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Becoming a global champion of PAs and empowering them to smash their own glass ceilings – Rosemary Parr, Founder of the Global PA Association
Rosemary Parr founded the Global PA Association and Training Academy in 2006 following a career with some of the UK's largest companies and in the UK Parliament. Over the last decade, Rosemary has established the organisation as a leader in the training and development of office professionals, travelling the world to deliver training programmes and motivational talks to managers and office professionals. The Global PA Association brings together office professionals, including executive assistants, personal assistants, secretaries and administrators from across the globe to provide networking and training opportunities, as well as supporting career development.
"…Only about 1-2% of the profession is male. There are some male PAs out there, but I think the job role would have changed if there were more…"
From London to New York
I trained as a personal assistant myself when I left college, and I did a year's full time study at the London Chamber of Commerce for the Private Secretary's Certificate. We studied business, finance, and short hand, as well as achieving advanced typing speeds etc.
Following this I went to work at the advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson, where I worked for a Member of Parliament who was an associate director. Eventually, half my salary was paid by the House of Commons and the other half was paid by J. Walter Thompson. I would go down to the Houses of Parliament every morning and we'd meet to look at the constituency post together and decide what needed to be responded to urgently. I would then be left to go back to J. Walter Thompson and work from there.
After that role I went to work in New York. An agency was offering secretaries in London opportunities to work there so you'd receive your Green Card and they would find temp work for you. I went and lived out there for about six months, working as a PA at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, and also for a firm of architects. It was fun and an incredible opportunity. Some of the others stayed out in America with their Green Cards at the end of the six months, but I went home for family reasons.
Losing it all, but finding my passion for people development
When I got married and had my children, I didn't work for 12 years. The reason I'm so passionate about people development is when my children were 5, 9 and 12, my husband's business failed and we lost everything. He wouldn't work and we lost a beautiful five bedroom home. We had two luxury cars in the drive and two holidays a year, and it all fell down around us like a pack of cards.
I decided that the only way out was to pack myself and the kids up and move on to a little rented house in a local village. We had to claim state benefits for the next seven years. Being completely wiped out was what started my passion for people development, because I had to find that strength within myself.
I knew I had to look after the children and sort out their education. I was battling in the courts for maintenance – I was battling on many fronts, so I forgot about being a PA. I didn't know how I could cope with the hours. I was doing cleaning, bar work, waitressing and selling cosmetics. I did all of that for a while to keep us afloat.
A turning point in my life
As the children got older, things got a bit easier and I thought to myself: "Come on! You were a top PA!" I wanted to get back into that, so I started some temp jobs. I ended up as a temp going into BT, and within a year I was working for the chairman. That really was a turning point in my life, a huge moment.
By this time I already had a vision that I wanted to develop, motivate and inspire others, but I didn't know how I would go about it. I was very passionate about health and healing because I'd been warned that if I didn't manage my stress levels I would get ME, so I also got into healing in order to help myself and I relied on alternative therapies.
Regaining my career prestige
BT was the right move because working for the chairman gave me prestige again, so I could use that prestige and position to help other people. I set up a PA network and community in BT, supported by the chairman.
We had some great networking events. We got top bosses come and talk to the PAs about ways we could work better together, and what they needed from their PAs etc. We then expanded the network so we could offer customer facing events, inviting PAs from BT's top customers to events at the BT Tower. We had Dr. Hilary Jones, the GMTV doctor, Ellen McArthur (who'd just sailed around the world!) and we also had Will Carling, the former England Rugby captain, as well as other celebrities. I made a lot happen!
Training as a coach
From what I started in BT I could see there was an opportunity with all of this. I'd already asked them if they would support me training as a coach, and they funded me to go on an external programme, which was life-changing. I thought I could stay with BT once Sir Christopher Bland retired – he was only ever going to be chairman there for about six years – and the HR team kindly found me another position.
I was very passionate about charities, so they offered me a job in the corporate responsibility team, managing charity events. I worked with Childline and Esther Rantzen. After six months, when my chairman went, I decided my passion was in people development, and that I wanted to develop my coaching and training skills. This is when I left and set up the Global PA Association.
At the same time I went back to college part time in the evenings and got my CIPD qualifications as a trainer / learning and development practitioner.
Setting up the Global PA Association to support other PAs
Literally within a couple of months of starting the Global PA Association I was invited to speak at a conference in Australia. I was flown out there. It was fantastic. I shared the conference platform with Richard Branson's PA, Penni Pike, who had been with him from the beginning. She'd just retired after working with him for 31 years.
The Global PA Association is about supporting PAs. Typically they're not nurtured or protected, and nobody cares about them. People just put more and more pressure, and more and more work onto them. I've seen this happening myself as a PA and also whilst I've been doing temp jobs. I've had some rough times as well, so I felt they needed a place where they could go for support: emotional support; vocational support and career advice – that's what the Global PA Association is all about!
Professional membership and training
We offer membership and we have a code of practice for our members. We have a member's area on our website with tools and tips, and resources they can download, such as podcasts they can listen to. This time last year we liaised with the BBC World Service, who did a 25 minute programme on the role of the executive PA, and how vital they are.
As well as professional membership, we offer training. Some of our courses are already accredited by the ILM (the Institute of Learning and Management) and we're getting the rest accredited by the end of the year. We have ILM recognised status and CPD recognised status with our courses because I want to give PAs something substantial for their CVs. We also partner with Birkbeck University in London.
Another nice side of it is the networking evenings and events with supplier partners. At the moment we do those in Central London.
