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"World War Z" could have been the Amanda Bynes of summer blockbusters.
It would have been so easy for Brad Pitt's troubled zombie epic to hide out under a series of ridiculous wigs, insisting to the world that everything was fine and tweet-hating on anyone who tried to help.
But rather than keeping quiet and fleecing moviegoers as yet another saw-it-coming-from-a-mile-away dud — here's looking at you, "After Earth" and "The Internship" — "World War Z" admitted it was a hot mess and sought help.
Director Marc Forster ("Quantum of Solace") had finished shooting the script Matthew Michael Carnahan ("The Kingdom") based on Max Brooks' novel — or, more accurately, based on its title. There's very little resemblance.
Then extensive rewrites by Damon Lindelof ("Lost") and Drew Goddard ("The Cabin in the Woods") led to expensive reshoots that scrapped its action-adventure ending in favor of a suspenseful, lengthy new third act.
If the result isn't an unqualified success, it's at least more satisfying than most of what's been dumped into multiplexes this summer.
When we meet Gerry Lane (Pitt), he's making breakfast for his wife (Mireille Enos) and kids amid news reports of worldwide violence, martial law and a rabies outbreak in Taiwan.
Gerry used to do something or other for the U.N. Apparently he was quite good at it.
Also, apparently, he quit because it was ruining his marriage. So when a series of explosions and car crashes creates panic in the streets of Philadelphia — cue the inevitable "World War Z"-Springsteen mashup — Gerry's better equipped to survive than most.
Amid the chaos, bystanders are being attacked. Twisting, convulsing and contorting as they're infected, they start mauling others as though they were part of some insidious game of tag.
The entire process takes 12 seconds.
Philadelphia is laid to waste soon after, and the effect instantly feels more real than any of the large-scale devastation in "Man of Steel."
Thanks to Gerry's U.N. connections, he and his family will be evacuated, assuming they can survive the night in Newark, N.J. — a dicey proposition under the best of circumstances.
After MacGyver-ing up some rudimentary weapons and defenses and enduring some near pants-soiling levels of terror, Gerry and the gang are choppered out of the nightmare to a command center onboard an aircraft carrier 200 miles out into the Atlantic.
He's there for his expertise in international hot zones. Gerry's the best there is. We know this because his old boss (Fana Mokoena) tells us. Also because, with his long hair, stubble, cargo pants and a scarf that must have set him back at least 500 bucks, Gerry looks like he just stepped off the pages of a catalog for J. Peterman's Global Explorer line.
Before long, Gerry's traversing the planet looking for patient zero, checking in with soldiers holed up in South Korea and seeking out survivors in Jerusalem, which somehow walled itself off just in the nick of time.
"World War Z's" scope is enormous, and it doesn't skimp on the spectacle. Its zombies are closer to the "28 Days Later" variety than their staggering, shuffling brethren on "The Walking Dead." They're a frenetic, churning mass that descends on cities like locusts. It's a good thing they're not organized enough to form an Olympic team, or Usain Bolt wouldn't stand a chance in 2016.
When Gerry and an Israeli soldier (a quietly powerful Daniella Kertesz) escape on a jumbo jet, well, let's just say the only thing missing is a cameo from Samuel L. Jackson screaming about how he's had it with these mother(expletive) zombies on this mother(expletive) plane.
Things get a little hokey at times, especially when it comes to the zombies' attraction to sound. First, Gerry suffers through one of moviedom's worst-timed phone calls. Then, during a stealth mission inside a Welsh laboratory overrun by zombies, he's saddled with a scientist we'll call Dr. Klutzy von Stumblebum who somehow manages to crash into everything in sight.
Still, those scenes, part of the massive rewrite, take on a "Jurassic Park," raptors-in-the-kitchen vibe and offer more old-school chills than anything in "The Purge."
Now that the undead are nearly as ubiquitous as Taylor Swift breakup songs, it's understandable if you're suffering from zombie fatigue.
"World War Z" follows in the decaying footsteps of this year's zom-rom-com (zombie romantic comedy) "Warm Bodies" and BBC America's recent "In the Flesh," in which zombies — err, sufferers of Partially Deceased Syndrome — are treated with pharmaceuticals and group therapy before being released back into society.
Like those projects, though, "World War Z" admirably breathes some new life into the genre.
So to speak.
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How low cotton prices have the potential to drop depends primarily on two factors, according to Don Shurley, agricultural economist with the University of Georgia in Tifton, Ga.
With cotton exports to China almost nonexistent at this point and U.S. textile mills decreasing production, Shurley says, the possibility exists for the price of cotton to continue its downward slide into the 30s. Exactly where prices will bottom out lies in the answer to the questions: Will U.S. producers make an 18- to 19-million-bale crop in 2001? And, can we increase our exports to the level needed to prevent cotton stocks from building further?
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Adding to this, he says, is the fact that U.S. cotton producers are not adjusting their acreage downward despite this fall in demand. "Our cotton acreage is hanging kind of high because there aren't any other profitable options available, and with cotton, farmers can at least count on receiving a POP or loan deficiency payment (LDP). There is nothing else cotton producers can grow that can make them as much money as cotton."
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Catherine wrote:LAST night i did a little research on herpies, its more common than most people think. there are 4 billion people that have it
no one is going to be charged with anything. she consented to having sex so there is no crime, consent no crime no charge.
that's a private thing and why in the heck did anyone even publish it to the world.. its no body's business. just 2 people that's Jim and C...
pathetic of them to try to get money from Jim. makes me mad too
It's true. Practically everyone carries the virus in one form or another and most people don't even know they have it.
I'd point out again that there is no proof that Jim has anything at all. Just the word of a few truly evil people and some suspicious three year old texts.
