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Chart updates
what happened to the charts , its all been drastically changed overnight. It seems all bands have been dramatically effected. How is this possible.
You may have noticed some changes in the charts recently. One change is that we've decided to narrow the radius from your listed zip code. So you should be seeing other artists from within a closer proximity of your zip code now. This will make your ranking more indicative of your zip code and location, and more accurate for your area. We understand this will affect your charts and your chart position over the next few days, but again, we feel this will make the charts more accurate and cut down on the large volume of complaints regarding artists from different locales appearing in some user's charts. Also due to overwhelming user feedback, the charts will also now represent active accounts on the site. Should an account stay dormant for an extended period of time, it may lose it's chart position until it becomes active again.
Please note, that as the change happens, it will take a few days for both your score and chart ranking to level out correctly. Remember that we have over 2 million users, and everyone will be affected by the change. You may see some erratic movements/changes, but know that everyone will see this and there is no way to avoid it as the change takes place and levels out. We appreciate your understanding and patience during this time. As always, you can review information about Band Equity here:
We hope this helps explain some of the changes you see, and apologize for any inconvenience over the next few days.
*Please note: This post is an informative post only, and in the interest of ticket volume and helping users that have legitimate technical bugs with aspects of the site, all comments will be removed on this post until the chart positions and scores have had time to level out.*
Nothing like being caught off guard for all of us...Its like building a house and then one day ripping out the foundation. There goes all our hard work and money. I stopped all payments to RVN. I will just use the free services and put my focus elsewhere.
You will enjoy this analysis ... it could give you an edge in these new RN charts.
Even though RN says it has over "2M Users", there are actually only 500K Artists on their Global Charts across All Genres. I wanted to understand how many Artists are charted per Genre to learn which Genres are the most crowded. Perhaps by changing my RN Genre, I could become a bigger fish in a smaller pond and improve my ranking.
By manipulating their Chart URL tags, I could easily navigate to the last page of each Genre and count the total number of Artists in that Genre. It changes daily, but here are the numbers right now.
TOP 15 RN GENRES by # of ARTISTS as of Friday, 1/18/2013
Total Global # of Artists for All Genres = 505,661
Last Page URL = https://www.reverbnation.com/main/cha...
Of which ...
23% Hip Hop = 115,103 Artists
15% Rock = 74,665 Artists
7.0% Alternative = 35,488 Artists
6.6% Metal = 33,206 Artists
6.1% Rap = 30,609 Artists
5.0% Pop = 25,193 Artists
3.8% Other = 19,458 Artists
3.3% Singer Songwriter = 16,759 Artists
3.1% R&B/Soul = 15,577 Artists
2.5% Folk = 12,593 Artists
2.3% Country = 11,878 Artists
2.1% Indie = 10,399 Artists
1.9% Jazz = 9,391 Artists
1.9% Blues = 9,372 Artists
1.7% Reggae = 8,713 Artists
For example, if you classify your Genre as 'Hip Hop', you will compete with over 115K other Artists on that Global Genre Chart. But if you change your Genre to 'Rap', you will only have 30K other Artists to compete with. If your Genre is 'Rock' today, you compete with 75K Artists. But if you change to 'Alternative', you will compete with less than half that or, better yet, change to 'Indie' to compete with only 10K Artists.
I recommend that you can take this one step further and dive into your National and Local Genre Charts. Try playing with the URLs yourself. In the sample URLs below, just change the tag 'Global' in the URL to 'National' or 'Local' and start with a smaller page number. Here are a few examples for the Global Genres - note the last page number will likely change each day.
Last Page URLs for the Top 5 RN Genres:
Hip Hop - https://www.reverbnation.com/main/cha...
Rock - https://www.reverbnation.com/main/cha...
Alternative - https://www.reverbnation.com/main/cha...
Metal - https://www.reverbnation.com/main/cha...
Rap - https://www.reverbnation.com/main/cha...
Keep exploring. Find your edge in this new RN game and stay the course. Greg Charles of A Nice Vibe -
apparently chart/ranking depends on how much a member pays...cancled my premium fanreach and went from number 3 to number 9. so, like others on this site, i will stop giving my hard earned money to RN and leave the site all together after being a member for many, many years. probably won't miss me...but will miss my $$ i'm sure...as reflected in my new ranking
I cancelled my store here and will not pay another dime to this site-they have been stating that my myspace numbers have dropped exactly -25 a day since I voiced my displeasure with the new "improvements" however my myspace numbers actually have not dropped 25 a day for the past 5 days straight minus 25!!!!
This is because I complained-there is no other reason!
I am starting a class action law suit against this site-join me if you have been scammed too!!!! All the years of working on this site and promoting it and this is how they repay me!!!!!!!!! -
This goofed up change is a total disregard for the musicians on this site. What a mess. Until things are corrected it is foolish to put anymore time and work into this site.
The New Chart Ranking System Demystified
As Zack continues to remain silent, and the answer he provided is far from making any sense, I decided it's time to step in and demystify the recent changes made by our beloved Reverbnation.
1. The Old RN Chart Ranking
Under the "old" chart ranking system, the number of fans an artist had and, most importantly, their quality was the single most important factor in determining BES. Though RN had never disclosed how they determine the quality of the fans, they had stated on several occasions that they value RN fans more than the others. Having been on RN for quite a while, I can tell you that for BES calculating purposes, a RN fan is roughly 20 times more valuable than an FB fan. Twitter and YT subscribers are viewed as lower quality, while MySpace fans almost don't count at all. In order to increase his BES by 100 points, for example, an artist should gain roughly 50 RN fans, or 1,000 FB fans, or any combination of both in the aforementioned proportion. The odd thing was that the so-called "recency" factor (i.e. the 14-day window), an integral part of BES, was applicable to plays and listeners but, for some reason, not to fans' acquisition. Therefore, if an artist gained 1,000 FB fans during the 14-day window, but no fans thereafter, his BES would have risen by 100 points in the first two weeks and would have remained unaffected thereafter by the lack of newly added fans. The opposite was true for the number of plays and listeners, where any BES gained during the 14-day window as a result of attracting plays/listeneres would have been completely wiped out if no such were attracted thereafter.
The RN BES system enabled bands with millions of FB fans (bought or not) to occupy the top spots of the charts and to remain there forever, even though their RN activity in terms of plays, listeners was minimal, if non-existent. The only way for an artist to compete with the thousands of dollars spent by those bands on FB fans' acquisitions, and join them in the Top 10 category of the respective genre chart, was to get as much RN fans as possible, availing himself of the 20:1 ratio incorporated in the BES system. This is exactly what all of us writing here did, spending a couple of hours each and every day on RN promotion.
2. The New RN Chart Ranking
RN felt that the old chart ranking system did not fit their new business model, which is to maximize revenue from promotion. Why would anyone buy their promotion service, knowing that getting into Top 10 requires >1 million FB fans, thousands of bucks, and long, long time? Make the aim more visible and within reach and the avalanche of customers will follow. As correctly pointed out by Shiong, it is no longer the total BES that determines the chart ranking position of an artist, but the 30-day BES change only. This makes it more likely for an average Joe, who decided to buy a couple of thousands of FB likes over the month, or gain 100 RN fans by being active on the site, to move significantly up in the charts. But to stay there, he will have to buy again next month, or continue to remain active on the site, which is exactly what RN want. It appears that RN are doing a good thing - ensuring a "level-playing field" by eliminating the heavy influence of the bands with millions of accumulated FB fans, applying the "recency" factor to fans' acquisition in determining BES, killing the bordom of seeing the same faces in the top of the charts, enforcing competition among artists, and maximizing revenue and profits. Everyone happy? Not exactly, some 250 dissenters who believe their efforts over the past couple of years should count towards their BES. Having gained close to 60,000 RN fans over the years and entered Top10 on the Global Rock Chart, my band has every reason to be unhappy with the plunge. But we are not, because we realized that RN charts are meaningless.
