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Sunday, June 22, 2008
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About David Andrade
(contact: daveandcori at gmail dot com)
(everything on this blog is my own opinion and does not represent that of my employers or any organization I am a member of)
In addition to writing this blog, I am an experienced educator and administrator. I have been in education for 12 years, working as as a Physics/Aerospace Teacher, Educational Technology Specialist, and IT Administrator in Connecticut.
I am now a K-12 Strategy and Google Apps/Chromebooks Specialist for CDW-G, working with schools to leverage technology to improve teaching and learning.
I am now a K-12 Strategy and Google Apps/Chromebooks Specialist for CDW-G, working with schools to leverage technology to improve teaching and learning.
I was an Engineer (Aerospace and Project) for 1o years before becoming an educator and I use that experience and knowledge to encourage my students in STEM topics and careers. I'm was also a paramedic and EMS instructor for 22 years.
About "Educational Technology Guy"
In this blog, I talk about educational technology, educational theory, educational pedagogy, and other topics related to these. I'll also discuss science resources, 21st Century Skills and Education, Google Apps and Chromebooks, Evernote and more. I explore free educational technology resources, ways to integrate technology into the classroom, professional development, project based learning, and tips and resources for new teachers.
I started this blog as a way to organize and share resources I've found with other educators and it is a very rewarding experience.
My Educational Philosophy
I believe that learning should be fun, relevant to the student, and student centered. I am a proponent of project based learning and inquiry labs in science (and all classes). I want my students to see real world connections to what they are learning and see how it applies to their lives. I believe that students should have multiple ways of learning and multiple ways of showing their understanding of a concept. I believe that creativity is an asset in academics. I believe that students should be treated fairly and respectfully and that they all have talents that should be developed. I believe that education works best in a collaborative, respectful atmosphere.

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Patricia F. Fitzpatrick Dimond Ph.D. Technical Editor of Clinical OMICs President of BioInsight Communications
Recent contamination issues with Genzyme's CHO-cell manufacturing has highlighted the advantages of plant-based techniques.
In July FDA asked Shire and Protalix BioTherapeutics to submit treatment protocols for their Gaucher disease therapies in the wake of Genzyme's Allston Landing plant closing. The company halted production after it detected a virus that impaired growth of producer cells in one of the site's six bioreactors. Genzyme's Gaucher drug, Cerezyme, was affected by the plant shutdown with third quarter sales dropping by 69.7% to $93.6 million.
The closing thus gave Shire and Protalix an opening to accelerate clinical testing and commercialization of their recombinant protein drug candidates, velaglucerase alfa and taliglucerase alfa (Uplyso), respectively. Both Shire and Protalix have reported positive results from Phase III trials in the last couple of months.
Protalix' shares rose nearly 9% on the Phase III data news; the company said it expects to complete its NDA at the end of this year and could have the drug on the market by mid-2010. FDA has granted priority review to Shire's drug, and the PDUFA date has been set as February 28, 2010.
Analysts expect serious competition for Genzyme, should both new drugs win marketing approval. "We see Shire and Protalix as real competitors in the space and remain skeptical that Genzyme will be able to win back all of its patients once its manufacturing issues are resolved," notes JP Morgan analyst Geoffrey Meacham.
These recent events bring into focus the problems with systems used for recombinant therapeutic protein production. Perhaps as a result, there seems to be a renewed interest in plant-based methods.
More than 370 therapeutic proteins are currently in development, according to BIO. Current mammalian cell production capacity is thus experiencing serious stress.
Traditional cell culture methods require significant capital and labor investment; cell culture facilities cost about $250 million to $450 million to build, take from three to five years to build, and must be individually approved and certified by the FDA prior to full-scale operation. Additionally, animal cells generally require costly and complex media to sustain the cells and the addition of growth factors and animal-based products that may themselves introduce contaminants into culture systems.
Genzyme's Cerezyme is produced by recombinant CHO cells, and Shire's drug is produced in an undisclosed human cell line. Cerezyme requires postproduction chemical modification to humanize the glycosylation pattern. Shire's technology, on the other hand, activates expression of glucocerebrosidase in a cell line in which it is not normally expressed.
This produces a protein with the same human amino acid sequence as the native human enzyme and with the human glycosylation pattern, according to the company. Glycosylation patterns affect the biological properties of therapeutic proteins including their activity. They are thus closely monitored during therapeutic protein production, as a change in pattern may provide an early indication of a problem.
Plant-Based Production
Scientists have long noted the benefits of plant cell culture in achieving human-like protein production. Like bacteria, plant cells can be grown in relatively simple synthetic media. Additionally, since they are eukaryotes like mammalian cells, they can execute post-translational modifications that occur in human cells. They don't harbor human pathogens, and they don't produce endotoxins. The use of plant cells and plant tissue culture, however, has historically been held back by certain limitations, chief among them getting expression levels that make plant-production commercially viable.
Protalix claims that its plant cell-based manufacturing for therapeutic proteins produces potentially less expensive products that are therapeutically equivalent or superior to the existing mammalian cell-produced treatments. Instead of using stainless steel tanks, Protalix grows recombinant carrot cells expressing the human protein in disposable 800-L bags. This cuts down on cleaning costs as well as expensive plumbing.
In particular, the company notes that its proteins don't require post-translational modification because plant cells produce glycosylation patterns more closely resembling human proteins. The plant cell-produced proteins do not, thus far, show increased immunogenicity. The company says that data from its clinical trials showed that the half-life of Uplyso is significantly longer than that of Cerezyme when measured and compared to publicly available data on Cerezyme.
Uplyso is Protalix' lead product, and the plant-produced replacement enzyme was well tolerated, with 6% of patients in the trial developing antibodies to the protein during the study. The nine-month, double-blind, parallel-group study randomized patients to receive either 60 units/kg or 30 units/kg of Uplyso administered intravenously once every two weeks, with a total of 31 patients enrolling in the trial. The trial met its primary endpoint, a mean reduction in spleen volume among treated patients after nine months compared with baseline, at both doses.
Protalix has three other plant cell-produced enzymes in its preclinical pipeline: PRX-12, a galactosidase enzyme-replacement therapy for Fabry disease; pr-antiTNF, a biosimilar version of Enbrel; and acetylcholinesterase to treat nerve-gas and pesticide poisoning.
