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3-Four time
- start working overtime now
agent-for
- identity
agent
- also known as "pixie"
- for-assurance &2
  - definition &2
  - from schmatte llevar to neck
  - in public entrance
- for-comparing
  - definition
- for-connection
  - aborted as it started up again about that odd port
  - definition
  - example of work
  - struggled with the interface
- for-culling
  - definition
  - used by Kanpa
- for-evaluation
  - definition
- for-identification &2 &3 &4 &5
  - definition
  - fails for Kanpa
  - purposefully avoided
- for-identity
  - Harlan uses it to ID Foxfire
  - its nipple broke the stark cyber-blue of an idle techniker entrance
  - Phoebe rubbed her palm across the llevar's ~
  - used on prisoners
  - used to log onto the Mirnaya Direvnya
  - Weir's botfly
- for-indirection
  - definition
- for-location
  - definition
- for-multifaceted-queries
  - definition
  - may attend will-hears using other tacticians' proxies
  - types of access capability
- for-queries
  - Weir's botfly
- for-recording
  - definition
- for-security
  - definition
  - Phoebe sets up a proxy
- for-selection
  - definition
  - used for voting
- for-trade &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11
  - balked with 'quota exceeded' messages
  - checks people's ages at a tavern
  - definition
  - identifies person who wants transaction
  - if cann't "see" you, you don't exist logically
  - in public entrance
  - rugged, reliable, ubiquitous
  - shake hands with
  - small, rugged foilscreen
  - tends to the transaction
  - won't recognize a sanctioned person
- less complicated than a personality
- limited questions
- meeting/will-be-seen
- of-limited-questions
  - crisp monochrome panel
  - definition
  - vanilla in public entrance
- of-priorities
  - definition
- of identification
  - logs and code traces
- queries of extrapolation
- tracking Incidents
alien races
- not encountered yet by Humanity
animals when people used to cage them
anonymity
- impossible in the current Em-Deh
- its prohibition reconsidered
- might have a purpose
- Pizi's splinter enables
- without fear of accountability
- without fear of reprisal
anshin
- Alternate Tactician
  - for Roca
- anshin-only data
  - Exiles
- anshin-style freezeframe
  - full face set next to a profile
  - in sharp contrast against a neutral background
- arresting someone in will-hear
- as Enemies of 13'Sao-La
- blister uniform &2
- callus jumpsuit
  - color mentioned
  - some-kind-of-gray
- Central Station
  - 3rd floor open to roof-top gardens
  - can be seen from the drome between fábrica-clad summits
  - combine refectory on the garden level
  - connection with
    - chimed acknowledgment
  - courtyard
    - bowl for meetings
    - described
    - location for tactical can-feel
  - entrance doors=tall, transparent
  - entrance room
    - an alcove shielded by two stiff ferns
    - anshin and zhee-tely alike
    - counters and half-private offices
    - counters and half-private offices on all sides
    - floor=terrazzo
    - floor=wide terrazzo
    - opened itself to the suns and the Collective
    - perimeter contains half-offices and counters conducting business
    - staircase at back
    - staircase
    - terrazzo floor
    - tower staircase at the back
    - Weir's view - does it match Phoebe's?
  - entrance, steps up to
  - gardens in front
    - at dawn &2
    - bracket approach like assorted multi-green and shaggy statues
    - Cliff enters ~
    - comfy bench set into a circle of cuetlaxochitl
    - mix of edibles and ornamentals
    - trees, hedges, shrubs, and benches
  - kivas
    - below entrance room
    - family of entrances
  - makeshift dispatch-center in dome room
  - Map Room
    - described
  - only building that breaks the four-story limit
  - out of a rooftop
  - raised beds with vegetable crops and shrubs
  - tallest structure in Ganj Dareh
  - tower
    - glass wall
    - stairwell
    - wide, spiraling steps
  - transparent dome
  - U-shaped roof opposite sides of tower
  - violates Four-Story Limit
  - voice of
    see "Cast>Phoebe's combine>Central Station>connection with (under C)
- chui
- clinic
  - Paris
    - in scene
      - all
      - mentioned
- Common-Surveillance Program &2 &3
  - connection to Beobachtung
  - expanded
  - Kanpa adds to Beobachtung
  - only in the places where people normally go
  - only interpreted by Surveillance Support Center
  - Sviatopluk-Combine participates
- controls the true power in direvnya
- counseling
- count
  - @warehouse
  - Ar-Kansas Community Station
  - of dead
    - Day1 of failed dreamsticks=87
    - over four-hundred anshin dead
  - over a thousand employees
- definition of term
- dreamstick
  - a way to defeat the wielder
  - causes dream-rigor
- Em-Deh link
  - severed once again
- Emergency request for meeting/can-be-seen with Yojin Suru
- equated with public safety
- eroding ollomani Ready Rooms
