Published: April 19th, 2012 at 12:45 am ET
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Title: Japanese government criticized for downplaying nuclear disaster
Source: Deutsche Welle
Author: Ulrike Mast-Kirschning / sb
Editor: Shamil Shams
Date: 18.04.2012
[... Physicist and head of the Society for Radiation Protection Sebastian] Pflugbeil thinks the Japanese government’s strategies to get over the catastrophe by appealing to peoples’ patriotism is absurd. On his last trip to the East Asian country, he took a picture at a beauty contest – with support from the minister for agriculture, a contest was held to find the prettiest student who ate only food from the Fukushima region. [...]
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Published: April 19th, 2012 at 12:45 am ET
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Denial and Sick rolled up in one! Maybe they would send the winner to the Miss Universe contest, just something more from Fukushima to share with the world.
And remember, Tokyo is bidding for the 2020 Olympics!!!
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I have no words, … my jaw is on the floor !
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The Japanese politician are no human being !
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For those visiting who may not know the effects of man-made radiation on children, especially girls… please share
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php/topic,9.msg27.html#msg27
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They just reserved their place in hell for this, right next to Union Carbide and Monsanto.
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WTF, So wrong, on so many levels. Can't wrap my mind around the mentality of these insults to humanity, life, children, the future…
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This is a Monty Python episode, .. RIGHT ?
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Yes Doc,….Monty Python,…..AND,…you've recently swallowed 4 quayludes,…Dude!
This will all go away,…..Oh, sorry, No,…it's real!
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StillJill,
It's just SO BIZARRE !!!!
Like when the scene were he gets his arms cut off by sworn one at a time acting as if nothing to worry about !
They believe this is normal !!!
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Just had a thought, .. ouch !!
Most Americans swallowed the B P seafood is OK to eat, sooooo !
Many Americans are just as … naive and brain washed !
Want me to make a list of all the dumb things America has bought hook line a sinker from our gov. and corporations, say in the last 6o years ?
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swallowed the B P seafood = pun intended !
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Yup, same thing.
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Oh, you don't want to eat the Gulf seafood:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2012-16-18/2-years-after-bp-oil-spill-gulf-ecosystem-collapsing
It'll kill you.
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This cannot be true…That would be the ultimate in sick, warped thinking. If true, I think we've all just entered the Twilight Zone….
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fully sick, wrong, stupid. these nukers are friggin brainless, selfish fools.
i'm fed up with being classed in the same groups as thses jap.nuke.guv humans.. these people are NOT friggin human – at least my thought of what human should be.
stupid, stupid, stupid.
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please clean up your language or post somewhere racist remarks are welcome. Not Here.
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nothing racist in what i said. i think you better ease up a bit.
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Classic move. Aggressor using questionable language pretends to be victim.
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i seriously dont know what either of you two are on about…
maybe someone else can explain.
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I don't agree with the criticism, but I think they are reacting to your shortening of Japanese to jap. "jap.nuke.guv" I think that unless we've see a pattern of you using bigoted language, a person should be given the benefit of the doubt. It appears to be an abbreviation to me.
On the other hand I will state clearly that I find the Japanese people's behavior in this matter to be reprehensible. Unfortunaly I also find the California's/West Coasts/USA People'e (my own geographic/cultural milieu) behavior to also be reprehensible. Denial on the scale we are seeing is just…ugly.
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thanks mark for the input.
okay, i understand the shortform may be taken as being a bit snappy. i do abbreviate for the convenience and the entity as i see it, but i don't mean offence to the japanese people as the general population.
i'm uptight at japanese officials and tepco management and the usa for it's role in all this.
i use terms like usa.corp.guv and i feel that it's a good contemporary statement. i didn't start it, i picked it up elsewhere.
in australia, we are called ozzies. we don't take offence to that .. i even get called 'skippy' as in 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'
some naming/generalising is needed in life. i can understand that with a world of people out there, some misunderstandings are bound to occur.
really, i mean no harm to the innocent. but i am very upset and frustrated by where this event is taking us.. so i do get strong worded, as others do.
i do also manage to keep a lid on my stronger/private thoughts.. mostly
anyway .. rant over… maybe it helped .. dunno.
