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Incredibly disappointed! I heard good stories about Siegel, but I guess the new principal turned all of that around a few years ago. I wanted to tour the school before enrolling my child and was told I couldn't. I showed up at the school and requested information and was sent away, even though I had proof that they were our zoned elementary and I wasn't some crazy person off of the street. The office staff was incredibly rude. Teachers seemed cold towards the students. Before you enroll your child here, please, please spend a day observing in the class and do your homework. There are affordable private schools in the area that will treat your child properly.
I'm going to submit a review, now that the principle can no longer do anything to us. This school is horrid. The principle is abusive to students and her power. She allows teachers and even herself to bully and intimidate students and their parents. I had staff members personally come to my home after I pulled my children out with more sickening bullying stories than I was even aware of. She has my boys so scared that when I picked my kids up from school they would be crying and were too scared to tell me why. When I contacted the board and she found out about it, she gave my oldest son in school suspension. Then used a disability my son has with his hands (makes it painful to write for long periods of time) and made him copy an encyclopedia all day. She even went as far as to laugh about it to get staff. I'm wondering if parents are aware of what is really going on with some of the children?
Report it I have been blessed to have my children at Erma Siegel for the past 4 years - this is my daughter's last year there and, fortunately, she is headed to a terrific middle school. But my kids were so fortunate to have been able to attend this school - excellent programs and teachers. Dedicated, kind, and helpful staff. The principal is excellent. I have nothing but the highest praise for ESE.
We've been at ESE thru the 3rd grade, and we won't be back for 4th. He's been in speech since Kindergarten. I've met w/ the Principal and Asst. in IEP meetings. The principal is cold and indifferent to a child and their family. We really have never had any problems with my child, but the principal and teachers behave as if we are a burden to them. When I'm in the school as a volunteer, and I pass the principal and try to greet her, she just looks down her nose at me. I volunteer weekly, and have witnessed her speak hatefully to students who weren't walking like soldiers in the hall, I have witnessed a 2nd grade teacher very close to a child's face, showing gritted teeth and putting her finger very close to the child's face and yelling at her, I have witnessed a child crying in the principal's office as she got in his face and screamed at him. Where is the kindness and compassion that children need to learn? Certainly not here. And lastly, my child is a minority, and we've always been treated as if we're not good enough for this school. By the way, my child makes excellent grades, and I volunteer regularly, so what's the problem? I guess I'm not part of the 82%.
Very upset with the way Erma Siegel Elementary School lets their teachers bully the children. I thought being a bully was not tolerated, but obviously if you are a teacher it is ok. Very hard year for some sweet 1st graders by the way their teacher treated them. I am speaking of one teacher that I have witnessed and also the affect it has had on this 1st grader. NOT GOOD!! If do not like children ....find another occupation!!
Erma Siegel is the best School in Murfreesboro! It is second to none. My children have had the best elementary experience. We have attended since 2010. The principal is friendly, attentive, and dedicated to the highest of standards in academics. Our teachers have provided an outstanding challenge, are compassionate, and dedicated the their students. The PTA is wonderful and very welcoming!!!
this is easily the best elementary school ever the principal is a great leader i love their 3 rs
This school is horrible. The older "it's wonderful" reviews are probably true. But since it changed hands to the new principle, it couldn't be worse. If your child ends up struggling with anything, your on your own, because they only care about numbers and shoving kids through the system. None of the teachers seem to care. The only effort that is really put forth in that school is the charade of it being "wonderful". And their bullying "policy" is a joke. Plain and simple: If it requires their time and attention, you won't get anywhere.
I don't know why this school has such a good reputation. If your child is not not perfect, he/she will probably not do well here.
This school is definitely overrated. I have 2 children in the Siegel school district. My oldest attended the middle and high school and I was very pleased but the elementary school is not all that it is cracked up to be. The teachers have a "i don't care" attitude. The principal protects her teachers and if I may say has lost her golden touch. She was such a great principal at Reeves Rogers. The only thing they have going for them is their AR program. Teachers are quick to label your children before they get to know them. The teachers gossip with one another about students and formulate an opinion about that student before they even give them a chance. The after school program is one of the worst and the director is messy. I will never send my child back to this school.
My kids went to another city school before. All the city schools should be modeled after this one. The teachers care about your kids & their goals!
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The business community focuses on managing uncertainty. That's actually a bit of a canard. In an increasingly turbulent and interconnected world, ambiguity is rising to unprecedented levels. That's something our current systems can't handle.
There's a difference between the kind of problems that companies, institutions, and governments are able to solve and the ones that they need to solve. Most big organizations are good at solving clear but complicated problems. They're absolutely horrible at solving ambiguous problems — when you don't know what you don't know. Faced with ambiguity, their gears grind to a halt.
Uncertainty is when you've defined the variable but don't know its value. Like when you roll a die and you don't know if it will be a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6. But ambiguity is when you're not even sure what the variables are. You don't know how many dice are even being rolled or how many sides they have or which dice actually count for anything. Businesses that focus on uncertainty actually delude themselves into thinking that they have a handle on things. Ah, ambiguity; it can be such a bitch.
Dev Patnaik, cited by Robert Safian in This Is Generation Flux: Meet The Pioneers Of The New (And Chaotic) Frontier Of Business
We are in the Postnormal now, where volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity have reached unparalleled heights. We are constantly in a strategy fog, unable to see very far ahead, to plan, or even think about problems and solutions. We live in a time defined by dilemmas: unsolvable situations that can only be coped with, balanced against.
Like a martial artist who knows she may be attacked at any time, by any opponent, with any weapon, the most productive approach is to practice, speculatively, but remain fluid in mind, and unfocused on any specific techniques.
