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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal mediator has finally been able to get the NHL and the players' association back together Saturday for their first face-to-face meeting since talks broke down two days earlier.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly went to union headquarters for what a players' association spokesman called a "small group meeting" with the sides and mediator Scot Beckenbaugh.
Beckenbaugh had already held separate meetings with the union and league Saturday before bringing them together.
Beckenbaugh spent more than 12 hours Friday walking back and forth between the Manhattan headquarters of each side — beginning at 10 a.m. EST and wrapping things up shortly before 11 p.m.
While Beckenbaugh never got the league and the union in the same room then, enough was accomplished to convince the sides to keep going.
"I'm looking forward to continuing the process," Daly wrote to The Associated Press in an email late Friday night.
Beckenbaugh began Saturday by holding a meeting with the union and then walked over to talk to NHL officials. He then made the trek back to the players' association for the group meeting shortly before 1 p.m.
With the hockey season hanging in the balance, Saturday could prove to be a pivotal day on all fronts. The sides have less than a week to reach a new collective bargaining agreement to save what would likely be a 48-game hockey season.
Beckenbaugh also took part in talks during the 2004-05 lockout, which forced the cancellation of the whole season.
The players' association will conclude a two-day vote among its members at 6 p.m. Saturday that will determine whether the union's executive board will again have the authority to declare a disclaimer of interest.
If the vote passes, as expected, the disclaimer can be issued, and the union would dissolve and become a trade association. That could send this fight to the courts and put the season in jeopardy. The disclaimer would allow players to file individual antitrust suits against the NHL.
Earlier this week, a self-imposed deadline expired on the first authorization that union members gave the board. The initial threat seemed to work in getting the NHL back to the bargaining table, but talks broke down Wednesday night after the deadline passed without action taken by the union.
Now the players want to regain the leverage the potential disclaimer gives them.
Bettman set a Jan. 11 deadline for a deal so the season can begin eight days later. A 48-game season is the minimum Bettman said the league would play.
All games through Jan. 14, along with the All-Star game, have been canceled, claiming more than 50 percent of the original schedule.
Trust has become a major impediment in the talks that appear to have been rescued to some extent by Beckenbaugh.
On Thursday morning, the sides solved a problem that arose regarding the reporting by clubs of hockey-related revenue, and how both sides sign off on the figures at the end of the fiscal year. The union felt the language had been changed without proper notification. That dispute was ended in about an hour, but clearly discord was present in the talks.
Another small meeting, the second of the day without union head Donald Fehr, addressed the pension plan. That one lasted just under two hours and marked the last time the sides met this week.
The players' association held a late Thursday afternoon conference call to initiate its second vote on the disclaimer of interest.
A sense of progress might be why the union didn't declare the disclaimer Wednesday, but any optimism created after the deadline passed has taken several hits since.
The NHLPA filed a motion in federal court in New York seeking to dismiss the league's suit to have the lockout declared legal. The NHL sued the union in mid-December, figuring the players were about to submit their own complaint against the league.
But the union argued that the NHL is using this suit "to force the players to remain in a union. Not only is it virtually unheard of for an employer to insist on the unionization of its employees, it is also directly contradicted by the rights guaranteed to employees under ... the National Labor Relations Act."
The court scheduled a status conference for the sides on Monday.
The sides have traded four proposals in the past week — two by each side — but none has gained enough traction. Getting an agreement on a pension plan would likely go a long way toward a deal that would put hockey back on the ice.
Fehr believed a plan for a players-funded pension was established before talks blew up in early December. That apparently wasn't the case, or the NHL changed its offer regarding the pension in exchange for agreeing to other things the union wanted.
The salary-cap number for the second year of the deal — the 2013-14 season — hasn't been agreed to, and is another major point of contention. The league is pushing for a $60 million cap, while the union wants it to be $65 million with a floor of $44 million.
In return for the higher cap, players would be willing to forgo a cap on escrow.
Other issues still needing resolution include the maximum length of player contracts, the yearly variance in salary of those individual deals, and how long the CBA should be in effect.
Both sides seem content on it lasting for 10 years, but they have different opinions on whether an opt-out should be allowed to be exercised after seven years or eight.
Last season, the NHL posted record revenues of $3.3 billion. The sides seem likely to agree on a 50-50 split of the pot in any new deal.
The NHL is the only North American professional sports league to cancel a season because of a labor dispute, losing the 2004-05 campaign to a lockout. A 48-game season was played in 1995 after a lockout stretched into January.
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Seattle Eastside Condo Sales Sailed Through July
More condos were for sale in July than any month so far this year, but condo sales were still strong.
Median pricing dropped a bit from June to $272,000. This does not reflect a drop in prices, but only that the median price of the condos sold in July was less than what sold in June.
We expect prices to continue to increase. As an example of what's still happening in the market, we just sold a condo in Redmond in less than 2 days for 10% above the asking price! Not all condos or homes, for that matter, are selling over full price because of the increase in inventory. Our listing was staged beautifully, professionally photographed, and priced realistically. It immediately caught the buyer's attention and the seller received a fabulous offer.
Condos were on the market for less than 45 days. It would have taken less than two months to sell all of the inventory available in July.
Since there still are a number of condo owners "under water" who are waiting for prices to increase even more, expect the market to remain strong, even if inventory increases. We still have a shortage of condos for sale when compared to the demand.
If you'd like more information about the condo market or your condo in particular, please feel free to contact us. We're here to help!
June Condo Sales on Seattle's Eastside Were Still Smoking!
Seattle Eastside Condo Real Estate is still terrific! Since so many of the available condos sold in June, like most months this year, it seems like it's impossible to get a condo. If you're are looking for a condo to buy, more are coming on the market each month, so there's a fresh supply available. You've just got to be quick as they sell so quickly. Condos are selling in just over a month! In June of 2012, it took 3 months to sell a condo. This is still a very fast paced market.
Median pricing jumped up to $280,000 in June and I hope we can cross the threshold to $300,000 for a median price in the near future. The good news is as the prices go up, more condos will come on the market as more sellers will be able to afford to sell. Higher prices are great for sellers, but not all bad for buyers, since it means more condos should come on the market.
