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[UPDATE] Sentinel - 06 April 06 - Nuru
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cassandra
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel - 06 April 06 - Nuru
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Nuru Petitions PCAG for Requalification
By CORWIN JONES

Games competitor Jackson Nuru has petitioned the Perplex City Academy Games to be allowed to participate in a qualifier match and compete in this year's championship tournament. Nuru was ejected from the City Council Classic during preliminary rounds last year after testing positive for inappropriate use of cognitive enhancers.

Nuru held a press conference in which he insisted that he would submit to any test the PCAG's Substance Compliance department requested at any time in the games. "I made some terrible mistakes last year, and it was a difficult time for me," Nuru said. "I sat out of play for one entire year, and now I'm ready to get back into the games. ... I'm absolutely committed to upholding the rules and playing on the same level plane as everyone else."

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Nuru's move is a highly unusual for a player in his situation; other banned competitors, such as Gina Laskey and Viktor Helm, have quietly announced their retirement from sports rather than continue to try to compete with a blemish on their record. Paula Ching, Director of Substance Compliance for the PCAG, said, "Most players feel after testing positive that their highest marks in the future will always be suspect. Who wants to compete feeling everyone is against them?" Jonas Sawgrass of the Alliance for Clean Players is adamant that Nuru not be permitted to return to competition. "It's a travesty," Sawgrass said. "Just because a player makes the right noises about respecting the rules doesn't mean he's become a new person. I would bet it means he's just found some new way to cheat without being detected."

Ching, though, said that allegations such as Sawgrass's are without merit. "The PCAG works very closely alongside all of the labs doing research into cognitive enhancement so we can detect the signs of even chemicals still in development. We are confident nothing slips through out of ignorance on our part."

According to PCAG guidelines, Nuru's petition will be considered in a specially convened committee, probably to be held toward the end of the month. The PCAG declined to offer any speculation as to which way it might rule.


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View from Earth: Warm on Collaboration
By GUIN

GuiNPerplexian society is facing up to one of the greatest challenges in its history -- the retrieval of an artefact that would seem to underpin the whole of its society. An object so valuable that the challenge to retrieve it has led to the employment of incredible tactics such as the collaboration of two worlds to ensure its safe return.

Here on Earth we are also facing one of our greatest challenges, but one that does not just threaten the very fabric of society; rather one that threatens our planet as a whole. Climate change! And yet, rather than collaborate and tackle the issue head-on, our nations are divided on the right course of action; leaders pontificate, finding it difficult to take ownership of a responsibility they have chosen: not only leading their nation today, but also providing a future for those of tomorrow.

Warranted, agreements have been brokered and targets have been set, but these all too often fall short of facing up to the reality of what will happen if we do not make some tougher decisions sooner rather than later. All too often, it is the argument of how individual economies will suffer greater financial loss if they take a moral lead, fearing other nations will replace them in the economic pecking order. And ever still, while continuing to ignore the inevitable, our predicament gathers momentum and continues travelling as a train without a driver towards an ecological train crash.

As a teenager, I remember feeling as passionate about this subject as I do today and have tried to make my own little contributions throughout my youth and into my adulthood. I recycle 90% of all my household waste, and while I am not perfect, I feel a great sadness when on refuse collection days I see a street of overflowing bins. I have recently acquired an allotment with the intention of growing my own produce and have made a decision to buy local produce where possible, hopefully helping both the local economy and the environment. But I still have my faults and know that I can do so much more -- such as using my car less (but I doubt I will ever take up cycling!)

As an individual, I have chosen to make tough decisions that impact upon my life and know I need to look harder at some of my other practices. These choices do not, however, reduce the quality of my life. I am still able to live a normal day-to-day routine as any other. It's the little things. Remembering to turn something off when it is not in use. Using only what I need. And reusing whatever I can -- even the empty yoghurt pots I cannot recycle are to be used to grow seedlings for my new venture.

And this is my view from Earth. One that the Perplexians can teach us a great deal about. Collaboration, however small, will always result in great things being achieved. Individuals working together to meet the needs of the many and provide a stable future for those that have no say, in my book, is a great thing. I am not saying stop what you are doing and change everything today (although this would greatly please me!) I am simply saying that as individuals we can start to make a difference. I have often been told that my efforts are fruitless and that my efforts are in vain. I am a little voice in a noisy room. But it would be easier to stop and ignore my individual responsibilities than to stand up and say I am proud of this fact.

So next time you leave a room, turn off the light (obviously ensuring no one else is still there!). Use the recycle bin for those papers instead of the wheelie bin and before you know it you will have started to make a difference and others may have noticed. If we can all work together the outlook need not seem so bleak.


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Kostka Reliability Questioned

A source from within the police department has expressed "grave doubts" about the veracity of Kostka's claims of having evidence that the Reconstructionists were responsible for the theft of the Receda Cube. Kostka, formerly known as Jessica Holyoke, is a member of the splinter sect


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# Rubineaux Bid Rejected
# Chymists Open Strong
# Glass Art Turns Trendy


LETTERS

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TRUE COLORS?