The only shortcoming on the RN side is that they should have come straight with a reasonable explanation of the changes and not hide behind ambiguous and trivial answers. -
DIRTY POLITICS !!! #3 TO #23, yesterday it was #21. make things right, put shit back, when I joined this site 2 and change, years ago, IT WAS FREE ! so I guess paying customers have advantages. When you were new and asking people to join there were know problems, now with over 2 million subscribers, you guys forgot about the little guys that told a bunch of your subscribers to follow us on here. we help promote this site as well. just like big business ! cut backs, expendable assets.
What I see in the charts makes no sense. I see people with way less fans in every category above me. What are the charts supposed to be based on? And why wouldn't people from nearby cities be on my charts. I'm competing with them in the real world- why not in this pretend music world.
Why the change? and why is it so fu**ed up?
Disgruntled! -
Dear RN Support,
We believe that you really need to leave the ZIP code situation as it was and therefore roll back any changes.
As an example, our label is located in a suburb of a major metro area (Denver) and the former system appeared to be a more accurate indicator of how well we were doing throughout the *entire metro area* than how we ranked in our relatively small suburb. We have no interest in knowing if we're #1 in the burbs, and if the system does not change, we will change our ZIP code to get the charts we want, ultimately skewing any reports or records RN is keeping on its members.
Prior to making huge changes like this in the future, it may be prudent to consult your user community first, as we actively *use* these charts to market and gauge our progress with those marketing efforts, both within RN and in other social media sites. When you change the structure, you skew our results, setting us back to square one each time.
Kathryn Ballard Shut /shoot/
TIMKAT Entertainment LLC
Westminster/Denver, CO
http://www.reverbnation.com/label/mod... -
...And let me reply my answer again on this page:
We went to school Zack, we can do the math, so please mention all those "hundreds of things on our site. Many more stats other than the ones you see are factored in".
So it took you guys at RN team 5 days to build this answer? Let me mention basic points here where you just screwed this:
RN: "is nearly impossible to continue to grow your promotion every single day"... OK, You got it! a lot of us will not promote here anymore.
RN: "always something causing your chart position to rise"... You don ́t say! How about hard daily work?
RN: "try to find out what you were doing when your band's points were increasing at such a high level so that you can duplicate it again"...Once again: how about hard daily work?
RN: "try a few different things to see what is the most efficient and effective for you"
...Well, since hard work is not a deal for RN, How about stop using this site, or stop buying useles "promote it" or any product from here? At the end is just USELESS if your arguments are right.
And the best one: RN: "Artist accounts must stay active on ReverbNation. Keep your page up to date and current and you should see returns"... Hahahaha are you kidding us! ARE YOU KIDDING US!!! You just have told us that to keep active is not useful anymore!
Just can ́t believe this, at least this time you just made me laugh!
Sorry Zack, but YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID!
This is just insultant to any intelligent being. So keep trying! -
As I analyze the new ratings, I see some active artists move down somewhat and some not very active move up, with some (random?) disappearing. Either the new formula is fundamentally wrong, or it is made intentionally to extort those active to buy more services.
In any case, my real ratings do not rely on this page alone, so, though not much, I have deleted links to reverberation from all my other pages. -
Cancelled my paid services at RN. With hours, chart position dropped again :) That is kind of what I expected to happen.
Don ́t know you guys but I am totally sick and tired of all this people who want to control this industry; that little circle of scumbag powerfull rich idiots who can get anybody out of the game if they don ́t fit with their business model. To me, Music IS NOT a freaking stupid concept made only for the ones ho can pay for it. And now, once again it ́s time to go elsewhere.
It ́s crazy, but since the internet became a great Music tool for people, somebody just want to screw this sharing concept, to push it and force it into a paying concept (certainly since copyright exists). Now, we all know that reverbnation used us to get strong, to then betray us. It looks like they just sold this site to any big record company who doesn ́t want any competition to their shitty (once again) fake plastic commercial "artists" if they don ́t get at least any money from us. Reminds me a lot to the megaupload case. I am not surprised, but really sick and tired of it.
I ́m not working here anymore if RN keeps this attitude, but I ́ll NEVER give up, and this artist fellow here have all my respect and admiration cause you guys follow your dreams with hard work, everyone of you, wherever you are, cause there are not flags here but Music. Just keep creating great stuff and never NEVER give up. I hope I ́ll see or hear about you elsewhere. Music joins us, and I ́m happy is not only Music.
As I said a few comments before, the show must go on with, without, or despite of reverbnation. Never forget that.
Hasta pronto! -
To Whom it May Concern,
Why is it, that in the 'new control room' my Global Rank (All Genres) is 32,295 and yet on my 'old control room' is says that my Global Rank (All Genres) is 10,007??
That is a massive difference in numbers, and I'm just wondering what is so different from one control room from the other?
At this point, after almost 6 years of using your site, dealing with un-needed changes, adapting to new and ridiculous demands, and now this.
It seriously beginning to look and feel that your chart/rating system is nothing more than pure random.
I don't want an excuse, I don't want some interposed alga-rhythm that makes no sense to me or anyone else on your system database, I want answers.
I see mad complaints from many different users, and honestly, this just pushes me that much farther to deactivating my account and taking my chances elsewhere.
Chart systems are something that needs to come with solid and consistent information, whether it be old or new layouts of your website, and the info you guys are providing for the Chart system makes no sense as to how and why it is the way it is and why is it that on the new layout I'm decreasing but on the old layout I'm increasing.
-Stephen Morse,
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Different chart numbers for different layouts?. -
Its confirmed ,, RN will soon be going the way of MySpace and the others in the social media graveyard. Yes we will still keep a minimal presence here, and yes we still love our friends here, BUT to us this kick in the teeth after enduring thr MANY follies ( and sticking with them) is just a bridge to far, Rn has BURNED this bridge.....
I just wanna know how I go from #9 to #2 to #64 in 1 week???? whatever going on reverb needs 2 fix it.. Its not fair 2 those people who's been on reverb since it first started now thats its changing all theses NEW changes are happing. Its people on the top #10 that havent even grinded nore than a year thats placed on the top 10... Im not complaining I just saying it should be fair 2 those who REALLY grind 2 put out good music... So on that note can reverb fix the problem soon cause my opinion the CHARTS are watered down!!
Checking out the Old Control Room it appears to be right, or at least as close to being right as it was 5 days ago. I personally liked the old system better anyway being it gave you more information and easier to search and interpret.
Yet RN is forciing everyone to go the New unreliable and not credible new Control Room.
Try this for an idea, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."......D -
I've been on RN since before the big borad change so I've watched this site go from something a simpleton could work and understand to something a computer science grad would have difficulty navigating. I've concluded after this week that rather than a well oiled machine that anyone can work; RN is wanting a jumble of nuts and bolts in a bucket that just makes a noise. I can only conclude that RN's plan is to continue to shake things up about every 4 to 5 months and piss everyone who frequents this board off. I've heard some really good music here. I've heard more I can't turn off fast enough. Some I wish I'd wrote. Much more I wonder if the "artist" has ears to hear. Some may feel that way about mine. But you know about opinions? There like assholes everybody's got one and the world is full of 'em! Point being I don't know where my music falls in the big scheme of things but a change in standings of 800+ points over night tells me you guys don't have a clue either. It's ALL stats. IT'S NOT! You started out with a plan to help and then to keep it gong realized, we've got to have financial returns to keep it going. I'm NOT going to buy votes! To my knowledge I've never got a gig from a venue that just heard our stuff on RN. The only gigs RN has helped out with, for us, is to say to the promoter, "Listen to our stuff on RN and if you like it give us a call." I don't understand y'alls logic in this last shake up but I'm about tired of playing the chart game. It takes at least an hour or two out of my life per day to keep up. Now in one fell swoop I lose 800 points. Kind of makes the last year worthless. The point I saw, at my entry with RN, was that the "cream would rise to the top." Maybe this is still the case. I haven't scoped out the "new" top 100." I will. Then I'll have a firm opinion. Because I DO KNOW what equates to good music. This will decide wheather I keep posting here or not.
"Saturday, January 12, 2013
Changes to ReverbNation Charts
Happy New Year! ReverbNation is no longer a 'band' or 'music' site so much as it is a merchant of promotional wares to a paying clientele. Freeloaders are welcome to hang out but don't expect any success on the basis of musical merit alone.
