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Mich. Comp. Laws §§ 487.2121 et seq.
Status: Legal
Payday loans are legal in the state of Michigan, pursuant to Mich. Comp. Laws §§ 487.2121 et seq. The number of companies offering payday loans in Michigan currently stands at 727. The initial loan term stands at a maximum of 31 days and a maximum loan amount of up to $600.
The maximum amount of loan is $600 taken from a single lender, which means that while potential borrowers can take out more by going to a different lander, borrowers are not allowed to have more than two outstanding loans open at a time. Cash advance loans can be given for a period no longer than 31 days. No extensions of time are allowed beyond that period. In the event a borrower cannot repay in time, and if they have taken out 8 outstanding loans over a 12-month period, an installment payback plan can and should be requested.
Lenders charge $15 for such services, and can legally charge a $25 insufficient funds fee in case of defaulted repayment and a service fee for each deferred presentment service transaction. The borrower will be solely responsible for the repayment and may be subject to collection actions from the lender, although a lender cannot threaten a delinquent borrower with jail time or other criminal charges.
Other Interest charges for short term loans in the state of Michigan work like this: 15% for the first $100, while the second $100 is granted at 14%, the third $100 at 13%, the fourth $100 at 12%. All the loans over $400 are issued at 11%. The stated APR for a $100 loan given for 2 weeks cannot exceed 390%. A borrower can notify a lender with a letter if they feel the lender operating against the law, in which case a lender has three days for a decision. In case a lender admits the violation, they will pay a borrower five times the fee (minimum $15) associated with the loan.
To apply for a payday loan in Michigan, a potential borrower must meet these requirements:
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Acer Aspire 5745 devices such as graphics cards, sound cards, monitors, drives and more utilize drivers to operate appropriately with Windows. These drivers need to be updated periodically to keep them current with changes in Windows, such as updates and new service packs. Despite the fact that you may not know what a driver really is or does, you too can update your own drivers periodically by following a few simple steps. This process does require an active Internet connection.
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International Consultant for Recurrent Education Specialist
Democratic Republic of East Timor
Second Chance Education Project
Project ID: P116520
Expressions of interest
The Democratic Republic of East Timor has applied for financing from World Bank towards the cost of the Second Chance Education Project (the "SCEP), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for hire International Consultant for Recurrent Education Specialist to support the National Directorate for Recurrent Education ("the DNER") with implementation of the 'Second Chance Education Project (SCEP)' which is focused on strengthening non-formal education services, particularly equivalency education, to older youth and young adults. It is also intended to improve management, service delivery, and monitoring of non-formal education programs.
A key functions of the International Consultant for Recurrent Education Specialist are:
Provide technical expertise and supports to the study on "Needs and Demand for Recurrent Education in Timor Leste ;
Development of Legal Framework of Recurrent Education in Timor Leste;
Development of curriculum and learning materials of equivalency program and
Establishment of Community Learning Centers.
Expected outputs
Simple, easy-to-use new SCEP management manual, CLC Development Manual for the Government staff, CLC Development Support Grant Manual for the community and facilitators. The manuals shall be acceptable to the Bank;
Training material for the SCEP SF who will function as technical facilitators at district and community levels;
Reviewed and finalized new strategic plan of the project for the remaining project period of SCEP project time; and the DNER road map in implementing the EP and CLC programs beyond the project period based on the result of the study and the implementation progress during the project period.
Overseas training and dessimination reports based on the inputs from the participants reports and reviewed results by the RE consultant.;
Implementation Progress Reports specific on EP and CLC programs, including its recommendations for better imrovement and ;
General progress reports related with his/her tasks;
The assignment is planned for 13 months till December 2015 and expecting to start ASAP.
The Ministry of Education of the Democratic Republic of East Timor now invites eligible individual consultants to indicate their interest in providing the services for this position. Firms are not invited to propose individual consultants. Interested consultants must provide information indicating that they are qualified to perform the services (CV, description of similar assignments, experience in similar conditions, availability of appropriate skills, etc.). Qualification requirements are:
Higher education degree in management and/or relevant field; specialization in non-formal education is an advantage; Minimum of ten years work experience in the planning and implementing recurrent education programs;
Working experience in Timor Leste or other low capacity and post-conflict contexts;
Practical experience with project management funded by international agencies and project cycles is an advantage;
Experience working closely with government institutions;
Proficiency in English. Knowledge of Portuguese and/ or Tetum is an advantage.
The successful candidate shall be offered a standard remuneration package according to rates for this level of specialization.
Interested eligible consultants may obtain further information and a copy of the Terms of Reference from the Management Strengthening Project at the address given below or visit Ministry's website at: http://www.moe.gov.tl
The email subject heading must be: International Consultant for Recurrent Education Specialist.
A consultant will be selected in accordance with the procedures set out in the World Bank's Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants under IBRD Loans and IDA Credits and Grants by World Bank Borrowers (January 2011).
Interested consultants may obtain further information at the address below during office hours 09:00 to 17:00 hours of local time.
The Expression of Interest together with your latest curriculum vitae must be delivered to the em address given below or email to firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com by 6th November 2014.
Attn: Mr. Danino da Cunha
National Director of Procurement
Ministry of Education
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Introducing Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint Look Book Two!
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Here's the bulletin for Sunday December 10 at Trinity Lime Rock!
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Meanwhile, today, Saturday, don't forget the Holiday Bazaar that starts at 2 PM and includes such varied attractions as a wreath sale, wonderful things to buy for that hard-to-please someone on your list, chili dinner, lighting of the Lime Rock Community Christmas Tree, and lots more! You can learn more about it here:
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'Love in the Time of Hydra': a creative title for the latest episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., all the more since it doesn't really involve the nefarious organization directly. As seen last time out, Hunter (Nick Blood) has been brought by Mack (Henry Simmons) to a place he's referred to as the real S.H.I.E.L.D., a cryptic sort of notion, given that we've been following a S.H.I.E.L.D. agency under the command of Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg). <continue reading>
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Thick-cut boneless pork chops can be pricey, but not if you slice them yourself from a boneless pork loin. Frequently on sale for $1.99 a pound, this lean and tender cut of pork is easily sliced into thick or thin chops that can be frozen in zip-top plastic freezer bags for up to 3 months.
