Ice Bucket Challenge!?!?

[coachmayhew 1,414]

I have about a 98% chance I am about to get called out for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge & if it goes down I am calling out BtownBanners members. This is just a heads up. Get ready, it's about to go down!

It's for a good cause, go ahead & get your donations ready.


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[OliviaPope40 6,297]

There are a lot of people I know who are doing it and athletes have been doing it as well.

[Walking Boot of Doom 18,170]

[quote name="coachmayhew" post="79172" timestamp="1408329961"]I have about a 98% chance I am about to get called out for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge & if it goes down I am calling out BtownBanners members. This is just a heads up. Get ready, it's about to go down!

It's for a good cause, go ahead & get your donations ready.


Check my stats using BtownBanners[/quote] I did the challenge and donated $10. It's nice to see something as superficial as Facebook facilitate a positive impact such as the ice bucket challenge.


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[coachmayhew 1,414]

[quote name="jurkinonthecourt" post="79175" timestamp="1408330064"]I did the challenge and donated $10. It's nice to see something as superficial as Facebook facilitate a positive impact such as the ice bucket challenge.


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I do not have a Facebook but the wife does and I have been warned, and if I get it so are a few of you.


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[OliviaPope40 6,297]

Pete Frates can no longer speak. But in the last two and a half weeks, a video posted on Facebook by Mr. Frates, a 29-year-old former college baseball player, has inspired people likeBill Gates, LeBron James, Chris Christie andTaylor Swift to dump a bucket of ice on their heads and speak out for his cause.

The “Ice Bucket Challenge” has lit social media on fire, raising both money and awareness foramyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. About 30,000 Americans now have the disease, which attacks nerve cells and ultimately leads to totalparalysis, though the mind remains sharp. Life expectancy is typically two to five years from the time of diagnosis.

The stunt goes like this: People make a video of themselves dumping a bucket of ice water on their heads, post it on Facebook, Instagram or other social media sites, and then challenge friends to do the same within 24 hours or donate $100 to ALS. (Many do both.)

People have shared more than 1.2 million videos on Facebook between June 1 and Aug. 13 and mentioned the phenomenon more than 2.2 million times on Twitter since July 29, according to those sites. Donations to theALS Association have spiked. As of Sunday, the association said it had received $13.3 million in donations since July 29, compared with $1.7 million during the same period last year. It said there were about 260,000 new donors. (With a spate of celebrities and business executives joining in over the past few days and pledging contributions, that number is expected to rise.)

The Ice Bucket Challenge had been making the rounds on the Internet for several weeks before it was tied to ALS. Matt Lauer, the host of NBC’s Today Show, had water poured over his head on July 15 after being challenged by the golfer Greg Norman.

Mr. Lauer said that he would donate money to the Hospice of Palm Beach County. He challenged Brian Williams, Martha Stewart and Howard Stern.

In late July, Mr. Frates learned about the challenge from his friend Pat Quinn, a New Yorker who also has ALS, and wanted to turn the trend into a fund-raiser for the disease.

Mr. Frates nominated himself for the challenge. Instead of having ice water poured on his head — “ice water and ALS are a bad mix,” he said on his Facebook page — he posted a video of himself bouncing his head to “Ice Ice Baby,” the 1989 hit song by the rapper Vanilla Ice. He challenged some friends, and the stunt spread quickly through Boston circles, then across the web until last week when a parade of boldfaced names joined in. (Last week, Mr. Frates again took the challenge, this time having ice dumped on his head at Boston Red Sox’s Fenway Park.)

“Did we ever imagine the level of awareness or the money that is coming in? In our dreams we did,” said Mr. Frates’s mother, Nancy Frates.

There has been a backlash. Some have criticized the campaign for so-called slacktivism, where people will click and post online for social causes with little actual impact on the cause. “There are a lot of things wrong with the Ice Bucket Challenge, but the most annoying is that it’s basically narcissism masked as altruism,” said Arielle Pardes, a writer for Vice. On Slate, Will Oremus urged people to take the “no ice bucket challenge” and just donate the money.

Ms. Frates said that her son, the former captain of the Boston College baseball team, had been “living the life” when he called a family meeting in 2012. He revealed his illness and said that he did not want to whine, but would instead use the diagnosis as an opportunity to positively affect other people’s lives.

The disease has progressed quickly in the past six months. Mr. Frates has lost the ability to move his arms and legs and now communicates through eye-gaze technology, his mother said. He was married last year to Julie Frates, whom he met eight months before he learned that he had ALS. They are expecting a baby in September.

In a video last December, Mr. Frates said: “The story right now goes: You’ve got ALS, have it for a little while, a long while, but either way, the end is always the same. ALS always wins. So in order to rewrite the end of it, we need to raise awareness, money.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/business/ice-bucket-challenge-has-raised-millions-for-als-association.html?_r=0

[coachmayhew 1,414]

If this goes down, I will definitely donate my money.


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I hate slacktivism as well, but not as much as the people ignoring the facts regarding the Ice Bucket Challenge. Even if people don't donate, ALS has become a topic of national discussion once again. It is receiving nearly 10x the donations as of late, which can only be attributed to this trend. This is one Facebook craze I actually support.

I'm against peer pressure as a means to generate support for a charity, but I'm glad it's helping people.


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[coachmayhew 1,414]

[quote name="jurkinonthecourt" post="79182" timestamp="1408330997"]I hate slacktivism as well, but not as much as the people ignoring the facts regarding the Ice Bucket Challenge. Even if people don't donate, ALS has become a topic of national discussion once again. It is receiving nearly 10x the donations as of late, which can only be attributed to this trend. This is one Facebook craze I actually support.

I'm against peer pressure as a means to generate support for a charity, but I'm glad it's helping people.


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You could be on my list, if it happens. It's close & I don't have a Facebook


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[coachmayhew 1,414]

Can I only call out 3 people? Get ready I am aiming B1G.


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[OliviaPope40 6,297]

I have not been challenged to do this.

[coachmayhew 1,414]

[quote name="OliviaPope40" post="79191" timestamp="1408331973"]I have not been challenged to do this.[/quote]

Give it time, I am gonna bring this challenge to BTB!


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[OliviaPope40 6,297]

Give it time, I am gonna bring this challenge to BTB!


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Please do this.

[coachmayhew 1,414]

[quote name="OliviaPope40" post="79194" timestamp="1408332162"]Please do this.[/quote]

I am just waiting to be called out, then it's Game On!


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[quote name="coachmayhew" post="79188" timestamp="1408331805"]Can I only call out 3 people? Get ready I am aiming B1G.


Check my stats using BtownBanners[/quote] yeah technically 3 people


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[coachmayhew 1,414]

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http://youtu.be/Jz3SqVqwfb8


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[coachmayhew 1,414]

I got my brother good, tomorrow is the day for me. Who wants to be called out?
http://youtu.be/agWjIduNmWA



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[Josh 12,363]

I've already gotten it.  You need my challenge or do I just need to get Hovadipo twice?

[OliviaPope40 6,297]

http://instagram.com/p/r3MezVFlVF/

I got nominated but I'm extending the challenge if someone with some insides can do this for me and I know for a fact this person has not been nominated to do so.

[coachmayhew 1,414]

http://youtu.be/-TdQ36eRFLQ

Who gets challenged & will they accept?


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