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No extra cash for Pak without rich paying tax: British MPs
Pakistan could become the largest recipient of British aid from next year. In order to quality, all Pakistan has to do —apparently — is to get its senior politicians, including president Asif Ali Zardari, to start paying more taxes.world Updated: Apr 05, 2013, 00:52 IST
Pakistan could become the largest recipient of British aid from next year. In order to quality, all Pakistan has to do —apparently — is to get its senior politicians, including president Asif Ali Zardari, to start paying more taxes.
Despite widespread concern about the role of its army and intelligence in the Afghan conflict, Pakistan is on course to getting a massive handout of £446mn a year from 2014-15 — an unprecedented 67% jump from the £267mn it gets at the moment.
Now, an all-party committee of MPs — in a report published on Thursday — has mounted a scathing attack on Pakistan's ruling elite, laying down the pay-more-tax conditionality while accusing it of not bothering about the welfare of the Pakistani poor.
"…We cannot expect people in the UK to pay taxes to improve education and health in Pakistan if the Pakistani elite does not pay meaningful amounts of income tax," said Sir Malcolm Bruce, chair of the Select Committee on International Development.
"Pakistan's rich must…demonstrate a clearer commitment to improving conditions and basic opportunities for all their fellow citizens by paying more in tax than they do under present arrangements." A recent Pakistani media investigation found that two-thirds of Pakistani MPs had not filed a tax return. The accused included Zardari, former PM Yusuf Raza Gilani and interior minister Rehman Malik.
The committee also noted widespread media reports "that whilst the UK and its allies have been fighting the Afghan Taliban over the past ten years at the same time the Pakistan Security services, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), have been supporting them."
In its hearing, it was told members of Pakistan's military were becoming increasingly concerned at India's rapid economic growth compared to Pakistan's, and "that was inclining some of them to think more seriously about what Pakistan needed to do to achieve economic development."
"Making Pakistan the largest UK aid recipient is controversial given it's unstable politics, large defence budget, historic levels of significant corruption, tax avoidance, low levels of expenditure on education and health programmes and its status as a middle income country," the report said.


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|There were no cases of HIV transmission due to occupational exposure in China last year
China had 1,043 cases of occupational exposure to HIV last year, although none resulted in an infection, according to Chinese experts.
"We haven't found any infections through occupational exposure in the past few years," said Wu Zunyou, director of The National Center for the Control and Prevention of AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. "Of course, the exposure does put huge mental pressure on medical workers, while the preventive medicines can make them feel very uncomfortable."
"[Side effects of anti-HIV prophylaxis] can include headaches, fevers, nausea and discomfort of the alimentary canal," explained Zhao Yan, deputy director of the national center's office of treatment and care. "They fade when someone stops taking the medication, but it's possible individuals can suffer impairment to organ functions."
She said the center has been working on a plan on how to assess and compensate for occupational exposure to HIV, ever since Premier Wen Jiabao suggested the country should add exposure to blood-borne viruses to the list of occupational diseases as soon as possible.
A surgeon in Beijing, who did not want to be identified, said he would prefer that guidance on post-exposure response was posted in operating rooms for every surgeon to see, as well as specific standards for when preventive medicines cause serious side effects or fail to work.
"Different surgeries need different plans to lower the risk of exposure," he said. "For example, HIV is rarely transmitted through tears, and there is little bloodshed in eye surgery. However, in brain surgery, where we need to drill through a patient's skull, bone and blood will fly into the air. If a patient has a high viral load, it's easier for surgeons to get infected."
He emphasized that such standards are not just for dealing with operations on HIV carriers. But people with other conditions, such as SARS, hepatitis and tuberculosis.
However, regardless of the type of virus, Fu Yan, a head nurse at Beijing You'an Hospital, which provides anti-viral treatment for HIV, insisted that universal precautions are needed to prevent medics from being exposed to patients' blood and other bodily fluids.
"The emergency response and compensation guidance show that government cares," she said, "but taking precautions is the most important thing.
"I don't want any of us to have the chance to 'enjoy' such policies."
