History holds the key
open eyes can see
what happened once before
go ahead, open that door
lessons not learned
repeated time and time again
peoples foolishness
seven deadly sins
the greeks, the romans, the christians
the egyptions, the celts, the jews,
listen to your silly talk,
you do not pay for heaven
sitting in a pew
you work a fruitful life
not consumed with sin
you cannot worry about it
human condition lets it in
we all walk a similar road
the end is exactly the same
why walk against the flow
why fight the natural grain
wood is solid
and mostly fluid
dynamic properties
the grain can be observed all through it
have vision
and go with that flow
fight it and
more quickly you will go
to a lake of fire
where those souls pay with death
for what could have been forever
they commit the greatest theft
to kill one self the greatest sin
not to kill another man
not to steal property of another
your life should you value, not take by thy own hand
ten commandments
written in stone
atop a mountain
where all can see
if lost forever
residing in our souls
we all know that these exist
part of our destiny
innately we all know the truth
it rings as loud as a church bell
the entire town can hear it
ignore it, go to hell
THE BELL TOLLS
THE BELL ALWAYS TOLLS
TIME PASSES SWIFTLY
THE FUTURE UNFOLDS
Great assorted topics, true stories, brilliant ideas, wonderful photographs, and honest reporting. As well as my music, " MobiusTripz" Thanks, ~ John "Stephen" Swygert, ~a.k.a.~ "rokkinroll"
Friday, December 31, 2010
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
MobiusTripz New Site Up and Running !!!
Just visit:
www.peaceiscoming.net
all of my music is available there for
FREE STREAMING
for your listening pleasure.
The album is shooting through the charts at all the digital outlets online and is a breed of new music that is refreshingly different and very unique, but it is easy to hear roots and influence from nearly any type of music imaginable.
There are several different songs that are topping these charts and they are in several different genres as well...quite unique! ...so have fun listening.
MobiusTripz ~ Peace Is Coming! Part 2: 1Timeemit1
is being processed as this is being written and will be released at most all digital retailers anyday now...
This musical album is written to be viewed under the default graphics settings for Windows Media Player, as the music was written with the visual graphics in mind to display the music like no album before it and is quite a beautiful visual musical experience that you must just see, as words cannot do it justice.
It is reccomeneded that you purchase the album online and then listen to it in its entirety while watching the Windows Media Player.
There is a strong story line that will lead to deep pondering and perhaps open the mind towards new and better insights as we all proceed forward.
I hope you thoroughly enjoy this new musicak experience and please share it with your friends.
Also, please go to , www.reverbnation.com, and join our mailing list and beome a fan, and you can easily be kept up to date on everything the band is working on, including more new material that should be released in the middle of 2011 if not sooner.
A clothing line will be makingits debut as well soon, so stay in touch and email any comments or suggestions you would like to share please.
www.peaceiscoming.net
all of my music is available there for
FREE STREAMING
for your listening pleasure.
The album is shooting through the charts at all the digital outlets online and is a breed of new music that is refreshingly different and very unique, but it is easy to hear roots and influence from nearly any type of music imaginable.
There are several different songs that are topping these charts and they are in several different genres as well...quite unique! ...so have fun listening.
MobiusTripz ~ Peace Is Coming! Part 2: 1Timeemit1
is being processed as this is being written and will be released at most all digital retailers anyday now...
This musical album is written to be viewed under the default graphics settings for Windows Media Player, as the music was written with the visual graphics in mind to display the music like no album before it and is quite a beautiful visual musical experience that you must just see, as words cannot do it justice.
It is reccomeneded that you purchase the album online and then listen to it in its entirety while watching the Windows Media Player.
There is a strong story line that will lead to deep pondering and perhaps open the mind towards new and better insights as we all proceed forward.
I hope you thoroughly enjoy this new musicak experience and please share it with your friends.
Also, please go to , www.reverbnation.com, and join our mailing list and beome a fan, and you can easily be kept up to date on everything the band is working on, including more new material that should be released in the middle of 2011 if not sooner.
A clothing line will be makingits debut as well soon, so stay in touch and email any comments or suggestions you would like to share please.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Leonard Ahearn and the Invasion of D-Day, a Lesson In Life for All to Share
What is the price for Peace.
Let me simply start by stating that Leonard Ahern was my Spanish teacher in high school, both my sophomore and junior years at Fort Hunt High School.
He was in many ways the most challenging teacher I ever had, and after the first day of being his student, I have to admit, I thought he was a mad man and I had never seen such discipline, which I at first mis-took for maybe insanity...boy, was I wrong...what a brilliant and beautiful man.
After not doing well my first year in Spanish 1, I had to repeat Spanish 1. I opted, actually insisted, to have Senor Ahern again. My senior year I skipped to Spanish 3 and it was perhaps too simple after what I took two years to learn from his teaching me Spanish 1.
I was slow...no problems with the accent, or the vocabulary and respective spelling, however I could not stay up with learning thirteen verb conjugations, which I had somehow not been taught properly in plain English, my native tongue
To further explain, for example, would be to say that a verb in its basic un-conjugated form is the infinitive, and then depending on how it is conjugated to display the tense of a sentence i.e., past participle, present participle, etc., again I had never been explained these meanings in English.
As to not blame a teacher per se in my own experience, I grew up very sickly with asthma and nearly died, and it may be there that I missed those days in school.
I have always been smart, but education was always a hale storm of playing catch up when I was recovering and always tough just to make B's and C's...when healthy, I always performed better, receiving A's and B's.
This condition, in turn, was a blessing, as it gave me two years of one the finest teachers I have ever had from Kindergarten all the way through college...He is at the top tied with five total.
Senor Leonard Ahern, and I state his name that way, because it was what he demanded in his classroom, and therefore I will still respect today, was a strict disciplinarian
On Monday and Tuesday we had quizzes, Wednesday was a dict (dictation), Thursday yet again another quiz, and Friday (and a nightmare my first year of Spanish 1) a verb test!
He told us this the first day I ever had him as a teacher and it was a sweltering 90+ degree day (so it seemed as we were on the sunny side of the high school) and I wondered where on earth had I landed such that I am going to be tested like this???
He said we would never receive 100%, because no person and no test was perfect!
He stated, and he was more then likely about 62 at this time, that he had never missed a day of teaching, so if we thought we would ever get a break from him, forget it!
He even put his yellow Camaro into the Potomac River one icy morning...and still made it to his job teaching at school...his dedication was and I am certain still is considered second to none.
My brother had him as a teacher for French, and Donnie my brother, had nothing to say but great, great things about Senor Ahern (Misur Ahern for him).
I believe my sister Susan had him as a French teacher as well.
He and his friends referred to him as Mighty Mouse, and never t his face however.
Donnie, as I , wrestled, so we appreciated people that were in great shape, and we were each relatively small in our respective size growing up.
Senor Ahearn told me he awoke at 2:30 a.m. every morning from his Georgetown home in Washington D.C., where he would then go to the YMCA, and swim laps and do sit ups.
2500 sit ups a week! I do not recall the amount of laps he would swim, but it was a ton too...he did this every single day of every week!
He always dressed impeccably, and has these beautiful silk custom tailored thin ties, that I adored because he had style and he knew what looked shape and distinguished on him, but was never a flamboyant man.
He was beyond humble, in a way I had never known, nor did I truly have an inkling of how humble, until what I have read about him recently and the gift he left behind after his passing.
He knew life was valuable, as I would learn as my own years have passed.
It is amazing how perspective can or may and hopefully will continually change into one which is even more beautiful with deeper meaning upon introspection with new experience always accounted for as we age and travel through time.
Being tutored both my first and second year with him as my teacher was great...as it was these after school times that I learned one on one what it was I could not grasp during class with the other students.
I always did well on all testing, except the verb test, and if you failed a portion of tests and quizzes, collectively, as the way they were accounted for in his grading, you could theoretically perform with A's everywhere, and F's in one field, and flunk the class in it's entirety, which I did my first year.
So I repeated Spanish 1 and finally something clicked, and Spanish was really never a challenge after that point, as I think I rarely had to even study in Spanish 3, because now all the material was a repeat...that was the volume he could teach in just a years school time.
I felt now ready to be immersed in a Spanish speaking culture and learn the language and become fluent, which I still have not, however, the knowledge is still mostly all there in my mind and in tact, because he was that impressionable as a professor, and I will say professor out of respect as well, as he was such a master of his craft.
So it was one day after school, that we discussed some amazing thins, and it was actually many days.
To my recollection I had mentioned my Father and my Brother being West Pointers (as Donnie was an 1982 graduate and my Father an 1952) Donnie would have been serving his commission of at that time a required five years after graduation.
The year would have been, for me, 1982-1983, if my calculation is correct, and perhaps even the second year with him as my professor, 1983-1984.
One day after school, I spoke of my Father having served in Korea and Viet Nam, and that now my brother, which I so love as my Father, was going into active duty, and that I was scared I would lose him forever, as I almost did my own father.
My Father while in Viet Nam, was shot through a flight helmet on a helicopter by a sniper, and it went through his helmet, grazed the crown of his skull so that he received many stitches and a Purple Heart.
The helmet somehow caught the bullet in such a way that it slowed it so that it curved around the inside as it fell out the back. The damage to my Father had been done.
We lived in rural Pennsylvania at the time...and my recall, and it is one of my first memories, (the very first of which was a plane crash in a Pennsylvania air show that was truly like coming into life as the result of a big bang!...another story I will blog about here at some point in the near future), as I recall at age forty two today.
All I remember is being in our farm house and Mom telling me something terrible had happened, but that Daddy was OK, however he had been hurt by another man's gun.
What a sick feeling, at about age three to five, to even be able to conceive of such sin and understand the permanence of my Father may never be coming home ever again to Grace our family was utterly shocking and demoralizing, and still makes me so ill to this day that any of us can act so disgustingly brazen as to use weapons against one another makes my souls cry to the lord with prayer that no man ever suffer this hurt or pain at any level.
I later lost a close friend to murder from the bullet of a gun...and it still hurts too...but there are deep lessons here, and they need to be shared so we may all leave that disgust in the past, and not carry it forward as we move collectively, and I pray, towards Peace!
So, Senor Ahern one day while we spoke after school, saw my hurt, as only he could, and saw my innocent but real deep pain and tried to ease my pain and explain to me about so much so fast with such graphic detail that it could do nothing more then leave an indelible impression like a photograph in my mind.
I am never one to be quiet long, but when Senor Ahern told me these things...I did not open my mouth...my eyes made up for that, as I am sure they were huge taking this all in, and I knew he could see it, and I his eyes as well...intensity beyond words in all reality, as he explained what war was really, like, and it is just now that I recall why he told me this as well.
I had told him I was scared for my brother that he may have to go forward in my Father's footsteps and perhaps make that ultimate sacrifice NONE OF US should ever have to make, because war to me in itself is such an inherent, bur seemingly necessary evil as human beings...it disgusts me to the core of my soul!
I said that my Daddy (and I have Southern roots and that is what I call my Father if we are together and will do so here, as it creates a much closer exposure to me and my situation at that time and today that I want to make abundantly clear) as I explained to Senor Ahearn, never told me much of anything about war.
I told him that I knew my father almost died in a foreign land, and that I would want to know all that he went through so that I could share with others and lead a life that would bring no man to such a place ever again...such an idealist I have always been, and tears roll down my face even now as I cry, because I believe this is possible still today...if we all have faith, help one another as he did me, and carry each other or lift each others spirits upwards.
I selfishly wanted my father to share with me, but it was Senor Ahearn that shared with me the travesty that is WAR !
I also had a neighbor who was a survivor of Auschwitz, so I know first hand from two of the most terrible atrocities in modern recorded history, what war...I am sorry...three examples with my very own Father, of the incredible pain of war...and I have never once stepped on a battle field nor ever been in the military myself, which I did have aspirations of being a West Pointer as well. I am however thankful I never was, no matter how proud I may be of my Father and my Brother, and always will be.
I am thankful to report, my brother's son, just this year, declined his appointment to West Point, and instead, went to the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. Amen!.
I never want Sterling to be on a battle field either! and this I will continue to pray for on a daily basis, as I do for all people in this world.
Communication and understanding through education and language are what we so desperately need.
We cannot afford to go on with war as an acceptable alternative, it only comes from a (I almost said childish, which is such a poor choice, as we as children are innocent and have such beautiful clarity) fear based reactive or proactive stature that always leaves a larger mess, no matter the perceived winner, and in it's wake, such devastation for countless others for generation to come.
One soldier at war, can potentially cause a death that then resonates through time and effect thousands of others.
Think about that as you read what comes next.
It is now D-Day...and senor Ahearn is on an amphibious vehicle, and he is in the "first wave" of the invasion.
He is packed onto this machine with other soldiers, all with rifle and heavy ruck sack!
He even has a carrier pigeon to send message back and forth.
Senor Ahern always stressed language..so please DO take this to heart...his message was one of understanding and sharing and compassion through language, our most incredible barrier today, still!
He even had a job at the Russian Embassy before becoming a teacher, and he was a translator, which he said he could do so near perfection (but again as he always emphasized, nothing is perfect...except...), although he could not speak Russian fluently, and that was so counter intuitive to me at the time, however it is clear to me today that it is not only possible, but real and actual, and was a fact he testified to which I understand today.
First we understand language before we speak it.
We, hopefully, will all be better able to articulate our thoughts and vision with clarity as time passes and we learn more and more, and understand the true importance of life, experience, language, education, history, geography, and every other subject, not object, that we learn as we live.
So the machine carrying these men to death or so close to it, approaches the beach head which lay before them rather beautiful and serene...they were ordered to storm the beach and claim this strategic point to secure our entrance as one nation of many "Allies" into this area.
They, on his machine, had no idea they were in a channel, and that channel, as channels are, was deep.
So off he goes into the water thinking it perhaps only waist to shoulder high, and before he can think, he is very deep under water sinking like a rock and knowing that drowning is imminent.
Training kicks in and he intuitively knows to ditch the ruck sack, and rifle, or certainly drown.
So he ditched the very tools to save him only steps beyond where he is now!
The pigeon drowns as well.
To him,, he has failed already, as part of his responsibility is to send message back via pigeon to the "men in charge".
Senor Ahern is not a man of failure, but of action instead, so he quickly ditches his supplies and makes his swim to the beach.
Keep in mind, he at least became an avid swimmer, regardless of if he had been or not before this point in time, swimming saved his life at this point in time, and kept him fit and trim for his entire future and was always an integral part of his life from that point forward, thankfully recreationaly.
The men that reached the beach before him had (some of them) carried boxes of rifles to the beach, where he stated they "cracked the boxes open" quickly on the beach head so that if anyone needed a rifle, because it was obviously known that this type of invasion carried with it the inherent likelihood of losing your rifle, they could easily find one quickly.
As his eyes grew now even larger and deeper as he explained to me what happened next I sat in utter silence and listened intently.
What moments ago lay ahead of them and appeared serene was now a field of artillery and gunfire and pure death nearly unimaginable.
He stated to me that he got to the beach, and the boxes of rifles were not even needed, as the dead lay "EVERYWHERE" ON THAT BEACH, AND HE COMPREHENDED WHAT HE SAW BUT AT THE SAME TIME, COULD NOT BELIEVE the real and utter shock of what was actually transpiring.
Who is really ever prepared do die in WAR ? No one.
With dead everywhere, he quickly found a rifle, from another man by his dead body, not from a box.
He stated that he made it, somehow in a blur of utter shock and disbelief, past the beach head to a somewhat safer area, where he was able to regroup with others that survived the initial carnage.
So imagine if you will soaking wet, this man maybe 5'5" at most, and very fit and trim and I would have to say no more then 170 lbs, but more then likely, 150 lbs., or perhaps slightly smaller, arrives on the beach head where there is a barrage of gunfire and artillery and smoke so thick you can barely see, with dead everywhere...on the sand and floating in the water.
Finally he is with his friends that survived, as they regroup to move forward trying to achieve their goal.
He said it was hard to have a friend, because in an instant he may be dead. He also stated however, that you have to have friends in order to survive, and I deeply understood this and saw the pain along with the intensity that he was sharing with me.
It was rather like being transported in my own mind right to his time and experience, as though I was by his side at the moment of what was happening, although it had happened so many years earlier.
It was deeply moving and intense, as he knew how to explain something with such perfect language and delivery.
He was truly an artisan of words and language like no one I had ever before or since known.
I know now why my Father and so many others cannot speak of the atrocities of their own personal experience of war, and I understand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or "shell shock", or whatever you want to call it, deeper then I ever cared too, but content with the knowledge, knowing that I do not have to experience it, because of great men like these I have mentioned thus far, certainly including my Father, which I confess, I selfishly wanted to share with me what it was he had seen, so I would not relish in it all, but learn from it, so no man ever again would know the pain I knew as a boy.
Upon further reflection now especially, I only would desire him to share it with me more deeply if it would not hurt him upon recollection and would further help me define such tragedy ion order to be a better catalyst to prevent it.
