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First of all you buy a very comprehensive MSL training course consisting of 12 well designed chapters designed by experts in the field with years of MSL experience that will get you upskilled very quickly in what it takes to become an MSL (including but not limited to: with whom you can/will work, how pharma works and learn you how to write a better MSL industry CV/LinkedIn profile that gets you noticed and will prepare you for those tough MSL interview rounds). These videos can be watched at any time, as often as you like and on any device you have. And many of our candidates have watched them many many times in order to prepare for their interview rounds.
Secondly, you will have access to the resources on the MSL academy page that will dive deeper in the understanding of certain topics such as interview rounds, salary negotiations etc.
Thirdly, we are providing ongoing coaching after the course to help you to digest your learning of the course and prepare you for the MSL job.
Fourthly, we have additional resources such as successful MSL CVs, CV cheatsheet, FastFacts medical handbooks, personal CV review and personal one-on-one coaching (depending on the level of membership).
Lastly, we get MSL jobs (see jobs page) via our large pharmaceutical industry network that we try to match you with. We will coach you through these MSL interview rounds to help you land you that so desired MSL job (AND expect you that you come prepared).
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Is this platform course to the US/European Market?
Yes it is. It is relevant to any country.
The core of the MSL role is similar across different countries. There are some small differences and those are mainly in relation to the regulatory and compliance environment and we will explain that to you.
However, the biggest differences we have observed in our own MSL careers and the candidates we have placed worldwide, depends on for which company you work for AND where the drug is in its product life cycle, NOT the country you are working in as an MSL. And this is clearly explained in the course
Why is it so hard to break into an MSL role?
It depends on the candidate but based on our experience talking to hundreds of candidates, the main reason is that a lot of candidates do not understand the role and therefore come underprepared to the interview and subsequently fail. The MSL role is a complex role that requires having many skills as well as a deep understanding of the science, the therapeutic area, the hospital system and the pharmaceutical industry as a whole. The more you can upskill yourself on all these topics the greater your chances of getting an MSL job.
4. Do I get a certificate when I complete the from SCIENCE to PHARMA training course?
From SCIENCE to PHARMA (FSTP) is pleased to announce that following completion of our online Medical Science Liaison (MSL) training program you will now receive an MSL training certificate.
Our widely recognized online MSL training program is aimed at people who want to transition into the pharmaceutical industry as an MSL but don't have any pharmaceutical experience or MSL experience.
Our team of expert - with years of MSL in-field, coaching and interviewing experience - has developed the most comprehensive online MSL training platform that will provide you with all the information and practical tips from the expert that you need to know to get fully prepared for your MSL interviews.
I don't have a PhD/MD/or PharmD, can I still become an MSL?
Yes you can, but it depends on the country. It is worth noting that hiring managers have more and more candidates to choose from. Therefore, there is a trend of hiring more candidates with a terminal D degree. However, in a several countries they value pharma industry experience more than just your degree and are therefore more than happy to hire people with Bachelor or Master degrees into the MSL role.
In our opinion, moving forward, the scientific complexity of clinical trial design and the increasing use of biomarkers will push recruiters to employ candidate with highly specialized scientific expertise, if this is obtained via a terminal D degree or via other means doesn't matter. As long as you are a subject matter expert.
How long does it take to become an MSL?
Based on our experience, we would say to set a 12 months horizon to find a job. We have seen candidates getting jobs in a 1-2 months and some took longer.
There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, it takes time to fully understand the MSL role and the pharma industry and to upskill yourself to pass the recruiters and land an interview. Secondly, the interview process can take up to 4 rounds of interviews stretched over several months. Thirdly, your therapeutic area might not have that many vacancies as it is a rarer disease. Finally, most of our candidates had to apply to several companies before being successful, which takes time as well. Don't be discouraged with this time-frame, some of our top candidates have been recruited within 2 months of finishing this course. We will give you all the tools and support you need but at the end of the day it really depends on the candidate to utilize this knowledge and their willingness to succeed.
Should I do a postdoc to increase my chances of becoming an MSL?
It doesn't hurt if you have done a postdoc as you might have become an even better subject matter expert in that (clinical disease) area. However, you should ask yourself what extra "pharma skills" will you learn by doing a postdoc, unless it is very clinical (trial) focused? Most of our candidates had a (postdoc) job while applying for an MSL job, and that is the best place you can be in. Earn an income, while applying for a better future, as it can take a number of months to land your first MSL role.
What's the difference between an MSL and a sales representative?
This one is pretty simple. The sales representative is hired to promote the sale of the drug. However, the MSL is part of the medical affairs team and is not involved in sales. It will take a whole course to explain you the intricacy what a MSL is doing. The role of the MSL changes with the life cycle of your drug, the various interactions you have with your internal/external stakeholders and the market you are in determines the regulatory, reimbursement and compliance environment.
How much travel do you do?
It depends on the country, the company, the drug and the product life cycle of the drug and the size of the territory you are looking after. A big part of the MSL role is externally facing, meaning interacting with external experts and therefore you will have to travel to meet these experts. How far and for how long you have to travel can really vary. Some positions require to fly and to spend nights away from home whereas other positions require primarily driving and you are almost never away from home.
Some job descriptions mention 80% travel for a MSL, but I (and any candidate that I placed) have never traveled 4/5 days every week. Furthermore, if after a year you feel it is too much travel, you just move to a different MSL role or perhaps a more office based job within your company, as you are now an experienced MSL and you are worth your weight in gold!
10. I have a PhD but don't have industry experience, can I still become a MSL?
The simple answer is yes. Three quarters of our candidates we have placed through the course moved directly from science to pharma, without having any previous pharmaceutical industry experience. However, it is becoming more and more competitive. The more relevant experience you have and a clearer understanding of the role the better your chances are. Simple as that! You might already have a lot of (unrecognized) experience that is required for the MSL job. You just need to recognize it and highlight it accordingly on your CV together with a clear understanding of what the MSL job is all about. This is something that will be extensively covered in the training.
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Office Feng Shui How To Tips
Our office feng shui tips will help you create vibrant and successful energy in your office space. No matter your office is a home office, a corner office or a small cubicle, feng shui can bring the desired energy when you know how to apply it.
Since we tend to spend many hours in the office, be mindful to also apply the feng shui health tips. Next, look into feng shui tips for success and recognition, as you sure deserve it.
Explore our office tips and choose at least several feng shui cures that you can easily implement in your specific office space. These feng shui cures do not have to be dramatic, even a couple air purifying plants and smart feng shui images plus a better positioning of your office desk can do wonders for your well-being, and ultimately contribute to your career success.Continue to 2 of 13 below.
