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Playtech has launched a new progressive jackpot slot game based on the iconic Dirty Dancing film from the 1980s.
The online gaming technology, services and software provider recognized this iconic brand loved by millions worldwide as an obvious choice to be transformed into what is expected to become a leading branded slot.
Marking the Film's Anniversary
The launch concurs with the 30th anniversary of the movie's release in 1987. This hit romance with Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze was the first film to sell more than one million home videos and its soundtrack generated two multi-platinum albums. The property was licenced to Playtech by Lionsgate, New York-listed entertainment and media company.
Peter Levin, President of Interactive Ventures and Games, Lionsgate, said: "Thirty years after its arrival, the original 'nobody puts Baby in a corner' Dirty Dancing remains a deeply memorable classic that helped define a generation of cinema. We're proud to work with great partners like Playtech to leverage our unique properties to connect with fans around the world."
This 5-reel and 40-payline slot remains true to the original film and gives you a chance to win big across multiple jackpot levels – Johnny and Baby jackpot, the Dirty Dancing Jackpot Game, Whirling Wilds with up to six random wilds in any spin, Dancing Wilds stacked in Free Games and up to 35 free games with expanding wilds.
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The slot contains characters from the actual film: Baby, Penny and Johnny as Wild symbol and retro-style symbols like vinyl records, a radio, dancing shoes, classic 1950s sports car and jewels that award a large payout if you manage to get at least three in a row and enter the Dirty Dancing Jackpot Game.
Playtech delivers the industry's leading and largest portfolio of omni-channel slot games with more than 600 best-performing titles available across all platforms and devices. Dirty Dancing slot is sure to continue the trend and become an instant hit both with the old and new licensees' players.
Dirty Dancing fans can play the slot on all devices from 40c to $1,000 per spin and enjoy the true movie experience since it maintains the 1960s theme with players being able to see many memorable scenes from the actual film, including the film's climactic lift set to a classic ballroom soundtrack.


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SPANISH driver Dani Sordo has been signed to drive for the Hyundai Motorsport FIA World Rally Championship team in 2015 and 2016.
The German-based team announced today Sordo, 31, would contest at least 10 WRC rounds next year and the full 2016 season alongside lead driver Thierry Neuville.
The announcement did not say if the team has any plans for the other drivers who have shared the second i20WRC with Sordo this year, including Australia's Chris Atkinson, or whether it will again run a third car for Kiwi Hayden Paddon.
Sordo has driven in six rounds this season and followed Neuville to an historic maiden 1-2 for Hyundai in Germany.
"I am delighted to be continuing my partnership with Hyundai Motorsport following a very successful debut season working together," Sordo said.
"We have shown great promise with the Hyundai i20 WRC this year and we will never forget the one-two result at Rallye Deutschland, which was a truly special moment."
Team principal Michel Nandan said Sordo's return would give Hyundai a strong line-up following an impressive debut season in 2014.
"Dani has demonstrated impressive consistency this season on different types of terrain. He has shown himself to be quick in different circumstances, in the face of challenges and, most importantly, to be a valued team player.
"We have seen the results of the partnership between Dani and Thierry already this year in Germany, where we celebrated our fantastic one-two. Let's hope this is the start of similar celebrations in the future."
Hyundai's announcement followed Volkswagen's recent confirmation that it will retain World Champion Sebastien Ogier, plus Jari-Matti Latvala and Andreas Mikkelsen.
The M-Sport Ford squad has confirmed Elfyn Evans' return, but the seats occupied this year by Mikko Hirvonen and Robert Kubica are not yet settled and Citroen has not said if it will continue with Kris Meeke and Mads Ostberg.
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You clicked it! Wow, thank you I am honored to have your attention on this beautiful Friday morning/when ever you get around to opening this email!
Let's start off today with the weekend fight schedule up front (why not?) rather than the end of the newsletter.
What else will follow
- Weekend featured fights, (your chance to see the much featured on Boxing tl;dr, Vasyl Lomachenko, and my friend Petr "El Zar" Petrov fight for a title!)
*warning this weekend's cards feature and excessive amount of Russians and a depleted about of vowels in names where they ought to be*
- Richard Schaefer/Ringstar Tournament Veteran promoter and his new venture, Ringstar Sports, plans for launch of a new Champions League inspired pro boxing tournament
- Prospect of the week Ryan Garcia
This Weekend's Fight Schedule
Hey, it's not a hugely accessible boxing weekend for fight fans (no PBC shows on free tv), but if you have HBO you're in luck. OR if you have an internet connection and a laptop then you're also in luck. Because getting on that bad boy and logging into firstrowsports.eu is probably the best way for you to find the Flanagan vs. Petrov fights which are broadcasted on British networks from Manchester, England and those streams always seem to be readily accessible on firstrowsports. On the one hand this is a weekend where you have a limited availability of boxing (only one HBO show on your tv guide), but then again once you get the hang of firstrowsports, you got the whole world of boxing at your fingertips this weekend and all the ones that follow. Don't tell the government I sent you there.
April 7th -Nothing on tv
Saturday April 8th
HBO's card from Oxon Hill, MD:
Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jason Sosa, 12 rounds for Lomachenko's WBO junior lightweight title (130lb)
Oleksandr Gvozdyk vs. Yunieski Gonzalez, 10 rounds light heavyweights
Oleksandr Usyk vs. Michael Hunter, 10 rounds for Usyk's WBO cruiserweight title (200lb limit)
Lomachenko is on a tear and use this is your chance to catch him early on! It's still mind blowing that this guy is 8 fights into his career and already the best in the division and is just absolutely taking over. It's a very rare trajectory for fighters to be at this stage in this point in their career. No time to waste with this guy.
