Hey Guys!!

I am going on my college break week back home to help my dad with a bunch of stuff around the house!!

i hope you all miss me lots lol

i will still be around just not as much but i am bringing my laptop this time since last time was muder using my dads.

Have fun guys!!

-Neil

I am proud to announce the winners of the dA llama's 4th Birthday Contest!!!!!

It was a hard contest to judge and I am so happy with all the entries we have received.

I would like to first off thank the people who helped me choose and

BUT, your all wondering who won!!!

3rd place _{non lit}
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2nd place _{non lit}
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1st place _{non lit}
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1st place _literature
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Llama's birthday surprise


THANK YOU ALL TO THE WINNERS!! TO THE PEOPLE WHO ENTERED!!

You helped make the llama's birthday an awesome one!!!!

I will be contacting those who won with more details on prize claiming!

-`neo-the-foxycoon

My good friend $ewm is holding an awesome contest and im helping her judge it!! ZOMG CHECK IT OUT I SWEAR ITS WORTH IT!!!!



I only have 10 entries so far so I hope that many of you are submitting your awesome entries soon Please remember that all art media is fine so no matter what sort of art you make you are welcome to submit

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Just the other day I was testing a particular bug that involved editing deviations resulting in message center issues. I'm sure some of you saw it



I use this particular photo often when testing bugs with deviations because well they are bugs right! I consider them my bug test assistants Well unfortunately some people are quite disturbed by my little silkworm caterpillar friends $chix0r so I thought maybe I need a new Bug Test Deviation image

I thought the deviation below would be perfect but alas I think it's probably more disturbing than the original Bug Test Deviation



oh noes what will I do! I must have a super awesome Bug Testing image to post up whenever I need to test a bug involving deviations. I thought it would be super awesome to see what you guys can create so I haz a contest for you!!!!



Everyone is welcome to enter and in any art media they choose so long as I can submit it as a deviation to display when bug testing. The artwork must have bugs in it. I'd love for it to be funny or cute LOLBugs (photos with captions) are awesometastic too! Remember that the purpose of posting this image will be to help me test dA bugs so the buggies in the image are like my little bug testing helpers

Please make sure that whatever you submit is entirely your work so this means you can't take someone else's bug photo and put a caption to it.


Prizes
1st - Emote Stress Balls + 1 year Subscription(from *Frozen-Jakalope)

2nd - 10 by 15 Print of Choice by $ewm + 6 Month Subscription

3rd - Emote Buttons + 3 Month Subscription

Random Prizes - The following Prizes will be given out at random just because of shear awesomeness

dA Lanyard (of choice) and keychain from ^PurpelBlur

dA buttons (of choice) from $ewm

$fangedfem and $chix0r will be awarding a prize each of their choice to who ever they select.


Judges
=HAL2008, @Little-Vampire and `neo-the-foxycoon will be helping me judge!

Entry Submission & Due Date
All entries should be posted on dA and then linked to me via note. In your note please put "E! Bug Test Deviation of Awesomeness Contest" in the subject line. All entries should be turned in no later than September 18th 11:59 pm EST (-5 GMT).


Note for Submitters
Please keep in mind that I will be posting the winner's image on this account $ewm as well as my bug testing account ~Evanita. I will make sure that a link back to the creator of the artwork is placed in the Artist's Comments section of the deviation.

All of the entries will be placed in a collection in my favourites once all entries are submitted.


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#help


Awesome Inspiration!

First off, when most people think of banks.. they think of terror! banks are evil, fee's and hidden agenda's and always out to get you.

not for me!!

I have been with the Bank Of Montreal (ironically i live in Ontario) for a few years now ever since Royal Bank of Canada screwed me over then just deleted my bank account (no money lost, they ate my debt to them and just said w/e)

This bank has been awesome.. and i thought it couldn't get any better. A new branch opened up close to my dads house which is the branch i choose to do ALL my business through. I go to one banker and she is the most amazing person in the world. She got me a brand new chequing account JUST so i could get 3 free cheques that i needed for something. She has always gone above and beyond for me and my father.

beginning of August i decided that since i had 1 more year of college left i should just get the MAX amount of money my bank would give me i had only taken a minimum amount the first year. I figured i could use this money with its awesome interest rate to just get some stuff i needed and take advantage of the payment options. unlike a car loan or a general line of credit.

the negative of that which unaware to me and my banker at the application. They raised the interest from Prime+1% to Prime+2% now for those who have no idea what that means. The prime rate of interest is a dynamic number that can either go up or down. Usually its a fairly low number right now sitting at 2.250%

So when she printed the forums she saw this "error" and later found out it was a change in the student line of credit. it sucked but i needed the extra money so i took it. thinking oh well 1% extra sucks but what ever! she said there was nothing she could do and would just have to accept the interest! i was cool with that and resigned!

about a month and a half later i get a random phone call from my Father. my Banker had been in the last month working her way through different people and finally was able to give me back my old rate of interest. AWESOME!! saves me almost 15 bucks a month in interest payments!! i was very happy with this and did a little dance if i remember.

THEN... if it couldn't get BETTER!

I get a second phone call from my dad, he had got a phone call once again from our banker and she had refunded me the difference from my previous interest payment. (the one i had made at Prime+2%) so the bank GAVE ME BACK MONEY! not only did she get me my previous interest rate.. she got me money back that i had in her mind OVER PAID!

Banks are not evil if you have awesome people working at them. Bank of Montreal has won my business for sure. And when it comes time to get a home mortgage, i will be going through her beacuse i know she is out to make it work for ME!

Protip!! be nice to your banker at every chance you get!! there out to help you!! not to get you!!



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PS! im still not feeling 100% i am still getting random abdominal cramps and some other stuff. If it does not clear up by monday i will go to the Doctor..