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4 Ways To Prepare For Your Best Performance Review Yet
Performance reviews can be the stuff of nightmares and fill competent professionals with fear, anxiety, and dread. Why? One reason employees dread reviews is because many companies, and even more managers, don't understand the function and value of reviews as an opportunity for employee engagement, motivation and growth.
The other reason performance reviews suck is many professionals approach their performance review as a one-way conversation and don't do their part to prepare. Your performance review is a great opportunity for you to share your professional progress and goals with your manager.
With so many companies confusing the business purpose of reviews it can be a challenge to turn your review into a positive and productive conversation. But it is possible. It all starts with the right preparation. An informed and empowered approach to your performance review builds your confidence and competence.
1. Get ready to market yourself
Before your review, take some time and make a list of your professional accomplishments. It's great to keep a running list of your accomplishments throughout the year to keep track of your progress, but if you don't have a list started it's not too late to start it today.
List any projects that you handled that you finished ahead of the deadline or under budget. What about ways you saved or made the company money? Did you improve organization or processes? Include any new training or skills you acquired during the year. What goals did you meet? How did you grow?
Whenever possible, quantify your accomplishments. How much time does your new organization system save you each month? How much money did you save the company by discovering that vendor pricing error, or by switching office supply vendors? What is the error rate reduction thanks to the process improvements you implemented?
Be ready to talk up your accomplishments in your review, and remind your manager exactly how your contributions benefit the organization. Embrace and celebrate your awesomeness!
2. Identify areas for improvement
Engaged employees are happier employees, and being an engaged employee means you are directly and actively involved in your professional growth and success. That means looking for opportunities for improvement and taking steps to improve.
There's no need to beat yourself up about past mistakes or areas that may need attention. Everyone makes mistakes and no one is good at everything. You can, however, use this opportunity to be open and honest about your weaknesses and take charge of your professional growth.
Identifying areas for improvement doesn't have to mean only looking at things you're not so good at. You can also discuss skills and tasks you haven't had the opportunity to use but you'd like to, and areas where you are skilled but you'd like to be an expert.
When considering your areas for improvement it can be helpful to seek feedback from your mentor, and trusted co-workers. Know where you can grow and you can make the best of your career.
3. Set SMART goals
Take charge of your professional future and know where you're headed and how you plan to get there by setting SMART goals.
SMART goals are:
- Specific
- Measurable
- Attainable
- Relevant
- Timely
The beauty of setting SMART goals is you have a guide to help you and your manager know when you're making progress, how you're doing, and when you've achieved your goal.
SMART goals help you focus your professional growth and avoid taking on too much or spending your time on tasks that aren't going to advance your career. When you set your own SMART goals, you accept responsibility for your own success.
4. Challenge your salary expectations
Your performance review is an excellent opportunity to discuss your salary expectations with your manager. Even if your organization has a structured policy for salary increases, your review can be an appropriate time to open the door to future salary negotiations.
Use OfficeTeam's Salary Guide to find out what similar professionals are making in your area. Salary.com is also a good resource. You might be surprised to find out you're making much less, or much more, than professionals in your area. Salary research helps you be realistic about what you can expect and what is reasonable. Use this information to inform your salary discussion with your manager.
If you find out you're on the high end of the salary range, you may want to talk to your manager about taking on additional responsibilities that would justify a future salary increase. What will it take to take it to the next level? Are you already doing the work of a different job title that comes with a higher salary?
At the very least you can open communication about your salary expectations and set the stage for future salary negotiations.
Many companies are reluctant to give salary increases to employees that don't ask for it. And don't just ask for a raise, justify it using your accomplishments, improvements and goals.
When it comes time for your next performance review, be prepared to rock it. Your manager will surely appreciate your efforts and you'll have the confidence to ensure both you and your manager recognize your awesome contribution to the organization.
(Chrysta Bairre is a writer, speaker, work-life advocate, and professional development and employee engagement specialist. She publishes weekly articles on her blog, Live Love Work. Follow @liveloveworkto keep up with Chrysta on Twitter.)


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The unknown developer sent the message "WE. ARE. ALIVE." to its thousands of followers, in the wake of speculation that the PlayStation studio was working on a Wipeout PS4 game before closing down.
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text: Averett University Alumni and Community Awards Averett Alumni have done and are doing great things. Averett has several awards that alumni can be nominated for. If you know of an alumnus that deserves an award either for their service to Averett or their outstanding contributions in the community, please nominate them! The awards and their requirements are: Mary Jo Davis Outstanding Alumnus Award -is a service award that is presented to an alumnus who has made significant contributions to Averett in the way that Mary Jo Davis did. Mary Jo Davis, '55 worked in admissions, served as alumni director, dean of students, and worked in the development office. In addition to her work with Averett, Mary Jo was very active in the greater community. Mary Jo served Averett as a student, volunteer and dedicated employee for more than 50 years. Outstanding Alumnus Award - recognizes those who have demonstrated outstanding service or accomplishment in their professional lives or as humanitarians and they have demonstrated commitment, integrity and successs in their chosen endeavors. Recent Alumnus Award - a recognition for alumni who have graduated in the last 10 years and have demonstrated integrity and success in their professional or humanitarian endeavors. Frank Campbell Outstanding Achievement Award - honors alumni who graduated in the last 10 years for their service to Averett. They must have demonstrated an active and continuing interest in Averett as well as demonstrating integrity in their chosen endeavors. Cougar Club Hall of Fame - presented to alumni who distinguished themselves as an outstanding athlete on an Averett athletic team. The recipient should also have demonstrated commitment and success in their chosen endeavors. This award is voted on by members of the Cougar Club. The Distinguished Friend Award - to honor friends of Averett who have rendered unusual and unselfish service to the University, students, faculty and alumni. Recipients cannot be an alumnus and must have provided significant service in support of the university. Honorary Alumnus - The Alumni Board can nominate people who have made such a contribution to Averett that they should be recognized as a permanent member of the Alumni Association despite having earned their degree at a different school. Recipients of awards must: 1. Not be current faculty, staff or Alumni Board member. 2. For alumni awards - recipient must have attended Averett for one year or two semesters. 3. Make every attempt to attend the awards ceremony to accept the award. 4. Be approved by 2/3 of Alumni board To nominate an alumnus for an award, please send a nomination to the Alumni Office including their name, time they attended Averett, and a statement indicating why the candidate is deserving of the nomination. It will be helpful if you include how they match the spirit of the award. Please also include your name and contact information. |


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Daniela Bleichmar was promoted to Associate Professor of Art History and History in March 2012. Her book Visible Empire. Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment will be published by the University of Chicago Press in June 2012. Recent publications include a book she co-edited with Peter C. Mancall, Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011); a chapter in that book, "Seeing the World in a Room: Looking at Exotica in Early Modern Collections;" an article, "Seeing Peruvian Nature, Up Close and from Afar," Res 59/60 (spring/autumn 2011), 82–95; and a book chapter, "The Geography of Observation: Distance and Visibility in Eighteenth-Century Botanical Travel," in Lorraine Daston and Elizabeth Lunbeck (eds.), Histories of Scientific Observation (University of Chicago Press, 2011), 373–395.
