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Frequently Asked Questions
With so much going on around Kristin on a daily basis, it can sometimes be a challenge to put your finger on the right information at the right time. Below you will find a number of frequently asked questions that have been collated to help Kristin parents. If the answer to your question is not listed here please email us and we will point you in the right direction.
How do I join Kristin Family & Friends (KFF)
KFF is our committee for families and friends of the school. We support the School's initiatives in both fundraising and friendraising. Read more about us here.
How can I meet other parents?
Take the time to attend as many meetings as possible, including parent information evenings, KFF events, productions and sports fixtures.
How can I help at school?
In the Junior and Middle Schools, talk to the class teacher about parent help in the classroom. Parents can help on class trips, camps or special events. The KFF facilitate the work of a number of volunteer groups including Reader Writers and Exam Invigilators. Speak to any KFF committee member for more information. Read more about us here.
If I turn up by myself at a school event will I be able to sit with someone?
When sending in your RSVP for any school function, simply let the staff member coordinating the event know you are on your own and they will ensure you have company.
My child is going through a tough spell, who should I talk to?
In the first instance, parents should always speak to the teacher, then the Dean, then the Assistant Principal. Counsellors at the Wellness Centre are also available for support and guidance.
How can I get an urgent message to my child?
Phone the Junior, Middle or Senior School office. The staff there will pass messages on.
How do I find a local Doctor?
An online search will identify a number of health professionals within a 5km radius of the school,
including general practitioners, specialists, dentists, radiographers, chiropractors etc.
How do I find out about where to get on and off the school bus?
Business Services manage the bus system, including stops, tickets and change of routes.
In urban areas, our buses collect and drop off at standard bus stops. In rural areas there may be more flexibility so check with Business Services. Email Ngaire Clayton
How do I find my child's lost property?
Lost Property bins are clearly marked and located in each school and they are emptied regularly. Any property left on buses would be placed in these bins. If items are named then students will receive a message to pick property up from the Retail Shop.
How can I find out about homework?
In the Junior School parents are given a password for myKristin where they can access homework. In the Middle and Senior School, students are encouraged to share this with their parents.
Why is myChild so helpful?
myChild hosts a wealth of information about your child's learning including timetables, assessments, results, attendance, nutriSmart and parent interviews. For assistance with logins Email Robyn Stables
What is FriendConnect?
Listed in myChild, FriendConnect enables members of the Kristin community (including parents, guardians and staff) to search for selected contact details of fellow community members. All information shown has been authorised by the individual in question. You can adjust your own privacy settings by visiting FriendConnect Preferences.
Can I ask to meet the teacher privately?
Yes, of course – simply contact the teacher and ask for an appointment
What is a good activity to start my child in so they can get to know other children?
Involving your child in extra-curricular sport and/or cultural activities is always a good place to start. Information about clubs, sports and performance groups (Music, Drama and Dance) is available on the website. Once friendships start to form, try inviting a new friend home to play.
How can I join my child up to cultural activities?
Contact the staff member in charge of the activity of your choice, you can also register online for Dance, Drama and Music.
What sports clubs exist outside of school?
We are spoilt for choice in the North Harbour region with most sports represented in a significant way. Talk to the Sport Manager or the Sport Department for accurate information. Email the Sports Office.
Where is the Sports office?
It is located on the top floor of the old Gymnasium above International Services.
What sports are available at school?
There is a full list of sports on offer in the Sport Handbook and in the Sport section of our website.
I need information about sports trials, who can help?
Contact the Sport Manager or Sport Department the day before trials if you are unclear of what to do, what is expected or where to go. This information will also be available on the relevant sport page of the website and in the School's weekly newsletter.
How do I find the LIC?
The 'LIC' is an abbreviation for Library Information Centre which is located inside Gate 1 and next to the Main Administration Building.
Where is the Middle School Atrium?
This is the central foyer area, ground floor in the Middle School Learning Centre
How can my child join up to the Duke of Edinburgh Programme?
Students should talk to Mrs Miliken or go to the Duke of Ed page.
Do students have to bring cash for Mufti Day?
Mufti Day is held to support a charity chosen by the students. Junior and Senior School students are asked to donate a gold coin. Middle School students have paid for this through their activities fee.
What is the dress code for Mufti Day, Formals and the Ball?
Casual clothes can be worn on Mufti Day, however the standard grooming regulations apply.
Deans will specify the dress code for Formals. Balls are formal events, suit and tie and party dresses (long or short).
What is the dress code for Graduation Dinner?
Graduation Dinner is also a formal event, Dinner Suits or jacket and tie for men and party dresses (long or short) for ladies.
Can I get books out of the library?
Yes, parents can borrow books from the Library, just visit one of the Librarians for assistance.
Who should I talk to about a small issue in the classroom?
In the first instance, parents should always speak to the teacher, then the Dean then the Assistant Principal.
Where are local playgrounds?
Each year level has a designated playground, this will be the one closest to the student's homeroom.
Is there a GATE programme in the Junior School?
GATE is covered by the comprehensive extension and enrichment programmes that are offered in the Junior School. Contact Assistant Principal Rob Hutton for more information. Email Rob
What do you do in Performing Arts Wardrobe?
Volunteers help design, sew, repair or catalogue costumes in preparation for productions.
Can I help on school camps?
Not all camps require parent helpers, but indicate your interest with the Dean at the end of the year prior.
Can I help on a class trip?
Not all trips require parent helpers, however any parent can offer to help. Register your interest with the class teacher early.
Are we allowed to come to Assemblies?
Yes, all parents are encouraged to attend Assemblies, Prize-givings or other celebrations.
Why can't we stay to help at Middle School formals?
Formals are a great way to help young people to develop their social skills and sometimes they're more relaxed when you're not about! We're happy to give parents the evening off.
My child needs extra help with maths, where can we get help?
Contact the Maths teacher or the Maths Department for information on after school tuition.
I find NCEA quite confusing and need a clear explanation.
A comprehensive explanation of NCEA can be found on the Ministry of Education website. Please feel free to contact your child's Dean.
What does the term 'Criteria for Assessment' mean?
