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Robotics, Coding or Minecraft
Robotics, Coding or Minecraft
Your child will learn the foundations of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), while building key social and change-making skills.
Coding Programs
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
Coding is an important language to learn. With the demand for STEM workers continuing to increase, learning coding from an early age is a sure way to gain an advantage in today's competitive career world. Kids code games, websites and more. They learn how computers work, exercise creativity by coming up with ideas for how their project will look and feel, and build resilience and perseverance when trouble-shooting their code.
Kids will learn everything they need to know to code their very own game: character development, storyboarding, animation, environment and level design, beta testing and, of course, coding.
Skills Learned: Resilience, Confidence, Internet Safety, Logic, Game Design, Beta-Testing
Robotics Programs
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
Design the world around you! In our Robotics programs, kids will design, plan, program, and build electronic inventions while using an electronic robotics microcontroller and learning how to code. Kids will better understand how everyday objects around them work and will have the opportunity to bring their ideas to life.
The microcontrollers we use are used by industry professionals.
Kids make electronic creations that they previously could have only dreamed of. Code a 'robot brain' to make something awesome. Kids get to see the results of their code right before their eyes. They realize that they can make things that others can use. Kids exercise creativity by developing project ideas, learn to design projects for specific user needs, and give and receive feedback on their designs
Skills Learned: Self-Confidence, Creativity, Teamwork, Coding, Electronics, Math, Reading, Writing, Design
Minecraft Programs
Grades 3-5 & 6-8
In our Minecraft programs, kids learn how to make Minecraft even more awesome, how computers and servers work, and core computer programming concepts while collaborating with kids equally excited about Minecraft.
We use the incredibly popular game Minecraft (now a mandatory school subject in Finland) as a medium to help kids build transferable skills such as coding, electronics, 3D design, servers, and more. We leverage kids' interest in Minecraft as a gateway to introduce them to other STEM topics such as Robotics and Coding. Minecraft is also a great medium for teaching positive netizen skills and communication skills. Kids build amazing digital creations.
Skills Learned: Social Skills, Patience, Communication, Teamwork, Problem-Solving, Coding, 3D Design
Mini MakerKids Programs
Grades 1-2
Welcome mini MakerKids! This program is designed for little ones who like to think big. Kids will learn how to create and make using various platforms and gadgets. Kids will be exposed to both technical and 21st-century skills, like creativity and confidence. Based on STEM education, kids will build a strong foundation for out-of-the-box thinking, coding and how computers work. Using logic and design, kids will make something amazing and out of this world.
Kids will learn how to use key technology, like computers and pre-built robotics. Kids will touch on all our three core topics: coding, robotics and Minecraft. Key skills kids will learn include: design, the design process, game design, problem-solving and planning. Kids will create, experiment, adjust and retry. The fundamentals of electricity, energy, and programming (how computers think) will be covered in fun ways that kids get to see in action!
Mini MakerKids introduces kids in grades 1 and 2 to our core technology topics: Coding, Robotics, and Minecraft. At our Mini MakerKids programs, your child gets to work on a variety of projects small groups. They will design their own video game, create robotic inventions, explore the 3D design world of Minecraft, and do design and experimentation. Each class your child will build on the skills they learned the week before, coming out of programs with transferable technical skills and social skills.
The weekly cross-discipline exposure puts a focus on valuable skills and coming back to now familiar platforms each day allows kids to see real progress as their abilities grow.
Skills Learned: Social Skills, Confidence, Design, Problem-solving, Game Design, Electronics and Planning
Accreditations, Awards & Recognitions
Check out some of MakerKids' recent awards!
Check out some of MakerKids' recent awards!
Set Your Child Up For Success with MakerKids
STEM jobs are in demand. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Sergey Brin were all in technology camps or programs as kids. MakerKids is fun, educational and safe.
Experienced & Vetted Instructors
MakerKids has carefully screened and trained each Maker-Mentor to ensure they have proper STEM experience and knowledge to deliver results in a fun and safe environment.
Real-World Skills
MakerKids uses technology as a medium to help kids develop confidence, social skills, change-making abilities and a positive relationship with technology.
Time-Tested Curriculum & Results
MakerKids graduates have started businesses, been featured on TV, been published in magazines, and more. Our curriculum has been refined over 7 years by industry teachers and STEM experts.
Camps and Programs in Leaside, Toronto
Your child will learn coding, robotics and Minecraft with MakerKids! We provide award-winning programs for kids from grade 1 to 8. Kids learn technical skills, interpersonal skills and 21st century skills to prepare them for the future ahead.
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Welcome to MakerKids's newest location in Leaside, Toronto. Leaside is an impressive, family-focused community. This location services kids in Midtown, North Toronto and East York with its award-winning robotics, coding and Minecraft after-school programs, camps and parties. Located just a few blocks south of Eglinton on the east side of Bayview, it is in the heart of Leaside. From excellent schools, community centres, parks, arenas, shops to a plethora of local businesses, Leaside has it all – including the best in STEM education for kids!
Meet Aimée Savard, Owner of MakerKids Leaside
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Aimée has 15 + years' of experience working with children's, education, and technology brands in the public relations and marketing communications industry. Her expertise spans strategic planning, creative storytelling, media relations, event planning and management. She's also an industry awards judge for the Canadian Public Relations Society. Aimée is a passionate arts and education enthusiast. As a mother of two young children, she saw a need to inspire STEM learning in a really fun, creative and useful way, and that's why she's opening MakerKids Leaside!
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Becoming a Lion
Finding a Lions Club near you is as easy as plugging the name of your town into the search engine on the organization's website.
Most Lions Clubs meet once or twice a month to plan projects and discuss club business. There are also cyber clubs that meet online and special interest clubs based on professions or hobbies such as the Montgomery County Police and Fire Fighters Lions Club, the Las Vegas Opticians Lions Club and the Boise Special Olympics Lions Club.
Membership in a Lions Club is by invitation only. Through the organization's website, contact a member and let the Lion know you'd like to attend a meeting or participate in a service project. Expressing interest is a great way to let the Lions know you want to join.
You can also call the international headquarters for information at (630) 468-6857 or contact the organization by e-mail at email@example.com. Through the Web site, you'll also have the opportunity to fill out an online prospective member form, which will be forwarded to a Lions Club in your area. At that point, it's up to your local branch to contact you [source: Lions Clubs].
Once you've attended a meeting or service event, you can get a better feel for the group and its goals. If you're still interested, ask an active member to sponsor you. If you can't find a club near you, you can order a new club kit and start your own.
Membership dues vary from club to club, averaging $35 a month. Family and student discounts are available [source: Lions Club].