- excessive-demand insurance payments
  - deductible
  - paid by some, but not all
- how the Collective keeps itself clean, refuse collectors
- ident-flag shows name and pending charges
- Incident Board
  - Incident thereon
    - has a Location link to highlighted schematic of Ganj Dareh
  - referenced in toll-gated moderated klatsch
- Incident Brief
  - Harlan talks about the ragul in the fábrica
- Incidents
  - Commotion
  - count
    - 16 attackers
    - 950 on Day-17
  - High Multiplier
    - definition
  - Risk-of-Abuse
    - definition
  - Risk-of-Death
    - definition
  - Risk-of-Disturbance
    - definition
  - Risk-of-Injury
    - definition
  - Several Multiplier
    - definition
- intra-structure search team
- Judicial-Justice section
  - Brome-Missisquoi
- life-history in standard anshin format
- links to Beobachtung operators severed
- network restricted to ~
- note about Clinic cut-backs
- Officer-Down
- On-Location-Time
- patrolcraft
  - count=19
  - count=25
- patterns
  - altitudes
- Phase-1 triage
- pinkish-gray jumpsuit adopted by Phoebe for her tacticians
- proposal approved by Norma
- proposal schedule
- Reason-for-Tactical-Deficiency
- Reports-for-the-Chief
- Response Pattern
  - adapted to new situation
  - can take till next day
  - Commotion variant
    - created by Phoebe
    - see specific Stages
  - defined
  - modified to one riot, one constable
  - Response Team
    - departs in Stage 2, Respond
  - shades of bar-graphs in P's display
  - Stage 1, Alert
    - count of Incidents at this stage
    - when starts
  - Stage 2, Respond
  - Stage 3, Assess
    - Commotion variant
      - Stage a, Contain
      - Stage b, Immobilize
    - count of Incidents at this stage
    - mentioned as stage in ~ &2
  - Stage 4, Stabilize
    - Commotion variant
      - Stage a, Identify
      - Stage b, Treat
    - count of Incidents at this stage
    - mentioned as stage in ~ &2
  - Stage 5, Evacuate
    - Commotion variant
      - Stage a, Transport
      - Stage b, Incarcerate
    - count of Incidents at this stage
    - mentioned as stage in ~ &2 &3
  - Stage 6, Counsel
    - Commotion variant
      - Stage a, Investigate
      - Stage b, Indict &2
    - count of Incidents at this stage
    - mentioned as stage in ~
  - Stage 7, Evaluate
    - Commotion variant
      - Stage a, Try
      - Stage b, Judge
    - mentioned as stage in ~
    - Phoebe working on
  - Stage 8, Prevent
    - Commotion variant
      - Exile
    - mentioned as stage in ~
    - not 'Mitigate' for a reason
  - summations being ignored by Phoebe
  - tacticians run iaw
- Response Patterns
  - new ones
- Response Teams
  - revisit those victims and/or scenes with clue-tek
- Risk-of-Abuse
  - Exemptions
- Risk-of-Complaint
  - Exemption
- Risk-of-Death &2
  - Alert
  - High Multiplier
  - Incidents
- Risk-of-Injury Alarm with High Multiplier
- Risk-of-Injury
  - Alert, High Multiplier &2
  - High-Multiplier
  - Incident &2
  - Incident, High-Multiplier
- ritual of carrying anshin bodies
- security around dreamsticks intractable
- services
  - Health
    - Communal
    - Personal
    see also "Cast>Phoebe's combine" (under C)
  - Justice
    - Criminal
    - Regulatory
  - Safety
    - Accidental
    - Intentional
- staffed just for normal Incident rate
- symbology
  - firearms = flame
- tactical can-feel
  - happening every sunrise these days
  - location w/in Central Station
  - recorded by Beobachtung
  - schedule
- tactical kit
  - contains flex-armor
- tanglefog
  see "tek" (under T)
- tek
  - first-aid-tek
  - heavy belt
  - manacles
- thin, dawn-gray line between civilization and chaos
- treat-and-detain
  - ask Weir's clinic to ~
- uniform
  - belt
    - bracket
      - 3 dreamballs below right kidney
- uniforms constable
- uniforms
  - blister
  - callus
    - dawn-gray jumpsuit
  - color of
  - constables
    - cap=blue-gray circle with a dull-black bill
    - dreamstick=streak of black by his blue-gray leg
- vehicle
  - red-and-white stripes on Phoebe's patrolcraft
- vehicles
  - low-slung, red-and-white-striped
  - red-and-white stripes
- virtual alarm panel
Anu
- system's primary sun
  see also "Yeibichai>suns" (under Y)
aphorisms
- After the cards are laid out, he who speaks first loses
authority and responsibility
Backdoor
- location on each planet
  - deeply underground
- location
- opened to other planets in early 21st Century
- Planets
- short squirt through one
- takes time to descend to and get back from
- Yeibichai's ~ located on Continent Glenn
Beobachtung
- access impeded
  - according to Harlan
  - by Dain thru bureaucracy
  - one of Pizi's tasks
  - so tanglefog can't get data for targeting
- all data stored in one coag, cue/Em-Deh given
- all publicly available on Em-Deh
- available to anyone who knew how to render it
- basis in Pattern Language
- Common-Surveillance Program expanded into its shadows
- connection to Common-Surveillance Program &2