Students will receive a set of criteria for each assessment they do. It clearly outlines what they need to cover in their answers in order to pass for example, with Achieved, Merit or Excellence.
What exactly is Theory of Knowledge (TOK)?
It is a thoughtful and purposeful inquiry into different ways of knowing and into different kinds of knowledge. TOK is composed almost entirely of questions. The most central of these is "How do we know?" A comprehensive explanation of TOK can be found on the IB website.
What is the Extended Essay?
This is a component of the IB Diploma; it is a self-directed piece of research culminating in an essay of 4,000 words, which students have approximately three terms to complete. They are given the outline and assigned a supervisor partway through Year 12. The essay is worth 3 IB points. Read more about the Extended Essay on the IB website.
What is CAS?
This is the term given to the service component of the IB Diploma Programme, it stands for Community, Action, Service. Read more about it on the IB website.
Can they start doing their CAS hours now?
CAS and the process for the accurate recording of hours will be explained to students by the IB Coordinator once they begin the Diploma programme.
Am I allowed to use the Chapel?
Parents and families are encouraged to use the Chapel and should contact the Reverend at the Wellness Centre. Email Rev Rodney Ramsay.


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Tracking Transplant PatientsBy Debbie Gage | Posted 2008-01-30 Print
Integrating electronic systems that track organ transplants has been a challenge for most hospitals. But the
Through advances in science and medicine, organ transplanting has increased in frequency—and developed into an ever-growing business. At
In 1996,
A dozen years later, the hospital is still working toward that goal. "There's nothing magical about information systems," says Bryan Barshick, the center's decision support/transplant manager, who is in charge of the project. "It will give you the bedsheets but it won't make the bed for you."
As a May 2007 Baseline cover story on the transplant program at the
While John Hopkins does not yet provide a text-book example of how to implement systems to manage a complex transplant center, it does offer other hospitals a guide to get closer to that goal.
No Room for Error
At John Hopkins, a big challenge has been getting staff and clinicians to abandon their comfort zone with paper-based processes in favor of automated transplant management systems. It's not an uncommon problem for organizations adopting new technology. The transition is doubly challenging for John Hopkins and other top hospitals with zero tolerance for error in patient care and transplant compatibility. Mistakes can cost patients their lives.
All patients are listed in a national database administered by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which matches organs with recipients based, in part, on how long they have been waiting for a transplant. UNOS uses complex algorithms to calculate that waiting time. It collects about 120 types of data and treats each type of organ tissue differently. Its database doesn't automatically connect with the transplant databases at all hospitals, requiring some transplant centers to fax or e-mail patient data to UNOS.
The systems used to track patients and transplants tripped up Kaiser Permanente and, according to California regulators, placed patients "at risk for…potentially life-threatening delays in care." Kaiser lost track of patients' paper records, patients' complaints and the time they spent on UNOS' waiting list.
Two years ago, Johns Hopkins replaced the transplant database it had been using, which it declines to name, with a more modern one from TeleResults, a database vendor based in
The hospital is building interfaces between the database and various in-house and third-party laboratories. Radiology will soon get an interface, and Barshick also will try exporting data electronically from TeleResults to UNOS.
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Jerrod Niemann Hints at Recording a Christmas Album in Near Future
This holiday season, Jerrod Niemann released a 'Mistletoe Mix' of his current single, 'One More Drinkin' Song.' The original version of the tune became an instant hit with Niemann's fans, and the new Christmas-themed rendition has them wanting more holiday tuned from the singer.
"The song has spawned an idea for me to record a Christmas album or just an EP," Niemann reveals to Taste of Country. "I have some Christmas songs that I've written [laughs] and they're just sitting around collecting … snow! I haven't even mentioned it to my label, but it just spawned the idea to try to make it happen … something for fun."
Niemann says the seasonal album (or EP) would ideally be a mixture of originals and classics for the most festive time of year. "I have some new songs that I've written, but I think it would be smart to at least include one or two of your favorite Christmas classics," he notes. "I know people get sick of them, but there's got to be a few that are still not burned out on a lot of play lists."
But fans don't need to wait an entire year before hearing new music from their favorite singer-songwriter. Niemann is currently putting the finishing touches on his next album, which he's hoping to have a first single from in the springtime.


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Macro Insight
December 13, 2018
2019 Emerging Markets Outlook: After Tech Corrects, What Next?
Macro Insight
2019 Emerging Markets Outlook: After Tech Corrects, What Next?
December 13, 2018
The correlation between U.S. and Emerging Markets (EM) tech sector returns has been rising strongly for three years. As a result, imbalances in EM market returns have reached extreme levels. Broken down by sector, tech has contributed around 40% of EM returns over the past three years, a share matched only by energy in 2007.1 In the past, when the country and sector leaders in MSCI EM accounted for anywhere close to this large a share of returns, it signaled a return to a more normal balance—and a change in leaders.
The infatuation with big tech stocks has driven the relative performance of small and medium caps (on an equal weighted index) to nearly two standard deviations below its historical trend in the emerging markets, as shown in Display 1. This is highly unusual. EM small and medium caps have never fallen this far in the 20-year history of the equal weighted index and came close only once, during the rage for large U.S. tech stocks in 2000. In the United States, by the same measure, the relative performance of small and medium caps has fallen by two standard deviations only three times in the last 100 years, during the Great Depression, the Nifty Fifty Bubble of the 1970s and the tech bubble of the late 1990s.2 In all these past cases, small and medium caps started to outperform when mega caps began to falter, or even before.
Our argument, for some time, has been that when market imbalances grow this extreme, they don't persist, as a rule. Now that we have begun to see major falls in tech and the tech-heavy MSCI China index, the question is how the rebalancing is likely to play out. After the busts of 2000 and 2008, beaten-down sectors recovered, small and medium caps came back to life, and forgotten countries were rediscovered.
Over the past few years, investors became so focused on the tech-heavy Asian markets, they appeared to ignore the fundamentals of economic growth. Beginning with the launch of the MSCI EM index in 1988, the best returns had come in the fastest growing economies. But after 2016, economies with the highest growth rates underperformed the MSCI EM index, and those with the lowest growth rates outperformed. Many of the outperformers were tech-heavy.