I do not think anything can have deeper, although may have equal. Impact as what Senor Ahern explain to me, so to hear more countless stories on that perspective would be fruitless to convey any further meaning to me, and would simply be selfish, unless only under the circumstance that per chance by lending an ear and my soul I could perhaps relieve a little pain from another.
On a quick tangent, "The Wall", as written by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame and performed by Pink Floyd first, and currently by Roger Waters on tour now as I right this, starts with him losing his Father to war...so I deeply identify with this movie at every level, as well as with the music therein. It is based on WW2 and the devastation and life changing ripple effect that it has on the psyche of the survivors, even and perhaps more importantly, the ones that did not even see action, but may have been mere children.
So now, past the beach, and not the woods on an ascent, he and they with him, ascent the hill side towards their collective destination, as well as each perhaps their own, and unknown momentary yet permanent respective destination.
Over and over, he intensely told me, he lost men all around him, shot right in the forehead.
At first it was thought to be precision adversary rifleman snipers that were killing as so trained,
and indeed it was a part of what happened, but after he and other survivors analyzing this horrific tragedy all around them, (and this through communication !!! the key to life, peace and prosperity), they realized that not only were these men, their friends. consistently being shot and killed with a single shot to the head, but worse they realized they each had a target on their own heads in the form of what was on their helmets.
Each had a helmet with their respective insignia right smack in the middle of the forehead area of the helmet ans this acted as a bull's eye or as a target, if you will!
They immediately found dirt which they mixed with spit or water or mud nearby, and camouflaged these helmets, by simply covering this area with the mud and dirt they quickly smeared all over, and passed this along verbally to anyone nearby, in order to do so.
These men, if not already having received, should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor or at the very least, if not already once again, The Silver Star, because what is unknown now is how many lives this action has saved on that day and forward into today.
This I will research and suggest in a letter to Congress.
If your reading this now and want to do so, I urge you to take those steps yourself to contact me so we can do it together.
This may have even been the first real modern day act that became or evolved into our modern day camouflage.
He said that few others were killed similarly once they placed the mud and dirt over these insignia targets on their helmets.
It would and does seem so obvious in retrospect, as is always the case, however, it is one of those such seemingly non consequential examples that was so easily overlooked.
We often over plan perhaps the logistical arena and on the other hand do not know well enough the unseen and unknown which is still predictable, when having shared this knowledge.
I know this now, because of him, and for that i am thankful...perhaps it will save lives in the future still...and at a deeper level, I pray because we all see the pure stupidity that is WAR !
What these men did is remarkable and perhaps the very event that brought our infantry and other divisions into a modernization realized because of the need of camouflage.
Nature is always a great teacher, as camouflage is always all around us in so many forms naturally, and it is just one very reason we should all be students of nature, as most great poets and writers have been through the hall of time.
Senor Ahern left a beautiful legacy after a seemingly humble life.
He was humble, as nothing humbles another such as DEATH!
He was much more deeply thankful for life and passionate about sharing its value, especially through the importance of education.
Please read this link, as it was so eloquently written, and explains such a beautiful gift left to others by such a beautiful man, OF PEACE !
He shared with me, and as he has departed, I feel compelled to share his story and legacy, as he was and is a great man.
My hat is off to "Mighty Mouse", as my brother and his friends, and then I, refer to this great man.
Passion and inspiration through education and peace breed the same likeness!
That to me is the essence of one of my finest teachers personally speaking, as well as all of my professors in general...to teach anything else is ultimately fruitless!
I pray that these words do not fall on deaf ears or closed mind, but shall they, I pray then that they echo and resonate within the reader for a long time, until there is a clarity that war is pain ad infinitum.
Please read this link, or you cheat yourself the rest of this incredible real life experience and education that he so wanted to share with everyone, so that less may suffer.
The price for Peace does not need to be the loss of LIFE...it should be life and thankfulness and understanding through education and experience and communication that brings forth less stupidity which results in WAR!
We are in "The Green Era", and it is should be an era that is enhanced with the technology at hand and therefore should swiftly propel us forward into an era of Peace and Understanding first and tantamount to anything else, as we are better able to communicate and educate ourselves more quickly then ever, especially with the Internet and all the excellent sources of information at our fingertips today, and thus left with no valid excuses to proceed forward as a species as we have so tragically in the past.
Fear is based in a lack of misunderstanding...simple as that.
I always try to read with an open mind, as open as possible, if only just slightly more open hen a moment ago, understanding that it is not my perspective that is ultimately important, but our collective perspective through sharing experience and then building upon collective vision towards peaceful means to bring enhancements to everyone.
The seven deadly sins are alive and well, as today tensions are high world wide now, more then ever, as I write this on December 22, 2010.
I would rather die broke and with passion and having left a legacy, then to die a financially rich man that was a selfish pig.
Senor Ahern left a legacy. he never suffered financially, but rather humbly existed comfortably, a long while on a path to leave a legacy so beautiful mathematically that it should perpetuate itself to benefit countless others for a long time.
Being close to death gave him great vision. language gave him great vision. Education gave him great vision.
He utilized all of this knowledge to lead a life in mere obscurity as a public school teacher, not PRIVATE, as mentions in the link, as that was incorrect reported.
He knew where help was so greatly needed, and I for one am thankful for that vision, because of this vision he had and shared with me, I ultimately benefited and am now able to share with you what he shared with me, which so many men cannot repeat with the profoundness that he so candidly shared with me, as it is just to painful so often for .
The price of Peace. Freedom.
Understand that I as a man do not hate a soul, even the souls that have hurt and killed my own loved ones and friends.
I am no more perfect then anyone other man, nor will I claim to ever be.
I am just a mere human being trying to do my best and often seemingly failing along the way.
He taught me failure can and shall be overcome, if you have Faith and understanding, and share that experience and use it to help others, no matter the short term expense to the self, where all sin really resides and roots here on this earth.
Greed and money, the root of all evil? Perhaps simply man is the root of all evil.
Theories abound and always will, but for me personally, gain is pointless unless it helps others more then it helps me.
Thanks Senor Leonard Ahearn, for sharing with me what was such tragedy, so that I may have shared your perspective from a time and experience from before that which I came forth.
You are missed, but for me, will never be forgotten, and that may sound cliche, as so often the deepest things to myself do, however, it is a lesson so worth sharing.
I know why he said no test score will ever receive 100% on his grade, because he knew we are all flawed as human beings...he never tried to be perfect, but rather through education and strict discipline instilled knowledge and experience (both from personal experience and learned from teachings of others) to touch our souls.
I never failed Spanish in reality, even though I got D's and F's in my first attempt, I was truly right where I was suppose to be hearing what I was suppose to learn, which was a deep deep lesson I will never forget.
I am thankful to every soldier everywhere that has stood and especially fought and perhaps perished, for what they believed in, but I think I would rather die non resistant today (at least in the sense of me and a gun or any weapon) then to possibly send a ripple effect that is death that will travel well beyond my space in time, and continually effect countless others in the future.
I choose what Senor Ahern taught me which is education, understanding, language and communication to perpetuate PEACE, because it is what he and others have taught me.
Many great men have fought many tragic wars to come home deemed heroes, but the heroes they are typically despised what it was that made them heroes.
Tyrants and civilizations always die!
Legacies can last forever...and if it is a legacy not based in offering hope after one has passed, then there is no legacy.
What will be your legacy?
Here is his.
Please I urge you to read this, you may have to copy and paste it into your browser's address bar.
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Text from above link: I included just in case the link one day disappears. I will leave the link for reference.
Alumnus' gift to Cheverus pays forward his success By Kelley Bouchard kbouchard@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
PORTLAND — As the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship for Cheverus High School graduates, Tom Yates feels the weight of high expectations. And he's OK with it.
click image to enlarge Senior Tom Yates is the first recipient of a $40,000 scholarship created by a gift to Cheverus High School by Leonard Ahern, a member of the Class of 1940.
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Leonard F. Ahern was a Cheverus alumnus and a longtime teacher who left $1 million to the private high school when he died in June 2008 at the age of 89. The gift was the second-largest in the school's history.
It established a $40,000 annual scholarship to be awarded to a deserving senior who demonstrates Cheverus' principles of intellectual competence, personal growth, spiritual development, commitment to justice and community leadership.
Though Yates never met Ahern, the 18-year-old scholar and athlete aspires to be like his unexpected benefactor.
"Mr. Ahern truly represents what a Cheverian should be: loving, caring, concerned about others," said Yates, who lives in West Baldwin. "This scholarship represents how much I've grown over my four years at Cheverus and how I'm developing as a leader and how much I have to contribute in the future."
Yates, who will graduate in June, plans to use the scholarship to study business management and psychology at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. The money will be awarded in $10,000 increments over four years. With a financial aid package provided by the college, his annual tuition, room and board of nearly $46,000 will be paid in full.
"I'm pretty much set," Yates said. "Financially, the Ahern Scholarship took a lot of pressure off."
Yates is an honor roll student, a senior class officer and a co-president of the student council at Cheverus, a Jesuit Catholic college-preparatory school for boys and girls. He's also an Eagle Scout, a jazz trumpet player, a member of the school's soccer, track and lacrosse teams, and a coach and third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.
He started the Cheverus International Club, joined the Spanish and Haiti Solidarity clubs and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He volunteers regularly in a soup kitchen and works part time at a sushi restaurant.
"In my mind, Tom Yates' name resonates with maturity and leadership," said Valerie Webster, a Cheverus guidance counselor. "He is an extraordinarily energetic young man with many interests and talents."
Still, Yates was shocked to learn that he had won the scholarship. "The other six people who were nominated were top students," he said.
Yates is the son of Kenneth Yates, a small-business owner, and Yeong-Rae An, a home health aide who was an accountant in her native Korea.
Yates speaks fluent Korean and attends the Rainbow United Methodist Church on Washington Avenue in Portland, which serves the small but tightly knit Korean community in southern Maine.
"My Korean heritage is very important to me," Yates said, noting that respect for elders and others is emphasized in the Korean community, and friends are treated like family.
Education is important to both of his parents, Yates said. His pending graduation from Cheverus will help ease his father's regret at turning down an opportunity to attend the private school when he was a teenager. Yates said he has chosen to study business largely because he shares his parents' aptitudes for the field.
It's fitting that a business major is the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship, said Steven Ahern, Leonard's nephew.
"My uncle was a financial wizard," said Ahern, who lives in Windham. "He was very frugal, and he learned to invest his money well. He pretty much taught himself."
Leonard Ahern was born on Prince Edward Island and moved to Portland with his family when he was about 10.
His father, Michael, came to work on the railroad but missed his livelihood as a fisherman back home. When his mother, Elizabeth, refused to return to Prince Edward Island, the couple separated, and Michael Ahern went back to Canada alone.
Elizabeth Ahern stayed in Portland with her five children and worked in restaurants as a waitress and cook. Later, she ran her own restaurants in Portland, Ogunquit and Wells.
"My uncle had a deep love and respect for his mother," Steven Ahern said. "That's why he dedicated the scholarship to her."
After graduating from Cheverus in 1940, Ahern served in the Army during World War II, which is when he became a U.S. citizen, his nephew said. Afterward, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a master's degree from George Washington University.
He worked briefly as a translator for the U.S. government in France and, after settling in Washington, D.C., taught French and Spanish for decades at a private school in Alexandria, Va.
He also tutored high school and college students and worked as a waiter at French restaurants that catered to employees of and visitors to the French Embassy.
Leonard Ahern never married or had children. His ashes were interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington in a moving service that his nephew attended.
In establishing a scholarship at Cheverus, Leonard Ahern ensured that his love of learning would live on.
"He dedicated his life to education," Steven Ahern said. "He enjoyed going to Cheverus. I think some of the Jesuits who taught him really motivated him to learn."
Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard can be contacted at 791-6328 or at:
kbouchard@pressherald.com
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Alumnus' gift to Cheverus pays forward his success By Kelley Bouchard kbouchard@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
PORTLAND — As the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship for Cheverus High School graduates, Tom Yates feels the weight of high expectations. And he's OK with it.
click image to enlargeSenior Tom Yates is the first recipient of a $40,000 scholarship created by a gift to Cheverus High School by Leonard Ahern, a member of the Class of 1940.
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Leonard F. Ahern was a Cheverus alumnus and a longtime teacher who left $1 million to the private high school when he died in June 2008 at the age of 89. The gift was the second-largest in the school's history.
It established a $40,000 annual scholarship to be awarded to a deserving senior who demonstrates Cheverus' principles of intellectual competence, personal growth, spiritual development, commitment to justice and community leadership.
Though Yates never met Ahern, the 18-year-old scholar and athlete aspires to be like his unexpected benefactor.
"Mr. Ahern truly represents what a Cheverian should be: loving, caring, concerned about others," said Yates, who lives in West Baldwin. "This scholarship represents how much I've grown over my four years at Cheverus and how I'm developing as a leader and how much I have to contribute in the future."
Yates, who will graduate in June, plans to use the scholarship to study business management and psychology at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. The money will be awarded in $10,000 increments over four years. With a financial aid package provided by the college, his annual tuition, room and board of nearly $46,000 will be paid in full.
"I'm pretty much set," Yates said. "Financially, the Ahern Scholarship took a lot of pressure off."
Yates is an honor roll student, a senior class officer and a co-president of the student council at Cheverus, a Jesuit Catholic college-preparatory school for boys and girls. He's also an Eagle Scout, a jazz trumpet player, a member of the school's soccer, track and lacrosse teams, and a coach and third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.
He started the Cheverus International Club, joined the Spanish and Haiti Solidarity clubs and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He volunteers regularly in a soup kitchen and works part time at a sushi restaurant.
"In my mind, Tom Yates' name resonates with maturity and leadership," said Valerie Webster, a Cheverus guidance counselor. "He is an extraordinarily energetic young man with many interests and talents."
Still, Yates was shocked to learn that he had won the scholarship. "The other six people who were nominated were top students," he said.
Yates is the son of Kenneth Yates, a small-business owner, and Yeong-Rae An, a home health aide who was an accountant in her native Korea.
Yates speaks fluent Korean and attends the Rainbow United Methodist Church on Washington Avenue in Portland, which serves the small but tightly knit Korean community in southern Maine.
"My Korean heritage is very important to me," Yates said, noting that respect for elders and others is emphasized in the Korean community, and friends are treated like family.
Education is important to both of his parents, Yates said. His pending graduation from Cheverus will help ease his father's regret at turning down an opportunity to attend the private school when he was a teenager. Yates said he has chosen to study business largely because he shares his parents' aptitudes for the field.
It's fitting that a business major is the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship, said Steven Ahern, Leonard's nephew.
"My uncle was a financial wizard," said Ahern, who lives in Windham. "He was very frugal, and he learned to invest his money well. He pretty much taught himself."
Leonard Ahern was born on Prince Edward Island and moved to Portland with his family when he was about 10.
His father, Michael, came to work on the railroad but missed his livelihood as a fisherman back home. When his mother, Elizabeth, refused to return to Prince Edward Island, the couple separated, and Michael Ahern went back to Canada alone.
Elizabeth Ahern stayed in Portland with her five children and worked in restaurants as a waitress and cook. Later, she ran her own restaurants in Portland, Ogunquit and Wells.
"My uncle had a deep love and respect for his mother," Steven Ahern said. "That's why he dedicated the scholarship to her."
After graduating from Cheverus in 1940, Ahern served in the Army during World War II, which is when he became a U.S. citizen, his nephew said. Afterward, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a master's degree from George Washington University.
He worked briefly as a translator for the U.S. government in France and, after settling in Washington, D.C., taught French and Spanish for decades at a private school in Alexandria, Va.
He also tutored high school and college students and worked as a waiter at French restaurants that catered to employees of and visitors to the French Embassy.
Leonard Ahern never married or had children. His ashes were interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington in a moving service that his nephew attended.
In establishing a scholarship at Cheverus, Leonard Ahern ensured that his love of learning would live on.
"He dedicated his life to education," Steven Ahern said. "He enjoyed going to Cheverus. I think some of the Jesuits who taught him really motivated him to learn."
Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard can be contacted at 791-6328 or at:
kbouchard@pressherald.com
This is my music, I hope you will find some time to enjoy it as well...he is a part of the inspiration when I sing about peace.Let me simply start by stating that Leonard Ahern was my Spanish teacher in high school, both my sophomore and junior years at Fort Hunt High School.
He was in many ways the most challenging teacher I ever had, and after the first day of being his student, I have to admit, I thought he was a mad man and I had never seen such discipline, which I at first mis-took for maybe insanity...boy, was I wrong...what a brilliant and beautiful man.
After not doing well my first year in Spanish 1, I had to repeat Spanish 1. I opted, actually insisted, to have Senor Ahern again. My senior year I skipped to Spanish 3 and it was perhaps too simple after what I took two years to learn from his teaching me Spanish 1.
I was slow...no problems with the accent, or the vocabulary and respective spelling, however I could not stay up with learning thirteen verb conjugations, which I had somehow not been taught properly in plain English, my native tongue
To further explain, for example, would be to say that a verb in its basic un-conjugated form is the infinitive, and then depending on how it is conjugated to display the tense of a sentence i.e., past participle, present participle, etc., again I had never been explained these meanings in English.
