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About NHS England
2017: a key year for gender identity services
Will Huxter
It has been a busy year and I want to thank all those who have taken the time to work with us in our various initiatives to improve services for transgender and non-binary people.
They include members of the Transgender Network; members of the Clinical Reference Group and its various working groups; the organisations that have joined our symposiums; and the staff who work in the services.
2016 saw publication of the report and recommendations of the Women and Equalities Select Committee on Transgender Equality, and we have used those recommendations to inform our work in developing new service specifications for gender identity services.
I am very pleased about the quality of engagement with partner organisations at our symposiums during the year, which has resulted in a joint initiative with Health Education England to progress training and education, for specialist staff and for others more widely across the health service.
The applicability of the 18 week waiting standard is now established in the transgender pathway. The surgical providers are now required to publish their monthly waiting time data, measuring compliance with the 18 week waiting standard, and Gender Identity Clinics will begin reporting in 2017 – though the requirement to meet the 18 week standard applies to them now.
NHS England invested an additional £6.5m in gender identity services in this financial year, and we will continue to hold the providers to account in demonstrating how that money is being used to tackle long waiting lists.
Looking ahead to 2017, we will be going out to consultation on new service specifications for both the adult gender identity clinics and the gender surgical services by the Spring. I will publicise the consultation in a future blog.
The Clinical Reference Group has been given the challenge of delivering new specifications that will give us an innovation and new models for care, addressing the concerns identified by the Select Committee and Transgender Network.
We have convened a stakeholder testing group on 5 January for registered stakeholders to help shape the specifications for the purpose of consultation. Once the specifications have been agreed, NHS England will begin a process of national procurement to identity providers and agree new contracts for the delivery of services in line with the requirements set out in them.
I reported previously that West London Mental Health NHS Trust, which currently hosts the Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, had decided it no longer wished to provide gender identity services in future. Since that time, we have been working closely with the Trust, and with the staff of the GIC, to identify an appropriate organisation to host the service. Our commitment throughout has been to ensure there is no disruption or reduction to the service provided by the GIC.
I am very pleased to report that, following discussions with a number of different organisations, NHS England has agreed the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust will host the Charing Cross Clinic from April 2017.
This will be on an interim basis, pending the outcome of the national procurement which NHS England will undertake in 2017. The focus for the Tavistock and Portman will be to assume the service with minimum disruption to patients and staff, combining their expertise with the knowledge, skill and experience of the current Charing Cross staff. The service will continue to be delivered from the same location as now, and there will be continuity in the clinical and non-clinical team. The change will not have any impact on appointments that have already been scheduled or treatment plans.
There are many advantages to the Tavistock and Portman as the new host for the service, given their experience in delivering the children and young people's gender identity service, and its links with the adult services.
Making the transfer from children to adult services as smooth as possible will be one of the expectations in the specifications to be issued in the new year and, dependent on the outcome of the procurement process, the experience of having both services in a single provider should help us to understand how to do this better, to the benefit of all people seeking support.
I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYear, and I look forward to working with you all in a busy 2017.
Please let me have any observations or questions about this blog via Twitter at #nhsgenderid
Will Huxter is Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning (London) at NHS England and currently chair of the NHS England Gender Task & Finish Group.
Prior to joining NHS England in June 2014, Will worked in a range of commissioning roles within the NHS, and for five years at an NHS Trust.
He has also spent eight years working in the voluntary sector.
Ms Jackie Aspden says:
4 August, 2017 at 8:01 pm
May we please have progress not rhetoric. At age 73 having tried to overcome my dysphoria due to attitudes in the cycle trade and cycle sport for a long time, I cannot believe the present situation.
Was referred to Leeds last September, "screened 2 1/2 months ago but no idea if or when an appointment may happen. Also found referral to plural Clinics allowed!
4? Surgeons to cover England are inadequate.
Organised my own hormone treatment, now with Bridge scripts, my own facial electrolysis and enquiring about European surgery.
Changed my name, doctor, bank, driving license, sporting gender in mtb orienteering and as a British Cycling Commissaire etc. Continued to support disabled people in my voluntary work.
Do I really need to raise capital on my home to gain access to surgery – I have already progressed much of the pathway with little NHS support.
In my teaching or later business I despised personal failure. Doubt those "improving " the system do.
Richard kerry says:
Dear Will Huxter, it seems that despite your statements with regards to the extra funding provision for nhs GIC services there is still a postcode lottery of services provided between the 7 Gic's and a statement by the Laurels clinic in Devon recently that the nhs no longer fund breast augmentation surgery. Why is it that extra funding has been provided yet crucial services have been cut?. It is disgusting the way trans patients are being treated due to stereotypical views of gender being used to gatekeep patients & the lack of social care besides monthly peer led groups. There ought to be an intensive fully supported treatment programme for both the medical & social aspects of transitioning, an endocrinology specialist available at the clinics & regular communication with patients Gp's, most gp's feel unable/unwilling to do anything without instruction from a GIC.
