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Forty years ago this fall, the late Richard Pryor took the stage at the Hollywood Bowl for a gay rights fundraiser and delivered what was perhaps the most incendiary monologue of a career that was both famously–and literally–combustible.
What the audience of 17,000 mostly gay, white men anticipated was to be regaled by the virtuoso in his prime. What they in fact got was a conflagration, as Pryor lit into the LGBT community for what he characterized as their indifference to African-Americans' struggle.
Amazingly enough, it didn't begin that way. As Scott Saul wrote in his 2015 book, Becoming Richard Pryor, the headliner ambled onto centerstage late on the evening of September 18th 1977, and after prowling the stage for a few moments like a caged big cat, he spoke, finally:
"I came here for human rights and I found out what it was really about was not getting caught with a dick in your mouth." The crowd roared with laughter.
"You don't want the police to kick your ass if you're sucking the dick, and that's fair," Pryor continued. "You've got the right to suck anything you want! I sucked one dick. Back in 1952. Sucked Wilbur Harp's dick. It was beautiful, but I couldn't deal with it. Had to leave it alone. It was beautiful because Wilbur has the best booty in the world. Now I'm saying booty to be nice. I'm talking about ass-hole. Wilbur had some good ass-hole. And Wilbur would give it up so good and put his thighs against your waist. That would make you come quick."
The crowd erupted, half in delight, half-in-disbelief. "I was the only motherfucker that took Wilbur roses. Everybody else was bullshitting. I took Wilbur [the roses] and said, 'Here, dear.'"
At this point, as Saul described the scene, Pryor paused, and the monologue took a sharp detour into some dark recess of the comedian's mind. While waiting to go on backstage, Pryor had noticed how the white stagehands had ignored an all-Black dance troupe known as the Lockers when the dancers asked for help adjusting the stage lights. And when they returned after what Pryor thought a spectacular performance–one dancer jumped over six chairs–the comedian watched incredulously as the show's promoters did nothing to defend the Lockers who were dressed-down by a fire-marshal for detonating a small explosive as a special effect. And then, an hour later, just before Pryor was scheduled to go on, the stagehands who earlier couldn't be bothered by the Lockers' appeal for assistance, suddenly leapt into action when two white ballet dancers asked for help with the very same light fixture.
By the time he reached the stage, Pryor–who it's safe to assume had snorted, smoked or imbibed something of a chemical nature before going on that night–was fuming. As the crowd laughed at his recollections of Wilbur Harp, Pryor mumbled softly into the microphone, surveilling the sea of white faces, as though in a catatonic trance.
"How can faggots be racists?" he asked. "How can faggots be racists?"
And then, he exploded.
"I hope the police catch you motherfuckers and shoot your ass accidentally, because you motherfuckers ain't helpin' niggers at all." The audience howled, but was clearly puzzled, Saul wrote. "When the niggers were burning down Watts, you motherfuckers were doing what you wanted on Hollywood Boulevard, didn't give a shit about it." By this point, some clarity had begun to wash over the audience and the laughter was beginning to turn to hissing, and boos.
Pryor continued, addressing a feminist movement defined largely by the concerns of white, suburban women. "Motherfuck women's rights. The bitches don't need no rights. What they need to do is pay the people on welfare." Again, the crowd roared its disapproval. Pryor shot back with his own rage.
"Yeah, get mad. 'Cause you're going to be madder than that when (police chief) Ed Davis catches you motherfuckers coming out of here in the lot." By this point, all confusion on the part of the crowd had dissipated, with hecklers not just taunting Pryor but openly threatening to do him bodily-harm. Nonplussed, Pryor pivoted on his heels, exhorted the enemy combatants to "kiss my happy, rich, Black ass," and walked off the stage.
In the days that followed, the Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair magazine and the Hollywood media mostly excoriated the comedian as "rude," deranged and even homophobic.
The first allegation is most certainly true, the second arguable, but the last, given his stunning public admission of his own same-sex experience with a lifelong friend, was way wide of the mark.
However crude, Pryor's reproach of Southern California's gay community prophesied the tallest hurdle confronting progressives as they regroup to challenge a White House openly flirting with despotism.
If class solidarity has historically been the greatest strength of American liberalism, the tendency for progressive social movements to splinter along racial lines has been its most glaring weakness. Never has this cleavage been more evident than now, as a de-industrializing economy conspires with isolating technology and a quisling media to unplug Americans from each other, and our own humanity, like never before.
Consider, as one visible example, the pronounced fissures that resurfaced in January when millions of dissidents, mostly women, marched on Washington DC and cities across the country to to protest the Trump administration.
"I didn't want to be a part of the march if it was going to be a white woman's kumbaya march," Jo Ann Hardesty, the president of the Portland NAACP chapter told a reporter for the Willamette Week. "Don't forget," read a sign held by an African-American woman, Angelas People, as she nonchalantly sucked on a lollipop at the women's rally at the nation's capitol "white women voted for Trump."
The tension has come to be known in recent years as Afro Pessimism, and indeed it has gained a certain cachet both in academic circles and among the Black Lives Matter generation, reared on a steady diet of videotaped police terror, shrinking job and educational opportunities, and a duopolistic political system that is, on its best day, wholly indifferent to black suffering. Afro Pessimism is the understanding, as the late, great historian John Henrik-Clarke posited, that the descendants of Africa have "no friends nowhere," a precept that is hardly new, and in fact, was learned tragically, and to great dramatic effect, by Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son.
Wright aimed his pen at the Communists who had joined with African-Americans to energize the transformative labor movements of the New Deal era, only to retreat to the comfortable confines of white privilege when blacks tried to expand the battleground from the factory floor to the voting booth. By putting the LGBT community on notice, Pryor's Hollywood Bowl monologue bookends Wright's foreshadowing of the fly-in-the-ointment just as the formula for modern liberalism was being finalized.
Alternately, Pryor's critique was a petition for divorce, citing the irreconcilable differences that resulted from the 1 percent's 40-year counteroffensive to drive a wedge between liberal allies. That campaign escalated sharply beginning in 1969 with the Nixon Administration's Southern Strategy, J. Edgar Hoover's pogrom against dissidents, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell's infamous blueprint for combating progressive orthodoxy, and the media's constant drumbeat depicting black savagery, as exemplified by Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry franchise, or the Washington Post's fictional profile of a black 8-year-old heroin addict. By the time Pryor took the stage at the Hollywood bowl, the liberal body politic in the U.S lay mortally wounded on the operating table, its most vital arteries irrevocably severed and bleeding out.
The contradictions have only deepened in the years since, with blacks losing virtually all of the economic ground we'd gained in the postwar years, and then some. Born the same year that Wright published Native Son, Pryor came of age in a country that was, however tentatively, finding its Blues, be it the Beat Poets discovering their artistic voice in the music of Charlie Parker, or poor white Chicagoans from the foothills of Appalachia identifying common ground with the Black Panthers. Pryor himself was known for his collaborations and close friendships with Gene Wilder, Lily Tomlin and Robin Williams, and proposed marriage to his white girlfriend only days after the Hollywood debacle.
But while the comedic genius was spot-on in his critique of the gay community's abandonment of the very allies who taught them how to stand up for themselves, righteous indignation does not a social movement make. It's a numbers game, if nothing else. Afro pessimism may make perfect sense as a strategy for the nearly one billion Africans who live south of the Saharan desert, but blacks in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, the United States and elsewhere have no choice but to coalesce with working class allies whose struggles are similar to our own.
In other words, there is no Afro pessimistic strategy for coping with the health care crisis that ails the country, or rebuilding a hollowed-out, speculative economy that produces nothing of material value, or demolishing a dysfunctional, regressive tax system.
"The mass movement is the key to everything," the intellectual CLR James once said, "thus it has always been and thus it shall always be."
That said, it would be unwise for Africans in the Americas to dismiss the inevitable defection of allies from broad-based political and social movements. For myriad reasons I've never cottoned to the idea of reparations in the form of a cash payment, but maybe we can spark the fire this time with an eye on creating a network of African villages–Beloved Communities, utopian Bantustans, urban quilombos, however you want to think of it– within the American metropolis, a cityscape of transformative institutions–schools, media, workers' collectives, credit unions, cooperatives, law-enforcement agencies and so on–that are deeded to the people and mandated to remain so for time immemorial.
Five hundred years after the African first stepped foot in the Americas, we are no better than guest workers, or sojourners, in the country of our birth. We need to carve out space solely for ourselves–maybe through tax-increment financing or empowerment zones– but we need help to do it. We've toiled in these fields for far too long without recompense.
And perhaps this is the best use of Afro pessimism in building a resistance movement. It can be a conversation starter, the tallying of a historical balance sheet in which Americans debts are so far in arrears, that blacks can no longer be made whole in a strictly material sense.
A spiritual reckoning is due.
Midway through Pryor's stemwinder at the Hollywood Bowl, he digressed from any pretense of comedy for a moment, and made clear the true intent of his appearance that night. With a pained expression on his face, he momentarily transformed the auditorium into a church, the stage into a pulpit, and, as though pleading the blood, he testified.
"I wanted to test you,' he said, his face disfigured in some amalgam of sorrow and rage, "to your motherfuckin' soul."