Restricted Competition Among Plant-Based Manufacturers
Biolex Therapeutics develops therapeutic proteins in its LEX system in Lemna, a small aquatic plant about 0.5 cm in diameter. Lemna is especially suited to recombinant protein expression because it is clonal, and the original transformant can be converted to a stable production line within six months, according to COO, David Spencer, Ph.D.
Tiny but powerful, Lemna doubles its biomass in 36 hours, allowing rapid scale-up to a multiton format. Grown in disposable plastic bags in medium consisting of water and inorganic salts, the plant does not require any animal-derived products to support growth.
Biolex' lead product, Locteron, combines BLX-883, a recombinant interferon alpha produced in the LEX system, with controlled-release drug-delivery technology developed by OctoPlus. Lemna secretes BLX-883 into the plant-culture medium, greatly facilitating its purification.
Dr. Spencer says that unlike mammalian cell culture or with products produced in transgenic animals, "We don't have to deal with pre- and postviral inactivation zones in our production facilities, nor do we require a viral inactivation process since the plants don't contain animal viruses."
Biolex completed enrollment for a Phase IIb study of Locteron in chronic hepatitis C patients in June and will meet with the FDA early in 2010. The company is also working on BLX-155, a full-length recombinant human plasmin being developed as a clotting agent, and BLX-301, a humanized anti-CD20 mAb in development. Both are produced on the LEX system.
While neither Protalix nor Biolex have much competition right now, Dr. Spencer says, "I think we need more entrants into the plant field." Both Biolex' and Protalix' plant-cell culture technology circumvent the issue of foreign genes in food crops and the patent disputes around bacterial and mammalian protein-expression systems. At the moment, however, neither company has much competition in the plant-cell production business.
Protein-expression economics and investor enthusiasm, though, might change all that. Signs of this are already popping up with Biolex closing a $60 million Series D financing in October 2008. Additionally, Cannacord Adams reiterated its Buy rating on Protalix on November 10, saying "We think Uplyso data gives good proof of concept to Protalix' plant-based protein-expression platform, which could be the basis of additional clinical programs and partnerships."
Protalix located in Karmiel, Israel, has also garnered several pharma suitors like current partner Teva Pharmaceutical and Pfizer. Protalix CEO, David Aviezer, said that he has no plans to sell the company unless an exceptional offer is tendered.
Patricia F. Dimond, Ph.D., is a principal at BioInsight Consulting. Email: [email protected].


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"Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with the tremendous difference that it really happened." — C. S. Lewis
'What are we to make of Jesus Christ?' This is a question, which has, in a sense, a frantically comic side. For the real question is not what are we to make of Christ, but what is He to make of us? The picture of a fly sitting deciding what it is going to make of an elephant has comic elements about it. But perhaps the questioner meant what are we to make of Him in the sense of 'How are we to solve the historical problem set us by the recorded sayings and acts of this Man?' This problem is to reconcile two things. On the one hand you have got the almost generally admitted depth and sanity of His moral teaching, which is not very seriously questioned, even by those who are opposed to Christianity. In fact, I find when I am arguing with very anti-God people that they rather make a point of saying, 'I am entirely in favour of the moral teaching of Christianity' — and there seems to be a general agreement that in the teaching of this Man and of His immediate followers, moral truth is exhibited at its purest and best. It is not sloppy idealism; it is full of wisdom and shrewdness. The whole thing is realistic, fresh to the highest degree, the product of a sane mind. That is one phenomenon.
The other phenomenon is the quite appalling nature of this Man's theological remarks. You all know what I mean, and I want rather to stress the point that the appalling claim, which this Man seems to be making, is not merely made at one moment of His career. There is, of course, the one moment, which led to His execution. The moment at which the High Priest said to Him, 'Who are you?' 'I am the Anointed, the Son of the uncreated God, and you shall see me appearing at the end of all history as the judge of the universe.' But that claim, in fact, does not rest on this one dramatic moment. When you look into his conversation you will find this sort of claim running throughout the whole thing. For instance, He went about saying to people, 'I forgive your sins'. Now it is quite natural for a man to forgive something you do to him. Thus if somebody cheats me out of five pounds it is quite possible and reasonable for me to say, 'Well, I forgive him, we will say no more about it.' What on earth would you say if somebody had done you out of five pounds and I said, 'That is all right, I forgive him? Then there is a curious thing, which seems to slip out almost by accident. On one occasion this Man is sitting looking down on Jerusalem from the hill about it and suddenly in comes an extraordinary remark — 'I keep on sending you prophets and wise men.' Nobody comments on it. And yet, quite suddenly, almost incidentally, He is claiming to be the power that all through the centuries is sending wise men and leaders into the world. Here is another curious remark: in almost every religion there are unpleasant observances like fasting. This Man suddenly remarks one day, 'No one need fast while I am here.' Who is this man who remarks one day, 'No one need fast while I am here.' Who is this Man who remarks that His mere presence suspends all normal rules? Who is the person who can suddenly tell the School they can have a half-holiday? Sometimes the statements put forward the assumption that He, the Speaker, is completely without sin or fault. This is always the attitude. 'You, to whom I am talking, are all sinners,' and He never remotely suggests that this same reproach can be brought against Him. He says again, 'I am the begotten of the One God, before Abraham was, I am,' And remember what the words 'I am' were in Hebrew. They were the name of God, which must not be spoken by any human being, the name which it was death to utter.
Well, that is the other side. On the one side clear, definite moral teaching. On the other, claims which, if not true, are those of a megalomaniac, compared with whom Hitler was the most same and humble of men. There is no halfway house and there is no parallel in other religions. If you had gone to Buddha and asked him: 'Are you the son of Brahma?' he would have said, 'My son, you are still in the vale of illusion.' If you had gone to Socrates and asked, 'Are you Zeus?' he would have laughed at you. If you had gone to Mohammed and asked, 'Are you Allah?' he would first have rent his clothes and then cut your head off. If you had asked Confucius, 'Are you Heaven?' I think he would have probably replied, 'Remarks which are not in accordance with nature are in bad taste.' The idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question. In my opinion, the only person who can say that sort of thing is either God or a complete lunatic suffering from that form of delusion, which undermines the whole mind of man. If you think you are a poached egg, when you are not looking for a piece of toast to suit you you may be sane, but if you think you are God, there is no chance for you. We may note in passing that He was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met him. He produced mainly three effects — Hatred — Terror — Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval.
