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This edition was generated on Thu May 13 08:45:01 EDT 2010

Table of Contents

General News Update
Sports News Update
Business News Update
Miscellaneous Daily Information
Boston Area Weather

General News Update

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-General News:

Edward Markey AP
Emerging oil rig evidence shows lack of regulation AP – 47 mins ago

WASHINGTON – The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout — a devastating sequence of equipment failures — drives home a central unsettling point about America's oil industry: key safety features at tens of thousands of U.S. offshore rigs are barely regulated. Full Story »

Offshore natural gas platform sinks off Venezuela AP – 48 mins ago
New claims for unemployment insurance inch down AP – 8 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Dominic Moore, Travis Moen AP

Disbelieve it: Canadiens eliminate Pens, 5-2

AP – 2 hrs 21 mins ago

PITTSBURGH – First the Capitals, now the Penguins. The Canadiens, the worst-record team in the playoffs, keep sending home the NHL's best. Full Story »

Mike Richards, Mark Stuart

Flyers force Game 7 vs. Bruins

AP – 2 hrs 21 mins ago
Brian Cushing

Cushing keeps AP Defensive Rookie award

AP – Thu May 13, 4:05 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

FILE - In this April 29, 2010 file photo, Ann Converso, of Buffalo, N,Y., joins other protestors during a rally near city hall, in New York. New claim AP

New claims for unemployment insurance inch down

AP – 3 mins ago

WASHINGTON – New claims for unemployment benefits dipped for the fourth straight week, a sign the job market is improving at a glacial pace. Full Story »

AP Source: NY AG probing 8 banks over securities

AP – 9 mins ago
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Stock futures trade in narrow range

AP – 4 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 13, 2010
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
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Pierre Gallois
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.
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William Gibson (1948 - )
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Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
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