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It is expected that the prices of locally-made cars will increase considerably as the Ministry of Finance (MOF) has announced it will raise the import tax on car part imports by another 5-10%. MOF has, for the third time since mid April, decided to raise the import tax on car part imports with the average increase of 5-10% this time. Since the MOF increased the tax the second time, the sale

New research suggests that the average supermarket shopper may be willing to pay a premium price for locally produced foods. The study also showed that shoppers at farm markets are willing to pay almost twice as much as retail grocery shoppers. Shoppers will additionally pay more for guaranteed fresh produce, and often favor buying food produced by small farms over corporate operations. Most of th

Buying locally-grown produce saves money on gas and gets fresher vegetables onto your plate, and now several web services connect local farmers with consumers. The NY Times’ Michelle Slatalla points out several such services, including Spud.com in California, Greenling.com in Texas, Naturaldirect.com in Illinois, Organicstoyou.org in Oregon and Mypersonalfarmers.com in New York State. These

The Capital Times reports, "Thanks to four UW geography graduate students, finding good food produced locally is just a mouse click away."The students recently unveiled what they call the 100-Mile Diet Map, an interactive online food map that shows where consumers can find agricultural products raised within 100 miles of Madison."Check out the interactive website--Madison's 100-Mile Diet Map--for

Bukan Bali namanya kalau tidak terkenal dengan budaya dan seni tradisional nya. Tapi Bali sekarang ini bahkan sudah bergerak lebih luas dari itu. Seni dan budaya di Bali telah mengalami kolaborasi yang mendunia. Menggabungkan segala elemen tradisional dan lokal dengan visi dan misi internasional, menghasilnya rangkaian produk dan seni yang unik dan berkarakter. read more

In a boost to the domestic tea vending industry, the Government has allowed export-oriented units (EoUs) to sell more ‘instant tea’ in the domestic market to meet the growing demand in the country. There is a strong demand for instant tea due to increased consumer preference for convenient, instant food and beverage products.The Commerce Ministry has now increased the cap on EoU sales of ‘in

Well not all of them per-say, but the ‘Full Color World Map’ joint you see above definitely is. Leslie Jordan has been designing these unique Tyvek® jackets since 86′, and not only do they offer jackets bearing world maps, vintage comic strips, jungle scenery and blueprints, but if you give em’ a design and they’ll [...]

I haven't really blogged about our local news because a few of the stories that have happened around here lately have gained national attention, so there was really no need for me to add my two cents.Anyone remember the story of the Fire Chief (can't remember) sitting at the Huddle House and a bullet ricocheted off of his iPod, saving his life? Yeah, that was our town. Not long ago we had a guy th

IT MAY HAVE ONLY BEEN 29 days this year, but February certainly saw its share of hard-hitting news that you've come to expect from The Hudson Line. Here's a look back.Like many Mets' fans, we were introduced to perhaps the best pitcher in all of baseball in a Mets uniform, Johan Santana, in early February. Santana is the best pitcher to wear a Mets jersey since Dwight Gooden, who last pitched for

The South Beach Fish Market on the south side of Newport is a family favorite for dining in and taking out an array of fresh seafood. From the time my folks relocated full-time to the coast, visiting them became an easy excuse to enjoy the bountiful seafood Oregon has to offer. The seafood restaurant offers halibut and chips that are among the best on the Oregon Coast, but their crab cakes and chips are pretty darn good, too. My favorite, of course, are the extra-small oysters, which they cheerfully pack in ice for visitors heading back to Portland at no extra charge.The South Beach Fish Market has just about everything you can think of in their freezer cases, including Dungeness crab, too many types of fish to count and plenty of delicacies for people who love seafood, including several s

Vietnamese producers hoped to have no international rivals for their low-cost laptops but their dream hasn’t become true. There is fierce competition among big names like HP, Acer, Dell and Toshiba in the market segment for laptop models of $500-600/unit so locally-assembled laptops can’t compete in terms of price. In August 2005 when GCC, the distributor of Seagate hard disk drives in Vietnam,

Tran Du Lich, National Assembly Deputy, Dr of Economics, Head of the HCM City Economics Institute, said that there are many other things the government can do to limit car consumption, rather than raising import tax. He said: We have a lot of measures to limit car imports. For example, raising luxury tax (special consumption tax), why not? Or raising toll and vehicle registration fees. There is

I firmly believe that when you visit a new wax place for the first time, you don’t ever start out by getting a Brazilian. Always start with something smaller. You never ever want to walk in cold to a new waxer and get strip-slapped below the waist. I took my own advice when I visited The Wax Shack in NW Portland and started with something a lot less… extreme.Angie of The Wax Shack gives great wax: she’s extremely charismatic and engaging so the honey took away the sting. And would you believe her prices are almost half of what I’ve paid elsewhere? The Wax Shack was just a Crazy. Good. Find. The petite blonde told me that she couldn’t justify charging such high prices for waxing when it doesn’t take her long to do. Plus, she gets a good deal on rent, and it’s just her, so she

These are quite possibly some of the best Christian videos I’ve seen on social justice and missions (in the sense of production quality and design) Its still hard to beat Chris Seay for his hard hitting provocations. For more information on the Book of Hope project or you can go to the Book of Hope [...]