Alexandra Shattock says:
I have been reading around this subject for some time and also the comments on this particular section. My partner was recently discharged from GIC care after re-assignment surgery. Our main contention as many others seem to be is FFS! This is NOT cosmetic. She has endured three years plus of laser and electrolyis as well as private rhinoplasty all at our expense. This really has to be addressed within the trans care givers especially regarding hair removal and adams apple shaving, during consultation did no one listen to all the trans women whose life is made miserable and sometimes almost unlivable by having to go out or being forced to stay at home because of the mental anguish caused by this!!! I really think, as usual, the experts are not actually expert in this field as the only real experts are those that are living the whole ordeal or trying to be the person you are on the inside. Can you tell any of them that this will actually be looked at SERIOUSLY in the near future?
Sharon Moore says:
My partner has been waiting for an appointment in exeter since March 2016 however every time we phone to check on waiting times we are never given a satisfactory answer they tell us they are in the process of making a lot of changes and everything has been put on hold this is Now making my partner very distressed and life at home is becoming very difficult because of this it would be much more satisfactory if they would update their website and perhaps let people know how long it will be before the clinic is up and running in a normal fashion as this is so distressing for us both can anyone enlighten us as to what is happening with the changes that are ongoing
Natasha Harding says:
hi Will, today I have had word that Northampton (Daventre) is now 23-24months for first appointment from receipt of a referral confirmation letter. this is a jump of 10months in a short space of time from when it was 14months. also why is the GIC only active for 4hrs one day a week on a Tuesday, with this wait time? Natasha.
Christine Haylett says:
You state for facial feminisation surgery,There is a separate process going through Clinical Reference Group.
How does one apply for this ?, my local gp refuses to listen to my needs to the point of that I've not had a job for 12 years and never left the house alone due to the impact on my mental health which is directly related to this problem.
I wish to challenge them for surgery so I can live my life before I'm too odd.
12 years indoors is unfair preventing me from living my life and pushing me closer to suicide.
Please contact me through email or respond here.
Gurprit Pannu says:
I am the Clinical and Service Director for mental health in Brighton and Hove, and also Associate Medical Director for Sussex Partnership NHS.
We have the capability, the interest and willing to provide GI services locally.
There is much demand for a local service with our population and could service the South Coast.
I have been trying unsuccessfully to have my voice heard in the right place to discuss the viability of this
Please, please contact me –
6 says:
7 January, 2017 at 10:22 am
Despite this encouraging news I have found out that the waiting time that is listed on the Northamptonshire GIC, at which I have been referred to,are stating waiting time of 40 weeks last updated Sept 2016, yet when I asked for this information by way of telephone conversation I was informed that the waiting time is now 14 months (so 60 weeks in my calculations is more than half as much again)! This is completely unacceptable and I am not convinced that the news here is anything more than some kind of carrot dangling on a string that is attached to a very very big stick!
Will Huxter says:
Thanks for your post. I am sorry that you have been told of such a long wait to be seen.
I agree that long waiting times are unacceptable, and NHS England is committed to achieving the 18 week standard. That is why organisations who wish to provide these services in the future will have to demonstrate how they will deliver a model that ensures compliance with the waiting time standard.
I will be follow up with the Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning for the Midlands and East about the particular points that you raise about this clinic.
Chelsey Marie says:
I too have been on the waiting list at the Northamptonshire GIC, since July 2016. To my disgust, I was asked to check with them again on July 2017 to see where I am on the list. They just don't care, despite the encouraging news. This will only benefit newly referred patients and that's no good at all. I like many other girls I resorted to self medicating as there is nothing else in place, it's the only thing that has stopped me committing suicide. Like I say, they just don't care
Stephenie Robinson says:
Will there be provision for facial feminisation surgery for those who need it, mainly older people who could not start the transition in their early years?
Dear Stephenie
Thanks for your question.
As I have set out in a previous response below, facial feminisation surgery is not a treatment that is currently routinely commissioned by the NHS, and so will not be included in the proposed service specifications. There is a separate process for the Clinical Reference Group for Gender Identity Services to submit a proposal for routine commissioning. Any proposal , will need to be supported by a credible evidence base and which would need to be prioritised against other investment proposals for specialised services.
Mx Margaret D. Jones says:
1 January, 2017 at 12:56 pm
Many reading here will have heard about Mx (or Mix), a non-binary transgender title which can be very useful for some people.
I've been using Mx since 2002 and in 2015 I wrote a major article about it which includes info about how to incorporate Mx in application forms etc.
