#NEWcoffee "It's like drinking desert" TLR, Chief Weekend Warrior, Founder, Natures Energy Water Corporation #SimplyRefreshing #BeTheAdventure
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/omegastewardship_coffee-consumertrends-activity-7429725452237406208-BL-z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAExNC0B527uh2CcYGxb2ZqlJRvuxvR5
some cool ideas
start a course
https://advisoranalyst.com/2021/12/09/95-mary-hagerman-the-black-belt-advisor.html/
I always get the left & right stuff mixed up. I think it's partly because they both play in the sand box and a little of each stick to each other and here in Canada the terms are many times opposite to what is used in the US. The media we listen to flows between the two countries being so close. What happens in the US effects us more than what happens in Canada effects them. Demografics, Population, Land Mass, Trade is the big one. US is Canada's largest trading "partner" I think. I am no expert on this, however that is the ghist of it. So I am going to just play a bit in the sandbox and dump some lumps and links here and revist from time to time. ~ Tim
http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-left-and-right-politics
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gist
I think of cats playing in the sandbox, just my experience from being on the farm. Looks like the writer of this link below had experience with proper dogs
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sandbox
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
THOMAS EDISON
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Advice for a beginner homesteader
Get chickens first, eggs & meat , easy, fairly inexpensive , then go for pigs ......
Pigs are good for the soul, you will get to love and hate them, they are pretty smart, I started a fb page recently, your welcome to follow us , start your own page and document the adventure , good memories will follow
I will post a view play lists that I have created over time , they may be of value to you, listen to them while your driving and doing chores , get a head set if you do not have one and a robust data plan, lots of good podcasts out there as well
Farm Finance
Meadow Life
Homestead PLans
The Ross Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQur_JaAeOITdaw93SePSHj9L
I would follow Joel Salatin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Salatin
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQurypUqyMYSXChcF2RZxH8AD
Bio Security
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQup1RDnooIt-Pbje3p24cvFH
Seeders
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQupzVnJXmsKYwkLxfmocowx7
Veggies
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQupo1zOtdfd8Mku_hdrPRTdl
Herbs
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQuqghewNa-5oZBQyUmVWST0Z
Fields to Forks
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQupqtQqnLgTCItpdM_DLgTTe
Food Creations
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQuokKEaS0o9vPDoiub1eJVFV
Seed Saving
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQurwMn_cKIPCi4KnpU-yaKbg
Fermenting
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQuqJeBy53DiLRSZgW5MkYf3B
Ranch Cooking
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQuo63RgCOlJwEHoL5rQW9lEN
Rabbits
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQuoq2MtQ5Da03X9M2_iIVGR7
Have some Fungi Fun
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhVyaUmOQuqYbiG1bH6SRAxbkLbrJhE-
Besure and follow Doug & Stacy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChit3QKk051fCsqliwVrbuQ
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Came across this in my email this morning, it's a cool reflection on how a idea became the standard in recrational facilities. Enjoy the artcile, and log into the Hustle to get more of these cool finds ~ TLR
CLICK ON THE LINKS BELOW TO GET THE PIC'S https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-invented-the-zamboni/The man who invented the ZamboniHow the son of Italian immigrants created a niche industry for ice resurfacing machines and turned his family’s name into a noun. |
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As the great sage Charlie Brown once said: “There are 3 things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire, and a Zamboni clearing the ice.” Watching one of these machines glide across a skating rink, restoring carved-up ice to glassy perfection, is efficiency in motion. A job that once required 1.5 hours of manual labor can be done by a Zamboni in just a few minutes. Technically, these contraptions are called ice resurfacers. But the company that originally invented them in 1950 — Frank J. Zamboni & Co., Inc. — has become so dominant in the niche market that all ice resurfacers are now colloquially called “Zambonis.” The company has produced 12k+ machines used by pro hockey teams, Olympic Games venues, and recreational ice rinks around the world. And it all started with the entrepreneurial vision of a 2nd-generation Italian immigrant named Frank J. Zamboni. From farm to ice rinkBorn in 1901, Zamboni spent his childhood on his family’s farm in Idaho, tinkering with mechanical equipment. According to the Italian-American periodical Fra Noi, Zamboni’s formal education was cut short at the age of 15 when he left school to earn extra income fixing cars. |
