction volume, its no longer too complex to circumvent Coinjoins privateness. In poor health use Assassins Creed as an analogy here so its more fun. Within the AC franchise, The Assassins have Three major ideas, which can be 1. Stay your blade from the flesh of the harmless. 2. Under no circumstances compromise the brotherhood and 3. Hide in simple sight, which is what well focal point on. What this almost means is that as an assassin, one will have to recognize the right way to combo within the crowd; to turn out to be anonymous.The key phrase here is crowd. If you want to be hidden, you must get lost. You cant be the one individual in a area carrying a hood. Thats now not serving to you in any way. The Templars will freaking kill you. Scaling drives privacy in virtually every science. Comfortably put, the larger the gang, the less difficult to get lost. And that applies primarily to Mimblewimble, afterall, it is one among Bitcoins scaling resolution. Regrettably its now not fairly there but. This has something to do with what you name rangeproofs. Variety Proofs are present in all cryptocurrencies with exclusive Transactions such Monero or Zcash. Its no longer simply Mimble. Variety Proofs are primary considering that it prevents the blockchain from having poor outputs.You dont want a poor Bitcoin, or a bad Monero. So this Rangeproofs is critical for Mimblewimble to work competently. But rangeproofs are also hefty to confirm, atleast for in these days. Theyre working on it, undoubtedly, but, lowering the timeframe for verification, as good as the scale of this rangeproofs, is whatever that they need to handle, before Mimble could reach a level where customers can readily, run a full node on their smartphone. Its known as bulletproofs, but were not gonna speak about that correct now. Also, Mimblewimble does now not support scripting. Scripting is implemented in Bitcoin, and its very useful. It makes it possible for developed points comparable to multisignature, cozy pass-chain trading, excessive frequency trading, and lots of different tricky stuff.However, Mimble has particularly evolved crypto magic to work around this. Many smart contracts in Bitcoin that require a script may also be accomplished utilising the residences of what we call Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Its not and in most cases in no way gonna be as excellent as having a Bitcoin Script although. Additionally, you cant easily merge the Mimble protocol with Bitcoin. Its no longer really an targeted fit. However, you can put into effect it as a sidechain or make a brand new implementation. Mimblewimble is a protocol similar to Bitcoin. Now Bitcoin has 2 predominant implementations. Bitcoin Core for BTC and Bitcoin ABC for Bitcoin money. Both use the equal protocol however they are one of a kind implementations. Mimble has 2 implementations known as Grin and Beam. Both went live sometime in January. The most important change between Grin and BEAM is their general group or governance procedure.BEAMs governance mannequin is extra manufacturer-like structured, while Grin is extra of an open-supply neighborhood with contributors independently engaged on the task by way of donations. Honestly I lean towards Grin extra, being open supply and community-pushed and all but Im also partial to Beams VC-funded startup method. Im intently keeping an eye fixed on both. But I nonetheless dont any of those is a alternative for Bitcoin. They are their possess thing. Damn it feels good to be in crypto. Thats it for todays video. Thanks for staring at. Im so blissful to finally add this. It took particularly a even as to completely clutch how it works hopefully my time was once valued at it and also you discovered some thing from me.In the event you loved be sure to like and if you happen to havent already, subscribe. See you on the flipside! .

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MimbleWimble simplified (better Scalability and Privacy than Bitcoin today)

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MimbleWimble simplified (better Scalability and Privacy than Bitcoin today)