She co-organized with Peter Mancall the conference "Visual Knowledge in the Early Modern Americas," held at the Huntington Library in March 2012, and has recently presented her work at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and the 2012 College Art Association annual meeting.
Professor Bleichmar has been named a Dornsife Distinguished Faculty Fellow for 2011–2013. She received a research fellowship from the Interdisciplinary Research Group of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at USC for 2012–2013. In fall 2012 she will be on research leave with a fellowship from the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute.
Kate Flint, Provost Professor of English and Art History, joined the University of Southern California in July 2011. Prior to this, she taught at Bristol and Oxford Universities before moving to Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, in 2001. Her research spans the C19th and C20th, and is both interdisciplinary and transatlantic. Trained at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, she wrote her dissertation on the British reception of contemporary painting, 1870-1910. Her areas of specialization include Victorian and early twentieth-century cultural and literary history, visual culture, the history of photography and contemporary photography, women's writing, and transatlantic studies. Most recently, Professor Flint has published The Transatlantic Indian 1776-1930 (Princeton University Press, 2008), which looks at the two-way relations between Native Americans and the British in the long C19th, and explores the intersections of modernity, nationhood, performance, and popular culture. Her previous works include The Victorians and The Visual Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 (Oxford University Press, 1993), both of which won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize, as well as Dickens (Harvester, 1985). She is General Editor of the Victorian volume of the New Cambridge History of English Literature (2012). She has recently held Fellowships at the National Humanities Center and the Huntington Library, San Marino. Professor Flint is working on a new book provisionally entitled "Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination," and other current research projects look at transatlanticism and art, and on the comparative and changing nature of the concept of "ordinariness" between 1850 and the present day. Recent conference papers have explored the technology of flash photography, C19th street artists, environmental awareness in contemporary photography, tourist photography in C19th Venice, and documentary flash photography in early C20th America. She is currently Chair of the Department of Art History.
Suzanne Hudson, a historian of modern and contemporary art, joins the faculty of USC after teaching in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois and completing a research fellowship at the Whitney Museum. In addition to her work as an art historian, she is an active critic whose work has appeared in international exhibition catalogues and such publications as Parkett, Flash Art, and Art Journal; she is also a monthly contributor to Artforum. Recently published essays include "Amerikan Painting," in Tim Rollins + KOS (GAMeC Bergamo); "Agnes Martin, On a Clear Day," in Agnes Martin (Yale University Press/Dia Art Foundation); "Naked Pictures: Ansel Adams and Esalen," in West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977 (University of Minnesota Press); "James Castle, 'American Primitive,'" in James Castle (Museo Reina Sofia); "Wade Guyton," in That's The Way We Do It (Kunsthaus Bregenz); "Walead Beshty: From Photography," in Walead Beshty (JRP|Ringier); and "'Mathematics for Catastrophe': Blinky Palermo in America," in Blinky Palermo: Retrospective 1964-1977 (Yale University Press/Dia Art Foundation). She is currently working on pieces on Paul Sietsema, Lesley Vance, Jacqueline Humphries, and Rosemarie Trockel. Suzanne's book, Robert Ryman: Used Paint (MIT Press, 2009), has recently undergone a second hardcover printing. Suzanne is now drafting a manuscript dealing with abstraction and spirituality in 1960s America, as well as finishing Contemporary Art: 1989–Present, co-authored and -edited with Alexander Dumbadze (forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell in 2013) and Painting Now (forthcoming in the Thames & Hudson "World of Art Series" in 2013). Suzanne is the co-founder of the Contemporary Art Think Tank (www.cattdc.net) and President Emerita and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (www.scahweb.org), an affiliate society of the College Art Association.
Sonya Lee in this academic year is the Paul Mellon Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. She gave a number of lectures in the fall, including the Dulcy B. Miller Lecture at Smith College Museum of Art, a seminar talk at the University of Hong Kong, and Colloquium CCXLIX at CASVA in the National Gallery of Art.
Megan Luke joined the faculty in September 2011 as an Assistant Professor of Modern Art. Since she arrived, she has finished the manuscript for her first book, Exiled Images: The Late Work of Kurt Schwitters, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, and is preparing a complete English translation of the artist's art theory and criticism, currently under review for publication. She also contributed an essay for the upcoming Schwitters in England exhibition at the Tate Britain and a series of short studies of works by Picasso commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2011-12 she gave invited lectures at the Eikones Institut für Bildkritik in Basel, Switzerland; Oberlin College; Berkeley Art Museum; and the CHIA in Nuremberg, Germany. She is currently working on a new book entitled, Sculpture as Photograph: Color, Surface, and Space, and is co-editing a volume dedicated to texts on the photography of sculpture by Heinrich Wölfflin.
