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|October 12, 2008, 09:06 PM
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Difference in Beretta 686, 687 and 682
Does anyone know the difference in these actions and models?
Is one better for skeet and trap than the other two?
|October 13, 2008, 04:21 AM
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The difference between these Beretta models is "pretty." Just how much "pretty" can you afford?
All the guns have the same action and reciever, I believe some are just more pretty than others.......nicer wood, engraving and such.........now that 682 is a looker....I'd really like to have one....but can I use your checkbook to pay for it?
Trap and skeet guns are two different animals. The trap gun sends more lead higher in the sight window than a skeet gun. If you are buying your first gun for shotgun games buy a sporting clays model which will be good for all the games until you decide if you like trap enough to get a dedicated trap gun.
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In addition to appearance, the 682 has a trigger that is adjustable for LOP; the 687 doesn't. Don't know about the 686.
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The trigger pull kit can be put in the other guns (the 686 and 687) but is not standard.
The 682 is pretty darn fancy of a gun - I wish I had one - in a 32 inch barrel. It comes with about all the bells and whistles.
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Since you asked about a gun suited for Skeet and trap, I assume your interested in a competition grade gun. Of the 682, 687, and 686; Beretta lists the 686 as a field grade gun. So, you can narrow your choice of a comp gun to the 682 and 687. Neither of these guns will be a disappointment; but, don't expect the same gun to work equally well for trap and Skeet -- that's why Beretta offers several models.
The differences between the various Beretta comp guns can be very subtle and are intended to suit the requirements of the discriminating comp shooter. It's more complicated than choosing between Remington and Mossberg entry level pumps. May IMHO, do an actual side-by-side comparison before you make your final selection.
In the 90's I supplanted my Remington 1100 Trap with a Beretta 682 trap combo. In those days the 682 was a Plain Jane work horse, nothing fancy for aesthetics, but very nice mechanically. It has served me well, and I still think it was a good choice.
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Sole major differences are cosmetic. Same materials, design and lifespan.
The entry level clays O/U for Beretta is the White Onyx Sporter. Even with the weak dollar, MSRP is about $2K.
Mine has been a death ray, with near perfect function over 2 years and maybe 9K rounds. I did replace the Geltak pads with a prefit Limbsaver.
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Thanks for all the info, guys. I just got started with clays and have a long way to go before something like that would make any difference in my results, but I'm still interested in them for later. Several years ago, I handled some Beretta and Browning O/Us in a store. I remember the Berettas feeling more natural and fitting me better in the store.
As an aside, I've been using an 870, a 391A and an SX2. So far, I've done better with the 391A. I like the SX2 as a shotgun, but it doesn't feel as svelte in my hands when shooting at the clays. The 870 feels just fine, but I've done better with the 391A for some reason. The 870 even seems to fit me better. It works fine for me on trap - it's on skeet where I do a tad better with the Beretta. Maybe it's not having to cycle the action on doubles, I don't know.
I believe when I go to the patterning board, some puzzles may be revealed. I don't even know how these pattern, yet.
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Let me further muddy the water. I've got a field grade model 685. That is a model that I've never seen another of in the US. I bought it when I was in Italy. It has double triggers.
|October 16, 2008, 04:37 PM
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Before you decide on a gun - for any of the clay target games - and I'm no expert on Beretta - but they are a good gun / but most of the Beretta models have some drop at the comb and at the heel.
In my experience - a gun with a paralell comb ( paralell to the rib on the gun ) or sometimes referred to as a Monte Carlo comb - ideally with an adjustable comb insert - is by far one of the most versatile gun designs / and fits a lot more folks than a gun with drop at the comb.
Beretta has some new designs - the DT-10 that is a pretty nice gun with a paralell comb / but they don't have many models with that option. Browning has several guns with paralell combs - the XS Skeet, XT Trap, XS Special, etc.
The big plus on a paralell comb - is in summer you might shoot in a T shirt / with your vest - and your face will be one place on the comb. Then in the winter, hunting - shooting sporting, you may have a heavy coat on under your vest - and that will move your face back on the comb 1/2" or more. If the comb is paralell - there is no difference in your sight picture and the fit of the gun. If your comb is angled ( so it has drop ) moving 1/2" back on the comb and bringing it up to your face like you did in the summer - may drop the barrel 1/2" resulting in your point of impact at 30 yards being 12" or more low. Guns with a drop at the comb - for me - require a pad put on the comb to level them out / or they just don't fit - and maybe 75% of the people that I instruct in shotgunning - have guns that don't fit primarily because they bought a gun with a comb design that doesn't fit - because it looked cool.
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The 686 is offered in a sporting clays version so would be suitable for skeet or sporting clays with the appropriate chockes.
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Please, see BigJimP's remarks on stock height, above.
Compared to a 868 Sporting, a typical Beretta Skeet stock is approximately 1/8-inch higher at the comb and 3/8-inch higher at the heel. It's nice to see some of the newer Berettas have adjustable combs.
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Not that it matters - but I shoot parallel comb guns in the field, sporting, skeet and trap. I'm basically a Browning guy / they fit me better - but the XS Skeet model is made in 12 and 20ga / I picked up a 28ga and .410 made off the 20ga receiver XS Skeet as a special order (used even )... All of my XS Skeet models are 30" barrels. 12 ga is a little heavier / the 20, 28 and
.410 are matched very close by weight since they are off the same receiver. Its not as good a system as a Kolar or Krieghoff - with a carrier barrel - and a full set of tubes ( but I didn't pay $ 25K for all 4 of the Brownings either / and I like having 4 different guns ).
I also like the XT model as a Trap gun / 32" barrel - with a GraCoil system on it / but I've got a couple of those models as well.
I'm glad to see Beretta offering more guns with adj combs as well - but even Browning offers guns without a paralell comb / and they have put adj combs in them ( but they are still angled / and it makes no sense to me why that would fit anyone ) it has the same problems as any angled comb / and putting an adj comb into an angled stock just seems foolish to me.