And for the sake of argument, even IF he did, as you say, that's their very private business and relationship. . It happens all the time for so many reasons; embarrassment/fear of bringing it up, not realising that they can be transmitted inbetween break outs, etc and most often not even being aware you have it at all...
You're right, it is 100% an extortion attempt. There's only one reason to drag this out for the world to see and that's in the hope that he'd be embarrassed into paying them off. Thankfully, everyone can see through it and this will be over soon. I'm just very proud of his grace and dignity throughout this.
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As our dear friend Reb Chaim is doing us all proud in the Mir, I thought I'd take up the questions he was recently asked regarding blood transfusions and the like. Let's go over some of the points now. Come along, won't you?
"Live by the law not die by it," correct? But Shagra Simmons said the opposite. What Rabbi Simmons said is more to what the truth is, because it's the written Torah, Gods spoken word, and that supersedes oral Torah, any day."
There are two very important points here that I think must need to be addressed. Both Rabbi Simmons and Reb Chaim are correct. To save his life, a Jew may disregard any of the 613 commandments, including eating blood. There are however, three exceptions to the rule. 1) Murder 2) Idolatry 3) Certain types of sexual relationships (i.e. incest homosexuality, bestiality adultery, ect) For example, If a gentile were to hold a gun to my head and command me to eat pork, I would be required by Jewish law to eat it. However, if he told me to shot my friend, I must die rather than listen. If you e-mail Rabbi Simmons, He can explain this in more detail.
The second point is important, in that it addresses the core of Judaism, namely the oral law. You said, "It's the written Torah, Gods spoken word, and that supersedes oral Torah, any day." This is making a massive mistake in understanding both G-d and his relationship to mankind.
At Mt. Sinai, Hashem gave the Jewish people the Torah, however, contrary to your belief, it was given in two forms, oral and written. The written Torah is the bare bones facts and is impossible to understand without the oral Torah. For example, we are commanded to slaughter an animal as G-d command, but nowhere in the written Torah is the procedure described. We are ordered to keep Shabbos under penalty of death, but are never told what it entails. Moreover, the Written Torah is filled with contradictions and logical errors.
The oral law, just was much as the written law came from G-d and was given as a special gift to his people, Beni Yisrael. A none Jew is forbidden to study it, and may only learn the written law. A Jew is commanded to keep the Torah as best he can, including its oral laws. Most of the Torah in fact is oral and both the laws that a Jew my break a commandment and the exceptions to that rule were given by the mouth of Hashem to Moshe at Sinai.
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"Just imagine how we, here can get some sort of sickness from these people, just like the bird flu?"
The sad fact is, in every surgery there are risks and things that can go wrong. In fact a good number of hospital deaths occur every year due to infections that were caught at the hospital. However, by that logic, we could never see a doctor for anything.
"Take a look at the symbol of the blood donor? It's a red cross isn't it? A Idolatry symbol...Hmmmm, see something wrong with this picture yet?"
In Israel, the simple is a red magan dovid. In addition, the symbol is the symbol of an organization, not of blood donation itself.
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G-d also commanded us to see a doctor. We learn this from the fact in the written Torah that if a man injures his fellow, among the restitutions he must make is the medical bill. If there is a medical bill, obviously the sick person went to a doctor.
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It's dangerous to learn Torah without a Competent Orthodox Rabbi. It's impossible to understand beyond a very surface level, and must the time people make mistakes. They mean well. However, without an understanding of the Torah and its principles, and without the high level of devotion and good character must rabbis have, it's all but impossible not to interpret it according to our own views, instead of G-d's.
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As our dear friend Reb Chaim is doing us all proud in the Mir, I thought I'd take up the questions he was recently asked regarding blood transfusions and the like. Let's go over some of the points now. Come along, won't you?
Posted by Ilan The Portlander Rebbe at 7:07 PM
13 comments:
- zachdus said...
Important post Reb Chaim, thanks.
- 9:38 PM, August 15, 2007
- Miss Catherine Manna said...
I recieved a private email, which i will not disclose the recipient, but i will tell you this, a question that was asked I will relay the same question to all my fellow believers, faithfull Torah observers, Israelites aka Jews, is this. If you were dying and the only person that had your match, your blood type was Hitler, would you honestly say that you will still accept it? Or would you rather die? Interesting thought provoking question something to think about! Dont you think? Now I believe that God can use any one he so chooses to give or relay a message to his people,or to who ever he wants to give a message too. Even a convert. I dont have to be born a Jew to have the same blessings of wisdom and insight into Gods word,as you or any God loving Rabbi can have. Our creator, Hashem, can, and he does choose who ever he wants, if he wants. Hear the truth in this message from God, he speaks to you and to me, to all of us, and to all of Israel today.
Ezekiel 18
25 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear, O house of Israel: Is my way unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust? 26 If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin, he will die for it; because of the sin he has committed he will die. 27 But if a wicked man turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life. 28 Because he considers all the offenses he has committed and turns away from them, he will surely live; he will not die. 29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Are my ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
30 "Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. 31 Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
Yes repent and live!
As for our "fathers" who declare and teach there own interpretation of Gods word and of his very thoughts that he did not even speak, this is what God has to say about that,
Ezekiel 18
The Soul Who Sins Will Die
1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel:
" 'The fathers eat sour grapes,
and the children's teeth are set on edge'?
3 "As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, you will no longer quote this proverb in Israel. 4 For every living soul belongs to me, the father as well as the son—both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one who will die.
5 "Suppose there is a righteous man who does what is just and wright.
6 He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of the house of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor's wife or lie with a woman during her period.
7 He does not oppress anyone,
but returns what he took in pledge for a loan.He does not commit robbery but gives his food to the hungry and provides clothing for the naked.
8 He does not lend at usury or take excessive interest.
He withholds his hand from doing wrong and judges fairly between man and man.