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The loss of Nipsey Hussle is still sending shockwaves throughout the entertainment industry, and, like clockwork, the chatter surrounding the family of the slain West Coast star has been high. In a widely circulated report suggesting Jay-Z set up a $15 million trust fund for Hussle's two children, the news was shortly debunked.
Music fans around the world were ready to create a petition to give Jay-Z an honourary knighthood after reports surfaced on Wednesday evening that the mogul had created a R212m trust fund for the children of Nipsey Hussle.
Nipsey, who died earlier this week in LA, left behind two children.
While tributes poured in for him and prayers have been offered for him an article spread like wildfire on social media, claiming that Jay-Z had stepped in to make sure Nipsey's kids would be alright.
A snap of the article's headline was circulated but soon proven to be from a random hip-hop blog that was created mainly to sell advertising and spread sensationalist news.
Even though dozens of Twitter users warned about the reports, the streets were still filled with messages praising Jay.
Here's one time we wished fake news was real. Not for nothing, it isn't like Hov couldn't do something like this. Just saying.
Check out some of the reactions to this news on Twitter below.
Is that Jay-Z trust fund for Nipsey's kids legit?..cause I'm not buying it. Nipsey owns the publishing to all his raps,various businesses and properties. I read he had multiple life insurance policies. He seemed like he would leave his family set up very well.
In 24 hours niggas leaked pics of Jay-Z and Beyonce's kids and signed Jay up to fund a $15 million trust off a fake article.
The Jay-Z $15 million trust fund for Nipsey fake, like I said 😂. Y'all reposting and building a narrative around that bs for nothing.
I'm actually happy that the Jay-Z 15 million trust fund for Nipsey kids is fake. I understand those kids lost their pops but there are better uses for that charity money if he was willing to give 15m. He could buy laptops for all the HS in Brooklyn for that type of bread.


Sure, you know of Luke Perry, and Sylvia McNair, and the Music Explosion. Have you heard of Darrell Banks, however? No, not the Richland County Commissioner; we're referring to a name known to many lovers of pop and soul music in the latter part of the 1960s.
Darrell Eubanks (later known as Darrell Banks) was born in Mansfield in 1937, but grew up in Buffalo, New York. His love of music and signing came from gospel singing as a youth, but by 1966 he was recording singles in an attempt to make it big. His first single was "Open the Door to Your Heart," which hit the #2 spot on the R&B chart and #27 on Billboard's Top 100.
Other singles included "Here Come the Tears," "Angel Baby," and "I Wanna Go Home," the latter under the Atlantic Records label.
Some 27 years later, a three-track compilation album was released of Banks' music. Then, in December 2014, an online auction in the UK saw a bidder pay some $23,000 for an original pressing of "Open the Door to Your Heart," and other of his singles have become collectible.
Buried in an unmarked grave in Detroit, an international funding campaign resulted in a memorial bench being placed over Banks' grave in 2004.


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Kamal Nath writes to Centre, accuses Gujarat government of violating Sardar Sarovar Dam filling schedule
He has urged Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to call a meeting of the Narmada Control Authority to discuss the issue
The Telegraph | | Published 06.09.19, 07:09 AM
Accusing the Gujarat government of violating the schedule of filling the Sardar Sarovar Dam, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath has urged the Centre to intervene in the matter.
Nath has written a letter to Union water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, urging him to call a meeting of the Narmada Control Authority to discuss the issue at the earliest, an official of the Madhya Pradesh public relations department said.
'In this letter, the MP CM said that according to the schedule, Sardar Sarovar reservoir was to be filled up to a height of 134 metres by August 31, 2019. The reservoir was to be filled up to just 135 metres during the month of September and by October 15, 2019, the reservoir was to be filled to the final level of 138.68 metres,' the official said.
Nath claimed that by 12 pm on September 4, the reservoir had been filled up to 135.47 metres.
'It is clear from this that the schedule provided by the Narmada Control Authority has been violated, which was issued by the authority on May 10, 2019,' the letter said.
He said that it is also unclear whether measures of dam safety have been adhered to.
'It is inexplicable on the part of Narmada Control Authority, which has remained inactive. The Narmada Control Authority is expected to take action on its own in this regard,' the chief minister wrote in the letter.
Nath said that filling of the dam is required to be regulated according to the schedule as agreed upon.
He said the Gujarat government should be directed to follow the prescribed schedule as issued by the Narmada Control Authority letter dated May 10, 2019.
The chief minister also wrote that the issue is of utmost importance for Madhya Pradesh as relief and rehabilitation works are underway on a massive scale in the affected areas.
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The Cassiopaean's Track Record
Another hit for the Cassiopaeans? Unexplained activity in Antarctica
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HiThere
The C's in transcript 310896 stated that the Nazis during WWII built a base in Antarctica, and then went there and was assimilated with the "Antareans", i.e. Aryans or post-kantekkians living subterraneaously. They futhermore stated that the POB of the world post-WWII knew about this and that the present stations in Antarctica are there to keep watch over the area.
Mark Sircus mentions some anomalies to do with light as seen from a web camera from the german station down there:
_http://blog.imva.info/world-affairs/unbelievable-events-antarctica
"...Lately I have been taking virtual journeys down to the Antarctic Circle to the Neumayer Station, which has a 24/7 video cam set up and it is really hard to believe one's eyes at what has been seen all the way down there in the underbelly of the world. Anything approaching from underneath the orbital plane of the solar system can be seen from the South Pole.
Neumayer Station in the Antarctic was established on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf as a research observatory for geophysical, meteorological and atmospheric chemistry measurements, as well as a logistics base for summer expeditions. If you want to see what's going on you can go there yourself....
The German site that is responsible for the station changes the stream each day. The date is seen on the top of the video screen and you will see that the cam captures a frame every ten minutes...
....Be prepared to see some strange things, unexplainable light sources and celestial bodies. Since viewing the below video things have calmed down but the one thing everyone will notice is that every day, after our sun has set, another light source comes over the horizon sometimes pulsating, other times not. Whatever it is we can see it is not a regular sun for it does not illuminate the landscape like our sun does....
...The sun sets around 4 p.m. so any light coming from the horizon or in this case under the station would not be the sun. Look at the time stamps on each frame on the top right of the images. The camera takes frames 10 minutes apart."
He mentions this bright object in the sky after the sun has set, but is that not the moon? The webcams are apparently very sensitive to light so it would seem that the moon is going to be very bright since it is the only other source of light, apart from the station itself?
Sounds plausible. I'm not qualified to evaluate the alleged anomalies, but that might be a good explanation. Still, with the transcripts in mind it doesn't hurt to keep an eye on it.
seek10
It looks there is some steady stream of powerful people visiting Antarctica. Interesting.
https://youtu.be/Cgooxze6QgU
SummerLite
Very interesting what may be happening in Antarctica. I want to point out a discrepancy in the video posted by seek10.
The narrator says a underground Nazi base was found by the Russians in Antarctica in a area belonging to the Russian federation. A newspaper clip is shown at 6:23 which says this happened in the Arctic. A little more searching revealed, the location was actually Alexandra Land which is a island in the Arctic Circle so is misleading.
Neuschwabenland is the area in Antarctica claimed to be a Nazi base but I haven't looked into that and so know nothing about it.
goyacobol
I don't know if it "time" to continue these inquiries but it seems there are some recent developments for Antarctica.
There is another thread which is related and may be suitable for moderator merging to help others researching the topic of Antarctia.
One other thread started in 2007 is: Antarctica/Hitler
Also, I placed a post in a questionably related thread since there has been speculation about pyramids in Anarctica here: Pyramids in Bosnia?
I found this recent video that I think continues to open up more revelations concerning what may be happening now:
Antarctica Disclosure to Save the World - Dr. Michael Salla (I don't think it will "save the world" but there are many parallels with the Cs clues and new possibilities)
https://youtu.be/LxcZ4B_WMpo
How about a little volcanic activity in Antarctica?
The results of a study on an active volcano beneath Mount Erebus may indicate the existence of a massive subglacial world in Antarctica, Dr. Ceridwen Fraser from Australian National University's Fenner School of Environment and Society told Sputnik.
15:28 11.09.2017(updated 17:38 11.09.2017
A 'Subglacial' World in Antarctica? Volcano Cave Study May Yield Clues
The exploration of a volcano cave in Antarctica's Ross Island prompted scientists to believe that there is massive subglacial world in this frosty region that has yet to be explored, according to Ceridwen Fraser, lead researcher of a team which investigated the Ross Island cavern.
"I think there is a possibility that a very extensive subglacial world may be in place in Antarctica, where over a hundred volcanoes [with caves] are located," Fraser said.
Touching upon the cavern that her team explored, she said that "we have known about the caves for several decades, in fact, since the first explorers went to Antarctica."
"But it's only recently that we have started to think about what might live in these caves," she said adding that her team "has already discovered that there is diverse bacterium community there."
"I thought it would be interesting to have a look into if we could see any signs of life, such as plants and animals, in the cave given that the conditions there are extremely hospitable and even humans could feel quite comfortable there," she said.
Fraser added that her team detected DNA from what you "normally find in Antarctica," including algae, mosses and even small animals.
