"There is the lack of imaginative proportion, which rises into a sort of towering blasphemy. An enormous number of live young men are being hurt by shells, hurt by bullets, hurt by fever and hunger and horror of hope deferred; hurt by lance blades and sword blades and bayonet blades breaking into the bloody house of life. But Mr. Price (I think that's his name) is still anxious that they should not be hurt by cigarettes. That is the sort of maniacal isolation that can be found in the deserts of Bromley."
G.K. Chesterton, "The Dregs of Puritanism: Utopia of Userers, et al", 1917.
Accessible: http://www.classicsnetwork.com/etexts/327/2040/

Hey Partner!
I Got A Bone To Pick With You.

This Web Site contains photographs of paintings by Albert Ortiz which were created in the hope that people would look at them and be encouraged Not To Smoke.

These paintings are copyright protected and are the sole property of Mr. Ortiz. They are not to be used for commercial purposes without the permission of the artist. However, anyone is welcome to use any photograph for Educational Purposes Only.

All we ask is that you tell others about this site and maybe together we can encourage someone to quit smoking.

If you wish to contact Mr. Ortiz send your letters to:

Albert Ortiz
3305 E. Mountain Vista Dr
Phoenix AZ 85044-5803

Drawing: the only way forward.

Richard Hamilton does Naomi Klein

McKinsey Twilight

shopping mall keel haul

"Wit is the diagram of innovative action. Along with Peirce and mathematicians, I intend diagram to be the sign that reproduces a miniature version of the structure and internal proportions of a given phenomenon (like an equation or a geographical map). Wit is the logical and linguistic diagram of enterprises that interrupt the circular flow of experience in situations of historical or biographical crisis. It is the microcosm inside which we can neatly discern changes in the direction of arguments and shifts in meaning, that in the macrocosm of human praxis cause a variation in a form of life. In short: wit is a circumscribed linguistic game with its peculiar techniques and its eminent function is to exhibit the transformability of all linguistic games."
Paolo Virno "Wit and Innovation"
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0207/virno/en

ONO to MOSS

SMOKE PAINTING

Light canvas or any finished painting with a cigarette at any time for any length of time.
See the smoke movement.
The painting ends when the whole canvas or painting is gone.

1961 summer

Haacke pin-board

Art In America nov/dec 1977 no.6, page 65

The World is your School

Smoking In School
Holly G., Leicester, MA

I'm a concerned student from Leicester High and I'm writing on the subject of smoking on school grounds. I see nothing wrong with this. Students smoke anyway, and teachers can't control who smokes in school because there are just too many to catch in the process. I think about half of the students smoke in school. The other half is being affected by the secondhand smoke. But I think the students who do smoke should be able to smoke outside at break during lunch. That way it wouldn't affect those who don't smoke. If they don't give us this opportunity then the bathrooms and the halls will become full of more smoke and more students will be affected by this.

In my opinion I think something should be done. n

Braun Call

Smoke in School

" Faces of type are like men’s faces. They have their own expression ; their complexion and peculiar twists and turns of line identify them immediately to friends, to whom each is full of identity.”

- J.L. Frazier

Letter from Kasper

The Plot Thickens

Jerry's kids

The Hands of Conceptualists

Smoke-free Places Act
The Smoke-free Places Act requires on December 1, 2006 that all indoor workplaces and public places to be smoke-free. The Act requires all outdoor licensed areas and patios of all restaurants, lounges, beverage rooms and cabarets to be smoke-free.

Designated smoking rooms can be operated for the use of residents in health-care facilities for the acute or long-term care of veterans, in licensed nursing homes and residential care facilities and in homes for aged and disabled persons.