Hey Cryptogang Welcome to a different LamboLife video. Blockstreams Andrew Poelstra says Mimblewimble would exchange Bitcoin. Its extra scalable and exclusive. Thats daring in poor health dice up the Mimble protocol and verify how useful it particularly is. Unwell additionally evaluate it to similar applied sciences. Lets start. It all began with when an nameless cryptographer via the identify of Tom Elvis Jedusor showed up at a bitcoin study channel. This identify is genuinely French for Tom Riddle, which was the real identify of Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter sequence. Now he posted a link to a whitepaper known as Mimblewimble.In the beginning, no person noticed it, but as quickly as they learn it, they realized this was a quite giant deal! This cryptographic protocol, that used to be left by using a ghost, had the skills revolutionize the way bitcoin works. Theres some Harry Potter trivia in the whitepaper. Apparently now we have a fanboy here. Mimblewimble is absolutely a spell in Harry Potter, that ties the targets tongue robbing him of his capability to converse obviously. As a consequence, the source of peoples misconception that Mimblewimble is in general just a privateness protocol, however thats now not precisely right. It is peculiarly a scaling solution and secondarily a privateness solution. Thats due to the fact the scaling advantage is higher than the privacy benefit in Mimblewimbles case.So how does Mimblewimble scale? To start with, theres specific approaches of scaling. Lets discover them first. The blockchain conceptually appears like this: a series of blocks that represents a history of transactions. Bitcoin plans to scale through offloading most of its trasactions offchain with its 2nd layer, the Lightning community. For my part, that is the most effective scaling solution and is in most cases above any others. Unluckily, in these days it is nonetheless unstable and might have an extended approach to go before its capable for mass adoption. Bitcoin money however, has an immediate resolution by means of growing the block measurement. But theres additionally a third alternative. Which is to compress the transaction information. Thats what Mimblewimble does. Alternatively of constructing bigger a blocker, it makes the contents within smaller. You see, BTC has accelerated its blocksize earlier than, however the community has agreed that doing this without end is catastrophic. Why? Take a look at this graph. The fee of develop of Bitcoins blockchain shouldn’t be linear, its exponential. Presently now we have about 200000 megabytes; or 200 gigs, which is the amount of difficult force area you have to established your own full node, supplied that your hardware has ample bandwidth aid and computing vigour.As time goes via and historical past unfolds, storing this history turns into more and more stressful; because the memory quintessential to retailer the data in every block also needs to expand, as well as the computing energy wanted to validate them. If all we do is expand the blocksize endlessly, we are practically stopping the common man from being able to run a full node, due to the fact that of the excessive fees required to set it up. And thus, permit mining cartels and monopolies to have various influence, hurting decentralization. Bitcoin money is doing this block dimension develop just a little conservatively, however Bitcoin SV went all out, which is most likely insane. Now whats intriguing with Mimblewimble, is that it permits Bitcoins transaction historical past to be compacted and swiftly validated with normal computing hardware even after a long time of chain operation. The outcome? A faster and extra scalable blockchain! You might actually start up a full node in your clever telephone, and just about immediately synchronize your full node to the blockchain.Mimblewimbles privacy aspects are derived from distinctive cryptographic innovations. For simplicitys sake unwell best incorporate the major components. First is confidential Transactions. This allows the senders to encrypt the quantity of crypto they need to ship utilizing what you call blinding motives. Again for simplicity, blinding reasons are comfortably random numbers that mess up the inputs and outputs and make it appear complicated for an outside observer. So in this scenario, handiest the sender and receiver are conscious of the amount. Nonetheless, 0.33 events can still make sure that the transaction is valid, by way of evaluating the number of inputs and outputs; but as far as they’re can see, its simply uniform random things went in, and uniform random things went out.And if both inputs and outputs are the same, then the transaction is legitimate. This process ensures that no bitcoins have been constituted of nothing. But, this isn’t adequate. There is the possibility of an omniscient observersomeone who has the assets to do a graph analysis of Mimbles transaction historical past, feel CIA or a chinese hacker army. If that’s the case, they might still discover some information you dont need them to grasp. Fortunate for us, Mimble additionally leverages another cryptographic innovation referred to as CoinJoin. Coinjoin is a mechanism through which transactions sent by means of a couple of spenders are combined to type a single transaction. Now for the reason that of this, its problematic for an outsider to examine which fee was once intended for whom, including even more confusion and misdirection So now you probably questioning.How will we ensure that nobody is cheating? What form of consensus model does Mimble have? Good, it’s particularly exceptional from Bitcoins consensus mechanism. You see, with Bitcoins Proof-of-work algorithm, its extra intricate; the whole blockchain have got to be downloaded, the historical past of a transaction outputs must be analysed; all to ensure validity. This takes up numerous time, and is quite tough to scale, for that reason, the need for a 2d layer resolution like Lightning.However with Mimble, theres a easier technique to preserve the integrity of the process. Mimblewimble blocks only encompass a list of inputs, a record of outputs, and signature information. This offers tremendous area savings in blocks, in view that other transaction information not need to be stored, handiest inputs and outputs. And via subtracting the complete inputs from the complete outputs, that is to say guaranteeing that the change is zero, the blockchain is validated, on account that no new coins had been created out of skinny air. With innovation, theres continually matters that have to be extended on. In any other case, there wouldnt be growth. Mimblewimble has probably the most nice privacy aspects, but its not really best.Even with all its privateness ways, Mimble will not be one hundred percent anonymous. Theres nonetheless the very small threat that some whale or multi million buck organization can override your anonymity, will have to they desperately wish to. However its no longer some thing thats relatively anticipated to happen customarily or ever relatively. You see, the privateness and scalability aspects of Mimble are intertwined. The more it could scale, the extra users it could possibly control. And the extra customers, the improved the privacy. Weve already situated that private transactions are usually not sufficient. And coinjoin needs more transaction quantity to be strong.With low transaction volume, its no longer too complex to circumvent Coinjoins privateness. In poor health use Assassins Creed as an analogy here so its more fun. Within the AC franchise, The Assassins have Three major ideas, which can be 1. Stay your blade from the flesh of the harmless. 2. Under no circumstances compromise the brotherhood and 3. Hide in simple sight, which is what well focal point on. What this almost means is that as an assassin, one will have to recognize the right way to combo within the crowd; to turn out to be anonymous.The key phrase here is crowd. If you want to be hidden, you must get lost. You cant be the one individual in a area carrying a hood. Thats now not serving to you in any way. The Templars will freaking kill you. Scaling drives privacy in virtually every science. Comfortably put, the larger the gang, the less difficult to get lost. And that applies primarily to Mimblewimble, afterall, it is one among Bitcoins scaling resolution. Regrettably its now not fairly there but. This has something to do with what you name rangeproofs. Variety Proofs are present in all cryptocurrencies with exclusive Transactions such Monero or Zcash. Its no longer simply Mimble. Variety Proofs are primary considering that it prevents the blockchain from having poor outputs.You dont want a poor Bitcoin, or a bad Monero. So this Rangeproofs is critical for Mimblewimble to work competently. But rangeproofs are also hefty to confirm, atleast for in these days. Theyre working on it, undoubtedly, but, lowering the timeframe for verification, as good as the scale of this rangeproofs, is whatever that they need to handle, before Mimble could reach a level where customers can readily, run a full node on their smartphone. Its known as bulletproofs, but were not gonna speak about that correct now. Also, Mimblewimble does now not support scripting. Scripting is implemented in Bitcoin, and its very useful. It makes it possible for developed points comparable to multisignature, cozy pass-chain trading, excessive frequency trading, and lots of different tricky stuff.However, Mimble has particularly evolved crypto magic to work around this. Many smart contracts in Bitcoin that require a script may also be accomplished utilising the residences of what we call Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Its not and in most cases in no way gonna be as excellent as having a Bitcoin Script although. Additionally, you cant easily merge the Mimble protocol with Bitcoin. Its no longer really an targeted fit. However, you can put into effect it as a sidechain or make a brand new implementation. Mimblewimble is a protocol similar to Bitcoin. Now Bitcoin has 2 predominant implementations. Bitcoin Core for BTC and Bitcoin ABC for Bitcoin money. Both use the equal protocol however they are one of a kind implementations. Mimble has 2 implementations known as Grin and Beam. Both went live sometime in January. The most important change between Grin and BEAM is their general group or governance procedure.BEAMs governance mannequin is extra manufacturer-like structured, while Grin is extra of an open-supply neighborhood with contributors independently engaged on the task by way of donations. Honestly I lean towards Grin extra, being open supply and community-pushed and all but Im also partial to Beams VC-funded startup method. Im intently keeping an eye fixed on both. But I nonetheless dont any of those is a alternative for Bitcoin. They are their possess thing. Damn it feels good to be in crypto. Thats it for todays video. Thanks for staring at. Im so blissful to finally add this. It took particularly a even as to completely clutch how it works hopefully my time was once valued at it and also you discovered some thing from me.In the event you loved be sure to like and if you happen to havent already, subscribe. See you on the flipside! .