Even after the recent declines, markets are still valuing big tech companies more highly than entire clusters of major emerging economies. After becoming the first $1 trillion company, Apple is down under $900 billion, but still in the same range as Indonesia and Malaysia combined, and nearly three times more than Poland.3 The last time we saw companies overshadow countries this way was in Asia after the crisis of 1998, when for example, GE was valued more highly than the crisis-hit economies of Russia, Malaysia and South Korea combined. The big difference this time: many of the battered countries face no crisis and are growing rapidly.
Now, some of them are starting to come back. As investors sell out of tech, they are rediscovering some overlooked markets of Eastern Europe and Latin America. Those markets had been battered in part by the strong dollar, which always sucks money out of EM, but may not last this time. Since the early 1980s, the dollar has rarely traded more than 15% above or below its long-term range, and it is now at the high end of that range.4 Dollar bear markets have tended to last around seven years. Our view is that the dollar's rise in 2018 is a temporary rally within the downtrend that began in early 2016 and could prove long-lasting.
Some of the hardest hit EM currencies have stabilized, and we see no reason to expect the broad collapse to resume. As a group, emerging markets have strong external balances. Current account deficits are low on average, having fallen significantly since the "taper tantrum" of 2013 rattled countries like Brazil and India. Though many analysts are worried about emerging market debt, this risk is a threat mainly to China. While the rest of EM has seen its nonfinancial debt climb by 20 percentage points as a share of GDP since the global financial crisis of 2008, China's debt has grown by more than 100 percentage points.5 Tellingly, the China market too had been driven largely by tech stocks, until the recent correction.
The question, then, is how to think about emerging markets as an asset class as the mania for tech passes?
Go back to the fundamentals that have driven markets over time. Our "rules of the road" zero in on the 10 most important factors for identifying countries likely to post high or accelerating growth, and thus most likely to outperform the markets over the next three to five years. Right now, some of the most beaten down markets are in promising economies such as Poland, Indonesia, the Philippines and even Mexico.
One of our most important rules says that a cheap currency is a good sign, and this is particularly so for countries that have seen currencies plummet this year even though they face no threat of crisis. Analysts who worry about Mexico's new leftist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, overlook the fact that his impact was priced into the peso even before his July election victory. By our composite measure, the Mexican peso is currently the cheapest currency in the world.6
EM stocks now look relatively cheap (based on price to book) compared to Developed Market (DM) stocks on average, and historically cheap in some cases. In dollar terms, Mexico's market is now near a two decade low. Poland, with its beaten-down zloty is near a 25-year low. Both suffer mainly from the lack of major tech stocks in their index.
Looked at more broadly, the entire EM class was in some sense overlooked even before this year's drawdown. As of last December, only about 4-6% of global equity investments were allocated to emerging markets, a share that is too low based on any of the three standard approaches to asset allocation. Basing investments on the EM weight in global equity markets would imply an allocation of 12%;7 using the EM share of global GDP would imply an allocation of at least 15% and using an optimal portfolio approach would suggest an allocation of 30%.8
The upshot is that we believe many emerging markets look like compelling long-term buys. Many of the beaten down countries are well-insulated from crisis and are caught in an anti-bubble—gasping in a vacuum of attention because even now investors are focused on tech and tech-heavy markets like MSCI China. As a sense of normalcy returns to markets, other sectors and countries are likely to pick up momentum. While trying to time markets is a fool's game, the time to make long-term investments is in periods like the current one, when stock prices in many high-growth emerging markets appear to be cheap for no good reason.
1 MSIM, Bloomberg, FactSet, Haver, data as of November 28, 2018.
2 MSIM, Bloomberg, FactSet, Haver, data as of November 28, 2018.
3 FactSet, Haver, data as of November 28, 2018.
4 MSIM EME Team Research, FactSet, data as of November 28, 2018.
5 FactSet, BIS, IMF, Haver, MSIM EME Team Research, Bloomberg. Data as of November 28, 2018.
6 MSIM EME Team Research, Haver, data as of November 28, 2018.
7 FactSet. Data as of December 2017.
8 FactSet, MSCI, HSBC, MSIM Estimates. Data as of December 2017.
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I've decided to take a blog break. I don't know for how long, it feels like the time to do something else for a while. I may post something along, along and I might not. Until then gonna miss you friends. I have a few last scheduled post on facebook and a few giveaways that run until March 10, have fun entering those and good luck.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
5 comments:
- Christy Garrett said...
Enjoy your break. :)
- February 25, 2015 at 4:48 PM
- Dorothy Teel said...
Will miss you, but take care of yourself and your "lifeisasandcastle" and family
- February 26, 2015 at 9:14 AM
- Candace Barrow said...
Enjoy your break :)
- February 26, 2015 at 10:12 AM
- Naila Moon said...
Sometimes we have to do that. Be well!
- February 26, 2015 at 11:22 PM
- Journeys of The Zoo said...
Take all the time you need, we'll be waiting for you when you get back.
Besos, Sarah
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- March 5, 2015 at 12:47 AM
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Orange pastor guilty
The pastor of an Orange County church pleaded guilty to social security fraud Wednesday, March 9. The Rev. Raymond Charles Young, 38, of Orange, pleaded guilty to fraudulent receipt of social security benefits.
According to information presented in court, Young, the full-time pastor of the Greater St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Orange, had been receiving social security disability benefits since June 2005 for himself and his four children, when he had been gainfully employed in his pastoral duties and receiving a salary, car and housing allowances, as well as other cash payments from the church. It was also revealed that in a continuing disability review report required by the Social Security Administration, in December 2008, Young continued to misrepresent his full-time employment and alleged disability. Young has even been featured in regional church publications for his pastoral duties during the period of his alleged disability. From the period of his application for disability to the termination of his benefits for the fraudulent conduct, Young received approximately $134,000 in benefits for which restitution will have to be made. Young was indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 1, 2010. Young remains released on bond and other conditions of release. He faces up to five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not been set.