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Cook first 6 ingredients in a small saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, 1 to 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Add sliced onion, and sauté 15 minutes or until onion is caramelized. Remove and reserve onion with a slotted spoon, reserving liquid. Stir orange juice into reserved liquid in pan. Brush mixture evenly over pork chops, and sprinkle evenly with salt.
Grill pork, covered with grill lid, over medium-high heat (350° to 400°) 4 to 5 minutes on each side or until done. Remove to a serving platter; top with caramelized onion.


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We have proudly undertakenthousands of dental procedures and treatments, serving patients all over UK at our flagship dental practice in Hertfordshire. We are a CQC registered practice with specialists and cosmetic dentists including BACD Accredited Dentist and Past President Dr David Bloom as part of our team.
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Friday, February 6, 2015
There was lots of news and updates about Michael Fassbender this week. From his Slow West winning an award at the Sundance Film Festival, to the first excellent images of Michael with flat-ironed hair and a bow tie on set, to news about the release date for Steve Jobs (Oct. 9, 2015). Universal Studios sure isn't playing around with the Jobs film, they have straight up released the premiere date at a precise time after the key Fall season North American film festivals conclude. October is a great month to release films primed for Oscar consideration because they fall in the midst of these high profile festivals: Telluride (Sept, 4-7), Toronto (Sept, 10-20), and New York (Sept 25 - Oct 11). And it looks like the festivals have tweaked their schedules this year to be more courteous to each other and have no crazy overlapping to allow attendees to enjoy each festival. Michael could attend all three to support both MacBeth and Steve Jobs. We'll practically be tested to be sick of him - but that will impossible if not such an offensive thought!
If ever there was a year that Michael was going to be huge, is this year! With Slow West coming out of the gate strong from Sundance, the speculation that MacBeth will screen at Cannes, Trespass Against Us later this year, and the Steve Jobs film, Michael is bound to be on the hit list for loads of awards and nominations next awards season, and we'll be here supporting him all through the craziness and excitement!
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While the vibrations and sensations are powerful, this ring left me wanting more. The removable bullets can be useful, but the fact that it didn't add anything to the experience for my man was a buzz kill. If your man enjoys having his testes buzzed this might be the toy for you.
The WooHoo vibrating cock ring provides powerful vibrations to both parties, even giving special attention to the taint. With a lot of texture, this waterproof toy offers great clitoral stimulation as well for the ladies. Easy to put on, easy to remove, and simple to take apart and clean!
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Member Odor: Strategies to Beat It
It may be worse in summer, but for some men member odor is a problem for all seasons. Even some men who maintain excellent male organ health habits can find themselves time and again embarrassed by the aroma that pours out when the pants are unzipped. For men with a member odor issue, effective strategies to beat it are essential. Otherwise, that rank smell is going to repel potential partners long before they have a chance to hit the sheets with the guy.
Member odor essentially is due to sweat, which the member is prone to do. After all, it's (often) surrounded by a thick thatch of insulating hair, it's nestled between heat-producing thighs and it spends an inordinate amount of time trapped beneath two heat-inducing layers of clothing.
So what can a guy do to keep his manhood from being a member odor manufacturing machine? These strategies can help.
Shaving male organ hair used to be considered a little outre, but nowadays more and more men are taking a razor to the basement. Some guys shave it bald, others opt for a decent trim; either way, it helps reduce the amount of insulation in the area and thus helps reduce the sweat and resulting odor. Of course, a dude wants to be careful with how he handles the razor down there, but for many it's an easy way to cool things down a bit.
Dry off thoroughly
Clearly, washing the manhood regularly is necessary to ward off member odor. But so is drying the member after washing. If a guy just gives his male organ a quick, arbitrary toweling off, the water he leaves behind may hang around the rest of the day, becoming rank with bacteria as the day progresses.
The more water a person drinks, the healthier they are. And when there is a greater amount of water in the body, it tends to dilute the stronger smelling chemicals and ingredients that come out in the sweat. It sometimes means a guy sweats more, but his sweat has less pungent aroma to it.
Lime up
Citrus fruits in general tend to help reduce body odor, but limes are reputed to be especially helpful. Now a man shouldn't go rubbing a lime on his manhood – that would definitely sting – but adding some lime to all that water he's imbibing is an excellent idea. Lime's disinfectant qualities are a damper to damaging bacteria.
Cease smoking
Men who smoke are courting disaster. Tobacco products cause considerable damage to the lungs, cardiovascular system and other body parts – and they add to member odor issues. Many smokers have a strong scent that can become especially pronounced around the manhood – which doesn't help their chances of getting any oral sensual activity.
Run free
Finally, it's a basic idea that makes good sense: let the member out for a while. Just as people need to occasionally air out bedrooms or furniture, so does the manhood need some freedom. Spending time bare allows unwanted odors to disperse. Sleeping bare can be an excellent way to achieve this goal; otherwise, scheduling some alone time and just letting it all hang out can do the trick.
Using strategies to successfully bring member odor to its knees makes a man feel better about himself. He can be aided in his quest by daily application of a first class male organ health crème (health professionals recommend Man1 Man Oil, which is clinically proven mild and safe for skin). The crème chosen needs to include vitamin A among its ingredients. Vitamin A is blessed with strong antibacterial properties which actively fight the bacteria that can create strong member odor. It also helps if the crème contains vitamin D, the so-called "miracle vitamin." Vitamin D helps to strengthen overall male organ health, and the healthier the manhood, the better able it is to withstand member odor attacks.