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Chapter 1.9: Being an eBay Power Seller

Ebay is an amazing tool for buyers and sellers of the world. We’ve literally found people across the world that were interested in our items which is amazing to think about. We found something cool in a local barn, took a chance that someone would buy it, and at the same time someone in Germany was constantly checking to see if this certain item was found and for sale on the internet. We connected with someone we would have never met otherwise, and it’s all because of eBay. But its not all rainbows and butterflies selling on this site. We have been dubbed an eBay power seller, this is our experience on the road to that title.

For starters, the first 3-4 months we created a personal account. Not knowing much about the site, and selling thru other online sites was our bread and butter, so we said lets give it a test run. Initially, we were bringing in loads of money and soon realized that this was probably going to be a key part in expanding our business. Our items were now offered worldwide, and not just in the East Coast. Literally everything we listed was sold within a month period. What we didnt know about an ebay personal account is they charge higher percentage fees when you sell an item. 

We saw our paypal account rising daily. We were all smiles, but heres where reality set in for us. For example- Say we sold a $100 item. We probably paid $50 for that item because we did the research and knew we could sell it for $100. Ebay takes 10% of the final value of the items you sell on their site. Paypal also has a fee of 2.5%. So they are taking about $12.50 from your $100 sale which leaves you with $87.50. Subtract the initial $50 you paid and your making $37.50 for that $100 sale. It’s still a very good profit margin but heres where we would get jammed up. Sometimes you find these items, they are dirty, broken, need repainting or polishing, rewired or just need to be given some love. Restoration. People aren’t accounting for the $5 in paint here or the $7 brass polisher there, it adds up. This is on top of all the man hours you put in to just post the item. Everything needs to be cleaned, taken pictures of, research what they’ve sold for, write a description of the item, and than finally post it. None of this is including the cardboard, tape, and bubble wrap you need to use on every single item to ship. Another additional cost. Lastly, eBay “recommends” roundabout shipping for certain items, so we were just going with their recommendations at first. Until we go to print a shipping label and it’s an extra $10 to ship. We soon learned after getting burnt on a bunch of items eBays shipping system and to this day we rarely ever have to pay out of pocket anymore. I figure on every $100 we make we profit about $20-25 take home if everything goes as planned. Oh, and this doesnt include all the taxes we have to pay for selling items.

It’s what we enjoy doing. Learning the history, making something mechanically or physically working again, but there’s just a lot more that goes into it than you would think. It’s not just buy low and sell high. 

Once we got the hang of eBay we decided to open an eBay store. It’s a monthly cost to keep it open but it cuts down costs on final value fees by about 3%. Its completely customizable and you can interact with your buyers and remain more organized among other things. Every little bit helps. 

I can say what we love about eBay:

1. The following- You have eyes from across the globe on your product and your brand. This is the biggest and best site to sell on.

2. The customers- Sure everyone is looking for a bargain but we have met some great people along the way, and have had return buyers. Plus we get satisfaction out of seeing our items go all around the world.

3. Easy Use- Whether listing an item, or tracking it, or printing a shipping label it’s not complicated at all once you learn the ropes. Some other sites we’ve tried are like torture trying to post a single item. Also as an ebay shop owner it helps being able to see the analytics and financial reports to help grow your business.

And now what we hate about eBay:

1. The lowballers- Like I said everyone is looking for a bargain, and we are ALWAYS negotiable, but some people are just so unrealistic its frustrating. No I will not sell you a $200 item for your offer of $5.50. This is a daily occurrence for us. You have to laugh.

2. The fees- Ebay can do what they want because they are the best. Some months we paid so many fees we would have been better off paying rent at a storefront. (We’ve since been able to cut down a little on fees with our own little system we created)

3. The eBay buyer protection program- Ebay has a great program if you’re a buyer, but as sellers it doesn’t work out in your favor. We’ve had multiple items (We literally wrapped with a full roll of bubble wrap) arrive broken. Some people are just scam artists which we’ve learned and others just the delivering company must have played soccer with our box. Whatever the reason though, eBay protects that buyer and your items and money is down the drain. 

Unfortunately as of late eBay has become inundated with tons of reproduction and cheap bulk alibaba items. I think they can care less because money is money, and if it sells than good for them. I can remember being a child when eBay first launched. My dad was and still is a collector of many items from Sports to Disney to Movie Memorabilia. I’d sit with him when an auction would be ending and he’d bid with others bidding all in the final seconds and somehow he always won whatever auction he wanted. He had some system with an old clock and calculating the seconds, and he’d bid with literally a second left and win the auction. This was before they had any of the computer equipment they have today. Now you can actually buy programs to win an ebay auction by a cent, which lets you win the auction but not overpay. Back then everything was genuine. The sellers, the bidders, the items. You could find deals and trust the items. On top of all that the selling fees were nothing like they are today. Now I see people making millions (yes millions) of dollars selling fake signs made in India. Or you could just buy 1000 tweety bird license plates thru the alibaba website for a thousand bucks and sell them for $5 a piece on eBay. More on that on a second.

