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Dalek 'kidnappers' demand Doctor

BBC.co.uk/spotter Jeremy White

'Kidnappers' who stole a Dalek from a Somerset tourist attraction have sent its owners a ransom note - and the robot's amputated plunger.



The 5ft model, believed to be an original from the cult BBC Dr Who series, was taken from Wookey Hole Caves near Wells on Monday.

On Thursday, staff found the plunger arm and a ransom note on a doorstep.

The note read: "We are holding the Dalek captive. We demand further instructions from the Doctor."

The group, signing themselves Guardians of the Planet Earth, added: "For the safety of the human race we have disarmed and removed its destructive mechanism."

Reward offered

A police spokeswoman said: "The owners reported this morning thay had found what they are calling a ransom note, along with part of the Dalek.

"If it is a stunt there is an issue of wasting police time."

Wookey Hole manager Daniel Medley told BBC News: "The arm has been removed quite carefully, it hasn't been ripped off, there's no torture involved.


Dalek arm and ransom note

"So if we get the rest of the Dalek back, we should be able to put it back together like a jigsaw.

"The police think it was probably taken by kids or students, but there is also the idea that it could be heading to Edinburgh for the G8 protests."

The Dalek had been on display at the Bath and West Show and was in temporary storage at the Wookey Hole site when it was taken.

It is believed to be worth thousands of pounds, and Wookey Hole's owners have offered a £500 reward for the model's return.

Former Dr Who actor Colin Baker has been in touch with staff at the attraction, and may be asked to send a message to the kidnappers. (:/)

Fan-f*cking-tastic.

Campbell's Soup goes do-it-yourself in Japan

AFP

Dateline: Tokyo - For those who find cracking open a can of Campbell's Soup to be too easy a meal option, a Japanese company is offering a back-to-basics version: the vegetable seeds themselves.



The seeds come in a tin that looks exactly the same as the red-and-white Campbell's can except the word "soup" is replaced by "seeds". Inside is a choice of seeds to grow miniature tomatoes, miniature pumpkins or green peas.
The idea of a more labor-intensive Campbell's came to mind from an interior design magazine that showed the can immortalized by Andy Warhol being used to grow herbs in the kitchen.

"We would like customers to enjoy growing plants and making the dishes they like with vegetables, not necessarily just to make soup," said Machiko Endo, spokeswoman for the Tokyo-based World Flower Service.

The company has sold 25,000 of the cans since they went on the market in Japan at the end of April, with the tomatoes the most popular of the three seeds.

The cans -- which cost 997 yen (9.25 dollars) at shops or 1,627 yen (15 dollars) by delivery -- come with layers of soil inside and written instructions. The plants take several months to grow and eventually need to be transferred into a larger container.

Endo said there were no plans yet to launch Campbell's Seed in the classic soup's home of the United States but that the Japanese firm has been in contact with the US maker. (:/)

Man shocked trying to rescue cat from pole

Wyoming News-Record

Dateline: Gilette, Wyoming - A 40-year-old Gillette man was taken to the Western States Burn Center in Greeley, Colo., after being shocked while trying to retrieve a cat stuck on a power pole on Sunday.

Dean Griffin suffered second- and third-degree burns on his arm and chest in the accident, Sheriff Bill Pownall said.

Griffin was trying to rescue the cat just before 10:30 a.m. from a power pole on Ridgeway Road, Pownall said. The cat had apparently been stuck on the pole since Wednesday.

Griffin used a boom truck with an elevated bucket to reach the cat. But when the cat tried to hop into Griffin's hands, it simultaneously touched a live wire. A volt of electricity surged from the power wire, through the cat and to Griffin, Pownall said.

Griffin was taken to Campbell County Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Greeley. (:/)

Yes, but what happened to the bloody cat?

Prison sausage joke backfires

(Australian) Herald Sun

THE Corrections Commissioner is awaiting the outcome of an investigation into the alleged abuse of a prisoner at Port Phillip Prison before deciding whether to penalise the prison's private operator.

Two prison guards have been stood down and could face criminal charges over the incident sources describe as a practical joke gone wrong.

The incident is believed to revolve around a prisoner who was coerced into internally concealing a sausage to smuggle it out of the prison on a day leave trip, before being strip searched by guards allegedly in on the joke.