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Seattle Eastside Condo Sales Were Booming in May
Looking for a condo in Seattle's Eastside cities of Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, etc? There are a few more choices, but they are going fast. If no other condos were to come up on the eastside, it would only take 1.4 months to sell all the available condos. Supply increased in May, but sales were also up. Condos on Seattle's Eastside are still hot! May condo sales were as as hot as April. In both April and May, 86% of all the available condos sold.
As I mentioned last month, condo owners suffered the most during the downturn, so we're pleased to see the market improve for them. We've had several sellers who have been waiting for a few years for values to increase to the point that they no longer are under water. Some of these sellers are now thinking about making a move!
Median pricing jumped up to $272,000 in May, which is exactly where we thought median pricing would be based on the huge amount of activity.
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Seattle Eastside Condo Sales Keep Popping!
Condos on Seattle's Eastside are still hot! There's been a negligible increase in supply, while the number of sales have increased. In April, 86% of the available condos sold, so the fantastic market continues for condo sellers. Since condo owners suffered the most during the downturn, it's great to see the market improve for them.
We're starting to push up to the higher $200+ price median price, so prices are creeping higher. We expect that to continue.
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The pregnant drug-dependent woman subjects her developing infant to a host of problems. When assessing the effects of drugs, especially illicit drugs, on newborn infants (neonates) and young children, two factors must be considered: (1) the duration and concentration of the drug exposure on the developing fetus, and (2) any preexisting medical complications in the mother. These factors are interactive and together will influence, in varying ways, the eventual capabilities of the child. Therefore, the long-term outcome of children exposed to drugs during fetal development should be assessed.
A pregnant drug-dependent woman puts her developing fetus at risk for a number of diseases, including hepatitis, ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS), tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). A number of these diseases may be acquired through needle sharing. Mothers who are infected with these diseases are likely to deliver prematurely.
In pregnant women who inject HEROIN, the placenta, for example, shows microscopic evidence of oxygen deprivation. The infants are small for their gestational age, with all their organs affected. In heroin-dependent women, a significant portion of the medical complications seen in their newborns is due to prematurity and low birthweight. Such complications include immature lungs, difficulties in breathing at birth, brain hemorrhage, low sugar and calcium levels, infections, and jaundice.
Women on METHADONE MAINTENANCE (an oral NARCOTIC used for the treatment of heroin addiction) are likely to give birth to normal- or almost normal-sized babies. Because they are in treatment, the complications in their infants are not as severe and generally reflect: (1) the amount of prenatal care the mother has received; (2) whether the mother has suffered any complications, including hypertension or infection; and (3) most importantly, any multiple drug use that may have produced an unstable intrauterine environment for the fetus, perhaps complicated by WITHDRAWALS and/or OVERDOSE.
Multiple drug use may cause a series of withdrawals, when the pregnant woman cannot obtain the drug she needs. This series of extreme physical conditions in the pregnant woman can severely affect the oxygen and nutrients that feed the developing fetus, causing various birth defects, depending on when in each trimester the withdrawals occur. If the mother overdoses, a decreased oxygen supply to the fetus can cause aspiration pneumoniaf the mother survives the overdose to give birth.
Laboratory and animal studies have shown that narcotics (OPIOIDS) may have an inhibitory effect on enzymes that influence oxygen metabolism. They also alter the passage of oxygen and nutrients to the fetus by constricting the umbilical vessels and decreasing the amount of oxygen delivered to the developing fetal brain. Such metabolic side effects may cause a derangement in the acid/base balance (acidosis). In contrast, increased maturation of organ systems and certain enzymes have been seen in heroin-exposed infants, including maturation of the lungs, tissue-oxygen unloading, sweat glands, and liver enzymes. The stressful life of the pregnant woman probably contributes to this enhanced maturation in heroin-exposed infants.
The genetic risks to the offspring of addicts on heroin and methadone include an increase in the frequency of chromosome abnormalities; infants exposed predominantly to methadone in utero do not. The adverse environmental factors that may contribute to the abnormal findings in heroin-exposed infants may be less prominent in methadone mothers, since drug addiction is compounded by poor maternal nutrition, extreme STRESS, infectious disease, and a lack of early and consistent prenatal care. However, in the absence of specific clinical abnormalities, it is impossible to isolate either methadone or heroin as agents linked to GENETIC damage.
Given the obstetrical and medical complications, the lack of prenatal care, and the prematurity of the infants at delivery, it is not surprising that the death rate for ADDICTED BABIES is higher than for infants born to nonaddicts.
This syndrome is described as a generalized disorder, characterized by signs and symptoms of central nervous system hyperirritability, gastrointestinal dysfunction, respiratory distress, and autonomic nervous system symptoms that include yawning, sneezing, mottling, and fever. At birth, these infants develop tremorous movements, which progress in severity. High-pitched crying, increased muscle tone, irritability, and exaggerated infant reflexes are common. Sucking of fists or thumbs is common, yet when feedings are administered, the infants have extreme difficulty and regurgitate frequentlyecause of an uncoordinated and ineffectual sucking reflex. The infants may develop loose stools and are therefore susceptible to dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. At birth, the blood levels of the drug(s) used by the mother begin to fall, so the newborn continues to metabolize and excrete the drug, and withdrawal signs occur when critically low levels have been reached.
Whether born to heroin-addicted or methadone-dependent women, most infants seem physically and behaviorally normal. The onset of their withdrawal may begin shortly after birth to two weeks of age, but most develop symptoms within seventy-two hours of birth. If the mother has been on heroin alone, 80 percent of the infants will develop clinical signs of withdrawal between four and twenty-four hours of age. If the mother has been on methadone alone, the baby's symptoms usually appear by forty-eight to seventy-two hours.
In summary, various studies have shown that the time of onset of withdrawal in the individual infant will depend on: the type and amount of drug used by the mother; the timing of her dose before delivery; the character of her labor; the type and amount of anesthesia and pain medication given during labor; and the maturity, nutrition, and presence or absence of systemic diseases in the infant.
Studies indicate that more full-term infants require treatment for withdrawal than do preterm infants. Withdrawal severity appears to correlate with gestational age; less mature infants show fewer symptoms. Decreased symptoms in preterm infants may be due to either (1) developmental immaturity of the preterm nervous system, or (2) reduced total drug exposure because of short gestations.
