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How the SR&ED Tax Credit Can Help Canadian Companies During Tough Economic Times
[Business:Small-Business] Economic unrest is ahead. You will need to utilize every advantage possible to stay ahead of your competition during tough economic times. One little-known program that can substantially increase your cash flow in the Canadian federal government's Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit. This program can generate a return of up to 35% of your expenditure base.

Rain Barrels Look Good and Help to Save Water
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There is an immediate need for water conservation because the world's available supply of fresh water is shrinking; one way to help conserve water is with the installation of a rain barrel. Right now there are 600 million people in the world who are living with water-scarcity problems.

Conserving Water in Your Home
[News-and-Society:Environmental] The most essential resource in the entire world is water. Without water, life cannot survive on earth. The main problem is that earth's global population is expected to reach 8.1 billion by 2030. It has been estimated that in order to keep pace with the growing demand for food, 14 percent more freshwater will need to be withdrawn for agricultural purposes in the next 30 years.

If You Have Fish in Your Pond, Always Have an Extra Pond Pump Handy
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] If you have fish in your pond, you will need to keep your pond water aerated, otherwise your fish will die. On average, a pond pump will run for approximately 2 years. Then, due to wear and tear, they will cease to function.

A New Line of Environmentally - Friendly Garden Sprinklers
[News-and-Society:Environmental] As the availability of drinking water becomes scarcer, efforts to preserve water will intensify. These efforts will be driven both by environmental activism and the increasing cost of water. This is due to the fact that our current water supplies are being attacked by both global-warming, and by human industrialization. If this persists, many of the world's most fertile land will be turned into arid deserts in the next few decades.

Gardening With Children
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Are you looking for a fun and helpful family activity that will delight your children and keep them busy? Do you enjoy gardening? Whether you are a novice gardener or a certified green thumb, gardening with kids can be a fantastic activity for those of all ages. Not only can gardening with kids be fun, but it's a great educational tool for parents. There are many tips for mixing kids and gardening that allow for a super positive experience.

Pond Skimmers Offer Mechanical Filtration for Larger Ponds and Water Gardens
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] The purpose of a pond skimmer is to remove leaves, twigs, and other debris that would normally accumulate on the surface of the pond, or inside your mechanical filter in the middle of the pond.

How to Avoid the Next Car Accident
[Automotive] Backup collisions happen when a driver reverses their car into an object, person, or another car. Although most cars come equipped with rear view mirrors, which are adequate for detecting vehicles behind a car, they are inadequate on many vehicles for detecting small children or objects close to the ground, which fall in the car's blind spot. How large is your vehicle? Larger vehicles (such as SUVs and pick-up trucks) have much larger blind spots that can hide entire cars and large adults.

A Skimmer and Biological Waterfall Filter Are Mandatory Tools for Any Large Liner Pond
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Too often, many pond owners come back to me with many problems related to poor water circulation and filtration. To properly construct a complete and self-sustaining backyard eco-system, you need to invest in the right tools to ensure that your water is both turned over and filtered adequately. Water circulation is crucial for any backyard pond if you want to properly oxygenate the water for aquatic life. Adequate water circulation also prevents pesky mosquito swarms from hatching. For pond sizes greater than 1,000 gallons, it is recommended that you adopt a skimmer and Biofalls filtration system to handle the larger volume of water.

Building a Low-Maintenance Water Garden, Without the Pond- Introducing the Pond-Less Waterfall
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] For those of you who want to have a professional backyard pond but don't want to have to worry about maintaining a large body of water, a pond-less waterfall is the solution for you. Without the pond, you don't have to worry about algae control, water filtration, and keeping animals and young children away from your body of water. Instead, you can create the relaxing, and soothing sound of falling water, while leaving your neighbours baffled as to how water can literally fall from nowhere.

How To Build A Pondless Waterfall
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] For those of you who want a hassle-free water garden, a pondless waterfall is a much more viable solution. Pondless waterfall kits provide you with all the materials that you require in order to install your very own backyard waterfall. Imagine having the best of both worlds - the sound of falling water, plus the visual appeal of an actual waterfall in your backyard, without the hassle of having to maintain it.

