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Reporting back about Ralph's dowtown LA, it is called "Fresh" and is apparently part of a new upscale market chain under the Ralphs name. Very nice market, was mobbed today so much that it was difficult to get through it.
Then again, it is a market.
From there to lunch at a nice place near the Staples Center called "Liberty". Boy that area is shooting up like crazy. There are eight or ten new towers and lots of conversions of older commercial buildings into lofts and condos. And there are plans for several buildings in the 35-50 story range around what is called South Park (I could not find Kenny, Stan or the rest of the gang anywhere however).
Opposite Staples is the new LA Live complex with is a billion dollar plus commercial-entertainment-residential project. The transformation of downtown is the most dramatic since its decline in the 1950's.
I drove downtown on Olympic, for all you familiar with LA, and it has inspired me to a new photographic project with a tentative title of "Avenues and Boulevards". I want to shoot the length of Olympic, Wilshire, Third, Sixth, Beverly and santa Monica boulevards west to downtown. There is such an incredible diversity of ethnic and clutural identities along each that only can be found in this area. I like the corner of Flower and Wilshire... 
milk and Girl Scout cookies ;-)
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I suspect that the reporter probably got it right. After its widely aired footage on a merchant's process of concocting a cardboard-stuffed breakfast "bun" had shocked the world, Beijing TV made an even more astonishing apology late Wednesday, acknowledging that the clip was fabricated by a temporary staffer. The network apologized in its evening news program for airing the phony report, produced with a home DVD camera by Zi Beijia, a temporary employee, that aired on Beijing TV-7, its Lifestyle Channel. Beijing Television said Zi brought meat, flour, cardboard and other ingredients to a downtown Beijing neighborhood in mid-June, and had four migrant workers make the buns for him while he filmed the process.
The station said it was "profoundly sorry" for the fake report and its "vile impact on society," and vowed to prevent inaccurate news coverage in the future. Who'd a thunk it? Or, not thunk it? ![[Linked Image from aximsite.com]](http://www.aximsite.com/boards/images/smilies/headscratch.gif)
Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
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Reporting back about Ralph's dowtown LA, it is called "Fresh" and is apparently part of a new upscale market chain under the Ralphs name. Very nice market, was mobbed today so much that it was difficult to get through it. The unfortunate thing about Los Angeles grocery stores is that they are not L.A. owned/based - except for Stater Bros. Ralph's is owned by Kroger, VONS is owned by Slave...erm, Safeway and Albertson's (L.A.) is owned by a Minnesota-based company called Valu Smart. How does an Cincinnati based company (Kroger) expect to cater to Los Angeles residents successfully? They can't. How about a Minnesota-based company? They can't either. Personally, I'd like to see both Ralph’s and VONS be locally owned again and brought back to their magnificent beginnings.
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...while we're on the subject of grocery store chains - Luckys is coming back to NorCal starting this coming Sunday and NO MORE Albertsons!! (Thank Gawd! They have the DIRTIEST meat departments!!) You guys in L.A. are stuck with Minnesota-based Valu Smart's Albertsons!!!  Bay Area shoppers get Lucky with return of markets' name
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