Senem Göl, M. Atilla Öner, Assesment of Corporate Foresight Project Results in a Developing Country – Case of a Multinational Company in Turkey, Yeditepe International Research Conference on Foresight and Futures, Yeditepe University, September 4 – 6, 2009.
Emre Beşli and M. Atilla Öner. "An Exploratory Study on the Development and Application of Integrated Information Technology Management Model." Yeditepe International Research Conference on Business Strategies, Yeditepe University June 13-15, 2008.
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Tayfun Çağan, M. Atilla Öner, A. Nuri Başoğlu, Factors Affecting Innovation Diffusion – The Case of Turkish Armed Forces, Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology 2003, Portland, Oregon, ABD.
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Aykut Öncü, M. Atilla Öner, A. Nuri Başoğlu, "Make or Buy" Analysis For Local Manufacture or Import Decisions in Defense System Procurement Using AHP – The Case of Turkey, Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology 2003, Portland, Oregon, ABD.
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First of all, we should define what guest posting even is. It generally means writing an article to be published on somebody's else blog or website. On occasion, I let others do this on my site, and I also guest post myself on many other blogs who have audiences that I would like to speak to. It's a good way to reach out and connect with new readers while getting my name out. However, for a long time, I turned my nose up at this crucial strategy for growing a blog into something popular. Now, looking back on it, I regret that I didn't start it sooner. I hope you don't make the same mistake that I did.
There are many reasons why doing guest posting can be successful for a blogger looking to build up their online influence, although three, in particular, stand out.
Bloggers have to have great content. If you want to be a great guest blogger, and you add value to somebody else's blog, then you're going to establish relationships with many other bloggers. Bloggers are the community that make up quite a few conversations that are going on online, particularly on Twitter and Facebook. They can be really influential. That means they're great friends to have. If you make friends with many other bloggers by doing guest posting, then you're going to spread your influence throughout the social media world, and that will eventually lead to you having more subscribers to your own blog.
If you ever do guest posting, then there is one thing that you should never negotiate. Whoever the host blogger is has to include at least one link pointing back to your blog, somewhere in the post. This is typically at the end or beginning. In time, these backlinks can enhance the value of your own blog to search engines, which makes your content a lot easier for people to find through Bing, Yahoo, Google, and others.
One thing that's great about doing guest posting is that it lets you enter a community that is already established and then add your own message to it. You can form connections with others, and if you do things right, that ultimately benefits you. When you add value to any discussion, then you're going to convert many of these relationships into new readers, then fans, and ultimately followers. On the other hand, if the only things you ever do are ask or sell, then you might still get famous, but not with the kind of reputation that does you any good. You never want to be the person always pushing their own agenda. Add value when you can. Help others. Have patience. You'll win in the end.
What About Other Guest Posting On Your Site?
On occasion, I let others do guest posting on my site too. If you're not already doing it, think about offering others the chance to do guest posting through your own blog. It only makes sense if you're looking for chances to guest post on the blogs of others. When you do this with a host blogger, you create a mutually beneficial relationship. A number of bloggers might even blog about their own guest post and provide links to it right from their very own blog, which gives you some really tremendous link juice. I'm personally a huge fan of this particular practice.
Whenever I do a guest post for somebody else, there's one thing that I always do, and that's linking to that post from my own blog. Then, promote it several times through Twitter. Share this on Facebook. Always thank the person, but be sure to stay around long enough to respond to post comments. This isn't something that everyone does, but it's a great idea if you can. There is one crucial thing, though, and that is if you must choose between guest posting on other sites or getting people to do guest posting on yours, it's always better to do guest posting yourself since it will introduce your name and message to new communities.
In terms of search engine optimization, guest posting on someone else's site can be as much as five times as powerful as putting new content on your own site. That doesn't mean you don't do your own new content first and foremost, but it also means that if you don't like how much blog traffic you have, then you need to start doing guest posting. You'll see how much your influence grows.


e Tribez is pleased to announce our Timeline module, the newest addition to our Production Management platform.
The Timeline module allows producers to prepare a high-level plan of the production stages from pre-production through production and post-production, as well as plan the allocation of crew, cast, locations and other resources during the production's lifetime.
Planning the production stages that can be tracked and shared with other people.
Allocating each production's role, cast, location etc. during the various stages.
Automatically calculating budget consequences and estimate constraints – and making decisions based on these calculations.
Working in a simple, easy to use, drag and drop interface.
The Timeline module helps producers create an efficient plan, and use their time and money more wisely.
The module will be available for eTribez clients soon. Please contact your eTribez representative for additional details.
S ocial media has changed the way we make friends, interact with each other, and even fall in love. But what happens when these dynamics are really put to the test?
On The Circle, eTribez and Studio Lambert are teaming up for online casting, to find out how contestants portray themselves and communicate through social media. Contestants will compete against each other to see who's the 'most popular', with a chance to win up to £50,000. They will all live in one modern block but in individual apartments interacting with one another only through a voice-activated social media platform called The Circle.
Online casting for The Circle is ongoing. For a look at the link, see https://lambert.etribez.com/ag/lambert/circle/welcome.html.
e Tribez and Warner Bros. Netherlands have joined forces for First Dates.
On the show, airing on BNN, Netherlands-based applicants can sign up for the chance to find out what true love is all about…and it all starts with an unforgettable meeting over dinner at the 'First Dates Restaurant'.
The show will feature a restaurant full of cameras, as they watch singles date and possibly find the match of their dreams.
eTribez is providing online casting for the show, which has had a strong run in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world.
Casting for the show is ongoing. For a look at the site, see: https://wbnl.etribez.com/a/wbnl/firstdates/welcome.
e Tribez will be attending the Edinburgh International Television Festival, from August 22-24, 2018.
