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[UPDATE] Sentinel - Feb 16 - Int. w/ Anna Heath, new pages
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - Feb 16 - Int. w/ Anna Heath, new pages
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Iona Interviews...
Anna Heath
By IONA RODIE

Academy puzzle scribe Anna Heath has everything under control. The walk up to her house is a festive and precise Rauen Tiles pattern, and the knee-high hedges are neatly trimmed. Anna greets me at the door, and judging from her sharp sweater-and-skirt ensemble, she is every bit as polished in her private life as in her public. She also exudes a personable warmth that welcomes me into her family's Sunday morning routine.

"We'd best stay in the kitchen," she says, guiding me into a warm if cluttered room filled with half-finished craft projects. The walls are papered with art children's art, but the copper pots hanging by the stove are a bit dusty, evidently out of long disuse. The walls are painted in yellow and green stripes, reminiscent of the uniforms of the Nomads.

"I'm a big Nomads fan," Heath admits, lighting up. "I never miss a match. It's something of a sickness," she laughs.

A kinetic blur passes by us. "My boys, Otto and Pip," she says. She deftly snags both of the 6-year-old twins by the collars of their shirts and has a few quiet words with them. Presumably at her direction, they set themselves up on the kitchen table with paints and proceed to ignore my presence in their home through the remainder of my visit. Although Heath has a third child, she tells me that the baby, Eve, is out with her father at a swimming lesson. She shows me pictures, clearly very proud of her family.

Though it would be easy to dismiss Heath as a devoted mother with a knack for language, her maternal warmth is deceptive. Make no mistake, Heath is cutting an ever-larger figure at the Academy. For years, Academy insiders have suggested she has the drive and potential to be the future Master of the Academy. At a mere 37 years old, she is already a full fellow in Ancient Languages, the senior-most member of Master Sente Kiteway's Cube Retrieval Team, and carries a legendary reputation as a professor who is always available for students who need her. Indeed, her colleagues at the Academy department of languages have said that she is taking on an increasing burden of administrative tasks in the operation of the department as a whole.

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Some would say that Heath devotes too much time and energy to your family and personal projects, and that a person with as many commitments as a full fellow has no business on the Cube Retrieval Team. Surely, critics say, the Receda Cube is an important enough project to demand a person's full attention. Is Heath's attention is sliced too thinly?

Heath scoffs at this idea. "We need to be presenting our best selves to the people of Earth," she says. "Our best people are naturally multi-faceted. It's far better for us to have three people on our team with diverse interests than one who does nothing else. Part of the Academy's philosophy is to produce whole people, rather than savants in one or two narrow topics. Why should any area be an exception to this?"

Still, the Cube Retrieval Team has come under heavy criticism, most recently because of the highly-public association of scribe Tippy Ankron with playboy record executive Helix Hesh. One wonders how the diverse personalities on the scribe team have meshed after all this time, and how smoothly the day-to-day operations of the team are now running.

"Sometimes I feel like I'm the mother to all of them," she laughs. "I do quite a bit of management of the team. Master Kiteway is of course in charge, but his schedule is very demanding. He simply doesn't have enough hours in the day. Fortunately, he's also a master of delegation."

As part of the Cube Retrieval Team, Heath has enviable access to all things Earth at a time when the Earth is enjoying unprecedented popularity in Perplexian society. How has this affected Heath, aside from making her a popular guest at dinner parties?

"I feel sometimes as though I live on Earth and not in Perplex City at all," she says with a smile. Then she becomes more serious, eyebrows pulling downward. "I was a part of the team studying Earth long before the Cube went missing, and those were really some difficult days. Very difficult. There's so much uncontained aggression on Earth, and so much tragedy. Do you know there are people on Earth who actually die for lack of food and basic medicines? It was really appalling when we were first trying to understand these things."



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Retired Fellow Makes Prize

Retired Natural Sciences Fellow of the Academy Louis Revington has formed a prize foundation to seek out and reward youngsters studying how the biological processes of multiple species interrelate in an intact ecosystem. The Revington Prize will be awarded once a year by a panel of trustees. (Full text)



Plus: http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/

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 		woo hoo!!
You know, anna isn't my fFirst choice of new contact. But I think I can see how she might be very very interesting.

and there's some beautiful gems of information over here:
http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/didyouknow.html
some new, some old, some .... cool! Like, hey, neato election process Smile
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
There's a secret page at http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/asecret.html (from clicking on the child's face in the picture on the main page). Don't have time to work on the quiz now...


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jalapeno_dude wrote:
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There's a secret page at http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/asecret.html (from clicking on the child's face in the picture on the main page). Don't have time to work on the quiz now...


That was too easy Smile You get a lovely
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What's the answer to question #2? I think I've got all of the other ones... alternatively, can I have a direct link?


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 		Where did we find
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http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/asecret.html

Just curious
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Anna wrote:
...The Perplexian year zero was during the Earth year 1736? The Earth and Perplex City share a common annual calendar as well as the names of months and days.


This doesn't line up with our earlier calculations, where we calculated it to be 1737. For a year zero to be in 1736 it suggests that there is both a 0BC and a 0AC, though surely she wouldn't have used the general term "year zero" if there were two. It's also possible that the year in which "C" occurred is not given a number, and occurs between 0BC and 1AC, which would push 0BC back one year to line up with this information.
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 		Jot - in the original Sentinel article, Anna's name links directly to the site at the Academy.

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...Sente Kiteway, though he is embarrassed to admit it now, once took the top prize in the Academy first-years' prank tournament? He won it by cracking the Academy's security system and setting it to sound the alarm every time the Master or a Senior Fellow even so much as passed close to a Gatehouse!

Hahaha, I am sure this is just a humourous little piece of information, and in no way should we take this as another anvil sized hint that Sente is TEH EVILZOR. Nope. definitely not.
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jalapeno_dude wrote:
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What's the answer to question #2? I think I've got all of the other ones... alternatively, can I have a direct link?


Sorry, I should have posted the answers - but I fell asleep.

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1. 10
2. yballulullaby
3. ailihphiliac
4. 10
5. brown
6. 7
7. 10
8. 10
9. green and yellow


you get to page:
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http://www.perplexcityacademy.com/ah328451/aprize.html


Which has a lovely verse on it Smile
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 		awww what a cute acrostic and so a new player enters the field...the fact anna it 2nd in command should come in handy...although i think she'll need more persuading than kurt may have.....however if things are going to step up a gear after the London event next week...maybe she wont need as much persuading.
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 		Although we do now have a shiny new website for Anna, we still can't contact her to persude her of anything, as she didn't put an email address on the site. Maybe that will come up later though.

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 		At the moment we have no direct reason for Contacting her. I'm guessing that when we do, we'll coincidentally also get the e-mail address as well...
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 		Actually, I have been wanting to contact her for a while now since we heard twice that she was close to Cymbalisty who then "commited suicide".
I am seriously starting to lose trust in this woman. The fact that she mentioned Sente knows how to bypass the security system for the Gatehouses in a joking manner was suspicious. Like she was trying to subtly make us not trust sente.
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