See http://www.mixmargaret.com/about-mx-with-miss-mrs-mr-ms-and-the-singular-they.html
Dear Margaret
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Jude Hope says:
I certainly do hope that there will be improved waiting times as a result of extra funding having been made available, I look forward to seeing if my wait for an appointment to my nearest GIC comes around sooner rather than later
Dear Jude
Diane A says:
Dear Will,
As the NHS is finding it difficult to cope with the numbers of applications soaring for GRS surgery from the GICs, with the current team on the Provider's list, it is clear the surgeon numbers available is far too low, therefore, could Mr Christopher Inglefield GRS Plastic Surgeon in London LBPS be considered to be put on the Provider's list please? as this would alleviate and reduce the pressures and suffering for those waiting for their GRS surgery.
I understand that Mr Inglefield is in the application phase at present, but it would help greatly for the people waiting for their surgery for another surgeon as qualified as Mr Inglefield to be on the Provider's list, as soon as possible to avoid further unnecessary delays.
Dear Diane
I responded to this question in the responses to my blog of 19 October 2016.
Thank you for your response, which I have noted your earlier comments to Mr Inglefield in October 2016.
However, when will the new applications for more surgeons on the Provider's list be available?
Tilly Simmonds says:
Good news, and some would say long overdue.
Consistent good quality and national standards of delivery is what we need and deserve, right now it seems to be us talking with each other, comparing notes, experiences etc.
This is the complete opposite to my cancer care, which is at a small Surrey Hospital, though I understand it's equally good elsewhere, so perhaps that is one model that could be looked at, no doubt there are others too.
Good luck and thank you
Dear Tilly
Many thanks for your comments.
Caro says:
Carrying on from my previous post about FFS:
Providing FFS would ameliorate some of the bottle neck in the chain for the waiting times for surgery and would perhaps allow the NHS to start meeting its target waiting times in a more timely manner.
Also, as FFS is not so radical a surgery as GCS, and would greatly enhance the individuals perception of themselves, this would lessen the degree of dysphoria that each individual suffers from.
As many people remarked in the survey which I did, "When I am walking down the street, nobody can see what is in my knickers, but everybody can see my face".
Dear Carol
Thanks for your both of your posts.
Facial feminisation surgery is not a treatment that is currently routinely commissioned by the NHS, and so will not be included in the proposed service specifications. There is a separate process for the Clinical Reference Group for Gender Identity Services to submit a proposal for routine commissioning, which will need to be supported by a credible evidence base and which would need to be prioritised against other investment proposals for specialised services.
Carol Steele says:
I welcome the move of the Charing Cross GIC to the auspices of the Tavistock – provided that the Tavistock do not then see that as a vehicle to promote the Charing Cross GIC above the other adult GIC's.
Although the extra £6.5 milion in funding is to be welcomed, I see this as a drop in the ocean to the amount that is realistically needed to bring waiting times down and provide a better service to trans people.
For instance, in a survey which I conducted 18 months ago, it was clear that many transgender women (around 50%) would prefer to have Facial Feminisation Surgery over Gender Confirmation Surgery – and yet there will be no provision for this being carried out through the NHS.
I realise that this is a contentious issue and the right wing press would seize upon this with glee – but it is people's lives that we are dealing with here first and foremost.
Jan Evans says:
Changes to meet demand for NHS England – Gender Services are long over due. Looking forward to providing positive input to help design a 'new service model' next year !
GICRG – Member & Stoke – NHS CCG – Patient Congress Member.
Thank you for your comment. We look forward to working with you too!
its good to know the GIC at Charing Cross is in safe hands moving to the tavistock and Portman NHS foundation Trust – two things: Facial Feminisation Surgery included in this service? and Monitoring long standing patients and not forget them?
Just to be clear, it is only the gender identity clinic service that is moving across to the TAVI, not surgery.
I will certainly make sure that we work with the TAVI to look at arrangements for monitoring long-standing patients, and can perhaps update people on that aspect of the service in one of my future blogs.
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Susan Cianciolo, Platforms 1–4, 1990–2017. Installation view at the South London Gallery Fire Station, 2019.
Courtesy the artist, Modern Art, London and Bridget Donahue, New York
"While you live, shine
Life exists only for a short while
and time demands its due"
—200BC Epitaph of Seikiles
American artist Susan Cianciolo's practice draws together elements inspired by craft, fashion and daily domestic life. Fabric off-cuts, buttons, cardboard boxes, diary pages and her young daughter's drawings become integral parts of works in which the seemingly casual and low-fi nature of their construction is at odds with the precision of their compositions.
