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   With a rich history in the forestry industry that spans more than 60 years, leading forestry equipment manufacturer John Deere will be a featured sponsor of this year's competition.     John Deere is proud to be a Title Sponsor of the Lumberjack World Championships," said Nate Clark, Forestry Marketing Manager for John Deere Construction and Forestry. "The Lumberjack World Championships provides all of us at John Deere with a rewarding opportunity to feature and celebrate the hard work and dedication found in the logging community and epitomized by the competition's athletes."    In the 52 years since the inaugural event, tens of thousands of spectators have come to the small town of Hayward, Wisconsin from all over the globe to watch the world's finest compete in the "Granddaddy" of all timber sports competitions: Lumberjack World Championships®. It is three days of challenge, determination and pure strength for both men and women

   It's important to first note that there is a difference between what a zombie originally was meant to represent and what history has actually made it out to be. The term "zombie" comes from the Haitian culture and folklore (called a "zombi") in which a Bokor, or voodoo priest, used a white powder coup padre and black magic to resurrect the deceased of someone who had annoyed his or her family or community. The 1932 film White Zombie is one of the earliest productions to utilize this but it wouldn't be the last. There were many early productions that focused on the traditional image of the zombie such as The Voodoo Man (1944), I Walk With A Zombie (1943), Revolt of the Zombies (1936), Plague of Zombies (1965), and I Eat Your Skin (1961), to name a few, but it wasn't until writers John Russo and George A. Romero conjured up their 1968 production of Night of the Living Dead that the face of the zombie and horror genre would forever be changed.