Japanese "Cookvook" released - read and watch video of Eric Gower making dishes

This "cookvook" lets you read inspiring recipes and watch author Eric Gower make the dishes right in front of you. Eric prepares meals such as roasted hamachi with a miso-apricot glaze, udon with herby pesto and smoked salmon salad with edamame.

The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen lets you read recipes and watch author Eric Gower make the dishes right in front of you. Eric prepares meals such as roasted hamachi with a miso-apricot glaze, udon with herby pesto and smoked salmon salad with edamame.
“The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen” is available in two formats—as a browser based vook and as an app for your iPhone or iPod Touch.

They let you try it before you buy it.

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NYC Marathon 2009: Powerbar team raises $30,000 for charity

Video by the New York Video Service: NYvideo.US

New York Marathon this Sunday 1st November: what can go wrong?

Daylight saving ends at 2 am on the morning of the New York Marathon, giving runners an extra hour to sleep.
With a first prize of $130,000 and an extra $70 grand thrown in if it's back to back victories, Paula Radcliffe returns to New York on Sunday to defend her title, while going for her 4th NYC Marathon win. Her win will mark the first 4-time winner since Bill Rodgers in 1979.

Radcliffe holds the world record of 2:15 and her New York City best is 2:23:09, the same year that she gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

Let's hope none of the runners turn left at Albuquerque this year:

Tavern on the Green Halloween Party Fraud in New York City 2009

The halloween party at Tavern on the Green didn't exist, party goers discovered when showing up in their thousands for the good time they had paid for ($60 -$130 to be exact). Thousands of angry people were forced to wait outside for hours before the chaotic party which never was, was abruptly shut down soon after midnight.

Blaming the disaster on promoters Alex and Leo Baskin, "Venue operators are hoping to avoid lawsuits, but someone's ass is gonna get sued BIG TIME!". Christian Amanpour from CNN told the Toimes...


Leo Baskin blamed the problem on Tavern's failure to open on time - and the unauthorized sale of fake tickets hocked online for a party slated to start at 9 p.m.

After a massive advertising campaign, and over-sold tickets (thousands too many were sold) excited party goers showed up to an empty tent....
They were promised:

• Free drinks all night - open bar
• Free food throughout the night
• Costume contests

'til 4am

The information was given as:
Tickets and info 917-312-6845 & 917-312-6851 or email AlexandLeoEvents@aol.com
Don't bother calling these numbers as they are being forwarded to Tavern on the Green.

Article about the troubled restaurant

Help Me Howard might come to rescue...  but in the interim, partypoopees are waiting for a police inquiry.... and in the meantime, here's a Facebook Group

Billionaires for Welfare: Broadway Style Publicity stunt: "Tomorrow" demands healthcare options

In the same vain as Billionaires for Bush, these guys are bringing song to the healthcare debate.



AHIP (America's Health Insurance Plans) is the dangerously powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. "Billionaires for Wealthcare" is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song.

• AHIP has resorted to lying and scare tactics to block health care reform: lying letters to seniors about what health care reform means for Medicare, and a misleading report on the costs of health care reform legislation that even the embarrassed authors of the reports have distanced themselves from them (because of the way AHIP used their work).

• Every year, 45,000 people die because they cant get access to health Services. Yet AHIP continues to stand in the way of health care reform that would provide coverage to millions of Americans because the industry is more concerned with protecting profits than saving lives.

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New York's best Video Service launches its new website

The video production company: New York Video Service, which has been the 'go-to' company for New Yorkers has announced a new website.
Visit them and browse their portfolio at: http://www.NYvideo.US .

Considered by many to be the most versatile and reliable company for producing web video content for business websites, they have also been helping musicians with their youtube videos: youtube link

As video becomes the standard form of promotion, people are looking for production companies who deliver polished work on time, not just a film student with a consumer camera and a dirty pair of jeans.

Taliban still going strong, just moved to Pakistan

New York Times Journalist David Rohde was held captive by the Taliban. Much of what he learned during that time came from watching videos- day after day- with his captors. He narrates a mishmash of footage and video game footage, cut in with some Presidential statements from George Bush and Obama (cut by the Taliban)... giving us some insight into the effect of multi-media, and the fact that it can be manipulated to say absolutely anything.



