#municipal maintenance

[kyreniacommentator]

Girne Municipality Starts Cleaning the Drains

[papasmoke]

just another ten million dollar bump in the police budget, please one more funding increase so we can create a real life counter-strike map based on the over-policed majority black neighborhoods we do no-knock raids in every week, just one final municipal service defunding, we just need to shut down the libraries earlier and fire half of our public school teachers, please the police need one final additional million dollar cash injection and they'll finally stop racially profiling minorities, i swear, one final billion dollar statewide cut to infrastructure maintenance and the police will stop throwing flashbangs into the cribs of sleeping infants

[gazanarchive]

Life For Gaza: Each Cent Counts, Quenching the Thirst of Humanity in Gaza City

The Gaza Municipality is tasked with providing vital services such as water supply, waste management and sewage treatment. However, the widespread destruction in Gaza City has severely hampered the Municipality's ability to deliver even the most basic necessities to its residents. With limited access to water, the population faces a dire health and environmental crisis, especially affecting children.

By joining forces in this initiative, we cultivate hope and solidarity, fostering empathy and collaboration across communities while easing the hardships endured by those in Gaza. This collective effort reassures them that they are not alone in their struggle. The Gaza Municipality earnestly appeals for your support to help reinstate essential services, currently the foremost priority. In the northern regions of the Gaza Strip alone, over 500,000 individuals urgently require these services.

Where your donations will be directed:

- Water supply enhancement projects

- Maintenance of water wells

- Implementation of water desalination initiatives

- Management of waste collection and disposal systems

- Reconstruction of roads demolished during war

- Implementation of sewage water pumping and treatment schemes

- Execution of pest control and rodent eradication programs

[soon-palestine]

The Gaza Municipality is tasked with providing vital services such as water supply, waste management and sewage treatmentl. However, the widespread destruction in Gaza City has severely hampered the Municipality's ability to deliver even the most basic necessities to its residents. With limited access to water, the population faces a dire health and environmental crisis, especially affecting children.

By joining forces in this initiative, we cultivate hope and solidarity, fostering empathy and collaboration across communities while easing the hardships endured by those in Gaza. This collective effort reassures them that they are not alone in their struggle.The Gaza Municipality earnestly appeals for your support to help reinstate essential services, currently the foremost priority. In the northern regions of the Gaza Strip alone, over 500,000 individuals urgently require these services.

Where your donations will be directed:- Water supply enhancement projects - Maintenance of water wells - Implementation of water desalination initiatives - Management of waste collection and disposal systems - Reconstruction of roads demolished during war - Implementation of sewage water pumping and treatment schemes - Execution of pest control and rodent eradication programs

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - October 8-14

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1. All 160 dogs at Florida shelter found homes ahead of Hurricane Milton

“[The shelter] offered crates, food and anything else the dogs would need in exchange for the animals to spend just five days with the foster parents if the human didn't want to keep them for longer. […A]fter about a day of receiving around 100 messages every 30 minutes, Bada said, all 160 were gone from the shelter and in safe and warm homes.”

2. Restoring Ecosystems and Rejuvenating Native Hawaiian Traditions in Maui

“[Volunteers] are restoring water flow to the refuge, removing invasive species, and restoring a loko iʻa kalo using ʻike kūpuna, ancestral knowledge. […] This human-made ecosystem will provide food for community members and habitat for wildlife while protecting coral reefs offshore.”

3. Solar-powered desalination system requires no extra batteries

“In contrast to other solar-driven desalination designs, the MIT system requires no extra batteries for energy storage, nor a supplemental power supply, such as from the grid. […] The system harnessed on average over 94 percent of the electrical energy generated from the system’s solar panels to produce up to 5,000 liters of water per day[….]”

4. Threatened pink sea fan coral breeds in UK aquarium for first time

“The spawning is part of University of Exeter Ph.D. student Kaila Wheatley Kornblum's research into the reproduction, larval dispersal and population connectivity of Eunicella verrucosa. […] Pink sea fans are believed to have been successfully bred by only one other institution, Lisbon Oceanarium, in 2023.”

