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Commercial and editorial photographer Graham Jepson recently made the move across the globe from rainy London to sunny Sydney, Australia. When asked why he said, "I strongly believe that whatever you do for work, to remain fresh and engaged, there must be some sort of advancement and transition. The idea of a fresh start appealed to me."
Today, with customers coming in from both Sydney and London, Graham's long list of clients includes British RED, The Sydney Magazine, Home Beautiful, New Idea, as well as commercial portrait work for AusPost, M&C Saatchi, P&O Cruises, Bell Pottinger, Proctor & Gamble and Warner Bros.
Initially, Graham's path to photography came from a bit of bad luck. In 1991, he graduated in the middle of a deep recession when jobs for sociology majors were few and far between. "Since there wasn't much else to do, I started taking picture after picture, mostly street photography in Sheffield where I was based," Graham says. "After a while I thought that I might actually consider doing this for a living, so I went for an interview for a cruise ship photography company and got the job."
But Graham soon realized that cruise ship photography was not his calling. He started shooting for local papers and moved to London in 1996 to work on National papers shooting news. As time went on he picked up more assignments shooting for newspaper supplements, portraits for magazines, and interiors for the property sections. "After a while I dropped shooting news and just concentrated on the portraits and lifestyle pieces. Standing around waiting for something to happen (which you often do in news) had gotten pretty old for me."
Today, Graham has launched a full-time commercial and editorial photography business, www.grahamjepson.com, and uses PhotoShelter to connect with his clients both in Sydney and London. "I signed up for PhotoShelter back in 2007 because it looked like a great solution both for image organization and delivery system to help my business run smoothly," Graham says. "And since I signed up, I've also seen a huge improvement in my SEO. Now I rank higher on search engines and that's key to getting noticed by potential clients."
As part of his daily workflow, Graham continues to use PhotoShelter as a joint portfolio and image delivery system and a powerful back-up system. "The most fantastic thing about PhotoShelter is that when you deliver and share images, you are also sharing your portfolio site, it's all in one seamless package."
Now in Australia, Graham shoots mostly for interior magazines, as well as for features in Weekend supplements, in addition to business publications. "I'm in my early days here in Sydney, so working with magazines is one of the best ways to break into the market here and get noticed. Getting your name out there is really important for any photographer." To help get his foot in the door in a new location, Graham also worked hard to secure an agent. "Having an agent in a new place has helped immeasurably. It is someone who can point you in the right direction and to the right people."
To help his business thrive, Graham also keeps up a good track record with new and old clients. "I'm happy to say that once I start shooting for a client, they generally re-book me. I am not a very showy photographer, and I think clients like that." And although he's no longer based in London, Graham still gets royalties from work he's done with clients in the past. "I really advise photographers to hang onto their copyright and image selling rights if they possibly can," Graham says.
So in addition to word-of-mouth referrals, how does he market his brand to keep revenue coming in? Graham relies on email marketing to get the word out to his network, although he's sure not to overdo it. "I like to send out emails, particularly after a successful shoot or publication comes out with my work. I believe a successful email should be newsworthy; if you have something to talk about that will get your clients excited and also remind them that you're still around."
Alongside his dedicated emails, Graham likes to think of his marketing efforts as "old school." "I like to follow up on the phone with contacts and try to secure a meeting to present my work," he says. "I find face-to-face meetings are important in businesses. I think it helps the client size you up quickly and vica-versa!"
Graham also relies heavily on his iPad to help showcase and present his work to potential clients. "I have been using my iPad to show clients my work, as opposed to a full printed portfolio. Doing it that way is cheaper, easier, and faster for me to tailor my work for prospective clients." Graham also updates his Tumblr blog, which he integrated into his PhotoShelter site. "My blog is a great way to regularly show everyone what I'm up to. It works really well for me."
To help his business grow, Graham also takes advantage of all the business and marketing resources PhotoShelter has to offer. "I do like the guides and other photographer support items that PhotoShelter creates. Some are very inspirational and really get me thinking on ways I can improve my business!"
So what's around the corner for this new Sydney resident? For starters, he's still getting his bearings in his new home and in some sense, starting all over again. "My main job at the moment is promotion, especially to agencies. I am pushing for advertising work and that is the direction I'd really like to go in."


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Tamil Nadu has one of the lowest child literacy rates in India. As of 2002, schools boast an enrollment rate of 99.5% (and that number has increased since then), but over 80% of 5th standard students can't read. What does that say about the state's education system?
Plenty, if you're Mr. Balaji Sampath, Founder and CEO of the Association for India's Development (AID), which has been working with the Indian government to revolutionize the way students are taught basic language and math skills. He believes in "education, health and livelihood:"
- set clear and simple goals for the students
- cultivate a healthy environment for learning
- translate parents' livelihoods (however small) into teacher accountability
On December 18th, he showed us with slides, handouts, chalk and a blackboard how AID is implementing these principles today. Read his story below, and if you're inspired, donate to his project, Eureka SuperKidz by December 31 for your donation to be matched by generous donors. I believe I have enough family and friends to adopt a chunk of the 88 villages left, and I hope you will help me in this worthy campaign!
Sampath's Story
Kerala and Himachal Pradesh have the highest children literacy rate, while Tamil Nadu, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh rank at the very bottom. "Learning was just not happening," Sampath says matter-of-factly, the preface to his 15-year-long story about AID's introduction to and involvement with Tamil Nadu's rural poor.
In 1994, the World Bank launched the District Primary Education Program (DPEP) in India, in parallel with AID's surveys and assessments. "No organization works in a vacuum," Sampath says, and explained some of the crucial realizations the collaboration yielded:
- While student enrollment—that is reported on—is high, so are dropout rates. Angry, frustrated and embarrassed parents pull children out of school as early as the 3rd standard when they find out their children are performing poorly, or failing, and the child has slim chances of returning to school.
- The Tamil Nadu government, eager to maintain high school attendance rates, instituted an "all pass" through 5th standard policy, uniformly passing all students regardless of their performance. Parents didn't know any better and the students continued in school and continued not learning.
- Re-evaluations at the end of the 5th standard showed similarly low literacy rates, so the government remedied the problem with an "all pass" policy through the 8th standard. It was a "short-sighted" solution, Sampath says, and created a "brain drain" situation from primary school onwards.
Partnering with Pratham, the largest education NGO in the world, in 2004, AID took a sample survey of schools across Tamil Nadu to see how the government's new policies were faring. The results weren't promising. With more funding and attention in 2005, AID surveyed every district in Tamil Nadu and Bihar and found approximately 53% illiteracy among school-going children. But the infrastructure seems to be in place; Sampath tells us that every school has 2 teachers for a classroom of 80 students spanning 1st through 5th standard, so how can the quality of learning be improved?