"But we also found DNA that does not really match anything on the genetic databases that we have. This does not necessarily mean that it is unknown life, but it may indicate that there are species that had specialized to the cave environment," she said.
_https://soundcloud.com/radiosputnik/theres-a-possibility-that-theres-very-extensive-subglacial-world-in-antarctica-ceridwen-fraser
Australian researchers have discovered a secret, warm oasis beneath Antarctica's ice that they say could be home to undiscovered species. Their study on an active volcano beneath Mount Erebus has recently discovered caves where temperature reaches 25 C. These conditions are warm enough to support plant and animal life there. According to researchers, analysis of soil samples from these caves has revealed traces of DNA from plants and small animals. While some of the samples contain DNA of similar species living on the surface, others suggest that there may be lifeforms that we know nothing about.
According to her, these species hardly pose a threat to humans, especially given the fact that many of the species living in Antarctica are "quite small."
Antarctica's Huge Breakaway Iceberg 'Unlikely' to Be Caused by Climate Change
When asked what her team's plans will be, she said that "the next thing we are really going to do is to go the cave and give a good hard look for actual living creatures [there] because it is one thing to pick up DNA from the species and quite another – to find them in the cave living, and better understand what sort of life is there, if at all."
Fraser said that she did not rule out that her team will return to the cave with an exploratory expedition in the near future, hailing international cooperation on the matter.
Distraction? I don't know the timing is curious I guess. They will return to the cave "in the near future", wonderful news isn't it?
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goyacobol said:
Thanks for the vid and the link for all those sessions where the C's mentioning the Nazis and Antarctica connection.
Although in the video conversation they mentioning the Aryans helping the US Navy as good guys and the reptilians used to guide the Nazis.
So the US are now the good guys?
And the business about bloodlines, just hard to believe Trump is related to the Clintons?! :/
Anywho, I find this 2 videos abot the Nazis and Thule and Vrill society, I think it's interesting.
https://youtu.be/BR2qe--5bcY
https://youtu.be/Bi0wJQcMtms
Emma said:
Your videos were interesting too and that got me to looking for more. It gets difficult to know who has the real scoop I think.
This topic has been on my back burner and I wanted to get back to you but I kept looking for something that I could maybe find more credible than some of the latest rumors.
I have found Cliff High to have more credibility than most sources and just found some new stuff you might want to check out.
https://youtu.be/GGwtXXw3Kew
And if you find it interesting there are two more parts...
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D46oeeEJrQk
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcBho7lJm8I
I am listening to the first one after hearing him mention it on a shorter video.
Censored Google Earth?
This site has this photo from 2011 - allegedly from Google Earth - at the coordinates -66.553217,99.838294
Operation High Jump... looking for Nazis?
In 1947 the US Navy under Admiral Byrd conducted Operation High Jump. The expedition to Antarctica involved 4000 naval personnel and 13 huge ships, including several large airplanes and helicopters. The goal was to map and catalog all of the coastline of the continent, including minerals and wildlife. The entire expedition was to last 6 months.
During the expedition a base was established at Little America, a coastal bay, and a tent city was constructed where aircraft could be maintained for the survey. Several teams of explorers were sent out to various corners of Antarctica with large format cameras for the photographic survey. When the crew photographing the region directly Southwest of the Australian continent arrived for their mission they were shocked. They radioed back that the coastal region was free of ice and that the water was 38F. They continued to take photographs and later returned to process the images.
If you launch Google Earth now in 2019 in the Chrome browser and you go to the above given coordinates, you find censored black patches seen on the image below on its bottom part - painted out by Google. All the rest of the surroundings - which they had no reason to hide - have the proper details, these you see below - on the top part of the image. This is deliberate low resolution satellite photography: no high resolution for the plebs!
Don't you find it strange?
Here are the exact same coordinates TODAY: with the opening..
Is this bottom image not really from Google Earth and not from the given coordinates?
Or are the coordinates right, just the photo quality of Google Earth was drastically reduced since then?
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Auto Components Industry in India
The Indian auto-components industry has experienced healthy growth over the last few years. Some of the factors attributable to this include: a buoyant end-user market, improved consumer sentiment and return of adequate liquidity in the financial system.
The auto-components industry accounts for almost seven per cent of India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employs as many as 19 million people, both directly and indirectly. A stable government framework, increased purchasing power, large domestic market, and an ever increasing development in infrastructure have made India a favourable destination for investment.
The Indian auto-components industry can be broadly classified into the organised and unorganised sectors. The organised sector caters to the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and consists of high-value precision instruments while the unorganised sector comprises low-valued products and caters mostly to the aftermarket category.
Over the last decade, the automotive components industry has scaled three times to US$ 39 billion in 2015-16 while exports have grown even faster to US$ 10.8 billion. This has been driven by strong growth in the domestic market and increasing globalisation (including exports) of several Indian suppliers.
The Indian Auto Component industry is expected to grow by 8-10 per cent in FY 2017-18, based on higher localisation by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), higher component content per vehicle, and rising exports from India, as per ICRA Limited.
According to the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), the Indian auto-components industry is expected to register a turnover of US$ 100 billion by 2020 backed by strong exports ranging between US$ 80- US$ 100 billion by 2026, from the current US$ 11.2 billion.
The cumulative Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows into the Indian automobile industry during the period April 2000 – March 2016 were recorded at US$ 15.07 billion, as per data by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
Some of the major investments made into the Indian auto components sector are as follows:
Mercedes Benz India Private Limited has set up India's largest spare parts warehouse in Pune, with an area of 16,500 square meters which can stock up to 44,000 parts. It will also include a vehicle preparation centre that can stock up to 5,700 cars to customise them before delivery.
JK Tyre and Industries Ltd, India's leading tyre manufacturer, has acquired Cavendish Industries Ltd (CIL) for Rs 2,200 crore (US$ 329.2 million), which will enable JK's entry into the fast-growing two-wheeler and three-wheeler tyre market.
Japanese auto major Honda is planning to step up supply and target exporting of auto components worth Rs 1,500 crore (US$ 224.45 million) from India to it various international operations.
Auto components maker Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL), the flagship company of the US$ 3 billion Kalyani Group, has formalised agreement with Rolls-Royce Plc which will supply BFL with critical and high integrity forged and machined components
Canada's Magna International Incorporated has started production at two facilities in Gujarat's Sanand, which will supply auto parts to Ford Motor Co in India
Everstone Capital, a Singapore-based private equity (PE) firm, has purchased 51 per cent in Indian auto components maker SJS Enterprises for an estimated Rs 350 crore (US$ 51.35 million).
ArcelorMittal signed a joint venture agreement with Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) to establish an automotive steel manufacturing facility in India.
German auto components maker Bosch Ltd opened its new factory at Bidadi, near Bengaluru, which is its fifth manufacturing plant in Karnataka. The company has also signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru with a view to strengthen Bosch's research and development in areas including mobility and healthcare thereby driving innovation for India-centric requirements.
French tyre manufacturer Michelin announced plans to produce 16,000 tonnes of truck and bus tyres from its Indian facility this year, a 45 per cent rise from last year.
Amtek Auto Ltd acquired Germany-based Scholz Edelstahl GmbH through its 100 per cent Singapore-based subsidiary Amtek Precision Engineering Pte Ltd.
MRF Ltd plans to invest Rs 4,500 crore (US$ 660.231 million) in its two factories in Tamil Nadu as part of its expansion plan.
Hero MotoCorp is investing Rs 5,000 crore (US$ 733.59 million) in five manufacturing facilities across India, Colombia and Bangladesh, to increase its annual production capacity to 12 million units by 2020.
The Government of India's Automotive Mission Plan (AMP) 2006–2016 has come a long way in ensuring growth for the sector. It is expected that this sector's contribution to the GDP will reach US$ 145 billion in 2016 due to the government's special focus on exports of small cars, multi-utility vehicles (MUVs), two and three-wheelers and auto components. Separately, the deregulation of FDI in this sector has also helped foreign companies to make large investments in India. The Government of India's Automotive Mission Plan (AMP) 2016–2026 envisages creation of an additional 50 million jobs along with an ambitious target of increasing the value of the output of the sector to up to Rs 1,889,000 crore (US$ 282.65 billion).
Road Ahead
The rapidly globalising world is opening up newer avenues for the transportation industry, especially while it makes a shift towards electric, electronic and hybrid cars, which are deemed more efficient, safe and reliable modes of transportation. Over the next decade, this will lead to newer verticals and opportunities for auto-component manufacturers, who would need to adapt to the change via systematic research and development.
The Indian auto-components industry is set to become the third largest in the world by 2025. Indian auto-component makers are well positioned to benefit from the globalisation of the sector as exports potential could be increased by up to four times to US$ 40 billion by 2020.
Exchange Rate Used: INR 1 = US$ 0.015 as on September 26, 2016
References: Media Reports and Press Releases, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), Union Budget 2015-16


I have several CyberPower UPS units already including two of these CP1000AVRLCD's. They are good all-round units and have protected my equipment many times since buying. If, like me, you live out in the boonies then power outages are a constant fact of life.
If you have computers or AV systems they are a must nowadays. We run our Internet businesses from home so we're talking two high end PC's as well as a couple of lower end ones.
