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This edition was generated on Fri Oct 1 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:

Pakistani flood affected residents pass by the still smoldering oil trucks in Shikarpur, southern Pakistan on Friday Oct. 1, 2010. Suspected militants AP
Dozens of NATO oil tankers attacked in Pakistan AP – 1 hr 23 mins ago

SHIKARPUR, Pakistan – Suspected militants in southern Pakistan set ablaze more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for foreign troops in Afghanistan on Friday, highlighting the vulnerability of the U.S.-led mission a day after Pakistan closed a major border crossing. Full Story »

Purported bin Laden tape issued on Internet
Bin Laden uses Pakistani floods to drum up support AP – 1 hr 8 mins ago
Nigerian independence day blasts kill seven
Explosions kill at least 7 near Nigeria ceremony AP – 27 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Tiger Woods, right, of the U.S. and his caddie Steve Williams shelter under an umbrella during heavy rainfall at the 2010 Ryder Cup golf tournament at AP

Europe leads early as heavy rains halt Ryder Cup

AP – 1 hr 39 mins ago

NEWPORT, Wales – Workers scurried around the greens with squeegees, furiously pushing the water away before every putt. Players sloshed down soaked fairways, desperately searching for a spot to hit from that was somewhat dry. Finally, there was no way to go on. Full Story »

Aubrey Huff

Giants sweep Arizona, clinch tie for NL West title

AP – Fri Oct 1, 1:36 am ET
Tim Stauffer

Padres on cusp of elimination after loss to Cubs

AP – 1 hr 27 mins ago

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Reuters

Stock futures rise as Chinese manufacturing grows

Reuters – 21 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures rose on Friday as a pick up in Chinese manufacturing eased concerns about the state of the global economy a day after Wall Street closed its best quarter in a year. Full Story »

Dudley, President and Chief Executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, addresses the Economic Club of New York in New York City

Dudley: More Fed action warranted unless outlook improves

Reuters – 10 mins ago
A logo is seen at a BP fuel station in London

BP pledges Gulf of Mexico oil fields to spill fund

Reuters – 36 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 1, 2010
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.
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Peter York
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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