*Fun fact* Oleksandr Gvozdyk fought on the same card as my pro debut! the dude is an absolute best, on a fast rise in his division and absolutely destroying people
From Manchester, England
Terry Flanagan vs. Petr Petrov, 12 rounds for Flanagan's WBO lightweight title (135lbs)
British boxing has been riding really high for about the last two years. There are a lot of title holders from the island recently. There's a few ways to look at that a.) British boxing is really good and on the upswing b.) there are also a lot of title belts out there available right now c.) there is a little bit of an opportunity effect as more titles have made their way to that side of the pond the promoters there have a little more bargaining power in getting their contenders more title opportunities. This is a trend right now in British boxing I've been thinking about for a while and honestly I think it's some combination of the 3 factors. So Flanagan is one of the current British champions, I have a little bit of unfair dislike for him because he won the then vacant WBO title against Jose Zepeda (a "friend lite" from years past who I support), where Zepeda suffered and shoulder injury, couldn't continue, technically lost because he retired between rounds. Wasn't an earned knockout really.
tl;dr British boxing is strong, Flanagan is one of the Queen's title holders, hopefully that ends on Sat
Petr Petrov on the other hand is a guy I know from my days of training with coach Danny Zamora in Santa Fe Springs, CA. I love this guy. No one is a harder worker than Petr Petrov. He's a psychopath of a worker and an incredible boxer. I've had the pleasure of sparring with this future champion and I think he probably gave me the hardest body shot I've ever received. I really want to see him win this fight. He's gone through a long patient path to this opportunity. Recently he's fought on the B side and beaten a lot of guys who were A side guys (both brutal vs Perez and Quintero) supposedly set to win in order to get this opportunity to fight for the WBO title on Saturday. At 34, I'm glad to see he's gotten his chance and I really think he can pull it off.
tl;dr Petrov (38-4-2), a Russian immigrant to Spain, has had a long and interesting career and gets his title shot on Saturday. He's a good dude too, true champion already now he just needs to apply the title.
Ringstar's New "World Boxing Super Series" tournament venture
So this was announced last month and I knew I had to get to it in a newsletter, but we're still kind of waiting on the details. I feel like Richard Schaefer and his new Ringstar Sports promotion are trying to make an appeal to the same market I am with this newsletter, so you guys might find this interesting…
Here's what we know so far
- single elimination pro boxing tournament
- the series will feature two different weight classes, tbd which
- 16 fighters
- $50 million in prize money in total to be split up
- fights will likely be split between LA, Vegas, NYC, England markets
Prospect of the Week
Ryan Garcia – 18 year old, 8-0, turned pro at 17 in Mexico, recently signed to Golden Boy, you're going to hear a lot about this kid in the years to come. Get on board now! Start here by checking out some of his videos here and here.


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Preeclampsia and eclampsia are part of the spectrum of high blood pressure, or hypertensive, disorders that can occur during pregnancy. At the mild end of the spectrum is gestational hypertension, which occurs when a woman who previously had normal blood pressure develops high blood pressure when she is more than 20 weeks pregnant. This problem occurs without other symptoms.
The causes of preeclampsia and eclampsia are not known.
Typically, gestational hypertension does not harm the mother or fetus and resolves after delivery. However, about 15% to 25% of women with gestational hypertension will go on to develop preeclampsia.
Preeclampsia is a condition that develops in women with previously normal blood pressure at 20 weeks of pregnancy or greater and includes increased blood pressure (levels greater than 140/90), increased swelling, and protein in the urine. The condition can be serious, and, if it is severe enough to affect brain function, causing seizures or coma, it is called eclampsia.
One of the serious complications of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy is HELLP syndrome, when a pregnant woman with preeclampsia or eclampsia sustains damage to the liver and blood cells. The letters in the name HELLP stand for the following problems:
- H - Hemolysis, in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells break down
- EL - Elevated Liver enzymes, showing damage to the liver
- LP - Low Platelet count, in which the cells responsible for stopping bleeding are low
Risks to the Mother
Preeclampsia is mild in 75% of cases. However, a woman can progress from mild to severe preeclampsia or full eclampsia very quickly?even in a matter of days?especially if she is not treated. Both preeclampsia and eclampsia can cause serious health problems for the mother and infant.
Preeclampsia affects the placenta as well as the mother's kidneys, liver, brain, and other organ and blood systems. The condition could lead to a separation of the placenta from the uterus (referred to as placental abruption), preterm delivery, and pregnancy loss. In some cases, preeclampsia can lead to organ failure or stroke. In severe cases, preeclampsia can develop into eclampsia, which can lead to seizures.
Risks After Pregnancy
In uncomplicated preeclampsia, the mother's high blood pressure and increased protein in the urine usually resolve within 6 weeks of the infant's birth. Studies, however, have shown that women who have had preeclampsia are four times more likely to develop hypertension and twice as likely to develop ischemic heart disease (reduced blood supply to the heart muscle, which can cause heart attacks), a blood clot in a vein, and stroke.
Less commonly, mothers who had preeclampsia during pregnancy could experience permanent damage to their organs. Preeclampsia could lead to kidney and liver damage or fluid in the lungs.