The festival is an annual media event each August, bringing together all parts of the television and media world. The festival draws more than 2,000 delegates from major networks and production companies around the globe.
To schedule a private demo with eTribez at the festival, contact us.


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Amanda Robbin Rizzo
Attorney Rizzo is licensed to practice law in the State of Illinois. In 2013, Amanda graduated cum laude from DePaul University College of Law. Amanda's interest in immigration law began while working at her father's immigration law firm, which was originally founded by her grandfather in the 1950's in Chicago. After living in Italy and applying for her permanent residence in that country, she directed her legal studies toward immigration law and the protection of children in the United States. During law school, she interned as a clerk at the State's Attorney's Office Child Protection Division, the Public Defender's Office and private immigration law firms. She also served on the student board of the Schiller, DuCanto & Fleck Family Law Center and the Journal of Women, Gender and the Law.
Since graduating, Amanda's practice has been focused on both family and business U.S. immigration law. She served as an associate attorney at J. Aponte & Associates until joining the team at Grupo REU Law Firm in 2018. She guides her clients through the permanent residence process in the family and employment contexts, with respect to PERM Labor Certification applications, Immigrant Petitions and Applications for Permanent Residence (green card application) within the U.S. and at U.S. Consulates abroad. She also has experience with inadmissibility waivers and humanitarian relief. She has represented clients petitioning for non-immigrant visas, including B-1, B-2, H-1B, TN, E-1, E-2, E-3, J-1, L-1, O-1 and P-1 visas. Amanda speaks Italian and basic Spanish.
Amanda has been a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) advocating for children with neglect or abuse cases in the Cook County court system. Amanda continues to volunteer with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services on immigration related matters for families and individuals in need. She also serves on the AILA Pro Bono Bond Project Committee to connect volunteer attorneys with detained immigrants subjected to unnecessary separation from their families. Amanda lives with her husband, son and two dogs where they are happy to live in the beautiful city of Chicago.


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Mark Gregory joins InnovationAus
Melbourne academic and telecommunications specialist Mark Gregory has joined InnovationAus.com as a columnist. His views will appear regularly.
Dr Gregory is well known in the industry for his passion about the role of ICT, and especially of telecommunications, in creating a better society. He is a trenchant critic of the way the NBN is being implemented, frequently taking NBN Co and the Government to task over their downgrading of the original all-fibre network.
In his first column for InnovationAus.com, he railed against the recently announced decision to move 1.2 million households off HFC (the hybrid fibre coaxial inherited from Optus and Telstra) to FTTN (Fibre-to-the-Node).
"The Coalition Government made a raft of NBN related promises in the lead-up to the 2013 and 2016 Federal Elections that it has failed to achieve, and it is well aware that the bad news could become a tsunami over the next three years. So it is not hard to see why NBN Co has been directed to take steps to stop the flow of bad news, and to ensure that a rosy picture was presented in the lead-up to federal elections.
"In the past week, NBN Co has announced that it will reduce the HFC rollout by 1.2 million premises due to an increase in the cost to remediate the HFC network. As a result, the total number of households that will now receive the obsolete and inferior FTTN has jumped to more than 50 per cent of Australia's 12 million premises.
"NBN Co should be condemned for sitting on this information in the lead-up to the last federal election. The disclosure of the HFC cost blow-out and shift to more FTTN was predicted well in advance by Australian experts."
Dr Gregory's comments, and the stridency with which he expresses them, are indicative of his desire to see Australia wired with a high bandwidth network, and his disgust with the way the NBN has become a political football since it was first announced in 2009.
He has written dozens of articles exposing the hypocrisy, misinformation and broken promises that have marked the project since its inception.
Dr Gregory says his views are not based on politics, but on his sincere belief that a true national broadband network would be of immense benefit to Australia. As a lecturer in network engineering at RMIT University his views are solidly based in an understanding of the technology.
"If I have evolved into a social policy commentator," he says, "it's because of my background in the technology. What's happening to the NBN now is false economy – we will end up paying much more, and Australia will be worse off, because of the short-sighted decisions we are taking today."
Dr Gregory's technical training dates from his days in the Australian Defence Forces and his time at Duntroon, where he studied electrical engineering. After 12 years in the Army's RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), he left with the rank of captain, subsequently receiving a PhD in telecommunications reliability at RMIT University.
He is extremely active and well-known in the telecommunications community. He is a member of TelSoc, and editor of its Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy. He is also General Chair of the International Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC), a major conference held annually in Australasia under the auspices of the IEEE.
In recent years Dr Gregory's interests have extended to telecommunications and data security. He is not aligned with any political party and over the years has provided specialist technical advice to politicians from all the major parties and to public servants, which is in keeping with his open and frank approach.
InnovationAus.com welcomes him as a columnist and looks forward to his contributions.
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LAKEWOOD, NJ - The Delmarva Shorebirds finally put away the Lakewood BlueClaws with a big 13th inning, winning 9-5 in the season's final game on Monday afternoon at FirstEnergy Park.
The Shorebirds finish with a winning record at 68-66, including 33-34 in the second half. The winning season is Delmarva's third in the past four years. The BlueClaws cap the regular season at a franchise-best 87-51; they will meet Wild Card winner Kannapolis in Wednesday's opener of the Northern Division Championship Series.
With the teams conjoined at the hip for much of the hot afternoon, the game soldiered onto the 13th tied at 4-4. Ben Breazeale started the frame at second base, and Kirvin Moesquit wasted no time getting him around. Moesquit singled into left, and Josh Stephen's bobble on the short line drive allowed Breazeale to sprint home to put the Shorebirds up 5-4.