When I'm working overseas I either go to a company who invite me in, fly me out to run an in-house programme for their company, or I work with conference and event producers in those areas. They would ask me to come along and run a two or three day programme for them.
My role on a day to day basis
We run courses every month, so I spend a lot of time marketing – reminding PAs that the courses are happening and what the benefits are. The rest of the time I'm developing courses for clients.
At the moment I've got a client in Saudia Arabia so I'm flying out there in three weeks' time and to develop a programme for them. I'll also be going to the Far East in November, working for a conference producer and running programmes there. In between I'm holding networking evenings in London.
At the moment I'm also running our programme on Saturdays at Birkbeck. I juggle many things and I've become a real expert in multitasking!
A predominantly female role with its prestige under threat
The problem with the role of PA is that it has stayed predominantly female for far too long. Research shows that it is one of the most consistently gendered occupations for women. This is why so many PAs are treated so badly.
It's down to individual bosses and whether the culture of the organisation means PAs are receiving proper recognition or not. The problem we have now in the 21st century as organisations try to cut their admin costs is that they are piling the pressure on PAs to work for three, five, seven, ten people. There's also flatter structures in organisations, so there's often a team of 30 or 40 people.
It is dependent on the trends in a particular industry, but banking and accountancy are going that way, so PAs are losing the prestige of their position. In some organisations they're having to work for so many more people, it's therefore much harder to do a good job for anyone, and the result is that their morale dips.
Research from UKCES which says that secretarial function could be under threat long term is interesting. I think we will still have PAs working for top directors on a one to one basis and we'll have the team PAs at the bottom, but it's the bit in the middle which is filled by lots of PAs aged 40 plus whose jobs are potentially under threat. This is why I've been saying to them for ten years now: "You must develop your CV. You've got to upskill." When I first started the Global PA Association I kept thinking I was ahead of my time, but now I'm sadly being proved right. It's a real problem.
Only about 1-2% of the profession is male. There are some male PAs out there, but I think the job role would have changed if there were more. The statistics are that men at work still earn more than women, and people listen to men more.
Lack of scope for PAs to grow and develop
The majority of bosses are still men – and not all men are awful, of course – there's many lovely men out there. (There's also some awful female bosses…) The problem we've got is when bosses get a good PA they don't want them to grow and develop because they're frightened they will leave. [You can read more about this in the following research report: Still in the Ghetto? Experiences of Secretarial Work in the 21st Century by Catherine Truss*, Kerstin Alfes, Amanda Shantz and Amanda Rosewarne.]
I've seen PAs come through the Birkbeck programme who have changed jobs. I've had people come on my masterclasses and I've opened up their creativity and thought processes, so they've left their jobs. I've also seen others who go back to working saying: "It's fantastic. I've learned so much. I feel supported and I can now do a better job for my boss." It's a problem, but the bosses hold on to them – they can be a little bit selfish about it.
All too often PAs don't feel valued, cherished and nourished, and every time they ask to go on a training programme they're told: "No. There's no budget." Many companies won't give them a day off for training either. I ran a training session in London last week and about a third of the attendees said they'd had to take a day's holiday to be there.
Career pathways for PAs
In most organisations there's no career pathway for PAs. The glass ceiling is very evident. There aren't many chief of staff roles around now to progress into – those jobs have disappeared. Sometimes PAs can move into HR positions and go on to get their CIPD qualifications. Other times they can move into event management in the organisation, so there are ways, but it's up to each PA to negotiate and push themselves.
A lot of PAs aren't good at asserting themselves – they've got to be more proactive. They can be their own worst enemy. Because of the nature of their role, one minute they're being managerial, managing situations on their own, and the next they have to wait for bosses instructions. One minute they're proactive, the next they're reactive and sometimes their psyches struggle with that.
Many PAs now can work flexibly, so they often work three days in the office and two days at home. It's dependent on the culture of the organisation – some aren't open to it, but many have that flexibility now. For example, I have one member who's based in Birmingham but she comes down to London at least a couple of days a week to be with her manager.
It is a real mixed bag, but the public sector is often better. I have quite a few PAs from the NHS and London universities coming on our courses. Salaries are lower, but PAs do get training and development opportunities, which are often denied in the private sector.
Coming up next for me and the Global PA Association
I'm off to do some training in Saudi Arabia for a university's executive PAs, and then I'm off to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Bangkok.
I'm also going on a UKTI Trade Mission to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, which is all to do with education and training.
We've got training happening in London up to Christmas, and we're organising some events with suppliers. I'm busy but I wouldn't have it any other way.


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The Land of the Bison in Neamț County – internationally renowned touristic destination
Vânători-Neamţ National Park in Neamţ County is the only place in Europe where the bison, heraldic symbol of Moldovia and the largest land animal in the continent can be seen, in three kind of habitats: in the wild, in the zoo of the Park (where there are 6 bisons) and in the acclimation fold, where there are currently 14 bisons.
The process of releasing the bison (Bison bonasus), a legendary species of terrestrial mammals, into the forests in the …
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Time for hiking in the National Parks of Neamt County, places of rest and relaxation
Whether we are talking about Ceahlău National Park, Cheile Bicazului – Hăşmaş National Park or Vânători Neamţ Natural Park, they all make up ideal destinations for spending spare time, experiencing the beauty of nature in all its forms, with the rich diversity of plants and animals and also places full of history and spiritually charged places of worship. Reaching the natural protected areas of Neamţ County, the tourists can climb the mountain routes or choose to …
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Trips in the picturesque area of Neamţ County
One day through the villages and forests of Neamţ
The route explores the geographic and ethnographic area of the Neamţ River Basin, also known as Ozana. Hiking here is very exciting as as it implies crossing the territory of the Vânători-Neamţ Natural Park, one of the main touristic attractions of Neamţ County, characterized by a great variety of fauna and flora.