Risks to the Fetus
Preeclampsia affects the flow of blood to the placenta. Risks to the fetus include:
- Lack of oxygen and nutrients, leading to poor fetal growth due to preeclampsia itself or if the placenta separates from the uterus before birth (placental abruption)
- Preterm birth
- Stillbirth if placental abruption leads to heavy bleeding in the mother
Risk Factors for Preeclampsia
Preeclampsia occurs primarily in first pregnancies. Other factors that can increase a woman's risk include:
- Chronic high blood pressure or kidney disease before pregnancy
- High blood pressure or preeclampsia in an earlier pregnancy
- Obesity
- Women who are younger than age 20 or older than 35
- Women who are pregnant with more than one fetus
- Being African American
- Having a family history of preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is more common among women who have histories of certain health conditions, such as migraine headaches, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, scleroderma, urinary tract infection, gum disease, polycystic ovary syndrome, multiple sclerosis, gestational diabetes, and sickle cell disease.
Symptoms of Preeclampsia
Possible symptoms of preeclampsia include:
- High blood pressure
- Too much protein in the urine
- Swelling in a woman's face and hands (a woman's feet might swell too, but swollen feet are common during pregnancy and may not signal a problem)
- Systemic problems, such as headache, blurred vision, and right upper quadrant abdominal pain
Symptoms of Eclampsia
Women with preeclampsia can develop seizures. The following symptoms are cause for immediate concern:
- Severe headache
- Vision problems, such as temporary blindness
- Abdominal pain, especially in the upper right area of the belly
- Nausea and vomiting
- Smaller urine output or not urinating very often
HELLP Syndrome
HELLP syndrome can lead to serious complications, including liver failure and death.
A pregnant woman with HELLP syndrome might bleed or bruise easily and/or experience abdominal pain, nausea or vomiting, headache, or extreme fatigue. Although most women who develop HELLP syndrome already have high blood pressure and preeclampsia, sometimes the syndrome is the first sign. In addition, HELLP syndrome can occur without a woman having either high blood pressure or protein in her urine.
Diagnosing preeclampsia, eclampsia, and HELLP syndrome
A health care provider should check a pregnant woman's blood pressure and urine during each prenatal visit. If the blood pressure reading is considered high (140/90 or higher), especially after the 20th week of pregnancy, the health care provider will likely perform more extensive lab tests to look for extra protein in the urine (called proteinuria) as well as other abnormalities.
Gestational hypertension is diagnosed if the woman has high blood pressure but no protein in the urine. Gestational hypertension occurs when women with normal blood pressure levels before pregnancy develop high blood pressure after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Gestational hypertension can develop into preeclampsia.
Mild preeclampsia is diagnosed when a pregnant woman has:
- Systolic blood pressure (top number) of 140 mmHg or higher or diastolic blood pressure (bottom number) of 90 mmHg or higher
- Urine with 0.3 or more grams of protein in a 24-hour specimen (a collection of every drop of urine within 24 hours)
Severe preeclampsia occurs when a pregnant woman has:
- Systolic blood pressure of 160 mmHg or higher or diastolic blood pressure of 110 mmHg or higher on two occasions at least 6 hours apart
- Urine with 5 or more grams of protein in a 24-hour specimen or 3 or more grams of protein on 2 random urine samples collected at least 4 hours apart
- Test results suggesting blood or liver damage—for example, blood tests that reveal low numbers of red blood cells, low numbers of platelets, or high liver enzymes
- Symptoms that include severe weight gain, difficulty breathing, or fluid buildup2
Eclampsia occurs when women with preeclampsia develop seizures.
A health care provider may do other tests to assess the health of the mother and fetus, including:
- Blood tests to see how well the mother's liver and kidneys are working
- Blood tests to check blood platelet levels to see how well the mother's blood is clotting
- Blood tests to count the total number of red blood cells in the mother's blood
- A maternal weight check
- An ultrasound to assess the fetus's size
- A check of the fetus's heart rate
- A physical exam to look for swelling in the mother's face, hands, or legs as well as abdominal tenderness or an enlarged liver
HELLP syndrome is diagnosed when laboratory tests show hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, and low platelets. There also may or may not be extra protein in the urine
Treatment of Preeclampsia
The only cure for preeclampsia is delivering the fetus. Treatment decisions need to take into account the severity of the condition and the potential for maternal complications, how far along the pregnancy is, and the potential risks to the fetus. Ideally, the health care provider will minimize risks to the mother while giving the fetus as much time as possible to mature before delivery.
If the fetus is at 37 weeks or later, the health care provider will usually want to deliver it to avoid further complications.
If the fetus is younger than 37 weeks, however, the woman and her health care provider may want to consider other options that give the fetus more time to develop, depending on how severe the condition is. A health care provider may consider the following treatment options:
- If the preeclampsia is mild, it may be possible to wait to deliver the infant. To help prevent further complications, the health care provider may ask the woman to go on bed rest (to try to lower blood pressure and increase the blood flow to the placenta).
- Close monitoring of the woman and her fetus will be needed. Tests for the mother might include blood and urine tests to see f the preeclampsia is progressing (such as tests to assess platelet counts, liver enzymes, kidney function, and urinary protein levels). Tests for the fetus might include ultrasound, heart rate monitoring, assessment of fetal growth, and amniotic fluid assessment.
- Anticonvulsive medication, such as magnesium sulfate, might be used to prevent a seizure.
- In some cases, such as with severe preeclampsia, the woman will be admitted to the hospital so she can be monitored closely. Treatment in the hospital might include intravenous medication to control blood pressure and prevent seizures or other complications as well as steroid injections to help speed up the development of the fetus's lungs.
