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Guest Book for Timothy Charles CARTER – Online Guest Book by Buffalo News and Legacy.com.

2010-05-08T16:51:00.000-04:00

Guest Book for Timothy Charles CARTER – Online Guest Book by Buffalo News and Legacy.com.

Timothy Charles CARTER

CARTER - Timothy Charles Of Buffalo, entered into rest May 2, 2010, devoted father of Kristen and Lindsey Carter; cherished grandfather of four grandchildren; loving son of Robert J. and Florence E. (nee McElwee) Carter; dear brother of Robert, Susan and Karen Carter; also survived by relatives and friends. Relatives and friends may visit the LOMBARDO FUENRAL HOME, (Northtownsn Chapel), 885 Niagara Falls Blvd., near Eggert/Sheridan Dr., on Thursday 3-7 PM. Funeral service will immediately follow. Online condolences may be made at www.lombardofuneralhome.com.

Nutritious Rice for the World project (WCG) finished on April 6, 2010

2010-04-19T18:39:00.000-04:00

World Community Grid is pleased to announce that as a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Nutritious Rice for the World project finished on April 6, 2010.

The project was launched on May 12, 2008. While it was active, World Community Grid members processed over 29 million results which required nearly 26,000 years of computing power. This work would have taken about 200 years of time using the computing resources available to the researchers at the University of Washington. Using World Community Grid, this research was completed in less than two years.

News Article
Charlies Web totals:
Nutritious Rice for the World, 10,821 Points, 33 Results, 010D:06H:27M:03S Runtime

Folding@home: New award for Folding@home team

2010-03-24T11:09:00.002-04:00

Folding@home researcher Greg Bowman was awarded the 2010 Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his talk on two paradigm shifts resulting from Folding@home:
1) the new methods that Folding@home uses to simulate protein folding, misfolding, etc, and
2) the results themselves, which suggest a significant change in protein folding theory.

Folding@home: New award for Folding@home team

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 Security Update ~ Security Garden

2010-03-24T10:53:00.001-04:00

Firefox update:

Mozilla released Firefox version 3.6.2 which fixes the following critical issue found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

Fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 552216).

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 Security Update ~ Security Garden

The power of sharing

2010-03-24T10:22:00.002-04:00

Earlier this month, IBM and the Scripps Research Institute announced a major breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS. World Community Grid — which supplied researchers with more than 109,000 YEARS of computation time over a five year period — was a major factor in this groundbreaking success. Now, there is hope for a new class of drugs to help the more than 33 million people who are infected worldwide.

Technorati Tags: AIDS, HIV, IBM, scripps, world community grid

Source: The power of sharing | A Smarter Planet Blog

Of course! We have a team for that!

Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News | BREAKING NEWS | “WAVE” OF STUDENT SUICIDES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

2010-03-19T11:25:00.003-04:00

Sky Valley Chronicle Washington State News | BREAKING NEWS | “WAVE” OF STUDENT SUICIDES AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

(ITHACA, NEW YORK) -- What is described as “a wave of suicides” at Cornell University in the past two semesters is a serious "public health crisis," according to the school's mental health initiatives director Timothy Marchell who added the school was “not out of the woods yet.”

The Ithaca New York Police Department reported four student suicides during the fall 2009 semester, and at least two over the last two months.

It's a departure for Charlies Web Teams to publish this story, but I felt the need.

Recent reports of two celebrity children dying at their own hands made the news and I lost my cousin under similar circumstances last month as well. Soon after tweeting about my cousin, I received a new follower on Twitter. Now that person has started her own blog here,
I am a survivor... here's my story on Blogger!

All of this prompted me to add the SocialVibe widget for "To Write Love On Her Arms" a charity which supports suicide prevention. While not a typical Charlies Web venture and NOT distributed computing, folks can click through to SocialVibe and help me support these efforts. While they are there, they may find a charity they would like to help as well.

Scientists successfully embed silicon chips inside living cells - SmartPlanet

2010-03-18T08:50:00.001-04:00

Call it the final frontier: the semiconductor industry has finally figured out how to embed silicon chips inside living cells.