The petroliana community (gas and oil sign collectors) have a deep hatred for these sellers. There’s even a black list of sellers eBay names floating around that is updated monthly. So basically this is how it works- these people mass reproduce gas, oil, auto, and soda porcelain signs. If you’ve ever seen American Pickers you know these signs can be very expensive. The more rare-the more money. They literally have a factory pumping out reproduction porcelain signs that are so good to the naked eye its almost impossible to tell if it’s authentic or fake, especially thru internet pictures. They even go as far as to make rust and rub dirt on them to make them look authentic. They use words like “RARE” “OLD” “ANTIQUE” or “AMAZING” but never ever say it’s authentic, or real, or original. These signs sell for thousands and thousands of dollars everyday, with tons of bidders on them. It just shows that even the experts aren’t sure what is real or not. I know we (only once) have bought a reproduction sign, and also many people we know have bought tons of them. They are starting to flood the market and by them being made so well to look authentic it’s a tough hobby to be in. I can talk about this for days, so maybe I’ll do a full blog on it upcoming if anyone is interested? Well see…

The alibaba items are another part of eBay that I really don’t like. Just my opinion. Some of the stuff is cool and cheap but it’s kinda like shopping in a dollar store. Yes, you can buy a car cell phone charger for a dollar but it probably won’t work after a month, and then you say to yourself “Well, whatever it was just a dollar”. Same thing with these bulk items that are flooding the eBay market. Searching on alibaba you can buy 1000 tweety bird license plates for $1000. Now you look at what they sell for on ebay and they go for like $5 per piece. You could definitely make some good money there but it just seems so cheap to me, and if they dont sell you have nearly a lifetime supply of tweety bird license plates that who knows what you can do with. You also have to be careful with flooding the market because after a while the buyers fade away. We learned that with 2 specific items we had bought it bulk. 

1. A Honda Magna Motorcycle Key Chain- Crazy right? It was a cheap little plastic key chain shaped as a motorcycle and it said Honda on it. We found a sealed bag with like 50 of these things, got em cheap, and listed one. The original key chain sold for around $25 and as time went on the price went lower and lower. We still have about 20 of these and we cant even give them away for our $7.99 asking price now. We still made out on them either way.

2. Pepsi Pinwheel Snapback Hats- these hats were never put out to the public to buy and they were only for Pepsi Cola Delivery drivers to wear in the 80’s. We found 4 sealed brand new hats. The first one we got close to $130! For a hat! We just recently sold our final one for a measely $50. Still pretty expensive but no where near what we originally got.

Those examples are just to show what flooding the eBay market will do. The collectors get their item, and then the next collector gets it, and then the next, but after all those collectors have that piece you get stuck with the bulk and can’t give them away. So its a very risky business buying in bulk and selling on eBay and you definitely have to walk a fine line and time it the right way. You have to mix it up and keep the inventory different which is what we always try to do. 

I guess to sum it all up, we’ve had a major love/hate relationship with eBay. I remember the day we made our first big sale. We were actually both working in our office and a guy made a solid offer on a street sign we recently picked, we countered and met him in the middle point of his offer and our asking price. He accepted, and we were so pumped that day. I mean we were straight high fiving and chest bumping pumped. The guy we originally bought the sign from literally was going to use the sign for scrap metal and we convinced him to sell it to us. He looked at us like we were nuts when we shelled out money for that sign, but it did pay off in the end. That first big eBay sale gave us that feeling that we could do this. Than we got our first positive feedback review, than our first return customer, and so on. Whether we are at a point that we love or hate eBay, it has played an important role as to where we are as a company today, but its definitely something we may not want to do forever, and being dubbed a Top Rated Seller shows the hard work and dedication we’ve put into online selling. With nearly 100 positive reviews and 0 negatives, I’d say people either like us or the product, and whichever it is, we’ll continue to chug along.

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Advertising Your Solution Under a non public Label Deal

How if you’d like to have an enormous name corporation sell ones product under his or her label? It will not be as hard since you think. While licensing amounts to just a great choice for creators and enterprisers, landing of which licensing specials remains elusive for many people, but non-public label arrangements is usually almost seeing that advantageous and are also much easier to see.

A non-public label advertising arrangement is after you manufacture the goods and subsequently another corporation buys ones product in addition to sells the item under his or her label. This happens at all times, most persons just don’t know it. It truly is expensive intended for companies in order to develop new merchandise, so often rather then developing on the house products, or products that will not make large numbers, companies often license these individuals or advertise them using a private name basis just to save money with product progress.

When selling using a private name arrangement, you have got to sell the goods for a lower price, since you also are adding a different middle man into your picture: this private name company, exactly who then has for sale to shoppers, retailers or maybe distributors. Although with non-public labeling, you won’t handle purchaser marketing, your product is likely to reach an increased audience than you could potentially sell to alone and ones product should have added credibility because doing so bears this brand in addition to label of established corporation. You will even sell ones product using a private name basis to help multiple companies who will all resell the goods under his or her label.

Only a few products usually are good job hopefuls for non-public label arrangements. Since corporations usually don’t would like to promote merchandise that don’t cause them to as considerably money (private name and registered products get less benefit than merchandise developed in the company), the goods needs to promote itself. It indicates it are not vastly different than products that contain come previous to it, consumers need to know they need it and the goods must match a definitely defined need to have. The solution doesn’t ought to garner almost any media focus, but as a substitute people should view the product with its offer, understand the goods and it is benefits and buy the solution.