In addition, we are both movie buffs and have two 50″ plasma TV's and a quite expensive AV set up to go with them. Brownouts can play havoc with electronics.
Amazon has the CyberPower CP1000AVRLCD UPS as a Deal of the Day today. It is only $74.95 and it is not a deal to be missed. The last one of these I bought was $99 and that was a good deal itself at the time.
It is also the lowest price this item has ever been by quite a margin.


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Domestic violence clouds the holiday spirit
Domestic violence is fundamentally immoral and downright wrong – and a serious crime.
Domestic violence clouds the holiday spirit Domestic violence is fundamentally immoral and downright wrong – and a serious crime. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: http://www.elpasotimes.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/12/08/domestic-violence-clouds-holiday-spirit-ouisa-davis-column/933179001/
Special to the Times Published 11:00 a.m. MT Dec. 8, 2017
Employees and volunteers of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence stand at the entrance to the El Paso County Courthouse with stories of some of the center's residents during a 79 A Day Rally Monday.(Photo: RUDY GUTIERREZ / EL PASO TIMES)Buy Photo
Recently, someone asked me why so much of my work focuses on advocacy against domestic violence, especially during the holidays. Admittedly, I was dumbfounded by the question; however, upon reflection, I have come to the following conclusion – it is because it is fundamentally immoral and downright wrong – and a serious crime.
More acts of domestic violence occur during the holiday season; in fact, between Thanksgiving and Super Bowl Sunday, family violence tops U.S. crime statistics. Domestic violence clouds the holiday spirit that so many of us cherish, destroys our families, and sets the course of behavior to be followed by our children as they grow into adults.
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It's innocuous in the beginning. Irrational jealousy, attempts to control the other person – emotionally and physically – and separation from friends and family are heralds of the cycle of violence. Thereafter, pushing, slapping and other forms of "gentle-violence" begin. At some point, the oppressive conduct escalates into punching, kicking and the use of weapons – all-out violence.
Afterwards, during a "honeymoon" period the abuser seeks forgiveness, promising the violence will end, wooing the victim back into the web. But it is a matter of time before it begins anew.
Students and others in the El Paso Community College community placed signed sticky notes on a board to show their pledge to help stop domestic violence. (Photo: vc)
Make no mistake; violence of any kind impacts our society in inherently destructive ways. A child who witnesses (or hears) violent arguments and pushing will grow into an adult who believes that yelling, pulling and punching are the only forms of effective dispute resolution. They tend to engage in drug and alcohol abuse, delinquent conduct and violent relationships.
A child who witnesses turkeys tossed at walls and Christmas-trees thrown to the ground will remember those horrific images into adulthood, coloring their expectations of holiday cheer, repeating the conduct they observed, and unconsciously sabotaging their adult celebrations by responding to holiday stress in similar ways.
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A child, present during a violent confrontation between household members, will engage in violence in their school or other peer environment.
I am continually concerned about adolescents and young adults who embark upon romantic relationships which continually involve oppressive and violent conduct. Is it realistic to believe that a 16-year old is prepared to engage in an adult relationship and can extricate herself from an abuser's deadly world?
Gloria Terry, chief executive officer of the Texas Council on Family Violence, spoke during a news conference Monday outside the El Paso County Courthouse. Terry spoke about the 132 women who died in 2014 in Texas as a result of domestic violence. El Paso County recorded 5 deaths. The counties which are in white are locations where deaths resulting from domestic violence occurred. A Justice Walk which ended at City Hall followed the news conference. (Photo: VICTOR CALZADA/EL PASO TIMES)
Many a child is traumatized by the violence visited upon one another by adults in their world. And, in the case of severe battery – the cases where the perpetrator regularly engages in severely beating the victim – children tend to mimic the behavior.
When adults "play-fight," cursing or slapping at one another, children do the same with their siblings or outside of the home, continuing the conduct into adolescence and adulthood.
More: Gunman killed self after fatally shooting woman, her dad in far East El Paso, police say
Yes, domestic violence is a serious issue – especially during the holiday season when it is so prevalent. We cannot blame alcohol abuse for destructive crisis-resolution. Only by rooting out the deep habits generally formed by childhood experience can an abuser's conduct be truly reformed.
Whether you are a victim of domestic violence or a perpetrator of violence, call the Center Against Family Violence at 593-7000 for help. Get out of the house, call 911, call family or friends. Inquire about a protective order through County Attorney's office at 546-2153.
Remember, you're not the only one affected. Your children are watching. Give them the gift of peace during the holiday season – and for their future.
Ouisa D. Davis is an attorney at law in El Paso. She can be reached at Ouisadavis@yahoo.com.
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Jubo League member killed in Jessore
Md Tauhid-Uz-Zaman, Jessore
Published at 06:07 pm February 17th, 2019
Map of Jessore district
The victim's younger brother was gravely injured in the attack
Jessore Ward-3 Jubo League Joint General Secretary Abdul Barik, 45, has been killed by members of a rival group, according to the police. His brother Anisur Rahman was seriously injured in the attack.
The incident occurred around 10:30am on Sunday at Chaugachha upazila of Jessore.
Abul Bashar, another brother of the victims, said: "My brothers Abdul and Anisur were catching fish in our pond. Suddenly, some known criminals of the area attacked them with sharp weapons and left them for dead. Later, some local people found them and took them to the hospital."
Convener of upazila Jubo League and Vice Chairman of Chaugachha upazila parishad Debashish Mishra Joy confirmed the incident. "The attackers joined the Awami League shortly before the last parliamentary elections," he said.
Fulasara union Awami League Organizing Secretary Saidur Rahman Pannu said: "Known criminals from another Awami League group attacked them. Abdul Barik was declared dead at the hospital, and Anisur Rahman was referred to Jessore General Hospital for better treatment."
Chaugachha hospital emergency department's Dr Suraiya Parveen said: "Abdul Barik died before he was even brought to the hospital. Both he and his brother had multiple wounds from sharp weapons."
Chaugachha police station Sub-Inspector Akikul Islam said: "There are cases filed against both the deceased and the attackers. They were rivals. Nannu, Julu and Arif were among the people who attacked the two. We are looking into the matter."
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It's Christmas time, things slow down at work, we take more time off to be with family, what better way to kick back than around the Wii? I'm sure years from now if I finally get a Wii-U I'll do something similar there but for now this fun applies to the classic Wii only. I've been gaming on the XBox360 and PS3 for years and the PC longer than I can remember. My kids are getting old enough now to enjoy this so I decided to finally pick up a Wii + a bunch of games from eBay and create a game juke box, essentially.
It should go without saying but I will be in no way responsible for anything bad that happens to your Wii as a result of this guide. All information contained within is for informational purposes only and provided with no warranty.
Play Wii games directly from USB drive formatted with NTFS and shared for other purposes.
Make each game selectable as individual channels directly from Wii home screen.
There are multiple ways to pull this off so the following is how I chose to do it. Other loaders, IOS builds and tools may work just as well but I have no experience outside of what I used in this guide. There will be a lot of moving your SD card back and forth between your PC so an SD reader or capable laptop is essential.
HBC provides an environment used to load applications and is the key to making my plot work. There are a number of HBC versions available depending on preference or the version of your Wii system menu. I have System menu 4.3 so am running LetterBomb. HackMii is used to install the HBC and provides an all-in-one installer to complete this first step. Read more about how to do this and download the needed bits here.
When you start the HBC, any Homebrew apps contained within \apps on your SD card will now be executable within the Wii.
The Trucha bug, from earlier Wii IOS versions, allows digital signatures from non-Nintendo approved software to be installed and run on the Wii. Nintendo patched this in all subsequent IOS versions. To take advantage of all the goodness Homebrew allows, this bug must be re-introduced into the Wii so that it can be exploited.
First, follow this guide to download and run the NUS downloader. This will give you a .wad file that you will need to copy to the root of the SD card. Online mode should allow this to be downloaded via wifi from within the Wii, but that didn't work for me so I manually fetched the WAD file.
Next, grab the IOS236 installer and extract the files to the SD card. The "IOS236" directory should be placed within SD:\Apps\. This is where all SD-based apps will go. Launch the HBC and run the IOS236 installer. When asked, point to the WAD file you generated via the NUS downloader.
Towards the end of the install you will be asked if you want to enable support for pirated games. No matter what, say NO here.
With IOS236 installed, there are 2 additional custom IOS' that need to be installed to enable the use of a USB loader. This will install IOS236 to 2 additional slots which also get used. Grab the d2x cIOS v3.1 installer from here and copy out the "d2x-cios-installer" folder to your SD:\apps folder. Put the SD card back in the Wii and turn it on. Launch HBC and start the d2x installer. Select IOS236 as the IOS for installation.
On the next screen there will be 3 areas with moveable values. The first being the d2x version, select the latest (v8). Move down and change the base IOS to 56. Move down and change the IOS slot to 249. Continue to perform the install.
One more to go. For the 2nd round, change the base IOS to 57 and choose slot 250. Continue to perform the install. Exit the application when the IOS files report successful installations.
Here is a good guide from the developer walking through the various options: d2x guide.