To learn more, visit the links below.
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- Ear Science Institute. (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.earscience.org.au/
- Lions Clubs. "About Lions." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/about-lions/index.php
- Lions Clubs. "Becoming a Lion." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/becoming-a-lion/index.php
- Lions Clubs. "Bag-A-Burger." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/our-impact/lions-in-action/bag-a-burger.php
- Lions Clubs. "Leo Clubs Activities." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/our-work/youth-programs/leo-clubs/leo-club-activities.php
- Lions Clubs. "Lions Burn Center." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/our-impact/lions-in-action/lions-burn-center.php
- Lions Clubs. "Philippines Library." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/our-impact/lions-in-action/philippines-library.php
- The Extra Mile. "Melvin Jones." (Accessed 5/25/09)http://www.extramile.us/honorees/jones.cfm

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- Region: Chile
- Winery: Winemakers's Lot
- Type: Red Wine
- Variety: Cabernet, Carmenere, Syrah
Price: $15 buy now
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Excellent blend. Cabernet 60%, Carmenere 30%, Syrah 10%. Carmenere very pronounced. Big, bold flavors
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Anyclean Now Offers Carpet Cleaning in Canning Town E16
Depending on the type of the fibers and the stains on your carpet, we will apply a cleaning method accordingly to ensure the highest level of service is provided. We have been servicing Canning Town E16 since 1998 and we are available seven days a week. Call 020 7099 6964 to get an experienced technician today.
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Canning Town is a suburb in East London considered as an area with a lot of residents still suffer poor health, poverty and low education. Jubilee Line on London Underground and Docklands Light Railway serve the area.
Now one of the most deprived residential areas in the UK, Canning Town was once just a marshy locality of farmland to the east of the River Lea. During the Victorian era thousands of people moved into the area. Therefore hundreds of houses and flats were needed for them, and within the next few years Canning Town E16 had become a bustling and heavily populated industrial town. Industries that took place within the area included various types of chemical factories that produced caustic soda, varnish, soap and tallow. Another major industry that used to employ hundreds of workers was sugar refining. The main reason for Canning Town to become an important industrial centre was its convenient transport links provided by the railway and the docks.


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While Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a blanket term described by loss or impairment of motor function, Cerebral Palsy is actually caused by brain damage. The brain damage is caused by brain injury or abnormal development of the brain that occurs while a child's brain is still developing — before birth, during birth, or immediately after birth.
Cerebral Palsy affects body movement, muscle control, muscle coordination, muscle tone, reflex, posture and balance. It can also impact fine motor skills, gross motor skills and oral motor functioning.
Every case of cerebral palsy is unique to the individual. One person may have total paralysis and require constant care, while another with partial paralysis might have slight movement tremors but require little assistance. This is due in part by the type of injury and the timing of the injury to the developing brain.
Cerebral Palsy affects muscles and a person's ability to control them. Muscles can contract too much, too little, or all at the same time. Limbs can be stiff and forced into painful, awkward positions. Fluctuating muscle contractions can make limbs tremble, shake, or writhe.
Balance, posture, and coordination can also be affected by Cerebral Palsy. Tasks such as walking, sitting, or tying shoes may be difficult for some, while others might have difficulty grasping objects.
Other complications, such as intellectual impairment, seizures, and vision or hearing impairment also commonly accompany Cerebral Palsy.
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Color affects everything! My work is about color relationships and the energy that color can generate...paintings on silk and on canvas
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Improv drawings to jazz
An interesting proposition came to our art group--to paint while Michael Arnowitt played improv jazz, but not just in private. We will be painting while Michael plays a concert at Wood Art Gallery. He has written a grant and been awarded some funds for this event now scheduled for July 12th. To warm up I went to his last concert where he played his own compositions with his 5 piece jazz group ImproVisions and these are some of the resulting drawings. I was seated within the audience for this concert and limited myself to oil pastels on ancient colored paper and pages from an old art magazine which was quite experimental and exciting in itself. So enjoyed the music and my working with it. Like I was an instrument or dancing. I "played" until the end and found myself so exhausted after the output that it was hard to drive home. I was spent. The 3 of us who have promised to "paint" for the concert got together another time "to practice".
I'm quite certain that there is no real way to practice for this event. It will be a happening thing and I hope grace and inspiration are with us and no great mishaps occur. How can one practice for improv?
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Mobile Legends: Bang Bang has provided the latest in their "Road to Mythic" series and this time it's the Ocean Gladiator, Atlas. A "mech-piloting ancient creature" according to the video, Atlas is a new tank hero.
In the series, the team behind MLBB provides a look at the heroes and gives their advice on equipment, skills, playstyle, and more.
Recommended equipment and why:
- Dominance Ice – Cooldown reduction
- Cursed Helmet – Increased HP and Magic Defense
- Antique Cuirass – Defense & HP
- Oracle – Defense & HP
- Guardian Helmet – Defense & HP
We'll give you the list of skills below, but you want to watch the video to figure out how to combo them together! Skill tips start in the above video at 0:45:
- Annihilate: Atlas smashes the ground and causes 3 explosions, dealing 250 (+70% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage for EACH explosion.
- Perfect Match: Atlas Ejects from his Mecha, which increases his (Atlas) movement speed by 30%. The Mecha will continue following Atlas with an increasing Movement Speed. When the Mecha reaches Atlas, he will return to the Mecha, dealing 360 (+55% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage to nearby targets AND stunning them for 1 second.
- Ultimate – Fatal Links: Atlas hurls chains at all nearby heroes and starts charging. Enemies hit by the chains will be slowed down by 60% (decays in 3 seconds). USe again during charging, ATlas drags all targets toward him, then plonks them into a target place, dealing 300 (+200% Total Magic Power) Magic Damage.
Atlas does well in team fights, but in the mid-early game, he's not as strong as there aren't typically many of those. Once he hits level four, Atlas should be used around the map to help teammates.
In the late game, Atlas is prepped and ready to jump into team fights. His crowd control (CC) and survivability make him strong in the late game alongside the above-suggested equipment.
With a strong AOE team, Atlas' ultimate Fatal Links can pull together all the enemies in a team fight and CC them, giving your team a chance to deal significant damage and remove some from the battlefield. This, of course, requires a solid cast of Fatal Links, as it won't do it all for you.
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Have you and others a training need? Whether you are a Macra Club or County/Region, a discussion group or a company in the wider industry with some employees in need of training, we can help.