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Frank Zamboni (far left) with his mother, father, and siblings, c. 1905 (Zamboni Company) |
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In 1920, he moved to Los Angeles to help his older brother run an auto garage. Soon, he saw an opportunity in a different space: refrigeration. Many industries relied on large chunks of ice to preserve and transport perishable products. Leveraging their mechanical know-how, Zamboni and his brother launched a business that specialized in crafting refrigeration units for dairy farmers. By 1927, they’d expanded the operation into a plant that produced ice blocks, which they sold wholesale to produce farmers. But in the mid-1930s, major advancements in air conditioning and cooling technologies threatened to put the brothers out of business... So, they had a genius pivotAt the time, figure skating was growing in popularity in America. Buoyed by the Winter Olympics, which debuted in 1924, an industry was emerging for indoor ice skating rinks. But the prevailing tech used to create the ice in the rinks — a grid of underground steel pipes — often left the surface “rippled” and bumpy. |
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Zamboni’s early patent illustrations for improved ice rink mechanisms (Google Patents) |
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At his ice plant, Zamboni began to experiment with different cooling methods and soon discovered an alternate solution. In lieu of pipes, Zamboni circulated brine water and ammonia refrigerant under the ice in “large flat tanks” — an approach that resulted in a smoother, more uniform skating surface. He secured a patent and, in 1940, teamed up with his cousin and brother to open his own ice skating rink down the street from his ice plant. Iceland Skating Rink was unlike anything Southern Californians had seen: The 20k sq. ft. facility — one of the largest in America — could house 800 skaters at once. The business was a smash hit, attracting 150k skaters per year. |
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Iceland, in Paramount, CA, c. 1940s. A dome was later added, making it an indoor rink. (Zamboni Company) |
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But the success of the rink, and its sheer volume of foot traffic, soon raised a secondary concern. At the end of every business day, the rink’s ice was completely chewed up by skate blades. How could they efficiently restore it for the following day’s crowds? How to resurface 20k sq. ft. of iceIn the early 1940s, skating rinks had a rather daunting procedure for restoring the surface of their damaged ice: 1. A tractor would roll across the ice with a scraper in tow. 2. Workers would manually shovel up the shavings and “squeegee the dirty water away.” 3. The workers would spray on new layers of water. This process took 4 men up to 1.5 hours to complete — and Zamboni couldn’t stand for it. |
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Early — and not very efficient — methods of resurfacing ice (Zamboni Company) |
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For nearly a decade, Zamboni had something of a mad scientist's lab in the back of the Iceland rink, where he experimented with various mechanical contraptions that could optimize ice resurfacing. He Frankensteined parts from war surplus vehicles and bomber planes, and ran into numerous issues — chattering blades, malfunctioning snow tanks, lack of tire traction on the slippery ice. “It took him nine years,” Zamboni’s son, Richard, later told the LA Times. “One of the reasons he stuck with it was that everyone told him he was crazy.” Finally, in 1948, his prototyping led to a breakthrough. Per Joseph Scafetta, Jr., who profiled Zamboni in 2000, the machine worked like so: · A blade inside the vehicle shaved the surface of the ice. · The ice shavings were picked up by a horizontal screw and funneled into a snow tank by a conveyor. · A second tank sprayed conditioner on the ice to eradicate imperfections. · A vacuum sucked up dirty water and debris. · Clean hot water was dispensed on the ice. |
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Top left: Zamboni working on prototypes; top right: a patent illustration for his early machine; bottom: an ice resurfacer prototype in action (Zamboni Company) |
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The resulting invention — the Zamboni Ice Resurfacer — could perform all of these tasks in 15 minutes while driving across the ice. (Future machines would improve this time even more.) In 1949, Zamboni formed Frank J. Zamboni & Co. and began manufacturing his patented machines for sale to the public. A lucrative, niche industryCompeting ice rinks quickly recognized the utility of Zamboni’s machines. The entrepreneur sold his first machine to the nearby ice rink Pasadena Winter Garden for $5k ($54k today). But Zamboni’s biggest marketing tool was his own rink, Iceland. A big break came in 1950 when Sonja Henie — a Norweigian film starlet and Olympic champion skater — spotted one of Zamboni’s contraptions in operation at Iceland and ordered 3 of them for use in her international figure skating tour. This gave the machine world-wide exposure — and demand soon ballooned. |
