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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 03/09 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
CompuDude                         1          0      13,225,960           9,758
Ploetner                          2          0       8,605,304          24,758
Esteban69                         3          0       6,470,145             905
Webnx.com                         4          0       6,436,107          13,029
Fermez_WCG                        5          0       6,193,108               0
parmesian                         6          0       5,273,191               0
marysduby                         7          0       5,114,995          14,350
Graham                            8          0       3,604,391           3,287
cyberwire                         9          0       3,555,207             594
PohSoon                          10          0       2,070,157             949
jasnyder                         11          0       1,928,885             106
Coingames                        12          0       1,927,171               0
joshuabayer                      13          0       1,795,009           1,384
Rasse                            14          0       1,727,426             843
Fanie                            15          0       1,400,652           2,143
frans6nl                         16          0       1,371,700           7,400
Vuj                              17          0       1,272,893             916
g@dget                           18          0       1,247,182           1,840
MikeOD                           19          0       1,232,813             346
lawrencehardin                   20          0       1,088,307           2,463
siseberg                         21          0       1,082,446               0
Million Point Man                22          0       1,053,003           2,217
spikey_richie                    23          0         937,258           1,006
txjallen                         24          0         929,320           2,136
charlie99                        25          0         883,826           2,183
Alain Bryden                     26          0         861,979               0
John Parker                      27          0         845,905             677
smcclarigan                      28          0         822,178             384
Johnwoods                        29          0         787,948               0
Wunderwuzzi                      30          0         785,654             681
AStafford                        31          0         716,621               0
SteelDragon                      32          0         668,282             939
Jonathon Wright                  33          0         635,882             217
finman                           34          0         631,853           1,737
Vialls                           35          0         624,451               0
newtod                           36          0         599,501             828
Tomwp                            37          0         574,254             582
IanRamsey                        38          0         532,651             753
Mike OSullivan                   39          0         525,723           1,171
kkelson                          40          0         514,049           2,329
Rene Punt                        41          0         502,974             809
Rulkethecharon                   42          0         461,059           2,493
SAKU1303                         43          0         407,737               0
Barramundi                       44          0         337,924             684
keithhenry                       45          0         328,965           1,781
Edward McCoy                     46          0         326,445               0
dkrawczynski                     47          0         321,437               0
JerBlock                         48          0         307,705             850
dtype                            49          0         305,316             834
Mr. Plates                       50          0         297,892               0
Airwolf_Liu                      51          0         280,754             394
blueKnight                       52          0         266,378               0
laughing66607                    53          0         262,402             794
regex                            54          0         234,848           1,058
gherm                            55          0         225,593               0
Kevin Deslauriers                56          0         219,609             784
RetiredPB                        57          0         201,066               0
wrr                              58          0         170,409               0
neclord                          59         +1         140,702             646
Lanscader                        60         -1         140,135               0
pramodp                          61          0         130,243             427
Verhaegh                         62          0         127,956             727
Bon Kuhlman                      63          0         122,372             604
Momentary Lapse of Reason        64          0         120,301               0
harry_i_c                        65          0         116,476               0
elpe                             66          0         113,776               0
dazivi                           67          0         109,454               0
cknotty                          68          0         105,014               0
amusic20                         69          0         104,913             465
mapplebeck                       70          0         101,030               0
MSH22                            71          0          98,995             154
Calamity                         72          0          89,580               0
dub4u                            73          0          87,565               0
John Horn                        74          0          86,777               0
shinob925                        75          0          81,460             621
Arthur256                        76         +1          73,419             292
lenmccart                        77         -1          73,402               0
johng                            78          0          67,212               0
Sanddancer                       79          0          66,041               0
platinumbus177                   80          0          58,137               0
madambaster                      81          0          53,104               0
Natalino                         82          0          52,249               0
PioPicone                        83          0          51,533             434
Harry de Swart                   84          0          49,178             106
Justin Strickland                85          0          45,113           1,459
ShortTom007                      86          0          43,113               0
Octavius                         87          0          42,476           5,755
Jo Johnson                       88          0          27,434               0
xZeddx                           89          0          18,970             656
David Hemingway                  90          0          16,622               0
Daragaaz                         91          0          13,191               0
sammercer                        92          0           6,071               0
majevica                         93          0           2,741             455

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Ten active members returning points today:
01: Ploetner - 24,758 points
02: marysduby - 14,350 points
03: Webnx.com - 13,029 points
04: CompuDude - 9,758 points
05: frans6nl - 7,400 points
06: Octavius - 5,755 points
07: Graham - 3,287 points
08: Rulkethecharon - 2,493 points
09: lawrencehardin - 2,463 points
10: kkelson - 2,329 points

Total points returned today: 126,193
Active members returning points today: 56
Average points per member active today: 2253.44643

Wow! What a day. We did lose Neumonic from our list of active crunchers. Hopefully, we'll hear from them again soon. Spikey is back form his camping trip but he can't take full credit for the 19,000 point jump in today's team totals. It seems Ploetner jumped from their usual range for 4000-8000 points to almost 25,000 points today handily taking the number one spot for the day. That's an awful lot of WUs suddenly validating so I am inclined to doubt that was what happened. Whatever it was, I'll take it. Let keep it up and give marysduby a bit of regular competition for that top daily spot.

Regarding Dave, he literally has been home for only a couple of days. He's got a lot of things to take care of I'm sure. He was pretty sick there for about a year fighting the infection that ended up costing him a lower leg. His time away from home in the hospital and recovery took about another nine months I believe. That's a long time to be away from home. His neuropathy will make it rather difficult to do any typing of consequence along with many other normal day to day tasks. Try this mental exercise - you've broken both legs and are confined to a wheelchair. When you can stand, you have to use a walker to support yourself. To get from a sitting or lying position, you can't use your knees. When you hold anything in your hands or stand on your feet, you quickly feel a painful burning sensation but can't quicky sit down or empty your hands. Now, mentally go thru your normal daily routine. Keep in mind that your car hasn't been modified and nothing at home has been rearranged for your situation. In time, there are changes that you could make to better deal with this but that's in time. Until this, you have to cope with the present. I'm not describing Dave's specific situation but am trying to help you imagine yourself in one that would really let you relate to his. Plus, this is just based on what I know myself so this is probably a bit of a rosy picture. Getting the help and services that he will need isn't the big challenge. I expect that that will be navigating and dealing with the bureaucracy first. Someone who has been thru a similar situation and/or knows enough about the system to know where to go and what to get can make the transition back to a normal life MUCH easier. I'll see if I can't dig around online and hopefully find something. I'm open to anyone's ideas.

I remember being on the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor, imagining myself in my dad's shoes - just out of high school, never been more that 20-30 miles from home, suddenly on a boat in the Pacific halfway around the world where each breath you take could easily be your last. The debt we owe our vets can never be fully repaid but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

We will take all the nudges we can get