MADRID (AFP)–South Korea Monday announced it is contributing $3.5 billion to a new fund to provide loans to finance infrastructure projects under the Asian Development Bank over the next three years.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

GENERAL COMMENT FROM CARDIN: America’s bill is due. Are you ready to pay? For those of you who still don’t know â€" and just where in God’s name have you been? â€"- Richard Heinberg is a major voice in the collective peak oil/economic meltdown/peak civilization conversation. He’s awesomely smart, insightful, sensitive, educated, and well informed. In short, he’s somebody you should listen to when he talks. An excerpt from the bio at his Website paints the picture nicely: Richard Heinberg is thehttp://theteemingbrain.wordpress.com/2008/...

May 5th, 2008 by Justin Richards The Potluck in the Park, hosted at Martin Luther King Jr. Park on Cocoanut Boulevard, is a moderately successful attempt at transcending cultures and social classes in Sarasota by bringing people together over cheap, healthy food. But tonight may mark its last supper, at least for a while, says organizer Matt Jones. New College students are at the core of the crowd, but there’s a wide periphery, so Jones hopes to keep the event going through the college’s sumhttp://blogs.creativeloafing.com/the941/20...

About three years ago Surprise residents Jonathan and Sharon Kaplan launched a morning sports program for children. Now, the business has grown to encompass more than 500 kids across the state.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...