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Research Fellow: Leon Rocha (2011–14) – Ye Dehui: Chinese Book-Collector and Philological Scholar
For Leon Rocha (Research Fellow) a key question drives his research projects: 'How do people come to know what they know about China, and why do they think about China in a particular way?'
Leon wrote in the Emmanuel Review in 2012:
In other words, I am not only interested in finding out 'historical facts' about China, but I am also investigating the processes and the socio-political contexts in which knowledge about China is produced.
My starting point was Joseph Needham's monumental series Science and Civilisation in China. I wanted to discover how Needham came to know what he knew. What textual and archaeological evidence did he draw from, and what networks of expertise did he mobilise? One crucial source for Needham, with regard to the history of Daoism, medicine and sexuality, turned out to be a late nineteenth- and early twentieth- century literatus called Ye Dehui. My current research involves an extensive study of Ye's life and works.
Born in 1864, Ye Dehui came from one of the wealthiest families in the Hunan region. He attended the prestigious Yuelu Academy and was eventually awarded the jinshi chushen ('of presented scholar background') status in the 1892 Palace Examination. He was immediately appointed a secretary of the Ministry of Personnel and Civil Appointments, but his career as a Beijing official was short-lived. Resigning from his post and returning to his native Changsha, Ye became thoroughly enmeshed in the network of Hunanese elites. He controlled major agricultural and commercial enterprises, and became one of the most prominent gentry rice and salt merchants in southern China. His considerable wealth financed an enormous collection of rare books and manuscripts, paintings and calligraphy, jade and fine jewellery, precious metals and bronze antiques, wines and other luxury items. Ye's collection of books – an estimated 200 000 volumes – was one of the largest in China at that time.
Ye fashioned himself as a vanguard of Chinese traditions. He staunchly defended the social organisation and political institutions of the Qing Dynasty. While he acknowledged that the West might have some useful technologies, which China ought to adopt selectively, he insisted on the absolute superiority of Chinese culture. He thought Confucianism represented 'the supreme expression of justice in the principles of Heaven and the hearts of men' and predicted a future world in which Confucianism would replace all other beliefs in 'civilised countries of both East and West'. For Ye Dehui, China's repeated 'humiliation' by foreign powers since the Opium Wars was not because something was inherently wrong with Chinese values, but because the Chinese were not Chinese enough. Everything that was wise and useful had already been said millennia ago by Chinese sages, Ye argued, so the solution to any social malaise or political decline was a return to classical texts. Indeed, it was this conservative mentality that earned Ye the label 'a thinker from the die-hard school'.
It is unsurprising, given Ye's outlook, that he devoted his research to Chinese philology, particularly so-called 'elementary studies', which combined phonetics, semantics, etymology and the analysis of Chinese characters. His aim was to determine the correct pronunciation, appearance and meanings of words, which would then enable the accurate transmission of ideas. This went hand-in-hand with Ye Dehui's bibliographic project, the authentification and rectification of classical texts, as well as the restoration and reconstruction of standard, canonical editions. In short, he was interested in the study of the medium carrying the knowledge and wisdom of the ancient sages.
Ye's reputation as a prolific scholar with an encyclopaedic knowledge about the Chinese language attracted young students from as far as Japan. The linguistician Morohashi Tetsuji, who created the Dai Kan-Wa jiten (1955–60, the Japanese/Chinese counterpart of the Oxford English Dictionary), visited Ye Dehui in 1920. Morohashi set out to investigate continuing intellectual debates about democracy, women's rights, language reform and the modernisation of China. During his travels in 1919–21, he met famous Chinese intellectuals such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu, but was unimpressed by all of them as they seemed too 'Westernised'. He preferred conversing with the 'old school' Confucian scholars and eccentric men who seemed stuck in time, like Ye Dehui.
While the intellectual exchange between Morohashi and Ye was brief, other Japanese disciples stayed much longer. Literature scholar Shionoya On, for instance, remained in Changsha for two years to learn Yuan Dynasty drama under Ye's tutelage, while Sinologist Matsuzaki Tsuruo lived in Ye's home for nine years to study the history of the Chinese book. When Ye died in 1927, a memorial service was held in Tokyo, attended by some of the most well-known Japanese Sinologists. Despite Ye's professed Sinocentrism, he was remarkably cosmopolitan, and his bibliographic work and book collection depended on these scholarly networks that stretched between China and Japan.
Although Ye Dehui's philological scholarship is largely forgotten, his bibliographical works and histories of Chinese bookmaking have continued to attract attention. His most important work, Plain Talks on the Forest of Books (Shulin qinghua, 1911), details the history of the book from the Tang and Song Dynasties onwards, with meticulous research on technical standards, preservation and collection, and the evolution of designs and technologies. Another work, The Bookman's Decalogue (Cangshu shiyue, 1911, translated into English by the brilliant Harvard Sinologist Achilles Fang), contains Ye's advice about the purchase of books and manuscripts, restoration and display, and so forth. This work offers rare glimpses of the culture of refinement among bibliophiles in Late Imperial China. Cambridge historian Joseph McDermott states that Ye's books 'remain today, a full century after their first publication, important first-call reference works for all serious students of Chinese history'.
I am currently writing a lengthy analysis of Ye Dehui's Shadow of the Double Plum Tree Anthology (Shuangmei jing'an congshu, 1903–14). This is a curious collection of texts, containing reconstructions of treatises on Daoist alchemical practices, specifically those concerning sexuality and immortality, from the Han to Tang Dynasties. These texts, for instance The Classic of the Plain Girl (Sunu? jing), discuss pleasure and desire, the cultivation of essence, the maintenance of health and the attainment of longevity. Ye reconstructed these texts from fragments recorded in Ishinpo, the oldest surviving medical work from tenth-century Japan.
Why did Ye Dehui reconstruct these texts? To resist Western science and medicine. He argued that the 'Art of the Bedchamber' described in these works were superior to Western inquiries into sexual behaviour, that they anticipated eugenics and birth control. Ye's goal was to recreate and put back into circulation a canon of 'Chinese sexology'. The Double Plum Anthology became an important source for Western Sinologists including Joseph Needham and Robert van Gulik. The argument that Needham and van Gulik made using Ye's anthology was very interesting: they insisted that there was a Chinese sexual culture far healthier and less repressive than Western sexualities.
The study of Ye Dehui's career and works, and their reception, illuminates questions about the circulation of books, the movement and exchange of ideas, and translations and creative appropriations. I hope that my work in Sinology and the history of Sinological scholarship enriches understandings of how different groups of intellectuals and scholars came to say what they did about China.


