ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Everyone has heard about the Ice Bucket challenge. You might have seen one of the thousands of funny videos all over YouTube, Facebook, Pinterest, Vine, and well, you get the point. (My personal favorite is Rob Pattinson's. This is a link to it in case you're interested:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3y6dJr2hYA )
Anyway, there are no technical rules of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, it's mainly just to raise awareness and money for the cause. The three main parts of it are donating, pouring ice water over your head, and nominating three other people. I have heard multiple versions of rules though. Like, if you don't want to donate you pour ice over your head. Or if you don't take the challenge twenty four hours after you were nominated, then you're supposed to donate. And I've also heard that if you take the challenge then you can just donate ten dollars, but if you don't want to take the challenge then you donate one hundred dollars instead. There's all kinds of different variations of the challenge. However, the one I like best is where you just do the challenge, if you want too, nominate friends, and donate whatever you can afford.
Which leads to the next important part of this post. The Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association. More commonly known as ALSA. It funds research for the cure of ALS. It has a lot of different programs around the U.S. and has, as of September thirteenth, raised 112.4 million dollars. If you have any questions about it, or the money that you donate here is a link to the site, which answered any and all questions I had about it:
http://www.alsa.org/
I personally enjoy watching my friends and favorite stars take the challenge and I had fun taking it myself. Yet the main point of it is really to donate to fund research that will help cure people that have ALS. I think that if you don't donate it's just not worth anything to anyone. The whole point of the challenge is to draw attention to ALS, not to draw attention to your very white, and wet, shirt. It's not hard to donate, they have a big red button on the site. And if you want to make sure one hundred percent of your donation goes straight to research then there's a box on the form you fill out that you can check to let the association know what you wish to have done with your donation.

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