This is why I counsel speculative design as a discipline. Instead of trying to imagine a future world, instead imagine an imaginary appliance of that future world, and its use by the denizens of that future. Then consider the implications of those interactions. That is the equivalent of a karate-do doing kata: we are sparring with the implications of our speculations.
Clayton Christensen writing on why pouring more money into banks won't jumpstart the economy. Money has become a commodity, and investors have lots of it, but no safe ('relatively safe from uncertainty') investments.
We have uncertain tax policies, uncertain political alignments, uncertain geopolitics: so everyone is waiting on the sidelines as the temperature rises, droughts continue and the water wars start, food prices rise and the poor begin to go hungry, and the liberal/conservative face-off yields no answers.
The postnormal is an era defined by dilemmas to face and straddle, not problems to be solved. Our analytic approaches — that worked reasonably well in the postmodern industrial era and earlier — bring little insight here, if any.
And the majority of the elites and nearly all of the average citizens think we are still in the past era, expecting a conventional roller coaster ride through boom-and-bust, wondering 'when will things get back to normal?'. But we have moved past that, into a time where we can't get back to normal. The only way out is ahead, into a postnormal frame of reference, postnormal responses, and a postnormal realignment of the challenges and resources we share, and new perspectives on how to get clear of the trappings and entanglements of the past.
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Venture Capital Becomes Even More Uncertain An Investment
Venture capital firms are closing, decreasing the size of funds, or dropping partners, as a result of a worsening marketplace for start-ups to get to liquidity. As a result, the VC firms are finding it harder to raise money to invest:
Pui-Wing Tam, Venture Firms Take a New Tack
U.S. venture-capital funds garnered $20.3 billion in 2012, essentially flat from 2011 and down from $39 billion in 2007, according to Dow Jones LP Source.
Overall, there were 842 venture-capital firms in the U.S. in 2011 that raised money in the previous eight years, down 16% from 1,004 in 2007, according to the National Venture Capital Association.
More venture firms "realize that in order to be successful and deliver returns, they need to be focused on smaller groups of people and smaller sets of companies," said David Hornik, a venture capitalist at August Capital, which in October closed a $300 million fund, compared with $350 million for its previous fund. Six partners are investing out of the new fund, down from seven for the prior fund, he added.
Many venture firms are responding to a higher bar from investors, who have been disenchanted with scant venture returns and are scrutinizing partnerships closely to pick out the stronger versus weaker venture capitalists in a firm.
Investors "have become more selective because their return requirements are higher." said Tom Gladden, a partner at investment management firm Adams Street Partners, which invests in venture funds. "We're going to evaluate the [venture firm's] team to the point of looking at the personal franchises of individual partners."
What is unsaid in this story is that investors the world over are finding it harder to determine where to invest. Uncertainty and ambiguity make it difficult to pick sectors or investment vehicles — like start-ups — with anything like a dependable return.
The Biggest If Of All, Part II
Scott Rafer riffs on my recent post, The Biggest If Of All, where I suggest that this time it might be different, this time we may have moved into a new era, a new economy: the postnormal. Rafer says it's just the same old same old:
@stoweboyd This purely academic question gets asked every business cycle. It was being asked on the upside in the late 90s if you recall. In this (not very) regulated financial environment, investment managers figure out how to play new conditions which makes the answer to your question "No" +/- 20%.
Well, logically, just because someone said X would happen 15 years ago and it didn't doesn't mean that someone saying X now is wrong. Those are independent events, at least in principle.
My point is something else entirely. We are living in a time where uncertainty is so great that businesses and investors are finding it increasingly impossible to make judgments about where things are headed. Andrew Ross Sorkin recently wrote about this:
The Election Won't Solve All Puzzles - Andrew Ross Sorkin via NYTimes.com
"Uncertainty" has become the watchword over the last several years for many chief executives, politicians and economists as an explanation — or perhaps an excuse — for the economy's slow growth, for the lack of hiring by business and for the volatility in the stock market.
"The claim is that businesses and households are uncertain about future taxes, spending levels, regulations, health care reform and interest rates. In turn, this uncertainty leads them to postpone spending on investment and consumption goods and to slow hiring, impeding the recovery," a group of professors from Stanford University and the University of Chicago wrote in a study that found "current levels of economic policy uncertainty are at extremely elevated levels compared to recent history." (The professors have created a Web site, policyuncertainty.com, where you can track the "uncertainty" levels.)
If you go look at the other charts — like the European Policy Uncertainty Index — economic uncertainty has been steadily rising since 2007.
We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty. - Denise CaronSo my point is different. Investors and other business people will find it harder to reason about possible futures because we have moved onto shifting ground. It's a VUCA world, characterized as increased volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.
As I wrote in July, regarding our blindness regarding the postnormal climate we've made for ourselves,
The biggest problem is that people's thinking patterns are stuck in the old days, and I don't just mean their expectations about 'normal' weather. No, even worse is that people can't accept the reality that in the post-normal we will never have the luxury of time to assess and then adapt. Linear problem-solving approaches will simply not work anymore.
But this is not a call for more old world leadership, characterized by moving fast, and looking for permanent 'solutions' to well-defined and researched 'problems'. Instead, we need leaders demonstrating the 'VUCA Prime' characteristics, as Bob Johansen has styled it.
Denise Caron makes the break between the old world and the new one very clear:
We are moving from a world of problems, which demand speed, analysis, and elimination of uncertainty to solve, to a world of dilemmas, which demand patience, sense-making, and an engagement of uncertainty.
So, in this context, there is no 'solution' to infrastructure stress and failure based on more violent weather. We are stuck in a problem space which is fundamentally unsolvable, but we have to try to make sense of this in the context of the larger world.