5. Tiny 'backpacks' are being strapped to baby turtles[….]

““We analysed the data and found that hatchlings show amazingly consistent head-up orientation – despite being in the complete dark, surrounded by sand [… and] they move as if they were swimming rather than digging[…. This new observation method is] answering questions about best conservation practices,” says Dor.”

6. New California Law Protects Wildlife Connectivity

“A new state law in California will instruct counties and municipalities to conserve wildlife corridors when planning new development. […] This could entail everything from creating wildlife crossings at roads or highways, employing wildlife-safe fencing, or not developing on certain land.”

7. ‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart

“By 2019, [the program] had transformed the city’s landscape, having trained 15,000 local workers like Leleco, who have planted 10m seedlings across […] roughly 10 times the area of New York’s Central Park. Reforested sites include mangroves and vegetation-covered sandbars called restinga, as well as wooded mountainsides around favelas.”

8. Alabama Town Plans to Drop Criminal Charges Over Unpaid Garbage Bills

““Suspending garbage pickup, imposing harsh late penalties and prosecuting people who through no fault of their own are unable to pay their garbage and sewage bills does not make payment suddenly forthcoming,” West said. [… The city] has agreed to drop pending criminal charges against its residents over unpaid garbage bills.”

9. New Hampshire’s low-income community solar program finally moves forward

“The state energy department is reviewing seven proposals for community solar arrays that will allocate a portion of their bill credits to low-income households. […] New Hampshire’s strategy of working with utilities to automatically enroll households that have already been identified streamlines the process.”

10. The Future Looks Bright for Electric School Buses

“EPA has awarded about $3 billion in grants from the infrastructure law, which paid to replace about 8,700 buses. Of those, about 95 percent are electric. [… Electric buses are] cheaper to operate and require less maintenance than diesel buses and will soon be at cost parity when looking at the lifetime cost of ownership[….]”

October 1-7 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[vestaignis]

Замок Миранда (Château Miranda)— замок 19-го века построенный в нео-готическом стиле в городе Сель, провинция Намюр, Бельгия. Строительство замка началось в 1866 году по проекту английского архитектора Эдварда Милнера. Замок был задуман как летняя резиденция семьи Liedekerke De Beaufort. Однако архитектор скончался до окончания постройки и замок достраивался уже без него. Окончание строительства произошло в 1907 году.Потомки старинного рода проживали там до Второй Мировой войны. Во время войны замок был оккупирован немецкими войсками.После войны владельцы решили перебраться во Францию, а их роскошный замок превратился сначала в детский дом, а с 1958 года - в дом отдыха для детей железнодорожников. Видимо, тогда он и получил свое второе название Chateau de Noisy (Шумный замок).

С 1991 года Миранда был заброшен, расходы на его содержание оказались непомерно высоки. Местный муниципалитет предложил взять их на себя, но семья отказалась, надеясь найти покупателя.Параллельно с поисками покупателя владельцем была подана просьба о сносе здания, в июле 2015 оно было получено. Средства на восстановление заброшенного замка требовались колоссальные, было организовано товарищество по спасению Миранды, но речь шла о сумме в 15-25 миллионов евро.Два года спустя покупатель так и не был найден, а отдать свой замок в дар государству не каждый способен...

"Замок превратился в руины и представляет собой реальную опасность для всех тех, кто незаконно вторгается в мою частную собственность" - так владелец объяснил уничтожение Miranda Castle.

Château Miranda is a 19th-century castle built in the neo-Gothic style in the town of Sel, Namur, Belgium. Construction of the castle began in 1866 according to the design of the English architect Edward Milner. The castle was conceived as the summer residence of the Liedekerke De Beaufort family. However, the architect died before the construction was completed and the castle was completed without him. The construction was completed in 1907. Descendants of the old family lived there until the Second World War. During the war, the castle was occupied by German troops. After the war, the owners decided to move to France, and their luxurious castle turned first into an orphanage, and since 1958 into a holiday home for children of railway workers. Apparently, it was then that it received its second name, Chateau de Noisy (Noisy Castle).