As to not blame a teacher per se in my own experience, I grew up very sickly with asthma and nearly died, and it may be there that I missed those days in school.
I have always been smart, but education was always a hale storm of playing catch up when I was recovering and always tough just to make B's and C's...when healthy, I always performed better, receiving A's and B's.
This condition, in turn, was a blessing, as it gave me two years of one the finest teachers I have ever had from Kindergarten all the way through college...He is at the top tied with five total.
Senor Leonard Ahern, and I state his name that way, because it was what he demanded in his classroom, and therefore I will still respect today, was a strict disciplinarian
On Monday and Tuesday we had quizzes, Wednesday was a dict (dictation), Thursday yet again another quiz, and Friday (and a nightmare my first year of Spanish 1) a verb test!
He told us this the first day I ever had him as a teacher and it was a sweltering 90+ degree day (so it seemed as we were on the sunny side of the high school) and I wondered where on earth had I landed such that I am going to be tested like this???
He said we would never receive 100%, because no person and no test was perfect!
He stated, and he was more then likely about 62 at this time, that he had never missed a day of teaching, so if we thought we would ever get a break from him, forget it!
He even put his yellow Camaro into the Potomac River one icy morning...and still made it to his job teaching at school...his dedication was and I am certain still is considered second to none.
My brother had him as a teacher for French, and Donnie my brother, had nothing to say but great, great things about Senor Ahern (Misur Ahern for him).
I believe my sister Susan had him as a French teacher as well.
He and his friends referred to him as Mighty Mouse, and never t his face however.
Donnie, as I , wrestled, so we appreciated people that were in great shape, and we were each relatively small in our respective size growing up.
Senor Ahearn told me he awoke at 2:30 a.m. every morning from his Georgetown home in Washington D.C., where he would then go to the YMCA, and swim laps and do sit ups.
2500 sit ups a week! I do not recall the amount of laps he would swim, but it was a ton too...he did this every single day of every week!
He always dressed impeccably, and has these beautiful silk custom tailored thin ties, that I adored because he had style and he knew what looked shape and distinguished on him, but was never a flamboyant man.
He was beyond humble, in a way I had never known, nor did I truly have an inkling of how humble, until what I have read about him recently and the gift he left behind after his passing.
He knew life was valuable, as I would learn as my own years have passed.
It is amazing how perspective can or may and hopefully will continually change into one which is even more beautiful with deeper meaning upon introspection with new experience always accounted for as we age and travel through time.
Being tutored both my first and second year with him as my teacher was great...as it was these after school times that I learned one on one what it was I could not grasp during class with the other students.
I always did well on all testing, except the verb test, and if you failed a portion of tests and quizzes, collectively, as the way they were accounted for in his grading, you could theoretically perform with A's everywhere, and F's in one field, and flunk the class in it's entirety, which I did my first year.
So I repeated Spanish 1 and finally something clicked, and Spanish was really never a challenge after that point, as I think I rarely had to even study in Spanish 3, because now all the material was a repeat...that was the volume he could teach in just a years school time.
I felt now ready to be immersed in a Spanish speaking culture and learn the language and become fluent, which I still have not, however, the knowledge is still mostly all there in my mind and in tact, because he was that impressionable as a professor, and I will say professor out of respect as well, as he was such a master of his craft.
So it was one day after school, that we discussed some amazing thins, and it was actually many days.
To my recollection I had mentioned my Father and my Brother being West Pointers (as Donnie was an 1982 graduate and my Father an 1952) Donnie would have been serving his commission of at that time a required five years after graduation.
The year would have been, for me, 1982-1983, if my calculation is correct, and perhaps even the second year with him as my professor, 1983-1984.
One day after school, I spoke of my Father having served in Korea and Viet Nam, and that now my brother, which I so love as my Father, was going into active duty, and that I was scared I would lose him forever, as I almost did my own father.
My Father while in Viet Nam, was shot through a flight helmet on a helicopter by a sniper, and it went through his helmet, grazed the crown of his skull so that he received many stitches and a Purple Heart.
The helmet somehow caught the bullet in such a way that it slowed it so that it curved around the inside as it fell out the back. The damage to my Father had been done.
We lived in rural Pennsylvania at the time...and my recall, and it is one of my first memories, (the very first of which was a plane crash in a Pennsylvania air show that was truly like coming into life as the result of a big bang!...another story I will blog about here at some point in the near future), as I recall at age forty two today.
All I remember is being in our farm house and Mom telling me something terrible had happened, but that Daddy was OK, however he had been hurt by another man's gun.
What a sick feeling, at about age three to five, to even be able to conceive of such sin and understand the permanence of my Father may never be coming home ever again to Grace our family was utterly shocking and demoralizing, and still makes me so ill to this day that any of us can act so disgustingly brazen as to use weapons against one another makes my souls cry to the lord with prayer that no man ever suffer this hurt or pain at any level.
I later lost a close friend to murder from the bullet of a gun...and it still hurts too...but there are deep lessons here, and they need to be shared so we may all leave that disgust in the past, and not carry it forward as we move collectively, and I pray, towards Peace!
So, Senor Ahern one day while we spoke after school, saw my hurt, as only he could, and saw my innocent but real deep pain and tried to ease my pain and explain to me about so much so fast with such graphic detail that it could do nothing more then leave an indelible impression like a photograph in my mind.
I am never one to be quiet long, but when Senor Ahern told me these things...I did not open my mouth...my eyes made up for that, as I am sure they were huge taking this all in, and I knew he could see it, and I his eyes as well...intensity beyond words in all reality, as he explained what war was really, like, and it is just now that I recall why he told me this as well.
I had told him I was scared for my brother that he may have to go forward in my Father's footsteps and perhaps make that ultimate sacrifice NONE OF US should ever have to make, because war to me in itself is such an inherent, bur seemingly necessary evil as human beings...it disgusts me to the core of my soul!
I said that my Daddy (and I have Southern roots and that is what I call my Father if we are together and will do so here, as it creates a much closer exposure to me and my situation at that time and today that I want to make abundantly clear) as I explained to Senor Ahearn, never told me much of anything about war.
I told him that I knew my father almost died in a foreign land, and that I would want to know all that he went through so that I could share with others and lead a life that would bring no man to such a place ever again...such an idealist I have always been, and tears roll down my face even now as I cry, because I believe this is possible still today...if we all have faith, help one another as he did me, and carry each other or lift each others spirits upwards.
I selfishly wanted my father to share with me, but it was Senor Ahearn that shared with me the travesty that is WAR !
I also had a neighbor who was a survivor of Auschwitz, so I know first hand from two of the most terrible atrocities in modern recorded history, what war...I am sorry...three examples with my very own Father, of the incredible pain of war...and I have never once stepped on a battle field nor ever been in the military myself, which I did have aspirations of being a West Pointer as well. I am however thankful I never was, no matter how proud I may be of my Father and my Brother, and always will be.
I am thankful to report, my brother's son, just this year, declined his appointment to West Point, and instead, went to the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. Amen!.
I never want Sterling to be on a battle field either! and this I will continue to pray for on a daily basis, as I do for all people in this world.
Communication and understanding through education and language are what we so desperately need.
We cannot afford to go on with war as an acceptable alternative, it only comes from a (I almost said childish, which is such a poor choice, as we as children are innocent and have such beautiful clarity) fear based reactive or proactive stature that always leaves a larger mess, no matter the perceived winner, and in it's wake, such devastation for countless others for generation to come.
One soldier at war, can potentially cause a death that then resonates through time and effect thousands of others.
Think about that as you read what comes next.
It is now D-Day...and senor Ahearn is on an amphibious vehicle, and he is in the "first wave" of the invasion.
He is packed onto this machine with other soldiers, all with rifle and heavy ruck sack!
He even has a carrier pigeon to send message back and forth.
Senor Ahern always stressed language..so please DO take this to heart...his message was one of understanding and sharing and compassion through language, our most incredible barrier today, still!
He even had a job at the Russian Embassy before becoming a teacher, and he was a translator, which he said he could do so near perfection (but again as he always emphasized, nothing is perfect...except...), although he could not speak Russian fluently, and that was so counter intuitive to me at the time, however it is clear to me today that it is not only possible, but real and actual, and was a fact he testified to which I understand today.
First we understand language before we speak it.
We, hopefully, will all be better able to articulate our thoughts and vision with clarity as time passes and we learn more and more, and understand the true importance of life, experience, language, education, history, geography, and every other subject, not object, that we learn as we live.
So the machine carrying these men to death or so close to it, approaches the beach head which lay before them rather beautiful and serene...they were ordered to storm the beach and claim this strategic point to secure our entrance as one nation of many "Allies" into this area.
They, on his machine, had no idea they were in a channel, and that channel, as channels are, was deep.
So off he goes into the water thinking it perhaps only waist to shoulder high, and before he can think, he is very deep under water sinking like a rock and knowing that drowning is imminent.
Training kicks in and he intuitively knows to ditch the ruck sack, and rifle, or certainly drown.
So he ditched the very tools to save him only steps beyond where he is now!
The pigeon drowns as well.
To him,, he has failed already, as part of his responsibility is to send message back via pigeon to the "men in charge".
Senor Ahern is not a man of failure, but of action instead, so he quickly ditches his supplies and makes his swim to the beach.
Keep in mind, he at least became an avid swimmer, regardless of if he had been or not before this point in time, swimming saved his life at this point in time, and kept him fit and trim for his entire future and was always an integral part of his life from that point forward, thankfully recreationaly.
The men that reached the beach before him had (some of them) carried boxes of rifles to the beach, where he stated they "cracked the boxes open" quickly on the beach head so that if anyone needed a rifle, because it was obviously known that this type of invasion carried with it the inherent likelihood of losing your rifle, they could easily find one quickly.
As his eyes grew now even larger and deeper as he explained to me what happened next I sat in utter silence and listened intently.
What moments ago lay ahead of them and appeared serene was now a field of artillery and gunfire and pure death nearly unimaginable.
He stated to me that he got to the beach, and the boxes of rifles were not even needed, as the dead lay "EVERYWHERE" ON THAT BEACH, AND HE COMPREHENDED WHAT HE SAW BUT AT THE SAME TIME, COULD NOT BELIEVE the real and utter shock of what was actually transpiring.
Who is really ever prepared do die in WAR ? No one.
With dead everywhere, he quickly found a rifle, from another man by his dead body, not from a box.
He stated that he made it, somehow in a blur of utter shock and disbelief, past the beach head to a somewhat safer area, where he was able to regroup with others that survived the initial carnage.
So imagine if you will soaking wet, this man maybe 5'5" at most, and very fit and trim and I would have to say no more then 170 lbs, but more then likely, 150 lbs., or perhaps slightly smaller, arrives on the beach head where there is a barrage of gunfire and artillery and smoke so thick you can barely see, with dead everywhere...on the sand and floating in the water.
Finally he is with his friends that survived, as they regroup to move forward trying to achieve their goal.
He said it was hard to have a friend, because in an instant he may be dead. He also stated however, that you have to have friends in order to survive, and I deeply understood this and saw the pain along with the intensity that he was sharing with me.
It was rather like being transported in my own mind right to his time and experience, as though I was by his side at the moment of what was happening, although it had happened so many years earlier.
It was deeply moving and intense, as he knew how to explain something with such perfect language and delivery.
He was truly an artisan of words and language like no one I had ever before or since known.
I know now why my Father and so many others cannot speak of the atrocities of their own personal experience of war, and I understand Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or "shell shock", or whatever you want to call it, deeper then I ever cared too, but content with the knowledge, knowing that I do not have to experience it, because of great men like these I have mentioned thus far, certainly including my Father, which I confess, I selfishly wanted to share with me what it was he had seen, so I would not relish in it all, but learn from it, so no man ever again would know the pain I knew as a boy.
Upon further reflection now especially, I only would desire him to share it with me more deeply if it would not hurt him upon recollection and would further help me define such tragedy ion order to be a better catalyst to prevent it.
I do not think anything can have deeper, although may have equal. Impact as what Senor Ahern explain to me, so to hear more countless stories on that perspective would be fruitless to convey any further meaning to me, and would simply be selfish, unless only under the circumstance that per chance by lending an ear and my soul I could perhaps relieve a little pain from another.
On a quick tangent, "The Wall", as written by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame and performed by Pink Floyd first, and currently by Roger Waters on tour now as I right this, starts with him losing his Father to war...so I deeply identify with this movie at every level, as well as with the music therein. It is based on WW2 and the devastation and life changing ripple effect that it has on the psyche of the survivors, even and perhaps more importantly, the ones that did not even see action, but may have been mere children.
So now, past the beach, and not the woods on an ascent, he and they with him, ascent the hill side towards their collective destination, as well as each perhaps their own, and unknown momentary yet permanent respective destination.
Over and over, he intensely told me, he lost men all around him, shot right in the forehead.
At first it was thought to be precision adversary rifleman snipers that were killing as so trained,
and indeed it was a part of what happened, but after he and other survivors analyzing this horrific tragedy all around them, (and this through communication !!! the key to life, peace and prosperity), they realized that not only were these men, their friends. consistently being shot and killed with a single shot to the head, but worse they realized they each had a target on their own heads in the form of what was on their helmets.
Each had a helmet with their respective insignia right smack in the middle of the forehead area of the helmet ans this acted as a bull's eye or as a target, if you will!
They immediately found dirt which they mixed with spit or water or mud nearby, and camouflaged these helmets, by simply covering this area with the mud and dirt they quickly smeared all over, and passed this along verbally to anyone nearby, in order to do so.
These men, if not already having received, should receive the Congressional Medal of Honor or at the very least, if not already once again, The Silver Star, because what is unknown now is how many lives this action has saved on that day and forward into today.
This I will research and suggest in a letter to Congress.
If your reading this now and want to do so, I urge you to take those steps yourself to contact me so we can do it together.
This may have even been the first real modern day act that became or evolved into our modern day camouflage.
He said that few others were killed similarly once they placed the mud and dirt over these insignia targets on their helmets.
It would and does seem so obvious in retrospect, as is always the case, however, it is one of those such seemingly non consequential examples that was so easily overlooked.
We often over plan perhaps the logistical arena and on the other hand do not know well enough the unseen and unknown which is still predictable, when having shared this knowledge.
I know this now, because of him, and for that i am thankful...perhaps it will save lives in the future still...and at a deeper level, I pray because we all see the pure stupidity that is WAR !
What these men did is remarkable and perhaps the very event that brought our infantry and other divisions into a modernization realized because of the need of camouflage.
Nature is always a great teacher, as camouflage is always all around us in so many forms naturally, and it is just one very reason we should all be students of nature, as most great poets and writers have been through the hall of time.
Senor Ahern left a beautiful legacy after a seemingly humble life.
He was humble, as nothing humbles another such as DEATH!
He was much more deeply thankful for life and passionate about sharing its value, especially through the importance of education.
Please read this link, as it was so eloquently written, and explains such a beautiful gift left to others by such a beautiful man, OF PEACE !
He shared with me, and as he has departed, I feel compelled to share his story and legacy, as he was and is a great man.
My hat is off to "Mighty Mouse", as my brother and his friends, and then I, refer to this great man.
Passion and inspiration through education and peace breed the same likeness!
That to me is the essence of one of my finest teachers personally speaking, as well as all of my professors in general...to teach anything else is ultimately fruitless!
I pray that these words do not fall on deaf ears or closed mind, but shall they, I pray then that they echo and resonate within the reader for a long time, until there is a clarity that war is pain ad infinitum.
Please read this link, or you cheat yourself the rest of this incredible real life experience and education that he so wanted to share with everyone, so that less may suffer.
The price for Peace does not need to be the loss of LIFE...it should be life and thankfulness and understanding through education and experience and communication that brings forth less stupidity which results in WAR!
We are in "The Green Era", and it is should be an era that is enhanced with the technology at hand and therefore should swiftly propel us forward into an era of Peace and Understanding first and tantamount to anything else, as we are better able to communicate and educate ourselves more quickly then ever, especially with the Internet and all the excellent sources of information at our fingertips today, and thus left with no valid excuses to proceed forward as a species as we have so tragically in the past.
Fear is based in a lack of misunderstanding...simple as that.
I always try to read with an open mind, as open as possible, if only just slightly more open hen a moment ago, understanding that it is not my perspective that is ultimately important, but our collective perspective through sharing experience and then building upon collective vision towards peaceful means to bring enhancements to everyone.
The seven deadly sins are alive and well, as today tensions are high world wide now, more then ever, as I write this on December 22, 2010.
I would rather die broke and with passion and having left a legacy, then to die a financially rich man that was a selfish pig.
Senor Ahern left a legacy. he never suffered financially, but rather humbly existed comfortably, a long while on a path to leave a legacy so beautiful mathematically that it should perpetuate itself to benefit countless others for a long time.
Being close to death gave him great vision. language gave him great vision. Education gave him great vision.
He utilized all of this knowledge to lead a life in mere obscurity as a public school teacher, not PRIVATE, as mentions in the link, as that was incorrect reported.