- definition in narrative
- External
- funneled back thru Mirnaya Direvnya
- History
- indirect reference to not being seen by it, per Dain to Thy
- looking at the miscreants, isn't that what it's for
- makes ascertaining guilt easy
- on Popovich, only interpreted by Surveillance Support Center
- Public
- read by Kanpa
- records all public activities
- records Phoebe's tactical meetings because they're outside
- rendering tools stored in one coag, cue/Em-Deh given
- shadow
  - mentioned by 13'Sao-La &2
- used by Yojin Suru, per Qidan
- uses satellites, per Qidan
- visible spectrum
  - surreal cast when filtered from observation data
blister
- definition=a person in regular contact with customers on their turf)
brainstorming
- such is the power
Business, People, and Technology
- used to guide Operation Heart Transplant
Byukan-Hamil Consortium
- "Personal business" was often code for a zhuhndí intrusion on consortium matters
- abuses Distribution-of-Direvnya Pattern
- Accepting Strategist
- accounts
  - Byukan-Hamil headquarters>Norma Reservoir>Electricity-Generation>Research-and-Development
  - Hubei Region>Ganj Dareh>Anshin>Contingency Budget
  - systemware upgrade budget
- anshin will-see under its auspices
- behind in use of acu-tek
- business lines run by different Partners
- calendar automata were set up to recognize certain names
- can-feel room
  - broken into three areas
  - can talk to its automata
  - default configuration
  - feels massive
  - just the one
  - plush carpet covered in a floral motif of fey-banyan-green
  - series of rising vaults
  - walls stood as waves of rough, pastel-pink rock
- changes in Partners referenced by Kanpa
- chose to operate only on Popovich
- contract in Ganj Dareh
  - gong-she
- count of anshin chiefs=4,441 per region
- count of anshin chiefs=over 30,000
- count of combines
  - partial
  - thousands
- Director of Infrastructure Technology=Dain
- Direvnya
  - a twisted, stunted troll, wrinkled and foul-bodied and -mouthed from the rotting staff caves of ~
  - Dain loses time when away from there
  - Kiva-in-the-Mountains
  - recreation building
    - lobby has balcony
    - stone floor
- encryption
  - beyond the requirements of patient-privacy patterns
  - unprecedented amount
- first continent-wide contract
  - Cliff = tactician
- Gatogrebok Con-Hominium thought to be competition
- gleests
  - either has too good manners or not enough skill for us
- hardened patterns in Ganj Dareh
- hasn't been fair to those who became Gastarbeiter
- HQ Direvnya
  - derisively described as prosperous by Weir
  - described as pre-occupied by Kanpa
  - known as "Vampire Direvnya"
  - reference to it in the mountains
  - site of scene
- in Ganj Dareh
  - completely dominated business
  - refused to do business w/Weir &2 &3
- in the mountains
  - code for hq
- Infrastructure Technology
  - includes Surveillance Support Center (cf)
- infrastructure
  - controlled by Dain
- infraware
  - housed in dark block of space
- must lose the selection
- networks of coordinators
- no one combine had ever tried to execute all the contracts on a continent before
- Notices of Competition
  - Norma abolishes ~
- Organizational meeting
  - only way to change policyware
- overrides
  - Consortium priority-override
    - used by Dain to meet with Pizi
    - used by Phoebe on Dain
  - disease-control priority
    - used by Phoebe on Dain
  - privilege from Chair of Team of Partners
    - used by Dain on Phoebe with fiducia
  - Rendezvous-of-Futures
    - used by Dain on Phoebe
  - Special-Projects
    - used by Dain on Phoebe
  - undermined by Phoebe via gleestwork
- Partner-for-Business
- Partner-in-Charge
  - Dain for BH?
  - Irwin over vertical lines of business
- Partner booby-trap
- Partner
  - Partner-shit
  - priorities=power, power, power
- Pattern Language
  - abandoned Reception Welcomes You
- Patterns of Business
- Performance Appraisals
  - Primary Review by combine tactician
  - Secondary Review by Regional Partner
- played economies-of-scale to a ridiculous height
- policyware
  - convert it to new patterns
- policyware
  - enforces imprimaturs
- Prime-Direvnya chiefs
  - refuse psych-tek to Phoebe
- project designation
- Proprietor's imprimatur
- Regions
  - abandoned
    - Dain remembers
  - Dain appreciates Partners' work
  - Hubei
- Registry of Meetings
- restricted air travel to business
- self-insured, don't need Yojin Suru
- Staff Headquarters
- staff
  - described as quiet tumult
- super-majority &2
- Surveillance Support Center
  - called mountain trolls
  - founded by Mna Josef
  - in BH Direvnya
  - Kanpa worked there
  - only way for anshin to get Beobachtung interpreted
  - reviled by Harlan
  - work in Infrastructure Technology
- Team of Partners
  - composition explained
  - dissolved by Norma
  - Limited meeting
    - Dain thinks back on it
  - meeting today
  - mentioned
  - re-organized because of conspiracy, or so JDainB says