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Guwahati : Electronic Media Forum Assam (EMFA) has expressed serious concern at the increasing rate of assaults on media persons in the recent past and urged the authority to take stern action against them, who are involved with the incidents. The television journalist forum also appeals to the civil society group and general populace to support the media persons to perform their duties without interferences.
Mentionable is that the coal mafia in Sibsagar attacked Bipin Hazarika of DY365, an influential satellite news channel of Assam, on March 20 for his initiative to report about the illegal open cast coal mining in his locality. Hazarika received serious injuries when a group of thugs, suspectedly appointed by the coal mafia, attacked him on duty. Even his camera was snatched away. An FIR has already been lodged in the nearby police station.
Meanwhile, Walton Lytan, a photo journalist of UB Photos, a news-photo agency was assaulted by an MLA of Meghalaya on March 19. The member of ruling Congress party in the State Assembly, FS Cajee brutally attacked the photo journalist as he photographed the MLA in sleeping when the Assembly session was going on, and later it was published in a Shillong based newspaper. The Shillong press club president David Laitphlang informed that Walton Lytan was hospitalized after the incident and an FIR was lodged in the police station.
The EMFA has urged both the governments at Dispur (Guwahati) and Shillong to take appropriate actions such that the journalists can get the confidence to report about hard issues. Otherwise, many reporters may find it safer and opt to report only soft issues like fashion show, business press meets, government releases etc, stated in the statement issued by EMFA.
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When Henry Kissinger took office as National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon in 1969, he was told to avoid live press conferences like the plague because ordinary Americans would be horrified by his thick Germanic accent. Even two years into Nixon's first term, most people had never heard Kissinger speak. Only gradually was the rule relaxed, with the result that his voice quickly became the stuff of international parody. In the Inspector Clouseau comedy The Pink Panther Strikes Again, for instance (released in 1976, by which time Nixon had given way to Gerald Ford), a character credited only as 'Secretary of State' speaks with an accent so guttural it is hard to make out a word he is saying. Ever since, a comedian has only to don a pair of glasses and affect a heavy Germanic accent, and everyone of a certain generation will know whom he is lampooning.


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According to NFPA's "U.S. Fire Death Rates by State" report released last year, South Carolina has one of the highest in the nation; its fire death rate was ranked seventh in the nation. Eight of the 10 states with the highest fire death rates between 2011 and 2015 were in the South.
Safety advocates are confident that the best way to remove South Carolina from this dreaded top 10 is to start embracing home fire sprinklers. "Unfortunately South Carolina has elected to not adopt that provision in the code so we are still building buildings without putting sprinkler systems," Daniel Byrne with the Burton Fire District told a local NBC news station. "That frustrates us at the firefighter level because not only are we watching families become homeless, not only do we see the injuries and deaths, but we're putting our lives at risk going in to put out a fire that technology and codes could have eliminated before it even really got started."
The news story adds that the state legislature has debated the option to sprinkler the state's new homes, but has not adopted the model building code requirement to sprinkler one- and two-family dwellings. Continuing to increase awareness of sprinklers and the need for them is the South Carolina Fire Sprinkler Coalition.
For the state to alter its fire problem, the South Carolina Building Codes Council and General Assembly need to take fire sprinkler requirements more seriously, added Byrne.
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Amy Randazzo of Grani's Acres receives 2016 Beginning Farmer of the Year Award
Routes2Farm.org presented award at Good Food Festival & Conference, Chicago
The 12th Annual Good Food Festival & Conference brought farmers, chefs, educators, legislators, entrepreneurs, and consumers together at UIC Forum, March 24-26, 2016. It also hosted the 4th Annual Beginning Farmer of the Year award presentation on March 25. Originated by the Upper Midwest CRAFT farmer alliance, this award is now presented by Routes to Farm, a new project led by Angelic Organics Learning Center that connects both new and established farmers to farmer-vetted resources that help grow their businesses in the local and sustainable food economy.
