OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) – A Johnson County restaurant manager sent a harsh message to employees about taking time off and was subsequently fired.

An Olive Garden media relations representative confirmed to KCTV5 a manager at the restaurant on 95th Street sent the below message to staffers:

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Do you garden in English or another language?

Associated Press writer Jessica Damiano spent 2022 writing about gardening. She wrote about how to prepare your plants and soil for the winter. She also gave advice on gardening in shady places, or areas without much direct sunlight. She gave guidance on issues as different as insect control and saving and storing seeds.

Most recently Damiano wrote about the language of gardening, providing meanings to some unusual words used in the field.

For example, do you know what scarification is? Sounds like what happens when you see a ghost. But there are no ghosts in our gardens! Gardeners scarify the seeds by making little cuts, or roughening, their hard outer covers. The act helps the seeds to germinate.

When a seed germinates it begins to grow.

Another technical gardening term that sounds mysterious, even to many native English speakers, is xeriscaping.

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The Native American Youth and Family Center community garden in Portland’s Cully neighborhood was bustling Thursdays with volunteers who’d put traditional Thanksgiving plans aside to honor the Indigenous community.

The Un-Thanksgiving event was established last year to offer an alternative to the colonist-centric holiday.

“There’s a lot of colonial holidays that twist and invent stories of an American myth,” said organizer Mick Rose. “They create a sense of ownership and a lie about land being given rather than land being stolen. This event is really about de-investing from that narrative, because we know it’s not true.”

Volunteers were tasked with cleaning and rebuilding the garden, which houses several spaces for different native plants. The event continues Friday, from 11 am to 2 pm, and anyone is welcome to contribute.

Rose – a member of the Diné, Omaha and Pawnee tribes – was grateful to see so many volunteers in the

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So… my good friend (a very reputable Santa Barbara resident with the initials of JD) texted me that the REAL urban myth is that the property’s deed includes a clause that any owner must adorn Rover (the Garden Street dog statue) throughout the year with appropriate costumes. I dug a bit more and found that the deed clause is probably not a myth. See below please.

The Dog Statue House
October 8, 2018 National Purebred Dog Day®

Do you live in an area that has a statue that gets dressed up in appropriate holiday attire?

You do if you live near the corner of Mission and Garden in Santa Barbara, California. “Rover,” a 4-foot tall, 340-pound bronze Labrador Retriever, has been standing guard over Santa Barbara’s Upper Eastside neighborhood for nearly 115 years, a house that heads a line of five historic houses known as Crocker Row.

The dog statue

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Gardening was a favorite pastime of the late Rick Noordam, who served as chair of the Post Falls Parks and Recreation board.

“If you knew Rick, he and his wife (Nancy) were avid gardeners,” Parks and Recreation Director Dave Fair said to Post Falls City Council members during their Nov. 15 meeting.

“Rick was not just instrumental in it, but he was the driving force behind us getting a community garden,” Fair said. “He worked on the fundraising, he got volunteers involved, he and his wife volunteered for two years supervising it actually working in the garden, he got the Rotary behind building the building. It was a labor of love, that endeavor.”

To honor Noordam’s contributions to the River City, the city council unanimously voted to give the Post Falls Community Garden a new name — the Rick Noordam Community Garden.

Major Ron Jacobson said he knew Nordam through

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On the north-west edge of Shanghai, over one hundred salespeople in black suits gathered around a replica of a Country Garden residential development as an enthusiastic instructor offered guidance on how to sell apartments.

Behind the glistening showroom for Project Exquisite, workers and cement trucks moved in and out of a vast construction site where the scaffolded towers were close to completion.

The scene evoked the glory days of China’s multi-decade real estate boom, but the sector is in crisis. Country Garden, the country’s biggest developer by sales, has emerged as one of the most prominent survivors in an industry plagued by construction delays, defaults and falling sales for more than a year.

New policy support from Beijing has raised investors’ hopes that the worst is over. The government this week said it was ready to deploy over $162bn of credit from state banks to developers in what is the

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JANESVILLE, Wis. (WMTV) – More than 1.2 million lights glow during the Rotary Botanical Gardens 2022 Holiday Light Show in Janesville.

NBC15 Sports Director Mike Jacques helped kick off the holiday tradition by serving as the official lights ambassador for the show.

The display is celebrating its 26th year with themed light displays and family-friendly animations.

Attendees can stroll through the garden from Nov. 25-27, Dec. 1-4, Dec. 8-11, Dec. 15-23 and Dec. 26-30. Guests can wander through the twinkling displays from 4:30 pm to 9 pm

The Holiday Light Show at the Rotary Gardens in Janesville.
The Holiday Light Show at the Rotary Gardens in Janesville.(NBC15)

All tickets for the show must be purchased online. It costs $12 for those ages 13+ and $5 for children ages 3-12. It’s free for those ages 2 and under.

The show is held at the Rotary Botanical Gardens, located at 1455 Palmer Drive in Janesville.

Also starting Friday, those interested can

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As the Garden City players were introduced for Friday’s Long Island Class II championship game, all of them knew they would be staring down the biggest challenge of their season: a Bellport team loaded with hard-hitting athletes, capable of game-changing plays and motivated to defeat a Trojans team that beat them for the 2021 title.

What they didn’t realize was that they also would need to overcome themselves. And they did that too.

Garden City turned the ball over four times, but senior Stevie Finnell and the Trojans’ defense never let that become the story. Finnell capped his high school football career with his finest game and the Trojans were exceptional in not allowing Bellport to cash in on a single miscue as Garden City rolled to a 28-0 victory at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium.

Finnell gained 346 yards on 17 carries and scored all four Garden City touchdowns on huge

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Leafy vegetables at Ullr’s Garden appear black under LED lights due to most plants’ total absorption of blue and red-colored wavelengths. Butterhead lettuce varieties are sold from Ullr’s with their roots still attached. (Olivia Sun, The Colorado Sun via Report for America)

The lettuce is blooming nicely on the rollaway walls.

According to the farmer’s iPad, the calibrated nutrients are flowing smoothly and accurately through the tubes.

It’s 30 degrees outside, but there’s a tantalizing garden of tangy, restaurant-ready produce inside this cozy, pristine shipping container.

Somewhere behind and among the pawn shops and the gas stations and the used tire traders and the body shops along South Broadway, on a former used car lot on Acoma Street, a couple of snazzy high-tech containers are parked to start an urban farming revolution .

Ullr’s Garden, launched a few months ago by a couple of brothers who wanted to save the

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A House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects

A House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects - Interior Photography, Windows, Facade, HandrailA House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects - Exterior Photography, Garden, ForestA House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects - Interior Photography, Sofa, Brick, BeamA House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects - Interior Photography, Living Room, Windows, Wood, BeamA House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects - More Images+26


  • areas Area of ​​this architecture project Areas :
    230 m²

  • year Completion year of this architecture project

    year :


    2019


  • Photographs

  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project

    Manufacturers : Fitzpatrick & Henry, ibstock, Ketley Brick, Matthew O’Malley, Stone Seals, Soren Rose Studio


  • Lead Architects :

    Damien Culligan Barch ARB MRIAI, Lee Culligan Dip Arch Barch

A House, Coach House & Garden / Culligan Architects - Exterior Photography, Windows
© Fionn McCann

Text description provided by the architects. A new build family house and an existing coach house are located within the garden, to the rear, of a listed house in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. The new build house is located between an existing 19th-century coach house building and a garden to the rear of a listed late Georgian house. The site prior to

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