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An advertisement for Zamboni machines, c. 1960s (Zamboni Company) |
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From the 1950s to the early ‘60s, sales figures doubled each year. The company’s customer base expanded to include NHL teams, the Winter Olympics, and touring shows like the Ice Capades. New owners often expressed concern that the new machines were so fun to watch that they were stealing the limelight. "People will stay in the stands and watch it and not go down to the concession stands," one stadium owner reportedly told Zamboni. Zamboni had an astute eye for iteration, based on customer feedback. Over the years, the machines saw various improvements — increased tank capacities, liquid-cooled engines, and later, electric power. After handing the reins of the company to his son, Richard, in the late ‘60s, Zamboni continued to innovate, inventing machines that rolled up AstroTurf, dumped dirt on cemetery vaults, and cleaned airplanes. A grasp on the marketFrank J. Zamboni died of lung cancer complications in 1987, at the age of 87. But today, under the leadership of his grandson, the company he built continues to dominate the ice resurfacing market. Since 1949, the company has sold more than 12k ice resurfacing machines. Between its 3 manufacturing plants in Los Angeles, Canada, and Sweden, it rolls out ~250 new machines per year, which cost anywhere from $10k to $175k+ depending on size. Some of this cost pays for itself: rinks often make money by selling ad space (anywhere from $5k/year for a smaller arena up to $50k+ for the NHL) on their Zamboni machines. |
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Zamboni (right) with his son Richard (later the company’s president) in 1985 (Bob Riha Jr. / WireImage) |
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Though ice rinks have seen slowing growth in the US, Zamboni has continued to mine customers in growing foreign markets. Fears about niche market saturation have never been fully realized. To secure limited business, Zamboni often has to slug it out with a few competitors like Ontario’s Resurfice Corporation. But the Zamboni company enjoys a competitive advantage that goes back to the roots of Frank Zamboni, who has since been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Like Kleenex, Coke, and Xerox, the name “Zamboni” has been genericized to refer to any ice surfacing machine. “If our name had been Smith or Brown, I don’t think any of this would have happened,” Zamboni’s son Richard later told the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “It’s kind of a screwball name. There’s such a uniqueness to it, the machine kind of took on a character of its own. My father was always surprised by that.” |
Will add in the comments ideas that we discover that will be drivers
https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/tedx-program
This would be a very cool opportunity should it be pursued.
Lots of great content if you ever wanted to consider everything that should be thought about while organizing an event.
If if we had a TEDxBrockShores whatb would we have covered?
What great innovative speakers would we want to present ?
Perhaps my son Alex Ross and his work on Radon Detection systems.
Perhaps , Greg Houldcroft and how he reaches the youth in the community
Newterra and how they have made the words water cleaner
Rotary and what it means to be a Rotarian, locally and globally
Burnbrae Farms , innovation and family farm
Small business hero’s of our region
Immigration and refugee
Canada’s flag and the birthplace connection
Bruce Wylie , a community champion of philanthropy and air waves
Bringing Ayo Home, the journey and the adoption heart
Dream Mountains Foundation, Shawn Dawson and his goal to climb the seven summits with purpose
John Barclay, video art of the story
Mental Health, Shelley McCaffrey
Shelli Warren and the Leadercast local leadership dream and impact
Mike Whitford, making the body work the way it was intended to
David Marshall, fastest snowmobile rider in the world, doing business around the world
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Things that “could” happen
Reviewing my farm paper, I came across this resource and encouraging place #RootedInStrength http://www.domore.ag
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“Altria will pay a USD$2 billion bonus to Juul's 1,500 employees as part of the price for its stake in the e-cigarette maker. While that averages out to USD$1.3 million a head, actual payouts in the form of special dividends will depend on factors such as longevity at the company, CNBC says. The maker of Marlboro cigarettes is paying a total $12.8 billion for a 35% stake, valuing the California startup at $38 billion. Juul recently said employees can only vape outside company facilities to conform with laws governing the use of tobacco in the workplace. • Here’s what people are saying.