Neamţ Monastery stands as the departure point, then tourists can cross the woods to the Neamţ Valley, paying a visit at Vânători-Neamţ Natural Park. …
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The Vânători Neamţ Natural Park
Stretching on 30,818 hectares, of which 26,300-hectare forestry fund, the park encompasses remarkable cultural and historical values partly highlighted on our way. Three natural reservations, imbibed with legend and natural charm welcome the visitor: "Codrii de aramă" (common oaks), "Pădurea de Argint" (birches), and the oak reservation "Dumbrava", which contains secular oaks, between 150 and 200 years old, the only oaks grown in Romania at an altitude of 450 m.
The Dragoş Vodă Auroch Reservation
Once an iconic component of the Carpathian wildlife, the auroch is the …
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Bison Reserve and Carpathian Fauna Dragos Voda, was founded in 1968. The first three bison were brought here in 1970 from Poland. In 1974, they were born here a male and a female. Dragos Voda Bison Reserve, currently Zoo Dragos Voda, one of the four protected areas included in the Natural Park Vanatori Neamt, streches about 11,500 ha. Of the 28 bison existing at Vanatori Neamt, only 7, two males and five females were housed in tourist purpose by Zoo Dragos Voda. The remaining copies are in The Acclimatization Park which covers …
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Vanatori Natural Park represents an oasis of peace and beautiful scenery, the beauty of this place comes from the harmony of the environment and the beautiful colored of the seasons. As a tourist once you reached this place you'll feel an inner peace and you'll enjoy the picturesque of the monasteries.
In these parts there are some of the most well known monasteries from Neamt County: Neamt, Secu, Sihastria, Sihla, Agapia and Varatec. Also, in the park there is Neamt Stronghold, a palce present in so many writings. Near the park …

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Rm Society-Supporting Grieving Youth Through Rainbows
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RM Society continues to offer grief support programs called "Rainbows" to children and their families who have experienced a major loss due to death or divorce. The program is offered at several sites & times in the Nanaimo area, at no charge to participants. Support is given to volunteers wanting to set up new sites for the program in other areas of the province.
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Upcoming Fee and Policy Changes to Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Program - Effective 5 June 2018
My favourite frequent flyer program right now has got to be Alaska Airlines's Mileage Plan (even though I have not actually flown a single mile on Alaska Airlines before). The reason is very simple - the miles are simply worth a lot more and crediting the same revenue Business Class flights give me a whole lot more value. You might remember that these miles are also incredibly useful for traveling on Japan Airlines in Business Class and what a lot of people do not realise is that you are actually able to cancel your award tickets up to 60 days prior to departure but this is going to change on 5 June 2018.
Click HERE to read about all the upcoming changes to the Mileage Plan program!
The most important policy update that is happening on 05 June 2018 is the change and cancellation charge - this used to be complimentary if your trip is more than 60 days before departure but starting from the aforementioned date, the change and cancellation fee will now be US$125. With that being said, if you are an MVP Gold or an MVP Gold 75K Mileage Plan member, these fees will not apply to you - you will not be required to pay a change or cancellation fee.
Additionally, the 24-hour free cancellation policy will now only apply to tickets booked for travel starting 24 hours or more from the time of purchase. There will also be some updates to the same-day confirmed changes - starting from 5 June 2018, there will no longer be a 6-hour window requirement and you can request a same-day change at any time during check-in.


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The Point on Lake Norman is truly lake living at its finest. The Nantucket inspired country club community is located in Mooresville of Iredell County, NC, approximately 30 minutes north of Charlotte and convenient to I-77. The Point's 1200+ acres span almost 18 miles of shoreline along Lake Norman.
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YMCA Roast on the Roof
Join us for the YMCA's first ever Roast on the Roof, Saturday, Aug. 29, 6:00-10:00 p.m. at the state Capitol Complex parking garage in Charleston. Get that country summer feeling with live music from Hogans Goat and The Band Wagon, open pig roast, hamburgers and hot dogs with all the fixin's plus adult and non-alcoholic cold beverages.
All proceeds from this fundraising event will benefit YMCA youth programs. We will also recognize several individuals and organizations with service awards for their dedication to bettering our community.
Ticket purchases also include concurrent Kids Night Out admission for up to three children. Just drop your kids off at Charleston Family YMCA. Simply register with the ticket labeled with Child Care.
Tickets are $75 for an individual or $125 for two by using coupon code "DealForTwo". Tickets can be purchased either online through the link provided below or directly at the YMCA in Charleston at 100 YMCA Drive, Charleston, WV 25311.
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The mission is for the YMCA is executed through three areas of focus: Youth Development, Healthy Living and Social Responsibility. The Y wanted to develop an award which recognizes those individuals within our community who are implementing these ideals in their daily lives. The recipients are not necessarily associated with the Y, but are advocates for these specific areas in our community. Congratulations to our 2015 recipients:
Youth Development Awards
- Andrew Jordan,
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Healthy Living Awards
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Social Responsibility Awards
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- Charleston Civic Center
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alliant Insurance Services, the nation's largest specialty insurance brokerage firm, has added veteran benefits consultant Craig Harper as First Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group. The Philadelphia-based cost containment and employee engagement expert will service a diverse client base that spans large privately-held companies, hospitals, public entities, and various other organizations throughout the Eastern United States.
