Morning Everyone

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a Personal Milestone in yesterday's crunching:

gordoncarruthers 25 years RunTime for the UK team
Maugan 14 years RunTime for the UK team

cmcmanus 50,000 Points

Labinopper passes 2,000,000 Points for the UK team
Peter2004 passes 750,000 Points for the UK team

Mike D Green moves into the UK top 6 Points Rankings at #5

Ian_UK 70,000 Results

ShaneTucker passes 500 Results for the UK team

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs

	arkangath        	Runtime	        	Points	  73,282	Results		
	djmattc          	Runtime	          	Points	   4,871	Results		

Congratulations on New Badges at the last update:

Tom Welsh Bronze Mapping Cancer Markers
Soong Silver Mapping Cancer Markers
Mike26 Bronze Mapping Cancer Markers
GB033533 Bronze Mapping Cancer Markers

UK team - Individual Ranking Movements

					        
RunTime     		                Points		                        Results	
oz_mingus   	up   1 place  to  44	Mike D Green	up   1 place  to   5	Peter2004   	up   1 place  to 103
Scribe      	up   2 places to  53	Drus        	up   1 place  to  91	l3xs        	up   1 place  to 106
Spike_UK    	up   1 place  to  81	sapient     	up   1 place  to 109	aldude52    	up   1 place  to 114
l3xs        	up   1 place  to 103	defscan     	up   1 place  to 129	defscan     	up   1 place  to 143
sibroadway  	up   1 place  to 136	mike@oberon 	up   2 places to 131	DerekJGB    	up   1 place  to 155
DerekJGB    	up   1 place  to 158	isandunk    	up   1 place  to 151	isandunk    	up   1 place  to 177
azzaka      	up   4 places to 178	azzaka      	up   4 places to 180	azzaka      	up   1 place  to 199
defscan     	up   1 place  to 191	ShaneTucker 	up   3 places to 191	ShaneTucker 	up   1 place  to 216
mike@oberon 	up   2 places to 284	stephen.g.hu	up   5 places to 231	stephen.g.hu	up   3 places to 269
ShaneTucker 	up   5 places to 289	barrie.treve	up   2 places to 256	barrie.treve	up   1 place  to 286
barrie.treve	up   3 places to 333	Animusintorq	up   5 places to 271	Animusintorq	up   4 places to 291
stephen.g.hu	up  10 places to 337	stephen.kinn	up   4 places to 299	stephen.kinn	up   3 places to 324
cmcmanus    	up   1 place  to 373	cmcmanus    	up   1 place  to 315	tuseef      	up   9 places to 437
stephen.kinn	up   2 places to 395	tuseef      	up   8 places to 391	            	        
Animusintorq	up   6 places to 418	            	        	            	        
tuseef      	up   9 places to 471	            	        	            	        
Nigel Haines	down 1 place  to 180	GB033533    	down 1 place  to  92	                        	   
                        	   	dmc_1970    	down 1 place  to   6

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime, Points, Results

			                          	Hours		Points		      Results	
Yesterday's Production	0:301:06:09:09			7,230		1,182,625		1,702 	
Average per cd									
October    	          330.9			        7,920		1,248,204		2,708	
September    	          343.2			        8,232		1,290,578		3,648	
August    	          334.4			        8,016		1,228,108		4,228	

Average Daily Crunching Comparison

         	RunTime			Points		        	        Results		
         	31-Dec	30-Dec	  +/-	31-Dec	        30-Dec	        +/-	31-Dec	30-Dec	+/-
 7day Avg	300.36	305.85	 -5.49	1,173,383	1,180,202	 -6,819	1,916	2,015	 -99
14day Avg	325.94	328.82	 -2.88	1,227,934	1,235,670	 -7,736	2,119	2,146	 -28
28day Avg	344.72	346.05	 -1.33	1,282,496	1,287,502	 -5,006	2,180	2,178	   2

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate	
	RunTime	  1,250 years		      416,360	     39,890	    300.4	  133 days May-13-2014	
	Points 	1,500,000,000 		1,417,294,425 	 82,705,575	1,173,383 	   70 days Mar-11-2014	
	Results	    3,000,000		    2,965,973	     34,027	    1,916	   18 days Jan-18-2014	
								

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       				Total	        65	        out of	130	
				Group 1    	28	        ,,  ,,	 30	
				Group 2    	14	        ,,  ,,	 16	
				Group 3    	 8	        ,,  ,,	 13	
				Group 4    	 6	        ,,  ,,	 10	
				InAct New	 0	        ,,  ,,	 12	
				InActive	 0	        ,,  ,,	 39	
				New/Restart	 9	        ,,  ,,	 10	

Woo hoo! My 20th badge! I must be one of the lowest ranked crunchers to have reached 20 badges, and certainly the lowest by some way in Snurk's signature ranking.

Nice going, certainly shows your "stickability" here


Was thinking earlier, what have the highlights of my year been and to be honest I've struggled away from a few music gigs.

As usual, thoroughly enjoyed seeing the boogie-woogie rhythm and blues king, Jools Holland. My feet just don't stop moving with that guy and his absolutely fantastic band. Seen him several times and now waiting for the next tour.

Also December had Livewire and The ZZ Tops, 2 excellent tribute bands with The ZZ's and their fluffy spinning guitars and Livewire with their very own Angus Young belting out classic AC/DC guitar solos. Both do songs from the whole career of their respective bands.

Saw the gorgeous Caro Emerald and she was superb with her band. Lovely voice and lots of foot tapping tunes.

Finally, although a million miles away in style, had my ears blasted by the Rock freight train that is Airbourne. They start like a train out of control and don't stop, not at all subtle!

And for the New Year, got tickets for the fabulous Imelda May for some rockabilly with a bit of blues to boot and the always sublime, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. An excellent mix of music they play, from classical to pop to rock to movie theme tunes, all brilliantly played on the "bonsai guitar" and a nice dose of humour included. Go see!

Hope for the year has to be without a shadow of a doubt, Rodrigo y Gabriela on tour in a town near me! Saw these two a couple of years ago and was blown away with their acoustic guitar music (with a bit of loop and effect pedal), simply awesome and that's not a word being used lightly. So please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please...........

So a couple of samples.

Caro Emerald - That Man
Stuck

Airbourne - Runnin' Wild

Imelda May - Johnny Got A Boom Boom
Mayhem

UoGB - Wuthering Heights
Pinball Wizard
Orange Blossom Special

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Hanuman
Tamacun


Have a good evening guys and gals, and here's to a Happy New Year!

Mornin....................Happy Easter!