Calling a gun a Skeet gun / a Sporting gun - is just a marketing ploy. You can shoot any gun for Skeet, Sporting and in the Field - Trap is a little different and a more specialized gun usually / but you don't have to have a specialized Trap gun if you don't want one either.
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Thanks - this is great info and makes a lot of sense. An interesting note about my Beretta 391 - it had more drop in the stock than my 870s (or SX2, for that matter). I had to install the stock shim that would raise it the most, but I still wanted it higher. I was going to call Beretta to see if they have shims that offer more stock lift.
To this novice, the 870 I was using gave me a good sight plane when I mount it. The Beretta still shows more rib in the plane than I like. I expected to have more trouble shooting with it, as a result, but surprisingly, I did a little better than I did with my 870. That could be due to patterning differences, though.
When I do get to the point where I'm looking at more specialized guns for clays, I'll make a point to visit some stocking dealers to try them for fit.
I thought about something else while shooting, though. I feel kind of lazy even saying this, but after going back after each round of trap and picking up 25 empty shells across the stations, I think I would enjoy not having shells ejecting everywhere with an O/U...
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enjoy not having shells ejecting everywhere
What you need for your 391 is a shellcatcher. It's essentially a clip that attaches to the gun at the ejection port, which will catch the rim of the shell as it is ejected. Upon ejection, part of the shell remains inside of the receiver, which allows you to remove the shell by hand after shooting. It is suitable only singles traps, not doubles.
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Shooting an Over Under is nice - because you don't have to pick hulls up all over the place / keeps them clean and dry for reloading too.
The other thing about an Over Under is its a lot more forgiving / in terms of reloads, types of loads, etc - if you can shove a shell into the gun / and close the gun - its almost a certainty the shell will fire. Pump guns are very reliable as well / but some semi-autos are a little finnicky on shells - and you need to have a press that is resizing your shells or they may not cycle properly in a lot of semi-autos. My Benelli semi-auto will cycle shells even down to 7/8 oz in 12ga as long as they are at least 1200 fps / but anything slower than that, like 1150 fps for light recoil for a young shooter will not cycle the action - some gas guns say they will cycle light loads but many of them have issues.
Over Unders are also a lot easier to clean / quicker to clean. Sometimes I go to the club with 3 guns / stripping them all down as O/U's only takes about 30 min for all 3 guns combined. If they were three gas guns - it would take an hour plus to clean all 3 guns .... and in general, there are more moving parts on a semi-auto than an O/U - more wear per 1,000 shells, etc. Although every O/U should have the stock taken off about twice a year - and inspect the firing pins, springs, etc inside the receiver and that takes 30 min or so per gun as well.
I like a variety of shotguns - I still have some pumps, one semi-auto, and quite a few O/U's .....but part of that is just because I like nice guns. But sometimes I don't feel like carrying a 9 lb gun around all day / so I grab the 7 1/2 lb semi-auto / or I shoot a synthetic stock semi on a nasty rainy day when I don't want a wood stock gun out in the weather ...... its nice to have options.
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text: Hi! Sorry, not got 24/7 net access, so I've not got any mail since this one. Either way, I eventually fixed it myself in the meantime. [snip] > If you are using a debian stock kernel, try adding the module for your > scsi card, scsi_mod, sg, etc. to /etc/modules. Check /boot/config-2.2.x > to see which modules were compiled into your previous kernel. I had already added the modules for them to /etc/mkinitrd/modules, but it hadn't occurred to me to use /etc/modules too. I wasn't sure if you meant it would tell mkinitrd what modules were needed, or if it would be used at boot time... I did so anyway, and included the file in the initrd image. It didn't seem to help (and there wasn't anything in cofig-2.2.x that I didn't already know, but good idea anyway). > Alternative: install the 2.4 kernel source deb and compile in support > for your scsi card. If you compile your own kernel, you don't need to > use initrd. Sure, but it would seem to be missing the point of initrd if it *didnt* let you boot on nearly anything by default... [snip] > 2.4 stock kernels are highly modularized. Modules that were compiled > into the 2.2 kernels now have to be loaded--hence the initrd. I can appreciate that, but my point had been that if the kernel package wasn't supported on all configurations, a warning should have been given (I did later find that the kernel setup and image weren't quite at fault- but an important detail hadn't been mentioned). [snip] > > -(2) The mkinitrd docs seem hard to follow; > > -(3) Having used mkinitrd several times, trying various things with > > its config files, I *still* cannot get an initrd image that will > > get the kernel to boot. It does appear that the advansys.o, > > scsi_mod.o, sd_mod.o, ext2.o files *are* already in the image- but > > the kernel doesn't seem interested in loading them. > The kernel installation scripts should create the initrd image you > need, However, you will need to tell the kernel what modules need to be > loaded. Again, unfortunately the mkinitrd docs weren't entirely clear on how things were actually done. It sounded like /etc/mkinitrd/modules specified what modules would be loaded before trying to mount root, but *didn't* automatically put them in the image. Mkinitrd gives no messages except for errors and you can't mount the image on a 2.2 kernel (because the fstype is newer) so it's very hard to know what is being put in the image. Well, after much hunting through various docs, I found a mention that lilo should be passing the kernel parameter "init=/linuxrc". I had read about how linuxrc was run when the ramdisk image was loaded, but nothing else had suggested that you needed to tell the kernel to do so explicitly- the warning when installing the kernel image just said something like "add initrd=/initrd.img to the image=/vmlinuz stanza", and thats all. Well it now works, but I'd be surprised if no-one else ever gets this wrong. For anyone who wants to know, my lilo.conf is now: boot=/dev/sda1 root=/dev/sda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map delay=20 image=/vmlinuz initrd=/boot/initrd.img-custom append="mem=240M init=/linuxrc" label=Linux read-only image=/vmlinuz.old append="mem=240M" label=Old read-only (the mem=240M is a nasty hack for utah-glx that will be coming out as soon as I install XFree 4.x, the vmlinuz.old bit was added after I found the 2.4 kernel failing, so I could boot something). So in summary, someone (prolly the kernel packager) needs to indicate better all those initrd issues, give more complete instructions, and perhaps suggest which docs should be read, eg /usr/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.18/ Documentation/initrd.txt.gz, although bits of this also seem out of date. Thanks v.much for the help, anyway. I'm prolly going to go and pester the bttv guys for a bit now (as the new drivers still lock up :P). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to email@example.com with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact email@example.com


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After four days of waiting the Red Sox now know they'll be facing the Tampa Bay Rays in the ALDS that starts on Friday afternoon. The Rays beat the Cleveland Indians 3-0 on Wednesday night in the American League wild card game.
