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Elizabeth recalls the chewed gum object lesson in which a girl who has lost her virginity is like a piece of chewed gum: "I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm that chewed up piece of gum, nobody re-chews a piece of gum, you throw it away.' And that's how easily it is to feel like you no longer have worth, you no longer have... |
• Nailed Board |
If you make the dreadful mistake of having sex before marriage, it's like pounding nails into a board. You can pull the nails out (repent), but those holes are still there. WTF?!? I think this was originally supposed to be about the wounds of Christ (there's one you do with paper where you nail in the image of Jesu... |
• Licked Cupcake |
Imagine someone licks a cupcake and then offers it to you. Would you still want it? You are that licked cupcake, non-virgin girl. And here is the best part! I hear the boys were taught not to choose the licked cupcake because EW. Never mind that they might be a licked cupcake themselves. |
• Piece of Bread That's Been Passed Around |
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If you've had sex with more than one guy, you're like a piece of bread that's been passed around. Who wants to eat that, now? Yes, another food analogy. Virgins are edible, did you know? Not so the sluts, apparently. |
• White Flower Dunked in Paint |
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I remember a lesson where the teacher took a white rose and praised its pure whiteness. Isn't it beautiful? Then she turned it upside down and dunked it into a bucket of black paint. Oh noes! It is ruined! This is you after you've had premarital sex: A rose with paint all over it. See also: Teacher hands around a w... |
• Peppermint Candy |
Would you like this piece of peppermint candy? Well, what if I take it out of the wrapper and throw it on the ground and stomp on it? Do you want it now? This is you after premarital sex. |
• The Shame Blanket |
Thank goodness I didn't experience this one first-hand, but here's how this one works. The teacher lines up all the girls in her class by skirt length. The girl with the shortest skirt has to wear a "modesty blanket" over her lap through the whole class so she'll remember not to dress so slutty next time. |
• Defiled Apple Juice |
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I have to tell you this one in my friend's words because she tells it best. "Most memorable was a high counselor who stood at the pulpit and poured a lovely goblet of apple juice, held its sparkly gorgeousness up to the light lovingly, and said wouldn't everyone love a sip of this, mmm good. Then he loudly, right u... |
• Spoiled Milk |
This one is from a non-Mormon friend: A girl who has lost her virtue is like spoiled milk. You can't un-spoil it, can you? No. You cannot. Gulp. |
• Stars |
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Here's an object lesson I WISH we'd gotten as girls: You are all stars in the sky. No matter what happens, no matter what you do, you will always be resilient and beautiful. You will always shine. Also -- please check out this mini-sermon, Jesus Wants the Rose by Matt Chandler. It's amazing. Hat tip to Rage Against... |
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Decoding Eco-Friendly Food Labels |
Food labels have been around for decades, and every day they get more and more complicated. Here's the lowdown on some popular eco-friendly terms and what they mean, if anything. |
Antibiotic-Free: No antibiotics were used on this animal during its lifetime to prevent or treat disease. According to the National Dairy Council, a sick cow can be treated with antibiotics, but the milk will not be used from that cow until tests show no antibiotics present. |
Cage-Free: You'll see this one on egg cartons especially. It means birds were raised without cages, but it doesn't guarantee they were able to go outside. The term is lightly regulated, and companies get permission to use it on their packaging labels from the Food Safety Inspection Service of the Agriculture Department... |
Free-Range: This indicates that birds -- chicken, turkey, quail and other edible fowl -- have free access to the outdoors. However, guidelines are loose on how long animal can be outdoors and the size of the area. |
GMO-Free: This means a fruit, vegetable or grain has not been genetically modified -- or a packaged food has no GMO foods included. Many companies label their foods GMO-free, and in most cases, organic foods and produce from your local farmer are GMO-free. Learn more from another post we did on the GMO controversy. |
Grain-Fed: This label applies to beef products especially and means the cattle was raised on a grain diet (possibly with added supplements) instead of their natural grass diet. Studies have shown that meat from animals raised on grain-fed diets contains less vitamin E, vitamin C, beta-carotene and omega-3 fats. Often G... |
Grass-Fed or Pasture-Fed: These animals have grazed on the pasture and eaten grasses with no other supplements. A study published in the Journal of Animal Science concluded that grass-fed animals produce lower-fat and lower-calorie meat, a higher amount of omega-3 fats and higher levels of vitamin E (as much as 4 times... |
Natural: This one is a real toughie. The term “natural” is open to interpretation by food companies and doesn't guarantee that the food is healthy or environmentally conscious at all. Usually it means foods that undergo minimal processing and don’t contain artificial colors, flavors and other synthetic ingredients. The... |
No Added Hormones and Hormone-Free: These animals were raised without receiving growth hormones. If beef is USDA-certified organic, it contains no hormones. Milk-producing cows may be given the growth hormone rBGH, which many worry may be transferred to us when we eat milk, cheese or other dairy products. You can find ... |
Organic (or Certified Organic): These foods were grown without conventional pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, hormones or antibiotics. It is expensive to certify a farm as organic; some local farms can't or don't want to spend the money to certify themselves but may be following organic practices. Talk to your local... |
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BBC : Rafale deal: Why French jets are at the centre of an Indian political storm |
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Image caption Former French President François Hollande, left, and Indian PM Narendra Modi announced the Rafale deal in 2015 |