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Topic : Microsoft project plan template for business projects.
Author : Olexa Adam.
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Once your free business plan template is downloaded, take your time to look it over so you understand it. Keep your business information handy so that you are not searching for it when you need to input information. A sample template will cover all of the different areas in which you should prepare your business plan. You will need to create a strategy and marketing plan. Then you must account for profit and loss. You will need a balance sheet and a cash flow statement. A cash balance graph clearly shows your financial status while operating ratios allow you to make good comparisons of your business efficiency. Finally you need an executive summary to tie it all together.
Answering the question of how to make a business plan template begins by the realization that the first step is the creation of a rough draft, where you end up with a set of notes on each and every topic of the template. The next step is to work on these points and edit them to create a professional narrative that has a smooth flow. The purpose of creating the template is not to speed up the process of deriving the final business report but thinking about your business in an intelligent, smart and planning fashion. While going through the various facts and ideas, you gradually get involved in looking at ideas and business models in a more critical way. Though this process may initially appear to be a waste of time, the process of creating the template also has the power to prevent a poor decision that could prove to be a disaster in the long run, if not properly addressed upfront.
Without proper planning it is impossible to succeed no matter how much capital you have. On the other hand, if you have a fool-proof plan you can make a lot of money in a very short amount of time. This article will guide you through the planning process so that you can improve your chances of success.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
This activity shows how reading a mathematics problem three times, with a different focus question each time, can help students make sense of a problem.
Draw three-dimensional figures on two-dimensional isometric dot paper. Try holding the cubes in different orientations so you can see the possibilities in both the three-dimensional "real world" and the two-dimensional representations on paper.
Measure the length of the notepad and desk in millimeters and centimeters and their mass in kilograms and grams. Notice how the precision and accuracy differ for each measuring device.
Create several rectangles with areas of 16 square units and calculate the perimeter. Predict how the length and width of the rectangle affects the perimeter.
Area models offer a visual representation of mathematical operations. Here you will use area models to multiply and reduce fractions.
Use area models to find either the greatest common factor or the least common multiple of two numbers.
Measure your arm span and height. See how your measurements compare to others when your data is added to a data table and corresponding scatter plot.
What opportunities for learning are offered by having students work on a problem using both arrays and fractions?
Decide whether or not using an array is the best way to solve a problem.
Use your intuition about balance to keep a scale balanced.
Create a line plot [with dots] to represent stacks of coins. Then rearrange the dots to form different line plots and watch what happens to the mean.
Learn to convert measurements from metric to English and vice versa, by learning the symbols used in both systems for properties such as mass, length, volume, and temperature.
Use blocks to build a design from a written description. Try various descriptions to achieve the correct design. View non-Flash version.
Classify the different types of numbers we use, and learn how numbers and operations relate to one another. Start with counting numbers and then add integers, rationals, algebraic, and, finally, real numbers to the line.
Find out how many different combinations of four-legged chairs and three-legged stools you can have after covering each leg with one of 30 tennis balls to silence the chairs whenever they're moved.
Investigate, make conjectures, and develop proofs about triangular and square numbers. Compare numbers whose corresponding figures have similar base lengths.
Explore equivalent fractions, and decide which of two classrooms is better at blowing bubble gum.
Statistical analysis allows us to organize data in different ways to draw out potential patterns in the variation. Review and compare data represented in a bar graph and accompanying tables depicting relative and cumulative frequency.
Control the slope of lines passing through the origin (0, 0). Keep track of what changes when the slope becomes positive or negative, and when slope is larger or smaller than 1.
Find shapes that are congruent. Verify that they are congruent by making rotations, slides, and reflections.
Do figures with the same area have the same perimeter? Arrange and rearrange 12 square tiles on a grid, and then measure the perimeter of each shape you create.
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Presented by Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed
STEP RIGHT UP and get ready to laugh, have fun, and celebrate a magical night out with Carnival of Illusion! This top-rated attraction is "Revitalizing Magic" by blending their international theme with all the charms of a Vaudeville-inspired roadshow. Travel with the national recipients for "Excellence in Magic," Roland Sarlot and Susan Eyed, in this intimate theater and catch a lively slice of magical history!
The Carnival of Illusion is Magic, Mystery, and OOOH la la! Enjoy an evening of up-close magic on select weekends at the Mesa Arts Center.
This Must-See event is great for date-nights, anniversaries, celebrations and special nights and special nights out. Purchase tickets in advance. Due to the intimate nature of this boutique theater, shows regularly sell out and there is a 10+ year age limit. Step right up, join the fun, and experience an Evening of Old-World Magic!
Mesa Arts Center is selling only the sixth-row seats for these performances. For additional seating, please contact Carnival of Illusion at WWW.CARNIVALOFILLUSION.COM
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BALTIMORE – Senior captain Rob McCabe (Philadelphia, Pa./St. Joseph's Prep) went 2-for-3 in both games, but it was not enough, as the UMBC baseball team was swept in a doubleheader by Stony Brook, Friday at Alumni Field in America East play.
Sophomore Riley Stephenson (Frederick, Md./Boonsboro) dueled with Stony Brook starter Frankie Vanderka in game one, but the Seawolves prevailed, 5-3, as Vanderka tossed his fourth complete game of the season.
In the night cap, Stony Brook (30-15, 15-4 AE)jumped on UMBC senior Mac Gill (Bethesda, Md./Walter Johnson) early for four runs in the first and then visiting starter Brandon McNitt limited the UMBC (15-26, 6-14 AE) offense as the visitors swept the twin bill with an 11-3 win.
The teams will wrap up the series on Saturday with a single game as UMBC celebrates Senior Day by honoring eight student-athletes. Game time has been pushed back one hour to a 1:00 p.m. start with the senior ceremony scheduled for 12:40 p.m.
Stony Brook started quickly in the opener as Jack Parenty sent the first pitch of the game back up the middle. He stole second and moved to third on a ground out and then gave the visitors the lead on an RBI single down the left field line by Kevin Krause. Stephenson then got a fly out and senior catcher Brandon Coluccio (Freehold, N.J./Freehold Township/Brookdale CC) cut down Krause trying to steal second to get out of the inning. The string started a run in which the Retriever right-hander recorded 12 consecutive outs.
