{"id":1656,"date":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","slug":"movember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/movember\/","title":{"rendered":"Movember"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s that time of year again, when perfectly reasonable people decide to deliberately make fools of themselves for a good month and a good cause &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Movember, the month formerly known as November, now dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men&#8217;s health; specifically prostate and testicular cancer. I&#8217;m donating my top lip to the cause for 30 days in an effort to help change the face of men&#8217;s health. My Mo will spark conversations, and no doubt generate some laughs; all in the name of raising vital awareness and funds for cancer&#8217;s affecting men.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I so passionate about men&#8217;s health?<br \/>* 1 in 9 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime<br \/>* This year 37,000 new cases of the disease will be diagnosed<br \/>* 1 in 2 men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime<br \/>*<del> 26% of men are less likely to go the doctor compared to women<\/del> (Not sure about this statistic &#8211; thanks Graham)<br \/>* Men never go to the bl**dy doctor! (That&#8217;s a bit more like it)<br \/>* Too many of my friends have already been affected by some of these issues.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m asking you to support my Movember campaign by making a donation by either:<br \/>*Donating online at: http:\/\/mobro.co\/dougburns<br \/>*If you want to go old school you can write a cheque payable to &#8216;Movember&#8217;, reference my name and Registration Number 763450 and send it to: Movember Europe, PO Box 68600, London, EC1P 1EF<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to find out more about the type of work you&#8217;d be helping to fund by supporting Movember, take a look at the Programmes We Fund section on the Movember website: http:\/\/uk.movember.com\/about<\/p>\n<p>Thank you in advance for supporting my efforts both last year and hopefully this to change the face of men&#8217;s health. On a personal note, I understand that it will be difficult to achieve last year&#8217;s terrific final total when so many friends in the community are signing up (such as <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.movember.com\/mospace\/2147230\/\">Alex Gorbachev<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movember.com\/mospace\/1629582\/\">James Morle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.movember.com\/mospace\/1326564\/\">Dan Norris<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nl.movember.com\/mospace\/2156796\/\">Jacco Landlust<\/a> to name a few) but I&#8217;ll give it a try anyway and, whatever happens, the money will all end up in the right place so sponsor away!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but *please* don&#8217;t ask me to go through the pantomime misery again! &#128521;<\/p>\n<p>Doug Burns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s that time of year again, when perfectly reasonable people decide to deliberately make fools of themselves for a good month and a good cause &#8230;. It&#8217;s Movember, the month formerly known as November, now dedicated to growing moustaches and raising awareness and funds for men&#8217;s health; specifically prostate and testicular cancer. I&#8217;m donating&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/movember\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Movember<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1615,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/ot-movember\/","url_meta":{"origin":1656,"position":0},"title":"OT: Movember","date":"October 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Lord help me and eternal hell on Graeme Pitt for badgering me into this ...\"This Movember I've decided to donate my face to raising awareness about prostate cancer.\u00a0 My donation and commitment is the growth of a moustache for the entire month of Movember, which I know will generate conversation,\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 7 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1617,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/01\/ot-movember-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1656,"position":1},"title":"OT: Movember Update","date":"November 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Well I wasn't expecting such a response. Thinking it over :-A) I have some very generous friends.B) I have some very mischevious friends who are looking forward to 4 weeks of fun \ud83d\ude09C) Several donors mentioned pictures. Yes, definitely. It's all 'trust but verify' round here.D) I kind of knew\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 8 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/18.133.199.212\/wp-content\/uploads\/recovered\/Day3.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1619,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/ot-penultimate-movember-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1656,"position":2},"title":"OT: Penultimate Movember Update","date":"November 27, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I have less than 48 hours to go. On the one hand, I feel slightly bad for finishing about 30 hours early but frankly, for those who know me, going from this ...to this ....Is *commitment*! 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That's almost a Hotsos Symposium trip!My skin condition flared up which meant I was in a thoroughly miserable mood and had to miss quite a few\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"\/serendipity\/uploads\/xukoug2010_1.jpg.pagespeed.ic.OcTN1bdwhB.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1618,"url":"http:\/\/orcldoug.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/21\/conference-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1656,"position":4},"title":"Conference Update","date":"November 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The week before the UKOUG conference (or more accurately - UKOUG Conference Series Technology and E-Business Suite 2010. Maybe I'll just stick to UKOUG) and whilst it's an unusual year in as much as I'm not presenting some traditions hold true. 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