Visit http://www.menshealthfirst.com for additional information on most common manhood health issues, tips on improving male member sensitivity and what to do to maintain a healthy male organ. John Dugan is a professional writer who specializes in men's health issues and is an ongoing contributing writer to numerous websites.
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Customers arrive at your website ready to take action. They want to make a purchase, gather information, or compare prices. Small businesses know that digital marketing tools are essential to maximize that site traffic, but there never seems to be enough time to learn about them. Luckily, many tools don't require coding and are easy to use. With a few tricks, you can improve your customers' web experience and increase your conversions.
1. Capitalize on mobile traffic with responsive web design. A recent study reports that 91 percent of small-business websites are not mobile-optimized. If customers cannot navigate your website, they are likely to abandon it. A simple way to optimize your site is to use a responsive website builder. That way, your site will automatically adapt to any device.
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The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford holds the first retrospective of works by photographer Carrie Mae Weems
For more than 30 years, photographer Carrie Mae Weems has placed herself in front of her own camera. Taking full measure of her significance as both African American woman and artist, she insists that the work of seeing is also an act of being seen—and refusing to be marginalized.
Born in Portland, Ore., in 1953, she studied dance with Bay Area experimental choreographer Anna Halprin. After several years steeped in arts and politics in California, Weems moved to New York and took up photography. Although she has switched to digital printing, Weems remains committed to the 20th-century art-photo mainstream in her use of black-and-white film.
Stanford's Cantor Arts Center is currently hosting a major Weems retrospective. From her earliest period, First Self-Portrait (1975), a gelatin-silver print, presents an uncharacteristically furtive view of the artist, allowing us only a glimpse of her back as she squeezes against the side of a mantelpiece. Even in this position, she takes the extra measure of covering her hidden face with her hands.
The other selections from the 1970s and early '80s are outward-looking, spontaneous shots of family members and urban life. In Harlem Street (1976-77), a wall of brownstones serves as a backdrop for a frieze of stoop-sitters and street-strollers. The formal architectural composition neatly balances the human parade.
For her epic Kitchen Table series of 1990, Weems casts herself in a drama about a woman's life as artist, lover and mother in a suite of large (41-by-41-inch) black-and-white gelatin-silver prints. The strategy recalls Cindy Sherman's photos of herself in various costumed roles, but the result is more direct—a heightened realism as opposed to Sherman's pop-art solipsism.
Within a single perspective—a view across a wooden table packed in a small room illuminated by a hanging fixture casting a harsh pool of light—Weems inhabits vignettes of domestic turmoil and truce. Snippets of descriptive text enhance the narrative, but the images speak for themselves.
The shot of a man and woman playing cards roils with pent-up tension; the man holds a cigarette to his mouth in a gesture echoed by the woman, who covers her lips as if not quite ready to say what's on her mind. This is no penny-ante game; the stakes couldn't be higher. The wall behind them is filled with images of the black power movement, with a defiant Malcolm X front and center. Women's lib and black lib intersect uneasily.
The most powerful shot in the series is the simplest: Weems stands, confronting us directly, hands pressing on the table, her head brushing up against the merciless light bulb, as if in an interrogation cell. Her gaze hypnotizes—hell, it poleaxes—the viewer.
In some of her later images, Weems again turns her back on the camera, not to hide herself, but to make herself an incarnate muse of photography. The superb Louisiana Project series (2003) includes A Distant View, a black-and-white (in more ways than the literal) tableau of Weems posing on an expanse of grass staring at an antebellum mansion. The composition echoes Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, but Weems' character, dressed in the garb of a house slave, expresses a very different kind of yearning—perhaps a desire to burn down Tara.
Most impressive of all are four images from Weems' journey to Rome for a series called Roaming (2006). These enormous (6-by-5-foot) black-and-white digital prints follow Weems, dressed in a long black dress, as she gazes at markers of the past, including a pyramid monument and a hillside of whitewashed houses. Finally, she appears alone at the seashore, a small but commanding vertical figure intersected by the smooth horizontal lines of sand, sea and immense sky. She could be both the witness to creation and the last survivor of civilization.
Weems often marries language to her images. At times, the words predominate, as in shots of African Americans accompanied by blunt, almost didactic, jabs at pernicious stereotyping (Black Man Holding Watermelon, 1987-88). She also deploys appropriated and altered materials.
Publicity photos of three famous female black performers (Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, Katherine Dunham) are blown up and fuzzed out, telling us that they are fading, unfairly, from our collective memory. In another series, she has made enlargements of 19th-century "ethnographic" portraits of African tribespeople and American slaves, then tinted them blood red for shock effect. The overprinted titles are painful: "A Negroid Type," "You Became a Scientific Type." What the original photos did to dehumanize their subjects, Weems undoes by demanding a second look.
The exhibit also includes three videos, the best of which, Italian Dreams, expands on the material in the Rome photos. Weems wanders through gardens and historic buildings observing and participating in enigmatic encounters. Less Fellini than Antonioni in its sense of ennui and slow mystery, the 10-minute video is really a condensed gloss on Last Year at Marienbad.
The range of Weems' multimedia works impresses, but they are peripheral to the artist's rigorous, penetrating self-images. She is her own best subject.
Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video
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My daughter, Clara, and I spent part of Christmas day watching the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special. My wife is Jewish.
I celebrate all holidays involving anthropomorphic creatures and gift-giving.
As a result, our children receive a mixed-bag when it comes to holiday celebrations.
I think it's great. The best of both worlds.
My wife grew up in a Jewish household, so she is quite young in Christmas years and has no understanding of the fundamental importance of these stop-motion animation Christmas specials.
I'm happy to be passing the tradition onto Clara.
With all this in mind, I found myself with a new perspective as I watched Rudolph for perhaps the two-hundredth time.
Specifically, I had an insight on Hermey, the Christmas elf:
Hermey is a self-described misfit who prefers studying dentistry to making toys. Abandoning Santa's workshop, Hermey runs away, leaving Santa Clause and Christmas behind.