"If you make it fun, kids learn better," Sampath says with a smile on his face. "When subtraction becomes a game that you play with 4 friends, you want to play it, and you end up learning."
He demonstrates on the blackboard, drawing 8 Tamil characters with chalk. He rapidly explains them to us, "this is ma, pa, tha, ka," and erases them as quickly. He draws just one character: which one is this? The non-Tamil readers/writers in the room (including me) identify them with some accuracy, mixing up ka with tha, but not ka with pa. Sampath's point is that it's easier to mix up letters, objects, numbers—anything—that look similar, such as ka and tha, or, switching to English: b, d, p and q. "It's easy to see that a and b look different; one has a stick attached to it. So how do you tell the difference between b and d, that both have sticks and balls?"
Make it fun! The more fun a task, the more appealing and the less difficult or cumbersome it becomes to children. He shows us a math jigsaw puzzle, 9 individual number squares that make up a 9x9 box. Each tile has 4 numbers on all 4 edges, written as arithmetic problems (4+15; 13x2) instead of the answers (16; 26), and the objective is to piece the puzzle together by matching the numbers on the edges of each tile with the 8 other tiles in the puzzle. It's a basic game, made out of paper and requires a lot of arithmetic to play and complete. "Our resources are limited to paper, cardboard, markers, so we keep our games simple," Sampath says.
Games are effective because kids work together, challenge each other, and learn in the process. "Attention span increases, focus increases." Voila: a learning environment.
Next, AID introduced their learning-through-games methodology in 2 schools in Tamil Nadu which quickly showed positive results. They talked to the government about expanding the program, which seemed skeptical at first. But a government assessment in 2005 showed that AID was right, 5th standard students really could not read. Frantic, they demanded state-wide intervention from AID, who responded with a plan to work in 5, then 10, then 15 districts, scaling up the program over time. AID has created the 6th standard text book for schools all over Tamil Nadu. Sampath switches to the next slide in his presentation, showing us impressive quantitative results:
- The government funded teacher training in 7,300 schools
- Pratham funded reading campaign in 13,000 villages
- UK-based Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) provided monitoring in 7,219 schools
"The goal is not to improve education as a whole but, more simply, to teach kids how to read," Sampath reminds us, reiterating the need to keep targets simple.
AID sustained a 3-year continuous focus on 10 districts, reaching 1 million kids, training 18,000 teachers and running AID-designed classroom lessons for 1 hour a day in the classrooms of all 10 districts. As important as exposing the children to these creative learning incentives and techniques, was exposing the teachers to the reality of their students' abilities. The AID assessment showed the teachers that more students than they thought could in fact not read.
The response to this glaring gap in the children's education was straightforward: set a goal that all students will be able to read sentences. Simple goals and strategies are far more effective than complex ones when working with 18,000 teachers. "Take the example of India's freedom struggle," Sampath reminds us, "make salt. You can't get simpler than that!"
Draw up two lists: students who can read and students who can't, and work with the students in the latter list to move them to the former. Leverage kids who can read, have them help those who can't. Involve the students because "you can't hide things from children," Sampath laughs, and simple goals appeal to kids. "They have an incentive to move lists. They set goals for themselves. If I read a sentence will I get a certificate? Will I move to the other list? Ok, I'll do this." Sampath assures us that sentences are picked at random when testing the students' reading ability to ensure they actually can read and have not just "mugged up" a passage.
Percentage marks in an assessment doesn't show students what they have learned and not learned; it is unclear what they have to improve upon to move from 60% to 80%. Tell the kid what is to be learned—a to read a sentence, a paragraph, 2-digit subtraction, etc.—and the students can go about it more effectively.
AID's assessment highlighted another glitch in children's education. Most of the children who could not read had parents who were illiterate and not involved in their children's schooling, and could not provide any homework or other after-school support. Typically being from lower communities, they did not feel confident to approach or confront teachers—literate, better paid, higher status— with concerns about their children. "Getting the parents involved matters as much as, if not more than, game learning and regular assessments," Sampath concludes.
He paints a picture for us: a classroom in rural Tamil Nadu today holds 80 students spanning 1st to 5th standard, with2 teachers attending to the entire group. Obviously, this makes individual attention very difficult, if not impossible. How can this be addressed?
Sampath describes how AID visited several villages and appointed 3 "young people" as after-school teachers trained by AID. Each is paid $1,000 / month, which is split between AID (Rs. 500) and the village, who further divide the fees between all the parents, so each family contributes Rs. 25. The afterschool program runs from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. daily and leverages materials (assessments, workbooks, games) supplied by AID.
Such materials show the village that AID takes literacy and after-school programs extremely seriously, exciting the parents to be equally engaged. Now everyone is working towards the children's development. More importantly, perhaps, is the approach that the after-school teachers take, which is to move away from the "I teach" attitude to the "you learn" attitude. Progress is measured by output from the children versus input from teachers. The teacher's agenda isn't to push material onto the students, but to pull learning out of them. A simple attitude shift, but so critical!
Sampath reads out names from a visual check-mark chart showing students' progress afterschool, in fundamental concepts in English, Tamil, Math(s) and Science). "Janet has learned 2-digit subtraction; Monisha has learned 2-digit addition but not subtraction; Armstrong has also learned multiplication…by the way, names in Tamil Nadu have changed quite a lot!" he jokes. "We have a lot of Stalins and Marx also!"
A mentality shift is taking place: take the example of microcredit. Poor women thought themselves separate from banks, in no way connected to them or reliant upon them. After international organizations and NGOs set up microcredit programs, bringing women together, having them meet regularly—very important, we learn— the women recognized that they were making the effort, saving money, maintaining personal accounts informally , and believed that the bank did owe them something. A new market was created.
Similarly, teacher/parent reciprocity and accountability is very important. The after-school teachers in the villages are from those villages, locals that the elders have seen grow up, so even if the parents are illiterate, they do not feel inferior to these teachers. They are confident enough to confer with them regarding their children, since they, like any parent, want the best for their children. The students feel the benefit of the encouraging educational environment they're in after school, at home and with their friends, and are motivated to excel.
In Bihar, the same after-school program is in place, running earlier in the day, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. since it gets dark quicker. "Some villages have solar lights for our programs; that's the only part of the village with lights in the evenings," Sampath says.
Now What? The Perfect New Year's Resolution!