What are we to do about reconciling the two contradictory phenomena? One attempt consists in saying that the man did not really say these things; but that His followers exaggerated the story, and so the legend grew up that he had said them. This is difficult because His followers were all Jews; that is, they belonged to that Nation which of all others was most convinced that there was only one God — that there could not possibly be another. It is very odd that this horrible invention about a religious leader should grow up among the one people in the whole earth least likely to make such a mistake. On the contrary we get the impression that none of His immediate followers or even of the New Testament writers embraced the doctrine at all easily.
Another point is that on that view you would have to regard the accounts of the Man as being legends. Now, as a literary historian, I am perfectly convinced that whatever else the Gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear that they are not the same sort of thing. They are not artistic enough to be legends. From an imaginative point of view they are clumsy, they don't work up to things properly. Most of the life of Jesus is totally unknown to us, as is the life of anyone else who lived at that time, and no people building up a legend would allow that to be so. Apart from bits of the Platonic dialogues, there is no conversation that I know of in ancient literature like the Fourth Gospel. There is nothing, even in modern literature, until about a hundred years ago when the realistic novel came into existence. In the story of the woman taken in adultery we are told Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has ever based any doctrine on it. And the art of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is a purely modern art. Surely the only explanation of this passage is that the thing really happened? The author put it in simply because he had seen it.
Then we come to the strangest story of all, the story of the Resurrection. It is very necessary to get the story clear. I heard a man say, 'The importance of the Resurrection is that is gives evidence of survival, evidence that the human personality survives death.' On that view what happened to Christ would be what had always happened to all men, the difference being that in Christ's case we were privileged to see it happening. This is certainly not what the earliest Christian writers thought. Something perfectly new in the history of the universe had happened. Christ had defeated death. The door, which had always been locked, had for the very first time been forced open. This is something quite distinct from mere ghost-survival. I don't mean that they disbelieved in ghost-survival. I don't mean that they disbelieved in ghost-survival. On the contrary, they believed in it so firmly that, on more than one occasion, Christ had had to assure them that He was not a ghost. The point is that while believing in survival they yet regarded the Resurrection as something totally different and new. The Resurrection narratives are not a picture of survival after death; they record how a totally new mode of being has arisen in the universe. Something new had appeared in the universe: as new as the first coming of organic life. This Man, after death, does not get divided into 'ghost' and 'corpse'. A new mode of being has arisen. That is the story. What are we going to make of it?
The question is, I suppose, whether any hypothesis covers the facts so well as the Christian hypothesis. That hypothesis is that God has come down into the created universe, down to manhood — and come up again, pulling it up with Him. The alternative hypothesis is not legend, nor exaggeration, nor the apparitions of a ghost. It is either lunacy or lies. Unless one can take the second alternative (and I can't) one turns to the Christian theory.
'What are we to make of Christ?' There is no question of what we can make of Him; it is entirely a question of what He intends to make of us. You must accept or reject the story.
The things he says are very different from what any other teacher has said. Others say, 'This is the truth about the universe. This is the way you ought to go,' but He says, 'I am the Truth, and the Way, and the Life.' He says, 'No man can reach absolute reality, except through Me. Try to retain your own life and you will be inevitably ruined. Give yourself away and you will be saved.; He says, 'If you are ashamed of Me, if, when you hear this call, you turn the other way, I also will look the other way when I come again as God without disguise. If anything whatever is keeping you from God and from me, whatever it is, throw it away. If it is your eye, pull it out. If it is your hand, cut it off. If you put yourself first you will be last. Come to Me everyone who is carrying a heavy load, I will set that right. Your sins, all of them, are wiped out, I can do that. I am Re-birth, I am Life. Eat ME, drink Me, I am your Food. And finally, do not be afraid, I have overcome the whole Universe.' That is the issue.
From: "God in the Dock" — C. S. Lewis
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
From: "Mere Christianity" — C. S. Lewis


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In the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, the hype—the movies and books and magazine covers, the roundups and reminiscences and retrospectives—is in overdrive. How can America resist another JFK love-in? The popular adoration of Kennedy, five decades on, puzzles pundits and historians, who note, correctly, that he neither led the nation through war nor racked up a legislative record on par with that of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, or Lyndon Johnson.
Some explanations for the discrepancy are obvious: His youth and good looks. His vigor, grace, and cool. The facility with which he projected this image through television, of which he was the first presidential master. And the assassination itself, which by taking Kennedy in his prime allowed Americans to spin fantasies of greatness unrealized.
Yet neither the Camelot mystique nor Kennedy's premature death can fully explain his continuing appeal. There was no cult of Warren Harding in 1973, no William McKinley media blitz in 1951. I would submit that Kennedy's hold on us stems also from the way he used the presidency, his commitment to exercising his power to address social needs, his belief that government could harness expert knowledge to solve problems—in short, from his liberalism.
To make that case requires first correcting some misperceptions. Wasn't JFK a cold warrior who called on Americans to gird for a "long twilight struggle"? Didn't he drag his heels on civil rights? Didn't he give us tax cuts a generation before Ronald Reagan? While there's some truth to those assertions, layers of revisionism and politicized misreadings of Kennedy have come to obscure his true beliefs. During the 1960 presidential campaign, when Republicans tried to make the term liberal anathema, Kennedy embraced it. A liberal, he said in one speech, "cares about the welfare of the people—their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties," and under that definition, he said, "I'm proud to say I'm a 'liberal.'"
In 1960, the United States was gripped by a quest for "national purpose," a yearning to find a meaningful goal for America's energies. This desire had several sources. The cold war was enervating. Material comfort gave rise to an existential uncertainty about what our riches were supposed to produce, a malaise captured in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society and David Riesman's Abundance for What? Kennedy's pledge to "get America moving again" should be understood as a part of this collective soul-searching. After the hands-off economic management of President Eisenhower's free-marketeers, Kennedy promised an aggressive effort to spur growth and create jobs. After Eisenhower's neglect of mounting urban problems, Kennedy promised a federal commitment to education and housing. After Sputnik and the U-2 affair, Kennedy promised a vigorous effort to win hearts and minds around the world.
As an activist, Kennedy called on Americans to trust government to address the nation's problems; as a pragmatist, he bade them to believe that dedicated public servants could again muster, as they had during the New Deal, the requisite know-how. In word and in deed, JFK put the weight of his presidency behind a liberal program. He backed a demand-side—not supply-side—tax cut designed to put money in people's hands to stimulate short-term economic activity. The War on Poverty (an idea he had rolled out during the campaign) sought to alleviate penury, especially among the elderly, by pushing for Medicare and expanded Social Security benefits. The President's Commission on the Status of Women endorsed workplace equality, child care facilities for working women, paid maternity leave, better Social Security benefits for widows, and equal pay for comparable work. Federal employees got collective bargaining.
