J. Nayer Hardin, CompUrest Inventor, Founder, Computer Underground Railroad

Study and publish the findings regarding the falling of the World Trade Center and the environmental impact of 50,000 pulverized computers on the general New York City area. www.geocities.com/cureworks2 .

Write and publish training notes and create a website of HOW TO COMPUTE material at http://www.geocities.com/computerjoint. Make training material available to those who need it. Publish article HOW TO BRIDGE THE DIGITAL DIVIDE. Teach over 3,000 people how to use a computer using Microsoft Windows and Office. (Early training - Windows & Word Perfect). The training was accomplished w/M.S. Project Manager, Office 97 & 2000 and a lot of help from family, friends and the communities served. Extra angels.

Assist small business people in buying, setting up and implementing their computer systems & databases.

As a home based business in the 1980's wrote business plans (using a program - Success), promo material, programs and web pages.

Help “underdog - good people” candidates run for office in Harlem (Congress Al Davis, State Senate - Nelson Denis, City Council - Virginia Montegue, and District Leader, Carman Quinonnes.)

Speak on PA cable shows with training shown. Training coverage, 12/97 WOR-TV

Project Noah - Founder, Researcher, Speaker 1990-1994

· Create and conduct community environmental campaign awareness program.

· Research environmental issues in Harlem and inform residents, politicians and organizations.

o Hanta Virus; Harlem surrounded by five open sewers; 125th Street as Manhattan’s largest earthquake fault line; Health impact of city bus stations in Northern Manhattan; Harlem’s high infant mortality rate; Harlem’s flood dangers should ocean levels rise; Ibogaine as a natural solution to the urban crack/cocaine problem; dry cleaner building used as school. Though Columbia University was given a grant for $450,000 for environmental issues, self financed all the research and distribution of information.

· Hold weekly community idea feasts and information events to create a dialogue of solutions and expand awareness of computers and the web.

· Create flyers, brochures, and mailings for community residents (MS Word, Excel, WordPerfect).

· Serve on Harlem’s Empowerment Zone committee, Technology.

Independent Inventor, Computer Applicationist 1984 - 1990
(sites noted on)

http://www.techsalon.com/2buy/compurest.html

http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~rlandrum/aawomen.htm

http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/women_inventors.html

http://www.inventions.org/culture/african/africanwomen.html

http://www.isy.vcu.edu/~kmuata/Kweku-Muata%20WebPage%20-%20BlackInventors.htm

http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4712/WOMEN.html

http://news.asmarino.com/BlackHistory/1BlackInventors.asp

http://unitedstatesofhiphop.com/education/women.phtml

· Data entry, mailing, flyers, programs, cards, proposals, etc. service using Success Business Plan Writer, WordStar, Word Perfect, Lotus 123, Ventura and PageMaker. Used DOS and Windows.

· Co created an envelope for a floppy disk that you can print the directory on (FloppyLope 4,708,285) - Did not get inventor’s credit on the patent, but received assignment for 50%.

· Co-created Computer Keyboard Stand (CompUrest 5,188,321) that heals computer injuries.

DAY JOBS

'AIN'T HAD ONE SINCE '84

Experience Highlights - 1972 to 1984

1981 - 84 Assisted various start-ups and businesses including RCA’s The Entertainment Channel, Blue Parrot Records

1981 United Press International - Account Executive - Sold service to broadcast media and corporations

1977-1980 ABC, Inc. WPLJ-FM Director of Sales Operations - Scheduled over $10 million worth of commercials and PSA’s for the ABC flagship FM station using a Marketron mid-sized computer. First computer job.

1974-77 CBS, Inc. Television Network, Executive Secretary to VP Special Programs, WBCS-TV Administrative Assistant to the Executive Producer, 60 Minutes - Secretary/Receptionist, , Radio News - Desk Assistant.

1973 Inner City Broadcasting - WLIB - Traffic Manager - manually schedule commercials, on air community affairs host (Positive Vibes);

1973 National Black Network - Assistant Audio Tape Editor - Edit stories, assign stringers, interview newsmakers over the phone

1972 NBC, Page

“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s dream of one day
the sons of former slaves sitting at the Table of Brotherhood
with the sons of former slave owners has been achieved.

The Table of Brotherhood is a table
with a computer on it and good people around it,
learning, solving problems and having a great time.

I’ve been at this table for almost a quarter of a century
and highly recommend the experience for everyone.”

J. Nayer Hardin (born JoAnna Hardin) is the founder of Computer Underground Railroad Enterprises (C.U.R.E.). With her co-inventor friend Bernard Hirschenson, she invented the patented CompUrest Keyboard Stand, which healed her extensive computer injuries in less than a month. Twelve years later, her injuries are still gone. She has also created a style of computer training, How To Compute, that’s helped over 3,000 people between the ages of 4 and 92 learn how to use a personal computer. The training was covered on New York’s WOR-TV in 1997 and her classes were featured on local cable shows including the Harlem’s Winston Gilchrist Show.

CompUrest
U.S. Patent No. 5,188,321

Necessity is truly the mother of invention. Nayer had three computers in her home by 1987 and helped everyone she could benefit from her computers. Carpal tunnel syndrome, repetitive stress injuries and late night computer pain became the norm in her life. She learned her extensive computer injuries were osteoarthritis, which comes from wear and tear on the joints and nerves, like fast keystrokes and the subtle repetitive body movement from paper to keyboard to monitor and back. Her right arm was paralyzed twice from typing 119 w.p.m. and she lost her ability to walk once from back pain. Because she loves being on computers, she had to do something.