Here's where we come in as interested donors, inspired individuals, locals, NRIs and firangis with networks of family and friends who believe in education. AID has identified a group of generous donors—Prithvi Solutions, Prabhu, Shiva, AGK and SAVLAC Fund—who have put together a Seed Fund to support the Eureka SuperKidz project in 250 villages in Tamil Nadu. A village costs $1,000 to adopt so we need to provide just $500 per village. You can do so here: please include my name and 'Dec 18 Princeton University talk' in the Comments section. Donate as individuals, families, student groups or however you choose, the money's going directly to Sampath and the villages!
Hopefully these folks will nudge you in the right direction:
- A UChicago MBA student is providing additional funds to sponsor students who complete school to attend college.
- Mohana, a 7th standard girl in one of the villages, called "makku" by her friends and deemed an expense to her drunkard father, sells her dad's liquor bottles to pay the Rs.25 teacher fee.
Still Not Convinced? Maybe the Internet can Help
Kirsten Anderson worked with Sampath for 2 years in Madras as an American India Fellow (an AIF peer of my dear friend Hamsa Subramaniam) designing an English reading curriculum, and helped produce this video about AIDs efforts in Madras: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRSPg-fy02w&feature=related
And on a lighter note, here are some of the outtakes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sv_8iDXdsM
Charles Leadbeater, an expert in "innovation strategy," gave a superb TED talk on different and creative ways to educate the children in burgeoning cities in the developing world. Like Sampath, he believes in the "push, not pull" approach; it's not what the teachers teach, but what the children learn, and he praises Pratham's creater Madhav Chavan highly. Watch the TED talk here, it's just 20 minutes: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_education.html
For even more inspiration, here's what kids all over India are doing to effect social change in India, an idea discussed by educator Kiran Bir Sethi in another TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/kiran_bir_sethi_teaches_kids_to_take_charge.html
If you don't want to donate to this cause, check out some other organizations featured by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage.
If you made it all the way to the end, thanks for reading, watching and, hopefully, donating!


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Blue-chip stocks are modestly lower today as conflicting economic news and a couple of big earnings announcements weigh on investors' minds. With roughly an hour left in the trading session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI) is off by a mere 10 points, or 0.07%.
On the economic front, the Department of Commerce reported this morning (click here for the press release -- link opens PDF) that domestic orders for durable goods -- typically, big-tickets items designed to last at least three years -- dropped by 5.7% last month compared to February. The decline was led by a 48% fall in sales of nondefense aircraft and parts.
In slightly more upbeat news, the Mortgage Bankers Association released data this morning showing that mortgage applications increased 0.2% last week. On the heels of this news, shares of the nation's largest banks are heading higher. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is up by 2.4%, while JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) is higher by 1.4%. Both banks reported impressive year-over-year gains in mortgage-origination volumes when they released earnings earlier this month: Bank of America's were up by 50%, and JPMorgan's by 37%.
Boeing (NYSE:BA) is one of the Dow's best-performing components today, up 3%. The aerospace company disclosed this morning that it earned $1.44 per share on $18.89 billion in revenue. While the bottom-line figure was better than the $1.22 per share that it earned last year, the top-line figure came in 2.5% lower.
Shares are nevertheless rallying due to a number of upbeat comments during the conference call concerning Boeing's flagship 787 Dreamliner, which has been plagued with mechanical problems since going into service. The company said it hopes to restart deliveries in early May and to finish repairing the roughly 50 planes already in service by the middle of the month. Needless to say, this could be a big catalyst for Boeing stock if and when it happens.
Meanwhile, the biggest laggard on the blue-chip index today is AT&T (NYSE:T), which reported first-quarter earnings after the bell yesterday. But unlike Boeing, AT&T failed to impress investors, who have sent the company's shares down 5.3% at the time of writing.
For the three months ended March 31, AT&T saw its earnings increase by 3.2% to $0.64 per share. This was in line with analyst estimates. However, its revenue shrank by 1.5% on a year-over-year basis to $31.36 billion. The consensus estimate was for sales of $31.75 billion.
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Some American myths and legends include John Henry, Paul Bunyan and Johnny Appleseed. These folk heroes are some of the best known in American culture, and their stories are both enduring and influential.
John Henry, whose deeds feature in a classic song, was an African American folk hero said to be a "steel-driving man." Henry worked for the railway, drilling holes into rock formations for dynamite demolition. The legend claims that Henry's skill was tested against a steam-powered hammer. Henry beat the machine, but his heart gave out immediately after the contest. According to the legend, he died clutching his own hammer.
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It's become almost ho-hum to read a menu that lists precisely where the apples were picked or how the cow was raised. So what's the next wave in sourcing? It's already upon us. People are becoming as picky about what goes on their skin as what goes in their bodies, and they are looking to the woods or the sea for treatment.
As recently as four years ago, the prevailing attitude was that "natural" beauty didn't work, says Romain Gaillard, an owner of the Detox Market, an apothecary shop near the Beverly Center. "Now it's a completely different thing. What had to happen was that the premium market had to turn natural."
That whiff of patchouli that many of us associate with all things natural is gone, and much of today's packaging evokes luxury. The label showing elegant plants and birds on Osmia Organics products, for example, is not, as Gaillard put it, anything like the home-spun packages of potions and bars that once were found "in the back of the health-food store near the potatoes."
But it's the ingredients that are key. M Café, a popular microbiotic dining chain, sells its own brand of hand polish made with ingredients that could show up in our food: salt and oils from safflower, sunflower, vitamin E, grapefruit and geranium.
The vegan, gluten-free soaps from the Chatsworth-based company Saavy could be used as toothpaste — though owners Hugo and Debra Saavedra admit they might not taste terrific. "What you put on your skin, you should be able to eat," Hugo Saavedra said. His company's mango-papaya soap, for example, contains jojoba, almond oils and beet powder.
"People want natural and organic. They feel like if they can eat it, it can be on their skin," said Paula Weiser-Vazquez, owner of Beautyhabit, a high-end apothecary in Westlake Village. "I think this is the new trend. It's not going to be a flash in the pan."
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But just as in food, consumers need to be smart. Even the term "organic" (which is regulated) "doesn't tell you that the ingredients have been chosen for the right reason and the best efficacy," says Sarah Villafranco, who spent 10 years as an emergency-room doctor before leaving the profession to launch Osmia Organics in 2012.
Several entrepreneurs give advice that we often hear about food: Beware of a product if the ingredient list includes items you can't pronounce.
