Nancy Frates: Why my family started the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The rest is history

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When 27-year-old Pete Frates injured his wrist in a baseball game, he got an unexpected diagnosis: it wasn’t a broken bone, it was ALS. Better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS causes paralysis and death—there is no cure. And still, Pete saw an opportunity to drive awareness about the disease. In a brave talk, his mom Nancy Frates tells the story of how the family developed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and took great pleasure in seeing everyone from Justin Timberlake to Bill Gates take part. If you accepted the challenge, please take the next step: share this talk as you did your challenge video.

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Little and Cubed: Toybox Turbos

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Little and Cubed: Toybox Turbos

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Little and Cubed: Toybox Turbos

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All other music is in game music. It makes me want to BEAT MARTYN!

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