Mason McCoy followed with a walk, and Branden Becker laid a perfect bunt up the third base line for a single to load the bases. After a strikeout, Trevor Craport took a Tyler Fallwell fastball off his back, forcing in another run. Ryan Ripken returned the favor, pounding a line drive off Fallwell's body and into center for a two-run single; Ripken and Craport advanced another base on a wild throw home. Fallwell exited in favor of Lakewood catcher/DH Colby Fitch, and Cadyn Grenier hit a deep grounder to short to get Craport home and make it a five-run 13th to put the Shorebirds up 9-4.
Diogenes Almengo came in for the ninth inning and the BlueClaws got their free runner home on a groundout and wild pitch, but Almengo shut it down from there, getting Jose Antequera to ground out to short to end the Shorebirds' longest game by innings this season, not to mention the season itself.
Nick Vespi (6-6) blew a save opportunity but won it for the Shorebirds, allowing a pair of unearned runs over the 11th and 12th innings. Fallwell (1-1) lost it for the BlueClaws, giving up six runs (three earned) on four hits over 1.1 frames.
Delmarva spot-starter starter Cameron Ming owned the headlines through the early innings, scattering five hits across six scoreless frames while walking none and striking out five. The Shorebirds backed him with a pair of runs in the top of the second. Craport beat out an infield hit to lead off, and Ryan Ripken belted a double into the right field corner to put men on second and third. After a strikeout, Will Robertson dropped a shallow flyball into right for a base hit, scoring Craport and Ripken to make it 2-0 Delmarva.
The BlueClaws waited until Ming's exit and hit Tim Naughton hard in the seventh. Madison Stokes and Gregori Rivero led off with back-to-back singles. After a popout, Antequera hit a grounder to the right side that Ripken scooped and fired high to second, loading the bases. Simon Muzziotti laced a single into center to get one run home, and Jack Scheiner lifted a sac fly into right, scoring Rivero to tie it at 2-2.
Max Knutson shut down the BlueClaws over three scoreless frames, and both teams went quietly into extras. After a scoreless 10th, the Shorebirds nudged ahead in the 11th. Moesquit bunted free runner Breazeale up to third base, and Becker singled him home two batters later to make it 3-2. In the bottom of the 11th, Fitch started at second and took third on a Fitch single. Two batters later Stephen chopped a grounder to the right side for a fielder's choice, scoring Fitch to tie it at 3-3.
In the top of the 12th, Grenier hit a one-out single to move free runner Craport to third base, and Craport scored on a wild pitch to get it to 4-3. Lakewood answered soon after as Scheiner singled home Antequera from second with one out in the bottom of the 12th. The BlueClaws put two more men on as Maton reached on an error and Jhailyn Ortiz walked, but Fitch pegged a screaming liner right at second baseman Mason McCoy, and Stokes popped out to second, setting up the Shorebirds' big 13th.
Ripken went 2-for-6 with a double, run and two RBIs for the Shorebirds, while Craport finished 2-for-4 with three runs and an RBI. Moesquit managed two hits, scored once, and stole his 49th base of the year, finishing the season tied with Tim Raines, Jr. (1999) for third-most in single-season Shorebirds history. Becker and Zach Jarrett also had two-hit games in their final turn for Delmarva.
Stokes and Rivero punched three hits each for the BlueClaws, while Scheiner drove in a pair. Lakewood starter Kyle Young lasted four innings in his first BlueClaw start since July 4, allowing two runs on five hits.
The Shorebirds open the 2019 on Thursday, April 4, at the Lexington Legends. Delmarva's first home game will be Thursday, April 11, against the Lakewood BlueClaws. Fans can visit theshorebirds.com all offseason for more information on the upcoming 24th season of Delmarva Shorebirds baseball.


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By Lauren Russell
Reading the wry, surreal tales in Sabrina Orah Mark's short-story collection Wild Milk often feels like navigating an anxiety nightmare dreamt by a wittier half-sister of the Brothers Grimm. The stories are narrated with a matter-of-factness that could be misconstrued as detachment or lack of feeling, except that this narrator—who is usually a woman entangled in a web of relationships, exchanges of love and need—evidently feels too much. A third of the way through the collection, when the narrator of the story "Spells" says, "Peace is what pain looks like in public," she might as well be describing the tone of the book. It is also the tone that often dominates my conversations when I am struggling through a depression: My body feels like a well of tears about to brim over, and so much of my energy is focused on stopping the flood that my affect is likely to be read as either sharp or flat—a steel lid containing the inner turmoil. If Mark's narrator cannot articulate that agony viscerally or connect psychic pain to an embodied state, perhaps it is because her body is already in use, always at somebody else's disposal.
Although the narrator's name changes from story to story, she often seems to be the same character with slightly different attributes, as in a dream. In "Spells," the narrator is a mother widely called upon for her skill at removing lice from children's hair, though she is never given any public recognition for her genius. She has even trained her nine sons to remove lice, but a spell activated by the lice transforms the self-sufficient sons into needy daughters.
"I don't like change and I don't like daughters," this mother confesses. What does she have against daughters? As is often the case in Wild Milk, the protagonist's private weaknesses have just been waiting to confront her. A husband who was never necessary before appears out of nowhere, but it "is possible he has been here the whole time." Then the house begins to flood, and the narrator is transformed into a tree in response to her family's needs—her own survival being secondary to theirs: "My husband and daughters touch my bark. I stand very still. Soon they will chop me down and use my body to save themselves. A log to hold onto. A Melody to row them all the hell away."