You knew it had to happen sooner or later. Top bands plunged in the charts overnight and were surpassed by lesser bands with little fan interest. What happened? RN wants to sell promotional goods and paying customers want to see results. Can't blame them. Don't have fans? Your music doesn't stand out? Pay RN to provide a push and, as of 2013, that push involves pushing underachievers up the charts ahead of overachieving (but freeloading) bands.
At first it all seemed like a terrible mistake. None of it made sense. Bands that were previously in the top ten also found themselves racing up the global charts but simultaneously plunging in all other charts; musicians assumed there was some kind of technical error. Well, bands were rising in the global charts while falling off the genre cliff because there was (still is?) a mass exodus of chart-watching free-loading (and angry) bands deleting their accounts.
RN is still a top site for hosting music but if you're interested in ruling the charts RN is now, apparently, a pay to play site. This is all to familiar a story. Anyone remember MP3.com? Merit takes a back seat to money." -
Business 101 = Never Blindside your Customers. Say again ...
Business 101 = Never Blindside your Customers.
No matter the industry, no matter the decade, one truth has always been taught in business school and that is to always put your customers first ... your customers are always right ... never deliver your customers an unpleasant surprise.
RN joins an ugly line of new age companies that put ego and/or technology ahead of its customers and will likely pay an unfortunate price - not only the loss of customers in the short-term, but much more significant, the loss of loyalty and trust. One you lose trust, you never get it back quite the way it was. That's unfortunate, but that's reality.
Ultimately, RN will do the right thing ... take the site down and re-engineer the charts back to something more palatable to its customers but, unfortunately for RN, the damage will be done.
My only comment to my fellow artists will be not to target your anger at the messengers - the core RN Support Team that we communicate with on a daily basis (been in their shoes in another life). My hope would be that the VPs of Marketing and Engineering who sold this mess to the CEO in the windowless and thoughtless conference rooms take the full burden of blame.
In the meantime, stay on course, common sense will prevail. -
The trouble is that no one at RN has any knowledge of the music industry, Why in heaven's name would I want to compare with the guy or gal down the street? If my artists come from Nashville, no one cares if it is 37221 or 37013. It should be entire Nashville. I have dealt with them and most of them are well meaning but unknowledgeable. They have no clue about Band Equity and their promo campaigns benefit one thing only and that is the number of fans on Facebook. They do not realize that they have what could be a valuable tool because promoters use it. I have been in this business for over 40 years but dealing with the likes of Patrick, I feel like I am back teaching the business at Belmont except RN doesn't get it!!! I have already threatened them with legal action!!
Share this problem with your RN friends and bring more to this conversation or this will be the new RN minus the CREDIBILITY we as a group were striving for. Go to and start shouting. If you were relatively unaffected from this change , you may not even be aware but you will soon realize that the site you are on will carry far less respect in the INDIE Music community . All will know that those with the MONEY to buy plays or buy FB , twitter likes by the THOUSANDS or just plain old pay people to make up fans for thr sites , than so be it. This will not be the fertile hotbed of young and innovative and or talented artist's it started out as. we have already lost many when you to some sold out to FB. We understand all biz is based on how much money you can scroll away , at least try and disguise this behavior just a little . Many of these young bands can BARELY afford your prices for being here . We all welcome constructive change, but to wake up to a completely new place is unacceptable. So contact ALL your RN friends and lets ALL talk . Or welcome to the NEW RN. We will be gone...
At the top of this conversation there are the FB share button and tweet button, I actually used them cause is not possible that only 71 of us notice this RN behavior.
Can we at least get an update on what is going on with the rankings?
If there is not a problem, and the RN team is sure the new/current rankings are correct, can you please make that announcement.
If there is a problem, can you let us know that the problem is chased down.
I am looking for a singer-songwriter who, until 3 days ago, was #1 in San Antonio, TX and the national charts (Darrell Christopher Owens). After switching to the old control room to do a search (can't do it on the new one), I get a message saying that he is not on reverbnation.
Is this a glitch with the switchover? Did he delete his account? Can anybody shed some light on this?
Steve -
I'm posting this up on twitter using "#reverbnation makes changes to terms of service without notice and refuses to provide users details of changes"
seeing as they are no longer answering any of our questions and ignoring us. There are share on twitter and facebook buttons here. Let's use them and draw as much attention to this as possible as it is kind of a big deal. -
RAY... To me, this plattform is not exactly to sale records. I ́m sure that Reverbnation gets much more from artists than the money they earn from our sells. Some of us we are Artists, we make Art. not salesmen, salesmen make money, and this is why "real" Artists are not in the first places in popular/comercial charts but fake plastic models, We are trying to live by doing what we love and In the way to get a career that let us support a lifestyle we desire, by selling records or playing gigs, we want to avoid to deal with salesmen who doesn ́t care about other ́s effort, which could be exactly what we ́re dealing with right now. Anyway, as I said, the show will go on with or without RN, and I really hope they will fix this cause it would be an epic fail to the memory of this platform that used to work fine.
yep... this is bollocks... ready to switch to BandPage for my facebook player anyways, better features. might be time to bid this circle jerk adieu... I put a lot of work into my profile, and all for naught it appears now.
I AGREE THIS IS BULLSHIT!! We worked our ass off to be #1 in our area..Its about time to get off reverbnation.. you guys are getting as bad as Facebook! LEAVE SHIT ALONE!!!!!!
I have to weigh in on this: 'narrow zip code for accuracy' doesn't make any sense at all! And the results don't correlate what you said, either.
The current charts appear random and chaotic, no good principle based. No Good! Need to use your man power working on something more efficient, not this! -
Everything I worked for is gone.. I feel like my dream was taking right out of my hands... Reverb how could you? .... I have no hope right now. You took all that from me when you took my hard work and dedication.
@ Fantase B. I hear you Buddie. And I am starting to agree. I think of all artists as my brothers and sisters, I love them all for their efforts, I adore them for the music, even the stuff I don't like too much. I am reading many of these letters and I can see that hundreds of artists have been really hurt by these changes. That upsets me. I am on your side friend.
You all guys who are here for hobbie and to show your dad the song you wrote, it ́s OK! Nobody will judge you at all for that. But when you are working for more than that, of course numbers are important! We placed our confidence and time here. Many times our job and prestige are based and depends on our numbers to get hired, and not only here, is everywhere! In any office, your boss evaluates your numbers, not the happy or unhappy you are doing it, is the same here! So don ́t judge this like an ego issue, it ́s about work, goals, and achievments. Real musicians who wants to eat by doing this know that nobody is gonna give you a shit for your work if you don ́t move it yourself, if you don ́t show it to the world. Is not that simple as "I made a pretty song, now everybody love me", we have to go out and show our work, and then measure it to do it better next time and that ́s why we are here.
@ Blizzard . Its not about life or death Its about them CHEATING Us and LYING .
They sent out letters 2 all of us yesterday saying" REVERB WILL CHANGE 4 good JAN 22nd" WHY NOT Also Mention The Chart Positions ?? This makes no sense what so ever , I am 100% CONFIDENT in my music , there's no1 that can tell me because i dropped 32 spots in 1 night (because of some stupid area code rule that makes no sense) that my music is not good or is not going to blow up.
Its The LIES that are pissing me off . Really and truthfully my music is MUCH bigger and better then this site , so fuck their stupid lil games , there are many other sites that don't play these games . One thing i have noticed with many commercial sites like CD baby MYSPACE etc soon as they grow they start doing shady moves & 2 me its unacceptable ! But obviously some people don't take their music seriously , I do !
2 me this is a life style , is not a joke , when i had no1 else there my music has always been there .But i will NEVER let reverb try & destroy me as an artist cus they never made me in the first place ..... ALL my gigs i have got through personal contacts . Not through reverb. WE MADE Reverb Not the other way around .This is just going to fuel me even more 2 focus on other possibilities I been #4 on the Uk , Hip Hop charts for a long time & I been #1 on the swedish hip hop chart 4 almost 3 years straight!!! So really I ALready WON. Reverb just lost & im sure im not the only good artist that they lost .... not 2 mention & the huge amount of bad karma they will get for doing us this way -
All you artists whinging - instead of worrying about your RN chart positions, go and write some better songs and make some real fans (rather than being 'liked' by other artists here that are your competition).
