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Major Grocer Locations Leave 'Food Desert' Holes
Wow. I just looked through a press release with the heading "Chicago Making Progress Shrinking Vast 'Food Desert.'" The city has reduced the size of its food deserts by 1.4 square miles, affecting 24,000 people. That seems like a pretty tiny improvement, considering that there are still 600,000 people in...
Tags: Food, Food Desert, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Katherine Glover
Blog posts 2009-06-23

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FOOD & DRINK: The A to Ziba of organic living for the inner city
HE MAY look more like a young country squire with a penchant for scarlet socks, but Martin Ainscough has set himself the task of transforming the food culture of one of the most depleted of inner cities, Liverpool. Number Seven Deli, a cafe, deli and art gallery...
Tags: Farmers, Liverpool Institute
Research articles 2000-08-19
Desert Diamond Casino Selects InfoGenesis POS
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Desert Diamond Casino, southern Arizona's premier entertainment and gaming destination, recently selected Revelation, the award-winning point-of-sale POS solution from InfoGenesis. The project, which replaced an existing POS solution, includes installation of IBM SurePOS 500 touch screen terminals and Microsoft Windows and SQL Server software to manage...
Tags: Desert Diamond Casino
Research articles 2004-08-03
TICKETS ON SALE FOR PALM DESERT ART OF FOOD & WINE
Tickets are now on sale for the inaugural Art of Food & Wine festival to be held Nov. 9-12, 2006 in Palm Desert.
Tags: food, Palm Inc.
Research articles 2006-08-01
Military Resale Group Named Exclusive Distributor of Desert Health Products to the Military
Military Resale Group, Inc. (OTC: MYRG) a regional marketer and distributor of food and consumer goods to the military, announces today that the Company has secured the exclusive rights from Desert Health Products, Inc. (OTC BB: DHPI) for the distribution of DHPI's complete line of health and wellness products to...
Tags: Air Force, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Manufacturing, SOFTWARE
Research articles 2005-09-28
Morocco begins repatriation of desert immigrants
BOUARFA, Morocco AFP — Morocco began the repatriation of hundreds of Senegalese and Malian would-be immigrants to Europe, allegedly abandoned in recent days in remote desert areas without food or water. Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi-Fihri said a meeting with diplomats from seven African countries had taken place on...
Tags: African, Agence France-Presse, diplomat, Europe, food, immigrant, Manufacturing, Spain
Research articles 2005-10-09
Marines try to coax desert town into coalition camp
SAADA, Iraq AFP — For people in the desert town of Saada, near the Iraqi border with Syria, the choice is stark and, for some, very unwelcome -- Sunni fundamentalists known as Salafists or troops of the US Marine Corps. Perched on a US vehicle, an Iraqi soldier tells...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, food, Government, Manufacturing, radio, soldier, women
Research articles 2005-11-02
FINDING ROOM FOR HISTORY IN THE DESERT: CAN TEMPE AFFORD-OR AFFORD NOT TO-KEEP ITS OLDEST HOUSES?
WHEN I LEFT NEW YORK CITY FOR TEMPE, ARIZONA, in August of 2001,1 hoped to trade high-rises and high density for small town life. I dreamed of living in my own bungalow, a little place on the edge of the desert. So when I arrived, driving in my rental car...
Tags: Arizona State University, downtown, Manufacturing, Mesa, preservation
Research articles 2004-01-01
Mangrove project creates fish, fire and hope in Eritrean desert
HIRGIGO, Eritrea AFP — Kneeling by the sparkling waters of the Red Sea, Ahmed Shengabay presses sand carefully over a mangrove seed. "When this grows, it will provide protection for fish and food for my goats," Ahmed said smiling, waving at a long and thick line of tall trees...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, food, livestock, Manufacturing, shore
Research articles 2008-04-14
UN food agency warns locust plagues still serious in west Africa
ROME AFP — The UN food agency warned that the locust plagues to have hit north and west Africa remain "serious" and urged no let up in battling the swarms that have infested millions of hectares of farm land in the region. "Despite recent improvements, the desert locust situation...