Felger & Mazz started their show off discussing the Red Sox getting the Rays. How do you think the Sox will do? Is this the best matchup for the Sox? Would the Indians have given the Sox a better chance to move on?
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The Philippines has various types of banks and one of this types is the commercial bank. It has a total of 19 commercial banks and one of the less popular banks is the Philtrust Bank that gives 95 years of banking service in the Philippines.
Introduction to PhilTrust Bank
Philtrust Bank (PT) , also known as the Philippine Trust Company, was established on October 16, 1916 and started its operation on October 21, 1916 . It is one of the oldest private commercial banks and the third bank that founded in the Philippines. Philtrust Company is the first institution to engage in the trust business under Philippine law. It has 36 branches in Metro Manila, 14 Provincial branches and 1 extension office with main office.
Philtrust Bank has three types of services: domestic, international and trust services. Checking accounts, savings accounts, time deposits, money market placements, business loans, transfer of funds and collections, remittances, securities investments and safety deposit boxes are listed under the domestic services.
Commercial letters of credit, collections and remittances, foreign exchange, traveler's checks and FCDU transactions are included in international transactions. Trust services involve trust placement, investment management, estate administration/trustee of bond issues, savings and pension plan administration, insurance trust, and acting as escrow agent and stock registrar and transfer agent.
Features of PhilTrust Peso Savings and Checking Account
The below table shows the features of peso savings account and checking account of Philtrust Bank. The table for savings account contains the minimum initial deposit, monthly maintenance charge, closing of accounts, penalty for accounts with automatic transfer arrangements and the charge for lost passbook. For peso checking account, the table includes the minimum maintenance, monthly maintenance charge and the service charge for rejected charge issued.
|1. Minimum Initial Deposit
|2. Monthly Maintenance Charge
|a. Active Accounts
|No interest shall be paid if balance falls below the monthly average daily balance of Php1,000.00
|Php100.00 per month if balance falls below the monthly average daily balance of Php1,000.00 for two (2) consecutive months
|b. Dormant Accounts
|Php100.00 per month if the account is inactive for two (2) years and Php100.00 per month if balance falls below the monthly average daily balance of Php1,000.00
|3. Closing of Accounts
|Php100.00 if account is closed within 60 days from date of opening
|4. Accounts with Automatic Transfer Arrangements
|Php100.00 penalty charge per month if balance falls below the required balance of Php10,000.00 for individual and Php20,000.00 for corporation
|5. Lost Passbook
|Php100.00 charge for the issuance of a new passbook
|1. Minimum – Initial Deposit
|a. Individual, Partnership, and Sole Proprietorship Accounts
|b. Corporate Accounts
|2. Monthly Maintenance Charge
|a. For Active Individual, Partnership, and Sole Proprietorship Accounts
|Php100.00 per month if daily balance falls below Php5,000.00 at any time during the month
|b. For Active Corporate Accounts
|Php100.00 per month if daily balance falls below Php10,000.00 at any time during the month
|c. For Dormant Accounts
|Php100.00 per month if inactive for 1 yr. irrespective of the balance
|3. Rejected Checks Issued
| a. Rejected due to uncollected or insufficient funds
(CHHR Sec. 27.1 & 27.5), (RRICO Sec. 20.1 & 20.5), (CHOM No. 380)
|Php2,000.00 service charge plus penalty charge of Php200.00 per day for every Php40,000.00 or a fraction thereof based on amount of check, to be imposed on both working and non-working days
| b. Returned Checks with the reason of Post-Dated or Stale-Dated
(CHOM No. 96)
|1/8 of 1% of amount of check or Php100.00 whichever is higher per day
|c. Returned Checks covered by cash deposit on the next clearing day
|Php1,000.00 service charge per check plus penalty charge of Php200.00 per day for every Php40,000.00 or a fraction thereof
|d. Returned Checks for reason "Payment Stopped"
|Service charge of Php2,000.00 (Memo dated 01/16/07 BD-16/07)
|At prevailing rate set by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)
Please take note that the facts above came from PT bank website and it may change anytime so for the latest information, just visit PhilTrust bank's website at https://www.philtrustbank.com/. If you are confuse on choosing a bank or if you are looking for requirements for opening an account just visit this website to help you choose the best bank for you and know the requirements you need:
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- What was the Holocaust?
- Judaism and Jewish life
- What is antisemitism?
- How did the Nazis gain power?
- Life in Nazi-controlled Europe
- What were camps?
- What was the Final Solution?
- How did people respond?
- Survival and legacy
Deportation and transportation to camps often took days. Individuals, families and whole communities together with their personal belongings were packed into cattle trucks. They were locked in and transported for days.
They had no information. They did not know where they were going, the length of the journey or what would happen to them when they eventually arrived at their destination.
The conditions on the journey were appalling.
We can learn about these journeys from the many child survivors who wrote of their experiences:
Agnes, an 11 year-old girl from Czechoslovakia, wrote: "Later we were moved and driven into railway wagons – the sort that transport animals – which were part of a long train. Some of the wagons were open-topped, some closed."
Jack, 15 years old, from Greece, talks of his experience at the start of what must have been a very long journey: "Some 20 railway cars were waiting for us... There were 70 to 80 people in a car... After a while, there was a muffled sound of closing latches... the whistle blew and the train started moving slowly. It was April 7, 1943. Penned in and cramped, we departed from our homeland, without being able to see it."