To say that you spend hours each day here and on various social sites promoting is crazy. Spend more time on making good music!!! Let people find you and like you for your music not for your silly chart position. -
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am active EVERYDAY , I play other bands EVERYDAY, I fav and like others EVERYDAY ,shall I go on ! and others play me everday , W T F is going on . Are you saying I have to start buying FB likes and pay for play to keep up. Put me back in a reasonable spot or we are out. We have been here for some years now only to be treated like this . We have shown great loyalty to RN , No more BS please.
I think we all need to chill and see what the outcome is! Give it a few days at the longest a week!
I want this to be as fair as possible for all of us. To me this charting it is not a competition but about how hard you or your band work on stage and off stage! So yes these charts need to be as accurate as possible to help us all succeed. I hope reverb gets it right or in the end they will lose a lot of users. -
I am one of the lucky ones that moved UP in the charts instead of down...except I don't want to move up because you turned off the charts for a bunch of people who weren't active. I have busted my butt for the last few months moving up the charts. When I started I was ranked around 37,000 on the Global Jazz charts, and as of yesterday I was up to 83. Today I am 17 because you changed a bunch of people around? According to the Old Control Room I should be at 79 today, and I am fine with that. I feel a sense of accomplishment logging in each day and seeing what my efforts have produced. Today you took all of that away and basically told all of us "Just make sure you are active frequently". This, on top of so many other issues that are already prevalent on this site, is going to start forcing people away in droves. I have a feeling it is already happening...
Looks like reverbnation has taken ALL the fun out of the charts, which now look like every other no budget website, due to the fact that most popular bands are not 'active'. Goodbye reverbnation, it was fun while it lasted. I will remember you fondly, but alas, become inactive, and disappear from your generic charts...
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WTF... is all I really have to say. Wait to go RN, for pissing off almost every active artist on this site. applause
how do you go from being number 2 in your city to being number 98 in a day? how is that even possible...
i told u Zack. even if not ur fault, when RN decides 2 make a UNILATERAL UNINFORMED rule change, theyre messin with peoples lives, livelihood & careers. not everybody is in it 4 money. like me. but it is my luv & livelihood. i dunno what they were thinkin, but musicians as a whole feel very strong bout their work. i wont be surprised if u receive many, many more lawsuits in the future. as far as complaints of clients runnin up their counts? the playin field was level 4 everyone. @ least i thought? guess priority goes 2 whoever pays RN 1st. GREED @ the cost of hardworkin artists. send RN this email, not that it would make a difference. also, nowadays when i mention that 1 of my sites is RN 2 some one, i get a groan. where as b4, they used 2 be stoked. wonder why?
who are ur superiors & who are their superiors & so on? can u send me an e mail with contact info 4 ur legal dept? mahalo.
Yeah Ok..... when I became more involved for the first time just this past February , within 2 weeks I was #1 for a month. I asked myself, how could this be, with so many great bands in the area...??? And then out of the blue I went to #3, so I checked out who was on the charts. There were two 'Brand New' artists with less than 1/5th of my fan totals ahead of me...! Immediately I knew what RN was doing, and that is moving artists up the charts so that they would pay for services. I have worked diligently as most of you have on my fan base and went back to #2 for the past couple of months. So now we were told that they narrowed the 'Local' to closer to our zip-codes. Total BS!
If that were the case then I would have gone right back to #1. The artists listed for my 'Local' are even further away now. This is actually Funny and Sad at the same time..... * will be looking into other areas for promotion ASAP , other than RN~! You know us daily users spread RN by using their FB tools etc... Think I'll unsync that as well..! I'll give it a day or two and wait and see if the #s change . if not, ,,,, See Ya~! So glad I haven't paid them a dime! -
When you start out brand new, you move up the charts fast because your change in band equity score is large (starting from zero). Once you've been around for that period, the rate of BES change stabilizes and you drop back to your "normal" position. It's a natural consequence of the ranking system as it relates to the BES rate.
And we weren't "now" told about the zip code changes. That was over a year ago and could not possibly affect what you're seeing now.
This thread needs to die. There's plenty of chart position threads going on that don't rely on outdated info. -
Does Local Rank actually mean National Rank?
Because I am in the "local" charts for Edinburgh but the others above me are in places like Ipswich, Jersey (erm...?!), Dorset, Overbury, London, London again, Exeter, Kent, "europe, UK", South Brent, Headley, and another Exeter ahead of me, in Edinburgh, SCOTLAND.
Not one of the first 12 are anywhere near me (and I only noticed because I used to recognise the other acts as we kind of get to know each other).
I wouldn't mind (because it does nothing for you anyway to be ranked) but it is just so wrong that it needs correcting. -
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Chicago Tribune - A school bus driver taking children to a public elementary school on Chicago's North Side was arrested and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol this week after being stopped for erratic driving, officials said Wednesday. A police officer writing tickets Tuesday morning in the 4100 block of North Lawndale Avenue was waved down by a driver who complained that a nearby school bus had nearly rear-ended his vehicle three times, Chicago police said.
The officer, who was on foot, signaled for the bus to stop but the driver ignored him, forcing the officer to get into his car to pull over the bus, according to Chicago police Officer Mike Sullivan. The officer smelled alcohol on the driver's breath and noticed his eyes were bloodshot, Sullivan said. Kenny Sellers, 41, of the 7500 block of South Green Street, failed a field sobriety test but refused to take a breath test, Sullivan said. Taken to the 17th District police station, Sellers tried to escape and fought with a police officer, he said. Sellers received seven citations, including a felony count of aggravated DUI for a bus driver and aggravated battery against a police officer. The four children aboard the bus were taken to Hawthorne elementary school in the Lakeview neighborhood by another driver.
We've all had those days. The days you wake up with 3 hours of sleep still drunk from the night before. The days where you realize immediately that today will 100% be the worst day of your entire life and for the next 8-10 hours and you'd rather just kill yourself than go to work. The days where you have to say "Fuck it", pop a couple advil, throw on your hottest rising yellow flames, neon green shirt and go drive around a bus full of kids with a blood alcohol level that's teetering above the Mendoza line like Adam Dunn in mid-June. It's the worst. So everyone should be able to empathize with Kenny Sellers a little bit. We've all been there, he just happened to get caught. Also had that bus full of kids and tried to escape and fight the cops but what're you gonna do? Not like he had any alternative. Call out of work? Yeah right. Have fun getting a job again after being too drunk to come into work as a school bus driver. Ride or die, that's the only way Hawthorne elementary kids would wanna get to school in the first place.

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quote:Chelsea should have overloaded the midfield. I don't know why they thought they could get the ball off of Pirlo and Marchisio with a 3-man midfield.
quote:I don't know enough about Chelsea to say who should have started but a midfield of Azpilicueta, Mikel, and Ramires could not have been the best option for them. I say this as a huge fan of Ramires.
quote:Do top level teams change tactics weekly based on their opponent, like an NFL team would? Can you make those changes that quickly?
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My Alsace game is now finished. I cannot say I have reached all my goals or what CJL78 had in mind (integrating all of Charlemagne's former empire would have been nice), but things went pretty well (this seems to be a common issue actually: Magna Mundi tends to make the early and midgame very interesting and often challenging, but when a certain stage is reached, the challenge level drops to very low; rebellions and revolutions, civil wars or other internal problems are rarely a threat for a large player-controlled country -- I have to admit, though, that usually I don't play the games which didn't go well in the earlier stages all the way to the end, that is of course part of the reason for this). The only real obstacle during the last 100 years or so was badboy, which made the endgame somewhat tedious. Nonetheless, all in all it was a fun and satisfying game!
A pretty yellow engulfs Gallia, Germania, Lombardia and beyond.. According to my NIs the Alsacian empire is an encompassing nation state.. will this prevent the world wars?
