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February 22, 2009 Economic Pulse: Saturday Errands Charles Shaw wine displayed in a Trader Joe's ... Image via Wikipedia Shopping Frank- Naomi and I live in a small town Royal Oak Michigan-both of us have time and every day we go out at least for coffee-If i don't take a laptop we usually got to McDonalds and since we both have Kindles we sit and read-the place is usually busy with kids as well as retired folks ! They still serve one of the best cups of coffee anywhere and they have three chocolate chip cookies for a dollar-and the product is good-fast food in known for serving a percentage but McDonalds is cost conscious and always maintains a quality level above other food outlets-we get our local television from Detroit Stations and I have been watching the National Advertisments diminish and being replaced with infomercials-all the newpapers in Michigan have cut down delivery days and are losing readership- I don't really care since we both get our news Online and there are Online Magazines Like Zimbio which have ton's of content-The other Local coffee shops and most restuarants are as dead as Custer-We buy the a lot of food items at small middle eastern and oriental grocery stores where expecially vegetables are always fresh and priced right-Chicken and Meat in Middle Eastern Grocery stores is dressed according to dietary laws and they all sell Amish Chicken the best available.If we want deserts we buy the at a middle eastern bakery that ships world wide-http://www.shatila.com/ and is a short drive-One of the few stores alway busy is Trader Joes they are marketing a brand of wine Charles Shaw and I see people buying it in cases, we have bought it is a good brand-and they seem to sell a lot of well processed frozen items-I have noticed a lot of Trendy Brands are being replaced with private label- Wallmart are experts at quality control in store brand foods-and sell more television sets than any store we buy at-I noticed they had great pricing on a
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The Qingdao Sea Rice R&D Center team, led by Yuan Longping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, recently conducted field tests on rice that was experimentally planted in the tropical desert of Dubai . The maximum per mu production exceeded 500 kilograms. This is the first time that the world has successfully experimented with rice cultivation in tropical deserts, adding "China's contribution" to improving the self-sufficiency of grain in desert areas, safeguarding global food security, and improving the ecological environment in desert regions.