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[UPDATE] Sentinel May 30th 2005
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Sasuntsi Davit
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 		[UPDATE] Sentinel May 30th 2005
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Champaign Accepted into Competition
By ALWHIN COPI

The uproar over prodigy athlete Myra Champaign has reached a new pinnacle, with a specially convened committee of PCAG officials judging in favour of allowing her to compete. "This is a proud day for us," said Champaign's father, Klaus Lowrie. "Our girl is well within the rules, and it would be a shame for her to not be allowed to live up to her potential."

Myra Champaign, 14, is the eighth youngest player ever admitted into PCAG competition. She handily outmatched her opponents in trials, and is widely recognised as being one of the best young players on the scene since Serena Duncan's debut eight years ago. Typically, the PCAG would allow her to play based solely on her performance in her tryouts.

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Opponents do point to a darker side of the picture, though. "Myra may be a sweet girl, but she is absolutely the product of enhancement." said Jonas Sawgrass, of the Alliance for Clean Players, an anti-drug group. "We are going to fight her admission tooth and claw. We don't have anything against her personally ... [but] allowing her changes the level of the playing field for everybody else."

The controversy revolves around what cognitive enhancement fundamentally is, how long the effects are, and whether simply ceasing consumption of a pharmaceutical can be said to negate all of the effects of that substance in the body. It is now widely known that when Champaign was a small child, she suffered from cognitive and developmental disorders, which were treated with a range of experimental enhancement medications.

"For Myra, the drugs simply allowed her to live up to the potential she had all along," said Lowrie. "When her treatment stopped, she was ten years old, and at that time she was perfectly typical for her peer group. It was only after she went off the enhancers that she started to take these intellectual leaps above and beyond her classmates."

For now, PCAG officials seem to agree with that stance. Champaign begins competitive play during the June holiday exhibition matches. The ACP will not be content to let the matter rest. "We plan to protest every one of her matches," said Sawgrass. "We don't mind that [Champaign] had these drugs when she needed them, but it is unfair to everybody else to allow her to play now. We just want to keep the sport fair and natural."

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PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 7:15 pm
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 		New Futures for May 30th

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Explanations, apologies, and supplications aren't necessary. You are who you are, and this is what it is. You're not being shifty, you're being honest.

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Your general thriftiness is rapidly becoming unusual cheapness. For [my vicarious] thrills, how's about you splurge on that special someone. Hey, even seers get the blues.

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Explore your options, cos Saturday's going to be a doozy. Under cup number one lies pat safety. Cup number two reveals dormant passion yet to resurface. Cup number three offers riches beyond your wildest, uh, poker haul dreams. No choice is a bad choice here, jugglepuff.

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Sabotage isn't so much classy, but it sure is a hoot.

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Get a clue, buy a vowel, and otherwise perk up your ears. If one thing leads to another, where exactly do you think this chica is leading you? Oi, Perplexians, whatever it is that's got you so bothered, let's get over it by next week, m'kay?

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Madame Bianca wrote:
...The Spider (April 11 - May 10)
Get a clue, buy a vowel...


conclusive evidence that Perplex City has Wheel of Fortune? ;)

rach =) (...kicks ass at wheel of fortune :) )

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The Three Balls (September 11 - October 10)
Explore your options, cos Saturday's going to be a doozy. Under cup number one lies pat safety. Cup number two reveals dormant passion yet to resurface. Cup number three offers riches beyond your wildest, uh, poker haul dreams. No choice is a bad choice here, jugglepuff.


cup 3, poker, The 3 Cups? But Violet isn't a Three Balls, is she? Hmm... Odd...

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 		OK, it's late and my brain isn't working but something doesn't seem right: Her name, Champaign. It's different from her father's, Lowrie. At 14, she can't be married, surely? Even in PC, that seems unlikely.

So, is it that she's taken her mother's name? Been given a whole new 'surname' of her own? Ideas, people?
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 		Adoptive father? unmarried parents so she took her mother's name? Umm, not her birth father?

I dunno, there's plenty of options there...

Jeb

My spec: Myra Champaign stole the cube! Haha!
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The Hand (January 11 - February 10)
Could I perhaps interest you in a game of thermonuclear war? No? Huh.


Looks like they've also heard of the movie "War Games" too, eh?

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 		Re: [UPDATE] Sentinel May 30th 2005
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It is now widely known that when Champaign was a small child, she suffered from cognitive and developmental disorders, which were treated with a range of experimental enhancement medications.


This might be a partial answer to something I've been wondering about - what do they do to you if you're not all that intelligent? (I mean by their standards, which is pretty intelligent!) Maybe Ceretin or similar drugs are used to boost children with learning difficulties and concentration issues.

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 		Sorry guys, that was me, computer had me happily logged in and then suddenly I wasn't. pooey!

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 		Maybe it's like being a movie star or generally famous. Names are changed to make them sound more 'movie starish'. So when you are talking about the Games they need a more Gamey name?

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 		Coul the surname thing not be similar to the system in Latin America where everyone has two last names? i.e. his or her father's last name, followed by his or her mother's last name.

Therefore Myra Champaign (sic?) could be Myra Lowrie Champaign. In latin america legally she could call herself Myra Lowrie or Myra Champaign or Myra Lowrie-Champaign.

Possible...
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 		The Spider (April 11 - May 10)
Get a clue, buy a vowel, and otherwise perk up your ears. If one thing leads to another, where exactly do you think this chica is leading you? Oi, Perplexians, whatever it is that's got you so bothered, let's get over it by next week, m'kay?

The vowel being referred to is probably "O".
m'kay=okay
Oi=Oh
Chica=? Probably something with an "O" in it...
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Crane wrote:
Chica=? Probably something with an "O" in it...


Dictonary.com wrote:
\Chi"ca\, n. [Sp.] A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

2. A fermented liquor or beer made in South American from a decoction of maize.

3. A popular Moorish, Spanish, and South American dance, said to be the original of the fandango, etc.


It also appears to stand for the Community and Hospital Infection Control Association Canada, but that's less important...
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 		um, guys, 'chica' means girl.

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cassandra wrote:
um, guys, 'chica' means girl.


Embarassed Um, yeah, I knew that. I was just offering all the alternatives. Honest.
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