Even on civil rights, where Kennedy often gave into his fear of alienating the Southern bloc, he ultimately put the power of the federal government behind racial equality. He used federal troops to ensure the enrollment of black students at the universities of Mississippi and Alabama; his administration implemented the first "affirmative action" program for government employees and contractors. Some movement leaders seethed with frustration over his slow pace. But when the historian Ellen Fitzpatrick compiled post-assassination condolence letters to Jackie Kennedy for a 2010 book, she found affecting notes from African Americans who considered Kennedy, as one correspondent wrote, "a beacon—a light in the darkness who would indeed be a second Emancipator." His picture graced walls and mantelpieces.
In foreign policy, too, Kennedy's liberalism has been underappreciated. We hear nowadays that he ran to the right of Richard Nixon on national security in 1960—a claim supported chiefly by his invocation of the so-called missile gap. But that stance no more made Kennedy a hawk in 1960 than Barack Obama's 2008 pledge to escalate in Afghanistan placed him to the right of John McCain. Overall, in 1960, it was Kennedy who expressed skepticism about the extension of military forces around the globe. He was, to be sure, a staunch anti-communist, and not averse to using hard power. But it was Nixon, not Kennedy, who was ready to go to war to defend Quemoy and Matsu, the tiny islands off China's shore, while Kennedy questioned his rival's ill-considered stance.
JFK's 1961 inaugural address, too, is typically misread as saber-rattling. But his famous call to steel the nation for the cold war conflict was a prologue to the exposition of a more hopeful, conciliatory policy. In that speech, Kennedy endorsed the United Nations as "our last best hope," warned against the stockpiling of nukes, urged arms-control negotiations, and held out the prospect of collaboration in science, medicine, and commerce. Press accounts treated it as a summons to work toward peace.
In office, Kennedy also preferred diplomacy to military intervention. His wariness of using force led him to deny the CIA-supported Cuban rebels the sufficient air cover they needed at the Bay of Pigs; 18 months later, it counseled him to buck his military chiefs and negotiate the withdrawal of Soviet missiles. He rejected initial calls to get involved in Laos, and his frequently voiced doubts about the effectiveness of U.S. military support for South Vietnam make it at least plausible to surmise that, had he lived, Kennedy wouldn't have escalated as Johnson did (a speculative matter either way). Following the Cuban missile crisis, moreover, Kennedy redoubled efforts to pull back from the brink. He installed the "hot line" to Moscow and concluded a historic nuclear test-ban treaty. If by "cold warrior" we mean someone cognizant of the stakes of the superpower rivalry, JFK deserves the label. But his presidency was marked at least as much by efforts to defuse tensions as it was by the adventurism for which he has since become known.
Under Kennedy, popular support for government was near its peak. More than 70 percent of Americans said they trusted Washington most or all of the time. As the Vietnam war and the kulturkampf of the 1960s dragged on, that figure declined. Today, after decades of anti-government rhetoric and gridlock, debt and wage stagnation, it stands at about 20 percent. Promises of an activist government are met with cynicism, hostility, and questions about the price tag. The climate is inhospitable to those who would rally the public to higher purposes.
Layers of revisionism and politicized misreadings of Kennedy have come to obscure his true beliefs.
JFK is a reminder that this wasn't always so. Retrospectives on him inevitably include the witty press conferences, the white-tie White House dinners with the likes of Pablo Casals, the photos of John Jr. playing under the Oval Office desk. But the warm feelings Americans have toward Kennedy may be something more than nostalgia for a glamorous presidency cut short. They reflect a wistfulness for the sense of common purpose and faith in a collective project that a proudly liberal president helped the nation achieve.
David Greenberg, a contributing editor at The New Republic, is a professor of history and of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University.


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- 12. Who to contact and what to do if you wish to discuss with us about your data and your rights.
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Your personal data – what is it?
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the data alone or in conjunction with any other data in the data controller's possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of your personal data is governed by applicable privacy laws.
What roles do we play in processing your data?
We are the data controller with respect to processing your data (contact details below). This means that we decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. We know that you care how data about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.
When are your personal data collected?
Some of your data can, in particular, be collected by us:
- Whenever you become our customer.
- Whenever you register to use our online services (each time you log in or each time you use them).
- Whenever you fill in forms and contracts that we send to you.
- Whenever you use our services and products.
- Whenever you opt-in to our online or offline marketing measures and activities, including but not limited to: newsletters, online and live event registrations, and other promotional information and materials.
- Whenever you contact us via the various channels we offer you.
Our collection of personal data
The personal data we collect include any and all data you provide to us when you enter into contract with us, register an account with us, enter on our website, provide us information on a web form, update or add information to your account, or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide data to us, but we may then not be able to service you where such services require processing such data. We use the data that you provide for purposes administering your use of our services, such as communicating with you, responding to your requests, managing your account, customizing your service experience with us, improving our products and services, and personalizing marketing measures and activities. We may communicate with you by mail, email or telephone. We will send you strictly service-related announcements or information on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.
Examples of the data we collect and store include: your e-mail address, name, address, phone number, login, account name, account number, password, your account activity, files accessed or used by you, transaction data and any information you provide during a transaction, or other transaction-based content that you generate or connected to your account such as logistics and billing data (such as customs ID and tracking number), and service history with us.
We also receive and store certain types of data whenever you interact with us.
Our website keeps your account information active in our user registration databases in order to provide immediate access to your personal data each time you visit our website, as noted above.
All the data we collect from you may be stored as log files in our server or as augmented information associated with you or your devices. These log files are used for analysis, research, auditing, and other purposes. Your data is stored in log files until the data is transferred to our back-up databases. We routinely do a back-up of your data to prevent a loss in case of a server breakdown or human error. However, all such copies of your data in our backup database will be retained only for as long as our data retention policy permits (see "How long do we keep your personal data?" below), and will in any case be deleted immediately upon your request.
Use of Opt-In/Subscribe Personal Data
You have a choice of whether and how you receive a variety of marketing measures and activities from us related to product solutions, services and helpful business content.
You can manage your preferences by asking us to have access to your data. In order not to receive communications from us, please click on unsubscribe when you receive any information from us. We use a GDPR-compliant email sending system, your email will be deleted instantaneously. Your email can't be added afterwards.
How do we process your personal data?