When a woman has severe preeclampsia, the doctor will probably want to deliver the fetus as soon as possible. Delivery usually is suggested if the pregnancy has lasted more than 34 weeks. If the fetus is less than 34 weeks, the doctor will probably prescribe corticosteroids to help speed up the maturation of the lungs.
In some cases, the doctor must deliver the fetus prematurely, even if that means likely complications for the infant because of the risk of severe maternal complications The symptoms of preeclampsia usually go away within 6 weeks of delivery.
Treatment of Eclampsia
The onset of seizures in a woman with preeclampsia is considered a medical emergency. Immediate treatment, usually in a hospital, is needed to stop the mother's seizures; treat blood pressure levels that are too high; and deliver the infant.
Magnesium sulfate (a type of mineral) may be given to treat active seizures and prevent future seizures. Antihypertensive medications may be given to lower the blood pressure.
The only cure for eclampsia is to deliver the fetus.
Treatment of HELLP Syndrome
HELLP syndrome, a special type of severe preeclampsia, can lead to serious complications for the mother, including liver failure and death, as well as the fetus. The health care provider may consider the following treatments after a diagnosis of HELLP syndrome:
- Delivery, particularly if the pregnancy is 34 weeks or later
- Hospitalization to provide intravenous medication to control blood pressure and prevent seizures or other complications as well as steroid injections to help speed up the development of the fetus's lungs.
Reference: National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development


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Today we are excited to share with you the third of our Prettie peeks with you. Today's new stamp set is called Graduation Lily and I love how cute she looks in her gown. I paper pieced her graduation gown with some My Mind's Eye Stella & Rose Gertie patterned paper and shaded it in with a coordinating blue Copic marker, just like I did with yesterday's Graduation Fairy Sophie image.
Here's some information about Paper Pretties' May release for your reference:
One random lucky commenter each preview day on the Paper Pretties blog will win the set being previewed. The winners from each preview day will be posted here on Wednesday. As in previous months, we will still have a inspiration filled blog hop on release day.
- Join us for our release Blog Hop this Wednesday 12 AM EST 11th May, starting on the Paper Pretties Blog.
- New Release Stamps available in the Paper Pretties Boutique from Wednesday 12 AM EST 11th May.
- Don't forget to check out the Paper Pretties Blog to see who else is previewing the new stamps today. You're going to LOVE what we have prepared for you!
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Howdy Stranger!
Holy smokes! Where have I been?
The week before last was all about getting ready to leave town for a week which added a week's worth of school work to the already busy equation of life. I chose to do it instead of write about how much I loathe doing it. Every time we take this trip I wonder how in the world homeschooling moms do what they do without strangling their children. Then I remember that their children do not go to school for eight hours and then come home and have to do another day's work.
Last week we were in Hilton Head. It was wonderful, so wonderful in fact that the whole thing blew by in the blink of an eye. When I wondered how that happened it dawned on me that the kids are so self-sufficient now that there's actually time to relax and enjoy vacation. I'm ready to retire.
This week I hit the ground running with three doctor's appointments on Monday. It's revved up from there. Kind of a rude awakening after a week off. I'm not going to lie; it's been a rough adjustment.
I have pictures and some great news to share (just for the record the great news does not involve a new addition to the family) but that will have to wait until I can edit some photos to go along with the stories.
Sunday I have my first half marathon in over a year. Training has been tough and the legs are as tight as ever but this race is all about supporting a good friend who's running her first half and I believe that no one should have to do that alone. Hopefully, I'll be able to keep up with her. :-)
Stay tuned for the great news.


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The Little Prince "It Is Only With One's Heart..." Framed Book Page Art
When it comes to inspirational literary quotes, this is one of our favourites. A wonderful literary gift for book lovers. This would make a nice nursery print too!
"It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry.
This framed book page print acts as a lovely reminder for what's important in life, a lovely addition to your home decor.
Our frames are handmade in-house using sustainably sourced wood; they can be freestanding or hung flush to the wall. There's no glass so you're able to feel your unique book page. We'll gift wrap your print in our charming vintage map inspired wrapping paper.
14 cm x 20 cm x 3 cm ( 5.5 inches x 8 inches).
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Merremia dissecta
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Catalogue of Life
Plantae, Tracheophyta, Magnoliopsida, Solanales, Convolvulaceae, Merremia, Merremia dissecta


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Revista Matemática Iberoamericana
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Wavelets obtained by continuous deformations of the Haar waveletAline Bonami[1], Sylvain Durand[2] and Guido Weiss[3] (1) Université d'Orléans, France
(2) Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France
(3) Washington University in St. Louis, USA
One might obtain the impression, from the wavelet literature, that the class of orthogonal wavelets is divided into subclasses, like compactly supported ones on one side, band-limited ones on the other side. The main purpose of this work is to show that, in fact, the class of low-pass filters associated with "reasonable" (in the localization sense, not necessarily in the smooth sense) wavelets can be considered to be an infinite dimensional manifold that is arcwise connected. In particular, we show that any such wavelet can be connected in this way to the Haar wavelet.
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Bonami Aline, Durand Sylvain, Weiss Guido: Wavelets obtained by continuous deformations of the Haar wavelet. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 12 (1996), 1-18. doi: 10.4171/RMI/191


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Tips For Renovating Your Property
Renovating your property can add value and make your home a nicer place to live. Thousand of Kiwis undertake residential property renovation projects each year despite the stress for these reasons. If your are looking to improve your home or to increase the value of a property for increased rental return or for future sale there are some factors to consider to ensure the end result is rewarding.
