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This edition was generated on Sun Oct 11 08:45:01 EDT 2009

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 army troops return back to base camp after conducting an operation AP Bloody siege at Pakistan army HQ ends with 19 dead AP – 19 mins ago

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages held by militants at the army's own headquarters Sunday, ending a bloody, 22-hour drama that embarrassed the nation's military as it plans a new offensive against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Full Story »

Trio of attacks kill 14 in western Iraqi city
Iraqi police: Anbar bombings kill 14, wound dozens AP – 30 mins ago
The wreckage of a vehicle used in a bombing attack is being towed away at the
UN official says 'widespread fraud' in Afghan vote AP – 28 mins ago

Sports News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Sports:

Florida quarterback Tim Tebow (15) runs away from LSU linebcker Harry Coleman AP

Tebow, top-ranked Florida leave LSU dazed, 13-3

AP – 22 mins ago

BATON ROUGE, La. – Tim Tebow scrambled away from the rush, cut back to the middle of the field and finished the run by lowering a shoulder into a defender. Full Story »

St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Joel Pineiro sits alone in the dugout

Padilla, Dodgers beat Cardinals 5-1 for sweep

AP – Sun Oct 11, 1:04 am ET
A light snow covers the sculpture of The Player outside the main entrance of

Game 3 in Denver postponed, and Pedro Martinez out

AP – Sat Oct 10, 8:39 pm ET

Business News

Yahoo! Reuters Headlines-Business:

A methane gas well works next to a house in La Plata County southeast of Durango AP

Solar power outshining Colorado's gas industry

AP – Sun Oct 11, 12:08 am ET

DURANGO, Colo. – The sun had just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side of the Smiley Building to spin backward. Full Story »

FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2008 file photo, specialist Joseph Morelli works on the

The Great Recession: The numbers tell the story

AP – Sat Oct 10, 1:28 pm ET
FILE - In this April 14, 2008 file photo, a sign is shown in front of Intel

Investors to companies: show us higher sales

AP – Sun Oct 11, 12:01 am ET

  • Florida gets scattered financial sunshine

    Reuters – Fri Oct 9, 4:39 pm ET  

    TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Florida's economy may still be sputtering, but the state government's fiscal pain seems to be easing. Full Story »

  • High hopes and big risks in tech earnings

    Reuters – Fri Oct 9, 1:35 pm ET  
    A man walks past an Intel wall at the 2009 Computex trade show... Reuters

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The biggest risk for investors in technology, with stock prices up a whopping 55 percent this year, is they might be just a little too happy. Full Story »

  • Winners of the Nobel economics prize

    AP – 37 mins ago  

    Recent winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation: Full Story »

  • JPMorgan, others to pay $100M settlement

    AP – Fri Oct 9, 6:37 pm ET  

    PHILADELPHIA - JPMorgan Chase & Co. and two other investment banks have agreed to pay $100 million to settle a lawsuit over their contribution to investor losses in the collapse of American Business Financial Services Inc., the bankruptcy trustee's lawyer said Friday. Full Story »

  • Barnes & Noble Expected To Launch E-Book Reader

    NewsFactor – Fri Oct 9, 5:07 pm ET  

    On the heels of Amazon.com taking its Kindle to international markets, Barnes & Noble is venturing into the increasingly popular e-reader market. The Wall Street Journal reported the giant book retailer could roll out an e-reader as early as next month in the U.S. Full Story »

  • Home sweet home investment? Sure, in the long run

    AP – Fri Oct 9, 7:49 pm ET  
    FILE - In this June 23, 2009 file photo, a woman tours a home... AP

    CHICAGO - For all the doom and gloom about the housing market, it still generally pays to own a home. Full Story »

  • Mideast oil exporters' foreign reserves to rise: IMF

    AFP – Sun Oct 11, 5:18 am ET  
    Kuwait's refinery of Al-Ahmadi, 2005. The IMF said that oil... AFP/File

    DUBAI (AFP) - Oil exporters in the Middle East and North Africa region are expected to increase their international reserve positions by over 100 billion dollars in 2010 as oil prices rebound, the IMF said on Sunday. Full Story »

  • 3 tips to start building a college savings account

    AP – Fri Oct 9, 3:18 pm ET  

    A new survey by online brokerage TD Ameritrade says college is the top reasons teens save their money. The results were a pleasant surprise to educators who are focusing on getting personal finance taught in schools. The survey indicated 78 percent of teens say they want to share the cost of college with their parents. Full Story »

  • Investors Real Estate Trust stock sale nets $62.6M

    AP – Fri Oct 9, 4:32 pm ET  

    MINOT, N.D. - Investors Real Estate Trust said it expects $62.6 million in net proceeds from a follow-on offering that closed Friday. Full Story »

  • Betting Big on a Boom in Natural Gas

    BusinessWeek – Fri Oct 9, 8:08 am ET  

    Earlier this year the time came for Lloyd M. Yates, CEO of Progress Energy , to decide how the big Raleigh (N.C.) utility would meet the state's stringent smokestack laws. First he considered the easy solution: installing pollution scrubbers on the utility's old coal-fired plant in Sutton, N.C., at a cost of $330 million. Then his attention turned to natural gas, the price of which had plunged by two-thirds in the previous year. Sure, the recession accounted for some of the slide. But reports were also circulating of massive discoveries of natural gas in the U.S. ... Full Story »

Miscellaneous Daily Stuff

Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - October 11, 2009
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
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Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
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John Clarke, Paroemiologia Anglo-Latina, 1639
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