Since 1991, Miranda has been abandoned, the costs of its maintenance being prohibitive. The local municipality offered to take them over, but the family refused, hoping to find a buyer. In parallel with the search for a buyer, the owner submitted a request to demolish the building, which was received in July 2015. Colossal funds were required to restore the abandoned castle; a partnership was organized to save Miranda, but the amount in question was 15-25 million euros. Two years later, a buyer was never found, and not everyone is able to donate their castle to the state…

“The castle has turned into ruins and poses a real danger to all those who illegally invade my private property,” this is how the owner explained the destruction of Miranda Castle.

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[seat-safety-switch]

You can complain about most municipal services. Everyone knows I do, from my tragically short run as the newspaper's op-ed editor, to my aborted runs for mayor, governor, and chancellor of the modern art museum. That's not to mention when I visit the local bars to eat free peanuts and watch hockey, bitching loudly about local politics the entire time without buying anything. You can't be down on the firefighters, though.

As someone who has a lot of direct and indirect experience dealing with flames, I know that I can rely on the firefighters even when my own honed skills and equipment fail me. For instance, their trucks often are able to summon a vast quantity of water, much more than my squirt bottle full of rainfall can muster. They're always there when I screw up.

Recently, though, the primitive greed-heads in government have decided not to give them a raise, because they want to "keep taxes low." Here's a free bar rant for you: taxes are imaginary. Money is made up. We should be giving much more of it to the people who run into burning buildings. People like Bob Peplinski, the brave soldier of hot-gases removal who risked his life to deal with that cracked brake line I knew was routed a little bit too close to that hot exhaust last Tuesday on my way to work. He saved most of the car! Didn't even ask for a tip, which is more than I can say for the pizza boy who ran over the neighbour's mailbox.

Bob should be given as much money as he needs. He should have a big-assed pension, so that he has ample retirement time to sit on the beach and miss the adrenaline rush of putting out a tire fire that I probably also started. It's time to do the right thing, and raise taxes on the selfish megacorporations like General Motors, who can't even make a car that goes sixty-five years of deferred maintenance without bursting into flames just because I ran it out of oil and somehow shot a valve all the way through the exhaust piping, out the hole in the muffler, and into the fuel tank.

I'm doing my own part keeping these folks on their toes. They'd probably get bored without me, and start setting fire to houses or something instead. It takes a village, people.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Obelisk

Wyle E. Young: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the big black obelisk Lovecraft: [sweats] a big black obelisk??? Young: that's right Young: made of really weird stone that's so black Young: like blacker than black Lovecraft: is the stone greasy? Lovecraft: oh boy please say the stone is greasy

Young: so there's this little town in Texas Young: and one day this giant mysterious black obelisk appears Young: and it starts to mess with people's minds Robert E. Howard: now hold on there, pard Howard: ya don't mess with Texas!

Young: now this black obelisk is messing up everyone's brains Young: filling them with scenes of gore and violence that never were Young: naturally everyone is pissed that their tax dollars went to building this giant black obelisk that messes with their brains Young: prime example of government pork

Young: so they go to yell at the mayor for approving the construction of a giant black obelisk that messes with people's brains Young: because, look, this sort of thing wouldn't happen if people just paid attention to local politics before a giant black obelisk that messes with your brain just appears on the green

Poe: it sounds like you're speaking from experience Young: don't even get me started on how many times I've woken up to find that the municipal government is diverting funds earmarked for road maintenance and extra library hours to the acquisition and construction of giant black stone obelisks that mess with your mind

Young: so people i am begging you Young: get involved Young: go to your city council meetings Young: write to your congressman Young: educate yourself on the issues Young: before they just put a giant black obelisk in your town

Lovecraft: so how does this giant black obelisk mess with people's minds anyway? Young: well, for one thing, it makes them really racist Lovecraft: Lovecraft: Poe: don't say it howard Barker: he's gonna say it Lovecraft: how is that messing with their minds? Barker: ha ha ha he said it! the absolute madman, he said it!

Young: see, it makes people think they're fighting in the civil war Young: so they're just goring each other all over the place King: wow! sounds like a real UNCIVIL war! Young: King: get it? see, it's a pun on- Barker: jesus christ steve

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

Follow @MuniGaza and DONATE NOW: bit.ly/munigaza

$313,940/$1,000,000 collected so far

The Gaza Municipality is tasked with providing essential services such as water supply and sanitization, waste management, and sewage treatment. Due to the ongoing genocide of Gaza, the Municipality’s ability to provide their residents with even the most basic necessities has become severely strained and obsructed.