Professional Pond Kits Provide Comprehensive Solution For Water Garden Projects
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] Two essential components of a professional water garden include a skimmer and a high-end waterfall filter. A pond skimmer helps to keep debris, such as leaves and twigs, off the surface of the pond. This is extremely important because decaying leaves not only create toxic by-products, but also encourage the growth of algae. This is because decay increases the nutritional value of the water in the pond, which provides a rich source of nutrition to algae.

A Preformed Pond is a Great Garden Centerpiece
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] A garden pond is a great focal point for any backyard or garden. Unfortunately, the installation of a professional garden pond can be extremely expensive and require significant labor. For those of us on a budget and for those of us who don't have unlimited time to spend on our backyards, there is an alternative: a preformed pond kit. Preformed pond kits can make for quick, affordable, and easy-to-install garden ponds.

Container Gardening - Tips on How To Choose Healthy Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Container gardening is a method of growing portable plants that might otherwise be impossible to cultivate because of unsuitable soil or climatic conditions. Container gardening caters to your imagination because it asks that you combine plants of all colors, shapes, and textures together to enhance an existing garden. There are virtually an unlimited number of pots and plants that you can use to create your canvas, which means that every taste and style can be catered to.

Gardening Tips- How To Make Your Own Compost
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A soil can never get enough compost because soil can always be improved with additional organic matter. Compost is organic matter that has broken down sufficiently such that its mineral and nutrient components can be readily absorbed by plants. You can either buy compost or create compost yourself.

Preformed Liners - A Quick and Easy Water Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Preformed ponds offer the fastest and easiest means of constructing a water garden. When properly installed, they are lead-free and can last for decades. With sufficient space, you can often link together multiple preformed ponds. Some ponds, such as Algreen's Derrilstone basin, have a lip attached to the pond, such that it can serve as both an upper tier and a watercourse.

Choosing a Pond Pump for your Water Garden
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] Nowadays, most reliable pumps are magnetic-driven and can consume as little energy as a 60W light bulb. Our advice is to always choose the magnetic-driven pumps over the direct drive pumps. Magnetic-driven pumps are designed for continuous pond pumping, are quieter, and are more reliable than the direct-drive pumps. The next biggest question that many potential pond owners have is: "What kind of pump do I need?"

Starting a Garden From Scratch-Preparing the Planting Site for Perennial and Annuals
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Perennials and annuals must be grown in an area of the garden that has a significant amount of sun, moisture, nutrients, drainage, and air circulation. If you already have an established planting area, then you do not have to worry about the preparation of the planting site. But if you're starting from scratch, there are several considerations you have to take into account.

Installing a Professional Water Garden on a Budget
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Both purchasing a pond kit and installing a water garden yourself can save you a lot of money. Landscapers usually charge thousands of dollars to install professional liner ponds. In fact, even the supplies that the landscapers provide you with are marked up! Why not purchase the supplies online at significantly discounted prices? With the advent of the Internet, you can now gain access to the same pricing that the landscapers have access to. For further savings, all you need are some friends and family, and some time, you can even complete most, if not all, of the installation yourself.

Yoga is a Fun Way of Promoting a Healthier Looking Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Yoga has been called a science or technology of liberation. This is because, unlike purely theoretical philosophies, yoga seeks to provide the student with a practical path towards the common goal of liberation. The word yoga can be roughly translated (from its India origins) as “the ability to focus the mind on a single point without distraction”.

Engineers Can Be Artists Too
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Sol Algranti is a professional photographer whose diverse interests vary from bikers, buildings, cars, dancers, flowers, to Venice and wine.

Pilates is a Holistic Approach Towards Total Physical Fitness
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Pilates believed that mental health and physical health were essential to one another. He created a method of total body conditioning that emphasizes seven principles (the Pilates Principles). Pilates believed that following these principles resulted in increased flexibility, strength, body awareness, energy, and improved mental concentration.