Carolyn Malone works on French Romanesque and English Gothic architecture and sculpture. Her book, Facade as Spectacle: Ritual and Ideology at Wells Cathedral (Leiden & Boston 2004) which was published in Brill's interdisciplinary series, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, interprets the Gothic façade of Wells as part of political discourse and liturgical innovation in England around 1220. More recently, she has published two books on the early-eleventh century church of Saint-Bénigne in Dijon. Her archeological documentation of Saint-Bénigne was published as: L'église et la rotonde de Saint-Bénigne à Dijon autour de l'an mil (Editions universitaires de Dijon, 2008). Her liturgical and historical study, Saint-Bénigne de Dijon en l'an mil, "totius Gallie basilicis mirabiliorem": Interprétation politique, liturgique et théologique ed. Susan Boynton and Isabelle Cochelin, Disciplina monastica,5 (Turnhout : Brepols, 2009) was funded by fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, ACLS, and AAUW. For the same Brepols series she is currently editing with Clark Maines, Consuetudines et Regulae: Sources for Monastic Life in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. She is also writing a book chapter entitled, "Architecture as Evidence for Liturgical Performance," Understanding Medieval Liturgy: Essays in Interpretation (Ashgate, 2013). Her current research is on twelfth-century sculptural fragments at Canterbury Cathedral.
Amy F. Ogata's research explores the history of modern European and American architecture, design and material culture. Her most recent book is Designing the Creative Child: Playthings and Places in Midcentury America (Minnesota, 2013). Historicizing the idea of childhood creativity, she shows how material goods such as toys, playrooms, playgrounds, books, schools, and even museums produced for the American baby boom participated actively in forming the notion of the creative child after World War II. A short book on the British toy and graphic designer Fredun Shapur will appear in late 2013, and a co-edited volume accompanying a traveling exhibition on Swedish Wooden Toys will be published in 2014. Her first book was on architecture and design in turn-of-the-century Belgium, Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context (Cambridge, 2001). Ogata is currently working on a study of metal and the metallic in Second Empire France. She has received grants from the Wyeth Foundation, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the American Association of University Women, the Smithsonian Institution, the Spencer Foundation, the Belgian-American Foundation, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
John Pollini was appointed a Research Associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology(2009) and became a Fellow of the Cotsen Institute in 2010. In 2009, he also established "The Visual Culture of the Ancient World" initiative under the aegis of USC's International Museum Institute. Participating in this new initiative are several leading museums (Getty, LACMA, and Natural History) in Los Angeles, as well as the Getty Research Center and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. The mission of VCAW-IMI is to bridge the divide between academia and museums and to bring together these two educational spheres by promoting collaborative planning of a variety of projects and activities in the form of lectures, conferences, seminars, and exhibitions as a means ofexploring globally a wide range of issues of common interest pertaining to the study of the ancient world.
John has received distinguished fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (twice), and the American Council of Learned Societies (twice) and has served as Whitehead Professor of Archaeology at the American School at Athens. In 2009-2010 he was the recipient of a generous grant from USC's "Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative" to fund a virtual reality computer project focusing on the Augustan Monuments of the Northern Campus Martius in Rome. He has given papers on this project and the application of this new technology at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, at international conferences at Stanford University, the British Academy, and the University of London), and in a lecture at Cambridge University. The results of this project will be included in his forthcoming book (2012), "From Republic to Empire: Rhetoric, Religion, and Power in the Visual Culture of Ancient Rome," (with a generous subvention from the Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation), as well as in another book in progress, titled "Dynastic Narratives in Augustan Art and Thought: The Rhetoric and Poetry of Visual Imagery," which is in progress.
Recently published was his article, "Lovemaking and Voyeurism in Roman Art and Culture: A Case for the House of the Centenary at Pompeii," which appeared in 2010 in Römische Mitteilungen. Another two articles based on papers delivered at international conferences are forthcoming (2011-12): "Recutting Roman Portraits: Problems in Interpretation and the New Technology in Finding Possible Solutions" (Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome) and the "Archaeology of Destruction: Christians, Images of Classical Antiquity, and Some Problems of Interpretation' (in the archaeological series of the Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology, State University of New York at Buffalo). In the spring of 2011, he will deliver several papers at universities and international conference in Europe and Turkey, and in the fall of 2011, he will be a Research Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, working on his book, "Christian Destruction and Desecration of Image of Classical Antiquity: A Study in Religious Intolerance and Violence in the Ancient World." In 2012-13 he will give the distinguished Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectures of the Archaeological Institute of American in 10 different venues throughout the United States.
In addition to his research and publications, John offers (beginning in 2010) a summer excavation class for USC students at the site of Ostia Antica, the port town of ancient Rome, in conjunction with the American Institute for Roman Culture in Rome and the University of Bologna.
Ann Marie Yasin's current research focuses on questions of memory, materiality and user engagement with Roman and late antique architecture and material culture. Her first book on the social functions of early Christian church spaces appeared in 2009 from Cambridge University Press, and her next major project, a co-authored book on the archaeology of religion in the ancient Mediterranean, is under contract with Yale University Press. She has received an Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant from the USC Provost's office to support this research while on sabbatical in 2011-12. Her recently completed articles include a study of architectural interaction and sight lines between altars and saints' memorials in late antique ecclesiastical complexes; an investigation of spatial and social aspects of graffiti at early Christian sacred sites; and an exploration of the material conditions of late antique relic installations. She is also currently editing over 30 essays on early Christian and Byzantine architecture for the Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture.
In addition to her regular course offerings on ancient and late ancient art and architecture, Prof. Yasin has developed new courses for 2012-13, at both undergraduate and graduate levels, on historical and theoretical perspectives on material culture studies.
Prof. Yasin is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Classical Antiquity, and at USC she serves on the advisory boards of the Interdisciplinary Archaeology Major, the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate, and the Interdisciplinary Research Group of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture. She is also co-PI for the new USC Visual Studies Research Institute funded by a generous grant from the USC College 2020 Initiative beginning in 2012-13.


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- Colonoscopy (once every 10 years).