Contact us to see if we can procure a training provider and organise the course delivery, with facilities etc for you, taking the administrative burden from you while ensure the skills are developed. If a course needs to be tailored to your needs or developed from scratch, we would also be delighted to support this. Please do not hesitate to contact us
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Some courses have a cost to participants and some courses are provided free of charge. The cost of some courses is further subsidised by sponsors or partners, to whom we are extremely grateful. Costs of Training are calculated on the average expected group size after the application of Skillnet Funding. Non-members can avail of training courses at an extra cost. Members and employees of associate member companies can attend training at members rates.
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Animals That Eat Rose Bush Roots
Rose bush root-eating culprits are the burrowers, gophers and voles. Not all burrowing garden pests eat rose roots. Moles are carnivores and don't eat the roots, yet their tunneling can damage the root systems of roses. Many roses, Rosa spp., grow outdoors all year in U.S. Department of Agriculture zones 6 through 9, with some species tolerating much wider temperature ranges. Attempting to control gophers or voles with poison can harm pets and wildlife, and contaminate water. Less dangerous methods exist for protecting rose bushes.
The Gopher Menace
Gophers can eat all of a rose's roots and even pull small plants into their burrows. Maintaining a weed-free and unplanted strip of property around your rose garden can help deter additional gophers from moving in. Gophers are attracted to areas with an abundance of roots, so maintaining a perimeter with nothing for them to eat creates an undesirable habitat. As a bonus, a few feet of nonirrigated land around the garden reduces your yard's appeal to root-damaging moles because the dry ground won't support the rich food supply of earthworms and grubs they seek. Dogs and cats allowed to go outside can kill gophers.
Voles Below and Above Ground
Voles, also called meadow mice and field mice, eat all forms of vegetation, including rose roots. They create trails under mulch, using it as protection from predators. Clear mulch at the bases of the rose bushes to a distance of five inches. If the infestation is extensive, it might be necessary to clear away all garden mulch and keep the ground bare. Some gardeners set mousetraps with peanut butter under a box on a vole trail to kill them, although this risks injury to pets and other wildlife. Garden centers sell repellents that smell like predator urine that might deter voles. Galvanized fencing used as a barrier can protect rose bushes from voles as well as gophers. Cats are good at hunting and killing voles.
Root Protection Options
Galvanized wire mesh offers a long-lasting barrier to protect rose bush roots. Common methods for employing it include burying baskets to surround the roots of individual bushes, laying the mesh on the bottom of a raised bed or using it as fencing. Garden centers and hardware stores sell gopher wire and hardware cloth. These types of metal mesh are much more durable than poultry wire, the San Jose Mercury reports. Underground fencing isn't fool proof because hungry gophers might burrow below the fence.
Root Protection Without Relocation
To protect rose bushes without having to dig them up to install baskets or replant them in a raised bed, install an underground fence made of 3/4-inch chicken wire or hardware cloth. Extend the fence at least 2 feet below ground and at least a foot above ground around the perimeter of the roses. Bend the bottom six inches of the fence at a 90-degree angle away from the plants to deter gophers from digging around it, advises the University of California, Davis Integrated Pest Management Program.
Related Articles
- University of Vermont Extension: Department of Plant and Soil Science: Controlling Animal Pests in the Flower Garden
- Fine Gardening: Genus Rose — Rosa
- University of California, Davis Integrated Pest Management Program: Pocket Gophers
- San Jose Mercury News: What To Do When You Decide Your Gophers Must Go
- Walter Reeves: Damage to Plants and Control
- Missouri Botanical Garden: Voles and Mice


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Matt Doeden was born in southern Minnesota and lived parts of his childhood in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and Madison, Minnesota. He studied journalism at Mankato State University, where he worked at the college newspaper for three years. In his senior year, he served as the papers Sports Editor, which put him in charge of the entire sports section, the sports writers, and the photographers.
He covered mostly college sports, but also the Minnesota Vikings, who held training camp at MSU.His work allowed him to meet and interview people like Dennis Green, Cris Carter, Robert Smith, and more. Matt went on to work as a sports writer for the Mankato paper, and then he got a job as an editor with a small childrens publisher called Capstone Press, and in 2003 he decided to start his own business as a freelance writer and editor.Since then, Matt has written and edited hundreds of books.
Lots of them are on high-interest topics like cars, sports, and airplanes. He also writes and edits on geography, science, and even math.
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2016 ASLA National Annual Meeting and Expo New Orleans, LA
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Join ASLA members from around the country for the Annual Meeting and Expo to be held this year in Denver, Colorado at the Colorado Convention Center. Check the ASLA website often for updates and registration.
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If you have garden or yard, there is no better place for your children to satisfy their natural curiosity, use their imagination, explore nature and burn off some of that energy! Of course, kids will be kids, however. We've all been there, and so it should really come as no surprise that if there's a thorny shrub, an exposed drain, a sticking-out nail or an unsecured shed full of sharp objects, they are certain to find every single one of them.
Some say trips to the emergency room are also an inevitable part of childhood, but this is definitely something we all want to avoid. So how can we make the garden safe, without spoiling all the fun?
Secure the boundaries
Getting prickled by a bush is one thing but wandering out into the street, or having someone uninvited stroll in to your garden is the stuff of nightmares. Ensure play areas are properly fenced – that means something that even an aspiring Houdini will not be able to scale! Child proof latches on gates are a good idea with little ones, and ideally, it makes sense to secure the entire property with locked gates at the end of the driveway. As a finishing touch, add a no trespassing sign to the gate. You can always install a remote doorbell there so that genuine visitors or delivery couriers can alert you to their presence.
Be on poison alert
There are plenty of poisonous plants that look innocuous enough but can be extremely harmful. They can appear anywhere as long as there is fertile soil and water, so remain vigilant. If you are a keen gardener, there are probably some chemicals in the shed that are just as dangerous. Some people recommend keeping them on a high shelf, but that's less than ideal, as they can easily drop or spill. A locked cupboard is the safest course of action.
Pools and ponds
Kids love nothing more than messing about with water. If you have a garden pond, or better still a swimming pool, it will provide hours of fun. But keep in mind that for children over five, drowning in a pool is the second most common cause of fatal accidents. Install a fence around the pond or pool and keep the gate locked at all times unless you are there and supervising.
Safe swinging
A garden swing is one of those "must-haves" for children. It is also a leading cause of those emergency room visits we were talking about. Let's be honest, kids are inevitably going to fall off the swing once or twice, but if you ensure it is installed on soft ground and away from paths, fences and other obstructions, then there will be nothing worse to deal with than minor scrapes and bruises.
Shared responsibility
Teaching children to take responsibility for their own safety and educating them about the dangers of poisons, water and all the rest is, of course, important. But their curiosity is a strong force, so it is down to us to ensure garden risks are understood and managed.