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@richard: your thoughts are more than welcome here. The politics of this site's participants range from far-left to far-right and we all make a point of doing our best to protect this site and each other. We have one objective that binds all: to remove the nightmare of nuclear power from our precious earth. So please forgive if we're a tad PC, as it's really about keeping this ship on an even keel…
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+1! I didn't see any offense in your statement, richard, as you made clear that you're referring to the Japanese government officials and NOT to the Japanese people in general.
We're all a bit on the nerve-wrecked side by now, I guess.
*peace
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+, Yes, in front of this Fuku nuke, politicaill left or Right can not meet the content of this disaster .
We have to find the ground for all the human being on earth. Find out which is right, what is wrong.
We have better work to define the political concept /moral in this FUkushima nuke fallout and never ending nightmare for all human.
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I agree. Please ease up Vic! Your exuberance for Wyden seems to be making you RIGID dude! Also,….'we' value Richard. Please don't single folks out on a whim.
Thank you!
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Unfortunately, GE, i.e., the US foisted these reactors off on Japan. Please blame the US and the rest of the world for the nuclear industry. We are dying from the nuclear industry in the US quite apart from the Japanese counterparts in our own country and in countries around the world.
Globalization is definitely crippling us and killing us from the financial banking and industry and military giants to the lead in the children's toys and radioactive nuclides in the baby formula (in every country) to the defective pipes and defective reactors caps in US nuclear reactors.
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The blackness in their souls knows no bounds.
They are doing this on purpose – intentionally killing their own to justify their shameful existence.
There is no honor in Japan now. They are all Okubyoumono – cowards, swimming in their own fear.
Future generations will remember them as Shuutai. Only Jigoku awaits them all.
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interesting post TIS…
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And if you think this is bad, give it a year in the US. We're all going to see much worse.
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This is like some very very black comedy or farce. This is what happens when the sociopaths are in charge of a nation.
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Actually, narcissistic psychopaths run the world, and the masses are only now waking up to this fact.
Buckle up.
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Holy Moly!! This has to be the sickest idea that any human being could possibly think up given the context!! I'm afraid to say it goes up there somewhere beside catholic priests and their shenanigans!! Bring back the Nazis, all is forgiven!!!!!!
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An the winner is:
Jelly-san the protoplasma blob.
Sign up today for next years "how to die graceful"-event.
Remember our unique nation and it's great knowledge of "how committing suicide". Our teacher will tell you ten different ways to kill yourself without bothering your neighbours.
Bonus lesson: how to smile if cancer hurts…
h.
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@harengus
Don't give them any ideas. Actually I wouldn't be surprised to see some government official offer such courses.
It's a mad, mad world.
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They have many more of those ideas, no doubt.
It' a matter of "face value".
Keep smiling 'til you're dead…
h.
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China has a mobile solution:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1165416/Chinas-hi-tech-death-van-criminals-executed-organs-sold-black-market.html
And the Dutch are right behind:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-01/dutch-launch-mobile-euthanasia-teams/3861636
And when I say 'mobile solution', I'm not talking about a smartphone app. Although, once this gets going on a massive scale in every country, we'll all just pull up the iDie app to make an appointment.
If the appointment isn't made for us . . .
Coming to a neighborhood near you.
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"How to die gracefully, event"! BRILLIANT summation harengus_acidophilus!!!!
10 ways to kill yourself without causing ANYONE else ANY inconvenience, WHAT-SO-EVER! (And,….they'll CLAMOUR for the crown!)
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This is old news and a bit out of context. I am not saying it is right but this is what the Japanese have been doing since the onset. The Japanese are not taught to think for themselves. Thus, the government can lure college girls into promoting food from Tohoku (not just from Fukushima). I would like to see reports highlighting more positive things as well. Children from Kansai are now choosing not to go to college in Tokyo. Enrollment is down and they are staying put.
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this is just way too sick!
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This is just sad. Sick, but sad. None of the contestants will be alive in 30 years.
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Disgusting. It appalls me how callous and non-caring the Japanese government acts toward their own people. Sick.
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No Gov would do this, it must be BS. It wouldn't be the first lie to circulate.
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if you haven't, read the whole article cardi77u.