He knew where help was so greatly needed, and I for one am thankful for that vision, because of this vision he had and shared with me, I ultimately benefited and am now able to share with you what he shared with me, which so many men cannot repeat with the profoundness that he so candidly shared with me, as it is just to painful so often for .
The price of Peace. Freedom.
Understand that I as a man do not hate a soul, even the souls that have hurt and killed my own loved ones and friends.
I am no more perfect then anyone other man, nor will I claim to ever be.
I am just a mere human being trying to do my best and often seemingly failing along the way.
He taught me failure can and shall be overcome, if you have Faith and understanding, and share that experience and use it to help others, no matter the short term expense to the self, where all sin really resides and roots here on this earth.
Greed and money, the root of all evil? Perhaps simply man is the root of all evil.
Theories abound and always will, but for me personally, gain is pointless unless it helps others more then it helps me.
Thanks Senor Leonard Ahearn, for sharing with me what was such tragedy, so that I may have shared your perspective from a time and experience from before that which I came forth.
You are missed, but for me, will never be forgotten, and that may sound cliche, as so often the deepest things to myself do, however, it is a lesson so worth sharing.
I know why he said no test score will ever receive 100% on his grade, because he knew we are all flawed as human beings...he never tried to be perfect, but rather through education and strict discipline instilled knowledge and experience (both from personal experience and learned from teachings of others) to touch our souls.
I never failed Spanish in reality, even though I got D's and F's in my first attempt, I was truly right where I was suppose to be hearing what I was suppose to learn, which was a deep deep lesson I will never forget.
I am thankful to every soldier everywhere that has stood and especially fought and perhaps perished, for what they believed in, but I think I would rather die non resistant today (at least in the sense of me and a gun or any weapon) then to possibly send a ripple effect that is death that will travel well beyond my space in time, and continually effect countless others in the future.
I choose what Senor Ahern taught me which is education, understanding, language and communication to perpetuate PEACE, because it is what he and others have taught me.
Many great men have fought many tragic wars to come home deemed heroes, but the heroes they are typically despised what it was that made them heroes.
Tyrants and civilizations always die!
Legacies can last forever...and if it is a legacy not based in offering hope after one has passed, then there is no legacy.
What will be your legacy?
Here is his.
Please I urge you to read this, you may have to copy and paste it into your browser's address bar.
__________________________________________________________________________________
http://www.pressherald.com/news/alumnus-gift-to-cheverus-pays-forward-his-success_2010-04-26.html
___________________________________________________________________________________
Text from above link: I included just in case the link one day disappears. I will leave the link for reference.
Alumnus' gift to Cheverus pays forward his success By Kelley Bouchard kbouchard@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
PORTLAND — As the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship for Cheverus High School graduates, Tom Yates feels the weight of high expectations. And he's OK with it.
click image to enlarge Senior Tom Yates is the first recipient of a $40,000 scholarship created by a gift to Cheverus High School by Leonard Ahern, a member of the Class of 1940.
Leonard Ahern
Select images available for purchase in the
Maine Today Photo Store
Leonard F. Ahern was a Cheverus alumnus and a longtime teacher who left $1 million to the private high school when he died in June 2008 at the age of 89. The gift was the second-largest in the school's history.
It established a $40,000 annual scholarship to be awarded to a deserving senior who demonstrates Cheverus' principles of intellectual competence, personal growth, spiritual development, commitment to justice and community leadership.
Though Yates never met Ahern, the 18-year-old scholar and athlete aspires to be like his unexpected benefactor.
"Mr. Ahern truly represents what a Cheverian should be: loving, caring, concerned about others," said Yates, who lives in West Baldwin. "This scholarship represents how much I've grown over my four years at Cheverus and how I'm developing as a leader and how much I have to contribute in the future."
Yates, who will graduate in June, plans to use the scholarship to study business management and psychology at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. The money will be awarded in $10,000 increments over four years. With a financial aid package provided by the college, his annual tuition, room and board of nearly $46,000 will be paid in full.
"I'm pretty much set," Yates said. "Financially, the Ahern Scholarship took a lot of pressure off."
Yates is an honor roll student, a senior class officer and a co-president of the student council at Cheverus, a Jesuit Catholic college-preparatory school for boys and girls. He's also an Eagle Scout, a jazz trumpet player, a member of the school's soccer, track and lacrosse teams, and a coach and third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.
He started the Cheverus International Club, joined the Spanish and Haiti Solidarity clubs and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He volunteers regularly in a soup kitchen and works part time at a sushi restaurant.
"In my mind, Tom Yates' name resonates with maturity and leadership," said Valerie Webster, a Cheverus guidance counselor. "He is an extraordinarily energetic young man with many interests and talents."
Still, Yates was shocked to learn that he had won the scholarship. "The other six people who were nominated were top students," he said.
Yates is the son of Kenneth Yates, a small-business owner, and Yeong-Rae An, a home health aide who was an accountant in her native Korea.
Yates speaks fluent Korean and attends the Rainbow United Methodist Church on Washington Avenue in Portland, which serves the small but tightly knit Korean community in southern Maine.
"My Korean heritage is very important to me," Yates said, noting that respect for elders and others is emphasized in the Korean community, and friends are treated like family.
Education is important to both of his parents, Yates said. His pending graduation from Cheverus will help ease his father's regret at turning down an opportunity to attend the private school when he was a teenager. Yates said he has chosen to study business largely because he shares his parents' aptitudes for the field.
It's fitting that a business major is the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship, said Steven Ahern, Leonard's nephew.
"My uncle was a financial wizard," said Ahern, who lives in Windham. "He was very frugal, and he learned to invest his money well. He pretty much taught himself."
Leonard Ahern was born on Prince Edward Island and moved to Portland with his family when he was about 10.
His father, Michael, came to work on the railroad but missed his livelihood as a fisherman back home. When his mother, Elizabeth, refused to return to Prince Edward Island, the couple separated, and Michael Ahern went back to Canada alone.
Elizabeth Ahern stayed in Portland with her five children and worked in restaurants as a waitress and cook. Later, she ran her own restaurants in Portland, Ogunquit and Wells.
"My uncle had a deep love and respect for his mother," Steven Ahern said. "That's why he dedicated the scholarship to her."
After graduating from Cheverus in 1940, Ahern served in the Army during World War II, which is when he became a U.S. citizen, his nephew said. Afterward, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a master's degree from George Washington University.
He worked briefly as a translator for the U.S. government in France and, after settling in Washington, D.C., taught French and Spanish for decades at a private school in Alexandria, Va.
He also tutored high school and college students and worked as a waiter at French restaurants that catered to employees of and visitors to the French Embassy.
Leonard Ahern never married or had children. His ashes were interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington in a moving service that his nephew attended.
In establishing a scholarship at Cheverus, Leonard Ahern ensured that his love of learning would live on.
"He dedicated his life to education," Steven Ahern said. "He enjoyed going to Cheverus. I think some of the Jesuits who taught him really motivated him to learn."
Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard can be contacted at 791-6328 or at:
kbouchard@pressherald.com
http://www.pressherald.com/news/alumnus-gift-to-cheverus-pays-forward-his-success_2010-04-26.html
____________________________________________________________________________
Text from above link: I included just in case the link one day disappears. I will leave the link for reference.
____________________________________________________________________________
Alumnus' gift to Cheverus pays forward his success By Kelley Bouchard kbouchard@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
PORTLAND — As the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship for Cheverus High School graduates, Tom Yates feels the weight of high expectations. And he's OK with it.
click image to enlargeSenior Tom Yates is the first recipient of a $40,000 scholarship created by a gift to Cheverus High School by Leonard Ahern, a member of the Class of 1940.
Leonard Ahern
Select images available for purchase in the
Maine Today Photo Store
Leonard F. Ahern was a Cheverus alumnus and a longtime teacher who left $1 million to the private high school when he died in June 2008 at the age of 89. The gift was the second-largest in the school's history.
It established a $40,000 annual scholarship to be awarded to a deserving senior who demonstrates Cheverus' principles of intellectual competence, personal growth, spiritual development, commitment to justice and community leadership.
Though Yates never met Ahern, the 18-year-old scholar and athlete aspires to be like his unexpected benefactor.
"Mr. Ahern truly represents what a Cheverian should be: loving, caring, concerned about others," said Yates, who lives in West Baldwin. "This scholarship represents how much I've grown over my four years at Cheverus and how I'm developing as a leader and how much I have to contribute in the future."
Yates, who will graduate in June, plans to use the scholarship to study business management and psychology at Stonehill College in Easton, Mass. The money will be awarded in $10,000 increments over four years. With a financial aid package provided by the college, his annual tuition, room and board of nearly $46,000 will be paid in full.
"I'm pretty much set," Yates said. "Financially, the Ahern Scholarship took a lot of pressure off."
Yates is an honor roll student, a senior class officer and a co-president of the student council at Cheverus, a Jesuit Catholic college-preparatory school for boys and girls. He's also an Eagle Scout, a jazz trumpet player, a member of the school's soccer, track and lacrosse teams, and a coach and third-degree black belt in tae kwon do.
He started the Cheverus International Club, joined the Spanish and Haiti Solidarity clubs and was inducted into the National Honor Society. He volunteers regularly in a soup kitchen and works part time at a sushi restaurant.
"In my mind, Tom Yates' name resonates with maturity and leadership," said Valerie Webster, a Cheverus guidance counselor. "He is an extraordinarily energetic young man with many interests and talents."
Still, Yates was shocked to learn that he had won the scholarship. "The other six people who were nominated were top students," he said.
Yates is the son of Kenneth Yates, a small-business owner, and Yeong-Rae An, a home health aide who was an accountant in her native Korea.
Yates speaks fluent Korean and attends the Rainbow United Methodist Church on Washington Avenue in Portland, which serves the small but tightly knit Korean community in southern Maine.
"My Korean heritage is very important to me," Yates said, noting that respect for elders and others is emphasized in the Korean community, and friends are treated like family.
Education is important to both of his parents, Yates said. His pending graduation from Cheverus will help ease his father's regret at turning down an opportunity to attend the private school when he was a teenager. Yates said he has chosen to study business largely because he shares his parents' aptitudes for the field.
It's fitting that a business major is the first recipient of the Ahern Scholarship, said Steven Ahern, Leonard's nephew.
"My uncle was a financial wizard," said Ahern, who lives in Windham. "He was very frugal, and he learned to invest his money well. He pretty much taught himself."
Leonard Ahern was born on Prince Edward Island and moved to Portland with his family when he was about 10.
His father, Michael, came to work on the railroad but missed his livelihood as a fisherman back home. When his mother, Elizabeth, refused to return to Prince Edward Island, the couple separated, and Michael Ahern went back to Canada alone.
Elizabeth Ahern stayed in Portland with her five children and worked in restaurants as a waitress and cook. Later, she ran her own restaurants in Portland, Ogunquit and Wells.
"My uncle had a deep love and respect for his mother," Steven Ahern said. "That's why he dedicated the scholarship to her."
After graduating from Cheverus in 1940, Ahern served in the Army during World War II, which is when he became a U.S. citizen, his nephew said. Afterward, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Maine and a master's degree from George Washington University.
He worked briefly as a translator for the U.S. government in France and, after settling in Washington, D.C., taught French and Spanish for decades at a private school in Alexandria, Va.
He also tutored high school and college students and worked as a waiter at French restaurants that catered to employees of and visitors to the French Embassy.
Leonard Ahern never married or had children. His ashes were interred in Arlington National Cemetery in Washington in a moving service that his nephew attended.
In establishing a scholarship at Cheverus, Leonard Ahern ensured that his love of learning would live on.
"He dedicated his life to education," Steven Ahern said. "He enjoyed going to Cheverus. I think some of the Jesuits who taught him really motivated him to learn."
Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard can be contacted at 791-6328 or at:
kbouchard@pressherald.com
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added 11-23-2012:
Secret message found with carrier pigeon may never be deciphered
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/secret-message-found-carrier-pigeon-may-never-deciphered-182955040.html
Monday, December 20, 2010
Eclipse ~ A POEM ~ December 21, 2010
Eclipse
Light,
streaming,
then deflected,
changes ones perspective.
One source,
across cosmic time,
misunderstood reason?
why... green is a lime?
The eyes,
perceive what we desire,
not what may actually be,
electricity travels lightening quick,
synaptic highways like burning fires.
Thought,
then word,
printed we read.
Translation,
read carefully,
let not science deceive.
Feel life,
soaking all aspects in,
sight only a single sense,
how many do we really have,
friend?
Perspective,
always on my mind,
opening more now,
light always flows in,
even when there is,
an eclipse.
Winter solstice,
i thank you above,
for this light show,
living reality in the present,
no longer lost in mere myth.
Moon disappears,
only to my view of perspective,
still looming large in space,
reappears so soon... we now know.
Ancient civilizations,
placed weight often not known,
on these celestial light shows,
if and when to seed and soon first plow?
Messages from heavens,
so far away across space time,
senses all taking this in.
Learn the teachings of the learned,
insight offered cheap.
Vision and Faith always defeat sin.
Outside of myself,
is where I see best,
what it is I am suppose to see?
And dreams come true,
as I cruise through time,
traveling to, for me, His destiny.
Light,
streaming,
then deflected,
changes ones perspective.
One source,
across cosmic time,
misunderstood reason?
why... green is a lime?
The eyes,
perceive what we desire,
not what may actually be,
electricity travels lightening quick,
synaptic highways like burning fires.
Thought,
then word,
printed we read.
Translation,
read carefully,
let not science deceive.
Feel life,
soaking all aspects in,
sight only a single sense,
how many do we really have,
friend?
Perspective,
always on my mind,
opening more now,
light always flows in,
even when there is,
an eclipse.
Winter solstice,
i thank you above,
for this light show,
living reality in the present,
no longer lost in mere myth.
Moon disappears,
only to my view of perspective,
still looming large in space,
reappears so soon... we now know.
Ancient civilizations,
placed weight often not known,
on these celestial light shows,
if and when to seed and soon first plow?
Messages from heavens,
so far away across space time,
senses all taking this in.
Learn the teachings of the learned,
insight offered cheap.
Vision and Faith always defeat sin.
Outside of myself,
is where I see best,
what it is I am suppose to see?
And dreams come true,
as I cruise through time,
traveling to, for me, His destiny.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
I Am Setting Sail Again
From weakness...strength
prayers breeding Faith...
tears do roll and burn
down my face.
I miss
I hurt
but
I Loved
again!
Pain,
pass quick
I pray Dear Lord.
Blessings
come swift
lift me up.
A course
already chartered
I fill my sails again
Homeward Bound.
Memories
left behind
experiences gained.
I embark
today anew
upon this journey
life.
Peace,
Steve
We are all leaves of the same family tree...Live Life Today!
Today...I long for what I had yesterday...all gone...and today...I look forward for tomorrow's promises...and today I am most thankful for the gift of, "today". Things lost... I think...then I realize...are things I had to leave behind to move forward. There are many pages to a book, and often we are all on different ones...I am thankful to be a part of "our" book, which WE ALL share. Chapters closed sometimes hurt, as I do now...time again to turn the page, also called a leaf...I pray I turn to a new leaf we will all share and will see you when we all get there...where ever that destination may be...I keep reading and keep living. A Book, a tree from which we are all family, and each leaves...I wipe my tears away and feel blessed.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Posted as my question through the digital portal for the question section at enotes:
Posted as my question through the digital portal for the question section at enotes: (if bold this text did not exist at that site upon submission of my question proven no longer question, but rather fact, by the beautiful choice of such LANGUASGE! THAT IS SPELLLEDDDD WRRRROOOONNNNG!
Ich ben !
If you read where I explain about myself, then you are here now, question is this, May I, by my very own definintion, which I have written about my new musical genre be allowed to do so ?
If you are here now, please read the section, "Anything else you'd like to explain about yourself?"
I am John Stephen Swygert, a musician and fellow artist, I designed a new genre of music I call, "Effusio Spiritus Animus" and which my musical output creations are digitally called the band named " MobiusTripz"...hear me and laugh and live and love and live life
words are powerful
after reading the question section, keep this in mind please for your ponder. am I allowed to do this, like the art here in my sentence shuffle, thusly be able to declare this new musical genre to be a new genre, or mantra, if you will, that calls for Peace and celebration. The question many fold is this, can you ask a question in the middle of a sentence?, well I just did!. Who defines who made this new genre for life that we shall all enjoy. Peace is Coming! The last thing to end this paragrahicall digital loop of a question is, should there be any question at all?
Comments welcome!
Peace and Love
Please read the what is your question section if you are here now please.
I now await response? At 12:08 p.m. December 15 in this year we know as written here upon electronic digital air and silcon which we hail 2010.
AMEN!
Please see through this message,
as language is an art,
transforming the reader perspective,
Did I forget the question mark
perhaps I have this answer,
and peace so small its peaceful
will follow thee...
Like colorful butterflys from heaven,
fluttering sweetly by,
gliding through this spiritualizationixation,
I spelled it that way on purpose again!
The language is the key,
too the music ye makes in heaven,
which the soul through,
flows in me.