The most severe withdrawal occurs in infants whose mothers have taken large amounts of drugs for a long time. Usually, the closer to delivery a mother takes heroin, the greater the delay in the onset of withdrawal and the more severe the symptoms in her baby. The duration of symptoms may be anywhere from six days to eight weeks. The maturity of the infant's own metabolic and excretory mechanisms plays an important role. Although the infants are discharged from the hospital after drug therapy is stopped, some symptoms such as irritability, poor feeding, inability to sleep regularly, and sweating may persist for three to four months.
Not all infants born to drug-dependent mothers show withdrawal symptoms, but investigators have reported that between 60 and 90 percent of infants do show symptoms. Since biochemical and physiological processes governing withdrawal are still not fully understood, and since multiple drugs are often used by the mothers in an erratic fashionith vague or inaccurate maternal histories providedt is not surprising to find varying descriptions and experiences in reports from different centers. Seizures, a severe outcome in withdrawing infants, are rare in narcotic-exposed infants. One report found that 5.9 percent of 302 newborns exposed to narcotics during pregnancy had seizures that were attributed to withdrawal. Other reports found even rarer occurrences of seizures.
Drug-exposed infants show an uncoordinated and ineffectual sucking reflex as a major manifestation of withdrawal. Regurgitation, projectile vomiting, and loose stools may complicate the illness further. Dehydration, due to poor intake and coupled with excessive losses from the gastrointestinal tract, may occur, causing malnutrition, weight loss, subsequent electrolyte imbalance, shock, coma, and death. Neonatal withdrawal carries a risk of neonatal death when these complications are untreated. The infant's respiratory system is also affected during withdrawal: excessive secretions, nasal stuffiness, and rapid respirations are sometime accompanied by difficulty breathing, blue fingertips and lips, and cessation of breathing. Severe respiratory distress occurs most often when the infant regurgitates, aspirates, and develops aspiration pneumonia.
The increased sensitivity to recognition, the accuracy of clinical and laboratory diagnosis, and treatment have essentially eliminated neonatal mortality attributed to withdrawal per se.
With proper management, the neonate's prognosis for recovery from the acute phase of withdrawal is good. If symptoms of withdrawal appear, simple nonspecific measures should be instituted, such as gentle, infrequent handling, swaddling, and demand feeding. Careful attention to fluid-electrolyte balance and calorie support is essential in opioid-exposed infants undergoing withdrawal, since they display uncoordinated sucking, feed poorly, often develop vomiting and diarrhea, and have increased water losses due to rapid respirations and sweating.
Indications for specific treatment, dosage schedules, and duration of treatment courses have varied widely. As a general guide, if, in spite of nonspecific measures, babies have difficulty feeding, diarrhea, marked tremors, irritability even when undisturbed, or cry continuously, they should be given medication to relieve discomfort and prevent dehydration and other complications. The dosages must be carefully regulated so that symptoms are minimized without excessive sedation. Several drugs appear to be effective in treating neonatal narcotic withdrawal, but there has been little controlled comparison of their safety and effectiveness. Drugs such as PAREGORIC or tincture of OPIUM are effective in treating narcotic withdrawal symptoms in the infant, and PHENOBARBITAL is useful, but less so when opioid exposure has occurred in high doses.
The Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale has been used extensively for evaluating newborn behavior. This instrument assesses reaction to stimuli such as a light or a bell, responsivity to animate and inanimate stimuli (face, voice, bell, rattle), state (sleep to alertness to crying), the requirements of state change (such as irritability and consolability), and neurological and motor development. When using this scale in evaluating drug-exposed infants, it was noted that they were less able than nondrug-exposed infants to be maintained in an alert state and less able to orient to auditory and visual stimuli, most pronounced at forty-eight hours of age. Drug-exposed infants were as capable of self-quieting and responding to soothing intervention as normal neonates, although they were substantially more irritable. These findings have important implications for caregivers's perceptions of infants and thus may have long-term impact on the development of infant-caregiver interaction patterns.
Abnormalities in the interaction of drug-dependent mothers and their infants, on measures of social engagement, have been shown. Abnormal interaction was explained by less positive maternal attachment, as well as difficult infant behavior, which impedes social involvement. Many of these interactive abnormalities reverted to normal by four months of age, but the need for "parenting training" is obvious.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is defined as the sudden and unexpected death of an infant between one week and one year of age, whose death remains unexplained after a complete autopsy examination, full history, and a death-site investigation. Compared to an incidence of approximately 1.5 per 1,000 live births in the general population, narcotic-exposed infants appear to have an increased risk of SIDS. Other high-risk factors for SIDS, such as low socioeconomic status, low birth-weight, young maternal age, black racial category, and maternal smoking are all overrepresented in the drug-using groups that are studied. In a most extensive study, New York City SIDS rates were calculated in 1.2 million births from 1979 to 1989. Maternal opiate use, after control for high-risk variables, increased the risk of SIDS by three to four times that of the general population.
Despite the fact that a drug-exposed newborn may seem free of physical, behavioral, or neurological deficits at the time of birth, the effects of pharmacological agents (used or abused) may not become apparent for many months or years. Although heroin abuse during pregnancy has been recognized for more than forty years, and methadone treatment has been employed for more than twenty years, follow-up of opioid-exposed infants is still fragmentary. The difficulties encountered in long-term follow-up of this population include an inability to fully document a mother's drug intake, separation of the drug effects from high-risk obstetric variables, problems in maintaining a cohesive group of infants for study, and the need to separate drug effects from those of parenting and the home environment.
The easiest part of caring for the neonate is actually over when drug therapy has been discontinued and the infant is physically well. The most difficult parts then beginhe care involved in discharge planning and assuring optimal growth and development throughout infancy and childhood. Because there is no standard for the disposition of these infants, some may be released to their mothers, some to relatives, and others placed in the custody of a state agency. Still others may be voluntarily released by the mother to private agencies for temporary or permanent placement.
In the United States, pressure recommending separation of infants from their addicted mothers has been growing. This solution may not be practical in cities where social services and courts are already understaffed and overworked. Decent foster care is expensive and hard to find. Pediatricians basically feel that the mother-infant association should not be dissolved except in extreme situations. Aside from intensive drug rehabilitation and medical treatment, these women need extensive educational and job trainingo become the productive citizens and loving mothers who will positively socialize their children. Supportive therapies such as outpatient care or residential treatment may help eliminate some of the medical and social problems experienced by drug-dependent women and their children.
