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FIRST AND FOREMOST, THANK YOU to our many supporters, those who gave of their money, time and interest.
- Special thank you's to Anne Arundel Community College's Center for Learning through Service with whom we have forged a new partnership and to Deep Creek Restaurant which provided a frequent haven for impromptu meetings.
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We are proud of our achievements and very proud to be working on behalf of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, who – simply put – are a class act!
As Team Captain, I would like to thank all my teammates for their relentless hard work and dedication. Here is our final report:

At the completion of Alex’s Million Mile – Run.Walk.Ride, midnight on 30 September, I am very pleased to report our final progress and status:

Miles completed = 1,362*
*Upon reaching 1,000 on 24 Sept, we raised our goal to 1,200 and still exceeded it!

Total funds raised to benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer = $1,222.

During the campaign we added six additional members to our team – one on Sept 2, one on Sept 9, two on Sept 26, and two on Sept 29.

In addition to our running, walking and cycling, our team visited local businesses and the local community college to raise awareness of Alex’s Foundation and childhood cancer. Our team also held a neighborhood lemonade stand targeted to the final day which raised an additional $72 – one $1 cup at a time – and raised awareness significantly in the community.

Our team’s social media campaign component achieved great success. It included an open Facebook group, a Twitter account, and a YouTube channel – all of which will continue into the foreseeable future.

Team MadDog has unanimously decided to remain intact to fight cancer, and particularly childhood cancer through raising awareness and funds for Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. We have set up a virtual event that donors may contribute to 24x7 through 31 August 2015. Other live events will be embedded within this year-long virtual campaign. Of course, we’ll be back for Alex’s Million Mile in September 2015!

If you are interested in helping our team fight childhood cancer with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation please do visit our “Team MadDog Virtual” event all year long! Also feel free to email, tweet or message us on Facebook.
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Team MadDog Virtual event: http://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/1120562
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeAreTeamMadDog
Twitter (@WeAreTeamMadDog): https://twitter.com/WeAreTeamMadDog
YouTube: http://goo.gl/Imq71y
Email: [email protected]

Team MadDog Is:
Emily Tempestilli
Nicole Bradford
Mary Ann Moore
Viki Tucker
Joe Tempestilli
Neil Kenworthy
Caroline Yearwood
Abby Anderson
Amanda Anderson
Lisa Manzi
Alyssa Cozzillio
Chelsea Miller
Mary Tempestilli
Mark Tempestilli
George T. Bichon, official team mascot
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Cancer Bites. Childhood cancer bites especially hard. Team MadDog is Biting Back and won't let go until the job is done!

HOW MAD ARE YOU ABOUT CHILDHOOD CANCER?
...Find out here with the answers to Team MadDog's Childhood Cancer Quiz:

1. Which month of the year is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month?

September

2. What color represents childhood cancer awareness?

Gold

3. Can you name two types of childhood cancer?

There are a dozen types and countless subtypes. Examples include Neuroblastoma, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) and Rhabdomyosarcoma.

4. Why has Team MadDog joined other teams to run, walk & cycle a Million Miles?

Team MadDog is participating in an event organized by Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to help raise awareness of childhood cancer and to raise funds to target toward the most promising research for cures and safer treatments.

5. Why are childhood cancers different from adult cancers?

Childhood cancers are often the result of DNA changes in cells that take place very early in life, sometimes even before birth. Unlike many cancers in adults, childhood cancers are not strongly linked to lifestyle or environmental risk factors. Because a child's body is still growing, treatment for childhood cancers usually creates later effects that last lifetimes, including cognitive problems, hearing and eyesight challenges, stunted musculoskeletal development, and second cancers.

6. How many children die from cancer worldwide every day?

About 250.