Rejects Santa Claus and Christmas?
Chooses dental school over the toy industry?
Jewish, perhaps?


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Get creative with LEGO building blocks during LEGOmania events in November at your Cobb libraries.
An afternoon of LEGOmania is scheduled for Saturday at Switzer Library in Marietta. The library will provide the LEGOs – just bring your imagination! The fun starts with a LEGO building program from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the children's department story time room for families with preschool and school age children. The screening of The Lego Movie starts at 3 p.m. For more information on the free November 8 programs, please call (770) 528-2338.
Upcoming LEGOmania programs in November also include:
LEGOmania at South Cobb Regional Library on Thursday, November 20, 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The drop-in program is appropriate for ages 5 and up. For more information, please call (678) 398-5828.
LEGOmania at Acworth Library on Tuesday, November 25, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. The program is for school age children. For more information, please call (770) 917-5165.
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July 16, 2009
Northridge, Calif. - First there was Facebook, then Twitter. Now YouTube has arrived at gomatadors.com as Cal State Northridge Athletics grows in an effort to meet the demands of an ever-changing social networking culture.
YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share video clips. Matador Athletics will post videos on a regular basis with interviews with coaches and student-athletes, and highlights of athletic games, matches and other events.
Click on the YouTube icon on the front page of CSUN's athletic home page and you will have a chance to see a multitude of video highlights from the 2008-09 season, including videos of CSUN's championship men's basketball season, highlights from the Hall of Fame ceremonies, and features on CSUN men's volleyball head coach Jeff Campbell, former Matador basketball player Katie Holloway, and legendary head softball coach Gary Torgeson.
Gomatadors.com also has joined forces with Facebook and Twitter. By becoming a fan of Matador Athletics on Facebook and Twitter, CSUN supporters now have the opportunity to receive the latest scores, event recaps, photo galleries, special announcements, and news on promotional activities, ticket offers and much more pertaining to the more than 400 student-athletes and 20 intercollegiate teams at Cal State Northridge.
The direct link for CSUN's YouTube channel is www.youtube.com/northridgeathletics.
In addition to YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are free. Those fans who currently do not have an account can sign up within a matter of minutes.
To become a "fan" of Cal State Northridge Athletics on Facebook, go to www.facebook.com/mattythematador.
To receive user updates (known as "tweets") on Cal State Northridge Athletics via Twitter, visit www.twitter.com/GoMatadors.
And don't forget, you can also receive the free weekly e-newsletter (Matador Mail). Go to www.gomatadors.com and look for the "Matador Mail" link on the front page.
The CSUN Facebook page will feature regular updates on events and promotions related to Matador Athletics. It will also host pictures and videos related to Cal State Northridge Athletics. The CSUN Media Relations staff will utilize Twitter to keep fans instantly updated on athletic events. Fans can even sign up to have text messages delivered to their mobile devices from the Matador Twitter page.
Facebook is the largest social network in the world, and also ranks as the fifth most popular website worldwide. It allows its users to join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people who share similar interests. People can also find friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.
Twitter is currently the third-largest social network in the world with six million users. It is a micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other user's updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them instantaneously.


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The real estate market is well on its way toward recovery with many areas throughout the country experiencing significant growth in their local real estate markets. As a result, investors are coming out of hiding and are jumping at the opportunity to purchase foreclosures and other distressed properties well below market value. The amazing discounts are quickly diminishing as investor confidence has risen drastically (80%) and these confident investors are snatching many available homes off the market (especially foreclosures, short sales, and other discounted properties).
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Lately housing demand has been increasing with a 5.2% rise in pending home sales from September to October and a 13.2% increase from October 2011 to October 2012. In short, homes are leaving the market much quicker than they have been over the last few years and the demand for housing is actually rising, which is great for the overall real estate market - including those in the new home construction sector.
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Along with rising housing demand, the number of foreclosures on the market (and entering into the market) is declining. There were 1.4 million homes within the United States in the foreclosure process in September and only 1.3 million in October. Similarly, there was a 25% decrease in the number of completed foreclosures from September to October. Furthermore, the number of completed foreclosures from October 2011 to October 2012 also fell 17%.
Therefore, if you are looking to invest in foreclosures then now is the time - before these homes are no longer listed on the market - especially not at the current amazing prices (since home prices are rising).
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In short, with home prices rising, housing demand increasing, and foreclosure declining, now is the perfect opportunity for you to invest in discounted properties before they become harder to find as real estate market recovery continues to advance. Once you have the property and are ready to place it back on the market, remember to strategically plan your marketing strategy to include targeting retiring baby boomers.


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I have always been a huge Harry Potter fan. I sometimes wonder what I will do with my life once all of the movies have been released. It will be a sad day in my household, that's for damn sure. I discovered the Harry Potter series the summer before I went away to college and I devoured the first four books in a way that reminded me of my youth. The one thing I loved about the books was all the strong female characters Rowling had made integral in her world. Hermione was strong, brave and extremely intelligent. Not just in book smarts but also in logic and common sense. She also had a sense of social consciousness with her organization of S.P.E.W. and her desire to give others a chance no matter what prejudices there were about them.
Professor McGonogall was the second in command to Prof. Dumbledore, confidant, intelligent, fair and powerful. Her first name is Minerva which comes from the Roman goddess of fairness and wisdom and she exhibited those qualities as well as being a fierce warrior when it came down to the final battle.
Bellatrix Lestrange, as evil as she is, is powerful and second in command to the most powerful dark wizard ever. She is a fierce solider and a formidable witch who delights in her anger and evilness in a way that strays away from the evil witch stereotype in so many Disney movies.
Ginny (quite possibly my favorite character) grows from a quiet boy-shy girl, into a beautiful sexually assured women who plays sports with boys, breaks the rules, and does not take orders from her brothers.