  - refuse to do business w/The Tangent
  - Regional Partners have their own floor of offices
  - revoked
  - the field hates Partner whimsy
  - would be undermined by Dain
- the largest and the shortest will-see in BH history
- toadstools backdoor everything with Partner overrides
- typical Partner question: puts you on the spot without them having to think hard enough to be specific
- underling one-two: grins and graphics
- Weir surprised they don't change more Patterns
- word about changes in consortium structure
- Yojin Suru
  - hasn't paid premiums in years
  - stopped paying for
- zhuhndí location private
callus
chai
- from-Bharat
  - ingredients
- from-England
  - called "tea"
- from-Roossija &2 &3
- from-Zhongguo
  - called "t'e"
clichés like patterns and not
clothes catalog, not gong-she
code
- battle between code-makers and code-breakers
Collective
see "Yeibichai" under Pattern Languages (under Y)
Collectives dislike coincidence when it comes to business
Con-Hominium Gatogrebok
- 35 days = more preparation than ever allotted to a ~ project
- members of combines do not work proposals for nothing
- mentioned
Control, Shock, Destroy &2
- kata form
- Lugar's purposeful inversion
- Lugar commands only Shock and Control
- turned around by Lugar
see "Le Coeur de la Patrie" > "Tlaxtli League" > Rules of Close Combat (under L)
Count
- 13,000 Die Gastarbeiter so far
- Incident count from Phoebe
- Incidents yesterday
Cygnus Group
- Academy
  - Cadets from Continent Glenn to Popovich for Entrance Exams
- Sector
  - Governor-General
data>information>knowledge>wisdom &2
Death
- accidental caused by zhee-tely
- collateral murders by ollomani
- color of ~ &2 &3
  - white
- don't kill on purpose, says Dain
see also "Pattern Languages>Yeibichai>Protect Your Life-Expectancy and That of Others" (under P)
Die Gastarbeiter
- obvious from their clothing
dreamball
- see under "tek"
Em-Deh Combine
- mentioned by Pizi
En-ki
- nearest companion star to Anu, the primary
  see also "Yeibichai>suns" (under Y)
En-lil
- far wandering companion star to Anu, the primary
  see also "Yeibichai>suns" (under Y)
Enforcement Engineers
- Norma pays them through fronts
- professional extra-legals
Exile
- a candidate for ~ to track
- anshin cull people there constantly
- from continents
  - ragul from 2
  - secured anshin-only
- gangsters revived from cells as they arrived in ~
- Islands of Exile
- might be even fiercer, says Dain
- Phoebe vows to send Gastarbeiterbande there
- poachers sentenced to ~
- probable destination for all Gastarbeiterbande
- Qidan checked whether they were behind the troubles in Ganj Dareh
- see also Place>Islands of Exile
- Temüjen sent there
- up to three Exiles allowed when lesser offenses were involved
- weed out when we fail
feng shui
fiducia &2
- definition
- definition in narrative
- provided via subvocalization into wingtip-collar microphone
- ring
from-
- Australia
  - Aboriginal mother-in-law tongue
  - Aborigines
    - mother-in-law tongue
- Bantu
  - Xhosan ascetic
- Benghal
  - banyan
  - banyan aka strangling fig
- Bharat
  - chai
- Chosön
  - café
- Danmark
  - sandkage
- Deutschland
  - article "Die"
- England
  - tea
- Europe-Northern
- France
  - Cognac imported by Knight of Elizabeth
- Gë
  - Dom Perignon
  - older books mentioned handwriting
  - ostrich
- Hutu
  - hates from-Twa
- Italia
  - face
  - good for swear words
- Maasai
  - kasserian ingera - sapati ingera
- Nederlanden
  - gedogen
- Nihon &2
  - appearance
- North-America
- Portuguesa
- Roossija
  - chai &2 &3
- Samoa &2
- Twa
  - hates from-Hutu
- USA
  - "kid" used on 13'Sao-La
  - Federalist Papers
  - mispronounce of Deutsch article "Die"
  - not so good for swear words
- Zhongguo
  - t'e
  - Zhongguo ren
    - ancient saying
- Zinghua
  - Byukan-Hamil Region names
full-seconds
- definition
Gatogrebok Con-Hominium
- based on Grissom
- BH policyware prevent Cliff from taking their money
- bidding on anshinkan contract in Ganj Dareh
- definition
- first combine to do business on Continent Popovich
- Günter's company
- Günter acts as Coordinator for the entire ~
- Günter served only as co-ördinator and then only at the bidding of the stockholders and combine tacticians
- hq
  - coag on Continent Carpenter
- if Okra can sell Bear Project to them
- it's us or them on this planet today, says Dain
- mentioned &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8
- mentioned as competition
- mentioned as target of Okra's intrigue
- mentioned indirectly
- mentioned
  - by Norma
- no economies of scale
- no regard for structure
- Okra thinks they're Byukan-Hamil's competition
- protects its Em-Deh relays
- research-and-development has deep pockets
- spans 8 continents
- staged "invasion" on Grissom
- submit bid=threw the rock that started an avalanche
- tactician's imprimatur
- The Tangent bargains with an alternative provider
- thinks it won in Ganj Dareh
- use sub-contractors