The conclusion in "Spells" is a contorted version of the ending of the earlier story "Tweet," which begins with the narrator "following the Rabbi" her friends are following, literally, from place to place, until she arrives at an apartment where the Rabbi is slow dancing with "Beautiful Leonora," whose beauty surpasses everyone else's. When the narrator, in frustration, decides to unfollow the Rabbi, she finds herself alone and in need of a leader but with no one else to follow. At last she turns around to find that her husband and babies are following her. But she seems unable to lead, as her needs quickly become subordinate to theirs:
I put My Husband and My Babies on my back and carry them through the dark city. I search for the Rabbi everywhere. I search for Beautiful Leonora. I search for my friends. Like an animal, I howl for them. My Husband and My Babies are so heavy. Who will feed us? Who will keep us warm? How am I supposed to know where to go?
As in "Spells," the narrator's family appropriates her body as a mode of transport, a means of escape, this time from a city that, without a leader, has suddenly gone cold and dark, unilluminated.
Often Mark's narrator is stuck in a kind of rut, inhibited by self-doubt, entrenched feelings of inadequacy, and obligation to family members who are stuck in their own narcissism or self-absorption. In "Sister," the narrator is forever being slighted by her mother and younger sister, who operate as a vicious, tight-knit team of two. The narrator—named Judy, though her sister insists on calling her Mumford—will always be an outsider in her own family. At one point the sister proclaims, "Let me shed some light on why you are soused in a sadness that could've so easily been vanished had Mother doted on you for one second. It is because on you, and I hope I get this right, because on you she cannot dote." The narrator has evidently internalized this assessment of her own worthlessness, because even when she is in a position of power after seizing the sister's gun, she can take no action. Instead, she asks, rhetorically, "Where is my insurgency?"
In "Mother at the Dentist," the protagonist's mother has been calling her from the dentist's office every day for ten years, berating her daughter for her "lack of gumption," demanding, "Where's your get up and go?" But the narrator cannot get up and go, because she has been pinned in place by her duty to answer her mother's calls. The narrator's father has long since gone away, tired of endlessly waiting for his wife at the dentist's. When the dentist himself disappears, and the mother, left with no one, finally asks if she can come to her daughter's, the narrator wants to say yes but instead refuses. "If my mother has taught me anything it's to change nothing," she explains.
Mothers appear and reappear throughout the book, in myriad shapes and surprising forms. In the title story a mother is accused of feeding her baby "wild milk," the only kind her breasts will yield. When her baby's daycare teacher transforms into a blizzard, taking the baby with her, the mother's only option is to climb onto another mother's shoulders and wait until spring, apologizing profusely for her inadequacies. The second mother, who now carries all the weight, falls asleep and never wakes up.
Are You My Mother? is the name of an existing children's book by P. D. Eastman, which ends happily when a hatchling is finally reunited with the mother he has been searching for. But in Mark's book, the story by this name shuffles along a line between hilarity and despair. When the narrator's mother, the writer Francine Prose, calls to inform her that "there has been an error" and she is not her mother after all, the rejected child goes off in search of her real mother—working through an illustrious list of possibilities, including Hillary Clinton (in this story, the narrator's cleaning lady!), Jorie Graham, and Diana Ross, who one by one reject the motherless child—but then, hopelessly and hilariously, she arrives at the door of the dead poet John Berryman. "He is not a good mother," the narrator remarks, but he is in need of comforting. Of all the potential mothers, this maternal failure is the only one who lets the forsaken child climb onto his lap while he, the "mother," sobs.
"The Roster" might as well be one of my own anxiety nightmares. In this story the narrator, a creative-writing instructor, has accepted a tenure-track teaching position at Shadow College, where she loves her students so much she finds herself rendered speechless in the classroom: "Many times I tried to speak, but my mouth filled up with stones. They carried on as though I wasn't there." The more her students ignore her, the greater her love for them, until it reaches the level of obsession:
I would see them moving down the halls of the English Department in deep discussion and I 'd say, "Hi guys," but they never saw me. Never heard me. I became feverish with longing. I stopped sleeping, stopped eating, stopped bathing. Sometimes in class I would lie down in the middle of the floor and hope they would pile on top of me. Smother me. I wanted to be the coats they wore. I wanted to be the scarves around their necks.
This story is, like any anxiety nightmare, rooted in reality. Like many educators, I have sometimes woken up in the middle of the night with my heart racing, worried about a student's depression or extended absence from class or plummeting grades or disturbing poetry. There is always that invisible line between caring enough and caring too much, and potential calamity awaits those who find themselves stranded on the wrong side.
Such dangerous negotiations lie beneath the unspeakable pain in Wild Milk—pain so impossible to articulate in public that it could be mistaken for peace or even transformed into humor. In an interview in The Adroit Journal, Mark says, "I've always believed if you're not trembling, and a little afraid—as one is when trying to survive—the joke's not funny." How does a woman, a mother/daughter/sister/teacher/lover, survive the narratives she's trapped inside, where she is always at risk of being consumed by the twin burdens of her own love and others' bottomless need? As the narrator of "I Did Not Eat the Child" remarks, "This is the problem with hunger. This is the problem with love. There is no end in sight."
Wild Milk. By Sabrina Orah Mark. St Louis: Dorothy Project, 2019. 168 pp. $16.00, paper.
Lauren Russell is the author of the poetry collection What's Hanging on the Hush (Ahsahta Press, 2017) and the forthcoming Descent (Tarpaulin Sky Press). A 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow in poetry, she has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, VIDA / The Home School, and others. Russell has published work in the New York Times Magazine, boundary 2, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, the Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, and elsewhere. She is a research assistant professor and is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Belief: Business cycles are driven by fluctuations in investment and this comes as a result of inherent instabilities in the capitalist system.
Post-Keynesians assert that AD matters in both the short-run and long-run, that the economy is inherently unstable and the free market does not automatically adjust to full employment equilibrium.