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Because of our international expansion in 2020, we have an opportunity for a digital marketing & export manager.
What is the job about?
- You develop a strategic communication plan with a proposition for each unique selling point and different customer stakeholders
- Together with our marketing partner, you are responsible for our digital marketing and on-line presence
- You develop and implement our internationalization (export) strategy with the goal to introduce in at least 3 new countries each year
- You lead the business development and market research activities to determine market potential and select distribution partners in our export countries
- You lead, coach and train the distribution partners or agents in the assigned countries
- You make the budget and forecast for the assigned markets. Follow-up of sales vs. forecast. Cost vs. budget for Marketing & Sales budgeting and monitoring.
- You select the most interesting fairs, events, conferences,… and organize our presence there in the right way
- You collect customer feedback and analyze it as input for product improvement and product innovation
- Your home market is the Netherlands. You take the lead in prospection and relation management with the Dutch hospitals
What are we looking for?
- Master's degree in (international) business management, with specialization in digital marketing and data/IT
- You are Dutch or you have at least 5 years experience with Dutch culture and sales in the Netherlands.
- You are willing to travel
- Experience in healthcare sector is a plus.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Team player, enthusiastic (can do mentality), entrepreneurial and self-managing
- Excellent knowledge of English and Dutch. Knowledge of French or German is a plus.
What do we offer?
- Become part of a growing start-up company with international ambitions in the Turnhout region
- Choose for a job with lots of variation. Wide range of activities and learning opportunities in marketing, sales and business management
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- Competitive salary and lease car.
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Take a look at the infographic below. It's no secret that employers are using social media to track and/or monitor potential employees. In the past, this generally was interpreted as ensuring that you don't post anything that may be harmful to your professional (or personal) lives online. Now, having a social media presence can be a positive thing for prospective employers. Examine what networks employers utilize most often, and tell comment back on this article. Tell me. If an employer were to use your social media activity as a basis for hire, how well would you do? What does this tell you about your social media "persona?"
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If an employer were to use my social media activity as a bias for hire i wouldnt have anything to worry about. I dont usually post statuses on my social media accounts and when i do theres nothing bad about them i just mostly post pictures and there all appropriate and theres nothing wrong with them. Other people might have a problem because i have seen people get fired for having certain things on there social media accounts but as for me i would be fine.
If an employer were to use my social media activity as a basis for hire, I would do well and leave an 'okay' impression. The employer would probably look for me on Facebook and Twitter since those sites are the best network for the job (being that I do not have a LinkedIn page). On Facebook, most of my settings are set to private. The only thing the employer would be able to see is my profile picture and banner. For Twitter, I have a separate account that I use of school. My social account is set to private and does not have my full name on it. Therefore, the employer would not see much information on my socia media except that I may be interseted in media, cheerleading and photography.
"Employers and Social Media"
If I were to be "graded" on my social media uses by an employer, I don't think I'd do too bad. Based on the infographic, LinkedIn is the top social media site that employers use. I don't have a LinkedIn account. But Facebook is holding strong in second place for almost every statistic. I am an avid Facebook user. Twitter is also in the running, and I do spend a lot of my time on twitter. I don't post anything online that I would not want an employer to see, so I think I'd pass their test.
Your social media presence can say a lot about you, and employers are smart for using that to judge how well a person would fit in their company. What you post online is a direct reflection of your personality, I believe. I think that goes for me, too. It shows who I am as a person, and I don't think that would be a bad thing for a future employer to know.
If I were to be hired based on my social media accounts, I think I would do rather well. I don't really post inappropriate things on my Facebook or Twitter, so it really wouldn't be a make or break kind of deal for me. I just post things that are happening in my life or something funny that I think some of my friends would like. I understand that companies and colleges are now using social media to monitor how well behaved their employees/students are acting online, but there are so many ways around it. You can now post whatever you want as long as you make it private, that way you can't really be detected. Some people even make anon. accounts so they can still post want they want without being "punish" by what they just so happen to be posting. For those who don't hide their online persona, could hurt dearly for what they post. If what they post embarrasses the company they work for or the school that they attend, the person could be fired/expelled. Basically, if you're being irresponsible online, it could come back to bite you in the end.
"Employers and Social Media"
If an employer were to go to lots of people's Facebook accounts, their chances of getting a job might be screwed. But what if employers were looking for positive things on social networking sites?
My personal Facebook account went through a bit of a phase change over the past few years. When I first got it, I might post stupid pictures or song lyrics that I really liked. But as I started to focus more and more on my filmmaking and photography, I realized that I had a great asset that I was not taking advantage of. From then on my posts became almost strictly professional. Picture and film promotions are what mainly clog up my profile.
Of course, I do still post some personal things that I want to share, such as my experience at the Green Day concert or different jobs I'm working on. I do this so that if an employer or prospective client were to come to my page, they would be impressed by its professionalism despite my age.
Along with my personal account, I also have a specific Facebook page for Tyler Welch Photography and also Tyler Welch Filmmaking. As far as other social media sites, I use Twitter and Instagram under the username "tylerwelchfilmmaking" since these sites to me represent a marketing aspect if not a social one. In the past year, I also created a YouTube account called "Tyler Welch Filmmaking" to upload only film specific projects so that it can be viewed as a personal portfolio.
Overall, my social media presence can be felt more through a business and marketing aspect rather than a personal one. So I would have no problem with employers checking out these accounts of mine.
Based on my social media activity, an Employer probably would have a difficult time hiring me because of the fact that a lot of my social media activity at this point is social. I don't necessarily tweet or make a status about marketing, business, work life or anything like that. However I do follow a good amount of useful resourceful pages that provide me with the information that I myself am not actually presenting to everyone on social media. Some of these are pages such as BreakingNews, HubSpot, SocialMediaNews, Alex Jones, etc. These pages do provide great information for my own personal research but like I said before.. I don't necessarily present myself as informing the public and I don't have a LinkedIn account in which these people could see my "professional life or career." So based on this, at my age, an employer for a large business probably would not hire me.
If an employer were to use social media activity as a basis for hiring me, depending on the job, I may not get the job. I do not have a large social media presence. I am a member and user of most social media sites however, I do not actively post anything that would sway an employer to hire me or not. Most of what I post is about what I am currently doing for the weekend or different trip pictures I have taken. I am not convinced that the picture of my little brother and me on the beach is going to push an employer to say that I would make an asset to their company. I do not tweet or update my Facebook status often even with more social things. I do follow some useful sources on Twitter, but lots of people follow them. If I was an employer I would want to know how what those sources says affects the potential new employee and I do not have anything on my social media pages that would be any indication. Also, the best network for employers according to the infographic is LinkedIn. I do not have a LinkedIn account. Without a LinkedIn neither my Facebook nor Twitter would give an employer insight to what my on the job performance would be.
