Week of February 1, 2008

President Bush submits a $3.1 trillion budget for the next fiscal year in a

controversial plan.

In London - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice huddles with British

officials to sketch out new goals for the allied effort in Afghanistan.

The Bush administration seeks a 19% increase on border security and

immigration enforcement.

Five women are shot to death in what police are calling a possible botched

robbery in a Lane Bryant women’s clothing store in suburban Chicago. The lone

gunman is still at large.

Pakistan - After weeks of escalation - Taliban militants declare a cease-fire, but

the U.S. believes this is only an excuse to regroup.

a satellite feed from Tucson for a live

broadcast of an MTV candidate forum -

forcing the hosts to fill nearly 15 minutes

with talk and talk.

Abut Laith al Libu - a top Al Qaeda

commander who trained and led foreign

militants assisting the Taliban resurgence

in Afghanistan is killed in nearby

Pakistan by U.S. led forces.

Super Bowl ads - the audience was

bowled over with ads from the likes of

Diet Pepsi Max, Glaceau Vitaminwater,

T-Mobile, Budweiser, Cars.com, Pepsi,

Godaddy, Etrade, Career Builder and

Gatorade.

Business -

Macy’s Inc. announces a restructuring and will cut some 2,300 jobs.

Passing -

Gustavo Arriola - created the popular Latin comic strip “Gordo.”

Passing - Former General Hospital actress Shell Kepler.

Week of February 1, 2008

Passing - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi- One-time TM guru to the Beatles. He was 91.

Sports -

Former New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens meets for five hours with the

House committee investigating drug using in baseball.

New York Giants quarterback

as the Giants defeat the New

England Patriots in a good game

-17-14 in Super Bowl XLII. He

shouted the familiar -“I’m Going

to Disneyland” after the win -

but never showed up at

Disneyland’s parade due to late

flights. Disney has recorded “I’m

going to Disneyland!” TV spots

following 21 Super Bowl games

(since 1987).

John Santana and the New York

Mets agree to terms on a

$137.5-million six-year contract

- a record for a pitcher.

A judge in Tennessee drops charges against suspended NFL player Adam

“Pacman” Jones agreeing with a prosecutor that the player has been punished

enough over his legal trouble over the past year.

Technology -

Time Warner says it is splitting AOL into two parts - Internet access and content.

The content side of AOL seems to be going OK - while the internet access side

as slid significantly.

Intel has built a new chip packed with a record 2 billion transistors, more than

doubling the processing power of a line of its chips for supercomputers. The new

“quad-core” Itanium chips will operate at frequencies up to 2 gigs and have four

processing engines on a single chip. Current models have two.

My Space opens it software code to outside developers following rivals Facebook

and Bebo.

Microsoft makes an unsolicited $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo.

Week of February 1, 2008

Entertainment news -

It’s revealed that actor Heath

Ledger died of an accidental

abuse of prescription

medications - so says the New

York City medical examiner’s

office. “Mr. Heath Ledger died

as a result of acute intoxication

by the combined effects of

oxycodone, hydrocodone,

diazepam, temazepam,

alprazolam and doxylamine.”

Music news -

On MTV - Don’t miss - “Randy

Jackson Presents: America’s

Best Dance Crew.” Judges

include JC Chasez of ‘N Sync,

Choreographer Shane Sparks

and singer Lil’ Mama.

The Spice Girls are cutting back their reunion tour due to family and personal

commitments.

Ryan Seacrest hosts an entertaining Super Bowl Sunday Pregame Show” on Fox

just before the game.

where she checked in January 24. She was on a day

release to visit her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil in jail.

Top TV -

Super Bowl XLII(Fox) - 97.45 million viewers

Super Bowl Post Game show - 63.93

House (Sun.) - 29.04

American Idol (Tue.) - 28.22

American Idol (Wed.) - 25.57

House (Tue.) - 22.56

Moment of Truth - 17.64

Lost - (9pm) - 16.14

Lost (8pm also on Thursday) - 13.16

NCIS - 11.77

Week of February 1, 2008

CSI - 11.09

Eli Stone - 11.14

Law & Order (Wed) - 11.10

Without a Trace - 10.18

Don’t Forget the Lyrics - 10.07

Deal or No Deal - 9.68

Tow and a Half Men - 9.60

Dance War - 9.45

Law & Order - SVU - (Tue.) - 9.29

Television news -

Passing - Actor Barry Morse - best known for portraying Lt. Philip Gerard who

pursued Dr. Richard Kimble in the popular 1960’s series - “The Fugitive.” He was

89.

NBC orders 13 episodes of the Canadian-produced show - “The Listener” -

about a paramedic who can read people’s thoughts and act on them.

Debuting this week on NBC-TV -

Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay

Price.

On “Saturday Night Live” - Tom

Brady with music guests - Beck.

At the movies this week in 2008 -

The Hannah Montana

movie/concert debuts at $29 million

in business. The concert features

the Jonas Brothers.

Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Tour

The Eye

27 dresses

Juno

Meet the Spartans

Rambo

The Bucket List

Untraceable

Cloverfield

There Will Be Blood

Week of February 1, 2008