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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 16 Mar 06 - Prank Calls
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - 16 Mar 06 - Prank Calls
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Police Bombarded with Prank Calls
By JEREMY CLARIDGE

Police were bombarded with an overload of prank calls and hoaxes during the Roll for Damage concert Tuesday evening, when police resources were already stretched thin from keeping peace in the Euler's Disc area. Police say that the incident has all of the hallmarks of a concerted attack, but have yet to determine any sort of purpose behind it. "We are taking this matter very seriously," said police chief Eoin Morgan. "It looks like a very organised crime group tried to completely overload the city's law enforcement assets, and to a degree were successful. We want to know why."

According to police records, the unprecedented volume of crime reports began to pour in at around 5:30pm on Tuesday, shortly after the police had dispatched a sizeable force to maintain order among fans hoping to attend the free Roll for Damage concert that evening. Records show that for over two hours, reports flooded in of crimes small and large, from vandalism to bomb threats. Crimes reported included such diverse incidents as kidnappings, sightings of high-profile criminals, and escaped zoo creatures. Few of the incidents checked out once officers were sent to the scene.

While police were tied up searching for fictional bombs and other threats, a few legitimate crimes fell by the wayside. Notably, a teenage boy was assaulted in the Old Town a mere block away from the local police precinct, but an emergency squad was unable to be dispatched to his aid until long after the culprit had fled the scene. The boy is currently in critical condition at Phuah Hospital.

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In another case, a violent father broke the wrist of a six-year-old girl and assaulted her mother. The woman, who does not wish to be identified, said that the police did not respond to her call for assistance when she spotted her former husband across the street. The mother and child have both been treated and released from medical care at Greycastle Hospital. A handful of other injuries have also been reported, mostly the result of domestic dispute calls that were given low priority. No deaths associated with the prank calls have been reported.

Police say they have tried to trace the calls they received, but that the call sources appeared on the surface to come from multiple non-specific sources in the city. "When we try to do a deeper trace to find an earlier origin, the information trail just vanishes," said lieutenant Gerard Boarhide. "Whoever set this up really knew their stuff." Boarhide expressed deep concern at the resources available to this alleged criminal enterprise. "We're talking some serious technical know-how and a frightening amount of human involvement," he said. "It's very troubling that there are so many people involved."

Hesh spokesman Kai Cinelli has said that Roll for Damage are shaken up by the idea that someone could use their popularity to an unsavoury end, and have decided to call a halt to their surprise show dates until the security implications for the city can be more carefully examined.


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View from Earth:
Cube Roots
By KIAN

KianThe people of Perplex City have given us a gift. Perhaps you Perplexians already recognise the connection between puzzle-solving and your peaceful society. Or perhaps you have become complacent and don't realise the impact that intellectual games really has on your culture. From this end of the data stream, it appears that the loss of the Receda Cube has generated a sudden awakening among you, a kind of introspection about your culture, that this shocking loss has really made you re-evaluate things. The rug has been pulled out from under that complacency. For those of us engaged in searching for the Cube on Earth, things have also changed.

The pair of us have always enjoyed puzzles and games, but have tended to engage in them independently as isolated and isolating activities, or at most, in small groups of close friends. Some people on Earth enjoy larger gaming activities of course, but more often than not, those activities are highly competitive. Co-operative gaming is much less common for us. Gaming as a pervasive life activity is almost unheard-of. Changes in society and technology in the past decades have also impacted how we relate to the people around us. It is rare that people talk with their neighbours or socialise with them these days. We all seem to engage in more and more isolating activities, and have lost the time that previous generations may have spent interacting co-operatively.

Working to solve the puzzles presented in this Cube search has given us a small taste of what Perplexian society must be like. Our first cards were a gift from a friend. Since getting those cards, we have spent more time together as a couple enjoying each others' company and combining our complementary talents to solve the cards. We have both been more social with people we know, and people we barely know, both in introducing the cards to others and seeking answers. I've had no qualms about holding out a Perplex City card and asking a group of people I hardly know: "Excuse me! does anyone recognise these molecules?" I've learned more about my co-workers' hobbies and talents in the last month by talking with them about these puzzles than I have in the prior seven years I've worked with them. Seeing the activities of other Cube hunters around the world, I know that our experience is not unusual.