In Gallery 1, the mannequins in Platforms 1-4 were salvaged by Cianciolo from mannequin-designer Ralph Pucci's workshop in the 1990s. At that time she became known for her RUN clothing lines, made in collaboration with friends, students and relatives, shown on live models in downtown New York galleries and sold in high-end stores. Some 25 years later, Cianciolo customised and installed them on low platforms before dressing them in inimitable garments to create a sculptural installation that draws on fashion, craft and bricolage but ultimately occupies a territory entirely of its own.
The integration and transformation of archival material into new works is characteristic of Cianciolo's approach. In 2001 she started to make an ongoing series of Kits, a group of which is shown in Gallery 2. Originally called Fluxus Boxes, the Kits are filled with fragments from Cianciolo's life and past works. Like much of her output, they are inspired by her memories and visions. These DIY boxes of materials, photographs, objects and collage invite the user to construct their own costumes, talismans or rituals.
Over the past year Cianciolo has focused on making a series of Games, developed with her 11 year-old daughter Lilac and inspired by the way in which games become such a natural part of living with children. On the opening night of the exhibition, a new performance entitled Scene 10 – The Celebration and the Games sees the Games activated by Cianciolo's collaborators, students and friends wearing hand-made costumes, adding a further dimension to her unerring integration of her art and life.
Cianciolo's very particular sensibility is both intimate and generous, elevating domestic labour and existence, but equally inspired by her deep spirituality.
Susan Cianciolo (b. 1969, Rhode Island, US) lives and works in New York.
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Susan Cianciolo, Orange Circle, 2018 and Platforms 1–4, 1990–2017 (detail). Installation view at the South London Gallery Fire Station, 2019
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Susan Cianciolo, Kits, 1996–2016. Installation view at the South London Gallery Fire Station, 2019
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Khovanov-Rozansky homology and the braid index of a knot
Author: Keiko Kawamuro
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 137 (2009), 2459-2469
MSC (2000): Primary 57M25, 57M27; Secondary 57M50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09743-3
Published electronically: February 23, 2009
MathSciNet review: 2495283
Abstract: We construct a knot whose braid index is not detected by the Morton-Franks-Williams (MFW) inequality but is detected by a related KR-MFW inequality that comes from the Khovanov-Rozansky homology. We also construct infinitely many knots whose braid indices are not detected by the KR-MFW inequality.
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Dunfield, N. M., Gukov, S. and Rasmussen, J., The superpolynomial for knot homologies, Experiment. Math. 15 (2006), no. 2, 129-159. MR 2253002 (2008c:57020)
Elrifai, E. A.,
Franks, J. and Williams, R. F., Braids and the Jones polynomial, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 303 (1987), 97-108. MR 896009 (88k:57006)
Jones, V. F. R., Hecke algebra representations of braid groups and link polynomials, Ann. of Math. (2) 126 (1987), 335-388. MR 908150 (89c:46092)
Kálmán, T., Meridian twisting of closed braids and the HOMFLY polynomial, arXiv:0803.0103
Kawamuro, K., The algebraic crossing number and the braid index of knots and links, Algebraic & Geometric Topology 6 (2006), 2313-2350. MR 2286028 (2007k:57012)
Kawamuro, K., Conjectures on the braid index and the algebraic crossing number, Intelligence of Low Dimensional Topology 2006, Knots and Everything, 40, World Scientific Publ. Co., Hackensack, NJ, 2007, 151-155. MR 2371720
Khovanov, M. and Rozansky, L., Matrix factorizations and link homology, Fund. Math. 199 (2008), no. 1, 1-91. MR 2391017
Khovanov, M. and Rozansky, L., Matrix factorizations and link homology. II, Geom. Topol. 12 (2008), no. 3, 1387-1425.
Malešič, J. and Traczyk, P., Seifert circles, braid index and the algebraic crossing number, Topology Appl. 153 (2005), no. 2-3, 303-317. MR 2175354 (2006i:57013)
Morton, H. R., Seifert circles and knot polynomials, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 99 (1986), 107-109. MR 809504 (87c:57006)
Murasugi, K., On the braid index of alternating links, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 326 (1991), no. 1, 237-260. MR 1000333 (91j:57009)
Rasmussen, J., Some differentials on Khovanov-Rozansky homology, math.GT/0607544
Rudolph, L., Quasipositivity as an obstruction to sliceness. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 29 (1993), no. 1, 51-59. MR 1193540 (94d:57028)
Shumakovitch, A., KhoHo: a program for computing Khovanov homology, www.geometrie.ch/ KhoHo/
Stoimenow, A., Properties of closed -braids, math/0606435
Wu, H., Braids, transversal links and the Khovanov-Rozansky theory, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 360 (2008), no. 7, 3365-3389. MR 2386230
Yamada, S., The minimal number of Seifert circles equals the braid index of a link, Invent. Math. 89 (1987), no. 2, 347-356. MR 894383 (88f:57015)
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Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005
Address at time of publication: School of Mathematics, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Email: kk6@ias.edu
Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 2, 2008
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF grants DMS-0806492 and DMS-0635607.
