There will be coverage by Time Warner Cable Co. of Monday’s Oct. 30, 2007 afternoon Budget Meeting. The meeting will start at 3:00 pm. It will be held in Town Hall on Main Street.
The final resolutions will be discussed by the Town Board, then voted on whether or not they should be placed in the 2008 budget.
After this is done the Board will vote to accept or refuse to accept the budget.
Castro has been in control of Cuba for decades and if power transfers from one brother to the other the U.S. will not accept that as a political transition.
“As described by an official in a background briefing to reporters on Tuesday evening, Mr. Bush’s remarks will amount to the most detailed response — mainly an unbending one — to the political changes that began in Cuba more than a year ago, when Fidel Castro fell ill and handed power to his brother Raúl.”
“The speech, scheduled to be given at the State Department before invited Cuban dissidents, will introduce the relatives of four Cuban prisoners being held for political crimes. A senior administration official said the president wanted to “put a human face,” on Cuba’s “assault on freedom.””
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We have all seen the images on nightly news broadcasts. Flames leaping hundreds of feet into the air and embers floating to new areas setting them ablaze as well. Thousands of people forced to evacuate, homes burned to cinders, people needing help. For a presidency still haunted by memories of Hurricane Katrina, the forceful round-the-clock response to the California wildfires was a political no-brainer.
“It was not quite 2:30 a.m. in Washington on Tuesday when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California asked President Bush to declare an emergency because of the wildfires raging in his state. An hour or so later, the request — pre-approved by Mr. Bush before he left the Oval Office on Monday evening — was granted.”
“By the time most Californians awoke on Tuesday, the Pentagon had sent helicopters and troops to California and the homeland security secretary and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were on their way. By Tuesday evening, the White House announced that Mr. Bush himself would go on Thursday. He canceled a trip to St. Louis, planning to send Vice President Dick Cheney instead.”
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Big brother is watching, and Google is going to help him. What do you watch on TV? How about commercials? Do you switch to other channels? Google plans to announce a partnership with Nielsen to give advertisers a better snapshot of how many people are viewing television commercials on a second-by-second basis.
“At a time when digital video recorders are proliferating, advertisers are thirsty for any data they can get about who is watching their ads, who is fast-forwarding past them and where it makes the most sense to invest.”
“Although the initiative between Google and Nielsen will start relatively small, with ratings gleaned from set-top boxes within a single cable operator’s network, the companies say that their deal spans several years and that the relationship will grow.”
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