Two more guards could be stood down over the alleged incident.

It is believed two prisoners may also be charged with a criminal offence, possibly rape.

The alleged abuse victim is understood to have later learned the event was a joke on him and reported it to authorities. (:/)

Sci-Tech

Breathe Like A Fish Thanks To Alan Bodner

Technovelgy.com

Alan Izhar-Bodner, an Israeli inventor, has developed a way for divers to breathe underwater without cumbersome oxygen tanks. His apparatus makes use of the air that is dissolved in water, just like fish do.


(From Breathe like a fish!)

The system uses the "Henry Law" which states that the amount of gas that can be dissolved in a liquid is proportional to the pressure on the liquid. Raise the pressure - more gas can be dissolved in the liquid. Decrease the pressure - gas dissolved in the liquid releases the gas. This is exactly what happens when you open a can of soda; carbon dioxide gas is dissolved in the liquid and is under pressure in the can. Open the can, releasing the pressure, and the gas fizzes out.

Bodner's system apparently uses a centrifuge to lower pressure in part of a small amount of seawater taken into the system; dissolved gas is extracted. The patent abstract reads:

A self-contained open-circuit breathing apparatus for use within a body of water naturally containing dissolved air. The apparatus is adapted to provide breathable air. The apparatus comprises an inlet means for extracting a quantity of water from the body of water. It further comprises a separator for separating the dissolved air from the quantity of water, thereby obtaining the breathable air. The apparatus further comprises a first outlet means for expelling the separated water back into the body of water, and a second outlet means for removing the breathable air and supplying it for breathing. The air is supplied so as to enable it to be expelled back into the body of water after it has been breathed.

Human beings have been thinking about how to breathe underwater since they started swimming. This long-held desire plays an important part in one of the first great science fiction novels, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. (:/)

Buddhist monks focus better than we do shocker

Biology News Net

Photo credit: Olivia Carter

In an unusual but fruitful collaboration between Tibetan Buddhist monks and neuroscientists, researchers have uncovered clues to how mental states--and their underlying neural mechanisms--can impact conscious visual experience. In their study, reported in the June 7 issue of Current Biology, the researchers found evidence that the skills developed by Tibetan Buddhist monks in their practice of a certain type of meditation can strongly influence their experience of a phenomenon, termed "perceptual rivalry," that deals with attention and consciousness.

The work is reported by Olivia Carter and Jack Pettigrew of the University of Queensland, Australia, and colleagues at the University of Queensland and the University of California, Berkeley.

Perceptual rivalry arises normally when two different images are presented to each eye, and it is manifested as a fluctuation--typically, over the course of seconds--in the "dominant" image that is consciously perceived. The neural events underlying perceptual rivalry are not well understood but are thought to involve brain mechanisms that regulate attention and conscious awareness.

Some previous work had suggested that skilled meditation can alter certain aspects of the brain's neural activity, though the significance of such changes in terms of actually understanding brain function remains unclear.

To gain insight into how visual perception is regulated within the brain, researchers in the new study chose to investigate the extent to which certain types of trained meditative practice can influence the conscious experience of visual perceptual rivalry.

With the support of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 76 Tibetan Buddhist monks participated in the study, which was carried out at or near their mountain retreats in the Himalaya, Zanskar, and Ladakhi Ranges of India. The monks possessed meditative training ranging from 5 to 54 years; among the group were three "retreatist" meditators, each with at least 20 years of experience in isolated retreats.

The researchers tested the experience of visual rivalry by monks during the practice of two types of meditation: a "compassion"-oriented meditation, described as a contemplation of suffering within the world combined with an emanation of loving kindness, and "one-point" meditation, described as the maintained focus of attention on a single object or thought, a focus that leads to a stability and clarity of mind.

Whereas no observable change in the rate of "visual switching" during rivalry was seen in monks practicing compassion meditation, major increases in the durations of perceptual dominance were experienced by monks practicing one-point meditation. Within this group, three monks, including two of the retreatists, reported complete visual stability during the entire five-minute meditation period. Increases in duration of perceptual dominance were also seen in monks after a period of one-point meditation.

