Riding the 2017 Cypress Challenge on Sunday, August 13. More formally known as the 10th Annual Glotman Simpson Cypress Challenge; to benefit pancreatic cancer research via the BC Cancer Agency.
Another way for a city and region to show that supporting a charity, having goofy fun, and riding a bike are all a part of the culture.
- Suit? check
- Doughnuts? check
- Mobi? check
THE CAUSE
Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of all cancers and remains a leading cause of cancer death. Most patients do not survive the first year post-diagnosis and overall survival is only 6%. Approximately 600 people in B.C. will be diagnosed this year.
The survival rate has remained unchanged for decades. Despite being one of the deadliest cancers, a recent Cancer in Canada study reported that pancreatic cancer research is also one of the most underfunded, with only 0.1% of all charitable monies raised attributed specifically to this cause.
By raising awareness and funds, the Glotman·Simpson Cypress Challenge is helping to change the story and improve outcomes for future pancreatic cancer patients.
Thanks to Allison Duck (@ADuckYVR) for the tweet with this photo.
Doughnuts are disgusting deep-fried blobs of sugary fat.
All charity events, foodbanks, fund runs, and the like should be boycotted. Instead, greedy billionaires should be shamed and ridiculed into divesting of their obscene wealth. Kids are taught to share. Billionaires must be forced. Like billionaire Nick Hauer warns in a TED talk – people will be coming with pitchforks. The guillotine would be an even better persuader.
It boggles the mind that people patronize places like Starsucks and tip the employees of one of the richest men in the world because he doesn’t want to pay equitably.
Did you type that on a computer / smartphone with an Apple or Microsoft OS, and made in China? Or grind your local label organic fair-to-farmer coffee in a Breville, Black & Decker or Krupp grinder made in China? Or wear clothes made in India, Thailand or Bangladesh? Or write on Post It stickies made from recycled newspapers and mags shipped to Asia for recycling? Or watch TED talks on YouTube which is owned by the billionaires who run Google?
Pot meet kettle.
You’re a smart guy, but you have a long learning curve in this regard.
Take Starsucks – they can customize a beverage for you in comfortable surroundings all over the world. But a billion people don’t have access to clean water. Billions don’t have access to a toilet. Think of that the next time you’re excreting a Starsucks latte. Could that one company change that? In a heartbeat. Will it? No. They’d rather whine about Teavana hasn’t made a bigger fortune.
Or Buffet – he’s made a fortune off Caca Cola and tap water in bottles. Could he make it possible for everyone to have drinking water and access to a toilet. No problem. Will he? Don’t hold your breath.
How about the monstrously obscenely rich Walmart family – could they change the world overnight with their wealth and infrastructure? Where’s the profit in that? Billionaires who wouldn’t notice if million dollar bills were falling out of their pockets are smugly getting richer.
One of the only rich people I respect is Ricardo Semler. The rest talk out of two sides of their mouths and practice piganthropy – a way to avoid taxes and look good. Elon Musk, too, in regards to sharing his ev technology, not so much in bettering poor people’s lives.
I’d suggest studying Buckminster Fuller, Jacque Fresco (rip at 100), and listening to Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist movement. No one needs a billion dollars. What would be a reasonable cutoff point for one person to have? Again, kids are taught to share. They don’t. They’d rather fight amongst themselves for two cents of market share – even between their own companies. That’s monstrous greed – a psychopathy – turning people into wage slaves.
Thanks Ken for your active and visible support of a worthy cause.