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Lost in a wave of golden Triforces, swords in stones, courageous heroes and glorious destinies, most people overlook the less obvious, odder side of the Legend of Zelda series. While some of these strange characters are simply impossible to ignore (Tingle, for instance), others don't get the credit they deserve for how gosh darn kooky they are. And that's exactly why I compiled this list of the 20 weirdest Zelda characters.
Prepare yourself - weirdness ensues. You've been warned.
List last updated: September 5, 2013
#20: Salvatore
Appearances: Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass
Tons of Zelda veterans undoubtedly remember Salvatore - although there's a good chance they didn't even know he had a name (unless they read his figurine description in Wind Waker's Nintendo Gallery). This would-be van Gogh is the guy who runs those awesome, pirate-themed mini-games on Windfall Island and Spectacle Isle in Wind Waker (as well as on Bannan Isle in Phantom Hourglass). According to the short bio on his figurine, Salvatore is a struggling painter who thought up these crazy mini-games as a way to score some quick cash. Silly Salvatore, you're so sad with your poor life choices and degrading career. But it's okay. After all, you make us laugh with your humorous wooden cutouts and wily antics, and while the things your profession would have you do certainly are odd, we like you anyway. Besides, you're not nearly as weird as the rest of the folks on this list.
#19: The Tingle Brothers
Appearances: Wind Waker, Minish Cap
The only surefire way to out-crazy Tingle (we'll get to him later) is by not being Tingle but willfully choosing to act like him anyway. Such is the chosen destiny of the Tingle Bros., an odd combination of Tingle's twin brothers, Ankle and Knuckle, and some poor, poor soul named David Jr., who isn't really related at all. Known for following the ways of the outlandish fairy wanna-be, these guys are essentially Tingle's slaves. Anyone who would allow that to happen has just got to be a weirdo. The worst part of it is that they're just carbon copies of Tingle, and nothing's less weird then unoriginality. So listen up, all you would-be Tingle impersonators out there, if you want to make it higher on this list you're going to have to come up with your own shtick. And no amount of Kooloo-Limpah-ing is going to change anything.
#18: Error
Appearances: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
"I am Error," he said. "Whaaaa?" replied players of Zelda II: The Adventure of Link everywhere, awash in confusion. After all, aren't old-school NPCs supposed to supply you with necessary information relevant to the quest at hand? How do you expect Link to save your two-dimensional booty without all the deets, huh, Error? Whether Error is simply a man of few words with a silly name, some sort of self-aware android, or just another glitchy NPC, one thing is for sure - this guy is weird.
#17: Sale and Schule Donavitch
Appearances: Link's Awakening
Someone needs to find these alligators' parents and give them a stern talking to, for they must have been very strange indeed. Their son, Sale, is a baby-blue alligator that eats dog food, which he trades for bananas (obviously), which he then sells at Sale's House O' Bananas, his own, personal, beachside business. His brother, Schule Donavitch, is quite different, but also a total loon. This gator's not only red (strange considering his bro is blue), but also a quirky artist. He sculpts mermaids and paints pictures of hippo models. And by hippo models I mean hippopotamuses that partake in modeling, not miniature, wooden hippos. Man, this is getting weird. On to number sixteen!
#16: Crazy Tracy
Appearances: Link's Awakening, Captain Rainbow
As her name implies, this chick is crazy. She lives with crazy rodents, brews crazy potions and has a crazy manager. Seriously, whoever hooked her up with a cameo gig in Nintendo's Captain Rainbow should be fired. Appearing in a game that crazy doesn't look good on your résumé. Then again, crazy is kind of her thing, and on this list, that must count for something.
#15: Ruto
Appearances: Ocarina of Time
Excuuuse me, Princess Ruto, but you are one creepy, bratty, little fish girl, you hear that? Wanting to marry and make babies with someone of another species is just plain weird, even if you're the princess of the Zoras and this Link guy saved your life. It's still wrong, babe! It's wrong! Poor, innocent Link, don't let Ruto get her hands on you or there's fish sex in your near future! Hey, wait, is it still considered bestiality if said fish sex is the result of the fish having sex with you rather than the other way around? Either way, it's gross. And weird.
#14: Beedle
Appearances: Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, Skyward Sword
Many of Hyrule's inhabitants are pretty weird, but few can, at the same time, manage to be groovy as all hell. Seriously, Beedle is like the fifth Beatle. He's the grooviest guy to ever clone himself relentlessly and then sail the vast ocean in search of someone to sell a bunch of bombs to. Maybe, if you're lucky, he'll even sell you a ceramic piece of heart or a decapitated pig's head. Hey, you could even use the pig head as a bait bag! It's genius. That way, you can store food that's meant to be eaten by pigs inside of a pig. Then feed it to fish. Creepy, convenient, and well worth a spot on this list.
#13: Guru-guru
Appearances: Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Oracle of Seasons
Now, most people probably refer to this one as "that music box guy from Ocarina," but the man actually has a name, and that name is Guru-guru. What's a Guru-guru, you ask? Well, as it would seem, it's a guy who spends his entire life living inside of a windmill obsessively performing the same song (albeit a catchy one) forever and ever and ever. Guru-guru also hates kids who play ocarinas, claiming that they use them to make it rain and mess up his precious windmill by playing the very song he is obsessed with. The only thing weirder is that he's telling the truth.
#12: Kamaro
Appearances: Majora's Mask
Kamaro plays a pretty small role in Majora's Mask. It's a somewhat insignificant detail to the story, actually, as all you do is jam with him so that he'll give you his mask. Needless to say, he almost didn't make the list. But then I remembered that he's a dancing zombie, and was forced to reconsider. The dance itself is pretty weird too, and to top it off, that mask he gives you... yeah, it makes it look like his face is popping out of your face and forces you to dance like him. Creepy and creepier.
#11: Falbi
Appearances: Twilight Princess
Confidence is one thing, weirdness is another. Most self-respecting Hylian men wouldn't be caught dead dressed like Falbi, and that's a good thing. Maybe it's the orange, polka-dotted parachute pants, or maybe it's the frilly, midriff-bearing green number he wears up top, but this guy's just plain silly-looking. Perhaps that's why he's such a loner. He lives by himself on the edge of a cliff and charges people to willingly jump off in an attempt to coast safely down to Lake Hylia whilst holding a cucco (read: chicken) as the only means of slowing their fall. Why would someone pay to do this? For one reason: to get away from Falbi.


