I hope that the weather is 'being kind' to you. It almost seems as if 'The Storm of the Century' is somewhat of a theme this year. I hope not ...



Hola, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)!

Major Congratulations to:

Rudi the Red, for exceeding 4.6 Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 33.062 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 21 Years and 245 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 71.996 ! Results Returned. What a great shot! And your Badges ...






llucilluc, for exceeding 2.950 Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 20.759 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 20 Years and 73 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 34,421 ! Results Returned. What an ace you serve! And your Badges ...








sevenveils and other Team Mates to pass milestones soon.

2-14-2014

Team Stats:
Total Run Time (Rank) 1485:155:17:25:40 (#49)
Points Generated (Rank) 1,934,996,104 (#46)
Results Returned (Rank) 4,286,090 (#43)

Daily Team Stats from last refresh:
Total Run Time --- Points Generated --- Results Returned
1:010:23:37:47 --- 1,247,124 --- 1,608

The following Free-DC stats are mostly sorted by "Yesterday"; sometimes "Today" (which updates later).

All The Pie Eaters




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Andrax: a term that means a total annihilation of a disease.

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Hoi, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)!

We are still doing fine in the WCG Team Challenges. Could use a a little more run time if you have some to spare.

Very interesting news article from BBC:

Cancer: 'Tumour monorail' can lead cancers to their doom
By James Gallagher

Health and science reporter, BBC News

Cancer "monorails" can be used to kill tumours by luring them into toxic pits or areas of the body that are safer to operate on, say US researchers.

A team at the Georgia Institute of Technology designed nanofibres thinner than a human hair which cancers "choose" to travel down.

Animal studies showed brain tumours could be shrunk by tricking cancer cells into migrating down the fibres.

Cancer Research UK said it was a fascinating idea, but early days.

The team were working with difficult-to-treat brain cancers - glioblastomas, which have a tendency to spread inside the brain.

The cancerous cells travel down nerves and blood vessels as they invade the brain.

The nanofibre technology, reported in Nature Materials, mimics the channels cancerous cells use to move.

One of the researchers Prof Ravi Bellamkonda said: "The cancer cells normally latch on to these natural structures and ride them like a monorail to other parts of the brain.

"By providing an attractive alternative fibre, we can efficiently move the tumours along a different path to a destination that we choose."
Deadly brain tumours


A variety of different types of cancer were able to ride the monorail in tests in a Petri dish.

Animal studies showed that tumours could be drawn out of the brain and into an implanted toxic gel.
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It's a way of bringing the tumour to the drug, not the drug to the tumour”
Prof Ravi Bellamkonda
Georgia Institute of Technology

The size of the tumour was 93% smaller in animals fitted with the cancer monorail than in rats in which the tumour was untreated.

Prof Bellamkonda told the BBC: "It's a way of bringing the tumour to the drug, not the drug to the tumour.

"You can move a tumour along a path you specify and then kill it, it's not creating extra tumour and the primary tumour actually shrinks. "

He suggested that controlling the growth of a tumour might be able to make cancer something people live with, like diabetes, if it cannot be cured.

Another idea is to make cancer surgery easier.

Normally the tumour and the surrounding tissue are removed, but this is a challenge in the brain where removing any unnecessary tissue could have dire consequences.

Prof Bellamkonda suggested doctors might be able to move a tumour to an area more easily operated on.

However, the research is still at a very early stage and there will be far more animal studies before it is considered in people.

Dr Emma Smith, senior science information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "This fascinating, cutting-edge approach could lead to new ways of stopping tumours growing without damaging healthy tissue, which is particularly important for people with brain tumours.

"But it's still in its infancy and so far has only been tested in rats, so there is a long way to go before we know if it will be safe and effective as a cancer treatment."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26189827

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Let's all hope that they find the medicine safe for all who may need this.


sevenveils and other Team Mates to pass milestones soon.

2-16-2014

Team Stats:
Total Run Time (Rank) 1485:155:17:25:40 (#49)
Points Generated (Rank) 1,934,996,104 (#46)
Results Returned (Rank) 4,286,090 (#43)

Daily Team Stats from last refresh:
Total Run Time --- Points Generated --- Results Returned
0:354:05:43:31 --- 1,110,917 --- 1,606

The following Free-DC stats are mostly sorted by "Yesterday"; sometimes "Today" (which updates later).

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Góðan dag, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)!

Thomas, I hope that everything is fine. I do know that Bayern Munich's goal difference is an amazing stat:

Goals scored: 57
Goals allowed 9

Should be be a great contender for winning the Champions League.


Major Congratulations to:

Rudi the Red, for exceeding 4.625 (any hour now) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 33.228 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 21 Years and 277 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 72,163 ! Results Returned. What a great shot! And your Badges ...






llucilluc, for exceeding 2.965 (actually 2.967) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 20.872 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 20 Years and 110 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 34,565 ! Results Returned. What an ace you serve! And your Badges ...