Stephenson's stretch provided time for the UMBC offense to figure out Vanderka and the hosts pulled level in the bottom of the fifth. Sophomore third baseman Mark Esposito (Bethany, Conn./Amity Regional) started the inning by doubling off the left field wall, the first hit against the Seawolf starter. Following a fly to right and a pop to first, Coluccio roped a single to left to chase Esposito around.
Both teams went down in order in the sixth, but Stony Brook rallied for three runs against Stephenson in the top of the seventh. With runners on second and third, Casey Baker broke the tie with a sac fly to center, and then the Seawolves added two more for a 4-1 lead. The next inning Baker pushed the advantage to four, 5-1, with an RBI single through the right side.
The Retrievers pegged back in the bottom of the seventh. McCabe laced a double to right-center with one down, and two batters later, sophomore Kevin Lachance (Clifton, Va./Centrevill) shot a single down the right field line, scoring McCabe, but was cut down trying to advance to second.
Sophomore Kevin Ladner (Succasunna, N.J./Roxbury) held the Seawolves off the board in the ninth and UMBC put together one last rally in the bottom half. With two outs, it again was Espostio who started things with another double to left. Freshman Hunter Dolshun (Warwick, N.Y./Warwick Valley) followed by yanking a double down the line to score pinch runner Nick Naumann (Essex, Md./John Carroll). Vanderka cut the rally short, however, getting a hard ground out to end the game.
The Seawolves jumped out to an early lead again in the second game, scoring four times in the first against Gill. The Retriever veteran settled down and held Stony Brook off the board in the next two innings, but UMBC could not push anything across against McNitt, despite putting runners on second and third with one out in the bottom of the second.
In the fourth, Stony Brook plated three more runs as Robert Chavarria, Krause, and Cole Peragine all connected for RBI singles to push the lead to 7-0.
Two innings later, UMBC got on the board as the Retrievers loaded the bases with one out and then freshman Andrew Casali (New Canaan, Conn./New Canaan) sent a sacrifice fly to center to score McCabe who had led off with a single up the middle.
The lead grew to 11-1, though, in the next frame as Peragine registered another RBI on a single to center then then Johnny Caputo hit his second home run of the year, a three-run shot to center. UMBC pegged back for a run in the home half as McCabe beat out an infield roller and Dolshun scored from third.
In the bottom of the seventh, UMBC put together one last rally with junior Ryan Sliwak (Wantagh, N.Y./Wantagh/Nassau CC) drawing a lead-off walk. Junior Robert Hopp (Catonsville, Md./Catonsville) then slapped the first pitch he saw down the left field line for a double, his first career hit, to send Sliwak racing around to third. After a strike out, Dolshun sent a fly to center to bring in Sliwak.
- Stony Brook now leads the all-time series 41-9.
- Dolshun reached base twice in the second game on dropped third strikes.
- Hopp was hitless in four previous career at-bats.
- McCabe is now batting .372 (16-for-43) in 16 career games against Stony Brook.


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Cora enjoying time as GM for Puerto Rican team
HERMOSILLO, Mexico -- For a good portion of his 14-year career, Alex Cora's future as a Major League coach or manager had been considered a foregone conclusion.
But he's really starting to like this whole general manager thing.
"This experience may have made me change my mind," said Cora, the former infielder who's serving as a first-year GM for Puerto Rico's Criollos de Caguas in the Caribbean Series.
"A lot of people saw me more on the field, either as a coach or as a manager or whatever. But honestly -- and it's not because I don't think it'll go well [as a coach] -- there's just something about putting together a team, about planning a roster from Day 1, and continuing to build it and watch it grow that I really like."
Cora said he's already been contacted by a couple of Major League organizations about serving in some coaching capacity, but has had to turn those opportunities down. That, however, has more to do with his 9-year-old daughter, Camila, whom he wants to spend the majority of the summer with in Puerto Rico.
Cora, who last played for the Nationals in 2011 and has spent several winters in the Puerto Rico Baseball League, will do 40 nights of TV work for ESPN's "Baseball Tonight" during the season, but that's a far more flexible schedule than any big league gig.
"For me, it's important to be with [Camila] for an entire summer," Cora said, "and that's why I still haven't been looking to sign a contract with anybody for any position."
Cora's Puerto Rico club dropped its first three games of this Caribbean Series, but beat a loaded Dominican Republic team in extra innings Monday and on Tuesday defeated Venezuela, 4-1, thanks to solid bullpen work and five combined hits by Jesus Feliciano and Ramon Castro. Venezuela and Puerto Rico are both 2-3, with two games left before Thursday's championship.
There's still work to be done in Puerto Rico, which hasn't put nearly as much resources into baseball as other Latin American nations in recent years. And Cora wants to be a big part of the efforts.
"We're not where we want to be, but I think we're better than we were two or three years ago," Cora said in Spanish. "I think the process is going to be slow. We need to keep structuring the [winter ball] league, and we have to find a way to make this work like it does in Mexico, the Dominican and Venezuela. We just have to keep working. We have a lot of young kids who got the opportunity to play this year, and that's going to give us something we can build on."


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This full-day AAA workshop (4-0325) at the Annual Meeting in Montreal on Friday, November 18, will thoroughly address both digital audio field recording options as well as best practices for digital preservation. AAA is pleased to sponsor this workshop by Andy Kolovos, the Vermont Folklife Center's archivist and staff folklorist. He's run this workshop at other venues and we're pleased he's able to share his knowledge and experience with anthropologists. Sign up for it today for only $10 when you register for the meeting or login and add it to your schedule if you are already registered for the meeting.
Here's the full description of the workshop:
This day-long workshop provides both a general introduction to digital audio field recording options for ethnographers, and an overview of digital preservation best practices to assist researchers with the preservation of their digital audio recordings—in the field and into the future.
The first half of the workshop focuses on digital audio and field recording. It includes an overview of audio recording technology and the nature of digital audio, a discussion of microphones and microphone technique suited to the field recording situations ethnographers commonly encounter, and presents information on current audio recorders, their applications and cost.