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Office Feng Shui Case Study
Feng shui for the office is as important an application of feng shui as in the bedroom. We tend to spend many hours at the office, be it a home office or an outside work environment. If you have been neglecting your office space, take some time now to pay attention to the feng shui of your office.Continue to 3 of 13 below.
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Office Air Purifying Plants
The best feng shui advice to keep in mind is to always be aware of the quality of the air in your office and do your best to improve it. Research shows that indoor pollution is much worse than the outdoor one. Is there a feng shui solution? Yes, there is! The best feng shui solution is to decorate your office with indoor plants.Continue to 4 of 13 below.
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Feng Shui Your Office Cubicle
When you work in a cubicle type office setting–which means that your office set-up cannot be changed–you have to pay even more attention to creating (and keeping) good energy throughout your day at the office. While you might not be able to move your office desk into a feng shui commanding position or face your lucky feng shui directions, but there are still many ways to improve the energy of your workspace.Continue to 5 of 13 below.
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Keep Your Productivity Levels High
The stress we aren't aware of damages us the most, says Gabor Mate in his excellent book When the Body Says "No". Can feng shui help you identify the stress points in your office, and, more importantly, can feng shui help neutralize or eliminate them? Yes, it sure can.Continue to 6 of 13 below.
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Deal With a Blocking Wall in Your Office
In feng shui, the right location of walls can promote a good flow of energy and enhance the positive feelings in a home or an office. A challenging wall location will do just the opposite. There are several walls that can create potential feng shui challenges in your office space.Continue to 7 of 13 below.
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Create Good Feng Shui Backing in Your Office
Good feng shui backing means having strong, supportive, good feng shui energy behind your back. This usually applies to your office (the area behind your back while you are working at your desk) and your bedroom (the wall behind your bed/behind your headboard).Continue to 8 of 13 below.
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Find the Feng Shui Commanding Position
The feng shui commanding position is an important notion to take into consideration when you set up your bedroom, your office, your living room, or when you are re-decorating any of these spaces. Why? Because being in a commanding position keeps your energy stronger and more protected.Continue to 9 of 13 below.
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Feng Shui Tips for a Small Office With No Windows
If you spend many hours at the office, you have to find a way to make the office energy work for you, meaning it has to support your health and vitality. More often than not, this is a challenge, especially if your office has no windows, but good feng shui even in this office is not an impossible task.Continue to 10 of 13 below.
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How to Feng Shui Your Home Office
In my experience, working from a home office presents two major challenges. The good news is that it is easy to overcome them if you know how to use feng shui to your advantage.Continue to 11 of 13 below.
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Do I Face the Wall or a Bad Direction?
If this is your office feng shui situation, then you might think you are encountering a big challenge. However, numerous offices have the same situation, but manage to create good office feng shui. So, let's see what you can do to improve the feng shui of your office.Continue to 12 of 13 below.
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Best Feng Shui Positioning of an L-Shaped Office Desk
If you have been exploring feng shui for a while, you know how important it is to have your bed, as well as your office desk, face a good feng shui direction. Sometimes it is very easy to position your office desk, and sometimes you just have to use all your creativity to find the best feng shui energy spot in your office.Continue to 13 of 13 below.
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VI. Expressions in the World: Race and Racism
How racism is not a personal or human flaw, but a consequence of the idea of race
The explanation for differences
The idea of race functions as an explanation for people's behaviors, preferences, and possibilities. It assumes a certain level of sameness, or an essence that allows people to believe that knowledge about one person who 'is' a certain 'race' is translatable to others of that supposed type.
When someone says something that results in them being labeled, against their will, as a racist, stigmatizing them under the assumption that they will then shut up, this usually results in, at most, a closeting of views the speaker and others who share those views, will not believe make them bad people.
While speech is sometimes used as a weapon to intentionally dehumanize others as part of the process toward political economic or sexual power, sometimes what looks like racism may often be, on closer inspection, a reflection of normative tendencies and how they interact with the idea of race shared by alleged 'racists' and 'anti-racists' alike.
In different places there are different norms (or: the right way things are done) and often what you see when someone does something you wouldn't do, and you wouldn't expect based on your experiences, is a sort of judgment. This is a common reaction to seeing someone act in an unfamiliar way, one of the possible internal expressions of cultures in contrast.
Race is not scientific:
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species.
Species: a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Does having brown eyes, or lots of hair make you a different type of person? These are just features. Phenotypes exist because of geographical isolation and social selection, but it is a leap to conclude that a certain appearance indicates that one is a different type of person, or that a pairing between a human and another human results in someone being "mixed". Everyone has a different appearance from everyone else. Everyone has differences from even people in their own family. Why do some differences result in a divided taxonomy of human beings?
It is not entirely arbitrary as the idea of "a nigger" was created to justify economic exploitation, and people are still seen through this filter to this day as lower and therefore unworthy of basic human consideration, and what once took place in the fields now takes place in prisons. Cheap labor, the understory of American success is enabled by a belief that some people are innately bad. A belief that requires we do not look beyond the surface of the race as we understand the world.
In this culture we falsely equate having differences, and 'being' different.
Part of why race hatred and anxiety seems to be unavoidable, has to do with how we understand ourselves, the other part has to do with how we try to solve problems that come from that understanding.
On one level, it has to do with one of the Truths We Live. If you do a bad thing, you become bad, suddenly you always were. Someone does something and then they are labelled as if the action is innate, as if they cannot change, as if the action represents the extent of their value. "You are an asshole Henry!" And often someone wont change if, in reaction to negative behavior, critics bundle the action with the speaker's ego which will then defend 'itself'. Within this general pattern, the strategy for dealing with perceived racism, i.e. calling someone a racist or fascist is inadequate because it does not typically involve an examination of what makes the views possible.
There are a lot of people who are not so far along the spectrum of racial malice, who experience confusion in being labelled for coming to conclusions that are logical given the system of thinking that prevails in this society. People are believed to do what they do because of 'what they are', they supposedly have different inner laws and different possibilities. People, no matter their divergence in politics, share this assumption, and this is evident in how nearly everyone discusses themselves or others in racial terms.
The idea of "political correctness" is that there is an imposition of politeness that prevents people from saying what is 'true'. To treat a person we have never met differently because of actions of others "of that same race" makes sense in a way because if "they" share an internal racial causality then–and you can see this in the world–you only need one way of thinking of and relating to them. For instance, avoidance.
