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Efforts by the Federal Government to close the infrastructure gap in the oil and gas sector as regards the provision of pipelines, refineries, storage facilities, among others, are being undermined by long contract cycles sometimes running into several years.
According to experts, about N18 trillion ($50 billion) is required to close the gap. The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the oil and gas sector is significantly hit by a lack of investment coupled with a huge infrastructure gap that requires trillions of naira to close.
Although Kachikwu has many times pledged to reduce the tendering process to six months, The Guardian learnt that it takes up to two years for a contract to be finalised. Shorter contract cycles would have saved revenue lost to inflationary trends as the closure of contract negotiation takes longer time, forcing contractors to seek revenue.
The underachievement in project performance, lengthy delays and financial loss in the oil and gas project have, therefore, been attributed to the current tendering process in the country.
Experts list some of the causes of the long tendering process as a lack of an effective strategic plan for a tendering system, an inappropriate and bureaucratic tendering process, an unscheduled tendering of a huge number of projects by both public and private sectors, failed projects and low quality of project output.
Due to long delay, contracts costs grow by more than 100 per cent while the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) would still want to insist that the job be executed based on the old price.
Consequently, the job suffers setbacks and it would take more than three years to be executed at very ridiculously high costs.
On the tendering process in Nigeria, the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of Institute of Credit Administrators, Dr. Chris Onalo, told The Guardian that a long period of waiting for a contract to be signed would result in an extra cost. He said the Federal Government should reduce the contractual circle to avoid additional cost and delay.
"Reducing the tendering process will depend on the technicality of the project because there are projects that are more technical. The nature of the contract will determine the length of the tendering process. The most important thing is for us to be realistic", he added.
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Oilserv Limited, Emeka Okwuosa, said the inability of projects' owners to reduce turnaround time for contracts, especially the tendering process, had become a source of worry to players in the oil and gas industry.
According to him, the tendering process sometimes takes up to two years, thus making operators incur additional cost as arising from inflation, and in the end, some get frustrated and abandon the project.
"For me, it is about making conscious efforts to put up a process that's fit for purpose. When you start a tender and the process goes beyond six months, you are in a different territory. You have a situation where inflation may have changed and prices may have changed. Some tendering processes take up to18 months. That should end, it requires concerted efforts.
"We have heard National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) say they will look at that and correct it. We have equally heard the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, say that such a prolonged tendering process must end in the oil and gas sector. There is the need for concerted efforts to streamline the process of tendering and make sure that the tendering and contract cycle time frame is shorter. That requires a directive from the minister, which is then cascaded down to every party involved in the process," he added.
The Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Limited, Roland Ewubare, said: "There is a petition recently that has to do with a tender process that began in 2002 and the award, which was the basis of the petition by the contractor, was made in 2013. It took 11 years to put in place a contract. Now, the operator has to remain in business and do its work.
"The operator's argument was that while we were waiting for the NNPC to put the contract in place, we had to, on a stopgap basis, go on with the existing contractor we had. The issue around the contracting circle is a big one. We are trying to drive it down to six months."
The Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) said in a statement issued at the end of its special workshop recently that procurement and contracting cycles were about 36 months, making it the longest and most inefficient in the world.
According to NAPE, the long contracting cycle results in high levels of uncertainties in costing and planning, thereby creating a sluggish business climate. "We proposed a reduction in the contracting cycles for services and projects to a maximum of three months and nine months," he said.
Kachikwu said that government would cut the contracting cycle in the oil and gas industry from its current stretch of between two and four years to six months. He identified the long contracting cycle as a major contributor to the high cost per barrel of Nigerian crude oil compared to other member countries of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
He listed other causes of long tendering process in the country as the multiplicity of bidders, application of manual tools in bid evaluation and divergent tender requirements by approving entities such as the Nigerian Content Development and Management Board.
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It must have been obvious that I was in a sour mood when I returned home from the grocery store last Saturday. "What's wrong?" my wife asked. "Did we forget to wear our happy pants this morning?"
"I don't know," I whined. "It seems like it was just the other day that I was looking forward to Memorial Day. Now Labor Day has come and gone, and when I go the into stores now all I see are pumpkins, Halloween costumes and candy, Christmas decorations, lawn refuse bags and garden rakes. Where does the time go?"
"Where does the time go? you ask," she replied. "Honey, time stays. We go."
Fall is the best time of the year for lawn care, although we tend to think of it as a time to unwind and watch MSU football on television. Plenty of work remains to be done so don't pick up the remote just yet. If fertilization, weed and thatch control, establishment of new lawns, renovation of poor quality lawns, and garden cleanup is done over the next few weeks, you will have a much healthier, more verdant lawn and garden next year.
Here's a suggested outdoor "Magnificent Seven To Do" list:
A healthy lawn or garden starts with knowing the condition of your soil. Order a $25 Michigan State University Extension Soil Test Self-Mailer Kit from MSU by going to www.msusoiltest.com When you receive it, simply place one cup of your soil in the plastic bag provided, place the postage paid envelope in your mailbox and within two weeks you will receive an email link with a custom fertilization program to meet the needs of your plants.
The middle of September is the ideal time for planting grass seed to either establish a new lawn or renovate a poor quality one because the warm soil temperatures maximize seed germination, newly planted grasses grow rapidly in the cool fall weather, and there is less competition from germinating weeds.
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Once the roots are established, nitrogen becomes the most important nutrient for the growth of the above ground parts. Purchase a top quality grass seed. It will germinate better and be more resistant to disease over time. Newly seeded lawns must have adequate moisture for seed germination and seedling growth, so make sure that the seedbed and later seedlings are kept consistently moist for six weeks.
