Patrick

Hello, Welcome to the ninth annual KarateForums.com Awards. Through these awards, we recognize just a few of the individuals who have made outstanding contributions to KarateForums.com in the past year. These awards take into consideration all community activity between October 19, 2009 and October 18, 2010. Members must be nominated based upon their activity in this period and articles nominated for Article of the Year must have been published in this span. To nominate, you must have a KarateForums.com account that had at least 25 posts made on or before October 18, 2010 (Eastern Time). There are just three guidelines to keep in mind when nominating: 1. Only one member or article can be nominated for EACH award. In other words, you cannot nominate the entire staff for Staff Member of the Year. You have to pick one person. One person can be nominated for more than one award, however. 2. You cannot nominate yourself or an article that you wrote for any of the awards. 3. Do not attempt to artificially inflate our nomination totals in any way. This includes but is not limited to trading nominations, encouraging people to nominate indiscriminately (publicly or privately), mass mailing/posting and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. Individuals found to be participating in these activities will be disqualified from nomination in any category. Please note that you do not have to nominate for every category. You can nominate for as many or as few as you would like - please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid nominations that we get, the better! From these nominations, the ballot for each award will be chosen, consisting of the top 4 nominees, plus ties. Through the poll system available on these forums, you will be able to vote for the winners! Here are this year's categories: 1. Member of the Year This award is intended to acknowledge the non-staff member who you feel best exemplifies the qualities that KarateForums.com puts a premium on. Knowledge is valuable, but most valuable is a kind and helpful nature. You don't need to be a martial arts expert to be nominated for this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis and Patrick) cannot be nominated for this award. 2. New Member of the Year Basically, this award is the same as the Member of the Year award, except that this one is strictly for members that registered on or between the dates of October 19, 2009 and July 18, 2010. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis and Patrick) cannot be nominated for this award. 3. Community Spirit Award This award should go to a person whom you feel has a passion for this community. A person who is all about the home team - in this case, KarateForums.com. Regular members and staff members (except Patrick) can be nominated for this award. 4. Staff Member of the Year Basically, this award is the same as the Member of the Year award, except that this award is for current staff members only (except Patrick). Regular members cannot be nominated. If you are unsure of who is on staff, please visit http://www.karateforums.com/staff.php for a complete listing. 5. Funniest Member of the Year Humor is an important aspect of the forums and this award recognizes the member who has brought a smile to your face many times. This person should have a good, clean sense of humor. Regular members and staff members (except Patrick) can be nominated for this award. 6. Article of the Year This award distinguishes your favorite article that was published in the KarateForums.com Articles section on or between October 19, 2009 and October 18, 2010. Whether the article enlightened or inspired you, this is the place to recognize it. Here are the articles that are eligible for nomination: Being an Honest Uke by NightOwl What is Chi Sao? by stonecrusher69 Proof is On the Floor! by sensei8 So, that's all there is to it. Please nominate. You will find a blank ballot at the bottom of this message that you can copy and paste. We need as many valid nominations as possible! You nominate by sending a private message through this link: http://www.karateforums.com/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=2715 - nominations will be closed on November 9, 2010 at 4 PM ET. Please do not post your nominations on this, or any thread. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to private message me or reply to this thread. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Here is the ballot that you can use:

Hello, KarateForums.com recognizes one member every month as the Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. The October 2010 selection is... evergrey. Congratulations! Thanks, Patrick

http://yogibear.warnerbros.com Interesting. Fun to see the story come back around again. I'm willing to give it a shot.

Cool. Good to have games that encourage your creativity.

Welcome to KF, menzterfan!

Sorry to hear that, lozzielizzie. Best of luck in December!

Welcome to KF, USAgent36. Patrick

I have three 19" monitors. I use UltraMon along with them.

Congrats to you and your son!

Congrats to both of you. Sorry that you didn't reach first class, but like you said, a pass is still a pass - and an achievement. Patrick

Welcome to the community, Mr. Keller. Thank you for sharing that. Patrick

Glad to have you, Wastelander. Best of luck with your book. Patrick

Welcome to KF, sandstorm. Patrick

Welcome aboard, Chuck. Sorry to hear about your injuries. Best of luck for a speedy recovery!

Belated welcome to you, Elizabeth. Happy to have you here. Patrick

Welcome aboard, Shotokan_Tigress.

Belated welcome, Wanaka. Glad to have you. Patrick

Thank you so much for the replies, Bob, George, Cliff, Danielle, Jeffrey, Heidi, Brian, tonydee, John, sperki and Blade96. I really appreciate it and the kind words mean a great deal to me. Thank you. I'm very sorry for the delay in responding. The last few weeks have been very crazy (lots of travel and planning for speaking engagements). LOL, Brian. I'm sure you'll get there. sperki, I have more posts here than I have at any of the other communities that I manage. It's not particularly close. This is also the biggest community of the bunch, by number of contributions, by far. Thanks again all. It was really nice to return after an absence and read the replies made here. Sincerely, Patrick

Thanks Bob. Been a minute since I was in this thread. That second loss was ugly (very, very ugly in the fourth quarter). But, the win against the Packers hopefully has us back on track. Marshall is putting up monster numbers (on track for 118 catches and 1,494 yards... doubt he can stay on that pace) and the running game was very good against Green Bay. Honestly, I am at the same place I was when we started the season. Very cautiously optimistic. With the way we've played, I wouldn't be surprised if we finished with a losing record. I also wouldn't be surprised if we finished with a winning one. Just feels like one of those borderline teams. Hopefully I'm wrong. Patrick

Cool, how do you like it? Shame it doesn't have some form of offline co-op. Patrick

Good luck, George. Patrick

Hey all, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. This post is the 20,000th post that I've made here. This is pretty remarkable to me, that I would not only be a part of a community long enough to reach 20,000 posts, but also that I would manage one long enough to do so. I'm getting old. In May of next year, we'll celebrate 10 years of KarateForums.com (if you have any ideas for how we should do that, please shoot them my way ), and it is amazing how much time has passed, how many special memories have been made in this time, how many friendships have been made and how much has been accomplished, not just here, but elsewhere, in my life and in yours (however long you've been here). And though we may not have many members from the first year or two still around, which is natural for an online community that has been around this long, we certainly have a good mix of people who have been around the block with us, right alongside those that are brand new. Regardless of which camp you fall into, I'd like to thank you for allowing me to reach 20,000 posts. It's a testament to the community, it's longevity and the number of solid contributions here that I was able to make it to that number. Post count, in and of itself, is not the most important thing. But, to reach a number like this, it takes more than just me, it takes a community. Thank you. Sincerely, Patrick

I found this pretty funny. Who remembers the "Haunted House" game for the Atari 2600? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_House_%28video_game%29 I read in the latest issue of Nintendo Power that Atari is working on a remake of it for the Wii. Some details: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/07/14/ataris-haunted-house-returns-to-haunt-pc-xbox-360-and-wii/ On Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-House-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B003V63V1A

I really like this thread and thank you to everyone who has contributed to it so far. Congrats Biskit! Patrick

I probably have to give that to Tampa Bay. At any rate, the Dolphins lost last night. It was a close one. The offense looked better. We ran the ball OK, Henne looked generally good. We just couldn't punch it in at the end. The Chiefs won handily over the 49ers to advance to 3-0. Congrats Brian.