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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 12 Oct 06 - Duncan Foundering, Sweets

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cassandra
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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 12 Oct 06 - Duncan Foundering, Sweets

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Foundering Duncan Eager for Rematch

By CORWIN JONES

Former PCAG champion Serena Duncan told the press on Wednesday afternoon that she is looking forward to a rematch with reigning champion Ryan Cahill at the end of this season. "It was a fluke he beat me last year," said Duncan. "It won't happen again, I can assure you." The comments followed her victory against Lucius Jorgensen, a much-needed win after a string of lacklustre matches have brought her down in the standings.

Duncan admitted, though, that her performance has been shabby so far this season. "Matches up until the November knockouts just feel so low-stakes, it's hard for me to really ramp up for them and apply my sharpest edge," she confessed. "And sometimes, yes, this means I may be beaten by a player who doesn't have the same natural ability I do. ... But I'll see the championship again this year. Put in your bets now," she said.

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Some PCAG analysts say, though, that Duncan's confidence is far from warranted. "There's a broad consensus that Serena is letting her turbulent personal life get in the way of her game," said Raina Hollow of The Sporting Daily. "I can't imagine how difficult it would be to focus on winning games when you're in the papers every other day with gossip about whether you're still with your boyfriend," she said. Hollow referred to Duncan's very high-profile on-again, off-again relationship with music mogul Helix Hesh of Hesh Records. "That element of distraction can be ruinous, even to a player of her caliber," Hollow said.

PCAG analyst Johan Reginald disagreed, however, with the verdict that Duncan's personal life is to blame. "You have to remember that she had a similar slump at about this time last year, and recovered to nearly take the championship anyhow. She's still in the running, count on it."

Cahill, when informed of Duncan's boasts, laughed and shook his head. "You don't win the crown twice by accident," he said. "I can't promise I'll win it all again, but I do promise Serena won't be toasted on Ball Night this year without a good fight." Cahill is currently leading the standings.

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Sweets Consumption Rising Rapidly

The Office of Public Health has completed its annual census of dietary habits and discovered that Perplexians are eating a staggering 28% more sugary treats per capita than last year. The data is still under examination, and researchers hope to yet discover why Perplex City has developed a sweet tooth in just a single year. The full report is due out next month.

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View from Earth: Political Posturing

By NIKKI SLADE

Earlywine's recent proclamation against the people of Earth has brought about any number of reactions in those of the community who have been watching these pre-election shenanigans with, indeed, as much zeal as their Perplexian counterparts.

Are we truly so 'violent and valueless,' so distasteful? Does your own culture not have as many dark secrets and hidden crimes? Why would we be in contact with you at all if not for the biggest such crime of your age -- the theft of the Cube? How can one man -- any man -- suggest that your society is so much more pure than any of ours, when your own past is so horrifying that you refuse to even discuss it?

In all honesty, it seems that Earlywine's statement is simply a clear, childish retaliation against the views reported in last week's Sentinel. In Scott Myers's View from Earth, he presented the results of political polls on our side of the connection. While the results of the poll itself were even (where responders felt they could make an informed decision), the comments provided suggest otherwise. Earlywine's negative, defamatory campaign -- first eliminating Finlay from the ranks, then turning his attentions to Camryn Scott -- is earning him few points even where his radical policy proposals are supported.

Our own politics show similar patterns. Where such a negative, destructive campaign has been used in the efforts to gain electoral power, it has almost always met with failure. Shows of humanity and compassion, in times of peace, are certain to win through. In Australian politics, this can be most seen in the recent case of one Tony Abbot, our current Minister for Health and Ageing. Last year, our media was flooded with stories of his reunion with a long-lost son, put up for adoption when Abbot was a teenager; his son had been working as a sound recordist in Parliament house for years. DNA tests later revealed that the young man was in fact not related to Abbot; however, the sheer personal nature of the drama and Abbot's way of dealing with it provided him with a significant boost in positive opinion of him at the time. Had Abbot used his 'son' to push his fervent anti-abortion views and screamed defamation at those who opposed him, it's easy to see that the reaction would have been far different.

Earlywine's apparent need to eliminate all possible rivals for attention, preferably through ruining their lives -- for surely the Finlay scandal, whether true or not, was greatly traumatic to Finlay himself -- presents himself not as a capable leader of any group but as an immature, mud-slinging child who probably, given the chance to affect policies in Perplex City, will quickly develop into a tyrant.

Indeed -- like a young child told to 'pipe down,' Earlywine has turned his anger upon the citizens of Earth. We do not doubt that your technology is superior, and that your fascination with cerebral pursuits is, in the majority, greater than those of the Earth majority. However, your past and present contain as much darkness as any one of ours, and at least our own histories have been thrown into the harsh light of discussion.