What makes it more complicated than someone merely having the bravery to be "politically incorrect" is that people utilize this logic inconsistently. If someone seen as a different type does something that is interpreted as wrong, that 'type' is often mentioned thus implicating everyone else who supposedly is the same. If however, someone supposedly of one's own type commits a negative act, it is individualized, and they alone are responsible, they have their reasons. The same action also will often be defined differently. In the United States it is called terrorism if someone who is claiming Islam commits an act of mass-murder, but if someone espousing white supremacist views does literally the same act, there has been a general reluctance to also call that terrorism.
Because this thought system is so inconsistent, where within it people accept a classification for themselves then react angrily when other people relate to them based on the system's logic of sameness, responses to debates about racism revolve in a shallow circle that can never result in meaningful progress.
This worldview is expressed in statements such as: "white people did this to us" or "black people are racist" where actions are interpreted to have a unanimity. Someone listening who has not exhibited, in their actions, evidence for such statements, feels attacked and then resorts to the same logic by talking about the other group as if "they" act with one will and motive. This pattern deepens the sense of an "us" and "them" and the irony is that it is a shared mindset that people use to exacerbate distance and resentment.
Many people are conscious of this flaw, of judging people who haven't done anything wrong, and yet still such judgments arise almost naturally and shape the experience of our society. The result of being so far away, and unwilling to look up from the label and its meanings, is people will then never know who, is really there.
In becoming increasingly isolated along "type" lines, and in a context where a sense of meaning is created through opposition, where we are valuable because we are "not like them", being "better" becomes an unconscious routine that our explanations invisibly conform to.
The deeper cause behind behavior correlations is not how people innately are, it is the idea of different categories of people and how it has forged, by being lived from, different circumstances and thus different patterns which are then described as innate. The only reason it may seem we have no choice over racist thinking is because we are not, by default, conscious of how the needs of the ego filter our experiences.
In the current political arena, when someone speaking the logic of the current thought system makes a hostile statement about a 'type of people', others may sense that it will cause harm but still not recognize that every 'type' is an idea. It is like an address to which meanings have been funneled over time, that no individual should be accountable to. It is not the speaker that needs to be challenged, defeated, but the idea they are looking at.
Identity and Consequence
When someone says 'I am black' they are not describing some truth, instead they are basically evoking each observing person's idea of what that means. Given current perceptions of crime statistics it is basically like saying 'I am a criminal' as far as the meaning others see in the word. To then expect to be treated fairly is actually a stretch.
It would be argued, that one does not have a choice over how one is seen. But how can perception determine what you are when it–how people perceive a person or many people–has such wild variation?
The idea of race cuts out context, cuts out history and implies patterns are innate. It is only a place for associations to be stored and therefore the meaning others see in it cannot be controlled. This is how Black Lives Matter undermines its own cause, not through its intent, but in its execution. It is because people allow a concept that has been poisoned for centuries to represent them, that it becomes very easy for others to feel that they really don't matter.
People think that without continuing to reinforce this mantra of innate difference, racism could no longer be challenged when it is because of this assumption that history, and race-based conflict, cannot be understood and transcended. To cease to organize people in this way does not mean you cannot take account of experiences and privileges divided based on how people have been categorized and treated.
It is understandable that people have racist views, not because they are accurate, or because it is our inevitable nature to have racist behavior, but because having differences is currently interpreted as 'being' different, and so the ego can take every human consequence of history and turn that into a story of how "our kind is better". Norms create a sense that there is a right way and a wrong way, and because of the history created by living on the idea of race, people have different norms. Therefore to see people on the other side of history is to see wrong actions which are then interpreted as "their kind" being wrong. Correlations, from history, reinforce the sense of reality to race.
People no matter how intelligent, still fail to see history as, to this point, a record of living on automatic thinking filtered through an assumption of difference.
Because in this culture people do not ordinarily develop enough distance from their own ego, and the imaginary divisions through which it is reinforced, to see what it is doing, people are trapped in its patterns which leads them to believe that bad actions come from how 'they' 'are' rather than reflecting expressions of what people are looking through.
It is not a type of person but a type of mindset
Where people now deal with views they see as wrong by labelling, attempting to dismiss a thought or person without actually addressing the system that person is operating on, the person judging may miss not only their shared humanity, but the shared mindset that binds us in conflict.
Debates over the racism often devolve into who does what, and how much, which is beside the point. Just as the football team that happens to be in a person's city becomes their favorite, that we are conditioned to believe we are part of a separate group other than humanity leads to an arbitrary sort of patriotism just like people display with sports, which leads to comparisons and competition that results in people working against each other, for no reason other than the ego's need to be better.
What we share is far more profound than having different shades of skin. Culture comes from context, and to try to understand the world independently of context, including the context of dominant truths, is impossible. People muddle culture as being something innate, they say white culture and black culture leading to expectations that there is one way of being depending on how you look, when culture is instead a matter of where you are from.
Underneath the identity and the conditioning is us, the part that does not come and go that exists without any formulas or scripts, that has no enemies and no hatred. All of that comes after, it is only the ideas people are looking through that puts them into conflict. To resent someone based on 'who they are', when they have not done anything wrong, is an error of perception, but it is understandable given how their perspective has been shaped, unconsciously, limiting their responses.
The holocaust is remembered as an act of the Nazis or the Germans, but if it was a reflection of innate tendencies wouldn't we expect German society to keep recreating it year after year? What people miss of the event in remembering the event as caused by a type of person is that the same mindset still persists around the world today, even as people called Neo-Nazis are condemned. Not every individual will act on it in the same way, but it is like a flammable substance that often catches fire. Our interactions are shaped by it: psychological distance, hierarchy, cruelty, alienation, fear. It is the psychological context that is the prerequisite for atrocity.
A primitive group instinct has come with us through history only to be formalized as idea structures we assume to be our self, our people.
Awareness of this inner context will however, in time, loosen it's hold on us. Sentiments born of past identity-based conflict may not change over night, but they will certainly continue to be inflamed as long as people understand cause as something that is based in 'who you are'.


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Artist Profile
Born: 1975
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Lives and Works: Mumbai, India
Sandeep's works explore the intersections between religion, spirituality and sexuality often questioning our current moral value system that seems to have been established through a mass blind acceptance of a normalised truth claim .
His unique visual style, Indian in its aesthetics, uses colours and symbolisms to further his stories. His approach towards staged portraiture creates a tension between what is real and what is fiction. By challenging widely held beliefs within the Indian culture, he employs a narrative style that blurs the lines between the real and the imagined often forcing the viewer to ponder over parallel interpretations.
A recipient of several awards, his works have been exhibited worldwide.