9 He follows my decrees and faithfully keeps my laws.
That man is righteous; he will surely live,declares the Sovereign LORD.
10 "Suppose he has a violent son, who sheds blood or does any of these other things 11 (though the father has done none of them):
"He eats at the mountain shrines.
He defiles his neighbor's wife.
12 He oppresses the poor and needy. He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.
13 He lends at usury and takes excessive interest.
Will such a man live? He will not! Because he has done all these detestable things, he will surely be put to death and his blood will be on his own head.
14 "But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
15 "He does not eat at the mountain shrines or look to the idols of the house of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor's wife.
16 He does not oppress anyone
or require a pledge for a loan.
He does not commit robbery
but gives his food to the hungry
and provides clothing for the naked.
17 He withholds his hand from sin
and takes no usury or excessive interest.
He keeps my laws and follows my decrees.
He will not die for his father's sin; he will surely live. 18 But his father will die for his own sin, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother and did what was wrong among his people.
19 "Yet you ask, 'Why does the son not share the guilt of his father?' Since the son has done what is just and right and has been careful to keep all my decrees, he will surely live. 20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.
21 "But if a wicked man turns away from all the sins he has committed and keeps all my decrees and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. 22 None of the offenses he has committed will be remembered against him. Because of the righteous things he has done, he will live. 23 Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
24 "But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked man does, will he live? None of the righteous things he has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness he is guilty of and because of the sins he has committed, he will die.
do you understand the message, Oh house of israel? God loves his people will you hear his word and listen? You know what is wright in your heart, true repentance requires a change Fear God and keep his commands he give us life eternal if we obey him, and his ways, not anyone elses. He is our God our Lord our King and only Saviour. THere is no one else! NO ONE!! What is the conclusion? King Solomon wrote,
Ecclesiastes 12
The Conclusion of the Matter
9 Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. 10 The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.
11 The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd. 12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
13 Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.
Shalom may God bless you today and everyday as you follow Gods ways with your whole heart mind soul and strength!
Miss Manna
- 1:55 PM, August 16, 2007
- Ilan The Portlander Rebbe said...
"Even a convert. I dont have to be born a Jew to have the same blessings of wisdom and insight into Gods word,as you or any God loving Rabbi can have."
A convert is considered a full Jew in every sense. However, they must undergo a kosher conversion. I should warn that this is a long and stressful porcess and is not for the faint of heart.
Moreover, you can be a good person without being Jewish. A nonejew who follows the seven noachide laws will earn a place in the world to come. It's far better to take this route. Right now, if you see a movie on shabbos, or have a big mac, it's fine. Why add more rules to yourself than what hashem gave you? Moreover, some laws like shabbos, it is FORBIDIN for a non-jew to keep. I suggest that you look up this fine sites
As to your hitler commend, may his named be erased, I would glady take his blood. If blood doantion is still an issue for you, You really should talk to your LOR, or e-mail me privatly.
- 4:51 PM, August 16, 2007
- Miss Manna said...
Proverbs) 28:9 If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law, even his prayers are detestable.
I ask myself the "Convert" how can i prove that i love HaShem? Just as i am. How can I show him that I love him? By doing just so. "walk with God, just as Noah did. I want to walk with God, and the Torah laws are good, they are very good, for ME and MY Family. I am happy to follow all that i can. I try to learn by studying and reading and asking GOd in my daily prayers with my children to help me guide me in the wright direction. I read the Tanak daily. because i love God. Yes indeed I do.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 11:1 Love HaShem your God and keep his requirements, his decrees, his laws and his commands always.
and as for your advise or suggestion to follow the noahide laws, thank you. The tanak says there is also a part of the noahide laws that no one seems to observe. read
Genesis 9
God's Covenant With Noah
1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
4 "But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. 5 And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
So even in following these laws, Blood is forbidden to consume.
This was also repeated to Moshe in the law. read
Eating Fat and Blood Forbidden Leviticus 7:22
22 The LORD said to Moses, 23 "Say to the Israelites: 'Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. 24 The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. 25 Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire may be made to the LORD must be cut off from his people. 26 And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27 If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.' "
Again who do obey? Mans word or Gods? you choose for yourself. as for me, I choose God! thank you
Miss Manna
- 10:18 PM, August 16, 2007
- Ilan The Portlander Rebbe said...
FOr the last time,
1) you are not a convert.
2) YOur quotes only prove that we cannot EAT blood, nothing eles. Blood is taken out of all kosher meat. Your opinion shows the danger of gentiles learning Torah alone, in that they bend to to fit their own views.
3) These laws in any case are only for Jews, not genitles such as yourself. From a Toreah view, you can drink a bucket of pig's blood and it's all cool.
4) I am deleting your link to the hosptial, in that I don't allow advertsing on the site. Especially for a service that is potentially deadly.
- 7:14 AM, August 19, 2007
- Miss Manna said...
I have told you that i am a convert in my heart, and i am working on formal conversion at the beging of this blog. I am a student of the Torah, and The torah says that we should love Jews and converts, thats not very loving of you of what you said to me that i should drink pigs blood, that is something you say to your fellow jew and soon to be converted Jew? You dishonor our God by saying these things to me in open and in public and offend me this way. I am intitled to my opinion in the matter of bloodtransfuions and i am not the only one! I have recieved many emails in agreeing with me, and you want to put me down and crush me? and all i want to do is love God with my whole heart mind and strength, and try to help others do the same, thats evil thoughts you have. at least im not breaking the TOrah laws in this way, and at least im not responsible for misleading Gods people into beleiveing what is bad is good and what is good is bad! You will be judged for your own self and so will I. If i so choose to follow the Torah, then I WILL! Its my free will and choice to,and you or no man will or can tell me that i cant follow Gods ways and laws. Are you trying to kill me? drinking pigs blood thats gross! Very foolish advise, and you dont have to be a convert to realize that! Good Day!