In early fall use a regular lawn fertilizer with N-P-K ratios of 3:0:2 or 4:0:2. For example, a bag may list 21-0-14 or 32-0-16. Amounts don't need to be exact but should be similar to the ratios recommended in your soil test report. Do not apply "winterizer"-type fertilizers until around Halloween or early November. Slow release is better, but quick-release fertilizers are cheaper but present a greater chance of burning the grass. Do not apply too much nitrogen. Too much can encourage the development of lawn diseases such as leaf spot and brown patch. A shady lawn will require less fertilizer than a sunny lawn.
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September and October are the best months to control perennial broadleaf weeds, including dandelions and clover. According to research conducted at MSU, for maximum effectiveness fall weed control applications should be delayed until October to ensure control of all the recently germinated weeds. Applications as late as mid-November have also shown excellent control in research conducted at MSU. Actively growing grass will quickly fill in the bare spots created after the weeds die.
The only drawback to applying herbicides this time of the year is that you won't get to enjoy watching the weeds writhing in plant pain as they slowly die. But on the positive side, if your lawn was overtaken by a horde of broadleaf weeds this past summer, then applying a herbicide in late September or early October will make a difference in what you will have to battle next year.
MSU Extension recommends that the herbicides dry on the leaf surfaces and not be immediately washed off. Therefore, you should apply the herbicides on a sunny day when rain is not in the forecast for 24 hours. There are many different herbicides that could be used, including the most common three-way broadleaf weed control mixtures. Selective herbicides should contain two or more of the following ingredients: 2,4-D, MCPP, MCPA, dicamba and triclopyr. Those kill most broadleaf weeds without damaging desirable lawn grasses, but check the label.
Core aeration helps oxygen, water, and fertilizer easily reach the grass's roots, decrease thatch, and alleviate soil compaction. Early fall is an ideal time to aerate your lawn. You can do this if the soil is moist but not saturated, and if there's at least another month before the first frost. Generally, by mid-October it's too late to do it in our region. You can rent a self-propelled gas-powered, walk-behind core aerator for about $70 per day. The self-propelled machine will quickly punch holes into the soil and extract plugs of dirt. Make sure that the aerator you use actually pulls plugs of soil from the turf rather than simply punching holes in the ground, which actually increases compaction over time. Leave the plugs on the surface to decompose.
Mow every week or so until grass has stopped growing. Most newer rotary mowers and lawn tractors have a mulching mode that allows grass blades to decompose on your lawn. If yours doesn't, remove leaves by raking them up for bagging or composting so that they won't smother the grass.
MSU Extension recommends you remove leaves, petioles and stems of plants such as hosta, daylily, peony, and other plant debris from a perennial garden to reduce levels of disease inoculum and eggs of insects or slugs. This recommendation is based on the integrated pest management (IPM) philosophy known as sanitation. The following spring, plants will have a "clean slate" to grow, with reduced likelihood of infestation from pests and a reduced need for pesticide controls. Untrimmed perennial beds also become a haven for blowing fall leaves. The leaves tend to cluster over the crowns of perennials, making a convenient cover for mice and voles. If the garden has a history of this type of damage, removing leaf litter and cakes of mulch that piled up over summer will remove hiding places near the vulnerable crowns of plants such as lilies and hostas. Natural predators of rodents are more likely to see and eat them if the garden bed cannot provide a place in which to hide.
There. I've checked off everything on my "To Do" list. How about you?
Best wishes for a wonderful year and Godspeed.
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The global laboratory information systems (LIS) market is growing moderately, driven by increasing demand for advanced healthcare monitoring systems, better efficiency of laboratories, and hospitals and laboratories prioritizing for information systems. The LIS plays an important role in generating information effectively and accurately, which helps in clinical decisions.
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The global LIS market is in growing phase in most of the countries and there are few large vendors holding the significant market share. Many new players are also entering the market, and the consolidation of small players with large players is shaping the competitive landscape. The competition in the LIS market is tough and the market players are trying to sustain themselves by differentiating their LIS products from their competitors. STARLIMS Corporation, Sunquest Corporation, McKesson, LabWare and LabVantage are some of the leading market players offering LIS solutions.
Global LIS market segmentation
Global LIS Market by Application
- Clinical
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- Canada
- Europe
- Germany
- France
- The U.K.
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- India
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- Japan
- Rest of the World (ROW)
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Im gonna be lazy but inspired by Mesopotaimia at the moment again.
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Assyrian image features a roman coloseum type scene - but kings were expected to hunt and kill lions. When Auroch about they were the target. Kings and Djinn wear increasing numbers of horns to indicate power with later kings having more. The details like the king and his men killing lions and the ornamental gates are all based on relief stone carvings from walls. In a fantasy or more mythic era kings will have to kill monsters too.
Assyrians had the most advanced city smashing siege weapons ever which let them rape the world. In early eras cities with walls were pretty much untouchable.
Early eras had assemblies of elders with some basic democracy. When Marduk offers to kill Tiamat his price is absolute power. Possibly this is all why Enki made Marduk.
Herodotus mentions auctioning of women for some ritual which Victorian scholars were very interested in but no Babylonian sources confirm it. Probably some confusion over a sacred marriage or other ritual. Ishtar cult had various orders some which were virgins. Older priestesses may have lovers and may retire and marry. Temples operated huge breweries and Siduri the beer/barmaid goddess is probably an aspect of Ishtar (and offers worldly advice). I had some temples blood thirsty maniac amazons with pet lions, others peace loving with doves. Cheap and nasty backwoods shrines might just be common prostitutes. A women in a window is pretty much a symbol of prostitute.
