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Go mainstream, DTI urges

  Go mainstream, DTI urges by Rey Anthony Chiu

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol, July 2 (PIA) -- EFFORTS to entice underground economies to surface sound anew as Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) authorities in Bohol reveal friendlier business processes to spur more investments.

Go mainstream, urged DTI’s senior Trade and Industry Specialist Blair Panong, adding that at a very measly P200 and P15 documentary stamps, one can already get a name for a business in a barangay.

In fact, a business name can now be easily had with the processes shortened and lesser signatories after a German- assisted project helped clean the mess up, he said.

Besides that, getting a business name is a mandatory requirement to get permits and clearances to legally operate.

The DTI also announced a new rate for business names.

The new registration fees for business name registration (original and renewal), depending on the territorial jurisdiction covered in the application is P200.00 for Barangay operation, 500 for City and Municipality, P1000 for Regional 1,000.00, for regional and P2,000.00 for national operations for the first five years, the DTI facebook page announced.

Just as the DTI sounded the calls for business investors to go legitimate, The DTI also underscored a support system available for businesses to prosper.

At the Kapihan sa PIA Thursday which tackled issues on government and private sector support to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME), Panong stressed that the SME sector which makes up 90% of Bohol’s economy should be given attention to stimulate a more balanced income distribution and decentralize development.

Panong, DTI’s senior trade and Industry specialist here highlighted the MSME and their major role on the country’s socio economic development through rural industrialization, creation of job opportunities which in the end, spurs economic development in the country-sides.

While most people look-up to local governments for employment, it is but just right that the government do something to motivate the establishment of micro economies and thus open up work opportunities in the rural areas, he explained.

By motivating investors to spread development to the rural areas, the government must also provide leverage to continue and sustain business operations, he continued.

Adam Dunn – 2007 Topps « Smed's Baseball Card Blog

Let’s All Pile On Adam Dunn…

Joe Posnanski , Rob Neyer and The Big Lead have recently written about Adam Dunn. And yes, let’s review:

1. He’s having an awful season.

2. His peripherals, though, are within reason for performance.

3. He did come back five days after an emergency appendectomy, which could have had long lasting issues.

4. If he was hitting home runs and batting about .250 or so, no one would give a rat’s patoot about his 100 whiffs.

It is a new era in baseball. Guys like Dunn, Jack Cust, Russ Branyan and Mark Reynolds may be on their way out. Those players aren’t aging well at all (though Reynolds is just 27 and has regained some of his mojo – OPS+ of 126) and may not be cut out for the speed, defense and pitching game that baseball is evolving back into.

(AND NO, IT AIN’T STEROIDS! There were about 43,137 other factors involved in the baseball offensive explosion, and I think the reduction in greenies have more to do with it than ‘roids.)

(All of you anti-Bonds-HOF pontificators can go soak…what he did was no better or worse than most everyone in the HOF did or would have done to be the best in the game. Gambling destroyed the game 100 times worse than steroids. Stop being so sanctimonious…that’s MY job!)

OK, with that rant done,  I think it’s luck and the appendectomy that’s messing with Dunn’s season. His BABIP (batting average for ball-in-play) is .262 this season, way down from .294 for his career. His isolated power is .143, way down from his career mark of .265.

What that says to me is that he’s hitting weaker sauce and it’s finding mitts instead of gaps or flying over fences. That also says the appendectomy may have taken its toll more than you’d think.

But what’s really amazing is:

1. He’s hitting  .019  against lefties with an OPS of  .193. Now he’s always had a problem against lefties – with an OPS of .797 instead of .931 against righties. But with his power you didn’t really want to sit him against lefties. I’d bat him around sixth or seventh. But this season? WOW! He’s 1-53 against them.

2. Ozzie has no choice to write him in the lineup. The problem with the expanded pitching staffs that shrink the bench  is that Ozzie really HAS to play Dunn. The bench guys are Castro (catcher), Vizquel (infielder), Teahen (corner guy AND a lefty to boot) and Lillibridge. He’s having a great first half, but odds are he’s going to plummet to Earth. He’s also in his age-27 year. As bad as he was in 2009, he’s that good in 2011, which means his 2010 may be what you can realistically expect from him. And that’s no Adam Dunn. That’s a 4-A players.

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