Having studied and worked in the US for over 15 years in the corporate sector, Sandeep eventually relocated back to India and has been a visual artist since 2010
Apart from his fine art work, Sandeep is currently involved in a few other endeavours. He heads a venture dedicated to the upliftment of Indian Handicraft businesses wherein he works with NGO's engaged in sustainable rural artisanal development. He helps rural handicraft projects to develop their brand by guiding them to produce original and aesthetically evolved marketing and branding collaterals using cost effective and locally sourced talent to produce content inspired by the region's socio-cultural evolution. He is also involved in the capacity of Global Creative Head at Lensational - a UK based NGO working towards women empowerment through photography, and teaches the craft of story telling to individuals whose stories are often ignored
- • An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, UK 2018 • National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India 2018
• Platform Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2018
• Les nuits de Pierrevert, Montpellier, France 2018
• Tasveer Journal, India 2018
• Egaro Photo Festival, Agartala, Tripura, India 2017
• Just Another Photo Festival, Kolkatta, India 2017
• Kalinka Gallery, Pondicherry, India 2017
• Sri Aurobindo Centre for Arts & Communication (SACAC), New Delhi, India 2017
• Fòcas Scotland ‒ Commissioned by the British Council and Creative Scotland as part of the 'UK/India
Year of Culture 2017' to make new lens-based work that shall travel through UK and India during
2018 ‒ Edinburgh, UK 2017
• Bikaner House, New Delhi, India, 2017
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• An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, UK 2017
• A Surreal Vision, Loosen Art, Rome, Italy 2017
• The Realm of Queer Desires ‒ India Culture Lab, Mumbai, India 2017
• Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia 2016
• The One Fest Goa, Goa - India 2016
• Public House Of Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016.
• Part of 10 internationally selected group of artistes for a collaborative research program titled
"Disappearing Dialogues" in Art Ichol, Maihar, Madhya Pradesh. Works to be exhibited at the
India Habitat Centre in December 2017.
• LensCulture.com, USA, February 2016 - Featured - "Elysium"
• LensCulture.com, USA, January 2016 - Featured on the homepage - "smaraNa - A Recollection" • Named by Homegrown as one of the top 9 artists in India who are exploring sex and sexuality in
important ways.
• Dali International Photography Festival, China 2015
• Athens International Photo Festival, Greece 2015
• Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, India 2015
• Goa International Photography Festival, Goa, India 2015
• Focus Photography Festival - Mumbai, India 2015
• Focus Photography Festival, Mumbai, India 2013
• Director's Choice Award - Adjudged by Mr. Arko Dutta - World Press Photo Of the Year Winner, Mumbai
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In antiquity the temples were the seat of the s scientific knowledge and the priests were the savants.
This was so because when civilization began the gods who were worshiped were no others that the Anunnaki/Nephilim whom were the source of knowledge alias science on Earth.
The merging of state and religion and science was nowhere more complete that in Babylon. There the original Sumerian epic if creation was translated and revised is that Marduk the Babylonian national God was assigned a celestial counterpart by naming Nibiru, "Marduk" in the Babylonian version of the creation story.
The Babylonians usurped for Marduk the attributes of the supreme God of heaven and earth.
Thus, version the most intact one is known as "Enuma Elish" meaning "When in the heights" It was the most hallowed religious political scientific document if the land it was read as a central part of the new year celebration and played re-enacted the tale in passion plays to bring its import home to the masses.
The clay tablets on which they were written were prize possession of temples and royal libraries on antiquity.
The decipherable of the writing on the clay tablets discovered in the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia more that a century ago led to the realization that texts existed that related to biblical creation tale Millennia before the Old testament was compiled.
Especially important were texts found in the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal in Nineveh. They recorded a tale of creation that matches in some parts words for words the tale of genesis.
George Smith of the British museum pieced together the broken tablets that held the creation text and published in 1876 "The Chaldean Genesis" tale written in old Babylonian dialect that preceded the biblical text by at least thousand years.
Excavations between 1902 -1914 uncovered tablets with the Assyrian version of creation epic in which the name of Ashur the Assyrian National God was substituted for that of the Babylonian Marduk.
Subsequent discoveries established not only the extent of copying and translation in antiquity of this epic text but also the unmistakable Sumerian origin.
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Traveling to Japan is not complete until you tried their local foods, which is too many to try at one visit. So, this time I tried to compile my food experience in one post (which many of you has voted in my IG stories poll). PLEASE TAKE NOTE : Not every restaurants listed here is Halal Certified, but basically most of it is an beef, chicken, or vegetarian menu and some of it also only served beef/chicken menu.
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TOKYO | Top 6 Cherry Blossom Spots in Tokyo Area
Hello wanderers! I came back as the spring wind blows, finally… So sorry not being able to write as much you requested, but this time I'm too excited as I recently just got back from my first spring trip to Tokyo. And lucky me, I was being able to see cherry blossom in its full blooming season! This year, cherry blossom in Tokyo was unusually blooming earlier than last year (it usually full bloomed in mid to late April), so this time I want to share every popular cherry blossom spots I visited, and the most favorite spot for me!
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JAPAN | Matcha Galore!
Who does not love Matcha? Well, about the last 5 years Matcha is really 'in' in Indonesia, and if you go to Japan, surely you should not miss anything about Matcha in its origin country right? I, myself, am a big fan of any food or drinks in green (call it pesto in Italian food, and of course: MATCHA!). Well, in Japan you will easily find products with Matcha as a basic ingredient, from street snacks, mini market or restaurants. And this is my 5 most favorite Matcha Dessert and Drinks I've found in Japan! Continue reading "JAPAN | Matcha Galore!"
JAPAN | Transportation Guide
The first thing I heard most about Japan, especially Tokyo, is a fairly complicated mode of public transportation, especially when compared to our habits, who rely more on Uber or GO-Jek. For my first time solo traveling to Japan, I was quite find it difficult to understanding the transportation line which is actually very well integrated in Japan. Aside from easiness to reach any place, tourist destinations also very well informed in each mode of transportation. On this occasion, I want to help you a little bit, so you will no longer be worried or confused to use public transportation in Japan. Well, it would not hurt to prepare a little more knowledge about Japan's public transportation to avoid over budgeting and save more travel time to destinations we want, right? Continue reading "JAPAN | Transportation Guide"


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People have often asked what books, podcasts, website, and entrepreneurs I recommend they follow. Well, here is my official list of recommended resources that will help you develop, create, and launch your brand, and live your version of the American Dream. I try to keep list updated as much as possible, so if you have any resources that you'd like added to this list (including yourself), feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
(no guarantees though)
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- The 4 Hour Work Week – Timothy Ferris
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- First Steps to Wealth – Dani Johnson (free)
- The Truth About HTML 5 – Luke Stevens (ebook for web designers)
- Wisdom for Winners – Jim Stovall
- Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill (free ebook and audio book)
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- Dan Celia, Financial Issues — financial expert
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- James Wedmore – YouTube expert
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Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Be Tried as an Enemy Combatant?