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- Flexible sigmoidoscopy (every 5 years with FOBT every 3 years).
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How do you feel after buying an item that makes you feel great; maybe a new article of clothing, a new watch or a new car? But how much better is it when that new item is inexpensive and immediate? If it is expensive or it involves an extended lag time until the benefit is achieved, there is a risk for buyer's remorse and even worse, ill will toward the place from which it was purchased. The retail merchandisers that prospered during the Great Depression sold quick, repeatable pleasures at affordable prices.
Your practice and the economy
You may be considering going back to third party-payer insurance medicine if you are struggling to make ends meet as an aesthetic physician. Regardless of the recession, people are always going to be sick and need medicine. Colleagues who do general otolaryngology (ENT medicine) tell me they are still very busy, but are just starting to feel the reduction in elective procedures. It is likely that consumers who are watching their pennies are going to forego elective medical procedures in order to avoid taking time off of work and paying deductibles. Also, it is shortsighted to doubt that Medicare and insurance reimbursements won't be affected.
So, although it currently seems like a safe haven to be back in general medicine, consider recession-proofing your practice as an alternative. It is prudent for all doctors and health-related businesses to start thinking differently about maximizing the efficiency and finances of their practices. Customer service, regardless of the field of medicine, is a front-and-center issue for more than just the aesthetic field. In fact, it is key issue for any service business.
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Those who are just entering aesthetic medicine may be thinking twice about breaking into a competitive and depressed marketplace, but try not to be dissuaded. Yes, the demand for cosmetic procedures is down, but fresh, brave and ethical individuals should move forward.
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Hi folks, Ive purchased a 1600 sq ft pier and beam home. I'm interested in changing the layout of the kitchen and potentially removing a wall to open it up to the living room. Also I would like to add plus or minus 150sq ft for a master bath/closet. Shall I contact an architect or interior designer or both to bounce ideas off of and produce plans? |
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Don't be too fast to talk to an architect. They won't give much info unless you sign a contract and then you're backed into a corner (does that sound like experience talking?) I'd talk to a number of contractors in the area. Ask everyone you know for references and even stop by construction sites that you drive by. |
Make yourself a to scale drawing, mentally, place yourself in it, walk around, change to fit your life style, then call the contractors. |
No simple answer-in each category there are those that will/won't can and can't. Architects who do kitchens well, interior designers who can work on structure, KD's who will work with house layout, contractors who will help with design. In each case it is not the norm, but they all exist. Anyone who is any good will not go very far without some sort of commitment. |
- Posted by stretchtex1 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 26, 13 at 11:41
I know a handful of contractors and I have confidence in their structural knowledge but they don't strike me as folks that would have an inspiring vision when it comes to design. Ideally I'm interested in someone that could produce some kitchen layout drawings and I'm assuming that would be a design consultant. Do designers typically bill on an hourly basis? |
Yes, anyone will charge or ask for a contract,. Ask the contractors that you know who they would talk to. A lot/most of kitchen design is done by the folks who sell cabinets. |
I was a residential designer for many years. Most architects do not do well with residential plans. Their minds are too out there to do the mundane. :) I would make a scaled drawing, make several copies if you are doing this by hand, and play with the drawing. You can download SketchUP for free and play with that. Anything can be engineered to fit your plan as long as it fits with the builiding codes in your area. Most reputable contractors will have the knowledge to help you or have an engineer they work with to sign off on it once he/she checks it out. Before you go to the engineer/contractor/builder, bounce your ideas off on here. These people are really into cost cutting, up to date designs, and will help you with it, giving you insights that they have come across. |
- Posted by stretchtex1 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 26, 13 at 12:55
Thanks everyone for pointing me in the right direction. I've been watching too much TV where professionals arrive at home, pull out an iPad produce a rendering and 3 weeks later owner arrives in complete awe. |
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and 3 weeks later owner arrives in complete awe. Ha Ha - now they do it while the owner is "out to dinner"! |
I would not use a contractor or general contractor for planning or design -- that is not their area of focus or expertise. Although they might "design" things, it won't be to the same level as a designer should be able to provide. They also often do not take the exterior into careful consideration when making changes. You might check out an ASID interior designer. They should be able to design thoroughly, addressing the interior and exterior of the house, and then direct to other professionals as needed; such as a structural engineer or architect to spec the construction needs for the addition. An accredited interior designer (versus a decorator) is trained for constructing an interior, although not things like what nails to use or how to spec a load. |
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- Posted by SaltLife631 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 26, 13 at 13:27
jakuvall hit the nail on the head and is spot on |
Since you're considering both, I would interview at least one KD and one architect. Most skilled people who have the time to take a job will come out to your house for an in-person interview, without charge. It will give them time to get a sense of the work involved and give both of you an opportunity to decide if you can work well together. In the interview, give them some guiding principles for what you'd like to see, and see what answers they give in terms of how well they can turn your guidance into design ideas that you think make sense. In my experience an architect will often have a better sense of overall form and layout, and how to organize space. Their design aesthetic a lot of times will be more minimalist & they may not be as up-to-speed on new kitchen inventions / fixtures, etc. If you have a lot of city building codes, architects may have better knowledge of requirements because they are often the people working on your behalf to get designs approved by the inspectors. That being said, KDs and architects may overlap to some degree & people in one group may also be great at the core skills of the other discipline as well. We started with a KD but we eventually threw her work away and started over. We then went with architect who we were very happy with because he told us when our ideas were dumb ones and always came up with a better solution. But we did spend our own time researching specific products / fixtures to put into the kitchen after the design was done. |
We are not changing our foot print, but we are using an interior designer to layout our kitchen. We are using a contractor who our designer regularly works with do to the work. I had another contractor that she works with do a structural repair on another part of our house earlier this year. Both of the contractors bill them selves as "design build" firms. So if there are those types of contractors in your area that could be a place to start. If you go the design/build route and the contractor doesn't use an engineer, it isn't that expensive to hire one to review plans. We paid around $600 for an evaluation of our home so that the contractor would know the scope of the work before he began work on our structural repair. Good luck, take your time planning, and ask a lot of questions on Garden Web. |
- Posted by stretchtex1 (My Page) on Sat, Sep 28, 13 at 13:00
Anyone have thoughts on preserving a galley type kitchen as opposed to taking down the wall and opening up to a living area? I was able to take a pic of the home I just closed on and was convinced that I would take down the wall that the microwave is mounted on until I saw some before and after pics of galley kitchens. You can see the front door mat in the backdrop. |
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GBPUSD Technical Analysis – Weak Pound Hits Key Technical Zone – 22/1/13
- Sterling has underperformed over recent trading sessions and this has culminated in a drop to prior support, around the 1.5830 area, with an initial dip under this key level during thin trading today.