Renovations need to be both well planned and executed and the first thing to review when considering a renovation is your budget. A renovation budget can vary hugely depending on the scope of your project. If you are making small and mostly aesthetic changes such as fresh paint or changing fixtures you can often do the work yourself to keep costs down.
If you are looking at making big changes then it's wise to engage professionals, particularly if the work involves structural changes. When deciding on your budget make sure you know the current value of your property and get an estimate on the value the renovations should add to ensure the work is worth the investment. It is also a good idea to leave a contingency in your budget (5-10%) to cover yourself for the unexpected.
Whilst renovating your home to live in is usually more emotionally challenging it can also be a lot more fun. Renovating a property you are living in means you can pick out colour, details and décor that you are going to enjoy yourself. Whilst less important, you should still ensure that the renovations are still going to add value to the property.
Over-extending, removing important features or adding awkward or small rooms to your property can actually reduce the value so it is essential to do your research. Consider the market interested in living in the area and their needs. A large kitchen or an additional bathroom in popular family area will likely add value, as would adding an office space in a busy, urban area popular with young professionals.
If you are extending it is important to ensure that the style matches the existing house. When making structural changes you should also consider the architectural style of the suburb you live in as many buyers are attracted to an area based on this.
Some common residential property renovations that will add value to your home include:
- Laying new flooring
- Replacing the kitchen and bathrooms
- Upgrading window treatments or double-glazed windows
- Converting unused space such as an attic or garage
Some non-structural and relatively cost effective ways to improve your property include:
- Fresh paint in key rooms and kitchen cabinets
- Replace fixtures and fittings
- Increase natural light by Installing skylights or by make existing windows bigger
Whether you are renovating to improve your home or to add value to a property good planning is critical. If you have a clear plan you are less likely to require changes half way through the project and problems you didn't expect which can cost you money and time.Tags: home renovations, property investment, renovations


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The deep-sea sediment oxygen isotopic composition (δ18O) record is dominated by a 100,000-year cyclicity that is universally interpreted as the main ice-age rhythm. Here, the ice volume component of this δ18O signal was extracted by using the record of δ18O in atmospheric oxygen trapped in Antarctic ice at Vostok, precisely orbitally tuned. The benthic marine δ18O record is heavily contaminated by the effect of deep-water temperature variability, but by using the Vostok record, the δ18O signals of ice volume, deep-water temperature, and additional processes affecting air δ18O (that is, a varying Dole effect) were separated. At the 100,000-year period, atmospheric carbon dioxide, Vostok air temperature, and deep-water temperature are in phase with orbital eccentricity, whereas ice volume lags these three variables. Hence, the 100,000-year cycle does not arise from ice sheet dynamics; instead, it is probably the response of the global carbon cycle that generates the eccentricity signal by causing changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration.
It has long been apparent that there is an ∼100,000-year (100-ky) cyclicity in δ18O records from deep-sea cores. The first evidence for the duration of these cycles came from the use of radiometric dates from uplifted corals on the island of Barbados as a tool for dating the marine δ18O record (1). The second piece of evidence arose from anchoring the older part of the sequence of cycles to the radiometrically dated Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic polarity reversal (2). It is generally accepted that this 100-ky cycle represents a major component of the record of changes in total Northern Hemisphere ice volume (3). It is difficult to explain this predominant cycle in terms of orbital eccentricity because "the 100,000-year radiation cycle (arising from eccentricity variations) is much too small in amplitude and too late in phase to produce the corresponding climatic cycle by direct forcing" (4, p. 700). Most published explanations for the large amount of ice volume variability at this wavelength draw on the long response time that is associated with large ice sheets (5), especially when the response time of the underlying bedrock is taken into account. Imbrie and Imbrie (6) devised a simple mathematical model in which the slow and nonlinear response of a major ice sheet could generate an ice volume response with the 100-ky period of orbital eccentricity when the precession-dominated 65°N summer insolation record is used as a forcing. The nonlinearity of the ice sheet response (rapid deglaciation but slow ice growth) is an essential contribution to the relative success of this model.
It is difficult to test the proposed mechanisms for explaining the 100-ky cycle for several reasons. In particular, the strong 100-ky cycle has only dominated paleoclimate variability over about the past million years, too short a period to rigorously investigate with time-series analysis. Alternative explanations that have been proposed include forcing by orbital inclination (7) (which has a single 100-ky period, in contrast to the mixture of 95 and 125 ky that characterizes orbital eccentricity) and a wide range of models [reviewed in (4)] that seek to generate this cycle with or without the possibility of free oscillations. None of these investigations have questioned the primary association of the 100-ky δ18O cycle with global ice volume.
The time scale for the records that are used for the investigation of the 100-ky cycle is based on the existence in these δ18O records of variability that is confidently associated with variations in axial obliquity (41 ky) and with the precession of the equinoxes (23 and 19 ky) (8). Within the SPECMAP project (9,10), a time scale was developed for the marine δ18O record that is based on locking the phase of the observed cycles to an orbital template. The validity of this time scale is supported by the convincing coherence between marine δ18O (and other climate-related proxies) and the assumed obliquity and precession forcings. With these astronomically based age models, the 100-ky portion of the variability is significantly coherent with orbital eccentricity, but the coherence is not overwhelming. Given the difficulty in successfully explaining the 100-ky signal (4), doubts remain regarding its association with orbital eccentricity.