I am usually very particular about what I say in the realm of social media, steering away from posting angry rants or attacks on subjects that I may have strong opinions towards or against. A possible future employer would most likely realize this, as I do not simply say things all willy-nilly, but first look at the facts, next understand or straighten the facts, and finally respond coolly to them. I would suspect that these observable steps would give them a positive taste of me. On the other side, I rarely promote any companies or organizations, which could either be a good or a bad fact. Overall I presume that the employer would get a positive, leaning towards nutral vibe from me.


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My friends and family members roll their eyes when I correct their grammar or point out a mistranslation. Instead of faking awe, they usually make fun of me for being so picky. On a summer day, a family member stumbled upon this sign at a laundry mat in Connecticut. This time, they could not just laugh at the "mistranslation". With much fervor, they told me about what happened when they spoke to the supervisor about changing one of the most hideous (translation wise) signs they had ever seen. Like most people do, he simply shrugged them off, but he made a big mistake in the process. "Oh, it doesn't matter. That isn't Spanish, it's some sort of language from a country called Ecuador". That was definitely the wrong thing to say to Ecuadorians.


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We've reached the midpoint of the Sochi LOLympics and I understand that Canada is doing well which is nice. On the other hand, I'm mildly perturbed that people don't take my boycott and the reasons for it seriously. Mostly family and coworkers at my day job but it's still discouraging that sports trumps the rights of gays, dogs and the people of both Syria and Sochi.
Anyway, I suppose that since it's Sunday, we should do the links. Let's start with Kate Mara. You know, I really should watch House of Cards.
The US Labour Secretary has a good point. How can some smaller companies thrive despite paying livable wages while the big ones who make a mint thanks to low wages say they'll go under if minimum wage gets to a livable level? (Daily Kos)
Subscribers to Newt Gingrich's email list get an odd assortment of "news items" sent to them. These include stories about alleged cancer cures, Obama's secret mistress (it's Beyonce like the tabloids already told us so it's not a secret) and The Illuminati. And you wonder why many people consider the GOP to be a laughing-stock. (Media Matters)
It's kind of amazing how quickly a story disappears. One year ago, a kid on Facebook made a joke about shooting a school. He was quickly arrested because some people don't have senses of humour. Now, he faces 10 years in prison. I know that's a sensitive topic but some people just take life way too damn seriously. (Dallas Observer)
After a rocky launch, it looks as though the Affordable Care Act is starting to work. This could swing the conversation at election time this fall. (Washington Post)
Sports Illustrated's stories about how NFL execs reacted to Michael Sam coming out as openly gay played right to the typical NFL stereotypes. Suddenly, the New York Times, ESPN and OutSports were no longer leading the coverage of the Michael Sam story that they broke the news of. SI used shoddy reporting and sensationalist writing to twist Michael Sam into their story. (Slate)
After hockey, Canada's most popular winter sport is curling. So how is the comparatively slow-paced chess on ice Canada's second most popular ice sport? (Deadspin)
Drake has gone Justin Bieber stupid. He is cursing the media and swearing off magazine interviews because he was bumped from the Rolling Stone cover for a tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman. That's a pretty petty attitude. On behalf of Canadians, I call for his citizenship to be rescinded. (HyperVocal)
In good Canadian news, Ellen Page came out as gay this weekend. Here's someone Canadians should be proud of. (Gawker)
In the new age of social media and instant feedback, is the old spoiler alert dead? (Fast Co)
Paula Deen might be off TV for now but that doesn't mean that she isn't famous. She's still popular enough to have her own celebrity cruise. (Gawker)
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Have you ever identified someone you thought would be the perfect client? What happened after you identified them? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way for you to be introduced to that person? Would it be terrific if someone you knew promoted you to this prospective client?
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I am so happy I kept a baby journal- a little book on my nightstand that I wrote in every now and then, and still do. M and I were reading it last night together as her 6th birthday approaches. She thought this one was hysterical.
Age 3 1/2…
M ate some ice-cream quickly and she said, "Ow" and put her hands on her head…
Me: M, if you eat ice-cream too fast, you can get an ice-cream headache! Here is a warm noodle, maybe that will help.
M: I don't want to eat it too fast, then I could get a noodle headache… (said in all seriousness of course.)
It reminded me that efforts at "nutrition" education are largely wasted and confusing to the preschool set. Save your energy. Many of my clients try to rationalize or explain about protein or sugar grams, and it's not necessary, and it can mess with the very natural wisdom kids have around food. Think about it, if I describe a meal as "yummy, kind of like the noodles you like, and this is gramma's favorite" vs. "This soup has buckwheat noodles and is low-fat. It's good for you!" Which sounds more appealing? (Same soup…)
Kids eat because it tastes good and they are hungry. Their idea of what tastes good changes and expands, and it is our job to provide a variety of choices in a pleasant setting at regular, reliable intervals. Why make that job harder?
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Thank you! Our preschool director has a bee in her bonnet about nutrition lately. It started when my 4 y.o. commented that his frozen orange-juice popsicle was full of vitamins and therefore couldn't be counted as a treat (i.e. he should get something else for dessert). Her other words of wisdom for the kids have included:
*If you don't eat the crusts of your bread, your teeth won't be strong and will fall out (which my son has repeated many, many times– thankfully, he ate his crusts before and eats them still, despite the nonsense).
*You can't eat dessert (which, since the kids can't bring candy or cookies to school, "dessert" is almost always a piece of fruit or apple sauce) until you've eaten your "main dish" (sandwich or whatever)
*You can't eat two desserts (again, we're talking about pieces of fruit here!)
The lack of DoR at lunch with the kids really irks me the most– they totally pressure the kids who eat little into eating more and they encourage the hearty eaters to eat less; one Mom sends fiber bars to school with her son b/c he has a constipation problem and they get sent back with the message that it's "too much food" (since it's in addition to sandwich and a piece of fruit).
She's also outlawed cupcakes/cake for birthdays– instead we're supposed to bring a communal lunch (for 25 preschoolers!) because she says the sugar winds up the kids, too much (which, studies have shown, is not actually true). Meanwhile, when *she* sees fit to give the kids a treat (e.g. nutella on bread for snack, which happens once or twice a month) it's fine. I'm sensing it's a control issue w/ her, as much as it is about nutrition…
I heard this public service announcement a few years ago during Halloween time. All I can remember is the girl doing this PSA was a star of a Disney Channel show, and she was making comments along the lines of "Halloween candy is bad for you and will make you gain weight! How about a nice apple, but never a candied apple!" I can't remember the exact words she used, but around that time I noticed commercials about "Healthy diets" ( portion control, eating only veggies for lunch, drinking loads of water) were being shown on the Disney Channel.