Villafranco's website lists ingredients to avoid (and, of course, they're not in her products), including synthetic fragrances, parabens and phthalates because of concerns about potential hormonal or endocrine system side effects, and petroleum-based ingredients because they could block pores and "because decreasing dependence on the petroleum industry would be good for this planet."
Consumers seem motivated by a desire to support a farm-to-face ethos and by the belief that "pure" products are more healthful and less likely to cause problems. Such "natural" products accounted for almost 17% of $3 billion in "prestige" skin care sales from department stores and shops like Sephora this year, said Karen Grant, the global industry analyst for beauty products at the market research firm NPD. That doesn't account for products in boutiques, drugstores and other outlets. Transparency Market Research said the global market for organic personal-care products neared $7 billion in 2011 and is the fastest-growing sector of personal care products.
There's been a "tremendous" interest in herbalism at the Echo Park boutique Otherwild, says owner Rachel Berks.
Indeed, on one recent night, about two dozen people gathered in the store to learn how to make a lip and skin balm and a scrub with ingredients they could have eaten — though no one did. To make the balm, for example, raw, unfiltered beeswax was melted and combined with comfrey and calendula. Each student added scents such as geranium- or sage-infused oils.
For centuries, plants were used for healing, and many people are returning to those ideas, says Sarah Buscho, who with Marina Storm owns the San Francisco skin-care company Earth Tu Face and came to L.A. to teach the class.
"We'd go to friends' houses and there'd be all this organic food, and you go into the bathroom and it's all chemicals," Storm says. The average woman, she adds, uses 12 products a day containing more than 200 chemicals.
But that's changing.
Buscho and Storm grow the herbs and flowers they use, infuse them, and experiment with oils for their skin and face products. Earth Tu Face products contain such ingredients as coconut and sesame oils, honey, comfrey and sea buckthorn.
In Fiore, a San Francisco company, uses certified organic oils and infusions, including cold-pressed grape seed oil that is verified to contain no genetically modified organisms. The products of Fig + Yarrow are made in small batches, by hand, from roots, leaves, flowers, minerals and oils.
Gaillard and his partner, Valérie Grandury, established Odacite, a line of fresh, fragrance-free skin products, in 2009 after she was diagnosed with
"Allergies and chronic problems didn't seem so prevalent," even a few years ago, says Debra Saavedra, whose Saavy products should be in stores early in 2015. "That's why people are coming back to nature and food-grade ingredients."
Hall Newbegin started his company, Juniper Ridge, 15 years ago, hoping to package the smells of the Cascades or the Sierra. "I was just a hiker selling stuff to college kids at the Berkeley farmers market," Newbegin says from Mt. Tamalpais, north of San Francisco, where he was hiking one recent morning.
He still finds the need to explain how his products — based on ingredients found in the wild — differ from traditional perfumes. "What's at the Nordstrom perfume counter, that has nothing to do with what perfume was for 2,000 years, until the 1960s. It was just putting nature in a bottle."
Herbalist Rosemary Gladstar breaks down 'natural' ingredients
You can often find "natural" ingredients — things like aloe vera or lavender or cocoa butter — in many conventional skin and hair products.
Rosemary Gladstar, an herbalist and the author of "Herbs for Natural Beauty," describes many ingredients used in "natural" products, which are generally found in natural-foods stores or online. Here's her rundown of some of those ingredients and their uses:
Aloe vera. The juice from the plant's leaves is good for burns or as a moisturizer.
Argan oil. The oil, extracted from argan tree nuts, recently became popular as a so-called miracle product. It is used as a conditioner and treatment for face, hair and nails.
Borax. The mineral, also called sodium borate, softens water and is a cleanser.
Calendula. The dried yellow flowers are used in preparations for healing skin as well as lip balms and for brightening golden and strawberry hair highlights. Because it's gentle, it is used in children's skin-care products.
Sea buckthorn oil. This bright orange oil is pressed from the plant's berries. It's rich in essential fatty acids, carotene and other nutrients that nourish the skin.
White clay. The mild clay (made of aluminum oxide and zinc oxide) used in cosmetics, masks and bath salts.
Homemade deodorant and scalp treatment recipes
If you're intrigued by the idea of using simple ingredients mostly found in your garden or kitchen to help care for your hair and skin, there are a number of books that offer guidance — among them, Annie Strole's "Homemade Beauty: 150 Simple Beauty Recipes Made From All-Natural Ingredients."
As a student learning to be a makeup artist, Strole eventually began questioning the products she was using. She began researching and eventually got busy in her kitchen. Here are two of her recipes.
Pit Conditioning Deodorant
This homemade deodorant soothes and hydrates while keeping unpleasant fragrances at bay.
In a bowl, stir together 2 tablespoons unrefined virgin coconut oil, 2 tablespoons raw shea butter, 1/4 cup baking soda and 1/4 cup arrowroot powder or cornstarch. Store the cream in a small, airtight container. To use, rub a small amount onto clean, dry skin.
Coconut Tea Tree Miracle Scalp Treatment (for all hair types)
"The moment I notice any flaking on my scalp," Strole writes, "I pop the treatment on and my crown is in the clear for weeks! This recipe makes one treatment, but you can mix up a big batch and store it in a cool dry place."
You'll need 4 tablespoons unrefined virgin coconut oil. If it's solidified, melt the coconut oil for 15 seconds in the microwave or in a small saucepan set over low heat. Add in 20 drops tea tree essential oil until thoroughly blended. Apply the mixture on your scalp (with dry hair) and massage for one to two minutes. Let it sit for at least two hours. You can even put your hair in a plastic shower cap or wrap it in plastic wrap and leave it overnight.
To remove, rinse thoroughly, shampoo (you may have to lather up to three times to get all of the oil out) and condition with a lightweight conditioner.
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Is Sean Brock Coming To New York?
You know what we depend on Bon Appetit for? No, besides single-handedly keeping print food media alive. We depend on them to keep The South's most prominent chefs steadily supplied with bourbon until they're feeling open enough to confess that they might, maybe, possibly be hankering for a move to New York.
Luckily, they came through and did just that with Sean Brock of Husk at a dinner he was cooking in Brooklyn for Daniel Klein. Writes Matt Duckor:
"In between courses, I half-jokingly asked Brock why, given his increasingly frequent travels to New York for various events and dinners, he doesn't just move here. While he's currently focused on buying a home in Nashville, where he'll open an outpost of Husk next year, Brock said New York is indeed on the agenda, stating: 'It's my goal to have a restaurant in New York.'"
But, barbecue enthusiasts, don't get overly excited. Sean's New York concept would err on the side of modern, rather than the Southern style Husk is focused on. "The South is all about terroir," he told Bon Appetit. He's coming ready to compete with the big boys when he hits the NYC culinary scene.