Routes2Farm.org is comprised of ten farmer alliances and support organizations that feed the Chicago foodshed. Each farmer alliance chose a finalist for Beginning Farmer of the Year from a pool of farmer applicants that submitted videos about their farms. Some of these farms are located within Chicago, while others are located across the state, and even one in Wisconsin. They serve restaurants, grocery stores, farmers markets and consumers directly. Finalists included Planted | Chicago (Advocates for Urban Agriculture), Tree Of Life Organic Farm (Band of Farmers), Creciendo Farms (Upper Midwest CRAFT), PrairiErth Farm (The Land Connection), Grateful Plains (Illinois Organic Growers Association), Boots & Saddle (Pembroke Farming Family), and the winner - Grani's Acres (Illinois Stewardship Alliance).
"These farmers represent the bedrock of the emerging local and sustainable farm economy," said Tom Spaulding, Executive Director of Angelic Organics Learning Center. "We are here to celebrate the entrepreneurship and courage of beginning farmers and the generosity of farmer alliances whose experienced farmers provide mentoring, technical assistance, and training. Every farmer finalist and each farmer alliance should feel immensely proud."
The winning submission, from farmer Amy Randazzo of Grani's Acres, is a beautifully crafted video that captures an aspiration to change our world by returning to our roots – small, sustainable, seasonal, and chemical-free farming. Randazzo was an accountant in Bloomington, IL when she purchased her grandparents' horse farm. Initially she had no intention of farming the land, but decided to take a yearlong sustainable farmer training course, previously offered at University of Illinois, when she found herself between jobs. Soon after, "Grani's Acres" was born.
"I think that the way our grandparents ate was a good way to eat," said Randazzo. "They lived and died by the seasons. They ate what was up that week, and if it wasn't up, they didn't eat it. If we can get back to that, we'll be doing a huge favor for the generations that come along behind us."
Randazzo also recognized a farmer that mentored her throughout her journey. She chose Marty Travis of Spence Farm and Spence Farm Foundation as the 2016 Mentor Farmer of the Year. Travis, a seventh generation farmer, has been a longtime advocate of the local and sustainable farming movements. He and his wife, Kris, formed a farming cooperative "Stewards of the Land" to meet the demand for clean, local food while also supporting small sustainable farmers. Randazzo is now an instrumental part of "Legacy of the Land" a second cooperative following the same model. She uses her accounting and managerial skills to assure farmers and land are connected to meet demand and yield profit.
"Beginning Farmer of the Year draws attention to the success stories of small sustainable farmers," said Travis. "This is incredibly important. We need more of these farmers, not only because so many farmers are aging out of the profession, but also because the demand for good food is growing so rapidly."
Beginning Farmer of the Year also highlights the farmer alliances and support organizations that are part of the Routes to Farm project. Illinois Stewardship Alliance chose Randazzo as their finalist, and received recognition as the winning alliance. The Springfield-based alliance is a non-profit that promotes environmentally sustainable, economically viable and socially just local food systems through policy development, advocacy and education.
The other alliances represented have slightly different missions, but all strive to connect and support local, sustainable farmers. It just so happens that Randazzo's son, who recently assumed the lead farmer role at Grani's Acres, spent nine months in an apprenticeship with Hans Bishop on PrairiErth Farm, this year's Beginning Farmer of the Year finalist from The Land Connection. Randazzo is passionate about increasing the number of sustainable farmers, not only in her own family and community, but worldwide.
"I'm doing this to change the world, one potato at a time," said Randazzo. "People want a good, quality food product, and I can give it to them."
Videos of the Beginning Farmer of the Year finalists can be viewed at Routes2Farm.org. The Routes to Farm project (Routes2Farm.org) is made possible with the generous support of the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust through Food:Land:Opportunity. Top right photo courtesy of Barry Brecheisen.
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Film Academy membership rule changes aim to improve diversity
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday announced "sweeping" changes to its membership rules that aim to make the Oscar voting body more diverse, including adjustments to its lifetime-membership model that would take votes away from those not active in the industry after 10 years.
The goal is to double the amount of women and minority members in the Academy by 2020, the statement reads.
"The Academy is going to lead and not wait for the industry to catch up," said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. "These new measures regarding governance and voting will have an immediate impact and begin the process of significantly changing our membership composition."
The board made a unanimous vote to make changes on Thursday night.