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Sean St Ledger is on the verge of a Middlesbrough exit after a bust-up with manager Gordon Strachan.
The 24-year old Republic of Ireland international reportedly wants out at the Riverside after clashing with the new manager but faces a tough task in doing so as he is currently on loan from Preston North End.
St Ledger joined Boro on loan for £4million, joining outside the transfer window, with the view to a full-time move which has apparently been guaranteed but now things have changed dramatically.
It is a strange situation in which a player wants to leave a club before his deal becomes officially permanent and is sure to create some confusion among authorities.


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Iditarod 2012 Photos
From time to time here at Gunaxin Sports, we like to highlight Boston.com's The Big Picture, and their collection of sports photos. In this installment we'd like to take a look at their recent gallery of photos from the Iditarod. While we understand the high cost of this event on the dogs, it's tough to deny the beauty of the sport :
The 40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race came to an end earlier this week in Nome, Alaska. Dallas Seavey, 25, bested both his father and his grandfather with his team of nine dogs, becoming the youngest musher ever to win the nearly 1,000-mile race across the Alaskan wilderness. His winnings included $50,000 and a new truck. Gathered here are images from the Iditarod and other events from around the globe.
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A police standoff early today that lasted more than three hours ended when the suspect killed himself, Las Vegas police said.
Police first received a call regarding a stolen vehicle at 10 p.m. Tuesday. The vehicle was located at an apartment complex in the 9000 block of Vantage Point Road, near Washington Avenue and Buffalo Drive, at 2 a.m. today, with the unidentified male suspect hiding inside.
Officer Barbara Morgan said SWAT negotiated with the suspect for several hours, and did not approach the armed suspect. At 5:13 a.m., the suspect shot himself in the head, she said.
"(SWAT) was trying to tell him, 'It's a stolen vehicle, it's not worth dying over,' " said Morgan.
Police did not identify the man.
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The Address of the venue is:
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By Car
Durham is served by excellent roads. The A1/A1(M) motorway provides fast, easy access from the South. From the North choose from the A1 coastal route or the A68 cross-country route to Durham. Head for Durham City Centre, and Gala is clearly signposted.
Car Parking
Walkergate multi-storey car park is located 30 seconds walk from Gala, with a cheap evening rate after 6pm, and is easily reached via the slip road under Milburngate bridge or via Freeman Place. Prince Bishops car park off the A690 is 5 minutes walk away and also has an evening tariff after 6pm.
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Lead Instructor, Professor Jennifer Liu
Professsor Liu, the immediate past president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association (CLTA) and the current academic director of the K-16 Oregon Chinese Flagship Program, has been engaged in teacher training and development for the past 16 years. An associate professor at Indiana University, she routinely teaches Chinese pedagogy courses to graduate students interested in Chinese language teaching. She is in the process of completing a series of Chinese language textbooks. She has already published Interactions I-II: A Cognitive Approach to Beginning Chinese and Connections I-II: A Cognitive Approach to Intermediate Chinese and is field testing the advanced series Encounters I-II. Learn more.
Instructor, Professor Michael Everson
Professor Everson is an associate professor of foreign language education at the University of Iowa. As such, he oversees undergraduate- and graduate-level programs in foreign language education, supervising one of the few K-12 Chinese teacher certification programs in the United States. He taught Chinese for ten years at the U.S. Air Force Academy and has published widely about how American students learn to read in Chinese. A two-time member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Language Teachers Association, Professor Everson has presented workshops on a variety of topics involving Chinese language research and pedagogy and is active in a variety of strategic initiatives designed to expand K-12 Chinese language education in the United States. Learn more.
Instructor, Claire Kotenbeutel
Claire Kotenbeutel is a Wisconsin-certified teacher of Chinese, French, and German and taught languages in the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin for 25 years. She has spent the last three years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Curriculum and Instruction teaching foreign language methodology. She now works as a foreign language consultant for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. She has taught foreign language methodology to English teachers in Heilongjiang Province, PRC and has led many study tours abroad for students and teachers. She has won curriculum development awards locally and nationally, most notably designing the middle school language curriculum for the Madison School District and the articulated Chinese program for middle through high school. She is currently instituting a long-range program for grades 6-12 that weaves China, Chinese language, and environmental science into the core subjects. She worked on the National and the Wisconsin Chinese Standards and in 2005 was named Wisconsin Distinguished Foreign Language Educator. She is the co-owner of PLACES International, LLC, a company that works with corporations for language and culture learning, and is an international award-winning Chinese landscape artist.


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Race and Physics Teaching
I was struck by the fact that the responses, the papers that were submitted, were unique, and in some cases much broader than what I expected in terms of a response to a call for articles about race and the physics classroom, but they were appropriate and in rhythm with the call.
—Geraldine Cochran, Rutgers University
Contact: David Wolfe
College Park, MD, August 16, 2017—In February 2016, The Physics Teacher issued a call for papers on the topic of race and physics teaching.In the succeeding months, many of the most thoughtful people in physics education responded to the call with inspiring articles about tested ways of improving the environment for diverse scholars, about privilege and teaching science, and about personal confessions in striving for more equity in education, among other important topics.
The first responses to the call will be published in TPT starting next week, a collection of articles that provides specific models feasible for physics teachers to implement, as well as articles that move the conversation about equity in the work done by physicists and physics teachers forward. Seven papers are included in September's themed issue, and additional articles will be published as part of the collection from October through December.
As is the tradition with regular TPT manuscripts, these new submissions were peer-reviewed, in this case by a variety of physics educators with much expertise in the areas of physics teaching and issues of race, so as to better ensure that what is published is informed by evidence and the consideration of many knowledgeable perspectives.
In their editorial, Unique voices in harmony: Call-and-response to address race and physics teaching, Geraldine L. Cochran and Gary D. White observe:
We all have privilege. Some of the privilege we have is by choice and we put forth effort to attain, such as the privilege that comes with our level of education. Other privileges we have may be the result of no effort on our part;we may have privileges based on the country where we were born, the race with which we identify or are identified by others, or the language we first learned to speak, among other things. For many, we have a sense of pride in the privileges that come with the things we worked to attain such as our level of education. It can be a little harder to grapple with the privileges that were handed to us, so to speak. It is even harder to come to terms with the reality that the privileges that were handed to us influenced our ability to gain things for which we may have worked hard to obtain.