Every letter perfectly place,d
and words with such incision,
piercing into your mind as you read,
beautiful artfelt expression
Title
God is most perfect transparency
as we glide over the space we call time
I will turn all this language as written
now into music for all to hear,
I have the technology,
and the discretion,
Its time for the churches to hear,
Four horses have ridden,
over all time,
always asking such questions
and the time is now
to not suckle the cow
whos sweet milk was so freely with love given
I command ye to wake up and tune in...
so stay tuned from the time such noted,
a response I ask of thee all ye PEOPLE!
Now!
7
=
MobiusTripz
message in some
not all songs alike
we all have dark sides
transparency
a message loud and clear
clarity in reach,
all not aware!
Lets these word so sweet,as to roll of your tounge,
once were a groan or grunt, before I invented word,
LOGOS, first a thought,
thence all things flesh made.
I ask ye a question
not I demand you,
shall understand this,
set now our love free
free means all
no divide
love
.
The only question I have is
that you look now at once,
at yourself!
Not alone ever,
I am your royal highness
Om Nipo Tence
what is art is what
is laguage is art
is art is what is
and is
such as life is
and is
calm
love
hello
sweet friend
let thine words inspire
new good fire
rekindle
less sin
no sin
.
sin or no sin
human condition
fact not question
I could go on with word forever,
hate more NOT!
Now!
Align with this message
the channel is open
life full of portals
on time
we float
so gracefully
so gracefull, so gracefull,
so gracefull, so gracefull, so gracefull,
so gracefull, so gracefull,
so gracefull,
peace
to
all
.
.
.
.
.
f
o
l
l
o
w
n
o
w
ONE VISION!
!I AM WHO I AM!
He who is again man
or even manuscript
or a coy artist
being artful with word
that is sing as you read it
the words create flow
in a soul once more static
it feels so dramatic
relax I feel your soul
so may place I have known
lets share them together
I am here for you man
through manuscript
as I type
on such note as been dated
as written by MobiusTrpiz
a musical talent,
all from one
mind
one we all share
oh we all sing to Thee
a beautiful rebirth
a “Green ERA”
now present I give you so close to
such great holidays
all rejoice to such heaven,
stop admiring the nasty cash,
which as you read you taste in your mouth,
words touch the spirt,
use them wisely with deep wisdom,
from you learned from times that have passed
and then focus and tune in
what is your calling
quite simply and not quite simply when
one day a question
no longer has time to answer
all things revealed
open mind!
One
vision
humanity
now
!
see thy spirit
war no longer
kill no more
each other
principles all alike
communication a problem
pull it root from soil
leaving not a shred
atomically small
powerful enough TOGEHER NOW and emitting
on your LCD screen,
you may have yourself a
?
Who asks a question
when no one is listening
not even caring
not sweet
but teaching a lesson
forward with vision
one
time to learn and apply
all we have with a pureness
money such evil
no longer sharing
hoarding and jailing,
not enough healing,
words of such art now please I pray,
get through.
Such flow and such peace
envision in now,
and each we as one together
will swiftly fly forward
sweet kisses taste nectar
hatred no longer
al perspectives
ARE RIGHT
human
condition
gift
to enjoy
peace
now
peace now
peace
now
so
ng
hear it
word art
to enjoy
to love
aT ThIS mOmENt
CLOSE to word mountain,
artist misunderstood
I think not ever again...
communication
is what it is
lacking in wisdom
and understanding
STOP ANGER INSIDE YOU NOW
rejoice all sister and brother noW!
Let warmth, compassion now fill your hearts !.
Once again climbing mountains
no longer alone perhaps now
I pray you too understand!.
I am
peace
is art
is what
is
.
.
.one
.
Vision!
ALL
!
Ich ben !
If you read where I explain about myself, then you are here now, question is this, May I, by my very own definintion, which I have written about my new musical genre be allowed to do so ?
If you are here now, please read the section, "Anything else you'd like to explain about yourself?"
I am John Stephen Swygert, a musician and fellow artist, I designed a new genre of music I call, "Effusio Spiritus Animus" and which my musical output creations are digitally called the band named " MobiusTripz"...hear me and laugh and live and love and live life
words are powerful
after reading the question section, keep this in mind please for your ponder. am I allowed to do this, like the art here in my sentence shuffle, thusly be able to declare this new musical genre to be a new genre, or mantra, if you will, that calls for Peace and celebration. The question many fold is this, can you ask a question in the middle of a sentence?, well I just did!. Who defines who made this new genre for life that we shall all enjoy. Peace is Coming! The last thing to end this paragrahicall digital loop of a question is, should there be any question at all?
Comments welcome!
Peace and Love
Please read the what is your question section if you are here now please.
I now await response? At 12:08 p.m. December 15 in this year we know as written here upon electronic digital air and silcon which we hail 2010.
AMEN!
Please see through this message,
as language is an art,
transforming the reader perspective,
Did I forget the question mark
perhaps I have this answer,
and peace so small its peaceful
will follow thee...
Like colorful butterflys from heaven,
fluttering sweetly by,
gliding through this spiritualizationixation,
I spelled it that way on purpose again!
The language is the key,
too the music ye makes in heaven,
which the soul through,
flows in me.
Every letter perfectly place,d
and words with such incision,
piercing into your mind as you read,
beautiful artfelt expression
Title
God is most perfect transparency
as we glide over the space we call time
I will turn all this language as written
now into music for all to hear,
I have the technology,
and the discretion,
Its time for the churches to hear,
Four horses have ridden,
over all time,
always asking such questions
and the time is now
to not suckle the cow
whos sweet milk was so freely with love given
I command ye to wake up and tune in...
so stay tuned from the time such noted,
a response I ask of thee all ye PEOPLE!
Now!
7
=
MobiusTripz
message in some
not all songs alike
we all have dark sides
transparency
a message loud and clear
clarity in reach,
all not aware!
Lets these word so sweet,as to roll of your tounge,
once were a groan or grunt, before I invented word,
LOGOS, first a thought,
thence all things flesh made.
I ask ye a question
not I demand you,
shall understand this,
set now our love free
free means all
no divide
love
.
The only question I have is
that you look now at once,
at yourself!
Not alone ever,
I am your royal highness
Om Nipo Tence
what is art is what
is laguage is art
is art is what is
and is
such as life is
and is
calm
love
hello
sweet friend
let thine words inspire
new good fire
rekindle
less sin
no sin
.
sin or no sin
human condition
fact not question
I could go on with word forever,
hate more NOT!
Now!
Align with this message
the channel is open
life full of portals
on time
we float
so gracefully
so gracefull, so gracefull,
so gracefull, so gracefull, so gracefull,
so gracefull, so gracefull,
so gracefull,
peace
to
all
.
.
.
.
.
f
o
l
l
o
w
n
o
w
ONE VISION!
!I AM WHO I AM!
He who is again man
or even manuscript
or a coy artist
being artful with word
that is sing as you read it
the words create flow
in a soul once more static
it feels so dramatic
relax I feel your soul
so may place I have known
lets share them together
I am here for you man
through manuscript
as I type
on such note as been dated
as written by MobiusTrpiz
a musical talent,
all from one
mind
one we all share
oh we all sing to Thee
a beautiful rebirth
a “Green ERA”
now present I give you so close to
such great holidays
all rejoice to such heaven,
stop admiring the nasty cash,
which as you read you taste in your mouth,
words touch the spirt,
use them wisely with deep wisdom,
from you learned from times that have passed
and then focus and tune in
what is your calling
quite simply and not quite simply when
one day a question
no longer has time to answer
all things revealed
open mind!
One
vision
humanity
now
!
see thy spirit
war no longer
kill no more
each other
principles all alike
communication a problem
pull it root from soil
leaving not a shred
atomically small
powerful enough TOGEHER NOW and emitting
on your LCD screen,
you may have yourself a
?
Who asks a question
when no one is listening
not even caring
not sweet
but teaching a lesson
forward with vision
one
time to learn and apply
all we have with a pureness
money such evil
no longer sharing
hoarding and jailing,
not enough healing,
words of such art now please I pray,
get through.
Such flow and such peace
envision in now,
and each we as one together
will swiftly fly forward
sweet kisses taste nectar
hatred no longer
al perspectives
ARE RIGHT
human
condition
gift
to enjoy
peace
now
peace now
peace
now
so
ng
hear it
word art
to enjoy
to love
aT ThIS mOmENt
CLOSE to word mountain,
artist misunderstood
I think not ever again...
communication
is what it is
lacking in wisdom
and understanding
STOP ANGER INSIDE YOU NOW
rejoice all sister and brother noW!
Let warmth, compassion now fill your hearts !.
Once again climbing mountains
no longer alone perhaps now
I pray you too understand!.
I am
peace
is art
is what
is
.
.
.one
.
Vision!
ALL
!
DREAMY SUBMISSION ~ LYRICS ~ MobiusTripz ~ steve swygert
12-14-2010
DREAMY SUBMISSION
There's so much that’s happening
if you choose to open your eyes
take a look around
things are happening
really shouldn’t be no surprise
things that are prophetic...all around
so take a look at any channel
any channel found
its all around
its everywhere today
hey man can't you see it
you know we are on our way
just dream
you gotta find a groove
we got to get in it
and remember this
is all about perception
how you want to see
this world around you
so get in the dream
and dream with thee
and live those dreams when your awake
and find some peace
there should be peace
in the world
all around the world
we got the technology to succeed and share it
oh yeah...
dream on it tonight
think about how to make it right
and what can we do together
hand in hand
we can make this a better place for everybody
start with a smile
just a smile and a friend
start with a smile
Monday, December 13, 2010
ALIENATION ~ ALIEN NATION
definition:
•the feeling of being alienated from other people
•separation resulting from hostility
•(law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another; "the power of alienation is an essential ingredient of ownership"
•the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly; "his behavior alienated the other students"
ALIENATION ~ ALIEN NATION
Why is there so much alienation
in this not so alien nation
what has happened to good friends
I choose to practice patience.
Communication is imperative,
it molds our society,
misperceptions far too common,
acting again like royalty.
All so Alien,
this Alien Nation!
•the feeling of being alienated from other people
•separation resulting from hostility
•(law) the voluntary and absolute transfer of title and possession of real property from one person to another; "the power of alienation is an essential ingredient of ownership"
•the action of alienating; the action of causing to become unfriendly; "his behavior alienated the other students"
ALIENATION ~ ALIEN NATION
Why is there so much alienation
in this not so alien nation
what has happened to good friends
I choose to practice patience.
Communication is imperative,
it molds our society,
misperceptions far too common,
acting again like royalty.
~Legalize Weed 2011 ~ lyrics ~ MobiusTripz ~
Legalize Weed 2011
12-13-2010
Lots of things going on funny today
economy in dire straights
brothers in arms
we should legalize weed
cannabis, weed, smoke chronic everyday
many names to call it
get are medicine
in many sneaky ways
why throw a man in jail
when he ain’t doing nobody no shame
these laws are diabolic
playing silly legal games
Laws and Politics, silly games
good old country boys dismiss
because we live in the mountains
where the rattle snake can hiss
and you often feel them a coming
sneaking around your back
develop a sixth sense in these here hills
we ain’t talking bout smokin crack
we talking bout good old mother nature
not a heart attack legalize weed
legalize weed, legalize weed
legalize weed in 2011
got me a friend attorney
lives out in LA
Florida conference meeting
just the other day
his friend Keith Stroup attorney too
started NORML
he did this because the wise men
want to legalize weed
legalize weed
legalize weed
legalize weed
legalize weed 2011
ron paul is all for it,
time to get on board
it ain’t no gateway drug
it a gift from the lord
a simple little plant
genetic DNA with a plan
botany and God together
you cant outlaw God...silly man
good for my broken back
forget old perocet,
and damned old vicodan
could have had a heart attack
i do not know a doc
that says not to use it wise
they just cant prescribe it
propaganda tells foolish lies
legalize weed
legalize weed
legalize weed
legalize weed 2011
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Cloud Computing, Encryption, The Big 3, Coding, Federal Mergers, and the NOW of the Internet, reverb nation, facebook, myspace
What I have stated below, and added to overtime with only links and not editing the original content, has proven to be exactly right.
You can read quickly over the first few parts, as they are personal and simply qualify me,but do little more then that and may just be found to be boring overall.
However if you scroll down, you will see that what I had speculated through experience and education as far back as at least December 2010, has indeed come to fruition exactly as I had suggested.
I hope you will read this with an open mind, educate yourself, and share this knowledge as we venture forward into a new future.
THIS IS A MESSY WORK IN PROGRESS WITH A LOT OF GREAT INFO THAT HAS BEEN EXACTLY AS I PREDICTED, EDITED AND ADDED TO AS NOTED THROUGHOUT
LATEST UPDATE JUNE 08, 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/obama-defends-nsa_n_3406448.html?1370663741
LATEST UPDATE: 01-24-2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/google-transparency-report_n_2537153.html
You can read quickly over the first few parts, as they are personal and simply qualify me,but do little more then that and may just be found to be boring overall.
However if you scroll down, you will see that what I had speculated through experience and education as far back as at least December 2010, has indeed come to fruition exactly as I had suggested.
I hope you will read this with an open mind, educate yourself, and share this knowledge as we venture forward into a new future.
THIS IS A MESSY WORK IN PROGRESS WITH A LOT OF GREAT INFO THAT HAS BEEN EXACTLY AS I PREDICTED, EDITED AND ADDED TO AS NOTED THROUGHOUT
LATEST UPDATE JUNE 08, 2013
Obama Defends NSA, Says America Has To Make Choices Between Privacy And Security
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/obama-defends-nsa_n_3406448.html?1370663741
LATEST UPDATE: 01-24-2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/google-transparency-report_n_2537153.html
12-12-2010
First, I will offer some rather boring and personal background, to give this writing an overall better impact as it unravels...so bare with me through the boring...it gets good and it gets deep, and it all makes perfect sense!
This was in response to a question from a (actually several) users of reverbnation, (www.reverbnation.com), one place where I promote my music that I write.
They have had many issues with MySpace, who has seemingly recently fallen off the face of the net, after absolutely dominating it for many years!
They could not get their "widget" to work well, or at all most often, with the MySpace page.
I think we have all had this issue!, at least here if not elsewhere, and if your not a reverbnation user, perhaps you have noticed this trend at other sites, as I have.
I can rarely log in at MySpace..
At MySpace, reverbnation, and other sites I utilize, I am Steve Swygert by name, "MobiusTripz" as an artist/musical writer/musician/performer, and "rokkinroll" as a writer, when not utilizing my actual legal name, fully written and recorded as, "John Stephen Swygert".
The folks at MySpace are brilliant to reinvent their entire site thus far...that is pure frustrating dedication, and must be like watching their collective offspring suffer, as they try again and again to "fix" it.
so my answer to those that posted these questions, and too anyone else who reads this text follows:
PATIENCE...
With, Google, MSN, and Yahoo, all working in cahoots after the Feds did not allow any mergers between at least 2 of the BIG 3, after at least several news articles and several proposals, as reported, of the BIG 3 merging (or again at least a couple of them), the Big 3 have designed a new, intuitive code, that is shown in the new "internet browsers" that runs on a operating system that is based in "cloud computing", and therefore able to better utilize, not one or a few processors, but millions, all at once, instantly.
The computers we use in our homes and hands today are no where close to what scientists at M.I.T. (for example or i.e.), and other institutions are working on.
My ex father in law, Edgar Bishop Vandiver III, is the director of The C.A.A.
He holds the record for being the youngest S.E.S. ever in the history of the government here in the U.S.A., and is a brilliant physicist, but I would think most folks have no idea about him, as he leads a wonderful family life, is a humble dutiful man, and well admired.
I admittedly miss that man and he was one man I would actually listen too and be quiet around because everything he said had GREAT WEIGHT!
He was an incredible historian with a forte in military history and had a personal library that was astonishing, and he knew where every book was, with out any card catalog, it was in his head.
He was demanding and quite often appeared unemotional, however, I know that he was a deeply emotional man and driven to better the lives of those around him, which he offered to me and his daughter, my wife at the time, freely.
I appreciate that E.B., Thanks!
I too wanted the same end goal, however sometimes we cannot control unpredictable quantities, even when we think them predictable.
That outcome was an unfortunate divorce that left us all bitter.
For that, my sincere apologies, as I did best what I could under the situation and my ability at the time.
Back to the C.A.A., I suggest you look them up and see what they are all about.
Not much is reported about this very powerful government agency, so good luck!
They plan war gaming and propose logistical as well as run logistical software to project (forsee) and analyze, possible conflicts and outcomes.
When it was suggested that we cut spending equally across the board from all the branches of the armed service s in the U.S.A., it was my father in laws idea that we NOT do that, and he explained why.
Basically, it came down to this. If we did so we would no longer be able to be able to support to major conflicts in separate theaters.
In more layman terms, we could not have war in two separate regions or areas in different parts of the world at the same time and be successful, or if successful, we would at least still have larger casualties, and other expenditures in the long run, etc.etc.etc.