Now that the Wii is hacked we can get on with the fun part and enable the pieces necessary to play games. The USB loader has the job of mounting the ISO or WBFS file thus making a game on a USB drive playable. There are a few different loaders that people use, the most popular seem to be Configurable USB Loader (cfg) and GX Loader. I chose cfg as it seems to have more recent development support plus it boasts all the key features I was looking for.
Extract the cfg v70 zip and copy the contents of the \apps directory in the ZIP to the \apps directory on the SD card. Also copy the usb-loader directory to the ROOT of the SD card. This directory contains the bits necessary to download and display game covers within cfg running in the Wii. This is purely optional and I will end up not needing this functionality anyway.
Connect your USB drive to the OUTER port in the back of the Wii (the one on the bottom if laid flat). Fire up HBC again and start cfg. You should now be able to select and play any games you have available. But let's not stop there.
You can also optionally use a forwarder for cfg which creates a channel on the Wii home screen so you can launch cfg without having to first launch HBC. IOS58 will need to be installed if you want this functionality which can be found here with instructions. The direction I'm heading, however, this is also unnecessary.
Priiloader is an optional safety and system menu modification mechanism that I higher recommend you install. If you ever run into a non NAND-based brick situation (banner brick), Priiloader can save you. It boots before the Wii system menu so can interrupt the native Wii boot sequence and allow you to perform a number of tasks. Priiloader also allows you to hack your system menu and change some of the native features, like removing the opening "press A" health screen. Priiloader is there for me should I ever run into trouble plus I enabled several menu hacks.
Extract the Priiloader app bits to \apps on the SD card, launch HBC and install Priiloader. My ini file was not found during the install so I had to select it later at boot time.
It's very important to minimally block system and game updates as these will remove IOS236 and destroy all your hard work.
There are several methods of formatting drives for the Wii with some older methods that include complicated partitioning. The whole point of this exercise for me is that I want to use an existing NTFS drive that I use for other things. I'm not interested in FAT32 or partitioning a dedicated section to be WBFS. These are old school techniques that are no longer necessary! Keep in mind that if you do use FAT32, the maximum supported file size is 4GB so larger games will need to be split up via Wii Backup Manager. Remember to ALWAYS connect your USB drive to the outer USB port on the Wii (the one on the bottom when laid flat).
I also use a very tiny SD card (512MB) that is formatted FAT32. I only use it to store application files which are very tiny and with all this have only consumed ~30MB. Be careful if you use cfg to download cover art as by default it will save everything to your SD card. Again, the method I'm deploying here has no need for cover art that would be displayed in cfg.
Time to get your games ready. You can install your games from disk directly within cfg or rip them to ISO from your PC. Either method works so one way or another get your games into the ISO format. From this point you can simply play your games as ISOs from cfg which is fully supported. Optionally you can transfer a Wii Backup File System (WBFS) file out of the ISO as these consume far less disk space than the full ISO. New Super Mario Bros is 100MB in WBFS vs the 4GB ISO, for example. Either way is fine just put all the game files you intend to use in \wbfs on your USB drive. Very important to have that directory in lower case as cfg will not read it otherwise if your drive is formatted NTFS.
The titles of your ISO/WBFS files is also important as cfg is picky with regard to how you name them. The title of the ISO/WBFS itself should only include the game ID, i.e. RE03N1.wbfs. It's parent folder can be named a few different ways but it's safe and easy to go with "game title [game ID]", with the game ID in brackets. This is detailed in the Q&A portion of the cfg guide.
To generate WBFS or ISO files from your game media, Wii Backup Manager is an excellent tool to use. It can read and write both file formats as well as download cover art if you desire. It can also split your game files if you are using FAT32 on your USB drive.
The last step to pull of my plan is to create WAD files for each of my games. Each WAD will be installed as a channel and will launch the game directly using cfg and HBC behind the scenes. It's completely transparent and removes the requirement to manually launch cfg or HBC.
To do this you need a tool called Wiicrazy Crap. Awesome name. There was a newer, renamed version of this called Wii Game Shortcut Creator (WiiGSC) that never left beta as far as I can see. Crap v3.3 requires .NET frameworks and executes directly from the directory structure while WiiGSC does not require .NET and can be installed. Both do essentially the same thing but I used Crap to create my WADs.
Plug your USB drive with your game files into your PC and fire up Crap. There are a lot of options here but you really only need to do 4 things. Choose your ISO/WBFS file, select your loader, select the game partition where the games live and the choose the WAD naming convention. Next click "create channel". Below is how I created all of my WADs.
Once successful, navigate to the \wad directory within the crapv3.3b folder structure to retrieve your WADs. Copy these to SD:\wad. All that's left now is to install your WADs.
MMM is the self described Wii Swiss army knife and provides many useful tools but I use it primarily to install WAD files. To install MMM, just like the other HBC apps, extract the folder within \apps to \apps on the SD card and launch from within HBC.
At this point, when MMM loads it will likely default to using IOS58 if you installed it for the cfg forwarder. The first thing you need to check EVERY time you load MMM is that IOS249 is loaded at the bottom. If it isn't loaded, select IOS249 from "Load another IOS" and MMM will reload with the hacked IOS. Things will not work correctly otherwise.
You can also install a forwarder channel for MMM so you can access it directly from the Wii home screen. Extract and install the MMM Forwarder DFM1 from within MMM.
Mission accomplished! While not a terribly difficult hack, it has a lot of steps to get to the end result. There is a lot of very old information out there in various forums as the Wii has been around since 2006 so be careful. Everything that I've outlined here was used to achieve this goal for me and was done with absolutely no adverse issues. Have fun and merry xmas!
Yes! Finally something about wii.


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A Chilling Story of Fraud Targeting an Elderly Victim
JUNE 17, 2013 VOLUME 20 NUMBER 23
Last week a colleague told us a story that we think needs to be shared. Patricia Sitchler, a nationally-known San Antonio lawyer with the prominent Texas firm Schoenbaum, Curphy & Scanlan, P.C., described her client's eye-opening experience with a fraudulent attempt to access her bank account. We asked Patty if we could share her client's story. Patty wrote:
This is how I spent last Thursday. I thought it might be helpful information.
I spent most of last Thursday helping an elderly client who was scammed. Fortunately, "Doris" discovered the scam and we were able to avert disaster. Take a minute to see just how easy we have made it for the crooks.
The driver helped Doris put her packages in the car. Doris was still living independently, buying her own groceries and curtains and copy paper, writing her own checks, balancing her own checkbook. After putting the goods away in her apartment, it wouldn't take long to balance the checkbook. She only wrote about 10 checks a month-the utility company, the phone bill, her rent and the few checks she wrote shopping at various stores close by. She was so lucky. She and her beloved deceased husband had planned well and she was comfortable knowing that although she wasn't wealthy, she probably had enough to live out her life.
But in only a few minutes, Doris would find out just how vulnerable technology has made her. Balancing her checkbook she noticed that there were 13 cancelled checks, more than she realized she wrote. Looking more closely, Doris saw a new name: Josiah Klinger had signed three of her checks (fictitious name, of course). The bank must have made a mistake and applied his checks to her account. Then she looked even closer with the magnifying glass–the account number at the bottom of each check signed by Klinger was identical to her bank account even though his name and address were on the check. What was going on? As realization hit, Doris knew somehow her name had been eliminated from the check and John Klinger's name was printed on her checks with her bank number, debiting her precious funds.
How could this be? Enter the world of technology. The bank fraud investigator assured Doris that because she reported the theft of over $1,500 so quickly, the bank could stop the fraudulent withdrawals and would replace the funds in her account. But, he pointed out, such fraud was as simple as buying $20 software for your computer and printing your own checks in your own name but inserting someone else's account information in a magnetic strip at the bottom of the check. "But I have all of my checks," Doris stressed. "No one has stolen my checks." "They don't have to," the investigator told her. "All a crook needs is the bank identifier and account information at the bottom of your check-information that can be copied anytime you hand over your check to a stranger in payment for goods or services."
Check out a compilation of ads from a business supply store and the internet: "Good check writing software should include several check design templates with options to customize the templates by changing font styles and colors and adding logos and graphics. Financial institutions require checks to include a magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) line, so software that includes a MICR font will save you money on check stock with pre-printed MICR lines. In addition, the MICR line must be printed with magnetic toner or your checks will be rejected. For example, MySoftware Checksoft Personal Pack costs just $19.99. Just a few of the features of this check printing software includes 900 personal checks, allows the user to print sequential check numbers, include the bank's address and logo, and print the bank code line."
So the next time you write a check and hand it over to a stranger, is your account safe? Do you balance your checkbook the same day you get your bank statement in the mail like Doris? Do you get photocopies of your checks with your bank statement? You may have just 30 days from the date of the bank statement to report theft in order to possibly recoup the funds.
Taken from FAQs on the Texas Banking website:
"What are my rights and responsibilities when a check has been forged on my account?"
Answer: Ultimately, the forging party is liable for items forged by them. However, banks do have a responsibility under Section 4.401 of the Business and Commerce Code to pay only authorized items from a customer's account, and a forged check is not an authorized item. Most banks employ automated check processing techniques which do not verify the signature on each check to the signature on the deposit account. Under Section 4.406, the customer has a duty to discover and report unauthorized signatures or alterations with reasonable promptness. Typically, the depository contract will limit the discovery period to 30 days. Once reported, the bank generally must credit the item back to the account unless it can prove that the customer failed to comply with his or her discovery and reporting duties as imposed by the law. However, once a customer has notified a bank of a forgery incident, and has had at least 30 days to examine previous statements, he or she may not recover a loss on items previously forged by the same party and paid by the bank before it was notified. A customer can also be precluded from asserting against the bank if the customer was negligent in protecting his or her checks (Section 3.406)."