Atmospheric oxygen exchanges isotopically with the oxygen in ocean water chiefly as a consequence of global photosynthesis. The δ18O of atmospheric oxygen differs from that of the ocean by ∼23.5 per mil (‰); this difference is known as the Dole effect, and its origin is reviewed in (11). The record of δ18O of atmospheric oxygen trapped in bubbles in the polar ice sheets must reflect changes in marine δ18O with a small delay that is controlled by the balance between the rate of total global photosynthesis and the size of the atmospheric oxygen reservoir (12). Bender et al. (11) evaluated this balance and derived a turnover time of ∼1 ky. Here, the 100-ky component of the atmospheric δ18O signal is investigated. This proves to shed light on the 100-ky signal in marine δ18O.
A time scale for the atmospheric gas record from Vostok.Petit et al. (13) published 400-ky-long records of three signals embedded in the air bubbles of the Vostok ice cores. The concentrations of CO2 and CH4 are particularly interesting because these are both important greenhouse gases. The third record is of the δ18O of atmospheric oxygen, which varies in response to the δ18O of ocean water as noted above and to changes in the conditions of global terrestrial photosynthesis and other factors that change the magnitude of the Dole effect (11). Petit et al.(13) illustrated the obvious similarity between the δ18O of atmospheric oxygen on their time scale and 65°N summer insolation (Fig. 1A) but did not generate a new time scale based on this comparison.
Sowers et al. (12) generated a time scale for the upper part of the Vostok core by correlating their record of air δ18O (at that time extending to ∼130 ky) to the SPECMAP time scale (10). Instead of taking this approach, the similarity between Fig. 1A and 1B [noted in (13)] was used here to generate a more refined time scale that is independent of SPECMAP (10). The advantage of this approach is that the strong amplitude modulation of the precession forcing provides a very powerful criterion for judging the success of the time scale where there is a precession-related signal (14). None of the records used in constructing the SPECMAP time scale (10) contain such a "clean" precession signal; therefore, it appears likely that this procedure will lead to a more accurate time scale than could be achieved by correlating to SPECMAP. In order to determine the phase of the record relative to precession, an independent age is required for at least one event. The upper part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 ice core has an age scale that is based on annual layer counting and is accurate to better than ±2% (15); the record of δ18O of atmospheric oxygen in this core (16) shows that the age of the midpoint of the most recent glacial-to-interglacial transition is 12,000 years ago (12 ka). The phase lags in the tuning target, 5 ky for precession and 8 ky for obliquity, are determined so as to be consistent with this age (once the precession phase is set, the phase relative to obliquity is determined by the record itself). In the final tuning target, the amplitudes of the precession and obliquity components are matched to their coherent amplitudes in the record. Steps in the processing of the time series are available as supplemental Web material (17). To minimize "spikes" in the differences between pairs of records, tuning was carried out by assigning ages to the midpoints of transitions; Web table 1 (17) gives the published and tuned transition ages. The data on the new time scale, together with the tuning target, are shown in Fig. 2.
A new time scale for the benthic marine δ18O record. In order to construct a strictly comparable deep-sea chronology, the well-known benthic foraminiferal δ18O record of core V19-30 (18) was retuned by using a procedure analogous to that described above. The V19-30 record was slightly extended by using the data from nearby core V19-28 (19) to make a high-quality record of the same length as the Vostok record. In designing the final tuning target for V19-30, an account was taken of the fact that the target (and hence the tuned data) should lead rather than lag the Vostok target, because the Vostok air δ18O record must incorporate the history of the changing marine δ18O record with an ∼1-ky lag (11). In order to satisfy this requirement, the modeled midpoint of the last deglaciation must be 13 ka, yielding lags of 3 ky with respect to precession and 7 ky with respect to obliquity. The V19-30 (extended) record on this time scale is shown in Fig. 2C, together with its tuning target. This time scale is very similar (20) to that already published but differs in detail because the record was tuned directly to a specially designed orbital target instead of being tuned with SPECMAP age controls (10) and also because only transition midpoints were used for age controls, rather than a mixture of controls. The amplitudes and coherent amplitudes and the phase lags in the obliquity and precession bands of the two records after this tuning are given in Table 1.
In the time scales developed under the inspiration of Imbrie (8,9), the assumption was made that the phase lags with respect to obliquity and precession ought to reflect the lag of a single-exponent system with a reasonable time constant for the response of a continental ice sheet. In the present work, this requirement was relaxed because it is now known that there are a number of different components contributing to the δ18O records, each with a different time constant. The approach whereby the tuning target is optimized to the data enables the difference (in thousands of years) between the lags with respect to the obliquity and precession components of midsummer insolation to be estimated; geological ages for the last deglaciation then give the absolute lags.
Comparing the Vostok air δ18O record and the benthic marine δ18O record. The linear variance spectra of the air and benthic δ18O records obtained by cross-spectral analysis versus their respective orbital tuning targets are also shown in Fig. 2 (21). In view of the relatively short (∼1 ky) turnover time of atmospheric oxygen with respect to marine photosynthesis (11), the amplitude of the marine δ18O signal must be fully captured by the air δ18O record, yet at the obliquity frequency, the foraminiferal signal is clearly larger. This demonstrates that a substantial part of the foraminiferal obliquity signal (∼0.12‰ coherent amplitude) must derive from changing deep-ocean temperature, which affects the isotopic fractionation between water and carbonate, and not from ice volume. On the other hand, in the precession band it is evident that almost half of the signal recorded in air δ18O must arise from changes in the Dole effect, because at this frequency the air δ18O signal is twice the amplitude of the foraminiferal δ18O signal (22). It is clear from the elegant and thorough review by Bender et al. (11) that there are many potential routes through which this could arise. However, the extremely high coherence with precession (see Table 1) suggests that there must be a relatively simple dominating mechanism that yields an almost linear response. Although part of the phase lag undoubtedly reflects the 1-ky response of the atmosphere with respect to photosynthesis, the remainder implies either a mechanism for changing the Dole effect that has a long time constant (which is unlikely) or control centered on a time of year that is later than midsummer. A relation with varying monsoon precipitation was suggested in (11), and both modeling and observation suggest that the monsoon precipitation lags the orbital forcing by a few thousand years (23), equivalent to an autumn response.
