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I think he's referring to Path's notation of the wine bottle pic. In my original post on this thread, I stated that APC's clan logo was a melding of both the band A Perfect Circle's band logo and the logo of a wine bottle. That's the wine bottle. I Saw it one day in the store years ago and it HIT me. We had three Founders in APC and there were three ravens on that wine bottle. APC's clan logo was designed after it. It was symbolic to us and fate couldn't have delivered it any better to us.

LOL I think that's what he was gettin' at. She lets him stay in bed 4 minutes longer when he's acting smart.

So were your efforts while you were under the UF umbrella. Good luck with the li'l 'un!

Strick is TOTALLY Mafia. I'm convinced.

That "He Hate Me" thing is STILL one of the stupidest things I've ever witnessed in football, professional or otherwise.

Oh, we'll need it, Puddy. It's a pretty anxious, scary night for us all tonight. Exciting....but scary. LOL Only time will tell. We're roasting the old APC forum for the rest of this week. LOL

LOL HOPEFULLY it's because you had a hard-on for the last hour and now it's tired. Aaaaaand now I'm done talking about your penis.

Good stuff man, that actually explains things a lot more. YUP!

From what I have heard and read APC was not UF, but just another clan like you and I who played here at UF, so I guess UF will remain the same just without APC tags floting around :'( That's correct. APC WAS just another clan here in UF. Urgent Fury is Sniper, myself and the brave souls who help out in the Staff and Ranger capacities....and we have never envisioned an "end" to UF. Are you CRAZY?! LOL Ravenfall is just my new clan. However, it's by my design....not the name of a band, which is a HUGE relief to me after all these years. Really. And Ravenfall, as I noted above, comes right from the pages of the UF storylines along with Black Sands and all the other Black Ops units we've put together in the UF stories. Ravenfall is just going to become the living, breathing embodiment of the Black Ops team involved in the UF stories....and you'd better believe, everyone in this new clan is held to the UF standard to the "T." You should already know I would not have it any other way. Sniper and I would not put a UF name onto a clan that would do any less. And thanks to all those above for the well-wishes.

Well THANK you. Believe me.....it's scary. LOL Just plain scary. And yeah....you'll probably still see me around here at UF. LOL