By joining us in spreading the word and donating generously — you can assist the Gaza Municipality in fostering an atmosphere of solidarity with the people of Gaza. There are over 500,000 Palestinians that are in desperate need of these life sustaining amenities, and with your support they can work efficiently towards reinstating essential services.

“Where will my donations go?”

-Water supply enhancement projects

-Maintenance of water wells

-Implementation of water desalination initiatives

-Reconstruction of demolished roads

-Implementation of sewage water pumping and treatment schemes

-Pest and rodent control

“But what does all of that really mean?”

-Enhancing access to water provisions while maintaining consistency

-Managing the collection and disposal of the accumulated waste throughout Gaza

-Addressing sewage overflow and sanitation issues across the city

-Initiate the opening of key through-fares, which would facilitate the access and entry of emergency vehicles

-Clearing debris from the city to restore the ease of movement for it’s residents

-Providing aid to the personnel of the Gaza Municipality Emergency Committee

$313,940/$1,000,000 has been collected

They still need: $686,060

WE NEED TO RAISE AT LEAST $7,222 PER DAY TO MEET THE GOAL

Contribute to opening a damaged road in Gaza City: $300

Provide Water to 10,000 people for a Day: $500

Contribute to Cleaning up Waste Accumulated in Gaza City: $200

Follow @MuniGaza

DONATE NOW: bit.ly/munigaza

find the link in our link tree in bio!

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Highway maintenance, Queens and Woodhaven Boulevards, August 13, 1926. Below, a shot of the same intersection in September, 2022.

Top photo: NYC Municipal Archives Bottom photo: Google Maps

[thehopefuljournalist]

Seed networks are community organizations that have multiplied in the past decade in different Brazilian biomes to collect, trade and plant native seeds in degraded areas.

In the Chapada dos Veadeiros area, in Goiás state members of seed networks from several parts of Brazil met for almost a week in early June.

Along with environmental organizations, researchers and government officials, they participated in discussions to boost Redário, a new group seeking to strengthen these networks and meet the demands of the country’s ecological restoration sector.

“This meeting gathered members of Indigenous peoples, family farmers, urban dwellers, technicians, partners, everyone together. It creates a beautiful mosaic and there’s a feeling that what we are doing will work and will grow,” says Milene Alves, a member of the steering committee of the Xingu Seed Network and Redário’s technical staff.

Just in 2022, 64 metric tons of native seeds were sold by these networks, and similar figures are expected for 2023.

The effort to collect native seeds by traditional populations in Brazil has contributed to effective and more inclusive restoration of degraded areas, and is also crucial for the country to fulfill its pledge under international agreements to recover 30 million acres of vegetation by 2030.

Seed collection for restoration in these areas has previously only been done by companies. But now, these networks, are organized as cooperatives, associations or even companies, enable people in the territories to benefit from the activity.

Eduardo Malta, a restoration expert from the Socio-Environmental Institute and one of Redário’s leaders, advocates for community participation in trading and planting seeds. “These are the people who went to all the trouble to secure the territories and who are there now, preserving them. They have the greatest genetic diversity of species and hold all the knowledge about the ecosystem,” 

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The Geraizeiros Collectors Network are one of the groups that makes up Redário. They were founded in 2021, and now gathers 30 collectors from eight communities in five municipalities: Montezuma, Vargem Grande, Rio Pardo de Minas, Taiobeiras and Berizal.

They collect and plant seeds to recover the vegetation of the Gerais Springs Sustainable Development Reserve, which was created in 2014 in order to stop the water scarcity as a result of eucalyptus monocultures planted by large corporations.

“The region used to be very rich in water and it is now supplied by water trucks or wells,” says Fabrícia Santarém Costa, a collector and vice president of the Geraizeiros Collectors’ Network. “Today we see that these activities only harm us, because the [eucalyptus] company left, and we are there suffering the consequences.”