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Sheffield's City Hall is a Grade II* Listed building designed in the 1920s as a memorial to soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War. Today it is an important part of the city's thriving cultural quarter, with a full schedule of concerts and events throughout the year.
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Internally, we completely refurbished the three auditoria and transformed the front of house area with new circulation routes, enlarged foyer spaces and stunning new bars. Additional backstage accommodation was created above the semicircular Memorial Hall to the rear.
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D″ shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean and Central America
Edward Garnero, Thorne Lay
The D″ region in the lowermost mantle beneath the Caribbean and Central America is investigated using shear waves from South American earthquakes recorded by seismic stations in North America. We present a large-scale, composite study of volumetric shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy, and the possible presence of a D″ discontinuity in the region. Our data set includes: 328 S(Sdiff)- SKS differential travel times, 300 ScS-S differential travel times, 125 S ( Sdiff) and 120 ScS shear wave splitting measurements, and 297 seismograms inspected for Scd, the seismic phase refracted from a high-velocity D″ layer. Broadband digital data are augmented by high-quality digitized analog WWSSN data, providing extensive path coverage in our study area. In all, data from 61 events are utilized. In some cases, a given seismogram can be used for velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy, and discontinuity analyses. Significant mid-mantle structure, possibly associated with the ancient subducted Farallon slab, affects shear wave travel times and must be corrected for to prevent erroneous mapping of D″ shear velocity. All differential times are corrected for contributions from aspherical mantle structure above D″ using a high-resolution tomography model. Travel time analyses demonstrate the presence of pervasive high velocities in D″, with the highest velocities localized to a region beneath Central America, approximately 500-700 km in lateral dimension. Short wavelength variability overprints this general high-velocity background. Corrections are also made for lithospheric anisotropy beneath the receivers. Shear wave splitting analyses of the corrected waveforms reveal D″ anisotropy throughout the study area, with a general correlation with heterogeneity strength. Evidence for Scd arrivals is pervasive across the study area, consistent with earlier work, but there are a few localized regions (100-200 km) lacking clear Scd arrivals, which indicates heterogeneity in the thickness or velocity gradients of the high-velocity layer. While small-scale geographic patterns of heterogeneity, anisotropy, and discontinuity are present, the details appear complex, and require higher resolution array analyses to fully characterize the structure. Explanations for the high-shear wave speeds, anisotropy, and reflector associated with D″ beneath the Caribbean and Central America must be applicable over a lateral scale of roughly 1500 km2, the dimension over which we observe coherent wavefield behavior in the region. A slab graveyard appears viable in this regard.
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2003.07.014
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Garnero, E., & Lay, T. (2003). D″ shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean and Central America. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 140(1-3), 219-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2003.07.014
D″ shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean and Central America. / Garnero, Edward; Lay, Thorne.
In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, Vol. 140, No. 1-3, 28.11.2003, p. 219-242.
Garnero, E & Lay, T 2003, 'D″ shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean and Central America', Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, vol. 140, no. 1-3, pp. 219-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2003.07.014
Garnero E, Lay T. D″ shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean and Central America. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 2003 Nov 28;140(1-3):219-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2003.07.014
Garnero, Edward ; Lay, Thorne. / D″ shear velocity heterogeneity, anisotropy and discontinuity structure beneath the Caribbean and Central America. In: Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. 2003 ; Vol. 140, No. 1-3. pp. 219-242.
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11 Best Club Kits from the 2000s
by Robert Baum January 3, 2019 April 21, 2022
If Umbro, Lotto, Kappa, and Adidas predominated the 90s kit, then the 2000s were about Nike's intricate design and performative technology (e.g. dri-fit) elements. Let's take a look at our favorite jerseys from the 2000s.
Paris St. Germain 2006-07 Away Kit
What looks like it was extracted from a Louis Vuitton handbag, the brown Paris St. Germain away jersey released in 2006 features an unobtrusive Nike check with a small white Eiffel Tower logos in addition to the crest. Simple and chic — well done.
Real Madrid, 2004 Home Kit
Simple but beautiful, the Los Blancos kit from the Galácticos era screams legendary status. It's impossible not to think of the greats like Ronaldo, Beckham, Raul, Zidane, Luis Figo, and Robert Carlos who's big names on the back rocked the shirt. The gold trim on the back was also priceless.