- This seven-day losing run is the longest noted for GBPUSD since November 2010.
- This 1.5830 area is aligned with the 50% retrace of the broader range between 1.5267 – 1.6380.
- Any extended downside also brings the previous resistance around 1.5770 back into focus – a clear price pivot zone when last hit – as per the daily chart below.
- The strong cable move lower is yet to see a retrace of note and a level of demand could potentially be seen on profit taking.
- Conversely, any sustained break under the aforementioned areas could be hinting at a move back down near the May 2012 lows.
- Any corrective move higher for the pound/dollar pair has us looking towards the following areas as potential resistance: 1.5915, 1.5954 and 1.6000 (see the D1 chart for reference).
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LAKE GEORGE - At the age of 24, Amanda Mason, is an old pro at talking to kids about drugs and alcohol.
"I started this because I saw the effects of drugs and alcohol on my friends and I saw how everyone sort of ignored it and pushed it under the rug."
Mason has been at this for a decade, says she first became interested as a 14-year-old in Florida, where her high school was nicknamed "The Pharmacy" because so many of her classmates were taking drugs.
That was long before she became Miss New York. The crown has given her a pulpit. And she's happy to use it for a good cause. "We have 2,500 kids abusing prescription drugs for the first time every day. That's what I want to combat. I want to help these kids. And when they know more about it, they're going to make better decisions."
So here she was in Lake George Wednesday morning sharing her passion with 125 students from Warren and Washington counties who are members of their local SADD chapters. Mason told the students how she's managed to avoid the negative influences.
"She's still successful and she's beautiful and she's done all this amazing stuff," said Kayla Sweet, a sophomore from Warrensburg. "So people can see that they can make those decisions and step away from the bad, but they can still be very successful and have a lot of good things come out of it."
Students say it's getting more difficult to avoid the pressures, but keeping the right friends is key.
"Just getting into the right crowd and being with friends that you know won't be trying to get you to make bad choices," said Morgan Yarosh, a 10th grader from North Warren.
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Hi; I live on the East Coast; NJ to be exact. Anyway since it's been getting chilly; all my plants seem have been thriving since Sept. building up for the Winter I suppose. Anyway I have 3 Amethyst's 2 in pot's and 1 in the Ground. The one in the Ground is right next to a Bay Window in my Back Yard and my Computer is set up next to the Bay Window. Anyway I noticed New Blooms Opening on my Amethyst. The Next day I saw they were still Open and they didn't look like they were Closing. I was amazed it lasted longer than 24 hrs. So I went out to Examine the Flower and I put a Tiny Black Marker Dot under 1 Petal. For 3 Consecutive Days it stayed open and I checked for the Dot because I was amazed. I know there are only a few Passi's that the Blooms stay open for more than 1 day. But the Amethyst' isn't one of them. I think it has to do with the Colder Weather. HAs this happened to anyone else. Would love to hear about it. All of my Passi's are doing great they are all still blooming, the Alata & Margaret won't stop. Also I have a Citrina that started to grow rapidly once Sept Came & a Kewensis that still hasn't bloomed but started growing more rapidly once Sept Came. Both were very small when I got them in July and they seem to grow very slow and they seem to go thru growing spurts, where they grow about 6" or so then stop and then start again weeks later. |
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Totally normal for the whole open/close process to slow down as the days shorten. Probably due to a combination of daylight hours and lower temps. Also many flowers including Amethyst will become paler in winter. Many Passiflora seem to like the Autumn, they have totally recovered from the previous winter and for some the summer can be too hot for flowering. Others will only flower spring & Autumn anyway. |
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KEE Federal Credit Union was granted its charter from the NCUA on August 6, 1975 as Kearney Eaton Employees Federal Credit Union. The original charter was signed by Ronnie L. Young, Gregory A. Daake, Arnold P. Peterson, Jr., Michael A. Clark, David R. Kahl, Pamela A. Johnson and Del Teel. At that time, the credit union office was located inside the Kearney Eaton plant and was operated by one employee. Only Eaton employees, retirees and pensioners and their families made up the membership base. Services offered were minimal – savings accounts and loans. In late 1989, KEE Federal Credit Union expanded to another office located in a rented suite in Rovar Park. This was the year the credit union expanded its charter to include other select employee groups other than just Eaton employees and the services offered. Since then, the credit union has added many select employee groups within the city of Kearney and the entire area of Dawson County, Nebraska. In March of 2001, property at 2600 Hwy 30 E was purchased. This facility enabled the credit union to have a drive thru window, a night deposit box and more office space to become a full service financial institution. The Credit Union has come a long way in its journey since 1975. Today we offer our members a tremendous choice of financial products such as loans for almost every purpose, share certificates, three different ATM locations, share draft accounts, prepaid VISA debit cards, and so much more! In addition, we have pledged to keep our service as personalized as it was when we were located inside the Eaton plant!! You can trust KEE Federal Credit Union to provide the safety you seek from your financial institution. Not only are we backed by our experience and stability, but savings deposits are federally insured up to $250,000 by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund.
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Three Lake County locations have been picked for the delivery of fresh produce and meats at discounted prices through the Chicago-based nonprofit Top Box Foods.
When the program goes live next month, it will mark the organization's first food deliveries in Lake County.