- why they chose to make their competitive statement in healthcare
Geld
- microGeld
gleest
- also called lattice-munging
- called "slimeball" &2
- chasms between data and logiciel
- Dain needed one to muck with policyware
- dozens exist
- dragons of infrastructure
- fester
- gleest-work &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8
- hacker to break into other people's meetings
- hierarchy
  - 1=lofty putrid &2 &3 &4 &5
  - 2=lesser fetid &2 &3
  - 3=merely rancid types &2
  - perceived by Phoebe
- in synopsis &2 &3
- names
  - Baru Diganderby
  - Bis Tidhar Holong
  - Kangi Yatapi &2
  - Pizi
- needed for Dain's project
- needed more than ever now to burrow into Byukan-Hamil's virtual structure and rip out a few walls
- not have anything to do with perverts like [gangsters] &2
- on Byukan-Hamil staff &2
- reason for Phoebe to hate one
- referenced &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8
- stereotype
- use one to solve dreamstick problem
- Weir
  - "I've sullied the Em-Deh with all manner of agents"
- will-hears
- work called "rancid"
going gong-she
- practically turgid with negative emotions
Golden Rule
- part of inductive counseling
golpe
- definition
gong-gong qi-che &2
- definition
gong-she
- called "on-the-dole"
- clothing
  - color of shirt and pants
  - not being worn by Weir et alia
- definition
- different kind of clothes
- gong-shi-tang
  - ration can be spent in restaurants
- su-she
  - dormitory part of gong-she
- taken off the dole when sanctioned
handwriting
- Cliff can still do it
- everyone typed or spoke to build text or instruct automata
- Weir had read of it
- Weir never seen it practiced
happy clothes
see "Large Square Dance" (under L)
hardcopy distribution
how the future will be different
- commit resources back to the Collective
- each residence and business composts its own sewage
- each residence generates its own electricity
- if you build something, you maintain it
human mind
- terahertz simulations still can't read ~
human nature
- remained perverse despite their careful cleansing of genes and memes
- root cause of war = insecurity and its expressions: fear, envy, and greed
human
- brain
  - terahertz multi-processing, up to 7 streams
- genome
  - model for pattern languages
  - shares 97% of their DNA with chimpanzees
Humanity
- expansion to the stars
Humans by nature hate diversity
humans
- relating to each other
  - the mind in that other skull as one very much like your own
Incident at
- the Bluffs
- the Drome
  - 13'Sao-la
    - gets orders from Thy
    - hears about anshin raid
  - Weir
    - sees first coach erupt
Incidents
- bio-battery incident
  - Phoebe thinks back to old couple's complaints
  - Risk-of-Death Alert Several-Multiplier
- Incident at the Drome
  - Weir wrapping up his role
- no deaths so far
- nobody died yet
index
- patterns
  - can they be predictive?
inertia and infrastructure
Insight to job
- programmer
  - removing testing code [Pizi]
  - shouldn't document code [Pizi]
- strategist
  - do prey on the na‹ve to be tacticians?
  - not on-site like a tactician
- tactician determines what the job is; strategist helps se get it done
- tactician
interstellar travel
- we've done it
Join for Life
- Meyer proposes to Foxfire
Jung
- C.G.
  - definition of "anima"
  - definition of "persona"
Jury Duty
- explained in narrative
justice
- Community Collective tried, convicted, and sentenced
Knights of Magellan
- see under "Le Coeur"
Lake Norma
- southwest of Byukan-Hamil Direvnya
Large Square Dance
- anshin handled without an official Incident
- Bear Cohorts #4 being escorted to there
- between ridges, cutouts for dancing
- buffered by a potpourri of imported flora
- canvas roofs
- central square-dance floor
- Chi Unesugi will attend this evening
- every 8 days to match Groves' cycle
- first one since Har Norma's announcement
- food arcade
- food pavilion is open even when there's not a Dance
- happy clothes &2
- Kanpa wants to go see
- layout described
- Loon and her host family attend
- mentioned in scene
- not another one for 6 days
- projected dancers tall as trees
- requires deviation to Dark-at-Night Pattern
- shipwreck of light
- six ridges rising out of valley
lateral thinking
- conference thought up by Cliff
living off the Collective
marketing
- real people don't do marketing
Meaning of Life
meeting
- can-see
  - automaton
    - help
      - Names
    - prompts for responses to keep meeting moving
  - can fake your participation
  - explained in narrative
  - freezes
  - how it works and looks
- database
  - among ghost-troop aircraft
- definition
meetings
- many-to-many
- one-to-many
- one-to-one
meta-meth
midway for combines
- metaphor revealed
Mudge patterns of movement
neuropeptides
not an index
- Cast
  - Weir's advisors
    - Lincoln Gerovitch Prokopowicz
      - character in scene
      - multiple wives and children
  - Weir Annadetcall
    - his team
      - Lotche Balynerose
        