The second half the workshop is dedicated to discussions of digital preservation best practices for the short, medium and long-term preservation of field-generated audio recordings. We discuss the computer¹s role in interfacing with digital field recording equipment, examine a variety of hardware and software options, discuss and emphasize the formulation and implementation of a future technology plan for ethnographic digital audio research collections.
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US Airways seems to have an interesting take on what is and is not acceptable in-flight attire.
US Airways is defending its decision to allow a man wearing skimpy women's panties and high heels to fly days before a football player was arrested on a plane in California over a dispute over his saggy pants.
The "scantily clad" man flew on June 9 from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. to Phoenix and was photographed by a fellow passenger who gave the photo to the San Francisco Chronicle.
But perhaps the strangest part is that this event took place just six days before University of New Mexico football player Deshon Marman was arrested on a US Airways flight in San Francisco after "he refused to pull up his pants.
A US Airways spokeswoman told the Chronicle that they "were right not to ask the man on the Phoenix flight to cover himself but declined to comment on Marman's arrest." Interesting.


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The New Bern Lady Bears (3-8, 0-2) have had the same internal nemesis for most of the season � turnovers.
The New Bern Lady Bears (3-8, 0-2) have had the same internal nemesis for most of the season � turnovers.
The trend continued Friday as they gave it away 28 times in a 54-32 loss to South Central (7-7, 2-2).
Sophomore guard Teana Lewis came off the bench to lead New Bern in scoring with seven points, while Tomisha Davis added six points and 10 rebounds.
�We have worked a lot lately on running our offense correctly, but the girls are having a tough time with fundamentals and knowing when to play slow and when to speed up,� New Bern coach Joe Davis said. �We have to stop making such bad decisions with the ball and stop giving it away so much.�
The Lady Bears out-rebounded the Falcons 29-26 and forced 22 turnovers from the visitors.
South Central rode its defensive pressure and balanced scoring to victory.
Chrystall Jerome led the way with 12 points, Jazmin Barrett scored nine and Shanique Streeter and Kelly Stocks chipped in with six apiece.
�We had way too many turnovers tonight ourselves,� South Central coach Robert Duck said. �They played pretty good, physical defense on us and I thought we handled the ball pretty well, just made some bad, forced passes that we can�t make.�
The win moves the Falcons to 2-2 in the Eastern Carolina Conference and drops the Bears to 0-2 in league play.
New Bern will host intra-county rival Havelock Tuesday in a non-conference battle, whereas South Central is back in action Tuesday versus Southern Wayne.
South Central (54) � Chrystall Jerome 12, Jazmin Barrett 9, Kelly Stocks 6, Shanique Streeter 6, Deja George 5, Bianca Lockamy 4, Maiya McCoy 4, Lindsey McCallum 3, Tammy Huynh 2, Anyia Little 1.
New Bern (32) � Teana Lewis 7, Tomisha Davis 6, Breanna Coor 5, Lexi Smith 4, Sabrina Dupas 3, Taylor Niemotka 3, Keziah Capers 2, Shawna Courman 2.
Team Stats:
Rebounds: New Bern � 29 (Tomisha Davis 10), South Central � 26 (Shanique Streeter 7). Turnovers: New Bern � 28, South Central � 22. Free Throws: New Bern � 9/19 (47 percent), South Central 9/17 (53 percent).
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Glucose meter brands, company information and more
Glucose meter brands, companies and suppliers
ARKRAY USA produces a line of blood glucose meters, including the GLUCOCARD® 01 and GLUCOCARD® 01-mini. Learn more about ARKRAY USA glucose meters and their other diabetic supplies today.
FIFTY50 Medical donates half of its profits to diabetes research. The company makes the FIFTY50 Glucose Monitoring System 2.0 as well as other diabetes supplies like supply cases, testing strips and more. Learn about FIFTY50 Medical today.
Infopia USA makes diabetes supplies, including a range of blood glucose meters such as the Xpres, Element and Evolution. Keep reading for more company information about Infopia, their glucose meters and other diabetes supplies.
Nipro Diagnostics makes several glucose meters including the TRUE2go, TRUEtrack, Sidekick and more. The company also makes its own lancing pen, lancets, ketone test supplies and more. Keep reading for more information about Nipro Diagnostics, their meters and diabetes supplies.
Nova Biomedical makes the Nova Max Link and Nova Max Plus glucose meters. The Nova Max Plus meter can test ketone levels, while the Nova Max Link can work with insulin pumps. Learn more about the company and their blood glucose meters today.
Oak Tree Health produces a range of glucose meters both for private patient use, as well as for the long-term care and tele-health market. Meters include the EasyMax V, the EasyPlus V and more. Keep reading for more information about Oak Tree Health and its meters.
Omnis Health was founded in 2008 and produces the Embrace glucose meter. In addition to its glucose meter, Omnis Health also offers other diabetes supplies like control solutions, lancets and more. Keep reading for more information about Omnis Health and the Embrace meter.
Pharma Supply is behind the line of Advocate glucose meters, including the Advocate Redi-Code, the Advocate Redi-Code Duo and the Advocate Redi-Code Dash. Learn more about Pharma Supply and its products today.
ReliOn makes two glucose meters: the ReliOn Confirm and the ReliOn micro. Both of these meters have been rated highly by Consumer Reports. Learn more about the company and its blood glucose monitors today.
Roche founded its line of Accu-Chek diabetes products over 35 years ago. Today, they market two meters, the Accu-Chek Compact Plus and the Accu-Chek Aviva Plus. Learn more about Roche, its background and its glucose monitors today.
Simple Diagnostics sells products in over 72 countries worldwide, including a line of blood glucose monitors: the Clever Choice Auto-Code Pro, the Clever Choice Voice+ and the Clear Choice Auto-Code mini. Learn more about Simple Diagnostics and its meters today.
US Diagnostics produces and distributes a line of glucose meters including the ACURA and Control monitoring systems. Overall, the company offers five glucose monitors. Keep reading for additional company information as well as information about their various glucose meters.