I have a feeling the next time I step into the local supermarket I'll be hearing Miley Cyrus (or other Disney icons of this day) over the intercom ranting how fattening Halloween candy is in a PSA. I think I'll spend the extra money and take the longer walk to the smaller health food store where I can buy my organic cheesecake without Disney icons ranting about "bad food" in the intercom PSAs. However, I wonder about how these parents with kids handle these supermarket PSAs when they want to buy a treat, but the kid hears Hannah Montanna ranting about "Halloween candy is bad for you and will make you gain weight! How about a nice apple, but never a candied apple!"
does this really exist?? Seems like it would be bad for business…
This post eminds me so much of being a member of Weight Watchers (the first time) at the age of 9. This was WW circa 1981, so it was based on the principals of Food Exchanges and portion control (and really super disgusting WW products that they really tried to get you to invest in because it was "better" (for them, dare I say), but that's another post).
I remember sitting there during the lecture after weigh in, and just NOT getting how corn, cereal, popcorn, milk, potatoes, bananas, pretzels, ice cream, apples, oranges etc……were all 'a bread'. Nobody bothered to explain to me that when they said bread, they actually meant carbohydrate. If they'd explained it as carbohydrates = energy, protein = building blocks, etc I'd have understood that and been able to follow what I was supposed to be doing to succeed (eyeroll), because even at 9 I was pretty switched on.
I have never understood this human need to use colloquialisms and word replacements when the actual word itself is perfectly fine–in this discussion I'll just say that if it's a potato, just call it a potato or at the very least refer to it as a vegetable. Simplify, especially when talking to kids.
Slightly OT, but it was the same with weighing and measuring of foods. Just as an example: 1/2 cup strawberries vs 1/4 cup peanut butter. The peanut butter you're meant to squish it into the measuring cup so that it takes up all the space to get a proper 1/4 cup measurement. But the strawberries? No, you just pile them in until they reach the brim. I was always preoccupied with the space between the berries and thinking that I was not exactly getting a full 1/2 cup of actual strawberries, that it was probably closer to 1/3 cup of strawberries and a partial serving of…..air.
This seemed perfectly rational to me. So, I asked my mom to squish the berries in, so that I'd get my full serve. I clearly recall her exassperation and hurried explanation that if she did that, it would mean I was eating too much of it and would count as more than one serve (and the world would end? life as we know would have ceased? OMG, I'd maybe not lose any weight that week?? so many horrific results might have happened)–which made NO SENSE TO ME AT ALL. In my mind, it was all still contained in the 1/2 measuring cup, under the brim, right? How was it different to the measuring of the PB?
Enter feeling of deprivation, and watch the wonder of the secret binge unfold itself.
(btw I still feel this way, and now only weight non-liquid items by weight rather than bulk space).
Sorry, didn't mean to hijack the comments! But I just love your site and your blog posts–they bring so much of my past weight-based turmoil to the surface for me to work through and process, and I find it so freeing to be able to discuss it in a place where other people (and not just other non-thin people either) understand and don't try to spin it to be something it's not.
Thank you for taking your time to maintain this site and providing your knowledge and expertise. Discovering this site has been a godsend for me, and I have referred many people here!
Oh, sister of a different mother! I was about that same age when I was put on my first diet. Only my first was "the grapefruit diet"–no dairy, fruit (except for grapefruit or bread, just meat, eggs, fat and salad. Sooo healthy for a growing girl. I remember my mom's friend suggesting Weight Watchers for me, and mom saying, "She doesn't need that, she can lose it ON HER OWN." Meaning if I didn't, it was my fault. Of course, as an adult I went to wW, ending up with Lifetime Member status…and eventually all the weight back, plus. You sound like you belonged in the good ol', bad ol' days when you had to limit your carrots because "they are FULL of sugar." Sheesh. Anyway, thanks for sharing, I feel your pain.
I was given a delightful little calorie counting book at that age, so I could, I guess, be independent with my self-destruction.
I don't know when I started dieting exactly, probably in utero, but I distinctly remember being on Atkins in kindergarten. But they didn't want to put a lot of effort into it either, so I ate A LOT of bologna and cheese slices. Yuck.
My parents chose Atkins for me because my dad wanted to diet too, and he could still drink on Atkins, but he went out for lunch every day with his co-workers and still ate what he wanted, but not me. Until, of course, I couldn't stand it anymore and went to great lengths to get sugar. I never shoplifted (though I probably would have tried if I thought I could get away with it) but I did take food from friend's houses. At times I hated myself for not being stronger and at other times I was thrilled at how frustrated my parents would get because I wasn't losing weight.
Oh my…when you wrote "WW circa 1981" I read "1918" and assumed you were talking about dieting throught World War I.
Yeah, I consider myself a lifelong nutrition nerd, and I still remember being a kid and just Not Getting It. (For example, around age 9 I took a test to try to qualify for the 4-H Foods and Nutrition Quiz Bowl Team. One of the questions was, "Name a disease that can result from not following the USDA Food Guide Pyramid." Presumably they were looking for heart disease or hypertension or some similarly propaganda-ish sound byte. I thought long and hard and wrote, "Scurvy.")
Have you heard about the YMCA's big push for "healthy kids"? I think it's a direct result of the Michelle Obama campaign, and it is truly frightening how intense it is. No chocolate. No cupcakes on birthdays. Maybe vanilla pudding, but only if you say you didn't know. It's unbelievably harsh. Then I ask my little guy what he gets for snack, and it's pretzels and water, or crackers and water. Nothing with protein to tide him through. Seems really dangerous to me, after reading Child of Mine Secrets, and learning more about DoR. They actually talk about foods being "good" and "bad".


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Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, entrepreneur, conspiracy theorist, and occasional actor. During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy for his "no-holds-barred" sets, in which he mocked bigotry and racism. He performed primarily to black audiences at segregated clubs until 1961, when he became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences, appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums.
Gregory was at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s, when he protested the Vietnam War and racial injustice. He was arrested multiple times and went on many hunger strikes. He later became a motivational speaker and author, primarily promoting spirituality.
Gregory died of heart failure at a Washington, D.C. hospital at age 84 in August 2017.
