=== News Items ===

Thirty-four users posted 540 news items, for an average of 15.9 each. This was an increase from the 504 of last month. The monthly average for the past year is now 598.

The following is a list of users who entered at least one new story in 9/2007. The following list is in the reverse order of the user number. Socialist, Ev, Comedy, RBH, Buddy, New Jerusalem, Bobby, RMF, Dave Imperator, Mad Viking, Patrick, Ryan Walker, Plum, C Block, Gemini DKH, Chronicler, Greg Jones, Kal El, Bob Heaney, Eric, Brett, Thomas Walker, Matthew Wraz, Karma, Aviator, Urbanite, Scott Tester, Particleman, Eddy 9_99, Joe Keene, DFW Dem, Bill Albers, Howie, and Randy.

Posting of News Items, 9/2007
#	Last Month - 540	Past 12 Months - 7,178	Site Totals - 34,613
1	Randy - 153	Randy - 917	Randy - 4,784
2	Bobby	Joe Keene	Aviator
3	Joe Keene (tie)	Aviator	Joe Keene
4	Aviator (tie)	Bobby	Howie
5	Thomas Walker	C Block	Thomas Walker
6	Howie	Thomas Walker	Edgewater
7	RBH	Kal El	Scott Tester
8	Scott Tester	Brandon	Brandon
9	Kal El (tie)	Ryan Walker	Bill Albers
10	Patrick (tie) - 10	Scott Tester - 282	C Block - 1,014
11	Ryan Walker (tie)	Bill Albers	Ryan Walker
12	Karma	Howie	Kal El
13	C Block (tie)	Forward	Bobby
14	Buddy (tie)	DFW Dem	NY Dem
15	Chronicler (tie) - 8	Brett - 145	Brett - 711

=== Races Created ===

Twenty-four users posted 1,439 races, for an average of 60 each. This was a drop from over 2,000 in the same month in 2006. The average for the past 12 months is 2,485 (I had an error in this calculation last month).

In the past month, three users passed milestones. Both RMF and Ev passed the 2,000 mark, and Socialist passed 200. Congratulations!!

The following users posted races in the past month. They are listed in the order of their user numbers. Randy, Howie, Eddy 9_99, Scott Tester, Polecat, Aviator, Karma, Thomas Walker, Brett, Greg Jones, Chronicler, NYS 63, Plum, Ryan Walker, Patrick, Mad Viking, Dave Imperator, RMF, New Jerusalem, Buddy, RBH, Comedy, Ev, and Socialist.

Races Created, 9/2007
#	Last Month - 1,439	Past 12 Months - 29,814	Site Totals - 140,689
1	RBH - 351	Eddy - 5,299	Eddy - 21,853
2	Brett	Brett	Thomas Walker
3	Eddy 9_99	Thomas Walker	Joe Skylark
4	Scott Tester	Chronicler	Brett
5	Thomas Walker	RBH	NYS 63
6	Ev	Ev	Chronicler
7	Chronicler	Karma	MCPM
8	Socialist	Scott Tester	Dave Trotter
9	Randy	Dave Trotter	Valerie
10	RMF - 60	MCPM - 1,088	Joshua Lemere - 3,889
11	NYS63	Mad Viking	Scott Tester
12	Ryan Walker	NYS63	Meta
13	Mad Viking	RMF	Bill Albers
14	Karma	Brian G.	Polecat
15	Polecat - 11	Dave Imperator - 349	Randy - 2,425

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