Daane, Decker, and Sawtelle's article, included in the September issue, on "teaching about racial equity in introductory physics courses" provides a curriculum that can be modified to fit the circumstance of a variety of physics courses and can address a number of issues related to inequity in physics.
Dounas-Frazer, Hyater-Adams, and Reinholz offer "a model for continued education of program organizers" that are learning to do diversity work. Russ showcases a model for including conversations about equity into science/physics teacher education.
Another article addresses the complex interactions between race and ethnicity in the context of physics teaching in Puerto Rico. This work, by González-Espada and Carrasquillo, is a fascinating look into some of the past problems and current successes in physics teaching there, and is one example of the surprising breadth of responses to the original call for papers. An additional example, which might seem quite a stretch from the original call for some, is the piece by Hechter and Awad, Living Ethnoastronomy: Discovering the Connectedness of the Human Spirit Beneath the Night Sky, a short and moving reflection on their unlikely collaboration.
This themed issue is very timely, given the implications of the US Supreme Court Chief Justice's question regarding what a minority student brings to a physics classroom and especially given the current discussion of affirmative action as reverse discrimination. The paper by Johnson, Ong, Ko, Smith, and Hodari is extremely important because it documents and, for some, validates the challenges that women of color in physics face, including the activation of stereotypes, isolation, and microagressions. They also provide solutions for improving the climate of the department for women of color. It is imperative that students of color in physics receive support to continue on in their pursuit of discovering the wonders of physics in the high school classroom and in higher education.
Sabella, Mardis, Sanders, and Little discuss how to build a supportive community of diverse students and how to address racial inequities in measures of success. At a time when many are not aware of the disadvantages that students of different backgrounds face, it is imperative to include critical analyses such as Robertson and Atkins Elliott's article which will appear later in the fall, All students are brilliant: A confession of injustice and a call to action, to highlight the inequities, reflect on the impact they may have on students, and consider how they might be identified and addressed in the future.
Continuing the Call
These are just two examples, but there are a number of other calls evident in the articles that are part of this themed collection. The editors hope that these calls will elicit a full-sized chorus of responses from the community and that physicists will continue to partner in these efforts. The Physics Teacher would be happy to publish further work on these topics outside of the themed collection.
Articles in this Issue
Teaching About Racial Equity in Introductory Physics Courses, Abigail Daane, Sierra Decker, and Vashti Sawtelle
Puerto Rico: Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Physics Teaching, Wilson J. González-Espada and Rosa E. Carrasquillo
Learning to Do Diversity Work: A Model for Continued Education of Program Organizers, Dimitri R. Dounas-Frazer, Simone A. Hyater-Adams, and Daniel L.Reinholz
The Chi-Sci Scholars Program:Developing Community and Challenging Racially Inequitable Measures of Success at a Minority-Serving Institution on Chicago's Southside, Mel S. Sabella, Kristy L. Mardis,Nicolette Sanders, and Angela Little
Common Challenges Faced by Women of Color in Physics,and Actions Faculty Can Take to Minimize Those Challenges, Angela Johnson, Maria Ong, Lily T. Ko,Janet Smith, and Apriel Hodari
Integrating Conversations About Equity in "Whose Knowledge Counts" into Science Teacher Education, Rosemary S. Russ
Living Ethnoastronomy: Discovering the Connectedness of the Human Spirit Beneath the Night Sky, Richard Paul Hechter and Nayif Awad
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Child Labour in India – A Theft of Innocence
A simple walk or drive around many of India's bustling metropolises will reveal a horrible truth hiding in plain sight – labouring youths.
Although it almost seems commonplace, child labour is at the epicentre of an earth-shattering socio-economic dispute that is seriously endangering our society's future. Not only are millions of innocent youths being forced into slavery and untold hardships, but the cost of keeping up this barbaric practice is echoing in our daily lives and in the economy. The employment of children is undoubtedly wrong and there are no reasons as to why it should continue. That's why it is so shocking when the ILO (International Labour Organization) cites that there are 168 million children around the world being forced to work.
Really? What do the statistics say?
It's true. A report by the Ministry of Labour states that in India alone, there are almost 5 million children working below the legal age of 14. That sounds like a lot, but a recent sample survey conducted by the Educational Consultancy body of India estimates that over 6 million children are not even enrolled in schools. As you might have guessed, it is this unfortunate lot that is the prime target for child labour.
A large number of them can be found slogging away in extremely hazardous environments – coal mines, firework factories, road-making, etc. But the majority are toiling day and night to supply India's vast agricultural needs. For the young girls forming part of that vast contingent, sexual slavery can very easily become a sequel to their trauma.
They clean the tables at the dhabas we visit. They weave the sarees we buy our daughters. They are even hired to help clean our houses. They're present in almost every walk of our daily lives and yet none of us would ever allow our children to work as the brick-layers, cooks, construction workers and miners that we allow these children to be!
But why would anyone force a kid to work?
Honestly? It's because in slum and rural areas, going to school is expensive and barely beneficial in the short-term. They find it more economical to ply their children to some work and bring in those much needed cents. Also, with the large amount of labour laws implemented to fight for labour rights, it is simply much easier and cheaper to employ children.
The sheer difficulty in regulating this coercion of children into employment much before the legal working age is a lot to blame as well. Despite the government having outlawed it, the manpower and resources required to inspect each and every household to eliminate child abuse is beyond fathom.
Who makes these kids work?
While multi-nationals are (correctly) accused of employing children, they're not the worst transgressors. No. We are. Over 70% of the children working in this country are in the farming industry. The other 30%? They clean the tables at the dhabas we visit. They weave the sarees we buy our daughters. They are even hired to help clean our houses. They're present in almost every walk of our daily lives and yet none of us would ever allow our children to work as the brick-layers, cooks, construction workers and miners that we allow these children to be!
Financial Costs of Child Labour
Even at an economical level, the world is feeling the bite of carrying out this atrocity of child labour.
The ILO estimates that it would take a colossal $760 billion over 20-years to end the global enslavement (because that's exactly what it is) of children. That's like launching 10,000 missions to mars. In fact, you could afford to purchase Tata Consultancy Services 6 times over. Costly, right?
The estimated gains from providing health and education to this unfortunate lot can alone would bring in $4 trillion. That kind of money could pay back all of India's national debt 3 times over AND free millions of children around the world.
Is there any way I can help stop child labour?
Thankfully, there is.
The law does protect minors. There are 5 legislative acts dedicated to the prohibition of child labour – the latest having been signed in 2009.
