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[UPDATE] Sentinel 09/03/06
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maevey
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel 09/03/06
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RFD to Play Free Show at Euler's Disk on Tuesday
By JEREMY CLARIDGE

Hot band Roll for Damage has announced a free performance at Euler's Disk on Tuesday afternoon, spurring concerns that the city may encounter security problems similar to those found at their performance last weekend at The Click. During their last show, sources say, poor crowd control resulted in Fivebridges Lane being completely blocked to traffic travelling in both directions for nearly two hours.

Roll for Damage front man Alejo Jackson said that the free concert is a way of "giving back to our fans as a show of gratitude for all they've done for us." Tickets into the venue will be issued on a first-come first-served basis, with a limit of one ticket issued per person. Fans have been strongly discouraged from camping out for extended periods in order to maximise the chance of getting seats. "We very much want our fans to avoid disrupting the regular activities of the area," Jackson said. "All of our fans are expected to fully comply with the demands of the law and of good manners."

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Both Hesh spokesman Kai Cinelli and police lieutenant Heidi Lokhande have issued statements indicating that there are extensive plans in place to prevent a recurrence of last week's problems, while maintaining safety in the rest of the city, though neither would divulge details of the plan for security reasons.

Critics, though, are already calling this string of surprise shows a "cheap attention-getting move." Said pop singer and former Jackson love interest Aurora Belle, "There's no need for this. The band is obviously trying to work up some extra publicity, regardless of the cost to the city. It's very childish, if you ask me."

The performance is expected to begin at roughly 6:30pm GMT, to run roughly one hour. Police insist that extra crowd control measures will be in place, though, until after the venue is thoroughly emptied and the audience appears to be properly dispersed. Cinelli has suggested that ticket-seekers arriving in the area much before 4:30pm risk being refused admission due to the need to maintain order in the area.


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Team Puzzle Monkeys Dominates the Board
By KATE BREWSTER

A handful of players have broken away from the top of the pack following the award of points for the Earth-based PCAG events, and as other new avenues for accruing points have become available. A scant three players now share the top spot: oliverkeers13, Coxtin, and number9dream. Surprisingly, all of the top players, and even MikeyJ who is now ranked fourth on the board by himself, were all members of Team Jazz Hands at the PCAG London tournament.

Team Jazz Hands finished fifth in the event. Before the points were awarded, the point structure had spurred wide anticipation that the top-finishing team, The Puzzle Monkeys, would overtake the top of the board, so it is astonishing that not only none of The Puzzle Monkeys, but none of the top four finishing teams, have any players that have landed in first place. In fact, the highest-ranked member of The Puzzle Monkeys is Alphatrion, who has solved 123 cards and collected 6352 points, to hit 141st place.

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The former first-place pack is now gathered soundly in fifth place, with over 60 people sharing the rank.

The Academy has also announced a new way to earn points, through a deal arranged with the Sentinel. Said Academy Master Sente Kiteway, "In the interest of retrieving the Receda Cube, we must foster Earth interest and involvement with our city, and not merely a superficial entertainment from solving cards. The people of Earth must be persuaded to feel empathy for our loss." With this goal in mind, the Academy will now award five points to players who write a star letter of the week to the Sentinel, and ten points to View from Earth columnists. Any given player will only be eligible to receive these points once, though of course any Earth citizen is welcome to write in as often as desired.

In other developments, the total number of players has surged past 17,000 and is fast closing on 17,500. Total cards solved have surpassed 215,000, and total points accrued is growing ever closer to 6.5 million. "I expect the 6.5 million points marker will be passed soon," said PCAG statistician Samara Jones. "If nothing else, I expect a significant bounce in all of the numbers when the Wave 3 cards are released sometime in the next few weeks."


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Letters

Think we're doing a great job? Is there something you'd like us to do better? Do you just have an opinion you'd like the city to hear? We'd love to hear from you! Just write email to lettersSPLATperplexcitysentinel.com.

Due to space considerations, we can't promise to print them all, but we do read every one. All letters submitted become the property of the Sentinel, and writing to us transfers the right to publish your letter.
RESPONSES

As a resident in the earth [sic] country of England [sic] it is refreshing to see that your correspondent Ardman Scatz (letters: 03/03/06) describes a scene of weather chaos in Perplex City which would be familiar to anyone trying to commute to work in an English winter. I find it incredible, however, that both of our technologically advanced societies are completely unable to devise ways to cope cleverly with the weather. From the disappointments of abandoned football matches to the 'wrong kind of snow' affecting the railways, we should not be still struggling to live normal lives in the winter.
number9dream, Earth

I would like to ask Lyle Enigmaster, [sic] why he is stuck in a greenhouse and feels so strongly about not throwing stones, [sic] why he and so many other people live under such constrained conditions where [sic] they feel they can't throw stones is beyond me. Obviously the somewhat cliched metaphor Lyle is referring to is to do with new radical ideas, [sic] that can have profound effects on society, but surely if we were all copycats, [sic] or sheep we would still be knocking two stones together and going 'um', and not much else. However, we do not, because we as humans have the ability to think for ourselves, a virtue that seldom few of us choose to use. One must argue that there is too little of individual thought, [sic] individuality must be sought out and valued with in [sic] our ever 'average' society, [sic] by being copycats we lose this sense of the individual and instead we are left with a boring mass of office workers, [sic] please for my sake, be individual. Everything will be better!
Edward Legg, Earth
EVERYONE HAS AN IDOL

I was delighted to read your profile of Anna Heath in your recent Sentinel edition. Mrs. Heath is a shining example to all working mothers, proving that every one of us should be capable of raising a family and pursuing a successful career. I salute her and her husband for their efforts.