For example: the financial constraints of our weakened economy mean that we may not be able to repair the interstate highway system, but we might extend and maintain the train system for people moving. Do we have the foresight to disinvest in the highway system? Can we shift from a truck-based logistics system to boats, trains, and airships for long-distance hauling?
We are just as trapped in our thinking as we are in a rapidly changing global weather system, and without leaders with the mindset and skillset geared for the post-normal world, we will never find our way out.
The analysis about weather is paralleled by our inability to logically untangle the financial mess the world is in. And it's not that we need to get smarter, do more analysis, put more brilliant minds on it: the system is so large, interconnected, and complex that it cannot be understood. It is a complex non-linear system, barreling along as fast as we can fuel it, and it cannot be neatly reduced to a set of smaller, more easily understood parts, unless we actually start disconnecting the parts.
But are we taking steps to disconnect the world's financial markets? To raise trade barriers, and diminish global supply chains? To require companies to only do business in one country, and to only compete in a single marketplace? To break up vertically integrated multinationals? No. And leaving aside whether this would be a 'good' thing in some moral or ideological sense, we aren't doing it. If anything, the world is growing more interconnected and complex.
At the macroeconomic level, this poses astonishing policy issues, the first of which is seeing the forest for the trees: that we've moved into new territory and we have no map. At the microeconomic level, the investor or business leader has a set of tools that used to work, a map that used to show the way, a compass that found north. But they don't work anymore. They no longer point the way, or suggest that all ways forward are equally uncertain of success.
Specifically with regard to investments in tech, David Lee at SV Angel recently said 'It has never been easier to start a company, and never harder to build one', regarding the structural issues in the tech funding world. VC's don't see a clear path for a real return on investments in commerce 2.0, games, or apps that rely on Facebook, Twitter, or other platforms. And the result of that uncertainty is being reflected in a decreased amount of later stage investments. This is an echo of the international fund managers I wrote about in the first installment of The Biggest If Of All, many of whom state that uncertainty has never been greater, or of more import in the investment world. So they, like tech VC's, are holding back, and waiting for a return to normalcy.
But what if it never comes?
We know that the changes we've already made to our ecological world will take at least hundreds of years to reverse. Perhaps we've turned a similar curve in the economic and policy world. And we don't know what the world will look like in a hundred years or so, and perhaps there is simply no way to figure out what is going to happen in the next five years, either.
Honor Harger quotes from Tarleton Gillespie essay The Relevance of Algorithms.
An accommodation with and accounting for "fundamental uncertainty" is one of the core qualities of the new literacy.
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Uncertainty Increasing, Which Is Postnormal
More indications that we are in a new economic era — the Postnormal — and not just a temporary period of contraction following yet-another-boom-bust-cycle. Uncertainty in on the rise in the business sector, and this is not just a ruse to coax employees to vote against their interests or be fired.
The Election Won't Solve All Puzzles - Andrew Ross Sorkin via NYTimes.com
"Uncertainty" has become the watchword over the last several years for many chief executives, politicians and economists as an explanation — or perhaps an excuse — for the economy's slow growth, for the lack of hiring by business and for the volatility in the stock market.
"The claim is that businesses and households are uncertain about future taxes, spending levels, regulations, health care reform and interest rates. In turn, this uncertainty leads them to postpone spending on investment and consumption goods and to slow hiring, impeding the recovery," a group of professors from Stanford University and the University of Chicago wrote in a study that found "current levels of economic policy uncertainty are at extremely elevated levels compared to recent history." (The professors have created a Web site, policyuncertainty.com, where you can track the "uncertainty" levels.)
The possibility of significant changes in the tax code? The fiscal cliff? The European debt crisis? The debt overhang and economic contraction in China?
It's all uncertain.
Effective leadership in the Postnormal will require greater tolerance of uncertainty, and a growing awareness that we are confronted with dilemmas that may have no 'solutions' only strategies for coping.
Uncertainty Is Certain
Christina Romer is dead on when she points out that tax policies of the US Government are not causing businesses and consumers uncertainty about the economy, it's the economy itself that is causing it.
Christina Romer, Uncertainty Over Bush Tax Cuts Is Not Hindering Recovery
One sign of heightened macroeconomic uncertainty is that the forecasts of respected analysts are all over the map. According to the Survey of Professional Forecasters conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the difference between the highest and the lowest forecasts of unemployment a year from now is about twice as large as it was before the crisis. And forecasters' reported uncertainty about their longer-run forecasts has shown no sign of improving over the last year. If professional forecasters are unsure of the future, businesses and consumers certainly are as well.
Such uncertainty about future economic conditions can make people hold off on any spending that is difficult to undo. Companies may hesitate to build factories or hire permanent employees until they have a better sense of whether the markets for their products will be strong or weak. Consumers may not buy new cars or build additions to their homes until they are more certain about future employment.
In a paper I wrote many years ago, I found that such macroeconomic uncertainty helped start the Great Depression. The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information.
How do we resolve uncertainty about future growth? The Federal Reserve, Congress and the president need to reaffirm that they will do whatever it takes to restore the economy to full health. They could take a lesson from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who declared in his 1933 inaugural address that he would treat the task of putting people back to work "as we would treat the emergency of a war."
They should follow up with powerful fiscal and monetary actions to create jobs — coupled with a concrete plan for tackling our long-run budget problems. We are at a critical moment. With many in Congress opposed to further jobs measures and tax increases of any kind, the chances of prolonged gridlock are high.
But such policy paralysis would be a disaster. It would make uncertainty more acute by leaving us to the unpredictable forces of natural recovery and with no prospect of resolving our unsustainable deficits. Aggressive action to restore growth and face up to our long-run challenges is the only true and lasting solution.