Chelsea 2001 – 03 Home Kit
The pre-Abramovich Chelsea sported a classic and collar-fitted kit made by Umbro. With a balanced shade of blue and white trim on the collar, the jersey reinforced simplicity with the iconic lion logo, the Fly Emirates sponsor, and Umbro logo from left to right. Sometimes simple is best.
Manchester City 2009-10 Third Kit
Not a bad kit for a team that was on its way up, finishing 5th in the Premier League in the 2009/10 season. The Umbro-designed Manchester City 2009/10 away jersey featured a diagonal red and black sash similar to the classic one in the 70s with the addition of the Etihad logo under the team crest. As they say, fashion is cyclical.
Arsenal 2002-04 Home Kit
Arsenal's home shirt for the 2002/04 was a thing of beauty. Designed by Nike, it featured the classic mix of red and white palettes with emphasis on the spacing between the crest, sponsor, and the Nike check. We could watch Vieira and Henry all day in these kits.
Sampdoria 2004-05 Third Kit
The Sampdoria third kit was a classic, pretty much a modern update to its 1989-90 staple of the same iconic red and black strips and Genovese crest. But in this case, the primary color jersey is black instead of blue.
Fiorentina 2008-09 Home Kit
Fiorentina seems to introduce one iconic kit every decade — be sure to check out the amazing Nintendo 1998-99 jersey worn by Batistuta. The 2008/09 season retained the purple strip with Lotto logos on the right and left arm that gives the jersey an extra color pop.
Juventus Away Kit 2008-09
To celebrate the team's return back to Champions League after the Calciopoli scandal, Nike created a special gold away kit for the beloved club. While the New Holland Fiat Group was a still a bit obtrusive, the rest of the shirt is pure class. Yet another gem from Nike.
Pumas 2009 Away Kit
In what might be the coolest crest in football, The Mexican team Pumas showcases a massive puma logo on the front of its kit. Unrelated but sharing the same name and aesthetic, the Puma brand made the jersey.
Palermo 2007-08 Home Kit
For the 2007/08 season, Lotto created a pink and black jersey for Palermo to celebrate the club's unique pink and black origins starting in 1907. Worn by the likes of Edinson Cavani and Andrea Barzagli, the shirt was bound to impress.
AC Milan 2004-2005 Home Kit
In what is always a staple in the well-designed kit category, look no further than the 2004 AC Milan jersey. The Rossoneri won Champions League in jersey, reinforcing the simplicity and legacy of the red and black stripes.
Liverpool 2004-2005 Home Kit
It was the kit that screamed comeback. The 2005 Liverpool squad wore the all-red jersey in their epic Champions League comeback against AC Milan in Istanbul. Winning enhancing everything.
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Clever little tricks on Instagram aren't always introduced or shared. Not everyone will need them, but I think it's still fun to know and sometimes put that extra time on getting that colourful and creative story or post.
You don't always need apps to create cool stories, Instagram has some inside features that you can use to make your stories more eye catching.
This first one that I will share is my absolute favourite and such an easy thing, make your stories stand out with your own unique templates or use this hack to just create collages.
This technique is actually not that hard, I would say it's just the beauty of copy and past.
Basically what you need to do is just open up Instagram story, make a (black) photo – go to your Photos – select image – COPY – go back to Instagram – and the photo will just pop up there.
But that's just how you make collages, making your templates straight on Instagram isn't any harder.
Google is full on PNG's and that's what we are after. Choose the frames or oil splashes, polaroids… pretty much add anything you like.
Hope you liked this post and your feedback is very welcomed!
March was an epic busy month for me. I finally moved out of Tartu and sadly away from my family. A few days later I flew to India to have my third India tour and at the end of the month, I flew to Croatia for a project, to learn about IP.
Here are some unpublished photos from March.
Ever since I started being more active on Instagram, I got obsessed. Obsessed with knowing and doing everything first. Also in general, I love the refreshing feeling of exploring and learning something new.
On Instagram, it's all about the trend, those who catch the trend first are winning. Like, remember the #followmeto trend, where the person on the photo is holding a hand with the person behind the camera. It's still a thing, but the ones, who created it got a lot more famous than they were before.
Also having clean and beautiful content is so important. I cannot bear to watch bad quality Instagram stories. Of course, sometimes Instagram lowers the quality of the video and so on and Instagram is catching the instant moment, but if it's a shaky, loud and blurry content, we will skip it or just send it to your close friends (which you can now do on Instagram).
For my own Instagram, I don't always edit and use apps to make that perfect look, but I try to keep it clean and understandable, not too much text, gifs, emojis. But when I do, I only use the best ones to make it visually super nice.
So, without further ado, here are some of my favourite apps I use to get those stylish photos.