"Craig has demonstrated the ability to keep pace with the changing landscape of employee benefits over 25 years in the industry," said Kevin Overbey, Senior Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director, Alliant Employee Benefits. "As wellness continues to take center stage, Craig has used data and analytics to deliver powerful solutions to clients in a broad range of industries."
Harper's charge with Alliant Employee Benefits will be the design and delivery of employee benefit plans that reduce costs and improve outcomes. Known for his sound technical acumen, Harper will work closely with his clients to craft data-driven solutions that generate meaningful bottom-line results.
Prior to joining Alliant, Harper was an employee benefits consultant with a Philadelphia-based employee benefits agency. His leadership in the agency setting is augmented by extensive experience on the carrier side of the business with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Aetna.
A former conference MVP and Student Athlete of the Year in collegiate basketball, Harper holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and management at Susquehanna University. He will be based in the King of Prussia, PA office of Alliant, where he can be reached at (610) 635-3317 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. is one of the largest insurance brokerage firms in the United States and has a history dating back to 1925. Alliant provides property and casualty, workers' compensation, employee benefits, surety, and financial products and services to more than 26,000 clients nationwide, including public entities, tribal nations, healthcare, energy, law firms, real estate, construction, and other industry groups. More information is available on the company's web site at: www.alliant.com.


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When you're thinking about becoming a Glamour Model, it's important to bear in mind the different types of Glamour modelling markets. Glamour Modelling ranges from soft porn (think Katie Price and Abi Titmuss) to the more revealing, top shelf magazines.
It's a fact that magazines like Zoo and FHM have tons of girls beating down a path to their doors, all desperate to appear in their magazines. But not many girls know that if you are an amateur model, you probably won't get paid to appear in these magazines. The majority of the amateur girls appear for free. This is both a good and a bad thing. Yes, you get free exposure in a national magazine and it's great for your modelling CV, but you're not going to make a living out of it. Building up a great, professional portfolio and getting a good agent is the best way to get regular paid work. On the other side of the coin, there is a lot of money to be made appearing in the more revealing top shelf magazines. If you don't mind appearing nude and basically showing everything, then this is for you. If you are slightly more demure and have a limit of topless only, you'll be better suited to posing for magazines like FHM and Maxim.
Whatever type of Glamour Modelling you decide to try, it's always important to stay safe and trust your gut instincts. Professional Glamour Photographers will not mind you bringing along a chaperone (as long as it's not a crazy, jealous boyfriend!). There are a lot of strange men out there looking to exploit naive young girls, so be careful and never feel pressurised into doing something you feel uncomfortable with.
I'm often asked by aspiring Glamour Models how they can become a successful Glamour Model. Like any modelling industry it is dependent on a few key factors;
* Good looks (of course)
* A good body
* An ability to pose confidently in front of the camera
* A professionally shot portfolio (absolutely essential)
* An established Glamour Model Agent
* And maybe a bit of luck too (there's a lot to be said for being in the right place at the right time!)
Let's have a look at each of these points in a bit more detail:
* Good looks – Ok, I know this is an obvious one but the modelling world is a shallow industry. It's tough and it's not fair, but unfortunately it's the way it is.
* A good body – Whether you want to be a Glamour Model or a Fashion Model, you do need to look after yourself and be trim and toned. In Glamour Modelling, curves are very much an asset. Having said that, I modelled for 2 years with a small 34B bra size. I was often tempted to have implants, as lot's of models around me all seemed to be doing it . But I never gave in. Natural boobs are beautiful and contrary to popular belief, men LOVE them!
* An ability to pose confidently in front of the camera – See my last post!
* A professionally shot portfolio – If you want to be a Glamour Model, you have to have a professional portfolio. No ifs or buts. Glamour Model Agents will not accept photos you have taken of yourself with your mobile phone or your digital camera. Nor will they accept photos your boyfriend has taken of you in your bedroom etc. Agents of course can spot potential talent, but they need to see what you look like and how you pose in a professional shoot. In short, they want to see you at your best and home made, amateur photographs won't do this for you. Don't get a portfolio done by some old pervert, who just wants dirty photos of you for their 'private collection'. A decent, professional photography studio doesn't do 'TFP' (Time for Prints – or free photos). Professional photographers charge for their photos because they are good at what they do and it's their job.
* An established Glamour Model Agent – Agents are the holy grail of the Modelling world. They have contacts with photographers, magazines, TV companies etc. They can get you work. An Agent works on your behalf and it's in their best interests to get work for you. DO NOT, EVER pay any money to a Model Agency. Genuine Model Agencies don't ask for money up front. They earn their money by getting you work and taking their commission from that. If a Model Agency asks you to pay to register to be on their books, walk away.. no run!!! It's a scam and they won't get you any work. They'll take your money and laugh all the way to the bank.
* And maybe a bit of luck too – 'You've got to be in it to win it'. No-one is going to knock on your door and offer you a modelling contract. You have to get out there and make it happen. You never know, while you're out there trying to get noticed, you might be in the right place at the right time…
Posing for a photo shoot is always a difficult thing for a new model to accomplish. I've found that most new models tend to feel self-conscious at a first shoot and quite often freeze when they first get onto the set. I think there's a common misconception that modelling is easy and you really don't have to do very much to make the magic happen. This is definitely not true. I always ask every new model I work with to practice posing in front of a mirror before the shoot. It's good to have an idea of how you look and get comfortable with moving from position to position. Reading glamour magazines, finding glamour photos on the internet and having a go at recreating the poses is a fantastic way to give yourself a head start at a first shoot. Yes, it feels silly but you'd be amazed at how a little practice can make a huge difference.
