I am looking to buy a music box as a wedding present for some friends. I am looking to spend around $100. I would like something unique and romantic, not touristy, kitschy or cliche. I’m looking for a place in Brooklyn or New York City where I can find such an object.
Tiffany’s or Macy’s.
I got into Umass amherst for the Fall 2010 semester but I am not going to attend. I am instead going to apply for the Spring 2011 semester at Brooklyn college.
I am at a community college right now with a 3.3 gpa. What are my chances of getting in? This is my last hope.
I know that Brooklyn college is a bit selective like Umass. I also plan on doing a lot of voulnteering this summer.
You have a good chance of getting in based on your GPA.
"Transfer students will be admitted to the College based on the following criteria:
1. Transfer students with less then 25 credits completed at the time of application must also fulfill our freshmen requirements and submit their high school documentation as part of the application process. In addition, the student’s completed college work must have an overall GPA of 2.5.
2. Transfer students with 25 or more credits completed at the time of application must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.3.
3. Students who have been awarded an associate degree from a CUNY community college will be admitted with a minimum GPA of 2.0.
4. Students who have been awarded a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution will be admitted with a minimum GPA of 2.0."
Posted under BrooklynI learn Spanish from 6th to 8th grade, and I’m going to Brooklyn Tech this year, but I don’t want to learn Spanish anymore! Because it’s hard, but I want to learn Chinese. I wonder if Brooklyn Tech accept Chinese as a foreign language? And can I just switch to Chinese after my 3 years of Spanish in junior high? Please help!
You have to ask at the school. The school may not even offer Spanish. Staten Island Tech offers Russian only. Technical high schools generally offer several different languages to choose from and probably offer Chinese. What you took in 6th-8th grade doesn’t determine what you are going to take in high school.
I’m planning on moving to Brooklyn (from the suburbs) to go to school (my college is in Downtown Brooklyn), so I would like to rent an apartment in Brooklyn, but safety is my #1 priority. My 2nd priority is how close it is to Downtown Brooklyn. Which neighborhood(s) in Brooklyn is/are the safest? Thanks.
Theres Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights, & Carroll Gardens which is in the downtown area they are pretty safe neighborhoods. Actually as long as you dont go to East New York, Brownsville, and Bushwick you will be fine.
Is downtown Brooklyn a few blocks from the Fort Greene area safe to live both day and night?
Is there racism there because I’m considering moving into the neighborhood but am concern about safety since I don’t know Brooklyn very well. I know Manhattan quite well just not Brooklyn.
I am a student so will coming home at night be a problem. I went to visit that neighborhood and I am also wondering is there racism since there was a lot of blacks in that neighborhood.
What if your not white but Asian?
It’s pretty safe. Brooklyn Heights is right in that area and one of the most expensive parts of Brooklyn.
Every pet that is loved, works for their “Pet Parents”. Don’t belittle the companionship and don’t forget the unconditional live. Many pets have important obligations and are depended upon to keep individuals safe and many more guide and help incapaciated people and other animals. At the end of the article I will give information to make sure your pet has the best and safest nutrition available for a happy and rewarding life.
Have you ever watched as a “Guide Dog” stops a blind person at a stoplight? A period of training gives a guide dog the ability to safely help someone exist in a sightless world. The guide dog also gives unconditional companionship through its bond with the owner. The owner’s safety is paramount in the working mind of the dog. These two have a relationship as great as any human relationship.
How about the safety to all of us who travel? Have you ever watched a drug or explosive sniffing dog operate at an airport? It’s a fantastic sight! Because of a dog’s super sensitive nose (approximately 400 times more sensitive than a humans) he can detect even traceable amounts of those substances. We must be thankful for the safety they afford us.
Recent studies and tests indicate that dogs can detect cancer. Remarkable and reassuring that medical science can utilize this animal ability in this day of technology.
Did you know Pets are good for your health?
Arthritis sufferers find relief from having a dog present, possibly because of more activity required to care or nurture an animal.
