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call ‘command and control’, ‘juice mover’ and ‘charismatic’; each has a wide spread of possible sub-types.  The command and control model includes what the public model system terms ‘corporate’ and ‘military’ models, as well as the ‘weak Focus’ model varieties that have a normal or Transform running the household in a dictatorial fashion.  The juice mover model includes the ‘dictator’ and ‘hedonist’ public model types, and the ‘weak Focus’ model subtype where the household leaders run the household by having the Focus control the rest of the household with the juice.  The charismatic model includes what the public model system terms ‘charismatic’, as well as the ‘weak Focus’ model subtypes where the Focus spends most of her time dealing with outside-the-household issues and uses her charisma only to set up and maintain a household leadership team she doesn’t otherwise order around.”  The older Focus brushed back a strand of hair and waited as Gail thought.
    “I like your explanation better,” Gail said.  “But, based on some earlier comments you’ve made, aren’t all households in some way ‘juice mover’ households?”
    “ If you restrict juice moving to, for instance, a one hour time period in the morning, or do continual juice moving all day and all night long, at a subconscious level, you’re not following the ‘juice mover’ model.”
    “Oh,” Gail said.  “I’ve never run into any Focuses who do that.”  Pause.  “Well, I know you do, but I can’t metasense…”  Only she did, once she concentrated on it.  “There they are.  You can hide your Transforms ’ metapresences?”
    “That’s five hundred you owe me, Tonya,” Keaton said, from the next room over.  “I told you her metasense was deadly.”
    Aargh!
    “Sorry.”
    “To be expected,” Tonya said, papering over another bit of exasperation.  “The way I think of the juice mover models is this way: a dictator primarily uses negative reinforcement with the juice in running her household, while a hedonist primarily uses positive reinforcement.”
    “Th is seems a little loosely defined…”  Gail’s voice tailed off as she thought, remembering one of Tonya’s comments a month or so ago, where she said Gail’s household model wasn’t as unique as she thought it was.  “Wait just a second.  I’m running a hedonist model, under your definitions.”
    “Yes, you are.”
    “But, ick!  My household’s nothing like…”  Gail reddened.
    “You’re stereotyping, thinking all hedonist households are the same.  You’re running your household with a light hand, but it’s still a hedonist household.”  Tonya paused.  “Which is why it’s better to think of all of these as juice mover households.”
    Gail wasn’t sure this was better.
    “So, tell me, how are you coping with the wedding preparations?” Tonya said , her point made.
    Gail welcomed the subject change.  “It’s wearing.  I get distracted into wedding issues so easily, and when I do so, there goes the juice, off to do its own thing.  Let me tell you…”
    She and Tonya continued to chat on mundane issues for the next hour, while Van and Keaton strategized in the next room.
    No, this wasn’t how Gail had envisioned this meeting.
     

The Negotiation Experiment (Carol Hancock’s POV)
    Ke aton’s arrangement of a formal Crow meeting on my territory had cost her nearly a quarter million dollars and far too much of my time.  This was tricky for me, since Keaton doing the ‘boss Arm’ routine in my house wasn’t at all natural.  I didn’t remotely appreciate having to subordinate myself to her dominance on my own turf.
    On the other hand, this little experiment involved the senior Crows as well as the Arms, and it was a good test of the Cause and the Arm-Crow alliance.  Guru Arpeggio had been willing to meet Keaton in person, but only on neutral territory, for which my place counted.  If one