Straßburg is also near the geographical center of the empire.. Madeira is a place I like to conquer in most games, sorry Portugal
World map (Click for a larger image). Has some mildly interesting stuff like Mali having won wars against Netherlands, Ceylon in mainland India, Ottomans in Ukraine (they also lead a PU with a very strong Morocco) and a Cuba which has been and stayed independent since the 16th century. Also, a mighty Sweden and a decent-sized USA. Oh, and Ethiopia.
Internal affairs.. A really large army is not needed, because almost all provinces have zero revolt risk. The dutch rebellions are an exception, though. My inflation is that high, because there is no way not to spend all money on minting when every tech has been maxed (which happened in the 1780s) and stability is at +3.
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State volleyball - Wallace County, Logan in Division II tourney
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Wallace County High School has consistently delivered a strong volleyball program under coach Paulette Unruh. In her second stint with the Wildcats, Unruh has posted 33-6, 18-13, 23-10 and 26-8 records.
However, the Wildcats had trouble with state powers Weskan and Wheatland-Grinnell and fell short of a Class 1A Division II state berth. This summer, though, coach Larry O'Connor worked with the volleyball team in the weight room. The girls had a high attendance and showed marked improvement.
"He deserves a lot of credit," Unruh said.
Wallace County produced an eight-win difference to 34-4, finished 2-0 against Weskan and Wheatland-Grinnell and won the early-season Gove County Classic.
Last week, Wallace County navigated through a sub-state with four ranked teams, defeated Wheatland-Grinnell 24-26, 25-23, 25-15 in the semifinals and beat Rexford-Golden Plains 25-21, 25-22 in the championship.
Wallace County had lost five in a row to Weskan and Wheatland-Grinnell each before this season. Weskan lost in the first round of sub-state to Triplains-Brewster when all-state senior Kelsey Hale played with an injured ankle.
"That was the key," Unruh said. "If they hadn't gotten in the weight room, it might have been a different story. They came in physically more fit."
Wallace County enters the Class 1A Division II state tournament as the No. 2 seed. The Wildcats are in Pool II with third-seeded Argonia (34-5), No. 6 Logan (24-12) and No. 7 Attica (21-16). Start time is 3:30 p.m. at Gross Memorial Coliseum.
"I am pretty confident about it," Unruh said. "I felt like if we could beat the teams that were ranked in the top-10 in our sub-state, then we could beat anybody there."
This year marks the fifth time Wallace County has qualified for the state tournament in school annals. Unruh coached the team for nine years, then took five years off before she came back five years ago. The Wildcats were third in 2000 and fourth the next season. No area team has won a state title since Weskan in 1A in 1995.
"We can produce some pretty good volleyball teams out here, and I have been to state before," Unruh said. "Yeah, there is some pressure, not everybody is going to be better and bigger than you are, and you get there, and they are just high school girls, and whoever wants to compete that day. I really think that if we play our best, I really think that we have got a shot at it."
Helped by the summer work, Wallace County has especially improved offensively. The team has 776 kills, just 174 errors and a .428 hitting percentage.
"We don't have to work so much on the timing, because they have been able to jump higher," Unruh said. "When their timing is off is when they are not jumping very high. They didn't realize, I don't think until this year, that timing is not a very big deal when you jump high. That's really helped our hitting."
Last season, Wallace County went 2-3 at the Gove County Classic. This season, the Wildcats finished 4-1 at the Sept. 14 tournament, including straight set wins against Wheatland-Grinnell and Weskan.
"Mentally, I think our girls were maybe doubting themselves because they were bigger schools there," Unruh said. "They realized that they could do it."
Junior middle hitter Rachael Kuhlman has 507 kills (4.2 per set) and a .585 hitting percentage. She leads the team with 4.4 blocks and stands second with 3.8 assists.
Last season, the Wildcats hit .210 with 628 kills and 273 errors. Kuhlman had 298 kills and hit .401.
Senior Jordan Compton has played well at middle/outside hitter, senior Ally Dewees is the starting libero and sophomore Jaiden Childers has played in the back row. Freshman Sierra Seader and junior Rylea Rains have played on the outside, freshman Hannah Pletcher has improved as a hitter and freshman Cassidy Kreigh is the starting setter.
"She thinks," Unruh said of Kuhlman. "She is smart about the game. She knows the game really well, and she gives 100 percent 100 percent of the time. She'll never let a ball drop that she thought she could have had."
Logan qualifies for state
Veteran Trojan coach Robin Van Laeys knew Logan had a talented group this season. Logan had two seniors in Michaela Girard and Cynthia Bressler, a strong junior class and plenty of height.
"We knew that this was our year," Van Laeys said.
Logan has four players at least 5-foot-10: Bressler, junior Kodi Van Laeys, sophomore Christen Greving and junior Kadee Braun. The height and Girard's outstanding jump serve has helped a team that has hit a collective .108. Logan finished fourth two years ago with Caley Greving, Christen's older sister.
"It's been huge," Coach Van Laeys said. "We are pretty big, and it helps us. When we are big at the net, we play well."
Girard has 71 aces and 220 serving points, each the team's best. Girard's serve is so strong Logan has had to change its approach.
"Sometimes it is almost a detriment to us, because kids can't handle it and it comes back," Coach Van Laeys said. "We have had to adjust how we are on the floor when she is serving, because she would serve a lot of balls that would be immediately returned."
Blocking-wise, Greving paces the team with 1.9 per set, while Braun has 1.8 and Bressler 1.6. Van Laeys leads with 2.7 kills and a .198 hitting percentage. Logan has played 18 three-set matches, including a sub-state semifinal and championship win. Logan went 11-7 in three-set matches this year.
"We are pretty good at doing that, because we have done it all season," Girard said of the comebacks.


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- Posted by Johanna on February 5, 2008 at 10:13 pm
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Paul Pope update: DC has announced that "all orders for the new printings of the HEAVY LIQUID TP and the 100% TP have been cancelled. Instead, these titles will be solicited as hardcover editions, with the HEAVY LIQUID HC scheduled for fall 2008 release, followed by the 100% HC in 2009." Nice for Pope fans, who will appreciate more permanent bindings; not so much for those who'd like to read more of his work this year.
Random mean thought: Tony Bedard is to DC what Robert Kirkman is to Marvel: mediocre fanboy writers who must be nice guys to work with, based on how they keep getting assignments. Ignore me, I'm bitter that Birds of Prey is never going to be the title it should.
Want a good way to waste a lot of hours? TV Tropes lists standard conventions of storytelling with cute names and LOTS of examples from TV shows, anime, comics, books, and others. They have a terrific sense of humor, too, as they explain the way they work on the page titled TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life. Don't know where to start? Try Spikeification.
Marvel must have heard the arguing that's been done over the awful, muddy coloring of Ultimates 3 #1: their latest gimmick is releasing it again as a black-and-white variant.
Chassis is returning! The press release mentions it previously came out from Image (in 1998), but they neglect to say that before that, it was released by something called Millennium Publications. When I first started going to conventions back when, I would bump into the nice folks behind this girl racer story.
I love The Cutting Edge, a romantic comedy about a prissy figure skater who falls in love with her boorish hockey-playing partner. A while back, they did a direct-to-TV sequel about their supposed kid (although the numbers didn't work out) who went through a similar encounter (only with a skateboarder that time). It must have done ok because they've announced The Cutting Edge 3 for next month on ABC Family. These continuing direct-to-video sequels often wind up being cases of diminishing returns, but I'm mentioning this because I'm intrigued by the plot: in this one, the guy's the figure skater and the GIRL is the hockey player!
Let's end with possibly the bitchiest comment I've ever made. Remember last year when we had lots of discussion about whether or not I should sell review copies? One of the two books that emailing creator was understandably upset about has been listed since then at around half cover price, and it hasn't sold. So maybe, with no customer demand, it was a moot point.
Seeing what some graphic novels go for used on Amazon can be really interesting, if you assume pricing accurately reflects supply and demand. (Sometimes yes, sometimes no.)
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- James Schee Says:
February 6, 2008 at 12:01 AMI don't think I've ever read anything by Bedard, so can't comment on his talent level. He does seem to be DC's ultimate fill-in guy, which is probably why he so quickly landed this gig when Sean McKeever so quickly bailed on the series. Which had to leave some people really scrambling.
