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[UPDATE] Sentinel - November 28th
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - November 28th
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Duncan Determined to Reclaim Prize Despite Defeats
By CORWIN JONES

Reigning PCAG champion Serena Duncan has surprised many by a string of poor games over the past few weeks. Some point to her surprise defeat at the hands of Oliver Pohele in mid-October as the moment when it all began to go wrong for Duncan. Others say that this mid-season slump isn't significant to her overall standing, though she has dropped as low as fourth place in recent weeks, and is now just a hair below Klaus Johnson and Ryan Cahill, who are tied for first.

Sports analysts are fast rethinking their predictions that Duncan has an easy win ahead of her this year. "Competition is much steeper than we'd anticipated," said Raina Hollow of The Sporting Daily. "Serena isn't putting in the breathtaking performances of her last few years, either. Nobody thinks this will be an easy win for her anymore, though it's by no means to late for her to turn it around and reclaim the championship."

Duncan herself insists that victory is still within her grasp. "I've had a number of bad matches," she admitted last week, "but there's never once been an uncontested championship. It wouldn't be exciting if I won every last match, now would it?" She also suggested that her slip in position has been vastly overstated, a fluke of statistics more than a meaningful interpretation of her performance. "I really feel pretty good about where I am," she said. "We all know how one can manipulate numbers to fabricate an illusory problem, and that's exactly what's going on here."

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Still, analysts are now predicting that Duncan's primary rival, Ryan Cahill, may reclaim the championship for this year. Cahill took the championship in 267, but lost it to Duncan last year. Many early in the season discounted Cahill's chances of victory, particularly after his season saw a rocky start. Cahill himself admitted that sitting out the preseason competition was a poor idea, and that his game suffered in the early weeks as a result.

"It's too early to call the championship won," said Cahill. "It's gratifying to know that the fans and pundits have growing faith in me, but it doesn't mean I need to work any less hard on improving my game."

Gabriella Petel has also shown signs in recent weeks of a resurgence in play, climbing as high as fifth place, though she was knocked down by Jack Fleury late last month. She surprised many early in the year with her unprecedented winning streak, but had since settled into her level of play from previous years. Still, she has won decisive victories over Myra Champaign and Mikhail Terpening in recent days, and has climbed safely into the range of December play. Some consider her a fan favourite for taking the championship.

Petel herself only laughed at this suggestion. "I think the only thing safe to predict," she said, "is that the championship won't be decided for certain until the season is over."


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Second Wave Cards Disperse Leaders
By KATE BREWSTER

Second wave cards hit a widespread audience this week, causing a major reshuffling of the entire leaderboard and a huge leap in player numbers. The top three players now are solitair with 5315 points in first place; nightingale in second place with 4311 points; and in third place, Coxtin with 4188 points. Coxtin, hailing from Djibouti, is the leading non-UK player. The remains of the former pack in third place have been knocked down to 54th place, though only seven players now share that spot.

The former leaders on the board, oliverkeers13 and Ryanandrew, have dropped to 47th and 48th place, respectively.

This month's leading new players are donstobbart at 3305 points and 10th place. She joined on 11th Nov. Jenniferison is in 17th place with 2900 points, after joining on 19th Nov. New player Scomazz has also put in an impressive showing, adding 2012 points to get to 46th place since only 21st Nov.

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The total number of players is fast growing toward 8500, though the average player has dropped to 138 points and six cards. Well over 800,000 points have been accrued in total, and over 37,000 cards total solved -- with more than 11,000 cards and 201,000 points this past week alone. This week also added nearly 4400 new ranked players. The number of women at the top has begun to grow again, up to 6 in the lead 20. Only two players in the top 20 are from outside the United Kingdom, and the leading American player is now BrianEnigma in 54th place, presumably due to the slower transit time of second wave cards to another continent.

An overwhelming number of first solves have of course taken place over the last week. The most incorrect attempts have now gone to card #56, Gravity, with 4646 wrong answers submitted since its release last week. That card has also become the most solved, with 4656 correct answers submitted. There are a number of unsolved second-wave cards, but of the ones solved to date, #173, 14-15, has the distinction of the least solves -- only one person, 12th-ranked Sasja, has entered the correct solution


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Authorities are on the hunt for a would-be arsonist who set fire to some equipment in the storage lockers of the Triple Wheel Stadium, then fled the scene. Police believe the culprit may be a resident of the area, unhappy with the ongoing strife between the stadium management and the neighbourhood. (Full text)


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By Madame Bianca, for the week of November 28

The Maze (November 11 - December 10)
Get your creative juices flowing, sweet pea. Whatever it takes: a peaceful walk in the woods, a long bath, a fifth of whiskey. I just know there are words inside you clawing to get out.

The Apple-Thief (December 11 - January 10)
With a cup of wine, listening to songs of new words, in the same pavilion tower and last year's weather. The sun is setting in the west, but when will it return?

The Hand (January 11 - February 10)
Something new has caught your eye. It's all well and good to spend a little time getting side-tracked. Just be sure you don't forget your way back to the main path.