Wow, nice vice bonus 1.3 million average for 1500
Many may know, in our own area in Smiths Falls, Canopy Growth has created over 100 millionaires that work at this local company. I understand everyone that works there is a shareholder of some sorts. Those early employees got vested early and have benefited immensely for working their buts off and taking a chance on a new industry.
Employees investing in the company they work for is a very good thing. I see many examples of this happening with those that are public companies and some private companies. Good lessons here for private companies and employees to work towards.
Tim
great quick overview about the challenges of growing
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/steps-scaling-your-business/
great pic from last nights Rotary Christmas Ham packing workshop.
lots to consider in this space
https://www.fastcompany.com/90270394/the-digital-privacy-tools-you-need-to-be-using-now
Idea of the Day: When starting a new business, be careful about taking on more liabilities prematurely, says Lisa Unwin, founder of She's Back.
“I’ve just seen a fabulous business, run by two amazing, energetic, committed women, go to the wall because they ran up too many debts before the cash came in. I believe the term is overtrading. Don’t do it.”
Some inspirational thoughts
Remember, follow your heart
https://youtu.be/a5SMyfbWYyE
Keep your affairs in order
Core principles from Apple leader
https://youtu.be/eHzAtxW3TzY
Think different, Be The Adventure, Be Blessed, Be
TLR
The current manifesto for 2019 Carbon Tax redistribution.
Plus some other thoughts from Mrs Tax
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16163500
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16163503
Will add additional info in comments as sourced.
Strategicly , I would like to see some requirement other than being a tax filer, and indirectly a voter to be eligible. Some sort of educational component. Perhaps a online course that teaches the basics of how to reduce our own personal carbon footprint.
Different levels gets you more of the credit or bonus credit if you click the box, I love this credit, Thank You Mr Trudeau.
For extra credit, the box that says , you got my vote, please redirect my rebate to your campaign. You would then be eligible for an additional 75% tax credit on your redistributed carbon tax.
I still like the find an easy Billion idea. Those Canadians that have left Canada to work abroad should all have to pay an annual tax. Fair is fair, they may not get a direct annual benefit from our Country, but we launched them. There should be a tribute for that. With almost 10% of Canadians living abroad, and a million immigrants projected need to fill vacancies in the work force, why not, let’s get a little return for our country’s investment in their beginnings. TLR
https://improvingfutures.ning.com/blog/how-to-find-a-billion-dollars
"The report notes some key issues that should be addressed:
The full report can be seen at www.cpacanada.ca/taxsystem
One idea I thought about is on the personal tax side of the system. There is a lot of Canadian's not living in Canada anymore. Some are paying taxes, many are not. What the "are not" is I have not found out yet.
Here is some random thoughts and articles regarding the matter for future consideration and updates.
"People and politics, thank the good Lord we won the birth country lottery ! "
2.8 million Canadians live abroad , I wonder how many making over 20,000 a year pay no taxes to Canada?
View of Hong Kong taxes https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1399900/2014-may-be-taxing-new-year-hong-kong-canada-dual-residents?fbclid=IwAR163LErNrNZrQvooX0YO3S4t1ry2FnmfWRHqrvY2Ot3v0z-W2NNooxRMAE
I think a tax no matter what your residency status should be considered. No doubt about it. Only exception would be those that were never in a hospital, seen a doctor, never went to a school. Parents never collected any form of social assistance. That’s probably enough nevers. Beyond that they would have some value for being born here before they had to leave.
