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Found in Translation: A Professor Searches for a Public Voice
When I was a child growing up in Puerto Rico, I was interested in science but did not know any scientists, nor did I understand how science was done. My father worked in the newspaper business and would occasionally find articles and opinion pieces written by Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan that had been syndicated and translated into Spanish by local newspapers. He would cut them out neatly and bring them home as special gifts. I was allowed to read them only after I had finished my homework.
Those short essays were great treats—windows into a wonderful but inaccessible world of possibilities and discovery. Back then I often wondered why scientists did not write more for the public.
Now I know: because it's hard work. But it's also worth the effort.
I know that because I recently published my first opinion essay as a fellow of the Op-Ed Project's Public Voices Fellowship Program. This yearlong experience is designed to help professors like me reach beyond the academic audience and share our ideas and experiences with a larger lay audience.
So I went against my instincts and wrote an essay about nature versus nurture that brought in not only my expertise as a neuroscientist but also my experience as a parent of triplets. Linking the two felt very foreign to me. And seeing my thoughts out there, in the "real world," all of a sudden felt like picking up the microphone in a crowded room that had suddenly gone quiet—powerful and awkward.
On the one hand, I have never been able to stir up as much conversation about topics that I care deeply about as I did with that 800-word essay. On the other hand, the last time I felt this exposed, I was 13 and my mom was calling my aunt to find me a date with my cousin for the junior prom.
What was going on? As a researcher and professor, I spend much of my scholarly time constructing essays to articulate and support new scientific hypotheses. I have defended my team's work in front of Nobel laureates and other scholars whose training is surpassed only by their critical nature. Sure, presenting in academic forums also makes me a little nervous, but, surprisingly for me, not as much as publishing a lay article for the public. Why?
I started reflecting on this during my last meeting with the other Op-Ed Project fellows. There I was, sitting in a room of hyper-trained faculty members, all with really great things to share from a range of disciplines, but most feeling just as I did—a little self-conscious about sharing their ideas and insights. Sometimes, as we traded stories, it sounded as if we were at a support-group meeting.
We discussed such things as our own roles and responsibilities in the public discourse and what our "expertise" really was. Common among our experiences was a general struggle to translate our well-tuned academic voices into public voices. Wrestling with those concepts in the company of my colleagues did not necessarily make it easier, but it certainly made it more fun.
In the relatively contained microcosm of my academic field, I know where my expertise starts and, more important, where it ends. My job is to chart out new areas of knowledge and add them to a "knowledge map" that my colleagues, past and present, have been charting for years. Errors in mapping new knowledge are costly because new paths based on incorrect facts can get us all lost. Written articles in academe are frequently referenced years, decades, or even centuries later, and the arguments can last much longer than the person making them.
That discourse stands in sharp contrast to public discourse, which feels more like a conversation where everybody and anybody, from Joe the plumber to the president of the United States, can chime in. The emotions and personal experiences (in addition to facts) that lead to a given opinion are not only tolerated; they are welcome. Some opinions can be inconsequential, but others can help spread ideas and even influence policies. It's important for experts, particularly those from groups that are not usually represented in the public discourse, to enter into this conversation.
But it takes a reframing of the academic mind-set to enter public discourse. Writing the opinion piece required me to tap into another set of skills I use daily but don't normally associate with producing written scholarly work: teaching skills. In writing op-eds, as in teaching, I had to shed all of the shorthand jargon I am used to and search for terminology that was broadly accessible.
While writing, I found that the more emphasis I placed on being detailed and precise, the less space I had to make my argument relevant. Therefore, I had to learn to balance precision and relevance in an 800-word essay—a feat that took a lot of editing and feedback from friends and students. I had to let go of the thought that the short essay would achieve the same goal as my scholarly work, that is, to help conclusively settle an important argument or discovery. Instead, in the process of writing, I started thinking about the essay the way I think about my own interventions in discussion classes—as a way to clarify inconsistencies, to introduce a new viewpoint, or simply to stir discussion of an important topic. And I found myself embracing discussion and arguments, much as I would do when I teach.
In the process of writing the piece—in wrestling with precise wording and explaining relevance—my scholarship grew. In that sense, and also similar to teaching, the project was not a one-way didactic experience. Putting my ideas into words and having their importance and relevance examined and questioned polished and improved my scholarship.
The feedback I got from my opinion essay reminded me of another scholarly activity I am frequently involved in: conversations at conferences. At conferences I find myself bouncing around ideas, some of them really off the mark, with colleagues from different fields. Putting my ideas out there gives me a sense of their value and also results in cross-pollination and refinement of the ideas. Similarly, by sharing my opinions (which are informed by my scholarship but are opinions nonetheless) in the op-ed format, I was able to both expand my scholarship and assess how useful my knowledge is to the public.
Stepping outside the ivory tower took me, as an academic scientist, out of my comfort zone and even made me feel vulnerable. But as a person who once stood outside the ivory tower—well, technically once sat at a kitchen table in Puerto Rico—I think it is valuable to open these windows to the outside world and let our ideas air out.


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1. I don't plan on adding any new players to our league. There are a few of the less active owners that will not be returning. This is not a reflection on any of them. During the course of the season there are many different things that can happen that can impact how much time you can commit to a silly little internet game.
We have a couple options that will make themselves more clear over the next several months. First, drop the league to 20 teams. I have 19 guys that I'd like to return, 7 of them have already expressed an interest in returning.
I have 1 former player that will be returning as well as a poster that has been in leagues on the site before.
The other option is filling the league with vets from the past. I have a list of 5 that have stepped aside but are more than welcome to return.
We're also looking to start up a 2nd league. If there's enough interest to make it do-able. I've had 10 posters PM be about the possibilty of joining should we start up another league. As you guys know, a 10 team league is not nearly enough so I would hope some of us could help fill out the league to at least 16 teams. We'll cross that bridge if we build it.

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Billy Hardemon wants to get over. "I know I can make it," he says, his eyes constantly shifting between the two men directly across the way and the traffic light at the corner of NW 62nd Street and 7th Avenue, where he has an office at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Business Center. Green turns to red and the chairman of the MLK Economic Development Corporation bounds across the intersection. "Excuse me!" he shouts. Joe Celestin, the mayor of North Miami, and Sidney Charles, vice chairman of the Miami-Dade Republican Party, look up. Seeing Hardemon, a stocky, middle-aged man with boyish looks, an infectious smile, and an unparalleled talent for the street greet, Charles exclaims, "The Mayor of Liberty City!"
Hardemon shakes his head in mock denial. "I'm just a garbage man," he says, self-deprecatingly referring to his day job as an assistant resource recovery administrator for Miami-Dade County's Solid Waste Management Department. "Naw, you've got seniority," Celestin corrects him. "You're Wayne Huizenga!" The three men laugh; Hardemon may not have as much money as South Florida's most famous garbage collection magnate, but in this part of town, he has just as much pull.
If there were a mayor of Liberty City, Hardemon would stand a good chance of being elected. Known by almost everyone on the block and in county government, the self-described grassroots activist has been involved in community politics for over twenty years, twice even running for the county commission. Most recently he has dedicated himself to opposing HOPE VI, the federally funded initiative that threatens to replace the historic James E. Scott Homes public housing project where Hardemon himself once lived with fewer, more expensive properties. Hardemon, believing HOPE VI to be nothing more than a replay of the urban gentrification/"Negro removal" programs of the Sixties (see "Our Lady of the Projects," New Times, July 5, 2001), asks, "Where are people from Scott Homes supposed to go, man?"