In this world of amazing women one women always stood out to me as strange and that was Molly Weasley. Mrs. Weasley just did not seem to fit into the dynamic. She didn't have a job even though her family could have used the extra money. She cared about housework and behaving appropriately. She burst into tears at any emotional situation and seemed overly into the idea of a wedding and whether or not a girl was good enough for her son. I was confused and critical of her as were other feminists I met who enjoyed the books. Why was Molly Weasley such a weak women character we wondered? Then, in "Deathly Hallows", we finally met the real Mrs. Weasley and I realized that I had made a horrible mistake in my assumptions about what Mrs. Weasley's choices said about her.
Many feminists have often been accused of looking down at stay at home moms. It is implied that we think they are useless or unhappy and it can create a lot of tension when a woman makes that decision. I always had maintained that if a woman wanted to stay home and was content with the decision I didn't mind as long as my desire to work was treated equally as valid. However, getting sucked into the world of Harry Potter with it's powerful, emotionally strong, and accomplished witches I did look at Molly Weasley as a disappointment. When she was critical of Fred and George's aspirations, when she seemed to only do magic that involved housework, when she never was around for an important event and instead was relegated to waiting at home wringing her hands, and her desire to make her daughter Ginny sit down and stay out of the action. These all made me underestimate Mrs. Weasley and I believe that part of that was Rowling's intentions. In the last book, when Ginny is almost killed and Mrs. Weasley comes barrelling through the Great Hall, I learned a valuable lesson. To read and see in my mind Mrs. Weasley take down the most powerful witch on the dark side brought tears of joy and a fierce proudness to my eyes. It still is a paragraph I can read over and over again as it opened my eyes to a Molly Weasley I had not seen no matter how many times I read the book.
I saw a women who did not take the easy way out. I saw a woman who raised a large family to be brave and respectful individuals. I saw a woman who raised a feminist daughter. I saw a women who immediately sided with the right side and was willing to take on the role of protector to many, even if it put her family in jeopardy. I saw a women who always worked for the greater good even with her fears for her family. I saw a woman who's son was killed yet was able to step up and fight and do what was needed. I saw a woman who encouraged acceptance of others. I saw a mother and a damn good one. I saw a powerful witch who knew that a sign of strength wasn't how often you showcased it, but that you used it when necessary.
Why didn't I see this before? Because I was blinded by her homemaker status in a world where women seemed to all be working. I know I am not alone and I am proud of J.K. Rowling and Mrs. Weasley for challenging assumptions and showing that the powerful thing about a women is not what she does but who she is.


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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
September 4, Proper 18, Prophecy 7: When God Is Unreasonable
Jeremiah 18:1-11, Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17, Philemon 1-21, Luke 14:25-33
These are tough texts, all of them. Not that they don't all have their logic. In the first reading, from Jeremiah, the metaphor of the potter's house makes sense enough. The metaphor illustrates the sovereignty of God and the freedom of God, and that God is free to change God's mind. Not that God is capricious, but that even God's mind-changes keep steady on God's own personal standard of righteousness.
Fair enough, but what's troubling in this is God reserving the right to plan evil against us. That may be reasonable, if God is both sovereign and free, and it does honor human responsibility, but how can such a supposedly loving God plan evil against anyone?
The epistle to Philemon is troubling to people because of what the Apostle Paul does not say. He wrote this letter during one of his times in prison, perhaps in Ephesus. He wrote it to his friend and convert Philemon, a wealthy man, who subsidized the Colossian church and hosted it in his house. Philemon had a slave or two, as was customary then. His slave Onesimus had run away, and ended up with St. Paul, taking care of him in prison. But now St. Paul was sending him back, carrying this letter appealing to Philemon to take his slave back without punishing him, and more, to take him as a brother instead of a slave. St. Paul's appeal is pushy but reasonable. But his appeal is not on the ground that slavery itself is wrong. That he fails to say that is what has troubled many people.
Then in the Gospel, the Lord Jesus is impossibly unreasonable. He says you have to give up all your possessions. But then won't you become dependent on someone else who has possessions? Like a Buddhist monk, or even like a slave! The Lord Jesus says you have to hate the members of your family, the very people you're supposed to love. So you have to abandon your wife and kids and condemn them to begging and poverty? Does the Lord Jesus mean to scare us off by this?
You want to get close to God, that's why you're here, you are drawn to Jesus, you want him to make a difference in your life, but when you get close to him, he turns around and talks like this, that you renounce all your substance and your relationships and all that you hold precious. What you wanted from Jesus was the wisdom to improve your relationships with your family, not to renounce them. What you wanted was the pattern by which to handle your possessions ethically, with good stewardship and generosity, not just throw them away. He doesn't even allow for you defending your family and property, because if you're carrying your cross, you can't take up arms.
The Lord Jesus is very much the prophet here. In Biblical prophecy, the words of a prophet are not meant to be reasonable. The prophet does not offer explanations and does not negotiate. The prophet does not answer your questions, the prophet rather questions everything. No deals are made and no excuses are accepted, no matter how reasonable your particulars may be.
You have noticed that the Bible never explains its claims to the standards of our satisfaction, and that God just does not justify Godself to us. God does not indulge us, and God is not even tolerant. I know it sounds contradictory, that God is both lavishly gracious and yet not tolerant, but God doesn't care about such contradictions. God never justifies God's claims, and neither does the prophet.
So the words of the Lord Jesus here show no concern for reasoning with us. There's no deal to be made, no solution, no synthesis. His words do ripping up and tearing down. He means his words to clear the ground, and he rips out the flowers with the weeds. His words are like the waters of a flood. Water in a lake is lovely and live-giving, but water in a flood carries everything off before it, wrecking everything. So his words push everything aside without regard, indiscriminately. He means his words to trouble us.