We comply with our obligations under applicable privacy laws by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by collecting and retaining only the necessary data that we need to service you; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
The processing operations we perform on your data cover automated and non-automated means of collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, altering, retrieving, using, transmitting, disseminating or otherwise making available, aligning or combining, restricting, and/or erasing your data.
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To design and deliver relevant information according to your interests.
- To customize, measure, and improve our services and our marketing communication activities based on your background, interests, or service or promotion preferences, where we may create a profile based on such information (see "Profiling" section of this Statement).
- To provide services and products requested by you as described when we collect the information.
- To send you communications regarding marketing measures and activities or conduct webinars informing you of our news, events, new products, business tools and information, and activities.
- To maintain the integrity and safety of our data technology systems which store and process your personal data.
- To provide anonymous reporting for internal and external customers.
- To share your contact details with our logistics partners so that they can assist us to deliver our services to you.
- To detect and investigate data breaches, illegal activities, and fraud.
If you wish to subscribe/opt-in to our marketing measures and activities, we will use your name and email address to send the communications to you. Out of respect for your privacy, if you no longer wish to receive these communications from us, please follow the opting-out "unsubscribe" instructions provided in the link at the bottom of our emails regarding marketing measures and activities, or update your account settings.
What is our lawful basis for processing your personal data?
In general, the lawful bases for us to process your personal data for the various types of processing performed on your data (please refer to "How do we process your personal data?" section of this Statement) is, as applicable, processing based on your consent, as necessary for us to enter into and to perform our contract with you, or as necessary to pursue the legitimate interest of our Company or of third parties.
We will collect, process and use the personal data supplied by you only for the purposes communicated to you and will not disclose your data to third parties except under the circumstances of data disclosure described in the "Sharing your personal data" section below.
Where we talk about our legitimate interest or that of third parties, such legitimate interest can include:
- Implementation and operation of a group-wide organizational structure and group-wide information sharing.
- Right to freedom of expression or information, including in the media and the arts.
- Prevention of fraud, misuse of company IT systems, or money laundering.
- Operation of a whistleblowing scheme.
- Physical security, IT and network security.
- Internal investigations.
- Proposed mergers and acquisitions.
Necessity to provide us data
You are not under any obligation to provide us any personal data. As noted below, the choice is yours. However, please note that without certain data from you, we may not able to undertake some or all of our obligations to you under our service contract with you, or adequately provide you with our full range of services. If you would like to obtain more detail about this, please contact us following the instructions in the "Contact Us" section below.
Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential, and will be shared only with the categories of data recipients listed below. We will only share your data with third parties outside the Company with your consent, and you will have an opportunity to choose for us not to share your data.
We may disclose your personal data to:
- Our affiliated entities within our global group of companies worldwide to provide you services such as facilitating order processing and shipping, for internal administration purposes, to detect and deal with data breaches, illegal activities, and fraud, and to maintain the integrity of our information technology systems.
- Third party service providers whom we sub-contract to work on our behalf or for us and therefore may have access to your data only for purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf and under obligations similar to those described in this Statement, who perform functions such as data processing, auditing, order fulfillment, managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys, logistics support, marketing support, payment processing and invoice collection support, informational systems technical support, to help us provide, analyze, and improve our services such as data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, improvement of our service features, and to assist us in detecting and dealing with data breaches, illegal activities, and fraud.
- Governments and/or government-affiliated institutions, courts, or law enforcement agencies, to comply with our obligations under relevant laws and regulations, enforce or defend our policies or contract with you, respond to claims, or in response to a verified request relating to a government or criminal investigation or suspected fraud or illegal activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our customers to legal liability; provided that, if any law enforcement agency requests your data, we will attempt to redirect the law enforcement agency to request that data directly from you, and in such event, we may provide your basic contact information to the law enforcement agency.
- Third parties involved in a legal proceeding, if they provide us with a court order or substantially similar legal procedure requiring us to do so.
We may provide you with opportunities to connect with third party applications or services. If you choose to use any such third party applications or services, we may facilitate sharing of your information with your consent. However, we do not control the applications or services of those third parties or how they use your information, and your use of such applications and services is not governed by this Statement. Please review the terms and the privacy policies of those third parties before using their applications or services.
Most of the advertisements and marketing communications which are sent to your web browser are made by us. However, we also allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to provide advertisements on our website. These companies may also send cookies to your computer. If an advertiser asks our website to show advertisements to certain visitors and you respond to that ad, the network advertiser or ad-server may think you as of the targeted audience they are trying to reach. The personal information you disclose to other parties such as network advertisers, third-party ad servers, or other websites from the Internet are protected by their respective privacy policies. The privacy policies of different network advertisers or third-party ad servers are not bound to this policy, and our website is not responsible for these privacy policies.
We will display your personal data and account activity in your profile page and elsewhere on our service portals according to the preferences you set in your account. You can review and revise your profile information at any time. Please consider carefully what information you disclose in your profile page and your desired level of anonymity. In your profile page, we will also display your device information as well as provide the network connection information for the devices to the applications that connect to your devices. Our services also include sharing and publishing features that by their nature support sharing with users you choose. Those users may see your name, email address, photo and some information from your profile page, and files you choose to share. They may also forward your shared files or published devices to the public. Public information may be broadly and quickly disseminated. Please consider what files your share and devices you publish.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We keep your personal data for no longer than reasonably necessary for the given purpose for which your data is processed. If you provide us, or have provided us, consent for us to process your data, we will process your data for no longer than your consent is effective. Notwithstanding the above, we may retain your personal data as required by applicable laws and regulations, as necessary to assist with any government and judicial investigations, to initiate or defend legal claims or for the purpose of civil, criminal or administrative proceedings. If none of the above grounds for us to keep your data apply, we will delete and dispose of your data in a secure manner according to our data protection policy.
Privacy of data subjects under the age of 16?
Our products and services are not targeted to persons under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect or process personal data from persons under the age of 16.
Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption under applicable privacy laws, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- The right to request a copy of your personal data which we hold about.
- The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date.
- The right to request to erase your personal data where it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data, except we are not obliged to do so if we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
- The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time, if and where we rely on your consent to process your data. This includes cases where you wish to opt out from marketing communications that you receive from us.
- The right to request that we provide you with your data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, where the processing is based on your consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, and in either case we process the data by automated means.
- The right to restrict our processing of your personal data where you believe such data to be inaccurate, our processing is unlawful; or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose unless we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish for us to delete it.