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Free Lunchtime concerts at Columbia University, Solo Bach: Benjamin Hochman, Jennifer Koh and Alisa Weilerstein

12:30 free 1 hour concerts 

at Philosophy Hall (wiki) , Columbia University, near the 1 Train at 116th street.
Look for the Bronze Statue of "The Thinker" outside...

No Ticket is required.

Three of New York's great musicians will play solo works by JS Bach in the wonderful acoustic of Philosophy hall. Each artist is well worth hearing if you haven't already.

Watch Benji play partita no. 5


J.S. Bach - Keyboard Partitas
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Monday, October 26 – Partita No. 1 in B-flat major
Tuesday, October 27 – Partita No. 2 in C minor
Wednesday, October 28 – Partita No. 3 in A minor

J.S. Bach - Cello Suites
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Tuesday, November 10 – Suite No. 1 in G major
Wednesday, November 11 – Suite No. 2 in D minor
Thursday, November 12 – Suite No. 3 in C major

J.S. Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Jennifer Koh, violin
Monday, March 22 – Sonata No. 2 in A minor
Tuesday, March 23 – Partita No. 1 in B minor
Wednesday, March 24 – Sonata No. 3 in C major

J.S. Bach - Keyboard Partitas
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Monday, April 12 – Partita No. 4 in D major
Tuesday, April 13 – Partita No. 5 in G major
Wednesday, April 14 – Partita No. 6 in E minor

J.S. Bach - Cello Suites
Alisa Weilerstein, cello
Monday, April 19 – Suite No. 4 in E-flat major
Tuesday, April 20 – Suite No. 5 in C minor
Wednesday, April 21 – Suite No. 6 in D major

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Noam Chomsky: Americans being fed Lies, where is the honest media?

Chomsky, expert on the 'Media-People-Government Relationship' is seriously worried for America.
Middle America is looking for answers to why wages, services, benefits have drained away from their lives, and the answers are coming from the most dangerous camps, "not unlike Germany in the 30's", says Chomsky, "when the German public had similar questions, which were answered by Hitler's publicity machine, and the people swallowed it hook, line and sinker".


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New York dog depressed after being left at home again

A Manhattan Dog, who asked that his real name not be used, is seeking psychological counseling after being left at home every day for his whole life.

"I've had it up to here with this tiny apartment" said Eric, a large Canine, "sometimes I just think screw you, and I rip up a few cushions or take a dump in the bedroom, but mostly I just lie on the couch and think about chasing pigs and mounting small dogs".

Eric's owner was unavailable for comment, but his representative said:

" my husband picks up Eric's gigantic turds every night when he gets his walk, what else can he do?"

Eric has been secretly using the computer while the humans are gone, uploading his profile picture to several dating services

Eric says:

"the drinking at home really had to stop, I was going through 24 cans a day. Sometimes when the humans got home I could hardly lift my head"

Since the Toimes interviewed Eric, we were happy to receive a tweet from him announcing his engagement to a younger woman. Let's hope they live happily ever after.

Woof.

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Sell the Vatican, feed the world (Sarah Silverman pleads)

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New Company producing "Video Books" called vook

Book + Videos = VOOK ?
As I perused vook.com, wondering if video and text mix... I realized that that's where we are heading with media. The Toimes does it: videos interspersed with words. I mean if a picture is worth 1000 words, then a video at 29 pictures a second... or are words still better?

Crowded subways, office cubicle, plenty of places where a Vook might work well.
Just one piece of advice: read a real book in bed, the computer screen isn't conducive to dropping off.

Go to Vook.com and watch a trailer

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Greenmarket on W 168th Street

The Tuesday Farmers' Market would be located in front of the Hammer Health Services building on W. 168th Street and Fort Washington Avenue with stands starting November, expand in the spring.

With potential to occupy 18 tents, 12 vendors the market will take up about five street parking spots from early in the morning until 2 or 3 p.m.