There are numerous NGOs (Prathram, CARE, RIDE India) out there that desperately need your help to end this awful practice. All you have to do is go online as you do every day (albeit for Facebook, Youtube and ArmchairLounge) and actually try to call someone who can help you stop this practice. Every time we look on and do nothing, we are being complicit in the crime. And we shouldn't even trick ourselves into thinking that it isn't our problem. It is.
Because every time another child's innocence is stolen, so is yours.
The article uses the indicated report from the Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India to cite the statistics: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—declaration/documents/publication/wcms_decl_fs_49_en.pdf
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As far back as she can remember, Genny's family always had pet birds. When she was very young, they had a green parakeet called KiKi, who according to her memory, lived a particularly long time. The most unusual part was how they got the bird, in the first place. Genny's father worked downtown, and apparently one day, this little bird just flew into the office, through an open window. Since there was obviously no way to know where the bird came from, he put it in a box, stopped at the pet store on his way home, and bought a cage, food, etc. and gave it to Ginny as a gift. She was excited, and…..
Sheila and Doug wanted to get a pet, but the apartment they lived in didn't allow cats or dogs. They considered hamsters, gerbils, and other rodent type animals, but finally decided on a bird. Now the big decision was what kind. They looked at parakeets, canaries, finches, and even some huge parrots, but many made too much noise or were simply too expensive to maintain. After much consideration, they finally agreed on getting a…..
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I'm getting around to re-reading the journal I kept while on my trip down the California coast last summer. At the end of each day before going to sleep I would lay with my journal and write for a while. I wanted to revisit it, and finally get around to posting the rest of the photos from my trip. I won't be posting all of my journal here, but I will transcribe most of it.
With all the nervousness + planning last night I didn't get to bed until 3. I had palnned on getting up at 9, but that was out the window when I first hit the alarm. After waking up at 10, I decided to take my time and not rush leaving (mistake!) I showered and finished the dishes, took out the trash, went for an egg bagel and coffee at Noah's and came back to finally load the bike. It was like a game of tetris, but none of the pieces were square, just a mass of lumps that I had to make fit.
And i finally all did! I felt I had room to spare too! I mad sure everything was super secure, took a deep breath, and took off.
I got to Tacoma really quickly, but the drive between Tacoma and Olympia is pretty nondescript, and I thought I had taken a wrong turn. Olympia finally surfaced, and I made my first stop.
When I did, I found out the cover on my left side of the bike had dislodged and was hanging off. I must not have reattached it well after checking the fuses. I secured it , got some water and drank it all at the gas station, then spend half an hour looking for zip ties to be sure the plate was scure. Didn't find a place so I took off again, but on 101N, not S, so I had to turn around (only a 2 mi. detour).
The ride to Aberdeen was FREEZING. I had left Seattle sweating. I think it was 70 when I took off. I put on another layer under my jacket and decided to look for long underwear/johns/thermals. None in Aberdeen, but I did find zip ties + a watch so I can tell time w/o my cellphone on. Aberdeen looks like any other old coastal down, one way "Main Streets" with the other direction a block away. Lots of old mining + logging stuff.
I ate at a place I think called Billy's. Looked old + unique, had a bar. I ate a yak hamburger. I twas pretty good. I'm determined not to eat at a chain (even though I shopped at Aberdeen Walmart).
Finally I made it to 101. The first section was through logging forests. Big hills with curvy ups + downs. This was a lot of fun, but very cold. There was no sun, maybe 60 out. Aberdeen was bright + nice, but 65 is nice when you're not going 55 mph.
It took a while (and an addition of another long tshirt) but I made it to Astoria + Oregon! The bridge in was amazing.
Half an hour before, I had stopped to add the shirt, and took some pictures. The brown grass lit by the sun, in the middle of the water, with silhouetted hills in the background were amazing.
Anyway, found long johns in Fred Myer in Astoria and put them on in the bathroom there. 7:30pm + ~60mi. to Tillamuk, which would be my 250 mi. for the day, I was cutting it too close, but pushed on.
Checked for any campsite within 30 mi of Tillamuck with no luck. Definitely getting dark. Huge cliffs menacing against the dark sky + ocean. I started looking for hotels too, but all "No Vancancy" signs were lit. ~2 miles from Tillamuck there was an RV park w/ camps ites. I was so relieved. It was at least 9:15 and pitch black. nice woman checked min in, got me fire wood, so I started that up, set up the tent and started relaxing. Drank a canteen of water, stopped used complete sentances. Stared at the starts for 15 minutes and saw two shooting stars.
Then I threw all the wood in the fire so I could see to write this. Time for bed.
Oh yeah, plan for tomorrow: Last start park in Oregon. 282 mi from where I am now. I'm getting up at 7:30 hopefully! Wooo! 7.5 hrs sleep! Vacation!


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So, the election is over.
Baseball season is over.
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What happened? Well, I think that should be pretty obvious. A lot of tension was lifted from my mind after Barack Obama won the presidency (can you dig it?!) I'll have more to say about this, but right now I'm a little too busy trying to get ready for a weekend field trip and an interview, so instead I'll post my first iPod top 10 in months. Enjoy!
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In 1984 the Russians realized that Olympic athletes who mentally rehearsed their sport experienced a positive impact on their performance . Since then the area has been widely studied . In the 1990s a researcher showed that just five minutes of mental visualization, versus five minutes of basic tasks yielded a significant difference in overall performance - and the dramatic increase in performance wasn't limited just to experienced professionals, the researcher showed that it applied to novices as well.
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Another researcher showed that mere mental rehearsal triggered responses from the autonomic nervous system, which in turn improved athletic performance. It seems that the simple act of visualizing a movement, be it an Olympic lift, a desired gymnastic skill, or an overall performance, helps in the construction of schema.
Heck, one study even showed that people who carried out virtual weight training workouts increased their muscle strength by 13.5%. 13.5%! For simply thinking about lifting weights. That was almost half of the gains seen by the group that actually lifted weights (they saw a 30% increase in muscle strength).
So why does visualizing success work? It works because you imagine yourself performing whatever task with perfect form.
You see yourself lifting a new PR off the ground, you see yourself above the rings after a perfectly executed muscle up, or you see yourself running Pose method. And when you see yourself doing all of these amazing things, your brain is creating a neural pattern, one that your muscles will follow tomorrow when you are in the gym.
The best part is that visualizing success isn't particularly difficult or time consuming (really, five minutes a day is like brushing your teeth one more time a day).
If you have the time, you can check out some great reading on sports psychology. I would recommend by Jason Selk, by Michael Lardon and David Leadbetter, by Tony Reilly, or by Gary Mack.