Stelae and border stones depicting gods were posted on borders of kingdoms, farms and at other locations. These guys are very much Sumerian in style. Note the sickle swords and the snake staff (Ningizzida symbol). Middle managers carry rods and staffs - a measuring tool and a truncheon. Swords are a symbol of authority because they exist to dispense justice and decapitations. Some kilts sheep wool others cloth. One man holds a lion bird or the Anzu/zu bird who stole the tablets of destiny an was stopped by the god Ninurta.
Im not sure but seems to be some Assyrians meeting Hittites judging by stone lion and and the hats. Every race wore a distinctive hat. On the stairs of persepololis you can see men of many lands with various hats carved in relief on stairway walls with goodies and tributes for the Persian king.
Chariots impressed people long past their use by date. The battle of Meddigo was the last big hurrah of Hittites and Egyptian chariots. Each might take a fortune and a hundred craftsmen to build. After chariots were just used for flashy nobles and moving personnel about more than be a feature of battles. Assyrians hauled them into mountains in parts and reassembled. It was like a cold war of who had the most was more scary in heyday. Brit Celts freaked Romans with their chariots as no body had used in civilized war for centuries. The next battle the Romans probably looked up their tactical history books and kicked arse. Military stockpiling has always been about conspicuous waste for status.
Not much to see here except ceremonial processions would be pretty common on holy days, probably monthly. Commoners pretty much in loin cloths. Slaves under Hummarabi's code had far more rights than people expect. Except military prisoners who probably god the most horrible and fatal jobs. Many scribes and priests clean shaven, some eunuchs. In Herodotus he mentions an island where the everybody wants a eunuch from. The reason is they fight to the death to avoid being eunuchs so their scarcity mad them more desirable. My friend Diana played a priestess with a pet eunuch. I could be mean and joke about perspective and say it is a race of giants with miniature slave race but that would be silly.
Rather idylic Assyrian palace temple district with parks and ceremonial barges
Some books would be made of wood other were clay or stone. Having a spell book weigh as much as you would suck, but those egyptian wizards books are so flamable. Some kings were amatuer archeologists and had museums with objects from a thousand years before, relics of ancient kings, and even a dinosaur bone. In Early Later times aramaic took over but Akkadian was the international trade language for a thousand years plus. Sumerian was like latin - good for holy texts and sorcery. People used to mine bricks from earlier epochs. Sometimes something evil might be disturbed.
A nice courtly drama scene
A city under attack. Women and the old know their fate is probably not so good. The gods fix your destiny - scribing it in divine texts, Their is a celestial bureaucracy who work out the details like what demon to finish off someone. Gilgamesh is in the underworld, he is judge of the dead.
Assyrians doing what they do best
Im not sure but it looks like some kind of court strangling contest
Assyrian prisoners off being inspected by king with a parasol. What a great job. Diferent slaves had rights depending if sold as debtors (a few extra kids can raise some cash), or captured or born slaves. Slaves generally could get married and own money. A free persons child with a slave parent was free. If your adopted kids sas you you can kill them.
A depiction of Solomons temple. An amalgam of Mesopotamia and Egypt as were many of the songs in the old testament. When Isiah heard the Assyrians coming he exhorted the mass murder of those without circumcisions or had slept with them, who worshiped Ishtar and Adonis (Tammuz), who married foriegners and all kindsa stuff he said god didn't like. Killed half his own people. His gamble on one of 2 possible outcomes paid off and the Assyrian king and army got the plague in a swamp which destroyed the empire. If he'd been wrong they would have all been killed or enslaved anyhow so a cunning gamble.
Im not sure about this but it seems to be a fortress or palace of some kind of near eastern origin. The buildings and urbanization impress me the most. I suspect it is actually Egyptian.
Chariots may be not what they were a thousand years before but they still look good. Chariots were puuled bu ox with 4 wheels in oldest cases. Two weelers pulled by onagers (wild ass) were the rage for a while. Chariots actually came from central asia and kinda ravaged the world. Horses were easier to handle so eventually another wave of central asians discovered you could ride them. Dromadaries came from arabia after Akkad and bactrian camels came from asia later still. If you cross them you get an infertile camel which can handle hot or cold.
Phonecians probably more famous sea-farers but river boats were pretty standard travel. Coracles made from streched skin identical to ancients were used till recently. Assyrian soldiers crossed rivers with air bladder floaties. Woven reed boats were a goer too. You can weave a house from reeds too - the same designs used from ancient Sumeria until the 90s by the so called marsh Arabs. Giant reed rafts with a reed house and animals let you cope with the floods. Wood is scarce. Stones and metal are scarce. Reeds and clay built Sumerian civilization - metal ages are over rated.
Babylonian king watching some workers. Assyrians today want to rebuild Nineveh and want their land back. They are being driven out by kurd settlers using dirty tricks to drive them off land they have had for thousands of years. People still bare grudges against Assyria. By blockading Saddam, he got to do lots of ethnic clensing and drained the swamps, chasing out marsh arabs who have been doing theit thing for 5000 years pretty much the same. Ethnic cleansing continues now. So many weird not quite christian or jewish sects that share myths with Jews-Christians-Arabs exist as do some of the oldest christian sects. If I ever move to Melbourne I'll do Assyriology.
Ill do this every now and then - I could do it for a while.
Then I can start scanning. I have dozens of city and ruin maps.
Possibly I got into this whei I was studying classics and I was in a relationship with no cash so national geographic and library and net was my game source 94-97.
