Patrick

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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.

Yeah.

Yeah, congrats. The Dolphins continue to lose. Penalties and poor defense. Ted Ginn took a kick 96 yards for a TD, only to be brought back with a penalty. He also had a return past the 50. That, too, was taken back by a penalty.

I do. I'm a Kanye fan, too. http://www.last.fm/user/iFroggy (The reason for the inactivity is because I am rebuilding my playlist, which got corrupted. It's a huge undertaking.)

Hello and congrats. Since there is already a thread on this promotion, I am going to go ahead and close this one and send you over there. I appreciate it. http://www.karateforums.com/testing-for-1st-degree-vt32452.html Thanks, Patrick

Welcome to KF. We're glad to have you.

Welcome aboard.

Congrats.

Welcome.

Welcome aboard. Glad to have you.

Cool. Welcome aboard.

After. Didn't know who he was before that.

No problem. It's a staff decision and it's deserved. Thanks. Patrick

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

I picked up Bowe in the fantasy league. Good to see Johnson finally get a good performance.

Welcome to KF.

Welcome.

Hello, We removed a post from this thread in error. It is below. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks. Ref takes a point away for a low blow!!!! My username is bushido_man96, not bushido_woman96.... Sorry, you left that one wide open though......Hence the laughing face. And I hope you're not a ref like the world cup refs that we had against the US this morning...

Congrats.

Welcome aboard. Glad to have you.

Welcome aboard.