Moshe, aged 17, from Hungary, then explains that: "the doors were shut, leaving us almost in darkness. The grills, too, were closed to prevent escape. Air entered only through the cracks. So we travelled for 24 hours, without food or water. We were hungry and thirsty. But the desire and hope to see our families made us forget everything else."
David, a Polish Jew aged 13, graphically describes how cramped it was on the train: "There is no room to sit. In order to make room we are forced to stand with our hands above our heads.... Suddenly, the door is slammed shut and sealed. A water bucket is tossed into the car for use as a disposal container for human waste."
The packed railway wagons would often be shunted around from one railway siding to another for days on end, and for what must have seemed like an eternity. Many of the very young, the old and the sick would die because of the inhumane conditions during the journey. Those who did survive were severely traumatised by the experience.
Arrival at the camp
Eventually, after days of travelling in the most cramped conditions, the railway carriages arrived at a camp. The doors of the carriages would be pulled open to give the prisoners their first glimpse of daylight, at a place they had never seen before.


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Will you watch Conan on TBS?
|Never have, never will
|I'm with CoCo
|I'll try it
|Letterman/Leno is more my thing
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- New signs would detail De Soto's history
- April 13, 2010
- With any luck, three new signs detailing the history of De Soto will be working their way to town.
2:05 p.m.
- De Soto Board approves $1.8 reduction
- 10:09 p.m., April 12, 2010 Updated 2:00 p.m.
- De Soto USD 232 will have fewer administrative and support positions in the coming school year.
All stories
- Charity gathering supplies for Children's Mercy
- April 13, 2010
- The Kansas City Children's Assistance Network will have its second annual "Faith & Mercy" Drive to benefit Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics starting this week.
- LTMS track results
- April 13, 2010
- Lexington Trails Middle School Vs. Mill Creek Middle School
- Starside needs Campbell labels by Friday
- April 13, 2010
- Starside Elementary School is once again teaming up with Campbell to once again help raise funds through the Labels for Education program.
- County needs 5 for homelessness task force
- April 13, 2010
- Annabeth Surbaugh, chairman of the Johnson County Board of Commissioners, is accepting applications from interested residents who would like to be considered for five appointments to serve as Johnson County representatives to a metropolitan homelessness task force.
- Superintendent interviews to be held this week
- April 13, 2010
- The Board of Education in De Soto USD 232 announced four special meetings to take place this week to allow board members to interview candidates for the district's superintendent position.
- Commuter forecast for April 13, 2010
- April 13, 2010
- The morning drive will be dry but breezy today. There shouldn't be any major traffic delays slowing the commute, but remember exit 204 on Interstate 70 is still closed. Drive safely.
- New signs would detail De Soto's history
- April 13, 2010
- With any luck, three new signs detailing the history of De Soto will be working their way to town.


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After Effects Project \ Logo Stings \ Sports
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MultiSports CS5
After effect CS5 + Hight energy sports animation,can be use in any kind sport related intro,the modular structure allow you to manage the order of the comp and create some cool bump in and out.
Some of the place holders areon stage more time in order to give the user the time to read or watch the content.
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That creepy old guy Farouk?Originally Posted by tapper01
That creepy old guy Farouk?Originally Posted by tapper01
Sheldon Cooper: Woman, you're playing with forces beyond your ken
Penny: Yeah, well your Ken can kiss my Barbie.
I am SO very glad that big-mouth is out of the running for CA, but I'm not looking forward to seeing her return to help in the final task next week. She makes me sick. When JR said she's good at making people either like her or dislike her and he stated that as a strength, I really wondered why that would be seen as a good thing? Being cruel is a strength? Preying on the weak for no reason at all, is a character trait to be admired? Yes, people form strong opinions about her, but being severely disliked is good in some way? I don't get it. She's an awful, horrible person - and from the way it sounds she's perpetuating that image even now since the show's airing, and is not apologetic for any of her actions or words. I used to be a marginal fan thinking she was funny before, but now since I've seen this show, I would never consider myself a fan or ever go see her shows, no matter what.
I agree with one of the above posters who enjoys Aubrey as a player. Not as a person, but in the context of this show, she is more entertaining and less stomach-turning than Lisa. I have to give her credit for doing so much; she's really got tons of ideas and speaks well - not like poor Teresa! She is very superficial and insincere, though, and I would never want to be her friend. She talks so much smack to the camera - to be funny? Who knows, but it shows how immature and conceited she is. I'm not sure how I'd feel if she makes the final two, much less wins.... It would be hard to see certain bad behaviors rewarded.
Last year there were more trainwrecks.
Meat Loaf
Star Jones
La Toya Jackson
NeNe Leakes
Gary Busey
Richard Hatch
Dionne Warwick
Hope Dworaczyk
Mark McGrath
Jose Conseco
Niki Taylor
Lisa Rinna
David Cassidy
John Rich
Marlee Matlin
Lil Jon
This year we have more contenders and fewer trainwrecks.
Aubrey O'Day
Lisa Lampanelli
Teresa Giudice
Lou Ferrigno
Dayana Mendoza
Debbie Gibson
Patricia Velásquez
Tia Carrere
Michael Andretti
Adam Carolla
George Takei
Victoria Gotti
Cheryl Tiegs
Clay Aiken
Arsenio Hall
Penn Jillette
Paul Teutul, Sr.
Dee Snider
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I like this season . I think I stopped watching it last year.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person
-Andy Rooney-
Thank you for supplying those preview clips for us all season Srsly I like your list too.
FM ... I like this season as well and it appears that the finalists will have to star themselves ... and that may be a clue. Aubrey singing versus Clay singing would be a no brainer, because who would buy a ticket to hear Aubrey? I think it might be a singing show versus a comedy skit.
"The way to become boring is to say everything." Voltaire
" The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated. "
Mohandas Gandhi
I have to say that, appalling though they may be, Aubrey and Lisa could very well fill two spots - trainwreck and contender. It was just a matter of which element would have the upper hand - their intelligence, creativity and work ethic, or their vicious, egocentric personalities.
And so it begins, the end of times..


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Fans usually have a straight-forward agenda upon entering a ball park.