The three locations, all considered to be in food deserts, include Calvary Presbyterian Church in Round Lake, the North Chicago Public Library and Carmen-Buckner Elementary School in Waukegan.
Top Box Foods will rotate its food trucks between the locations beginning Sept. 13. The first will run from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Calvary Presbyterian Church, 510 N. Cedar Lake Road.
The fresh foods, which include potatoes, onions, turkey and beef, are purchased in bundles and sold at a 40 percent discount.
Theresa Sacomani, Top Box's liaison in Lake County, said she has been working with community leaders who have been promoting the discounted food delivery program at summer festivals and fairs.
"The community leaders have done a great job. The word is really getting out," Sacomani said.
The North Chicago Public Library, 2100 Argonne Drive, will host the second food sale from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 17.
It will move to Carmen-Buckner Elementary School, 520 Helmholtz Ave. in Waukegan, from 10 a.m. to noon Sept. 20.
North Chicago Library director Joan Battley said organizers discussed hosting the food trucks in other areas, such as the high school or a church, but she felt the library would be a central venue for all residents.
She added that the library is a place that many already visit, some on a daily basis.
"Since we're the friendliest library, I decided why not us?" Battley said.
The Lake County pilot program will offer $10 produce boxes that include farm-fresh potatoes, carrots, onions, two seasonal varieties of vegetables and two of fruits. Another option is a mega meat box that's priced according to value with seven to eight meat items. The combination box of meat and produce is sold for $20.
"I was amazed. Everything looked fresh," Battley said. "The peaches looked big and juicy and like they were just plucked from the tree."
The program aims to help underserved residents living in food desert areas as well as those who fall within gaps of the food pantry system.
All forms of payment are accepted, including SNAP cards. No proof of income is necessary.
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"We've always just tried to do what we say we're going to do when we say we'll do it, and make sure we offer better-than-expected service," says Kent Fullmer, president and CEO of Fullmer's Landscaping, Inc. in Dayton, Ohio.
Does it matter?
Actually, it matters a lot, judging by the success of Fullmer's Landscaping. After all, how many landscape companies can point to 49 years of continuous customer service? Not many, but Fullmer's Landscaping can, and is looking forward to its 50th year in business next year.
Just showing up is not enough, says Fullmer.
He says you have to show up with something different, something of value. In the case of the company his father, Lloyd, founded in 1962, that something is a unique landscape design. That's not so surprising, considering that Floyd continues working in the business to this day. "We don't ever do the same thing over. Every design and project is custom," says Fullmer, who now owns the business. He joined the family business full time in 1985, taking on a management position in 1990, and then purchasing it in 2005.
Fullmer's Landscaping primarily services the residential sector, although there have been opportunities in the commercial sector for health care facilities. Its primary market area is the corridor in southwestern Ohio on either side of I-75, the four-lane highway that runs north/south from Sault St. Marie, Mich., to Miami, Fla.
The family-owned business provides a range of landscape services, but heavily promotes its Constant Care program, which delivers consistent and ongoing landscape services following an installation. Included in the program are fertilization, weed control, spring and fall cleanups, edging, mulching, plant care, pruning, paver leveling - actually just about any landscape service a property owner could want.
The company's maintenance contracts typically run one to three years and include service weekly or every two weeks as necessary. They do not include mowing. Many clients prefer to do it themselves or have someone else do it, Fullmer says. "Anyone can mow. Mowing doesn't take the expertise that we like to bring to the project. We'd like to stay in the areas that take more expertise in jobs that not everyone can do," says Fullmer. He points to his company's prowess in providing seasonal color, irrigation services and arboriculture.
"Seasonal color is a big service for us," says Fullmer, adding that his company has a patented program called Instant Color, inspired by landscape practices he'd seen during the early 1990s at Walt Disney World. "We have growers grow plant material for us in a special flat, and we lay our annuals like sod," Fullmer says. "We don't take them out of the flat." His employees are out on clients' properties performing their plant magic as soon as he's convinced that frost has left for the season.
"In the fall, when the frost has hit, we remove those and plant spring tulips and spring bulbs for the seasons," Fullmer says. "If they want chrysanthemums, they go on top of the bulbs right then. So then they have fall color, and in the spring have spring color with tulips again."
In spite of the region's recent economic problems, Fullmer continues to see demand for more outdoor living spaces in his region. Yes, some people still want fire pits and fire rings, but not at the same level as before. Now they want something different, which is right in his company's wheelhouse.
"We're doing a lot of outdoor spaces and kitchen areas," he says. "One of the newer things in the kitchen is the pizza oven. That's been quite a big deal along with the TV cabinets and the grills." Sometimes his company will design that space in a building adjacent to a swimming pool; other times, it stands alone. Fire pits and fire rings are still prevalent, though in less demand over the past four years, Fullmer notes.
In order to design and build a landscape with an eye to how it will be maintained, on the first client visit Fullmer asks about the plan for future maintenance.
"That will make a difference on how the design is put together from the beginning," he says. "We spend a lot of time conversing and seeing the space with the client and getting ideas from them. A lot of folks don't have an idea of what they want, but we get an idea of what kind of lifestyle they're living and how they like to do their hobbies. That helps us put together the proper design. We ask if there is going to be someone to maintain it or if they're going to do it themselves, and that will make a difference on how the design finishes up."
Fullmer's firm takes a "hybrid" approach to chemical use. "We do have to have some chemicals, and we're not against that. It just needs to be used properly, wisely and minimally," he says.
Even in the Dayton region, which gets an average of 40 inches of precipitation annually, fine turf and ornamentals require irrigation to remain fresh and colorful. Fullmer's Landscaping offers fully automated and programmable irrigation systems featuring pop-up sprinkler heads.
The company is also certified with the International Society of Arboriculture and, as such, its employees can take measures to prevent and diagnose issues with trees. The company removes dead tree branches, uses an injection method to treat against emerald ash borer, and a dormant oil spray is used annually on trees to provide a layer of protection to help prevent pests.