I may well be a bit vague and inacurate but there is over 2000 years worth of goodies here. Sometimes my instincts fill in the gaps - if you hear Im wrong let me know
Ill do this every now and then - I could do it for a while.
Then I can start scanning. I have dozens of city and ruin maps.
Possibly I got into this whei I was studying classics and I was in a relationship with no cash so national geographic and library and net was my game source 94-97.
I may well be a bit vague and inacurate but there is over 2000 years worth of goodies here. Sometimes my instincts fill in the gaps - if you hear Im wrong let me know


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Proponents of the fine-tuning argument (FTA) note that if the fundamental properties of our universe were slightly different, then life could not have evolved, and this is evidence for a Fine-Tuner of the universe.
I'm asking defenders of the FTA a series of questions. My first question was: Was Our Universe Fine-Tuned for iPads?
Here's the point. The universe had to be highly fine-tuned merely to produce stars. Would any universe containing stars (but no life) be evidence that that universe was fine-tuned by a Designer who really liked stars?
Moreover, our universe is far more finely-tuned for iPads than it is for life, or for conscious life. There are more ways to produce a universe with intelligent life than there are to produce one with iPads. So should we conclude the universe was fine-tuned for iPads?
Or, perhaps our universe is fine-tuned for the resting mass of an electron, which is 9.11 x 10-31 kg. If this were different by .00000000000000000000000000000001 kg, then the resting mass of an electon would no longer be 9.11 x 10-31!
Yet somehow all this fine-tuning does not seem to concern theists. It is only the apparent fine-tuning of the universe for life (or conscious life, or intelligent life, or something – theists can't make up their minds) that matters and requires a special explanation.
This curious focus on life has been called life chauvinism. Why is it life that requires fine-tuning? That was the point of my first question to defenders of the fine-tuning argument.
Today I will explore just one of the answers.
"Life has intrinsic value."
The reason that fine-tuning for life requires explanation, but fine-tuning for stars or iPads or the resting mass of an electron does not require such an explanation, some theists say, is because life has intrinsic value.
Life is special, they say. Stars and iPads and the resting mass of an electron are interesting, but life is intrinsically special, and thus requires a special explanation.
Indeed, philosopher Neil Manson suspects this idea may even be why many physicists think fine-tuning for life needs a special explanation:
[Cosmologists] are committed to an absolutely startling position. They are saying that, before we came on the scene, back before there were stars, back before there were even galaxies, right back to the Planck time, an ethical proposition ('Life is good') was true. Whatever else the many-universe research programme entails, it requires that at least one value judgment be true prior to the existence of any human beings.
The problem with this solution to my question is that I see no evidence for it. What evidence is there that life is intrinsically valuable? What evidence is there that even if nobody cared about life, it would still have value, because it has value within itself?
The only evidence I have ever seen presented for this astonishing claim is that it just feels or seems like it does.
But hold on a minute. I thought the whole point of the fine-tuning argument is that it was a way for believers to demonstrate the existence of God on the basis of public evidence, not inner feelings. If we're going to accept God on the basis of how Christians feel about things, well, we don't need the fine-tuning argument for that.
So unless evidence for the intrinsic value of life can be presented, I don't see how this answer to my question gets us anywhere.
Thankfully, there were more compelling answers to my question than this, and I'll be examining them next.


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Legislative Update
The following are summaries of final actions by legislatures on education-related matters:
Michael N. Castle (R)
FY 1993 state budget:
$1.3 billion
FY 1993 K-12 budget:
$438 million
FY 1992 K-12 budget:
$418 million
Percent change K-12 budget:
+4.9 percent
- Governor signed a bill creating a Child Sex Abuse Information Repository to provide current information on sex offenders to school districts.
- Vetoed a bill stiffening enforcement of school-discipline codes, including a clause that would have made it a crime for principals not to report violent crimes on school grounds.
- Earmarked $200,000 for schools to promote alternative learning environments, in which disruptive students are separated into special classrooms.
Terry E. Branstad (R)
FY 1993 state budget:
$3.43 billion
FY 1993 K-12 budget:
$1.42 billion
FY 1992 K-12 budget:
$1.34 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+6 percent
- Governor signed measure changing mechanism for determining allowable growth in school spending. Percent of growth to be determined by formula, set 30 days after Governor submits budget for base year.
- Also signed measure allowing schools and districts to be exempted from accreditation standards if engaged in comprehensive school transformation.
- Also signed measures providing for establishment of family-resource centers and family-support programs.
William F. Weld (R)
FY 1993 state budget:
$14.2 billion
FY 1993 K-12 budget:
$1.45 billion
FY 1992 K-12 budget:
$1.43 billion
Percent change K-12 budget:
+1.4 percent
- Legislature added $185 million to school aid by overriding veto by Governor, who had tried unsuccessfully to tie additional aid, the first in three years, to school reform.
- Legislature reformulated school-choice law, providing some financial relief to sending districts that were penalized severely under 1991-92 formula.
- Passage of comprehensive education reform delayed when Governor
and legislature were unable to reach agreement on funding.
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Northern know-how is very prominent in Lappset's Angry Birds-themed Activity Parks that one can visit in Finland, China, the UK, Malaysia and the Canary Islands. The backbone of these full-motion activity parks is strong pine from northern forests. Stora Enso's sawmill in Veitsiluoto is one of the main suppliers.
The Lappset company's story began over forty years ago in Finnish Lapland. The founder of the company wanted children to have an interesting environment for playing and getting exercise. He was also keen on wooden toys – not just the metallic carousels and climbing frames that were fashionable at the time.