SEE ALSO: Latino, Asian and Native American actors aren't at the Oscars, either
The changes include these new membership guidelines:
"Each new member's voting status will last 10 years, and will be renewed if that new member has been active in motion pictures during that decade. In addition, members will receive lifetime voting rights after three ten-year terms; or if they have won or been nominated for an Academy Award. We will apply these same standards retroactively to current members."
Members who don't meet "active" status will be moved to "emeritus" status.
"Emeritus members do not pay dues but enjoy all the privileges of membership, except voting," the statement reads. "This will not affect voting for this year's Oscars."
Here are some other actions the Academy will take:
Launch a global campaign to add members "who represent greater diversity."
Add three new, three-year term governors seats to the board, who will be nominated by the President and confirmed by the board.
Add new, non-governors to the executive and board committees, "where key decisions about membership and governance are made."
The changes will not affect the upcoming 2016 Oscars, which saw zero nonwhite acting nominees for the second year in a row. The lack of nonwhite nominations has caused many to reuse the popular #OscarsSoWhite hashtag across social media. In addition, high profile actors have spoken out, including David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o and Mark Ruffalo, among others.
Jada Pinkett Smith asked viewers to boycott the Oscars, sharing that she wouldn't be watching or attending the 88th annual awards ceremony. She was later joined by husband Will Smith, who said he wouldn't be watching or attending this year's show either.
"I think that I have to protect and fight for the ideals that make our country and make our Hollywood community great," the two-time Oscar nominee explained.
Many have also asked this year's host, Chris Rock, to boycott the awards show as well, but he has not announced any decision to do so. Rock did, however, release a promo video jokingly calling the Oscars the "White BET Awards."
The #Oscars. The White BET Awards.
— Chris Rock (@chrisrock) January 15, 2016
Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs formally responded to the controversy on Monday, releasing a statement about how "heartbroken" she is about the lack of inclusion in this year's nominees and promising to take swift action.
"This is a difficult but important conversation, and it's time for big changes," she said. "The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership."
This year's awards ceremony will take place on Feb. 28.


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German car can reach 66.7 km/l and a top speed of 220 km/h in its GT version
The German-based car maker, Loremo, has taken a different approach to conventional car making. Incorporating elements of lightweight design, great aerodynamics and very small diesel engines. Loremo has given the prototype that was shown at IAA in Frankfurt a new design substantially enhancing the profile of the car's body resulting in more interior room. Loremo has announced that two models, the LS and GT, are expected to go on sale in 2009.
Weighing only 450 kg, both vehicles manage to have incredible fuel economy figures. The LS reaches 156 mpg (66.7 km/l or 1.5 liters/100km), accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 20 seconds and a has maximum speed of 160 km/h. The GT reaches 87 mpg (37 km/l or 2.7 liters/100km), sprints from 0 to 100 km/h in 9 seconds and tops 220 km/h.
Besides being very light, Loremo has interesting safety solutions, such as the absence of regular doors. Its front and back end open allowing access to front and rear passengers. As a result, this unconventional design uses less body panels which in themselves are structural vulnerabilities. In a crash, deformation can be controlled more effectively with the use of less body pieces.
The LS engine is a two-cylinder turbo diesel generating 20 bhp, and a three-cylinder turbo diesel producing 49 bhp for the GT. Both engines are located amongst the front and the back passengers.
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ALCOBAÇA, a town of Portugal, in the district of Leiria, formerly included in the province of Estremadura, on the Alcoa and Baça rivers, from which it derives its name. Pop. (1900) 2309. Alcobaça is chiefly interesting for its Cistercian convent, now partly converted into schools and barracks. The monastic buildings, which form a square 725 ft. in diameter, with a huge conical chimney rising above them, were founded in 1148 and completed in 1222. During the middle ages it rivalled the greatest European abbeys in size and wealth. It was supplied with water by an affluent of the Alcoa, which still flows through the kitchen; its abbot ranked with the highest Portuguese nobles, and, according to tradition, 999 monks continued the celebration of mass without intermission throughout the year. The convent was partly burned by the French in 1810, secularized in 1834 and afterwards gradually restored. Portions of the library, which comprised over 100,000 volumes, including many precious MSS., were saved in 1810, and are preserved in the public libraries of Lisbon and Braga. The moanstic church (1222) is a good example of early Gothic, somewhat defaced by Moorish and other additions. It contains a fine cloister and the tombs of Peter I. (1357-1367) and his wife, Iñez de Castro.


