UPDATE (10:12 p.m.)—A crash Thursday night shut down MD Route 1 at the Conowingo Dam for more than two hours.

According to the Maryland Department of Transportation, the collision involved four vehicles. It was reported at approximately 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

All lanes of US 1 had been shut down at 7:44 p.m. and remained closed until approximately 10 p.m.

As of 8:30 p.m., Conowingo Road was closed at Shuresville Road on the Darlington side of the dam, and at MD Route 222 on the Conowingo side, said Rich Gardiner, spokesman for the Harford County Volunteer Fire EMS Association.

Gardiner said that the crash was just before the Conowingo Dam on the Harford County side. He advised drivers to avoid the area, which was congested.

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Despite protestations by thousands of South Africans, our ANC-led government seems determined to spend over R1 trillion on a nuclear fleet, including a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel assembly plant, a reprocessing plant and a high-level waste management facility.

How has this impossibly expensive project been motivated and by whom?

Before the Integrated Resource Plan (the IRP2010) was finally promulgated, Eskom’s position was presented at the public meetings which were held along the coast to review the first draft of the Environmental Impact Report for “Nuclear-1” in March-April 2010.

During these meetings, Eskom presented a “Project Motivation” at Slide 7 in their presentation as follows:

l Increasing demand for electricity ( 4 percent growth per annum).

l Projected requirement for more than 40 000MW of new electricity-generating capacity over

Photo: Motshwari Mofokeng.

Despite protestations by thousands of South Africans, our ANC-led government seems determined to spend over R1 trillion on a nuclear fleet, including a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel assembly plant, a reprocessing plant and a high-level waste management facility.

How has this impossibly expensive project been motivated and by whom?

Before the Integrated Resource Plan (the IRP2010) was finally promulgated, Eskom’s position was presented at the public meetings which were held along the coast to review the first draft of the Environmental Impact Report for “Nuclear-1” in March-April 2010.

During these meetings, Eskom presented a “Project Motivation” at Slide 7 in their presentation as follows:

l Increasing demand for electricity ( 4 percent growth per annum).

l Projected requirement for more than 40 000MW of new electricity-generating capacity over

Posted: Saturday, November 24, 2012 12:00 am

2 women die in I-66 crash in Fairfax County

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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Two women have died after their car veered off of Interstate 66 in Fairfax County and

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Julia, 12, a seventh grader at Fort King Middle School, was diagnosed Oct. 7, 2011, with Niemann Pick disease, a rare hereditary illness in which cholesterol metabolizes in cells. It is progressive and, as yet, incurable, said her mother, Tonya Kain.

Joining Julia on her journey were her mother, father Jason, and sister Rebecka, 15. The trip was scheduled for Nov. 8-12, but was extended at the family’s expense so they could tour the rim of the Grand Canyon, take a helicopter ride over the Hoover Dam and visit Las Vegas.

They stopped near Flagstaff to play in snow, where Julia made snow angels, and also visited the oldest fire station in Phoenix, No. 17.

“We met Firefighter Tommy (a Make-A-Wish volunteer). The firemen made my favorite lunch — tacos — and I got to ride on a call to an auto crash with Tommy,” Julia said.

“The trip meant the world to me,” she said. “I met Kevin Harvick, and he won the race at Phoenix the same day.”

Harvick signed Julia’s Make-A-Wish T-shirt.

“Kevin came out of his motor coach and we shook hands,” Julia said with a bright smile. “I asked him what he had wanted to be when he grew up,

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The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) needs a bailout, but don’t expect the media to tell you why. Instead, they’ll give you some baloney about how the agency was used to “stabilize the housing market” following the government takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in September of ’08. While there’s some truth to this, it misses the larger point, which is that FHA was used to generate as many toxic mortgages as possible to keep the money flowing into the big Wall Street banks and to prevent housing prices from plunging even further leaving bank balance sheets deeper in the red. That’s what really happened; the FHA was looted to save the banks. It’s another example of grand theft Wall Street. Now take a look at this from Bussinessweek:

“The agency’s financial report last year projected that loans issued before 2009 would result in $26 billion in losses, $14 billion of that from a subset of loans in which sellers were allowed to cover the down payment on behalf of the buyer, often by inflating the price of the house. Congress banned seller-funded down payment loans beginning in 2009.

Still, the risk of many of those mortgages has been transferred

November 22, 2012 08:13 GMT