So let's not try to soften these hard sayings of Our Lord. Let's keep it all hard and challenging, like a big rock right in your pathway that you always have to reckon with. Jesus offers you a constant obstacle, a persistent problem that you cannot solve. This is a problem you have to live with all your life. You have to keep facing it again and again, and examine yourself, even judge yourself. All your good convincing reasons that you need this thing, or that connection, or this arrangement, to all those reasons the Lord Jesus says, Really? Over and over again, ever more drily: Really?
Don't bother trying to reason it through with God. God is not convinced. God places no value on our affluence. God has no interest in protecting our possessions for us, or of getting us more of them. That's not what God does for you. God's opinion about our possessions is right here in Luke 14. We have to keep coming back to that. We have to keep returning to the sober realization that the Christian life requires loss as much as gain.
It will cost you. Especially if you work for justice and righteousness in this world that is biased towards injustice and ungodliness. You might feel like you are losing, not winning. In this world, to accomplish any real change requires you to sacrifice, maybe even your life. That has to be troubling. A commander of an army has to keep fighting the battle even at the cost of casualties and death among his soldiers. There's no way that's not troubling.
That's what Our Lord means by you carrying your cross. Remember that at this point in time the cross was not yet the religious symbol of Christianity. It was a symbol of Roman oppression and vindictiveness. It was a negative symbol of pain and loss. To carry your cross means that even in the midst of pain and loss you still follow Christ, that you stay faithful to God even in the midst of suffering and tragedy (Calvin). The cost of discipleship. Christians are expected to stretch towards devotion and obedience. It's discipline. It's medicine—but not a drug! It's actually power.
Because, ironically, though Jesus died on a cross he never surrendered. He continued to say exactly what he wanted and do exactly as he willed. In that sense they had no power over him. He was free to the end, though he knew it would cost him. That was his power. So this is the gospel question underneath all his troubling words: How much do you want to be free?
I once had a parishioner whose husband treated her badly. She put up with it, and always said, "He is my cross to bear." You hear Christians say that. But that's not right. She was bearing her husband's cross, but she's supposed to be bearing her own. As long as she was carrying his, he didn't have to, and she was diverted from her own. The possession she had to give up was her marriage to that man. If she had done that, all her family would have reviled her. Her husband's family, yes, but her own family too. They would have accused her of disloyalty and selfishness.
That's what Jesus means when he says you have to hate your father and mother: he doesn't mean the internal emotion, he means the external reputation, that your family accuses you of not considering them, or of not loving them enough. They act all offended at you, and that can be your cost of discipleship. They may cut you off from their good graces and their sympathy; and that's when you realize that you have begun to carry your cross.
Also ironically, Jesus did not finish carrying his cross. Simon of Cyrene did that for him. On the other hand, Jesus did die on it. So you don't have to. Jesus does the dying but not the carrying, you do the carrying but not the dying. His death has virtue for you, to free you from your death. To give you power and freedom. There is a mystery of exchange and substitution here, ransom and replacement.
This mystery has challenged and troubled theologians through the centuries. All explanations falter because it is finally unreasonable. God does not explain it, God only offers it. In the loss is your freedom and your power, and on the cross that power is revealed as love, the great unreasonable love of God for you. "Amazing love, how can it be, that thou my God shouldst die for me."
Copyright © 2016, by Daniel James Meeter, all rights reserved.
Thursday, August 04, 2016
August 7, Proper 14: Prophecy 6: What is Faith?
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Isaiah 1:1, 10-20, Psalm 50:1-8, 21-24, Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16, Luke 12:32-40
"Fear not little flock, it is my Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." To give you the Kingdom. But so often I hear it said that we are supposed to build the kingdom of God. I heard it at General Synod, as a call for Christian action and church planting and investment and even sacrifice. As if not for our efforts the kingdom of God would not get built.
But according to our Epistle to the Hebrews, it's already built, and not by us. Its builder and maker is God. It's waiting for us to get to it and it's God's good pleasure to give it to us as we approach it, already now, at least its first-fruits.
That does not mean we should be passive. Rather Jesus gives us all these metaphors for being actively alert, actively ready, dressed for action, your lamps lit. Your activity includes putting down those competing things that distract you, setting aside those desirable things that might hinder you, taking off whatever would slow you down, as active as a second baseman or a shortstop, even before the ball is hit.
It's not your action that brings it, it's your action that receives it, it is God who brings it. Your receiving it from God is not by means of your good works, not from your trying to build it by good work, but simply through the medium of your faith. You receive it by your faith.
My topic for today is faith. We use that word a lot. How do you know when you have it? What does it feel like? Wow do you know when you are using it? This topic fits nicely into our sermon series on prophecy, because faith is what prophecy asks for in particular. This might not be true in other religions, but it is true of prophecy in the Biblical sense, prophecy as we've seen it in this series of sermons, prophecy as the invitation and witness to the alternate reality, prophecy as that collection of images and icons and windows into that alternate reality—this sort of prophecy exactly appeals to faith. The way that you respond to prophecy, to its invitations and it promises, is by faith.
We use faith all the time in many ways. When you drive down a two-lane highway you have faith in the driver of the truck coming toward you that he will not swerve into your lane. It is a fact of life today that we take enormous risks all the time, and we live with more danger and more complexity than people have ever lived before, so that we have constantly to put our faith in people we do not know and in institutions removed from us. You have to live by your faith in many ways all the time.
Faith is found among certain birds and animals, especially those species that mate for life, like loons, or among domesticated animals towards us who are their masters. "Fido" is a dog's name because it's Latin for "faithful." The faith of animals is rooted in affection. That's true for human beings too, but our species takes it beyond the level of affection to the level of projection. We put faith in promises, in ideas, in images, of the future, in visions of what might be. "I have a dream!" "The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice!" Human beings are the species that is able to envision the invisible and imagine the insensible. We project, and so we all have to live by faith.