Products of which compliment you’re able to send successful products develop the best probability of being available under a non-public label deal. This shows that the product’s appeal needs a similar fascinate the recent products this company already has for sale. Finally, only mid- to help high-priced items be smart under non-public labeling considering that the profits ought to be split between an increased number of individuals and should the product is usually too low cost, then there is not much profit to search around.

Inventor Story Private labeling wasn’t component of Michael Levin’s initial strategy. The strategy for his or her innovation, a particular plastic overlay intended for broken fingernails that adheres that has a nail-friendly adhesive, first struck Levin the government financial aid 1989, as soon as his then-girlfriend crumbled a nail bed. At any time, she couldn’t get a product automobile the nail–and your lover complained to help Levin of which cracked fingernails or toenails were one common problem involving all women of all ages. Levin, sensing the possibility, decided to use a market research firm to evaluate the current market. The effects were surprising. Levin, at this point 42, reports of which “60 percent on the women [surveyed] smashed a nail every, and 27 percent smashed a nail weekly. “

Levin mastered his distinct plastic overlay pattern in 1992, after in search of and refining dozens connected with plastics in addition to adhesives. But as soon as Levin tried using selling the goods directly to help retailers, he was a student in for an amazing reality look at: with the goods retailing for only $ 3 to help $ 4, Levin located that “drug retail store chains weren’t prepared add some sort of low-priced, low-volume item at a one-product dealer. “

That’s as soon as Levin thought to be all his or her options and thought i would private name. “Lots connected with nickels are greater than a several dimes, inch Levin good reasons. The almost all consistent on the three non-public label shoppers he’s worked with, Professional Answers, signed with in 1994 possesses since available Levin’s product beneath name Fast Nail Mend. The decision turned out to be a clever one intended for Levin: Due to the fact 1995, his or her Danville, Colorado, company, Personalized Solutions, has become selling in relation to 1. 5 mil units on the instant nail-repair product per annum.

Setting Up a non-public Label Work You can certainly form effective relationships having private-label potential buyers by: Doing things quick Ask you for some sort of purchase obtain, and are convinced that you’ll supply the product from the buyer’s offer, or that you’re going to modify ones package towards buyer’s technical specs. If important, you may offer training towards buyer’s employees, and ceremony offer to help keep a website with the product. For anyone who is selling into a retailer, you may need to offer some sort of display, therefore you could possibly show some sort of diagram connected with what secondary products ones product need to be displayed near to.

Providing top-notch services Provide advertising and marketing support, like attending industry events, doing marketing releases, actively doing the job a website page, or featuring layouts intended for ads or maybe brochures. Also you can offer to produce customer services for controlling product complications, to handle product profits, and to help suggest solution improvements.

Watching your product’s appearance Your private-label buyer most likely are not going obtain any money in marketing. So potential buyers need to discover your solution and promptly realize it is benefit. In case you have a purchaser product, make the time to package ones product then it sells per se. The appearance and design of any product are exceedingly important but if your private-label agreement has a dealer or that has a distributor exactly who sells to help retailers.

Understanding other sellers Companies carry out private name products generally for reasonably competitive reasons. To promote the principle effectively, you need to understand your concentrate on company’s opposition and the way your solution improves you’re able to send position pertaining to them. Being familiar with the competition is additionally important in the event retailers are classified as the final stay in the qualified distribution sales channel.

One on the big the reason why companies carry out private name products is usually to fill available their product lines. Retailers do not like to pay for many unique suppliers, so from time to time if just one supplier incorporates a more complete product line, they will probably drop the current supplier for the completely new one. And once your solution fills some sort of gap within a company’s product line, it will assist them wind up in more shops with besides your solution, but with all of their products, increasing sales along the board.

Locating Potential Non-public Label Associates To uncover potential non-public label associates, do an Internet search for “private name, ” and you may find many companies of which market non-public label merchandise in a multitude of ways. Also look at Private Name Manufacturers Affiliation, which hosts industry events and delivers information intended for potential non-public label makers.

Before people approach a corporation for a non-public label long term contract, make guaranteed you’ve considered these all 5 steps: Safeguard Companies obtaining private name products commonly aren’t overly focused on your patent status. And you do run raise the risk that this company might attempt to make the goods or that your competitor could possibly quickly introduce identical product. In case you have enough dollars, you can have a patent previous to approaching this company. If ones funds usually are limited, therefore you plan on getting a electric patent, you can have a provisional patent, which will give you a one-year margin until you should apply for just a utility patent. Be knowledgeable though, if people wait regarding green year to put on for ones utility patent, you won’t have the capacity to patent ones product.

Prototypes Inventors demand a “looks including, works like” prototype previous to landing some sort of private-label deal. A company wishes to not solely see, but to test out your solution before deciding to search ahead. If you make this prototype, you can obtain a long term contract manufacturer for making it available for you at the minimum cost–provided people sign a agreement to supply them this company if you will get the sales.

Research After you approach a corporation with a non-public label estimate, show these individuals that the target shoppers like in addition to need ones product. This really is shown a toronto injury lawyer surveys of prospects, or interviews or encouraging letters by influential end users.

Manufacturing You’re liable for providing the goods in a non-public label deal, either by means of making the goods yourself or another solution contract manufacturer allow it to become. No make any difference how small your border is, start that has a contract manufacturer to ensure the agreement obtains off to an excellent start. You can certainly switch on your own creation operation the moment sales usually are secure. For making money within a private name agreement, you might want to consider in another country manufacturing.