Over the decades, Lappset has become a well-known brand among the parents of small children in the more than 50 countries where Lappset playgrounds have been built. And today, too, they are built with wood.
"Northern pine is a very suitable raw material for our playgrounds, as it is strong and its fibres tight," explains Veikko Salmela from Lappset. "We do not want children to get slivers in their fingers!"
Angry Birds-themed activity parks were created in 2012. Originally featured in a mobile device game, these birds have become beloved by children around the world and ultimately inspired Lappset to utilise the game also as a way to get children away from their mobile devices.
"Wood has been and still is one of our most important raw materials in traditional playgrounds, Angry Birds Activity Parks, our fitness equipment, and also in our collection of classic and modern park and street furniture. Wood is an ecological and sustainable raw material that suits different weather conditions in different parts of the world, from extreme cold in the north to subtropical humidity of the south," Veikko Salmela says.
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Lappset's presence has grown globally, but all of its wooden play and sports products are made in Rovaniemi, in Finnish Lapland. "Northern pine is also a local raw material for us," Salmela continues.
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2. A Biblical Vision for Political Life
PJR Vol. 5 2017, Looking Back, Looking Forward: Celebrating CPJ's 40th Anniversary
William Edgar
William Edgar is Professor of Apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia.
As a new Christian, I was not very happy with some of the versions of political and public policy I encountered. But when I attended seminary, I was classmates with someone would turn out to be one of the most fertile political thinkers of our time-- James Skillen. We became good friends and remain so to this day. Along with Jim and a few other colleagues, I became convinced of the Kuyperian and Dooyeweerdian approach to political life,[1] and I've remained in this camp ever since.
The overarching vision of the Center for Public Justice, which draws on these approaches, is easily stated, though not always easily applied. It centers on a biblical understanding of the order of creation. And chief among the concerns within the creation order is justice. Jim Skillen puts it this way: the criteria for realizing public justice arise "from the struggle to articulate a creation-order political philosophy for a differentiating society in a shrinking world."[2]
This rather pregnant definition means that we ground our thinking in the biblical doctrine of creation, as it applies to a world that is expanding and shrinking at the same time. Two major components inform our understanding of creation, and of public justice at its center: anthropology and history.
Anthropology. Human beings are created in the image of God. This has enormous implications for our philosophy of life and for our understanding of public justice. The primary calling of humankind is to worship God by ruling over creation. God calls us in the "cultural mandate" (Genesis 1:26-31; Acts 17:27) to have a proper dominion over this world and also to spread out over the planet in order to seek and find God. Being made to reflect God means there is a fundamental equality in all human creatures, despite appearances and circumstances. Because of that, justice must be the same for everyone.
The expression creation-order refers to the universe and its design as it was originally given by God at the dawn of time, and it remains to this day. Identifying the different elements of this order is not limited to reading the first two books of Genesis, though they are foundational. The creation is described throughout the Bible, both in the Old and the New Testaments. Sometimes we have a direct window onto the operations of God's world, as we do in Job 38-41, or Psalm 104. More often, an understanding of creation is woven into the fabric of the many books in Scripture, given as a standard or norm for human thought and behavior. Almost always, there is an historical and institutional component to the creation order.
The intrusion of sin into this creation order is profoundly traumatic. Every aspect of life is affected. Yet sin's invasion has not been able to threaten the integrity of creation. Thus politics, and every other good endeavor, are still grounded in the creation order. Government does not receive its raison d'être because of sin. Contrary to many views, including ones I encountered as a new Christian, the state is not a necessary evil. We are created, among other things, for political life.
History. Even if there had never been a fall, history was meant to take the human race from one economy to another. We were meant to advance from the state of perfection in the Garden to a state of consummate bliss which the Bible calls eternal life. As it happens, sin did enter in and everything became vulnerable. Although harsh and tyrannical political orders appeared, the purposes of the original cultural mandate not only were maintained, but enhanced and finally fulfilled in Jesus Christ (Psalm 8:5-9; Hebrews 2:5-9; Matthew 28:16-20; Revelation 21:22-27).
Though the shape of human society has been modified down through the ages, government is always by divine appointment (Romans 13:1-7). Even after, or especially after, Christ's resurrection from the dead, in him all things hold together (Colossians 1:15-20). The fact of the inauguration of a new order means history is moving toward its final goal. We are full participants in this historical unfolding, which includes mankind's governing responsibilities.
Within this historical development various institutions have developed. Human life does not consist of an amalgam of biological existence. It is shaped not only by our individual relation to God and to each other, but by certain collective units, such as the family, or the state, or the church, or business ventures. In Kuyper's vision, each of these institutions were spheres that had their own sovereignty under the rule of Christ.
Faith and Politics Over Time
These two important components (anthropology and history) have informed Christian views of political life in a variety of ways over time and have given rise to different understandings of the role and responsibilities of government and of how Christians citizens ought to exercise their earthly citizenship.
The first opportunity for Christians to think through their position on politics was in the context of Christendom--the thousand-year-plus period from Constantine's declaring Christianity a legal religion to the dawn of the modern age. Although there were great achievements during this time, the favored Christian model for government was based on the Roman imperial system, with a confusion of church and state. This led to many struggles to try to honor the need for government while placing the Christian's basic identity in the heavenly realm.
Augustine (354-430) taught that we might make some use of the goods in the City of Man as long as they were somehow related to "heavenly peace" in the City of God. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) argued that government belonged to the natural world, but that the church, grace, and revelation are super-natural.[3] Remarkable as were these giants, they both started from the assumption that the present earthly order, including politics, is at best a concession to sin, which needs to be overcome or eclipsed in order to be closer to God.
