We remember...

Today, September 11, marks the 11 year anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  Below is the Presidential Proclamation made by President Barack Obama declaring September 11 to be Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance.  Please take a moment today to read this proclamation and to remember those affected by this tragedy.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the American people demonstrated that in times of hardship, the values that define us do not simply endure -- they are stronger than ever.  As a Nation, we responded to unthinkable tragedy with an outpouring of service and goodwill.  On that dark day, first responders rushed into a burning Pentagon and climbed the stairs of smoking towers on the verge of collapse, while citizens risked their own health and safety to prevent further heartbreak and destruction.  As Americans, we came together to help our country recover and rebuild.

Today, we pay tribute to the selfless heroes and innocent victims of September 11, 2001, and we reaffirm the spirit of patriotism, service, and unity that we felt in the days and months that followed.  By volunteering our time and unique skills, we can enrich communities across our country, and together, we can strengthen our Nation to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

In the days to come, I ask all Americans to join together in serving their communities and neighborhoods in honor of the victims of the September 11 attacks.  Today and throughout the year, scores of Americans answer the call to make service a way of life -- from helping the homeless to teaching underserved students to bringing relief to disaster zones.  I encourage all Americans to visit Serve.gov, or Servir.gov for Spanish speakers, to learn more about service opportunities across our country.

As we join in serving causes greater than ourselves and honoring those we lost, we are reminded of the ways that the victims of 9/11 live on -- in the people they loved, the lives they touched, and the courageous acts they inspired.  On Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance, we pledge to carry on their legacy of courage and compassion, and to move forward together as one people.

By a joint resolution approved December 18, 2001 (Public Law 107-89), the Congress has designated September 11 of each year as "Patriot Day," and by Public Law 111-13, approved April 21, 2009, the Congress has requested the observance of September 11 as an annually recognized "National Day of Service and Remembrance."

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim September 11, 2011, as Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance.  I call upon all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States to display the flag of the United States at half-staff on Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance in honor of the individuals who lost their lives on September 11, 2001.  I invite the Governors of the United States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and interested organizations and individuals to join in this observance.  I call upon the people of the United States to participate in community service in honor of those our Nation lost, to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities, including remembrance services, and to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time to honor the innocent victims who perished as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

BARACK OBAMA 

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2012 - Completion

If the Mayans are right, we have about eleven months and seven days before the bottom drops out of everything and all H - E- double hockey sticks breaks loose. I personally (because of my faith) don't subscribe to that but hey.....if you do who am I to say that you're wrong. I do believe that 2012 is going to usher in some unprecedented change the world over. A "changing of the guard" so to speak. Which to me would most definitely represent the Optimum Condition. I also study Biblical Numerology. With that being said, I have unearthed some information that I figured I would share. Those of you that know me know that i just love to share whatever I have whenever I can......

The Bible numerology code for the number 12

Bible numerology is concerned with the study of numbers mentioned in the Holy Book of Christianity- the Bible. These numbers are present in a definite pattern and are attributed with different religious incidents taking place in the Bible. In the number of stories of Old testaments and new testaments, numbers play a vital role and thus it is necessary to study their hidden meanings to reveal the secrets of Bible and to understand the scripture properly. Biblical numerology is now taken as a specialized field of biblical studies and there are many people who keep a keen interest in knowing about the Holy Scripture. In the following piece of writing, we will know about the significance of bible number 12 and its numeric representation in the Book.

Bible numerology number 12 signifies what is finished or completed forming a harmonious, perfect entity. It symbolizes completion or plentitude of a thing and expression of the Trinity to the four bends of the Horizon, that is, 3 x 4. Bible number 12 represents the good and the command and also rules the time and space. This is the reason why bible number 12 is also regarded as the cosmic number which also attributes to the cosmos or the administration of the world. It is the symbol of spiritual and material food as there were 12 breads which were last broken by Jesus Christ in His last supper and he himself was the “Bread of Life”. Twelve is the product of two numbers- three and four- that stands for heavenly number and earthly number respectively. Since it is the multiple of these two numbers, it represents multiplication and perfection of the administration.

