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[UPDATE] Sentinel - July 22 - (Earth-Based) Ad contest!
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - July 22 - (Earth-Based) Ad contest!
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Sentinel Opens Contest for Free Advertising
Special Announcement

The Sentinel has been publishing its External Edition on Earth for four months now, and to celebrate this unprecedented achievement, we would like to reward our loyal Earth readership. From now until 19 August, the Sentinel will accept submissions from Earth readers to run as absolutely free adverts.

These submissions can advertise the cause of your choice -- an Earth business, a web site, or a charity you support; create whatever is meaningful to you. We ask only that the art and language of your submissions be free of copyright concerns and be in commonly-regarded good taste.

Submissions should be image-only, no embedded sound or animation, please. They must take the form of one of our existing adverts, and should be submitted as 72-dpi JPG, GIF or PNG images. Sizes are as follows:

* Wide banner adverts are 468 x 60 pixels
* Skyscraper adverts are 160 x 600 pixels
* Square adverts are 250 x 250 pixels

Advertisement

Please submit the material to contestSPLATperplexcitysentinel.com with the image or images attached. In the body of your email, please indicate what URL you would like the adverts to link to, if any. If you would like to propose material corresponding to multiple projects or businesses, please send separate email for each advertiser.

All adverts will be reviewed by a committee comprising elements of the editorial and advertising teams of the Sentinel, and the best several will be notified and given free rotation on the Sentinel's External Edition. If your have any questions regarding the submission or review process, please write to contestSPLATperplexcitysentinel.com.


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View from Earth: Culture Clash
By SEEJ ENGINE

A recent Sentinel article discussed the new book by Ernestine Kohler, 'Earth is a Noun,' and detailed Kohler's concerns that traditional Perplex City culture is being overwhelmed by trends, fashions and idioms from Earth as a result of your culture's detailed study of ours.

This is not an alien phenomenon to societies on Earth. There is constant cross-pollination of ideas, slang, techniques and more. This process has been taking place since before our history records began; the uniquely human capability for complex language has allowed our civilisations to grow and develop far beyond those of any other species on our planet. Some even argue that developing such abilities is tied into the evolution of larger and more elaborate brains capable of abstract thought and reasoning.

Throughout our history civilisations have looked to their neighbours to adapt parts of their society and make it their own, be this building pyramids or launching spacecraft. Exposure to other cultures in this manner brought an understanding and appreciation of traditions which initially seemed strange and unusual. Those lucky enough to see these alternatives to the traditions they grew up with were able to decide whether they preferred the unconventional choice and altered their lives accordingly. This process has allowed memes such as the Scientific Method or Mathematical Proof to propagate, as well as allowing language to evolve, adapt and change.

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Unfortunately, whilst many people feel instinctively compelled to seek out and embrace new ideas in this way, a few seem terrified to accept change as a normal part of the continued development of a civilisation. In the U.S.A. in the 19th century, one of the main causes for the civil war was the reluctance of many people to accept that black people had an equal place in society to white people. China has only recently begun re-opening its borders to Western influence, though such influence always inevitably crept in, and as a result the people of China had to suffer the oppression of having their links with the outside world forcibly severed.

Even right now in the U.K. many people seem to view American popular culture with fear and trepidation, and have similar concerns to Kohler that such an influence on young people can only be negative, despite a lack of evidence to support such a view.

As history has taught us several times over, the truly strong and enlightened civilisations are those that are prepared to assimilate new ideas and place them alongside their existing beliefs. Trying to prevent contact with anyone 'outside' is an unworkable, insular response to something that is probably not going to do any harm to a society. I appreciate Kohler's concerns, but I suggest that a much more successful approach to the young Perplexian's lack of knowledge of their own traditions is simply to educate them more clearly about their own world and to make them aware of the reasons to be proud of their culture. That way, perhaps Earth and Perplex City can both benefit from sustained contact with each other.



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Joya Announces Pregnancy

In a widely-expected move, Joya issued a simple statement through her publicist today announcing that she is, in fact, expecting a baby. She remains in seclusion at an undisclosed location, and has not revealed any specific information regarding when the infant is due.


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Dodgson Demands Results



wow...must digest.

Edit - topic to match Open Design topic... GuyP

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 		Wow. Jeb, congratulations. First on the sex change and now on the baby. Do you have a name planned yet? Here's my gift for the baby: Pony?!
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 		hmmm, i wonder if a "Re-Elect Camryn Scott" ad would be too bizarre. What about a "Vote Jersey/Durga" banner.....


Hey, let's hear it fFor Tankia Rogers and her innovative ad concept. Ryan Klein getting fFired may have been more than because he was a recon. He was letting the paper's ad department fFall into a lousy state.
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 		Yeesh. Are Americans really considered to be that bad in the UK? I knew we were unpopular, but shielding children from US pop culture was something I didn't realize was an issue.

On second thought, if it would get me away from Paris Hilton, does anyone know of some cheap housing in Britain?
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 		Hey, that contest might be fun! OK, I already got a target, so all I need is a slogun...? Confused

Good Luck to anyone else joining in!
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 		I knew buying Quark would pay off! Wink
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Scott wrote:
a "Vote Jersey/Durga" banner



Do it! Very Happy
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Macavity wrote:
Scott wrote:
a "Vote Jersey/Durga" banner



Do it! Very Happy


I'll help however I can.

Unless I decide to do a SPArmy one.

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Centipede wrote:
Macavity wrote:
Scott wrote:
a "Vote Jersey/Durga" banner



Do it! Very Happy


I'll help however I can.

Unless I decide to do a SPArmy one.


Well, I have a few cool fonts people are welcome to use - just drop me a line and I'll email 'em to ya!
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 		the contest is also on the open design website but with a different submission address but seems to be the same thing and also has some examples/ideas if anyones interested!
http://www.opendesignagency.com/projects.html

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 		* mutters under his breath at the thought that someone so misunderstands logical argument as to consider Mathematical Proof as a MEME!!!!!!!

a total lost cause for the difference between cabbages and humans

IMO

time for his watering and fertiliser maybe
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 		Hah, OK Tanner - I need an editor Wink

And rRootage - I wasn't implying that all people in this country view American culture as negative, but there is segment of the population that views it as any of the following (despite there being plenty of contradictory evidence); stupid/evil/religiously fundamentalist/excessively commercial/bigoted (the last one is somewhat ironic, huh?)

Personally, having spent quite a bit of time in the US, these are views that I don't share, but criticising the US is an easy target for a lot of people and in the article I was trying to use this flawed appreciation of a different society to illustrate how stupid it is to just reject another culture like that.

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 		Sorry to dig up a ridiculously old thread, but I was wondering if anyone actually submitted anything for this. I noticed the Sentinel is still sticking to the same old ads and I was wondering if there's any hope for a breath of fresh air soon.
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 		I submitted several, but with no word. I guess someone could email the contest address to ask if there were any acceptable results.
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 		I sent in several submissions fFor a variety of things. Apparently the departmental upheaval in the ads-dept has sort of, uhm, caused some turmoil and slowed things down a bit.
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