        in scene
        
        all
        character
      - Sier Tiaubelleisa
        
        in scene
        
        all
        character
- patterns
- Question
  - Arabic formal attire?
Notice of Hiring
- continent-wide
  - focused on Ganj Dareh
    - issued today
Notices of Competition
- Norma abolishes ~
Notices of Hiring
Nurse-in-Training
- cap=symbol of graduation
Nurse as pinnacle of human medicine
OK
- Oll Korrect
paradigm shift
patterns
- conspiracies
- Weir thinks they're like clichés, only better
Phoebe's combine
- tacticians
  - Line Roca Coxbaroness
    - in scene
      - all
      - mentioned
physical supports everything else
physical, logical, and virtual
pithy quote
- Change requires power, yet power resists change
Place
- Bleak Hills
  - in southern Popovich
- Cape Caciporé
- Cavilli Inlet
- Continents
  - Carpenter
  - Gagarin
    - capers from hothouses
    - home of member of Em-Deh BoD
  - Glenn
  - Grissom
    - beets
    - home of member of Em-Deh BoD
  - Nikolayev
    - Direvnya
      - Henumire
        
        source of chicory
      - Shek Kip Mei
        
        former anshinkan chief=Lincoln Gerovitch Prokopowicz
    - home of member of Em-Deh BoD
    - onions
  - Popovich
    - Cavilli Inlet
    - Direvnya
      - Ames Power Plant
        
