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Edited by shepard, 06 December 2007 - 02:37 PM.

Great news, I don't have that great of a memory, wasn't the pledge amount at $3 Million at the start of Summer 2007? That would be pretty sweet progress if so. Good news nonetheless!

Great news, I don't have that great of a memory, wasn't the pledge amount at $3 Million at the start of Summer 2007? That would be pretty sweet progress if so. Good news nonetheless!

so does it look like the 3 million matching amount will be raised at this rate? so the 3 million can be kept? ---it would be a big blow if the 3 million is lost...the larger the pot gets, the more likely that very large donations will come in... and the amount is nowhere near where it needs to be yet to really get attention...

Great news, I don't have that great of a memory, wasn't the pledge amount at $3 Million at the start of Summer 2007? That would be pretty sweet progress if so. Good news nonetheless!

the amount is nowhere near where it needs to be yet to really get attention...

This is exactly what i thought too. Just 5 million? It should be multiplied many times over so something significant could happen (research-wise and funds-attracting-wise speaking)

Just 5 million? It should be multiplied many times over so something significant could happen (research-wise and funds-attracting-wise speaking)

Then I recommed you donate to help shorten the time required for that to happen. T. Michael Cooper has added a matching donation until the end of this year on top of Thiel's challenge.

http://www.mprize.or...pagename=donate

Excellent news on the growth so far, and the $5 million milestone. :thumb: Lets hope the growth continues at the same pace (or continues to speed up)

Quick question for anyone that might know: Is this just for SENS I guess? Looking at the total funding page, it looks like with SENS + MPrize + Expenses, the total donated so far is just over $10 million.

Kevin would probably be able to say definitively, but that is my understanding. SENS Research has Thiel's $3.5M donation along with others, while the MPrize has more total donors.

Kevin would probably be able to say definitively, but that is my understanding. SENS Research has Thiel's $3.5M donation along with others, while the MPrize has more total donors.

You got the right of it shepard... Thiel's 3.5 M commitment is in the 5 million for SENS research.. the Mprize funds stand on their own..

Kevin

And now total donations have passed $10M.

http://blog.methusel...n_pledge_t.html

I posted today's emailed word-of-the-day, just in the hopes that someone at Mprize will take number 2 as a hint as another great donation perk


Methuselah \muh-THOO-zuh-luh\ noun

1 : an ancestor of Noah held to have lived 969 years
*2 : an oversize wine bottle holding about six liters

Example sentence:
William's colleagues brought him a Methuselah of champagne to celebrate his retirement, and there was still half a bottle left after all the glasses were poured.


Did you know?
What do Jeroboam, Methuselah, Salmanazar, Balthazar, and Nebuchadnezzar have in common? Larger-than-life biblical figures all, yes (four kings and a venerable patriarch), but they're all also names of oversized wine bottles. A Jeroboam is the equivalent of about four 750-milliliter bottles (about 3 liters). One Methuselah holds about eight standard bottles' worth, a Salmanazar 12, a Balthazar 16, and a Nebuchadnezzar a whopping 20. No one knows who decided to use those names for bottles, but we do know that by the 1800s "Jeroboam" was being used for large goblets or "enormous bottles of fabulous content.” Later, sometime early in the 20th century, "Methuselah" and all the other names were chosen for specific bottle sizes.

I posted today's emailed word-of-the-day, just in the hopes that someone at Mprize will take number 2 as a hint as another great donation perk


Methuselah \muh-THOO-zuh-luh\ noun

1 : an ancestor of Noah held to have lived 969 years
*2 : an oversize wine bottle holding about six liters

Example sentence:
William's colleagues brought him a Methuselah of champagne to celebrate his retirement, and there was still half a bottle left after all the glasses were poured.


Did you know?
What do Jeroboam, Methuselah, Salmanazar, Balthazar, and Nebuchadnezzar have in common? Larger-than-life biblical figures all, yes (four kings and a venerable patriarch), but they're all also names of oversized wine bottles. A Jeroboam is the equivalent of about four 750-milliliter bottles (about 3 liters). One Methuselah holds about eight standard bottles' worth, a Salmanazar 12, a Balthazar 16, and a Nebuchadnezzar a whopping 20. No one knows who decided to use those names for bottles, but we do know that by the 1800s "Jeroboam" was being used for large goblets or "enormous bottles of fabulous content.” Later, sometime early in the 20th century, "Methuselah" and all the other names were chosen for specific bottle sizes.

We did give Stephen Spindler a "Methuselah" of champagne when he won the inaugural Rejuvenation Prize... as a donation perk.. hmm.. I suspect that an impromptu 'bonus' at a personal meeting with a large donor might be a good idea and alcohol does seem to have some health benefits.. heh..

hah! Well make sure it is a pinot noir or at least some red wine show to have an extremely high resveretrol level
Edited by Shannon, 02 January 2008 - 03:20 PM.