Hmmm. I agree we should boost jobs, and more stimulus is needed. The problem is we lack a vision of what the new normal is going to be for America and the world. We aren't going to get back to 1995, or the earlier post-war boom.
We are moving quickly into a very different world, and so the notion of 'restoring' what we had should be dropped. We have to start actively building what we need for 2020, now.
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Optimal consumption choice with intolerance for declining standard of living
AbstractDuesenberry introduced the notion of a ratchet investor who does not tolerate any decline in her consumption rate. We connect the demand behavior of such an agent to the behavior of standard time-additive agents. A ratchet investor demands the running maximum of the optimal plan a conventional time-additive investor with lower initial wealth would choose.
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By David Ben Yakov
© 2004 David Ben Yakov / Delusion Resistance
In these closing days of Human history, the Bible tells us that Christians will have it much harder than in previous times in history. Our most trusted source of prophecy; Jesus Christ (Yeshua Ha Mashiach), gave us an idea of what the last days will present to mankind and especially believers:
So, since the days are going to be so evil, it is well advised that Christians should learn a bit about what is called Spiritual Warfare. The purpose of this page is to look at that warfare, and to see what God tells us what to do to fight the good fight. God had the Apostle Paul write to the Ephesians in regard to their spiritual situation. The letter is divided into three distinctive parts plus an introduction and a conclusion. The first section deals with the believer's stand in Grace. The second section deals with The Walk and Service of The Believer. The third section deals with The Walk and Warfare of The Spirit Filled Believer. In essence, the letter say something like this: "You are now believers in Christ Jesus and you live in Grace, not under the law. Because of this, you must act like children of the Father; in an upright and holy manner. And furthermore, you will come under attack from people who really don't know that they are pawns of unseen evil entities who seek to destroy you through them. So therefore, put on your spiritual armor so that you can conquer the real source of the trouble."
This website deals with two great delusions that are being perpetuated by the demonic realm, and nurtured by those in the physical realm. The first delusion which is called the "theory of evolution," has it's foundation in the demonic realm. The whole purpose of evolution is to destroy the thought of a Creator God. When the creator is discredited then His laws aren't credible and if there is no law, there is no sin. If there is no sin, then there is no reason for the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. That's the idea of evolution in a nutshell. Satan knows that he can't stop what Jesus did when He hung on the cross to atone for our sins, but he can try his best to dismiss the need for that atonement. We hear about evolution time and time again. It's sort of like the reeducation that the communists tried to accomplish so many times around the world. They separated people from the truth, fed them a lie on a consistent basis and after a while people believed the lie. This has worked well in modern day America in the public school system. First, they took prayer out of the schools. Then they didn't allow Christian activities around the schools and now they persecute people who try to pray or mention God in any manner. That is the separation. Then, they fill the kid's heads full of the lie of evolution until they eat, sleep and breath the lie. Without God in the schools, there is no accountability toward teachers or fellow students. You want to know why two kids can enter a school and slaughter their classmates? Read this paragraph again and you will know why. There was a cute cartoon in the press a few weeks after the Columbine tragedy. It was of two little boys; the first one saying, "why didn't God stop all of the killing in that school." The second boy replied, "He wanted to, but He's not allowed in there anymore." Such truth in so few words.
There are many people who think that the subject of UFO's and evolution are are separated by a wide chasm. Well, in the middle of the last century, that explanation might have held a bit of water, but the two have always been closely allied in the spiritual realm as they are today. For the past 40 years or so the two have been growing together and now are inseparable. For a long time science could count on the theory of evolution to explain the emergence of life here on earth. In recent years, many intelligent people have stood up and questioned the viability of evolution to answer those questions. Science has now turned to the idea that since evolution is basically impossible, given time restraints and violations of certain undeniable laws of physics. They are now starting to support that life had to come to Earth from outside our biological realm; hence, and extraterrestrial origin. Some say that it was life that came here inside meteorites and others that intelligent life brought life here to Earth. In either case, the origin is extraterrestrial.
Science has also been turning to the metaphysical world for explanations. By giving credence that life might have come here from "outside" sources, some have been listening to what those outside sources are saying. There are many channelers, psychics, automatic writers and others who claim to be speaking for extraterrestrials or what they call "ascended masters." A look at the subjects shows that they are one and the same. The interesting thing to note is that all of these so-called "sources" of information only seem to attack one type of belief system; the one based on the Judeo-Christian belief system. As Chuck Missler puts it, "why would such intelligent beings travel so many trillions of miles to teach New Age doctrine here on Earth?" The reason is that they don't come from that long distance, but from right here on and around earth. The fallen angels along with their demonic cohorts are behind all of this mischief and delusion. Now, because this is a spiritual fight, we need to know of a spiritual way to battle.
When the Apostle Paul wrote to the Ephesians, he had to describe spiritual warfare in earthly terms that they could understand. In that day Ephesus was under the dominion of the Roman Empire. The Romans didn't believe in separating the soldiers from the public like we do in modern society. They didn't build elaborate army bases and such, but housed the soldiers in and around cities, towns and villages. It was not uncommon to see a brigade of soldiers marching down the middle of town once or twice a day. These soldiers were not dressed in fancy garb either, but dressed like the day when they went out to battle; in full armor with sword hung in their belt and perhaps a spear in their hands. They were a fully prepared fighting force ready to act on a moment's notice. Because they were such a familiar site, Paul could use their image for what he was trying to get across to the Christians at Ephesus.