Critical Contacts It is advisable to talk towards end end users or concentrate on customers, a lot more influential the higher quality, of the lenders you can be approaching for just a private name deal. You intend to know influential people from the distribution sales channel. Their support on your product can certainly play an essential role with securing a non-public label deal. Other critical contacts include people that get you from the door of this target shoppers. Salespeople, advertising and marketing personnel, regional sales operators, or major executives are extremely people who will let you. You can certainly meet most of these contacts by means of attending industry industry events or affiliation meetings. All you should do is approach folks in this booth, explain that you’ve got a completely new product, and enquire if that they had share the opinion of the usb ports with people.

You may request gross sales literature by companies you are looking for. Often of which literature is included with the label and call information of any salesperson. Call that person up and enquire to carry to lunch to express your solution.

If folks are positive around the idea, you can request if they feel the product is a good integrate their company’s product line. If many people think it’d, you can request whom it is best to talk to in regards to private name agreement.

Getting close Potential Non-public Label Associates Once you will be ready approach several companies in regards to private name deal, ask ones key contacts as long as they could help established a meeting with the suitable people into the company. Use your quest to prepare a presentation, showing the way your solution could strengthen their position up against the competition, how people want ones product in addition to discuss whatever you are likely to do that can help the solution sell. Its not all company will probably agree, but don’t surrender. Keep with approaching far more companies in addition to hone ones presentation soon you choose the right match. As soon as approaching corporations, don’t ignore these significant points.

Significant and distinct benefit Your enterprise contacts who definitely are helping service your product may help people coordinate ones presentation. You intend to learn primary what this company feels are necessary benefits to its customers, and subsequently gear ones presentation so that your product provides at the very least some of those benefits.

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6 Tips for Preventing Laptop Data Theft

Professionals TIPS factor to stronger passwords, full-disk encryption, and multi-thing authentication as ways to forestall statistics DATA theft in the occasion a laptop is misplaced or stolen.

Every person may have their laptop stolen. It passed off to Hillary Clinton’s marketing campaign remaining fall, while three laptops had been stolen from campaign employees in Philadelphia. If so, the gadgets had been in the end recovered and no records regarded to compromised in what become taken into consideration an ordinary theft.

But laptop thefts can fee cash. An Intel examines from several years in the past located that the average computer theft costs businesses roughly $50,000 – and as much as $1 million in a few instances.

Such thefts can be very adverse. ultimate year, Oregon’s Health Co-op, a nonprofit health insurance corporation, said that a stolen computer compromised the personal information of more than 15,000 modern-day and former members.

Al Sargent, senior director of products at OneLogIn, notes that Kaspersky Lab located that the average worker takes more than 24 hours to file a misplaced or stolen tool. That’s masses of time for criminals to scouse borrow records or get admission to the corporation’s company community.

“Gartner reviews that one computer is stolen each 53 seconds,” Sargent says. “What we endorse is that companies appearance to an unmarried signal-on solution to trade the social agreement. Basically, it is the IT branch telling the users to give you one robust password in change for higher protection.”

Frank Dickson, research director for global safety products at IDC, says SSO with a strong password best is going thus far, however.

“The hassle I’ve with SSO is that it nevertheless is predicated on the password,” Dickson says. “There are different varieties of authentication, inclusive of push notification to a cell cellphone and a YubiKey that organizations can use. SSO needs to be paired with strong authentication to add that extra stage of safety.”

Alex McSporran, director at Control Threat and Global SOS, provides that companies want to spend some time training employees on those problems, especially the ones who tour for business.

“The schooling will equip them with a higher expertise of the character of the Danger, and the measures they are able to take to higher secure their facts,” McSporran says. “While technical defenses stay critical, appropriate training, planning, preparedness, and vigilance can make an actual distinction.”

Right here are a few suggestions compiled from Sargent, Dickson, and McSporran, for lowering computer and computer information thefts:

Installation a single, very robust password. corporations shifting to greater cloud programs remember that it emerges as not possible for users to control a password for every cloud app. Via issuing a single signal on the system with one strong password, they may make life simpler for both the IT group of workers and the rank-and-report customers. it’s a lot harder to interrupt into a nicely-notion out robust password. But SSO nonetheless has its single factor of failure weaknesses, so Experts advise the use of multifactor authentication (see next tip).

Appoint strong authentication. IDC’s Dickson is a stickler for sturdy, multi-issue authentication. He especially likes a push notification that gets authenticated on a cell smartphone. For example, if someone steals an employee’s laptop, additionally they need to have stolen their cell smartphone to get entry to the laptop. Plus, people commonly know when they’ve lost their cellular telephones and don’t wait 24 hours to report a loss, and maximum cell telephones require a fingerprint Identification or password.

Rotate passwords. Teach human beings about the credential supply chain. when credentials are stolen they get bundled with other stolen credentials for sale on the black market. exchange passwords every 30 days. in the event that a laptop is stolen, there is a higher threat that the password that becomes stolen will now not be valid.

Do studies to your travel web page. Earlier than your far-flung employees travel, have them studies the capability threats to your enterprise’s touchy industrial statistics specific to the vicinity they’ll be touring. This will assist them to take effective security measures to assist prevent issues at some point of the trip.

Don’t broadcast your experience. Unless it is your spouse, significantly different, or key human beings at paintings, Don’t market it a commercial enterprise experience. humans are unfastened and smooth on Fb nowadays approximately their travels and it can not usually be an awesome concept.

Suppose in phrases of BYOD. organizations may decide that it just makes the greater experience to get out of the business of handling technology. Many businesses are simply giving human beings an allowance for a laptop and smartphone and making every person liable for the device’s protection. From a safety attitude, this can be frightening, so in case your business enterprise goes this direction, realize what form of encryption the gadgets have. Macs come with FileVault and it’s viable to far off wipe devices via iCloud. For Pcs, ensure they have got full-disk encryption, Professionals say.

