Archive for August 2008

Enlightened vision for dark skies has universal benefits - The Age

ASTRONOMERS and others interested in a night sky unencumbered by the glare from artificial light love to tell this story: when the Northridge earthquake knocked out power in Los Angeles in 1994, numerous calls came into emergency centres and even the …

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Unemployed Irish turn to low-paid ‘immigrant jobs’ - Times Online


Times Online
Unemployed Irish turn to low-paid ‘immigrant jobs’
Times Online, UK - 12 hours ago
If you were working as a bricklayer and lost your job you could move into, say, landscape gardening, starting off by laying paving stones.

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Helping the Stars Take Back the Night - New York Times


New York Times
Helping the Stars Take Back the Night
New York Times, United States - 14 hours ago
is to draft a national standard for dark-sky-friendly fixtures, displays and other forms of outdoor light, including that for landscape gardening.

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Win gold for skills - Huddersfield Examiner

Win gold for skills
Huddersfield Examiner, UK - Aug 30, 2008
Hundreds of young people, mostly under the age of 22, will take part in around 40 skill competitions ranging from landscape gardening and graphic design to

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Landscape construction class offers students a hands-on gardening … - StarNewsOnline.com

Landscape construction class offers students a hands-on gardening
StarNewsOnline.com, NC - 4 hours ago
Some of them will complete two semesters and hope to earn State Certification in Landscape Gardening or State Certification in Retention Pond Management (an

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Landscape construction class offers hands-on gardening experience - Star News Online

It was a sultry August day with the threat of rain. Just off Sidbury Road in New Hanover county, a group of men and women - including an ex-marine, a surfer from Nantucket and an interior designer - were busy potting 600 poinsettia plants for the …

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Queen Elizabeth’s top gardener - femalefirst.co.uk

A teenager says he feels like “Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun’” after getting the chance to work as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s gardener. Carl Donnelly from Hightown, near Crosby, beat hundreds of other applicants to win a year-long contract at Windsor Great …

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Queen Elizabeth’s top gardener - Monsters and Critics.com

Queen Elizabeth’s top gardener
Monsters and Critics.com - 13 hours ago
“I feel like Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun’, because working in the royal family’s garden is the Top Gun of landscape gardening. “I was shocked when I opened the

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Queen Elizabeth’s top gardener - Monsters and Critics

A teenager says he feels like “Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun’” after getting the chance to work as Britain’s Queen Elizabeth’s gardener. Carl Donnelly from Hightown, near Crosby, beat hundreds of other applicants to win a year-long contract at Windsor Great …

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Labour Day A Public Holiday Under Employment Standards Act, 2000 - Canada NewsWire (press release)

Labour Day A Public Holiday Under Employment Standards Act, 2000
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Aug 28, 2008
who normally work away from their employer’s place of business - Employees who install and maintain swimming pools - Employees in landscape gardening,

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