Most of the children evaluated for long-term development have been exposed to methadone. Evaluations have occurred at various intervalst six, twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months; then at three, four, and five years of age. Testing procedures utilized have been the Gesell Developmental Schedule, the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, the McCarthy Scales of Infant Abilities, and the Stanford-Binet and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. Infants have shown overall developmental scores in the normal range but a decrease in scores at about two years of agehich suggests that environment may confound long-term infant outcome: low socioeconomic groups suffer from this factor particularly, because of poor language stimulation and development.
The developmental scores in these early years, although useful in identifying areas of strength and weakness, may not predict subsequent intellectual achievement. More and more studies have proposed multiple-factor models to assess infant outcome following intrauterine drug exposure. One such postnatal influence involves maternal-infant interaction. Drug-exposed infants are often irritable, have decreased rhythmic movements, and may display increased muscle tone (tensing) when handled. Such behaviors may be interpreted by the mother as "rejecting" behavior, leading to inappropriate maternal caretaking and possible neglect of the infant. Studies of mothernfant interactions show that: (1) infants born to narcotic-addicted women show deficient social responsiveness after birth; (2) this deficient mothernfant interaction persists until the infants' treatment for withdrawal is completed; and (3) maternal drug dosage may affect that interaction.
Based on available data, at five years of age, children born to women maintained on methadone, in contrast to heroin-exposed babies, appear to function within the normal range of their mental development. In addition, no differences in language and perceptual skills were observed between them and children of mothers not involved with drugs and of comparable backgrounds. Difficulty in following large cohorts of drug-exposed infants has led to the study of very limited samples, however.
Positive and reinforcing environmental influences can significantly improve drug-exposed infant development. Women who show a caring concern for their infants are most likely to pursue follow-up pediatric care and cooperate in neurobehavioral follow-up studies. Lacking a large data base, there is an obvious need for comprehensive studies assessing the development of large populations of drug-exposed infants.
The effects of maternal medical and obstetrical complications seen in opioid-exposed infants are similar to those of COCAINE exposurelthough cocaine is a stimulant, not a depressant drug (like the opioids). The infants are frequently small in weight, length, and head circumference as a result of preterm birth and/or retardation of fetal growth. The effects of blood-vessel constriction, a characteristic pharmacologic effect of cocaine, is one of the main reasons for adverse effectsince it results in lack of oxygen and nutrients to the fetus. This predisposes the infant to growth problems, brain hemorrhage, abnormal organ development, and crib death.
The many studies on cocaine effects in the newborn need further clarification because of inadequate sample size, research methodology, and actual drug intake; these include studies that have evaluated brain hemorrhage, structural abnormalities, crib death, and long-term development. Although cocaine-exposed infants have been reported to have some irritability and perform poorly on neurobehavioral tests in the first few days of life, no evidence shows that they have a withdrawal syndrome as described previously in infants exposed to opioids. The symptoms have been related to a cocaine toxicity reaction rather than to a withdrawal syndrome. Infants with opioid and cocaine exposure, as compared to opioid exposure alone, have had milder symptoms. This may be a result of interactions between the depressant and stimulant properties of these drugs. No treatment has been found necessary to alleviate the symptoms of infants exposed to cocaine, whereas opioid-exposed infants may need treatment in about 40 to 50 percent of cases.
Although a number of reports in medical literature have described babies who have structural abnormalities related to cocaine exposure, an equal number of studies have found no increased incidence of abnormalities. The abnormalities reported have been those of the urinary tract, intestines, and extremitiesll of which are related to the vascular disruption caused by cocaine's ability to constrict blood vessels. The most recent review of the clinical studies describing abnormalities in cocaine-exposed infants shows a very low incidence of occurrence.
Studies evaluating cocaine's effects on the occurrence of SIDS (crib death) have shown diverse results. Although inadequate methodologies and small numbers have accounted for these differences, cocaine-exposed infants have also experienced most of the factors that predispose any child to SIDS. These include low birthweight, POVERTY, neonatal complications, minority ethnicity, low maternal age, and maternal cigarette smoking. When these factors are controlled in the research, cocaine exposure accounts for only a very modest increase in the rate of SIDS.
As with all drugs of abuse, cocaine has properties that permit it to be transmitted through the breast milk. Since a significant portion of drug-using women in the United States may be HIV-positive, until the role of breast feeding in HIV transmission is clarified, breast feeding should be discouraged.
Recent reports indicate that cocaine exposure may even occur in young infants after they leave the hospital. The evidence for the postulated route of cocaine toxicity (passive inhalation of smoked cocainecrack") is circumstantial, and the range of occurrences in reported series is 2 to 4 percent. Symptoms involve abnormal neurologic findings, including seizures, drowsiness, and unsteady gait.
Much concern has been voiced regarding the ultimate neurobehavioral outcome of infants following intrauterine exposure to cocaine. Based on multiple-risk factors, it appears reasonable to voice these concerns. Commonly, the parents may be of poor socioeconomic status and culturally deprived. The mother may be poorly nourished, may carry medical and sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS, and may receive little or no prenatal care. After birth, neurologic and neurobehavioral abnormalities may be present in the infant. Stimulation for intellectual growth may be lacking because of prolonged hospital stays, infrequent and inappropriate parental contact, placement in a group-care facility, or discharge to a home in which intellectual nurturing is lacking.
Follow-up studies of large numbers of cocaine-exposed babies are lacking as of the early 1990s. The lay press has reported anecdotal experiences with the first cohort of three- to five-year-old children born of the crack epidemic. Such cocaine-exposed babies have been characterized as showing significant deficits in environmental interactions during play groups and in nursery schools. These babies have also been described as showing less representational play, decreased fantasy play and curious exploration, and lesser quality of play. Others have described these children as "joyless"nable to fully participate in either structured or unstructured situations, with attention deficits and flat apathetic moods. Developmental evaluations show, however, that the majority of children who were exposed to cocaine in utero and who now have stable environments score in the normal range.
Prenatal exposure to smoking has been linked with a number of impairments to the fetus, including impairments to memory, learning, cognition, and perception. Such impairments may result from chronic fetal hypoxia, a loss of oxygen to the cells that may impair normal development of the central nervous system. Maternal smoking during pregnancy also affects the respiratory system of a fetus, and newborns of smokers tend to have reductions in expiratory flows. It may also alter the developing lung and result in respiratory illness in the infant.