So what does Paul actually say? Let's look at the scripture and then we will explore what it all means:
So what do we get out of the scripture? Well, the first thing that Paul tells us to do is to put on the armor. The armor will do no man good if it is left at home or neglected. Something that is not mentioned in this scripture is the upkeep of the armor. The soldier had to maintain his sword, shield and armor. Rusted armor can fail and if the sword is not sharp it is not very effective. If the handle of the shield breaks off and you can't hold it you are in dire straits and in peril. I think we get the picture here.
When did the Roman soldier put on his armor? He put it on before he left his abode, and he never forgot it. The volatility of the Roman world reminded him on an almost daily basis for the need for his armor. He kept his armor on until he returned to his abode. Likewise, we should put on our armor when we leave the house. But I submit to you that we should wear our armor the whole time we are awake. You see, our unseen enemies can enter our homes, although it is hard for them to do that on their own. Our modern society has allowed to procure devices that allow us to invite influences into our homes and we might not even notice it. Television, radios, VCR machine and most recently the Internet have become medias by which the enemy can enter our abode. Therefore, our armor has to be on from the time we wake until the time we close our eyes for sleep.
Helmet of Salvation:
" Take the helmet of salvation"
Looking at the armor, starting from the head and working to the feet; we first have the Helmet of Salvation. There is no more fitting a garment to go first. If a person isn't Born Again in Jesus then he isn't saved by God's grace and has no salvation. Our new life status is the foundation that the rest of our spiritual lives stand on. The salvation given to the believer was procured by the precious blood of Jesus, which makes us clean and initiates us into the Kingdom of God. In Old Testament times when a person brought an offering to the priest to atone for their sin, that person had to believe without a doubt that his sin was cast aside and he was no longer guilty. Without that belief, then the sacrifice was just another dead animal and it meant nothing. In the same way, our sacrifice, in the person of Jesus Christ, has to be believed, without the shadow of a doubt and if it isn't, then there is no atonement.
So putting on the Helmet of Salvation is really denoting that the believer has to recognize each and every second of every day that they are saved through the Blood of Jesus Christ. Satan and his minions try to convince every Christian at one time or another that we are too bad to be saved; that the last sin that we committed was the last straw and that we have exceeded the limit of God's grace. That is a lie straight from hell because the Grace of God knows no bounds and is limitless. When a person is convinced that they have exceeded God's grace limit they in essence have removed the helmet of salvation and the rest of the armor sheds itself off of the body. You see, when a person believes that they have exceeded the limit, they no longer believe that they are righteous, so the breastplate comes off. They also believe that they have betrayed the truth, so the belt of truth comes off. Then, when they feel that all hope is lost, they toss the sword of the spirit because they feel that God doesn't hear them and that the Holy Spirit has abandoned them. And when all is said and done, the shield of faith is worthless because the faith has withered. So, the helmet of salvation is the cornerstone, so to speak, of the whole armor.
Now let's look at what an earthly helmet does. The Roman helmet is quite different then the helmet that is worn in today's army. That is basically because of the difference in weapons that are used. Modern helmets are made in a way to cause a bullet to graze off and away from the head of the soldier. The helmet that was popular in the Roman Army of Paul's time was made not only to protect the cranium, but also had a sloping edge down the back to protect the neck and two flaps that draped down between the ears and the eyes. The protection for the back of the neck was necessary because they used swords at that time, and one of the best ways to overtake an enemy was to approach from the back to cut the head off at the neck. Headless soldiers aren't very good fighters. The flaps of metal between the eyes and the ears was to also protect from sword blows from the side. Rome, after it's many military campaigns knew from experience where the enemy liked to strike to be most effective, and they guarded their soldiers against that harm.
Paul knew that the mind of a Christian is where Satan first likes to attack. Ideas come in through the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and sensory nerves of the skin and the first place where they are processed is the brain. After processing by the brain, the information goes to the heart, where if it is something good or something holy it brings joy and that joy is manifest in the person and then spread to others. If however that information is evil or lustful, and it is not dealt with while in the brain, it goes to the heart and the evil grows there and is manifest by our words and actions. That is why the Apostle Paul says:
Every person who has been Born Again has had their mind renewed. Every morning, or whenever you wake up, the first thing you and I should do is to confirm that we are saved through the Blood of Jesus. That confirmation, which is putting on the helmet of salvation, causes you to realize that you are saved, you realize that you have faith, that you are righteous and that you know the truth. Also, you will know that the Holy Spirit, which is called a sword, is in you to help you get through the day and to fight the good fight. Let's face it that knowing that the Holy Spirit of the Master of The Universe is residing and walking with us makes the battle much easier to fight. The word of God, The Bible, is also called a sword and it is imperative that we read His word and meditate on it every chance we get. That way we fill our brains and hearts with good things, not the mush that the world offers. We must also remember that salvation is a three phased process. We have been saved from the sins of the past. We are being saved from the sins of the present and we will be saved from our sins in the future. The knowledge of our salvation should be the cornerstone of our daily prayer life.
So, now we have seen why the helmet of Salvation is so important, and we know that it is the basis upon which all the other pieces of armor work so effectively. What are those other pieces of armor and how do they work.
Breastplate of Righteousness:
" with the breastplate of righteousness in place"
The breastplate was a very important piece of equipment to the Roman soldier. You see, the parts that were exposed without armor, the arms and the legs come in pairs. If an arm is injured there is still another arm to fight with. If a leg is injured it is still possible to hobble around and fight. We were created however with only one heart and it is the most important organ of the body because it sends blood to nourish the rest of the body. A person can live with some limbs missing and even with a brain injury, but if the heart is killed, then the whole body dies.