This is one of the most popular ones among influencers. You get 2-3 free template sets, but buying the rest is worth it. Different fonts and features are available. Makes your photos to stand out and pleasant to watch. Here are some photos I have made with Unfold and a little sneak peek inside my Unfold app.
StoryArt is definitely one of my favourite ones at the moment. It has a lot of free templates and it has inside filters. Altho buying a new set of templates is a bit more expensive than buying from Unfold. I like that StoryArt gives you a little preview of the templates before you start editing.
I use Spark Post mostly for work. You can add cool effects to the text and make it more alive. Add icons and logos. Some of the features are only available to Adobe Creative members, if you pay for Lightroom, like I do, just log in and you will get all the features. App also has templates, but all the templates are single, Unfold and StoryArt have template sets, where you can create a nice storyline. Spark Post is best for promotional photos or single text posters.
I actually discovered Appfortrype while putting together this post. I immediately fell in love. You can add stickers and fonts for your photos. Perfect if you want to add small seasonal stickers or use that brushy background look. This app has a lot to offer and I'm also excited to explore this one. Most of it you can use for free, but again, if you want to be super on-trend, then you can purchase new stickers and fonts for few euros. Really loved it that it gives tips how to do your pics better.
These are only a few of apps I use, my go-to-apps, super fast to use and once you've used them for some time you'll have a vision and can edit a photo in a minute.
It's always juicy to see those unpublished photos from crazy photoshoots. Every shoot with Dago has just been WILD, creativity flows and we feel free and satisfied by the weirdness level we both have. No limits. He loves being behind the camera and I just enjoooy being in front.


We got the show up-and-running last weekend, although not without a bit of extraneous drama to go with the drama onstage.
Turns out one of the performers, my friend P-Ratt, her husband SGNP and newborn Betty George (no website - yet!) were flooded out of their house Thursday evening by a burst pipe that left the entire downstairs under about six inches of water. They managed to get a plumber in, who pumped out most of the standing water, but getting whatever had seeped into the walls and floors was going to necessitate employing heavy-duty industrial drying fans running full-bore for about four or five straight days, meaning they needed to find other accomodations in the meantime.
They're both good friends, and the idea of them spending ridiculous sums of money to stay in a motel didn't set well, so we coordinated amongst several of our fellow theatre-folk and managed to work out a temporary lodging roundel: I hosted them on Friday evening, spending the night on the boat, because the idea of three people PLUS a nursing infant crammed into a 300 sq. foot basement apartment just seemed ludicrous on the face of it, and besides, why NOT stay on the boat?
So, I gave the place a good, thorough cleaning when I got home from work, then went to our Gala Opening, which was quite nice, followed by a faaaaabulous aprez-show party, afterwards scooted off to the boat.
Although I've been maintaining & checking up on it on a regular basis since moving off two years ago, I hadn't done an overnight for quite some time - probably going back to summer of 2005. Not too much of a change; seems a little roomier with some of the day-to-day items removed, and not sharing the small space with two grumpy cats. But otherwise, same-old-same-old. I did, however, have a great deal of difficulty falling and staying asleep. It was quite calm, so there wasn't much motion, but the "firmness" of the 30 year-old berth cushions, even with an extra layer of foam padding on top, was something with which to contend, and I spent most of the night tossing-and-turning, and falling in-and-out of a rather shallow sleep.
On the plus side, my houseguests absolutely enjoyed their brief stay, and had nothing but glowing praise for my tiny living space. Didn't hurt that an original SGNP drawing holds a place of prominence in my "Kitchen Gallery of Space Age Pop Art", or that they're the kind of people who would actually be delightfully surprised by a Tiki-inspired bathroom.
Saturday, they moved to another friend's house, conveniently located just a few blocks away from me, and by now should be relatively comfortably ensconsed in another friend's "Condo Guest Suite", where they'll spend the next several days until their house is dry-and-cool enough to allow them to return.
Thank goodness for Home Owner's Insurance, is all I can say.


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Case Study News Singapore Updates
CASE STUDY: YPO Edge returns to Singapore
by BEA Reporter
More than 2,800 young leaders from more than 90 countries descended on the Lion City last month (March) for the YPO Global Leadership Conference (GLC) and its flagship event, YPO EDGE.
The three-day annual event convenes business leaders and chief executives from across the globe and members of the prestigious organisation run companies that employ more than 15 million people and generate USD6 trillion in annual revenues.
Accommodating close to 3,000 power players is no mean feat, but after hosting YPO back in 2012, Marina Bay Sands took it one with full gusto. Singapore is also the only Asian city to host YPO more than once.
YPO EDGE 2018 host city chair Terry O'Connor, said Singapore was a "natural choice" for the organisation when choosing a location for their 2018 conference.