- 10:20 AM, August 19, 2007
- Ilan The Portlander Rebbe said...
"I have told you that i am a convert in my heart."
A convert in the heart is meaningless. Only a conversion done by competent orthodx Rabbi has any vaule
"I am intitled to my opinion in the matter of bloodtransfuions "
Yes you are. but in this case, your opinion is diffrent from the Torah's. Thats just a fact. And any rabbi will agree.
"Gods people into beleiveing what is bad is good and what is good is bad! "
Any rabbi will agree with me.
"Are you trying to kill me? drinking pigs blood thats gross"
It was an example, not a suggestion.
"But your not. You are following your own heart, and trying to justifey it by Torah."
As a final note, you are comming very close to being banned.
- 11:16 AM, August 19, 2007
- Catherine Manna said...
Today I visited aish.com and Lori almost live has a new audio and it really spoke to me. I am not hear to offend anyone and i appologies if I have. and i dont wish to argue with anyone either. I love God and all his people and will try to season what I say a little more with salt sort of speak. THere were many great sages, im learning about on aish.com that died and were torchered for teaching torah and observing it after the distruction of the second temple in rome, for example rabbi Atkiva was one of them and I admire him for his courage and his zelous Love that he had for our creator. He choose to follow God till his death reciting the shema. It seems he was pleased and honored to do so, this true story is very inspiring for me, and it strengthens my own personal faith. When i started reading the Torah, a year ago, I did so on my own, where i live there is no place of worship. I live in a small town. but i really wanted answers. So one day visiting aish, i came across something. It was called the 613 laws. so i downloaded it and started to read and study. If it wasnt for reading the Torah, I wouldnt have understood the most important thing, that I was an Idol worshiper. I had no knowledge real truth about God, and all my life i was taugh different, I was taught that God had a son, and he was a god. I didnt know any different. WHen i read what God said to the Israelites via this torah that he gave them, my eyes started to open, and i realized everything i learned was a lie. At first, I thought i would read the Torah, to become a better christian, but then i realized that being a chirstian was actually the very things that the torah teahes against, makeing a convnant with Idolotors and followning the Gods of the nations that are all around you. Let me tell you I was in a state of totall shock! and for a time, couldnt believe what i was really learning through the study of the torah was the 'Truth" I was now enlightened, lost my friends family memebers, but I didnt care. I had something more precious and valueble, knowledge of God, like Mamnodiets says, sorry for the spelling thats a hard one to spell, and i felt for the first time in my whole entire life, blessed with this knowledge. Again i appologies for anything that i have said that would offend you or any reader. my intention was not that at all. I guess i can sum this all up in what lori said today on aish, if we have knowledge of God and dont exactly do it at the time, but we know of something good, perhaps in time we will do it, but meanwhile dont judge that person for not doing what we do, and have patients maybe someday they will. and about the blood thing here, i guess i should have just said, that from my knowledge of my own personal search, i found our that we have the choice to have a subsitute called a saline solution which is a bloodless sergery if you feel confortable with it, but at least we should know what are options are so we can make our own decisions. thats all i was trying to say, now that i know about the subsitue i personally will take that, and my goal is to convert officially perhaps when i go to israel next year for a visit. thank you for all you posts, i appriciate it..Peace, shalom Catherine Manna
- 12:56 PM, August 19, 2007
- Catherine Manna said...
sorry, i mean to correct something i said, there were many great sages after the distruction of the second temple in Israel, by the Romans..sorry i had said the second temple in rome...sorry about that, my mistake..thank you
- 1:57 PM, August 19, 2007
- Catherine Manna said...
Now i understand what Mammodites meant when he said "live by the law not die by it" I think what he was saying was to me anyway, if you follow the Torah you will live! Following the Torah gives you life! and that makes total sence when God gave them the law he said today i put before you the blessings and malidictions ,life and death, you choose..Very wise words. Thank you !
- 8:27 AM, August 20, 2007
- Tzarich Iyun said...
"Most of the Torah in fact is oral and both the laws that a Jew my break a commandment and the exceptions to that rule were given by the mouth of Hashem to Moshe at Sinai."
My friend, do you really mean this literally? How 'bout writing a piece on where Torah shBaal Peh came from and how it developed.
Shkoyakh. Oh, PS, while you're in Israel, it behooves you to check out Gush and R Lichtenstein.
- 7:18 PM, September 08, 2007
- Juggling Frogs said...
I have to admit, that I didn't follow the entire argument of Miss Catherine Manna, but her first question struck me:
"If you were dying and the only person that had your match, your blood type was Hitler, would you honestly say that you will still accept it? Or would you rather die? "
I'm not a rabbi (in fact I'm just a Jewish housewife) but my guess is that I'd be obligated to take his blood, if it would save my life.
What I'd "rather" do is irrelevant. We are required to follow halacha. I'm not sure what the halachic answer would be, but it trumps gut reactions.
- 7:56 AM, November 02, 2007
- House of Israel said...
Thats an interesting comment.
I'm not a rabbi (in fact I'm just a Jewish housewife) but my guess is that I'd be obligated to take his blood, if it would save my life.
What I'd "rather" do is irrelevant. We are required to follow halacha. I'm not sure what the halachic answer would be, but it trumps gut reactions.
my question is, why would you do something that you "rather not do?" For give me for my Ignorance, but what does Halacha and Torah have in common? are they one and the same or different. I dont follow anything but the Torah, there fore i dont understand what this means. Since i am no part of any religion, and believe in God, and his torah, I believe that we can make some sort of choices for ourselves with out a mediator, or someone trying to interpret for us. dont you think? I'd like to think that i too can be blessed with understanding and I too, can have a personal relashionship with the God of Issac abraham and jacob and Israel...what does your heart soul mind and strength say to you? or shall i say what does God say to you? interesting thought dont you think? Peace Catherine
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BIRMINGHAM — The SWAC announced its 2008 Preseason All-Conference Football Team Tuesday with Southern quarterback Bryant Lee and Prairie View A&M linebacker Zach East taking top honors.