Gregory was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Lucille and Presley Gregory. At Sumner High School, he was aided by teachers, among them Warren St. James; he also excelled at running. Gregory earned a track scholarship to Southern Illinois University, where he set school records as a half-miler and miler. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. In 1954, his college career was interrupted for two years when he was drafted into the United States Army. At the urging of his commanding officer, who had taken notice of his penchant for joking, Gregory got his start in comedy in the Army, where he entered and won several talent shows. In 1956, Gregory briefly returned to SIU after his discharge, but dropped out because he felt that the university "didn't want me to study, they wanted me to run."
In the hopes of becoming a professional comedian, Gregory moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became part of a new generation of black comedians that included Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, and Godfrey Cambridge, all of whom broke with the minstrel tradition that presented stereotypical black characters. Gregory drew on current events, especially racial issues, for much of his material: "Segregation is not all bad. Have you ever heard of a collision where the people in the back of the bus got hurt?"
Gregory began his career as a comedian while serving in the military in the mid-1950s. He served in the Army for a year and a half at Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Lee in Virginia, and Fort Smith in Arkansas. He was drafted in 1954 while attending Southern Illinois University. After being discharged in 1956, he returned to the university but did not receive a degree. He moved to Chicago with a desire to perform comedy professionally.
In 1958, Gregory opened the Apex Club nightclub in Illinois. The club failed and landed Gregory in financial hardship. In 1959, Gregory landed a job as master of ceremonies at the Roberts Show Club.
While working for the United States Postal Service during the daytime, Gregory performed as a comedian in small, primarily black-patronized nightclubs. He was one of the first black comedians to gain widespread acclaim while performing for white audiences. In an interview with The Huffington Post, Gregory described the history of black comics as limited: "Blacks could sing and dance in the white night clubs but weren't allowed to stand flat-footed and talk to white folks, which is what a comic does."
In 1961, Gregory was working at the black-owned Roberts Show Bar in Chicago when he was spotted by Hugh Hefner. Gregory was performing the following material before a largely white audience:
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I understand there are a good many Southerners in the room tonight. I know the South very well. I spent twenty years there one night.
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant and this white waitress came up to me and said, "We don't serve colored people here." I said, "That's all right. I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken."
Then these three white boys came up to me and said, "Boy, we're giving you fair warning. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you." So I put down my knife and fork, I picked up that chicken and I kissed it. Then I said, "Line up, boys!"
Gregory attributed the launch of his career to Hefner. Based on his performance at Roberts Show Bar, Hefner hired Gregory to work at the Chicago Playboy Club as a replacement for comedian "Professor" Irwin Corey.
Gregory made his first television appearance on the late night show Tonight Starring Jack Paar. He soon began appearing nationally and on television.
Early in his career, Gregory was offered an engagement on Tonight Starring Jack Paar. Paar's show was known for helping propel entertainers to the next level of their careers. At the time, black comics did perform on the show, but after their performances, they were never asked to stay and sit on the famous couch and talk with the host. Dick Gregory declined several invitations from Jack Paar to perform on the show. Paar finally called him to find out why he refused to perform on his show. In order to have Gregory perform, the producers eventually agreed to allow him to stay after his performance and talk with the host on air. This was a first in the show's history. Gregory's interview on Tonight Starring Jack Paar spurred conversations across America.
Gregory was number 82 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of all time and had his own star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
He was a co-host with radio personality Cathy Hughes, and was a frequent morning guest, on WOL 1450 AM talk radio's "The Power", the flagship station of Hughes' Radio One. He also appeared regularly on the nationally syndicated Imus in the Morning program.
Gregory appeared as "Mr. Sun" on the television show Wonder Showzen (the third episode, entitled "Ocean", aired in 2005). As Chauncey, a puppet character, imbibes a hallucinogenic substance, Mr. Sun warns, "Don't get hooked on imagination, Chauncey. It can lead to terrible, horrible things." Gregory also provided guest commentary on the Wonder Showzen Season One DVD. Large segments of his commentary were intentionally bleeped out, including the names of several dairy companies, as he made potentially defamatory remarks concerning ill effects that the consumption of cow milk has on human beings.
Gregory attended and spoke at the funeral of James Brown on December 30, 2006, in Augusta, Georgia.
Gregory was an occasional guest on the Mark Thompson's Make It Plain Sirius Channel 146 Radio Show from 3pm to 6pm PST.
Gregory appeared on The Alex Jones Show on September 14, 2010, March 19, 2012, and April 1, 2014.
Gregory gave the keynote address for Black History Month at Bryn Mawr College on February 28, 2013. His take-away message to the students was to never accept injustice.
Once I accept injustice, I become injustice. For example, paper mills give off a terrible stench. But the people who work there don't smell it. Remember, Dr. King was assassinated when he went to work for garbage collectors. To help them as workers to enforce their rights. They couldn't smell the stench of the garbage all around them anymore. They were used to it. They would eat their lunch out of a brown bag sitting on the garbage truck. One day, a worker was sitting inside the back of the truck on top of the garbage, and got crushed to death because no one knew he was there.
Even as late as 2013, Gregory continued to be a ringing voice of the black power movement. Towards the end of his life, he was featured in a Fantagraphics book by Pat Thomas entitled Listen, Whitey: The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975, which uses the political recordings of the Civil Rights era to highlight sociopolitical meanings throughout the movement. Gregory is known for comedic performances that not only made people laugh, but mocked the establishment. According to Thomas, Gregory's monologues reflect a time when entertainment needed to be political to be relevant, which is why he included his standup in the collection. Gregory is featured along with the likes of Huey P. Newton, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Langston Hughes and Bill Cosby.
Joe Morton played Dick Gregory in 2016 in the play Turn Me Loose at the Westside Theatre in Manhattan.Gregory met his future wife Lillian Smith at an African-American club; they married in 1959. They had 11 children (including one son, Richard Jr., who died two months after birth): Michele, Lynne, Pamela, Paula, Stephanie (a.k.a. Xenobia), Gregory, Christian, Miss, Ayanna, and Yohance. He was criticized for being an absent father. In a 2000 interview with The Boston Globe, Gregory was quoted as saying, "People ask me about being a father and not being there. I say, 'Jack the Ripper had a father. Hitler had a father. Don't talk to me about family.'
Gregory was active in the Civil Rights Movement. On October 7, 1963, he came to Selma, Alabama, and spoke for two hours on a public platform two days before the voter registration drive known as "Freedom Day" (October 7, 1963).
In 1964, Gregory became more involved in civil rights activities, activism against the Vietnam War, economic reform, and anti-drug issues. As a part of his activism, he went on several hunger strikes and campaigns in America and overseas. In the early 1970s, he was banned from Australia, where government officials feared he was planning "stir up demonstrations."