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While the two terms are often used interchangeably, "adviser" is the legal term used in the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940 to refer to individuals who must register with either the SEC or with their state.
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HALIFAX — An independent judicial review committee has dismissed complaints against a Nova Scotia judge who presided over a high-profile case involving a taxi driver accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated female passenger found partially naked and unconscious in his cab.
The review was ordered after the Nova Scotia Judicial Council received hundreds of complaints about provincial court Judge Gregory Lenehan, most of which focused on his comments at the conclusion of the trial.
His decision to acquit 40-year-old Bassam Al-Rawi — later overturned by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal — sparked swift and widespread public outrage when he concluded: "Clearly, a drunk can consent."
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The independent committee, made up of Judge Frank P. Hoskins, Dalhousie University political science professor Katherine Fierlbeck and R. Daren Baxter, the former president of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, said its role was not to determine whether Lenehan erred in law.
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Regarding his comment that a drunk can consent, the committee found that "a reasonably informed person would not conclude that the use of the impugned phrase in this context could lead to a finding of judicial misconduct."
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Still, the committee said the use of "ill-considered words" by a judge can undermine the public's confidence as much as the reality of proven bias.
For example, Lenehan's request to a mother breastfeeding her infant son "to take that out of the courtroom" may have been better phrased and explained at the time, the decision said.
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The province's judicial council received 121 written complaints, in addition to emails and phone calls, following Lenehan's oral decision.
Certain phrases ... may have benefited from more careful and contextual reflection.Review committee
The cab driver was charged after police found a woman in her 20s passed out in his taxi in the early hours of May 23, 2015.
The complainant was found in the rear seat, naked from the waist down, with her breasts exposed. She was unconscious. The police described the respondent's zipper as part-way down.
However, Lenehan said there was no evidence of lack of consent — a finding the province's appeal court later found erred in law.
"The committee can understand why many members of the public found the reported aspects of the case to be of sufficient concern to file complaints, given the current context of sexual assault awareness," it said.
"Judges must therefore be diligent in staying current with changing laws and social value."
Complaints said he showed prejudice
Meanwhile, other complaints lodged against the judge pointed to decisions they claimed demonstrated Lenehan's "prejudice against women," including a case involving a man convicted of sexual assaulting his teenage step-daughter.
Complainants said the sentence of two years less one day — to be served in the community — was too lenient.
Yet the committee said in its 45-page decision that the judge accepted a joint sentencing recommendation from the Crown and the defence, and that it was within the range of sentences for similar offences.
Other sentencing decisions were also pointed to as being too lenient, such as two high-profile cases involving youths charged with distributing child pornography related to a photograph of a young woman engaged in explicit sexual activity, which was circulated without her knowledge or consent.
In these cases, the committee noted the judge used stern language with the accused, saying he showed "utter contempt" for the young woman, her dignity, her self-respect and her privacy.
Lenehan no longer relies on notes when reading decisions
The sentence of probation was not reflective of gender bias, the committee said, but abided by provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act as well as joint recommendations from the Crown and defence.
The committee noted in its decision that when asked what changes, if any, Lenehan has made since the complaints were filed, he replied that he no longer relies on notes when rendering oral decisions.