In a different test of perceptual rivalry, in this case prior to any meditation, the duration of stable perception experienced by monks averaged 4.1 seconds, compared to 2.6 seconds for meditation-naïve control subjects. Remarkably, when instructed to actively maintain the duration, one of the retreatist monks could maintain a constant visual perception during this test for 723 seconds.

The findings suggest that processes particularly associated with one-point meditation--perhaps involving intense attentional focus and the ability to stabilize the mind--contribute to the prolonged rivalry dominance experienced by the monks. The researchers conclude from their study that individuals trained in meditation can considerably alter the normal fluctuations in conscious state that are induced by perceptual rivalry and suggest that, in combination with previous work, the new findings support the idea that perceptual rivalry can be modulated by high-level, top-down neural influences. (:/)

Wooooo-ooohhh-eeee-oooohhh

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Arc-Wave Ignited = $265.00
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Want one? Check out ParkSabers.com - way cool. (:/)

Yeah. Jay's birthday's coming up...

Brie Fly

Potty Explosion Lawsuit

CBS News

Dateline: Morgantown, W.Va. - John Jenkins wants $10 million because of an exploding john. He's suing Chisler, a general contractor, and the Eastern Associated Coal Corporation. Jenkins claims he sat down in a portable toilet, tried to light a cigarette and the whole thing blew up. The suit notes there were no warning signs against smoking or open flames. Eastern Associated Coal owns the West Virginia property where the explosion occurred. The suit charges Chisler with running over pipelines with heavy equipment before the incident, causing a methane gas leak. Jenkins claims permanent injuries from the potty blast. (:/)

Also Seen by TAR - last year, sold at Sotheby's, an authentic Vampire Slayer Set


AP Photo

This Vampire Killing Kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for $12,000 at Sotheby's sale of 19th century furniture and decorative works of art in New York. (:/)

Yeahhh... Jay's birthday's coming up soon, like I said, and...

Barman, a Shag please

Metro

A BEER CALLED Shag is proving a turn-off with politicians.

To name it Shag links it with sexual intercourse and that's not on

Advertisements for the brew feature a bottle of the beer on the back seat of a car under the slogan: 'Fancy a Shag?'

British entrepreneur Terry Ball claims his lager is named after a type of bird - but his attempts to export the Dutch-brewed tipple to Australia have run into trouble.

New South Wales minister Grant McBride, a teetotaller and father of eight, is threatening to ban it.

He said: 'To name it Shag links it with sexual intercourse and that's not on.' (:/)

Wow. LInking beer to sexual intercourse. THAT'S never happened...

Children stuck in parents' handcuffs

Metro

TWO CHILDREN DIALLED 999 after accidentally locking themselves in their parents' kinky handcuffs.

I don¿t know who was the most embarrassed

The brother and sister, aged 14 and 12, found the cuffs hidden in a bedroom cupboard while their parents were out.

They put them around their wrists, but the locks snapped shut.

The children called police saying: 'Come quick - they'll be home soon.'

But the mother and father had already returned to their home in Carmarthen, West Wales, when police arrived.

'I don't know who was the most embarrassed,' said one officer. (:/)

I do.

'Black Widow' Wins Popcorn-Eating Contest

AP

Sonya 'The Black Widow' Thomas wolfed down 10 boxes of popcorn in 12 minutes, then two more in a playoff to win an MTV-sponsored eating contest at Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles on Wednesday.



Thomas, of Alexandria, Va., and Rich LeFevre, of Henderson, Nev., were tied after 12 boxes, but judges ruled Thomas the winner because LeFevre had spilled a few kernels.

For the win, Thomas received an MTV Movie Awards talent gift basket worth an estimated $10,000.

In August, the 105-pound Thomas downed 38 lobsters in 12 minutes to win the World Lobster Eating Contest. She won $500 and a trophy belt for her efforts, consuming 9.76 pounds of lobster meat.

Days before the lobster contest, the speed-eater consumed 8.4 pounds of beans with pork in 2 minutes and 47 seconds. She also holds records for hard-boiled eggs. (:/)

Think of the smell!

Monster shark swallows diver in Jaws-style attack

The Scotsman

Dateline: Jo'burg - A SCUBA diver was swallowed almost whole by a great white shark yesterday in a Jaws-style attack just offshore from Cape Town.