Costa was 18 years old in 2018, when the small group of seed collectors was founded and financed by the Global Environmental Facility. She says that working with this cooperative changed the way she looks at life and the biome in which she was born and raised. She describes restoring the sustainable development work as "ant work", ongoing, slow. But it has already improved the water situation in the communities. In addition, seed sales complement geraizeiros�� income, enabling them to remain in their territories.

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The Redário initiative also intends to influence public policies and regulations in the restoration sector to disseminate muvuca, the name given by the networks to the technique of sowing seeds directly into the soil rather than growing seedlings in nurseries.

Technical studies and network experiences alike show that this technique covers the area faster and with more trees. As a result, it requires less maintenance and lower costs. This system also distributes income to the local population and encourages community organizations.

“The muvuca system has great potential [for restoration], depending on what you want to achieve and local characteristics. It has to be in our range of options for meeting the targets, for achieving them at scale,” says Ministry of the Environment analyst Isis Freitas.

Article published August 3rd, 2023

[kyreniacommentator]

Girne Municipality Park and Gardens Unit is working flat out

[selidren]

Eté 1929 - Champs-les-Sims

20/20

Les souvenirs des obsèques se font de plus en plus flous et atténués avec les mois qui passent. Nous réapprenons à vivre sans Grand-Mère. Cela dit, le trou est toujours là et la maison semble aussi grande que déserte sans le bruit de sa cane qui tape contre le sol. Nous n'avons pas eu le coeur de la jeter. Je l'ai emballée et entreposée au grenier, au milieu de nombre de ses affaires. Quand à sa chambre, nous n'avons pas encore pu nous résoudre à déplacer les meubles, nous ne savons même pas si nous voulons les garder ou pas. Je pense qu'il faut faire table rase, mais je ne sais pas si tout le monde à la maison est prêt.

J'aimerai proposer que Marc-Antoine rénove la chambre (elle n'a pas bougé depuis presque quatre-vingt ans et aurait besoin d'un coup de frais) et qu'il en fasse la sienne, je n'en peux plus de le voir loger dans le grenier. Après tout, il va revenir s'installer définitivement ici dès l'automne puisqu'il a fini l'école. Il a d'ailleurs été diplômé avec les honneurs, même si cet événement à été largement éclipsé. J'en profite aussi pour t'annoncer que la liste de mon frère a été élue au conseil municipal lors des élections de mai dernier. J'ai maintenant sous mon toit un conseiller municipal et notre village est passé sous la bannière communiste. Qui l'aurait cru ? Je suis extrêmement fière de lui, et je n'ai jamais douté de sa réussite.

Je t'enverrai une autre lettre sous peu, j'espère un peu plus joyeuse.

Affectueusement,

Noé

P.S. Tu trouveras si joint un bordereau bancaire confirmant le virement d'un certaine somme sur ton compte en banque. Ne me demande pas comment j'ai obtenu tes coordonnées, je ne compte pas vendre mes sources. Sache cependant qu'il s'agit d'un emprunt pour la construction de ton port, et que j'escompte que tu me rembourse chaque cent.

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De : a.lebris95@mymail.fr

A : d.lebris@mymail.ca

Sujet : La cane !!!

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Cher D,

J'ai été farfouillé au grenier et je l'ai trouvée ! La cane est toujours là, intacte ! A force de chercher des objets ayant appartenu à nos ancêtres dans cet immense grenier, je vais bientôt vivre dans un musée. Et encore, je n'ai pas encore commencé à fouiller dans les combles de l'aile construite par Arsinoé.

A la prochaine !

A.

Transcription :

Rose « Mais bon, on enterre pas Eugénie Le Bris en toute intimité. »

Ange « Monsieur le maire a même hésité à convier le préfet d’après Antoine. »

Rose « Vraiment ? Et comment saurait-il cela lui ? »

Ange « Il a des amis au conseil municipal. La question a même été mise à l’ordre du jour au dernier conseil de mairie. Finalement, ils ont décidé de ne pas le faire. »

Rose « C’est dommage, elle aurait aimé avoir un invité prestigieux à ses obsèques. »

Ange « Bon, sur ce… Je me rend compte que je suis épuisé. Vous montez aussi ma tante ? »