The precession component in air δ18O must be composed of an ice volume signal and a Dole effect signal. Because these two must have approximately the same absolute phase, the amplitudes may be subtracted without complication, yielding a maximum amplitude of 0.22‰ for ice volume and a minimum of 0.21‰ relating to the Dole effect. These values are adopted in the following discussion in the knowledge that if a higher value is assigned, the implication would be a reduced precession component allocated to ice volume variability, in which case a part of the precession-related variability in the V19-30 record would be reallocated to changing deep-water temperature. The best way to refine this partitioning will be to accurately determine the sea levels at ∼90 and 110 ka in comparison with levels at ∼80 and 100 ka, because these differences reflect the precession contribution to sea level variability.
It is impossible at present to analytically determine whether any of the 41-ky variance in the air δ18O signal is attributable to the Dole effect or whether it derives from the ocean water. However, if it is assumed that the precession variance in the Dole effect is related to monsoon precipitation, then there ought to be an obliquity component that is commensurate with the contribution of obliquity to the low-latitude insolation spectrum. In the region and season of the Indian monsoon, the proportion of variance arising from obliquity is ∼10% of the total, equivalent to an amplitude of ∼0.02‰, which is negligible in relation to the overall 0.27‰ coherent amplitude associated with obliquity.
The residual signal and eccentricity. It has been shown that almost all of the 41- and 21-ky variance in the air δ18O signal can be explained as a linear response to orbital forcing. The result of subtracting this linearly forced component (24) from the observed record is shown in Fig. 3A. The equivalent for the V19-30 foraminiferal δ18O record, obtained by subtracting the linearly forced component of the 41- and 21-ky variance from the full record is shown in Fig. 3B. Three features stand out. First, both residuals display the 100-ky cycle; second, the amplitude of this signal is far smaller in the Vostok atmospheric δ18O residual than in the V19-30 foraminiferal δ18O residual; and third, the residuals retain "jumps" in value at deglaciations, such as at the base of the Holocene (12 ka) and at the base of marine isotope stage (MIS) 5 (128 ka).
With regard to the first observation, cross-spectral analysis versus eccentricity, tilt, and precession (ETP) parameters (25) shows that, in both cases, the residual is coherent with eccentricity with small, but different, phase lags. However, the records are too short to attach much importance to this observation on its own.
It is difficult to conceive of a mechanism that would prevent the atmospheric δ18O recording the full amplitude of a 100-ky cycle in ocean water δ18O; thus, the implication of the second observation must be that a substantial portion of the marine 100-ky cycle that has been the object of so much attention over the past quarter of a century is, in reality, a deep-water temperature signal and not an ice volume signal.
The third observation confirms the supposition that the rapid deglacial "terminations" cannot be explained as part of the linear response of the climate system (4). This observation has the important implication that the midpoint of the transition in a linear target cannot be expected to predict the exact age of the midpoint of one of these deglaciations (26). On the other hand, the rapid nonlinear part of the transition must have been close to this midpoint, or the residual would show an anomalous overshoot. Experiments were conducted to determine the oldest allowable base for the last interglacial that is consistent with the assumptions involved in the tuning (17). When Martinson et al. (10) explored the uncertainties in their age model, they were working with geological data sets containing a much larger and irreducible proportion of variance that could not be explained by linear forcing; therefore, they were obliged to attach a rather large uncertainty (an average of 5 ky) to their age estimates. The age model for Vostok air δ18O could not be varied by more than ∼2 ky without substantially reducing the amount of variance representing a linear response.
Exploring the 100-ky signal of the Vostok atmospheric CO2 records. A long record of atmospheric CO2 has been obtained from the Vostok core, and it has been noted that its variance is dominated by eccentricity (13). Because the new time scale refers to the air bubbles, it can be directly applied to the CO2 record (Fig. 4F). With this time scale, the earlier observation is confirmed: The record has a coherency of 0.92 with the 100-ky component of eccentricity and is essentially in phase, and the coherent amplitude of the 100-ky CO2 signal is equivalent to 30 parts per million by volume (ppmv). At obliquity, the coherence is 0.94, and the coherent amplitude of the signal is equivalent to 16 ppmv, with about the same phase as the δ18O signals.
The residual from the Vostok air δ18O signal, after subtracting the linearly forced part of the record, is interpreted in terms of change in the δ18O of the ocean. To a first approximation, it should represent the total of that part of the ocean δ18O ("ice volume") variability that is not linearly forced by obliquity or precession (Fig. 3A). At a period of 100 ky, this residual signal is highly coherent (0.99) with the Vostok CO2 signal but lags CO2.