The White House has made it official: Suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzokhar Tsarnaev, a naturalized U.S. citizen, will not be tried as an enemy combatant by a military commission but will be tried as a terrorist in civilian court.
"This is absolutely the right way to go and the appropriate way to go," said Press Secretary Jay Carney.
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) disagrees, saying yesterday that "there's so many questions unanswered. There are so many potential links to terrorism here. Also, the battlefield was now in the United States. So, I believe he is an enemy combatant."
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The study is the first to document that music with "degrading" lyrics appears to trigger different kinds of behavior than other songs do, including those that focus on romantic attachment, love and longing.
Lyrics about casual sex affected both male and female teenagers, whites and nonwhites, according to Rand Corporation researchers who published their findings in the journal Pediatrics. The study tracked 1,461 adolescents over three years and compared the music they said they listened to with self-reported sexual activity.
"Lyrics classified as degrading depicted sexually insatiable men pursuing women valued only as sex objects," the researchers wrote. Such lyrics, which were most prominent in rap music, might convey distorted notions about gender roles to both male and female teenagers, the researchers concluded.
Large numbers of sexually active teenagers told researchers that they wished they had delayed sexual initiation, the study said.
Early sex is associated with an increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases, the study noted -- more than one-third of teenagers reported not using a condom the last time they had sex.
About 900,000 U.S. teenagers get pregnant each year, which translates to one in five sexually active teenage girls.


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Yolanda Morató
Yolanda Morató is professor of English Language and Linguistics
at the University of Seville. She received two BAs, in English and
Spanish Studies (University of Huelva and Seville, respectively),
an MA in Modern Literatures in English (Birkbeck College,
University of London) and an MA in Translation and Interculturality
and PhD in English (University of Seville). She took postgraduate
courses and taught at Harvard University (2002-04). Between 2003
and 2004, she was an associate fellow at Real Colegio Complutense
(USA), where she was awarded a grant for a project on the influence
of nineteenth-century philosophy on Wyndham Lewis and Time and
Western Man.
She has published articles and translations in national and international journals, among them an annotated edition of Lewis's first autobiography, Blasting and Bombardiering (Estallidos y bombardeos. Madrid: Impedimenta, 2008), which won the AEDEAN 2008 Translation Prize. Address: Departamento de Filología Inglesa (Lengua Inglesa), Universidad de Sevilla, Calle Palos de la Frontera s/n, 41004 Seville, SPAIN


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Little Wolf's Song
Little Wolf lives high up in the snowy mountains. Everything is perfect, except for one thing—Little Wolf can't howl! His mom, dad, sister, and brothers all have their own special song, but all Little Wolf can manage is a squeak. But one day, when Little Wolf finds himself lost and far from home, he looks up to the full moon and finally finds his own voice. A beautiful and heart-warming story of discovery, perfect for reading aloud.


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Scholars using testimonios as a research method provide a qualitative in-depth reflection that reaches the core of one's story. In the narrative form, the personal experience is an approach to telling all stories, those of others and the story of the individual scholar. Collectively, these stories become bibliographic contributions. In today's world, Latin American women are using their testimonios as a means to take a position against injustice and inequitable situations. In Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and America, Latina and Chicana scholars and feminist have and still fight using oral traditions to be heard and to make their point. Testimonios are also used as methodological and pedagogical tools to reinforce the narrative. In methodological formats, the interlocutor is supporting those who are or were once silent and/or afraid to confront the status quo. And as a pedagogical tool, this approach brings the mind, body and spirit into play.
Per this reading, we learn of several Latin American females who are in the news, not all good news, though news that informs us that Latin American women from across the globe are making headlines in fight of liberation and protest. On a sorrowful note, we will miss Marielle Franco, a Brazilian politician and feminist who was murdered for her stance on protecting the human rights of black and brown skinned Brazilians living in the favela's. Two more Latina's made the news last week when they took part in the March 4 Our Lives protest in Washington, DC. The students Edna Chavez and Emma Gonzalez stood front and center amongst a sea of people, adults and students, when giving their testimonios like many other narratives told that week. The two students were subject to gun violence in their schools.
Works Cited
Reyes, Kathryn Blackmer, and Julia E. Curry Rodriguez. "Testimonio: Origins, Terms, and Resources." Equity & Excellence in Education 45(3) (2012): 525-538
Martinez, Melissa A., Danielle J. Alsander, Laura J. Cortez, Anjale D. Welton, Aurora Chang. "We are stronger together: reflective testimonies of female scholars of color in a research and writing collective" Reflective Practice, 16:1, 85-95, DOI: 10.1080/14623943.2014.969698
Delgado Bernal, Dolores, Rebeca Burciaga, Judith Flores Carmona. "Chicana/Latina Testimonios: Mapping the Methodological, Pedagogical, and Political." Equity & Excellence in Education, 45(3), 2012, 363-372


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In a casual review of news articles on recent genetic advancements a number of developments stand out. USA Today reports (May 9, 2000) that a genetic database of convicted violent offenders has been very successful in catching criminals and freeing wrongly convicted people. A national database that currently has about 280,000 DNA samples and about 750,000 samples awaiting analysis has just been awarded more federal funds to help analyze the backlog. It is estimated that the newly analyzed samples (about 250,000) will yield about 250 matches. In another article in the same paper (May 9, 2000) the international team of scientists that make up part of the Human Genome Project announced that it has deciphered the genetic code for chromosome 21, which holds genes involved in Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's disease, and a key gene in the formation of Down syndrome. This is the second of the twenty-three human chromosomes to be fully mapped and sequenced since the inception of the Human Genome Project. The hope is that these and future developments will aid in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and other human ailments that have a genetic basis.
Along with the rapid technological improvements in genetics and computer information systems come troubling questions about the uses of this new store of genetic information. In March of 2000 President Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair made clear that no one should own or patent the information that results from the Human Genome Project, thus voicing a concern about the commercial interests in current and future genetic research. A more troubling situation arose in Reykjavik, Iceland. According to a report by CNN (March 3, 2000) Iceland has sold the medical and genealogy records of its 275,000 citizens to a private research company, in effect turning the entire nation into a virtual petri dish for research on disease and inheritable traits. Members of the Icelandic medical community have objected to this sale arguing that the genetic information might breech the trust held between doctor and patient. At the time of the news report only about five percent of Icelanders have chosen not to participate.