Hardemon represents a constituency -- overwhelmingly black, impoverished, and disenfranchised -- that has almost no connection to local government. The community's city and county commissioners are little more than abstractions, names and faces on billboards and storefront posters at election time. Billy Hardemon is real. The person to talk to if you have a problem. Someone who has the ear of the people on those billboards and posters. Literally and figuratively, the man on the street.
His popularity and the influence he wields in the community are, in part, the product of a lack of alternatives. "Because there is so much need in the African-American community," explains one long-time black observer, "those who would take the risk to speak out, people like." Even when serious questions are raised about their integrity. Six years ago, Hardemon was Miami-Dade County Commissioner James Burke's chief of staff. The two men were approached by friend and former Miami City Manager Howard Gary, one of black Miami's most famous political sons, with an offer: money under the table for a piece of San Francisco businessman Calvin Grigsby's $180 million bond deal to refinance the debt for improvements at the West Miami-Dade garbage recycling plant. A bribe. Part of an FBI sting nicknamed Operation Greenpalm. Gary, already facing the possibility of prosecution for previous dirty dealing, wore a wire.
Burke, Hardemon, and Grigsby were eventually indicted on charges of bribery and money laundering, Hardemon for allegedly accepting a payment of $50,000. The trial that followed featured extensive audio and videotape of Hardemon and his boss seemingly discussing the cash-for-trash contract scheme with Gary. "You know, the way I see it, Howard," Hardemon is heard reassuring Gary, who had expressed concern that perhaps Grigsby might not hold up his end of the bargain, "when [Grigsby's bid is approved] everybody will be taken care of. When it's done."
When only Burke was convicted -- video showed him pocketing a down payment of $5000 in Gary's office, then proclaiming, "This is a wonderful country" -- prosecutors were visibly shaken. U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis, displaying a talent for understatement, told a Miami Herald reporter: "Given the strength of evidence in this case, we're disappointed."
Hardemon's post-acquittal celebration became almost as famous as the trial, which concluded in 1999. The Herald reported him screaming triumphantly from the passenger seat of his Red Ford Mustang convertible, as his wife Barbara drove away from the federal courthouse, "Billy Hardemon! Not guilty! Billy Hardemon! Not guilty!"
He not only beat the system but couched his victory in undeniably racial terms. Taking a page from the Clarence Thomas playbook, Hardemon dismissed the proceedings as "a high-tech lynching." His defiance -- loud, proud, and public -- earned him no small amount of street cred, the prevailing currency in inner-city black Miami. It also garnered him a considerable degree of sympathy, thanks in large part to opinions like those expressed by the Miami Times, a leading African-American newspaper, which, in a 1999 editorial entitled "The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Males," named Hardemon's old boss James Burke among a litany of black leaders who had fallen victim to what the paper termed the "investigation hatchet."
Indeed it would not be too much of a stretch to suggest that however Hardemon's reputation might have suffered in white and Latino Miami as a result of the scandal, it is more than made up for by the respect he gained in certain segments of the black community, where he is seen by some as innocent and by others, rightly or wrongly, as the man who did it and got away clean. That standing allows Hardemon to keep helping the community. Or, maybe, just keep hustling.
Cordel, Georgia, is the watermelon capital of the world. "For real," says Billy Hardemon, sitting at a table in the Venetian Lounge at the Biscayne Bay Marriott Hotel, sipping a glass of red wine, recalling the rural town his mother and father left in 1955 to move to Miami. Hardemon seems to take particular pride in relating that little fact about Cordel, turning the potentially racist symbol into a measure of just how far he and his family have come. "We settled in the Grove," he continues, "in one of those shotgun houses along U.S. 1." Billy was born shortly after the family arrived in South Florida, the fifth of fifteen brothers and sisters.
Hardemon doesn't say so (and doesn't have to) but Miami in the mid-Fifties was as segregated a city as there was in the southern United States, and opportunities for blacks were largely limited to domestic and manual labor. "My mother, Ethel, did what we call 'housework,'" says Hardemon, "and my father, L.G., was always some sort of mechanic."
The family relocated to Liberty City around 1960, a time when, Hardemon recalls, a lot of black families were doing the same. "When Overtown was demolished [to make way for Interstate 95], people moved further north." The destruction of Overtown, a thriving community of black-owned businesses, restaurants, and nightclubs, not unlike Harlem in its heyday, still angers Hardemon and, he says, a lot of other people. "Black folks haven't forgiven white folks yet," he believes. "I talk to the elders. I know my history. It's an injustice that hasn't been adequately faced."
Still Hardemon doesn't deny Liberty City had a vibrancy all its own. "When I was in third grade," he remembers, "I got a job cleaning and sorting empties [bottles] and working the register in a local grocery store, Shirley's Market at the corner of Northwest 55th Street and 17th Avenue. I got a real perspective of the community from that store. Everybody came in. Willy the Winehead. Ms. [Athalie] Range [Miami's first black city commissioner]. Everybody."
A wide smile crosses Hardemon's face. "One guy, Mr. B., sold liquor out of the back of his car, you know, behind the store," he explains. "He'd sell other things, too, at a discount. Things he didn't always have a receipt for." Mr. B., suggests Hardemon, was a fence, a buyer and seller of stolen goods. And, Hardemon laughs, "probably the best businessman I ever met in my life."
Talk of Mr. B. sends Hardemon off on the poetics of hustling. "Miami is the hometown of Al Capone," he says, perhaps forgetting that although Scarface kept a home on Palm Island, he was from New York, by way of Chicago. "Miami is a gangster town."
Some blacks might have blurred the line between honest and criminal behavior, admits Hardemon, but they weren't doing anything white folks weren't also doing. "If you were a hustler like Mr. B.," he says, his cadence approaching that of an urban preacher, "that meant you were a hard worker. You weren't hurting anybody." No, indeed. You might even have been perceived as providing a service of sorts, allowing people to acquire from you what they could never have been able to afford in the white-owned stores downtown. Buy a $50 dress for $15. Sell it for $25. Make $10. So what if the shit wasn't exactly yours to begin with? Overtown didn't belong to whites, but that didn't stop them from taking it when they wanted a place to put a highway.
The hypocrisy of the white power structure, insists Hardemon, is transparent. "Hustling wasn't a problem until minorities started making money off it," he emphasizes. "Dead men voting wasn't a problem until they voted for [former City of Miami Commissioner] Humberto Hernandez," who in 1999 was convicted of election fraud and who, coincidentally, was represented by attorney José Quinon, who also represented Hardemon in his bribery trial.
In the informal economy of Liberty City, Hardemon learned that who you knew was at least as important as what you knew. "We got into Scott Homes [around 1965] because my mother spoke with Charles Hadley [a local civic leader and, Hardemon recalls, Howard Gary's uncle]. As a result, we got two apartments. We knocked down a wall and we had five bedrooms!"
That apartment, the grocery store in which he worked, and school were the limits of Hardemon's world. "I'd see kids playing ball or whatever, but I had to go to work," he says. "I didn't run in the street a lot."
Which isn't to say he wasn't street smart, even when it came to school. "I transferred to Central [Senior High] in my senior year just to get away from an English teacher at Northwestern [Senior High] who had already given me two F's, and was going to fail me," confesses Hardemon.
He had a plan, and it didn't involve going to college. "After graduating [in 1973], I left Miami to go into the army. I wanted to come back with a Cadillac, driving down Seventeenth Avenue. Leaning, you know?"