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15890837,00.html
Keep in mind, they had people eating food from Fuku, on TV…
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Do you want the Red Pill, or the Blue Pill?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te6qG4yn-Ps
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The Japanese government has never been of "right mind". Do a little WWII research on their tactics and that should be clear. They do not value life as we do.
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I don't think it is that they don't value life. I think the culture places a higher value on the outcome of the group more than the outcome of the individual.
Even understanding that it is still hard to understand when those of us in the USA tend to be more focused on the individual believing that it is basic human nature to be centered on one's own self advancement and survival. It makes the Japanese culture's "group think" or "hive" mentality seem to go against human nature to survive.
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Belief in reincarnation does devalue each life in the here and now.
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Reincarnation presupposes a new body to come back to. That requires an inhabitable environment, which we have lost.
The question now is, where next?
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Nothing disappears in our known existance..but transforms.
I think it is rather limiting to consider the human life form…the only vehicle for reincarnation.
I don't think reicarnation devalues the current entity form..
I think it shows ..we are eternal..
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Existence..(typo).
Me ..I'll go for a ball of pure energy..or a coyote..which ever comes..first…lol
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We are all holograms within holograms, the slightest of vibrations created by that which is greater than us.
This is a good start down that particular rabbit hole:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_8/187-6422768-3933054?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+holographic+universe&sprefix=the+holo%2Caps%2C202
Or a preview of where the book's premise leads:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/hawking-holographic-universe/
A very deep rabbit hole.
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Yes..so clinging to a particular entity detracts from the ride…
God's breath….
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LOL! love it
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That is such a racist comment; what BS. You don't know "they" anything…and what about US use of depleted uranium weapons exposing our own soldiers and higher populations and unborn generations in S Iraq to 20 yrs of lung, brain, and kidney ionization (U238/235/poss Pu mix)? that is supposed to show how much "they" – those people in the West – value life? get real. dont judge a whole people please….humans in every culture have a hard time responding appropriately to a danger they cannot see, hear, smell or touch. the japanese are not alone in this, you know. people in lots of cultures deny its reality. you know? how about the near 80% cancer rates, as they have in Hanford, WA or Kazakstan, former Soviet test site? If people weren't in denial almost universally I would have thought the whole population of Richland, WA and their descendants would have risen up in massive rebellion forty years ago…..but no, they are grateful for the jobs. so please stop knocking the japanese here, they have enough on their plate without blatant racism.
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PS that was a reply to Blown Camaro, above.
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Like a kind of Super Aryan perfected Anthroponuclear lady, for the Anthroponuclear man, hard at work, cleaning up for TEPCO….
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TEPCO know how to look after their men??
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I have said this many times in my POSTINGS this is the MIND set of the Japense Government of the people at the top making the rest to be slaves and aptted on the back for Stupid Things like putting a person on top that eats radiated foods. It is like the schools and day cares that opened up in radioactive areas, THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN HAVE BEEN BLINDED BY A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT WHO DO NOT CARE ABOUT ITS PEOPLE
MARKWW
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My brother-in-law was a funeral director. Someone would ask him, how do I tie a tie? He always offered to do it for them, they just needed to lie down first. Then standing by the casket, he would listen and person after person would comment "Oh, I just can't believe how good She/he looks." Sounds like the beauty contest to me. I just can't believe how Good Japan looks — but the elements of death and destruction are working silently for today, tomorrow and generations beyond our ability to imagine. Stop the madness, decommission, isolate, contain, and guard these seeds of our future's death.
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I think soon we all will be eating radiation food or starve, that's if we aren't already.
Not sure why anyone would want to eat that food from Fukushima or why give it to people to eat??
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still trying to find logic in this crappy world? ;}
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Don't worry. The food from Fuku that is so bad even the Japanese government won't let it pass (so imagine how bad that is), is sold overseas and rebranded as coming from another country.
Thanks to our government we don't test any food for radioactivity, so it all will get in anyway.
You've never read of anyone destroying radiated Japanese food, have you?
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Those folks are getting really bcreative with their genocide.
They have mixed demented patriotism, sprinkled in some Hari Kari ideas and filtered it through a beauty pagent…what will they think of next? Well…how bout a strick anti nuclear policy that might send out ideas to other sitting duck countries that still hang on to the dilusional beliefs they can control nuclear energy….
