We've had some major changes over the last few weeks with the departure of shp. We are currently only active in CAL for now until twl gets back with us or we find a better league (which is probably whats going to happen). I'm also working on a new site design which will hopefully be a little cleaner looking. Thats all for now...

Well... plans have changed. I was originally going to get our matches polled directly from konspiracy, however they suck balls and are never around for me to get in contact with. I went ahead and just made the matches able to be inputted manually. It works out better this way anyway.

The view matches section is still being worked on. Its mostly temporary but the basic functionality is intact.

Won two games this week. In STA, we played my old tfc clan, xD, and won 20-10 on castle3. In TWL, we played a counterstrike clan called Urban Assault ([U][A]) and won 15-1 on granary. Intersting thing in the match was that they manually ended the rounds at arbitrary times, instead of letting the TWL config run on its own. I see something new every day I play this game.

We lost our third STA match in a row to Mr, dropping our league record to 3-3. However, we continued our winning streak in TWL by beating a2w.

I completely forgot to update the news within the past two weeks and I got tired of doing the 'Animal of the Week' postings. Let's see...in STA we have dropped two in a row to MW and c4, but in TWL we have won two in a row against AnU and tWs.

We also got a new (old?) member in aztec, who played with many of us in TFC in AtG with trife, chase, and kyoon. He will be the senior member of our clan as he is old enough to be Tango's dad (...and all the rest of us too). He plays soldier and is a welcome addition to the clan.

We had the pleasure of playing AM- last night in STA on cp_well (also known as the map that God abandoned). We came out victorious with a 4-2 win in a defensive struggle that lasted over 70 minutes long. Good game to AM, as they are definately one of the classiest clans we've encountered so far.

In other news, we picked up two members that destroyer brought over from his CS world. Our first recruit, brown, used to be a player for Forsaken in CS and he will likely be joining me and destroyer as scouts for the clan. swurve is our second recruit, and although he lacks the CS clan experience that des and brown have, he will bolster our demomen corps and be an all-around utility guy. Both players will make their clan debut Thursday in TWL.

As you probably are not aware, I have finished the upcoming matches section on the left hand side. It gets the matches directly from the league sites so it should be up-to-date. Its awesome, I know.

Once ruiner gets back to me I will have our match results polled directly from konspiracy as well.

Despite losing round one in STA, L7 decided not to show for round two. Accordingly, we got the forfeit win against these self-proclaimed professional gamers. Some things regarding the match:

Click here to see L7's 'director' being an arrogant and pretentious asshole faggot

trife and mits were the only people in the 'green' for the match. God, the rest of us suck so much.

Oh! chase joined :] He's an awesome medic and engineer, and most of us who came from TFC are familiar with him. Welcome him...he's a merman and his avatar is insanely homosexual, yet awesome.

grinch joined as well :]...finally accepting the invite I gave him in like November. Like chase, he is also from TFC, most notably the famed KOLLEKTIV. Let him tell you about the KOLLEKTIV. It's an amazing story, really. Anyways, he will join our already strong soldier corps. He will be a coeadfhdjkfsdhfsn or however you spell it. It's a neat looking prehistoric fish.

"A century ago, at least 1.5 million African penguins waddled and swam the coasts of Namibia and South Africa. Today they are largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africa's tip, including Robben Island, famous as the site of Nelson Mandela's long imprisonment.

Experts say there are 120,000 at most.

That number is plunging. Since 2001, the number of adult penguins in the two largest colonies - on Robben Island and Dassen Island, about 65 kilometers, or 40 miles, north - has plummeted by almost 60 percent, to fewer than 18,000." (International Herald Tribune)

Click here to read the whole article

"Like other large whales, the Humpback was and is a target for the whaling industry. Due to over-hunting its population fell by an estimated 90% before a whaling moratorium was introduced in 1966. Stocks of the species have since partially recovered; however, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with ships, and noise pollution also remain concerns. There are at least 70,000 humpback whales worldwide. Once hunted to the brink of extinction, Humpbacks are now sought out by whale-watchers, particularly off parts of Australia and the United States."

But..

"Japan had planned to kill 50 Humpback Whales a year in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary under its JARPA-II research program, starting in November 2007. The announcement sparked global protests."

Good...because

"On the 21st of December, the Japanese government announced that they will not hunt any Humpbacks due to protests." (wikipedia)

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