Hardemon never made it back to Miami in a Cadillac, but he made it back. Often. While stationed outside Atlanta, he discovered there were weekly flights from nearby Dobbins Air Reserve Base to Opa-locka Airport. Somehow he managed, on a fairly regular basis, to talk his way onto the plane. It was on one of those weekend excursions to the old neighborhood shortly after joining the army that Hardemon, for the first time, got into real trouble. "We knew this guy had some money and jewelry," he says, not sure whether to tell the story or not, "so me and two friends from the neighborhood broke into his house." That was the easy part. "The guy came home and started shooting. Actually hit one of my buddies in the leg. Me and the other guy ran out the door and right into a police car." He sighs. No motherfucking cops around when you need one, then you pull some shit ...
Hardemon was taken downtown. And given another object lesson in the importance of knowing the right people: "Turns out the detective who interviewed us was my friend's uncle's partner." Three degrees of separation. Hardemon was sprung. "The cop said, 'Get the fuck out of here,' and we did," he recounts, allowing himself a sly smirk.
Still, he says, the experience changed him. "I realized there were probably all these people in jail who had maybe only ever made one mistake. I went back to Atlanta and started listening to Martin Luther King, Jr. on tape. I went to a desegregation rally with Hosea Williams [a leading civil-rights advocate]. I joined Williams's People's Church of Love."
So it was that Hardemon became born-again, as an activist. "I'd been hanging out with hustlers," he admits. "I'd never been confronted with the civil-rights movement. I came back to Miami with a commitment to serve my people."
Hardemon's baptism by fire came on May 17, 1980, when a Tampa jury acquitted four Miami police officers in the December 1979 beating death of 33-year-old black insurance agent Arthur McDuffie. Members of Miami's black community, devastated and angered by the verdict, took to the streets. The ensuing three-day riot left 18 people dead, 400 injured, and caused an estimated $100 million in damage. Liberty City, the locus of the protests, was particularly hard hit.
"The McDuffie rebellion -- I don't say 'riot'; riot is what white people do when their sports team wins a national championship -- was a historic moment for black Miami," Hardemon recalls today. "One of the main things I remember was the elders telling young people to attack the system. People who before would have been like, 'Boy, put down that rock! What's wrong with you?' were like, 'Okay, right on.'" Hardemon flashes a Black Power salute, then falls back into his chair. "I was very active during McDuffie. Active denouncing the system, demonstrating in the street. But I didn't kill anyone."
Instead he became more radicalized, organizing rallies and street protests in his hometown. "Police brutality, the Mandela boycott. I was at the grassroots for all that," Hardemon says, with more than a little pride.
His activism got him noticed. Hardemon claims he was approached about running for a Miami-Dade County Commission seat in 1991, but turned down the offer. "That was back when we had countywide elections and I didn't think I could compete," he shrugs. Two years later, that all changed. Or, as Hardemon puts it: "We got fuckin' district elections. I said, 'I can run in this district'"; District 2 stretches primarily from NW 7th to 37th avenues, between 62nd and 135th streets.
Run he did, on a platform that seemed, at times, equal parts Al Sharpton and Al Schweitzer. Among his planks: a proposal to post signs around the Liberty City area declaring black men an endangered species, as part of a campaign to raise consciousness about the scourge of black-on-black crime. "I never had so much fun in all my life. I came in third in the primary, behind [New Birth Baptist Church Bishop] Victor Curry and Jimmy Burke."
Eliminated from the runoff, Hardemon nevertheless realized he could still impact the race by endorsing one of the two leading candidates. The choice, to Hardemon, seemed obvious. At least initially. "I saw Burke [a ten-year veteran of the Florida House of Representatives] as an insider, so I told Victor, even before the election, that I'd endorse him if I lost," he recalls. After the primary, though, Hardemon found Curry's camp difficult to negotiate with. "Victor's people gave me their ass to kiss. They didn't think they needed me. I felt disrespected. So I endorsed Jimmy Burke, and he won."
Some would say Hardemon sold out. Others, that he sold well. In exchange for his support, Burke made him his chief of staff, an appointment for which Hardemon is still grateful. "He could have put me in the district office, given me a car, told me to stay the fuck out of his way," explains Hardemon, summing up the standard compensation package for political flunkies, "but he brought me downtown with him instead."
In retrospect, of course, Hardemon might have been better off in the district office, away from Burke's inner circle and the temptations that can befall the right-hand man to the county commission finance chair, the position to which Burke was appointed. But don't expect Hardemon to agree. Indeed, the ex-chief of staff bristles at the insinuation he or his former boss were particularly susceptible to payola. "Look, Jimmy Burke didn't own a house, didn't own a car. If he had been as corrupt as people want to portray him, he would have had something to show for it."
Burke by 1996 may or may not have had much to show for his almost three years in office, but the government certainly did. Specifically, evidence showing the county commissioner accepting money from Howard Gary to grease a $180 million bond refinancing deal for black San Francisco bonds writer Calvin Grigsby. On the surface it looked like a typical hustle: Gary, a former Miami City manager and black pioneer in local government, was out to get his own cut of the deal between Burke and Grigsby, who had previously competed with Gary for county business. A hustle it was, but of a different sort: In reality, as part of a plea bargain arrangement engineered after he was caught on tape in early 1996 offering two million dollars in bribes to another official in an unrelated deal, Gary agreed to wear a wire himself, to set up Jimmy Burke and Billy Hardemon for the feds.
Why did Burke take money from Gary, allowing him to weasel in on what seemed to be a done deal? Hardemon has an explanation. Not the kind of explanation that would fly in court, but the kind that sheds light on the sociology of the backroom. "Burke loved Howard Gary. He idolized Howard Gary," explains Hardemon, searching for just the right phrase. "He was intoxicated by Howard Gary." In fact, Burke himself had brokered the partnership between Grigsby and Gary. "I think Jimmy Burke took the bribe because it came from Howard Gary," insists Hardemon. He believes, or says he believes, that Burke took the money as a favor to Gary, to ingratiate himself with one of Miami's black political icons.
Portions of the surveillance tapes -- embarrassing excerpts like Burke begging Gary to "tell him what to do," assuring him that he, Burke, was "like a robot, like an instrument" -- would appear to support Hardemon's hypothesis. But there is still one outstanding question: Why didn't he, Hardemon, also bite (especially when, as one former associate maintains, "Everybody knew that to get Burke's vote on something, you had to pay twice. You had to pay Burke and Billy")?
"Because I was for giving Grigsby the contract anyway," snaps Hardemon. "That deal was going to save a lot of Solid Waste jobs, which is a department where I had friends, and I liked that. [Hardemon had worked there since 1982; he left to join Burke's staff.] I was already willing to work on behalf of Grigsby." But wouldn't that have made it easier to accept the money? "Not necessarily," he says, smiling. "Howard Gary spent two hours trying to get me to take some money on FBI surveillance tapes. I was like, 'You want to help me? Donate money to my campaign.'" (Hardemon was himself running for a county commission seat in 1996.) Bottom line, he says: "I sensed I was being set up."
Hardemon sensed right. Eventually a jury exonerated him on all charges. "Yeah, it was entrapment," reasons Hardemon, "but the problem with crying 'entrapment' is, well, you did whatever they were trying to get you to do." Burke, currently serving a 27-month sentence for his indiscretions, wasn't so smart. Or so lucky.
In 1996, while under investigation for his role in the Grigsby affair, Hardemon was rehired by the Miami-Dade County Solid Waste Management Department at a salary of $49,000, or, approximately, a five percent raise over what he had earned as Burke's chief of staff. True, he lost the job the following year, when he was accused of accepting illegal contributions during his 1996 county commission campaign, but that episode likewise ended with Hardemon on top: beating the felony rap (though he did plead guilty to sixteen misdemeanor charges), being reinstated by Solid Waste, and receiving $120,000 in back pay to boot.