Conservationists are now expecting renewed calls for killer sharks to be hunted down following the death of medical student Henri Murray, 22 - the latest in a series of attacks. Great whites have been a protected species in South African waters since 1990, but calls for a cull have been growing following the deaths of several South African swimmers and surfers this year.

Two British surfers survived - although one needed 200 stitches to leg wounds and the other had to have 100 stitches to torn hips and buttocks. In yesterday's attack, Mr Murray's diving partner, 23-year-old Piet van Niekerk, shot the great white with his speargun in a desperate attempt to drive it away, but he did not see his friend again.

Dave Estment, a yachtsman, was sitting on the jetty at Simon's Town, near Cape Town, when he saw the great white breach the surface.

"It was incredibly fast. The two spear fishermen were not far from the beach. Suddenly a huge shark surged from under the water taking the one diver [from his legs upwards] to his arms in its jaws," he said.

"It must have been massive to have done that. Then the shark and the man just vanished." Other witnesses to the attack estimated the shark's length at 20 feet.

Hundreds of onlookers lined the coastal road yesterday as a helicopter, police diver and boat search was carried out in an unsuccessful attempt to find the body of Mr Murray, who was studying at the University of Stellenbosch.

Divers from the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) recovered a weightbelt - so damaged that it looked as though it had been sliced through with a knife - a mask, a speargun, a rubber flipper and a buoy with speared fish that had been attached to a trailing line.

NSRI spokesman Craig Lambinon said he believed the shark could have been attracted by the fish. Great white shark tour operators, who lower visitors in cages among the great whites, use chopped-up fish to lure sharks to the cages.

Dr Cleeve Robertson, head of Cape Town's emergency services, said Mr Van Niekerk, a university friend of Mr Murray, was extremely traumatised by the attack.

He and members of Mr Murray's family were receiving counselling.

Dr Robertson said the spear, designed for smaller fish, was unlikely to have caused much damage to the great white. (:/)

Dear god. I'm never going in the water again.

Police Department Has Too Much Marijuana

The Denver Channel/AP

Officers Look For Place To Dispose Of Huge Haul

The Parachute, Colo., Police Department has a problem: how do get rid of 151 pounds of marijuana.

Police normally use a burn barrel outside the police department, but the stash from a recent drug bust is so big that the burn barrel can't be used.

"The whole town of Parachute would be getting silly (if it were burned in the barrel)," said Jeff Wells, a Parachute police officer

The drugs came from an arrest on May 19 in which two Florida men have been charged with possession with the intent to distribute, according to Wells.

A drug dog had sniffed out an empty duffel bag in one suspect's car after a routine stop, so authorities followed the car to a motel in Parachute, where the driver met up with another man. That's where William Morgan and Anthony Keane were arrested on charges of drug possession with intent to distribute.

The marijuana is sitting in an evidence locker in Parachute, and “there isn’t room for anything else in there,” Wells said.

He expects to see such drug busts more often in his agency because of increased vigilance along Interstate 70 by the department's six officers. (:/)

I love that they have a town called Parachute.

Arrested for 'gay horse' jibe

Metro

A STUDENT WAS was made to spend the night in a police cell for repeatedly calling an officer's horse 'gay'.

A friend I was with is homosexual and doesn't think I did anything wrong

Sam Brown, 21, had been out with friends when he drunkenly staggered past two police horses in the early hours.

He was arrested and fined £80 for 'causing harassment, harm or distress'.

The English student asked one officer if his horse was gay and, despite police warnings, continued to make comments about the animal's sexuality.

He was handcuffed, taken to a nearby police station and freed the following day.

The Oxford University finalist had been celebrating the end of his exams in the city centre.

'I don't know why I did it,' said Mr Brown, from Belfast, who claims his actions were not homophobic.

'As far as I know calling a horse "gay" is not offensive,' he added.

'I don't think I've committed a crime - I wasn't talking about a human being. A friend I was with is homosexual and doesn't think I did anything wrong.'

Mr Brown, who is appealing against the fine from last Monday, said officers had been 'very nice about it'.

'I think they realised how absurd the charge was,' he added.