A Flashlight Which Can Last For Up To 100,000 Hours, Light Emitting Diodes
[Home-Improvement:Appliances] Nowadays, LEDs are everywhere, and are especially common in flashlights. The advantages of a LED flashlight are tremendous. LEDs can be significantly more efficient at lower power levels, and use less battery energy than normal lightbulbs. LED flashlights also have longer battery lifetimes, and in some cases can run hundreds of hours before the batteries are drained (although the LED efficiency advantage diminishes at higher power levels). Not only do LEDs consume significantly less power than traditional flashlights, but the LED bulb also lasts for up to 100,000 hours.

The Many Uses of Microfiber
[Home-and-Family] Microfiber is an extremely practical, yet versatile material than can be incorporated into many commercial products.

Dare To Be Yourself
[Business:Solo-Professionals] You would never know that Kashif Tejani was one of the newest, youngest, and most talented designers to enter the fashion industry. Unlike other young businessmen of his kind, he does not like to fit in. Always a maverick in his own eyes, Kashif touts the importance of individualism in fashion.

The Importance Of High Search Engine Rankings
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] It has been well documented that highly indexed webpages generate a significant amount of traffic because Internet surfers tend to assign a high degree of credibility to search engine rankings. Therefore, there is tremendous extrinsic value associated with appearing near the top of search engine rankings. However, most businesses do not really understand how to accomplish this feat.

You Want To Get Involved In E-commerce, But Unfortunately, You're Canadian
[Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] eCommerce is one of the rapidly-expanding industries in North America. However, if you are a Canadian entrepreneur, the chances are that you have not taken advantage of this phenomenon yet.

Revolutionary New Pond Combines Both Preformed Pond with Watercourse
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] Algreen has recently developed a new two-in-one preformed pond shell, the Derrilstone, which combines both a preformed pond and a spillway into one unit.

Small Backyard Mini-Ponds are Low on Maintenance and Easy to Install
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you're like most home-owners, you would prefer a small maintenance-free and easy-to-install pond. A small pre-formed pond is probably the ideal solution for you. Unlike liner ponds, preformed ponds already come in a pre-defined shape. Mini preformed ponds are typically 2-3 feet wide/long, and 1 foot deep. They are especially low-maintenance since the volume of water is only in the 30 gallon range, it is quite easy to periodically empty the water and to refill your pond.

Pond Spitters Are The Perfect Way To Accentuate Your Pond With Style
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] One option that adds significant appeal to a water garden is a pond spitter. Fountain pond spitters are artistic and whimsical ways to decorate your outdoor space and accentuate your waterscape. A spitter not only helps to circulate water, but it also incorporates the soothing splashing sound of water in your backyard, while adding a visually-appealing backdrop upon which to set your pond.

Preformed Ponds Manufactured from New Rubber/Plastic Composite More Durable and Resistant to Wear
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] One common complaint of customers in the past has been that flexible pond shells have been difficult to unfold. To address this problem, as of January 2006, Algreen Products has introduced a new line of flexible preformed pond kits which are manufactured from a novel blend of rubber, nylon, and plastic. Using the new rubber-based composite, Algreen’s ponds are now extremely easy to unfold. Because of the flexibility offered by the rubber component, which is supplemented by the stiffness offered by the plastic component, the ponds are also many times more resistant to breakage and wear.

Choosing a Pond Liner – EPDM liners are the optimal choice
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] The most popular choice for advanced pond constructions is the pond liner, because it offers an unlimited potential for design creativity, dependable longevity, and low maintenance. However, make sure you invest in a high quality pond liner, because a low-quality liner may leak, be toxic to marine life, and/or cause many other headaches in the upcoming months after your installation.

Multi-Purpose Pond Pumps Ideal for Small Water Gardens
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] The advantage of a multi-purpose pond pump is that you can adapt them to accommodate any pond requirements. There is no need to purchase extra pumps or hardware in order to create multiple water flows because these pumps come with built-in diverter valves. Multi-purpose pumps have built-in mechanical pre-filters to prevent the pump from becoming clogged.

