Incidents yesterday = 1,267 above normal (increase of 33% over the day before)[normal Incident count = 22.2]
     Report on Ganj Dareh Meeting/will-be-heard participation (R=88%/W=47%):

     Discussion Groups Active: 16,731 Forums & 22,422 Klatsches
      Notable excerpts: Moderated Klatsch "Ad-hoc Query"
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Good afternoon, Ganj Dareh, and welcome to Ad-hoc Query, our daily will-see wherein we discuss topics of interest to us all. I'm Ard Stallmanrich Saint-Free, looking at you and talking to you live from my home in Drollet Neighborhood.
     "Are you ready for guests? Yesterday, I asked for volunteers to sponsor one or more Gastarbeiter into our little discussion group. I'm happy to say that I had no problem lining up four hosts who could bring Guest Workers to our get-together. I'm also happy to say that I have here, with me, my own Gastarbeiter. I went out yesterday myself and dug one up. How do you like that?
     "Let me introduce Dat So Lalee from, uh ..."
     Dat So: "Na'Nizhoozhi."
      Ard Stallmanrich: "Yes, Na — Na-niz-who-zit. Welcome, So, if I may call you that."
      Dat So: "Ni-hi-dah-ni-dool-da."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Yes, right back at you. We are also sharing your foilscreen with the following homes in neighborhoods all over the direvnya. First, in Cheddington Neighborhood, Son Shiyousama Cyberprospector with her guest Lan Abrink Leycolumb from Falkland."
      Son Shiyousama: "Hello."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Second, in Leighton Buzzard Neighborhood, Vy Gilovidda Sellensoft with his guest Nel Sonpol Sbycali from Ngandong."
      Vy Gilovidda: "Greetings!"
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Third, in Bwlchtocyn Neighborhood, Ei Semann Schier-Ruth with his guest Van Lisulleen Kathfederalist from Kamatipura."
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     Ard Stallmanrich: "Sorry about that little, ah, intermission, folks. We've resumed today's instance of Ad-Hoc Query, with two guest connections and trying for a third. In Bwlchtocyn Neighborhood, Ei Semann Schier-Ruth with his guest Van Lisulleen Kathfederalist from Kamatipura, are you there?"
      Ei Semann: "Right here."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "And last, in Cote Neighborhood, Tho Masjameshol Denfbi with her guest Hat Tiebrat Zelkremen from Sambungmacan."
     Tho Masjameshol: "Yo."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Okay, okay, let's get started with my first question for all of you Gastarbeiter: What prompted you to move to Ganj Dareh?"
     Dat So: "We came on the hope of jobs."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Surely, there were jobs at home — if you'd worked a bit harder to find them."
     Dat So: "No; otherwise, we would not have pursued the phantasm called Hope, giving up what substance we had left in the gong-she of what you derisively call 'home.' You seem very comfortable here, in this home, Stall, if I may call you that. Have you ever considered losing it?"
      Ard Stallmanrich: "No. How 'bout some of you other Gastarbeiters? Anything to say?"
     Van Lisulleen: "I came with mi tykes, hardly big enough to walk yet. Mi husband, he died in a cave-in, and with him, go the job. Even with ore-tek, I canna do the work. No other jobs in our tiny direvnya; mi husband lucky to have his. So, we take train here, we stay gong-she here, we meet Semann here, we move in here. We set now."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Very sweet, eh, folks? Eh, Semann? Sonpol, tell us your sob story."
     Dat So: "Stall, we are not jokes. We—"
     Ard Stallmanrich: "Sonpol?"
     Nel Sonpol: "The Rendezvous is great, what can I say? I've never learned so much or worked so much or had so much fun in my life. If we'd had something like this back home, none of us Guest Workers would be here. Why Byukan-Hamil didn't try this before, I don't know, but I'll tell you this: we'll be out of your hair just as soon as we can. I can't wait to get home to my family."
      Ard Stallmanrich: "Didn't bring the wife with you?"
     Nel Sonpol: "Our daughter couldn't move. Chronic myelitis."
     Ard Stallmanrich: "So how's your wife spending her spare time? Ever think about that?"
     Dat So: "Stall, get ready to deal with being homeless! The rest of you out there in Ganj Dareh, I'm warning you, too! You'd better work at improving your empathy, or we'll be giving you a lesson in sympathy. Don't understand the difference? It's the difference riding in an airplane and jumping out of one. Stall here is about to find out that difference up close and personal."
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