Bacci Pascoe

I remain surprised that Helix Hesh is the only man with the foresight to promote Perplex City music on Earth. We've known for years that many sectors of Earth culture share our aesthetic values, and our citizens spend a fortune on Earth music every year. Why not bring some money back into our economy by giving Earth music fans what they want? The recent Alejo chat with Earth revealed a solid fanbase with an interest in sonic engineering. What are we waiting for? Our culture should be celebrated and shared, not hidden and squandered.
Chino Delaware
CRR LINK CENSORED?

I found the interview with the staff of mind candy [sic] very interesting [sic] especially about the nature of the link between worlds. "no-one [sic] is intentionally censoring anything" [sic] But how do we know? As only transitions [sic] can currently go though [sic] all we can receive is "word of mouth" and no hard evidence of the facts we are given. On Earth when things have been censored [sic] be it films, books or peoples [sic]opinions we usually will what to find out about the uncensored truth. With the link being the only way of getting any information from perplex city [sic] how do we know what we get is true or just half truths? Is what we don't know wont hart us or is ignorance really not bliss. [sic, for the entire sentence]
Martin Baker, Earth

Ed. Note: The Sentinel has chosen not to award a Letter of the Week prize for this week, due to the singularly poor grammar and punctuation of this week's offerings. Our editorial board would like to advise that greater care be taken in future by Earth readers hoping to achieve a Letter of the Week. Future recipients of the award will receive five points on the Perplexcity.com leaderboard.


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 		So are the Grammar Police cracking down to discourage mass "Killing peple sux!!11!! Gimme my pointz!!!!!1!" letters, or is this a new puzzle?

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 		On reading the last letter, I think they're just as fed up with crappy English as some of us are on this planet.

Hurray for grammar! Very Happy
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duckiemonster wrote:
On reading the last letter, I think they're just as fed up with crappy English as some of us are on this planet.

Hurray for grammar! Very Happy



I got a feeling there might not be Dyslexia in perplex city, sadlly I do

bo seleta Sad
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 		One word. Spell check. It is your friend.

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N.B. ...and no, I'm not having a dig at anyone with dyslexia. In writing an article, a forum post, a letter or even just an email however, there are a multitude of options for having the spelling of a written piece checked before hitting the "Submit" or "Send" buttons.
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 		Dear Sentinel Editorial Board,

Please review your most recent Kate Brewster article. I think you perhaps overlooked the title-content mismatch.

Sincerely,

Cassandra

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 		Dear Sentinal Editorial Board,

Team Jazzhands are well the bestest.

Much Love

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Bakers_12 wrote:
duckiemonster wrote:
On reading the last letter, I think they're just as fed up with crappy English as some of us are on this planet.

Hurray for grammar! Very Happy


I got a feeling there might not be Dyslexia in perplex city, sadlly I do

bo seleta Sad


Having said that, Martin Baker's letter ends with
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what we don't know wont hart us


Hart? Hurt!!! SPaG, people.
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European Chris wrote:
Dear Sentinal Editorial Board,

Team Jazzhands are well the bestest.

Much Love

Chris


No way! Go team Theta! Woo! you be PwN3D!!!111!1!!1 1 0Wn U Mofo!!!1 Hahhahahahah!

*cough* *cough* sorry. reminiscing of a halo kill. note to noobs, don't stand in the open running your mouth and jumping up and down... Twisted Evil
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The Sentinel wrote:
As a resident in the earth [sic] country of England [sic] it is refreshing..........


A bit harsh I think, although probably correct. Rolling Eyes

In the context of this:

The Sentinel wrote:

Team Puzzle Monkeys Dominates the Board
By KATE BREWSTER


however, it doesn't seem quite so glaring.

Shurely shome mishtake................. Embarassed
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 		Well as long as we're being picky, Michiko, it's Euler's Disc, disc with a C. Or at least .. it has been every other time.

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A bit harsh I think, although probably correct


What? Why the one after England?
If this is about it being "Britain", I'm going to hunt somebody down!
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What? Why the one after England?


I'm sure there should be a comma after England

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 		That everything seems that is a little unfairness for the people where language is not first Engrish

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 		To be the Devil's advocate though, we solve puzzles and codes from around the world and it seems that spell check and grammar are beneath us. These are the advanced codes we use daily. The Sentinel is one of the first portals for Perplex City and I'm sure that Mind Candy doesn't want newcomers thinking that it's written by a bunch of twelve year old angst ridden girls with myspace accounts.
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I know I'm about to get lots of Cursing from people for that statement but if the Sentinel wants a higher caliber of written statements I think we're up to it.
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