The continuing miniaturization of the fabrication process — we’re now at 22 nanometers — has allowed Spanish researchers to begin integrating nanoelectronic components with living cells, according to a Nanowerk report.

Until now, scientists have only been able to embed living cells in nanoelectronics. Now technology is small enough to perform the reverse.

Scientists successfully embed silicon chips inside living cells - SmartPlanet

Dubai tower exporting 10 times more renewable energy than needed - SmartPlanet

2010-03-11T09:31:00.003-05:00

Dubai tower exporting 10 times more renewable energy than needed - SmartPlanet

The 10 MW Tower in Dubai is quite a renewable energy machine. The skyscraper is pumping out 10 times the amount of energy it needs and is exporting power to the surrounding neighborhood.

Studied Impact, the architects behind the 10 MW Tower, note that the tower has three energy producing systems: a horizontal axis wind turbine, a concentrated solar power armature and an updraft tower.

CERN Press Office | LHC First Physics - press resources

2010-03-09T20:35:00.001-05:00

CERN Press Office | LHC First Physics - press resources

9 March 2010

The LHC is already over a week into its 2010 run, and the start of physics at 7 TeV is just around the corner. Last week, participants at the annual La Thuile workshop in Italy had the chance to take stock of what lies in store for the LHC’s first physics run. They learned that there’s a great sense of anticipation here at CERN and at particle physics labs around the globe, and for good reason – we’re about to open up the biggest range of potential new discovery that particle physics has seen in over a decade.

Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite

2010-03-09T08:31:00.000-05:00

Gold nanoparticles take out brain parasite

SYDNEY: A novel technique to kill parasites in the human body uses a combination of gold nanoparticles and lasers, and has been shown to work on Toxoplasmosis gondii - a common parasite that causes cysts in the brain.

Current treatments for parasites often have unwanted side affects on other cells in the body. This new technique is target-specific, opening up exciting new possibilities for the treatment of pathogenic parasites and possibly other infectious agents as well.

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis - CNN.com

2010-03-02T10:32:00.001-05:00

Chile quake may have tipped Earth's axis - CNN.com

Such changes aren't unheard of.

The magnitude 9.1 earthquake in 2004 that generated a killer tsunami in the Indian Ocean shortened the length of days by 6.8 microseconds.

On the other hand, the length of a day also can increase. For example, if the Three Gorges reservoir in China were filled, it would hold 10 trillion gallons (40 cubic kilometers) of water. The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.

VIPRE Antivirus Twitter Giveaway

2010-03-01T20:42:00.000-05:00

VIPRE Antivirus Twitter Giveaway

Attention Tweeples
Send a shout out to all your followers Tuesday March 2, 2010 and inform them of VIPRE 4.0 and earn yourself a free license!

To get your free VIPRE Antivirus Premium subscription, all you have to do is follow these 4 easy steps:

SETI@Home

2010-02-27T11:56:00.001-05:00

Come join the search!

XEarth (for Windows)

2010-02-27T10:38:00.001-05:00

For just the first time in my experience all ten current earthquakes are in the same place - Chile!
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/27/chile.quake/index.html

Xearth for Windows is a port of Kirk Johnson's original xearth [local mirror] program to Microsoft Windows. Xearth renders a shaded image of the earth on your desktop, as seen from your favorite vantage point in space. By default, the image is updated every five minutes according to the current position of the sun.

Xearth for Windows works with any 32-bit version of Windows, including 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. On Windows XP, I have been told that you need to uncheck "lock desktop" in order to see the earth display.

http://hewgill.com/xearth/

Facebook | Charles Calvo

2010-02-27T08:57:00.003-05:00

Facebook | Charles Calvo

This is for my cousin Maryann and also for Andrew Koenig. They are the reason for my choosing the SocialVibe widget on the Home page of my newest blog.
A few moments of your time can become minutes of suicide prevention services.

http://seafsee.wordpress.com/

Fear of death behind climate change denial - SmartPlanet

2010-02-26T14:14:00.001-05:00

Fear of death behind climate change denial - SmartPlanet

A paper by Cornell scientist Janis L. Dickinson is drawing new attention as an explanation for the rise in climate science denial.

(It’s all explained by Zero Mostel in this classic episode of The Muppet Show.)

