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 Hey, dudes.. Lot's of cool shit this month. My phone bill is gonna be
incredible.
    The most notable item this month, is that we merged with Atomic. From
what I understand, there are/were three groups calling themselves Atmoic
at one point and time. We got the good one :)  This of course, dramatically
increased our memberlist, so I can't mention each individually, but huge
greets to all our new Atomic buds! One item worth mentioning, Atomic had
just merged with a demo/vga/coding group called UA/FX. Therefore, they are
also a part of the CiA family. We've included some items from them this
month that still include their logos. Great stuff, guys. Welcome aboard!
    Next, to say goodbye to a few. Sole Assassin was lost to UNiON in a
freak phone number screw up (on his end, I'm happy to report). Apparantly,
he wrote down my wrong number, and tried to logon to our World HQ during
some downtime while upgrading to four nodes. So, I guess he thought we were
blowing him off. Union, meanwhile, saw a good thing and snatched him up!
Enjoy UNiON, SA, they're a great bunch of guys. You're always welcomed back,
if not. Also, Mister E. skipped over to mix it up with the big boys of Lit.,
Reality. We are saddened by this loss but couldn't possibly get in the way
of such a great offer (you owe me a beer to cry in, at the user meet :)
And finally, Dr. Death, I've heard, had something happen that's forced him
out of the scene for awhile, hope all is well there.
    But, things are jamming. We'd also like to welcome a few new members.
Sneaky Car Thief (Havok), Techie (Havok), and Hitman (Havok) joined us from
uh..hmm.. Oh! Havok. Hitman is our newest RiP addition and decided to go with
Brett Hart as a new handle, Techie, did our newest viewer in ASM (7k!!!) and
will hopefully be adding to it to make it awesome, and S.C.T., the dude that
runs the awesome "Crime in Progress (CiP)" net, will be moving our packs
around for us. Welcome guys!! Also, we'd like to welcome Questor and
White Noise from Pixel, proving that the Canadians still give us a run for
our money, The Exile, formerly Blade Senior Staff, will be adding nicely to
the Lit. department (Hey, man!), Dark iCE, formerly wasting away in iCE
Trial (looking forward to your stuff..we don't do trial!), and in another
interesting twist to an already mind-boggling month, Farmicus joins our RiP
department. You won't see much from him in the next month or so, as he is
working closely with the Oblivion/2 team, releasing the RiP menus on behalf
of himself and the rest of the group, to the eagerly awaited RiP compatible
Oblivion/2! Also, Ground Zero went to Gothic last month, and came back this
month as White Power, go figure. Great to have ya back, dude! And last, but
certainly not least, we welcome Demon Death from Tribe! Awesome! With all
that's happened this month, we hope noone feels as if they've fallen through
a crack somewhere. If so, call the vmb and say what's on your mind, and
we'll get right back to ya.
    Also, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, CiA!!!! Yep, it's our 12th pack - 1 year! I'd
like to say it's been great working with everyone, and I'm looking forward
to a hell of a lot more!
    We'd also like to mention that we are working to expand our Lit. and
Music sections. We've got some neat plans for the Lit. guys and we've got
some killer stuff going on that should set us up nicely in the music area,
including the addition of a prominent ACiD music member that will be leading
and coordinating the future music disks. It's a done deal, but he wants to
stay out of the member list until next month.
    In other news, FinalNet, the official CiA net is doing well, and is
currently accepting new sites. Grab the net pack and send it in. Also, we'd
also like to give you access to the CiP net pack, included with this pack. It
is a good, quality net that is very active. Check it out.
    And, one more time. We are sorry to say that we are no longer giving
away sites. Member board, yes. Sites, no. Please don't bother applying, we're
full.
    And, finally, our VMB number changed. If you're a member that would like
to give us board stats, changing numbers or whatever, or if you'd like to
apply to the group, call our TOLL-FREE :) number at 800-245-4366. Please,
TALK LOUDLY! We had a few messages last month that noone could here, so
they were deleted.
    That's it kids.. Next month we hope to have the viewer rocking, the Lit.
jammin' and we should have an awesome music disk ready for release. Later!

Tron (CiA)

Greets:

Jello and the rest of Relic - hey, guys! Great stuff!
Father Time - c'mon, man. Let's get it going :)
Shihear and the rest of Tribe - we're with you. Still killer quality!
Soul Seeker - no hard feelings. We've changed our minds, anyway.
Frost Byte - I'm spent. You get the workload, next month :)
Techie - thanks. Alot! Delete is cool! (around Napalm's work =)
Argon, Ash and the rest of Pursuit - great pack 2! Keep 'em coming.
DoPe - sorry, not a blow-off. Just craziness.
Nightbreed and the rest of ReM - hey, man!
and.. Lapse, Alive, UNiON (Stone Angel - hey!), Blade (Mindcrime!), Light..
okay, and like they need it :)   - "hi," iCE, ACiD, and Nation...