In 1997, shortly after Burke was removed from office, Hardemon joined the board of the nonprofit MLK Economic Development Corporation. "Service," Hardemon says, quoting his mentor, former Miami-Dade County School District Superintendent Johnny Jones, "is the price you pay for the space you occupy." Hardemon does not mention that Jones, the district's first black superintendent, was convicted in 1980 of embezzling taxpayer money to pay for gold plumbing fixtures in his home. A little public money finds its way into your pocket and right away people think you're a crook.
Hardemon knows how it can happen. In 1991, he purchased the corner store in Liberty City where he used to work as a kid, renaming it Hardemon's Market. The store had been burned out in the protests that followed the 1989 fatal shooting of Clement Lloyd, a black youth, by Miami police officer William Lozano. Hardemon says he hoped to provide a resource to the blighted area. By 1993, however, the business had failed. So the city stepped in and bailed out Hardemon, purchasing the store and forgiving the loan.
Hardemon heard the whispers saying he had taken the city for a ride, an allegation he resents. "Sure, the $25,000 loan allowed [the Hardemon family] to buy the market," he says, "but then we were stuck like Chuck. We were barely operating when Hurricane Andrew hit and then we literally gave away the store to people coming up from [Homestead and the surrounding areas]. Fuck no, I didn't see money from that store. I lost money." Today a parking lot marks the northwest corner of NW 55th Street and 17th Avenue, where Hardemon's Market once stood.
Whatever Hardemon may have lost or gained with the corner market, his status in the community allows him to continue shaking the money tree. "Any politician who has to get votes out of [the Liberty City area] has to be his friend," says one well-connected source, "whether they like him or not. The only reason he got the money for the store is because politicians fear him."
Certainly he has little trouble getting them on the phone when he needs them. "I think if I called most of the elected officials in this town," he states confidently, "they'd call me back. I don't call them with bullshit." He cites a recent example. "We met with [District 3 County Commissioner] Barbara Carey [Shuler] and we said, 'We want to redevelop [the MLK Business Center].' She went out and secured a $100,000 grant for Tools for Change [another economic development organization] to come up with a plan."
It is precisely this knack for getting what he wants out of his connections downtown that made Hardemon, despite the legal troubles looming over his head in 1997, a logical choice for the MLK board. At that time MLK was in debt, the Business Center had few tenants, and there was even talk of dissolving the organization. Since Hardemon joined, taking the helm as chair in 1999, the community organization hasn't exactly flourished (it is still in debt), but things have gotten better: The once nearly empty Business Center has attracted new tenants, primarily small-business owners and some nonprofits (including Youth of America, run by Hardemon's brother, Walter).
But if Hardemon's political clout earned him a seat on the MLK board, and appears to have at least improved the situation at MLK, it also has some of his colleagues worried.
Earnestine Worthy, an MLK board member and an organizer for the Florida chapter of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, remembers welcoming Hardemon at first. "Billy knew the politics, knew the system," she says. "I thought he'd be good for MLK." Now she says she knows better. "I thought Billy was for the people," she groans, "but Billy is for himself." Worthy is worried about Hardemon's plan to raze the existing building to make way for a new facility. "We don't need MLK torn down," she argues. "All we need to do is rehabilitate. What kind of history are we going to have if we keep tearing everything down?"
The complex is outdated and cramped, Hardemon retorts. "It's built right up on the sidewalk," he notes. "We need a new building, one with parking in front." The only parking for the Business Center currently is a municipal lot located in the rear, out of sight and not entirely secure. A rebuilt Business Center, Hardemon believes, might attract a major retailer to anchor the complex. It is not a novel idea. Just across NW 62nd Street, Walgreens is leasing on a site partially developed by another community development corporation, Tacolcy.
Whatever his intentions, MLK executive director Alberta Gray shares with Worthy a sense that Hardemon is on the hustle. "I believe Billy was sent in there to get [the property] out of the community's hands and turn it over to people who want it," she says. Gray fears that Hardemon, for a cut of the action, is liable to do just about anything, including selling out the center entirely to private interests. "He makes all his decisions outside of that office," she maintains, describing what she claims is the secretive manner in which Hardemon runs the organization. "Half the board doesn't know what's going on."
Hilda Hall, a member of the MLK board for the past two years, disagrees, saying the board reserves "an adequate amount of time to discuss things that come up." As for the fear that Hardemon's talent for working the system may ultimately prove more of a liability than a benefit, allowing him to do what he wants with MLK, regardless of the community's best interests? Hall scoffs: "Every business operates based on the relationships it develops in the community it serves."
Despite such reassurances, Gray believes her suspicions of Hardemon are dead on, and are what have gotten her into trouble with the chairman. "The main target at board meetings is me," says the ten-year MLK employee, whose job is threatened by a restructuring of the organization. "Somehow I'm in the way."
Hardemon admits he is currently trying to replace Gray, but says that has more to do with putting MLK on solid footing for the future. "We're looking for someone who can write the grant proposals we're going to need, proposals for big grants," he explains. Gray laughs at Hardemon's line. And suggests he's just the latest in a long line of hustlers. "Whoever has been at MLK," posits Gray, provocatively, "has always had a [hidden] motive for being there."
But, like the disappointed prosecutors at Hardemon's corruption trial, neither Gray nor Worthy can quite put their finger on what wrongdoing Hardemon has actually committed. "There's something behind the scenes," speculates the executive director. "We just don't know what it is yet." Worthy doesn't know either, but she is more blunt about her concerns. "I'm not going to jail behind Billy," she says.
Hardemon has heard all the accusations before. And isn't going to start letting them slow him down now. "I just can't stay out of Liberty City," he exclaims, rolling through the area in his red 2002 Lexus SC430, a hardtop convertible that is a source of both pride and consternation to him. Pride, because, with a base sticker price of $61,600, the car, like the three homes Hardemon owns, is a sign that he has made it; consternation because an automobile that expensive inspires jealousy and gives ammunition to his detractors. "Man, how can you drive a car like that around here?" asks Sam Mason, president of the nonprofit Liberty City Learning Center, a former chair of MLK, and a sometime friend, sometime foe of Hardemon. To Mason the car is at best unseemly, a gratuitous show of wealth in a community where most people are caught in the stranglehold of poverty.
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Perhaps. But if there are people in the neighborhood who resent Hardemon's ride, there are others who appear to take vicarious pleasure in it: the man who washes it whenever it's parked in the lot behind MLK, the young brothers who sidle up to it to ask Hardemon about the possibility of a job with the county, the neighborhood toughs who offer to watch it for him, not for money, but to prove they control the street.
For all of the attention the car elicits, however, Hardemon himself -- always moving, always jawing -- remains the main attraction any time he's around. "How much y'all want for those 50-cent watermelons?" he shouts to six or so elderly black men sitting under a large tree in an empty lot across from the parking lot that once was Hardemon's (née Shirley's) Market. Next to the men is a moving truck, its rear door slid all the way up to reveal a pile of fresh watermelons. "Hey! Billy Hardemon!" yells Mr. B., quickly pointing to another member of the group. "You remember Tracy?" Hardemon nods. "I remember all these brothers." And they him.
"Boy," says Mr. B., tall, thickly built, and immaculately dressed in a pair of blue jeans, sport shirt, and cap, "I remember when Billy was just a little boy, couldn't even reach the cash register at that market used to be across the street, but he'd stand on a box or something and bang those keys."
