New pontoon boat build with New Wave floats

New Wave dock floats have huge floatation capacity.

As the population growth of Canada swings West (now more than 10 million people in the four western provinces), so does manufacturing and demand for leisure and recreation products.

The trouble is finding manufacturers and suppliers in the west. The good news is that this is changing. In the coming weeks and months, we'll profile that significant shift, and as part of the series, we'll include an interesting project by Nelson, B.C., boat builder Steve Bareham, publisher of Reviews Global.

Steve has begun work with an innovative B.C. company, New Wave Docks, from 100 Mile House to produce concept pontoon boats using New Wave's roto molding technologies.

LivinLite aluminum hauler/camper: SWEET

LIGHTEN YOUR TOWING LOAD: Like about 100 million other baby boomers in North America, I and my wife are nearing retirement. And, also like most Canadians and north-living Americans, we like to escape subzero temperatures from January-April. But, what do you do to get away? 

We've done Hawaii and Mexico. The Aloha state is a bit physically restricting out there in the Pacific, and Mexico has issues we'd rather avoid, so the southern U.S. is the go-to zone for the next decade. We don't want to stay in a condo or hotel for too long, certainly not for three months, so how does one travel around in comfort without spending $100,000+ on snazzy motorhomes? 

We've now looked at a couple of hundred pull units and fifth wheels, and the best option we've found is a growing company called LivinLite that makes a number of interesting models. The one we really like, and the subject of this review, is the VRV line: versatile recreation vehicle.

Yamaha Tyros 4 Arranger Workstation Review

Yamaha digital electric pianos are known to be the best in the world. I had a Yamaha DGX-630 for years, but made the leap to the incredible Tyros 4. I state at the outset that it's light years ahead in terms of sophistication.

You can see what this piano is capable of in the video link at the end, but suffice to say that it makes good players sound great and mediocre players sound good...this is why I like it. The Tyros 4 is not inexpensive, coming in at about $5,500, but you will get an immediate boost in the sound of your playing. And if you write your own songs, the accompaniment options are incredible. It really is a workstation.

Canadian Golf Management Program 100% Online

Canadian Golf Management Program 100% Online

Have you, or someone you know, ever thought of working at a golf club as a manager? Not a bad career; you work every day in a park-like setting and, for the most part, deal with people who are there to enhance their lives. The atmosphere at most clubs is upbeat and positive. But, back to the career potential. That's all well and good, but how realistic is it to lauch a career in golf?  

Well, consider that golf in Canada and the U.S. is a $50 billion industry that employs millions of people in golf-related jobs, including more than 100,000 managers ($11.3 billion industry and 342,000 jobs in Canada alone).

Critical thinking books: women surpass men

Critical thinking books: women surpass men

New research shows that women are more analytical than men, that they have surpassed men in IQ scores for the first time, and they are already better at emotional intelligence (see links below for proof). This means women are besting men in some very important areas. Men had better pay attention.

Never has critical thinking been more important to succeed in life and career, but most people are foggy about what it really is. If women study critical thinking explicitly, they can gain a rapid and significant edge over male counterparts because they will enhance already keen analytical and reasoning skills – key to becoming even better decision makers and problem solvers.

Why do people kill? New eBook explains

This examination of anthropoktonos, “man, murderer of man,” is written while a spate of mass killings around the world are still fresh in our memories and that have many of us asking: why do people kill?

Anyone interested in such macabre information can quickly find long lists of incidents where murderers have killed dozens of people to get their moments of infamy. There have been 934 people murdered in mass killings in the U.S. in the past seven years. School children, theatre goers, and people in shopping malls are easy targets for what we like to label as madmen.

Of the top 10 school massacres documented around the world, five took place in the U.S., claiming 131 victims. Canada is in the top ten, too: Mark Lepine killed 14 women at a Montreal university in 1989. Click the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rampage_killers:_School_massacres

Critical thinking books: a path to change your life

Do you want to be happier in life, advance more quickly in your career, and profit more in business?  How about make better decisions and solve problems with more confidence? 

If you answered “yes,” you're in good company...who doesn't! But, to get there, think about how you think, because the way you think holds the key. Thinking better means thinking critically and it isn't difficult to add a supercharger to your brain.

Remarkably, few people think about how they think. We tend to focus on thinking outcomes: decisions, plans, conclusions, and judgments. But these are the latter stages of thinking, so if we do those first, the focus is backwards and responsible for results that aren’t always optimal. Read on for more details about what's in these new critical thinking books.