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Environmental disturbance, resource availability, and biologic turnover at the dawn of animal life
2018; 177: 248–64
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.019
View details for Web of Science ID 000426409200016
Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space
2017; 48: 164–88
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.020
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Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils
2016; 42 (4): 574-594
View details for DOI 10.1017/pab.2016.20
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A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia
2016; 459: 198-208
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Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society
2015; 282 (1814)
The latest Neoproterozoic extinction of the Ediacara biota has been variously attributed to catastrophic removal by perturbations to global geochemical cycles, 'biotic replacement' by Cambrian-type ecosystem engineers, and a taphonomic artefact. We perform the first critical test of the 'biotic replacement' hypothesis using combined palaeoecological and geochemical data collected from the youngest Ediacaran strata in southern Namibia. We find that, even after accounting for a variety of potential sampling and taphonomic biases, the Ediacaran assemblage preserved at Farm Swartpunt has significantly lower genus richness than older assemblages. Geochemical and sedimentological analyses confirm an oxygenated and non-restricted palaeoenvironment for fossil-bearing sediments, thus suggesting that oxygen stress and/or hypersalinity are unlikely to be responsible for the low diversity of communities preserved at Swartpunt. These combined analyses suggest depauperate communities characterized the latest Ediacaran and provide the first quantitative support for the biotic replacement model for the end of the Ediacara biota. Although more sites (especially those recording different palaeoenvironments) are undoubtedly needed, this study provides the first quantitative palaeoecological evidence to suggest that evolutionary innovation, ecosystem engineering and biological interactions may have ultimately caused the first mass extinction of complex life.
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New Ediacaran fossils from the uppermost Blueflower Formation, northwest Canada: disentangling biostratigraphy and paleoecology
Journal of Paleontology
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Biography: James Patrick (1911-1944), Born: Cranbrook, British Columbia; Studied at Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles); Member: California Water Color Society. James Patrick grew up in Southern California and attended high school in Hollywood. In the late 1920s, he received a three-year scholarship to study at the Chouinard Art Institute. During the...... read more
Pacific Chemical Company, Los Angeles, CA, during WWII
One of the many processing sites (in this case raw sulfur) found in Los Angeles County during WWII. It is amusing that "security" was such that Patrick had no difficulty in depicting this place and the activities there. He did have "Civilian Credentials" issued by the Western Defense Command so this may have been enough for the guard to allow Patrick to paint this, but the security apparently was still not of the highest level. Courtesy of son Ian Patrick
Exhibited: Painting World War II: The California Style Watercolor Artists, Oceanside Museum of Art, April 18 October 3, 2010.
World of Watercolor, Fallbrook Art Center, March 6 - April 27, 2011.


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How I Overcame Tragedy & Started My Own Business: Interview with Francesco Clark of Clark's Botanicals
I'd heard of Clark's Botanicals skin-care line before I knew the face behind the label. I've read about the products in countless magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar and The Wall Street Journal, but until I received a copy of the Francesco Clark's autobiography 'Walking Papers: The Accident that Changed My Life, and the Business that Got Me Back on My Feet,' I didn't know the family-owned business was born out of tragedy. (Which I think is a great testament to the product -- it stands on its own merits.)
The book is a fascinating read; the story begins with Francesco Clark talking about the accident that changed his life forever, paralyzing him from the neck down at the age of 24. His diagnosis was grim, but Clark not only fought back, he overcame the odds -- and by the end of the book, he's also shared some very inspiring secrets about overcoming your own obstacles and starting any new venture you might want to try.
Clark's Botanicals didn't begin as a money-making enterprise. As a shut-in, and being wheelchair-bound, Clark's once-clear skin began to blemish terribly. Nothing worked. His skin was too sensitive for many of the products available, or the ones that were mild enough simply didn't work. With the help of his family, he began to experiment with natural ingredients -- and out of that, the successful business Clark's Botanicals was born.
His company has won the Fashion Group International Rising Star Award, Allure's Best of Beauty Award (two years in a row), Fitness's Beauty Award, Self's Healthy Beauty Award, Cosmetic Executive Women's Indie Brand of the Year 2008, as well as Wallpaper's design award.
Q. Rather than being depressing, your book had a really good balance between the tragedy and the triumph. How did you find that balance?
A. Thank you. It was important to me that it didn't [come off] so black. I wanted it to be a book about: This is what I did, this is how I lived through this injury. And it's my life, so I'm not expecting anybody else to go through it the same way. This was more my journey.
Q. It seems the fact that you already had a great work ethic, before your injury, helped you start your own business. Able-bodied or not, it is such an accomplishment for anyone.
A. What's interesting about Clark's Botanicals is that I never started it as a business. It was a point in my life after my injury when I felt like a piece of sand and I didn't want people to notice me. I didn't want people to look at me to talk to me or to worry about me because all I felt that they looked at was my wheelchair.