It could have been disastrous for Doris. Although only 6 checks showed up on her bank statement the check numbers that showed up on her statement indicated that at least 23 checks were written but only 6 had cleared when the bank statement was issued and she caught the fraud Technology can be so convenience but beware.
Postscript: Under Texas law the Bank must refund the money to Doris so long as she properly reports it to the bank. Based on my contact with Plano, Texas, attorney Keith E. Davis, however, the biggest vulnerability I see for people is use of a DEBIT card. Debit cards do not carry the protections of a credit card (limit on liability for theft if properly reported) or bank account. Once the scammer figures out how to access your debit card, your bank account can be in real jeopardy and you can only hope that your bank will be nice and help you try to recover.
Patty Sitchler
Patricia F. Sitchler, CELA
Schoenbaum, Curphy & Scanlan, P.C.
112 E. Pecan St., Suite 3000
Thank you, Patty. Word to the wise.
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Appellate Court Upholds Orders in New Jersey/Texas Guardianship
JULY 25, 2011 VOLUME 18 NUMBER 27
We have told you about Lillian Glasser before. She is a wealthy New Jersey woman with two children who disagree about where she resides, who should manage her health care and finances, and what should be done about financial actions taken in the months before court proceedings were begun. Much of the dispute centers over whether Texas or New Jersey courts should hear her case. That issue seems to have been put to rest, with New Jersey the victor.
To recap: Ms. Glasser, then worth about $25 million, lived in New Jersey. She occasionally visited her son in Florida (where she also had a rented home) and her daughter in Texas. In 2002, Ms. Glasser was persuaded to execute a new estate plan. She signed a will putting her daughter in charge of her estate, and a new power of attorney in favor of her daughter.
In 2004 and 2005, Ms. Glasser's daughter fired her mother's caretaker in Florida, moved Ms. Glasser to Texas, and initiated a Texas guardianship proceeding. In the meantime, she used her power of attorney to create a family limited partnership which she controlled, and transferred the bulk of her mother's assets into the partnership's name.
The Texas guardianship proceeding spawned a variety of legal actions. Ms. Glasser's son, a nephew who was close to her and a family friend all objected in Texas. The litigation costs in Texas exceeded a million dollars, with much of the cost being paid from Ms. Glasser's assets. The result: the Texas courts authorized her return to New Jersey, where there was more legal action pending.
After Ms. Glasser's nephew filed a separate New Jersey guardianship proceeding, that state's Adult Protective Services agency weighed in with a complaint alleging that Ms. Glasser had been subjected to exploitation. Those two actions were consolidated. Meanwhile, the Texas courts decided to wait until New Jersey had completed its review of Ms. Glasser's situation.
In 2007 the New Jersey court held a 34-day trial on Ms. Glasser's condition, the transfers of her assets, and the actions of the various players. The result: a judgment finding that Ms. Glasser's daughter exercised undue influence and behaved in her own interest rather than her mother's best interest, ordering return of all of the assets transferred into the family limited partnership, and appointing a bank as guardian of Ms. Glasser's estate and an independent party as guardian of her person. That ruling was the subject of our 2007 update on the Glasser litigation. Ms. Glasser's daughter appealed that ruling, as did two of the other litigants; much of the appellate argument focused on who should pay the extensive legal costs of the proceedings. The New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division (that state's intermediate appellate court) has now — four years after the original court findings — ruled on those appeals.
Spoiler alert: the appellate court affirmed the extensive trial court decision without modifying a single finding or order.
The appellate judges approved the trial judge's finding that Ms. Glasser's daughter had exercised undue influence over her mother. They agreed that she should be ordered to put all of her mother's assets back into Ms. Glasser's name, to be managed by the bank named as guardian of her estate (what we in Arizona would call her conservator). They confirmed the daughter's history of inappropriate and evasive actions with regard to Ms. Glasser's placement and care, and agreed that she was not suitable to manage her mother's personal OR financial matters.
Then the appellate judges turned to the extensive fees incurred in the various legal proceedings in two states. They confirmed the trial judge's decisions that:
Ms. Glasser's daughter should pay her own legal fees in both New Jersey and Texas. That meant that she would have to repay the money she had taken from her mother's assets to fund the Texas proceedings, for which she had paid her attorneys at least $1 million.
Ms. Glasser's estate should pay the legal fees of the lawyer she selected to represent her (the court having found that she had the capacity necessary to hire an attorney of her own choosing). It should also pay the legal fees of her nephew, who filed the guardianship action in New Jersey, without forcing her daughter to reimburse those fees.
Ms. Glasser's son argued that his mother's estate should pay most or all of his legal fees; the trial judge decided that it would not order her to pay all of his legal fees in Texas, and that (since he hadn't filed a guardianship petition in New Jersey) he was not entitled to reimbursement for his New Jersey expenditures. The appellate judges agreed, noting that his sister had no standing to object to the amounts allowed in any case.
In the Matter of Lillian Glasser, July 21, 2011.
So how much did Ms. Glasser's legal predicament cost her, and what was the total cost paid by all of the litigants in protracted proceedings in two states? It may be impossible to calculate exactly, but it is obviously several millions of dollars — after all, her daughter's legal fees in Texas alone exceeded one million dollars.
Assuming (and the evidence is good) that the outcome is correct, was there a way to prevent the absurd expenditure of millions of dollars, the delay of half a decade, and the angst and anguish associated with this case? A few things might have helped:
A carefully created and well-documented estate plan, drafted at a time when Ms. Glasser was clearly competent, might have headed off some of these problems. It might not, however. Ms. Glasser did have an estate plan in place in 2002, at a time when she was competent to make her plans. Her daughter's undue influence and over-reaching upset that plan over the next few years.
If both Texas and New Jersey had adopted the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act prior to 2005 then considerable cost might have been avoided. That Act would have made clear that New Jersey had jurisdiction and Texas should not act — the very conclusion that the respective judges reached, though only after more than a million dollars in legal fees. Unfortunately, the Jurisdiction Act did not exist in 2005. Since it was first proposed in 2007, about two-thirds of the states have adopted it (including Arizona). So far neither Texas nor New Jersey has. In fairness, adoption of the Jurisdiction Act might have sped the proceedings up by only a few months, and saved only a fraction of the many millions of legal costs.
Mediation of the family disputes might have been effective — but it might not have. The appellate judges made reference to Ms. Glasser's son adopting a "'take no prisoners' approach to anyone who disagreed with his views." Her daughter's intransigence is pretty clear from her actions and her legal posture. Perhaps they could not have ironed out their differences.
Subjects: conservatorship, guardianship, guardianship across state lines, guardianship of the estate, In the Matter of Lillian Glasser, interstate, Lillian Glasser, mediation, New Jersey, New Jersey Superior Court, Texas
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Court Distinguishes Between Undue Influence, Incapacity
DECEMBER 28 , 2009 VOLUME 16, NUMBER 66
Contrary to public perceptions, will contests are actually rare. In fact, few wills are written in such a way that anyone would benefit from a contest — most wills leave property to the same people who would inherit if there was no will. When there is a will contest, however, the two most common grounds are allegations of (1) lack of testamentary capacity, or (2) undue influence exerted by someone. A recent Texas case highlights the differences between those two allegations.
Evelyn Marie Reno died at age 81. She had been married twice, and left three children from her first marriage and one daughter from the second. The youngest child, Jan LeGrand, did not get along well with her half-siblings. Relationships between Ms. Reno and the three children from her first marriage were also strained — at least partially because two of them had initiated a guardianship proceeding (which was later dismissed) against their mother.
Ms. Reno spent the last year of her life in a nursing home. Ms. LeGrand visited her regularly, paid all her bills, and kept her location a secret from her half-siblings. At some point in the year before she died, Ms. Reno asked her daughter to help her prepare a new will disinheriting her other three children and leaving her entire estate to Ms. LeGrand.
The will was prepared (by Ms. LeGrand), and signed in Ms. Reno's nursing home room. The witnesses were a hospice worker and chaplain, and the notary public was a nursing home employee. Ms. LeGrand was asked to leave the room while the three non-family members discussed the will and watched her sign it.
After Ms. Reno's death the will was filed with the probate court by Ms. LeGrand. The three half-siblings proposed an earlier will, which left most of the estate to the four children equally.
The Probate Court ruled that Ms. Reno lacked testamentary capacity at the time the last will was signed, and that she was subjected to undue influence by her daughter. The earlier will (and a codicil) were instead admitted to probate.
The Texas Court of Appeals analyzed the findings of the Probate Court, and modified the basis for its findings — while not changing the result. The evidence, according to the appellate court, showed that Ms. Reno DID have testamentary capacity. Though she was often confused, the two witnesses and the notary agreed that the will was signed on a good day. Evidence of confusion and occasional disorientation on days before and after the will signing was not enough to overcome the testimony that she knew what she was signing, who her children were and what she intended to do at the time she signed the will.