Saskatoon's Mike Sieben sat with his wife Whitney with a more complicated agenda in section 17 at Target Field on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
Wearing his No. 19 Jose Bautista jersey, Sieben had two goals.
"I'd like to see Andrew Albers pitch real well and then the Jays win it beating up the Twins bullpen," said Sieben, part of the Saskatchewan Roughriders Nation which made up the crowd of 29,450.
Sieben got his wishes.
The North Battleford, Sask., lefty pitched seven scoreless and nine pitches later, thanks to Ryan Goins and Jose Reyes, the Blue Jays had broken a scoreless tie on their way to a 2-0 win for a sweep of the series as one Saskatchewan fan waved a broom.
"Pretty impressive," Jays manager John Gibbons said of Albers. "He has a good feel for pitching. His fastball had a little skip to it compared to the numbers you saw on the board."
Proving once again velocity is not No. 1 — changing speeds is a starter's best asset — Albers fanned: Rajai Davis on an 87 m.p.h. sinker, J.P. Arencibia on an 88 m.p.h. sinker and two innings later Arencibia on an 87 m.p.h. sinker, Brett Lawrie with a 66 m.p.h. curve and Adam Lind with a 79 m.p.h. slider.
Sieben played for the Saskatoon Giants and often faced Albers and his North Battleford Beavers in the provincials.
"I might have had a couple of hits against him, but he usually got the best of me," said Sieben, 27, a mechanic for CN, before Albers was introduced to a standing ovation from the Saskatchewan faithful.
"He looks about the same," said Sieben watching Albers work the first inning from down the left field nation, some fans wearing Blue Jays blue, others wearing Roughriders green. "He was always a tall, lanky kid. It looks like he's filled in … he wasn't throwing 89 m.p.h. back then when we were 16-to-18.
"It is kinda neat looking out at a big-league park and seeing a guy you played against."
As Sieben gazed around beautifully manufactured Target Field, he was asked if this park was as nice as the one he played on visiting North Battleford.
"Heck, they don't even have fields like this in Saskatoon," he said.
Albers retired Reyes on a grounder, struck out Davis and fielded a come backer from Lawrie for a 1-2-3 first.
Just then a beer vendor walked by and asked a member of Riders Nation a few rows in front "how did that water go down Saturday?" to roars of laughter. Turns out that the last time the vendor saw the customer on Saturday, the fan was sleeping.
The Siebens were part of a group of 49 who made the 17-hour bus trip of from Saskatoon. Two rows in front were: Tanner Peters, 25 a boiler maker, Tyler Asselin, 26, an electrician, Jordan Gottinger, 22, a student and Kirk Flaman, 26, who works for the family business selling grain bins.
"We helped the Minneapolis economy a little this weekend," Flaman said. "We're wearing green because the Roughriders are in Winnipeg today."
Asselin asked: "did you hear the signing Oh Canada with one out in the ninth in Saturday's 11-2 win. That was us. That was us signing 'Jose, Jose' every time Reyes came up."
After Albers was hooked by manager Ron Gardenhire with the game still scoreless, Goins led off the eighth singling against reliever Jared Burton. He was bunted to second by Kevin Pillar and scored on a Reyes double. Rajai Davis singled home Reyes.
Esmil Rogers was equally as stingy as Albers, but he had help, especially from Goins. Pedro Florimon led off the sixth with a drive to right centre and scooted to second, as Davis and Ruben Sierra collided,
An Alex Presley single chased Florimon to third and he might have scored but third base coach Joe Vavra elected to hold him.
Chris Herrmann bounced to Goins, playing double-play depth. Goins fielded the ball, came up throwing and erased Florimon at the plate.
"(Coach) Luis Rivera signalled that if the ball was hard hit to come home," first baseman Mark DeRosa said. "A lot of kids might have tried to turn two for one run. He's opened some eyes since he got here. He's on the radar for next year."
Rogers escaped with a fly ball out and a grounder to keep the game scoreless. Twice Rogers retired seven consecutive, pitching 7 2/3 scoreless. Brett Cecil, Sergio Santos and Casey Janssen — notching his 29th save in 31 opportunities — got the final five outs to raise Rogers' record to 5-7.
All in all, a good day for Albers/Jays rooters.
And another good afternoon for second baseman Goins.


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For over four weeks, Atari Germany was set to release GTR Evolution on Thursday the 14th August. Three days before the projected release, the plan changes as Atari Germany has postponed the release for one week.
New release date is Thursday the 21th August according to Atari and all major retailers. A reason for the last minute delay has not been announced.


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Haverhill Rovers interim manager Ali Shulver has completed a fine first week at the helm of the Thurlow Nunn League Premier Division club.
Having overseen a victory at Hadleigh United in the RI Cup and a battling away point at Stanway Rovers on Saturday, he has also announced that star striker Dan Cornwell has put pen-to-paper on another year long contract deal at the New Croft.
Cornwell, who has scored eight goals in eleven starts this season, is one of the league's hottest properties and has been watched by a number of teams from higher divisions during the last few weeks.
However, following negotiations with Rovers` chairman Mike Tokely, Shulver and Betts, Cornwell has committed to stay at the club he joined eighteen months ago.
Shulver said: "Dan is committed to the Rovers cause, and we are all thrilled he has been willing to sign an extended deal for next season. He believes the club are moving in the right direction, and is happy with both the current management set up and the plans the committee have put in place for the permanent appointment of Peter's successor."
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The Norwegian massacre: the cost of xenophobia
The terrible attacks on youth, civil servants and leadership in Oslo have horrified Norwegians and those everywhere who respect humanity.
This calculated slaughter was aimed at destroying confidence in Norwegian society and values.
The Norwegians' response has been profound grief, symbolised by the acre of flowers placed in front of the Oslo Cathedral. Around the world, observers who value democracy and peaceful conflict resolution have shared in the shock and sadness, offering countless expressions of solidarity with the people of Norway.
The swift response of the Norwegian Prime Minister, Jan Stoltenberg, indicates the quality of leadership and a commitment to transparency and justice:
We meet terror and violence with more democracy and will continue to fight against intolerance.