Low birth weight is another factor commonly associated with prenatal exposure to smoking, and even passive smokinghat is, from the father or another person in the vicinity of the mothereems to affect an infant's weight. Some studies have shown an average decrease in birth weight of about 200 grams in newborns whose mothers smoked throughout pregnancy. The risk of a low-birth-weight infant has also been estimated to be two to four times greater for mothers who smoke. In general, women who stop smoking in pregnancy prevent the full effects of low birth weight associated with smoking, and studies have shown that the earlier a woman stops smoking during pregnancy, the lower the risk of a low-birth-weight baby. An infant's birth weight also appears to be "dose dependent," with heavy smokers being at the greatest risk for low-birth-weight babies.
Behavioral studies have also been conducted with children exposed to prenatal smoking. Some research has also shown that a child whose mother smoked during pregnancy is at increased risk of becoming a smoker. Because smoking activates neurotransmitters in the brain, including dopamine, which is involved in reinforcing the effects of addictive drugs, researchers have speculated that nicotine may have an effect on the developing dopamine system of the fetus and put the child at greater risk of addictive behavior in later life.
Prenatal exposure to cigarette smoking may affect a growing fetus in several ways. Carbon monoxide and high doses of nicotine obtained during inhalation of tobacco smoke can interfere with the oxygen supply to the fetus. Nicotine readily crosses the placenta, and it likely causes vasoconstriction of the umbilical arteries and impedes placental blood flow. Carbon monoxide can bind with hemoglobin to reduce the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen. These factors, combined, likely account for the developmental delays commonly seen in the fetuses and infants of smoking mothers.
One of the most striking risks associated with prenatal smoking is that of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). A higher mortality rate exists for infants whose mothers have smoked compared to those who have not. Maternal smoking during pregnancy has also been cited as a major risk factor in almost every epidemiologic study of SIDS. The risk of sudden infant death syndrome is greater among infants exposed to both prenatal and post-natal smoking compared to those only exposed to postnatal smoking. The increase in SIDS risk also appears to be related to the "dose" of passive-smoke exposurehe greater the exposure to smoke both before and after birth, the higher the risk of SIDS. The link between cigarette-smoke exposure and SIDS is not fully understood.
(SEE ALSO: ; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Pregnancy and Drug Dependence: Opioids)
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GRIESLER, P. C., KANDEL, D. B., DAVIES, M. (1998). Maternal smoking in pregnancy, child behavior problems, and adolescent smoking. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 8, 159-185.
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MAC DORMAN, M. F., CNATTINGIUS, S., HOFFMAN, H. J., KRAMER, M. S., HAGLUND, B. (1997). Sudden infant death syndrome and smoking in the United States and Sweden. American Journal of Epidemiology, 146, 249-257.
MAKIN, J.; FRIED, P. A.; WATKINSON, B. (1991). A comparison of active and passive smoking during pregnancy: Long-term effects. Neurotoxicology & Teratology, 13, 5-12.
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January 14, 1912. In between their superlative performance to overcome the Australians at Adelaide, the England players fought a bushfire to save the residence of the Governor-General of South Australia. Arunabha Sengupta revisits the brilliance of Jack Hobbs, Frank Foster and Sydney Barnes on the field and the bravery of the English cricketers off it.
It was an unequal battle, between indomitable spirit and demoralised infighting.
The Englishmen battled the Australians, soaring temperatures and wild bushfire and ended in the highest spirits, coming from behind to go one up in the series.
As for the home side, it was a sorry tale of bitter brawls with the administrators that hurtled towards the first major showdown between the Board and players.
Mercury Rising
The intense heat was beginning to take its toll. "The weather was very hot and dry, without a breath of wind," recalled Jack Hobbs.
During the first day of the Adelaide game, one spectator actually died from heat exhaustion. The heatwave was licking the southern parts of Australia with an angry scorching tongue. Even hardened farmers were suffering from sunstroke. Iron foundries had to be closed down because tools were too hot for workers to use. "Some of us will be reduced to grease sports," a train driver voiced his apprehensions to the England team. The grounds had been turned to steaming cauldrons.
And as the mercury shot up, the highest echelons of Australian cricket that had simmered in unrest for long now started boiling furiously. The appointment of a secretary for the 1912 England tour by the Board was severely opposed by captain Clem Hill and others. This significantly included star batsman Victor Trumper and the all-rounder Warwick Armstrong. In fact everyone other than Warren Bardsley was against the decision.
There were other problems as well. While practicing for the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia, Charlie Macartney was hit on the head by a net pole. Hill dispatched a telegram to fellow selectors Peter McAlister and Francis Iredale, located in Melbourne and Sydney respectively, that he was not sure about Macartney's fitness. He added that he would take a call on the New South Welshman on the day before the Test match and since players of the calibre and experience of Armstrong and Trumper were with him, they could help him to select the final team.
McAlister, a rather mediocre player of eight Tests for the country, was not at all keen to give up his authority. He replied to Hill curtly, negating his request and stressing that Iredale and he would make the decision.
On the day before the Test, Macartney declared that he was better. Hill pressed for leg-spinner Jimmy Matthews as well — the man who would script history half a year down the line with hat-tricks in each innings at Manchester. The skipper insisted on dropping Bill Whitty and Roy Minnett to make way for the two. However, McAlister was emphatic about Minnett's inclusion. He cabled back: "My team forwarded yesterday. Still oppose Macartney's inclusion … if Iredale agrees with you favour yourself standing down not Minnett."
This caused a huge uproar. At that point of time, Hill was the highest run-getter in Test cricket, with 3,253 to his credit at 40.16. Minnett had played just two Tests, both in the current series, totalling 143 runs in the four outings. The very suggestion of dropping the captain and the most seasoned man in the line-up for an unproved rookie was ridiculous to say the least, especially for this all-important Test match with the Ashes hanging 1-1 in balance. The South Australian Register did not mince their words in reporting, "Older men scorned the suggestion of Mr McAlister and the younger generation were no less indignant."
In the end, Macartney was benched and Matthews and Minnett played. Using his characteristically sparse prose, Macartney later wrote in his autobiography, "persistent ill-feeling seriously affected the morale of the side."
The abject collapse
The only thing that worked for Hill was his luck with the coin. Australia batted first on a perfect wicket. However, by this time of the series Frank Foster and Sydney Barnes were rumbling like thunder even before the action commenced on the field. Foster, with his left armed menace made balls rise threateningly from the wicket. He removed Charles Kelleway early. Barnes soon got Bardsley caught at the wicket. The advantage of the toss had been negated within 17 minutes.
