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[UPDATE] Sentinel - Jan 30 - Northside, Ling
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - Jan 30 - Northside, Ling
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Northside Bombshell: Reconstructionists Part of Nature Trust
By GARIMA KING

Evidence was revealed late on Friday indicating that the Reconstructionists, an offshoot Cubist sect, is a substantial part of the Nature's Trust, the coalition of until-now-anonymous donors that purchased development rights to the Northside Nature Preserve with the intention of foiling development plans in the area. The evidence includes banking records to the Nature's Trust's account showing substantial deposits from Reconstructionist interests, which were revealed to the Sentinel under strict secrecy guidelines. The Sentinel is under obligation not to report the specific amounts involved, nor identify their source.

The Reconstructionists issued a press release earlier this morning admitting involvement, and claiming that the move was intended to be apolitical. According to the statement, the group donated the money anonymously to, among other reasons, avoid the controversy that is now playing out. In part, it stated: "We recognised that our identity alone could cause the city to be blind to the sense of our actions."

The revelation has unleashed a new storm of criticism that the government allowed the Northside plan to be so easily derailed. It also raises the spectre of religious concerns having a disproportionate influence on government and public policy, say political analysts. "Of course Scott and her cronies want to avoid the appearance that anyone so controversial as the Reconstructionists telling them what to do," said Council Leader candidate and political maverick Douglass Finlay. "This is just some political justice, as far as I'm concerned. This is what happens when you don't look at your benefactors carefully enough."

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Raoul Valentin of the Old Town Renewal Committee called the news "very troubling," and said that it might spell doom for the plan to funnel the funds from the sale of the Northside land into development and renewal in the Old Town. "The Brotherhood of the Six is a major community influence in the Old Town, among their neighbours," said Valentin. "Even though the Brotherhood originally supported the plan to begin renewal, now that the source of the money has been revealed, they may withdraw that support, and that could make the whole plan fail."

The Brotherhood themselves have long been known to have a hostile relationship with the Reconstructionists, since the groups split over theological and cosmological points nearly a hundred years ago. When presented with the evidence of Reconstructionist involvement, a visibly flustered Sister Golda Flynnt said that the Brotherhood would need to discuss the matter internally before it could issue any new statements on the matter.

Although the Reconstructionists have now been revealed as a substantial contributor to the Nature's Trust, the Sentinel has been assured that there are numerous other groups and individuals involved, though they remain anonymous.


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Leaderboard Pack Continues to Grow
By KATE BREWSTER

While donstobbart remains at the top of the leaderboard, she has now been joined by 40 others tying for first place. Until more points are awarded at the upcoming Earth events in New York and London, there is little chance any player will break away.

So far, Academy and PCAG sources are refusing to comment on how the point system at the upcoming events will work, insisting that we and the Earth based competitors will have to "wait and see." This is the first PCAG tournament ever to take place outside of Perplex City, and the details remain firmly under wraps.

Tying for 42nd place are dvmrph, kameleon and matrix, all with 6778 points, only 61 points behind the leaders. The top American player is Ashin, currently among the pack in first place. The top player from Denmark, zoltan, is in 174th place, and the top player from Finland is pliget in the 184th spot.

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The top new players for this week are Herne, RedFraggle and Janeyhen, with 2256, 1734, and 1602 points respectively. They are still some way behind last week's top player, the fountain, who racked up an astonishing 4933 points in just one week and is now 140th overall. The top new players for January were Fisgon, Mathematician and ExquisiteEnigma who all share first place overall with 6839 points.

The total number of players has now risen to over 14,000 with more than 165,000 cards solved. At the same time, the total number of incorrect solves is approaching 100,000 with more than 750 incorrect attempts in the last day alone. PCAG Statistician Samara Jones commented, "We expected the harder cards like [# 180] ARG! to be the cause of all the incorrect solves, but that particular card has only around 600 failed attempts. ... The cards causing the most problems [for players] are actually [card #56] Gravity, [card #112] Three Little Words, and [card #49] Bookworm, which each have thousands of failed attempts."


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Ling on the Run

In the newest twist in the Karen Chondelle murder, wealthy talent agent Hubert Ling has reportedly left town before he could be detained by police for questioning. Ling, a former lover of Chondelle's, is now under suspicion of involvement in the apparent frame-up of Chondelle's new husband, Michael Corolla, for her murder. (Full text)

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 		And so the plot thickens, ok so who has spec on how the northside area relates to the grand overall story?

Maybe there is something that the Recons don't want uncovered at this site by developers, so they buy the land off to keep it safe?
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 		Re: [UPDATE] Sentinel - Jan 30 - Northside, Ling
On the subject of this paragraph:
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Raoul Valentin of the Old Town Renewal Committee called the news "very troubling," and said that it might spell doom for the plan to funnel the funds from the sale of the Northside land into development and renewal in the Old Town. "The Brotherhood of the Six is a major community influence in the Old Town, among their neighbours," said Valentin. "Even though the Brotherhood originally supported the plan to begin renewal, now that the source of the money has been revealed, they may withdraw that support, and that could make the whole plan fail."


That's a pretty meaty paragraph. Here's some contextual cross reference fFor you new fFolx who havent been fFollowing this fFor a year now Smile :


21-MAR-05 "City Opens Northside" http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/03/northside_prese.html
The Old Town was getting too crowded and run down, so The city council decided to open the Northside Nature Preserve to development.


13-JUN-05 "Northside Preserve Development Killed" http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/northside_devel.html
The Northside was purchased by Nature Trust. The identity of Nature Trust was never revealed (until now).


30-JUN-05 "Brotherhood Supports Urban Renewal" http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/06/brotherhood_sup.html
The Brotherhood of the Six comes out in support of rebuilding The Old Town (in opposition to their usual stance).


12-SEP-05 "Lighting in Old Town Begins Renewal" http://www.perplexcitysentinel.com/archives/2005/09/lighting_in_old_2.html
Raoul Valentin is hired as the new Chairman of the Old Town Renewal Committee, and is met with some criticism, but generally seen as a sharp choice fFor the job.
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 		Ling... Ling... Lyssa Ling...? Any relation?


[btw hello all, first post though I've been playing for a couple of months]

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