No time frame yet on the project, but he admitted that he had been looking at a few spaces while on his trip. Thanks for the reconnaissance mission,
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Passport Capital manages more than $3.4 billion worth assets. John Burbank's most recent stock picks have been Cytec Industries Inc (NYSE:CYT), Huntsman Corporation (NYSE:HUN), Vivus, Inc. (NASDAQ:VVUS) and Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE:KMP). Among tech stocks, Burbanks own Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) and a few others.
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The reality sitcom starring the all-female crew of baristas here at Barnes & Noble continues. In tonight's episode, one of the baristas is afraid she's in trouble with another who is the shift manager.
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Pharmacologic options for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus have expanded over the past ten years. Metformin has remained the first-line agent due to a well-established safety and efficacy, low cost, and data demonstrating a reduction in cardiovascular events.1 It is pretty clear from a number of studies that metformin therapy should be maximized, which in some patients may require doses above 2000 mg/day. 2 Second-line treatments include a variety of agents, including basal insulin, dipeptidyl-peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, sulfonylureas, and thiazolidinediones. Metformin is synergistic with many of the other agents, and should not be discontinued as beneficial effects can be seen even in patients taking insulin as the second line agent. 3 The 2016 treatment recommendations detail the above mentioned medications as all viable options for second-line therapy with no preference to one drug class over the other. 1 While this seems like this might open up treatment options for clinicians, it often in fact, leaves clinicians wondering about the BEST next option for their patients. All of the options will always have a cost/benefit ratio, and so trying to choose the best agent that minimizes patient out of pocket costs is important. In that regard, SGLT2s from all the current manufacturers have co-pay cards to minimize the cost (for patients not on Medicare).
The likely reason for no definitive recommendation for a second-line agent is that controversy exists regarding which agents should be used for the treatment of T2DM in those who cannot achieve glycemic control with metformin alone. The newer agents, DPP-4 inhibitors, GLP-1 receptor agonists, and SGLT2 inhibitors are effective, exhibit positive/neutral effects on body weight, and pose minimal risk of hypoglycemia in comparison to other available agents to treat hyperglycemia. Trials have been completed, or are ongoing, regarding the cardiovascular effects of these agents.3-9 and in the case of empagloflozin, the results of a recent trial have resulted in the manufacturer seeking a cardiovascular risk reduction, and leading to a debate on whether FDA should grant this request (http://www.ptcommunity.com/news/2016-06-24-000000/fda-panel-vote-whether-empagliflozin-jardiance-cuts-risk-cardiac-death). 5 Thus far, CV outcomes have either been positive or neutral with these agents leading clinicians to head towards those agents even though the cost may be higher.
Recently, the FDA has issued concerns regarding the newest agents, the SGLT2 inhibitors regarding the risk for acute kidney injury and ketoacidosis leaving us scratching our heads again, especially after some data exists that there many actually be reno-protection from this drug class (http://www.dddmag.com/news/2016/01/new-data-shows-sglt2-inhibitors-may-be-effective-preventing-kidney-failure). Time and studies will tell which may be the best second line agents, but it is always important to consider patient out-of-pocket costs especially since diabetes patients take many different medications for diabetes, hypertension, and dyslipidemia…and more.
- American Diabetes Association. Standards of medical care in diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2016;39(Suppl 1)
- Hirst JA, Farmer AJ, Ali R, et al. Quantifying the effect of metformin treatment and dose on glycemic control. Diabetes Care. 2012;35:446-454.
- Holden SE, Jenkins-Jones S, Currie CJ. (2016) Association between insulin monotherapy versus insuln plus metformin and the risk of all-cause mortality and other serious outcomes: a retrospective cohort study. PLoS ONE 11(5):e0153594. Doi:10.137/journal.pone.0153594.
- Pfeffer MA, Claggett B, Diaz R, et al. Lixisenatide in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Acute Coronary Syndrome. N Engl J Med. 2015 Dec 3;373(23):2247-57.
- Zinman B, Wanner C, Lachin JM, et al. Empagliflozin, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes. N Engl J Med 2015; 373:2117-2128.
- Scirica BM, Bhatt DL, Braunwald E, et al; for the SAVOR-TIMI 53 Steering Committee and Investigators. Saxagliptin and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(14):1317-1326.
- White WB, Cannon CP, Heller SR, et al; for the EXAMINE Investigators. Alogliptin after acute coronary syndrome in patients with type 2 diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2013;369(14):1327-1335.
- Zannad F, Cannon CP, Cushman WC, et al; for the EXAMINE Investigators. Heart failure and mortality outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes taking alogliptin versus placebo in EXAMINE: a multicentre, randomised, double-blind trial. Lancet. 2015;385:2067-2076.
- Van der Werf F, Armstrong P. Trial evaluating cardiovascular outcomes with sitagliptin in patients with type 2 diabetes: TECOS. Presented at ESC Congress 2015. London, England, UK. Abstract 3147.


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Today, the film "Clouds Of Sils Maria" by Olivier Assayas and starring actresses Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche was screened at Cannes. Turning to the seduction between women, "Clouds Of Sils Maria" has entered the race for the Palme d'Or.
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This is a photo of my favorite place to knit, get advice, and of course BUY yarn! Passion Knit is located in Snider Plaza at the corner of Hillcrest and Lovers Lane in Dallas, TX. The staff is amazing, all knitters extraordinaire! Just last week I filled up my first frequent buyer card and got a nifty $$ credit to spend. I've used a smidge already and may apply the rest to a lace class. Or a sock class. I'm afraid of both, so should definitely conquier early on in 07. Speaking of, How are we to refer to this decade? The "aught" decade, as opposed tho the 80's or 90's??
Okedoke, this weekend I was a true yarn $%@#?! Ive got a few projects on the needles, one with a deadline, so what do I do? Buy more yarn and obsess over it for a couple of days. Throw into the mix some guilt over shopping at a different yarn store, and I'm a mess. Really, isn't it normal to want to check out all the local yarn places? I ask you, do you not shop at several grocery stores? But alas, I'm no dummy. The folks at the grocery store don't hold my hand through recipe woes, or fix my unfixable screw-ups so I don't have to recook my dinner. I'm going to release on this someday. Nobody reads my blog anyway. It's still my secret. But if it matters, I am being given payback.
I bought this gorgeous book! Certainly that is no punishment. It is absolute eye candy with some very sophisticated patterns. (what was I thinking?)