The appeals judges agreed with the Probate Court, however, on the subject of undue influence. A key part of the evidence considered by the Court of Appeals: the fact that the will was actually prepared by Ms. LeGrand. As the Court wrote: "the fact that LeGrand personally prepared teh will without the intervention of an atotrney or other third party is significant."
Also important to the court's analysis: Ms. LeGrand had sole access to Ms. Reno for more than a year (during which time their mother's whereabouts were not shared with the other three children). During that time, noted the Court of Appeals, Ms. Reno was completely dependent on Ms. LeGrand for bill-paying, care management and personal contact.
A more subtle distinction is drawn by the appellate judges with regard to Ms. Reno's declining mental status. Though her condition at the moment of signing the will did not support the allegations of lack of testamentary capacity, her growing confusion and periodic mental weakness made her susceptible to undue influence.
Finally, the Court of Appeals notes that the will prepared by Ms. LeGrand for her mother was a complete shift from her prior wills. In each of those she made specific bequests to her four children and thirteen grandchildren, plus hospitals, her church and her pastor. The last will, however, left everything to one daughter — and this significant change in her dispositive plan was yet another indication of undue influence.
Though family members often confuse the concepts of testamentary capacity and undue influence, the legal analysis of the two different approaches to will contests is well-developed. It is also important to note that not every attempt to talk someone into making a new will is automatically subject to challenge. As the Reno court opined, in somewhat dry legalistic language: "One may request, importune, or entreat another to create a favorable dispositive instrument, but unless th eimportunities or entreaties are shown to be so excessive as to subver the will of the maker, they will not taint the validity of the instrument."
The difference between "lack of testamentary capacity" and "undue influence" is legalistic, to be sure, but it is more than just academic. Interestingly, the Texas Court of Appeals noted that there is a difference in the burden of proof borne by the parties in the two different kinds of cases. In a case alleging lack of testamentary capacity the proponent of the will has the burden of proving that the testator understood what she was doing. In an allegation of undue influence, the challenger carries the burden of proof.
That means that each side in Ms. Reno's case met their burden of proof. That is, Ms. LeGrand showed that her mother understood what she was doing, but the other three children demonstrated that Ms. LeGrand unduly influenced their mother. Estate of Reno, December 18, 2009.
Subjects: codicils, Estate of Reno, Evelyn Marie Reno, Jan LeGrand, mental capacity, Nursing Homes, testamentary capacity, Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, undue influence, will contest, Wills
High-Stakes Guardianship Case Illustrates Multistate Conflicts
APRIL 9, 2007 VOLUME 14, NUMBER 41
Mark Glasser and Suzanne Glasser Matthews, brother and sister, have spent the last two years battling for physical and financial control over their mother, Lillian Glasser. The 86-year-old Mrs. Glasser, who at one point had an estimated net worth of $25 million, has been the subject of proceedings first in Texas and more recently in New Jersey, where a trial judge heard thirty-four days of testimony and argument last fall.
Nearly six months after the extended proceedings, New Jersey Judge Alexander Waugh has issued his ruling, appointing a guardian of the person and estate for Mrs. Glasser. Rather than appointing any of the family members who might have been candidates, Judge Waugh appointed New Jersey attorney Joseph Catanese as guardian of the person. Mr. Catanese had served as court-appointed counsel for Mrs. Glasser during the trial, and the judge indicated that her condition could worsen if yet another new party was injected into her life.
Judge Waugh also appointed a guardian of the estate (the equivalent of a conservator in Arizona and some other states), turning to the financial management firm Mrs. Glasser and her late husband had used before his death. Mrs. Matthews, her daughter, was ordered to return control of approximately $20 million she had transferred to a family limited partnership just before initiating guardianship proceedings in Texas (see the San Antonio Express-News report), and the judge made clear that at least some portion of the costs incurred by Mrs. Matthews to set up that entity would have to be reimbursed as well.
All of that is very interesting, and Judge Waugh's written opinion reads like a fictional saga (for more detail and an excellent running commentary on the case, consider Texas Tech College of Law Prof. Gerry W. Beyer's blog coverage of the case). What the Lillian Glasser case points out even more clearly, however, is a growing problem in guardianship matters—the conflicts that can arise between jurisdictions with the increased mobility of families, support systems, caregivers and assets.
Guardianship proceedings were initiated in Texas when Mrs. Matthews sought appointment as guardian of both her mother's person and her estate. After Mrs. Matthews' appointment as temporary guardian, another relative initiated the New Jersey case, arguing that Mrs. Glasser was a New Jersey resident and the question of her capacity—and management of her affairs—should be handled there.
In an earlier ruling Judge Waugh determined that his court should have primary jurisdiction over the guardianship. Luckily, the Texas judge assented, staying the proceedings until a hearing could be completed in New Jersey. Although neither state's laws include explicit provisions permitting such an action, the two judges' cooperation saved considerable expense and duplicative legal proceedings.
Arizona law also lacks a provision for resolution of interstate guardianship conflicts. In practice, such conflicts are handled on an ad hoc basis, considering the strength of the proposed ward's ties to each of the jurisdictions, the location of principal witnesses, and other factors. Frequently the result is that the state where proceedings are first filed has priority, even though the stronger contacts are elsewhere.
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL), which proposes uniform statutes for consideration by the states, has addressed this growing problem. A provision of the Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act, proposed in 1997, would specifically permit the judge in one state to notify and consult with the judge in another state, and to decide whether to accept or decline jurisdiction based on the best interests of the proposed ward (see section 107(b) of the UGPPA).
Another growing problem involves movement of wards after appointment of a guardian or conservator. Under current law and practice, it may be necessary to initiate a whole new guardianship proceeding in the new state after a move, at considerable expense and duplicating much legal effort The proposed uniform law would also address that problem, permitting the final guardianship order of one state to simply be lodged with, and become an order of, the ward's new state.
Subjects: Florida, guardianship, guardianship across state lines, interstate, Lillian Glasser, New Jersey, Texas, Uniform Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Act
Arizona Community Property Is Not Always Subject To Probate
OCTOBER 9, 2000 VOLUME 8, NUMBER 15
Arizona is one of nine "community property" states in the country, and that can be the source of some confusion about estate planning, taxes and property ownership rights for married couples. Recent changes in Arizona's law make the "community property" designation a little more friendly and understandable, and the benefits to this unique property ownership choice are now clearer.
"Community property" concepts were not part of the English common law. Under the system imported to most of the American states, property was owned by one spouse or the other, though the non-owner might acquire some rights in his or her spouse's property. The French and Spanish, however, understood the marital community to be a separate entity from either spouse individually, and permitted the "community" to own property. Each spouse then holds an equal interest in the community's property.
Those American states with rich Spanish or French histories tended to adopt some version of the community property concept. Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin are community property states, although the method of implementing the concept varies somewhat. Alaska also permits some trust assets to be held as community property.
In community property states a married couple is presumed to hold assets as community property regardless of the actual title on the asset. Couples may, however, choose to hold their property in joint tenancy or as tenants in common if they wish.
One important advantage to having assets titled as community property comes, oddly enough, from federal tax law. Although capital gains taxes are ordinarily due any time an appreciated asset is sold, the increased value of property held by a decedent at the time of death is not taxed. The property's income tax "basis" is said to "step up" to its value on the date of the owner's death, often resulting in substantial income tax savings for heirs.
Jointly owned property only receives a partial "step up" in basis. Property held in joint tenancy will usually only get half the income tax benefit on the death of one joint owner. Community property, however, is treated differently: the entire value of a community property asset gets "stepped up" to the value on the first spouse's death, resulting in twice the income tax savings.
The main drawback to holding community property in Arizona has long been the requirement of a probate proceeding to pass the property to the surviving spouse. Although the long-term tax savings can be substantial, the probate costs are immediate and, in most people's minds, too high. Since 1995 Arizona has permitted married couples the best of both worlds: property can be held as "community property with right of survivorship" and secure the favorable income tax treatment while still avoiding the probate process. The value of this type of property ownership is, of course, restricted to married couples.
One caveat: some commentators, relying on fairly arcane interpretations of the federal tax law, argue that the "community property with right of survivorship" designation could conceivably be found to result in no step up in tax basis at all. So far the federal government has not taken such a position, but there remains some slight possibility of a problem. In addition, the effect of titling separate property as community property (with or without the "right of survivorship" language) has more than just tax effects. In other words, you should consult an Arizona attorney before changing title on your existing assets or deciding how to title a new acquisition.
Subjects: Alaska, Arizona, California, common law, community property, community property with right of survivorship, French, Idaho, income tax, joint tenancy, Louisiana, married couple, Nevada, New Mexico, Probate, Spanish, stepped-up basis, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin
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Nude Awakening II: : Still Nude (Wahida Clark Presents) (Paperback)
By Victor L. Martin
Trevon Harrison learns in Nude Awakening II that the more money he makes, the more problems he has. Being an adult video star may have solved some immediate problems, but it may have also created more trouble than it's worth. Kandi wants more and isn't sure she can get it from him. Swagga, Trevon's arch-enemy, wants revenge from their last encounter. And Janelle, the owner of Amatory Erotic Films, wants a seven movie deal contract honored. With new friends and a host of enemies, will Trevon ever find peace or will he end up still naked?