A Thames Valley Police spokesman said: 'Although he thought calling a police horse gay was funny, it could cause offence to people walking past.' (:/)

Product of the Week

Banana Guard!

Q: "Is there a battery attachment?"
A: No. The Banana Guard was designed for its intended purpose only as a device to prevent banana trauma during transport. (:/)

Lord alone knows why they feel the need to put that in the FAQs... ahem...

Quote of the Week

Ozzy Osbourne

Metro

Ever thought of going in an Eighties electro direction like your daughter Kelly?
A couple of years ago Britney Spears was on the TV doing a Live In Las Vegas show - she was on a trapeze, doing all these acrobatics and f**king swinging around in the air like a monkey. I was watching her lips and she was a whole word out of synch with the music. I was asking: 'Is our television receiver pointing to f**king Mars?' (:/)

Now, as an ex-delivery rider myself, this man is a True Hero.

Man Delivers Pizza After Being Shot in Leg

AP

Dateline: Tampa, Fla. - A robbery attempt by a masked man and a gunshot wound to the leg didn't stop a pizza delivery man from making his rounds, pies in hand.

Thomas Stefanelli, 37, said dedication to his job at Hungry Howie's Pizza kept him on the job after a struggle with a robber Saturday night left him bleeding from a bullet wound in his left thigh.

Stefanelli arrived at a home only to realize it was vacant, police said. The masked man approached Stefanelli, pointed a gun and demanded money. Stefanelli said he fought with the man, and two shots were fired. One hit Stefanelli, but he did not immediately notice.

The shooter eventually fled with a second man.

"They figured they were going to make an easy mark by robbing a pizza delivery person," said police spokesman Joe Durkin.

Stefanelli finally noticed his wound. His cell phone wasn't working, so he drove to his next delivery address, dropped off the pie and called his boss to ask him to call the police.

Stefanelli went on to make three more deliveries.

"It bled a little bit, not much," he said. (:/)

Something fishy about the girl

AFP

Dateline: Sydney - An Australian woman has been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle 51 tropical fish into Australia concealed under her skirt, customs officials said.

The 43-year-old woman arrived in Melbourne from Singapore on Friday and drew the attention of customs officers intrigued by "flipping" noises coming from under her skirt, a customs service spokeswoman said.

Customs Service spokeswoman Jaclyne Fisher said agents found the fish in 15 water-filled plastic bags held in a specially built apron concealed under her skirt.

"The fish ... could have posed potentially serious quarantine, environmental and health risks had they not been seized by customs," Fisher said. (:/)

And they could have done her a right damage into the bargain, I think. The next story scores 8/10 on the EEEUUUUWWW scale.

Apartment full of desiccated corpses

Reuters

Dateline: Moscow - Russian police have found four people from three generations of the same family dead in their apartment where they had lain for at least two years.

A spokesman for Moscow city prosecutors told local media skeletons were all that remained of the man and three women who seemed to have died at different times in the past decade.

"The oldest family member, a grandfather born in 1912, died about 10 years ago. Five years later his wife, who was born in 1914, died," the spokesman told Interfax news agency.

"The deaths of the others, a daughter born in 1942, and a grand-daughter born in 1971, also came at different times."

Itar-Tass news agency quoted neighbors as saying the dead people had been secretive members of a religious sect.

Police were called to the apartment after complaints the family had not paid utility bills for two years. They broke down the door when there was no answer to repeated calls. (:/)

Squirrel off the menu

(Australian) Courier-Mail

THREATS from animal rights activists have forced a restaurant in Britain to take squirrel off the menu.

The Daily Telegraph reported that protesters threatened to firebomb the Hadley Bowling Green Inn in Droitwich, Worcestershire, unless the eatery stopped offering squirrel pate at £7.95 ($19) a plate.

The paper said the restaurant received about 25 threatening telephone calls and a string of malicious emails.

"I don't know why squirrel meat is so controversial," restaurant spokesman Barney Reynolds said.

"In the past we've sold meat from fluffy little lambs and it's not been a problem." (:/)

Which is annoying, because I read the story about their doing it in the first place and really fancied a dose. Shame.