7. Who was Alexandra “Alex” Scott?

Alex Scott was a young girl who was diagnosed with the rare childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, at the age of one. In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Despite her ongoing battle with cancer, lemonade stand raised $2,000. Her example caught fire across the country and before long, Alex and thousands of other kids were all holding their own lemonade stands. Alex passed away in 2004, but not before her lemonade stand, along with others, raised $1,000,000. Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for Childhood Cancer is truly an extension of Alex's first lemonade stand. Alex is considered the founder, and her legacy of hope, compassion, earnestness, and determination underpin the organization's mission and approach to funding research for cures, and helping children have better quality of lives during treatment.

8. Are there any reasons you would go a Million Miles?

Any parent – or sister, or brother, or BFF - and likely any aunt, uncle, or cousin – would go a million miles to find a cure if their child had cancer. I would.

9. What percent of federal cancer research funding goes to childhood cancers?

Even though children (consider infancy through age 19) make up 26% of the U.S. population, childhood cancers receive only about 4% of overall federal spending on cancer research.

10. What is the “valley of death” in cancer research funding?

The "valley of death" is a metaphor for a place where promising drugs and treatments die before reaching their potential. It is the poorly funded gap between research and clinical trials. Without sufficient funding, these promising drugs never make it into the field.

11. Why doesn’t childhood cancer research attract more public or corporate funding?

Children don't vote, there aren't many celebrity children, and they don't control a family's resources. All of childhood cancers are relatively rare and unique to their age. As a group, kids and their parents. don't usually have strong enough leverage to make a difference. In addition, pharmaceutical companies find little reason to invest in developing childhood cancer treatments because each type of childhood cancer represents a small market as compared to adult cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and others.

12. How many $1 cups of lemonade would fund 1 hour of childhood cancer research?

Since it takes approximately $50 to fund 1 hour of childhood cancer research, it takes 50 cups. That's a lot of lemonade.

13. Do you patronize any corporate sponsors of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation?

The Foundation's national corporate sponsors include A&P, Applebees, Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Northwestern Mutual, Rita's Ice, Toys'r'Us, Volvo and the Vetri Foundation for Children. These are listed and linked in the footer of the Foundation's homepage.

14. Why is Team MadDog so Mad?

Team MadDog is Mad because cancer bites. It bites children and their families especially hard. That makes us mad.

15. What is Team MadDog doing about childhood cancer?

Team MadDog is biting back against childhood cancer by participating in The Million Mile - Run.Walk.Ride. while raising awareness of childhood cancer and raising funds for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to target to the most promising research for cures.

16. What is one of more than a dozen ways for you to help Team MadDog help hundreds of thousands of children with cancer?

I personally like the quick, easy way offered by TEXTing a $10 donation. But there are a wide variety of possible ways to help. See the full menu at our webpage. http://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/1118154.

If you would like further information please email our team at [email protected]

As we approach the final day and a half of The Million Mile – Run.Walk.Ride's "#Journey2aMillion", Team MadDog is making a final push to the finish line.

If you're reading this, you must like a good challenge. Our Team Captain now says,

"I CHALLENGE YOU TO CHALLENGE ME! ...on a #Crawl2aThousand: The MadDog Thousand Yard – Run.Walk.Crawl."

Find the details at ☞ https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeAreTeamMadDog/permalink/359675984187756/

Push our Team Captain the extra yard, $1 at a time. And please spread the word - The MadDog's gone wild!

P.S. This may seem silly, but it isn't a joke. More than 250 kids die from cancer every day. Our Team is working to put a stop to that. This is a simple and fun (for you) way to help do that with us.

HOW MAD ARE YOU ABOUT CHILDHOOD CANCER?
Take Team MadDog's Quiz to find out:

1. Which month of the year is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month?

2. What color represents childhood cancer awareness?

3. Can you name two types of childhood cancer?

4. Why has Team MadDog joined other teams to run, walk & cycle a Million Miles?

5. Why are childhood cancers different from adult cancers?

6. How many children die from cancer worldwide every day?

7. Who was Alexandra “Alex” Scott?

8. Are there any reasons you would go a Million Miles?

9. What percent of federal cancer research funding goes to childhood cancers?

10. What is the “valley of death” in cancer research funding?

11. Why doesn’t childhood cancer research attract more public or corporate funding?

12. How many $1 cups of lemonade would fund 1 hour of childhood cancer research?

13. Do you patronize any corporate sponsors of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation?

14. Why is Team MadDog so Mad?

15. What is Team MadDog doing about childhood cancer?

16. What is one of more than a dozen ways for you to help Team MadDog help hundreds of thousands of children with cancer?

