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Worker found dead in Finksburg video store
Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a Carroll County man. The body of Gary L. Hatfield, 54, of the 3300 block of Oak St. in Manchester was found late Saturday night near a counter at the back of H and D Movie Sales in the 2000 block of Suffolk Road in Finksburg, police said. Hatfield worked at the video store. Police were called to the scene about 11 p.m. by members of Hatfield's family, who had been looking for him at the store after he didn't return home at the usual time, police said. The store closes at 10 p.m. .
Nuclear Power Gets Boost from Candidates
The near-meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island in 1979 and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine brought a dramatic halt to the nuclear industry's expansion plans in the United States. More than 100 nuclear reactors generate 20% of the nation's electricity, and the last completed plant was ordered in 1973. American nuclear power got a boost in 2001 when Vice President Dick Cheney's energy plan called for it to become "a major component" of the nation's electricity supply — as it is in France and Japan. When President Bush signed the latest energy bill into law this month, he said: "If we're serious about making sure we grow our economy and deal with greenhouse gases, we have got to expand nuclear power." This fiscal year alone, more than $1 billion in federal research and development spending was devoted to nuclear-power research, far more than any other source of electricity.
Qurum City Centre likely to open this autumn
MUSCAT — MAF Shopping Malls has announced its plans to build Qurum City Centre, their second venture in Oman after Muscat City Centre.
Located in the commercial hub of Qurum area, the cost of the project is billed at RO26 million and will stretch across a Gross Leasable Area (GLA) of over 20,000 square metres.
With work already in progress, Qurum City Centre currently employs over 500 construction workers and is expected to generate over 800 job opportunities, out of which 400 vacancies are for Omanis. Qurum City Centre is expected to open in autumn of 2008. Ibrahim Al Qasmi, spokesperson for Qurum City Centre, said, “Qurum City Centre is situated at a prime location and is expected to attract a large population of shoppers from Bausher, Muttrah, Muscat and Al Amerat.
Giving it everything
He went to work at 4am once to see if it was cooler, but the temperature never dropped below 38ûC in that room. Dean worked as a logistician for Goal, a Dublin-based international aid agency. Goal does disaster relief and social development programmes. It doesn't do air-conditioning. After weeks of intense build-up, Dean would watch clouds forming overhead, swelling until they burst with the phenomenal biblical rains of the wet season. Overnight the temperature would plummet 20ûC, torrents of water bouncing off the earth, drenching the clay-like soil, creating rivers of mud in which the wheels of his car would simply spin helplessly.It puts rush-hour traffic on the M8 into perspective. Or that irritating computer glitch at work. Add the fact that Dean was working in a voluntary capacity, with only a basic allowance instead of a wage, and his employment choices become even more interesting.
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The alewives are among some of the plentiful fish in the world. They are found along the Atlantic Coast from Canada to Florida and are 6" to 15" long, The word alewife means wife of a tavern keeper, and I can't find any historical information on the etymology of this word. While they live in the ocean most of the time, in the Spring the fish return to the fresh water where they were born so they can spawn. The journey from the ocean to their spawning places is made along a herring run. The Brewster run is from the sea, along "natural ladders" in a brook, to a mill pond. There is also a man- made run in Bournedale and one in Harwich. The female alewife, after spawning, lays up to 100,000 eggs which sink into a pond, clinging to rocks, and eventually hatch a few days later.
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