And then Mr. B. smiles. "Billy, how about you let me buy you a couple of those watermelons?" Hardemon protests. But Mr. B.'s not having it. Reaching into his pocket, the fatherly figure produces three worn one-dollar bills, and hands them over to the man in charge of the melons. Billy Hardemon, grinning, thanks Mr. B. and scampers across the street, taking the old hustler's gift with him.


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Although this exercise sounds rather naive and unnecessary, I stumbled upon two very interesting topics along the way.
- A need for new iterator concepts to separate the notions of element access from iterator traversal. Yes! iterators for homogeneous tuples can't be modeled accurately using conventional iterator categories. Don't believe me? Please read on...
- How inherited constructors may be simulated on compilers that don't support them today.
From this point onward a tuple is assumed to be a homogeneous tuple. First thing we need is a way of accessing tuple's contents using a run-time integer instead of a compile-time integer. We need an adapter that uses a run-time integer index to return the n-th element in a homogeneous tuple. If n is larger than the bounds of the tuple, the adapter will throw a std::out_of_range exception.
template <typename Tuple,
size_t I = std::tuple_size<Tuple>::value-1>
class TupleAt
typedef typename std::tuple_element<0, Tuple>::type T;
static T & get(Tuple & tuple, size_t index)
return (index == I)? std::get<I>(tuple) : TupleAt<Tuple, I-1>::get(tuple, index);
template <typename Tuple>
class TupleAt<Tuple, 0>
typedef typename std::tuple_element<0, Tuple>::type T;
static T & get(Tuple & tuple, size_t index)
if(index == 0)
return std::get<0>(tuple);
throw std::out_of_range("Tuple iterator dereferenced out of valid range.");
The TupleAt template takes the type of the tuple and its size as template parameters. It assumes that the type of the first element is also the type of the rest of the elements in the tuple (i.e. a homogeneous tuple). TupleAt::get function returns a reference to the n-th element in the tuple. It does that using repeated comparisons from the size of the tuple (std::tuple_size<Tuple>::value) down to zero. TupleAt is specialized for zero so that the recursion ends. If the index does not fall in the expected range, std::out_of_range exception is thrown.
Note that this access pattern is linear in complexity. For a tuple of N elements, it may take up to N comparisons to return the right element.
Array-like access to Homogeneous Tuples
I created a tuple_array class to provide array-like access to the elements of the tuple. It uses TupleAt internally.
template <typename... T>
class tuple_array : public std::tuple<T...>
typedef std::tuple<T...> Tuple;
typedef typename std::tuple_element<0, Tuple>::type HeadType;
enum { TUPLE_SIZE = std::tuple_size<Tuple>::value };
HeadType * ref_;
size_t last_;
USING(tuple_array, Tuple)
ref_ = & TupleAt<Tuple>::get(*this, TUPLE_SIZE-1);
last_ = TUPLE_SIZE-1;
HeadType & operator [] (size_t index)
if(last_ != index)
ref_ = & TupleAt<Tuple>::get(*this, index);
last_ = index;
return *ref_;
Class tuple_array inherits from std::tuple and just provides operator [] function. It always returns a reference to HeadType typedef, which is the type of the first element in the tuple. To improve efficiency, the tuple_array class caches a pointer to the last dereferenced index in the tuple. std::tuple has a zillion constructors to create a tuple. To avoid repeating the constructors in the derived tuple_array class, I wanted to use inherited constructors. However, g++ 4.7 does not support it at this moment. So I'm using a variadic template constructor to mimic the behavior of inherited constructors.
#define USING(Dervied, Base) \
template<typename ...Args, \
typename = typename std::enable_if \
< \
std::is_constructible<Base, Args...>::value \
>::type> \
Dervied(Args &&...args) \
: Base(std::forward<Args>(args)...) \
The inherited constructor trick is captured in a macro, which I stole shamelessly from here. The USING macro defines a variadic template constructor and forwards all the arguments to the underlying base constructor. To avoid being overly greedy, it enables instantiation only if the base is constructible from the given parameters. std::is_constructible<Base, Args...>::value provides a neat way of checking that at compile-time.
Finally, we need a simple function to create the tuple_array. Function make_tuple_array is a factory function to create tuple_arrays from a list of arguments. Note how it uses the uniform initialization syntax without specifying the actual type. Using make_tuple_array is just like an array. However, note that element access is linear and not constant-time.
template <typename... T>
tuple_array<T...> make_tuple_array(T... args)
return { std::forward< T&& >(args)... };
int main(void)
auto ta = make_tuple_array(20, 30, 40);
printf("%d %d %d", ta[0], ta[1], ta[2]); // prints 20 30 40
Iterators for Homogeneous Tuples
Now lets turn our attention to iterators.
What category would an iterator for homogeneous tuple belong? Random access? Bidirectional? It appears to me that the homogeneous tuple iterator could simply use an internal index to remember what position it is at and use the TupleAt::get to return the element when dereferenced. Arbitrary arithmetic can be performed in constant-time on the internal index to move the iterator. This indicates that the iterator is a random access iterator.
However, the dereference function is not constant-time as discussed earlier. As a result, it is not a random access iterator. Clearly, traversal is random access but element access is not. Existing iterator categories do not support this distinction. The standard random access iterator [5] requires all operations to be amortized constant time.
What we really need is a way to distinguish between the categories of element access and the categories of traversal. This is precisely the point of new iterator concepts in boost.
For now, we'll just consider that the iterator for homogeneous tuple is a random access iterator. Here is how it looks like with a lot of boilerplate overloaded operators.
template <typename Tuple>
class tuple_iterator
: public std::iterator<std::random_access_iterator_tag,
typename std::tuple_element<0, Tuple>::type>
typedef typename std::tuple_element<0, Tuple>::type T;
enum { TUPLE_SIZE = std::tuple_size<Tuple>::value };
Tuple * tuple;
int current_;
int last_;
T * ref_;
T * update_ref()
if(current_ != last_)
ref_ = & TupleAt<Tuple>::get(*tuple, current_);
last_ = current_;
return ref_;
typedef int difference_type;
explicit tuple_iterator(Tuple & t, size_t i = TUPLE_SIZE)
: tuple(&t),
T & operator *() {
return *update_ref();
T * operator ->() {
return update_ref();
T & operator [] (int offset) {
return TupleAt<Tuple>::get(*tuple, current_+offset);
tuple_iterator & operator ++ () {
if(current_ < TUPLE_SIZE)
return *this;
tuple_iterator operator ++ (int) {
tuple_iterator temp(*this);
return temp;
tuple_iterator & operator -- () {
if(current_ >= 0)
return *this;
tuple_iterator operator -- (int) {
tuple_iterator temp(*this);
return temp;
tuple_iterator operator - (int i) const {
tuple_iterator temp(*tuple, current_-i);
return temp;
tuple_iterator & operator -= (int i) {
return *this;
tuple_iterator operator + (int i) const {
tuple_iterator temp(*tuple, current_+i);
return temp;
tuple_iterator & operator += (int i) {
return *this;
difference_type operator - (const tuple_iterator & ti) const {
return current_ - ti.current_;
bool operator < (const tuple_iterator &ti) const {
return index < ti.index;
bool operator > (const tuple_iterator &ti) const {
return index > ti.index;
bool operator <= (const tuple_iterator &ti) const {
return index <= ti.index;
bool operator >= (const tuple_iterator &ti) const {
return index >= ti.index;
bool operator == (tuple_iterator const & ti) const {
return (tuple == ti.tuple) && (index == ti.index);
bool operator != (tuple_iterator const & ti) const {
return !(*this == ti);
template <>
class tuple_iterator <std::tuple<>>
tuple_iterator(std::tuple<>, size_t i = 0) {}
The tuple_iterator class provides the usual typedefs (e.g., difference_type, value_type, pointer, reference, and iterator_category) and overloaded operators (e.g., *, ->, [], +, -, +=, -=, -, +, <, >, <=, >=, ==, !=) to support the requirements of random access iterator. Just like tuple_array class it caches a pointer to the last element that was dereferenced. It goes through O(N) comparisons only if the tuple iterator is dereferenced at a different index than what is cached. A specialization of tuple_iterator for empty tuple is also provided. It has no members other than a constructor because there is nothing to dereference to!