Let us not even delve too deeply into the fact that those very people Earlywine and his supporters are currently slandering are the same people your city is relying on to save the Cube for them. In this we continue, despite overwhelming secrecy and, in some cases, betrayal on the part of your own world. It is not for money that we seek the Cube, but to help your own world recover from what has obviously been a great injury.

Yet we did not steal the Cube, and we did not cause the trail of deaths left by the Third Power, the supposed thieves. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

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LETTERS

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TOUCHY, TOUCHY

For a world so advanced, I am amazed at how narrow minded some residents of Perplex City. The remarks made by Nathan Earlywine regarding Earth were entirely uncalled for (and if you ask me, extremely pig headed). "Why do we hold these violent and valueless civilisations in such high esteem?" he moaned. You hold our violent and valueless civilisations in such high esteem because many of us are currently involved in the search and recovery of your most precious Receda Cube. We are doing this as an act of kindness. There may be a reward for the finder, but most of us are not helping for a reward. We are helping because it is the right thing to do. You know, an act of kindness to another race? Or is that a concept your culture is not familiar with? Oh, and as far the reputation of being violent, it is only because we don't cover up our wars.

Ryan Andrew, Earth

Ed. Note: This letter has been chosen as the Sentinel's Star Letter of the Week. The author has accordingly received five points on the Perplexcity.com leaderboard, as will future recipients of the Letter of the Week prize.

QUEST FOR CONSEQUENCE

The recent attention given in the Perplex City press to Extreme Puzzling has given me pause for thought. Of course, behaviour which endangers life, even the lives of willing participants, is always worrisome and bears attention. Deterrence and enforcement naturally have their very important roles to play, but it is this humble reader's opinion that understanding, even compassion, is the only route to a lasting accommodation between proponents and opponents of such movements.

Many people who participate in 'Extreme Sports' on Earth are described as 'adrenaline junkies'. (Extreme sports can be likened to extreme puzzling, without the puzzles. The physical realities, e.g. of street luging, travelling at speeds approaching 100 kilometers per hour, inches above hard asphalt, are enough of a draw for most 'extremists' here, even without the added intellectual stimulation of solving puzzles at the same time.) The expression, 'adrenaline junkie', is not just to be laughed at: it gives an insight into what makes these activities appealing. In the age that includes advanced medicine, helicopter rescue crews, and safety regulations, we are shielded from the most unpleasant consequences of practically all aspects of life. A side-effect of this is that people can feel _disjointed_ from the results of their actions, as if they're not affecting the world at all... not fully *in* the world, even. They want something _on the line_ when they act. They want to feel their lives are _not_ inconsequential.

What I describe may well be just one of a number of aspects of Extreme Sports and Extreme Puzzling, which makes them such a draw for followers and such a trouble for society at large. I, personally, am not a member of either community, so my perspective is limited; I am only trying to form an understanding, and encouraging others to try too. By understanding the draw, even if not condoning it, society will be able to make room for these people to actualise themselves without criminalising them, will be able to accommodate their views and -- who knows? -- perhaps even learn from them. It's not so easy a solution, short-term, as putting more police on the beat -- but it is the win-win solution, the one that will last.

Hugh O'Byrne, Earth

STEPS ON THE PATH TO INTERWORLD PEACE

Just when I thought that it couldn't get any worse I read with horror Cassandra's letter advocating that the last wishes of a Ruth Coralhouse be honoured -- that her ashes be sent Earth should the means become available. Honestly, do you people know no shame? While I can't speak to Cassandra's motives in this matter I can say, without hesitation, that we have just about enough in the way of dessicated corpses of our own to deal with without you adding to the pile, thank you very much. Can you really think we would be honoured or something to have you people dumping your grisly remains through a wormwhole (or whatever) onto our heads? You who have asked so much from us vis a vis your lost Cube have offered so very little in return and this is the best you can come up with? Stuff Ruth Coralhouse in a box and send us a cure for cancer instead.

EvilGenius

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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:01 pm

Mima
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Sweet tooth

I'm fairly sure that the new excessively sweet tooth that the Perplexians have developed will be discovered to be caused by exposure to Earth, and therefore yet again our fault!!!!

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 2:59 pm

locqust
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:00 pm

achenar nli
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Eeheehee.

I was (still am) all proud of my VFE (and shiny avatar), but somehow EvilGenius seems to have outshined me. Wink

Damned good point, too.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:35 pm

Datango
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Sweet tooth

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I'm fairly sure that the new excessively sweet tooth that the Perplexians have developed will be discovered to be caused by exposure to Earth, and therefore yet again our fault!!!!

Or could it be to take away the nasty taste of a new formulation or contamination of Ceretin?

Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:28 am

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