First, I wanted to congratulate lwc for winning the avatar selection contest. Looks like you not only designed a avatar for LG, you helped to inspire him to change his user title. Also, a congratulations should go out to girlgolfa. You came out with a lot of hilarious avatars.

Next, I'd like to thank LG for volunteering to be the subject of this contest. I think we all know that LG was leaving himself vulnerable to some friendly barbs, but barbs nonetheless. This gives me a good segue to thank all of the Members here who kept things within the rules, not only in the contest but everyday on this forum.

Last but not least, I would like to thanks ForgedRbest for his generous support of GR. We're all familiar with his (and the other Moderators) support of GR with his day in and day out contributions as a Moderator but he really went "beyond the call" with his sponsorship of the prize. Paul and I have supported this site solely from our own pockets from the beginning but costs have risen steadily in the past few months. We would like to keep GR advertisement-free and every supporting membership helps us keep this site that way.