Tags: Africa, Agence France-Presse, agency, food, Manufacturing, MARKETING
Research articles 2005-01-07
Food Court at Las Vegas Shopping Mall Closes.
By Chris Jones, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 2--After too many customers failed to say the magic word -- Alakazam! -- the food court inside the Desert Passage at Aladdin mall has disappeared. The mall's 15,000-square-foot...
Tags: Las Vegas Review-Journal
Research articles 2002-10-02
Tie a yellow ribbon - food companies behind the troops in Saudi Arabia - includes related article on 2nd Lt. Susan Pence, employee of Campbell Soup Co
v From the biggest of the big to companies with 10 employees, the food industry felt the fallout from Operation Desert Storm.
Tags: Campbell Soup Co., food
Research articles 1991-03-01
UN food agency urges northwest Africa to act fast over locusts
ROME AFP ? Despite major steps already taken to safeguard harvests in northwest Africa from locusts, further action is needed rapidly to deal with "very worrying" risks, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warned. The Rome-based FAO urged Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal to move fast to monitor...
Tags: Africa, Agence France-Presse, agency, Algeria, Libya, MARKETING
Research articles 2004-05-26
Police arrest US woman who claimed to find finger in fast-food meal
SAN JOSE, United States AFP — A US woman who claimed she found part of a human finger in her fast-food meal has been arrested, police said, as the case took a dramatic new turn. Anna Ayala was arrested at her home in the desert gambling town of Las...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, Biotechnology, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, Wendy
Research articles 2005-04-22
Police arrest US woman who over finger in fast-food meal
SAN JOSE, United States AFP — A US woman who claimed she found part of a human finger in her fast-food meal has been arrested, police said, as the digital mystery took a dramatic new turn. Anna Ayala, 39, was arrested at her home in the desert gambling town...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Benefits, Biotechnology, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, Wendy
Research articles 2005-04-22
Food and fragrance.(FRAGRANCE focus: new about the fragrance industry)
Macy's and New York pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini performed four one-hour food and fragrance demonstrations, pairing original desert recipes with prestige fragrances sold in-store, targeting fragrance shoppers during the holidays.
Tags: Macy's Inc.
Research articles 2007-01-01
UN's Annan heads for Niger to assess serious food crisis
NIAMEY AFP — UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was awaited in Niger to assess the impact of devastating famine in the west African largely desert country, one of the poorest in the world. Annan was scheduled to start his visit in Niger's second city, Zinder, in the south of...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, famine, food, Manufacturing
Research articles 2005-08-23
United Nations Camp in Jordan Has Food and Shelter, But No Refugees.
By Colin Nickerson, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 26--RUWEISHED, Jordan--The cold wind blowing in from the Iraqi desert claws at the hundreds of new tents rigged in tidy rows on a knoll in northeastern Jordan, near the border. The...
Tags: Boston Globe, civilian, food, Iraq, Manufacturing, worker
Research articles 2003-03-26
GEORGIA: DOZENS OF CONSCRIPTS DESERT FROM GEORGIAN ARMY.(Brief Article)
During the night of 12-13 March, 65 Georgian conscripts went absent without leave from the Kodjori training center to protest living conditions there, including inadequate food supplies, Caucasus Press and AP reported. Some of the conscripts have since returned to their unit, while the remaining 30...
Tags: Associated Press, food, leave, Manufacturing
Research articles 2000-03-16
Food review
Azur at La Quinta Resort & Club Over the years, the La Quinta Resort & Club has added four signature golf courses, a world-class spa and even a Starbucks. But what was always lacking at this Palm Springs oasis was a dining experience like guests could get in Los...
Tags: La Quinta Corp.
Research articles 2002-10-01
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