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Named the preseason offensive player of the year, Lee (6-feet-2, 195, Jr.) spearheaded an offensive unit that finished first in passing offense, second in total offense and fourth in scoring offense last season.
The Boutte, La., native tallied 2,326 passing yards in 10 games in 2007. He threw for 23 touchdowns (leading the SWAC) while finishing with a pass efficiency rating of 152.6 (11th in the FCS). He ended the season garnering second-team All-Conference honors.
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In the predicted order of finish, voters decided that the 2007 division winners will repeat in 2008. In the Eastern Division, defending SWAC champion Jackson State received 17 first-place votes en route to 105 total points.
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In all, there were 12 seniors selected to the first team and 13 for the second team. 10 juniors were chosen for the first team while 11 were selected second team. Three sophomores were first-team selections while one was chosen for the second team.
Alabama A&M and Southern led the count with nine preseason selections each. The Bulldogs received six first-team selections while Southern had five. Jackson State ended with seven preseason choices — three on first team and four on second team.
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Moat Farm Mofos
The name of the "brand": where I was brought up and where I picked the fruit is called Moat Farm. My mother still lives there and its where I go for the holidays. That explains the first part. The second part: "Mofos" - it just amuses me; I like the alliterative way it sounds, I like the juxtaposition of rural England with US ghetto argot and I like the fact the my mother and her sexagenarian friends will be completely oblivious to what it actually means. It just makes me laugh and I think that my friends will like it too.
I have made some exotic liqors by mixing wild fruits with spirits and sugar. These damsons and vodka have been maturing over the last year and are now ready for bottling. I am looking for a skilled graphic designer who will design a label for me. This label will not be for commercial use - the 30-odd bottles that I produce will be kept as presents for friends or for bringing out a parties. Dimensions: once we have a cool label I am going to cut it out and glue it onto wine bottles that I will then fill with my grog and then bottle. So, the finished product needs to be about the size and dimensions of the label on a bottle of wine or spirits.
When I hear "Mofo" I think of an angry Samuel. L. Jackson with a massive 'fro and spitting out the word as he scowls into the camera. I expect that I got this impression from the recent remake of "Shaft". I have long been a fan of stencil iconography and street art - and particularly like the clean lines and instant recognizability of Shepard Fairey's stencil of Barack Obama entitled "Hope." I like comic book art as well, so if there were a headshot of Shaft (one way or another I am fairly set on having a version of Shaft) scowling and showing his teeth that'd be cool. The font: I would like to be able to reproduce the finished image on a primitive Xerox machine which means that the finished article needs to be monochrome. For the lettering I had in mind something resembling an old style of stencil lettering - like the original A-Team logo. The three lines at the bottom: These will include: what it is (damson, cherry, raspberry), when it was mixed and when it was bottled. So, they need to have enough space for normal-sized handwriting because this bit will be added last on an individual basis. The stars at the end of the lines I just added for effect. Whether to include them or not is a matter for your own judgement; I just thought that they may look cool.


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RonNLD necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Native Life Designs
"Native Life Designs" is a jewelry and souvenir manufacturing company owned by a non-profit organization: Life Initiatives, Inc. Our Mission is to hire and equip Native Americans to move ahead and out of poverty. We are in Rapid City, South Dakota, near the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (Wounded Knee) and about 20 miles from Mount Rushmore. Our staff creates jewelry which is sold in souvenir shops, boutiques in metro areas, and around the world via online sales. We must have a logo that blends the finest of marketing presentations with the earthy origins of the Lakota Sioux. Our staff are historically gifted artists. But they are also among the poorest culture in North America. Three of the poorest counties in the US are right here. This is much more than making and selling jewelry. This is about changing lives. Our customers buy our products not only because they are well-made and attractive, but because buying them helps people rise above very harsh conditions. Join us in our crusade!
Market #1: Our jewelry is sold in Gift & Souvenir shops (typically at National Monuments and Parks). This is a wide demographic - tourists of all kinds from all over the world.
Market #2: A higher-end jewelry line is sold in Boutiques in metro areas (esp Southern California). Native American culture is viewed with keen interest and is considered "exotic" in many US metro areas, and in Europe. These customers tend to be upscale, educated, and trendy.
Market #3: We also sell a Native-Themed bookmark to be sold in bookstores. Broad demographic.
We are targeting an existing market (jewelry/souvenir shops, boutiques), but we are "re-segmenting" the market to reach people who have an interest in Native jewelry, but also want their purchase to have a philanthropic impact (it helps people gain skills and rise above poverty).
We want our logo to communicate competence and quality to an often-upscale demographic, but it must also communicate the earthy, natural origin of the Lakota Sioux and of our products. Our product materials are mostly organic: shell, bone, leather, beads.
I am envisioning a clean, simple design, possibly even one-color. But I'm not locked into that totally. If you have other ideas, present them; I'll give regular feedback.
IMPORTANT: The perfect design would center on a simple graphic with other design elements in the background or periphery. The simple graphic would be used as a "coin" or "tab" that could become a metal "tag" on our products. The full logo design would be used in print and packaging; the core graphic would be incorporated into our products.
The company name, "Native Life Designs" or initials (NLD) could be part of the design, but not necessarily.
Earth tones are important. Significant symbols which might be a part of the design include the Feather, the Eagle, the Buffalo, and "sweet grass" or a simple, straight prairie grass.
The winning designer could also be hired later for designing displays for our products.