Post-Keynesian economists are not all united on their theories and models but they do all believe that Keynes' work is misrepresented by Neo-Keynesians and New Keynesians. Post-Keynesian economists attempt to rebuild Keynes' economic theory within the sphere of Keynes' original ideas and insights.
Whereas New Keynesians focus on sticky wages and prices to explain why the economy does not reach full employment on it's own, Post-Keynesians emphasise that the economy is inherently unstable and put uncertainty at the heart of their modes. Post-Keynesians follow Keynes' path of highlighting an unpredictable future and erratic investment decisions in driving AD and GDP fluctuations; this, arguably, is closer to Keynes' ideas of animal spirits than the New Keynesians' theories on price and wage rigidities.
Post-Keynesians believe that the free market does not automatically reach full employment because it depends on agents' decision making and expectations of the future, and these involve complex inter-dependencies and unforeseen events.


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It might be a little late in the day to comment on the recent credit policy but I thought there were a couple of things in it that deserved much more attention that they got. I want to focus on them in this article.
For one, last Tuesday's monetary policy document seems to finally recognise the fact that the so-called monetary transmission mechanism actually works in India far more efficiently than is generally assumed. Monetary policy action over the past few months has borne fruit much quicker than the conventional discourse would have us believe.
The way the credit policy review does this is simple: it shifts its focus from a discussion of prime lending rates (PLRs) as a measure of the cost of funds in the system to actual effective lending rates. While the former have remained somewhat sticky (particularly for the non-public sector banks), actual effective lending rates have dropped sharply on the back of a sharp decline in sub-PLR lending rates.
Since the bulk of lending happens at rates that are below the prime rate, any discussion or analyses based on gauging changes in PLRs is fundamentally flawed. Let me quote an excerpt from the policy statement that should make my point clear.
The RBI says 'the changes in BPLR do not fully reflect the changes in the effective lending rates. Banks pointed out that lending rates should not be assessed only in terms of reduction in BPLRs since as much as three-quarters of lending is at rates below BPLR which includes lending to agriculture, export sector, and well-rated companies, including PSUs.
In short, the complaint that despite aggressive action from the RBI, the transmission to lending rates has somehow failed is misplaced because it doesn't consider the right lending rates.
The cost of funds for a number of companies and consumers has dropped dramatically since the peak of October. Intense competition among banks and the threat of disintermediation (companies are raising funds directly from the market through commercial paper and other instruments) has driven this fall.
The economic slowdown has also meant a decline in the overall demand for credit. Companies are putting off capex plans, their working capital needs are lower and consumers are thinking twice before borrowing. The logic of demand and supply in the market for loans has entailed a fall in interest rates. This is not adequately reflected in the PLR.
This, however, does not mean that all companies that want money are getting it at the right price. The business environment has become extremely risky and banks are being extra careful in lending to sectors that are perceived to be badly affected by the business cycles.
These 'sub-prime' (from a risk perspective) borrowers are those that are being charged the higher and sticky prime rates while 'prime' customers can raise money at 'sub-prime' rates (an irony that this paper commented on in an editorial). In certain cases, banks are simply not willing to lend to some sectors.
Do banks need a rap on the knuckles then? Anyone who has learnt a lesson from the financial turmoil of the past two years would agree that banks are right in being conservative and the pressure on them to grow their balance sheets could lead to serious consequences in the long term.
The fact that the RBI did not go overboard in exhorting banks to lend suggests that the RBI too recognises and appreciates this risk.
Can the RBI do much else about this then? Unfortunately, the absence of a deep corporate bond market stands in the way of the monetary authority being able to do much for riskier borrowers.
A quick review of what the US and British central banks are doing in this regard is perhaps useful here. As part of their 'quantitative easing' programme, they are buying back riskier corporate bonds and releasing liquidity in exchange. As they do this, yields on these risky bonds drops and thus sets a lower benchmark for the rates that riskier companies can borrow at.
The shallowness of the corporate bond market in India precludes this kind of direct monetary intervention in risk-pricing. The only alternative, then, is to offer government guarantees for riskier loans. This is fiscal action and outside the RBI's and monetary policy's remit. The case for deepening the local bond market just keeps growing.
Should the entire concept of PLRs be recast to make them more representative? I turn again to the problem of a shallow corporate bond market.
In the absence of actively traded debt paper for different risk categories, there is virtually no way to gauge the cost of borrowing for different borrower profiles. If PLRs were to actually reflect the borrowing cost of the 'prime borrowers' and banks were asked to disclose the average risk premium they add to these benchmark rates, the transparency of our credit markets would go up sharply.
It would also put to rest some of the needless controversy that has grown about banks profiteering from the economic crisis.
Why are banks unwilling to lower their PLRs? The answer lies in the fact that a number of the mandated 'concessional' rates for loans to the export and agriculture sector are linked to the PLR.
Thus a cut in PLR would automatically translate into a cut in these rates. Given their risk assessment of these sectors, banks might not however be interested in lowering rates. The only way to address this is by de-linking concessional rates to the PLR.
This, I hope, will figure right at the top of the list of priorities of the committee set up by the central bank that is trying to revamp the PLR.
The author is chief economist, HDFC Bank. The views here are personal.


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« on: August 30, 2017, 16:45:47 »
Uurnog is about to receive a major upgrade for Steam and Switch. Check out the game's website for details, including a trailer.
Contrary to the Humble-published original version, this one's publisher is a company called Raw Fury. Here's hoping us original buyers will still get it for free regardless.
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And then Juni just up and destroyed the world.
Re: Uurnog Uurnlimited announced
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2017, 21:14:39 »
On one hand, this looks awesome as hell and I can not wait to get my fingers all over this.