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KG wrote:Pens4Life wrote:Zatkoff Engelland a regular 4th liner as winger?
He's looked good on the wing. Aggressive on the forecheck. I wasn't sure he was going to be able to keep up as a forward with his lack of speed. But his size and grit is something that we need up front. He's a great team guy...keep it going.
I really don't think Engo lacks speed. He's not the most manouverable but is easily faster than Adams or Glass in a straight line, and has not looked out of place next to speedster Vitale. Good size and grit, reliable defensively, but likely scratched when/if the team gets healthy as Adams and Glass have the PK.


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LAS VEGAS—Amid a plethora of pyrotechnics that helped Choice Hotels International mark its Diamond Jubilee and play off the theme of its 60th annual convention—another milestone—here at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, President/CEO Steve Joyce let a record-breaking crowd of close to 6,000 attendees know the global franchisor is ready to write "the next chapter in the incredible story that is Choice Hotels," pushing for greater growth, enhanced technology, better brand awareness and the culling of properties that aren't up to meeting the test of time.
Accompanied by decade-defining music that ran from the Andrews Sisters to Lady Gaga, the conference, themed "Ignite the Future," kicked off with a multimedia retrospective of world events paralleled against Choice's growth over 75 years. The company, which traces its roots back to 1939 when seven Southern motel owners created a marketing cooperative known as Quality Courts, is largely in its current form due to the efforts of the late Stuart Bainum Sr., considered the founder of Choice. Bainum, who died in February at 94, parlayed a Quality-branded hotel he bought in 1957 into several, later becoming a primary shareholder in the association as well as a long-time president/CEO, remaining involved throughout the years as the company morphed into Choice Hotels, represented by more than 6,300 properties and 500,000 rooms across 11 brands. In tribute, Joyce called for a moment of silence, telling attendees, "His vision and entrepreneurial spirit made it possible for thousands or families—your families—to fulfill the dream of running a successful hotel business. In many ways his story is your story."
New chapters for several of the brands are being written, in particular Cambria Suites, which is getting a new brand positioning, and Comfort, which is looking to further bolster its growth via a new-construction development incentive. The global lodging chain last year earmarked $40 million to improve the Comfort brand's 1,900 domestic properties, specifically those needing PIPs.
The most obvious change for Cambria Suites will be its name. The brand will now be known as Cambria Hotels & Suites to better define its offerings to a target market of medium-frequency business travelers and leisure travelers that hones in on Millennials and drives home its brand message: "Cambria Hotels & Suites: Where Everybody is Somebody" and allows for flexibility and choice.
According to Michael Murphy, SVP/Upscale Brands, this will provide guests the option of selecting a standard hotel room "that feels like an upgrade or an actual suite."
Accompanying the name change is a new logo done in a contemporary color palette of honey, gray and a spot of red.
The guest experience also is getting a phased refresh slated to include a music program for the lobby, which will feature an enhanced front desk and a focal point "gathering" bar, where Choice Privileges loyalty program members may redeem their newly acquired points for drinks. Also in the mix are technology upgrades in the guestroom, such as an effective solution for wirelessly streaming HD content to televisions, new uniforms—cost neutral to the current program— and enhanced training.
Choice expects to debut the new Cambria prototype during next month's NYU International Hospitality Investment Conference in New York.
With 23 hotels under construction within the Comfort brand, Choice's newly implemented development incentive that reduces fees totaling three years of royalty value on approved new-builds already has garnered two additional franchise agreements for Oklahoma City, OK, and Houston, TX.
Anne Smith, VP/Brand Strategy, noted many of the brand's franchisees have taken advantage of the company's $40 million incentive program designed to accelerate renovations and stressed the additional incentive would apply only for a limited time.
She added Comfort Suites, with some 600 properties, and Comfort Inns, with 1,300, also would be marketed from a Comfort-brand standpoint, leveraging the overall distribution strength of 1,900 properties to further attract a target market of midweek business travelers.
"When we show the two Comfort systems together, we can promise three times the locations (as opposed to just 600 Suites products) to business travelers—nearly 1,900 of them—in places they want to go," said Smith.
She also pledged Choice would continue to remove Comforts that do not meet brand and quality standards. "That's going to help us go aggressively after the business traveler," said Smith.
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Three major legal battles affecting creationists have been in the news lately.
Abortions could be funded under the massive health care plan recently passed by the U.S. Congress.
Evolutionists claim that children become less "monkey-like" as they age. Once again, data is interpreted based on worldviews.
The Intelligent Design movement fails to reference the God of the Bible and the Curse's impact on a once-perfect world.
That headline—and similar ones—appeared in sensationalist media accounts about the synthesis of a reproducing cell in a research lab.
Chomsky has resorted to outlandish, made-up statistics to attack the Christian faith and link it to extremists of the worst sort.
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Today's guest blog post is written by AAA member, John L. Jackson, Jr. John is a Richard Perry University Professor of Communication and Anthropology and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies for the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.
Oxford University Press has created a new and ambitious online project, Oxford Bibliographies, which attempts to provide scholars, students, and other interested readers with introductions to important topics and themes from many academic fields/disciplines. Anthropology's module was launched last month, and I have agreed to help edit that particular module. Oxford was able to put together a strong editorial board for the project, which included scholars from all four of American anthropology's major sub-fields: archaeology, linguistic anthropology, physical/biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. These nine scholars helped to select and vet the entries on various topics (including applied anthropology, cultural evolution, public archaeology, language ideology, globalization and many more). All in all, OB's Anthropology site contains 50 entries penned by scholars from across the country and the world, including Tobias Kelly on Legal Anthropology, Vernon J. Williams on Franz Boas, Jeremy Sabloff on public archaeology, Neni Panourgia on interpretive anthropology, Kudzo Gavua on ethnoarchaeology, John Trumper on ethnoscience, Judith Irvine on Language Ideology, and Christina Campbell on primatology (just to name a few).