But you can also just jump right on in. There is no right way to
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, you can do it at the gym sitting on a stack of weights or at home under warm covers, in a loud bustling area or in a quiet out cove. You don't even have to put in five minutes, just put in whatever time you can.
During that time you want to mentally rehearse your movements, think about the bar coming to rest on your chest, the stomp and placement of your feet in your jerk, the sound of the weight crashing to the platform after you have successfully completed the lift. Set yourself a very specific goal, imagine achieving your goal, see yourself achieving your goal, see all of the detail with all of your senses. Hear your coach screaming, feel the sweat trickling down your forehead, smell the plywood, see the plates on the bar, taste the victory.
Like Muhammad Ali did each time before entering the ring, tell yourself, again and again, " I am the greatest. " Visualize your success, succeed before even attempting the weight for real. Let your mind work for you.
1. Isaac, A. R. (1992). Mental Practice- Does it Work in the Field? The Sport Psychologist, 6, 192-198.
2. Roure, R., et al. (1998). Autonomic Nervous System Responses Correlate with Mental Rehearsal in Volleyball Training. Journal of Applied Physiology, 78(2), 99-108.
3. Ranganathan V.K. (2004) From mental power to muscle power –gaining strength using the mind. Neuropsychologia, 42(7) 944-56
4. Porter, K., Foster, J. Visual Athletics. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Publishers, 1990.
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I remember the night I got my invitation to go round to Doyle Beasley's place for pie, and to try my hand and counting ability at dominoes, a game the septuagenarian horseman treasured so well that he kept an old cardboard box wrapped in double rubber bands in his coat pocket. Francie, his saintly and pretty second wife of less than half Doyle's years, kept this small high plateau community in cherry, raspberry, and blackberry pie, out of pure enjoyment of seeing others eat. You couldn't pass by their house, let alone enter in, without being invited to make a choice.
Though I had been there before as an advice-seeker, I had never been a formal guest of Doyle and Francie, nor did I play an exceedingly flashy game of dominoes. Doyle had often come round to our house or passed advice over the fence from the county road in honest amusement as we learned to plow with our team of horses early on, remarking: ''It'd go a lot better if you didn't have your reins inside hooked up backward'' - in this valley where even the oldest farmers have combines that flash and grumble under the midsummer sun.
For, although he would scorn the term, Doyle Beasley, a slightly bent frame that still reached 6-foot-5, was a true American cowboy, with a bittersweet, weatherbeaten smile that knew almost all you could know about range: horses, grass, cows, weather, sheep, water, trees, wild animals. And yet for all his fine teasing and what today would be called machismo (joshing with ''the boys'' about the ways of ''the gals''), he was a gentleman and friend to both sexes. It was as if he had, as Pound put it, ''gathered from the air a live tradition/or from a fine old eye the unconquered flame.''
For all his years of riding as a hand for the big cattle owners, and once being exported to South America for a polo tournament, Doyle was comfortable with a '62 Chevy truck and a little house as bare and comfortable as a rural Spanish mission. The night I went over, Francie, in her kitchen smock, came out into the dark to see me into the house. The back room, where I entered, was where they sat, a hardwood floor and a rug, three or four hardwood chairs (Doyle was musing in the rocker in front of the brick fireplace), and back windows with flowering Christmas cactus, high geraniums, a potted fir, interspersed with the constellations through the panes above the high ridges. Two dogs were asleep on the floor. A man who rises to work early, Doyle was completely relaxed in his cushionless chair, content to enjoy the pinon wood crackling on the grate. Along the mantel were photographs in frames, people, horses, families, some very modern, by the dress, some as old and standardly formal as the photos I had seen as a boy visiting the family homestead in Norway: faces, and the hair neatly parted, looking as though 30 years later they had just stepped out of a hot bath or been made up.
They were touched by ashes, and as I looked, Francie apologized for the ''dust'' and explained how in winter with the fire going it was useless to wipe them each day. It was not a spotless house, but clean, the kind of cheery cleanliness that is not fanatical but gives you the sense that there is doing every day.
I made my seat next to Doyle at the fire while Francie warmed her back in front of us, then went to the kitchen to get pies. We all forked pie in front of the fire and talked about things round about. Francie moved an old, well-repaired table and Doyle reached for his dominoes, which he had taken from his coat, probably a home habit, and put on the mantel with the photos.
As we began the game together, concentrating on matching the numbers in front of us, the sense of play took over - though Doyle marked each 5 with a half cross and a 10 with a full cross - and someone would win and lose. It occurred to me that I was gaining knowledge of these hard-work-wise people through concentrating on mathematics: Doyle, who appeared to have no regrets in the world, who suffered great physical pain at times, who only complained of not being able to work as hard as he remembered; and Francie, kind-faced, bright-eyed, who joined her life at a young age to a much older, worthy human being. I had hoped that night to make Doyle talk about days in the valley, make him into a kind of personal history book. But he and Francie were much too with-it to want to give my questions anything but the short best answer for the time being. Somewhere in that game, by all of us concentrating on something other than ourselves, I became friends with Doyle and Francie. I believe it's because they wanted me to.
I looked forward to days ahead on the farm getting Doyle to reminisce, but it would surely be on a subject that needed a practical confronting. He and Francie were enjoying the moments that were happening in front of them too well to want to be away from them for too long.


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Dermatology in Taos, NM
High Road Dermatology is a comprehensive dermatology practice providing medical dermatology, pediatric dermatology and cosmetic dermatology in Northern New Mexico. We care for people of all ages between birth and end of life for a variety of skin conditions, diagnosis and procedures from cradle cap to severe diaper rashes and eczema babies sometimes get to acne, warts and psoriasis, as well as photo aging, skin cancer screenings and treatment.
The skin is the largest organ of your body. It proves to be very valuable. If the eyes are the gateway to the soul the skin is window into overall health. Changes in the skin can be a bit like an early warning system, advising you and your doctor to see what is going on inside. The signs can show up on the skin to show us that something deeper might exist.Our goal is to help you have healthy skin. Healthy skin produces quality of life and improves self-esteem. When your skin feels and looks good you feel good.
With an office in both Taos and Santa Fe High Road Dermatology is able to serve Northern New Mexico. Northern New Mexico is a high desert with elevations between 6000 ft. – 12500 ft. The high elevation puts us closer to the sun and produces unique skin challenges including dry skin as a result of the dryair and sun damage because the sun is always intense. The exposure to the sun combined with low moisture in the air can result in skin damage and it puts many Northern New Mexicans at a higher risk for developing skin cancer. Did you know when found early skin cancer often curable is much easier and less invasive to treat?


