The twice-yearly ceremony is unique among the harvest rituals of Asia in that the master of the house invites the deity of the rice field into his home, behaving as though the invisible spirit were really present.

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Holding fans or bells, the women align themselves in one or two rows and perform movements designed to evoke the gestures of the rice cycle, particularly taue, the transplantation of seedlings into a large rice field filled with water.

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One hundred acres of his 700-acre farm in Holt Heath, Worcestershire, now resembles a rice paddy field.

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It said the aircraft made a hard landing on a road and then came to a stop in a nearby rice paddy field.

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"They play video games all the time, " said Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, who was also on the field with Favre.

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Also, each event often features a snack and drink for the kids afterward, so two hours of standing around doing much of nothing on the softball field is rewarded with a Rice Krispie treat and a Hi-C box.

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In December, to express gratitude for the harvest, the farmer draws a bath and begins to prepare a meal, summoning the deity from the field with the sound of pounding rice cakes.

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After a Ray Rice fumble gave the ball back to the 49ers, Akers kicked his third field goal of the contest.

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Using GE rice created to fight pests, for example, causes the number of insects in a field drop.

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Dewi Sri is the Balinese Hindu goddess of fertility and prosperity, and it is to her that the rice farmers so carefully present offerings in the simple bamboo shrines at the edge of each field, just as we had witnessed earlier.

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