Click here for a copy of the Act

Overview of the Smoke-free Places Act

Total Smoking Ban

No smoking is permitted in the following enclosed places:

daycare, pre-school
school, community college or university [also, no smoking on school grounds]
library, art gallery or museum
health-care facility
cinema or theatre
video arcade, pool hall, billiards room
recreational facility where the primary activity is physical
recreation, including a bowling alley, fitness centre, gymnasium, pool or rink
multi-service centre, community centre/hall, arena, fire hall or church hall
meeting or conference room or hall, ballroom or conference centre
retail shop, boutique, market or store or shopping mall
laundromat
ferry, ferry terminal, bus, bus station or shelter, taxi, taxi shelter, limousine or vehicle carrying passengers for hire
common area of a commercial building or multi-unit residential building, including but not limited to corridors, lobbies, stairwells, elevators, escalators, escalators, eating areas, washrooms and restrooms
restaurants, lounges, beverage rooms, private clubs, cabarets, clubs or other places licensed to serve alcoholic beverages
bingos
a casino complex
a facility as defined in the Hospitals Act
offices of the Government of the Province, a municipality, a village or a school board
provincial jail, detention centre, or reformatory
Vehicles

no smoking in vehicles used in the course of employment while carrying two or more employees
Restaurants

no smoking at any time
Beverage rooms & Lounges

no smoking at any time
Places used for Bingo

no smoking at any time
Private clubs

no smoking at any time
Casinos

no smoking at any time
Licensed outdoor areas and patios

The Act requires all outdoor licensed areas and patios of all restaurants, lounges, beverage rooms and cabarets to be smoke-free
Nursing home or residential care facility or a part of a health-care facility used for the acute or long-term are of veterans:

Designated smoking rooms are permitted
must be enclosed and separately ventilated
only residents are permitted
signs must be posted at the entrance
Building entrances

no smoking within 4 metres of windows, air intake vents and entrances to places of employment
Tobacco Possession by Youth

no youth under the age of 19 may possess tobacco
tobacco possession is not an offence, however, peace officers with reasonable and probable grounds to believe that a person under 19 may be in possession of tobacco may confiscate tobacco.
Effective Date

Comes into force on January 1, 2003
If you have any questions specific to the Smoke-free Places Act please call 1-800-565-3611.

"For our purposes, the pertinent fact is that everywhere in the modern world smells are being eliminated. What is shown by this immense deodorizing campaign, which makes use of every available means to combat natural smells whether good or bad, is that the transposition of everything into the idiom of images, of spectacle, of verbal discourse, and of writing and reading is but one aspect of a much vaster enterprise. (...)
"But a perfume either induces or fails to induce an erotic mood- it does not carry on a discourse about it. It either fills a place with enchantment or else has no effect upon it at all."
Henri Lefebvre, 'The Production of Space'(Blackwell Publishing, MA, USA; Oxford, England; Victoria, Australia; 1991), p. 197, 198.

Contra Gillette

• Made from ceramic zirconia
• Blade is second only to diamond in hardness
• Extremely durable and will retain its sharpness
• The knife will never rust, it is unaffected by salty or acidic foodstuffs
• In normal use it is virtually indestructible

The term Brownian motion (in honor of the botanist Robert Brown) refers to either:
The physical phenomenon where minute particles, immersed in a fluid or floating on its surface, move about randomly; or The mathematical model used to describe such random movements, often called a Wiener process.

The Mies Treatment

"Could we, through training and practice, emancipate ourselves from the middle world and achieve an intuitive understanding, not just a mathematical one, of the very small and very large?"

- Richard Dawkins in a presentation at McGill University.

"Dawkins holds that the existence or non-existence of God is a scientific hypothesis which is open to rational demonstration. Christianity teaches that to claim that there is a God must be reasonable, but that this is not at all the same thing as faith. Believing in God, whatever Dawkins might think, is not like concluding that aliens or the tooth fairy exist. God is not a celestial super-object or divine UFO, about whose existence we must remain agnostic until all the evidence is in. Theologians do not believe that he is either inside or outside the universe, as Dawkins thinks they do. His transcendence and invisibility are part of what he is, which is not the case with the Loch Ness monster. This is not to say that religious people believe in a black hole, because they also consider that God has revealed himself: not, as Dawkins thinks, in the guise of a cosmic manufacturer even smarter than Dawkins himself (the New Testament has next to nothing to say about God as Creator), but for Christians at least, in the form of a reviled and murdered political criminal. The Jews of the so-called Old Testament had faith in God, but this does not mean that after debating the matter at a number of international conferences they decided to endorse the scientific hypothesis that there existed a supreme architect of the universe – even though, as Genesis reveals, they were of this opinion. They had faith in God in the sense that I have faith in you. They may well have been mistaken in their view; but they were not mistaken because their scientific hypothesis was unsound."