King Harold's comments were striking:
The attacks are attacks on Norway and our values and on the core of Norwegian democracy. Our nation is being tested. We are being tested. We are standing firm on our values. Let us stay strong in our belief that freedom is more powerful than fear.
A friend emailed from Oslo:
We are indeed in a national state of mourning. In a small country an event like this will affect us all…Our Prime Minister quoted a young girl who escaped the massacre: "If one man can do such immense damage, how much more can love achieve in a collective outpouring."
How is Norway likely to respond to this disaster? Of course the sharing in grief and empathetic support for those who have lost family members or who were involved in the horrors on Utoeya Island and in and around the government building which held the Prime Minister's office is certain to be maintained. The terrorist Anders Breivik is being interrogated and his decade-long preparations and motivations investigated.
No doubt there will be lessons for security and policing which will lead to increased numbers of police and better transport and equipment for them. However, this will not automatically lead to erosion of civil liberties as happened in the US after 9/11, and probably will not do so: whether or not to arm more police is just one issue sure to be vigorously debated.
The characteristics of Norwegian society will likely influence responses. Norway has a particularly strong sense of collective identification through close integration of public notions of community, nation and state. That intermingling is captured in the metaphor of the people's home which links social solidarity to social democratic norms of mutual responsibility. The country's high quality health, education and care services have led the United Nations Development Programme to rank Norway at the top of the global human development table.
There is also a strong tradition of consensus and compromise. Social democracy itself is a compromise between capitalism and socialism. Consensus and compromise are normally sought through extensive involvement of interest groups in the policy-making process. The articulation of foreign policy is one example of this cooperation between civil society and the state, integrating development, human rights and United Nations support organisations.
There is a tradition of social partnership between interest groups and a practical expectation of egalitarian sharing. So when interests clash within Norwegian society, both the norms and mechanisms of conflict resolution aim towards dialogue and compromise. The state often plays a central role as a mediator, and seeks to facilitate compromises before a conflict reaches the stage of debate in the Storting (parliament). This tradition can be seen in the decision to hold the first meeting of political leaders after the massacre in the offices of the Progress Party, the right wing party which is hostile to immigration and to which Anders Breivik once belonged.
There is a debate within Norway, as in other European countries and Australia, about the extent and nature of immigration. Although one of Norway's social characteristics is the homogeneity of the population, like Australia it has become quite dependent on immigration to meet labour needs. In Norway over 10 per cent of the population now have origins in other countries, about half in Europe and half in developing countries. Norway has been more generous to asylum seekers, accepting twice as many as Australia per capita during the last decade.
One observer claims the influx of migrants has caused Oslo to become a divided city. 'The west of the city is rich, safe and predominantly white; the east, poorer, less safe and populated by immigrants, many of them Muslim,' writes Steven Erlanger in the New York Times. Even if that somewhat overstates the divisions there has been an ongoing debate about immigration.
Two basic principles underlie Norway's development into an immigrant-receiving country: immigration must be limited; and all immigrants who are admitted to Norway should have equal legal and practical opportunities in society. A striking example of the latter principle is that state support for the (Lutheran) Church of Norway, to which the majority of the population belong, has been extended on an identical basis to Muslim, Buddhist and other faith communities.
So why did Breivik commit this atrocity? So far the published reports offer few clues. He is estranged from his father (who was in the Foreign Service) for which there could be many reasons, and often lived with his mother, to reduce costs. A blogger who has read his 1500 page manifesto describes him as obsessive, narcissistic, sociopathic and paranoiac with delusions of grandeur, and other commentators concur with these assessments.
It seems clear, though, that the principal influences on formation of his ideology and plans have been from the network of British and American far right extremists who espouse Islamophobia and hatred of other races and egalitarian political parties.
This suggests lessons for other developed countries. It is vital that inflammatory political rhetoric of all kinds be discouraged, for international as well as domestic reasons. In Australia legislation prohibiting intolerant, racist and violent rhetoric must be enforced. Incitement to violence from whatever source must be penalised. Often the most effective approach is simply mockery of the absurd exaggerations of the ideologues and the deliberately deceptive. But most important of all are the attitudes each of us express and the strength of our active commitment to inclusiveness.
Every country of immigration also has to recognise the issues generated by inflows of people from different cultures. Norway is certain to continue its policies of welcome and inclusion for new residents, policies from which Australia has much to learn. As the New York Times editorialised:
The best way to punish Andres Behring Breivik, and honor his victims, is to ensure that Europe never becomes the xenophobic place he envisioned.
Ending the current traumatising and wasteful asylum seeker detention policies would be an effective step towards removing one expression of xenophobia in Australia.
This article was first published in the Griffith Review.
Professor John Langmore lived in Oslo for a month last September and with Jan Egeland contributed 'Learning from Norway: Independent middle-power foreign policy' to Griffith REVIEW 32: Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas.
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Mine proposal could end federal flood insurance
Rep. Brett Hulsey, D-Madison, said the Assembly mining bill now being considered in the Senate contains provisions that would exempt mining from floodplain management regulations. That exemption would trigger action by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The bill has cleared the Assembly.
�FEMA does not accept that exemption,� said Hulsey, a former senior regional representative for the Sierra Club and the 2000 recipient of the FEMA Outstanding Public Service Award. �At issue is flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program for 18,000 families in Wisconsin, including hundreds in Rock and Walworth counties.�
The risk to flood insurance came as a surprise to Dave Jackowski of Milton, who used the federal program to save his house on Lake Koshkonong after the 2008 flood.
�It was a $180,000 repair bill,� Jackowski said. �We had 11 inches of water on the floor for about two weeks. It wicked up the walls, requiring a rebuild from floor to ceiling.�
That was a bad year for Jackowski and his wife, Laurie. Both lost their jobs when the General Motors plant in Janesville shut down in 2008.
�I have no idea what we would have done without the insurance,� he said.