On the other hand... yeah, let's hope owners of Uurnog don't have to pay full price (or anything, really!) for what's just an expanded version. Because seriously, Nifflas has never done this before- paid DLC for a paid game- and I hope the publisher doesn't push him into doing it.
However, this version seems far bigger and more likely to draw in new players, so that's a plus.
Raw Fury is also another new name for me. Hopefully they really get the word out there, this game is the stuff!
Achievements would be a nice feature to have in this (Village is Lava, anyone?)
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The game was recently shown at some Japanese event. Here's a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOkbaE2QYgA
Not too much new stuff to see here. Just some new doors and getting to see how the dog works.
The Steam version is coming on 16th November: https://twitter.com/rawfurygames/status/928664856290455552
The game has just been released.
Unfortunately, there's still no news on how owners of the Humble version will get it. So I can't actually play it yet. Combined with the other things that still aren't present, I can't help but feel that the game's release was rushed.
There's also a new trailer, but I honestly find its narration rather cringeworthy. Afraid it'll probably do more harm than good.
There's just been an update on this. Looks like it'll be handled differently depending on how you got the Humble version. Those who got it through Humble Monthly will get it for free, whereas those who purchased it afterwards will get a discount.
That seems like a pretty decent solution, IMO. Considering Humble resorted to borderline false advertising to trick people into believing the game would be exclusive to Humble Monthly at first, it's only fair to compensate those who fell for it.
In spite of not receiving a notification about this, my key became available. Will start the game tomorrow.
If anyone reading this also got it via Humble Monthly, head to your account's key page. If you bought it separately, you should find what you're looking for on the coupon page instead.
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Quote from: kilicool64 on November 17, 2017, 22:12:23
Coupon is 10% off, so exactly the same as what everyone gets on Steam with the launch discount. Ouch.
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Depew could see school tax hike
By Laura E. Winchester, Laura E. Winchester SUBURBAN CORRESPONDENT, EILEEN WERBITSKY AND LAURA E. WINCHESTER, THOMAS J. PROHASKA AND LAURA E. WINCHESTER and Y LAURA E. WINCHESTER
Published Wed, Mar 31, 2010
Interim Depew School Superintendent Dennis Ford is advising the Board of Education to consider a $37.7 million budget, down about $1.2 million, for the next school year with a possible tax increase of between 3 and 3.5 percent.
The budget picture has changed over the past six weeks, when there was talk of a $241,344 increase, despite the anticipated loss of some $1.9 million in state aid under Gov. David A. Paterson's proposed budget released late last year.
Ford noted during a budget work session Tuesday evening in the library of Depew High School that the state aid picture remains unsetted.
"The dilemma right now is that the Senate has said it's going to support Paterson, but the Assembly has proposed restoring 41 percent of what the governor took away," he said. Ford cautioned that it would be prudent to "plan for the governor's proposal" and if any money is restored, "you can make changes later."
In recommending a 3 to 3.5 percent increase in the tax levy, Ford reiterated that the district has to look ahead to the 2011-12 school year, when federal stimulus aid expires. That two-year funding source is paying the salaries of 26 staff members.
Without that money, Depew would have seen a 4 percent increase in the tax levy for this school year. Instead the tax levy increased by less than 1 percent.
A 3 percent increase on a home assessed at $100,000 would add about $41 to the annual tax bill; at 3.5 percent it would add $48.
Ford also said of the possible tax increase, "From what I've been reading it looks a lot worse in many many other places."
"I'm trying to be enough of a pain in the rear end so your new superintendent knows to start the budget process [for 2010-11] immediately," said Ford, who will leave as soon as a permanent replacement for Kimberly Mueller, who resigned, is hired, probably by late June or early July.
In addition to accepting six teacher retirements, which could save $800,000, the board is examining recommended cuts totaling about $400,000 in nonpersonnel areas including elimination of the secondary academic summer school, the summer literacy program at Cayuga Heights Elementary School and some shared services with Erie 1 BOCES.
The board will adopt new budget numbers by April 13, but Ford noted that "adjustments can be made in how you get there" after that date.


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Effects of Spacing, Cutting Height and Cutting Interval on Fodder Yield and Nutritional Value of Cajanus Cajan
Authors : Omotoso Oluwatosin Bode Fajemisin Adebowale Noah; Ogunshola Olawale Jacob;
Keywords : Cajanus cajan; cutting height; plant spacing; cutting interval; fodder yield.;
Forage production is one of the ways of sustaining ruminant animal production in Nigeria as these animals depend largely on plant-based feed. Hence, Cajanus cajan pasture was established to evaluate the effects of planting space, cutting height and interval at harvest on fodder yield and nutritional value of C. cajan. Pre-planting operations (bush clearing, ploughing, harrowing and ridging) were carried out on a hectare of land, sectionalized into fifteen equal portions. 2 - 3 seeds of C. cajan were planted using five different planting spaces (40x60 cm, 60x60 cm, 80x30 cm, 100x30 cm and 120x30 cm) of three replicates per treatment. Post-planting operations (thinning, supplying and weeding) were done to ensure uniform plant stands, nursed to maturity and harvested at different cutting heights (50, 100 and 150 cm) with cutting intervals from 2, 3 and 4 weeks respectively for five consecutive times to calculate the initial, total and average yield per plot. Air-dried samples of harvested forages were analysed for proximate composition; and data generated were subjected to statistical analysis. Results showed that; C. cajan sown using 40x60 cm planting space, cutting height of 50 cm and cutting interval of 4 weeks had the best fodder yield both at the initial (8.95 kg) and cumulative (3.60 kg) compared to other treatments. Crude protein, crude fibre and nitrogen free extract contents were significantly (p>0.05) influenced; and could adequately support the growth of ruminant animals. Thus, it can be concluded that C. cajan could be established using 40x60 cm planting space, harvested at 4 weeks interval and cutting at 50 cm height for maximum fodder yield with the aim of feeding ruminant animals.


