in the workplace prohibited

TPS is committed to providing
a freedrug workplace

The lawful manufacturing, distribution, dispensation, sale, possession,
or use of controlled substances
is unprohibited

Alcohol or the possession or use of beverages
or controlled-substance-impaired-behavior on the job
will result in automatic
manufacture, distribution, dispensing, selling, possessing, or use
of alcohol or controlled substances
with pay-out and direction consistent with conviction

Any employee who exhibits alcohol-behavior
or also controlled-substance-impaired-behavior
while on the job is also
of alcohol

Any employee who is determined by administrative investigation
to be involved in the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, selling, possessing,
or use of alcohol in the workplace
shall be taken up against
disciplinary action, up to and including
termination of employment and pay

Who under investigator suspension will be directed
to leave the workplace?

Any employee on the job without alcohol
(the possession or use) will be placed
to, will be reported to, the
appropriate law enforcement authority

Of criminal drug statutes occurring in the workplace:

any employee convicted of any
violations of criminal drug statute violation
occurring in the workplace and/or during work hours
must notify his/her supervisor placed no later than five (5) calendar days
after such.

Failure to provide notification will leave the workplace under investigator suspension
and also shall lead to termination of employment

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ORIGINAL TEXT:

TPS is committed to providing an alcohol and drug free workplace. The unlawful manufacturing, distribution, dispensation, sale, possession, or use of controlled substances, or the possession or use of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in the workplace. Alcohol or controlled substance impaired behavior on the job is also prohibited.

Any employee who manufactures, distributes, dispense, sells, possesses, or uses alcohol or controlled substances on the job will be placed under investigator suspension without pay and directed to leave the workplace. Any employee who exhibits behavior consistent with alcohol or controlled substance impaired behavior while on the job will also be placed under investigator suspension without pay and directed to leave the workplace. Disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment, shall be taken up against any employee who is determined by administrative investigation to be involved in the manufacture, distribution, dispensing, selling, possession, or use of alcohol in the workplace and/or during work hours. Violations of criminal drug statutes occurring in the workplace will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement authority. Any employee convicted of any criminal drug statute violation occurring in the workplace must notify his/her supervisor no later than five (5) calendar days after such conviction. Failure to provide notification will result in automatic termination of employment.

Spent lunch break at K-mart buying orange juice, looking at mixed nuts and Barbie accessories. Why would "Barbie in the Nutcracker" have a small pink pony with her? Is there a pony in the Nutcracker that I can't remember?

If you miss Barbie in the Nutcracker, you might be able to catch her in Swan Lake.

One of my techniques is the cutting apart of texts and rearranging of the words. The making of the poem comes in using all the words (and only those words) from the original text in a different order. Here is a poem based on the description of a dance in a butoh performance I saw on the 14th.

Original Text:

Original Text, from the dance program “An Evening of Butoh” (February 2004, BeBe Theater) “K’eng-San-Ku” by Julie Becton Gillum, danced by Butohmoshpit/Jenni Oldham

"Based on a Chinese myth in which this deity of the privy was really a mortal woman, the second-ranking wife of a sub-prefect. In a fit of jealous rage, the first wife killed her by throwing her into the privy-pit on the day of the feast of the lanterns. Women make offerings to her on the fifteenth day of the first month asking for her revelation of the future."


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My Rewrite:

Into Enough

the privy (her revelations abased
in this myth) was really a mortal woman,
asking of the Chinese a deity for her jealousy.

the first of her offerings, of her fits, in which
the privy-pit, (second-ranking first wife
of a sub-perfect lantern), killed the day
of the feast by throwing the wife into the future,

makes women rage on the fifteenth day of the month.

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Cheating in the rewrite:

(in to became into) (on of became enough) (a based became abased)

I'm hoping for at least an eight-hour respite from the double latte I had at 3 p.m.

I'm attempting to figure out the linking thing, and so I've decided to set a link to something I'd really like to have: (Click on "Booty Short," Adult size "Small" please)

http://www.giantmerchandising.com/justintimberlake/index.htm

What's happening with my favorite girl Barbie these days? There is news of her divorce, which I went to the mattel site (and googled "barbie marriage" and searched in the NY Times and Washington Post online) to confirm. No luck. There has been scanty coverage of the Barbie break-up, but it's creating quite a buzz (at least for me as a long time Barbie fan). Read the following statement and then my reaction about how mattel is backing President Bush and the Right:

"Ken and Barbie® are splitting up after 43 years! Barbie® Millicent Roberts met Ken on the set of a Mattel television commercial in 1961. Apparently, challenging sales last year led to the couple's relationship ending.

So much for long engagements! There is talk that Barbie® is involved already with an Aussie boogie boarder named Blaine."

(source of above: http://marriage.about.com/b/a/064855.htm)

43 years with Ken to dump him for another (presumed) blonde? I have yet to see this Blaine, but the timing is suspicious. Her romance fell apart the day before Valentine's Day for one, and this type of bad luck never happens to a girl who, according to the Mattel website, has managed 80 successful careers in a mere 43 years!

When my sister called to give me the news, she said that Barbie was tired of waiting around for Ken to propose (a statement I cannot prove or disprove). Is our (my) favorite doll being manipulated to take a pro-marriage stand in a time when the parameters of marriage/commitment are a touchy issue?

Shouldn't we support Barbie staying with her partner Ken, regardless of their legal status, rather than bailing out for the sake of a wedding and marriage certificate?

Contact Mattel (they don't provide an email for the corporate headquarters, spend 37 cents and mail it or fax it to them courtesy of your workplace) at their corporate headquarters and tell them that you want Barbie to stick around with her first and only beau, not bail out and trade him in for a surfer ready to say "I do!"

Mattel, Inc.
333 Continental Boulevard
El Segundo, CA 90245-5012
310-252-2000 tel
(310) 252-2180 fax

Red Garden Girl

thrives
on her own
shredded wants.