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"Notice of approval of relative immigrant visa petition"

YAY!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrh4RNlgdcE

(I'll spare you embedded video. also, you might want to turn the sound off, unless you like Israeli rock music.)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120883219590433735.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Murdoch is planning to buy Newsday (LI local paper) and run it as a joint venture with the Post (sleazy right wing tabloid).

I remember when Newsday won Pulitzer Prizes. It was never the Times, but it was respectable. To be dragged down with the Post? ugh.

Now I won't have a genuinely local paper when I move back--the NYT is notoriously bad at covering the 'burbs (or even most of the outer boroughs).

I just fed Aliza a cup of homemade fruit yoghurt (strawberry and raspberry). Man, she gobbled it. She doesn't like being spoon fed but she'll let me do it with yoghurt (it's too runny for her to manage herself).

of course, raspberry turns it bright pink (great trick for picky kids, if bright colours help; strawberry doesn't work nearly as well!) and now her T-shirt has big pink stains on it.

Toddler feeding can be fun. She loves meat on the bone--chicken drumsticks and lamb chops get stripped clean. The downside is the pickiness. "Yes, I gobbled this yesterday, but today? Today I throw it and cry!"

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/strategic-spending-on-organic-foods/

Comment #19 is exactly the kind of thing that keeps me buying food at the supermarket.

Also, I roll my eyes at the posters asserting that organic food is more nutritious--it is NOT proven, and there's a lot of variables that have to do with other aspects of farming practice (for example, soil nutrients and fertility vary from place to place--I remember reading about how the Australian wheatbelt is practically nutrient free). And as always, "non-organic" covers a huge range of practices and not all non-organic produce is identical or factory farmed.