"I think Singapore is a global city but with exciting features, and YPO had a great experience here at Marina Bay Sands in 2012. Our members gave it a very good rating, and part of that was due to the facilities, flexible space and the convenience of the venue. It's really one of few places globally where we can get all of our members in one location," he said.
Themed 'Defy Convention', YPO EDGE featured a series of plenary sessions, discussions and networking around topics of economic opportunity, sustainable environmental change and compassionate leadership. This year's conference also boasted an impressive line-up of high profile speakers, including Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Founder of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and former World No. 1 tennis player, Billie Jean King.
The flexible meeting spaces at Marina Bay Sands, along with its extensive room inventory, meant the integrated resort was an easy choice for organisers to make when searching for a venue. "I think YPO needs a location where you've got a hospitality venue that is big enough, but also offers quality and intimacy, " O'Connor said. "Marina Bay Sands has a leading facility – not just in terms of its size and scale, but also the availability of smaller, intimate venues within a single location. These factors are important for the modern CEO."
Altogether, the YPO group occupied a total of 7,736 room nights and utilised nearly 360,000 sq. ft. of event space. Throughout the event, the Roselle-Simpor ballroom was transformed into a dynamic Venture Marketplace, which featured an experiential showcase of businesses, products and services, while smaller meeting rooms and a selection of celebrity restaurants were used to host networking events, private gatherings and breakout sessions.
Each day, the venue's catering and conference management team served between 900 and 1,600 delegates per meal, with separate counters and buffet lines set up for those with specific dietary requirements.
Mike Lee, vice president of Sales at Marina Bay Sands, said: "Our partnership with YPO was formed years ago, and to have the group return to our integrated resort for their 2018 event is akin to welcoming an old friend home. For that reason, some of Marina Bay Sands' senior management – including myself — were personally involved in the planning process with YPO. We were excited to work together again to push the event's boundaries of creativity and build on the success of its 2012 edition."
During the event, the integrated resort was transformed into the home of YPO, with the organisation's branding displayed across nearly all digital signage and advertising panels around the hotel lobby, The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands and Sands Expo and Convention Centre.
A YPO-branded pagoda was also placed in the centre of the iconic hotel's Tower 1 lobby and served as a photo-worthy backdrop for the organisation's international delegates to snap up selfies.
Delegates (and partners) were also given the opportunity to attend a private brand showcase at The Shoppes' Louis Vuitton Island Maison. A hosted visit to the luxury shopping mall also featured canapes at TWG Tea and a dedicated buggy service to transport VIPs around the mall.
O'Connor added: "I think YPO members had a sensational week. The event has been seamless, and I'm overwhelmed by the gratitude that they've expressed for the experience that they've had at Marina Bay Sands."


Social Anthropology Teaching Collection consists of approximately 36 items, including musical instruments, children's toys, carved ornaments, jewellery made from shells, beads, seeds, and leather, metal and stone weapons, a feather costume with photograph, a wooden mask and statue, and wooden arrows. All items have been donated by previous members of staff. Many were collected while conducting fieldwork in West Africa, South America, and Oceania. Professor Kenneth Little, a former department professor, donated a number of the larger masks and objects.


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All hike dates and times are subject to change, pending inclement weather, or other factors, so be aware! As always, if you come, please be prepared for our local conditions and for the conditions generally found in our forests. Please wear appropriate clothing and foot ware, bring food, and water, and anything else you may need to be comfortable and safe in the forest. Hikes are of varying lengths and difficulty levels, so please check out the descriptions below, and know your limits! All hikes will originate from our office in Arcata, CA, at 145 G Street, Suite A, at 10 a.m., unless otherwise noted. Space may be limited, so please RSVP if you plan to attend an individual hike.
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Trinity McQueen have signed up to CMAP's Agency Edition.
Trinity McQueen are a full-service market research & insight consultancy with over 40 staff, operating out of offices in Leeds & London.
In recent years, the business has seen a large increase in both their turnover & client-base.
With this, management were becoming increasingly aware of rising administration costs - both financial and time-based.
So for them, the key to moving forwards was to centralise their processes through CMAP.
CMAP will provide the necessary members of staff with the same view. Saving them the need to keep updating one another via emails and phone calls, thus freeing up the time of senior staff to analyse project performance, as well as the wider performance of the business.
To support this further, they've also chosen to implement CMAP BI, an advanced custom reporting module which will help them cut through their data any way they like.
Overall, they can clearly see how CMAP will pay for itself. There will be a lot less data duplication and manipulation. Plus, a centralised view of their projects & timesheets will make things altogether simpler, yet more insightful for their staff.
We're looking forward to begin working with Trinity McQueen, who will be our 5th client in the market research space.
Find out about CMAP for agencies, brand & insight consultancies via the link below.


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