Patrick

Congrats on the success.

I'm definitely a fan of hot chocolate.

Yeah, it wasn't a very convincing win for the Dolphins, but a win is a win. One week at a time. Looks like we're going to miss Ronnie Brown for at least one game, which is awful...

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. You may have heard, but if you haven't... the 2009 edition of our annual KarateForums.com Awards program is now underway and the voting ballots are open in categories like Member of the Year, New Member of the Year, Article of the Year and more. If you have already voted, thank you. If you haven't, I would definitely appreciate it if you considered doing so. It only takes a few moments and it is a great way to recognize some of the members that help to make this community great. For more information and links to the ballots, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2009-vote-now-vt37508.html Thank you for reading and for being a part of this community! Sincerely, Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. You may have heard, but if you haven't... the 2009 edition of our annual KarateForums.com Awards program is now underway and the voting ballots are open in categories like Member of the Year, New Member of the Year, Article of the Year and more. If you have already voted, thank you. If you haven't, I would definitely appreciate it if you considered doing so. It only takes a few moments and it is a great way to recognize some of the members that help to make this community great. For more information and links to the ballots, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2009-vote-now-vt37508.html Thank you for reading and for being a part of this community! Sincerely, Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. You may have heard, but if you haven't... the 2009 edition of our annual KarateForums.com Awards program is now underway and the voting ballots are open in categories like Member of the Year, New Member of the Year, Article of the Year and more. If you have already voted, thank you. If you haven't, I would definitely appreciate it if you considered doing so. It only takes a few moments and it is a great way to recognize some of the members that help to make this community great. For more information and links to the ballots, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2009-vote-now-vt37508.html Thank you for reading and for being a part of this community! Sincerely, Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. You may have heard, but if you haven't... the 2009 edition of our annual KarateForums.com Awards program is now underway and the voting ballots are open in categories like Member of the Year, New Member of the Year, Article of the Year and more. If you have already voted, thank you. If you haven't, I would definitely appreciate it if you considered doing so. It only takes a few moments and it is a great way to recognize some of the members that help to make this community great. For more information and links to the ballots, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2009-vote-now-vt37508.html Thank you for reading and for being a part of this community! Sincerely, Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. You may have heard, but if you haven't... the 2009 edition of our annual KarateForums.com Awards program is now underway and the voting ballots are open in categories like Member of the Year, New Member of the Year, Article of the Year and more. If you have already voted, thank you. If you haven't, I would definitely appreciate it if you considered doing so. It only takes a few moments and it is a great way to recognize some of the members that help to make this community great. For more information and links to the ballots, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2009-vote-now-vt37508.html Thank you for reading and for being a part of this community! Sincerely, Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. You may have heard, but if you haven't... the 2009 edition of our annual KarateForums.com Awards program is now underway and the voting ballots are open in categories like Member of the Year, New Member of the Year, Article of the Year and more. If you have already voted, thank you. If you haven't, I would definitely appreciate it if you considered doing so. It only takes a few moments and it is a great way to recognize some of the members that help to make this community great. For more information and links to the ballots, please check out: http://www.karateforums.com/karateforums-com-awards-2009-vote-now-vt37508.html Thank you for reading and for being a part of this community! Sincerely, Patrick

Thank you to everyone who has voted thus far. If you haven't done so yet, please do! It only takes a few moment and it really does help make the awards even greater! Thanks again, Patrick

Awesome! Via Donald Glover.

I'm not willing to throw in the towel just yet.

Hello, Welcome to the voting period of the eighth 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, 2008 and October 18, 2009. You submitted your nominations and, from those, we have our KarateForums.com Awards 2009 nominees. In all, 13 different members have been nominated in the various categories that make up this year's awards. They are joesteph, sensei8, tonydee, ps1, Kuma, Sokusen, bushido_man96, tallgeese, ninjanurse, KarateEd, DWx, The BB of C and Tiger1962. Congratulations to all of you. With the ballots crafted, it is now time to vote. In order to do so, you must have a KarateForums.com account registered on or before October 18, 2009. There is just one guideline to keep in mind when voting: 1. Do not attempt to artificially inflate our vote totals in any way. This includes but is not limited to trading votes, encouraging people to vote 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 vote in every category. You can vote for as many or as few as you would like - please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid votes we get, the better! The categories are listed below. Please click the link(s) and vote in the poll(s). Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/member-of-the-year-vt37507.html New Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/new-member-of-the-year-vt37506.html Community Spirit Award http://www.karateforums.com/community-spirit-award-vt37505.html Staff Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/staff-member-of-the-year-vt37504.html Funniest Member of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/funniest-member-of-the-year-vt37503.html Article of the Year http://www.karateforums.com/article-of-the-year-vt37502.html So, that's all there is to it. Please vote. We need as many valid votes as possible! Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not post your votes in this or any thread. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to private message me or reply to this thread. Please do not post a reply on the poll threads. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Sincerely, Patrick

Please vote for the Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2009. Award Description: 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 win this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Here are the nominees: joesteph sensei8 tonydee ps1 Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the New Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2009. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the non staff member who was new to our site in the past year and 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 win for this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Here are the nominees: tonydee Kuma Sokusen Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the Community Spirit Award winner in the KarateForums.com Awards 2009. Award Description: 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. Here are the nominees: bushido_man96 tallgeese sensei8 joesteph Kuma Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the Staff Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2009. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the staff member who you feel deserves special recognition because of their dedication to the community. Here are the nominees: bushido_man96 ninjanurse tallgeese KarateEd Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the Funniest Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2009. Award Description: 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. Here are the nominees: DWx The BB of C Tiger1962 Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the Article of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2009. Award Description: This award distinguishes your favorite article that was published in the KarateForums.com Articles section on or between October 19, 2008 and October 18, 2009. Whether the article enlightened or inspired you, this is the place to recognize it. Here are the nominees: Principle Based Martial Arts Training by tallgeese The Mind of the Martial Artist by KarateEd Sparring: The Basics by DWx Focus Mitt Training for the Multi-Disciplined Fighter by tallgeese Step-Sparring and Self Defense by bushido_man96 Voting will be closed on November 27, 2009 at 8 PM ET. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

The nominations process for the KarateForums.com Awards 2009 is now closed. Thank you to everyone who nominated. You really do shape the ballots. They will be posted soon! Thanks again, Patrick

Tonight's the night! Nominations will close at 6 PM ET. If you haven't nominated yet, please do! Thank you. Patrick

Congrats!

Excellent.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/16c1853bb6/leroy-smith-gift-to-the-game Funny video. The singer is actually Ryan Leslie (http://www.ryanleslie.com), who I'm a big fan of. The .mp3 can be downloaded for free from their website. Via Digg.

Thank you for all of the nominations that we have received thus far. The nominations will close tomorrow at 6 PM ET! Please get those last minute nominations in. Even if you can't nominate in all categories, the ones that you can nominate in help to shape the ballots. Thanks again, Patrick