Three years after I was injured, Christopher Reeve passed away and that was kind of the turning point for me because he was my hero even before I was injured, but especially after my spinal cord injury. He was an advocate for people with my disability and for stem cell research and for medical research of any kind. So when he passed away I realized that I had been wallowing in self-pity. His passing made me realize that I wanted to become part of the cure and not be passive.
I joined a local advocacy group. [I soon realized] I didn't want to wear the T-shirt day in and day out, and suddenly for the first time in three years, I looked in the mirror and my skin didn't look like my skin. My face didn't look like my face. I wanted the physical, the outside, to reflect the way that I felt. That's when my father [a doctor] and I created Clark's Botanicals, because nothing was working. We started to formulate the product at a point in my life when I was from this very negative place. And suddenly it just turned around and because of this, people saw me. They wanted to smile at me and they wanted to talk to me. And they wanted to see me as a person and not as a disabled person. So it was just me. And that's kind of how it all started.
Q. What kind of personal traits do you think make for a good entrepreneur?
A. In order to be a successful entrepreneur you have to have a very thick skin. You're going to have to learn to deal with hearing 'no' a lot. Also there is a sense that you have to endure a lot of disbelief, because as an entrepreneur, inherently you're starting this idea completely on your own. Many people won't have the faith in your idea that you have. So you have to be very strong-willed and you need to be very sure of what your goal is and what your vision is. As an entrepreneur if you waver at all on the ability of your idea, that reflects back on the actual business in everybody's point of view.
Q. For a botanical product, what are the FDA guidelines? How do you put things out on the market and have all of your legal things in place? That must have been difficult.
A. It is difficult, but that is very important. The way that you're able to brand if you say that your product is 'natural.' Then for organic there are specific guidelines for it. Clark's Botanicals is not 100 percent natural, because it's actually the best of science and the best of nature to create a synergy for healthy growth of skin. We don't use a lot of botanical preservatives that are bad for you. For example [certain chemicals] actually have been shown to increase estrogen in women, leading to breast cancer. So we cut that kind of preservative out of all of our product. We don't use colors in any of our products with the exception of our tinged lip balm.
But nothing that is superfluous, is not needed, or actually doesn't build upon the strength of another ingredient, is in any of our products. And ultimately, every product has to deliver. Every product has to have a reason for being, which means they have to be results-oriented. At the end of the day -- whether you're buying the natural product line and organic product line, a botanical or a completely traditional beauty cream -- all you want is beautiful skin. That's why you go to the store to find that particular product.
I never wanted any trade-off. The typical trade-off is that when it says that it's 'natural,' it has to be an ugly packaging or it has to smell like cardboard. So you kind of think, 'I guess that's all right, because it's natural'. No. The thing about Clark's Botanicals is that I wanted it to feel like the best that you can buy, and it works better than anything else you could buy, because it's stimulating. And I wanted you to be able to see results after three days of use. I wanted you to be able to see that your wrinkles were filled. I wanted you to see that the apple stem cells that we use in our cellular lifting serum are actually plumping up fine lines and wrinkles and making your skin pink and glowing again. And you can feel the product working, because they tingle.
Q. Today's economy isn't that great, but what can people on a budget do to help those with spinal cord injuries? Are there volunteer situations? Does a portion of the proceeds from your botanical line go to research?
A. Yeah. Every product purchase of Clark's Botanicals helps. A percentage of each of our products' retail goes to benefit the Christopher Reeve Foundation. That goes directly to finding a cure and also funding the care for people with spinal cord injuries. People can help in many different ways -- and in fact, the way that I'm involved with the foundation is that I'm one of their national ambassadors.
So my company is directly involved with the foundation; but me as an individual, I give speeches, I do events. I go to events, because it's about showing people what living with a spinal injury means. I discuss my first days of injury, when I couldn't speak and when I couldn't breathe; when I was told that I would be on a ventilator for the rest of my life. And clearly that's not happening. I'm pretty much not shutting up. People can get involved [by] running marathons. There's a program called Team Reeve where, when you run the New York City Marathon and the Boston Marathon, you can sign with Team Reeve [at the same time] and the money that you raise to run that marathon would go to spinal cord injury research through the Christopher Reeve Foundation.