Get a sense of our culture by browsing our website: http://www.LakotaLife.org.
If you're really motivated to understand our culture, rent the movies, "Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee" (historical) and "Smoke Signals" (current culture).
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People are talking about how common stand your ground states are compared to duty to retreat states, so I thought Id do a bit of looking to see the current head count. . . . As best I can tell, the current rule is that 19 states (plus D.C.) fall in the duty to retreat category . . . All the other states do not impose a duty to retreat. The rule in federal cases seems to be ambiguous.This oversimplifies matters somewhat (Pennsylvania, for instance, imposes a duty to retreat only when the person whom the defendant is defending against has not displayed a weapon readily or apparently capable of lethal use); and I might have erred in classifying one or two states in either direction, since this is the result of a few hours worth of research and has not been fully cite-checked. Still, I think this reflects the general pattern:1. The substantial majority view among the states, by a 31-19 margin, is no duty to retreat. . . .
I think there is a false narrative being spread. First that Stand your ground laws are in the minority and only "backwards" states have them, and two that we used to be an entirely duty to retreat country and stand your ground was a recent invention. They do the first by only counting the states that are stand your ground by statute, and they do the second by pretending all those states were duty to retreat states prior to the statute being passed.


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Ears and Airplane Travel, Ear Wax, and Ear Cleaning
Ears and Airplane Travel, Earwax, and Ear Cleaning
Ears and air travel
When many people travel by air, their ears may not pop as the altitude changes. It is one of the most common medical complaint of airplane passengers. It is caused by an air pocket in the middle ear that is sensitive to changes in air pressure. The changing altitude as the plane takes off or lands can cause discomfort in the ears.
Swallowing or yawning usually can help "pop" the ears. This activates the muscle that open the eustachian tube, which connects the middle ear with the back of the nose. However, ears that are already blocked (by a cold, for example) can't equalize the air pressure in the middle ear adequately. This creates a vacuum that sucks the eardrum in and stretches it. When the eardrum can't vibrate, sound is muffled and the stretched eardrum can be very painful.
If swallowing or yawning does not relieve the ears, try the following ear-clearing technique:
Pinch the nostrils shut.
Breathe in through the mouth.
Force the air into the back of the nose as if trying to blow your nose.
If you hear a pop, the ears are unblocked. You may need to repeat this process several times, especially during the plane's descent. After landing, if the ears fail to open and the pain persists, see a healthcare provider who specializes in ear problems.
Small children are especially vulnerable to blocked ear canals because their eustachian tubes are narrower. Use of a bottle or pacifier during take-off and landing may help pop their ears. Try to keep small children awake during a descent.
What is earwax?
Earwax, also called cerumen, is naturally produced by the outer part of the ear canal to keep the ear clean. It does this by trapping dust and sand particles before they reach the eardrum. Wax also coats the fragile skin of the ear canal and acts as a water repellent. A buildup of wax usually moves its way to the ear opening, dries up, and falls out.
How should I properly clean my ears?
Normally, ears canals are self-cleaning and should not need cleaning with any devices or cotton-tipped swabs. Cleaning the ear can cause problems by pushing the earwax deeper into the ear canal and against the eardrum. However, sometimes wax can accumulate excessively, resulting in a blocked ear canal. In the case of a blocked ear canal, consult your healthcare provider. He or she may be able to do one or more of the following:
An irrigation of the ear canal to wash out the wax
A vacuuming of the ear canal to remove the wax
The use of a special instrument(s) to remove the wax
Prescription eardrops or mineral oil to soften the wax
Always consult your healthcare provider for a diagnosis and for more information.
March 21, 2017
Reviewed By:
Fraser, Marianne, MSN, RN,Kacker, Ashutosh, MD


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So for the past day or so, I've been spraypainting my cache container (scuffed up so it's not uber-slippery) with a textured spraypaint to fit in with where it'll be hiding. To my dismay, upon it drying and me picking it up to check it out, I've discovered that the spraypaint has absolutely ZERO hold on the container.
With the sheer act of picking it up, the dry spraypaint stuck to my FINGERS more than it did to the cache container, and just came off on my hands. I swear it has so little stick, the surface must be repelling it a 1/4mm off the surface or something :P
The really irritating part? The cardboard that I sprayed over, or like... a rock that got sprayed on or anything... all stuck with paint. Just the cache container isn't. Blargg. Well... there's 12 bucks I wouldn't mind getting back. MAybe this stuff will be useful somewhere else.
Solution as of now... going to test a psycho-glue that I have and see how strong it holds. If it stays, I think I'll just coat the entire surface of the cache container in it and either glue something that surface, or just wait for it to dry and spraypaint the glue :P
But yeah... a tad annoying. I already got the page started on geocaching.com, so I have a cache ID number and everything... but I can't send it for review until I get this container fixed. Otherwise, it woulda been sent for review this weekend. Looks like I may be delayed a week or so :{
Hey Kabuthunk.
For the textured spraypaint to stick, you will need to use a really good primer coat. I have had success before with a cheap can of primer. Use a coarse sandpaper on the surface. Really scuff it up alot. If it is a gasketed container (Lock & lock, ammo can) make sure you don't get any paint on the gasket.
You could also "prime" the container with camo duck tape. It holds paint ok. And if any paint chips off, you still have the tape back up.
If you are planning on using glue, I would recommend exterior silicone. It is weatherproof and sticks to anything.
First cache is nearing completion (again). The glue that I used is the same stuff I used to glue down the carpeting in the interior of my car... so I know it can take a ton of abuse, cold, heat, and just about anything else you can throw at it. I use it for anything I need to stay, and stay good :P
In either case... instead of the previously mentioned idea of "spraypaint the glue", I just decided to go more all-out, and spend an extra 4 or 5 hours on preparing the cache container to better blend in. It's currently about 90% done, but due to the 12-24 hour dry time with the glue, and me wanting to do several layers (in case anything chips off or falls off) of camoflage, it'll still be several days before it's complete, then several more days before I can get it out.