“A Course In Miracles, written at Harlem’s Columbia University, has a great lesson for inventors in the medical field. (ACIM, W, p. 250) Lesson 136 - SICKNESS IS A DEFENSE AGAINST THE TRUTH. Sickness is frequently caused because our bodies need something they are not getting, as in with AIDS, the body needs a strengthened immune system. A great book by a woman who healed herself from AIDS back in 1986 is WHY I SURVIVE AIDS, by Niro Markoff Asistent. The truth I was defending against was that I stressed my body to contort to the needs of the computer, without providing the physical support my body needed.”

Her grandmother, Frances “Nayer” Turner, told her to rest her arms on a pillow. She noticed an improvement the next day. ‘Maybe if I provide continuous support during the computer work, that would heal and prevent the injuries from occurring. The splint technology worked.’’

Nayer, who could barely move at the time, told her friend Bernie Hirschenson that she needed an armrest with an indentation to fully support her forearms all the way to her elbows, a lowered keyboard well to eliminate bending wrists when keying and backing to hold the keyboard in place. He constructed the armrest from solid oak pieces. When she laid her arms on her CompUrest she smiled deeply. The pain relief and comfort were undeniable. “It’s cause and effect. By removing the cause, the stress created by a lack of adequate support, the effect, the injury, healed. Twelve years later, with regular use, the injuries never returned. CompUrest’s comfortable computing prevents injuries by replacing stress with support. Comfort and safety in the same product."

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How To Compute

“Second hand information in the information age is the new slavery. If you have to go to another for your daily data, it will be old news by the time you get it, if you get it.” In the late 1980’s Nayer met Harlem’s Mother Clara Hale arranged by her daughter, Dr. Lorraine Hale. Mother Hale told Nayer that there was something going on with computers and Harlem was being left out. Nayer realized that computer illiteracy was not limited to Harlem, but Harlem was a good place to start. Another strong influence to create the training was Amazing Grace Hopper, who believed that computers should understand English, making them and the Internet accessible.

Nayer has conducted trainings from Harlem’s Convent Avenue Baptist Church, Minisink Townhouse, A. Philip Randolph Senior Center, Frederick Douglas Housing Project and in homes. She received donations from Microsoft, Prodigy, Columbia University and City College for her work.

The training, which has been used by over 3,000 people, teaches how to use a PC without fear of failure. People who never thought they would be able to use a computer have called the results miraculous. Like Harlem Senior Miss. Ruth, who wrote a letter on a computer to her mother who died 30 years earlier. She said that when her mother passed, she thought her life was over. She wrote that she finally had learned a new skill and life had begun again. Miss Ruth used the computer to re-connect with her family and moved down south to be with them.

“Computer illiteracy is dangerous in the Information Age. I learned from Harriet Tubman to ‘go forward’ toward the Lord, who has all the answers and gladly shares them in His time.” The Underground Railroad’s Tubman freed more than 300 people from the American slave system, manually bringing them over land, water and evil people, to freedom. Tubman was also known as a physical healer during the Civil War. Nayer too is committed to getting people safely and comfortably to the promised land of divinely guided computerization for all. Education is key to empowerment.

“We must all share the sacred knowledge of computer literacy.” Nayer has put the How To Compute training notes on the web. Organizations and individuals can use the material to train family, friends or membership. The cost of the training is that it be passed onto at least two other people.

J. Nayer Hardin

Nayer was born “JoAnna Hardin” in 1952, a descendent of the early 1900’s migration from the post slavery south to the promised land of Harlem, New York.

By the time she was born, her family had moved to Suffield, Connecticut, where she was raised as part of a thriving New England community. 1952 was also the year that Amazing Grace Hopper developed the first computer compiler for the UNIVAC computer and Bessie Blount signed her invention that helped the disabled over to the French government.

Nayer left a successful New York corporate career that included working for major broadcasting networks and stations from 1972-1984 to be able to enjoy the freedom of having computers in her home. She inherited her grandmother’s name in 1991 as a standard to live her life by.

Nayer also co-invented an envelope for a floppy disk with Peter Segal that allows the disk’s directory to be printed on it (FloppyLope, U.S. Patent No 4,708,285). Though her name was not on the patent, she did receive a 50% assignment.

Currently, Nayer is blogging , though not currently training, promoting computer education, promoting the ergonomic solution CompUrest and her many environmental projects, creating and selling e-books BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, DePalma, Free Energy and the N-Machine by Bruce DePalma, and Why I Survive AIDS by Niro Markoff Asistent.

“My best inventions are joint ventures. The Computer Underground Railroad, CompUrest, and the How To Compute Training began in prayer. Ideas were developed in meditation. Then the support, creativity and wisdom of family and friends including yet not limited to: Bernard Hirschenson, Esteban Granados, Jackie Metcalf, Robin & Kim & Jimmy & Bea & Joe Neil and Leslie Hardin, Chef Ashbell, Neil London, Margaret S. Inge, Sherwood & Edith Akuna, Linda H. Humes, Carolyn Brunson, Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, Lloyd and Toni Hardin, Paul Minor, Molly Smallet, Ellie and Karen Jones, Darnella Cordier, Edna Thomas, Laverne Slade, Merle Bush, Winston Gilchrist, Ayo Ayedemi, Bradford T. and Barbara Thorne Duncan, Trisha Powell, Stephen Howard, Dominic Lewis, Lisa Nelson, Robert Ponce, Dwayne Waller, Darryl M. Stevens, Albert Davis, Tony LaMarca, Bernard Block, Richard Alexander, David & Melinda Gibb, Steve & Donna Fuentez, Karima Grant, Joan Shephard, George Miller, Juliette McGinnis Nelson, Billy & Randy Fucci, Selma Epstein, Peter Segal, and many more}, helped develop and apply these solutions where needed.

Life is good. Nayer is healthy and happily engaged to be married to a great artist, Sherwood Akuna. Her sites (web and vision) are up and she is going forward to even greater success ‘just in time for the future.’

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