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United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said in a video posted on his official Twitter account that he is leaving "the coolest job in the world" and that he would return to his home state and "treasure the memories" of accomplishments. The former governor of Texas made no mention of the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump which lately pushed him to center stage as he was subpoenaed by committees in the House of Representatives that are responsible for running the process. The resignation will be "effective later this year," Perry revealed after Trump said he would depart at year-end.
The Wall Street Journal learned from an anonymous source that the change has been planned for months regardless of the current political turmoil. The US has "achieved a goal of energy independence", according to the energy secretary, who cited the first exports of natural gas in more than six decades.
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Living comfort meets cooking convenience - new partnership between VISIONAPARTMENTS and HelloFresh
Live in comfort, cook brilliantly: VISIONAPARTMENTS, the Swiss market leader in the serviced apartment sector, is entering a partnership with the world's leading meal kit company HelloFresh. A cooperation that perfectly suits the taste of VISIONAPARTMENTS tenants.
Through the partnership between VISIONAPARTMENTS and HelloFresh, VISIONAPARTMENTS tenants will be given a reduction of CHF 50 when they order their first HelloFresh recipe box. This special offer applies throughout Switzerland. HelloFresh recipe boxes are filled with completely fresh ingredients, including mainly organic vegetables and fresh meat from 100 percent Swiss sources. This combination of quality and convenience defines the overall concept of HelloFresh. The advantage: no more time-consuming shopping trips, and more time – and fun – in the kitchen.
This is an offer that ideally complements the services offered by VISIONAPARTMENTS. Most of the tenants of the 1,300 or so VISIONAPARTMENTS are business travellers who book short to medium-term stays and hardly have time to do their own shopping. The recipes supplied by HelloFresh, which change each week, will also provide plenty of inspiration to business visitors. Those who are in a particular hurry can opt for the "Express Box". Other options are the "Veggie Box" for vegetarians and the "Explore Box" for those with more adventurous tastes.
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Founded in Switzerland in 1999, VISIONAPARTMENTS specialises in developing and renting premium furnished apartments with service and style. The company quickly grew from a start-up to Switzerland's market leader and now offers over 1,300 tailored temporary living solutions in Berlin, Lausanne, Warsaw, Vienna and Zurich, with further locations soon to follow in Basel, Frankfurt, Geneva, Vevey and Zug. It is gradually expanding both in Switzerland and abroad while focusing primarily on the German-speaking countries. To enhance its global presence, VISIONAPARTMENTS also cooperates with select partner companies in a serviced apartment network that currently includes over 90,000 accommodations in more than 580 business destinations worldwide. visionapartments.com
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HelloFresh is the world's leading meal kit company, operating in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Australia, Austria, Switzerland and Canada. HelloFresh delivered 33.7 million meals in the 3-month period from 1 July 2017 to 30 September 2017 to 1.28 million active customers. HelloFresh was founded in November 2011 in Berlin and listed in November 2017 at the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt am Main. HelloFresh has offices in New York, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Zurich, Sydney and Toronto. hellofresh.ch
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19 February
The prestigious classic Fife yachts will be making a welcome return to the Clyde in 2020, Year of Coasts and Waters. Last seen in their home waters off Fairlie in 2013 it was deemed fitting to stage the fifth event during the Visit Scotland specially themed Year of Coasts and Waters 2020. The Fife Regatta will take place from 4 – 12 June 2020, starting and finishing in Largs and sailing to various venues around the Clyde.
With only a handful of Fife yachts remaining in Scotland the majority of the yachts will make a homecoming journey from the Mediterranean back to their birth place at Fairlie to celebrate the heritage and craftsmanship of the Fife boatyard at the end of the 19th century.
We're proud to be supporting the Visit Scotland Year of Coast and Water 2020 #YCW2020
The regatta will be one of the largest events on the Clyde in recent years and we expect marina berths to be booked well in advance.
To secure your berth, please contact us by calling 01475 675333 or complete our enquiry form below..
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