Finally, we need a way to create the begin and end iterator from a non-empty tuple. We add the corresponding functions.
template <typename... Args>
tuple_iterator <std::tuple<Args...>> begin(std::tuple <Args...> &t)
return tuple_iterator <std::tuple<Args...>>(t, 0);
template <typename... Args>
tuple_iterator <std::tuple<Args...>> end(std::tuple <Args...> &t)
return tuple_iterator <std::tuple<Args...>>(t);
If no index is passed to the iterator constructor, it points to the end of the tuple. The internal index of such an iterator is same as the size of the tuple. An iterator at the beginning has index = 0 -- the first element. Using the iterators is now straightforward. I do not discuss constant and reverse iterators here.
int main(void)
auto tuple = std::make_tuple(10, 20, 30, 40);
auto ta = make_tuple_array(4, 2, 1);
std::copy(begin(tuple), end(tuple), std::ostream_iterator<int>(std::cout, " "));
std::sort(begin(ta), end(ta));
for(int i : ta)
std::cout << i << std::endl;
return 0;
I think, this rather naive exercise turned out to be quite interesting. Hopefully, you enjoyed as much as I did. Live code.


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The treatment of these drawings would begin with surface cleaning of the paper. This involves using soft brushes to sweep away loose dirt and mold residue, followed by grated white vinyl erasers gently rubbed over the surface. The next step would begin by "fixing" any water-soluble colors with B-72 (Ethyl methacrylate copolymer) dissolved in xylene, to protect them during aqueous treatments. The drawing could then be washed in water with a small amount of ethanol to help "wet" the paper evenly. Washing paper will remove much of the acidic components so damaging to paper fibers, most of the products of the natural deterioration process as well as finer particles of dirt and soot. Many visible stains on the surface of the paper will disappear or be reduced. More stubborn stains could be further reduced using calcium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, both of which must be thoroughly rinsed out the paper . As part of the aqueous phase of the process, the paper can be deacidified with the addition of calcium hydroxide to the water. For any drawings that are not washed, deacidification can be accomplished by spraying with magnesium oxide dissolved in a liquid perflourocarbon carrier. Both processes will leave the paper fibers alkaline which will protect them against future acidic attack. After drying and flattening between blotting paper, the drawings would be repaired in the most appropriate manner.
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MONTREAL — They filled every available seat at the Bell Centre and surrendered their voices when he came out to the stage.
The enormous following Georges St. Pierre commands in his hometown was on full display at Friday's UFC 158 weigh-in.
One young child even dressed up as St. Pierre, complete with the gi and headband the welterweight champion wears during his walk to the octagon and a replica UFC belt.
"I can talk as much as I want," St. Pierre said in his final comments before facing Nick Diaz. "But tomorrow, I'm going to walk the walk. That's all I can say."
The fans got one tense moment involving their hero, but it was fleeting. Diaz pushed St. Pierre's arm down with his elbow when the champion approached for the face-off photo.
The move fit with a history of confrontations during weigh-ins with Diaz, but UFC President Dana White didn't let this one get very far. White jumped in between the two rivals, only giving the rows of photographers a couple frames to catch the usual stare-down pose.
St. Pierre (170), Diaz (169) and the other 22 fighters on the card had no issues with the scale. Everyone made weight.
"I'm going to get out there and fight," Diaz said. "We're going to see what's going to happen."
Much like the last time St. Pierre weighed in for a fight here, his opponent wasn't booed much. A couple sections of fans, in fact, stood and applauded Diaz as he came out.
With younger brother Nate Diaz by his side, Nick made sure to point out his Stockton, Calif., sweatshirt and PRIDE T-shirt. Diaz often rants about his hometown and the superiority of the old Japanese fight promotion's rules over the UFC's current ones.
Pay-per-view fighters Johny Hendricks (171) and Jake Ellenberger (170) resorted to the oldest weigh-in trick to gain fans, sporting gear of the hometown team. Both Hendricks and Ellenberger, who were supposed to face each other before an injury shook the card up, wore Montreal Canadiens jerseys.
Hendricks still failed to get a response as loud as the one for opponent Carlos Condit (169), who may have gained some respect around here with the way he fought St. Pierre last November.
St. Pierre and his teammate, lightweight Mike Ricci (156), were the only fighters who sounded more popular than Condit. Ricci came out in a Tristar, the gym where he and St. Pierre train, shirt. He posed intensely with opponent Colin Fletcher (155) and declined a handshake afterward.
Ricci and Fletcher, who wore his customary clown mask, open the pay-per-view card at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Check below for full results from the UFC 158 weigh-in.
Welterweight championship bout: Georges St. Pierre (170) vs. Nick Diaz (169)
Welterweight bout: Carlos Condit (169) vs. Johny Hendricks (171)
Welterweight bout: Jake Ellenberger (170) vs. Nate Marquardt (171)
Middleweight bout: Nick Ring (183) vs. Chris Camozzi (185)
Lightweight bout: Mike Ricci (156) vs. Colin Fletcher (155)
Welterweight bout: Patrick Cote (170) vs. Bobby Voelker (169)
Bantamweight bout: Antonio Carlvaho (145) vs. Darren Elkins (145)
Welterweight bout: Dan Miller (171) vs. Jordan Mein (170)
Lightweight bout: John Makdessi (155) vs. Daron Cruickshank (155)
Welterweight bout: Rick Story (169) vs. Quinn Mulhern (168)
Bantamweight bout: T.J. Dillashaw (135) vs. Issei Tamura (135)
Bantamweight bout: George Roop (135) vs. Reuben Duran (135)
Case Keefer can be reached at 948-2790 or [email protected]. Follow Case on Twitter at twitter.com/casekeefer.


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Maccabi Canada is sending its largest-ever delegation to the Maccabiah Games in Israel, which kick off July 18 with elaborate opening ceremonies at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem.
Some 600 athletes, coaches, trainers, doctors and staff make up the Canadian contingent, up from 525 in 2009. Altogether 9,000 sportsmen and women from 71 countries are expected to attend the competition, which is held every four years in Israel.
The Canadian team consists of 200 "open" athletes, competing at the highest level, along with 200 juniors (under 18 or 19, depending on the sport), 100 masters athletes, 35 and older, and a small number of paralympians. It's the third-largest team at the Games, behind only Israel and the United States.
Canadians will vie for medals in 22 sports. Some events will see five or six Canadian teams compete, such as soccer and basketball, while other sports such as volleyball will also see multiple Canadian entries.
The swimming team alone will feature 22 athletes, "the largest in several Games," said Maccabi Canada president Tom Bacher.
Bill Izso, an Ottawa-based member of Maccabi Canada's national athletic committee, said "more outreach" accounts for the growth in the team's numbers.
Canada won 59 medals at the 2009 Games. "Our expectations [this year] are significantly more than that," Bacher said.