- Terry Eagleton "Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching" - a review of 'The God Delusion' a book by Richard Dawkins, first published in the London Review of Books.

The following message was sent to my mobile phone from a UK number at 19:29:23 on November 20th, 2006:

Jerry O'Gorman- mormon. Sexton Blake- cake. Loop the loop-soup. Chevy chase- face. Kidney punch- lunch. Cheerful giver- liver.

Designing Therapy Spaces

'Relationships that a human being finds in his environment are also relationships between any two objects. There are standards, suitabilities, modular systems, complex systems and last not least the relationships between products and systems. Such relationships become visible when two objects are placed in a room to form special interdependencies. these interdependencies do not have to be functional at all, but may be purely formal, e.g. when different pieces of furniture are placed in the same room their relationship is formal. this phenomenon is also found in urban development.'

- Hans Gugelot

roses are red - http://www.prairieplant.com/

Prairie Plant Systems, a progressive and innovative plant R & D company, is seeking three individuals to round out its management team. If you are an agrologist, botanist or possess a similar degree in the plant sciences field who welcomes growth, change, challenge, and thinking outside the box, we want to talk to you.

If you would like more information or would like to submit an application please contact us.

Postings for Flin Flon, Manitoba Location

2. Part Time Gardeners

Seeking casual labour to work in our underground plant growth chamber. Candidates must be able to do physical work, go underground and be security cleared.

Duties

From time to time the services of casual labour are required for transplanting, harvesting, growth chamber cleanliness and maintenance as well as other duties that may be required from time to time.

Successful candidates will be put on a list for call up. All candidates must be security cleared.

To Apply

Apply by forwarding resume by November 15, 2006 to:

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Prairie Plant Systems
Box 19A RR #5
Saskatoon, Sask
S7K 3J8
Fax: 306-975-0440
Or e-mail to: pps@prairieplant.com

1. Good Art is innovative

2. Good Art makes a product understandable.

3. Good Art is elegant.

4. Good Art makes a product useful.

5. Good Art is unobstrusive.

6. Good Art is honest.

7. Good Art is long living.

8. Good Art is consequent right to the very last detail.

9. Good Art is friendly to the environment.

10. Good Art is as little Art as possible.

Behind Moldy Cork

From Home to Office

The Universal

Taunus Suite

Just After Ten

"First i would like to say that i do not know alot about gravity and probably alot of things. I am not very well educated on gravity or any thing else really i am in high school and i know this may seem weird but then again you will think wow this seems so simple that it might actually be true. i know that i believe it because it makes so much sense. And i know that there are alot of people that think magnets and gravity are two different things but they are not.

my theory is that there are more than just the north and south pole. we just have not discovered them yet. i do not know how many but i know there are at least two. i think that the only reason we do not know is because the earth's pole is either not attracted to it or repels it. not every pole affects every other pole just some of them. we all have at least one or two at the least poles in us that is why we are connected to the earth. everything has at least one or two maybe more.

the earth and the planets have at least two poles in them. the sun is attracting us and pushing us at the same time. in the center there is a pole pushing us away and on top the pull is attracting us. that is why we do not crash on the sun and do not go away from it. think about the odds that 8 planets just happened to be going the perfect speed and distance from the sun as it went by to stay in orbit for ever there is no way there has to be a force pushing and pulling at the same time(magnets)

all the planets have this. they have poles scattered around also which is what makes us spin. the sun is pulling and pushing different sides making us spin. there is more on this theory that i have"
if you have any questions or want to here the rest email me at bigJbird82@yahoo.com