In The People Paradox, published last year at Ecology and Society, Dickinson follows up on Ernest Becker’s 1973 work The Denial of Death, suggesting that when people are confronted by death they often react by shoring up their worldview, rejecting anyone or anything which threatens it, and focusing on self-esteem.

Charlies Web CPDN team tops 100,000 points

2010-02-25T19:29:00.000-05:00

The first of Charlies Web BOINC teams reaches 100,000 points at long last.

WTC Cleanup

2010-02-23T08:18:00.000-05:00

Five pics cropped and animated on Twitpic

See more: http://twitpic.com/photos/seafsee

Phishers Target Bloggers | Malware Bog | Trend Micro

2010-02-23T08:08:00.000-05:00

Phishers Target Bloggers | Malware Bog | Trend Micro

Trend Micro’s Web Reputation Services (WRS) Operations Team recently received a phishing email claiming to be from Blogger, a free blog publishing tool from Google.

B.O.I.N.C.

2010-02-21T13:20:00.007-05:00

Folding@Home

2010-02-21T13:13:00.002-05:00

The F@H Team for Charlies Web

2010-02-18T16:47:00.010-05:00

Charlies Web

Report generated on	12:14:21 February 18, 2010
Date of last work unit	2010-02-17 06:17:21
Active CPUs within 50 days	3
Team Id	37053
Grand Score	425,613 (certificate)
Work Unit Count	1,814 (certificate)
Team Ranking (incl. aggregate)	4797 of 175266

Team members

Team Rank	Donor	Score	WU
1	Pierre	185,994	811
2	patermate	101,290	315
3	PeggyG	77,688	371
4	marinasdreamcloud	33,347	81
5	Red_Barren	16,951	141
6	chasfc11	4,795	75
7	seafsee	2,860	9
8	KHAOS	855	5
9	Save__the_Gnome	574	1
10	marinasdramcloud	401	1
11	[35586]chasfc11	292	1
12	[51997]seafsee	230	1
13	forRandyPausch	171	1
14	WorthFlandersMemorium	165	1

Statistics for Charlies Web on Mon, 15 Feb. 2010

2010-02-18T09:18:00.003-05:00

Statistics for Charlies Web (team 37053) on Monday, 15 February 2010

Team Statistics

Rank (including team 0 and Google team) = 4,768 out of 72,653 active teams. Charlies Web is down 19 places this week! Points = 424,276 (+1,243), Units = 1,809 (+4).
There are 13 members in the team, 2 of whom are currently active (15%).

Active Users

Rank Name Points Units

2 patermate 100,178 311

3 PeggyG 77,463 370

Points Milestones This Week

Name Rank Milestone Points Units

patermate 2 100,000 100,178 311

Top points producer this week

Pos Name PTW Points Units

1 patermate 1,243 100,178 311

Top 2 points producers long term

Pos Name PPW Points Units

1 patermate 1,582 100,178 311

2 PeggyG 178 77,463 370

Team News

Sad team news is that Charlies Web is down 19 places this week to position 4,768.
However, there are some great results in the stats this week. For example, patermate passed 100,000 points. Well done!!
As always, many thanks to everyone for all of your valuable contributions.

The only way is up...

patermann

Rank	Name	Points	Units
2	patermate	100,178	311
3	PeggyG	77,463	370

Name	Rank	Milestone	Points	Units
patermate	2	100,000	100,178	311

Pos	Name	PTW	Points	Units
1	patermate	1,243	100,178	311

Pos	Name	PPW	Points	Units
1	patermate	1,582	100,178	311
2	PeggyG	178	77,463	370

Patermate reaches 100,000 Points

2010-02-18T08:22:00.006-05:00

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Aerospace Giant Building a Gravity Tractor to Deflect Killer Asteroids | Popular Science

2010-02-14T07:48:00.000-05:00

Aerospace Giant Building a Gravity Tractor to Deflect Killer Asteroids | Popular Science

NASA astronauts Edward Lu and Stanley Love first proposed using a robotic spacecraft to nudge space rocks away from Earth using the gentle force of gravity a few years ago. Now a European aerospace giant has begun seriously investigating the concept.

(In case you wondered what good it would do to track these objects.)