Local automobile joint ventures are surely overjoyed at the news that the government is planning to raise the import tax on CBU (complete built unit) cars, in which case they would be able to ‘lay down the law’ in the market. Local automobile manufacturers have recently heard two bits of good news: sales of cars saw a sharp increase in March 2008, and the Ministry of Finance plans to raise the

I started a new blog a couple of months ago dedicated to happenings in the small town in which I live and work. While Google’s fully aware of it I’ve been looking for inexpensive yet effective ways to get the word out locally. A friendly local businessman had the same issues a while [...]

Once in a while an app comes along that is so incredibly useful that just about everybody should have it. This is one of those apps. Created by a 16-year-old coder who calls himself Nambrot, Maps Offline is a Javescript-based app (Jiggy Runtime required) capable of grabbing whatever is currently in your Google Maps cache and [...]

Search Locally Without Typing with New Google Mobile Tool [Cell Phones] Search for local businesses in your area without resorting to your clunky mobile keyboard with the new, quietly unleashed Google Mobile feature found at google.com/m/lcb. When you navigate to the "lcb" page (local businesses?), Google Mobile identifies what city you're in (or tries to—my test had me in either Columbus, OH [wrong] or Los Angeles [right!]), so all you have to do is click through the business categories to narrow down exactly what you're looking for. As the ZDNet post points out, the feature would be a lot more useful if it pinpointed your location within the city à la Google Maps on the iPhone, but either way it could come in really handy if you aren't keen on using your unfriendly mobi

Audi has always been synonymous with luxury and comfort. It would never give any chance to its customers to blame it for quality as it keeps releasing new version of its luxury cars very frequently to attract more customers. Now, Audi is releasing the new A4 luxury sedan in July with certain modification and additional features. The A4 will be sold at the price of locally assembled car in India. Though the new A4 will be imported initially, it will sport the price tag of a locally assembled car. The new version of A4 was already launched in Europe a few months ago and became a grand success there. Audi India will assemble the A4 at its plant at Shndra and expects to sell 500 units of the new A4 in the first year.

Blogging being a new hype and on running bussiness nowadays, every one trying to find new ways to have online presence or to earn some money via online advertising, even those with some creative brains are chosing the blogging as easiest platform to work online and to contact their customers. Blogging is getting easier as new ways are coming for userfriendly blogging experience along with new CMS systems for different needs and types of blogging. This tutorial is about Installing a CMS locally on Windows Xp, process is same for many of the CMS so here I'll write about how to install wordpress.Important Note: CMS need a webserver mysql or php to run, locally this function is done by XAMP Lite. Xamp is a localserver easy to setup, easy to run, easy to tweak. It is so easy that you will insta

Blogging being a new hype and on running bussiness nowadays, every one trying to find new ways to have online presence or to earn some money via online advertising, even those with some creative brains are chosing the blogging as easiest platform to work online and to contact their customers. Blogging is getting easier as new [...]

Awesome... we just had a guy come in and talk to our class (Energy and Society at PSU) about Oregon help pioneer the use of bio-diesel. He was the owner of Portland Green Heat, and specialized in bio-fuels used in home heating. [Find biodiesel near you!] It was fascinating. He had high-praise for Sequential. Our class also went to Mr. Sun Solar to see other options for domestic energy and

According to iPhone Atlas, the release of iPhone OS 2.0 will allow for users to store web applications locally on the iPhone / iPod Touch hard drive. This is something I’ve wanted to be able to do for quite some time now. Here’s the full story: It appears that Web-apps can be stored locally under the [...]

Well that sure was a mouthful. Sure, there are those minor changes to the iPhone UI that may or may not materialize, but there are also some serious changes in store for the iPhone v2.0.The iPhone SDK, freely downloadable from Apple, is proving to be a...

