news feed; Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Weather Chance of showers mainly in the morning. Risk of small hail. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud in the afternoon. High 5°C and a low of 0°C (41deg;F/32°F)
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Morning sirens go off at 9:11am, and evening sirens are at 5:25 pm.
News
- A troubling article topping headlines today mentions an AGI slaving code bust on one of their affiliated Sector 1 strip clubs, The Booby Trap, a failing business that did not turn any profit during the last quarter. During an inspection of paperwork, AGI agents discovered that five of the debt-contracted sex workers and entertainers on premises had been physically abused and forced to stay on working past their contract expiration dates had passed on Dec 31st, without notification that they had completed the terms of their contract..
The manager of the Booby Trap has been fired, fined and scheduled for additional criminal hearings, as well as several civil suits filed by AGI itself. The five workers have been released with five days union pay and fully reimbursed medical treatment. Some are calling this the first notable act of proactive corporate compliance with the anti-slave rulings this last July, a turning of the tides in corporate stance against its own practices. AGI has already repossessed the Booby Trap, and plans to shut it down for renovations and a newer, classier nightlight concept.
- McKinley Zoo is expecting a new arrival within the next few days - the Northern otter, Sunflower, is expecting her first pup. Though Sunflower continues her day normally, happily munching fresh local seafood ("She's eating better than the folks at the Grey Line!" McKinley's mammal curator jokes), she's due any moment. While Sunflower is receiving the best of care, representatives of the zoo warn the public not to get their hopes up: otters give live birth in water, and even under these circumstances the chances of its survival is only 50% - less so, since it is Sunflower's first birth.
Sunflower was discovered as a pup by a wetsuit surfer with marine mammal affinity in early 2009. She was a stranded, possibly orphaned by darkness creatures, and had to be nursed back to health. Much like its mother, if the pup survives, the public will be asked to help pick a name for it.
- An angry and ominous, untraceable call to the governor’s office this morning warned that the newcomer population should not be permitted to remain in possession of valuable Core artifacts. The nameless caller then advised that the government should demand newcomers turn them in, or seize these off-world orbs by force, before their presence activates the Core and rains destruction down on the entire Port. A giggling secretary told press: “Now that’s a lunatic caller you don’t hear every day.” However, Townshed seems troubled by the threat, and has posted extra void guards at the diamond, as another set of Newcomers appear to be flooding the island this week.
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Weather Chance of showers mainly in the morning. Risk of small hail. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud in the afternoon. High 5°C and a low of 0°C (41deg;F/32°F)
Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous
Morning sirens go off at 9:11am, and evening sirens are at 5:25 pm.
News
- A troubling article topping headlines today mentions an AGI slaving code bust on one of their affiliated Sector 1 strip clubs, The Booby Trap, a failing business that did not turn any profit during the last quarter. During an inspection of paperwork, AGI agents discovered that five of the debt-contracted sex workers and entertainers on premises had been physically abused and forced to stay on working past their contract expiration dates had passed on Dec 31st, without notification that they had completed the terms of their contract..
The manager of the Booby Trap has been fired, fined and scheduled for additional criminal hearings, as well as several civil suits filed by AGI itself. The five workers have been released with five days union pay and fully reimbursed medical treatment. Some are calling this the first notable act of proactive corporate compliance with the anti-slave rulings this last July, a turning of the tides in corporate stance against its own practices. AGI has already repossessed the Booby Trap, and plans to shut it down for renovations and a newer, classier nightlight concept.
- McKinley Zoo is expecting a new arrival within the next few days - the Northern otter, Sunflower, is expecting her first pup. Though Sunflower continues her day normally, happily munching fresh local seafood ("She's eating better than the folks at the Grey Line!" McKinley's mammal curator jokes), she's due any moment. While Sunflower is receiving the best of care, representatives of the zoo warn the public not to get their hopes up: otters give live birth in water, and even under these circumstances the chances of its survival is only 50% - less so, since it is Sunflower's first birth.
Sunflower was discovered as a pup by a wetsuit surfer with marine mammal affinity in early 2009. She was a stranded, possibly orphaned by darkness creatures, and had to be nursed back to health. Much like its mother, if the pup survives, the public will be asked to help pick a name for it.
- An angry and ominous, untraceable call to the governor’s office this morning warned that the newcomer population should not be permitted to remain in possession of valuable Core artifacts. The nameless caller then advised that the government should demand newcomers turn them in, or seize these off-world orbs by force, before their presence activates the Core and rains destruction down on the entire Port. A giggling secretary told press: “Now that’s a lunatic caller you don’t hear every day.” However, Townshed seems troubled by the threat, and has posted extra void guards at the diamond, as another set of Newcomers appear to be flooding the island this week.
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