The Noro yarn was purchased with original intent to knit a scarf version of Lady Eleanor Entrelac Stole by Kathleen Johnson. However, that involves short row knitting and I felt like I needed help for that. Also, I'm using the NORO Silk Garden pictured above. It is the first time I've knitted NORO and it has a very different drag on the needles. One of the nice people at Shabby Sheep suggested I try Misty Garden by Jo Sharp. Ive cast on and knit the first 7 rows five times. I finally cut my yarn because I was wearing it out. People, it is a four row pattern with only one row being the actual pattern. Over and over. K a row, P a row, then pattern, then K.
You cast on 38 but after the second time I do the pattern row my rows have grown and the pattern doesn't work. I know it is something I am doing wrong, but after five tries I can't see what that might be. Idiota!!
I did just notice that the first pattern in the book is from Kristin Nicholas. It is pure Kristin, colorful and fun! And easy. It may be the easiest scarf in the book. So I may return some of my Noro, check my stash and fill in what is needed and go for this one first. Then the sadistice part of me wants to knit my way through the book no matter what. On to #2, then #3, etc. I'll be spending my food money on private lessons, but I sure would learn a lot. Regarding food money, anyone who knows me would doubt my giving up food:>)


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The last three weeks I've gone to a class about attachment offered through our local foster care education program. This poem outline was given to us as a possible tool to use when helping foster/adopted kids cope with some of their losses. Here's my version of it; feel free to leave your version of it in a comment- I would love to read how other people are feeling.
Just because I'm infertile,
Doesn't mean I'm not good enough,
Doesn't mean I'm undeserving,
Doesn't mean I'm broken beyond repair.
I'm becoming stronger.
Just because I can't get pregnant
Doesn't mean I'm not happy for others,
Doesn't mean I have to be angry and bitter,
Doesn't mean I'm unable to see the difficulties of motherhood through another woman's eyes.
I'm more compassionate.
Just because I'm not trying anymore,
Doesn't mean I'm giving up,
Doesn't mean I don't have a right to grieve,
Doesn't mean I will never be a mom.
I'm pushing forward.
Just because I'm choosing to parent someone else's child,
Doesn't mean I'm not sad,
Doesn't mean I'm "over it",
Doesn't mean I'm not still hurting.
I'm taking one day at a time
Just because I'm going to be a foster mom,
Doesn't mean I won't experience more loss,
Doesn't mean "my" child will forever (legally) be mine,
Doesn't mean I'm going to love my child and less than I would love a child I gave birth to.
I'm willing to give my heart.
Just because I want to adopt,
Doesn't mean I'm not going to mourn all the little parts of being pregnant that I'm going to miss,
Doesn't mean my heart won't ache when I see a pregnant belly or hear about another baby shower,
Doesn't mean I'm done with the tears.
I'm capable of surviving the pain
I'm infertile; I can't get pregnant.
I'm not trying anymore; I'm choosing to parent someone else's child.
I'm going to be a foster mom, I want to adopt.
But through this journey,
I do have more strength,
I am more compassionate,
I can push forward,
I'm learning to take one day at a time,
I want to give my heart,
And, I'm capable of surviving the pain.


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I finished this card a few days ago and I've been itching to share it with you. This new Pure Innocence - I'm All Ears image is ever so adorable I couldn't wait to blog it! I stamped the image to a piece of watercolor paper and then trimmed it out with my Rectangle STAX.
All of us on the MFT Design Team will be showcasing cards, pages and projects with the newest elements which will be released on Tuesday, March 11th at 10pm EST. Remember to check the MFT Blog every day for full stamp and Die-namics graphics & links to all our participating designers. You'll also want to be sure to head on over each day to place your entry on the SEVEN prize vouchers valued at $75 each. A little extra spending money sure would come in handy with a release this incredible!
The largest Blu Raspberry piece was cut with the Blueprints 13 - have I used that on every card this release so far? Um, possibly!! The wide Orange Fizz Fishtail piece and the tiny double ended fishtail piece are also from the Blueprints 13. The flag has been overstamped with the Wood Plank Background which was stamped with Sweet Tooth Pigment Ink. A little duo of Blu Raspberry Buttons finishes it off.
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Harrisburg purchase Cougar Bait wins in debut
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Cougar Bait completed his 2-year-old campaign in impressive style, winning four of his last five starts. But too many inconsistent outings and only one win this year led to him become catalog number 1575 in the Black Book at Harrisburg earlier this month. That is where Joel Wheeler cast the winning bid and brought the altered son of Western Terror home to Plainridge Park.
In his first start in his new barn, Cougar Bait certainly turned some heads as he went from dead-last to victory in a quarter mile in the $12,000 conditioned pace at The Ridge on Monday afternoon, setting a new seasonal mark for himself in the process.
Horses left four-deep off the gate and remained three-deep to the quarter before Beachchip Hanover (Chris Long) finally found the pylons. But as soon as he cleared, Forever Worth It (DT Sumner) was right at him and the two battled to the half in :56. As they motored up the backside, Forever Worth It packed it in and the outer flow that had formed behind him went three deep around. Third-over and still ninth in that grouping was Cougar Bait (Wally Watson).
In the far turn Beachchip Hanover was starting to tire, so everyone behind his had tipped out around him and Cougar Bait was widest of all; five deep and near the I-495 ramp. With horses coming from everywhere in the stretch, Cougar Bait was in the middle of the track pacing like a machine and simply blew by everyone to win by a half-length in 1:53.3 with a sharp :28.2 last quarter into a stiff wind. Six of the nine horses hit the wire within two lengths of each other.
Looking much like he did at the end of last year, Cougar Bait ($12.20) scored his second win of this year for new owner Wheeler and trainer Lisa Watson.
With the heavily favored Treasure Mach (Greg Merton) finishing fourth, Cougar Bait's mild upset triggered a 9-2-7-6 Superfecta that paid an instant jackpot of $22,090.20.
In the co-featured $10,000 conditioned pace, Grand Galop Semalu (Shawn Gray) got a perfect two-hole trip behind BP Diet Food (Mike Stevenson) before shaking loose in the lane and outpacing Rooster Rabbit (Mike Eaton) to the wire to win by a half-length in 1:53.1.
William Mc Elvain Jr.'s Grand Galop Semalu ($9.80) scored his tenth win of the year for trainer James Dunn and has benefited the amount of $44,266 earned as a result of those outings.
Shawn Gray led all drivers on Monday with three wins on the card.


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At the end of a session, photographer Eve Arnold always took a parting shot of the hands -and sometimes the feet- of her sitters, for luck and for her personal records. Handbook with Footnotes brings together two hundred of these superb pictures.