The Baby (February 11 - March 10)
Spend a little time enjoying your health this week -- you know, while you still have it. I'm not saying you have a long and miserable winter ahead of you, but I'm not saying you don't, either.

The Eagle (March 11 - April 10)
Isn't it funny how you haven't really achieved anything lately? That's so not like you. Time to harness your legendary drive and get something done, don't you think?

The Spider (April 11 - May 10)
You've got all the moves, now you have to put them to use. Set up a hard goal -- like getting that number today -- and work it like it's your last chance. Sometimes you've got to make it happen, muffin.

The Wave (May 11 - June 10)
Your conversation is getting positively tiresome. Here's an idea: curl up with a thesaurus and learn some new vocab. Nothing is fun quite like telling your boring date that such plerophory is misplaced.

The Archer (June 11 - July 10)
Time for you to put your thinking cap on, sweetling. A friend will come to you with a bit of a nutty problem, and only your particular talents can help sort it out. It never hurts to have favours due you, does it?

The Half-filled Jug (July 11 - August 10)
You're feeling awfully put-upon, and I can certainly see why. But your soft heart just won't let you ignore someone who needs help. Pay out your cosmic debt and keep on with the good-doing; what goes around comes around.

The Dragon (August 11 - September 10)
This week you will be overcome with nostalgia. Try to fight it off and carry on with your usual fulfilling of obligations and so forth. Your heart may not be in it, but sometimes just going through the motions is enough.

The Three Balls (September 11 - October 10)
Sit this one out, precious. You may think your ingenuity and talent are what's needed, here, but sometimes other people want to rely on their own resources. There will be plenty for you later on.

The Dice (October 11 - November 10)
You have a big project staring you in the face, and it's not going to go away all on its very own. Grit your teeth and forge ahead, my pumpkin, or it will only continue mocking you.

And remember, the tallest tower draws the strongest winds.

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 		u forget to mention :

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Seaside Press has announced an unprecedented effort to recruit Earth-based authors, or Perplexian-Earth collaborations, to add credibility and range to its already highly acclaimed line of Earthological books. Analysts say the only surprising part of this move to attract Earth authors directly is that it took so long for a publisher to make it.


which ties in with the latest quirky acuity post

and what about this from the interview with helix hesh of hesh records!!!



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Who is he seeing now? He shakes his head: as a gentleman, he couldn't possibly say. It is fortuitous, then, that as I am leaving, a young blonde woman descends the curved staircase in the main hall, dressed only in a towel, a pair of Isabella Levenay shoes and a gold ankle bracelet. Her face is familiar, but I cannot place her for a moment. "Oh!" she says, "sorry! I've just been sunbathing. I didn't hear you."

Hesh smiles up at her and she comes to stand beside him as he bids me farewell. It is only as my car pulls away from the mansion that I put a name to the face: Hesh's latest conquest is apparently Tippy Ankron, puzzle scribe in the cube retrieval project at the Academy.


I hope Von doesn't read that................he'd be gutted Sad
(and then he might not txt me clues! Laughing )
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 		Actually, those two appeared in the Sentinel on the 24th...

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 		Censored oh well had over the Trout

it'll b lovely with some lemon and spuds
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Sentinel - November 28th
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Coxtin with 4188 points. Coxtin, hailing from Djibouti, is the leading non-UK player.


Moved recently then? Very Happy
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with 4646 wrong answers submitted since its release last week. That card has also become the most solved, with 4656 correct answers submitted.


doesnt anybody else find that quite spooky lol

Forg

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The Apple-Thief wrote:
With a cup of wine, listening to songs of new words, in the same pavilion tower and last year's weather. The sun is setting in the west, but when will it return?


This is from Yan Shu's ci of the Song-Dynasty period and is entitled "The Gauze-washing Stream".

the full text is as follows:

Yan Shu wrote:
With a cup of wine, listening to songs of new words,
In the same pavilion tower and last year's weather.
The sun is setting in the west, but when will it return?

Nothing can be done about flowers falling away,
The swallows, seeming acquaintances, are coming back.
Along fragrant paths of the little garden I alone pace to and fro.


The original Chinese is this:


The following is totally irrelevant, but I like this piece so I researched it further Wink

This is a ci of wanyue genre (graceful and mild) as opposed to the far more brash Haofang genre (bold and unconstrained). Like all ci poems, the verse structure is rigid but varies in length from line to line, unlike shi poetry, with its lines of equal syllabic length.
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 		Probably completely not relevant but the link for the Serena Duncan story is broken when you click on the picture.

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Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. The link on the referring page seems to be wrong or outdated. Please inform the author of that page about the error.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404
www.perplexcitysentinel.com
Tue Nov 29 13:46:05 2005
Apache/2.0.53 (Debian GNU/Linux) mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.4



Looks like there's a 1 missed out of the url...
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with 4646 wrong answers submitted since its release last week. That card has also become the most solved, with 4656 correct answers submitted.


doesnt anybody else find that quite spooky lol

Forg


Yeah, I did.
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