The Receda Cube apparently revolutionised your society and drew you all together in many ways, but particularly in the shared pursuit of solving its mystery. Apparently the Cube is putting out its tendrils to have a similar effect on Earth. Though the number of people able to participate in this search is comparatively small, the effect of this shared goal, the mental challenge, and the peaceful co-operation involved has exponentially larger effects. Perhaps the mysterious properties of the Receda Cube are precisely what this unhappy planet needs just now. While I know that we will all continue to work diligently to recover, and if possible, to return the Cube to Perplex City, no matter how the Cube arrived on Earth, we do appreciate both the loan of the Cube and the gift of its influence. For that matter, where might the Cube have insinuated its influence before finding its way to Perplex City? Perhaps Earth and Perplex City will both derive some long-term benefits from this temporary change in the Cube's locale, and maybe the Cube has a deeper history and broader future than either of our societies imagines.


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Seafood Gains Diners

The upscale restaurants and hosts of the city have all come to a single resounding conclusion: seafood is the entree of choice for diners this spring. Heavier dishes, such as thick cuts of meat or chunky stews, are disappearing from menus all over the city in favour of this lighter fare, led in part by an easing of fishing restrictions passed by the City Council over the winter.


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# Holiday Building Up
# Sentinel Eyeing Arroyo
# CNV Stays Down



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STOP, WE'RE BLUSHING

I am writing to tell all of the people, both directly and indirectly involved with any part of this scrumptious publication, that I think you are doing a tremendous job! I have been reading The Sentinel for quite some time now and I am always impressed. You tell it like it is, informing and entertaining at the same time. Now that is quite a skill! However, by far the most impressive, you keep us together. You constantly keep Earth in touch with Perplex City, through the medium of a simple online newspaper. If I were currently living in Perplex City, I wouldn't have to think twice about paying PCL2,350 for a year's subscription! I thank you for the brilliant publication and look forward to the next great issue. Keep up the good work!
Magicmancraig, 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 prize.
HEAR, HEAR

I am writing to express my profound hope that the poor quality of letters that the Sentinel has recently published from Earth soon be rectified. I do not wish to publicly (or privately) attack those who write letters -- they are often good quality. But the fact that the editors decided to withdraw from the awarding of a Letter of the Week speaks for itself! Come on, Earth, if you write a letter to an Earth-based newspaper, you take the time out to make sure that it is correct. Why should the Sentinel be any different? Let's get those spell checkers into gear!
Paul Williams, Earth
PEOPLE WITH AGENDAS

I believe the time has come for people to reassess the true impact of Barrow-Feld Syndrome. Those afflicted with the disease should be treated with sympathy, not revulsion. Until we can learn greater tolerance, I fear we will be no better than Earthlings.
Tassos Bhuna

I was surprised to learn that not all citizens of Perplex City are opposed to sharing more of your culture with us here on Earth -- given the recent events, such as the anarchist graffiti and the assault on Mr Drake, I would have expected the anti-Earth sentiment to have grown stronger.

I personally am interested in learning more about Perplex City culture. Having noticed several similarities already -- for example, the Perplex City Auxiliary Volunteer Police bear a striking resemblance to a volunteer law-enforcement group on Earth known as the Guardian Angels, and Viard's "Heartfelt" seems to share elements of style with the work of Earth artists such as VNV Nation and Orbital -- I would be most interested in learning more about Perplex City.

I hope that those who make the decisions regarding what to share with us on Earth and what to hold back will see the wisdom of Chino Delaware's statements, and act accordingly.
PFC. Peter Walker, 255th UNSC Marine Btln., Earth


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 		What a sweet View from Earth.

