Artoftransformation

"This is a song of hope" - Robert P. from the movie "The Song Remains The Same"

What this page is

This is a page of acknowledgement. Until such time as I get a working comment page, that is secure, this is it. Ian C.

The Acknowledgments

"I can see that you are dedicated, unstoppable, and really a stand for the transformation in people. I see your relentless pursuit in quality and I want to thank you for all the coaching and also all the work that you put in to making transformation available." -Arif

Thank you Arif. Thank you for being great, and putting yourself on the line, giving your word to make a difference for others. I am especially grateful that you accepted my request.

"Who you are for me is TOTALLY unreasonable. Your commitment to people astounds me. You give your life, day after day, week after week. And the question I always asked myself, before I knew who you were, was "Who DOES that?" And the answer is, someone truly extraordinary. Someone unreasonably committed to a truly extraordinary commitment. Who you are inside of your commitment amazes and inspires me, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with you. You are a walking, breathing, talking ball of love!" -Aunt Tenna

I was going to tell you, how you didn't know about yourself, but before I did, I wondered who I was. I could not answer that. I still told you how much I admire you, for what you had done, by letting a conversation I had with you, not disappear. I am so grateful for who you are. Thank you, most deeply.

"Thank You." -Laurence

You are so very welcome. You inspire me, and fill my life with challenges, and questions and the presence of an extraordinarily commitment to love life. May no life be lived uninspired.

"He is the guitar god, and the computer god" - Cleed

"Are you an angel or something?" - Margaret S

"You are a precious child of god, and I appreciate your spirit" - Angelea

"You are a kind and intelligent human being with an open mind that is willing to listen. You are big enough to not judge others because you do not need to judge yourself. Quick to stand up in what you believe in but obviously not quick to judge others. You seem like a kind soul with kind thoughts and kind words and someone who is willing to fight the good fight to make things better in the shadows left in this world by those who live negatively. you are smart and kind, it is a refreshing combination and your words are worthy of sticky notes and lesson plans" -D.M.M,

"He is practically a doctor. He is the encyclopedia of encyclopedias. " -J.M.

"Gentleman and a scholar, Chivalry is not dead." -A

The Groombridge Bridge

"Still Cloud was investigating some unspectacular ruins left on a planet circling Antares, remnants of an extinct nonhumanoid race that had been studied extensively in the previous generation. These ruins had just been discovered, but Still Cloud studied them for years without any significant findings.
This race worshipped an ugly creature whose name we may translate as God, who supposedly lived inside the planet. An odd feature of their religion was that they believed that every inhabited planet had its own God-yet the race did not have space travel. Nowhere could she find that they had any concrete evidence that life existed on other worlds; it was simply an article of faith.
Eventually Still Cloud uncovered a palace that belonged to the planet's highest religious leader. Underneath the palace was a labyrinthine system of tunnels, one of which led to a chamber, or apartment, that still gleamed with luxury after a quarter of a million years of abandonment: the place where God lived. What she and other investigators had taken as myth and metaphor was actual fact: their God was an immortal, omnipotent creature who had descended from heaven to live under the earth and rule their lives and destinies. It was the representative of a race that once ruled this corner of the galaxy with benign, but absolute, authority. In the apartment was a machine that functioned as a library. It was still in good working order; immortals build things to last. In it there was a reference to the star humans called Groombridge 1618, and to the telepathic creatures that lived there. This immortal race had constructed the Groom-bridge bridge for its own amusement. It served as a scorekeeper in a decades-long game that involved the precise matching of emotional states. The planet Groombridge had been subjected to a kind of reverse geoformy: its ecology simplified so that none of the indigenous fauna would interfere with the game.
Human scientists were guilty of parochialism in classifying the Groombridge bridge as a physiologically simple creature. It is in fact the most complex organism ever studied-more complex than the scientists who have to dissect it by remote control. Its true form will never be directly perceived by humans, human senses being limited to three spatial dimensions and the one-way arrow of time. The wiggly nudibranchiform creature that taught humans how to read minds is pure illusion-the simplified projection of a four-dimensional object onto three dimensions. In the same way, the projection of an unabridged dictionary onto two dimensions-its shadow-is identical to the gray rectangle projected by a blank piece of paper, and gives no clue as to the object's complexity.
When this race of Gods decided to destroy itself, it saw no reason to tidy up beforehand. So the Groombridge gameboard remained for future, simpler, races to puzzle over.
The planet that Still Cloud studied had been dead and cold for two hundred millennia when the Gods went home to die. Home was a couple of thousand light years away, which distance they traveled instantaneously, by an application of will.
In Jacque Lefavre's time, all that was left of the home of the Gods was a rapidly expanding nonthermal radio source called the Cygnus loop." -Joe Haldeman, "The Groombridge Effect" and "Mindbridge"

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Classic, extrodinary, and very esoteric.

Wendy Carlos, Switched on Bach is the best selling classical music album ever.

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Copyright Information

TRR.bat ;TraceRouteRecord
- Contents of the instructions of the batch file
  - @ECHO OFF ;prevents the spillage of usless data onto the users screen
  - MODE CON: LINES=50 ;Changes the command window to have 50 lines
  - CLS ;Clears the screen of the command window
  - COLOR 0A ;Changes the color of the command window to green on black
    - ;I love green, I love green, I love green -K, the frog
  - TRACERT %1 >%1.TXT ;Creates a text file with the contents of the TraceRoute
  - PAUSE ;Allows the user to inspect the results
  - EXIT ;Ends the command prompt session.
- Contents of the instructions if the batch file
TRC.bat ;Calls the TRR.bat with the IP
- - TRR ip1.ip2.ip3.ip4 ;with the IP bitwise quartet

Ozone hole quote

Jim Scanlon, San Rafael, CA (d 2006) wrote in 1998: "While there is no "proof" (in the O.J. Simpson "Dream Team" legalistic sense) that the unusual cold temperatures necessary for catastrophic ozone depletion are connected with the cooling of the stratosphere predicted by "global warming" models, there are no other candidates available at present."

Dr Drew Schindell, NASA Goddard, NY, at first had his doubts about the mechnicsm, now, as of 2008:" We now know intimate details about the structure of the stratosphere, which make creating long range models more accurate. What we one suspected, and rejected, we now know to be true."

The End Of Smoking

"But in the late 1980s, a few of them began to quit, and pretty soon Eileen felt awkward holding a cigarette off to one side when out at a restaurant. She quit, too, and within a few years nobody she knew smoked anymore." [[2]]

Do not lease a truck from Central Refrigerator Services

I have now driven 7400 miles and owe the company $900 for that 'privilege'

When I signed the lease, they didnt give me many miles, so I racked up charges for supplies, and un-profitable loads. ( whether that was their plan, or just oversight, I don't know, but it certainly will turn out profitable for them no matter what, until a company comes along that is honest and straightforward )

They still owe me a carpet for my sleeper.

The truck they leased me has a known defective sleeper heater, that every time I need heat, I have to take off a ferring, open the battery box, and unplug/plug in a fuse. Dirty and cumbersome at the end of EVERY day.

Other trucks have a reset switch wired in. I am going to have to do that myself.

The truck also was hit and run. ( I am paying now twice for it ).

Their shops are for the most part incompetent for difficult work, with the exception of one guy in Salt lake city and ONE guy in Conley.

Hazowper

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos256.htm