Well his proposition won, and what happened is that most of the cuts were made elsewhere so that the overall effect of budget saving was effectively accomplished and the monies now available were spread out, or re appropriated or earmarked for a new era.
This was the beginning of the post COLD WAR ERA, as far as a new underlying philosophy so far as war gaming was concerned.
There are many topics that arise when thinking about this, however, I will do my best to stick with the mission here of explaining what I see happening with what I first stated.
Their (C.A.A.)computers in the year 1998 were upgraded every 3 months at a minimum.
...think of how often it must be now...or are the new computers simple work stations tied to the mainframe where the super computers are...just food for thought...
That upgrade schedule was told directly to me from my father in law.
I have a lot of experience with computers starting at an very very early age, having first had a TRS 80 - III, and literally hundreds of desktops since then.
I have programmed, written code, flow charted, tore down and rebuilt, repaired, net worked, built from scratch, diagnosed, studied electronics, etc. and more when it comes to computers.
I have also been a car enthusiast all my life , well since about age 15. I am a natural mechanic, as any friend of mine knows too well.
I have fixed many cars that others could not diagnose with computers they could plug in to utilize (OBD systems, utilized roughly since the early 80's on a mass production like level), and I often have done this based on symptoms (as reported by owner or driver), gut feeling (my own, and perhaps after consultation with another mechanic), but most importantly, research of the vehicles wiring schematics, with the knowledge of how the entire system works.
Only in that way can you accurately trace an issue of unknown origin, and then therefore, properly repair it.
I often find vehicles cheap with tons of life left and simple misdiagnosed problems that are "cake" (easy) to repair, and although I may often drive old junk. At 42. I am proud to say I have never had a car payment!
Learning all these computer related skills and assimilating the knowledge...well, that is not easily done without countless ours of studying!...however innate the ability at first, there must be knowledge that is then interwoven with that ability, and then while keeping an open mind and therefore understanding that anything must be perceived as a possibility if unable to be dis-proven, you are able to move forward with new knowledge and experience past that helps define more quickly what is an issue, or help you identify what was once merely apparition like in nature.
Intermittent problems with vehicles are always a huge issue...usually simple fixes that take countless hours to isolate.
The great thing, is that the technology evolves too...and I am not saying that I believe that this technology is either good or bad, I am being open minded about that.
My Father is a West Point grad as well as my brother...so I do not come from a long line of crazies.
I studied Police Science, earning a degree in APPLIED SCIENCE, and I have played the viola in the orchestra and was classically trained, play guitar, sing, write poetry and lyrics, etc., etc., etc.
I want to be transparent for a reason. It is a simple philosophy I believe in that I think is deeply more pure.
I have worn many hats, be it a car mechanic all my life, or a manager at a bicycle shop, or an auto repair shop, a singer in a band, a naturalist at heart or a Boy Scout, last but certainly not least.
I have lived beyond my wildest expectations.
As a Boy Scout, our motto is," Be Prepared".
This is easily understood and whence further applied later in life with more knowledge, it too gets redefined.
Be prepared means having sound education, exercising great reasoning, having a willingness and open mindedness (open mindedness was explained in a funny story around the birthday table of celebration by my ex father in law, who I admired)
As a West Point brat and brother too another West Pointer, their motto is, "Duty Honor, Country". and trust when I say this from first hand experience, and being a black sheep at times, this motto is deep inside of the core of these men, and it is GOOD! My father and brother are fundamentally sound of mind, body, and spirit, and exercise judgment most often 99% of the time second to none I have seen elsewhere in my life.
They are honest, giving, loving, caring, and passionate about what is the Constitution of the Untied States of America, and they deeply understand the incredible dynamics that were so beautifully written into such an incredibly inspired construct that is the foundation of our current nation, and equally, has served as the same foundation for other fledgling nations, not to say that we are not still fledglings ourselves.
The Constitution is a great foundation, however the mountain is rumbling and the foundation is solid but shaking...and the building upon which were made on this foundation are floundering.
Let's hope this shake up we are in the midst of, shapes things in such a way that we all have prosperity and freedom as so offered to us through our constitution.
Otherwise, it is time to design a new system, such as we are doing with health care, and then implement this new system with the same basic philosophy, and make it efficient by doing away with the red tape.
Technology can help this, it does not mean however, that it will.
Our system is flawed in dynamic ways...we need a more static system, although nothing is truly static., if it was closer to static, at least we would be able to better see what is coming to be more well prepared for it, and often prevent it.
We can live in a world with no war...and that time is NOW!
There is no excuse for war today, just as there is no excuse for the lack of accountability for those responsible for it.
I heard the Pentagon get hit by that plane.
I was molested by a Pakistani growing up.
I grew up a Christian.
I do not hate anyone, and I certainly do not hate Muslims...rather I pray with them that we all have peace and understanding and learn collectively so that this will NEVER happen again!
The point is, as much as what happened to me personally can and did war
It hurts my soul the way it must for them when they see our military there strike with SINISTER precision.
My Father and Brother are military men, but they are men that promote Peace, certainly not war.
So seeing things a little more from my perspective I will get back to the issue at hand and describe exactly what I see and its inherent massive implications and ramifications, and hopefully as easily understandable as possible, thus revealing the cloaks of many.
p my mind in a certain way, it has given me insight into hatred, into self abuse, into so much that if there was a real reason to have hatred in us, I would certainly be a huge example of someone that would be manifested with it...and I am not.
I forgive, which takes time, and i learn and share, and try to move on collectively with friends, all learning and sharing together.
So back to this computer stuff and the problems of MySpace, and most sites that are having similar issues. (and by the way, one of my many computers runs I.E. beta, which I was offered to opt in, as i have always tried to help Microsoft if so offered, and i am sure the information gained by myself and others utilizing beta version sis priceless to this company! It is also equally educational using them if one pays attention.
Oracle is a great new one to try...it is housed under, "OpenOffice" and is FREE ! It works beautifully, and is smooth as silk, however, the inherent dangers I spoke of exist here too...and better yet...this is more then likely mirrored before encryption takes place...I sure wish hard drives were as loud as they use to be.
I will design a system that shows an LED for HD access from within my computer, vs, from anywhere from the net, and I will interface that with a program to see the source I.P Address trying to access my HD.
If someone else want to do this in a small USB device and software built into a chip (like a Magic-Jack)...go for it...it will help us all...then we can allow at the very level of intrusion (the doorway in to our computer) an easy way to be aware and allow or dis allow access. It could have a physical switch (meaning not electronic) that could be switch easily to dis-connect from the net whenever so desired.
Here is what is happening now, as the BIG 3, try to further standardize the industry (computing), utilizing new technology and coding, however swiftly improving so that "streaming" will be quicker,
As of now, with the band width limitations thus far on us and with its ever increasing demand, both are currently again still too slow, although seemingly light years away from their origin.
This can easily be explained under the dynamics of Supply and Demand Theory and is a perfect application of its principles.
MySpace has greatly struggled to stay afloat as of recent, and they have always suffered from "traffic jams" on their site because they were the first site to have such massive congestion, just like an overcrowded interstate, like in Alexandria, Virginia, where I grew up. I am all too familiar with traffic jams.
The point here is that all the same "flow dynamics" are applicable, scientifically.
Obviously FB is on board with "the other guys", as the "News Media" recently reported their owner working closely with Bill Gates, to mention one name of many, in philanthropy, perhaps just another cloak to hide behind, and Lord above us all, I hope beyond hope that I am wrong.
Because of this new coding demand (NetFlix is currently offering $ 1,000,000 for a code better then what they have currently), see this link,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cinematch&redirect=no,
which now NetFlix has suggested a redirect after I was the original poster to Wikipedia (because since my posting it first on Wikipedia, it has since been awarded a s a team came up with a better code and won the prize, so the redirect will show) which brings another point...where is the credit for the time it took me to record that information on that site...once again...credit not given where credit is due...I act as historian often when I write, record, contribute, etc. so why now does this appear this way instead of the way I reported it?
Perhaps their is a logical explanation, however, if it undermines history by reporting or recording in improperly, then things quickly unravel further out of perspective.
The links here are history and traceable enough.
Anyways ( I hate this expression, but it is in our vernacular and so natural now), it is quite plain to see that their is a struggle in the philosophy of the internet that is stronger now then ever before.
It was often discussed early on, (Internet Early Philosophy) that the, "coding" be free.
Microsoft fought, as Dokken would say, Tooth and Nail, to keep their code private, and won, over what appeared to be incredible odds.
Money may not buy Love as the Beatles said, but it buys most any and everything else.
Their are many browsers that are already out their based on free source code, which worked great, however, are now suffering major setbacks.
Cloud computing is not a new theme, and it is this philosophy, that is the foundation for the new work done by these corporate giants, to further shift the profit of the industry their direction, thus gaining and even larger marketplace and share of profit, thus further dominating the internet and further controlling this form of media, soon to be the only form left, as print, like news papers and magazines and even perhaps the dictionary, are not being printed in some cases, or at least are transforming themselves in an act of mere survival, not prosperity. This has had a trickle down effect over our entire economy, as we have all seen first hand and experienced.
It may sound conspiracy like in nature as I am reporting this, however, it is an obvious and well reported fact, if you know how to read well, do read well, and then have the understanding to place the pieces in their proper perspective.
MySpace use to dominate. I like FB too.
The fact is, if MySpace rolled out a redesign of their site, and it has taken this long (??? ridiculous issues), with continual problems, and as good as the folks are that work for them, would they possibly do this on purpose?
They would never intentionally alienate their users, which is what has and is happening.
MySpace will get things to work, but it is taking time. I do not think they see the massive implications of what is going on here. I do not think the Feds see it either, or they are casually looking the other way, which is the more likely fact of the matter.
If your reading this here...do not expect to read it else where, as it is hard to get this information out there, as that is also a very controlled portion of this entire juxtaposition. The problems of the ages have always universally fit perfectly under problems with language, and therefore communication, understanding, and unfortunately, what leads to turmoil, in forms of greed, selfishness, and ultimately in the worst case scenario, WAR.
God forbid that we ever get close to that, but "the people" are already getting stomped on.
Education and a voice is where we start.
In the meantime...(musician friends from reverbnation in particular)write about it in the music we are all inspired to write. The music is the language of the many that are called collectively GOD!
Perspective is a unique, inherent, inalienable right, far deeper then any other innate right! Share it, because each of us have only our own, and we need to express that individuality so that we are all closer to being on the same page, of the same book, in the same language, with greater and deeper understanding, to therefore have vision, and be able to stop the problems before they get started.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
Just look what companies own what companies, and can be hidden to easily from the public eye as subsidiaries, of subsidiaries, of subsidiaries, ad infinitum, of corporations, which are also subsidiaries, of even larger corporations, which eventually, through a lot of due diligence, always lead back to the source.
Evil exists and manifest always from its root and from their it spreads...so to get the evil out we pull the entire root out, or like a Dandelion in the yard (which I actually like to eat as they are more nutritious then most anything at our markets, generally speaking) if we leave just a small part of that root, from their it regrows, and then again multiplies.
Every email you send, all transactions, any communications that you send PERIOD...all go to a server over the internet.
On these servers are what are referred to as "mirrors".
These mirrors, like the one in your bathroom at home, reflect or can see the encoded message, as sent.
It can also "decode" this or these messages, and help prevent them from finding their original and/or intended destination, if that is so chosen by the "interceptor".
This could potentially be the largest FRAUD and intentionally misconstrued theft in the history of The United States of America!... and I do not say that lightly ! It tears and erodes the very Constitution itself, and must be stopped as we all work together peacefully.
With the advent of modern technology and the "cloud" operating system, which we are suppose to believe is just another mundane upgrade as well as further standardization (which it may well be to a degree, but that is not the entire truth, it is only what is offered as the truth thus far), what has really transpired is that these folks in cahoots, are really introducing a new operating system that will become the industry standard, and they are doing this as a floating cloud operating system, that actually exists on millions, if not billions of servers.
UPDATE: 04-07-2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/google-policy-violation-checker_n_3224363.html
SUPER POWER FOR THE SUPER POWERFUL !!!
If you are online, it is reported everywhere and is an undeniable fact that you are able to be "viewed".
C.I.A., F.B.I. etc., ...you get the picture, and they already have too if you have read this to this point!
That is a fact !
NOTHING IS TRULY ENCRYPTED...THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS !!!
THERE IS OR THEY ARE WORKING ON A COMPUTER CODE (I will call, " The code of Everything AO)
Where is the Constitution in all of this???...pertaining at the very least to the USA? not to mention more importantly, the impact of the world economy, quickly failing on a massive level?
Secrecy and this "vail" being used are obvious inherent dangers that show me clearly that the direction overall of what is happening is sin based, or from another point of view, greed (one of the 7 DEADLY SINS) based.
Sins are in all religions!
This is not a philosophically religious statement or meant to be read that way, although it may help the reader in an instance like this to have deeper enlightenment and therefore understanding of the issue at hand.
Language, all language that we know today, is changing rapidly as the technology that drives our communication advances and communication therefore has a faster vehicle in which to travel.
All texts of recorded time, be it religious, scientific, or fictional, get harder to read from their original form first written in (like perhaps the Bible in Aramaic or Hebrew (still hotly debated as a matter of fact))... as we as a species evolve.
The ancient texts need rosetta stones (some of which have been found), just to be deciphered.
All the texts of lore that are religious have been transcribed time and time again, really as to not be able to be deleted from history, not so much that they have been the benefactor of a more concise and efficient language, because what has been proven through the very passage of time itself is that language is always the barrier that breaks down societies, civilizations, and people at the most basic level.
The CIA, the FBI, and all Law Enforcement in general can scan the (encrypted data packets) for "clues", as to what is coming (in way of terrorism, threats, etc.), and they do this by collecting mirror images off of these servers, unencrypt the data packets, (which we think so well encrypted), and they have powerful coding themselves, that is easily able to decipher, scan, analyze, and then compare to ranges of information and then therefore, statistically extract whatever it may be that they are looking for..i.e.
legalize marijuana, or bomb, or al queda, or maybe your name, or your address, or your thoughts as you write them to be recorded, as I will do and have done here.
Osama Bin Laden is not in Cumberland, Maryland. So they can cross that off the list! I do have a sense of humor, as I hope, the reader, whomever you are, does too.
Here is how transparent I am.
John Stephen Swygert
461 North Waverly Terrace
Cumberland, Maryland
21502
U.S.A.
240-345-5654
The music industry of old is long dead and gone.
...so my personal juxtaposition as a broken artist (financially and physically) is where I find myself today...reinventing myself in order to pursue freedoms that are inherent, while being squashed like a bug in a system we all see is massively flawed and no longer valid as a means to advance swiftly for the overall good of all of us collectively.
We artists and scientists alike are threatened, as well as we common men, TODAY, especially if and/ or when independent, that if we do not conform to the thing that we, in our very nature most detest (conforming...being told what to do) on a human not spiritual level, and I do mean intrinsically (the essence of existing in the nature itself of the very thing of which I speak which is this new evolving flawed system), we will ALL suffer and fail, as we see rapidly happening around us.
I have had to deal with denial many times in my life's adventure, so I am not oblivious to what I see. Reread the above sentence carefully. It is difficult to perhaps understand fully, unless read slowly, with focus and great thought, and open mind, and especially paying particular attention not just to the verbiage used, but equally to the grammar and punctuation.
As we build, intent must be broad or specific, depending on the projected outcome.
Writing is an art and a science, and it is important to understand that basic philosophy, as has been passed to me by so many, including Mr Gray, my sixth grade teacher, My Father, My Brother, or Senor (Mr.) Leonard Ahearn, my Spanish teacher, also a WW II survivor and leading infantry man in the invasion of Normandy, of which I have been told from his very mouth incredible stories of FEAR, VICTORY, THOUGHT, SHARING, etc, that words are hard to explain...you had to see the face of the man I saw telling me the news from his life.
WikiLeaks is a MASSIVE THREAT too the very concept, as in unravels.
This scares the heck out of the very people that are doing exactly what I am explaining, and it is they that further crush us down and continually pummel us as we suffer more deeply each day!
This man (of WikiLeaks) is now jailed. Just a fact of the matter, my opinion not included.
He has been and/or was essential to releasing what should not have been private to start with.
If you want something private for crying out loud, DO NOT SEND IT ACROSS THE WEB!
He released things that show the corporate greed everywhere, and I admire that he has done so, with the help of so many others.
I understand that a government may have to act in secrecy at times, especially for or dealing with concerns of national defense, however, these things are far above and beyond that particular touchy subject.
I hope his "side charges" are merely an illusion, as I would like to think of no child ever hurt by any monster as has he who has it been alleged.
Patience, experience, understanding and learning are all valuable as we assimilate all we know today and create a bigger more clear picture, both as individuals and collectively.
Think about all of this with an open mind, please.
Worst case scenario, I am an absolute idiot and wrong, which time has proven to me personally and repeatedly, not true.
I have been published many times, I have a degree, and I am a learned and experienced man at the young age of 42.
Best case scenario, I would like to be proven wrong, as I do not say any of this for notoriety, fame, or fortune, but simply because it is the truth, and it is the truth that always sets "us" free.