Cancer patients, especially children, had reduced stress in the trauma of cancer treatments. Emotional distress was also reduced.
In a test at Brooklyn College, a test was done concerning heart attack victims that found dog owners
were eight times more likely to survive beyond a year past the attack. Possibly due to the need for walking the dog whereby gaining exercise time.
Alzheimer’s disease patients also appeared more alert and had fewer behavioral problems when a dog was a resident of the facility.
Nursing homes commonly have pets to soothe and comfort patients as well as helping with exercise programs.
Numerous books are available concerning pets and their interaction with people and how they can also teach as well as nurture humans.
A passing note: Pets sleep when they are tired, eat when hungary and give love unconditionally. Maybe we can learn a lot from them!
We should consider very critically the foods we feed our pets. My investigation shows many raw materials are of questionable value and contain possible lethal ingredients. Never assume the label tells all the information. Investigate fully and make sure the pet foods are nutritionally healthy and be aware of the possible pharmaceuticals, preservatives and harmful items within. Find more information or contact Mr. Monson through:
http://www.NotablePets.smmsite.com
Copyright 2007 Richard Monson
Richard Monson
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Ice Cubes? for dog? Yes. Even ice cubes, if apportioned fairly to canines, can keep them happy and contented. Is there a larger truth hidden somewhere here?
All of our dogs instinctively come to attention at the sound of the refrigerator door opening - they never know when human might eye a left over , reject it, and then split it three ways, and none of them wants to miss the moments, however rare.
Why, though, does our young male hound fairly fly to my side at the sound of ice cubes popping from the tray?
What could be colder, more tasteless, or less satiating than ice to a canine fond of a bit of warm gravy over his dinner? Still, Allie insists of a cube of his own to crunch whenever we cool our drinks.
Our refrigerator is an older model purchased at an auction for a mere $5. It is, surprisingly, a wholly reliable appliance.
Once Allie became a member of our household, the one tray of ice that it used to make began to be shared three ways….. then four, and finally five as our other two dogs, who had never before looked twice at ice, demanded to receive a cube as a matter of principle.
And so this is how it goes - we cool our water or sodas with a few cubes each and toss one to Allie, standing agog with expectation.
As he shatters the cube with unbridled enthusiasm, our black Lab ambles to the scene. Susie sits stoically to receive her fair share, which she (equally stoically) crunches and ingests. Her pained visage shows that this is a burden to be borne for protocol’s sake.
She seems to believe that if one dog gets something that the others don’t share in all privileges could disappear down the slippery slope to favouritism.
Oscar, the eldest of the three and a border collie mix, stares expectantly from a throw, unwilling to move an inch towards such unrewarding largesse - but clearly invested in his due share.
Completely helpless before my animal’s manipulations, I actually bring an ice cube to Oscar’s rug, laying it by his side. He is satisfied as he jealously guards its melting.
The whole scene suddenly brought to mind one of my favourite literary passages - from Betty Smith’s classic novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, about an impoverished couple and their two children.
It begins, “There was a special Nolan idea about the coffee. It was their one great luxury.” The text continues to describes how Mama Nolan makes one great pot of coffee in the morning to which her children are always welcome, although mild can be added only three times a day.
The boy, Neeley, merely sips at his coffee, and then spreads and enjoys his allotment of condensed mild on bread.
The novel’s heroine, Francie, never drinks a bit of coffee. She simply pours her share luxuriantly down the drain.
As Mama Nolan explains, “Francie is entitled to one cup each meal like the rest. If it makes her feel better to throw it away than to drink it, all right.”
Our rituals with the ice seem trivial against Nolan’s poverty, not to mention the inequities of the world today.
Yet I can’t get away from the idea that some kernel of a solution to larger problems could lie in the way scant resources come to be fairly apportioned and appreciated at the household level - even ice among canines.
Mendis Lee
http://www.articlesbase.com/pets-articles/cold-canine-comforts-669168.html