- The right to object to us using your personal data, where the legal justification for our processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
- The right to lodge a complaint regarding our processing of your data, with the competent authority where you reside or in which your data is processed.
If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please do so by providing your request to the contact window set forth in the "Contact Us" section.
After receiving your request, we will evaluate your request and inform you how we intend to proceed on your request. Under certain circumstances in accordance with applicable privacy laws and regulations, we may withhold access to your data, or decline to modify, erase, port, or restrict the processing of your data.
Please be advised that if you exercise the rights to erase data, restrict or object to our processing, or to withdraw your consent, we may not be able to continue our services to you if the necessary data is missing for processing.
Transfer, Storage, and Processing of Data Abroad
As noted in the "Sharing your personal data" section of this Statement, as a globally operating company, we may share your information with our affiliate companies or third parties. Please refer to the "Sharing your personal data" section of this Statement for the recipients of your data and the reasons for our provision of your data to them. Where such entities are located in other countries and jurisdictions, we will therefore be transferring your personal data outside the European Economic Area. In making such data transfers, we make sure to protect your personal data by applying the level of security required by applicable privacy laws. Where we transfer your data to a country or jurisdiction that cannot guarantee the required level of protection as required by applicable privacy laws, we have enhanced our IT security measures and have entered into Standard Contractual Clauses with the transferee to require security obligations on the transferee, both of which are intended to increase the protection of your personal data. Standard Contractual Clauses are one of a number of "appropriate safeguards" under the applicable privacy laws that enable the transfer of personal data concerning data subjects within the European Economic Area to jurisdictions that have not been designated by the European Commission as possessing an adequate level of data protection. You may request a copy of such Standard Contractual Clauses from us, or inquire about transfers of your information, by providing your request to the contact window set forth in the "Contact Us" section.
We strive to provide the most relevant and valuable marketing experience for you. Therefore, we collect the basic information you provide to us when you opt into our communications (such as email address, company name, industry, country, etc.) in order to supply you with content that is applicable to your business and job role. We will also couple that with any inferred data you provide through actions you take when interacting with the content we offer you. For example, if you are interested in specific industry topics, we may offer you more information about such topics the next time we have news to share.
We are mindful of the impact that personalizing your marketing experience can create. Therefore, we apply the following safeguards:
- We have carried out, and will carry out on an annual basis, a Data Protection Impact Assessment to consider and address the impact to you before we conduct any new profiling.
- We only collect the minimum amount of data we need for our profiling purposes.
- To the extent possible, our priority is to use anonymized or pseudonymized data, instead of data that can directly or indirectly identify you, in our profiling activities.
- All such data are secured with the technical measures described in the "Security" section of this Statement.
- We carry out regular checks to ensure that our systems are working as intended.
If you do not agree with our carrying out profiling using your data, please note that you have the right to object to such use of your data, and you can object via submitting your request to the contact window set forth in the "Contact Us" section.
Further processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose not covered by this Statement, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing such further processing for a new purpose, setting out the relevant new purpose and processing conditions. In such case, we will find a lawful basis for further processing, and whenever necessary we will seek your prior written consent to such further processing.
We protect your data using technical measures to minimize the risks of misuse, unauthorized access, unauthorized disclosure, loss or theft, and loss of access. Some of the safeguards we use are data pseudonymization, data encryption, firewalls, and data access authorization controls. We take our data security very seriously. Therefore, the security mechanisms used to protect your data are checked and updated regularly to provide effective protection against abuse.
The website through which we collect your information are usually encoded using the encryption module of your browser, and are certified for international encryption technique. If necessary, we use SSL (Secure Socket Layers) encryption to protect your personal information. Moreover, we have put in place additional and comprehensive state-of-the-art security measures when your data are accessed via the internet. Firewalls prevent unauthorized access. Diverse encryption and identification layers protect your data from intrusion or disclosure to third parties during data transfer. Furthermore, we internally use sophisticated encoding methods in order to prevent de-coding by unauthorized persons. Moreover, an electronic identifier is generated during data transfer to safeguard your information.
For your confidentiality and security, we use ID and password to secure your personal information. It is important for you to protect your ID, password, or any personal information. Do not disclose your personal information (especially password) to anyone. When you are finished using our services, please do not forget to log out from your account. If you share a computer, whether in a public or private setting, be sure to sign off and close your browsers when finished using a shared computer.
Despite our best efforts, however, security cannot be absolutely guaranteed against all threats. If you believe that the security of your data has been compromised, or if you like more information on the measures we use to protect your data, please contact us following the instructions in the "Contact Us" section below.
What are your choices?
You have the choice to allow us to collect and process your data. The collection and processing of your personal data is neither a statutory nor a contractual requirement, although as noted above, we will be unable to provide you with certain services without the data necessary for such services purposes. If you are dealing with us online, note that most browsers will inform you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable cookies. Additionally, you can disable or delete data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, on your browser or on the website of its manufacturer.
You can always choose not to provide your data to us, although we may need such data to process your requests, in which case we will inform you of our constraints. To the extent that you have consented to our processing of your data, you can choose to discontinue our processing at any time. You can choose to request from us a copy of the personal data we store and process regarding you. You can choose to add or update data that you have provided to us. You can choose to erase your data, or you may choose to restrict our processing of your data instead. You can choose to port your data to a third party under conditions stated above. You can choose to object to our processing of your data. You can choose to not allow us to engage in building a personalized marketing profile based on such profile. Your choice or request on any aspects of data processing listed above can be communicated to us using the channels set forth in the "Contact Us" section of this Statement. In summary, what we are allowed to do with your data is, with limited exceptions under applicable privacy laws, up to you. However, in the event that you choose for us not to further process your data, such choice may affect the delivery of our obligations or services to you; in this situation, we will inform you of our constraints.
Whom should I contact?
If you have any question about this Statement, or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, or if you have any complaints that you would like to discuss with us, please in the first instance send us your signed and dated request, together with a copy of your identity card.
Please be as accurate as possible:
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Please click here for a list of local data protection authorities in EEA countries: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.


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Skyrah Jane Campbell has always been driven to succeed and make a name for herself away from her family. Moving to Chicago to attend college and start a career doesn't leave much room for romance. Living with Anabelle, her feisty best friend, has helped Skyrah begin to come out of her shell. However, nothing could prepare Skyrah for the day she first laid eyes on Wyatt Weston.