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President Trump Gives The Order To Declassify Key FISA Documents And Text Messages: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Can Quit Now: The Door Swings Both Ways
Sep18 by johnapappas
If you notice in my title I mentioned the fact that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein can quit now: the door swings both ways and the reason I said that was that Rosenstein would never have given up the requested documents that was being asked of by House Committee Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R- Calif. ) who in fact said he was getting everything he wanted in documents and getting text messages also released by Trump was a bonus. I guarantee you Rosenstein must be in a rage for the President to undermine him and give out this order to declassify so all I can say to Rosenstein with great pleasure is if you don't like it quit, the door swings both ways. Another person who must be very pissed of is the FBI Director Christopher Wray but he fell in line early with the deep state, as he was the newly appointed FBI Director he could have cleaned house by using the documents as a showpiece but instead he was protecting said documents as tightly as Rosenstein did, then of course we have the Attorney General Jeff Sessions who had said in the past that if Rosenstein was fired by Trump he would quit, well as far as I'm concerned good riddance to all those lowlifes, if Rosenstein quits Sessions can use the same door to follow him out.
The following was posted by Samuel Chamberlain, published by Fox News: "President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of several key documents related to the FBI investigation of Russian actions during the 2016 presidential election, including 21 pages of an application for a renewed surveillance warrant against former campaign aide Carter Page, and text messages from disgraced FBI figures Peter Strzok and Lisa Page."
"White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump had ordered the documents released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Justice Department "[a]t the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency."
"The documents to be declassified also include all FBI reports on interviews with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all other applications to surveil Carter Page."
"Trump also ordered the Justice Department to release text messages from a number of the key players in the Russia investigation "without redaction" — including Ohr, Strzok, Lisa Page, former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe."
"Carter Page told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Monday night that the FBI's investigation was "so incredibly stupid to begin with." He added, "My biggest concern is all the damage that this did to the U.S. government [and] the mockery it made out of the Constitution and all of the wrongdoing that was done by various officials within the Department of Justice, the FBI and the DNC [Democratic National Committee]."
The American people I believe are going to find these documents a very big surprise especially for the people who do not keep up to the days in and days out of politics the way we patriots do. These docs will show the deep state at its worst that was taking America down the road to a banana republic; you had Christopher Steele who hated Trump and let his hatred with Trump known to the FBI and the FBI still pushed his phony dossier to a FISA court four times and Rosenstein signing off on the last one; you had Hillary Clinton who hates herself never mine the American people pay for the phony dossier; you had then FBI Director James Comey early on admit that there was no proof of Trump-Russia collusion and yet he was pushing the phony dossier to the FISA court. I only listed just a small fraction of the whole conspiracy that because of them, the deep state knew what was best for us the American people they were willing to take down the presidency of Donald Trump. We have a President in Donald Trump who was not going to bow down to any of this crap and it has reached the part of the story that many of us have been asking for and that was for the President to declassify these documents for all the American people to see the injustice of the deep state. Thank you President Trump for not giving in to the lowlife called the deep state.
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He Built and Test Flew Airplanes for You!
March 17, 2017 by Dan Johnson Leave a Comment
We lost one of the good ones recently. You may not have met or even know this man, but you certainly know — and may absolutely love — the airplanes he created.
We say a sad and final farewell to Professor Luigi "Gino" Pascale.
While it is somewhat melancholy to bid farewell to this man of short stature but giant achievements, he did what he loved for seven decades and until very near the time of his death. None of us can ask for much more than that.
Luigi is also succeeded by family members who continue to run and expand the operation he began with his brother Giovanni so many years ago. Officially he was chief preliminary design officer of Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam but Tecnam team members remember him fondly as the heart and soul of Tecnam. He was 93 at his passing.
Professor Luigi — as I heard several Tecnam employees refer to him — got his start in aviation designing model airplanes way back in the 1930s. His brother Giovanni and he were passionate about flight and never stopped pursuing the dream.
The Pascale brothers began work on their first full-sized airplane in 1948. They called it the P48 Astore. On the 65th anniversary of that modest beginning, the now-giant of light aviation called Tecnam, unveiled a brand new version of Astore (reported here). Of course, Professor Luigi had a great deal to do with this one as he did with the first. Subsequently all Tecnam designs have the designation P##, with the numbers representing the year the design was started.
Luigi Pascale poses in front of the Tecnam Twin, one of his many designs.
That original Astore first flew in 1951 after Luigi earned his pilot's license. In university, he achieved a Master's Degree in mechanical engineering, reinforcing an obvious aptitude for aircraft design.
Perhaps his most famous design — at least prior to the Light-Sport Aircraft of more recent years — was the Partenavia, a sleek twin-engine general aviation airplane started in 1957. Before that he and his brother created numerous race planes. Sport and recreational flying never left his mind and Sport Pilots today benefit from his tireless work. Indeed, the original company and the one we know today as Tecnam has produced and sold more than 7,000 aircraft, the company reported.
Perhaps his major success — from a number produced standpoint — is his P92, a two-seat metal airplane that has been delivered in several variations. This wonderful light aircraft remains the company's most popular design. After 25 years of service, more than 2,500 are flying in many, many countries around the planet.
While no one knows for sure, it would not be too much of a stretch to say P92 is the most successful Light-Sport Aircraft ever built (though not all models precisely meet the LSA description). That many airplanes flown an uncounted number of hours have delivered many smiles to many pilots regardless of the language they speak.
Luigi Pascale pictured with his nephew, Paolo Pascale. In this video, hear Paolo describe the new Astore and refer to his uncle.