DC's had a few of these types of departures lately though. It wasn't announced until the Previews came out that Kurt Busiek was leaving Superman for. Which was made doubly odd as not much prior to that they'd made a huge deal about him bringing in the Chloe character from Smallville show to the comics which got scrapped too.
I always liked BoP but got behind on it sometime around the first or second Gail storyarc. I peeked at an issue the other day and beyond Babs the characters were unrecognizable. (I'm guessing it isn't an Oracle/Black Canary teamup book anymore?)
Cutting Edge 2 was cute, but then I like the lead actress in it who also does the voice to Kim Possible. The third one's premise sounds intriguing.
- Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Feb. 6, 2008: Natchez to New Orleans, livin' on jacks and queens Says:
February 6, 2008 at 3:07 AM[…] "Random mean thought: Tony Bedard is to DC what Robert Kirkman is to Marvel: mediocre fanboy writers who must be nice guys to work with, based on how they keep getting assignments. Ignore me, I'm bitter that Birds of Prey is never going to be the title it should." – Johanna Draper Carlson […]
- Johanna Says:
February 6, 2008 at 8:10 AMFor me, Bedard's stories always sound like they're going to be better than they are. And yeah, DC seems to be having some issues with plans. Did Chloe never show up in the comics?
Black Canary got pulled to go into the shared title with Green Arrow.
The lead in CE2 was Christy Carlson Romano, who will also be in CE3. As the coach, apparently.
- James Schee Says:
February 6, 2008 at 12:15 PMNope, there was an interview with.. Didio I believe that said there were some issues there that forced them to scrap her joining the cast. (which was too bad, as the description of her comic persona sounded fun)
There wasn't anything further given on it, though speculation (IE people pulling reasons out of their butts ha ha) have blamed the writer's strike, or having to pay the actress money for her likeness or Siegals Superboy lawsuit over Smallville to blame.
Bedard was an edtior at DC at one point too I believe.
- Strannik Says:
February 6, 2008 at 2:10 PMI enjoyed Bedard's work on "Negation," but since then, his writing has been uneven at best. It doesn't help that, as it has been pointed out in prior posts, he has become DC's go to fill-in guy.
- Mark Says:
February 6, 2008 at 2:27 PMreally looking forward to the new heavy liquid HC.
I've been looking for a copy of that one for ages but they are hard to come by..
Another good thing is that adhouse seems to bring out a new edition of THB, too :-)
- Chris G. Says:
February 6, 2008 at 3:50 PMShame about Busiek leaving Superman — I enjoyed what little I'd read and was looking forward to reading more. Especially since he was taking a lot of cues from the Schwartz-era run of the books, which is what I grew up on.
- Andrew Says:
February 6, 2008 at 4:38 PMWhy Pope HCs now all of a sudden? And after I've been super careful with the trade paperback versions for so long.
- Johanna Says:
February 6, 2008 at 6:06 PMI liked Negation, too, but I was frustrated by how few questions got answered before the series went away.
Andrew: I have no idea, but my default guess is "money" — they thought they would sell.
- Jason Says:
February 6, 2008 at 8:28 PMExcited for the Pope news, but I wish it was coming out tomorrow!
- Kelson Says:
February 6, 2008 at 9:05 PM:D I cannot even begin to count the number of hours that I have wasted–er, spent– reading the TV Tropes wiki.
- Alan Coil Says:
February 7, 2008 at 1:08 AMLook out, comic book world, Johanna's kicking butt again!
Liked The Cutting Edge.
Yes, you should sell the review copies; why throw them away if you don't want to keep them?
Has Tony Bedard been given any assignments that were more than 3 or 4 issues? Seems to me that it would be hard to find a rhythm.
And stop giving me sites like TV Tropes. I already spend too much time online!
- Mark S. Says:
February 7, 2008 at 9:48 AMIf you don't feel comfortable selling review copies, there are a few University libraries that would be glad to have them for their collections. Two purposes get served, as you don't end up with the clutter and some good will come of them.
Cutting Edge was a cute movie. "Toe Pick!"
Bedard is competent. And in today's personality driven comics marketplace (characters seem to take a back seat to creators), that's not quite enough it seems. He tells good, but not great stories and he appears to be getting stretched fairly thin what with all the title hopping.
- Gail Says:
February 7, 2008 at 6:52 PMI think Tony Bedard is way better than competent, but he was put in a very difficult assignment–writing done-in-one fill-in issues without knowing exactly what was coming before or after. Nevertheless, I thought he did some fine work.
I believe, now that the book is fully his, he's going to do a great run. I'm looking forward to it.


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Prepare 4 October in Cooperstown: Philadelphia Phillies
While the heartbeat of baseball can be found in Cooperstown throughout the year, there's no better time to reconnect with the National Pastime than when legends are being made. As the postseason approaches, fans all over the country can connect with the Hall of Fame to get in the fall spirit.
Phillies Phans have a long and storied past that has heated up over the last few autumns. With the Induction this past summer of the architect of the revival, Philly is well represented within Cooperstown's shrine – which is just a short day-trip away.
Life with a .473 winning percentage hasn't always been easy for Phillies fans. They lost their 10,000th game in 2007 – joined by the Braves earlier this season in the five digit loss category. In 129 seasons, they've made 14 playoff appearances (including the current 98-win team, five this decade), been to seven World Series (two since 2008) and own two Championships. They didn't win their first flag until 1980 – 98 years after their founding – as the final franchise of Major League Baseball's original 16 to do so.
In contrast to the red-clad Phillies, over 54 years the blue-clad Philadelphia Athletics won five World Championships and nine pennants in the City of Brotherly Love. But while Connie Mack's A's got more recognition, the Phillies have stayed loyal to their city and their history is covered with legends from Pete Alexander, Chuck Klein, Richie Ashburn, Robin Roberts, Steve Carlton and Mike Schmidt to current stars Roy Halladay, Ryan Howard, Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley. In all 34 Hall of Famers have connections to the team, including six who sport the Philadelphia "P" on their Hall plaques.
From 1883 to 1913, the Phillies achieved just two second place finishes. But in 1915, the Phils made an improbable leap forward with Alexander at the forefront. After finishing sixth the year before, they reached the Fall Classic. In 1916 Dave Bancroft's talents were added to Alexander and Eppa Rixey, keeping the team in contention. By 1917 the Phillies reached a height of five Hall of Famer with Chief Bender and Johnny Evers joining the team – a modern day club record, beat only by the 1892, squad which featured six.
In the Hall of Fame's Baseball Timeline, the team's next star – Chuck Klein – is represented with his 1932 MVP trophy, marking his NL-leading totals in runs, hits, home runs, total bases, slugging percentage and stolen bases; and his 300th career home run ball from 1941.
The A's collected two World Series rings and reached a third straight Fall Classic in 1931, but then fell on hard times. It wasn't until the Whiz Kids led by Roberts and Ashburn jumped up and grabbed the NL pennant in 1950 that the city again played in the Fall Classic. Featuring a roster with only a handful of regulars over 30, the team became know for its youth. A 1950 NL Champions banner emblazoned with "Whiz Kids", a 1952 jersey worn by Robin Roberts, an Ashburn warm-up jacket and a cap belonging to 33-year-old closer Jim Konstanty, who became the first reliever to be named Most Valuable Player, all appear in the a Timeline.
An occasional blip over the next two decades showed there was still baseball life in Philadelphia, but the team only mustered one second place finish and one third place ranking while hovering around .500. During this time period, future U.S. Senator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning authored a perfect game on Father's Day in 1964. His cap and a ticket from the perfecto against the New York Mets can be found in the Timeline. A few years later, 2011 Hall of Fame Classic participant Rick Wise threw another no-hitter, but his June 23rd, 1971 performance was more than a great pitching performance. He connected for two home runs in the 4-0 victory. His bat from the day is on exhibit in the Hall's newest exhibit One for Books, which explores baseball records.
