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“I’m going to take the Ice Bucket Challenge,” said Bill Gates. “Good luck,” he added after accepting Mark Zuckerberg’s ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and nominated Elon Musk, Ryan Seacrest and Chris Anderson from TED to participate and raise awareness for ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
“In the last two weeks, the Ice Bucket Challenge has quite literally “soaked” the nation. Everyone from Ethel Kennedy to Justin Timberlake has poured a bucket of ice water over her or his head and has challenged others do the same or to make a donation to fight ALS within twenty-four hours. Between July 29 and today, August 13, The ALS Association and its 38 chapters have received an astonishing $5.7 million in donations compared to $1.2 million during the same time period last year. These donations have come from existing donors and 106,955 new donors to The Association,” according to the ALS website.
Bill Gates does it!
“We have never seen anything like this in the history of the disease,” said Barbara Newhouse, President and CEO of The ALS Association. “We couldn’t be more thrilled with the level of compassion, generosity and sense of humor that people are exhibiting as they take part in this impactful viral initiative.”
“That was really cool,” said Mark Zuckerberg.
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Locals turned up on Facebook, including Joanna Kosmides Edwards whose brother Michael owns LOOK & CITIES, two popular K Street destinations. Question…………where’s Michael? Hollywood on the Potomac thus nominates Michael Kosmides!