In the same way, a breastplate of righteousness is important for the Child of God. But did you know that the breastplate is directly related to the use of the shield? Righteousness is a byproduct of faith, as we can only become so when we trust in God with all our hearts, minds, souls and strength. We can see exactly how one is recognized as righteous by God by looking at the following scripture:
A person who, in sincerity, comes to Christ Jesus and becomes a new creation is already righteous in God's eyes. The true Christian is righteous because he or she has affirmed that they want the Almighty God to take over their lives and they trust that He will work wonders in their lives. They also become righteous because they trust in the Holy Sacrifice provided by our Father through the crucifixion of His one and only son, as an atonement for sin. In essence, the breastplate of righteousness remains on the believer as long as their salvation is intact and they live by faith.
So one might ask if the backslidden Christian is still righteous before God. I would in turn return the question by asking if the backslidden person is living in faith. The answer then is that though they still might be saved from the eternal fires of hell, they are no longer living by faith, otherwise they would not be in a backslidden state. God regards faith as righteousness and a person who has walked away no longer has faith.
That is why our righteousness can't only be the one imputed by God, but we also have to live righteous lives. When a Christian lives in an unrighteous manner it gives the devil a foothold that he can use to further destroy our lives. The illustration of yeast invading the loaf is a good example of what a foothold can do in your life:
In the same way, a little unrighteousness becomes a lot of unrighteousness. And besides, unrighteousness and sin never stay secret, no matter how hard you try. Remember that Satan and his minions love to broadcast the sin of a Christian all over which hurts God and your testimony for Jesus Christ. So, living a righteous life is required so that there is nothing to keep secret. Armor is a high maintenance item that constantly has to be cleaned and shined.
The Belt of Truth:
" Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist"
The belt that the Roman soldier wore served different purposes depending on what time of history that you look at. In early Roman times, around the time of Jesus' birth, the belt had a dual purpose. The type of armor that the soldier of that age wore was a series of finely looped chains, all linked together both lengthwise and widthwise to form what looked like a loose fitted garment. The armor hung from his shoulders to just below the groin area. Because this was like a loose garment, it needed a belt to fit it tight against the body, much like modern day belts keep the pants tight and the shirt tucked in. The belt also was where the sword was sheathed. In later days, just around or after Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesians, the Roman army changed it's armor style to include segmented armor. The belt was still used but was worn differently. Instead of it being used to hold the looped chain armor down, it was used to support the segmented armor to take some of the weight of the armor off of the shoulders of the soldier.
The belt in the Christian Armor is our knowledge that Jesus walks into battle with us every day. Jesus is the truth of God, sent to us in human form:
Just as the belt held the chain armor down and helped to keep everything in place, so Jesus in our lives keeps us in order and keeps us together. He is the binding force that keeps our lives from falling into ruin. Without the belt of His truth our armor would flap all around while in battle and expose us to the blows of the enemy. It is also noteworthy that when a person has a new life in Jesus, through his forgiveness, and that person walks circumspect in that life, that they tend to be truthful and trustworthy.
If, when describing the armor, Paul was talking about the segmented armor, then the symbolism would mean that the belt of truth is really the truth that Jesus upholds our righteousness before the Father. He is the support on which the armor rests, removing the burden from our puny little shoulders.
Truth is also our foundation. The truth of our foundation is the truth of who we are in Jesus Christ. We are God's children. We are loved by Him. Jesus Christ died for us. When we are engaged in spiritual warfare, this the the first thing that we must remember. Nothing can touch us that doesn't first pass through the hands of a loving and powerful Heavenly Father.
Consider also that the belt was used to sheath the sword in the Roman soldier's uniform. The sword of our spiritual armor is the Sword of The Spirit. The Spirit and truth always go together. As a matter of fact, as seen below, Jesus even calls the Holy Spirit, the spirit of truth:
Do you see how synonymous the pieces of armor are with each other. Each piece compliments the other and when one is missing, the armor is incomplete. The helmet of salvation signifies our salvation. When we are saved, we are righteous in God's eyes and we know the truth and walk in the truth.
Gospel Footwear:
" with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace"
Footwear was essential for Roman soldier. In the heat of battle a lot of fancy footwork was needed to insure that you didn't get killed. Their battle was not like ours, where our soldiers shoot the enemy from hundreds of yards away. For the most part, the Roman soldier's battle was hand to hand with your enemy within five feet of your person. Enemies could approach from all sides and they needed to move around a lot to keep abreast of their situation.
In the accounts of the Jewish Historian Josephus, we read about the shoes of the Roman Soldier. He wrote that their shoes were thickly studded with sharp nails. Other historians tell us that the successes of both Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were due to their shoes. They tell us that their armies feet were shod with footwear that would allow them to travel great distances in a short time and to navigate rough terrain with ease. The modern equivalent would be some sort of combination between combat boots and the shoes that are used in many outdoor sports, called cleats. If you are familiar with American outdoor sports, you know that in football and baseball the players wear these cleats. They are protrusions in the soles of the shoes that allow the player to dig into the turf. This allows them to get a quick start without slipping and also to maintain a firm grip on the soil when they are running and turning.
There are two meanings that this scripture could have; both are applicable. Of course, the first means preparedness. Part of the Christian's walk is to be ready to go out at any time to present the Gospel of Peace. That Gospel is the Word of God. We have to know His word inside and out and be prepared
It could also mean a sure foundation or base. This means that the believer himself has already been reconciled to God through the Gospel of Peace, giving him a firm foothold in the battle in which he is engaged. As the words to the hymn say:
In Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.
And then we have the scripture, where Jesus himself uses a metaphor of a house built on the rock to describe Himself.