So share this, use or try or apply this philosophy to analyze everything you read, do, and think.
Do not let it control you, or you are a product of its inherent flaws, built in to this corruption of a system.
I will end with this:
One night while working on my personal theory of everything, or as scientists say, the unification theory, or in my case, what I call, " The Swygert Theory of Unification AO", I was running some computations, with a massive program I designed, and I am still working on...it ran a long time, which I was certain meant at the very least, parts of this massive encoding where working very well.
He lives in New Zealand, and his Mom was in utter shock.
He usually can only paste in text that is always appearing on my end of the messenger mis-spelled the exact wrong way every time.
He makes many, many attempts to communicate, sometimes offering what appears to be an answer in English, which I knew meant something deeply...he wants to communicate...and I have a mind that can figure this out, and therefore must, because no man should be alone if anyone can help him.
I was able to translate plain English into pictures in order to communicate with a young man on a messenger service.
This was a great success.
This was only a small portion of what I am working on, which is language, origin, intent, etc.
What was weird is this:
I got a call and a hang up from these folks (added -1-14-2013 The National Institute of Standards and Technology OR P.C.S.G, http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Cryptography_Study_Group), while I was running the program on my Mac Mini.
There was noise in the back ground as I answered, and it continued. I got no response when I answered with a kind, "hello". I waited, as I thought this was rather odd, and I continued to hear the noises in the background. I hung up after a short time, and many more attempts of saying hello, trying to get a response.
There was no hang up, and I continued to hear the noise. It was quite obvious that they wanted me to know they were there!
I then hung up.
I googled the number, and called it back.
It stated that it was not in service, although what I found was that the number went to a government agency that works specifically with numbers, cryptography, and code, all infinitely related, of course.
I have the name of the agency, the phone number, and address recorded, and it should easily be able to be found on other records, perhaps. The National Institute of Standards and Technology.
EDIT ~ AND NEEDS MORE EDITING ~ FIND OLD # ~ MAYBE MAGIC JACK, ROUGHLLY APRIL TO DECEMBER 2010 (MAYBE JAN TO DEC 2010, BUT DEFINITELY ALL IN 2010) GO BACK TO PROGRAMS I CODED AND ENCRYPTED DOCUMENTS THAT I STORED ELSEWHERE)
~ STRIKE FROM ORIGINAL...START HERE~ I do not remember the exact name of the agency, although it had a word close to numismatic, which is of course the term used in coin collecting.
EDIT ~ ADDED 01 14 2013
I think now it was the P.C.S.G., as it was stamps and not coins I was thinking of and there is a P.C.S.G. organization using this acronym to that is about stamp collecting.
/EDIT
Obviously it was close to the root “numeral”, and I am sure some research will find the correct name easily, it just happens that this was one of many thousands of agencies that is not heard from often in the media, and I was unaware of it before this happened.
I will dig deeper to find these items of importance, because they are in themselves some sort of proof that makes total sense.
They called almost immediately, within just a few minutes, of me running this program.
well read this (link to copy and paste in browser included below)...amazing stuff !!!...then come back and finish this...
http://www.ncoic.com/nsacodes.htm
EDIT ~ END HERE PERHAPS
/EDIT
Lots to consider here in what I have written thus far. All rather wild sounding when read perhaps, but only the truth from my behalf and this needs to be deeply explored, now that it is exposed!
Sincerely, John Stephen Swygert
I intend on sending this to many friends that are notable, scientists, politicians on a local, State, and Federal level, as well as having this posted here, after I print the final product and have several copies stored safely.
Again, I ask that you keep an open mind and think of the implications if I am correct. which I am certain I am.
However again, I would rather be crazy, as that would weigh less on my mind then what I see happening to all of us now under these most difficult times.
I will close with this:
Many men can drive a single man mad, but being mad and crazy are two entirely different animals.
I am mad as in upset, mad as in brilliant, and mad as in angry.
I am focused and clear in thought, although much of my studies that have consumed me lately reading have been a huge volume to assimilate and even begin to understand at the most basic levels, however, as the picture is more clear in my mind's eye, the knowledge of what I have read and experienced easily on a daily basis display to my mind's eye a huge and clear picture as to the reality that we do live in, and that things are so often not what they appear on, " the surface", so to speak.
We are a complex species among many, in a complex world, in an exceedingly further reaching universe of complexity.
With each facets that gets exposed, more doors open, and portals exist now physically that many men choose to walk through that are not places that we as a civilized species should mess with.
That much is at least reported daily in our news.
What is more interesting is that there is more then likely much less revealed then what has been revealed so far, because brilliant people working together wanted it all kept secret, and if something is designed in the beginning in secret, then it is intrinsic, to use this word again, that it is both powerful and perhaps worst of all dangerous.
John Stephen Swygert
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ADDED ON MAY 08, 2012:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/4-high-tech-ways-federal-government-spying-private-153556125.html
ADDED 05-29-2012:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/powerful-flame-cyber-weapon-found-135931201.html
The comments here (mostly) are quite silly...these viruses are designed to seek certain exact pieces of hardware...they are not active until that exact match(es) is found and penetrated...they are quite specific, very powerful, and this is just the cutting edge coding of what "the cloud" will bring. Those seeking the virus should be much more concerned about who placed the digital fingerprint and code in the hardware...you cannot find the proverbial needle in the haystack if the needle is not there to begin with...just imagine a chip that has a fingerprint, is mass produced, and then sold worldwide...only later to be activated by it's messenger virus, which in turn activates coding in the hardware to open a window of access to, "those in the know" so to speak...this is why old platforms are becoming outdated and obsolete, not because they do not work on the web, but because they cannot be manipulated like all of the new technology. Privacy seems more and more to be a thing of the past. Great skill in this technology...just hope it is being used for the greater good...but no one can ever seem to agree on just what that is all the time.
First, I will offer some rather boring and personal background, to give this writing an overall better impact as it unravels...so bare with me through the boring...it gets good and it gets deep, and it all makes perfect sense!
This was in response to a question from a (actually several) users of reverbnation, (www.reverbnation.com), one place where I promote my music that I write.
They have had many issues with MySpace, who has seemingly recently fallen off the face of the net, after absolutely dominating it for many years!
They could not get their "widget" to work well, or at all most often, with the MySpace page.
I think we have all had this issue!, at least here if not elsewhere, and if your not a reverbnation user, perhaps you have noticed this trend at other sites, as I have.
I can rarely log in at MySpace..
At MySpace, reverbnation, and other sites I utilize, I am Steve Swygert by name, "MobiusTripz" as an artist/musical writer/musician/performer, and "rokkinroll" as a writer, when not utilizing my actual legal name, fully written and recorded as, "John Stephen Swygert".
The folks at MySpace are brilliant to reinvent their entire site thus far...that is pure frustrating dedication, and must be like watching their collective offspring suffer, as they try again and again to "fix" it.
so my answer to those that posted these questions, and too anyone else who reads this text follows:
PATIENCE...
With, Google, MSN, and Yahoo, all working in cahoots after the Feds did not allow any mergers between at least 2 of the BIG 3, after at least several news articles and several proposals, as reported, of the BIG 3 merging (or again at least a couple of them), the Big 3 have designed a new, intuitive code, that is shown in the new "internet browsers" that runs on a operating system that is based in "cloud computing", and therefore able to better utilize, not one or a few processors, but millions, all at once, instantly.
The computers we use in our homes and hands today are no where close to what scientists at M.I.T. (for example or i.e.), and other institutions are working on.
My ex father in law, Edgar Bishop Vandiver III, is the director of The C.A.A.
He holds the record for being the youngest S.E.S. ever in the history of the government here in the U.S.A., and is a brilliant physicist, but I would think most folks have no idea about him, as he leads a wonderful family life, is a humble dutiful man, and well admired.
I admittedly miss that man and he was one man I would actually listen too and be quiet around because everything he said had GREAT WEIGHT!
He was an incredible historian with a forte in military history and had a personal library that was astonishing, and he knew where every book was, with out any card catalog, it was in his head.
He was demanding and quite often appeared unemotional, however, I know that he was a deeply emotional man and driven to better the lives of those around him, which he offered to me and his daughter, my wife at the time, freely.
I appreciate that E.B., Thanks!
I too wanted the same end goal, however sometimes we cannot control unpredictable quantities, even when we think them predictable.
That outcome was an unfortunate divorce that left us all bitter.
For that, my sincere apologies, as I did best what I could under the situation and my ability at the time.
Back to the C.A.A., I suggest you look them up and see what they are all about.
Not much is reported about this very powerful government agency, so good luck!
They plan war gaming and propose logistical as well as run logistical software to project (forsee) and analyze, possible conflicts and outcomes.
When it was suggested that we cut spending equally across the board from all the branches of the armed service s in the U.S.A., it was my father in laws idea that we NOT do that, and he explained why.
Basically, it came down to this. If we did so we would no longer be able to be able to support to major conflicts in separate theaters.
In more layman terms, we could not have war in two separate regions or areas in different parts of the world at the same time and be successful, or if successful, we would at least still have larger casualties, and other expenditures in the long run, etc.etc.etc.
Well his proposition won, and what happened is that most of the cuts were made elsewhere so that the overall effect of budget saving was effectively accomplished and the monies now available were spread out, or re appropriated or earmarked for a new era.
This was the beginning of the post COLD WAR ERA, as far as a new underlying philosophy so far as war gaming was concerned.
There are many topics that arise when thinking about this, however, I will do my best to stick with the mission here of explaining what I see happening with what I first stated.
Their (C.A.A.)computers in the year 1998 were upgraded every 3 months at a minimum.
...think of how often it must be now...or are the new computers simple work stations tied to the mainframe where the super computers are...just food for thought...
That upgrade schedule was told directly to me from my father in law.
I have a lot of experience with computers starting at an very very early age, having first had a TRS 80 - III, and literally hundreds of desktops since then.
I have programmed, written code, flow charted, tore down and rebuilt, repaired, net worked, built from scratch, diagnosed, studied electronics, etc. and more when it comes to computers.
I have also been a car enthusiast all my life , well since about age 15. I am a natural mechanic, as any friend of mine knows too well.
I have fixed many cars that others could not diagnose with computers they could plug in to utilize (OBD systems, utilized roughly since the early 80's on a mass production like level), and I often have done this based on symptoms (as reported by owner or driver), gut feeling (my own, and perhaps after consultation with another mechanic), but most importantly, research of the vehicles wiring schematics, with the knowledge of how the entire system works.
Only in that way can you accurately trace an issue of unknown origin, and then therefore, properly repair it.
I often find vehicles cheap with tons of life left and simple misdiagnosed problems that are "cake" (easy) to repair, and although I may often drive old junk. At 42. I am proud to say I have never had a car payment!
Learning all these computer related skills and assimilating the knowledge...well, that is not easily done without countless ours of studying!...however innate the ability at first, there must be knowledge that is then interwoven with that ability, and then while keeping an open mind and therefore understanding that anything must be perceived as a possibility if unable to be dis-proven, you are able to move forward with new knowledge and experience past that helps define more quickly what is an issue, or help you identify what was once merely apparition like in nature.
Intermittent problems with vehicles are always a huge issue...usually simple fixes that take countless hours to isolate.
The great thing, is that the technology evolves too...and I am not saying that I believe that this technology is either good or bad, I am being open minded about that.
My Father is a West Point grad as well as my brother...so I do not come from a long line of crazies.
I studied Police Science, earning a degree in APPLIED SCIENCE, and I have played the viola in the orchestra and was classically trained, play guitar, sing, write poetry and lyrics, etc., etc., etc.
I want to be transparent for a reason. It is a simple philosophy I believe in that I think is deeply more pure.
I have worn many hats, be it a car mechanic all my life, or a manager at a bicycle shop, or an auto repair shop, a singer in a band, a naturalist at heart or a Boy Scout, last but certainly not least.
I have lived beyond my wildest expectations.
As a Boy Scout, our motto is," Be Prepared".
This is easily understood and whence further applied later in life with more knowledge, it too gets redefined.
Be prepared means having sound education, exercising great reasoning, having a willingness and open mindedness (open mindedness was explained in a funny story around the birthday table of celebration by my ex father in law, who I admired)
As a West Point brat and brother too another West Pointer, their motto is, "Duty Honor, Country". and trust when I say this from first hand experience, and being a black sheep at times, this motto is deep inside of the core of these men, and it is GOOD! My father and brother are fundamentally sound of mind, body, and spirit, and exercise judgment most often 99% of the time second to none I have seen elsewhere in my life.
They are honest, giving, loving, caring, and passionate about what is the Constitution of the Untied States of America, and they deeply understand the incredible dynamics that were so beautifully written into such an incredibly inspired construct that is the foundation of our current nation, and equally, has served as the same foundation for other fledgling nations, not to say that we are not still fledglings ourselves.
The Constitution is a great foundation, however the mountain is rumbling and the foundation is solid but shaking...and the building upon which were made on this foundation are floundering.
Let's hope this shake up we are in the midst of, shapes things in such a way that we all have prosperity and freedom as so offered to us through our constitution.
Otherwise, it is time to design a new system, such as we are doing with health care, and then implement this new system with the same basic philosophy, and make it efficient by doing away with the red tape.
Technology can help this, it does not mean however, that it will.
Our system is flawed in dynamic ways...we need a more static system, although nothing is truly static., if it was closer to static, at least we would be able to better see what is coming to be more well prepared for it, and often prevent it.
We can live in a world with no war...and that time is NOW!
There is no excuse for war today, just as there is no excuse for the lack of accountability for those responsible for it.
I heard the Pentagon get hit by that plane.
I was molested by a Pakistani growing up.
I grew up a Christian.
I do not hate anyone, and I certainly do not hate Muslims...rather I pray with them that we all have peace and understanding and learn collectively so that this will NEVER happen again!
The point is, as much as what happened to me personally can and did war
It hurts my soul the way it must for them when they see our military there strike with SINISTER precision.
My Father and Brother are military men, but they are men that promote Peace, certainly not war.
So seeing things a little more from my perspective I will get back to the issue at hand and describe exactly what I see and its inherent massive implications and ramifications, and hopefully as easily understandable as possible, thus revealing the cloaks of many.
p my mind in a certain way, it has given me insight into hatred, into self abuse, into so much that if there was a real reason to have hatred in us, I would certainly be a huge example of someone that would be manifested with it...and I am not.
I forgive, which takes time, and i learn and share, and try to move on collectively with friends, all learning and sharing together.
So back to this computer stuff and the problems of MySpace, and most sites that are having similar issues. (and by the way, one of my many computers runs I.E. beta, which I was offered to opt in, as i have always tried to help Microsoft if so offered, and i am sure the information gained by myself and others utilizing beta version sis priceless to this company! It is also equally educational using them if one pays attention.
Oracle is a great new one to try...it is housed under, "OpenOffice" and is FREE ! It works beautifully, and is smooth as silk, however, the inherent dangers I spoke of exist here too...and better yet...this is more then likely mirrored before encryption takes place...I sure wish hard drives were as loud as they use to be.
I will design a system that shows an LED for HD access from within my computer, vs, from anywhere from the net, and I will interface that with a program to see the source I.P Address trying to access my HD.
If someone else want to do this in a small USB device and software built into a chip (like a Magic-Jack)...go for it...it will help us all...then we can allow at the very level of intrusion (the doorway in to our computer) an easy way to be aware and allow or dis allow access. It could have a physical switch (meaning not electronic) that could be switch easily to dis-connect from the net whenever so desired.
Here is what is happening now, as the BIG 3, try to further standardize the industry (computing), utilizing new technology and coding, however swiftly improving so that "streaming" will be quicker,
As of now, with the band width limitations thus far on us and with its ever increasing demand, both are currently again still too slow, although seemingly light years away from their origin.
This can easily be explained under the dynamics of Supply and Demand Theory and is a perfect application of its principles.
MySpace has greatly struggled to stay afloat as of recent, and they have always suffered from "traffic jams" on their site because they were the first site to have such massive congestion, just like an overcrowded interstate, like in Alexandria, Virginia, where I grew up. I am all too familiar with traffic jams.
The point here is that all the same "flow dynamics" are applicable, scientifically.
Obviously FB is on board with "the other guys", as the "News Media" recently reported their owner working closely with Bill Gates, to mention one name of many, in philanthropy, perhaps just another cloak to hide behind, and Lord above us all, I hope beyond hope that I am wrong.
Because of this new coding demand (NetFlix is currently offering $ 1,000,000 for a code better then what they have currently), see this link,
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cinematch&redirect=no,
which now NetFlix has suggested a redirect after I was the original poster to Wikipedia (because since my posting it first on Wikipedia, it has since been awarded a s a team came up with a better code and won the prize, so the redirect will show) which brings another point...where is the credit for the time it took me to record that information on that site...once again...credit not given where credit is due...I act as historian often when I write, record, contribute, etc. so why now does this appear this way instead of the way I reported it?
Perhaps their is a logical explanation, however, if it undermines history by reporting or recording in improperly, then things quickly unravel further out of perspective.
The links here are history and traceable enough.