But soon... soon...
I had to repair one of my caches like that. The first camo just peeled off in large pieces, white glue does NOT make good camo adhesive. For my next repair I covered the cache in silicone, then sprinkled sand in it to provide camo. This seems to be holding up.
Also, wiping down the container with acetone as well as sanding it, helps glue to stick to the plastic better, I have found.
Hurrah! Cache creation has been completed. Minor touch-ups remain, but that should be done tonight. Cache page nearly completed as well. Only things remaining are completing FTF prize and certificate, the aformentioned touch-ups on the container, physically placing it, and sending the page up for review.
On a random note... here's the initial contents. I decided to go with some less-conventional starting items... since usually what I find in a cache tends to be boring. Hence, I put in things I'd like to find in caches myself :P :
LogbookRoll of camoflage tapeMatchbox carNormal-shaped caribinerDuck-shaped caribinerBouncy ballRubber chickenFTF prize (handwoven titanium chainmail bracelet) & certificate
So yeah... look forward to Kabuthunk's first cache coming shortly (unless it's disallowed for some reason, but I can't fathom why right now). I estimate end of the week I'll be submitting for review... maybe earlier. I have Thursday off, so I'll be seeing if I can get out there to place it then.
Hey, You can't put this cache here I plan on putting one there....lol
How's that? Beat the reviewers note...grins
BLARGG! I'm sure everyone goes through this with the first cache or so they've placed... but the wait to see if it gets approved and activated is agonizing!
I submitted it for review... about 26 hours ago. I'm sure it can easily take several days, or even a week or two... depending on how busy the reviewers are with... y'know... regular life, but still :P
So yeah... cache is currently sitting in the cold, waiting to be found... and it's drivin' me nuts waiting for any kind of word of if I need to change something, or do something extra, or if it's taking so long because of a problem... or yeah. The waiting... it be driving me nuts!
Congratulations, it's a boy...err..cache. May it live long and be found by many happy cachers.


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How to make Chuck Wagon Brisket
Set up grill for indirect cooking over medium heat (no direct heat source under brisket).
Rinse brisket with cold water and pat dry. Season with salt and pepper and place in foil baking pan. Sprinkle with meatloaf seasoning and pour over beer. Add enough apple cider to cover brisket halfway. Top with sliced onions and cover with heavy-duty aluminum foil.
Place pan on hot grill over a drip pan. Cover grill and cook 2 1/2 hours. If using charcoal, add 10 briquettes to each pile of coals every hour. Remove brisket from braising liquid and place directly on grill over the drip pan. Combine 2 cups of braising liquid with BBQ sauce. Mop brisket thoroughly with sauce. Add 1/2 cup of wood chips to each pile of coals. Cover grill. Turn and mop brisket every 20 minutes for 1 hour.
Transfer brisket to cutting board and let rest 10 minutes before slicing. Thinly slice against grain and serve with mop sauce on the side.
INDOOR: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Follow directions for preparing brisket. Cover pan with aluminum foil and bake in preheated oven for 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Remove brisket from braising liquid and place on foil lined baking sheet. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Mop brisket with BBQ sauce return to oven. Turn and mop brisket with sauce 2 more times every 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest 10 minutes before slicing.
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In part 1, I talked about fields and field gradients. I want to expand on that just a little because I believe that it is key to action-at-a-distance and gravitational forces in particular, and I think I can make it a little clearer.
We know that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity tells us that gravity is a result of space-time warping in the presence of a mass, often shown in figures as a membrane with a large body (such as the sun) in the middle, sitting in a depression in the membrane and a smaller body (such as the earth) circling around in a smaller depression in the same membrane. I mentioned that we humans have a tough time getting our mind around that situation when it comes to our own bodies in the earth's gravitational field. When we are standing on firm ground, where is the membrane and what is being warped?
I also mentioned that a mass is surrounded by a field and we can draw a circle or sphere around that mass where the field strength (gravity) is the same at all points on the circle or sphere and additional circles around points further out for smaller and smaller strengths. The result is a series of shells that stretch out to infinity, or at least as far as light has traveled since that mass was placed in that position. This is different than the normal depiction of fields as being lines connecting two masses along the lines of force. I'm convinced that my shell drawing of equal strength points will be easier to understand.
The figure above illustrates two situations. Figure 1a shows two masses that are different sizes and also far apart. The field lines are drawn around each for some easily measurable strengths and the drawing shows only those fields that have sufficient strength to measure on our crude meter. In fact the fields go on forever in ever-decreasing strength. If we had a better meter, we could draw lines all the way between them and beyond.
The fields in figure 1a are essentially circles around each mass because the masses are positioned so far apart that we can't discern any distortion in the circles.
The fields in figure 1b show a situation where the smaller mass has been placed closer to the larger one and overlap the outer two measurement circles of each. The figure shows that the fields merge. The outer rings of both masses were the same strength before and still are because we are measuring the field at equal strength at the minimum reading we can take with our poor meter.
Notice that the outer ring and the one just inside of it have now combined for the two masses and as a result of the added strength moved out a little further, that is, bulged further out on the far side of the small mass. In addition, the 3d ring of the bigger mass has also bulged a little due to the movement of the others. It should be clear that the fields in the bulged areas are not stronger, but are the same strength as before, but now our measurements of that strength are further out.
The two masses are now part of one system and the rings around them are distorted a little at all points as they now form equal fields around the center of gravity of the two masses. That is not really apparent in my simplified drawings, but the system now acts as a larger mass to other masses (not shown) further out.