I used to be a Glamour Model myself and so I enjoy helping new models with their poses. It's fun to give direction and it's rewarding watching a new model gain confidence and begin to throw her own poses into the mix. I remember my own first modelling shoot very well. I was testing for a local photographer who was regularly published in most of the men's top shelf magazines at the time. I think I must have been a born exhibitionist because I got a real thrill from whipping off my clothes and posing in sexy lingerie. Thanks to that photo shoot, I went on to work with that photographer on a regular basis and he recommended me to his other photographer friends. I wouldn't even say I was in the same league as Katie Price or Sam Fox (showing my age now), but confidence really does go a long, long way!
So girls, if you want to be successful, practice, practice, practice!
I love re-touching. No, scrap that… I'm addicted to re-touching. I seriously can't get enough! I've had this addiction for many years now and I know I would be lost without Photoshop. Glamour Photography is my passion and being able to manipulate the images at the end of the shoot is the icing on the cake for me. Of course, I do like a good before and after and hopefully the photo below of mine is a good one. I like to think I've not gone totally insane with the retouching here. I think there's just enough so you would recognise the model in real life if you ever met her. The model is called Jade by the way and the photo shoot took place in a night club in Manchester last year.


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As you are already known about the previous ratio of IPL Season. CSK is a leading team of IPL. Delhi Capitals will do their best performance to win this match. In this Season CSK is a powerful team so any team which will fight against him they have to their best performance because CSK has past experience by won last season. Delhi has a percentage to win this match because in this season their team is also a boosted pack team.
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Players Retained: Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Prithvi Shaw, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Manjot Kalra, Colin Munro, Chris Morris, Kagiso Rabada, Sandeep Lamichhane, Trent Boult
Traded: Shikhar Dhawan from Sunrisers Hyderabad for Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Shahbaz Nadeem
Players Bought:
Hanuma Vihari – Rs 2 crore
Axar Patel – Rs 5 crore
Ishant Sharma – Rs 1.10 crore
Ankush Bains – Rs 20 lakh
Nathu Singh – Rs 20 lakh
Colin Ingram – Rs 6.40 crore
Sherfane Rutherford – Rs 2 crore
Keemo Paul – Rs 50 lakh
Jalaj Saxena – Rs 20 lakh
Bandaru Ayyappa – Rs 20 lakh
Retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Faf du Plessis, M Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Billings, Mitchell Santner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Shane Watson, Lungi Ngidi, Imran Tahir, Kedar Jadhav, Ambati Rayudu, Harbhajan Singh, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Karn Sharma, Dhruv Shorey, N Jagadeesan, Shardul Thakur, Monu Kumar, Chaitanya Bishnoi
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Delhi Capitals release players to improve their squad strategy. They come to some new faces in the team who created a boosted pack team. 17 matches played between these teams and most of the matches are won by CSK. So this is clear you all that which team is more powerful. But since DC has successful against CSK and this is the factor which increases the number of winning percentage
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Head To Head: 18 Matches
Delhi Won: 6 Matches
CSK Won: 12 Matches
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If you follow science news, this will probably sound familiar.
In May 2019, when atmospheric carbon dioxide reached its yearly peak, it set a record. The May average concentration of the greenhouse gas was 414.7 parts per million (ppm), as observed at NOAA's Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Hawaii. That was the highest seasonal peak in 61 years, and the seventh consecutive year with a steep increase, according to NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The Mauna Loa Observatory has been measuring carbon dioxide since 1958. The remote location (high on a volcano) and scarce vegetation make it a good place to monitor carbon dioxide because it does not have much interference from local sources of the gas. (There are occasional volcanic emissions, but scientists can easily monitor and filter them out.) Mauna Loa is part of a globally distributed network of air sampling sites that measure how much carbon dioxide is in the atmosphere.
The broad consensus among climate scientists is that increasing concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are causing temperatures to warm, sea levels to rise, oceans to grow more acidic, and rainstorms, droughts, floods and fires to become more severe. Here are six less widely known but interesting things to know about carbon dioxide.
For decades, carbon dioxide concentrations have been increasing every year. In the 1960s, Mauna Loa saw annual increases around 0.8 ppm per year. By the 1980s and 1990s, the growth rate was up to 1.5 ppm year. Now it is above 2 ppm per year. There is "abundant and conclusive evidence" that the acceleration is caused by increased emissions, according to Pieter Tans, senior scientist with NOAA's Global Monitoring Division.
To understand carbon dioxide variations prior to 1958, scientists rely on ice cores. Researchers have drilled deep into icepack in Antarctica and Greenland and taken samples of ice that are thousands of years old. That old ice contains trapped air bubbles that make it possible for scientists to reconstruct past carbon dioxide levels. The video below, produced by NOAA, illustrates this data set in beautiful detail. Notice how the variations and seasonal "noise" in the observations at short time scales fade away as you look at longer time scales.