Other concerns about privacy and confidentiality of genetic information can be readily teased out of these reports. Who should have access to genetic? How will this information be used? Should public policy or private commercial interests direct legislation for access to genetic information? What exactly does the genetic and other medical information tell us about more complex diseases and behavioral traits? Does the potential medical good of the whole outweigh the privacy of individuals? For law enforcement purposes who should be required to submit genetic samples? Should juvenile offenders? What about people convicted of non-violent crimes? Since informational privacy is understood as an established right questions regarding the use and availability of genetic information mark out an area of concern that can be labeled genetic privacy. It is evident that in a world where the rapid development of genetic and informational technology far outstrips our ability to systematically consider the implications for social policy and individual privacy what is needed is a clear and comprehensive account of the current and future status of genetic privacy.
The collection of essays that make up Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era, edited by Mark Rothstein (1997), promises to fill just such a need. Published as a result of a workshop on the Right to Privacy held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D. C. in June of 1994, the volume provides a valuable resource for any intelligent discussion of privacy and confidentiality in the age of genetic science and increased information sharing. The twenty-three essays that compose the volume survey the past, present, and future condition of genetic privacy across a broad range of areas. The essays are thoughtfully organized into five major sections with a concluding essay by the editor summarizing the volume.
In the first section three essays introduce the reader to some of the more technical elements of genetic science, providing essential background for the issues that will occupy the remaining essays in the collection. Although at times overly technical the essays do provide a sound basis for considering privacy issues in the storage and use of genetic information. In addition, an essay by Thomas Murray (60) provides a provocative argument for treating genetic information like any other medical information, suggesting that no sound arguments have established that genetic information is particularly unique and thus require special treatment apart from other sensitive medical information.
In part two several essays discuss the implications of genetic privacy in the health care setting. One theme that unites these essays is the concern over the possible misuses of genetic information and how an uninformed use of genetic information in the clinical setting might undermine the patientís confidence in physician care and compromise the confidentiality of patient records. David Orentlicher (77), Eugene Pergament (92) and Barbara Biesecker (108) discuss the patient-physician relationship and genetic counseling. Ellen Clayton (126) provides an overview of the problem areas regarding informed consent and Scott Burris and Lawrence Gostin (137) draw instructive parallels between the public policies of HIV screening and the genetic screening practices, arguing that public health policy has not adequately learned the lessons needed to preserve privacy and avoid the potential stigmatization and discrimination that may be associated with genetic conditions.
The third section collects essays that focus on a range of commercial and forensic concerns surrounding the storage and use of genetic information. While still largely focused on potential medical uses of genetic information the essays in this section probed a number of societal concerns. For example, an essay by Robert Cook-Deegan (161) examines the possible conflicts between commercial interests in genetic information and the confidentiality of individual and family subjects in research and clinical trials. One problematic area is how future, and possibly unforeseen, benefits might be justly distributed to patients and family who have contributed genetic information. In two essays on the Forensic applications of genetic testing and data banking Randal Murch and Bruce Budowle (212) and Jean McEwen (231) provide a comprehensive account of the problem areas in the judicial and law enforcement use of genetic information. The use of genetic fingerprinting has already provided a surprising number of cold hits for solving unsolved crimes and thus provides greater support for the continued and expanded use of genetic information for identifying suspects and offenders, but a particularly troubling issues arises in the context of evidential use of genetic information to mitigate the responsibility a convicted criminal may have for committing certain actions. The reliability and predictive value of genetic information, especially in regards to behavioral traits, is still controversial. Genetic science, in and out of the courtroom, will have a profound impact on how we understand ourselves and others as responsible agents.
In part four a variety of non-medical uses for genetic information are surveyed including family duties regarding the testing and reporting of genetic diseases, the use of genetic testing in the workplace, implications of genetic information for health and life insurance, the potential use of genetic testing in the school setting, and adjudicating responsible action on the basis of genetic information. Each of the essays in this section provide inclusive overviews of the current and potential uses of genetic information. Lori Andrews' (255) essay on genetic information and family relationships clearly illustrates the asymmetry between parental and child rights to genetic testing, and the legal and moral duties that are entailed by such rights. Andrews also includes an illuminating discussion of the use of genetic information in adoption practices. The essay by Franklin Zweig, Joseph Walsh and Daniel Freeman (332) adds to the discussion about the proper role of genetic information in judicial proceedings. In this essay a case study of a capital trial raises questions about how genetic information informs our judgement about responsible human action. The essay by Nancy Kass (299) reviewing the implications of genetic testing for health and life insurance is a helpful account of the intricacies of defining and regulating the use of genetic information (or any sensitive medical information) in insurance.
In the fifth and final section of this volume the essays revolve around current and future legal standards for genetic privacy. Interestingly enough the two essays by Madison Powers (355) and Philip Reilly (369), focused on American law, show that the current status of privacy protections for genetic information are covered in the laws that protect discrimination on the basis of disabilities. Laws such as Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) are the most applicable for protecting individuals and groups from unfair treatment on the basis of genetic information. The remaining two essays of this section provide an enlightening survey of international and comparative laws that protect privacy. Paul Schwartz (392) in his account of European data protection law, for example, demonstrates that compared to the European protections the United States is far behind in both technological and legal protections for sensitive medical information. Likewise the survey of international and comparative concepts of privacy offered by Sonia Le Bris and Bartha Knoppers (418) suggests that the concept of privacy is not and should not be a monolithic concept, but instead a fluid and evolving principle that can guide current and future legislation. All the authors of this section agree that current policy and legislation is inadequate to provide any robust protection for individual or family privacy regarding genetic information. Yet, there is an almost unanimous agreement among the authors of this volume that no single comprehensive legislative package will be able to cover genetic privacy issues adequately. The best legislative models support either increased protection for medical information generally or the improvement of existing legislation to include certain species of genetic information without unduly prohibiting medical research and fair access to information for insurance and public policy purposes.
The closing essay by the editor Mark Rothstein (451) provides a grand summary of the topics covered in the anthology with his own policy recommendations on a number of key issues. Because of the wide range of material covered in this collection the editor's essay may have better served the reader if it was placed at the beginning of the volume and focused on defining the general problem areas to be discussed by the contributing authors. But as it stands the concluding essay is a outstanding capstone for the collection.
