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This edition was generated on Fri May 14 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:

Obama eyes 'next steps' in oil spill AFP/BP
BP hopes tube will siphon Gulf oil to tanker AP – 36 mins ago

Undersea robots tried to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico early Friday in BP's latest attempt to cut down on the spill from a blown-out well that has pumped out more than 4 million gallons of crude. Full Story »

Thai soldiers guard against smoke as anti-government protesters burned tires in downtown Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 14, 2010. Troops fired bullets
Bangkok battle: Troops fire on rioting protesters AP – 1 hr 47 mins ago
9 Year-old Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw is seen in his hospital bed in Tripoli's El Khadra hospital, Libya Thusday, May 13, 2010. Ruben is the only surv
Dutch crash survivor could go home this weekend AP – 1 hr 45 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

LeBron James AP

LeBron gone! Celtics eliminate James and Cavs in 6

AP – 1 hr 17 mins ago

BOSTON – The Boston Celtics sent LeBron James and the Cavaliers back to Cleveland to admire all of their regular-season accomplishments and ponder their future. Full Story »

Brian Cushing

Texans LB Cushing denies drug use

AP – Thu May 13, 5:26 pm ET
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig gestures as he speaks to reporters during a news conference at Major League Baseball headquarters, Thursday, May 13, 2

Selig defends baseball's record on minority hiring

AP – Thu May 13, 8:19 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Consumer spending rises 0.4 percent in April

AP – 6 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Growth in retail sales slowed sharply in April as consumers eased up their spending after a busy March. Full Story »

FILE - In this July 31, 2009 file photo, customers are seen in the main entrance of the new JCPenney store in the Manhattan Mall during the grand open

Penney's 1Q profit more than doubles; oulook muted

AP – 2 mins ago
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

Stock futures down on European economic worries

AP – 6 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - May 14, 2010
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
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Rita Rudner
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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