�It�s a stretch to understand why we would grant a mine that violated the flood insurance rules,� Jackowski said. �It�s sure not a fair tradeoff.�
When he suspected that the proposed exemption for the mine would jeopardize federal flood insurance, Hulsey said he contacted FEMA�s Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration.
�I received a clear indication that the mine, as proposed in AB 426, will endanger flood insurance,� Hulsey said. �Keep in mind, this is not me simply speculating. The warning came straight from FEMA.�
The chief of floodplain management at FEMA, David Stearrett, said in a Jan. 26 e-mail to Hulsey that the exemption in the Assembly bill would violate federal flood insurance regulations.
�Although state legislation that limits or prevents local community adoption or enforcement of the minimum floodplain requirements is rare, FEMA has addressed similar issues, and if limitations are not remedied, FEMA is required to seek enforcement of the federal requirements that includes suspension from the program,� Stearrett said.
Hulsey, who has been looking into the flood insurance issue for months, said homeowners such as Jackowski have no alternative to national flood insurance.
�I know of no private insurance company that provide this type of flood insurance at any cost,� Hulsey said. �If a flood occurs, the homeowner pays for damages out of pocket.
�Also, when the mortgage lender finds out there is no flood insurance on the property, the mortgage is usually called in, and there�s no way to refinance,� Hulsey said. �That means the owner pays off the mortgage out of pocket or gives up the property.�
The NFIP reported that 486 policies covering nearly $75.4 million of property were in effect in Rock County as of 2008, the latest year for which figures are available. Since 1978, 261 Rock County claims have been filed totaling nearly $4 million. Figures during the same time period for Walworth County include 133 policies covering nearly $33 million in property with 22 claims totaling $19,500.
The national flood insurance implications of the Assembly mining bill were to be addressed by a special mining and jobs committee in the Senate chaired by Sen. Neal Kedzie, R-Elkhorn.
�I am aware of the possibility of the loss of insurance,� Kedzie said last week. �We have the Legislative Council looking at it, and if that�s the case, we will address it.
�We will not propose a bill that results in the loss of flood insurance.�
Since then, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, disbanded Kedzie�s committee, leaving its work undone.
Fitzgerald�s action stunned one veteran lawmaker who was a member of the committee.
�I can�t think of anything in recent history to compare to this,� said Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, a committee member.
Republican Sen. Dale Schultz of Richland Center, another member of the special committee with Kedzie and Jauch, told The Associated Press last week he would not vote for the Assembly bill. Without his vote, a Democrat would have to sign on for it to pass the Senate. That�s not likely, Jauch said.
If the Assembly bill fails to pass, the threat to flood insurance would be abated.
�But that only lasts until the next bill from Republicans comes down the pike,� Hulsey said.
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PHARMACEUTICAL ROULETTE | The Shadow Market and Counterfeit Drugs
Lax System Allows Criminals To Invade the Supply Chain
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Fourth of five articles
She had made peace with the indignities of chemotherapy: the baldness and the vomiting. And she had learned to brace for the pain that broke in waves during the end stages of her breast cancer. But the bone-deep fatigue that settled over Maxine Blount was different and troubling.
"I couldn't get out of bed. I was really tired, worn out, exhausted," she said.
Even the costly injections she relied on to rejuvenate her did not help.
"The girls at the cancer suite," as Blount called her nurses, figured it out first, remembering a recent warning about counterfeit medicines in circulation. They checked a remaining vial from the set of four Blount, of St. Charles, Mo., had bought in March 2002 at her drugstore.
She had bad medicine.
Already weak herself, Blount was taking a weakened version of Procrit, which fights fatigue and anemia. Testing confirmed her dose was one-twentieth the strength listed on the packaging -- packaging that was so authentic-looking that it fooled health inspectors.
Blount died last October at age 61, knowing that when she needed the most from her Procrit she had received the least.
"You're very angry," she said in an interview a month before her death. "You have faith in your pharmacy and faith in the medicine, faith in the packaging and the people doing the buying that they know what they're doing. Now, whenever I get my medication I wonder where it's coming from. But what can I do?
"I need it. I have to have it. And I'm scared of it, every time."
At a time when more Americans are relying on medication, their chances of receiving a drug that is fake, diluted or mislabeled have never been so great.
Last summer, a drug wholesaler was forced to recall nearly 200,000 counterfeit and mislabeled Lipitor tablets after patients complained that their medication tasted bitter. In May 2002, investigators discovered that nearly 110,000 bottles of cut-strength Epogen had passed undetected into the open market. In the past three years, counterfeit, adulterated or diluted medications have been found in drug wholesaler warehouses in Maryland, Kentucky and California. Some of the drugs were distributed in Hawaii, Texas, Washington, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.


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GTX Corp. (Scottsdale, AZ), a developer of raster editing and conversion software and intelligent digital imaging solutions, has announced the newest release of its GTXRaster CAD 2011 Series for AutoCAD 2011 from Autodesk. The GTXRaster CAD 2011 Series, which is offered as plug-ins for all editions of AutoCAD, provides image enhancement and clean up tools as well as functionality for raster and hybrid editing, raster-to-vector conversion, and intelligent character recognition. The company cites AutoCAD 2011 DWG compatibility and support for Microsoft Windows 7 as among the enhancements and new features introduced in GTXRaster CAD 2011 Series for AutoCAD 2011.
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The iOS version of popular indie sandbox building game Minecraft will be available in the Apple App Store starting tomorrow.
Minecraft – Pocket Edition will be scaled down compared to its PC counterpart. It won't feature the game's popular Survival Mode, but it will allow players to invite others to the worlds they create through a local wireless network. It will also feature randomized worlds, 36 different kinds of blocks to build with, and the ability to save multiplayer worlds on your phone.
Earlier this month, Minecraft creator Markus Persson revealed the game had reached over 4 million copies sold on the PC – while still in its beta testing phase. It sold over 500,000 while still in its alpha phase of development back in October 2010 and won numerous awards, including "Users Choice: Best Indie Game of the Year" from video entertainment network Machinima.
The iOS launch coincides with this weekend's MineCon event in Las Vegas, where developer Mojang and its fans will celebrate the game's official launch on the PC.