A photojournalist who traveled around the world, Eve Arnold also worked on the sets of more than 40 Hollywood movies. These photographs, therefore, which span her career, include such luminaries as Isabella Rossellini, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, and Jimmy Stewart, captured in unguarded moments and with an unexpected focus away from their famous faces. And yet the celebrity portraits are just some of the highlights in a far-ranging and deeply moving portrait of humanity. Here are old hands, young hands, hands gripping guns and holding flowers, performing surgery and playing cards, painting, saluting, and blessing.
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Humans are infuriating creatures. We don't ever just want to know how. Or when, or what. We want to know WHY. WHY is the sky blue. WHY do we search for the Higgs Boson. WHY is blood red. WHY do people perform cunnilingus. Deep questions, man.
But for these deep questions, there is SCIENCE. And so these authors set out to answer this deep, deep question. Why cunnilingus? What is the evolutionary purpose? After all, we can't possibly be doing this stuff just because it's fun or nothin'.
I would first like to note: there are some problems with this study, yes. But there is one thing I like about it. It turns out, the second half of their results don't support the hypothesis. And the authors admit it, and PUBLISHED IT ANYWAY. You go, guys.
That said...I'm not so sure about the findings of their first hypothesis either. But we'll get to that.
Anyway, these scientists (and, I would like you to know, unlike other evo psych studies I have seen, they are NOT all men!!! 50% female representation) were interested in the purpose of cunnilingus. Why does it exist? What's it for? It's can't just be, you know, for good times or anything. They hypothesized that it served a purpose, and the purpose they believed it filled was securing your mate. They also hypothesized that it might help with the woman retaining sperm in her reproductive tract.
Where do you get these kind of hypotheses? Well, the first hypothesis, of securing your mate, comes from a whole pile of previous evolutionary psychology literature on the topic. The whole idea is that attractive females are in danger of being lured away by other males, so men have to adjust their behaviors to prevent cheating as much as possible. Previous studies have backed this up by noting that men want to have sex more, thrust harder, and ejaculate more sperm when they've been away from their partner for a while (I will get to my own concerns about this further on). So the idea here is that men want to keep ladies happy to keep them from straying, and therefore, they will give them cunnilingus to keep them happy.
What about the second hypothesis? The idea of "insuck", as it were? The concept is this: over a long time now, people have wondered about the purpose of female orgasm. What is it for? Is it a byproduct because men can have orgasms? Is there a genetic basis? One hypothesis states that the purpose of female orgasm is "insuck", that during and after female orgasm, the cervix comes under negative pressure, sucking sperm up into the uterus and aiding fertilization. If this is actually the case, then cunnilingus, and promoting female orgasm very close in time to male orgasm could (in theory), increase the potential for fertilization by sucking up the sperm.
To test these two hypotheses, the authors recruited 243 men in the US and Germany, and asked them some questions: how attractive is your partner (to you and to others), how often do you bone, how satisfied are you in your relationship, and how often do you perform cunnilingus.
They then performed a lot of data analysis that looked as "risk of sperm competition" for infidelity in the ladies (whether other people found her attractive), and how often the men performed cunnilingus. They found a correlation between the "risk of sperm competition", and how often men performed cunnilingus. The authors concluded that this means that sperm competition is a reason for performing cunnilingus, and that cunnilingus is therefore a way of securing the fidelity of your partner.
But what about sperm retention? That's more difficult. To assess that, they looked at the time between male orgasm and female orgasm (estimated by the men as they filled out the survey, which probably does not say a lot about its accuracy). IF cunnilingus for female orgasm would help sperm get along, then presumably it would be better for the guy to ejaculate as soon as possible after cunnilingus to get the sperm in there. In fact, only about 40% of the men involved did, and so the hypothesis was not supported. The authors conclude that, while cunnilingus is good for securing the fidelity of your partner, it's not a good sperm retention device.
Now, let's talk about the issues with this study:
1. The sample. First off, self report, and no man wants to seem...ungenerous, as it were. Secondly, the sample was recruited so that people were in long term relationships. People in long term relationships get comfortable. Plus, if the idea is ensuring mate fidelity...wouldn't you want people who were in new relationships? Ones where they were anxious to please and who were less assured of fidelity rather than otherwise? The sample is also a classically WEIRD one, mostly from the US and Germany. Do people in all cultures perform cunnilingus? I'm not sure they do, certainly, historically, it was frowned upon in many cultures. And if they don't...doesn't that take away some of the evolutionary necessity?
2. I actually am not sure about one of the hypotheses that this entire thing is based on, that men are more likely to please women when there has been "opportunity for infidelity". The usual example of this is long distance. When a man is away from his partner for a while, when he comes back, he tends to ejaculate more sperm, want to have sex more, and be more likely to attempt to please his partner. The usual way evolutionary psychologists like to explain this is because the female partner had opportunity for infidelity and therefore the guy has to get his in on the offchance that she's been screwing around. I actually think that, when a man has been away from a woman for a few days, there might be another explanation.
Because he HASN'T HAD SEX IN A WHILE. That might come as a shock. As far as I can, surprisingly, no one has tested this. This seems pretty simple, get a bunch of people (maybe, say, scientists at a conference!) who are away from their significant others. Get the men who are married to/in committed relationships with women. Divide half in to the 'masturbate' group and the other half into the 'suffer' group. While they are at the conference, the masturbate group releases their feelings, and the suffer group...suffers. When they get back, get relevant recordings from the first sexual encounter, a sperm sample (if you can), desire scores, and attempts to please partner, etc. This would tell you whether this is an issue of "opportunity loss" where the woman had a chance to cheat or whether the guys are just a little...impatient, you know.
3. Cunnilingus has a male counterpart: fellatio. What purpose does THAT serve?! After all, swallowing probably doesn't make babies. I think, while of course this study isn't meant to test it, without consideration of fellatio they are lacking a good bit of context.
4. Part of the measure of "risk" the authors took was how hot the men thought their lady was. They took this as a measure of risk because hot women would be more likely to be lured away by other men (because, of course, these women are just waiting around to be lured, not like they have any thoughts of their own on this front). I think this measure is going to be incredibly biased. Aside from the fact that this basically turns women into bodies which can be lassoed off to someone else's cave, or whose cold, calculating eyes are forever sizing up other dude's biceps for their own potential advantage, there is another issue with this. Maybe they want to have sex with her more because she's ATTRACTIVE to them. All the men in their sample were in committed relationships of some duration. They were all having sex at least once a week. OF COURSE they are going to think their partner is sexually attractive. They are HAVING SEX WITH HER. I think using a measure of attractiveness as a measure of "risk" probably grossly biased their numbers. I think they had just stuck to "risks" like evidence of prior infidelity, they probably would have lost all of their significance.