Wyatt, a successful business man, is the owner of the Weston Building where coincidentally Skyrah works. When his father died, Wyatt inherited his company. A forever playboy and commitment-phobe, Wyatt never wanted to settle down until a brief encounter with Skyrah turns his world upside down.
Will Skyrah's encounter with Wyatt's sexy younger brother, Wriston, come between the two? How will The Weston family handle learning their family isn't as reputable and honest as they once thought?
While trying to build a lasting relationship, can Skyrah and Wyatt handle everything life throws at them?
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Christian Freedom: Grasping the Motivation to Love
- David Jones
- Updated Jul 02, 2012
Editor's note: This article can be found at byFaithOnline and originally appeared in Covenant magazine, the quarterly magazine of Covenant Theological Seminary. © 2003 Covenant Theological Seminary.
The Reformation produced two classics on motivation in the Christian life, Martin Luther's The Freedom of a Christian (1520) and John Calvin's chapter on "Christian Freedom" in the first edition ofThe Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536). Luther published his treatise with an open letter to Pope Leo X in the hope of reconciliation with Rome. Of this work author and theologian John Dillenberger remarks, "If one were to single out one short document representing the content and spirit of Luther's faith, The Freedom of a Christian would undoubtedly be at the top."
Luther's aim was to defend the doctrine of justification by faith alone and to show its implications for the Christian life. "Our faith in Christ," he wrote, "does not free us from works but from false opinions concerning works, that is, from the foolish presumption that justification is acquired by works."
The motive of proving oneself worthy of salvation Luther discerned to be self-serving and inhibiting. The gospel of justification by faith renders works unnecessary for acceptance by God. "Therefore [the Christian] should be guided in all his works by this thought and contemplate this one thing alone, that he may serve and benefit others in all that he does, considering nothing except the need and the advantage of his neighbor."
For Calvin also, Christian freedom was a matter of intense pastoral concern. "Its whole force consists in quieting frightened consciences before God … that are perhaps disturbed and troubled over forgiveness of sins, or anxious whether unfinished works, corrupted by the faults of our flesh, are pleasing to God, or tormented about the use of things indifferent." The doctrine of justification is the answer to the first problem, the doctrine of adoption the answer to the second, and the doctrine of creation the answer to the third.
Christian liberty and liberty of conscience are also subjects of a Westminster Confession of Faith chapter, the first paragraph of which is a particularly helpful summary of the doctrine articulated by Luther and Calvin in the preceding century. "The liberty which Christ hath purchased for believers under the gospel consists in their freedom from the guilt of sin, the condemning wrath of God, the curse of the moral law; and, in their being delivered from this present evil world, bondage to Satan, and dominion of sin; from the evil of afflictions, the sting of death, the victory of the grave, and everlasting damnation; as also, in their free access to God, and their yielding obedience unto Him, not out of slavish fear, but a child-like love and willing mind" (20.1).
"Slavish fear" refers to conformity to moral law motivated by the threat of punishment. But this is not what the Bible means by obedience. As Augustine observed, "if the commandment be done through fear of penalty and not through love of righteousness, it is done in the temper of servitude not freedom — and therefore it is not done at all." A "child-like love," on the other hand, is motivated by the thought of pleasing one's heavenly Father and so yields the true obedience of a willing mind. The gospel's glory is that it creates such motivation, though not without internal struggle, as the apostle Paul himself attests (Romans 7:21-25).
Key biblical texts which contrast filial affection and slavish trepidation are Romans 8:14-15 and 1 John 4:18.
[Romans 8:14-15 reads], "Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit who makes you sons."
[And 1 John 4:18], "There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The man who fears is not made perfect in love."
The word translated "punishment" is kolasis, used only here and at Matthew 25:46. It refers to God's retributive justice or penal satisfaction (cf. the verb kolaz in2 Peter 2:9). The objects of kolasis are the unrighteous. Consequently, to be motivated by threats of the law is sub-Christian. In the words of Augustus Toplady's great hymn: "The terrors of law and of God / With me can have nothing to do; / My Saviour's obedience and blood / Hide all my transgressions from view."
Fear and Dread versus Veneration and Honor
We should note the Scripture's use of the word "fear" in two distinct senses. There is the fear of terror and dread, and the fear of veneration and honor. The fear of terror makes us want to run away and hide; the fear of honor leads us to stand in awe and worship. The gospel removes the fear of terror as a source of motivation in the Christian life. Punishment has no power to rehabilitate. As theologian John Murray notes, "Even the infliction of wrath will not create the hatred of sin; it will incite to greater love of sin and enmity against God."
Fear of punishment must be expelled so that love may reign supreme as the Christian life's animating principle. Since it is love to God that is in view, it is necessarily a reverent love. God is majestic in His holiness, and His acts of redemptive love are awe-inspiring. The only proper response to the crucifixion of the Lord of glory is, "Sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble." Believers tremble at the righteous judgment of God against sin. They are no longer afraid of punishment, but they are sobered by the awesome transaction: Christ died for our sins; God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us; He bore our sins in His own body on the tree.
When the Scripture tells us to "work out your salvation with fear and trembling" (Philippians 2:12), it does not mean that we are to live lives of nervous apprehension because the completion of our salvation is up to us. The reading of the New American Bible, "work with anxious concern to achieve your salvation," is as misleading as it is common. The full text of Philippians 2:12-13 is as follows: "Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed — not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence — continue to work out (katergazesthe) with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose."
The verb translated "work out" is the only New Testament instance of katergazomai in the imperative mood. Although it can mean "to effect or achieve" (cf. Romans 5:3, "tribulation works patience"; 2 Corinthians 7:10, "godly sorrow works repentance") or "to finish [off] or conquer" (cf. Ephesians 6:16, "after you have done everything"), it can also mean "to practice or work at." The question is, which is the most likely meaning in this context?
We should first mark Paul's opening note of confidence, "that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" (Philippians 1:6). Salvation is the Lord's doing, and the outcome is not in doubt. Paul now grounds his imperative (katergazesthe) in this primary truth, "for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13). Your salvation is not a goal to be achieved by human effort but a gift bestowed by divine grace. Significantly, the imperative is in the present tense: "Go on putting your salvation into practice, go on actualizing your salvation." This fits with Paul's reference to the Philippians' established pattern of response: "as you have always obeyed."