Schmidt got a cup of coffee in the big leagues in 1972, when Carlton joined the team. Then in 1975, Schmidt's second full season, they broke a string of Philly losing campaigns. The following year, they made the playoffs. From 1976 to 1983 the Phillies missed the postseason just twice and reached the World Series twice, raising their first World Champion banner in 1980.
A prolific home run hitter, high-caliber defender at third base and three-time MVP, Schmidt played 18 seasons and was incredibly generous to the Hall of Fame while writing baseball history. Among the objects on display from Schmidt at the Hall are a "Tony Taylor" model bat from his four homer game on April 17, 1976 (One for the Books); a 1979 bat used to hit five homers in three games; a bat from his 1980 NL-leading 48 home run, MVP season; and his 1987 500th home run jersey (all in the Timeline).
Likewise, the four-time Cy Young Award winning Carlton dominates the Phillies artifacts after a career in which the lefty – who at one point held the title of all-time strikeout leader and is now fourth – dominated big league hitters. His 3,000th strikeout ball is in One for the Books and Carlton artifacts in the Timeline include the glove he used when setting the all-time strikeout record for a left-handed pitcher in 1980; his 1980 Cy Young Award; the ball from his NL record setting 3,117th K; his 1982 jersey and cap from when led the NL in wins and strikeouts and earned his fourth Cy Young Award; and 4,000th career strikeout ball, becoming the second pitcher to ever reach the mark.
For one last hurrah during the maroon Phillies era, the team fielded a lineup of four Hall of Famers for a season, adding Joe Morgan and Tony Perez in 1983. That team lost the Series.
The Phils reached the World Series for a fifth time in 1993, but were defeated by the Pat Gillick-led Blue Jays.
It wasn't until Gillick came to Philly in 2006 that things really started to turn around again. A division title in 2007 followed three straight second place finishes and began the current string of five straight NL East titles which has taken the city to the World Series twice, including the 2008 World Championship. Today's Game is a testament to the talent currently on display at Citizen's Bank Park. Many of the artifacts from their '08 Championship have migrated from their original home in Autumn Glory to the Phillies locker including Carlos Ruiz's Game Three-winning batting helmet, pitcher Joe Blanton's Game Four home run bat, Howard's two home run bat from Game Four, closer Brad Lidge's World Series cap and Jayson Werth's '08 spikes. Also in the locker are Utley's 35-game hitting streak spikes; Howard's 2006 league-leading 56-homer, 149 RBI MVP jersey; Rollins' spikes from his 2007 20-triple, double and steal season, joining Tiger Curtis Granderson that same season in matching a mark completed by only Willie Mays and John Schulte; and Roy Halladay's May 29, 2010 perfect game ball. Halladay's cap from the game appears in One for the Books.
In his first season in Philly, Halladay took writing history a step further by throwing only the second-ever postseason no-hitter. And now that he and the Phillies are lining up for another deep October run, fans are hoping for more.
Trevor Hayes is the editorial production manager at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
Labor of 'glove'
I recently crossed paths with one of our older gloves, which I knew was used by Rube Waddell in a 20-inning game. The smooth, brown leather glove, lacking a web, laces between the fingers and nearly any padding, looks more like a driving or work glove than the early-20th century baseball glove it is. It has long intrigued me, so I took the time and opportunity to research both the game and the glove.
Legendary Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack donated the glove to the Hall of Fame in 1942 – an artifact from a game the Athletics had played in Boston 37 years earlier, on July 4, 1905. On that day, Philadelphia's Rube Waddell pulled the glove on in preparation for confronting Cy Young, as the pair of future Hall of Fame pitchers faced off in the second game of an Independence Day doubleheader. Young, 38, might have been a decade older than Waddell, but he was still the ace of the Boston Americans (today's Red Sox), and had thrown a perfect game the year before at home to beat Waddell.
At the start of the game, Waddell promptly gave up two Boston runs in the bottom of the first; however, these would be the last runs the Americans would score for the next 19 innings. The ageless Young matched the Philadelphia pitcher, giving up only a two-run homer in the sixth, and at the end of nine the score was tied, 2-2.
This being the era when pitchers generally completed what they started and pitch counts were unheard of, both hurlers came back and pitched scoreless 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th innings. And still the game continued. At the end of 19 innings, both Waddell and Young were still going strong, pitching out of jams and recording outs by the bushel. Across the game's last 10 innings, each side recorded just four hits. Waddell had pitched the equivalent of two consecutive shutouts. Finally, in the top of the 20th inning, the Boston defense stumbled behind Young, giving up two unearned runs and yielding a 4-2 lead to the visiting Athletics. Over 20 innings, Young had racked up nine strikeouts and walked no one.
It was at this point, of course, that Philadelphia manager Connie Mack decided to bring in the Athletics closer—NOT. Like every other pitcher of the era, Waddell was his own "closer" (neither the term nor the position having been invented yet), so he resumed his place on the mound, with this glove, where he recorded the last three outs to close out the epic game for the win. Waddell had struck out 11 and walked only four.
The game itself was played much more briskly than might be expected. The teams combined for 28 hits, nine errors, and left a combined 28 men on base, but the game was over in just 3:31, scarcely longer than today's average nine-inning game. Boston made no substitutions in the game, Philly only one—shortstop John Knight, who was knocked out by a Cy Young pitch to the head in the 20th inning. Most of the ballplayers, in fact, played all of both games that day, including Ossee Schrecongost ("Ossee Schreck" in the press), the stalwart Athletics catcher who set a still-standing record of 29 innings caught in one day.
After the game, Waddell guessed he threw more than 250 pitches; Young estimated 290. After such a marathon, how good could the pitchers be the next time they climbed the mound? Amazingly, not only did both players make their next start but they pitched wonderfully. After two days of rest (typical for the era) they faced each other again on July 7. Waddell repeated his victory over Young, this time by a 2-1 score, but only Young pitched a complete game. Waddell did not leave the game because he was tired, however; he had hurt his hand stopping a grounder and was replaced in the eighth by another future Hall of Famer, Chief Bender, who closed out the win!
John Odell is the curator of history and research at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.


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Feldberg Presses On
Thursday was a day full of surges from the field including round one co-leader David Feldberg, who after shooting a fiery 57 (-11), took sole lead of the USDGC with (-20).
After the round Feldberg said he was happy with his progress, but he felt his performance was less than solid. Along with his 11 birdies and an eagle on hole 12, he also had a bogey on holes 5 and 11.
"I feel I can do much better than that," the 2005 champion said.
When asked what it would take to produce that solid round he said "I think it's going to take me believing."
Although Feldberg's play was impressive, he did not own the best score of the day, which was posted by the surging Josh Anthon, of Rio Linda, Calif. Anthon, in his eighth Open appearance, shot a lights out 56 (-12), a twelve stroke improvement over round one. Anthon, second at the 2009 Worlds, is currently tied at ninth place.
Sitting in second place at (-16) is the 2009 Worlds master champion, Phil Arthur, of Woodstock, Ga., who tallied a 59 (-9). Arthur secured 10 birdies and an eagle on hole 12, but suffered a double bogey on hole 5 and a bogey on 13.
Others also in the mix include: defending champion Nate Doss, of Scotts Valley, Calif., and Jussi Meresmaa, of Finland, at (-15); and Paul Ulibarri, of Showlow, Ariz., Michael Johansen, of Denver, N.C., and Brian Schweberger, of Tarboro, N.C., at (-14).
Johansen, someone quite familiar with Winthrop Gold, was generally pleased with his 62 (-6) today, but he couldn't hold back the streaking Feldberg, who played on his card. Johansen said he hoped more wind would arrive for the last days of the tournament because he liked the edge that it could give him.
"I would love some wind out here," Johansen said.
Probably the biggest score turnaround today came from Garrett Gurthie, who's second round 59 was 14 strokes less than his first. He now sits at (-4).
Also, 2009 World Champion Avery Jenkins fared much better today with a 60 (-8), an 11 stroke difference from Wednesday.
Spectators increase for Round 2: lead card draws a crowd.
By hole 3, the lead card with Schweberger, Feldberg, Johansen, and Joe Mela had collected a sizable crowd for early in the week. Dozens looked on.
