Eat & Run — all the way around New York.

Scott Jurek, star of the bestseller Born to Run, will celebrate the release of his new memoir, Eat & Run, by running all 31 miles around Manhattan in just 5 hours.

The public is invited to join Scott along the way for a few miles or more. Pace will be about 9:30 minute per mile.

Jurek will begin the run on June 5, 2012 at 5 a.m., and finish it by arriving in time for noon talk at Bryant Park. Joining Jurek for portions of this epic run will be friends and admirers like:

*Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run

The effect upon the US viewing public by TV commercials has been the subject of philosophical discourse for a long time by many individuals.

The viewership of television programming, as measured by companies like Nielsen Media Research and Arbitron has often been used as a metric for television advertisement placement and consequently, for the rates these advertisers were charged to broadcast within a given network, television program, day of the week or time of day.

Take a look at the following commercial TV classics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhFk85J8n_Q&feature=youtu.be

Two of the longest serving major market news VP personalities unexpectedly announced their retirement this past week on opposite coasts. NYC and Los Angeles

At WABC-TV, New York, NY. KENNY PLOTNIK is leaving this ABC o-and-o. He emailed his staff that his wife's retirement from nursing "sparked my interest in looking elsewhere for career challenges." Kenny worked for 25 years at WABC, the last ten as ND. He previously worked for the company at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, and began his career in Buffalo.

On Monday, June 4th, NYC Councilman James Vacca and the City Island Civic Association will partner to protest Mayor Bloombnerg’s proposed budget cuts that would result in the closure of 20 fire companies citywide, most likely including City Island’s Ladder Company 53, as early as July 1, 2012.

FDNY has yet to disclose the specific companies on the chopping block, but Ladder 53, City Island’s only ladder company, has been slated for closure for the past four years. If Ladder 53, were to close, first-alarm response times on City Island would double to nearly 10 minutes.