<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/265c68ca-94c4-45d9-b573-b25c9622766b/E7F9B4DA-F435-431B-BD79-22F653E3FD68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4513788/The-Sapporo-Snow-Festival.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4513788/The-Sapporo-Snow-Festival.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4513788/The-Sapporo-Snow-Festival.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/DB873917-B8C5-4267-8BFF-8738456FC31C" alt="Workers give the final touches to a huge snow sculpture" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4513788/The-Sapporo-Snow-Festival.html"><P> This week's wintry weather saw <A href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4448759/Another-batch-of-readers-pictures-of-snow.html" target="_blank">weird and wonderful snowmen popping up all over Britain</A>, but nothing like this </P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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