        Loon's home
      - Falkland
      - Kamatipura
      - Ngandong
      - Sambungmacan
    - home of member of Em-Deh BoD
    - Laetoli Valley
      - Inn's entrance
      - Ngoro-Ngoro River
      - Seven Fathers &2
      - The Edge of the World
        
        Bailey throws se over ~
        Dain stands there after the flashback
        Dain stands there before the flashback
    - population
      - count=75M
    - Regions
      - Fujian
        
        Prime Direvnya=Arbay Heere
      - Guangdong
        
        Prime Direvnya=Knedlik
      - Guizhou
        
        Prime Direvnya=Rigoberta
      - Hubei
        
        Prime Direvnya=Ganj Dareh
      - Hunan
        
        Prime Direvnya=Wausau &2
      - Jiangsu
        
        Prime Direvnya=Sperry
      - Shanxi
        
        Prime Direvnya=Menchu Tum
    - Sicilian peninsula
      - olives
  - Schirra
  - Shepard
    - home of member of Em-Deh BoD
    - lettuce
  - Titov
    - cabbage
    - Direvnya
      - Landers Station
    - home of member of Em-Deh BoD
- Direvnya
  - Labrador
    - Communities
      - Mushuau Innu
- Islands of Exile
  - Tidhar recruiting a crew there
- Laetoli savannah
- Ngoro-Ngoro gorge
- Sicilian Peninsula
project plan
- 2-D activity network
- classic poly-network
- easily go 3-D
  - linking network &2
  - resource
proposals
- Pattern Languages for
  see "Pattern Languages>Byukan-Hamil Consortium" (under P)
realty=major revenue stream
recession on Popovich
- started 8 years ago
Refugees-from-Kosovo Extrapolations
- introduced by Albina Washburn
- mentioned by Prokopowicz
religion
- Judaism
  - High Holy Days
  - on Yeibichai
    - couple must work thru atonement before being ready to Join for Life
  - Roshashanah
  - Year=5872
  - Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement
Rendezvous of Futures
- 10 processing booths @drome
- 12 training centers around Ganj Dareh
- a fiasco
- a grand cattle call
- announcement
  - discussed by Cliff, Lotte, and Zim
  - on Society-for-Passage bulletin board
  - read by Weir on train
- are you in town for ~?
- arose from Partner Meeting
- bandannas
- Broken Glass
  - a seminar within it
- Campus
- Cliff as Director of Training
- Cliff still only de-facto tactician
- clue that ollomani work within it &2
- compus site
- confidence course
- count
  - 36,500
- courses
  - project planning
- Dain appointed president
- database
  - takes in another identity
  - takes in identities
- finally contact Loon
- first meeting of the anshin task force in support
- Ganj Dareh broken by it
- Gast- und einheimischer Arbeiter both attend
- Günter thinks it will go away
- if Phoebe had discovered gangs organized within
- its campus=former industrial park
- its database "fixed" by Le Coeur
- JDainB's tale of conspiracy
- lecture
  - project scheduling
  - time reporting
- mission statement
- Norma's announcement
  - Prokopowicz aware of it
  - text
  - timing
    - 7 days ago
- Norma as sponsor
- Norma pushed a lot of unemployed people off the cliff of hope
- now contains Ganj Dareh zhee-tely
- Off-Work Coordinator
- Okra calls it "confusion that Byukan-Hamil is inflicting on Ganj Dareh"
- orientation for einheimischer Arbeiter
- pays Meyer's combine to use their tek
- people buzzing for it
- Phoebe's take on this day
- Phoebe blames it for the drop in the Collective's satisfaction
- Phoebe calls it "Futures Rendezvous"
- Phoebe wants to ship people home, maybe shut the whole thing down
- presentation
  - "Who Am I and Who Could I Be?"
- proposals for new products and services
  - count
- receives campus+gong-she as gifts from Ganj Dareh
- relationship to anshin
- restricted access to database
- started by Norma
- study plan
- taking care of these people, day and night
- taking everyone
- wear clothes of people on-the-dole
- Weir wants to hire RoF
  - as dayjobbers
  - Cliffs tell Ford "No" & Ford tells Weir
  - Dain forbids it
  - even RoF refused their Geld
  - Ford reports no progress
- why not agents-for-trade