We have a long tradition here on Earth, expressed through our cinema and writing, of preparing for the inevitable invasion of our pretty blue globe by ungodly forces from the sky, or wherever exactly you, you -- people -- plan to descend from. Some of us will set to weeping, I'm sure, all romantic like about our "great friends" from Perplex City here to usher us into a new age of peace and puzzles and other hippy dippy communist crazy talk. But before you slither, bound, or whatever obscene locomotor gyrations you make, from your sky-darkening planet-destroyers and dare to set foot on our planet, you'd better know that you're not fooling all of us. When you do finally get here we'll be waiting, me and the boys. Through our brand of entertainment/education called "science fiction" we've seen ourselves lasered, invaded, taken, scorched, enslaved, eaten -- the whole nine yards. We always end up on top. That's our way when faced with foreigners who try to steal our women (don't say you don't want 'em -- we've seen pictures of yours, blech; they're so bony you could carve a roast on their faces). Yeah, we know, your kind always say that you come in peace and then it's a raygun in the face and cold, metal weasel up the jacksie. Not for this patriot, buddy. You think you're so smart, so advanced and la dee da, well all I have to say is "bring it on, alien scum!"

PS. Is it true that when you come you'll eat the fat ones first?
Colin "EvilGenius" Briscoe, 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.

COMBINED LABOUR

I hope you publish this letter, so that all of your readers are fully aware of how much we (Earth) are pulling together to try and recover the cube for you. Ignoring racial, cultural and social differences, several members of the Unfiction.com forum on Earth have banded together to break one of the hardest cards that you have set us to date.

Thanks to an absolutely fantastic effort on the part of Chimera245, a client is being tested that allows us to donate our spare CPU time on our computers, to decrypt the code. Early results are extremely promising and a proper release is just around the corner. Anyone looking for more information should keep an eye out either on the Unfiction forums or at the website that has been setup specially for this one card, www.13thlabour.tk.

It is now only a matter of time before this card falls like so many others and with the release of Wave 3 imminent, there is a real sense of urgency to clear the last couple of cards (maybe not Riemann.....) before the next wave comes out.

I wonder if there has ever been any similar attempt in Perplex City, where people from all walks of life have joined together to collectively solve a puzzle that would take one person most of their life to solve?
NDoldon, Earth

Ed. Note: The Sentinel cannot be held responsible for the content on external web sites.

SOUPERY QUALITY

Is it just me, or have the standards in Soupery declined dramatically in recent weeks? I ordered the leek & truffle soup on Monday and found it quite inedible. Has anyone else suffered the same culinary anticlimax?
Jusi Spackmann


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Ching, though, said that allegations such as Sawgrass's are without merit. "The PCAG works very closely alongside all of the labs doing research into cognitive enhancement so we can detect the signs of even chemicals still in development. We are confident nothing slips through out of ignorance on our part."


Hmm, i smell a link between "the labs" and how we are going to figure what killed Cymbalisty.

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 		My thoughts exactly. If nothing slips by ignorance then what circumstance would have to obtain for something to slip through?

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 		Evil Genius, that letter of the week is ace! it *actually* had me LOL-ing :) congratulations on the well earned points.

rach =)

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 		I liked your reference to "the boys" EvilGenius. If I didn't know better, I would say you were American Smile Silly Canadians
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 		Great letter EvilGenius! But i do suspect there may be a lash-back next week with a flurry of letters from outraged Perplexians at being called "alien scum" and alleging that their women are all ugly (which surely aint true, just look at Scarlett and Violet Smile ). If i hadnt have been LMAO while reading it, id have thought that you were a new form of prejudice: a Perplexist, anti-Perplemitic or possibly a Perplazi Very Happy

And i agree, dont let them come and take our women!
(I have enough trouble with women as it is without aliens stealing them away)
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 		When they drop the ilustrated facades and reveal their slimy tentacles, EG will be the first to go, I fear.

The price of truth.

(That was great, and you KNOW there's going to be some angry letters; I mean, first the Sexual Orientation Crisis, now this... cripes! Laughing)

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beglee wrote:
Great letter EvilGenius! But i do suspect there may be a lash-back next week with a flurry of letters from outraged Perplexians at being called "alien scum" and alleging that their women are all ugly (which surely aint true, just look at Scarlett and Violet Smile ). If i hadnt have been LMAO while reading it, id have thought that you were a new form of prejudice: a Perplexist, anti-Perplemitic or possibly a Perplazi Very Happy

And i agree, dont let them come and take our women!
(I have enough trouble with women as it is without aliens stealing them away)


Perplazi - HAH! Wish I'd thought of that.

There's already been a sexual orientation crisis? Rats! Time for a new angle. Pity I didn't know that before - I could have written about the Peplexians wanting all our hot men, that would have tied nicely together . . . Wink I resist the urge to expand on the redneck agenda (a parody website in the vein of a supremacist organization would be funny but I seem to recall myself taking another player to task about adding his own material to the milieu, dammit). Glad people have enjoyed the letter. I'm not likely to solve Riemann anytime soon so I'll just have to contribute where I'm able Smile

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 		Well, seeing as I've been beaten to the punch by not one but multiple people suggesting that we look further into how the heck whatever killed Cymbalisty could have been unidentified when PCAG are so confident they can detect anything and everything, I'll have to settle for adding my accolades to those already offered. That letter was hilarious, EG Razz

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 		The real Scarlett - exposed
Just as I thought . . .


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