I just got an email from the NYC Dept of Education that said NYC public schools are going to hold off hiring new teachers until August ( Read more... )

For those of you who are in more computer-training type fields, I have a question. I'm looking at a job that hires teachers to be educational technology consultants. Basically, they are sent around to different schools to train other teachers in the use of different new technologies (i.e. Smartboards). They also work with principals to help ( Read more... )

K has an elderly aunt who is a thoughtful, if strong-tempered little old Irish lady. We'll call her Aunt A. She goes to Mass faithfully twice a week, donates to the church and the Republican Party, and listens to Rush Limbaugh every day. Yet, this is still someone who defied her Irish Catholic parents, fell in love with and married a Jewish man and ( Read more... )

Anyone got an extra code? I think I want to give it a try :)

So I've been meaning to check out Flushing Meadows - Corona Park for a bit for some novel-related research. It was the site of a World's Fair in 1964 and sometime in the 1930s. If you've seen the movie "Men In Black," that's the park where the supposed alien ships stood.


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I’m wondering if you guys can help me out. I’ve been thinking about how young readers are not reading as much, and how few people of color seem to be reading spec fic ( Read more... )

I had heard so many things about the benefits of unpasteurized miso vs. pasteurized miso (bottomline is that the pasteurization process gets rid of alot of the good bacteria and probiotics that make miso so good for you) that I decided to do some investigating. After being completely unable to find any unpasteurized miso in local stores (and I live ( Read more... )

More house-hunting today. We ended up strolling down Roosevelt under the tracks of the 7 in Jackson Heights, keeping an eye out for some of the famous street food carts as listed on Chowhound's map of Obscure Street food of Eastern Jackson Heights.  I thought that there was some Tibetan cart somewhere, which we didn't find. But what we did find was ( Read more... )

Robot signals beginning of future-themed weekend in Roppongi


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After months of searching, my husband, I, and my brother have decided not to buy a house together. The original plan was to find a 2 family house in Queens, where we would live in one section, he would live in the basement (he hates sunlight), and we'd rent out the legal apartment so that we could generate income to help pay off the mortgage. We ( Read more... )