So I wonder about the basis for the argument. While cunnilingus may be a good mate bonding strategy, I don't think it's really more likely because you're pretty sure she had sex with someone else, or could have sex with someone else, or is looking to have sex with someone else. Shockingly, I think it could be possible that cunnilingus is a good mate bonding strategy because...it's fun. And people like it. And many women cannot have sexual pleasure otherwise. Maybe it's a mate bonding strategy, sure, but maybe it's also a good time.


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The monthly crime rate on Muni vehicles has dropped by nearly 50 percent in the past six months, a decrease police officials are attributing to a new strategy that puts undercover officers on the most-troublesome transit lines.
The Police Department recorded 62 crimes on Muni in June, a 45 percent decrease from January's 114.
In March, the SFPD began its Muni task force program. A squad of seven plainclothes officers is assigned to monitor criminal activities such as pickpocketing, vandalism and robbery that regularly occur on public transportation vehicles.
Since the program was implemented, the number of monthly incidents on Muni vehicles has dropped precipitously, from 114 in March to 102 in April and 62 each in May and June. The Taraval police district saw the biggest drop, with the number of incidents decreasing from 11 in January to zero in June. The specific type of crime incidents was not detailed in the report, which was presented at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's board of directors meeting Tuesday.
Deputy police Chief John Murphy called the department's Muni task force "our '21 Jump Street' officers," a reference to a 1980s TV show about undercover police.
"They're young, energetic officers, and they have been doing a wonderful job on our most-problematic lines," Murphy said.
Murphy also credited the Police Department's greater use of information sharing to determine which Muni lines were the most-problematic, and thus the focus of the greatest enforcement attention. A police report released in March showed that the 14-Mission, 38-Geary and 9-San Bruno bus routes had the highest number of incidents.
Through June 29, police have recorded 569 incidents on Muni vehicles, an average of about three a day, according to Murphy. About 700,000 people ride Muni daily.
Unlike the Police Department's normal squad of 11 full-time officers dispatched to deter crime on Muni, the undercover task force is supported through grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, so its presence comes at no extra cost to the transit agency.
Also, the task force is not involved in police-saturation efforts to enforce fare payment on Muni vehicles.
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Many Muni riders say they feel safer on trains and buses following a stepped-up police presence on the transit vehicles.
"I still pay attention to my surroundings, but I generally feel pretty safe," Muni rider Sharon Maxwell said as she tried to catch a train at the Embarcadero station. "It does seem like there have been more police and Muni workers around than there were before."
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said Tuesday that Muni-related crimes were down nearly 50 percent in the past six months.
"It's definitely scary to watch the news about robberies and violence occurring on the Muni," commuter Danielle Detloff said. "I don't ride it that much, but I do feel safe. I haven't experienced anything suspicious."
The Police Department already has a regular squad of 11 officers working to prevent crime on Muni, but following several high-profile incidents last year, The City decided to make a stronger initiative to curb crime.
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Paris Saint-Germain chairman and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi has admitted that he is "disappointed" after the French capital outfit were soundly beaten 3-1 by Bayern Munich in their Champions League group-stage finale on Tuesday.
The Ligue 1 leaders still finished top of Group B but speaking with BeIn Sports France after the final whistle at Allianz Arena, Al-Khelaifi was left with a sense of dissatisfaction.
"It is true that we did not play during the first half," said Al-Khelaifi. "We were not on the pitch. It is also true that I am disappointed by the result and the low quality of our performance -- especially during the first 45 minutes.
"We were better in the second half but it was not enough to win or even get a draw.
"We really have a great team, some top players and our objective here was to win. We lost 3-1 and I hope that this defeat will ultimately help us in the Champions League because it is very important to us."
Al-Khelaifi does not feel that all is lost, though, and hopes that a 2-1 loss away at Strasbourg in Ligue 1 coupled with the Bayern defeat will rouse coach Unai Emery and his players.
"If we wake up now, it is not too late," the PSG boss said. "We finished first in the group but our aim was not to lose 3-1 to Bayern.
"I am very optimistic looking ahead. For me, we did not give everything we possibly could to win this match.
"We finished top but it is true that big clubs will finish second. It is possible that we come up against a top side in the next round or the quarterfinals.
"We must prepare well and the most important thing, for me, is that we learn from this lesson."
Midfielder Adrien Rabiot felt that he and his teammates did not show enough chemistry on the night and that the display was disjointed.
"We were too individualistic, I think," said the France international to BeIn Sports France postmatch. "There was not enough teamwork.
"The few occasions we played as a team and played the ball around, we were dangerous and we created opportunities. We also could have scored more -- we were not very efficient.
"However, from the moment you are being too individualistic, it gets harder. There is a team here, with good players and we can play well together collectively."
Emery's opinions did not match Rabiot's, with the Spaniard insisting that his team had done enough to merit at least a draw.
"We are unhappy because we lost," Emery told BeIn Sports France. "However, on the pitch, the team did not deserve to lose.
"We had chances to score before half-time, we also had the first chances of the second half -- especially Neymar's clear-cut opening.
"True, we could have done better defensively, but we enjoyed greater possession and created more scoring chances in the second half."
Emery also pointed out that despite the defeat, his team have finished top of Group B after an otherwise flawless group stage performance.
"The team was close to getting back to 2-2 but then Thiago [Silva] got injured and they scored to make it 3-1," said Emery. "We are still top of the group, though, and our main objective was to finish first."
Asked whether the injury sustained by PSG's captain is serious, Emery replied: "No, I think it is just a knock but the doctor will have to run some tests and then have his say."
Julian Draxler suffered as part of PSG's midfield in Munich, but the Germany international remained positive and agreed with Emery that finishing first in Group B was most important.
"If you want to win in Munich, you have to play well for 90 minutes," the former VfL Wolfsburg and Schalke man said. "Our main objective was to finish first and we have succeeded.
"However, obviously we are not satisfied with the result. Our top aim has been reached, though."
Draxler also rejected the idea that PSG fear anybody heading into the latter stages after last season's capitulation to Barcelona.
"Each team is strong," said Draxler. "We got Barcelona last season and we will see this time. We are confident that we can equal any other side in Europe, so we are simply waiting for the draw."
PSG will attempt to pick up their first win in three matches across all competitions at home to Lille in Ligue 1 on Saturday.


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