The residual in the V19-30 foraminiferal δ18O signal, after subtracting the linearly forced part (Fig. 3B), must contain contributions from global ice volume and from changing deep-ocean temperature. Thus, to obtain the component of the ocean temperature record that is not linearly forced, I subtracted the Vostok residual (ice volume) from the V19-30 residual (ice volume and temperature), taking account of the 1-ky lag of the air δ18O record (Fig. 3C). The coherent amplitude of this record at the 100-ky period is 0.26‰, equivalent to ∼0.7°C in temperature. Deep-water temperature is also highly coherent (0.97) with the Vostok CO2 signal in the 100-ky band. The coherences and phases in the 100-ky band strongly suggest that atmospheric CO2 has a direct and immediate control on deep-water temperature (presumably with high-latitude air temperature as an intermediary). In addition, temperature has a direct control on ice volume, mediated by the long response times of ice sheets.
It could be argued that the data equally support a model whereby deep temperature has a direct and immediate control over the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. However, it is hard to envisage a mechanism for generating a 100-ky deep-water temperature cyclicity directly, whereas the global carbon system that controls atmospheric CO2 includes components with long time constants, a necessary requirement for generating a 100-ky signal from the orbital forcing. In either case, the important conclusion that may be drawn from the examination of the 100-ky part of the variance in the several signals is that the prevalent 100-ky signal does not arise from the long time constant of ice volume response. Instead, ice volume responds, with an appropriate lag that is consistent with the value derived by Imbrie and Imbrie (5), to forcing at 100 ky by temperature (it can be assumed that the temperature of the deep ocean also reflects in some way the air temperature at high latitudes).
Important support for this interpretation comes from the Vostok ice D/H record, which is thought to reflect high-latitude temperature in the air over Vostok. Assigning a time scale to the ice itself poses additional problems that are not addressed here, because the ice-air age difference varies from ∼2 ky at times of higher temperature and accumulation rate to 6 ky or more at cold times when snow accumulation is low. The usual procedure is to derive a time scale for the ice and then compute a time-dependent air-ice age difference that takes account of the temperature and accumulation rates as a function of time. Here, the primary time scale has been developed for the trapped air, so a complex iteration would be required to formally derive an ice time scale. Instead, the ice time scale (13) is simply offset by the same amounts as the gas time scale was changed (Fig. 4E). Although this will slightly affect the high-frequency portion of the variance spectrum, it will not substantially affect the 100-ky signal. This signal has a phase similar to that of the deep temperature record and a coherent D/H amplitude at the 100-ky period of 15‰, equivalent to an air temperature of ∼3°C.
Testing the partitioning of the δ18O signal.On the basis of the argument above, the δ18O record of global ice volume may be reconstructed from three components: the precession component, from the coherent precession component of the V19-30 foraminiferal δ18O tuning target; the obliquity component, from the coherent obliquity component of the Vostok air δ18O tuning target; and the nonlinear residual that is obtained by subtracting the Vostok air δ18O tuning target from the measured record (27). This reconstruction is illustrated in Fig. 4A. Two aspects of this reconstruction support its being a better reconstruction of ice volume and sea level from δ18O than has been previously achieved. First, the ice volume contribution to the difference between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene is ∼1.0‰, close to the reconstruction of 1.0 ± 0.1‰ by Schrag et al. (28) based on direct measurement of the δ18O of relict glacial pore water [also compare estimates in (29) rather than the 1.2‰ (2), 1.26‰ (30), or 1.4‰ (31) estimates based on earlier interpretations of marine isotope records]. Second, the record is consistent with recent sea level estimates (32), as shown in Fig. 4B.
With the derived history of the ice volume component of the foraminiferal δ18O record, the total temperature component may be obtained by subtraction as mentioned above. The resulting record is illustrated in Fig. 4D. Figure 5 shows the total amplitude and coherent amplitude spectra of ice volume (Fig. 4A), Pacific temperature (Fig. 4D), Antarctic air temperature (Fig. 4E), and atmospheric CO2 (Fig. 4F), together with their estimated phases relative to ETP (25). Table 2summarizes the statistical description of the 100-ky signal in the four records. The CO2 and deep-ocean temperature records are dominated by variance with a 100-ky period and vary in phase with eccentricity. Contrary to previous interpretations, global ice volume does lag changes in orbital eccentricity, but eccentricity is not the dominant peak in the ice volume spectrum (33). The effect of orbital eccentricity probably enters the paleoclimatic record through an influence on the concentration of atmospheric CO2.


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Omission of Men from Gender-Development Theory and Praxis: A Pathway for Addressing the Plights of Women?
Thomas Yeboah, Richard Serbeh and Peter Bembir
DOI : 10.3844/jssp.2015.7.19
Journal of Social Sciences
Volume 11, Issue 1
Pages 7-19
Within the gender-development discourse, there have been widespread concerns in relation to the neglect of women in benefitting from the process and outcomes of development. This has led in part to the proliferation of policy programming designed for women to achieve gender equality while ensuring that women benefit proportionally from development. However the extent to which gender-based interventions will succeed in relation to their aims will depend inter alia on how such programmes view other members (men) of the household. This paper critically examines the consequences of men's omission from gender-development theory and practice. We draw our discussion on the theoretical and empirical literature by focusing on two gender-based programmes i.e., microfinance schemes and HIV/AIDs interventions that have been implemented widely across the developing world with the aim of transforming gender relations and addressing gender subordination. We argue that in isolating men from gender based development programmes, interventions may fail to tackle the root causes of women's subordinate position in society. Central to our argument lies the fact that women's lives are embedded within the wider socio- cultural dynamics and power structures and thus the lack of critical assessment of these elements may act as potential constraining factors hindering the success of these programmes. Besides, though it is undisputed that women have been underprivileged, the insipient emergence of "men in crisis" in development discourse may suggest that policies have not benefited all men either. The paper concludes with recommendations in improving the design of gender based programmes in efforts towards addressing the plight of women.
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