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Please vote for the Member of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2007. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the 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: ps1 http://www.karateforums.com/member4400.html Kajukenbopr http://www.karateforums.com/member5892.html cross http://www.karateforums.com/member1256.html PSBN Doug http://www.karateforums.com/member259.html Voting will be closed on November 14, 2007. 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 2007. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the new member (registered on or between the dates of October 19, 2006 and July 18, 2007) 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: The BB of C http://www.karateforums.com/member9883.html wingedMonkey http://www.karateforums.com/member11632.html Montana http://www.karateforums.com/member11162.html Voting will be closed on November 14, 2007. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the Community Spirit Award in the KarateForums.com Awards 2007. 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 http://www.karateforums.com/member7445.html KarateKidTSD http://www.karateforums.com/member531.html Voting will be closed on November 14, 2007. 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 2007. Award Description: This award is intended to acknowledge the 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. All KarateForums.com staff members exemplify these qualities, so you should vote for the one that you feel is particularly worthy of special recognition. Here are the nominees: bushido_man96 http://www.karateforums.com/member7445.html gheinisch http://www.karateforums.com/member1150.html ninjanurse http://www.karateforums.com/member1386.html Voting will be closed on November 14, 2007. 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 2007. 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: NightOwl http://www.karateforums.com/member8976.html The BB of C http://www.karateforums.com/member9883.html Voting will be closed on November 14, 2007. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Please vote for the Article of the Year in the KarateForums.com Awards 2007. Award Description: This award distinguishes your favorite article that was published in the KarateForums.com Articles section on or between October 19, 2006 and October 18, 2007. Whether the article enlightened or inspired you, this is the place to recognize it. Here are the nominees: Martial Arts "Monogamy" by bushido_man96 http://www.karateforums.com/martial-arts-monogamy-vt27324.html Japan: Living and Training as a Westerner by JasonA http://www.karateforums.com/japan-living-and-training-as-a-westerner-vt27674.html Communists and Wushu: An Uneasy Relationship by NightOwl http://www.karateforums.com/communists-and-wushu-an-uneasy-relationship-vt29639.html Voting will be closed on November 14, 2007. Please do not respond to this thread. Thank you for voting.

Hello, KarateForums.com recognizes one member every month as the Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. The November 2007 selection is... dete. Congratulations!

Happy Halloween.

The nominations are now closed. Thank you to everyone who nominated. The voting ballots will be announced in the next couple of days. Thanks, Patrick

Congrats.

Today's the day! Nominations close later tonight. Please get those last minute nominations in. I will post on this thread once nominations have closed. Thanks, Patrick

Thank you for the submission.

Welcome aboard.

Just 2 days until nominations close.

Welcome aboard.

Thank you for the nominations thus far. If you haven't nominated yet, please do! Thanks, Patrick

Even if you can't nominate in all categories, please nominate for the ones that you can. The more nominations we get, the better the awards are. Thanks!

Welcome aboard. Glad to have you.

Please keep the nominations coming. Thanks.

Cool. Thanks for the update.

Welcome.

Hello, Welcome to the sixth 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, 2006 and October 18, 2007. 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 registered on or before October 18, 2007 with at least one post made before this thread's time stamp. 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, 2006 and July 18, 2007. 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, 2006 and October 18, 2007. You can check when it was published by looking at the time stamp on the post that contains the article. Whether the article enlightened or inspired you, this is the place to recognize it. Visit our articles section at http://www.karateforums.com/viewforum.php?f=44 for a complete list of articles. There are just three guidelines to keep in mind when nominating: 1. Only one member/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 can not nominate yourself/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 the most popular nominations, the ballot for each award will be chosen and by using the poll system available on these forums, you will be able to vote for the winners! 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 PM at http://www.karateforums.com/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=2715 - nominations will be closed on October 31, 2007. Please do not post your nominations on this thread. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to PM me or reply to this thread. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Here is the ballot you can use:

Sorry to hear this. My thoughts are with you both.

Thank you for the submission.

Actually, I remember that game. We were traveling down to Florida. I was pulling for the Oilers. The next week, I went to the only Dolphins game I've ever been to, the 31-0 Divisional Playoff win over the Chargers. Then we lost to the Bills the next week. At this point, it doesn't matter all that much. May as well get Ginn and Hagan some time.