Ellios, for exceeding 4.182 Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 29.262 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 24 Years and 44 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 51,702 ! Results Returned. You certainly like to serve 'Aces'. And your Badges ...






Mortons, for exceeding 3.2 (any hour now) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 22.406 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 13 Years and 334 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 32,595 ! Results Returned. Great serve! And your Badges ...








Other Team Mates to pass milestones soon.

2-18-2014

Team Stats:
Total Run Time (Rank) 1489:230:23:02:22 (#49)
Points Generated (Rank) 1,939,939,694 (#46)
Results Returned (Rank) 4,292,901 (#43)

Daily Team Stats from last refresh:
Total Run Time --- Points Generated --- Results Returned
1:038:05:41:19 --- 1,285,924 --- 1,865

The following Free-DC stats are mostly sorted by "Yesterday"; sometimes "Today" (which updates later).

All The Pie Eaters




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Special Congratulations to anhhai for exceeding 475 Years of Total Run Time *and* to Doneske for exceeding 575,000 Results Returned! Wow!

Daw-daw, Co-Captains (fellow Team Mates)!

A day off every now and zen can do wonders. I have a chance to even say 'congrats' a day earlier, instead of the usual every 4 days. Then, kick back and finally relax a bit.

Great to 'see' a couple of you back (or was it a later result)? Now, if only Killer Tomato and a couple others return, we will be looking at a *lot* of results returned and keep our unbeliveable rank steady at the WCG!

Major Congratulations to:

anhhai, for exceeding 73.250 (actually 73.266) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 513.505 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 477 Years and 246 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 1,444,853 ! Results Returned. Hall of Fame stats no doubt! And your Badges ...






RaymondFO, for exceeding 52.075 (actually 52.084) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 364.509 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 143 Years and 31 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 756,642 ! Results Returned. Talk about 'out of this world' stats! And your Badges ...






Doneske, for exceeding 43.275 (actually 43.284) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 304.947 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 249 (getting close to 250!) Years and 247 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 575,819 Results Returned. 'Ruthian' stats to be sure. Hall of Fame stats no doubt! And your Badges ...






Cmdrd, for exceeding 2.3 Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 16.080 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 9 Years and 71 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 27,172 ! Results Returned. And your Badges ...






llucilluc, for exceeding 2.975 (actually 2.967) Million Credit (Boinc points). That is over 20.934 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 20 Years and 130 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 34,643 ! Results Returned. What an ace you serve! And your Badges ...






sevenveils, for exceeding 421,000 Credit (Boinc points). That is over 2.950 Million of the older UD Points. You have also surpassed 2 Years and 297 Days of Total Run Time and you have over 5,695 ! Results Returned. What a great swing! And your Badges ...









caseyholtzman and other Team Mates to pass milestones soon.

2-20-2014

Team Stats:
Total Run Time (Rank) 1491:193:12:24:48 (#49)
Points Generated (Rank) 1,942,194,367 (#46)
Results Returned (Rank) 4,296,118 (#43)

Daily Team Stats from last refresh:
Total Run Time --- Points Generated --- Results Returned
0:343:17:23:07 --- 1,101,500 --- 1,598

The following Free-DC stats are mostly sorted by "Yesterday"; sometimes "Today" (which updates later).

All The Pie Eaters




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Andrax: a term that means a total annihilation of a disease.

Free-DC Stats

I have decided to pull out of WCG for a while and do some folding with Stanford's Folding@Home project. I folded there for a few years before coming to WCG in 2004. WCG is down to just 3 projects and I have accumulated almost 25 years with MCM1 and almost 50 years with FAH and 20 years with CEP. It's starting to be repetitive. WCG used to bring new projects on about 12 to 18 months apart and it added something new to the process every once in a while. When you are down to only 3 projects for quite a awhile and then add in the various nagging issues such as:

1. Switch to Softlayer eliminated 8 of my cores.
2. The problems setting up the 4 socket machine due to missing libraries necessary to run BOINC causing me to run an older 6.10.26 client using a command line interface.
3. One of my machines just seems to have a problem running FAH and MCM1 effectively eliminating another 4 cores. Asteroids and Standford work fine.
4. FAH VINA (not Autodock) WUs going to "sleep" on INTEL processors (AMD are fine) causing me to restart the BOINC client to kick them back into action.

Just makes me want to go "kick the tires" somewhere else for a while. I have set all my cores to not download anymore tasks and you will probably notice a drop in stats starting with Wednesday mornings updates as machines dry up. I plan to keep checking in from time to time and if they add some interesting projects I'll be back as I believe in the cause. I have enjoyed my 10 years at WCG and am just taking a break for a while. I wish everyone clear skies and the crunching wind at your back