Author Victor L. Martin, aka Mr. Hood Legend first entered the urban lit scene in 2004 with his novel A Hood Legend followed by Menage's Way, For the Strength of You and Unique's Ending. He is also a collaborator of two anthologies, Even Sinners Have Souls Too and What's Really Hood! After a brief stumbling block he was forced to challenge his right to write against the North Carolina Department of Corrections and its meaningless policy. Claiming victory was only the beginning for Victor L. Martin and his path towards a bold emergence. Victor is currently housed in a North Carolina prison serving a 23 year sentence. As of date he only has 7 years left before he will regain his freedom. He was born in Richmond, VA, July 25, 1975 but raised in Selma, NC and Miami, FL. He is single, remaining focused on his books and staying positive through his gift of writing.
Publisher: Wahida Clark Presents Publishing, LLC
Publication Date: August 30th, 2013
Series: Wahida Clark Presents
African American & Black - Erotica
Hardcover (August 30th, 2013): $33.80


Sixteen (16) tourism businesses from Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland joined Tourism Ireland at the Classic Motor Show over the weekend.
The Classic Motor Show is an annual event which takes place over three days at the NEC in Birmingham. It attracts around 65,000 people, offering an excellent platform to spread the world about car touring holidays around the island of Ireland among car enthusiasts – and prospective holidaymakers for Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland – in Great Britain.


Hard to believe that it has been almost a year since ICD10 was implemented. Have to admit that from our point of view the implementation went fairly smoothly with just a few bumps. But we were warned that Medicare and other commercial carriers were going to allow a grace period of one year for non-specific ICD10 codes. After one year claims with unspecified ICD10 codes will be denied.
That one year grace period ends October 1st. We have actually already seen a few denials for unspecified codes but we are expecting that number to rise after October 1st. We have been reminding our providers to be as specific as possible when coding. Providers that are using the unspecified codes as primary diagnoses will probably see many denials one the grace period ends.
There are things that can still be done to prevent this. If a provider is still using a superbill make sure the codes on the superbill allow them to indicate the specifics. For example, if a patient has a sprained ankle make sure the provider can indicate if it is the right or left ankle. Also, is this the first visit for the sprain, or is this a subsequent visit? Is it a subluxation or a dislocation? All of this information is required in order to use a non specific ICD10 code.
Most EHR systems help with this issue by giving the options when the provider is documenting the visit. If the provider is using an EHR program, make sure it allows for them to pick the specific code when documenting.
Educate your providers. Let them know that if they don't use specific codes or provide the information so that specific codes can be assigned they will disrupt the cash flow. Many times the provider is still unaware that it is important to indicate right or left, or other specific information needed to select the correct ICD10.
The biggest thing is don't wait. Take a look at the situation now and try to prevent the denials. Check the billing currently going out to see if unspecified codes are being used. Identify the areas that need to be improved and implement systems to fix them now before the denials start to come. This will prevent the disruption to the provider's cash flow.


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David Seymour - Biography
Chim (pronounced shim, an abbreviation of the surname "Szymin") was the pseudonym of David Seymour (November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1956), a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw to Polish Jewish parents, he became interested in photography while studying in Paris. He began working as a freelance journalist in 1933.
Chim's coverage of the Spanish Civil War, Czechoslovakia and other European events established his reputation. He was particularly known for his poignant treatment of people, especially children. In 1939 he documented the journey of Loyalist Spanish refugees to Mexico and was in New York when World War II broke out. In 1940 he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in Europe as a photo interpreter during the war. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1942, the same year that his parents were killed by the Nazis. After the war, he returned to Europe to document the plight of refugee children for the recently formed UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund).
Sometime after D-Day, Chim met Life (magazine)'s Paris Bureau Head Will Lang Jr. and had lunch with him at a cafe' in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, France, along with reporter Dida Comacho and photographer Yale Joel. .
In 1947, Chim co-founded the Magnum Photos photography cooperative, together with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, whom he had befriended in 1930s Paris. Chim's reputation for his compelling photos of war orphans was complemented by his later work in photographing Hollywood celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Kirk Douglas, Ingrid Bergman and Joan Collins.
After Capa's death in 1954, Chim became president of Magnum Photos. He held the post until November 10, 1956, when he was killed (together with French photographer Jean Roy) by Egyptian machine-gun fire, while covering the armistice of the 1956 Suez War.
The Photographs of David Seymour
DeYoung Museum Exhibit
NPR Story: Reflections from the Heart
Chim Home Page
מקור המאמר: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour
המאמר מזכיר את האנשים הבאים: David Seymour
מקור: http://www.jewage.org/wiki/he/Article:David_Seymour_-_Biography


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Harcum College is a two-year associate degree granting school located in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Established as Harcum Post Graduate School by pianist and music educator Edith Hatcher Harcum in 1915, Harcum began as a university preparatory school for women, but added junior college-level classes shortly thereafter and officially became Harcum Junior College in the 1920s. In 1955, Harcum became the first two-year college in Pennsylvania authorized to grant associate degrees. As of 2016, the school, now known as Harcum College, offers over 20 degree programs to traditional and non-traditional students. The Harcum Junior College records, 1918-2016, consist of administrative records, printed matter and published materials, photographs and audiovisual materials, oversized materials, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other materials documenting the school and its faculty, students, buildings, curriculum, and activities. (View full finding aid.)
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Harcum College is a two-year associate degree granting school located in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Established as Harcum Post Graduate School by pianist and music educator Edith Hatcher Harcum in 1915, Harcum began as a university preparatory school for women, but added junior college-level classes shortly thereafter and officially became Harcum Junior College in the 1920s. In 1955, Harcum became the first two-year college in Pennsylvania authorized to grant associate degrees. As of 2016, the school, now known as Harcum College, offers over 20 degree programs to traditional and non-traditional students. The Harcum Junior College records, 1918-2016, consist of administrative records, printed matter and published materials, photographs and audiovisual materials, oversized materials, newspaper clippings, ephemera, and other materials documenting the school and its faculty, students, buildings, curriculum, and activities.
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We've also encouraged children and teens to protect their own intellectual property. In today's Web 2.0 world, just about everyone is a content producer as well as consumer and we all have rights when it comes to what we create.
Over the years there have been plenty of cases where someone reposts an article or two from SafeKids.com and, generally, we let that pass. It's still wrong and illegal, but life's too short to stress over every minor injustice we encounter.
But a website calling itself Safety Village with the memorable URL SafetyVillage.com, seems to be stealing all of our content. To add to the injury, they are selling ads around our content.
The reason I'm writing about this is twofold. First, I'm curious to see if it's an automated process or if a person is actually doing it manually. If it's automated there's a good chance that this article will show up on their site which would be kind of ironic justice. But whether or not it's automated, my hope is that the people who run the site will notice this post and do the right thing by removing the content and writing an apology (you can reach me here).
Because SafeKids.com has a fairly high Google ranking, this article is eventually likely to show up near the top when people do a search for Safety Village. And that brings up another thing we teach kids. We have said many times that what you do on the Internet can affect your reputation for a long time and, unless I take this post down, it will remain on the net for a long time and will show up when people search for this site. My goal isn't to be vindictive. If the folks at Safety Village take down the content and apologize, I will either remove this post or append a note to the top saying that they have done the right thing. But in the mean time, their reputation will suffer.
SafeKids.com does allow some websites to re-post our material, but only with permission. We do encourage people to link to the site and have no objection to short quotations which are considered "fair use." What Safety Village is doing is unfair use.


Longer daylight hours and no homework signal the perfect time for families to enjoy some leisure time together. Whether your child is already in early elementary school, entering Kindergarten this fall or is still in preschool, summer is the perfect time to brush up on school readiness skills. Go out with your child and explore. Take walks, run errands, or lie in the grass in the sun! All of these are the perfect way to spend quality time together and learn through play at the same time. Questions and answers, guessing games and observing your surroundings give you, the parent, all of the materials you need to help your children grow into stronger readers, competent mathematicians and good classmates as they head into their "career" as student.
Here are some examples of simple ways to build literacy skills in your child every day!
The Power of Observation: Ask your child questions about the landscape as you walk around the block: How many houses on the street are white?
Sharpen sentence structure and listening skills: Have your child complete your sentence about your journey in the car. That green truck is… (very noisy, going slow, the color of broccoli).
Sorting and Matching/Comparing Contrasting: Involve them in tasks around the house. While doing laundry, match all of the pairs of socks or ask who's shirts are bigger - yours or mine?
Details and description: Use the grocery store as the back drop for a good game of eye spy. "I spy something red, round, juicy and tastes good in pie!"
Be sure to visit our free Family Literacy Playroom "Little Heights" located at the CH-UH Main Library with your kids ages 2 - 5 over the summer to help build on all of the school readiness skills that will set your child up for success.
Thursdays: 3:30 - 8 p.m.
Saturdays: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
For more information go to heightsparentcenter.org or call 321-0079.
Ellen Barrett is the Program Director at Heights Parent Center She has been with the Center for 12 years and is a life long resident of Cleveland Heights. She has two sons Ryan and Peter who are in college.