Minecraft – Pocket Edition will cost $6.99 and will be compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices. It will require iOS 4.3 or later.
An Xbox 360 version of Minecraft is also in production and is set to launch sometime in 2012.


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Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: The spark that has set Turkey aflame was kindled by plans to chop down some trees near Istanbul's Taksim Square.
Protesters objected to the trees being felled to turn one of Istanbul's last open parks into a mall. But after police attacked a peaceful sit-in with tear gas and water cannon last week, protests quickly morphed into a full-scale riot and spawned copy-cat demonstrations across the country. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to express their disapproval of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his policies.
They are fed up with the actions of their increasingly authoritarian and Islamist prime minister.
Turkey is technically a secular Muslim republic and a democracy — and perennial supplicant for European Union membership. It is also a NATO member and key U.S. ally in the Syrian civil war.
But Erdogan has a track record of riding roughshod over opponents' rights and freedoms: prosecuting the military on the flimsiest of charges (and ignoring due process); jailing more than 40 journalists for coverage deemed critical of the government; and introducing Islamic-friendly legislation, from restricting alcohol sales to changing the rules about women wearing headscarves in public institutions, such as universities — banned by the revered founder of the republic, the resolutely secularist Kemal Ataturk.
The force of the uprising caught Erdogan by surprise. His response was an autocrat's classic: he blamed provocateurs and foreign powers who wanted to attack Turkishness. Protesters were a few "looters" deceived by opposition parties and irresponsible social media. In response, the crowds that had been thinning out out regrouped. They could be joined Tuesday by thousands of public servants striking in solidarity
Now, as The Daily Telegraph'sBarney Henderson notes, Erdogan faces one of the biggest challenges of his 11-year "reign."
A growing number of people in the country – even those who have supported him in the past – are now accusing Mr. Erdogan of a stifling authoritarianism and a subtle shift towards religious conservatism. They say Turkey is secular in name only and that Mr. Erdogan is now promoting a distinctly Islamist agenda … Describing himself as a Muslim prime minister of a secular state, Mr. Erdogan last year said he wanted to see a "pious generation" – a comment that drew much criticism but was backed up by the passing of a law allowing religious schools to take on students as young as 11.
Paul Mason, economics editor for the BBC's Newsnight program, is impressed by the scale of the Turkish demonstrations.
I have covered Syntagma in Athens, the Occupy protests and reported from Tahrir Square in Cairo. This is different to all of them. First, it is massive: the sheer numbers dwarf any single episode of civil unrest in Greece. Second, the breadth of social support — within the urban enclave of Istanbul — is bigger than Greece and closer to Egypt. "Everyone is here — except the AK Party," says one young woman. People nod. In Greece, the urban middle class was split; here the secular middle class is out in force, united across political divisions, to say nothing of [soccer] hatreds.
An Istanbul-based contributor to The Economist's Charlemagne blog looks at the triggers for the unrest.
The secularists point to a raft of restrictions on booze; liberals to the number of journalists in jail (there are more journalists in prison than in any other country in the world). Thousands of activists of varying stripes (mainly Kurds), convicted under Turkey's vaguely worded anti-terror laws, are also behind bars. Then there are those incensed by mega urban-development projects, including a third bridge over the Bosphorus, which will entail felling thousands of trees. Scenting the public mood, retailers announced that they had pulled out of the planned arcade in Taksim Square."This is not about secularists versus Islamists — it's about pluralism versus authoritarianism," commented a foreign diplomat.
Steven A. Cook and Michael Koplow at Australia's SBS TV detail Erdogan's and the AKP's increasingly authoritarian turn.
In 2007, the party seized upon a plot in which elements of Turkey's so-called deep state — military officers, intelligence operatives, and criminal underworld — sought to overthrow the government and used it to silence its critics. Since then, Turkey has become a country where journalists are routinely jailed on questionable grounds, the machinery of the state has been used against private business concerns because their owners disagree with the government , and freedom of expression in all its forms is under pressure. Spokesmen and apologists for the AKP offer a variety of explanations for these deficiencies, from "it's the law" and the "context is missing," to "it's purely fabricated." These excuses falter under scrutiny and reveal the AKP's simplistic view of democracy. They also look and sound much like the self-serving justifications that deposed Arab potentates once used to narrow the political field and institutionalize the power of their parties and families.
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verticality. If that is the setting for the KS CRPG, I wonder if that means the game will be rendered in 3D? I didn't see anything mentioned in their presentation or the updates. Maybe it will depend on how much they bring in?


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It may not have been the summer Canadians wanted, but at least we didn't have snow. Unlike Nunavut, where residents awoke early Tuesday to a fresh blanket of powdery white stuff.
The Nunatsiaq News posted a photo on its Facebook page taken around 4:45 a.m., and said the temperature at the time was -1 C. The temperature was only expected to reach 7 C later in the day, with warnings of winds gusting to as high as 80 km/h.
But the capital is not the first place in the territory to get snow this month.
Alert military station, some 2,000 km to the north, already has 17 cm on the ground. The temperature there reached an August record low of -12.7 C on Saturday, which Nunatsiaq News says is the third-lowest August temperature reading ever recorded around sea level in North America.


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Anticorruption activist Anna Hazare put India's widespread corruption in the spotlight this summer with his high-profile fast. That prompted promises of government reform. The country has a long way to go – India tumbled from an already low 3.3 in 2010 to 3.1 in 2011, putting it at No. 95 on the index.
The index relies largely on perception of corruption among the country's public, so this year's drop may have much to do with Indians becoming more aware of corruption because of Mr. Hazare's fast.
As the Monitor reports, corruption has been on the rise for several years now, and it comes with the territory of rapid economic growth.
"There's not an economy in the world where you have had rapid economic growth and transformation of an economy without a rise – at least for a while – in corruption and inequality," Vivek Dehejia, an economics professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, told the Monitor at the time.
"You can say the growth caused the corruption, and in some sense the corruption leads to its own correction. And if you don't do that, you can get stuck and wind up in a middle-income trap," he added.