Our body is a system of masses that act like the system above but infinitely more complicated as the fields of every molecule of our body interacts with every other and with fields external. However, we can now visualize our body as being the smaller mass and the earth a similar system of masses much bigger. When we are on the earth, our mass interacts with and modifies the earth's field ever so slightly (and the earth ours), but sufficient to feel the effects due to the enormous mass of the earth.
There is still a gradient across the two masses (the fields on each side of it are different sizes), and a tension across the gradient that tends to pull the masses together. Actually, it is not clear if it is a pull or a push. Is the larger mass pulling the smaller one or is the enhanced field that has now moved out behind the smaller one now giving it a slight push? To be complete we have to say the small one is also pulling on the larger one or possibly the field behind the larger one is pushing it toward the smaller one. Indeed the field behind the larger one has also moved out ever so slightly in the same manner as shown for the smaller one, but not discernable from the drawing.
From the drawing, I'm inclined to say they are being pushed together, in the same manner that a rubber band wrapped around two fingers pushes the fingers together.
How did the fields get there in the first place?
There is no question that the fields are there. But is the gravitational field moving at the speed of light outward from the mass? The short answer to the last part is no. The fields as I explain them are essentially static. They are modulated by disturbances within the core of the mass (quarks, gluons flying around) but the field strength is essentially static except as modified by the fields of other masses elsewhere in the universe. That modulation of the fields goes on constantly in ways we could never compute. The modulation or changes in the field do move at the speed of light, but the lines drawn around our figure do not change except as other masses move and influence the fields.
The answer to the title question "How did the fields get there in the first place?" is this: They have been there since the mass was created. For the atomic scale, we are talking about when the quarks and gluons first condensed out of the big bang expansion and atoms and other particles were formed. Each atom and each particle that has mass had a field established at that time and it has followed them around ever since. On a larger scale, as atoms combined into molecules and dirt and other debris combined into lumps and moons, the systems of fields depicted in figure 1b began to grow as well. Eventually a sun was formed, an earth was formed and we were born into it. Our masses accumulate and become a smaller system of our own.
Thus we are composed of atoms from the creation and from the deaths of stars which may have flung our larger atoms and their attendant fields out into space to end up as us with enough intelligence to understand a few things about our world, including a little about gravity.
Where does mass come from?
If gravity is a function of mass, where does mass come from? Actually there is no problem here: if E = mc^2 then it can be restated as m = E/C^2. Simply put, mass is a form of infinitely condensed energy. Release the energy and you have an atomic bomb. The components of an atom really have very little individual mass among them. All of the mass is ultimately from the energy within. The quarks and gluons and other stuff inside are moving about in a wildly speedy fashion, like a whirling dervish. In effect, gravity is more of a function of energy than any real matter.
The point of mentioning this is that I believe that the gravity fields that were established at the beginning, shortly after the big bang, are the left-over effects of energy being condensed into matter – huge amounts of energy being squeezed or formed out of the soup of creation during the bang and leaving lonely fields stretching out forever and following that condensed energy wherever it goes. So what holds us down is essentially the debris of locked up energy condensed when our atoms were created, long before the earth was formed and eventually accumulated into the ground we walk on.
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Frick '95 Hears Surgeon General's Report on Smokingby Howard Hewitt • June 21, 2006 Share:
Berkeley, Calif. – It's hard to pick up a newspaper anywhere in this country without reading about a community debating a smoke-free ordinance.
One influential hand in that on-going societal change is Wabash College graduate, Bronson Frick '95. Frick is the Associate Director for Americans for Non-smokers Rights based in Berkeley. His organization has provided grass root support and training to groups trying to pass such ordinances.
Crawfordsville's City Council was poised to enact a smoke-free law but but did not take a final vote when the city's mayor threatened a veto. Across the country such local control ordinances are multiplying.
On June 27 in Washington D.C. advocates for protecting non-smokers may have gotten a new weapon in their arsenal to persuade local lawmakers to pass such laws.
Surgeon General Vice Admiral Richard H. Carmona presented the nation's first full report on second-hand smoke since 1986.
"I'm assuming it will say second-hand smoke is still killing folks," Frick said earlier this month. "I'll be at the press conference in D.C. with the Surgeon General, and organizationally we're really looking forward to it. We'll be there on behalf of all our members, on behalf of all the flight attendants who died from second-hand smoke and everyone else that's still being exposed."
There's little question the non-smoking movement is growing, according to Americans for Non-Smokers rights. Across the country Washington, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Delaware have enacted state laws legislating 100 percent smoke free workplaces, restaurants and bars. In California, Idaho, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Florida, Maine, Vermont and Connecticut, laws have been enacted state wide mandating either workplace or restaurants smoking bans.
Colorado, Montana, and Utah have enacted statewide smoking bans that have not gone into effect yet governing workplaces or restaurants/bars.
"The growth of smoke free ordinances is really attributed to the clear, scientific evidence around the health hazards of second hand smoke, increased public understanding of those health hazards and the response of elected officials to those concerns," Frick explained. "Opponents, particularly tobacco companies, try to frame this as an issue of smoking versus non-smoking. This is about everyone's right to breathe air without being harmed by second hand smoke."
On homepage: Frick consults with one of the organization's researchers on recent statistics showing the number of communities and states that have adopted non-smoking ordinances.
Editor's Note: Frick was one of nine Wabash College graduates we recently visited in California. Full stories on the graduates will be published later this year in Wabash Magazine and on the college website.


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Transitional Weather
When finally it is warm and sunny after a long winter, it's tempting to dress as if it is summer. But with the transitional weather in March and April, this is also the time of the year a lot of people tend to get sick. After all, 50-60°F is not really that balmy. And even with the kinder temperatures, Spring (in New England at least) tends to be windy - and the wind hits cyclists directly in the face and chest with more force than it does pedestrians.


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