Giant in the Playground Folding Team Update #11

In team news this week:
4 new members have joined our team for this update - steviefool, Soups, ThunderEagle and Zorminster - Welcome to the team!

Team member point contributions:
Who has contributed to the team points for this update? Here is the list (in alphabetic order):
_Simius_, adanedhel9, Alarra, Alizhdheg, Amazon, Bitzeralisis, Bobnik, Colin, e_chuck, Elektro, frdougal, gaelbert, Jackie, JT-GitP, MacXimus, menschenfresser, Micate, Mobius_Stripped, Nemglan, Phoe, potatocubed, Pyro, rward30, Soups, steviefool, StupidFatHobbit, The_Mighty_Unknown, ThunderEagle, zargon, ZebTheTroll, ZombieRockStar and Zorminster.
With the top 10 members in points gained since the last update being:
1 frdougal
2 Alizhdheg
3 steviefool
4 Elektro
5 Micate
6 rward30
7 MacXimus
8 JT-GitP
9 ZebTheTroll
10 StupidFatHobbit

Moving up in team ranks (in the top 20):
We have a new points leader - congrats frdougal!!!
Other moves in the top 10: ZebTheTroll moves up again to take the #3 spot!! rward30 moves up 2 to take 5th! Elektro leaps up by 7 to take 8th! And Micate jumps up 4 into 9th!
In the top 20: Amazon moves up 2 to take 12th! New member steviefool blasts up into the charts in 16th! StupidFatHobbit also moves up 2 and takes 17th! And MacXimus zooms up by 17 into 19th!

Individual Milestones achieved (in points at 1K, 5K, 10K, etc.):
40,000 points: frdougal
30,000 points: Alizhdheg
15,000 points: ZebTheTroll
10,000 points: Micate and Elektro
5,000 points: StupidFatHobbit and steviefool
1,000 points: JT-GitP and Soups
Congratulations to all those that have achieved a new milestone!

Link of the week:
If interested in seeing some of the basics about folding and some of what is being researched, check the videos at http://fah-web.stanford.edu/talklets/index.html