No single collection of essays, especially on such rapidly changing topics as genetics and confidentiality, can possibly satisfy all the needs of a reader interested in genetic privacy. So there is always room for improvement. Two areas of particular concern are the unfortunate lack of material dedicated to the use of genetic information for health insurance and managed care services, and a less than systematic treatment of more fundamental conceptual issues surrounding genetic privacy. In the reviews of proposed and existing legislation on protecting genetic information (Part Five) the overwhelming aim of the proposed legislation was to limit the use of genetic information for health insurance purposes so that genetic data cannot be used to either unduly frestrict or refuse health insurance to individuals or groups. The current collection includes only one dedicated essay on health and life insurance (Nancy Kass, 299), with a spattering of discussions in only a handful of other essays not directly concerned with insurance and genetic information. Entire sections of the volume were rightly dedicated to topics such as the clinical use of genetic information, legal concepts of genetic privacy, and social implications of genetic science, but no such section was set aside for health (or life) insurance. Considering the overwhelming concern associated with health insurance and the increased management of health care it is surprising, and a bit disappointing, that a more comprehensive treatment of genetic privacy in these areas was not forthcoming.
Additionally, the majority of essays consisted of surveys of problem areas and current legislative standards regarding the use and availability of genetic information. Brief arguments for or against a particular conceptual issue related to genetic privacy were offered in the course of most of the essays, but no sustained treatment of the relative merits of these arguments or the implications of a number of conceptual issue was offered. Conceptual problems regarding the special status of genetic information, the merits of comprehensive legislation to protect genetic or other medical data, and the status of individual privacy rights in regard to present or future genetic findings among other issues were not offered as a thematic topic of discussion within or between the essays. The excellent essay by Thomas Murray (60) is a case in point. Murray provides a sustained argument that genetic information is not significantly different from other forms of medical information, and thus it would be a mistake to treat genetic information separately from other medical information when considering privacy issues. The inclusion of Murray's essay in the introductory background section of the anthology, however, suggests that the status of genetic information will be a leading topic of concern for the authors that follow. Yet, the topic receives only passing reference by those few authors who spend any time remarking about the status of genetic information. The disappointment is more remarkable since the majority authors seems to view genetic data as a unique and especially sensitive form of information that has a direct bearing on an individualís autonomy. In the mind of this reviewer, this collection would greatly benefit form the inclusion of a more systematic treatment of the conceptual problems underlying any discussion of genetic privacy. Of course, no anthology can be everything to everyone, and the desire to see a debate on conceptual issues among the authors may reflect this reviewerís own philosophical inclinations more than any weakness in the anthology. Nevertheless, it is not unreasonable to expect an intelligent discussion of the ethical problems sustained by our common need to preserve privacy and confidentiality in the face of the increasingly widespread use of genetic information requires should require some account of the underlying conceptual issues involved.
Despite these two minor and perhaps idiosyncratic concerns the anthology Genetic Secrets provides an admirable service as a compendium of resources for any open discussion of privacy issues in the age of genetic information.
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The Mandalorian Mercs began life as the brainchild of Tom Hutchens in March 2007. Noticing that Mandalorian costumers had distinctive and separate needs to "traditional" costuming groups, and being a big fan, Tom decided to create a costume group based on Mandalorian culture. Utilizing a guild name from Star Wars: Galaxies™ and references from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic™ computer games, the Mandalorian Mercs as a costume organization was born.
The command structure of the Mandalorian Mercs Costume Club is based on all known references to Mandalorian Culture in Star Wars™ canon material. The cultural leader, or Mand'alor (Mandalore), is the Commanding Office and public figurehead of the MMCC. Under the Mandalore is the Command Council, made up of organizational-level officers who help run the day-to-day business of the club. The Regional Conclave is made up of member-elected officers who represent the Official Membership in organizational decisions and votes. Lastly, the Clan/Squad Command Staffs run the various local chapters of the MMCC.
This makes the Mandalorian Mercs Costuming Club unique as it is based on methodology and ideology as opposed to visual accuracies based on the Star Wars™ films. The Mercs are an inclusive and friendly club, following the Mandalorian way of "Clans" or family units and a clans' ability to adopt anyone who wishes to be a Mandalorian.


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Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. Just wanted to post these images of a shabby chic caddy planter I picked up at thrift shop for $2.00. First I put a coat of primer paint on it, next I painted it white and then, with Outdoor Mod Podge, I decoupaged these French revolutionary costume ladies that I got from the Graphics Fairy. Then I sealed the caddy with two coats of Hard Coat Mod Podge, planted some annuals I picked up at the Home Depot et voila! C'est si belle, n'est ce pas? (Well it made a great gift for my french BFF as today is her birthday, so what else can I say in french. Fantastique, mais bien sur!). The Outdoor Mod Podge combined with the Hard Coat Mod Podge will protect it from the effects of water and sun when the caddy is in the garden as the plants placed within it are outdoor plants. Eventually they'll need to be transplanted and the caddy can be used for all my friend's hand gardening tools like hand shovel, trowels, gloves and even knee pads.


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All used gear sold by ORMS is supplied with a 6 Month Warranty.
All refurbished gear sold by ORMS is supplied with a 12 Month Warranty.
2. My product has gone faulty, now what ?
Please contact our service division straight away on 021 - 469 1962 and notify them of the fault. You may also e-mail them at email@example.com
1. If a product is defective / faulty, ORMS will replace the product within a 10 day period deemed from the date of receiving the product. ORMS will also cover the shipping costs within the borders of South Africa.
2. During the warranty period, Orms will arrange collection of the faulty item, facilitate the repair and then ship the product back to the customer, bearing all risks and costs.
3. Please see our policies under Return Policy and Servicing & Repair Policy for further information
Orms is not obliged to repair products that fall outside of the manufacturers warranty period, or products that are damaged accidentally, however Orms in seeking to deliver the highest standard of customer service will gladly assist the customer in having the product repaired via the network of repair agents with which Orms has business dealings.
1. FREE Standard Shipping
Free Economy Shipping is available on all orders exceeding R1 000. (T&C's apply)
*Terms and conditions to qualify for free shipping:
- Shipping may only be to a physical address within the borders of South Africa. No P.O Box's allowed.
- Shipping to outlying or remote areas like farms and game reserves may attract an additional fee.
- The delivery time to city areas is usually between 2 and 4 working days*. This excludes weekends and public holidays.
*Reckoned from time of dispatch to time of arrival to client. This is an estimate and not guaranteed.
2. Aramex Courier Service (local)
We use Aramex couriers as our preferred method of delivery.
With sophisticated track and trace equipment, you can pinpoint exactly where your parcel is, from the moment it is dispatched by us, until it's safely handed over to you the recipient.
