Sosua ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

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Ken

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From today's Sosua News:


ALS is a horrible disease which leads to the failure of the organs and ultimately a horrible death. The Ice Bucket Challenge started to promote the awareness of the disease. You dump a bucket of ice water on your head, then make a donation to the foundation for research on medication against this muscle disease. Next you nominate a relative, friend or somebody else who also have to dump a bucket of ice water over the head and make a donation. Now we also have participants in Sos?a for the challenge. In recent days, for example, the regular visitors of Britannia Bar in the main street Pedro Clisante had an ice bucket dumped over their heads. The participants nominated other visitors to do the same. So this can go on for a while in the Pedro Clisantee.

But all this for a good cause.
Video: YouTube
Video: YouTube
 
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The part that everybody seems to be missing about this---and I grant you, it is a genius bit of marketing/awareness--is the DONATION part. Ice water is fine, but it's the money part that matters.
 
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Meems said:
The part that everybody seems to be missing about this---and I grant you, it is a genius bit of marketing/awareness--is the DONATION part. Ice water is fine, but it's the money part that matters.
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Exactly - if you are challenged, you have two choices: Dump the ice water over your head and donate $10 to ALS [some give more I know] or don't do the ice, and donate $100 to ALS.
 
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Stupid Fad

Can someone enlighten me what the ice is for??? :cross-eye

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To keep this DR related, has anyone heard of anyone elsewhere in DR doing this?

I've got a lot of DR friends on Facebook, and I've yet to see any of them with the ice bucket.
 
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Pop culture and all that.
Social media, get your mugg/name out into the ether....
All very ostentatious.
For those who love to jump on bandwagons....It is tailor made.
Sorry for the cynicism...
But that is how I see it.
Why don't people just write the darn cheque?
 
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I think this got so big because celebrities got involved and it spread. Even the Today Show did it, and president Bush. Howard Stern punked out with a shot glass. All fun, while raising money for an important cause. Astronomical amount collected worldwide


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