Although I don't consider anthropology's four fields a "sacred bundle" never to be disassembled under any circumstances, I am intrigued by the idea of forcing myself to learn more about the four farthest corners of this sprawling and hubris-filled discipline that imagines itself to cut across the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Oxford's new initiative will allow anthropologists to think about how much we might really gain from conversations across the intradisciplinary domains that often divide us. Oxford's intervention will help us to see how physical anthropologists and cultural anthropologists might differently approach topics. For example, we can determine what kind of reviewer an urban anthropologist working in contemporary Latin America would make for a piece on "the histories of cities" crafted by an archaeologist. Or we can ask a physical anthropologist and a cultural anthropologist to pen two different entries for, say, "race" or "gender." I'm intrigued to see what (hopefully productive!) sparks might fly from such four-fielded contact, and I've already learned so much about those other anthropological spheres during the build-up to this year's launch. Check out the new site. 50 new entries will launch every January, and current entries will be revised and updated throughout the year.
Also, please feel free to let me know if there is a topic/entry you'd like to suggest and/or author.
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No matter how much attention is given to motion controller selection and programming, hydraulic system performance may be limited by incorrect sizing or physical location of components. A common design oversight is the use of undersized cylinders. Designers sometimes intend to increase piston rod speed by specifying a cylinder with a smaller bore — based on the assumption that for a given amount of oil flow, a smaller cylinder will produce quicker accelerations and higher velocities.
However, this only works for very light loads. For actuators moving moderate to heavy masses, acceleration, velocity, and deceleration are limited by the available force — not by oil flow. Because cylinder bore determines the force it can produce, if the bore is too small, the cylinder may be incapable of attaining the desired speeds or cycle times required by the application.
A real-world example
We were recently asked to diagnose problems with a system operating incorrectly. After obtaining specific application data, we performed a hydraulic system simulation. Our mathematical model suggested-that more force was necessary. The simulation was changed to evaluate cylinders with larger bores. The dramatic results, graphed in Figures 1 and 2, suggested replacing the existing 2-in. bore cylinders with 3¼-in. bore cylinders and replacing the hydraulic valves with appropriately larger ones.
Figure 1 shows how an undersized cylinder may not provide enough force to quickly decelerate a large load when extending. The cylinder cavitates (pressure goes to zero) on the cap end, and pressure on the rod end exceeds system pressure. The system is out of control because oil on the rod side is going back into the oil supply, thereby actually decreasing deceleration!
When the cylinder diameter is increased to 3¼-in., Figure 2, the piston rod accelerates the load at the same rate, but the pressure doesn't change as much because of the greater piston surface area. The cylinder pressures throughout the cycle are in the middle of the pressure range, with plenty of pressure drop across the piston to maintain positive control.
Increasing the cylinder bore increases the natural frequency (stiffness)of the system, allowing the motion controller to manage faster accelerations and decelerations, and yielding higher system performance when properly tuned. However, larger cylinders require larger valves and higher flow. Very large cylinders increase cost. And because large valves tend to be slower, at some point increasing valve size will no longer increase system response.
Force makes the system go
Force is directly related to cylinder size. Often, novice designers apply the familiar, but oversimplified, formula:
v = Q ÷ A,
where v is the piston velocity,
Q is the flow, and
A is the piston area.
But this equation is accurate only if the mass is zero. It should only be used to calculate flow: Q = v x A. The following "rule of thumb" formula takes into account the force needed to produce acceleration and the pressure drop required by servovalves for control. (Typically, servovalves are rated at 70 bar, approximately equal to 1000 psi.)
A = LP ÷ (PS — 1000 psi),
where LP is load pressure, and
PS is the system pressure.
This formula assumes that peak load occurs at peak speed. The peak load includes the force necessary to accelerate or decelerate the load, friction, and the load's weight if the system is vertical. Minimum system pressure should be used. This formula, which should be applied for both extend and retract directions, neglects the opposing force required to push oil out the opposite end of the cylinder. Therefore, the estimated size should be considered a minimum.
For high-performance motion, a second check should be made to ensure that the natural frequency of the system is higher than the frequency of motion generated by the motion profile. For example, if the frequency of acceleration is 5 Hz; the actuator's natural frequency should be three to four times higher:
Aavg = (f × 4)2× π × LS × WL ÷ (g × ß)
where Aavg is the average area of the piston,
f is the cycle frequency,
LS is the stroke length,
WL is the weight of the load,
g is the acceleration due to gravity (32 ft/sec2), and
is the bulk modulus (incompressibility constant) of oil (~200,000 psi).
This formula also tends to underestimate the correct cylinder bore because it makes some optimistic assumptions. The most significant is that the valve is mounted right on the cylinder. If this isn't the case, the cylinder stroke should be increased by about the length of the hose connecting the valve to the cylinder.
The area of the hose is smaller than that of the cylinder, but hose is more compliant than cylinder tubing. Hose or extra pipe between the valve and the cylinder complicate these calculations and reduce performance.
For the most critical applications, the VCCM equation, developed by Jack Johnson, takes into account additional variables and produces an excellent estimation of performance.
Peter Nachtwey is president of Delta Computer Systems Inc., Battle Ground, Wash. For additional technical information, e-mail him at [email protected] or visit www.deltamotion.com.


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There are sure to be fans of "Let the Right One In" who simply not will allow themselves to enjoy "Let Me In," insisting that it can't be as good as the original, and that's a shame, because this a very good film on its own terms. As a wise man once said, Don't compare, enjoy. Now available on Blu-ray and DVD, read our review and watch the trailer
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Amazon workers on strike in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Workers at one of Amazon.com's German distribution centers are on strike in a dispute over wages.
The ver.di union said Monday that workers at the American online retailer's logistics center in Leipzig were staging the short-term warning strike to try to get management to return to the negotiating table.
Ver.di says it may extend the action to other logistics centers, and is also threatening multiple-day strikes.
Amazon has offered Christmas bonuses to workers but the union says it also wants wage increases.
The union says Amazon workers receive lower pay than others in retail and mail-order jobs. Amazon says its distribution warehouses in Germany are logistics centers and employees already earn wages on the upper end of that industry.
Amazon has about 9,000 fulltime employees in Germany.
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