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     Report on Ganj Dareh Meeting/will-be-heard participation (R=62%/W=29%):


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      Notable excerpts: Priority Klatsch "Jobs within Ganj Dareh"
      By: Ri Aatam Li-Amihbrai [Neighborhood Xref=Pachacuti]
     .full-video/visual interpretation=off: Here I am, 107 days without even an interview, much less an offer, much less a lick of work, much less any disposable income, and the only message I've ever gotten from Byukan-Hamil is a scatter-vert asking me to help them keep their jobs. Yeah, I know my duty to the Collective ... just as I know the Collective's duty to me, food, shelter, a jellaba to wrap around me —
     Moderator Interrupt by: Tew Quapka Saryoem [Neighborhood Xref=Hepi Te Heu Heu]
     .text-only (color)/bottom-edge overlay: Sorry to interrupt, Ali, but I just received the most startling message (following), its distribution the widest I've ever seen. It's really something for us to chew on.
     "Residents of Popovich, Har Norma Byukan presents a rendezvous of futures, yours and ours. If you are not currently part of a combine delivering a contract, join us in Ganj Dareh and design the future ... for you, for Byukan-Hamil Consortium, for Continent Popovich, for Yeibichai, and for all the worlds beyond. The galaxy's the limit ... for now."
      By: Tsu Tomushi Momura [Neighborhood Xref=Bletchley]
     .text-only (monochrome): BH coag in Lattice grew another Partner-Meeting blip two days ago. Raw dump contains cipher for Ganj Dareh. No details yet; still working. Infer reaction to competitive bid. Sorry for delay; their encryption bloody feral.
      Em Ory: Can we not also infer genesis for Norma's Rendezvous of Futures?
     By: Mich Eldu Frénoy [Neighborhood Xref=Mawddach]
     .text-only (color): Honi soit qui mal y pense. cue/Em-Deh: §¶

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     Phoebe turned away from her workstation and the report it presented daily on its foilscreen. Outside her window, the trailing skirts of night draped the gardens in Central's frontyard. Dawn hinted its coming by giving the trees, hedges, shrubs, and benches indistinct shapes.
     Mostly, she just grabbed the Index of Satisfaction off the report and plunged into work, like running the tactical can-feel coming in a few moments. Today, however, skimming the notable excerpts, she'd snagged on two names: Har Norma and Ganj Dareh ... and this "Rendezvous of Futures."
     Partners often made announcements, programs dreamed up on a whim, kicked off with a virtual ceremony, then forgotten except by a poor tactician faced with its impossible goals and a limited budget. Until now, these wasted bandwidths had occurred zhuhndí somewhere else. Until now — Now is not a good time for Partner whimsy!
     Phoebe headed out her office's door to make sure everything was ready for the tactical meeting. She just hoped that that's all this Rendezvous of Futures was: Partner whimsy.