As mentioned above, the Roman soldier's shoes had nails in the soles to give sure footing and grip. With our spiritual shoes shod tightly on our feet we have the same thing. We can dig our feet firmly into the soil and not be moved by the schemes of Satan. They also enable us to move quickly to avoid the fiery arrows and so that we can turn quickly on our enemy to strike. Consider also, that the rough times that we go through in this life can be categorized as rough terrain. With adequate footwear, we are able to walk through those times and come out unharmed.
Finally, there is one more point to ponder about the footwear. There were several parts of the Roman Empire where snakes and scorpions were a threat to the soldier. Having such elaborate footwear was definitely an advantage where these creatures are concerned. When wearing his leg armor and his battle shoes, the Roman Soldier was impervious to the attack of these creatures.
It is interesting to note the words of Jesus just before he sent the disciples out to evangelize the cities of Israel. He was endowing them with the Holy Spirit and in the course of His instruction to them he said:
What he was doing was dressing them in their armor before he sent them out. He described the wiles of Satan as serpents and scorpions and said that they would tread (trample) over his works and deceptions. In the same way, when we apply our spiritual armor footwear, we have the authority to trample on the works and wiles of Satan. They are as dust under our feet. Part of dealing with those wiles is knowledge of scripture. When Jesus went into the wilderness for 40 days and nights, He was tempted by Satan. You'll notice that every time that Satan tried to tempt Him, Jesus answered with Scripture. Jesus is the Word of God, and the Word of God is the rock upon which we stand.
The Shield of Faith:
" take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one."
The shield that the Roman Soldier carried was quite a piece of equipment. It is a common misconception that the shield was similar to the round shield carried by earlier and later armies of other empires. Those empires had small shields that were around 3 feet in width and didn't protect the whole body. The Roman shield was rectangular and was about as tall as the soldier himself. He could use it while using his sword or he could crouch behind it to protect himself from arrows and spears. The Roman soldiers also did something that might sound peculiar but was in effect genius. Before battle, they would soak their shields in streams or lakes until they became saturated with water. This of course made them heavy, but it also caused the extinguishing of any flaming arrows that the enemy would shoot at them.
Likewise, we are told to take up our shield of faith. What is our shield? It is the knowledge that our God has our lives in his fill view and that He is in control of every situation or circumstance that comes against us. The word faith these days has been deluded quite a bit, especially in American culture. To most, faith is defined as believing in Jesus. Put another way, the modern definition of faith is believing that Jesus was Jesus. True faith is not only believing that Jesus is the Messiah, but believing Jesus for his promises, His love, His grace and His return. It is believing that whatever comes our way is in His hands. Read Romans chapter 11 to see the examples of faith. Faith can't just be proclaimed, it has to be a way of life.
Now I mentioned above that the Romans would soak their shields in water before a battle. How does apply to the Christian believer? Well, in the gospels, Jesus describes the Holy Spirit as:
As true believers in Jesus, we can soak our shields in "Living Water." That is, our faith is bolstered by the Holy Spirit that lives within us. One of the names of the Holy Spirit is "comforter," which can be seen below:
The "Comforter" brings comfort in the time of distress. So therefore, when we use our shield of faith, which is soaked in the Living Water of God (the Holy Spirit) not only does He extinguish the flaming arrows of Satan's hordes, but He gives comfort in that time of distress. It is such a blessing to see that the names of God and His attributes all interlock with each other. He is a complete and unbroken circle of beautiful holiness!
The Sword of The Spirit:
and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
The sword of the Roman soldier was unique. It was not the sword that you and I traditionally think of. We think of the sword that was wielded by the barbarians, or by the Briton around the time of the great kings. Their swords were very long and very cumbersome. The Roman sword was short in comparison. It was double edged and made of superior metals. The Romans spared no expense where their soldiers were concerned. They knew that the Roman soldier was all that stood between the barbarians and their lifestyle.
One might think that the shortness of the sword was a disadvantage to the Roman soldier. To any other army it would have been such, but to the Roman it was not. The reason why it was such an effective weapon to the Romans was not the weapon itself, but the skill of the soldier. The Romans were the best swordsman in the world. They were put through rigorous training, both hand to hand and sword to sword and their teachers showed no mercy. There were no failures in the Roman Army. They could use their swords like no others. Their savagery and mastery of the sword made their enemies tremble in fear. The Romans use the sword both as a offensive weapon to strike blows and a defensive weapon to glance off the strikes of their enemies.
Likewise, the Word of God should be the Christian's best offensive and defensive weapon. What does the Bible say about the Word of God and the Sword of The Spirit?:
We can see by the above that the "Word of God" and the "Sword of The Spirit" are synonymous with each other. First and foremost, Jesus is the Word of God. His whole being is the very essence of God's message to mankind. Therefore, the Bible in it's entirety is the Word of God, and is Him. The fact that He quoted the scriptures so many times proves it's validity. The Bible is a sword when it is used in battle. Remember, it is a spiritual writing as well as a physical writing and has great ramifications in the spiritual realms. When a Christian quotes scripture in time of spiritual battle, it is really Jesus saying those things to the enemy. In effect, you are quoting not only Jesus' words, but are presenting Jesus as the commander of the battle and it causes the enemy to shudder and run from the confrontation.
The word in the Greek language for "resist" is the word that is transliterated anthistemi, which when translated means resist, but not in our traditional meaning. In effect, it means to "oppose," or to "stand against."
I just think that the word "resist" in modern culture just means an attempt but not a whole hearted fight. On the other hand, when something is opposed or stood against, there is actual force being exerted against it. That is why the scripture says that the Word of God is a sword. It is a forceful implement that is used to slay an unseen enemy and to foil the unheard of plans that are formed against the People of God.