Gregory began his political career by running against Richard J. Daley for Mayor of Chicago in 1967. Though he did not win, this would not prove to be the end of his participation in electoral politics.
Gregory unsuccessfully ran for President of the United States in 1968 as a write-in candidate of the Freedom and Peace Party, which had broken off from the Peace and Freedom Party. He garnered 47,097 votes, including one from Hunter S. Thompson, with fellow activist Mark Lane as his running mate in some states, David Frost in others, and Dr. Benjamin Spock in Virginia and Pennsylvania garnering more than the party he had left The Freedom and Peace Party also ran other candidates, including Beulah Sanders for New York State Senate and Flora Brown for New York State Assembly. His efforts landed him on the master list of Nixon's political opponents.
Gregory then wrote the book Write Me In about his presidential campaign. One anecdote in the book relates the story of a publicity stunt that came out of Operation Breadbasket in Chicago. The campaign had printed dollar bills with Gregory's image on them, some of which made it into circulation, causing considerable problems, but priceless publicity. The majority of these bills were quickly seized by the federal government. A large contributing factor to the seizure came from the bills resembling authentic United States currency enough that they worked in many dollar-cashing machines of the time. Gregory avoided being charged with a federal crime, later joking that the bills could not really be considered United States currency, because "everyone knows a black man will never be on a U.S. bill."
Shortly after this time, Gregory became an outspoken critic of the findings of the Warren Commission concerning the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald. On March 6, 1975, Gregory and assassination researcher Robert J. Groden appeared on Geraldo Rivera's late night ABC talk show Goodnight America. An important historical event happened that night when the famous Zapruder film of JFK's assassination was shown to the public on TV for the first time. The public's response and outrage to its showing led to the forming of the Hart-Schweiker investigation, which contributed to the Church Committee Investigation on Intelligence Activities by the United States, which resulted in the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations investigation.
Gregory was an outspoken feminist, and in 1978 joined Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Bella Abzug, Margaret Heckler, Barbara Mikulski, and other suffragists to lead the National ERA March for Ratification and Extension, a march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the United States Capitol of over 100,000 on Women's Equality Day (August 26), 1978, to demonstrate for a ratification deadline extension for the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution, and for the ratification of the ERA. The march was ultimately successful in extending the deadline to June 30, 1982, and Gregory joined other activists to the Senate for celebration and victory speeches by pro-ERA Senators, Members of Congress, and activists. The ERA narrowly failed to be ratified by the extended ratification date.
On July 21, 1979, Gregory appeared at the Amandla Festival where Bob Marley, Patti LaBelle, and Eddie Palmieri, amongst others, performed. Gregory gave a speech before Marley's performance, blaming President Carter, and showing his support for the international Anti-Apartheid Movement. Gregory and Mark Lane conducted landmark research into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., helping move the U.S. House Select Assassinations Committee to investigate the murder, along with that of John F. Kennedy. Lane was the author of conspiracy theory books such as Rush to Judgment. The pair wrote the King conspiracy book Code Name Zorro, which postulated that convicted assassin James Earl Ray did not act alone. Gregory also argued that the moon landing was faked and the commonly accepted account of the 9/11 attacks is incorrect, among other conspiracy theories.
Gregory was an outspoken activist during the US Embassy Hostage Crisis in Iran. In 1980 he traveled to Tehran to attempt to negotiate the hostages' release and engaged in a public hunger strike there, weighing less than 100 pounds (45 kg) when he returned to the United States.
In 1998 Gregory spoke at the celebration of the birthday of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., with President Bill Clinton in attendance. Not long after, the President told Gregory's long-time friend and public relations consultant Steve Jaffe, "I love Dick Gregory; he is one of the funniest people on the planet." They spoke of how Gregory had made a comment on Dr. King's birthday that broke everyone into laughter, when he noted that the President made Speaker Newt Gingrich ride "in the back of the plane," on an Air Force One trip overseas.
Gregory was diagnosed with lymphoma in late 1999. He said he was treating the cancer with herbs, vitamins, and exercise, which he believed kept the cancer in remission.
Since the mid-1980s, Gregory was a figure in the health food industry by advocating for a raw fruit and vegetable diet. He wrote the introduction to Viktoras Kulvinskas' book Survival into the 21st Century. Gregory first became a vegetarian in the 1960s and lost a considerable amount of weight by going on extreme fasts, some lasting upwards of 50 days. He developed a diet drink called "Bahamian Diet Nutritional Drink" and went on TV shows advocating his diet and to help the morbidly obese.
In 2003, Gregory and Cornel West wrote letters on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to Kentucky Fried Chicken's CEO, asking that the company improve its animal-handling procedures.
At a civil rights rally marking the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Gregory criticized the United States, calling it "the most dishonest, ungodly, unspiritual nation that ever existed in the history of the planet. As we talk now, America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs".
In 2008, Gregory stated he believed that air pollution and intentional water contamination with heavy metals such as lead and possibly manganese may be being used against black Americans, especially in urban neighborhoods, and that such factors could be contributing to high levels of violence in black communities.
On September 10, 2010, Gregory announced that he was going on a hunger strike. In a commentary that was published by the Centre for Research on Globalisation Web site in Montreal, he said that he doubted the official U.S. report about the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. "One thing I know is that the official government story of those events, as well as what took place that day at the Pentagon, is just that, a story. This story is not the truth, but far from it. I was born on October 12, 1932. I am announcing today that I will be consuming only liquids beginning Sunday until my eightieth birthday in 2012 and until the real truth of what truly happened on that day emerges and is publicly known."
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In 1984, he founded Health Enterprises, Inc., a company that distributed weight-loss products. With this company, Gregory made efforts to improve the life expectancy of African Americans, which he believed was being hindered by poor nutrition and drug and alcohol abuse.In 1985, Gregory introduced the "Slim-Safe Bahamian Diet", a powdered-diet mix. He launched the weight-loss powder at the Whole Life Expo in Boston under the slogan "It's cool to be healthy". The diet mix, drunk three times a day, was said to provide rapid weight loss. Gregory received a multimillion-dollar distribution contract to retail the diet.
In 1985, the Ethiopian government adopted Gregory's formula to combat malnutrition during a period of famine in the country to reported success.
In 2014, Dick Gregory updated his original 4X formula, which was the basis for the Bahamian Diet and created his new and improved "Caribbean Diet for Optimal Health".A week prior to his death, Gregory was hospitalized in Washington, D.C. with a bacterial infection.He later died at the hospital in Washington, D.C., on August 19, 2017, at the age of 84. The cause was heart failure.


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