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This edition was generated on Fri Oct 8 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:

Pro-democracy protesters hold the picture of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo with Chinese words AP
Chinese dissident Liu wins Nobel Peace Prize AP – 36 mins ago

OSLO, Norway – Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for using nonviolence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland. The award ignited a furious response from China, which accused the Norwegian Nobel Committee of violating its own principles by honoring "a criminal." Full Story »

Kim Jong Un, Ri Yong Ho, Kim Yong Chun
NKorean official confirms Kim Jong Un as leader AP – 1 hr 26 mins ago
Dead fish, victims of the toxic red sludge that spilled Monday from a giant industrial container, in the River Marcal near Boba, Hungary, Thursday, Oc
Toxic sludge almost the size of Gulf Oil spill AP – 13 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Tim Lincecum pumps his fist after striking out Atlanta Braves' Derrek Lee for the final out of Game 1 of basebal AP

Lincecum whiffs 14 as Giants beat Braves in Game 1

AP – 1 hr 27 mins ago

SAN FRANCISCO – The sellout crowd that had been waiting seven years for another playoff game roared when Tim Lincecum jogged back out to the mound to start the ninth inning. The way the Freak dominated in his postseason debut, there was no way manager Bruce Bochy would take the ball away. Full Story »

Andy Pettitte

Vintage Pettitte leads Yanks to 2-0 lead on Twins

AP – Fri Oct 8, 4:05 am ET
C. J. Wilson

Rangers on the brink of first playoff series win

AP – Fri Oct 8, 4:06 am ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

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

Stock futures lower ahead of jobs data as dollar firms

Reuters – 50 mins ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index futures fell on Friday on concerns a weak jobs report could increase the likelihood the U.S. Federal Reserve will print more money in an effort to buttress the economic recovery. Full Story »

File photo of case worker Jessica Yon with unemployed people in San Francisco

Employment seen flat in September

Reuters – 43 mins ago
Undated handout photo of St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President Bullard

Fed's Bullard says Nov decision a "tough call"

Reuters – 32 mins ago

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 8, 2010
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
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Hodding Carter
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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
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T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone.
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John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
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