You will find a number of references attributing to the meaning of bible number 12. According to New testaments, there were 12 apostles of the Christ who are named as Peter, James and John, Thomas, Andrew, Philip, Matthew, Bartholomew, James, son of Alphaeus, Zealot, Judas Iscariot and Jud, son of James. In the Bible, there was a woman who was relieved by Jesus Christ from her 12 years long curse of hemorrhage. In Old testaments, in the celestial city, there were twelve gates and twelve types of precious stones. A woman wore a crown with twelve stars in it and also there was a tree of life that bears twelve crops of fruits, one fruit in one month in a year. There were twelve sons of Ishmael and twelve priests of the Chronicles. There were twelve stones of the altar of Elijah and of the alliance. On the pectoral, you will find twelve names engraved. On the golden table, there were twelve loaves of enduring offerings. For confining the choice of Aaron, there was the total of twelve branches. The number of explorers sent to Canaan is also twelve.

In the Holy Scripture, there were twelve animals which were scarified and also there were twelve springs of the Elim. For the dedication of Altar, there were twelve silver bowls that were offered in the series of three. Moses proclaimed twelve curses to all the men of Israel. Also Jacob had twelve sons and in Israel, there were twelve tribes, namely, Judah, Gad, Reuben, Asher, Simeon, Manasseh, Issachar, Levi, Joseph, Benjamin and Zebulun. The cloak of Ahijah was used to make twelve strips and the whole of Israel was governed by twelve administrators of the Solomon. For making a monument, twelve men offered twelve stones in the Jordan. These are some of the instances that are mentioned in the Holy Bible that symbolize the significance of bible number 12 in the religion and how it can help in understanding the scripture in a better way.


(Here's my favorite part right here)

In the last book of Bible, the Revelation, bible number twelve appeared many times. It stated that the kingdom of God had twelve gates that were guarded by the twelve angels. If you are a superstitious person, then you will definitely believe that it is unlucky to wash your hair on day twelve of each month. Also if you saw a dream that contained number 12, then your tough circumstances soon will be resolved. 


There are many other things that are related to number 12 and are believed by the followers of God. By knowing more about the bible numerology number 12 we can have a better understanding about the administration of the universe and how it has brought to perfection by the Almightily. There is lot more to explore in Bible and to have a better understanding of the religion and teachings of Jesus Christ and how this universe came into existence, you should know about the symbolic representation of the numbers and their patterns used in the Holy Bible. Many bible scholars regard this scripture as the treasure of numbers and hidden meanings.

Occupying Wall Street 140 Characters at a Time

By Demetria Irwin on October 12th, 2011

Occupy Wall Street is a movement. It's a real life 21st century movement in these here United States of America. We watched several countries literally catch fire in revolutionary fervor this year (and Egypt is still keeping that fire going) and many here were left wondering about where/when/how would our own revolution take place.

Is it now?

New York Magazine provided a snapshot of the Occupy Wall Street protesters with a 100-person poll of the folks currently camped out in downtown Manhattan's Zuccotti Park. They found that the people in their poll were mostly 20-somethings who are "fed up with Democrats and believe the country needs an overhaul" and they believed in Obama, but have been disappointed. They want change. They aren't anti-capitalism, but they are anti-getting run over by policies that favor the wealthiest one percent.

Philanthropist and hip hop business mogul Russell Simmons has been an active participant in the movement and he brought along pal Kanye West for a little action just the other day. Ye, whose gluttonous but quite good Watch the Throne album with fellow millionaire Jay-Z has already gone platinum, declined to give any statements to the press. He did show up though (sans much jewelry outside of a gold grill on his bottom teeth) and according to Russ, Kanye has been aligned with the movement "in spirit."

If you're on Twitter and like me you have tons of in-the-know friends or if you just follow newsorganizations and certain celebrities, no doubt your timeline has been exploding with the ubiquitous #OWS hashtag and links to opinion pieces, infographics and videos of the NYPD giving protestors a taste of the baton and pepper spray.