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I'm starting to believe that THEY actually believe radiation is GOOD FOR YOU! OMF'ing G!
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StillJill,
Hillary dose too ! She spoke up right away and allowed foods in from Japan !
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Hear this Japanese government!
A little girl..she's a little girl!..for God's Sake!(literally!)
How dare you commit human sacrifice in order to cover your complicity in the greatest disaster known to mankind.
A little girl..
You are going to tell her..she is beautiful… aren't you?
STOP IT..STOP IT..you subhuman scumbags!
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Somebody here didn't like my Nanjing reference. Really?
R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. "This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture."
Historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta reports that a "Three Alls Policy" (Sankō Sakusen) was implemented in China from 1942 to 1945 and was in itself responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians. This scorched earth strategy, sanctioned by Hirohito himself, directed Japanese forces to "Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Mass_killings
Now the Japanese government is going to kill 127,000,000 of their own. It's called 'Democide' – the worst kind of -cide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide
The governments of the world are committing 'Democide' against us.
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And do you think the Japanese government are the only ones capable of this sick shit?
General Shiro Ishii, Head of Unit 731, Biological Weapons Research On The Chinese
"A secret deal was struck with the Allies, and when the Tokyo war trials opened in 1946, neither Ishii nor any of his scientists were among the accused. However, the Soviet Union later prosecuted twelve top military leaders and scientists from Unit 731 and its affiliated biological-war prisons during the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials.
*** Many of the staff at Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in Japan’s medical establishment. Dr Shiro Ishii moved to Maryland in the U.S. to continue work on bio-weapons." ***
http://www.sonicbomb.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=108&mode=&order=0&thold=0
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Yes, and excuse me, but which country is to this day the only country to have launched two nuclear weapons against another state in a war?
Which country fire-bombed Dresden, (very like a nuclear explosion), which countries committed genocide against millions, which countries are free of war crimes? None. Not Japan, not China, not the US, not the UK, not Italy or Germany or the Soviet Union or Serbia or Cambodia or Rwanda….so what is the 'blame the victim' thing that sometimes happens here? The Japanese people right now – no matter what any of us were fifty years ago! – the people right now are suffering a health disaster of untold dimensions, and suffering a government's and major corp's blatant propaganda, but its their fault because they what? live there? we are all in the same boat my fiends and the sooner we know this deeply the better off we will all be with whatever kinds of health/life/average age of death changes that will be happening in all human communities globally over the next sixty years and beyond? is anyone delusional enough to believe that if sfp4 and common sfp went down, that global fallout and consequent health effects would happen fast? sooner for some, slower for others, much slower….much slower for most of us, unfortunately.
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HOLY PROPAGANDA BATMAN!!!!!
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Real horrorshow… demonstrates only a very tenuous grasp of the absurd, whoever thought this up.
Are we sure this isn't from The Onion?? No, this is too sick even for the darkest of satirists.
Isn't it?
Maybe South Park should work with this one.
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i do not believe this story.
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Why not?
Hasn't there been a great number of reports about eating food from the Fuku area? Didn't ignorant journalist eat the supposed food on TV to show their patriotism? (later to become ill). Haven't the schools been serving Fuku food to the children since the start of the disaster? It doesn't seem like a big step to turn the consumption of toxic food into a contest…it fits into the sequence. What's missing is the justice for these horrible people…that to me is the unbelievable part…that these people are not in prison-or dead????
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the winner
http://www.uglypeople.se/showpic.php?id=289&category_id=423
http://www.uglypeople.se/photos/13210064831_1_photo.jpg
http://www.grimmemennesker.dk/ugly-people-274.htm
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The original link seems reputable..
http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15890837,00.html
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Today (april 20) is Hitler's birthday. Will the Japanese government celebrate this day with some twisted event? I wouldn't be surprised.
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Many people will be celebrating this day, in very secure locations.
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@Time Is Short, unfortunately true.
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I'm sure the winner was practically glowing… har har har. (If I repeated this after someone else posted it, I'm sorry… didn't have time to read everyone's posts!)
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