Data Safety

Records theft

That is pretty an extensive topic, however, we’ll cowl off the basics, I will split this into two sections as both sections have quite extraordinary methods to save you Data robbery.

Neighborhood Information theft

Nearby Facts theft, i.E. a person logs onto your machine and steals Records at the same time as clearly sitting physically at your device. You probably have a Home windows password in your gadget, but did you already know that locally it’s truly clean to dispose of that password or sidestep it completely? Here are some greater powerful approaches to forestall someone getting get entry to.

1. BIOS password

This is a password that is supplied even before Home windows starts of evolved loading. On laptops specifically, this can be pretty effective at halting a Facts theft strive, on computers, it is less complicated to get round this one. Also if you do away with the difficult power from the system which can nicely deliver the character get right of entry to your Data. Passwords are usually recommended to be cycled each 6 weeks or much less in case a would-be thief reveals out what it is.

2. hard pressure encryption

Maximum modern-day hard drives support difficult pressure encryption, whether you can implement it or no longer relies upon on your BIOS and laptop version. For example, it is uncommon to see difficult force encryption on a patron PC. however, it is even rarer no longer to see it on a commercial enterprise laptop. This is quite an effective device, again a password is provided earlier than the operating device boots, in case you do not know it the difficult pressure is vain.

3. Biometrics

Assume such things as fingerprint readers, facial recognition, and iris recognition. Those have their upsides and drawbacks.

Plus, they’re clean to apply and might make a powerful deterrent.

Plus, if they are commercial enterprise-grade your Facts can be encrypted which is right.

Minus, they typically fall lower back to passwords, so if the thief is aware of your password, they are able to just choose to use that in preference to your features

Minus, if they don’t have password backups then if your biometric changes for any cause, a burn or an accident, you can lose your Information

Minus, if they may be purchased grade, then they merely store your password and use the biometric to go into it into Windows and offers access. No encryption.

4. 2 token authentication

That is now commonplace among corporates and is increasing to be had too small commercial enterprise or ‘prosumer’ users. Essentially, you require two form of authentication earlier than you are allowed access. Biometric + password or password + swipe card and so forth.

This is comfier again and probably overkill for the everyday at home person.

Far-flung Statistics robbery

This is the world of hackers, viruses, and the occasional disgruntled worker. This is one of the Most in all likelihood ways you may have your Facts stolen or wiped. If you have no Safety hardware and software for your network you’ll be leaving your gadget open to the wild. The concept Here is to prevent them stepping into in the first location.

We did a test with a vanilla XP machine without a firewall or net Protection, it lasted around four mins after which wouldn’t start up, a lot so we needed to wipe it and begin once more.

Right here are a few steps you could do to make your on-line revel in more secure.

1. Updates

No software program is ideal and as people figure out loopholes, backdoors, exploits and other methods to hack right into a community so too does the software program seller patch them up. Tuesday is patch day for Windows so on Wednesday you can make sure you have updates to download. if you do no longer update you will be leaving your gadget and your Facts open for the selecting.

2. internet Protection software program

Is not a unfastened antivirus enough? I get asked this all the time. The fact is, it would virtually rely upon a range off of factors however the general answer is no. unfastened antivirus is the basic any enterprise can offer. All of those agencies have paid for plenty fuller services that do a lot greater. normally a free offering will simplest test documents, a paid offering will do such things as;

Heuristic analysis – in which they look for patterns of contamination or signs and symptoms instead of just suit an epidemic to a definition

Email scanning – They will right away see each an Electronic mail with a dodgy attachment or a phishing Email that tries to get your Information

Internet scanning – They may provide you with a warning of any questionable websites which have been linked to fraud or other illegal sports

Firewall – They’ll have a completely featured software program firewall with a purpose to deflect attacks

it’s far very worthwhile upgrading your Safety software program to a full-featured bundle. Go with the brand names, my favorite is Kaspersky internet Security.

3. hardware firewall

Home windows and Safety software will provide a software Firewall, but if your gadget is compromised then that software program firewall will likely be compromised and be configured with the aid of the virus or anything to allow in all the nasties (as in a Trojan assault), consequently an essential detail of a network is the hardware firewall.

The coolest news is When you have a router of any description, this could in all likelihood have a hardware firewall built in. Right here are a few guidelines on Firewalls;

a. Ports – a portlets in a positive form of site visitors through, like mail site visitors or internet site traffic, simplest have the ports your require open and near all of the others. if you forestall the use of a port then close it off.

B. UPNP – Common Plug and Play, this could be turned on by means of default in firewalls and lets in a software for your laptop to say if a port must be open on the hardware firewall. this can be awful if that application is an endemic or Trojan. best have UPNP on if you need it. In a business environment, you likely might not.

C. DMZ – Demilitarized quarter, if you permit something to use this you are Basically giving them an open window to the out of doors global, wherein they are able to send anything out and outside can ship anything in. Use with intense caution.

D. SPI – Stateful Packet Inspection, While considering a firewall, any decent one will have SPI it tests packets for anything anomalous and if excellent at detecting and blocking off attacks.

Relying on the scale of your company you may need to Go together with a dedicated firewall, however, These are usually $1000+ so it could be a large investment for a few.

4. Far-flung get entry to passwords

You need to always defend Remote get admission to passwords. If a worker leaves your office, you must trade all of the passwords she or he had to get entry to straight away or they might reason sizable damage, Information loss/theft.

You must usually make Faraway get admission to passwords difficult, comply with These pointers.

A. Minimum of eight characters

b. At the least 1 uppercase letter

c. At the least 1 number

d. At the least 1 unique man or woman just like the @ or? symbol

e. change These at Maximum each 6 weeks

This makes it numerous orders of significance tougher for someone to ‘crack’ your password, hello123 just doesn’t suffice.

