Moving on from this latest series of problems, I hope we can grow stronger together and even when we are down in the gutter, we can as we have recently pull ourselves up and get on with what we do best. There is no challenge too great we cannot take on and sometimes we must make sacrifices to overcome such challenges, but we will get there eventually. Many of you have thanked me for the resolution of the recent problems, but the thanks must also go to the moderators who stick around even when I am hard to reach, to my fellow administrators who face the same challenges I do, for the other staff who never publicly come about and also the vendors who have in the past few days carried on sending our shipments using the secretive vendor link which allowed them access even when the public site was down. Ultimately we are all part of the team and everyone has a role to play, whether that is clear to them or not and as we now move on to whatever challenge the world will throw at us next, I would like to thank everyone in this community who stood firm in the torrents and chaos of our time. One day in the future, people will look back at all of us and remember many of us were locked away or paid great personal sacrifice for us to take this stand. Through those times of hardship however, nothing brought us down for long and it only strengthened our resolve to fight on harder and with more vigor than ever before. Dread Pirate Roberts 12/13/13