I live in New York City and I have not gone down to Wall Street to participate in or record the goings on of the Occupy Wall Street movement. As far as the recording part, there's been a lot of that (now) and as far as participating, I'm not quite clear on what defines success for these protesters. What makes one decide to de-camp? A particular bill? A particular election? Is there anything that could be done right now-ish that would take the protests down a notch or in a different direction? Most of my friends could say the same save for a few who literally stopped by the protest. I am glad that people feel passionate enough to take a physical and theoretical/philosophical stance against what they believe to be unjust, but so far I haven't been moved to join in myself, not in a physical way anyway.

I've lent my online support in the way of tweets and Facebook status messages and links, but no real sacrifices on my part. In 50 years, will we be like Herman Cain being questioned by people who wonder how we could not have participated in this? (Herman Cain was a student at Morehouse from '63-'67 and did not participate in the Civil Rights Movement.)

Occupy Wall Street has spread all over the country with varying rates of participation and police response, but for now, for me, I'm content with my armchair activism and research. I'm intrigued by this hint of revolutionary excitement and I hope it somehow manages to create real change and I hope it spreads to other important issues. After all, we have a generation of children lost to sub-par public education and easy access to childhood-slashing information and experiences.

So Occupy Wall Street, I stand with you, 140 characters at a time. Is that cool? #OWS

Why Occupy Wall Street isn't about a list of demands

By Julianne Pepitone @CNNMoneyTech October 12, 2011: 12:21 PM ET

Occupy Wall Street is still going strong after 25 days.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- A lot of lip service has been paid to the idea that Occupy Wall Street lacks focus. The critics ask: What's the goal of these protests? Everyone wants something different.

Which is exactly the point.

It's easy to trivialize Occupy Wall Street -- even as it inspires similar protests around the country -- by saying the movement lacks an end game. The group is trying to crowdsource its list of goals, which all but guarantees that no major ones will be set.

A demand list of sorts has appeared on the official Occupy Wall Street page, serving as an ever-changing document on which people can comment with their own suggestions. It has also served as fodder for critics like Fox News, which posted a version of the list and suggested that readers "try not to laugh."

But no list has been endorsed by the "general assembly" at Occupy Wall Street, says press team member Mark Bray, who added that "making a list of three or four demands would have ended the conversation before it started."

Occupy Wall Street has already achieved what it set out to do.

Like the "Arab Spring" uprisings that inspired its tactics, the word-of-mouth demonstration has tapped into a collective anger. Some protesters are upset about taxation; for others, the big issue is the high unemployment rate. Or corporate greed. Or the distribution of wealth.

How Occupy Wall Street has evolved

For all the individual reasons that draw people to Occupy Wall Street, a similar undercurrent ties the protesters together. They're upset about inequities in their country. They're angry. They want their voices to be heard.

"The guys in Washington are supposed to be helping me, but they don't get it with their mansions and their millions," says an unemployed nurse at the protest on Wednesday, who declined to give her name. "They don't understand my situation and they don't want to hear me. Well, now they'll have to hear all of us."

Lawmakers including President Obama have weighed in on Occupy Wall Street, with many sympathetic to the emotion behind the protests. Large labor unions, including the AFL-CIO and SEIU, have joined in. Media outlets are at the scene in droves. Even a corporate board has shown support: Ben & Jerry's directors released a statement "to express our deepest admiration."

The mere fact that the protest is still going strong after 25 days is means it has met one of its goals: Organizers said from the start that they hoped to sustain their demonstration for two months. Occupy Wall Street's real goal has always been simple: Draw focus to the concerns -- and anger -- many Americans have about the country's growing economic gap, plant the seed of an organized voice, and let the protest evolve naturally.

As part of that evolution, solidarity protests have popped up in Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco, Denver and Chicago, among other cities.

"We don't want New York to form its own political agenda and drive the conversation in other cities," Bray says. "I would be unhappy if people in LA or Chicago were waiting on us to do something. That would be politics as usual."

That's why Occupy Wall Street isn't focused on a demand list, Bray says.

"To tell everyone that we have the solution to their specific problems, that would be what the political parties are already doing," Bray says. "That isn't working. And that's the whole point."

The original plan was to continue the occupation for two months, and then wrap it up. But Bray says that "has been entirely thrown out the window, and we have no set timeframe in mind."