And we weren't the cause of any deaths....hooray!
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 		Uh oh. People got hurt. If that kid dies and we get found out, we're in deep excrement. They will hate us forever.

And who does Tassos Bhuna think she is? Bah.
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 		So we're "a very organised crime group" now? I've always wanted to be The Godfather...
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 		*eyebrow*

/me is off to find out what barrow-feld syndrome is.

Think it might be a ba-na-na Very Happy

EDIT: It's been upgraded to a 'Kloo' as it's a degenerative brain disease, according to the wiki. Potentially the reason for Cymballisty's pill popping?

Ceretin might have helped him to mask the decline in his function as the disease got worse by hyping up the synapses left. Another prominant chap (Julian Harrowak) was removed from his position when the diagnosis of Barrow-Feld became public, so perhaps Cymballisty was scared the same could happen to him if it came to light. Just a thought.
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Axys Denyed wrote:
So we're "a very organised crime group" now? I've always wanted to be The Godfather...


We can put Herbert's head in people's bed.



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Ceretin might have helped him to mask the decline in his function as the disease got worse by hyping up the synapses left. Another prominant chap (Julian Harrowak) was removed from his position when the diagnosis of Barrow-Feld became public, so perhaps Cymballisty was scared the same could happen to him if it came to light. Just a thought.


A very good thought though.
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STOP, WE'RE BLUSHING

I am writing to tell all of the people, both directly and indirectly involved with any part of this scrumptious publication, that I think you are doing a tremendous job! I have been reading The Sentinel for quite some time now and I am always impressed. You tell it like it is, informing and entertaining at the same time. Now that is quite a skill! However, by far the most impressive, you keep us together. You constantly keep Earth in touch with Perplex City, through the medium of a simple online newspaper. If I were currently living in Perplex City, I wouldn't have to think twice about paying PCL2,350 for a year's subscription! I thank you for the brilliant publication and look forward to the next great issue. Keep up the good work!
Magicmancraig, 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 prize.


So brown-nosing the sentinel earns points!!!! look out number 1 spot! Very Happy
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 		hehe, the cube father
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A very good thought though.


Thank you, Sir

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It's been upgraded to a 'Kloo' as it's a degenerative brain disease, according to the wiki. Potentially the reason for Cymballisty's pill popping?

Ceretin might have helped him to mask the decline in his function as the disease got worse by hyping up the synapses left. Another prominant chap (Julian Harrowak) was removed from his position when the diagnosis of Barrow-Feld became public, so perhaps Cymballisty was scared the same could happen to him if it came to light. Just a thought.


Actually, I checked the wiki but I'm sure there's more info on this which has not been added. Am I right in thinking that Pietro Salk was also a sufferer in the end stages? I REMEMBER reading something else about barrow-feld syndrome somewhere. Can everyone peer into the deepest corners of their memories and check for some more info please.
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 		this mite sound silly, but WHERe is that article on the sentinel, because i just went there and i couldnt see it....
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 		From the Sentinel:
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According to the Sentinel's medical advisor, Dr. Stuart Ivanovitch, Barrow-Feld Syndrome is a degenerative brain condition that initially manifests by degrading the victim's ethical decision-making centers. As a result, the disease leaves its sufferers unable to make consistent moral choices, leading to a variety of antisocial behaviours such as theft and fraud. In its end stages, sufferers often descend through progressively severe psychosis and ultimately coma and death.


Article is entitiled "Harrowak Forced to Offer Resignation" and is by Natasha Valliere

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 		Which article are you talking about, kiz? I see them all there. Try doing a manual refresh (ctrl + F5) to make sure you're not viewing your cache.

EDIT: Yes, the bit about the prank calls is on the front page. Try going here if you still can't see it
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 		the bit bout prank calls, is it on front page?
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 		YEAH!!!! I got the star letter award. Very Happy Very Happy

*Jumps up and down,then falls over*

That's really cool! Cool

If I can do it then anyone can.Good luck to all who enter. Very Happy
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