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The Lesson for Today
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Education, data, and a Silicon Valley solution to help teachers better understand students in East San Jose and beyond. A conversation with John Matthew Sobrato '10.
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Engineering With a Mission
Monique Beeler, 28 Sep 2017
Engineering With a Mission has been the motto of the School of Engineering for the past decade. More great things are to come. First, a look back.
Fall 2017
Here Come the Decabots
Matt Morgan, 28 Sep 2017
Erin Guthrie '18, Scot Tomer M.S. '21, and their swarm of small test robots lead the charge in sniffing out pollution.
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Get Smart
Matt Morgan, 28 Sep 2017
John-Paul Hurley '18 and Behnam Dezfouli want to hit fast-forward on transforming the internet of things.
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Brewed Innovation
Lindsey Mandell '18, 28 Sep 2017
Bryan Donaldson '09 on how he created his own path in the beer industry.
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Artificial Intelligence and Public Trust
Shannon Vallor, 15 Jun 2017
A future with artificial intelligence is no longer a sci-fi fantasy. But how do we ensure that it is shaped with moral intelligence?
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Tina Vossugh, 15 Jun 2017
SCU's Ethics Bowl team earned a spot at nationals this year. So we ask them to tackle one real problem: 3-D printing and guns.
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Cut & Paste Conservation
Emma Marris, 1 Mar 2017
We can now replace a gene in any organism for a hundred bucks a pop. We can alter wild species to save them. So should we?
Spring 2017
Big Win for a Tiny House
Matt Morgan, 1 Mar 2017
The rEvolve House took first place in a state-wide competition in Sacramento. Now it is being put to work helping veterans with PTSD.
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Lakeshore are a band that are clearly not quite content with sitting within the confines of one genre. With their self-released debut, 41, the band channel elements of nu-metal, modern metalcore and a few other unexpected things along the way.
The EP opens with Heart (To The Fans) which is a brooding introduction of unsettling sounds, muffled vocals and almost tribal drumming. As the track builds, you're introduced to some nostalgic, early 2000's nu-metal crunch and a huge chorus with crisp clean vocals and distant screaming in the background.
Future'follows with a change of pace. Acoustic led verses shimmer and it shows the bands softer side but it still has a bouncy chorus and has the band proclaiming 'Hear our cries / You try to keep us down but we survive' and 'We are the future', which is certainly a bold statement.
Taking… is a piano led interlude that leads perfectly into Control which brings the pace back up. It has spiky lead lines reminiscent of the likes of Saosin and chunky slabs of distortion alongside the ever present crystal clear vocals of frontman, Shawn Adams.
While 41 never really gets super heavy, Kings (The Reawakening) ramps it up a notch. It's the band at their most pacey and relentless as it rattles along with constant chugging but it's still soaked in melody. Lakeshore seem to be a band more concerned with piercing, complimentary lead guitars, vocal hooks and creating atmospheres than all out heaviness.
Perhaps the most unique element of this EP is the constant nods to fairy tales. You have an interlude made of up samples from The Wizard Of Oz and the closing track, Pure Imagination has Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory quotes and samples all over it.
Musically, Lakeshore aren't pushing boundaries here but they blend genres and ideas that is at least an attempt to create something different in a somewhat tired genre. As the bands first statement of intent, 41 isn't a bad opening gambit.
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Conference features product innovation, customer best practices and peer networking
With nearly 100 industry professionals from over 30 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies in attendance, the conference brought together a wide range of thought leaders, product experts, current customers and interested prospects to discuss Taulia's emergent technologies and the global economic landscape. The event also served as a valuable opportunity to network with other financial professionals, share ideas, discuss user experiences and showcase lessons learned within the Taulia user base.
"The opportunity to spend time with our customers is always invaluable" said Markus Ament, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Taulia. "It is incredibly exciting to be growing a community, with some of the world's leading organizations, that is passionate about evolving business processes and solving inefficiencies in the financial supply chain. We are delighted that we could provide our customers with the opportunity to connect, network, share and learn from each other."
Highlights from the three-day event included:
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- A large retailer revealed that 63% of all invoices flow through the Taulia platform, with the number significantly rising each month.
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Roni Sparrey enters her fourth season as a member of the Matador coaching staff, assuming the responsibilities of Associate Coach prior to the 2010 season. At Northridge, Sparrey supervises the infield and oversees the defense in addition to administrative responsibilities.
In her three seasons with CSUN, the Matador defense has posted an average fielding percentage of .966 and has finished among the top fielding teams in the Big West Conference and Division I. Sparrey also helped the 2009 Matadors lead the Big West in stolen bases, finishing the year with 62 stolen bases. She has also overseen several Matadors receive All-Big West Conference honors, ranging from First Team awards to Conference Freshman of the Year honors.
Sparrey joined the Northridge softball staff in 2007 after spending two seasons as assistant coach at Cal Poly. The stint with the Mustangs followed a successful softball career with Cal Poly. During her four-year career with the Mustangs, Sparrey hit .298 with 203 hits in 682 at-bats. The 203 hits places her first all-time on the Cal Poly career hits list.
As a sophomore, Sparrey led the team with 17 runs batted in and nine stolen bases in earning All-Big West Conference second-team honors. She repeated as an all-conference player as a junior, receiving honorable mention accolades after recording a .293 average, six steals and 10 RBI.
In her senior campaign, Sparrey led the club with a .373 average, three home runs and 26 runs batted in, earning her first-team All-Big West honors and first-team All-West Region accolades. Along with her .298 career average, Sparrey also posted seven home runs, 68 runs batted in, 29 stolen bases and 32 doubles.
In her two years as an assistant on the Cal Poly staff, Sparrey helped the Mustangs to a 35-16 record and a second-place finish in the Big West in 2005 and a 27-23 mark and a third-place finish in '06.
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Despite consistent spectacular failures, I still fall for NYT recipes so it should as no surprise that I am also seduced by online recipes that claim to be for must-have foods from trendy eateries or, in this case, a trendy coffee shop. Seriously, how could anyone resist a review that starts out: " By mid-afternoon, the line at Culture Espresso stretches out the door and onto the sidewalk. Once inside, Midtown New York City office workers are handed white paper cups with artful foam and, if they are smart, a chocolate chunk cookie as big as a basketball player's palm, still warm from the oven."?