• Answers will be posted here tomorrow – Day 29 of a 30 -day Journey to a Million.

HINT: All of the answers can be found by searching our online footprint:

• Our The Million Mile webpage: http://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/1118154
• Our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WeAreTeamMadDog
• Our Twitter account, @WeAreTeamMadDog: https://twitter.com/WeAreTeamMadDog
• Our YouTube channel: http://goo.gl/Imq71y
• Childhood Cancer Facts: http://www.alexslemonade.org/childhood-cancer-facts

Yesterday, 25 September, we passed our 1,000 mile goal. The original mileage challenge to make part of your donation now and part when we reach our mileage goal is no longer available. However, if you want to commit to a certain amount per mile (for example, $.25/mile) achieved from now through midnight 30 September, we would love that challenge, too. Commit to a challenge of your choice in increments of 5 cents a mile or more (5¢, 10¢ 15¢...etc. per mile). Email your preference to [email protected].

DID You Know? You can peer inside the inner workings of our virtuous virtual group at our Facebook page? No really bad bites yet, but as the Dogs approach their1,000 mile goal they are seeing red. — Irreversible MADness over kids with cancer may be setting in.

"...The tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else Save what beats there. ...O, that way madness lies! Let me shun that; No more of that." — William Shakespeare, King Lear: Act 3, Scene 4.

Only Shakespearean dogs actually talk like that. Mostly we just bark, snarl, growl and howl.
Visit us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/groups/WeAreTeamMadDog. Our dogs will astound you!

Team MadDog is moving out! Keep an eye on us tomorrow as we expect to shatter the 1,000 mile mark. Who will put us over the top? Lisa? Emily? Caroline? Neil? Joe? Alyssa? ...There may be a surprise in store,

What lies on the other side of 1,000? Lemonade perhaps. ;-)

Great job. I know you can hit 1000 miles. Thanks for making a difference to kids with cancer.

To celebrate both meeting our goal of 1,000 miles - anticipated tomorrow - and the upcoming completion of Alex’s Million Mile, we have issued a special challenge to parents and kids everywhere. We challenge you to join us by holding Lemonade Stands like the one first accomplished by Alexandra “Alex” Scott. Our goal with this “MadDog Lemonade Stand Challenge” is to get parents and kids working together to learn about the challenges of childhood cancers and to actively participate in finding cures and spreading hope.
As Team MadDog approaches the finish line, we want to extend the Lemonade Stand legacy as far and wide as our voices can carry. From our hometowns in Maryland across the nation and the globe, help us organize a blanket of Lemonade Stands.
Cancer bites. Childhood cancer bites especially hard. Bite back with us! Join us with a Lemonade Stand anytime from now through Sunday, 28 September. We'll work together just as we have so far in running, walking and riding our way toward a million miles. We're thirsty for cures. Bring on the lemonade!

* See the announcements of the Team MadDog Lemonade Stand Challenge on Twitte:r https://twitter.com/WeAreTeamMadDog/status/514738198501941248, and Facebook: http://goo.gl/ijtvh3.

* Our SeptAMMber page is http://www.alexslemonade.org/mypage/1118154.

We will be glad to help with lots of advice and printable material. All you need to invest in are lemonade mix and some cups! - Mark Tempestilli, Captain of Team MadDog

We Are Team MadDog ...we're past our goal and STILL going the distance in The Million Mile - Run.Walk.Ride 2014.
"Childhood Cancer Bites. We Bite Back!"
Enjoy our pictures.