As for equipment, Fullmer's Landscaping primarily utilizes track-based equipment to get in and out of muddy situations.
With up to 40 employees, finding qualified labor has been a challenge for Fullmer over the past year. While the labor pool has grown due to job losses, it's not necessarily comprised of people with landscaping experience.
Fullmer does use the H2B program, "but that's not any easier than it's ever been," he says.
The company is putting together a package for each position, focusing on individual responsibilities in order to ensure the best fit for each position and so potential employees will know precisely what the job entails. Fullmer considers attitude the most-important quality in a potential employee. "We can train for the skill, but we have to have a good attitude, good work ethic and good Christian ethical people. We're a Christian-based business, so that's a big portion," he says. "We have a mission to be kind and loving, so we want that in our people. We look at their attitude, commitment, ethics and honesty. They also need to be willing to learn, so we can train the skill."
Fullmer wants a clean image for his company, so all of the trucks have marking and signage, and each employee is expected to be clean-cut and dressed in a uniform specific to the division in which they are working.
Stewardship is an important company value, Fullmer says. "This means we take good care of the things that God has created; we're just rearranging it," he says. "We need to be cognizant of the environment to the degree that we use it wisely and not do things that are blatantly harmful to the environment and to the people we work with."
Fullmer says he also feels a sense of responsibility to customers. "It's also stewardship of our time and resources, and stewardship of the time of our clients, because they are important and have things to do, so we need to do what we say."
Stewardship also means not being wasteful with costs such as fuel, Fullmer says. "We do our own recycling and re-composting of all of our materials or concrete or other landscape waste that comes back," he says. "We crush pavers. We're starting a new area where we're going to pile them and crush them, using them for a base. It's a reuse, reduce and recycle kind of thing."
Fullmer says his company's focus for the future is on building a company personal performance program so employees feel as if they are growing into becoming a better person by working with the company.
He also plans to expand the company's service area into the Cincinnati region. "We're not looking for tremendous growth, but growth to maintain what we have," he says. "We're not that interested in doubling or tripling - in fact, our goal this year was to downsize from last year and hone in on several things."
As for marketing, Fullmer's Landscaping is focusing on its website, www.fullmers.com, social networking at fullmers.com/face book and LinkedIn.
"We want to give people more information so they know a good source to go to get answers," Fullmer says.
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Michigan Republicans and the Department of Human Services (DHS) Director Maura Corrigan has opened another front in the ongoing war on the poor and working poor; this time with rules that will kick more than 15,000 people off federal food assistance on Oct. 1.
DHS changes its eligibility rules to kick anyone off with assets greater than $5,000, and the total value of all family vehicles, including cars, trucks, boats, all-terrain vehicles and recreational vehicles cannot exceed $15,000. Every dollar over $15,000 counts against the $5,000 limit.
The new Bridge Magazine from the Michigan Center has an excellent article on this, and it points out that this was another knew-jerk reaction from the GOP-controlled Legislature. The reporter points out that when Auburn resident Leroy Fick won $1 million in the Michigan lottery, 15,000 people lost their food stamps.
Fick actually was honest and called his DHS caseworker within a week to say he had won the lottery and to turn in his Bridge Card, but he was told he still qualified for food stamps because food assistance is based only on income. Because Fick had chosen to take a lump-sum payment of about $850,000, instead of monthly payments spread over 20 years, his winnings were considered an asset, not income. The media got hold of the story, and it sparked outrage; Republicans used it to continue their class warfare.
It makes sense to disqualified lottery winners, but a family going through temporary tough times will be SOL unless they sell most of the stuff they worked hard to earn. This move comes on the heels of news that the poverty rate in Michigan jumped 20 percent since 2007, and Republicans are hell-bent on shredding the social safety net.
The caseload for food assistance dropped from March to April of this year by nearly 24,000 cases; the first decrease from the previous quarter in many years despite the bad economy and Michigan having the third worst unemployment rate in the country. That's because Corrigan took food stamps away from 30,000 Michigan college students in August.
But there is more. In this economy the GOP-controlled Michigan Legislature passed a bill in July limiting lifetime welfare benefits at 48 months and immediately throwing 12,000 families into even deeper poverty. When the bill goes into effect on Oct. 1, some 12,600 families with children will lose the paltry $510 a month they now receive, giving Michigan the honor of having the harshest time limits on cash assistance in the Midwest.
The Legislature also reduced the Earned Income Tax Credit for the working poor earlier this year after failing to eliminate it completely. In March the Governor signed a bill that cut unemployment benefits from 26 weeks to 20 weeks, making Michigan the only state in the country to reduce unemployment benefits at a time when unemployment is at the highest it has been in many years.
This is class warfare, not math, and the working class continues to lose badly. Gov. Rick Snyder has said "job 1 is jobs," but not a single jobs bill has been introduced in the Legislature that was swept in on the jobs mantra. Instead, all they have done is make the working class more poor and gone after social issues; like so-called "partial birth abortion" and labor unions.


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Why does Obamacare still feel like such a mess?
It's easy to fit political grandstanding in 140 characters.
He's the POTUS with an Emmy nomination.
Is religious freedom more important than women's health?
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Family of 17-year-old shot
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The boy is still recovering from his wounds and is in "generally satisfactory health," said Carl Lewis, a San Diego attorney representing the family.
City officials dismissed the family's claims, saying they were filed too late. Claims are required before suing a public agency and must be filed within six months of the incident in question, according to state law. These claims were received Nov. 6, nearly eight months after the shooting.
One claim was filed on behalf of the boy, Lewis said. The other two were on behalf of his mother and sister, who saw the shooting.
Lewis said he plans to file applications to present late claims. If the City Council rejects the claims, the family has the option of filing a lawsuit.
Officials in the City Attorney's Office and Police Department declined to discuss the claims.
They said the boy had called 911 for unspecified assistance and was told to wait outside for police. Using a cordless telephone, he continued speaking with the 911 operator while he walked out the front door of his home on Lee Avenue.