Satellite observations show carbon dioxide in the air can be somewhat patchy, with high concentrations in some places and lower concentrations in others. For instance, the map below shows carbon dioxide levels for May 2013 in the mid-troposphere, the part of the atmosphere where most weather occurs. At the time there was more carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere because crops, grasses, and trees hadn't greened up yet and absorbed some of the gas. The transport and distribution of CO2 throughout the atmosphere is controlled by the jet stream, large weather systems, and other large-scale atmospheric circulations. This patchiness has raised interesting questions about how carbon dioxide is transported from one part of the atmosphere to another—both horizontally and vertically.
In this animation from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, big plumes of carbon dioxide stream from cities in North America, Asia, and Europe. They also rise from areas with active crop fires or wildfires. Yet these plumes quickly get mixed as they rise and encounter high-altitude winds. In the visualization, reds and yellows show regions of higher than average CO2, while blues show regions lower than average. The pulsing of the data is caused by the day/night cycle of plant photosynthesis at the ground. This view highlights carbon dioxide emissions from crop fires in South America and Africa. The carbon dioxide can be transported over long distances, but notice how mountains can block the flow of the gas.
You'll notice that there is a distinct sawtooth pattern in charts that show how carbon dioxide is changing over time. There are peaks and dips in carbon dioxide caused by seasonal changes in vegetation. Plants, trees, and crops absorb carbon dioxide, so seasons with more vegetation have lower levels of the gas. Carbon dioxide concentrations typically peak in April and May because decomposing leaves in forests in the Northern Hemisphere (particularly Canada and Russia) have been adding carbon dioxide to the air all winter, while new leaves have not yet sprouted and absorbed much of the gas. In the chart and maps below, the ebb and flow of the carbon cycle is visible by comparing the monthly changes in carbon dioxide with the globe's net primary productivity, a measure of how much carbon dioxide vegetation consume during photosynthesis minus the amount they release during respiration. Notice that carbon dioxide dips in Northern Hemisphere summer.
Most of Earth's carbon—about 65,500 billion metric tons—is stored in rocks. The rest resides in the ocean, atmosphere, plants, soil, and fossil fuels. Carbon flows between each reservoir in the carbon cycle, which has slow and fast components. Any change in the cycle that shifts carbon out of one reservoir puts more carbon into other reservoirs. Any changes that put more carbon gases into the atmosphere result in warmer air temperatures. That's why burning fossil fuels or wildfires are not the only factors determining what happens with atmospheric carbon dioxide. Things like the activity of phytoplankton, the health of the world's forests, and the ways we change the landscapes through farming or building can play critical roles as well. Read more about the carbon cycle here.
This is a cross-post of a story by Ellen Gray. It provides deeper insight into our May 23 Image of the Day.
Six months after GRACE launched in March 2002, we got our first look at the data fields. They had these big vertical, pole-to-pole stripes that obscured everything. We're like, holy cow this is garbage. All this work and it's going to be useless.
But it didn't take the science team long to realize that they could use some pretty common data filters to remove the noise, and after that they were able to clean up the fields and we could see quite a bit more of the signal. We definitely breathed a sigh of relief. Steadily over the course of the mission, the science team became better and better at processing the data, removing errors, and some of the features came into focus. Then it became clear that we could do useful things with it.
It only took a couple of years. By 2004, 2005, the science team working on mass changes in the Arctic and Antarctic could see the ice sheet depletion of Greenland and Antarctica. We'd never been able before to get the total mass change of ice being lost. It was always the elevation changes – there's this much ice, we guess – but this was like wow, this is the real number.
Not long after that we started to see, maybe, that there were some trends on the land, although it's a little harder on the land because with terrestrial water storage — the groundwater, soil moisture, snow, and everything. There's inter-annual variability, so if you go from a drought one year to wet a couple years later, it will look like you're gaining all this water, but really, it's just natural variability.
By around 2006, there was a pretty clear trend over Northern India. At the GRACE science team meeting, it turned out another group had noticed that as well. We were friendly with them, so we decided to work on it separately. Our research ended up being published in 2009, a couple years after the trends had started to become apparent. By the time we looked at India, we knew that there were other trends around the world. Slowly not just our team but all sorts of teams, all different scientists around the world, were looking at different apparent trends and diagnosing them and trying to decide if they were real and what was causing them.
I think the map, the global trends map, is the key. By 2010 we were getting the broad-brush outline, and I wanted to tell a story about what is happening in that map. For me the easiest way was to just look at the data around the continents and talk about the major blobs of red or blue that you see and explain each one of them and not worry about what country it's in or placing it in a climate region or whatever. We can just draw an outline around these big blobs. Water is being gained or lost. The possible explanations are not that difficult to understand. It's just trying to figure out which one is right.
Not everywhere you see as red or blue on the map is a real trend. It could be natural variability in part of the cycle where freshwater is increasing or decreasing. But some of the blobs were real trends. If it's lined up in a place where we know that there's a lot of agriculture, that they're using a lot of water for irrigation, there's a good chance it's a decreasing trend that's caused by human-induced groundwater depletion.
And then, there's the question: are any of the changes related to climate change? There have been predictions of precipitation changes, that they're going to get more precipitation in the high latitudes and more precipitation as rain as opposed to snow. Sometimes people say that the wet get wetter and the dry get dryer. That's not always the case, but we've been looking for that sort of thing. These are large-scale features that are observed by a relatively new satellite system and we're lucky enough to be some of the first to try and explain them.
The past couple years when I'd been working the most intensely on the map, the best parts of my time in the office were when I was working on it. Because I'm a lab chief, I spend about half my time on managerial and administrative things. But I love being able to do the science, and in particular this, looking at the GRACE data, trying to diagnose what's happening, has been very enjoyable and fulfilling. We've been scrutinizing this map going on eight, nine years now, and I really do have a strong connection to it.