And finally(s)

Going commando? Chavtastic, says dictionary

Reuters

Dateline: London - Whether it's "back, sack and crack", "heteroflexible", or "going commando," the dictionary is catching up.

The latest edition of the Collins English Dictionary published on Thursday contains hundreds of new words that its editors say give a snapshot of how society is changing.

"Back, sack and crack" -- a beauty parlour waxing procedure made famous by English soccer captain David Beckham -- is officially defined as "(cosmetic depilation of) the back, scrotum and the area between the buttocks".

"Heteroflexible" is someone who is usually -- but not always -- heterosexual.

"Supersize", the fast food menu word for big portions, can now be both an adjective and a verb, as in "supersize me".

And to "go commando" means "to wear no underpants".

The dictionary is filled with new terms referring to what Editor-In-Chief Jeremy Butterfield called urban tribes, like "chav" and "chavette", both derogatory British slang for "a young working class person who dresses in casual sports clothes".

The related adjective is "chavtastic".

There are plenty of examples of language driven by technology. "Instant messaging" and "picture messaging" get definitions for the first time. So do "Wi-fi" and the Internet bank fraud of "phishing".

The dictionary occasionally offers helpful advice. The definition of "drink dialling" -- making a phone call while drunk, especially to someone about whom one has romantic notions -- notes that the practice is "inadvisable".

(:/) ... and from AFP ... (:/)

More self-explanatory are some words and phrases taken from the media and consumer worlds, such as "property porn", used to describe escapist television programmes showing desirable houses being sold or redeveloped.

Meanwhile, a "brand Nazi" insists on buying one particular marque of clothing or other commodity, while a "retrosexual" -- a direct rebuff to the well-scrubbed "metrosexual" -- is a man who spends little time and money on his personal appearance.

The linguistically rich world of football has also contributed some newcomers, including the self-explanatory if tongue-twisting "bouncebackability", attributed to Iain Dowie, manager of English football side Crystal Palace.

A phrase popularised by Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is also included, the richly evocative "squeaky-bum time", something the dictionary describes as "the tense final stages of a league competition, esp. from the point of view of the leaders". (:/)

Last but not least, a(nother) good reason to keep Canada off the menu:

Vancouver tries to clean up problem of people defecating in street

Canadian Press, Amy Carmichael

Dateline: Vancouver - The ripe stench of human excrement is getting stronger in downtown lanes, curling the stomachs of workers who no longer want to relax by the back door for smoke breaks.

"We're getting to the point where the need for public toilets is getting serious," said Charles Gauthier, executive director of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association.

"There's a burgeoning entertainment district, a growing homelessness problem and people have nowhere to go.

"I've been with the association for 15 years and it's just becoming more and more of an issue for more of our members. The stench of urine and feces in back lanes in the central business district and the Downtown Eastside, where it's probably a lot worse."

The 10-block city slum is swollen with up to 5,000 injection drug users who have less control of their bowels. Many are homeless and have nowhere to go to the toilet.

Often the drug users roam out of the neighbourhood into alleys linking downtown businesses.

Gauthier said his members don't want to clean up the piles excrement the homeless make on their properties and he doesn't blame them.

The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority has gotten involved and is calling for action before disease spreads.

"Defecating and urinating in the street is not something that's healthy for individuals," said Richard Taki, public health protection officer for the authority.

"A number of diseases are passed through the fecal-oral route. If people are tracking this bacteria into eating establishments and public facilities we're running the risk of a problem with rodents and insects carrying bacteria.

"Salmonella is the obvious threat and for a lot of the homeless people who are imunocompromised, food poisoning is going to be serious."

He said a solution, likely portable public toilets, is imminent.

"It's going to be sooner rather than later, it's something we're going ahead with."

City planners met with the business association Wednesday to tell them a range of options will have to be discussed.

"There's a considerable cost involved. In the Downtown Eastside we're going to need a supervised bank of toilets and that's going to cost in excess of $5,000 a month," said Bob Ross, a city engineer working on the issue.

Open urinals are also in the mix of strategies being considered.

"I'm not sure our culture is ready for that. It seems to me it's an undignified and humiliating way of dealing with the problem, but one that also seems to be working in parts of England and Amsterdam," Ross said. (:/)

So, that's what the Canadians really think of us. Until next time...

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