LOL

This will come as a shock to some. To some others, perhaps to them all good things come to an end someday. In any case, I will be fully shutting down A Perfect Circle effective immediately. APC is ceasing to exist. This clan has run for 5-1/2 years now. 5-1/2 years under the same name, same clan tag and same clan logo. A clan tag that symbolizes a clan name taken from a band that's no longer together. A clan logo that melds the band's logo and a logo found on a wine bottle (for those who never knew). I know that it became the clan's identity, but I always realized that it was another's identity before it was ours. We always prided ourselves in being a clan so original, so structured, so strong through these years, and yet, it was all the other clans out there that were really more original than us as they were modeled after their own original ideas. Thing is, when Merlin and I first came up with this clan name, we had NO idea, NO intention of making APC what it's become today. We just liked a band and thought the name would fit in a cool way for some stupid game we'd forget about in a month. We always thought it would only be a VERY small handful of us enjoying a weekend game and that would be it. It was BEFORE we thought about tournaments. It was BEFORE we wanted to get "tactical" in play. It was BEFORE we even remotely ever thought about getting "serious." If we knew then what we would eventually become, we might have taken a different approach in the name and anything else about our clan. Who knows. To be honest with you, I'm sick of the clan. I'm sick of giving people a band's name when they ask me what my clan tag stands for. A LOT of that made it that much easier to come to the decision that yeah...I can retire from being the clan leader of APC and be ok with it. So I'm shutting it all down. APC will be no more as I don't believe I will feel comfortable with anyone else doing the care-taking/running of what I spent the last five years meticulously building. What I appreciate in this decimation of longevity, history and home is the fact that I'm doing this when -I- wanted to. Not because APC was so inactive that we HAD to join another clan to create a new identity just to survive. Not because our name had become poisonous on the lips of all of ours friends and competitors. Not because we simply didn't "matter" anymore. I'm dismantling APC on my own terms without provocation from anyone or anything. As good ol' Frank would say, "I did it my way." I'll never forget APC in all of its ups and downs. We've made friends in other clans since SOCOM I, many of whom we've outlasted into memories. We've made a few enemies, every clan (and clan leader) does. We've gone through almost EVERYTHING a clan can possibly go through in our 5-1/2 years. Clan break-offs, deaths in the family, newborns, clan rivalries, tournaments, trust, betrayals, drama and dreams come true. There's quite a few clans here who I will always remember being a part of one of our many nail-biting, late-night wars here in UF. But through it all, we always hung in there. I will never forget APC. For 5-1/2 years it was a part, an integral part, of my life. I don't know how one can lead something for 5-1/2 years and not have it be integral on different levels. It's strange, really. In shutting down APC, I'll be saying goodbye to our forum, our website, our clan. I want to thank both APCers present AND past, as well as every single one of the clans here at UF that have fought APC in any war dating ALL the way back to UF1: State of the Union (MAN, is that a blast from the past) for being a part of what I'd like to think was my very best and most memorable years of gaming. APC was my ONLY experience in online gaming, cla, community and tourneys. I've never been part of another. I've never been a good follower, really. I'd like to think I did a good job for my clan while I was doing it. Now that I got that business out of the way. LOL I'm about half-way done with my next and final clan project. I'm shutting down APC in order to begin anew. Man, it really STILL feels weird to type that, even though we've been working on this a while now. There's a new clan in town and it has been in the works now for about the last 2 months behind the scenes. Not even my APCers knew about it until about two weeks ago. It will be a SOCOM-only clan as we ready ourselves for the SOCOM Confrontation release this October. We're going back to the game we really love, eager to leave CoD4 behind. I am taking on an additional 12 gunners than what I already had in APC as another clan is officially shutting its doors as of this notification. These 12 gunners will be coming from Rogue7 as Viper will also be closing shop and bringing 11 of his hand-picked members to my new clan. Viper has known about this since the beginning and kept it from his gunners during the developmental stage as well. He is a good man and has been a good leader for some years now. He's just running out of the energy and desire in leading an entire clan roster, and he just so happens to know and like the way I did things for APC all these years. I have always respected Viper as a person and player ever since I was fortunate to have met him here in Urgent Fury. He was always a leader in these parts that I secretly thought to myself "yeah, it really would be cool to share a tag with that guy." Now I get my chance. He is the type of player I wish the entire world over would be filled with. If it were, there would be a lot less BS going on publicly online and a whole lot more honest and respectful play. He doesn't just TALK honor, he lives by it. It's a rare quality, believe me. I see this new clan lasting as long, if not longer, than APC and Rogue 7, and in SO many ways, it will be BETTER. SO much BETTER. So without anymore reading, if you wish, you can check us out at http://www.ravenfall.net where you can find a link to our forum (to some of you "hardcore" UF players that pay attention to the storylines of the tourneys, our new clan name may sound a little familiar to you ). The website for our new clan is currently in production and should be done within a month or so. So whereas we consider our new website to be our home under construction, the forum will act as our apartment. Come on in for the house warming. There's a brand-spankin'-new clan waiting to say hello to you. Thanks for reading and being a part of me shedding my old digs. It's scary...believe me....but it's exciting all the same. I look forward to the future. - Undertow

I think that answer will be hitting you sometime tonight.

The newest U-Freq podcast featuring Cmdr. Fury is now up on UrgentFury.com

Due to some server issues that were beyond our control here at UF, the U-Freq podcast will be put up first thing Tuesday morning. The podcast is done and with us but it became too late this evening before the server issues corrected themselves.

32 in each.

Due to the success of the Ronin tourney where individual players battled it out bracket-style for their winning copy of SOCOM: Confrontation, Urgent Fury is committing to running ONE more SOCOM: Confrontation Prize Ronin tourney before the SOCOM release date. Sign ups will be up at the end of this week and will run through the month. In the first week of September, we will roll out one more run of RONIN. Please be advised, a minimum of 32 players will need to sign up between the SOCOM and CoD4 versions of Ronin. We will again try to run one SOCOM version and one CoD4 version. The prize will, again, be a pre-ordered copy of SOCOM: Confrontation delivered to your door. The CoD4 version WILL be running as a free-for-all this time around, allowing the opponents to speak with one another. A stipulation...any winner(s) from the first series of Ronin will NOT be eligible to participate in Ronin-2*** Just giving you all a heads up! We're glad so many of your enjoyed the first Ronin turn. - TOW

I'd like to see what that number might look like when we roll out the very first TACMAP tourney for the NEW SOCOM. Mmmmmmmmmmm.....tasty. UF: Chain Reaction is going to be a VERY fun one, I do believe.

Welcome back, Street. Lookin' forward to seeing you 'round these parts again!