Thanks for sharing the article, looks like Scheer needs to work on getting more known .... “though a majority of voters no longer have a positive impression of him. But he leads Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer” perhaps the win on our local shores yesterday is a sign of things to come, in the meantime expect the cash flow to increase to grease the political economy, the kids can pay for it .... maybe , just maybe we should start taxing those who are non residents, living and working abroad, why should they have the benefit of access to our embassies if they get in hot water, need advice, or the luxury of returning if they get a better offer on our Country’s soil ? I think that would be a good conservative policy to implement. I was just thinking about this yesterday. It would be good for Canadians and business, we live in a global economy, it’s time to focus in on this little tax opportunity and reinforce our nations citizenship capital.
So how many Canadians are living abroad not paying any income tax to their nation ?
surely a more effective way would be to close the loopholes that allow corporations to hide billions offshore to avoid taxation.
The CRA knows full well that countless large corporations are hiding money in tax havens abroad to avoid paying but they do nothing about it.
And for the record, Canadians working overseas do have to file their taxes, it’s just there’s a high threshold before they are required to pay taxes on it
The threshold should probably be dropped down to the middle class level, Fair is fair , you have to get the pennies from those that benefit
Like Ford, a little bit here, a little bit there and you get your budget back in line
you mean like, a little from the hospitals, a few nurses here, a few nurses there. A few schools here and there. A little from the poor, a little more from the poor. A little from green energy subsidization. Sell off some profit generating aspects of the government.
Back to the days of Mike the Knife Harris before we know it
No, if your a Canadian living abroad, you pay the same tax rate less what you pay in the country you live in, simple, effective, fair
fair in what capacity? Pay for services I can’t use? Pay 20-30% of my income to a government that isn’t providing any services for me? Then pay another 17% to the Korean government in income tax. Get real.
If that’s the case, are we going to see your men of the people Ford and Scheer go after corporate tax avoidance, their use of tax havens, and questionable loopholes to not have to pay their share? Cut the unnecessary and pointless subsidies they get from the government, which they pocket and do not re-invest.
There’s a better chance of the Green Party winning the next election than there is the conservatives (or liberals for that matter) go after their rich friends and demand they pay their fair share
Your a Canadian, that’s is worth a couple bucks a day in my books
2 billion dollars from those abroad every yr will help hire a few auditors for sure
You will get to vote as well, sounds like a bargain to me
this is a great idea, I am sure the Green Party and ndp will love it. It’s a bit socialist, but very capitalist at the same time, Canada invested in a person, they should get a return for that investment. Especially if that person win the birthplace lottery and found themselves getting the benefit of a doctor, school teacher, bus driver, born in a hospital, took a bus somewhere, drive a car over a bridge or on a 4 lane highway after it was plowed after a snow storm, they should pay a little back for winning that lottery. If they managed to get a decent job overseas , why they should pay at least a percentage of that extra just like everyone else that decided to stay. Alternatively, pay an exit fee , kinda like buying your pension back, you can scale anything and make it fair.
that system is already there. Canadians working abroad making a certain amount of money are required to pay back. Those who benefited from Canada’s services and high standard of living are asked to give back. Your idea is to lower the threshold and squeeze the smaller folk, which has always been the policy of the conservatives. Protect the wealthy, and crush the poor
Collect extra 2 billion dollars, that’s the goal
from those who can afford it the least? Why not start by cutting our subsidies to those who have more than enough?
We give subsidies to corporations and the rich and instead of re-investing the money, they hoard it. As we’ve seen with GM, and in recent years, Heinz, Proctor-Gamble, Caterpillar, that regardless of how profitable they are, and the subsidies they receive, their greed will never be satisfied and they will abandon their workers
Have tax laws and processes changed since the Trudeau government began, or are they the same as the Harper government's policies and laws?
Announcing foreign aid alongside celebrities is a long standing tradition. https://www.thestar.com/.../aga_khan_prime_minister... Yes...thanks that we can speak freely about attempts to politicize aid announcements, either by governments, or by criticizing governments.
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Ohio isn’t known for being on the screaming bleeding edge of technology, but it’s now an early adopter of bitcoin. Yesterday, the 34th largest state in the US became the first to accept the volatile coin for tax payments.
After what feels like a decade of threatening to shelf their current business for crypto, Overstock’s CEO says he will finally shut down its retail business in February. And people are more bullish on blockchain than bed sets: Its stock surged 26% after the news.”