Rose « Non, j’aimerai encore rester un peu si tu n’y vois pas d’inconvénient. Je te chasse pas, mais je veux être un peu seule vraiment. »

Ange « Ne vous inquiétez pas, je comprends. Bonne nuit. »

Rose « Oh Grand-Mère… Vous avez eu la plus belle cérémonie d’adieu que quelqu’un puisse espérer. Vous pouvez être fière de tous vos descendants. Cette jeunesse est prodigieuse. J’espère que vous vous en êtes rendue compte avant la fin... »

[kissingcullens]

“Life For Gaza: Each Cent Counts, Quenching the Thirst of Humanity in Gaza City

“The Gaza Municipality earnestly appeals for your support to help reinstate essential services, currently the foremost priority. In the northern regions of the Gaza Strip alone, over 500,000 individuals urgently require these services.

Where your donations will be directed:

- Water supply enhancement projects

- Maintenance of water wells

- Implementation of water desalination initiatives

- Management of waste collection and disposal systems

- Reconstruction of roads demolished during war

- Implementation of sewage water pumping and treatment schemes

- Execution of pest control and rodent eradication programs

With your support, we can:

- Enhance water provisions for residents and maintain consistency.

- Manage the collection and disposal of accumulated waste throughout the city.

- Address sewage overflow and sanitation issues across various areas of the city.

- Initiate the reopening of key thoroughfares to facilitate emergency vehicle access.

- Clear debris from the cityscape to restore ease of movement for residents.

- Provide aid to the personnel of the Gaza Municipality Emergency Committee.”

[soon-palestine]

Life For Gaza 2: Each Cent Counts, Quenching the Thirst of Humanity in Gaza City

The Gaza Municipality is tasked with providing vital services such as water supply, waste management and sewage treatment. However, the widespread destruction in Gaza City has severely hampered the Municipality's ability to deliver even the most basic necessities to its residents. With limited access to water, the population faces a dire health and environmental crisis, especially affecting children.

By joining forces in this initiative, we cultivate hope and solidarity, fostering empathy and collaboration across communities while easing the hardships endured by those in Gaza. This collective effort reassures them that they are not alone in their struggle. The Gaza Municipality earnestly appeals for your support to help reinstate essential services, currently the foremost priority. In the northern regions of the Gaza Strip alone, over 500,000 individuals urgently require these services.

Where your donations will be directed:

- Water supply enhancement projects

- Maintenance of water wells

- Implementation of water desalination initiatives

- Management of waste collection and disposal systems

- Reconstruction of roads demolished during war

- Implementation of sewage water pumping and treatment schemes

- Execution of pest control and rodent eradication programs

With your support, we can:

- Enhance water provisions for residents and maintain consistency.

- Manage the collection and disposal of accumulated waste throughout the city.

- Address sewage overflow and sanitation issues across various areas of the city.

- Initiate the reopening of key thoroughfares to facilitate emergency vehicle access.

- Clear debris from the cityscape to restore ease of movement for residents.

- Provide aid to the personnel of the Gaza Municipality Emergency Committee.

Read more about Municipality of Gaza

[itsbenedict]

From the beginning | Previously | Coin standings | 60/70 | 36/36

Walter wants to go check out what was happening down in that sunken temple, but Adea doesn't want to just leave all this dirt sitting here- and she's just plugged in that coin miner thingy, so they'll need to sit around for a bit to see if it works anyway.

IT PREVENTED ROOK POWER EXTRUSION is OVIOS NETWORK EXPENDITURE REPORT. Apparently, about 14 years ago, the municipal government started deploying some project called the OpenVista I/O Station network. OPENVISTA is, on paper, an independent startup, but apparently it's a shell corporation established so Thinrar could dodge some of his own restrictions on public works. The report details the budget that went into constructing and deploying these things- though it's not clear from the report exactly what they do.

Apparently a construction company called WIREFRAME MOCKUP was hired to simultaneously build a mall named TARGETED ADVERTISING... and force an underground funeral home type facility run by SLEEP MODE to surrender something called the LOTUS VEXOR, in exchange for letting them keep the rights to their land (which they'd been retroactively granted thanks to a surveying loophole). The project took years and went way over budget, despite someone named DEADLOCK DETECTION being sent from Thinrar's office to oversee it personally. But 14 years ago, she apparently managed to get her hands on it- a key component of the OVIOS network, somehow. The cover op, the mall construction, is set to open in a few days.