  Baltimore — (TFN): Emerging market economies, such as China and India, are leading the way in global economic growth. U.S. investors have begun to diversify their portfolios with foreign stocks more than ever before. But this is not the only way to make money in the world markets. Global Investment strategist, Mike Burnick, editor of… Read more »

But just try telling that to Coca-Cola or Pepsi.Critical mass has been building on this issue for some time now, will the old media ever get with the program, or are they too concerned about the backlash on their sponsors? Story number twenty on the Project Censored list of under-reported stories for the current year, paints a bleak picture of the situation. Perhaps this story would have stayed buried, had the issue not flared up so dramatically this fall.Three states in the south: Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, nearly came to legal fisticuffs over a severe water shortage. The tension was inflamed by one of the longest running droughts in recent memory. The vanishing water story even made its way into presidential campaign news. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, commenting on his states' lack of the blue stuff, suggested that large amounts be shipped in from Lake Michigan. Predictably, the governors of the Great Lake states were not amused at this prospect.This is sure to get w

I found this great service today when a number of my students were looking for current Web 2.0 sites.  This online free service called Click For Lessons allows you to look for music lessons, dance lessons, or art lessons by typing in what you are looking for and the zipcode where you would like to have the lesson taught. It's an interesting site that utilizes two types of partnership agreements if you are a teacher.  One is that the Click For Lessons site will market you and send you leads, basically you become a teacher for them.  The other is a free listing that allows you to reach 100,000 plus students per month and only charges you for a lead sent to you.  Students can look at your page (created on their site) and there is no charge until they actually send you a contact letter. There is no charge for anyone looking for an instructor.  It's free to browse the listings of instructors and view the information about them. When you find an instructor

Indie Film “Chicago Overcoat” by Local Production Company Attracts Celebrity Talent to its Cast Chicago Overcoat, a feature-length crime based drama, is shooting throughout Chicago this month. The film stars veteran mob actor Frank Vincent (Goodfellas, Casino, The Sopranos) as Lou Marazano, and showcases the city and its infamous mob history. The story takes a chilling look into what remains

Do you ever think about how much food you waste? I do. And when I hear facts like these about the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, I feel even worse: While the Foodbank distributed 5 million pounds of food to agencies and programs in its 14-county service area in 2006, the actual need is closer to 20 million pounds. There [...]

In my post entitled 'Western Pennsylvania's Secrets', I mentioned the benefits of photographing in one's own area and the advantages that one has as a 'native', as opposed to a visiting, photographer. Specifically, when one lives in an area, the locale can be photographed throughout all the seasons, in many different weather conditions, and at various times of the day. As I was looking through some photos I had taken and was considering for inclusion in my 'Twin Jewels Project', I ran across one that I thought really exemplified this advantage.This particular location is usually quite non-descript and very ordinary appearing. It is on the edge of a small body of water that is out in the open and which, on most days, is illuminated by very harsh light and is, overall, not particularly appealing. Nonetheless, every time I would drive by it I kept having the nagging feeling that it should be appealing. It just never seemed to reach what I thought it had the potential to be,

An essential for any aspiring theme developer is a local install of WordPress. There are plenty of benefits to doing so and there are also pitfalls if you don’t. I will tell you about the pitfalls in a second, but before that, I want to tell you 5 great reasons why you should use a local install as your sandbox as opposed to installing a live version on some subdomain of yours: Works exactly like the real deal; plugins and all No need to mess with FTP programs Develop anywhere (no connection needed) Make sure your theme is compatible with latest version of WordPress Code in secret, then release with a bang I can personally attest that the last reason is a good one. While working on the current theme for this website, I accidentally pinged Technorati, which notified a bunch of people of my latest work. When this site finally got released, it was more of a fizzle instead of a bang. Anyhow, let’s get on to the tutorial. (more…)

…or How to sell everything you don’t need for cash-money! I hate ebay. I’ve been burned so many times before on ebay, from scams to broken goods, that I refuse to use it. But how do you sell all that junk you don’t need anymore? In this post I will describe some useful techniques to sell all the stuff you don’t need or want using social and local web sites. I deal in cash only, local pickup sales. I meet face to face with the buyers in a public space and never get scammed. It may take a little longer to sell your stuff, but its worth the wait when you get a motivated buyer willing to pay cash and pick up the item. (more…)

Barton Street Warehouse 3copyright Gordon LevertonTwo of my cyber chums, Gord Leverton and Vivien Blackburn are both heavily involved with 'art shows' in their respective local areas at the moment. Both also use pastels in their artwork. In my opinion, they both do excellent work and I'm highlighting below the various opportunities to see their work in person in the next couple of monthsGetting your work shown seems to me to be directly related to the effort made by an artist to finding opportunities to show their work. Lots of opportunities exist at a local level for all artists - and you can find them and make them work for you if you put some effort into making it happen. I think both these artists are an excellent example of the type of person who gets actively involved with local groups and creating/making opportunities to show their work in both local exhibitions and galleries. This in turn helps to generate exhibitions of their work further afield.This weekend Gord Leve