1,500 residents of Hudson Heights signed an online petition to get a market in Bennett Park.

Northern Manhattan has two existing markets, one on Thursdays on W. 175th Street and one on Isham Street in Inwood on Saturdays.

How to make your old uploaded Youtube videos widescreen

Those videos you uploaded before April 2008 might have a big black border around them.
Here's how to fix it easily and quickly:

Sign into your YouTube account, and click account (in the upper right hand corner of the page).
Click Uploaded Videos, and select the video that you'd like to edit.
Click the "edit" button below the video.
Depending on how you'd like to format your video, type on of the following tags into the "Tags" section:

Tag: yt:crop=16:9
(zooms in on the 16:9 area, removes windowboxing)

Tag: yt:stretch=16:9
(fixes anamorphic content by scaling to 16:9)

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New York Opera star Rinat Shaham sings jazzy Gershwin

During the day before Rinat Shaham had to go on stage to sing the title role of Carmen in Cologne Germany, we managed to get a couple of cameras in to the opera house and filmed an impromptu jam session with Shaham and her young colleague Sam Hogarth. The result was quite startling: not JUST an opera singer!


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Linkedin: How to put it to work

Linkedin not really doing anything for ya?
Lara Kretler lists 7 ways to maximize the social and business networking site.

She says: "For your LinkedIn network to be truly valuable to you and your contacts, you really do need to know the people to whom you’re connected."

Here are 7 of her tips: (paraphrased)
1. Add new contacts to your network. Add each new business contact you meet to your LinkedIn network.

2. Grow your network with existing contacts. Upload your contacts from work and personal mail programs (Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) to see if they’re on LinkedIn.

3. Find the network within your network. Peruse the connections of your LinkedIn contacts and look for hidden relationships.

4. Participate in the community. What you get out of LinkedIn is directly a result of what you put into in. Go to the questions section on LinkedIn and answer business-related questions.

5. Join an official LinkedIn Group to network with others, such as an alumni association, regional or industry-based networking group.

6. Prep for important meetings. Before a big new business pitch or interview, find out who you’ll be meeting with and connect to them on LinkedIn. This allows you to get to know a little about them, find out what connections or interests you may share.

7. Merchandise your profile. If you’ve built a profile which reflects your personal brand and professional expertise, put it to use. Add it to your email signature, include the link in your signature when leaving comments on blogs and forums, and link to your LinkedIn from your own blog. All of these will help your LinkedIn profile to pop up in Google and other search engines.
More info at:
100+ ways to use LinkedIn

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NY hosts PRADA sample sale from Oct 17th-23rd shoes and clothes

Prada is hosting a we're-all-friends sample sale.
Starts Sat, Oct 17th and runs until Fri, Oct 23rd.

609 West 51st Street
(b/w 11th & 12th Aves)

Oct 17th-23rd:
Sat & Sun, 9am - 6pm
Mon though Fri 10am - 7pm

Line up at 6am if you really mean business.
Shoes and clothing only, no bags.

Prices 75% off and expect up to 90% off the last day of the sale.
Last year shoes were all $150 to start but down to $79 on the final day.

Can't make it? Try this fashionista site Rue La La
(this is your invitation link)

Australian 'Hey Hey It's Saturday' Jackson Five parody, interesting comments

Listen to what Harry Connick JR says after this ignorant farce of an act is allowed to perform to a live National audience.


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Still eating ground beef? Warning

Ground beef is usually not simply a chunk of meat run through a grinder. Instead, records and interviews show, a single portion of hamburger meat is often an amalgam of various grades of meat from different parts of cows and even from different slaughterhouses. These cuts of meat are particularly vulnerable to E. coli contamination, food experts and officials say. Despite this, there is no federal requirement for grinders to test their ingredients for the pathogen.

Read about how a simple 'angus beef patty' paralyzed a woman: New York Times Article

Grow your own meat

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The Truth about Russia and Russians: "Red Square Blues" a new book

Picture a pretty young girl vomiting out the open door of a Siberian engine room on a train pushing through the deep snow of a hard drinking winter. This is Kim Traill, author, journalist and adventurer. Read her book, it will educate you...