Professor Luigi's final design, the 11-seat P2012 Traveller, is currently going through flight testing. I never heard if he did the flying for this one, but his nephew, Paolo Pascale, who now leads the Tecnam organization, once told me, "Not only does Uncle Luigi design these aircraft, he also test flies them." Amazing!
"Luigi was incredibly proud of Tecnam and all of its employees, and we will all miss him greatly," said Paolo Pascale, who these days is Tecnam's CEO. "His drive to excellence, determination, can-do spirit and commitment to our company will inspire and stay with us always."
Luigi accomplished much and his family of both relatives and company team members have much to be proud of and the pilots who continue to fly his design join with the family in bidding a fond farewell to the talented gentleman from Italy.
See Professor Luigi's heartfelt appreciation when he won the LAMA President's Award for 2016. It is clear he loved aviation and those who loved it with him:
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A Worst Case Scenario for Your Mortgage
By David Larock
We're in for a tough winter but there's hope. Forecasters expect our economy to rebound robustly and inflation to surge, as consumers spend the cash they saved during the lockdown.
Today, mainstream economic forecasts fall within a fairly narrow band.
The narrative, in simple form, acknowledges that we're in for a tough winter but predicts that we'll be on our way back to normal not long after the snow melts, thanks to widespread vaccinations. After that, most forecasters expect our economy to rebound robustly and inflation to surge, as consumers unleash the cash they saved up during the lockdown.
In recent posts I have challenged several of the assumptions on which this view is built. Here is a summary of my key counter-arguments:
Even in a best-case scenario, the pandemic won't end to the sound of trumpets. It's more likely to peter out gradually, and that will slow the rate at which people return to their normal activities (and increase their spending).
Vaccine distribution is already taking longer than expected, and vaccine hesitancy may also slow the take-up rate needed to achieve the end goal of herd immunity.
Our economy will need time to adjust to the world after COVID. For example, some of the changes in our spending habits will likely be permanent. And the longer the lockdown lasts, the more businesses will close their doors, and the more time it will take for new ones to absorb that slack when the economy reopens.
Governments, businesses, and many consumers have all taken on more debt during this crisis, and the cost to service that incremental debt will reduce the amount of capital that is available for more productive investments.
Spending on services will increase due to pent-up demand, but spending on many goods is likely to decrease. Relatedly, some lower-income workers will have less disposable income once they return to work because the emergency benefits they received paid them more than they had previously earned through employment.
Every forecast pays homage to the virus, conceding that its path will determine the fate of all else, but only before assuming that it will be brought to heel in short order.
What if it isn't? What if things take a turn for the worse?
While that risk doesn't warrant much analysis, we're not talking about a low probability event. Infection rates are rising across Canada, and our hospitals and their ICUs are already filling up. That is happening even without any discernible impact from the much more infectious COVID strain that is currently spreading like wildfire across Europe. If it reaches the Great White North, those mainstream economic forecasts will be out the window.
This recent newsletter from Lacy Hunt offers a grim look at a potential worst-case scenario.
It opens with a chart of the reported daily new COVID cases in Ireland where the new faster-spreading variant is now established. The chart illustrates the infection spike that has occurred there since late December.
Here are the highlights from Hunt's recent piece:
Ireland has experienced a 30x spike in infections. It went from "a few hundred new Covid cases every day to more than six thousand cases every day."
A spike like this in a major metro area will require "draconian economic shutdowns."
"This new infection rate would far outpace [US] current vaccine distribution capacity and policy." (Note: Canada has a lower vaccine distribution capacity than the US at this point.)
"The overall burden of severe outcomes (death, long-term health consequences) would shift to younger demographics."
What's happening in Ireland is "driven by both the more virulent UK-strain AND a deterioration in social distancing behaviors." (Any fair assessment of Canadian behaviour would concede that as a whole, our respect for masking and social distancing protocols has deteriorated.)
Hunt's research is both compelling and alarming. He reminds us that when the pandemic began, what happened in Europe was a pre-curser to what followed in North America. If past is prologue, today's lockdown restrictions might be a light touch when compared to what comes next.
Here are my thoughts on how mortgage borrowers can minimize their risk of an Ireland-like spike:
Most borrowers who are buying one property and selling another have focused on buying first, because that has been the harder step to complete. If the pandemic worsens, the demand side of the market may temporarily dry up, as it did briefly during the first wave. Borrowers who have bought but not yet sold should list their properties as soon as possible.
Any borrower who has been conditionally approved for a mortgage should submit their documents and, if an appraisal is required, have it completed ASAP. Most lenders and appraisers are already swamped, and if staffing is impacted by the virus, turnaround times will slow further.
The same is true for anyone considering a refinance. Your access to credit is fully available now – but that could change quickly if infection rates spike.
While a worst-case outcome would likely put downward pressure on mortgage rates over time, if lenders become concerned about a surge in defaults, they could reapply COVID risk premiums to their rates (as they did during the first wave). Borrowers can lock in a pre-approval rate now to guard against that risk.
I didn't write this post to alarm anyone. I wrote it because most forecasts don't provide sufficient warning about the risk of dramatically worse pandemic outcomes. Forewarned is forearmed.
The Bottom Line: Fixed and variable rates held steady last week. The Bank of Canada meets this Wednesday, and there is an outside chance that it will enact a micro rate cut of 0.10% to .15%. (I explain why in this post.) If that happens, our variable mortgage rates should fall by the same amount, and the Government of Canada bond yields that our fixed-mortgage rates are priced on would likely drop as well.
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David Larock is an independent full-time mortgage broker and industry insider who works with Canadian borrowers from coast to coast. David's posts appear on Mondays on this blog, Move Smartly, and on his blog, Integrated Mortgage Planners/blog.
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