Anyways ( I hate this expression, but it is in our vernacular and so natural now), it is quite plain to see that their is a struggle in the philosophy of the internet that is stronger now then ever before.
It was often discussed early on, (Internet Early Philosophy) that the, "coding" be free.
Microsoft fought, as Dokken would say, Tooth and Nail, to keep their code private, and won, over what appeared to be incredible odds.
Money may not buy Love as the Beatles said, but it buys most any and everything else.
Their are many browsers that are already out their based on free source code, which worked great, however, are now suffering major setbacks.
Cloud computing is not a new theme, and it is this philosophy, that is the foundation for the new work done by these corporate giants, to further shift the profit of the industry their direction, thus gaining and even larger marketplace and share of profit, thus further dominating the internet and further controlling this form of media, soon to be the only form left, as print, like news papers and magazines and even perhaps the dictionary, are not being printed in some cases, or at least are transforming themselves in an act of mere survival, not prosperity. This has had a trickle down effect over our entire economy, as we have all seen first hand and experienced.
It may sound conspiracy like in nature as I am reporting this, however, it is an obvious and well reported fact, if you know how to read well, do read well, and then have the understanding to place the pieces in their proper perspective.
MySpace use to dominate. I like FB too.
The fact is, if MySpace rolled out a redesign of their site, and it has taken this long (??? ridiculous issues), with continual problems, and as good as the folks are that work for them, would they possibly do this on purpose?
They would never intentionally alienate their users, which is what has and is happening.
MySpace will get things to work, but it is taking time. I do not think they see the massive implications of what is going on here. I do not think the Feds see it either, or they are casually looking the other way, which is the more likely fact of the matter.
If your reading this here...do not expect to read it else where, as it is hard to get this information out there, as that is also a very controlled portion of this entire juxtaposition. The problems of the ages have always universally fit perfectly under problems with language, and therefore communication, understanding, and unfortunately, what leads to turmoil, in forms of greed, selfishness, and ultimately in the worst case scenario, WAR.
God forbid that we ever get close to that, but "the people" are already getting stomped on.
Education and a voice is where we start.
In the meantime...(musician friends from reverbnation in particular)write about it in the music we are all inspired to write. The music is the language of the many that are called collectively GOD!
Perspective is a unique, inherent, inalienable right, far deeper then any other innate right! Share it, because each of us have only our own, and we need to express that individuality so that we are all closer to being on the same page, of the same book, in the same language, with greater and deeper understanding, to therefore have vision, and be able to stop the problems before they get started.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
Just look what companies own what companies, and can be hidden to easily from the public eye as subsidiaries, of subsidiaries, of subsidiaries, ad infinitum, of corporations, which are also subsidiaries, of even larger corporations, which eventually, through a lot of due diligence, always lead back to the source.
Evil exists and manifest always from its root and from their it spreads...so to get the evil out we pull the entire root out, or like a Dandelion in the yard (which I actually like to eat as they are more nutritious then most anything at our markets, generally speaking) if we leave just a small part of that root, from their it regrows, and then again multiplies.
Every email you send, all transactions, any communications that you send PERIOD...all go to a server over the internet.
On these servers are what are referred to as "mirrors".
These mirrors, like the one in your bathroom at home, reflect or can see the encoded message, as sent.
It can also "decode" this or these messages, and help prevent them from finding their original and/or intended destination, if that is so chosen by the "interceptor".
This could potentially be the largest FRAUD and intentionally misconstrued theft in the history of The United States of America!... and I do not say that lightly ! It tears and erodes the very Constitution itself, and must be stopped as we all work together peacefully.
With the advent of modern technology and the "cloud" operating system, which we are suppose to believe is just another mundane upgrade as well as further standardization (which it may well be to a degree, but that is not the entire truth, it is only what is offered as the truth thus far), what has really transpired is that these folks in cahoots, are really introducing a new operating system that will become the industry standard, and they are doing this as a floating cloud operating system, that actually exists on millions, if not billions of servers.
UPDATE: 04-07-2013
Google Aims To Patent Policy Violation Checker, Potentially Revolutionizing Email Snooping
EXCERPT:
"Google’s proposed "Policy Violation Checker" would allow software to peek over peoples' shoulders while they type to alert individuals -- and potentially their employers -- when their written text contained "problematic phrases" that “present policy violations, have legal implications, or are otherwise troublesome to a company, business, or individual," according to the patent filing."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/google-policy-violation-checker_n_3224363.html
SUPER POWER FOR THE SUPER POWERFUL !!!
If you are online, it is reported everywhere and is an undeniable fact that you are able to be "viewed".
C.I.A., F.B.I. etc., ...you get the picture, and they already have too if you have read this to this point!
That is a fact !
NOTHING IS TRULY ENCRYPTED...THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS !!!
THERE IS OR THEY ARE WORKING ON A COMPUTER CODE (I will call, " The code of Everything AO)
Where is the Constitution in all of this???...pertaining at the very least to the USA? not to mention more importantly, the impact of the world economy, quickly failing on a massive level?
Secrecy and this "vail" being used are obvious inherent dangers that show me clearly that the direction overall of what is happening is sin based, or from another point of view, greed (one of the 7 DEADLY SINS) based.
Sins are in all religions!
This is not a philosophically religious statement or meant to be read that way, although it may help the reader in an instance like this to have deeper enlightenment and therefore understanding of the issue at hand.
Language, all language that we know today, is changing rapidly as the technology that drives our communication advances and communication therefore has a faster vehicle in which to travel.
All texts of recorded time, be it religious, scientific, or fictional, get harder to read from their original form first written in (like perhaps the Bible in Aramaic or Hebrew (still hotly debated as a matter of fact))... as we as a species evolve.
The ancient texts need rosetta stones (some of which have been found), just to be deciphered.
All the texts of lore that are religious have been transcribed time and time again, really as to not be able to be deleted from history, not so much that they have been the benefactor of a more concise and efficient language, because what has been proven through the very passage of time itself is that language is always the barrier that breaks down societies, civilizations, and people at the most basic level.
The CIA, the FBI, and all Law Enforcement in general can scan the (encrypted data packets) for "clues", as to what is coming (in way of terrorism, threats, etc.), and they do this by collecting mirror images off of these servers, unencrypt the data packets, (which we think so well encrypted), and they have powerful coding themselves, that is easily able to decipher, scan, analyze, and then compare to ranges of information and then therefore, statistically extract whatever it may be that they are looking for..i.e.
legalize marijuana, or bomb, or al queda, or maybe your name, or your address, or your thoughts as you write them to be recorded, as I will do and have done here.
Osama Bin Laden is not in Cumberland, Maryland. So they can cross that off the list! I do have a sense of humor, as I hope, the reader, whomever you are, does too.
Here is how transparent I am.
John Stephen Swygert
461 North Waverly Terrace
Cumberland, Maryland
21502
U.S.A.
240-345-5654
The music industry of old is long dead and gone.
...so my personal juxtaposition as a broken artist (financially and physically) is where I find myself today...reinventing myself in order to pursue freedoms that are inherent, while being squashed like a bug in a system we all see is massively flawed and no longer valid as a means to advance swiftly for the overall good of all of us collectively.
We artists and scientists alike are threatened, as well as we common men, TODAY, especially if and/ or when independent, that if we do not conform to the thing that we, in our very nature most detest (conforming...being told what to do) on a human not spiritual level, and I do mean intrinsically (the essence of existing in the nature itself of the very thing of which I speak which is this new evolving flawed system), we will ALL suffer and fail, as we see rapidly happening around us.
I have had to deal with denial many times in my life's adventure, so I am not oblivious to what I see. Reread the above sentence carefully. It is difficult to perhaps understand fully, unless read slowly, with focus and great thought, and open mind, and especially paying particular attention not just to the verbiage used, but equally to the grammar and punctuation.
As we build, intent must be broad or specific, depending on the projected outcome.
Writing is an art and a science, and it is important to understand that basic philosophy, as has been passed to me by so many, including Mr Gray, my sixth grade teacher, My Father, My Brother, or Senor (Mr.) Leonard Ahearn, my Spanish teacher, also a WW II survivor and leading infantry man in the invasion of Normandy, of which I have been told from his very mouth incredible stories of FEAR, VICTORY, THOUGHT, SHARING, etc, that words are hard to explain...you had to see the face of the man I saw telling me the news from his life.
WikiLeaks is a MASSIVE THREAT too the very concept, as in unravels.
This scares the heck out of the very people that are doing exactly what I am explaining, and it is they that further crush us down and continually pummel us as we suffer more deeply each day!
This man (of WikiLeaks) is now jailed. Just a fact of the matter, my opinion not included.
He has been and/or was essential to releasing what should not have been private to start with.
If you want something private for crying out loud, DO NOT SEND IT ACROSS THE WEB!
He released things that show the corporate greed everywhere, and I admire that he has done so, with the help of so many others.
I understand that a government may have to act in secrecy at times, especially for or dealing with concerns of national defense, however, these things are far above and beyond that particular touchy subject.
I hope his "side charges" are merely an illusion, as I would like to think of no child ever hurt by any monster as has he who has it been alleged.
Patience, experience, understanding and learning are all valuable as we assimilate all we know today and create a bigger more clear picture, both as individuals and collectively.
Think about all of this with an open mind, please.
Worst case scenario, I am an absolute idiot and wrong, which time has proven to me personally and repeatedly, not true.
I have been published many times, I have a degree, and I am a learned and experienced man at the young age of 42.
Best case scenario, I would like to be proven wrong, as I do not say any of this for notoriety, fame, or fortune, but simply because it is the truth, and it is the truth that always sets "us" free.
So share this, use or try or apply this philosophy to analyze everything you read, do, and think.
Do not let it control you, or you are a product of its inherent flaws, built in to this corruption of a system.
I will end with this:
One night while working on my personal theory of everything, or as scientists say, the unification theory, or in my case, what I call, " The Swygert Theory of Unification AO", I was running some computations, with a massive program I designed, and I am still working on...it ran a long time, which I was certain meant at the very least, parts of this massive encoding where working very well.
He lives in New Zealand, and his Mom was in utter shock.
He usually can only paste in text that is always appearing on my end of the messenger mis-spelled the exact wrong way every time.
He makes many, many attempts to communicate, sometimes offering what appears to be an answer in English, which I knew meant something deeply...he wants to communicate...and I have a mind that can figure this out, and therefore must, because no man should be alone if anyone can help him.
I was able to translate plain English into pictures in order to communicate with a young man on a messenger service.
This was a great success.
This was only a small portion of what I am working on, which is language, origin, intent, etc.
What was weird is this:
I got a call and a hang up from these folks (added -1-14-2013 The National Institute of Standards and Technology OR P.C.S.G, http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Public_Cryptography_Study_Group), while I was running the program on my Mac Mini.
There was noise in the back ground as I answered, and it continued. I got no response when I answered with a kind, "hello". I waited, as I thought this was rather odd, and I continued to hear the noises in the background. I hung up after a short time, and many more attempts of saying hello, trying to get a response.
There was no hang up, and I continued to hear the noise. It was quite obvious that they wanted me to know they were there!
I then hung up.
I googled the number, and called it back.
It stated that it was not in service, although what I found was that the number went to a government agency that works specifically with numbers, cryptography, and code, all infinitely related, of course.
I have the name of the agency, the phone number, and address recorded, and it should easily be able to be found on other records, perhaps. The National Institute of Standards and Technology.
EDIT ~ AND NEEDS MORE EDITING ~ FIND OLD # ~ MAYBE MAGIC JACK, ROUGHLLY APRIL TO DECEMBER 2010 (MAYBE JAN TO DEC 2010, BUT DEFINITELY ALL IN 2010) GO BACK TO PROGRAMS I CODED AND ENCRYPTED DOCUMENTS THAT I STORED ELSEWHERE)
~ STRIKE FROM ORIGINAL...START HERE~ I do not remember the exact name of the agency, although it had a word close to numismatic, which is of course the term used in coin collecting.
EDIT ~ ADDED 01 14 2013
I think now it was the P.C.S.G., as it was stamps and not coins I was thinking of and there is a P.C.S.G. organization using this acronym to that is about stamp collecting.
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Obviously it was close to the root “numeral”, and I am sure some research will find the correct name easily, it just happens that this was one of many thousands of agencies that is not heard from often in the media, and I was unaware of it before this happened.
I will dig deeper to find these items of importance, because they are in themselves some sort of proof that makes total sense.
They called almost immediately, within just a few minutes, of me running this program.
well read this (link to copy and paste in browser included below)...amazing stuff !!!...then come back and finish this...
http://www.ncoic.com/nsacodes.htm
EDIT ~ END HERE PERHAPS
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Lots to consider here in what I have written thus far. All rather wild sounding when read perhaps, but only the truth from my behalf and this needs to be deeply explored, now that it is exposed!
Sincerely, John Stephen Swygert
I intend on sending this to many friends that are notable, scientists, politicians on a local, State, and Federal level, as well as having this posted here, after I print the final product and have several copies stored safely.
Again, I ask that you keep an open mind and think of the implications if I am correct. which I am certain I am.
However again, I would rather be crazy, as that would weigh less on my mind then what I see happening to all of us now under these most difficult times.
I will close with this:
Many men can drive a single man mad, but being mad and crazy are two entirely different animals.
I am mad as in upset, mad as in brilliant, and mad as in angry.
I am focused and clear in thought, although much of my studies that have consumed me lately reading have been a huge volume to assimilate and even begin to understand at the most basic levels, however, as the picture is more clear in my mind's eye, the knowledge of what I have read and experienced easily on a daily basis display to my mind's eye a huge and clear picture as to the reality that we do live in, and that things are so often not what they appear on, " the surface", so to speak.
We are a complex species among many, in a complex world, in an exceedingly further reaching universe of complexity.
With each facets that gets exposed, more doors open, and portals exist now physically that many men choose to walk through that are not places that we as a civilized species should mess with.
That much is at least reported daily in our news.
What is more interesting is that there is more then likely much less revealed then what has been revealed so far, because brilliant people working together wanted it all kept secret, and if something is designed in the beginning in secret, then it is intrinsic, to use this word again, that it is both powerful and perhaps worst of all dangerous.
John Stephen Swygert
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Gmail And The FBI Took Down David Petraeus: Why It Matters To You
Posted: 11/13/2012 10:50 am EST
News broke Friday that CIA Chief David Petraeus was resigning due to an extramarital affair. Oddly enough, the leader of the intelligence gathering agency wasbrought down by Gmail metadata. Many jokes have been made about the fact that the CIA head fell victim to an incriminating online footprint, but the revelation leads to some very serious questions.
We don’t know the full story, and might never learn it. But one question many are asking is, could this happen to me? The immediate answer is no. Petraeus’ indiscretion came to light after a complaint was made about threatening emails. And the Wall Street Journal has now reported that the FBI agent who launched the investigation was barred from the case after superiors were concerned he may have become obsessive. According to sources in the report, the agent sent a shirtless picture of himself to the woman who issued the complaint, Jill Kelley.
Cato's Julian Sanchez who joined me in a HuffPost Live discussion on this topic, later tweeted this about the new developments.
So while the FBI’s actions in this case may have never come about had it not been due to personal relationships playing a role, observers are already registering their concerns surrounding civil liberties and our growing surveillance state. As Wired’s Kim Zetter reported, “Broadwell will now become part of the statistics that Gmail reports in its next semi-annual transparency report on government data requests.”
The Google report reveals how many government requests they receive for user data, but the company doesn’t specify how many of these requests come with a warrant. And Google is hardly the only website on the receiving end. Twitter has also begun releasing a Transparency Report. But the impetus here lies on the private companies. The government itself is not required to disclose this information.
There are real world implications for journalists, their sources, and average internet users alike. Laws to safeguard our privacy and warrant requirements for online communications are muddled and outdated. The FBI’s actions here highlight the need for debate.
So where did Petraeus and Broadwell go wrong, and how can you avoid doing the same? Watch the video above to learn secret techniques obviously not understood by the former CIA head... like using the delete button.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/gmail-and-the-fbi-took-do_n_2120469.htmlADDED ON MAY 08, 2012:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/4-high-tech-ways-federal-government-spying-private-153556125.html
ADDED 05-29-2012:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/powerful-flame-cyber-weapon-found-135931201.html
The comments here (mostly) are quite silly...these viruses are designed to seek certain exact pieces of hardware...they are not active until that exact match(es) is found and penetrated...they are quite specific, very powerful, and this is just the cutting edge coding of what "the cloud" will bring. Those seeking the virus should be much more concerned about who placed the digital fingerprint and code in the hardware...you cannot find the proverbial needle in the haystack if the needle is not there to begin with...just imagine a chip that has a fingerprint, is mass produced, and then sold worldwide...only later to be activated by it's messenger virus, which in turn activates coding in the hardware to open a window of access to, "those in the know" so to speak...this is why old platforms are becoming outdated and obsolete, not because they do not work on the web, but because they cannot be manipulated like all of the new technology. Privacy seems more and more to be a thing of the past. Great skill in this technology...just hope it is being used for the greater good...but no one can ever seem to agree on just what that is all the time.
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