What kept me up at night was finding the right explanations and the evidence to support our hypotheses – or evidence to say that this hypothesis is wrong and we need to consider something else. In some cases, you have a strong feeling you know what's happening but there's no published paper or data that supports it. Or maybe there is anecdotal evidence or a map that corroborates what you think but is not enough to quantify it. So being able to come up with defendable explanations is what kept me up at night. I knew the reviewers, rightly, couldn't let us just go and be completely speculative. We have to back up everything we say.
The world is a complicated place. I think it helped, in the end, that we categorized these changes as natural variability or as a direct human impact or a climate change related impact. But then there can be a mix of those – any of those three can be combined, and when they're combined, that's when it's more difficult to disentangle them and say this one is dominant or whatever. It's often not obvious. Because these are moving parts and particularly with the natural variability, you know it's going to take another 15 years, probably the length of the GRACE Follow-On mission, before we become completely confident about some of these. So it'll be interesting to return to this in 15 years and see which ones we got right and which ones we got wrong.
You can read about Matt's research here: https://go.nasa.gov/2L7LXoP.
In Bengaluru, India, one of the city's lakes is so polluted with sewage, trash, and industrial chemicals that it has an alarming habit of catching on fire. As recently as January 19, 2018, fire broke out on Bellandur Lake and burned for seven hours.
The same lake is notorious for churning up large amounts of white foam that has, at times, spilled from the lake and enveloped nearby streets, cars, and bridges. The water is so polluted that it can't be used for drinking or bathing or even irrigation.
Bellandur Lake is not the only lake in Bengaluru with water quality problems. During a recent check, not one of the hundreds of lakes that the city tested was clean enough to be used for drinking or bathing.
I point this out on World Water Day to underscore that Bengaluru's water woes, though extreme, are not particularly uncommon. According to the United Nations, a quarter of all people on the planet lack access to safely managed drinking water, and 40 percent of people live in areas where water scarcity is a problem. Roughly 80 percent of wastewater flows back into ecosystems untreated. Even in the United States, tens of millions of people may be exposed to unsafe drinking water, according to one recently published study.
Even in the course of reporting for this website from a satellite perspective, we see signs of trouble. Capetown was on the verge of running out of water in February 2018. Drought pushed São Paulo's reservoirs to near empty in recent years. The GRACE satellites have observed rapid depletion of groundwater in several critical aquifers. On more than one occasion, we have reported on rainbow-colored escaped mine tailings contaminating waterways.
To push back against such problems, NASA's Earth Science Division, and particularly its applied sciences program, is doing what it can to marshal the agency's resources to make countries aware of what NASA resources are available to monitor and reduce the impact of water-related problems.
As one piece of its water program, NASA scientists and staff are working with the United Nations to highlight key NASA datasets, tools, and satellite-based monitoring capabilities that may help countries meet the 17 sustainable development goals established by the international body. Goal number 6—that countries ensure the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all—has been a particular focus of the NASA teams.
NASA and NOAA satellites collect several types of data that may be useful for water management. Sensors such as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) collect daily data and images of water bodies around the planet that can be used to track the number and extent of lakes and reservoirs.
The same sensors collect information about water color, which scientists use to detect sediment, chlorophyll-a (a product of phytoplankton and algae blooms), colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and other indicators of water quality.
The strength of MODIS and VIIRS is that these sensors collect daily imagery; the downside is that the data is relatively coarse. However, another family of satellites, Landsat, carries sensors that provide more than 10 times as much detail.
The combination of information from multiple satellites collected over time can be powerful. For instance, as we reported previously, a team of scientists based in China used decades of Landsat data to track a 30 percent decrease in the total surface area of lakes in Inner Mongolia between the 1980s and 2010. The scientists attributed the losses to warming temperatures, decreased precipitation, and increased mining and agricultural activity.
Meanwhile, one of NASA's scientists, Nima Pahlevan, is in the process of building an early warning system based on Landsat and Sentinel-2 data that will be used to alert water managers in near-real time when satellites detect high levels of chlorophyll-a, an indicator that harmful algal blooms could be present. While some blooms are harmless, outbreaks of certain types of organisms lead to fish kills and dangerous contamination of seafood. His team is working on a prototype system for Lake Mead in Nevada (see below), Indian River Lagoon in Florida, and certain reservoirs in Oregon. Eventually, he hopes to have a tool available that can be used globally.
"The idea is that we can get the information to water managers quickly about where satellites are seeing suspicious blooms, and then folks on the ground will know where to test water to determine if there's a harmful algae bloom," said Pahvalen. "We're not suggesting that satellites can replace on-the-ground sampling, but they can be a great complement and make that work much work more efficient and less costly."
To learn more about how satellites can be used to aid in the monitoring of water quality, see this workshop report and harmful algal bloom training module from NASA's ARSET program.
This article was published by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on January 23, 2018. NASA is beginning several months of commemoration of the beginning of the Space Age and the evolution of Earth science from space.
Sixty years ago next week, the hopes of Cold War America soared into the night sky as a rocket lofted skyward above Cape Canaveral, a soon-to-be-famous barrier island off the Florida coast.
The date was Jan. 31, 1958. NASA had yet to be formed, and the honor of this first flight belonged to the U.S. Army. The rocket's sole payload was a javelin-shaped satellite built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Explorer 1, as it would soon come to be called, was America's first satellite.
