Incidents yesterday = 35 above normal (increase of 338% over the day before)[normal Incident count = 21.7]
     Report on Ganj Dareh Meeting/will-be-heard participation (R=75%/W=36%):

      Discussion Groups Active: 16,731 Forums & 22,390 Klatsches
     Neighborhood Fences set new record for activity. Indicators of worry and fear dominate conversations. Indicators of tolerance fell behind intolerance during the night by a ratio of 1:1.36.
      Notable excerpts: Moderated Klatsch "Tell us what YOU think!" — Today's Question = What makes you change your mind about where you shop? [Answer today's question and we'll buy you dinner out for two.]
     By: Alph Onsemo Temekwane [Neighborhood Xref=Huayna Picchu]
     .full-video/visual interpretation=off: What a question! Hmmm, actually, I guess I don't change very much. I pride myself on shopping around. If I want something new, I hit the Em-Deh with agents — I've got them all set up; all I have to tell them is the type of product or service and my criteria for a good one — then I pick from the results of their tek-sploration. But then — [unexplained time lost = .7 seconds] Mbarra! [spitting sound] Why does that keep happening? Not enough to ruin a conversation, just sour any joy I get from it. What was I saying?
     Yes, from your question, I realized that I don't ever go back and start my search over again. I just keep buying from the first place I chose. How strange! I'll have to do something about that as soon as I get a chance. Pray the Em-Deh clears up in the meantime.
     By: Sarg Michael Strank [Neighborhood Xref=Waikato]
     .full-video: I never shop the same place twice, unless they're the low bidder again. I subscribe to the Ganj Dareh Cost-Effective Coop. I buy everything through them because they track customer-satisfaction and price, with price as the dominant factor. At any moment, I can jump into the Coop and tell them what I want — massage, pocket melons, epox-plaster, whatever — and they can tell me who supplies that the cheapest without aggravating too many customers. Works fine for me!
      By: Her Manstein Tarantula [Neighborhood Xref=Hajdú-Bihar]
     .full-video: Wait, don't rush me! Um, er, I just buy like the ads tell me. That's what they're there for, after all. Aren't they?
     By: Net Rock Kleinlen [Neighborhood Xref=Shevoroshkin]
     .full-video: You see, I belong to this kaffeeklatsch. Ladies from all over the world. We get together every day — it's pretty early for me, but we all have to accommodate the time difference. We don't really drink qahwah together; we just drink it at the same time. And we chat. About all kinds of things. Especially things we buy and where we buy them — like you asked. You'd be amazed — I know I am — how different things are around the world. You know they never have problems with their salvage combines, like we've started to. Oh, excuse please, your question.
     I learn a lot from my ladies. They change my mind constantly. Even about services, which are local commodities, because they help me understand what to look for and what to ask for. That's very important, you know.
      By: Cell Marper Cootin [Neighborhood Xref=Nthaveth]
     .full-video: Me? I don't change my mind — ever. You see, I don't decide where to buy something until I need it, and then, I just know the best place to go. How do I know the best place? I'm psychic ... must be, don't you think? Otherwise, how would I know?
     By: Mich Eldu Frénoy [Neighborhood Xref=Mawddach]
     .text-only (monochrome): Ah, even in the face of reality, all marketeers like to say, "à force de mal aller tout ira bien." And oddly enough, human yearnings make it happen.

      Notable excerpts: Round-Robin Klatsch "Anshin Performance and Contract Renewal"
     By: Yak Canutt Dragon-Horse [Neighborhood Xref=Mantiqueira]
      .voice-only: Habari gani?
     By: Fay Gordon Carsonorfolk [Neighborhood Xref=Wielkopolska]
     .full-video: Show yourself!
     Yak Canutt: Do not want to.
     Fay Gordon: Why should we listen to you, then?
     Yak Canutt: Any of you heard about the temblor in Titov? Nearly wiped out a town?
     Fay Gordon: What's that have to do with this klatsch's topic? We're here to talk about Anshin Performance and Contract Renewal.
     By: Nole Leondaro Rockefeller [Neighborhood Xref=Tel Hazor]
      .full-video: Si. Why can't that bruja Heejanus keep up with the Gastarbeiterbande?
     By: Lên Collins Adlunaboss [Neighborhood Xref=Lake Hula]
     .full-video: And the degeneration of our neighborhood boundaries ... and our failing utilities ... and the quality of our air ... and —
     Yak Canutt: Any of you use a news-gleaner on the whole Em-Deh, looking for anshin stories? [4-second silence] 'Course not. Why bother to arm yourselves with facts? Any of you see how they got help when that mid-continent earthquake overwhelmed a direvnya's anshin?
     Fay Gordon: Who helped them?
     Yak Canutt: Dunno. Story was vague about that, but whoever it was seemed equipped and manned for a big job. Maybe they could help us.
      By: Luc Conein Ngodinhdiem [Neighborhood Xref=Aharon]
      .voice-over: Yojin Suru
     Fay Gordon: Yojin Suru? According to my translator glyph, that's from-Nihon for "vigilance" or "care," as in "be careful of" or "guard against." Who said that anyway?
     Luc Conein (coming in full-video): I'm really not supposed to say, but — he deserves recognition. They all do!
      Fay Gordon: Who?
     Luc Conein: My brother. He used to work for the Yojin Suru combine on their anti-contraband team. He told me once — he made me promise not to tell, but ... He said they are a fail-safe for the anshin. He talked about being the planet's "catcher in the rye." [chokes on grief] Of course, he always was a romantic at heart.
      Lên Collins: Hey [concerned], what happened?
     Luc Conein: He died on Nikolayev, cleaning out a den of meta-meth traders. Their lab exploded with his team inside. Accident or intention, no one ever figured out. Stopped the traders, though, so I guess he would've been happy with the outcome. A romantic, like I said.
     Yak Canutt: Like I was saying ... the local anshin can't hack it, these guys bail them — and the Collective — out.
     Fay Gordon: A few utility glitches and you're saying things are bad enough here for this intercontinental cavalry to get involved?
     Luc Conein: Hold off on that — Yojin Suru aren't free. You're supposed to subscribe to their service, like insurance.
     Nole Leondaro: Do we really think Heejanus-the-witch would bet somebody that she couldn't handle everything Ganj Dareh could dish up? [snort of derision]
     Lên Collins: Even if she would — and I think she would — Byukan-Hamil wouldn't, not with karg-mit-Geld Norma running it, not to a global combine beyond her control. She'd consider BH to be ... whaddaya-callit?
     Fay Gordon: "Self-insured?"
     Lên Collins: Yeah, self-insured. Well, we can see how much the consortium's "self" is helping us out. Everything seems to be falling apart, not just anshin coverage.
     Yak Canutt: Wouldn't the Yojin Suru be watchin', you know, just in case things get out of any chief's hands.
     Nole Leondaro: This is Yeibichai. If it's none of your business, it's not your business. Forget about the Yojin Suru!
     Yak Canutt: No, we just have to do it ourselves. What I've been trying to tell you.
     Fay Gordon: You have not.
     Yak Canutt: Have to.
     Fay Gordon: Have not.
     [End of excerpt]