Everybody lives by faith, even if we're not religious. The question is what we put your faith in, whether science or humanity or reason, or nature, or luck, some worldview, a vision of the world, or maybe some god. These are not mutually exclusive, and we interweave these objects of our faith and prioritize them. What do you have some faith in, what do you have more faith in, and what do you have most faith in? By your prioritization you make your choices in life. Think of the many things that you have faith in. You can tell this by how often you've been disappointed. Think of the people you've had faith in, and again, how often you've been disappointed, whether from their failings or maybe from your own transference. To guide your prioritization is one main function of religion.
According to the Heidelberg Catechism of the Reformed Church, dating from 1563, faith has three things in it: knowledge, conviction, and assurance (Q21). In that order—knowledge, conviction, and assurance—from objective to subjective, from information to emotion, from your head to your heart to your soul.
Faith needs knowledge; to wit: What exactly are the promises? What is being promised here? What's the vision, what's the prophecy, what's the alternate reality by which we can judge the presenting reality? Does it make sense? Does it help to make better sense of everything else? Is it reasonable?
Your human reason is not to be denied here, and yet your faith must go beyond your reason, because, by definition, faith is what you engage when you go past proof. Faith is precisely for "things hoped for" and for "things not seen." As in Hebrews 11:1, famously, "Now faith is the assurance of things hope for, the conviction of things not seen." That verse is worth your memorizing it, but it's notoriously difficult to translate, so it's worth memorizing in several versions. I learned it this way: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Do you catch it? Faith makes its own evidence, so faith is in itself a kind of knowledge.
Then faith moves from knowledge to conviction, from your head into your heart, where it gets personal. To wit: Am I convicted by this prophecy? Does this promise call out to me? What does it demand of me? Can I commit to it? Do I dare? Because, again, by definition, faith responds not to proof but to an invitation. What if I don't? What do I lose, what do I gain? Will I let it change me? Can I bet my life on it? Dr. King said that you've got nothing worth living for if you've got nothing worth dying for. Faith has to go from your head to your heart, from knowledge to conviction.
Then your knowledge passes through conviction to assurance. Faith has to go from your head to your heart to your soul. Your soul is the channel of your emotions. You can feel it in your breathing when you have assurance. But your soul is also your connector with your God. Your soul is how you reach out to God as well as the conduit through which God comes into you.
Both Jews and Christians believe that the Spirit of God enters you, and it's that Holy Spirit who gives you your assurance. If you draw your assurance from your own internal resources, that will fail you, no matter how good you are. So you depend on the Holy Spirit creating assurance inside you.
What does that feel like? The thing is, you're not going to have a distinct feeling of the Holy Spirit, distinct from your own feelings. That's because the Spirit prefers to blend into you, like sugar dissolving into water. The way the Holy Spirit does it is by using your head and reminding you of the promises of God, either privately inside you or through the words of a friend or a hymn or a worship service at church.
Don't find your assurance in your own certainties but find it in the promises of God. "Fear not, little flock, it is my Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Your faith is the conduit for you to experience God's faithfulness to you.
So the secret to assurance is not the what of your faith but the who of your faith. Not just what do you believe, but in whom do you believe? Till recently in this church, whenever I called for you to repeat the Apostles Creed, I would ask you, "What do you believe?" But now I ask you, "In whom do you believe?" The first question was good, but the new one is better. Because the what depends upon the Who. The whole purpose of the what is to point to the Who behind the what.
And also because of the gap between the what that is promised and the what that is received. We are incomplete, we are pilgrims looking for a better city, and we will die before we get there. Like Abraham, like Moses, like Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In the words of the Epistle, "All these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted them. . . . Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, indeed he has prepared a city for them." You believe in the City of God because you have faith in God. The fullness of the what is still to come, but the fullness of the Who is fully here.
Faith can be rich and powerful and fruitful and world-changing when its knowledge is of many things, of many prophecies and promises. But your faith will save you even if it only knows one thing, the heart of the matter, in whom to trust. A baby does not even know her mother's name, but she knows her mother as her safety and security. Fear not, little child, it is your mother's good pleasure to give you her love. I invite you to put your faith in the love of God for you.
Copyright © 2016, by Daniel James Meeter, all rights reserved.
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The last time Jane Fonda was in the news, a little over a year ago, a doctored photograph placed her next to John Kerry at a 1970's antiwar rally she hadn't even attended -- a trick meant to hurt Mr. Kerry's presidential chances by linking him to the woman nicknamed Hanoi Jane. But just a month later a poll by the nonpartisan Annenberg Public Policy Center turned up some startling results. Asked to identify people mentioned during the campaign, 40 percent of the respondents thought of Ms. Fonda as an actress and only 20 percent as an antiwar activist. So much for her status as political poison.
And that softer image was no fluke. Less than two weeks ago, a poll measuring celebrities' appeal and recognition found that 62 percent actually liked Ms. Fonda, in varying degrees, while only 38 percent disliked her in some way. The survey, by E-Poll Market Research, also found that many more people recognized her name than her face, a strange result for a movie star.
What happened to the politically polarizing, instantly recognizable Jane Fonda?
No one will be asking "Where's Jane?" in a few weeks, when her autobiography, "My Life So Far," arrives with the kind of fiercely controlled, all-fronts media campaign politicians can only dream of. Her publisher, Random House, will not release the book to reporters or critics in advance, and Ms. Fonda will not give interviews before her appearance on "60 Minutes," scheduled for April 3. That's two days before the book, all 600-plus pages of it, goes on sale. That week Ms. Fonda will hit "Good Morning America" and "The Early Show," visit with David Letterman and Larry King, very likely be featured in Time magazine (negotiations for serial rights are under way) and be pretty much inescapable. If that's not enough of a comeback, in May she will be in the movies again, playing a woman who doesn't want her son to marry Jennifer Lopez's character, in the wide-release comedy "Monster-in-Law."