We should also recall Paul's earlier prayer for motivation in the Christian life, "that your love (not fear) may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight." Fear and trembling is a stereotyped expression (it rhymes in Greek — phobou kai tromou) for proper respect (cf. 2 Corinthians 7:15, Ephesians 6:5). Here it refers to the awed reverence that comes from the realization that God (the word order in Greek puts the emphasis here) is the one working in us both to will and to act according to His saving purpose. J.B. Phillips' translation is right on the mark: Work out the salvation that God has given you with a proper sense of awe and responsibility. For it is God who is at work within you, giving you the will and the power to achieve His purpose.
Punishment versus Discipline
As there is a fundamental difference between the fear of terror and the fear of honor, so is there a fundamental difference between punishment and discipline. The goal of the Christian life is to be like Christ, the image of God. In the transformation process, "God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness" (Hebrews 12:10). Whereas punishment is the execution of God's retributive justice, discipline is the expression of His corrective love (Hebrews 12:6; cf. Revelation 3:19, "Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline"). Though the experience of discipline is never pleasant, it is endurable in the knowledge that in the long run it "produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it" (Hebrews 12:11).
Affliction thus has an entirely different face depending upon whether it appears as punishment or discipline. It is not too much to say that punishment and discipline are as far apart as God's wrath and God's love. Sinners rightly take refuge in Christ to escape the penal consequences of sin, but this is not the continuing motivation of the Christian life other than as a standing warning against apostasy. The message of Hebrews 12:4-11 is not, "If you sin, you will be punished," but "If you are a son or daughter, you will be disciplined." Though painful, discipline is welcome as the sign of God's love. Through it we are led to progressive obedience, not out of fear of the consequences but out of love for Him who first loved us.
David Clyde Jones is professor emeritus of systematic theology and ethics at Covenant Theological Seminary. Jones earned his B.A. at William Jennings Bryan College, his B.D. and Th.M. at Westminster Theological Seminary, and his Th.D. at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis.
This article originally appeared at byFaithOnline. Used with permission.
Publication date: June 27, 2012


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30 April 2010
Shoppy Bike - Italian Bicycle Style and Design
At Cycle Chic we're loving this a) advert and b) cool new Italian bicycle.
It's called Shoppy Bike, a revolutionary and exclusive unisex city bike that combines innovation, functionality and style. It's on the market shortly.
Manufactured in the heart of Tuscany by Officine Meccaniche Sereni, Shoppy Bike is a high-tech bicycle made entirely in aluminium and with toothed belt drive. With its sleek design and avant-guarde mechanism, Shoppy Bike is a comfortable and elegant means of transport, the perfect way to tackle the daily hectic city traffic in style and to enjoy slow-paced moments of relaxation.
Shoppy Bike offers a colour range that goes from classic red and black to the more trendy shades of lilac and green.
Concept: Michele Lazzaro/Design: Rudy Hoffmann.
13 comments:
- Emily said...
OMG! It's so cool it's almost pretty! Or even beautyfull!
- 30 April 2010 at 23:54
- Bean said...
love this bicycle...
can't wait to see more about it! - 1 May 2010 at 00:51
- eva said...
what a fun design and concept.
i love the quote on their website 'enjoy slow-paced moments of relax.'
p.s. @asao is a fellow 'cycle chic sunday's' rider! - 1 May 2010 at 03:57
- William said...
Hulk* Angry! Hulk* Smash!
Rargh! No like belt drive! No like small front wheel (that will handle uneveness slightly worse than a larger wheel, and which does not even have oversize tyres to make up for the fact).
Hulk* hates oversize steering column that adds extra inertia to steering components, making this bicycle harder to turn than a semitruck without powersteering. Grah!
(*not really Hulk) - 1 May 2010 at 09:03
- Colville-Andersen said...
Hulk needs to get laid and relax. :-)
- 1 May 2010 at 09:14
- Amsterdamize said...
It's cute as a design exercise, in a way you'd expect from Italians.
Now back to everyday riding. it's sold as 'practically chic' (I got that e-mail plug too ;)). 'Practically Chic'..I like. Scrolling down...
Can't help but calling this 'Chic-washing', as it lacks the main ingredients for normal urban transportation.
Fenders for those rainy days? How hard can it be to draw those up? I think it would even enhance the design.
The girl in the pic may settle with carrying around her Gucci bag on her shoulder, but most of us need more to transport groceries and what not. That practicality is lost on this design. If so, it will be an ugly after thought.
And dammit, so much leg room in front, but no way of or room for riding around my girl on the back, side saddle chicness?
Maybe they get it right in the next decade. Funny how many of these 'new' designs strip off the very things that makes cycling appealing.
2 cents. - 1 May 2010 at 14:58
Sure it's not a Japanese enterprise? reads like Japlish to me. What a lame ad, the model's wearing such awful dated looking and trashy clothes that clash with the bike's colour and lines. And where's the shoppy basket?
- 1 May 2010 at 16:42
- Nick said...
Um, radial drive spokes? How are those not going to snap instantly?
- 2 May 2010 at 09:21
Wow, tough crowd!
- 3 May 2010 at 01:49
Looks to me like a rip-off of the venerable Varna from Vancouver, Canada. Yes - tough crowd - we live in cities where you can buy Pashley and Biomega, and Abici, and Gazelle, and Sogreni, and Azor, and the like. I would take a Bakfiets.nl bike over this in a heartbeat.
- 3 May 2010 at 04:10
- Klaus Mohn said...
The bike doesn't match her style at all! And Marc has it right - how it is a "shoppy" bike if you can't carry anything? Do you have a domestique driving your purchases around behind you?
I stand by my retrogrouchiness. The design of the classic utility bike has been refined for generations. It's gonna take a hell of a lot more than a flimsy green monster to shift that paradigm. If I wanted to see misguided, impractical riffs on bike design, I'd read bicycledesign.net (which I do, for the comedy value of hubless wheels), not Cycle Chic! - 3 May 2010 at 11:35
- Gina said...
Inertia, steering, fenders-chmenders, big wheel, little wheel...WHO CARES?(!!!) IT'S GORGEOUS!
Don't take it over wet roads, or seed around corners or over a dirt bike path. Just ride it in a pretty dress on a sunny day to lunch at the corner cafe! Et voila! Problems solved.
And if I ever win the Lotto and am able to fill my garage with all my favorite bikes this baby is making it into my (massive)dream bike collection. - 3 May 2010 at 12:22
This is why the English speaking world dont cycle, too many people who dont ride bikes design and sell bikes.
A shopping bike without a basket or fenders. No chain case so those pretty shoes will get ruined in the end.
This looks as if the designer never went in to town on a bike to get a few things. - 4 May 2010 at 14:14