The next major phase of Christian political thinking occurred with the rise of the modern state after the Reformation. Here, nationalism became prominent. Sometimes this yielded a Christian nationalist identity, and sometimes a more secular one. While many laudable benefits arose from this configuration, including the separation of the spheres, so did great insufficiencies. Some Christians sought to identify a particular country as a Christian nation. While some countries may have elements of a Christian culture, to somehow enforce a particular confession, be it Christian or otherwise, on a post-resurrection society is to attempt to return to the time of Moses or King David.
Ironically, it is often in reaction to this kind of misguided nationalism that many have argued for a privatized, ineffectual faith. I would contend that one of the obstacles today to upholding public justice for all is the kind of liberalism espoused by John Locke (1632-1704). He taught that the individual was absolutely free and the only reason for institutions such as government is to preserve our right to property.[4] This has led to an exaggeration of what Charles Taylor calls the "sovereign self," with the interminable battles for individual rights.[5]
CPJ's Vision for Political Life
Within these various approaches to faith and political life, the Center for Public Justice has advocated for the legitimacy of a plural society in which human flourishing, the call to justice for all, and the freedom to worship according to conscience are all encouraged. Going back to the two basic principles of anthropology and history, we argue that the purpose of government is not to separate believers from unbelievers, nor to give special privileges to believers, but to uphold justice for all, since all are in God's image and all participate in a history where the wheat and the weeds are growing up together (Matthew 13:24-30).
To be sure, this is a Christian conviction, but we don't require people to accept the gospel before enacting justice. Magistrates are appointed by God whether they acknowledge that or not. And God has left clear witnesses to his providential care whether people recognize it or not (Acts 14:16-18).
By pluralism we do not mean relativism. We mean that each institution has its own integrity and its own purpose before God. And because of that, each institution derives its norms from Scriptural principles, again, whether acknowledged or not. Thus, the state has a legitimate sovereignty. It should not be too large, claiming more and more power over other spheres, such as the church or the family or the market. Neither should it be too small, acting only as a sort of referee for people to do as they like.[6] The church has been rightly uncoupled from other spheres, and rather than this leading to secularism, this differentiation has the potential of clarifying the responsibilities of each sector, but always under the lordship of Christ
So as we consider these principles in light of our current political divisions and discord, how and where can CPJ and its hopeful vision for political life make any kind of impact? What are some areas in need of further study in order to make a more lasting contribution? I would suggest these three:
1. In the introduction of this article, I referred to "in a shrinking world." There is considerable debate about the implications of globalization, a topic that Robert Joustra attends to later in this series as he considers a Christian perspective on international relations.[7] The Center for Public Justice should take an active part in that debate.[8] Though based in America, our concerns are truly global. Our principles have important implications for world trade, international relations, immigration, and issues of justice across many borders. And we ought to have a special heart for persecuted peoples around the globe.
2. Another area needing more robust and engaged dialogue is human sexuality. While some have accused Christians of being obsessed with this, we need look no further than legislation about marriage or the recent debates about transgendered people in the military to see that issues of gender and human sexuality figure largely in our national debate. One place where the Center for Public Justice can contribute is to advocate for the proper place for creation-order institutions in relation to civil rights.[9] Chelsea Langston Bombino and Stanley Carlson-Thies discuss this and the related work of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance in their article for this series.
3. A final area requiring our engagement is in putting forth a winsome and persuasive apologetic for this vision for public justice. We need good ways to convince our fellow human beings of the biblical understanding of justice and the right roles of government and citizens together in upholding it.
We have been assigned to this particular time and place by the grace of God. Rather than retreat out of fear or move ahead out of ressentiment, we should do our work with great confidence, knowing that God loves this world, including its political features, far more than we do. Thus may we joyfully work his works "while it is day" (John 9:4).
[1] Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) was the seminal figure in the revival of Calvinism in the 19th century. Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977), a follower of Kuyper, was professor of jurisprudence and a remarkable commentator on Western thought.
[2] James W. Skillen, The Scattered Voice, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1990, pp. 194-195.
[3] See Augustine, The City of God, 19.14; 4.4; and Thomas Aquinas, On the Truth of the Catholic Faith, book 2, transl. James Anderson, Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.
[4] John Locke, "Second Treatise of Civil Government," in Two Treatises of Government, ed. Thomas I. Cook, New York: Hafner Press, 1973, p. 184.
[5] Charles Taylor, The Sources of the Self, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.
[6] Many questions arise here. One of them is how much right the government has to encourage faith-based initiatives without endorsing a particular confession. CPJ associates Stephen Monsma and Stanley Carlson-Thies have done extensive work on this area. See their Free to Serve: Protecting The Religious Freedom of Faith-Based Organizations, Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2015. But not everyone is convinced.
[7] See, for example, Adi Ignatius, "The Truth about Globalization," Harvard Business Review July-August, 2017, p. 10, and the rest of the issue.
[8] Lots has been done, particularly by friends of CPJ such as Bob Goudzwaard, with Mark Vander Vennen and David Van Heemst, Hope in Troubled Times: A New Vision for Confronting Global Crisis, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. But there is room for more.
[9] See James Skillen, The Good of Politics, Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2014, pp. 159-163.


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A five year plan is a list of priorities you would like to accomplish over the next several years. As well as actions you can take when you make mistakes, so that you can still meet those goals. Your five year plan is a roadmap for success.
Why should students create a five year plan?