As I mentioned earlier in this document, we know that Jesus was led into the wilderness and while there He was tempted Satan. Now we know that since Jesus is the Word of God, He could have said anything to rebuke Satan. But Jesus chose every time to use the Sword of The Spirit; The Word of God. Now He did this because it was ordained for Him to do it, but He also did it for an object lesson to His people. As Christians, we are supposed to be imitators of Christ Jesus. So if Jesus used scripture to rebuke Satan, it should be so with the Christians too.
Invocation through prayer:
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.
We know from what we read in historical accounts that the Romans were a ruthless people. They were given over to public orgies and killed people for sport in the arena. We also know that they were a very religious society. They weren't religious in the Christian sense of the word, but worshipped many gods. They had greater gods and lesser gods. Almost all of the gods were of Greek origin and Romanized by given Latin names. Even the Roman soldiers were religious. Before a battle, they would pray and sacrifice to Mars, the god of war.
The Christian warrior should be no different. We should pray daily for the assistance of Jesus, The Holy Spirit and the holy angels in our struggles. We can't see the spiritual realm like the heavenly hosts can and they can aid us in ways that we could never think possible. Another reason for prayer before spiritual battle is to give the glory to the Lord. It is common for us, being the humans that we are to want to take the credit for victories won over an enemy. By bringing God into the battle right at the start, we have to acknowledge Him as the victor, not only in the present engagement, but in all past and future ones also.
In Conclusion:
In conclusion, we have seen that the Armor of God is a very important item to clothe ourselves with each and every day. It starts out with the knowledge of our salvation through the precious Blood of Jesus. With that salvation comes righteousness through faith. Righteousness is imparted by God, but also must be maintained through acts of faith. When we are saved and righteous we wear the belt of truth and become truthful people in a world of lies and deception. We also become truthful by our daily walk with the Master of Truth and by reading His book of truth. With the Gospel Shoes on our feet we stand on the truth of God's word and it keeps us on a firm footing, allowing us to fight our enemy. With our shield of faith, dipped in the spring of living water we are able to hide from the the flaming arrows of Satan and also have those arrows quenched. And, we have the sword of His word to fight and slay the enemy. Lastly, we have prayer in which we invoke the help of Heaven in our fight. We are also exhorted to pray for each other, for each of our daily battles. No army is made up of only one individual because that would be suicidal. Therefore, as The Army of The Living God, we must fight together in a concerted effort to win for Jesus.
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This new version will develop a total of 2700 HP and sprint from 0 to 60 mph in less than 1 second. With the new GT-D Outlaw, TranStar Racing hopes to set a new Standing Mile record at no more than 280 mph, or about 76mph faster than the Bugatti Veyron's current 204 mph in the Standing Mile.
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The GT-D will be equipped with Goodyear Pro Stock Slicks, or DOT ET Drag tires, hydraulic-launched double drag chutes, a drag wing, an NHRA rollcage, a drag racing transaxle, a drag racing rear suspension that will emulate a Pro Stock Dragster, and four rear-exit 4-inch sculpted exhausts. Customers will also have the ability to choose between race, sport, or luxury interiors, as well as a nine-inch touch-screen with a voice-actuated computer monitor, three rear-view cameras with night-vision, and an extreme biometric security system.
For the Dagger GT-D, TranStar will be using a polished aluminum 632 Dart big block with 80 mm twin Turbonetics turbos at 30 psi and multifuel injection with race and pump gas. The engine will be combined with a 6-speed TranStar Racing polished aluminum-cased and 300M steel transaxle clutch and gearbox made exclusively for TranStar Racing by Mendeola Transaxles. All of this engine talk will lead to the aforementioned 2700 HP and 205 mph in the quarter mile, plus hopes to match the 0-62 mph time of 1.2 seconds provided by the 1900 hp Nissan Project Zed and a 280 mph Standing Mile to beat out the Bugatti's Veyron's 204mph.
Here's a full list of the records Transtar is hoping to beat with the new Dagger GT-D Outlaw
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Prices for the Dagger GT-D have not been released yet, but with Transtar's record, we'd wait for the car to be seen in public before requesting a price.
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Wimbledon 2012: when the real Andy Murray stood up
At the end of Wimbledon 2012 we saw the real Andy Murray. We saw a turning point in an individual's career and a nation's psyche.
A lot of people who had doubted him, who had judged him and criticised him will have seen a completely different picture.
Some sportsmen (and women) never reveal their true selves because they are so preoccupied with their public face, the face they present to thieir opponents when they play.
Murray is serious on court, he plays to win and is focused on every little detail to do that. And in press conferences he is dull and dry so people think that's how he is.
Celebrities who like the attention and joke about are always popular – look at Andrew Flintoff or Mario Balotelli – but those who prefer to be out of the spotlight never catch the imagination in the same way which is how it's been with Andy.
But we had him in at TalkSport a few weeks ago: he was funny, joking about and really passionate and what he was doing. He changed a lot of people's minds in the studio - even cynical sports journalists.
In an individual event it's crucial not to show weakness: I notice it when I'm playing golf - if your opponent can see any opening he will take advantage. With a team it's different because you can't hide in the dressingroom and your teammates spend all that time with you so can see what's going on during the highs and lows.
Look at Federer: everyone loves him because he's obviously a nice bloke but you never know on court what he's thinking- whether he's tired or hurting or weak. He's a smooth international operator but British heros generally aren't made like that.
There will always be people who dislike Andy Murray. People even seem to think it's a problem that his mum supports him when he goes on court, I just can't understand it.
But today in playing like he did and being a gentleman and obviously being choked he will have won over a whole mass of people.
Before I think he didn't really have the confidence to be himself, but now that he's broken the boundary I think he could be a different player, unencumbered.
This could be exactly what he needs to lift the burden of expectation and create a force for good. Let's hope so.
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