There are a lot of businesses, and or niches who have problems promoting a new website business locally for cheap to free, and I say have fun because it is hard. Having a specific target market is also harder! Buying a magnetic sticker to put on your car or bumper stickers doesn’t help since you cant stop the person and ask them “Hey can I buy some Mary Kay lipstick?” when they are doing 65 down a main road can you? Well what a lot of people don’t know and I didn’t know until recently was newspapers have leftover ad space each edition, or almost each addition that they need to fill up and they will sell at dirt dirt cheap. It gets your name in the paper and saves you some money. Putting flyers around the neighborhood is all fine and dandy and going through the phone book from A-Z is good too but its harder. Going to local businesses such as a real estate company and saying hey, you can offer your listings to be a little more creative then the regular websi

Earth Day 2007 Message is Think Globally...Act Locally.A clear blue sky with clouds in the shape of earth's continents above a row of trees in a green field are portrayed with a list of actions that can be taken to act responsibly and remind us that our local actions have global benefits.(Download High Resolution Image Think Globally...Act Locally In PDF Format.) Decreasing the amount of fossil fuel we consume to power our homes, offices, and cars is one of the most important actions we can take to reduce emissions and protect our environment. The work depends on each of us. We must be aware of our individual actions and make intelligent energy choices each day for a healthier environment, stronger economy, and brighter future.Therefore, we are asking people around the world to join us in celebrating and conserving our energy resources not only on Earth Day April 22nd, but everyday.This year's theme, "Think Globally...Act Locally: Make the Clear Energy Choice Every Day", compels you

The other night a friend and I went to Vino Locale in Palo Alto. I’m ashamed to say it was the first time because it appeals to me on several levels. 1) It features local wines (go figure, with that name) by producers 7 to only 70 miles away. 2) Its setting is an old Victorian house, the walls covered with the work of local artists. 3) Vino Locale is a supporter of the Slow Food Movement, focusing on fresh ingredients from nearby sources. We had a great time sitting at the bar, ordering tastes of Viognier, Marsanne, and two different Rosés. Then we had ‘Randy’s Special,’ a fun combo of sparkling wine with a splash of Syrah, which went very nicely with the crostini sampler (my favorite topping was the spicy tapenade). The finale was a Syrah flight to go with our sandwiches–mine had elk & cranberry sausage. Out of the 4, I really enjoyed the Martin Ranch and Zayante, though I found the Hunter Hill tasting very plastic. I definitely plan on going

I read the article that appeared on My Broadband and think it was a fair and equal representation of the situation of hosting in SA. SA Rocks is hosted locally but not necessarily because it is the best option. I chose to host it here because it is very tough to promote SA in the USA.I must however comment on this situation, as the original article does. Here is my comment: "It costs me a R100 a month, at the least, to host SA Rocks locally, what a ball ache. Stupid local hosts, ripoffs, mo-fo's."I feel like a Ho, I feel like I am being used and abused, but instead of them paying me, I am forking out the cash. I want to know, more substantially than an a single article, why it costs me, as a blogger, R100 to host here in SA? It is cheaper for me to be hosting 3 sites abroad than it is to host one blog.Surely there is some sort of intelligent life out there in the world of hosts and service providers that can see the blogging boom occurring here in SA? Surely they can figure that quant

I read the article that appeared on My Broadband and think it was a fair and equal representation of the situation of hosting in SA. SA Rocks is hosted locally but not necessarily because it is the best option. I chose to host it here because it is very tough to promote SA in the USA.I must however comment on this situation, as the original article does. Here is my comment: "It costs me a R100 a month, at the least, to host SA Rocks locally, what a ball ache. Stupid local hosts, ripoffs, mo-fo's."I feel like a Ho, I feel like I am being used and abused, but instead of them paying me, I am forking out the cash. I want to know, more substantially than an a single article, why it costs me, as a blogger, R100 to host here in SA? It is cheaper for me to be hosting 3 sites abroad than it is to host one blog.Surely there is some sort of intelligent life out there in the world of hosts and service providers that can see the blogging boom occurring here in SA? Surely they can figure that quant

I have installed XAMPP and WordPress locally in my system recently. The installation went just fine. The problem showed up when I tried to login into the WordPress administration. No error was reported though, just that I couldn’t login. I went to WordPress Support Site and found that there is actually a conflict between locally [...]

i found someone who lives close, but not close enough to meet in person, who will sell me tickets for a reasonable price. i need a way to pay him and get the tickets (hopefully through mail?) without being cheated. any suggestions for how this should work? i really can #039;t find tickets anywhere close....