The boy was then "instantly and without warning gunned down by city of Escondido police officers without cause or justification," one of the claims says.
Police said the boy was waving a loaded BB gun that was designed to resemble a .45-caliber automatic pistol. They also said he had warned the dispatcher that he had a loaded handgun.
The boy was under the influence of methamphetamine when he was shot, according to a toxicology report.
The boy's family claims that the officers' conduct was unjustified and constituted excessive force, and that the officers' actions were motivated by racial discrimination and racial profiling. The family is Latino.
Family of teen shot by police files claims; Escondido officials say they came after deadline
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November 29, 2000, Wednesday
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1 The man knew Havah his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Kayin, and said, "I have gotten a man with the LORD's help." | 1 Adam lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man." |
2 Again she gave birth, to Kayin's brother Hevel. Hevel was a keeper of sheep, but Kayin was a tiller of the ground. | 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. |
3 As time passed, it happened that Kayin brought an offering to the LORD from the fruit of the ground. | 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the LORD. |
4 Hevel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of the fat of it. The LORD respected Hevel and his offering, | 4 But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering, |
5 but he didn't respect Kayin and his offering. Kayin was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. | 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast. |
6 The LORD said to Kayin, "Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen? | 6 Then the LORD said to Cain, "Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? |
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How To Tighten Double Head Drum
Just as every human learns to walk, so too should every drummer learn how to tighten a double head drum. This is essential information for even the most basic of drummers! Without knowing how to properly tighten two drum heads, you could be opening up a whole world of tone issues and noise problems! If this sounds like you, then sit back and read on, because you're about to learn how to tighten double headed drums.
- Tighten the drum's top head. When tightening a double headed drum, it's always good to start with the top head of the drum, also known as the "beater head." To do this, place the head over the drum and tighten the tension rods with your fingers. Next, tighten the tension rod closest to you about a half turn with your drum key before moving to the exact opposite tension rod on the other side of the drum and doing the same. This is known as the opposite method. Continue doing this, moving around the drum head until all the wrinkles have been smoothed out.
- Seat the head. In order to properly tighten the head, it's important to seat it to make it conform to the contour of your drum. To do this, lightly press down on the center of the new head. If the tone is lower, then it means the drum truly needed to be seated. Tighten the head again using the opposite method from step one.
- Tune the head. The last step in tightening the top head of a double head drum is to make sure that the drum is in tune with itself. To test this, go around the drum like you did when you were tightening the head, only this time you'll want to physically hit the drum near the rim to test the tightness—and therefore pitch—of each tension rod. Loosen the spots that sound high and tighten the spots that sound low until the pitch is uniform all around.
- Repeat each step with the bottom head. Here's the part where this specifically pertains to tightening double headed drums. Before we begin, go back through steps one through three again with the bottom head. Now, because the bottom head of a drum is known as the "resonator head," you have only a few ways you can tune this head in relation to the top head. If you tighten both heads of a double head drum the same, the resulting sound will be of a "pure" tone—without a pitch drop—with a long sustain. If the bottom head is looser than the top, the resulting sound will have a deeper pitch drop with an almost growl like sound and long sustain. A bottom head that is tighter than the top will also produce a growl sound, but with be less sustained compared to the other two methods.
Knowing how to properly tighten double headed drums can open up a world of rich tonal possibilities and lead to a more personalized drum sound. Keep in mind that there is no totally right way to tighten a drum head. Follow these guidelines, but always remember to let your ear be the final judge. After all, it is your drum and your sound!


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BANGALORE: Guess why many of you haven't yet got your UID number despite applying for it several months ago?
The Unique Identification Authority of India, the nodal agency, didn't have the required printing facility to keep pace with enrollment. When 1 million persons were being enrolled every day across India, the printing capability was only 1.5 lakh a day. "Enrollment picked up very well and reached an average per day score of 1 million. We upgraded our backend processing of Aadhaar generation capacity to 1 million a day. However, our last-mile logistics partner mandated to print and dispatch had a limited printing capacity of 1.5 lakhs per day in Phase I," K K Sharma, assistant director general, UIDAI, regional office here told TOI.
The backlog may be cleared by this month-end. There could be a delay in some cases which have errors and need diligent processing, say UIDAI officials.
Sharma said over 23% of Karnataka's population has been covered so far. "Now, printing and delivery have been entrusted to other agencies to clear the backlog and in view of future requirements. With this, both printing and despatch have improved. Some packets are on hold on account of validation failure. These are being cleared with the workflow mechanism used by the enrolment agency / Registrar. During Phase II enrollment, we're targeting delivery of UID within 45 days," said Sharma.
Enrollment was stopped in February, 2012 across the state and the next phase will start soon.
Cap on enrollment
UIDAI found that enrollment agencies were incentivizing operators and this led to an an unprecedented increase in number of enrollments. "An operator cannot enroll more than 150 persons a day, as per the new version to be taken up in Phase II. Some operating agencies were giving operators incentives to enroll as many as possible and as a result, quality was being compromised. In some cases, one agency was enrolling anywhere between 250 and 500 per day. We're committed to the quality of every enrollment," said Ashok Dalwai, deputy director general, Unique identification Authority of India.
He added: "In the second phase of enrollment, UIADI has decided to have a government appointed verifier, as enrollment is largely document-based. A verifier is a must so that documents are correct for proof of address, proof of identity, etc.," said Dalwai.
GPS tag to UID
UIDAI is using Global Positioning System data during enrollment. "It's currently optional but over time, it'll be made compulsory. The device used to capture biometric data has to take the latitude and longitude of the location every morning so that we can identify where it's being done. If the machine is set up outside the national boundary, we'll get to know immediately. It's a new feature in the second phase of enrollment which will begin shortly," Dalwai told TOI.
Where we stand
* 23% of population enrolled in Karnataka during Phase I
* Phase II will cover the remaining population
* Total enrolment in Karnataka 1,59,57, 753; in Bangalore 16,21,130
* Nationally, Karnataka is third in enrolment
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