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List 5 goals you want to achieve in 5 years
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As a kid I got to see the Space Shuttle on the back of a 747 at Edwards Air Force Base in Lancaster. It seemed fitting that I capture an image of it's last flight since I wasn't allowed to take any pictures the first time I saw it.
Composer John Williams
I was shooting a documentary and he was our interview. We shot in Spielberg's Screening room. The best part was I brought a friend to be my B camera operator. My only instruction was, "Don't Touch Anything!" He was a BIG John Williams fan and I printed this shot for him as a souvenir.
Great Hood Ornament
I stopped to get gas and passed this car show in Camarillo, CA. I stopped and took a bunch of photos of some great grills and hood ornaments. This was one of my favorites.
Handsome Sammy
He's always hungry, so it's not to hard to get him to model if he knows there are treats at the end of the shoot.
Rolls Royce Hood Ornament
Beverly Hills Concourse D'Elegance
Porsche Sunroof
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Oliver the Cat
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Christmas Objet D'Art
I thought this would make a good Black & White shot
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Mormon Temple at Westwood CA
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Silohuette at Sunset
While I was waiting for the sun to set I got this shot of the water at Sony Studios.
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American political satirist and journalist P.J. O'Rourke once stated, "Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it." A coffee table book, then, ought to achieve this feat by simply existing in the room; every page strategically designed, every image carefully curated, and every sentence patiently crafted to bring knowledge to the reader with utmost beauty.
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(Reuters) – Henrik Stenson turned in a sizzling eight-under 64 to grab the first round lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Thursday, while Tiger Woods was back near the top of the leaderboard and on the prowl for a ninth Bay Hill title.
Stenson, who missed the cut at last week's PGA Tour stop the Valspar Championship, started his round quietly with three pars but then birdied nine of his next 13 holes including five straight from the ninth.
The only blemish on an otherwise polished card was a bogey at the 14th that interrupted a magical run of seven birdies over eight holes before the Swede closed out his round with two pars for a one shot lead over Americans Talor Gooch and Aaron Wise.
"There was no point wasting a few (birdies) when I was heading home (last week)," said Stenson, whose nine birdies are a career best.
"Golf is funny game, my putter wasn't working at all last week, I actually hit the ball alright through the two rounds I played but just couldn't get a birdie and had to go do some work on my putting and got that going."
Lurking two shots farther back at five-under after 67s are a trio of Americans including world number seven Rickie Fowler, Jimmy Walker and Bryson DeChambeau.
But the man in the spotlight once again was Woods – back at one of his favorite events and near the top of the leaderboard after carding a rock solid four-under 68 to share seventh with compatriot Patrick Reed and South Korean An Byeong-hun.
A record eight-times winner on the Bay Hill layout, the former world number one was in vintage form, mixing six birdies with a single double bogey to put a marker down for a ninth Palmer Invitational title.
"I thought I played well today." Woods told reporters. "It's just playing tournament golf, I've been away from it for so long.
"When I first game back it was just getting my feel for tournament golf again and I think I have, I feel like I am not really thinking as much around the golf course, it's more see it, feel it and go."
After years of battling back woes, Woods, who underwent spinal fusion surgery last April, appears to be back close to the form that helped him to 14 major titles.
Picking up where he left he left off last weekend when he finished second at the Valspar, Woods got a cool morning off to a hot start by collecting three birdies on an error-free first nine.
Playing the back nine first, the 42-year-old American's round stuttered at the par-four third where he took a double bogey after hitting his tee shot out of bounds.
But, playing with supreme confidence, Woods was quickly back on track, picking up his fourth birdie of the day at the par- five fourth to inch his way back up the leaderboard.
That was followed by a birdie at six and another at seven when he rolled in a monster 71-foot putt that brought a roar from the gallery.
Rory McIlroy, who has had a sluggish start on the PGA Tour and missed the cut in two of four starts, had looked poised to feature on the leaderboard until a double bogey at 18 left the Northern Irishman with a 69, five off the pace.
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Fundbox Invoice Financing Review: Unpaid Invoice Funding for Newer Businesses
Fundbox Invoice Financing Review: Unpaid Invoice Funding for Newer Businesses
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Fundbox is good for newer businesses, business owners with lower credit scores and businesses that need money quickly. You can either apply for invoice financing or a line of credit through Fundbox, with APRs from 13% to 60%. Qualifying at Fundbox is based primarily on your time in business, revenue and use of online accounting and banking services.
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Fundbox Review: Should You Apply?
We recommend Fundbox for newer businesses, business owners with thin or lower credit scores and business owners that need funds quickly. Fundbox offers both invoice financing and lines of credit up to $100,000 for small businesses.
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The Pros of Fundbox
Fundbox has fairly lenient criteria to qualify for both of its products, so we think it's a good choice for businesses that may not be able to access traditional capital sources. There are no hard credit score requirements to qualify for either invoice financing or a line of credit. There are time in business requirements for both products, but these range from three to six months, and there is a minimal revenue requirement for the line of credit product. Additionally, Fundbox requires businesses not have any bankruptcies in last two years for both products, and there are some accounting and bank account requirements depending on which product you choose.
Given the less stringent qualifying criteria, the APRs offered are reasonable, ranging from 13% to 60% for invoice financing and 15% to 59% for the line of credit. Other lenders and companies with similar eligibility requirements may have APRs as high as 80% to 190%. If you think you may only qualify for a higher rate at another lender, you should consider getting invoice financing or a line of credit from Fundbox instead. And because Fundbox products come with relatively short terms, we suggest borrowers consider the total cost of borrowing, which is how much you will repay in total. Sometimes, for short-term loans, a loan may have a high APR, but the actual payback amount is equitable.