'Ranji' Hordern, who had batted with pluck in both the innings at Melbourne, was sent in at one drop to coast on his new found batting form. And he gave a fairly good account of himself yet again. But, the Australians hardly had an answer to Foster's leg theory. With four short legs, and men at mid-on and long leg, Foster kept just three men on the off-side and bowled at the middle and leg stumps, making the balls swing into the batsmen at an extremely brisk pace.
Vernon Ransford was struck on his finger and had to retire. Armstrong and Trumper settled down, only to lose their stumps to Foster and Bill Hitch respectively. Captain Hill, with plenty of other things on his mind, batted at number seven, and lasted just two balls. Tiger Smith, courageously standing up to Foster's bowling, whipped off his bails as he played forward.
Foster, whose initial spell read 11-6-8-1, finished with five for 36, with the wickets of Hordern, Hill and Minnett coming off just seven balls. Australia, on the best of batting tracks, collapsed to 133.
The googly has been conquered
In walked Hobbs, having set out from Melbourne on one of the most sublime spells of run making in his extraordinary career. Along with him came in Wilfred Rhodes, the one who had won England the famed Oval Test of 1902 by coming in at No 11. During the past nine and a half years, the willow of the Yorkshire left-arm spinner had taken the dimensions of a barn door.
They batted well into the second morning, and by the time Rhodes was out leg-before to Cotter, England had the lead. In the meantime, Hobbs was busy reducing Hill to despair. His superb timing through the off-side prompted the Australian captain to place a man deep and square on the off-side, cutting off the square drives and cuts. Hobbs kept placing his strokes to either side of the man, running easy twos. George Gunn departed at 206, young Jack Hearne at 260. But Hobbs did not look like making a mistake all through. After his second chanceless hundred on the trot, the master from Surrey opened up with a flurry of boundaries.
However, what the bowlers and fielders could not achieve was ultimately made possible by the intense heat. With the temperature reaching a staggering 109 degree Fahrenheit in the shade, Hobbs felt the strain. During his last hour at the wicket he gave three chances, and all of them went down. Finally Hordern, the googly bowler he had mastered by this stage of the tour, got under a catch off Minnett's occasional medium pace and held on as if his life depended on it. Hobbs walked back after five and a half hours of batting for 187. "I was so very tired that I was not at all sorry to get out," he confessed in his autobiography.
The Manchester Guardian was ecstatic the following day. "The story of yesterday's play practically surrounds Jack Hobbs. It is very evident from the scoring done by the England team in the last two matches that the terrorising 'googly' has been fathomed… The Surrey man batted magnificently and his work received unstinted applause from the Adelaide crowd."
The score was 323 for four when Hobbs walked back, and stumps were drawn four runs later. The following morning, the visitors were in no mood to vacate the crease for the Australians. Foster now set out to prove once again that his skills were not limited to terrorising batsmen with left-arm pace. He patiently stroked his way to 71. Phil Mead and captain Johnny Douglas joined the fun. Frank Woolley and Tiger Smith did not want to miss out as well. In the end England totalled 501.
Faced with this mammoth 368-run deficit, the Australian openers put their heads down. Towards the very end of the day, Douglas got one past Kelleway, and the hosts finished at 96 for one.
Saving the other Bosanquet
On the rest day, it was a high spirited England team that started out to keep their lunch appointment with the Governor General of South Australia. The temperature had remained at a scorching high, and the team headed for the Government house in their convoy of motor cars.
There might have been some light hearted words at the expense of their host, especially given that Sir Day Bosanquet shared his last name with the originator of the googly — a form of bowling that Hobbs had been reported to have mastered.
However, as the cars approached the house, the players noticed dense clouds of thick smoke. Once the vehicles had been parked, they witnessed a bush fire raging nearby, approaching the Governor-General's house menacingly. The dry branches in the trees crackled and flames flickered, advancing towards where they stood. Some of the cricketers drove back as fast as possible towards central Adelaide. However, the remaining — led by Hobbs the centurion — set out towards the flames on foot.
"Shielding our faces with our arms, we dashed along the narrow road and cut through a forest. Flames were bursting out on either side, and the smoke was blinding and suffocating. Dead chickens lay in the road, scorched to death. Many of the trees were pillars of flaming fire."
The England cricketers made through the blazing hell and reached the furnace like house. Admiral Bosanquet and his staff were already fighting to save the building. The windows and parts of the house were on fire. The players joined in, rushing to the fore. With the help of the extra hands, buckets of water made their way to the smouldering parts. The fire was brought under control and finally defeated. "We had earned our lunch," Hobbs wrote later.
And now the turn of Australia
After their triumph over the Australian nature, the players had to deal with the obstinacy of the country's cricketers. Bardsley made a polished 63, wicketkeeper Harry Carter, sent in as night watchman, got 72. Hill demonstrated his greatness by overcoming the enormous pressure of the deficit and the differences with the Board to score a classy 98.
Yet Barnes, with his wonderfully steady and persevering line, got rid of the captain and then removed Minnett and Hordern before the innings defeat was averted. And then Matthews, who had soldiered manfully with the ball without a wicket to show for his efforts, notched up a defiant half century. By the time Barnes had bowled the debutant leg-spinner and Cotter in quick succession to end the innings, the total had reached 476.
Setting out to get 109 to win, Hobbs was out leg-before to Hordern for three. However, Rhodes and Gunn put on 97 and England cruised to a seven-wicket victory.
The Australian team, however, were plagued by far more weighty issues to engage in introspection. On the last day of the Test, Hill, Armstrong, Trumper, Carter, Cotter and Ransford drafted a letter that to the Board. The missive categorically stated that they would not tour England unless the Board obeyed its own constitution, allowing players to manage their own finances.
England were on a roll, 2-1 up in the series. On the other hand, the Australian infighting would soon come down to the level of literal fisticuffs.
Brief scores:
Australia 133 (Frank Foster 5 for 36) and 476 (Warren Bardsley 63, Harry Carter 72, Clem Hill 98, Jimmy Matthews 53; Sydney Barnes 5 for 105) lost to England 501 (Jack Hobbs 187, Wilfred Rhodes 59, Phil Mead 46, Frank Foster 71; Tibby Cotter 4 for 125) and 112 for 3 (Wilfred Rhodes 57*, George Gunn 45) by 7 wickets.
(Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket historian and Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry. He writes about the history and the romance of the game, punctuated often by opinions about modern day cricket, while his post-graduate degree in statistics peeps through in occasional analytical pieces. The author of three novels, he can be followed on Twitter at http://twiter.com/senantix)
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Every year around this time, a silent menace threatens the region's transit system. Falling leaves. Already this season, slippery rail conditions caused by leaves have delayed Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road trains more than 700 times. On the subway, the B and Q trains have been held up regularly as they go aboveground through Brooklyn's leafier precincts. How can fluttering foliage bring down a mighty rail network? The culprit is pectin, the same stuff that causes jelly to jell. It's in leaves. When trains run over wet leaves, "it actually creates a slurry," said John Kesich, a vice president at Metro-North. Because trains on slippery rails are harder to slow down, the railroads dial down speed limits and order drivers to start braking earlier. Hence the delays, which average 10 minutes. Metro-North power washes most of its track each night. But the leaves return.
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Bus driver learning American Sign Language to better serve deaf riders
Posted by Harry - Nov 18 2013 10:21 AM
Bus driver Edwin Cora welcomes riders with simple greetings. "How are you feeling today?" he asks a female rider getting on the Q44 Thursday morning in Queens. "How are you doing, brother?" he says to a young man who boards next. Occasionally, however, the veteran bus driver talks with his hands. Cora, for example, might make two fists, press both sets of door-knock knuckles together, rotate them slightly in opposite directions, and then extend his right pointer finger forward at a rider — American Sign Language for "How are you?" Inspired by a few frustrating encounters with deaf riders who needed help, Cora decided to learn ASL to communicate with members of the deaf community. "They are always surprised to see a bus driver who knows how to sign even a little bit," Cora, 55, said. "They get very happy. They get very excited, and the other passengers, who watch us, are flabbergasted."
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'We're going down': Southwest Airlines pilot's in-flight message reportedly causes panic
Posted by Harry - Nov 15 2013 09:16 AM
Thousands of feet above the ground, the passengers onboard Southwest Airlines Flight 3426 scrambled to text their loved ones when a pilot came onto the public intercom and allegedly stated, "We're going down." The announcement came as the Boeing 737 carrying 96 passengers and five crew members from Tampa Bay prepared to land at Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. Southwest Airlines later told the Daily News that the pilot was alerting flight attendants to a "pressurization issue" that required an "unplanned but controlled descent to a lower altitude." But passenger Grace Stroud said she spent 10 entire minutes "100% convinced" that she was going to die. "I heard what sounded like static," Stroud told The News from her home in Raleigh, N.C. "Then two quick, shrill sounds shot through and a few seconds later we heard the captain say, 'We're in trouble, we're going down.'"
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MTA To Offer Holiday Season Nostalgia Train & Bus Rides
Posted by Fresh Pond - Nov 14 2013 02:13 PM
The holiday season is here again and you know what that means. It's time for New York City Transit to dust off the vintage equipment and roll out the historic buses and subway cars that served as the foundation for the largest mass transit system in North America. The 's subways and buses are the most efficient and economical ways of getting around the City, but if you're looking for another great reason to ride the train on Sundays in December, try this: take a trip back into time onboard the 1930s-era Nostalgia Special, which will run along the Line between Long Island City, Queens and Lower Manhattan during the first four Sundays in December. "For the first four Sundays, subway riders will be able to catch a ride on this classic subway train at stations along the line between Queens Plaza and Second Avenue," said Joseph Leader, New York City Transit's Senior Vice President of the Department of Subways.Read more: Source
MTA reducing 2015, 2017 fare hikes
Posted by Harry - Nov 13 2013 01:59 PM
Straphangers are finally catching a break. The announced Wednesday it is slashing planned 2015 and 2017 fare and toll hikes by nearly half from approximately 7.5% to 4%. "We try to keep costs down in order to minimize the financial burden on our customers, and as this financial plan shows, we are succeeding in that effort," Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast said. "Our customers want value, which is quality and quantity of service, and that service has to be reliable and safe. Through this financial plan, that's what we work to provide." The move comes just two months after state Controller Thomas DiNapoli released a report saying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's finances had improved along with the economy, and officials should consider scaling back the hikes and give mass transit riders and drivers using bridges and tunnels relief.
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Metro-North chief admits to dropping ball leading up to derailment that injured dozens
Posted by Harry - Nov 07 2013 09:22 AM
Metro-North dropped the ball on track inspection and maintenance prior to a train derailment and collision in Connecticut that injured dozens and caused $18.5 million in damage, the railroad's chief engineer conceded at a Wednesday hearing in Washington, D.C. Robert Puciloski, appearing at a National Transportation Safety Board hearing, acknowledged there were red flags that should have triggered more aggressive action prior to the May 17 accident in which an eastbound train derailed and was then slammed by a westbound train on the adjacent track, injuring 76 people. Six weeks before, Metro-North inspectors discovered that a pair of "joint bars" connecting two sections of rails were cracked, a condition that can occur when there is inadequate support beneath a section of track, according to hearing testimony.
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Parenting Tips: How To Make Young Girls Feel 'Unstoppable' (Access Hollywood Live)
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- As parents, the universal hope is to raise healthy and confident kids. However, raising young girls comes with a unique set of challenges in today's society and many girls have a hard time building positive self-esteem.
According to Dove, six out of 10 girls stop doing the things they love because of anxiety about their looks. This year, the beauty brand launches their Let's Make Girls Unstoppable campaign, which offers great advice to parents and their daughters.
Dove's global self-esteem ambassador and paid spokesperson Jess Weiner stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Monday to offer tips for parents to help make their daughters unstoppable.
Listen: Often times our kids need to be heard not "fixed". Listen to their language, make sure you are hearing their concerns clearly and not stepping in to fix their problem right away. Many kids report just wanting to have a safe space to share what's going on without the fear of punishment, judgment or criticism.
Talk: Tell them what it feels for you to see them struggle. Tell them of your concern. But also tell them of the confidence you have that you can work through this with them. Remind them of the things they love to do and how important it is to be unstoppable in this world.
Share: Let them know what it was like at your age - did you share similar fears or worries? Offer some ideas on how you help yourself out of a space when you feel down and insecure.