Looking for a Pump for Your Pond?
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The pump is one of the most important features of a pond, because without a pump, there will not be any trickling or moving water, and you will effectively have a bog. If you choose the wrong pump, your water will either not flow the way you desire, or you may have insufficient flow to filter your water and/or feed your waterfall. Therefore, it is worth taking the time to choose the proper pump to suite your needs. The first question you should ask yourself is: “What functionalities do I require from my pump?” Are you using your pump to drive a waterfall? Do you have a statue? Or do you need a pump to circulate your water and drive a filter?

Start Planning for Your Backyard Water Garden or Pond
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] With spring in the air, now is the time to start planning for your backyard garden. For many homeowners, a backyard pond is a perfect supplement to your existing layout. The trickling of water in the background is the ideal way to supplement the natural, serene and relaxing atmosphere that the outdoors should offer.

Granite Flexible Preformed Rock Ponds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There are many preformed rock pond shells in the market, but these tend to be extremely large and cumbersome. However, one manufacturer, Algreen Products Inc., has recently introduced a new granite flexible rock pond kit. This new folding pond shell has all the benefits of its black preformed predecessor, but both the pond and the streamlet look like rock.

Liner Ponds versus Folding Preformed Ponds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Before making a decision about the pond construction that you require, it is important that you take a moment to consider several variables: cost, labour required, and creativity. It is hoped that by making the proper decision that your pond experience will be all the more enjoyable.

How to Install a Liner Pond
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Liner ponds are ideal for the experienced water gardener because they allow for very forgiving installations, which consequently promotes greater creativity. However, for the very same reasons, liner ponds also require some extra pre-planning. To follow are instructions and tips on how you can install your very own liner pond.

Maximize Your Waterfall Flow with the Master DW Waterfall Pump
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews] One common mistake that beginner water gardeners often make is that they fail to take the height and width of their waterfall into consideration, when they purchase a waterfall pump. The pumps in the Master DW series have been designed for medium to large ponds, for particularly dirty water, and to create waterfalls. One of the most significant benefits of the Master DW series is that they have been designed to be clog-free.

Father's Day Gift Idea: Do-It-Yourself Backyard Pond Kit
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] This Father’s Day, sit back and enjoy a nice cold drink with your father, while he’s beaming with pride from ear to ear. You are both relaxing next to the sounds of trickling water emanating from the new water feature that he just installed himself. For the father who enjoys gardening, what better gift can there be to keep him occupied, than a do-it-yourself backyard gardening project?

Choosing the Proper Pond Pump
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] Whether you have a preformed or a liner pond, a pond pump is a paramount component of any water feature. Stagnant bodies of water attract mosquito infestations, which are a nuisance, and also undesirable, due to the recent outbreaks of the West Nile virus. Therefore, it is paramount that you utilize a pond pump that circulates your body of water.

New for 2006 - Granite Flexible Preformed Rock Ponds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] New for 2006, Algreen Products is proud to announce the development of a granite flexible rock pond kit! This new folding pond shell has all the benefits of its black preformed predecessor, but both the pond and the streamlet look like rock.

Preliminary Considerations Before Building Your Own Backyard Garden Pond
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] This article is geared towards the beginner water gardener, who is contemplating the installation of his/her first garden pond. The key to a successful do-it-yourself project is to gather as much relevant information that you can. To follow are some preliminary considerations and design tips that must be taken into account, before embarking on a water gardening project.

The Advantages of Both a Liner Pond and a Preformed Pond, Rolled Up Into One Box!
[Recreation-and-Sports:Fish-Ponds] So you’ve decided to build your very own backyard water garden. You are in the process of actively planning out your design, and you’re visualizing the end-result. But have you paused to consider what kind of pond construction you will be using? Do you know what kind of pond constructions exist? The majority of garden ponds utilize one of two types of constructions: a preformed shell, or a pond liner.