responsibility and authority
- Dain stuck w/r, but no a
risk management
- effect multiplied by probability
sanction
- aka "off the dole"
- explained in narrative
- your family or friends may carry you
satire
- current medical practices
  - reception
sea-gull
Seeds of Disaster
- a la Dain
seeds of disaster
- used in narrative
Serengeti Plain
- life there built these violent patterns into our brains
Serious Creativity
- curriculum expanded beyond ~
- defined in narrative
- put to work on Ganj Dareh's problem w/RoF
serious creativity
- various aspects dismissed sarcastically
Serious Creativity
- workshops to focus on Ganj Dareh's tribulations
  - started
Shock, Control, Destroy
- 13'Sao-La closed to apply Shock before bulge slipped away
- had applied to the drome
- kicks for Disable, no time for true Destroy
- would apply to Ganj Dareh as well
- yielded Shock to Control for a later, but more certain Destroy
sly hint about future
- automaton can summarize a person's verbal message
sly hints at future
- inoculations against five strains of cold virus
Sol
- in holographic overlay of orrery
- in planetarium's starfield
- mentioned by Dain in his two-body metaphor
Spaceª
- anomaly created by a Bear
- data-storage devices @Em-Deh BoD meeting
- humans can't really see Spaceª inside a Bear's anomaly
span of control
- Dain shudders at his possible ~
storytelling
- connects the storyteller's cerebral reality with the listener's
- full of pretend and real, the one explaining the other
Strategist
- definition
- in defense of strategy vs tactics
- insight into job
  - live in the future, eye the present, and learn from the past
- insight to job
  - funding means we can do anything [ironic]
- strategy is real work
superparamagnetic effect
- definition
systems thinking
- essence=structures we're not aware of hold us prisoner
systemware
- kiva in the basement
- reroute communications to Alternate Tactician
Tactician
- a person who accomplishes goals through other people, not machines
- aspects of the job
  - management lobotomy
- chain-of-authority
- definition
- insight to job
- insight to the job
  - demand on time always exceeds supply
- seconds waiting
  - doesn't waste even small ~
  - fill them with progress elsewhere
- training
  - project planning
    - Ghosts of Future Success -- or Failure
- understand goals, practicality, and all in the same boat
- ways of the job
  - cleaning up your own messes
- worry most when things go well
tea
- amber stream &2
- called "chai" by Phoebe
- Irish-Breakfast
- Orange Pekoe from Yeibichai
Thanks
- Bob Dylan
  - words from "Tryin' to Get into Heaven"
- Peter Liu
the future
- how it's better
  - hardcopy=flimsy, biodegradable
The Other
- synonyms
The Singer of the Heavens
- invoked by Weir
Tlaxtli League
- see under "Le Coeur"
Total Quality Management
- cycle aborted by panic
- cycle quoted
- mentioned by Dain
  - Plan, execute, measure, and evaluate.
- review of the process, applied to conquering a town
Tribute
- "As the World Turns"
  - still a soap opera
- all emotion arises from fear or love -- not!
- Ben Stein in "Ferris Buehler's Day-Off"
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Bruce Stirling
  - Nista calls sight-tek "spex"
- Burma-Shave
- Business, People, Technology &2
- Clarke
  - technology sufficiently advanced looks like magic
- Dirty-Harry movie: 'Magnum Force'
- Edward de Bono
- Federalist Papers
- Gandhi's list of deadly sins
- Gone with the Wind
- heart in his throat -- explained
- Julius Caesar
  - veni, vidi, vinci
- life of a tactician
  - demands of budget
- like a sock full of shit: he takes the shape of whatever he's slapped up against -- whoever said it
- My Fair Lady
- One riot, one ranger
- Paul MacCready
  - endurance aircraft
- Pooh and/or British
  - Elevenses
- Princess Leia's record message in Star Wars IV
- Red Dwarf: smegging
- Richelieu sock-of-shit approach
- Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd
- Rodin's The Thinker
- Shakespeare
  - "Lay on, MacDuff"