Among them was Mark "Sharky" Sherwood, who came down from Maryland to watch the action and take some photos. Sherwood, attending his fifth Open, said he appreciated the top pros "shot making ability."
Earlier in the day, spectator Andrew Tallent, of Charlotte, was sitting beside hole 17 enjoying the pleasant weather and watching players try to handle the infamous island hole. Tallent, who's been playing the game for about a year was attending his first Open. He said he was hoping to see some exciting play while paying attention to the pros' technique.
"I'm trying to learn something from the pros right now," he said.
Another spectator of sorts may have gotten too involved in the action when it grabbed a disc with its mouth late in the morning. Coury Coates had driven about halfway up hole 2, which borders several houses, when a brown dog dug under the chain-linked fence that separated the backyard from the course and grabbed the disc with its mouth. Only later did the dog give up the disc after players pretended to throw another. No penalty was assessed because the disc had already come to rest.


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Date: 11/19/2010Alvernia Seniors College member, Doris Glick, questions a witness in a Berks Country courtroom, during a mock trial this week.
Seniors College pushes the "Bar"
Arriving early, eighteen members of an Alvernia Seniors College class sat quietly in the back of courtroom #9 as Berks County Prison inmates stood before the Honorable Judge Scott D. Keller one-by-one. Their teacher, Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser, Esq., — no stranger to the court room — quietly whispered to her students about the criminal precedings and the people taking part in them. She pointed to the bar separating the court room from the audience. "That's the bar. Lawyers earn the right to cross it by taking the bar exam," she explained.
Half an hour later, the bar doors opened and Judge Keller invited the members of the "Moot Court 102" class to set up for their mock murder trial. Students, who had been preparing for this moment for five weeks assumed the roles of prosecutors, defense attorneys, witnesses, and defendant. Judge Keller presided over the trial as Geishauser offered advice to the prosecution and defense. Immediately after the session ended, and before a shuttle returned the class to Alvernia, students asked Geishauser if she would be willing to teach another course.
Alvernia's Seniors College offers three semesters of academic classes each year. The next session (beginning in January) will include classes on global warming, the history of books in the Bible (exploring if people will continue to read and learn from them), basic computing, and a course with State Trial Judge Judge Linda Ludgate — a 1977 graduate of Alvernia.
Annual Membership to the Seniors College is $50 — a great Christmas gift for anyone 55 years-of-age or older. Contact Sally Reading (610) 796-8357 or visit the Seniors College website for more details.
Click here to see photos from the Moot Court class event.
Eleni Dimitriou Geishauser, Esq., prepares her class for its mock trial.
- History: Established as a private four-year liberal arts college in 1958, Alvernia celebrated its 50th year by being awarded university status in 2008.
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Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin says the 'morning-after pill' is a form of abortion and should be banned.
Akin says his prohibition would include victims of rape of incest.
Akin made the comment in an interview on KCMO Talk Radio 710 Thursday morning on the Greg Knapp broadcast.
Near the end of the interview Knapp asked Akin about the morning-after pill.
"As far as I'm concerned, the morning after pill is a form of abortion. And I think we shouldn't have abortion in this country," Akin said.
The Republican said, "We should optimize life".
Knapp then pressed him on his answer.
"So just to be clear, you would like to ban the morning-after pill, totally, for everyone?
'Yeah. I think that's a form of abortion, and I don't support it."
Planned Parenthood issued a statement after the interview condemning Akin's remarks.
Planned Parenthood says Akin is wrong, the morning-after pill is not an abortion. It called it, 'emergency contraception".
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Most contemporary Canon DSLRs (and many compacts) run DryOS, a RTOS (completely unrelated to DOS, by the way). This limits costs compared to licensing another OS. None of the operating systems you list are real-time operating systems, and would not necessarily be suitable for Canon DSLRs. The DryOS kernel fits in 16kb of memory, the Android kernel is, what, 2MB?


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Vol. 18, No. 21 | Feb. 25, 1999 |
Career Fair The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will hold its 10th annual Career Fair for current students and alumni from 2-4 p.m., Friday, March 5, in Multipurpose Rooms B and C of the Trabant University Center. Thirty companies, including Winterthur Gardens, Purina Mills, Allen Foods and Agway will have representatives available to talk with students about summer and full-time opportunities.All students are welcome and are encouraged to dress professionally and bring resumes. For more information, call 831-2508.
Overseas online While the paperless office may still be years away, the Office of International Programs and Special Sessions' overseas studies section is joining the electronic revolution by offering several new services to UD students and faculty via <http://www.udel.edu/studyabroad>.Innovations geared toward students include online applications for study abroad programs, applications for internships through the London and Bayreuth programs and a health and safety abroad refresher. UD faculty directors for study abroad programs also will find new conveniences on the site, such as proposal submission information, forms for submitting information about housing, advertising and more, as well as the Faculty Director's Handbook for Study Abroad: Winter Session 2000.
Cholesterol test The UD Wellness Center will be offering a cholesterol screening from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 26. Total cholesterol and HDL (the good cholesterol) will be determined from a painless fingerstick. Appointments take 10 minutes. Cost is $10 Wellness Dollars, plus a $5 co-pay. To schedule an appointment, call 831-8388. The screening will be held in the Wellness Center, 112 Carpenter Sports Building.
Attention, moms Several new moms at UD are interested in forming a social/ support group, which would meet informally every month or so, as schedules permit. This is not an official UD group, but simply a way for new moms to get to know each other and share information. If interested, please send e-mail to Karen Aniunas at <email@example.com>.
Bowl for Kids Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware will hold its 18th annual bowling fundraiser on Saturday, April 17. More than 300 teams from business and government will participate. Money raised will benefit the statewide program.To participate or pledge, call 998-3577 in New Castle County, 674-2486 in Kent County and 856-2918 in Sussex County.
D.C. shuttle The Washington, D.C., shuttle to the Library of Congress and the Folger Shakespeare Library is in operation during the spring 1999 semester on Fridays only and is available to faculty and graduate students.Make reservations in advance by calling Wanda McCracken or Debbie Lehman, Department of English, 831-2361, by noon on Thursday of each week.
Hens vs. Rocks The 1998 Carolina League champion Wilmington Blue Rocks will host the UD baseball team at 6:05 p.m., Wednesday, April 7, in a seven-inning exhibition game at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington. This is the second year the two teams will meet before the start of the Blue Rocks regular season. Last year, the Rocks shut out the Hens 13-0 in front of 2,495 fans.
Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for students and children 12 and under. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to the University of Delaware baseball program.
Research grants The national competitive grants program of the U.S. Geological Survey and National Institutes for Water Resources for research in the area of water resources has been announced. Information on the program can be found at <http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/waterctr/wchome.html>. The deadline for applications is April 30.
H1-B visas If a department is contemplating any H1-B visa applications between now and the fall semester, please contact Susan Lee, foreign student and scholar adviser at 831-2115, as soon as possible.Although Congress approved increasing the number of allowable visas from 65,000 to 115,000, it is predicted that the quota will be reached sometime in the next few months. This could significantly disrupt some departmental research and class scheduling.
Hens are hot UD teams won three America East Championships last weekend-men's indoor track and field, men's swimming and diving and men's basketball (winning the regular season with Drexel University).


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Todd Lenker
Todd Lenker, 55, Phillipsburg, died Tuesday, March 4, 2014, at his home.
He was born Aug. 19, 1958, in Spaulding, Neb., to Alvin and Ruth (McCain) Lenker.
He was an environmental safety supervisor at the Phillipsburg refinery.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce, of the home; two stepsons, Kane Christy, Phillipsburg, and Keath Christy, Glade; four brothers, Bruce and Craig Lenker, both of Phillipsburg, Brad Lenker, Ottawa, and Mark Lenker, Grand Prairie, Texas; a sister, Deb Perkins, Broken Arrow, Okla.; his mother-in-law, Dorothy Detwiler, Kensington; and two grandchildren.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg; burial in Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.
Visitation will be until 9 p.m. Thursday, with family receiving friends from 7 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorials are suggested to Phillip County EMS in care of the funeral home.
Condolences can be sent to the family at www.olliffboeve.com.