Act: Brainstorm ways to shake up their beauty anxiety. Learn more about re touching to teach your tween daughter about the dangers of letting the media dictate her ideal body image. Move with her - take more walks, kick the soccer ball, exercise can often help alleviate these feelings. Continue to come up with creative ways to stay involved. Don't back off because it may be scary or intense at times. This is the time to get more involved than ever before.
For more on Dove's Let Make Girls Unstoppable campaign, check out www.dove.us/social-mission/girlsunstoppable.
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Darren Almond: Hemispheres and Continents
Nayland Blake: What Wont Wreng
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City
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Wilson here. Mr. Struggan sent me to Chelsea last night for a a special double assignment. Matthew Marks Gallery opened two shows last night in their galleries in Chelsea, Darren Almond: Hemispheres and Continents at 522 W22nd, and Nayland Blake: What Wont Wreng at 502 W22nd.
Darren Almond's exhibition features 17 large format landscape photographs taken at night under the light of a full moon. Shot across all seven continents between 2002 and 2012, these long exposures are the result of a specific process, where Almond vets locations for his photos ahead of time and then returns at night to execute his planned shots. In addition to the photographs, the show features another piece, a glass sculpture designed to function as a radiometer whose moving parts rotate when exposed to light.
The work on view was magnificent. The long moonlight exposures convey night's quiet stillness, but the quality of the light also creates an alien setting, one we are familiar yet also unfamiliar with. The gallery's press release notes Almond's forgoing of technical control by working in the darkness as an important aspect of the work. Though he is unable to control the camera, Almond's photography is by no means haphazard or accidental. On their large scale, the work has a transportive effect.
Down the street, I was similarly pleased with Nayland Blake's exhibition of 6 installation pieces. Blake incorporates both found objects and his own fabrications into his work, including such media as fabric, metal, paper and vinyl prints, plexiglass, denim, stuffed animals, furniture, mirrors, and more.
Using found objects in art is often helpful when aiming for a rough or worn aesthetic. Blake doesn't allow for this type of quality to come through in his work. Much like Almond's photographs, Blake achieves a refined quality in these installations. His pieces are clean-cut, and where they incorporate found objects, these recycled elements attain a sense of rehabilitation. I especially liked the two floor installations, Eleventh and Buddy, Buddy, Buddy. Each of their four sides is almost its own separate installation. The 3 wall mounted pieces were also strong, but were not quite as versatile.
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* Sri Lanka graphite export firm signs agreement with BOI Thu, Nov 15, 2012, 12:25 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Nov 14, Colombo: Sri Lanka's investment promotion agency, Board of Investment (BOI) has signed an agreement with Plumbago Lanka (Pvt) Ltd for a venture that will invest US$78 million over the next 4 years to mine and export value added graphite.
Plumbago Lanka, an Esna Group company plans to make a significant contribution to the local economy by investing US$20 million initially to revive the export-orientated industry.
Plumbago Lanka, under the direction of Eshana De Silva, the Chairman of the Esna Group of companies, will hold a 25% stake in the venture.
The BOI has said the project is very important to the BOI which has sought to promote projects where value addition has been applied to local natural resources and the export of value added graphite will be beneficial to Sri Lanka's economy.
Graphite has many industrial applications and projects such as that of Plumbago Lanka (Pvt) Ltd will receive the continued support of the agency, the BOI has said.
The BOI last month signed a US$ 15.2 million agreement with Sarcon Development (Pvt) Ltd. of Sri Lanka to export value added graphite.
Sri Lanka's crystalline vein graphite has high quality with purity levels ranging from 80-99% of carbon.
The short term demand for graphite is expected to grow at 4-5% and may rise to as much as 20% by 2020.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Roku is ready to hatch the popular "Angry Birds" video game on a new version of its set-top box for streaming online entertainment to TVs.
The addictive game and a controller will be included on a Roku box that will sell for $100. Prices for boxes that don't include "Angry Birds" and the game controller will range from $60 to $80.
Roku Inc. announced the prices for its next generation of players Wednesday. The devices will go on sale this month. Roku's disclosed its plans to add "Angry Birds" last month.
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Lufthansa threatened with strikes as union rejects wage offer
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FRANKFURT, April 17 (Reuters) - Deutsche Lufthansa was threatened with a second round of strikes as labour union Verdi, representing thousands of staff at the airline, rejected as "unacceptable" an offer for wage increases from the company.
Lufthansa offered to raise salaries by 1.2 percent from October this year and a further 0.5 percent a year later, in a deal that would run for 29 months and would not contain job guarantees, a spokeswoman for Verdi said on Wednesday.
"We will discuss the offer tomorrow and possibly decide ... if we're going on strike again," she said, noting passengers would be informed in due course if the union was calling further stoppages.
Lufthansa said it had offered to raise salaries in two steps in a deal that would last from February this year to June 2015, giving total increases of between 1.7 percent and 2.3 percent depending on the division an employee worked in, said a spokeswoman, declining to give more details.
Staff have already held a one-day strike on March 21, forcing Lufthansa to cancel nearly 40 percent of its flights for the day.
Efforts by big European airlines such as Lufthansa and Air France-KLM to cut costs - in the face of soaring jet fuel prices and fierce competition from Middle Eastern airlines and low-cost carriers - have fanned tensions with workers.
Verdi is demanding a 5.2 percent pay rise for 33,000 cabin crew and ground staff at Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa Technik, Lufthansa Systems, catering unit LSG Sky Chefs and ground crews. It also wants a commitment by Lufthansa to safeguard jobs.
Lufthansa, Europe's biggest airline by revenue, wants to freeze pay and get staff to work an hour more each week to help it remain competitive.
The airline is cutting 3,500 jobs, revamping low-cost carrier Germanwings and bundling procurement for its airlines as it seeks to cut costs and improve earnings.
Last year it agreed to a mediated deal to raise cabin crew pay almost 4 percent, adding 33 million euros to costs, after a series of strikes forced it to cancel more than 1,000 flights.
Staff costs accounted for just over a fifth of its overall operating expenses last year. That compares with a 30 percent share at Air France, but budget carriers such as Ryanair and easyJet have a much lower cost base.
The comparable figure for the latter two is closer to 10 percent, allowing them to undercut "legacy" or longer-established carriers on fares.
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