Your parcel is well packaged and bubble wrapped before delivery. We also fully insure your parcels contents for the journey to your door.
Delivery Charges:
We charge a flat-rate for shipping and the charges are per order.
- Express Shipping to Main Cities @ R 150.00 incl. VAT (ETA of 1-2 Business Days)* - Main Cities are: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Port Elizabeth and East London. Other cities/towns will take more than 1-2 delivery time.
- Standard Shipping @ R 80.00 incl. VAT (ETA of 2-4 Business Days)* - To all areas.
*Reckoned from time of dispatch to time of arrival to client. This is an estimate and not guaranteed. This period does not include Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The base price of R80.00 incl. VAT is for a parcel up to 10kg in Volumetric and Physical weight. Should the item/s exceed this weight, we reserve the right to increase the shipping charge accordingly.
Please Note: The above prices quoted are for ordering online through the ORMSdirect website only. A different rate will be quoted if handled manually through our camera sales department. Our delivery service only runs from Monday to Friday. Saturday morning deliveries can be done by special arrangement only and at an additional charge. Please contact email@example.com to arrange. We reserve the right to re-quote the delivery fee should this become too expensive.
3. DHL Express Courier Service (International)
Please note:
International orders are generally subject to local import duties and taxes (VAT)
Orms is not responsible for, nor can we offer, any specific advice regarding any customs related fees that you may incur. For specific information, please consult with your local government import office.
Privacy: Your privacy is important to us. We strive to exceed your expectations for privacy. Cross-border shipments are subject to inspection by customs authorities. We may also be called upon to provide certain order, shipment, and product information to our international carriers. Carriers may communicate such information to customs authorities for the purpose of facilitating customs clearance and compliance with local laws.
Delivery Charges:
International shipments are quoted on a per order basis depending on the size and weight of the parcel shipped.
4. Collect & Collect from Orms Shop in Cape Town / Bellville
You are welcome to place your order online, pay for it and collect it from our Cape Town or Bellville branches. You will need to bring in a print out of the order for collection. Please ask for online sales on arrival.
Orms Shop - Cape Town
Shop 5, Roeland Square
Upper Canterbury Street
Gardens, Cape Town, 8001
South Africa
> View on Google Maps: ORMS C.T
Orms Shop - Bellville
Victorian Towers
Cnr Durban Rd & Palm St
Bellville, Cape Town, 7530
South Africa


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The CW has been cheered by media buyers not only because it offers a similar number of commercials online as it does on its traditional network, but because its young-skewing viewers "watch" the commercials to completion. (Media buyers also love that the CW's online CPMs are more in line with traditional TV CPMs -- way less than other premium digital TV content.)
Some research executives would tell you that existing Nielsen measuring technology or any ratings measurement -- doesn't report "viewing" but rather "tuning." With the coming of future digital inventory, this will become more glaring.
A recent study by Digital Clarity said 80% of those 25 and under use a second screen to communicate with friends while watching TV. That would represent virtually all the young-skewing audience of a network like the CW or MTV. So while viewers may "watch" commercials to completion online, we know this: they are doing something else while those ad messages are running.
Now extrapolate this to older-skewing networks. Why? If the proponents of TV Everywhere get their way, all shows online will have nearly the same number of commercials as those on traditional TV. And one big, big not-too-friendly consumer function: they won't be able to fast-forward through those commercials.
That will mean that use of second screens will surely rise among older viewers. Those who have DVRs -- now 40% of U.S. TV homes -- have changed their entertainment behavior dramatically when it comes to traditionally delivered commercials. Many DVR viewers -- some would say virtually all - fast-forward through commercials.
Does anyone really believe viewers will go back to running to the kitchen for a snack or muting the volume of commercials when dialing up "Modern Family" on the ABC Full Episode Player?
What will they be doing? A variation on what they did in the past: changing channels - or, using a digital world term, changing content.
Many TV networks will then only hope that viewers -- if not looking at commercials -- will at least turn to their second screens to promote/share program content with other viewers.
But then again, maybe they'll do something totally unconnected with traditional TV content or messaging. Then you'll have issues.
I have a copy of an old PBS special from 1992 that illustrates the problem of viewing inattention two decades ago. Nothing new, just worse as viewers have more distractions. Paula is correct. People read during commercials. Now they surf their laptops, too. And study their smart phones. And watch other shows on their iPads. Still, we look up if there's a clever or compelling ad, which is how it should be.
Here's what's funny. Everyone talks about this inattention problem, DVR's, yada-yada-yada.
But, here are the facts:
1. Nothing is as effective at making big things happen commercially as television advertising. Nothing. In fact, nothing comes close.
2. I'm surprised Wayne used the DVR canard. It's becoming pretty wall proven that DVR's have turned out to have, at worst, no impact on ad effectiveness and, in many studies, they seem to have actually improved ad effectiveness.
Remember, the people who talk most about skipping "EVERY" commercial with their DVR are:
1. Lying.
2. Ignoring the information they pick up while skipping.
3. Generally are the digerati - highly involved in advertising or media.
At the same time, I agree that commercials may drive viewers to other screens. But it seems that the free market truth is that if they can't get enough money to just throw everything for free on these little screens, then the big screens have proven their economic value and should stay.
Thanks Wayne,
Good topic. X amount of people always have tuned out commercials one way or another. Remember the channel surfing dad with his remote control? Radio listeners have always hit the button. That is why we buy media based on opportunity to see or hear. You said that people have to watch internet ads but I tune them out all the time. TV still works. We proved it again this month.


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We know that worship is a vital part of every morning worship experience, and we are proud to have amazing worship leaders and talented members that enhance our worship services. You can follow the image link to find information about the many way we worship at Clarkesville First UMC. You can also get information in getting involved in the Choir or Worship Band.
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Ontario, Canada
Flooding is happening all over Ontario after record snowfalls, officials assure frustrated local flooding victims
Little Lake flooding too now, high water also at Young's Point, Katchewanooka Lake, Stony Lake
Apr 15, 2008 04:30 AM
Sitting on her front deck with floodwater climbing 60 centimetres up the side of her Peterborough-area home, Phyllis Phaure felt totally abandoned.
"I feel very alone, very frustrated and very, very angry," she said yesterday. "The municipality isn't going to help us, the provincial government, the federal government, nobody is going to help us, absolutely nobody."
With massive flooding of the Otonabee River in south Peterborough this past week, Phaure and some of her neighbours on Greenwood Rd. are in the same boat, facing evacuation but with no place to go.
This is the fourth time this year these residents near the river's edge have been asked to evacuate because of dangerous water levels.