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Prepping 101 – Food Preps: 30 Days Worth Of Food

When you start to consider prepping, one of the first things you need to start prepping for is food. Simply put, food is one essential you need to live and your family must have a supply of food on hand regardless what the day or your situation is. Because of our just in time supply chain model, most grocery stores do not have more than 3 days’ worth of food stocked. In any type of emergency or disaster situation, the store shelves are cleaned quickly. You do not want to be one of those people who realize you have nothing in the house for dinner and a major snow storm, hurricane or  other event is imminent. You will go to the grocery store and find bare shelves like they did during hurricane Sandy. This happens in every instance where people could face the possibility of going hungry. The stores are cleaned out and the larger your city, the quicker the shelves are bare.

Not only will there be no food on the shelves, but the shelves could stay that way for a long time. What if the roads are impassable? What if there is some supply disruption. You could be out of food for a long time and this should never happen. You eat every day and so does everyone else. Running out of food should not be an option for your family at least for a reasonable amount of time.

FEMA recommends 3 days’ worth of food and water to last most common emergencies and I would say 30 days is a better goal to shoot for. If you have a month of food stored in your house you can worry about other things like getting back to your family if you are away from home or not going out in the first place to fight the lines of panicked people who waited until the last-minute.

Storing food can be complicated and costly but it is possible to start with a very simple list of items that you can purchase from your local grocery store or big-box chain like Wal-Mart, Pick N Save, or Sam’s Club. I have compiled a simple list of common foods that you can go get today that will allow you to feed a family of 4 for 30 days. If you have more or less people or giants in your family tree then you would need to adjust accordingly.

Basic Foods

I shop at Pick N’ Save or Sam’s, but you can get all of these at your friendly neighborhood grocery store. You may have to adjust the quantities. I like Pick N’ Save and Sam’s because I can buy larger containers and have to worry about fewer items, but you can also use Amazon or our website. At a store, you can also throw these into your cart and nobody is going to look at you like you are a deviant. If anyone does ask you what you are doing, just tell them you are having a big Chicken Stew or some other neighborhood type of event.

Rice – First off, buy a 50lb. bag of rice. These contain 504 servings and I don’t know too many people who won’t eat rice. It is simple to cook and stores for years if you keep it cool and dry. This bag at Sam’s costs about $19 now.

Beans – Next buy a bag of dry beans. This will check off the Beans part of your Beans, Bullets and Band-Aids list. A good size bag is about $5 and makes 126 servings. Buy two if you think your family would like them.

Canned meat – Cans are great for fruits and vegetables and anyone can find something they will eat. For canned meat, I recommend tuna or chicken because it tastes a heck of a lot better than Spam and you can easily mix that into your rice. For the meat you will need approximately 35 cans. Each can has about 3 servings and this will be the most costly, but they last over a year usually and your family probably eats chicken or tuna on a semi-regular basis anyway so restocking this should be simple.

Canned Vegetables – you will need about 40 cans of vegetables and again this can be whatever your family will eat. Expect to pay around a dollar each so $40 for veggies to last your family a month.

Canned Fruit – again, simple fruits that your family will eat. These can even be fruit cocktail if that is the safest thing. At Costco they have the #10 cans of fruit like pears or apple slices and each of these has 25 servings. 5 of these will cost about $25 and give your family their daily dose of fruit.

Oatmeal – Good old-fashioned oatmeal is simple to cook and store. A normal container has 30 servings each so purchase about 4 of these and your family won’t starve for breakfast. At $2 each that is about $8 for breakfast for a month for a family of four. Could you exchange Pop-tarts? Maybe, but I find oatmeal more filling and less likely to be snacked on.

Honey– Honey is a miracle food really as it will never go bad if you keep it dry and cool. Honey will last you forever and Sam’s has large containers that hold 108 servings. You can use this in place of sugar to satisfy the sweet tooth. Honey even has medicinal properties and you can use this to add some flavor to your oatmeal for breakfast.

Salt – Same as honey, salt will never go bad if you keep it dry and helps the flavor of anything. You can buy a big box of salt for around $1 and that will last your whole family a month easily.

Vitamins – I recommend getting some good multivitamins to augment your nutrition in the case of a disaster or emergency. Granted, rice and beans aren’t the best and you won’t be getting as many nutrients from canned fruit and vegetables so the vitamins help to fill in the gaps and keep you healthy. One big bottle costs about $8. You will need to get a kids version too if you have children small enough that they can’t or won’t swallow a big multivitamin.

All of the list above will feed the average family of 4 for right at 30 days and makes a great start to your food preparations. The meat was the most expensive part but the bill comes to around $500 give or take but this will vary by where you live. Should you stop there? No, but this is just a good starting point and you should expand from here. I would keep all of these items in your pantry along with your regular groceries and rotate these to keep the contents fresh.

What Next?

Once you have 30 days of groceries in your pantry I would recommend looking into storing larger quantities in Mylar bags or purchasing freeze-dried foods and bulk grains to augment your supplies. You would also need to plan for basic necessities like hygiene (hello toilet paper!) and different food items.

What else should you have? I would recommend several large candles (we make emergency candles that burn for 140 hours plus) or a propane powered lantern, matches or lighters, batteries for flashlights, a good first aid kit, radio and plenty of water. You should also add bullion cubes and spices in to make the meals more palatable. Is this going to be as good as some toaster strudel or 3-egg omelets from your chickens in the morning? No, but this list above will keep your family alive.

Water is another post, but for a month you will need 120 gallons at a minimum. Storing this isn’t as easy as groceries but there are lots of options.

This should get you started on your food preps and you can build on from here. One important thing to do is rotate your supplies. A good rule to remember is go through all your supplies every seasons. Let me know if you have other ideas I missed.