So what happens as the weeks go on?

That's up to the crowd. Occupy Wall Street is a symbolic protest, but with the economy still sputtering and the wealth gap growing, it's a potent symbol.  

First Published: October 12, 2011: 6:01 AM ET

 

Wall Street closed as protesters march

Davis' death robs NFL of an iconic, one-of-a-kind presence

Despite his controversial nature, Al Davis left an indelible mark on the game of football. AP

The NFL is never going to be the same. On Saturday morning, it lost its last true original, when Al Davis died.

The first time I met Davis, it was the early '90s and I was standing on a foggy training camp field in Oxnard -- another one of the weird stops in Davis' apparent effort to take over California.

I was a bold young reporter. So I introduced myself, exchanged a couple of inconsequential comments and asked the then-Los Angeles Raiders boss why Marcus Allen was in his doghouse.

Davis looked at me.

"Do you want to be my friend?" he growled ominously. And then ended the conversation before I could answer.

The answer, by the way, was no. I didn't want to be his friend. But I did want to write about him, an urge that only grew the longer I stayed in the sports writing business.

Because Davis was perhaps the most unique, odd and fascinating person I have ever come across.

Davis was, indeed, a maverick -- the term often used to describe him. He honed that reputation long before my time, as Raiders head coach at 33 and commissioner of the renegade AFL at 36. But when I was a child, as a young fan of the Raiders, Davis meant little to me. The Raiders were about larger-than-life John Madden and Kenny Stabler. Not about the weird guy on the sidelines in the tracksuit.

But when Davis moved the Raiders to Los Angeles, abandoning the best fans in football for an uninterested demographic -- well, then he had my full attention. And kept it for the next 30 years, until he died at 82 on Saturday.

On the day he returned to Oakland in 1995, I sat with him while he ate a hamburger with ketchup brought to him by an obsequious assistant. I watched as grown men -- graying, big, strong football players -- waited on him like paid valets. It was an historic day for Oakland but my main memory is Davis' fixation on his hamburger and the others' fixation on Davis.

He demanded loyalty and was said to have a heart of gold if he cared about you. And if you crossed him, you were dead to him.

We never became friends, but I'm pretty sure he knew a lot about me. There were rumors that he checked up on the background of every reporter who came in contact with his beloved team. He often had one of his people call up to harass a relatively new reporter about something he or she had written. I received a few of those phone calls in the early days. Eventually, though, the phone calls would stop and a form of détente was reached.

Every season, the media would wait for "the State of the Al." When Davis appeared behind a microphone, it was can't-miss theater. Sometimes a whole season would go by without an appearance. But inevitably, he would have to fire a coach and hire another one and take the stage.

The endless hirings and firings were horrible for the Raiders. But they were good for the media -- another appearance by Davis. Sometimes with an overhead projector. Or a lawsuit to talk about.

When he did talk, even as he became more and more frail in recent years, he was sharp. He would discuss the state of the newspaper business, world history. He always had a good sense of humor -- somewhat surprising since he always kept some of the most humorless souls in sports on his payroll. He could still surprise; for instance, admitting that he made a mistake with JaMarcus Russell after announcing at one press conference that Russell was going to be great.

In his last public appearance, last January, Davis used the hiring of Hue Jackson as an occasion to vivisect his former coach Tom Cable. It was a pure Davis moment.

At one point he said, "I have made mistakes, no question. You're saying, 'Should I take some of the blame?' I certainly do. You guys give it to me."

Davis was absolutely to blame for much of what's gone wrong with the Raiders over the recent years. But the team was his all-consuming passion. And it's impossible to imagine what the team and the franchise will be without him.

The Raiders may be on the right track now, and I was privately rooting for them because I knew how fascinating it would be to see Davis with a winning team one more time. It became a cliché and so many of his actions seemed to run contrary to the thought, but the most important thing to Davis really was to "just win, baby."

We all knew Davis would die at some point. I just never imagined it would be on an October Saturday, with a big game looming the next day.

The NFL will never be the same.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/ann_killion/10/08/al.davis/index.html#ixzz1aEU1hhtg