The Cons of Fundbox
There are two main downsides to Fundbox: relatively low loan amounts and compressed repayment schedules. With either product, you can only borrow up to $100,000. For large businesses, this may not be an adequate amount. Additionally, terms on Fundbox products range from 12 to 24 weeks for invoice financing and 12 weeks for the line of credit. Both products require weekly repayment. Some business owners might find this repayment schedule disruptive to their business's cash flow cycle. Before you apply at Fundbox, think about what you can realistically afford to repay on a weekly basis.
You may also be required to submit additional documentation to the lender if you want a higher credit limit beyond what you're initially approved for. This may include two years of tax returns and three months of bank statements. Moreover, for invoice financing, you need to demonstrate some revenue if you want a credit limit higher than $30,000.
Final Thoughts
We think Fundbox is a good choice for businesses that are underserved by traditional lenders -- that is to say, newer businesses, businesses with lower annual revenues or owners with lower credit scores. Like many other online lenders, Fundbox is also quick to fund. Businesses can receive funding in as fast as the next business day, and Fundbox is available to businesses in all 50 states. The two major drawbacks to Fundbox are the fact that you can only borrow up to $100,000 and you'll be required to make weekly repayment over 12 or 24 weeks (depending on which product you use).
Eligibility Criteria
To qualify for Fundbox invoice financing or a line of credit, your business must meet the following criteria:
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To improve your chances of qualifying, we suggest borrowers fit or exceed the ideal borrower profile. Eligible accounting software includes QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Clio, Ebility, FreshBooks, Harvest, InvoiceASAP, Jobber, Kashoo, PayPal, Xero and Zoho.
Fundbox Invoice Financing and Line of Credit Features
Fundbox offers both invoice financing and lines of credit up to $100,000. Instead of using APRs, the company quotes its prices as a weekly fee of the total invoice amount or the draw amount. These fees range from 0.5% to 0.8% for invoice financing and 0.5% to 0.7% for the line of credit. For example, on a $1,000 invoice, you could potentially pay about $60 in total fees. This means that you will pay $5 a week for twelve weeks, which translates to a 0.5% weekly fee (5 ÷ 1,000 = 0.5%).
Fundbox Invoice Financing
Fundbox invoice financing works differently than traditional invoice factoring. Instead of receiving a partial advance amount, Fundbox will give you a 100% advance on the invoice. And unlike traditional factoring, Fundbox requires borrowers to make weekly repayment over 12 or 24 weeks. For traditional factoring, the borrower's customers often repay the invoice directly to the factoring company.
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|$100 - $100,000
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|12 or 24 weeks
|Repayment Options
Fundbox Line of Credit Features
Fundbox also offers a line of credit product with line amounts up to $100,000. Similar to the invoice financing product, the cost is quoted as a weekly fee between 0.5% to 0.7% of the draw amount.
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|$100 - $100,000
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|15.00% - 59.00%
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|12 weeks
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Fundbox Application Process
To apply at Fundbox, you'll need to make an online account with the company. You'll then need to connect your accounting software or bank account to allow Fundbox to analyze your business financials. You won't need to fill out extensive paperwork. Fundbox won't perform a hard pull on your credit score during the application process but they will perform a hard pull if you qualify and accept their offer. Once you link your eligible accounts, Fundbox can give you an approval decision in as fast as a couple of hours.
If approved, you'll be approved for an initial credit limit. To get a higher credit limit, you may be required to submit additional documentation to the lender, such as tax returns and bank account statements. Once your account is fully set up, you can draw funds as needed and receive that money as fast as the next business day.
How Does Fundbox Compare to Other Online Lenders?
If you're in the market for a small business loan, we suggest you comparison shop before applying. We take a look at some of Fundbox's top competitors below.
Fundbox vs. BlueVine
We recommend BlueVine over Fundbox if you have a high volume or dollar-amount of invoices, as BlueVine offers invoice factoring up to several million dollars. Compared to Fundbox, BlueVine is more similar to traditional invoice factoring. BlueVine only offers 85% of the invoice upfront and provides the remainder once the customer repays the invoice. And similar to traditional factoring, your customer will repay the invoice to your BlueVine account (BlueVine requires an extra step to set up a separate account for customers to repay the invoice). To qualify for BlueVine invoice factoring, you'll need to be in business at least three months with $10,000 in monthly revenue, and you'll need a personal credit score of 530 or higher. BlueVine also offers a line of credit product comparable to the one at Fundbox.
Fundbox vs. Kabbage
Kabbage and Fundbox both have similar line of credit products; however, Kabbage offers higher loan amounts and longer terms. At Kabbage, you can take out a line of credit for six- or 12-month terms with monthly repayment. With these higher terms come higher eligibility requirements. To qualify for up to $100,000, you'll need to be in business at least one year with $50,000 in annual revenue. If you want more than $100,000, you'll need to be in business three years with $500,000 or more in annual revenue. Neither Fundbox nor Kabbage has hard minimum credit score requirements, so either company can be a good choice for borrowers with thin or lower credit scores.
Fundbox vs. LendingClub
If you need to borrow more than $100,000, LendingClub is a better option than Fundbox. LendingClub provides business loans and lines of credit up to several hundred thousand dollars. LendingClub has stricter eligibility requirements than Fundbox as it requires businesses to be at least 2 years old and have annual revenue of $75,000. Business owners must also have fair or better personal credit, which is usually any credit score of 620 or higher, and all borrowers who own 20% or more of the business must personally guarantee that the loan or line of credit will be repaid. However, APRs are lower and loan terms are longer at LendingClub.
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