While he won't predict a medal count in 2013, he and Iszo believe the Canadian team has a good shot to medal in track and field, swimming, softball and hockey. The volleyball team will feature three nationally ranked players, albeit of the beach variety. Olympian Josh Binstock, along with Sam Schachter and Aaron Nusbaum, form the core of the court volleyball team and should make the Canadian team tough to beat, Bacher said.
Oded Aminov from Vancouver is a triple jump threat, while Canada has always been competitive in open softball (defending champs) and basketball.
Athletic achievement is a centrepiece of the Games, but creating and reinforcing Jewish identity and cementing ties to Israel are key components as well, Bacher said.
With that in mind, Maccabi Canada is bringing its athletes to Israel early to not only prepare for the competition, but to tour the country and to socialize with athletes from other nations, he said.
The Maccabiah Games have a way of spurring Jewish identity, Bacher continued.
A case in point is Christine Merkiewicz, a Toronto resident whose father is Jewish but whose mother is not. As a 16-year-old she competed in track and field at the 2009 Games.
"She had a life-changing experience," Bacher said.
"As a result of the Maccabiah experience, she came back in the fall of '09 and had a bat mitzvah. It obviously had an influence on her life."
Although she's not competing this year, she made sure her younger brother, Richard, a high-level pole-vaulter, tried out for the team. He made it, Bacher added.
Merkiewicz isn't the only athlete who experienced a bar or bat mitzvah because of the Games. Just this week, eight Canadian kids, in Israel in advance of the competition, underwent their first bar or bat mitzvahs on Masada during a tour of the site, Bacher said.
Maccabi Canada is also encouraging its young athletes to become more involved in their local communities, he continued. Twenty took part in a cycling event to support Zareinu, a program for developmentally challenged youngsters. Some have attended synagogue services to address the congregations' young people, while others have spoken about health and sports at Jewish day schools.
Prior to the Games, junior athletes are being housed in a five-star hotel in Jerusalem. They share the hotel with a delegation from Australia.
During the Games themselves, the junior contingent will be housed in Givat Olga, "an IDF hotel" in Hadera, north of Tel Aviv. The hotel features a 500-seat amphitheatre, a pool and first-rate security. It's also a short walk to the beach.
Housing the youth delegation in an appropriate venue became a top priority after he assumed the president's mantle, Bacher said.
At the last Games, athletes and their parents complained about inadequate – and even dirty and unsanitary – facilities. The quality of meals was lacking, and transportation to events was inconvenient.
When he took over, Bacher assembled a committee that "put together a set of standards" that would be required of the Maccabi World Union (MWU), which organizes the Games. Bacher told the MWU that without the minimum standards, the Canadians would not be coming.
Afterward, he led a Canadian delegation to Israel to tour potential accommodations. They settled on Givat Olga, which Canadians will share with delegations from Britain, as well as athletes from eight or nine smaller countries.
The rest of the Canadian team will reside in hotels in Metulla, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Two Canadian Olympians, sledge hockey gold medalist Paul Rosen and judo bronze medalist Mark Berger, will be among the Olympians honoured at the opening ceremonies.
The event, expected to attract 32,000 spectators, will include the athletes' march, the lighting of the Maccabiah torch, and live performances by local and international artists, including Kathleen Reiter, a Canadian-born singer and winner of The Voice – Israel.
The next print edition of The CJN is Aug. 1.


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Plus-Sized Blogs Making Big Impact
Fashion can be intimidating. It's common for women to look at fashion magazines and think "I could never wear that." They think they don't have a model's body or they are afraid of trying something bold. And the fashion industry has a reputation for being a little prickly towards anyone above a sample size. But that's changing. Today the New York Times profiled several plus-sized bloggers and asked about their success and influence in the fashion world.
One of the bloggers, Bethany Rutter, from London-based Arched Eyebrow told NYT that she often hears from girls who "say they never thought they could wear a jumpsuit or a bikini or printed trousers before, but after seeing me wearing one they gave it a go."
Plus-sized women, and women who are just a few sizes below that, are having a moment in the spotlight. It wasn't so long ago that every TV show and movie was filled with waif-like actresses (Ally McBeal anyone?). But now when you turn on the TV you see amazing role models like Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, and performers like Christina Aguilera who have embraced their womanly curves.
Nadia Aboulhosn, 24, is a blogger and model from Harlem who, at a size 10-12, has posed for American Apparel and Seventeen magazine. "Sometimes I see myself as a role model," she said. "American women are size 10, 12, 14. I'm very relatable. People aren't used to seeing the clothes on somebody with the curves I have. If you're fashionable, you're fashionable regardless of size."
Click here to read more about plus-sized bloggers.


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Tivi within touching distance of title
9:07am Wednesday 16th April 2014
9:07am Wednesday 16th April 2014
TIVIDALE are within touching distance of Midlands Alliance title glory.
A hard-fought draw against second-placed Boldmere St Michael at The Beeches on Saturday has all but secured top spot with only a handful of games remaining.
They went into the crunch contest on the back of mid-week wins against Alvechurch and Continental Star and then did enough against Boldmere to maintain their eight-point gap at the top.
A nervy first half hour meant neither side could gain any meaningful possession. However, the match sprang to life on 38 minutes when a Nathan Waite flick-on was laid into the path of the on-rushing Chris Field. He drove into the Boldmere penalty area before wrong-footing keeper Liam Maher with a shot that went in at his near post.
Boldmere had a great chance to draw level four minutes later when a long ball was played down field into the path of Simeon Maye. As Tividale keeper Charles Price raced out to narrow the angle Maye rolled the ball past him towards the empty net. But Tividale skipper Richard Huckfield had other ideas and somehow made the ground to clear the ball off the line.
Boldmere drew level on 73 minutes when Tivi conceded a corner from a wayward back pass. The home side then failed to get any worthwhile distance on the clearance and the lively Maye fired home through a mass of bodies to ensure the spoils were shared.
The result means that just four points from this week's matches will secure Tividale's promotion.
They were due to play Coleshill at home last night before welcoming Walsall Wood to The Beeches on Thursday followed by Heath Hayes this Saturday.
Boss Stuart Scriven is delighted with how his team have performed in recent weeks.
He said: "We are now in the home straight and it's well and truly in our own hands. All we need now is four more points.
"To be in such a good position is a credit to the coaches, the squad and their fitness levels. We have had a difficult month trying to fit in a lot of fixtures, but the players have been brilliant.
"We have only lost one game and our fitness levels and determination have been fantastic. Now we need to get over the finishing line this week.
"It will be a fantastic achievement for the club and something we targeted at the start of the season."
Tivi have been given an added lift after welcoming top scorer Nathan Waite back into the fray for the run-in.
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ENGLAND rugby hero Phil Vickery has teamed up with flying medics to help keep lifesaving flights in the air.
The former international star and his Raging Bull clothes brand is joining forces with Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to offer charity branded clothing for sale to the public to raise funds to pay for emergency missions.
Midlands Air Ambulance's aircrew will also don Raging Bull Sportswear as part of their new uniform under their flight suits.
Jason Levy, fundraising and marketing director for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, said: "Raging Bull Sportswear is a rugby heritage clothing brand and on average we airlift people with sporting injuries every three days, a great proportion of which relate to rugby accidents."
Phil Vickery, who has become a celebrity ambassador for the charity, said: "I am thrilled to be working with Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. Throughout my career I have been acutely aware of the potentially life-threatening injuries that can take place on the pitch, so I am keen to help raise awareness of this incredibly vital emergency service."