Further along are claims that all the recipes used by this gastronomic wonder were created by a Culinary Institute of America-trained pastry chef. What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps if I had examined the recipe closely before making it, I would have seen exactly what was wrong with this recipe.
There are two differences between the Tollhouse Cookie recipe and this one, one probably unimportant and one very important.
The first difference is that this recipe calls for "European –style unsalted butter" which is purportedly higher in fat than our American unsalted butter, 84% vs. 80%. However, no reason why higher fat is better is offered.
The other difference is the sugar, specifically the lack of brown sugar. As I was measuring it, I thought to myself that these cookies were going to be really tasteless without the depth of flavor offered by the molasses in brown sugar.
And I was so right. These cookies are completely tasteless except for the chocolate chips. The texture also leaves something to be desired. The edges are crunchy and the middle barely chewy. All in all, a huge, huge disappointment.
One good thing came out this: my new cookie scoop. I had a $5 off coupon for Bed, Bath & Beyond. The cookie scoop was one of the items I picked up (it's amazing how much money I will spend just because I can get $5 off!). Scooping out the dough was so much faster and easier than trying to get a consistent amount of dough on a spoon. And the cookies were much more uniform in size and shape. I can't wait to use it again!
Verdict: A total waste of time and ingredients.
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1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 sticks (16 tablespoons) European-style unsalted butter, room temperature
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 cups dark chocolate chunks
In a small mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt until well combined.
In a stand mixer, using the paddle attachment, cream the butter with the sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add the eggs one at a time, mixing between additions and scraping down the bowl as needed. Add the vanilla extract and mix. On low speed or by hand, stir in the dry ingredients until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips, mixing until just incorporated. Do not over-mix. Scrape down the bowl as needed.
Using a cookie scoop, ice cream scoop, or two spoons, form dough balls and place on prepared cookie sheets with a few inches of room in between. Refrigerate overnight.
Preheat the oven to 375 F with rack in the center. Line cookie sheets with parchment or silicone baking mats.
Bake for 10-13 minutes (depending on the size of your dough balls), until they are golden brown around the edges and puffy in the center. Let cookies cool a few minutes on baking sheets before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
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Tree Nurseries
Where do we grow our trees?
In the countries where Trees, Water & People plants trees, governments are often unstable and natural resource management can be neglected or inadequate. This reality means that local communities must take resource management into their own hands.
Our community tree nurseries are at the heart of our Reforestation Program because they give us a place to safely grow all of our tree species while providing meaningful employment to local people who care deeply about the health of their local environments and economies. Every nursery that we manage employs local men and women who find joy in being a part of the natural resource management process in their country. As Mr. Jorge Alberto Dorado Ochoa, a Salvadoran nursery worker since 2007, said after a recent battle with cancer, "I feel strongly that my dedication to the nursery and the work of TWP gave me purpose and helped me recover my strength and health."
We are proud to not only produce hundreds of thousands of trees every year, we are also very proud to offer local people jobs that are sustainable, empowering, and lead to a greater quality of life for both themselves and their families.


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How to Cook Rice in a Rival Rice Cooker
Whether you are cooking Arborio, basmati or risotto, your Rival rice cooker can consistently deliver a fluffy serving of grains if you follow the manufacturer's instructions. Although features and capacity vary by model, most Rival rice cookers are constructed similarly and operate under the same general principles.
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Prepare the Rice for Cooking
Step 1
Measure the amount of rice you wish to cook. Most smaller-capacity Rival models (less than 10 cups) are sold with a 2/3 cup measuring cup that should be filled once to yield 2 cups of cooked rice.
Step 2
Rinse the measured rice in a small or medium mixing bowl of cold water.
Step 3
Drain the rice in a cooking strainer.
Cook the Rice
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Place the rinsed rice into the cooker's inner pot.
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Add water to the rice to reach the appropriate numbered mark on the inner pot to match the amount of uncooked rice. For example, if you add 3 cups of uncooked rice, fill the inner pot with water until it reaches the line marked "3."
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Wipe away any water that might have dripped down the outside of the inner pot.
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Place the inner pot inside the rice cooker. For most Rival cookers, you might need to rotate the inner pot slightly from side to side until you feel it make full contact with the heating element.
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Place the lid on the rice cooker.
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Plug the rice cooker into a 120-volt AC electrical socket.
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Turn on the rice cooker by pressing the "Cook" button. Look at the "Cook" indicator light to be sure it is lit. When the water has evaporated, this light will turn off and the "Keep Warm" indicator will light.
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Remove the lid and serve the rice with the ladle provided with your Rival rice cooker. The ladle will protect the nonstick surface of the inner pot.


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Services for Barbara A. Duffy, 34, of 511 Cherokee St., Bethlehem, who was found dead Saturday in her home, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Snyder- Hinkle Funeral Home, 527 Center St., Bethlehem. There will be no calling hours.
Northampton County Coroner Joseph F. Reichel said a ruling is pending toxicological tests.
She was an inspector for the Millcrest Manufacturing Co., Bethlehem.
Born in Bethlehem, she was a daughter of Robert H. Munsch of Hellertown and Marlene (Bobko) Blankenship of Arlington, Va.


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There is a lot that has not been covered in world war 2 games that I would still love to see. Black Ops had some stuff for the Vietnam war, but is not solely based on the war. I have also yet to see the Korean war included in any of their games.
I'd like to see more games have setting in WW1, WW2, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the Gulf War.
Some of these settings have been less explored than others and deserve a treatment from the shooters genre more than the fictional wars depicted during the modern times.
I wouldn't mind the future too much, just as long as it's not a 10 to 20-years-into type of thing like Black Ops 2 or the more recent Ghost Recon games.
I believe that anyone should be allowed to play the game that they wish. If I want to play a game based on WWII because I like historic games I should be able to. If I want to play a futuristic game I should be able to. Basically, what I am getting at is that there should be multiple games. A Historic game and a futuristic game. Therefore the customers will be happy.
In older games such as Call of Duty World at War, we only have weapons used in WWII, like sub-machine guns and older shotguns. In futuristic games such as Black Ops II, you have a much wider variety of guns, better attachments, and explosives. Futuristic war games bring a better gaming experience to today's modern gaming society.
I am all for evolution and change. While I think the old school retro games were awesome, I always despise seeing recycled versions with "revamped" graphics. I guess my point is that games should not be afraid to go anywhere in setting or gameplay but never limit themselves to a particular boundary.