India's opposition parties are demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over allegations of corruption in a multi-billion dollar fighter jet deal. |
Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the main opposition Congress party, has alleged that Mr Modi "favoured" an Indian company that is part of the French deal. |
Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has denied the allegation, saying the government signed the deal to meet the Indian Air Force's combat requirements and had no role in choosing the French manufacturer's local partner. |
Hollande drops a 'bombshell' |
With this deal, Delhi is hoping to modernise its Soviet-era air force fleet. The Rafale is a multi-role aircraft - capable of carrying out long-range missions, including conducting highly-accurate sea and ground attacks. |
The first Rafales are expected to be delivered by 2019 and India is set to have all 36 jets within six years. |
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Image caption The Rafale is multi-role combat aircraft |
Mr Modi announced the deal in Paris along with then French President François Hollande. The Indian government said it had negotiated the "best deal" to strengthen its air combat capabilities. |
Mr Hollande sparked political controversy in India last week by telling French news website Mediapart that Mr Modi's government had pressured Dassault to partner with India's Reliance Defence to meet its "offset policy". |
The "offset" clause in Delhi's defence procurement rules says that foreign firms need to invest at least 30% of a deal's worth back in India. It was introduced in India's Defence Procurement Procedure in 2008 to boost domestic manufacturing. |
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Mr Hollande told Mediapart that his government didn't have a say in the matter. |
'Crony capitalism' |
The Congress party has accused Mr Modi of practising crony capitalism by helping Anil Ambani's firm. |
"The PM personally negotiated and changed the Rafale deal behind closed doors... The PM has betrayed India. He has dishonoured the blood of our soldiers," Mr Gandhi tweeted. |
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Image caption Congress party supporters have been protesting against Mr Modi over the Rafale deal |
But ministers have rejected the allegation, saying Dassault was free to pick any competent Indian manufacturer. |
The French firm has also supported the Indian government's claim. |
"This [the selection of Reliance] is Dassault Aviation's choice. This partnership has led to the creation of the Dassault Reliance Aerospace Ltd (DRAL) joint-venture in February 2017," it said. |
"The French government is in no manner involved in the choice of Indian industrial partners who have been, are being, or will be selected by French companies," it said. |
Depleting strength |
The Congress party has also accused Mr Modi of compromising national security and destroying state-run defence manufacturing firms. |
It's a reality that India is facing a severe shortage of fighter jets. It would need 42 squadrons in the scenario of a two-front war with China and Pakistan. But its squadron strength has depleted to 31 - largely owing to ageing Russian aircraft. |
But this realisation is not new. The BJP government in 2000 decided to buy new fighter jets. Its successor Congress continued the process and issued tenders in 2008 to buy 126 jets. Dassault was finalised as a supplier in 2012, and the state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) was selected as partner to produce 108... |
But the two partners couldn't agree on terms and conditions, and the deal stalled. |
When Mr Modi swept to power in 2014, he made the procurement of the jets one of his priorities. But instead of taking the deal forward, he surprised many by ordering 36 jets as part of a new deal in which HAL was not included. |
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Image caption Experts say the Indian Air Force urgently needs new squadrons |
But it's not clear where India will procure the remaining aircraft it needs in the long term. In April, the air force announced it would be seeking bids for around 110 more fighter jets. |
Election bugle |
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier said that she would disclose cost details to prove Congress wrong. But she later said the government would not do so because the information was classified. |
The absence of such details has given more political ammunition to the Congress party ahead of next year's general elections. |
While senior ministers have come out to defend the BJP leader, Mr Modi's silence on the matter has helped the opposition's case. |
The BJP said the government needed to fight a "perception battle" with opposition parties. But until Mr Modi speaks, it's going to be a tough task because people want answers from the man they elected to lead India. |
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In a recent article on experiments using automatic digital photography to improve the memories of Alzheimer's patients, I was struck by these paragraphs: |
The idea that "the capriciousness of memory" would make efforts to automatically generate summaries of events difficult, mirrors my own experience: I have entire trips that I recall through a couple apparently random things– the look of a hotel room, what I had for dinner. Likewise, looking at an entire album of pictur... |
I wonder if the scientists have tried getting their subjects to consciously manipulate those records afterwards– to make a photo album, for example– and see if that process of sorting helps improve recall. I remember trips much better if I write about them, or choose pictures to put online, much as I remember books bet... |
Let me explain. |
One of the Web services I use a lot is the photo sharing site Flickr (if you don't believe me, just go to my account and see for yourself). I'm a fairly obsessive photographer, mainly because I like good pictures, but I'm not a very good one. With a film camera, you really pay for artistic mediocrity or technical clums... |
One of my favorite features in Flickr is its mapper, which lets you tell Flickr where in the world your picture was taken. Essentially, you put a digital pin in an online map, much as you would in a real map. Flickr and Yahoo! Maps got together to provide the service in 2006, and since then I've become a slightly fanat... |
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