TIN RUNT CONCOCTS A QUART O' CACTI concerns an AQUATIC CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT, offered by COLLUSION to a well-regarded specialist contractor named REGRESSION TEST. It's mostly an email chain with said contractor, who had a thousand questions about the nature of the work and the equipment she was being paid to install. The emails- sent to her by someone named JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER- are evasive and noncommittal, and seem primarily concerned with getting her to agree to various nondisclosure agreements and security measures.

REGRESSION TEST's job, apparently, is just to demolish the wreckage at the build site, create some waterproof housing with enough space for maintenance staff, and install the provided equipment. That's all she's allowed to know about the HILARITY! BE A FILIAL E-CYGNET.

SPRITZ? REPENT, WRY ED COOLHAXX! is a strange set of files called PROXY WIZARD CONTEXT HELPERS. It's a dossier on... various random people in town. A university researcher with no friends, a family of small-time crooks down by the docks, various guards at this very tower, and a handful of other random citizens with no clear connecting factors. The files describe the details of their lives over a disconcertingly long period of observation, and note things that are missing from those lives. Family members they don't have, friends they've lost contact with, coworkers who quit recently. There's transcripts of interviews with some of these people, but nothing stands out as particularly odd.

There's also profiles on various properties for rent, and some odd shorthand notes that appear to describe how long they've spent vacant and what's wrong with them. And... a bunch of copies of old missing persons cases, with all the names blacked out. And statements from investigations of incidents where... disasters were averted for reasons no one understood, like an out-of-control trolley being diverted onto a track by some good samaritan who never identified themselves.

[ed: Yeah, chew on that one, FF. You'll find out what I'm on about eventually.]

This is all weird, and rings a few bells, but you're not sure what to make of it just yet. In the meantime, Adea collects 10 Coin from the minter- which seems to have really raised the ambient temperature in the room. It's probably fine, though, right? The heat's dissipating into the stone, for the most part.

Adea consults with Walter and formulates a guess. He'd been drawn underground by some mysterious force when he woke up, right? If your daughter ended up here too- and it stands to reason, because you were all right there in the same place when the blast(?) went off- maybe she was pulled down there by the same force! It's possible he just missed her- she could've gotten lost in those underground tunnels somewhere. Best to give it another once-over with an extra pair of eyes.

You head through the ancient pyramid, which... seems to be more extensive, and in better repair than it used to be. When did all this construction happen? Finding a crack in the floor leading down is more difficult than before. Earlier, it hadn't been difficult at all- Walter says some part of him knew which way to go. Did something change?

Neither of you are feeling any supernatural pull downwards anymore. The area below- save for some additional pyramid construction- is almost entirely unchanged. Which... does mean that there is a GIANT SKELETON, still. Several of them. You find a reasonably well-hidden spot to lurk and install the WIFI ACCESS POINT in the REVERT A BANDANA SURGERY SUBTERRANEAN GRAVEYARD. Files include:

Someone took issue with the performance assessment of a robot horse, around, like... thirty years ago? The email is RE: PONY SERVITOR 2076 SCORECARD, and they're not happy.

You've heard of saltwater taffy, but mousewater taffy is considerably harder to manage. Someone's done it, though: ENCODED::: WRANGLED MOUSEWATER TAFFY.

According to the LANCE GLANCE RECRUITER: PI ROTATION IS OUT. He's in charge of recruiting people who've had a close shave with spears, and he prefers to measure lance angles with tau.

An island nation called Haiti, which you've never heard of, is really mad about something- but they don't seem to want to be mad. IRATE HAITI WISHES MELLOW??? Really?

There'd been a lot of development on a faster-than-light utensil, but the product has been getting worse over time. See, a TORTOISE PROVED WARP FORK REGRESSED in this paper.

There's an invitation to the LETTERED CORRECTNESS FOUNDATION, an organization devoted to putting letters in the correct order. Sure would help if these guys weren't hallucinatory!

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