She hadn't made a movie in 15 years ("Stanley and Iris," in which she taught Robert De Niro to read, was bad enough to scare any actor away), but that's the least of the reasons for her relative obscurity. Her fame has always owed more to her life than to her acting, despite richly deserved Oscars for "Klute" and "Coming Home." But today a generation not even born during the Vietnam War scarcely knows who she is, much less loves or hates her. And she flew largely under the celebrity radar screen during the decade of her unlikely marriage to Ted Turner, which ended in 2001.
Yet her influence on the popular culture has been so enormous that it would be foolish to dismiss her as just another actress trying for a comeback; after all, she has set a path American society has followed more than once. Her political activism, unusual for a movie star in the 70's, is now so common she seems like the template for contemporary celebrity. Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon and Arnold Schwarzenegger might have had very different careers without her. Today only the most bubble-headed pop stars are expected not to comment on world events.Continue reading the main story
In the 80's the "Jane Fonda Workout" videos set off an exercise craze that has never slowed down. Although Ms. Fonda has recently said she doesn't have time to exercise, we probably wouldn't be seeing Oprah Winfrey do Pilates on her show if not for the Jane Fonda tapes of 20 years ago.
And long before Madonna, Ms. Fonda was the mother of reinvention. At 67 she has carried her old selves along as she evolves, spinning her image as she goes. She has chosen to view her character in "Barbarella" (1968) not as a sex kitten but as an empowered woman and space explorer -- not the most convincing argument ever made. More credibly, she has apologized often for statements and actions that hurt the soldiers serving in Vietnam, especially during her wartime visit to Hanoi, yet has never turned her back on her antiwar position.
But she didn't do her career or image much good during the years when she seemed to vanish into Mr. Turner's world. Only they can say whether the marriage was based on true love, but from the outside it looked a lot like her midlife crisis. The once pioneering feminist married a man widely perceived as crass and macho, an odd match even if he was the amazingly rich creator of CNN. The reigning member of one of Hollywood's royal families moved to Atlanta (where she still lives) and became a philanthropist, starting a program to prevent adolescents' pregnancy. She seemed one step away from being a lady who lunches.
If the E-Poll respondents had trouble recognizing her, no wonder. The recent photograph they were shown is that of a well-groomed middle-aged woman with short artificially blond hair and a painstakingly made-up face -- a long way from the natural look she once cultivated. Her new look is so unfamiliar that the catalog copy is more wishful than accurate when it says, "She is one of the most recognizable women of our time."
The publisher's description also says that the book discusses her life "in a way that might inspire others who can learn from her experience." Apparently the woman who once helped America tone its muscles now wants to lead the public on a more inward journey. Whether Americans choose to follow her -- or care enough to buy her book -- is what the media campaign is all about.
That personal journey certainly seems more important to her than acting. "Monster-in-Law" is the kind of calculated career move that must have sounded like a better idea when she signed on than it does now. Back then Jennifer Lopez appeared to be a co-star who could lead Ms. Fonda to a new young audience. Since then the overexposed Ms. Lopez has become a box-office joke. Even if "Monster-in-Law" is a hit, Ms. Fonda has never made a film as enduring as some that her father, Henry Fonda, starred in. "Julia" and "Klute" are terrific movies, but there's no "Grapes of Wrath" in her career.
And maybe that's fine with her. She has obviously sought to have a social impact; her cultural influence has already been so deeply absorbed we scarcely notice it anymore.Continue reading the main story


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1. Introduction to Towing
8. Trailer Brakes & Brake Controls
Chapter 1: Introduction to Towing
Perhaps you, like many drivers, are reluctant to tow a trailer. When towing, your vehicle becomes heavier, slower and will likely require a greater stopping distance.
However, even though several aspects of your normal driving experience may change, towing a trailer does not need to be a stressful experience. In fact, with the proper equipment and adjustments, towing can become almost as convenient and easy as normal driving.
Towing 101: a guide to your towing experience
Whatever your level of experience, Towing 101 is intended to help improve your towing knowledge. It covers everything from selecting a hitch and installing it to hooking up your trailer and towing safely. If there is a term that appears in this guide that you are not familiar with, please see the Towing Glossary.
In this guide, we will answer the following questions:
What equipment is needed for towing?
What are the different types and classes of hitches?
How do I determine my towing capacity?
What do I need to know to select a hitch?
How do I install a trailer hitch?
What wiring do I need to tow a trailer?
How do I select a trailer brake controller?
What do I need to know before towing a trailer?
Let's begin by considering a few questions about your own specific towing situation and needs.
What will you be towing?
First, you should know what kind of trailer you plan to tow. Will it be a utility trailer, boat trailer, camper, or maybe something heavier, such as an RV or livestock trailer? You may require a basic receiver hitch or a heavy-duty 5th wheel or gooseneck hitch. Your trailer may or may not come equipped with its own set of brakes. There are many factors to consider before towing any type of trailer.
What will you be towing with?
You may own a heavy-duty pickup truck, SUV or full-size van, or maybe a light-duty passenger car, crossover or minivan. Your vehicle may be set up with a factory tow package or you may need to install a hitch, wiring or other equipment before you can tow. Each vehicle has different capacities, and each may require different equipment to tow safely and legally.
Where will you be towing?
Your towing needs are also dependent on the distance and road conditions along your route. For example, towing a small utility trailer across town is very different than towing a large 5th wheel camper to a remote destination. It is also likely that you will tow different trailers with the same vehicle. You will need to consider how best to equip yourself for these changes.
Towing Tip: Never exceed the weight capacity rating of the lowest rated component on your towing setup. For example, your trailer hitch and ball mount may be rated to tow 5,000 lbs., but your trailer ball may only be rated at 3,500 lbs. In this case, your towing capacity is limited by the trailer ball to 3,500 lbs.
In following chapters, our goal is to provide you with the resources you need to make towing your trailer a pleasant experience so that you can arrive at your destination relaxed and ready to enjoy yourself.
We'll start by defining the terms and concepts that are associated with towing.
Chapter 2: Basic Towing Equipment >