"The launch of Explorer 1 marked the beginning of U.S. spaceflight, as well as the scientific exploration of space, which led to a series of bold missions that have opened humanity's eyes to new wonders of the solar system," said Michael Watkins, current director of JPL. "It was a watershed moment for the nation that also defined who we are at JPL."
In the mid-1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were proceeding toward the capability to put a spacecraft in orbit. Yet great uncertainty hung over the pursuit. As the Cold War between the two countries deepened, it had not yet been determined whether the sovereignty of a nation's borders extended upward into space. Accordingly, then-President Eisenhower sought to ensure that the first American satellites were not perceived to be military or national security assets.
In 1954, an international council of scientists called for artificial satellites to be orbited as part of a worldwide science program called the International Geophysical Year (IGY), set to take place from July 1957 to December 1958. Both the American and Soviet governments seized on the idea, announcing they would launch spacecraft as part of the effort. Soon, a competition began between the Army, Air Force and Navy to develop a U.S. satellite and launch vehicle capable of reaching orbit.
At that time, JPL, which was part of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, primarily performed defense work for the Army. (The "jet" in JPL's name traces back to rocket motors used to provide "jet assisted" takeoff for Army planes during World War II.) In 1954, the laboratory's engineers began working with the Army Ballistic Missile Agency in Alabama on a project called "Orbiter." The Army team included Wernher von Braun (who would later design NASA's Saturn V rocket) and his team of engineers. Their work centered around the Redstone Jupiter-C rocket, which was derived from the V-2 missile Germany had used against Britain during the war.
JPL's role was to prepare the three upper stages for the launch vehicle, which included the satellite itself. These used solid rocket motors the laboratory had developed for the Army's Sergeant guided missile. JPL would also be responsible for receiving and transmitting the orbiting spacecraft's communications. In addition to JPL's involvement in the Orbiter program, the laboratory's then-director, William Pickering, chaired the science committee on satellite tracking for the U.S. launch effort overall.
The Navy's entry, called Vanguard, had a competitive edge in that it was not derived from a ballistic missile program — its rocket was designed, from the ground up, for civilian scientific purposes. The Army's Jupiter-C rocket had made its first successful suborbital flight in 1956, so Army commanders were confident they could be ready to launch a satellite fairly quickly. Nevertheless, the Navy's program was chosen to launch a satellite for the IGY.
University of Iowa physicist James Van Allen, whose instrument proposal had been chosen for the Vanguard satellite, was concerned about development issues on the project. Thus, he made sure his scientific instrument payload — a cosmic ray detector — would fit either launch vehicle. Meanwhile, although their project was officially mothballed, JPL engineers used a pre-existing rocket casing to quietly build a flight-worthy satellite, just in case it might be needed.
The world changed on Oct. 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched a 23-inch (58-centimeter) metal sphere called Sputnik. With that singular event, the space age had begun. The launch resolved a key diplomatic uncertainty about the future of spaceflight, establishing the right to orbit above any territory on the globe. The Russians quickly followed up their first launch with a second Sputnik just a month later. Under pressure to mount a U.S. response, the Eisenhower administration decided a scheduled test flight of the Vanguard rocket, already being planned in support of the IGY, would fit the bill. But when the Vanguard rocket was, embarrassingly, destroyed during the launch attempt on Dec. 6, the administration turned to the Army's program to save the country's reputation as a technological leader.
Unbeknownst to JPL, von Braun and his team had also been developing their own satellite, but after some consideration, the Army decided that JPL would still provide the spacecraft. The result of that fateful decision was that JPL's focus shifted permanently — from rockets to what sits on top of them.
The Army team had its orders to be ready for launch within 90 days. Thanks to its advance preparation, 84 days later, its satellite stood on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The spacecraft was launched at 10:48 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 31, 1958. An hour and a half later, a JPL tracking station in California picked up its signal transmitted from orbit. In keeping with the desire to portray the launch as the fulfillment of the U.S. commitment under the International Geophysical Year, the announcement of its success was made early the next morning at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, with Pickering, Van Allen and von Braun on hand to answer questions from the media.
Following the launch, the spacecraft was given its official name, Explorer 1. (In the following decades, nearly a hundred spacecraft would be given the designation "Explorer.") The satellite continued to transmit data for about four months, until its batteries were exhausted, and it ceased operating on May 23, 1958.
Later that year, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established by Congress, Pickering and Caltech worked to shift JPL away from its defense work to become part of the new agency. JPL remains a division of Caltech, which manages the laboratory for NASA.
The beginnings of U.S. space exploration were not without setbacks — of the first five Explorer satellites, two failed to reach orbit. But the three that made it gave the world the first scientific discovery in space — the Van Allen radiation belts. These doughnut-shaped regions of high-energy particles, held in place by Earth's magnetic field, may have been important in making Earth habitable for life. Explorer 1, with Van Allen's cosmic ray detector on board, was the first to detect this phenomenon, which is still being studied today.
In advocating for a civilian space agency before Congress after the launch of Explorer 1, Pickering drew on Van Allen's discovery, stating, "Dr. Van Allen has given us some completely new information about the radiation present in outer space….This is a rather dramatic example of a quite simple scientific experiment which was our first step out into space."
Explorer 1 re-entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up on March 31, 1970, after more than 58,000 orbits.
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More than 50 percent of the world's population lives in areas where mosquito-borne diseases are common, according to the World Health Organization. Malaria is the deadliest disease spread by mosquito, but the bugs also serve as vectors for Chikungunya, Zika, Dengue, West Nile Virus, and Yellow Fever.
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