Buy it on Amazon

In 1990, Kim Traill set off for the former Soviet Union with a smattering of vocabulary, a lust for wild adventure and a swag of youthful idealism about the great Communist experiment. It would take some time for the scales to fall from her eyes.

Over the next 17 years Kim discovered a Russia few tourists see. She ate some of the world′s worst food, went to places few of us would venture, made good friends and met a lot of seriously dodgy people. On collective farms and on 40-hour train journeys, at red carpet parties and in marriage agencies, on nuclear bases and in the frozen wastes of Siberia, she navigated the country′s changing fortunes, bearing witness to the horrific events of war, nuclear accidents, drug and alcohol addiction and ethnic rivalries. She even tried to make herself into a good Russian woman, abandoning her uniform of jeans, boots and Russian prison coat for heels and a skin-tight dress.

Red Square Blues is a full-blooded charge through a crumbling empire as it lurches from dark power to open society and back again. It is an eye-opening portrait of an eternally surprising country, leavened with the kind of bone-dry humour only life in a repressive police state can produce.

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How to help save the world without really even trying: No Impact Man

Colin Beavan recently published his latest book: "No Impact Man", telling his year long story of plunging his family of three into a life of no elevators, air conditioning or newspapers.

I interviewed him about why, but came away with more important answers than I was expecting; more important in that they were easily workable solutions, that each of us could give to the problem of ecological disaster.

The top 3 ways to help save the planet:
~Eat less Beef
~No bottled water
~Take a day off damaging the planet each week.

The Beef: Worldwide, beef production contributes more substantially to climate change than the entire transportation sector.

The Bottles: The production of plastic water bottles together with the privatization of our drinking water is an environmental and social catastrophe. Bottled water costs more per gallon than gasoline. Plus, the health consequences of drinking water from plastic are not clear.

The Sabbath: For one day or afternoon or even hour a week, don't buy anything, don't use any machines, don't switch on anything electric, don't answer your phone, and, in general, don't use any resources. In other words, for this regular period, give yourself and the planet a break. Keep your regular eco-sabbath for a month. You'll find that the enforced downtime represents an improvement to your life.

So if you feel that guilt closing in on you as you throw out yet another take-out container, think about doing something to relieve the guilt...

Marijuana Cross-Joints becoming popular in New York

The joint rolling technique made most famous by the Hollywood movie: "Pineapple Express" has become popular on Youtube. We searched for the best Cross joint Video on youtube....

We have a winner:


Our Youtube Channel

A New York Fishing Story

An afternoon supermarket run with the wife in the chevy to Fairway, threw the rod in the back.
Wife goes in to the supermarket

Fishing for the pure novelty of it, I would never eat anything out of any river near New York City; The old guys ten feet away had caught a couple of big ones, and had already sliced and spiced....

I caught a snag.... There Goes My Lure.... but No, it comes loose... sort of.... and I hoist it slowly up to the surface.
It was very heavy, as the murderer had put the gun in a sock and the sock had filled up with Hudson river sludge.

I was relieved it wasn't a head....
It was a .38, automatic nickel plated hand gun. One slug missing.

I took it to the 34th Precinct, cops gave me a hundred for it. Guns for Cash, no questions asked.


Went to the supermarket and bought some fish.

Brooklyn's Bamboo Bike Building Boys and girls

One weekend is all it takes to fabricate a frame from bamboo ( a renewable and performance-positive material) growing right in our backyard— assemble the components, and roll away with a custom-fitted ride, tuned to your body and cycling style.

Contact the bamboo bike studio at the Bamboo Bike site

The cost of the bike building class directly supports the Bamboo Bike Studio’s efforts to seed the first bamboo bike factory in Ghana, where reliable and cheap bicycle transportation can dramatically improve access to jobs, commerce, education, basic food and water resources, and health care.

Their mission:
1: to provide every cyclist the experience of building his or her dream bike from scratch,
2: to advance sustainable entrepreneurship and development through financing bamboo bike factories in Africa and South America.