By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer BEIJING - A Chinese man stabbed the in-laws of the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball coach, killing one and injuring the other while they visited a Beijing tourist site near the main venue where Olympic competitions began Saturday. The victims were Todd and Barbara Bachman of Lakeville, Minn., parents of former Olympian Elisabeth Bachman, who is married to men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon, according to the U.S. Olympic Committee. Bachman's father was killed. The assailant also stabbed and injured a Chinese tour guide with the Americans. He then committed suicide by leaping from a 130-foot-high balcony of the ancient landmark the Americans were visiting, the 13th-century Drum Tower, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Xinhua said the injured tour guide was also a woman, it said. The volleyball teams is "deeply saddened and shocked," said Darryl Seibel, a USOC spokesman. He said the two victims "were not wearing apparel or anything that would have specifically identified them as being members of our delegation" or as Americans. The U.S. Embassy said it believed the attack was an isolated act and not directed at Americans or foreigners, given that the Chinese tour guide was also hurt. "We don't believe this was targeted at American citizens, and we don't believe this has anything to do with the Olympics," embassy spokeswoman Susan Stevenson said. The killing was a rare instance of violent crime against foreigners in tightly controlled China, which has ramped up security measures even more for the Olympics. The attack shortly after noon at the busy tourist site darkened the mood at the games the day after a spectacular opening ceremony had set an ebullient tone after years of nervous buildup. Beijing's communist leaders are hypersensitive to anything that could take the shine off the games, insisting issues such as China's human rights record, harsh rule in Tibet and ties with Sudan should not be raised at the sports event. China's Foreign Ministry had no immediate comment on the attack. Xinhua identified the attacker as Tang Yongming, 47, from the eastern city of Hangzhou. It said Tang attacked the two Americans and their Chinese tour guide on the second level of the ancient tower, then leapt to his death immediately afterward. Seibel said it was "too early to say" whether security would be stepped up for the U.S. team. But some athletes were already thinking about it. Jennie Finch, a member of the U.S. softball team, said her heart skipped a beat when she heard about the attack, but she was undaunted. "I'm here with my husband and son, so it's not easy but we're living our dreams and we're not going to live in fear," she said. "We're going to go out there every day and enjoy every day and celebrate it." U.S. Ambassador Clark T. Randt visited the victims at a hospital in Beijing to convey the condolences of President Bush, who is in Beijing for the first days of the games. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families," Bush told reporters. "And the United States government has offered to provide any assistance the family needs." "It is impossible to describe the depth of our sadness and shock in this tragic hour," said USOC Chairman Peter Ueberroth. "Our delegation comes to the games as a family, and when one member of our family suffers a loss, we all grieve with them." At the scene, police blocked off streets leading to the Drum Tower, which is just five miles from the main Olympics venue in China's capital. They cordoned off the area with yellow police tape while officers collected samples from the tower and the street below. Some details of the attack, including the motive and weapon used, were not immediately clear. Attacks on foreigners in China are extremely rare. A Canadian model was murdered last month in Shanghai — police said she had stumbled onto a burglary. In March, a screaming, bomb-strapped hostage-taker who commandeered a bus with 10 Australians aboard in the popular tourist city of Xi'an was shot to death by a police sniper. Shanghai and Beijing are still safer than most foreign cities of their size. Punishments for crimes against foreigners are heavier than for crimes against Chinese, and citizens are not allowed to own guns. Even so, the U.S. government now warns Americans against muggings, beatings and even carjackings, especially in the nightlife and shopping districts of large cities. The Drum Tower is one of few ancient structures still in fast-developing Beijing. Drummers pounded their massive instruments on the hour to let people in the imperial city know the time.

I know this isn't so much a clan tag as my own name....but still, it was COOL when we saw it. On the night I picked Sniper up from the airport for the UF meet weekend, we were driving behind a random bus. The bus had a splash ad on the back of it for some new show called "Wrecked" or something....something to do with racing. But when we read it, we HAD to get pics of it. I've seen "Tow Zone" signs all over the city, so those do nothing for me. THIS, however, was cool, and had to share. Considering I'm a writer, it was just appropriate.

This would be cool as "One" was the song I was always waiting to play going through GH3.

I don't know if this was posted prior, but in reading the back of the card, it says you can give the access code to TWO of your friends as well. So perhaps there's THREE players that can enjoy one card. I don't know why he did it, but the GameStop guy that I pre-ordered my SOCOM with gave me my card AND an extra, so HOPEFULLY I'll be able to take care of 5 more players on my end.

Mass doors are always open to ya, buddy. We'll look forward to your return.

I swear, I'm not on the forums for ONE night and it's like leaving a bunch of meth heads locked inside a pharmacy overnight. A lot of you need to chill out. Some of those posts are just humiliating...to yourselves.