Th clothing range can be seen by visiting the online shop at www.midlandsairambulance.com, the new clothing will also be available for sale at the charity's Open Day, being held at the Strensham airbase on Saturday September 6.


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Indianapolis Colts fan Danny Webber to enjoy his final game
5:59 AM, Sep. 21, 2012 | Written by Phillip B. Wilson |
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Indianapolis Colts fan Danny Webber and Heritage House activity director Myranda Hartwell show off Webbers Colts pillow in his room at the senior community in Greensburg, Ind. (Heritage House photo)
Danny Webber has never seen Lucas Oil Stadium and cant wait to attend Sundays Colts-Jaguars game.
It wont be the first time hes seen the Colts. The 74-year-old fan from Knightstown, Ind., used to cheer his favorite team at the RCA Dome. His love of the franchise dates back to the 1950s.
But this game will be different.
This one will be very special Webber said in a Thursday phone interview.
His voice cracked with emotion as he tried to finish the sentence.
because this will be the last one I ever see.
Webber is stricken with terminal cancer. Six years ago, it was in his prostate gland. Last December, it had reached the lungs. In the last week, he learned the disease had spread to his spleen.
Hes a resident at Heritage House, a senior community in Greensburg, Ind. A new program, Heritage House Dreams, has made it possible for Webbers last wish to be granted. A Heritage House friend donated the Colts tickets.
Hes one of the first dreams were helping to fulfill, said activity director Myranda Hartwell, who will join Webber along with her husband, Doug. You can see how much better it makes him feel.
Her, too. It reinforces why the job is so important. For co-workers, too, who also consider Webber one of their favorite residents.
He has a lot of Colts stuff in his room, Hartwell said, and he always greets you with a smile and a handshake.
He enjoys cooking his homemade macaroni and cheese for the staff when hes not sweetening them up by offering candy. One of Webbers favorite phrases is to remind his helpers, I love you all like a hog loves slop.
Hes been married to his wife, Ramona, for 39 years, and they had five children. The U.S. Navy veteran made a living as a sewing machine mechanic.
His face will be painted in blue and white to fulfill a promise made to Hartwell. This guy does what he says hes going to do. He would love to land rookie quarterback Andrew Lucks autograph. Webber admires the No. 1 overall picks intelligence and suggests Luck eventually could be better than four-time NFL MVP quarterback Peyton Manning.
After hearing how Luck is special, Hartwell makes an instantaneous comparison.
Thats Danny, too, she said. He is the one person you meet who is special. It doesnt take you long to figure that out.
Webber doesnt mince words about his situation. A man in his situation is entitled to be blunt.
When youre dying and theres no cure, what choice do you have? he said, when asked about his quality of life.
His daily goal is simple.
If I can put my feet on the floor in the morning, its a start, he said. It doesnt mean Ill finish the day, but its a start.
Asked how much time he thinks he has, Webber said, Only God knows that.
If certain of anything, its his prediction for a Colts victory.
When the Colts learned of Webbers story Friday, they were quick to give the dying fan a seat upgrade. Instead of sitting high above in section 531, Webber and his two friends will enjoy pregame sideline access as well as VIP admittance to the club lounge. When the game starts, they will have one of the best views from section 135, seats 5-7, in the handicap accessible area.
Sunday definitely wont be just another game.
Oh boy, he said. Its a highlight of my life.
(Founded in 1966, Heritage House is a provider of short and long-term healthcare, therapy and rehabilitation services with locations in New Castle, Greensburg, Richmond and Shelbyville. The Heritage House Dreams initiatives motto is Everyone has a right to pursue their dreams, no matter their age or medical condition. If you know of a Heritage House resident with an unfulfilled life dream, call 765-529-2961.)


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Take Care When Parking Your Vehicle
Office of Public Affairs
12000 Government Center Parkway, Suite 551
Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
July 3, 2003
Take Care When Parking Your Vehicle
Fairfax County wants residents to be aware that they must be mindful of the county and state laws governing the parking of vehicles on county streets. There are laws that many people know well because they have been highly promoted or taught vigorously in driver's education classes. However, there are some other laws that are just as significant but seem to be less widely known.
For instance, did you know that it is illegal to park on the wrong side of the street, or that you are prohibited from selling goods from your car on any state or county roadway? Read on for more details.
As a courtesy to county residents, below is a listing of a few of these lesser known restrictions and what they mean in plain English terms:
Section 82-5-19. Parking for certain purposes prohibited.91
91. For state law authorizing counties to prohibit parking of vehicles for commercial purposes, see Va. Code Ann. § 46.2-1224.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person:
(1) To park or place any automobile, truck, trailer or other vehicle upon or in any street, alley or parkway for the purpose of selling or offering the same for sale or rent;
(2) To attach or place any sign or lettering upon any automobile, truck, trailer or other vehicle parked in or upon any public street, alley or parkway indicating that such vehicle is offered for sale or for rent;
(3) To park any vehicle from which any merchandise is being sold upon any street in a business district;
(4) To stop a vehicle at any time upon the highway for the purpose of advertising any article of any kind, or to display thereupon advertisements of any article or advertisement for the sale of the vehicle itself. (3-13-69; 1961 Code, § 16-123.)
Plain English: Do not park a vehicle along any roadway or alley and place a for sale/rent sign in its window. Do not sell merchandise from a car on a county or state roadway.
Section 82-1-30. Sale of merchandise from vehicles on road rights of way.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to park any automobile, truck or
any other automotive equipment on or along the roads, highways and
streets of the county, or within the rights of way of such roads,
highways and streets for the purpose of selling or soliciting the sale of
or otherwise displaying or offering for sale any goods, wares or other
merchandise in or from such vehicles.
(b) This Section shall not apply to any huckster, peddler or other person who may travel in any vehicle upon the highways and streets for the purpose of selling goods, wares, merchandise or services from house to house and who shall stop his vehicle only for the purpose of making such house-to-house sales.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, punished in accordance with the provisions of Section 46.2-113 of the Code of Virginia. (7-5-61; 3-13-63; 1961 Code, § 16-29; 37-76-82; 30-89-82.)
Plain English: Do not park a vehicle along any county or state roadway or within their rights of way and sell goods from it. This excludes salesmen who use theirs cars to travel door to door to sell their wares.
Section 82-46.2-889. Location of Parked Vehicles.
No vehicle shall be stopped except close to and parallel to the right edge of the curb or roadway, except that a vehicle may be stopped close to and parallel to the left edge or curb of the roadway on one-way streets or may be parked at an angle where permitted by the Commonwealth Transportation Board or local authorities with respect to highways under their jurisdiction.
Plain English: Only park your vehicle on the right side of the roadway, unless it is a one-way street, where it is permissible to park on either side unless otherwise indicated.
Each of these sections of the code is used to preserve safety and order
for the residents in Fairfax County. This last section of the code
maintains safety on the roads by preventing drivers from pulling out of a
parking space into oncoming traffic. The others maintain the regulation
of commerce by limiting it to safe established locations and prevent
unwitting consumers from being too close to traffic while purchasing
wares. To search the county code for other regulations visit http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gov/bos/clerkhomepage.htm.


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Bertrand Mao's Harmony of Brush and Ink Available on Kindle
This is a beautiful book of original calligraphy and painting works, with excellent explanations of calligraphy terminology and history by one of the prominent shufa calligraphers in the US today.
Please find his eBook Harmony of Brush and Ink on Amazon's Kindle website. It is available for the Kindle Reader as well as for Kindle applications that run on Mac, iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and Android. Over 70 images of Bertrand Mao's paintings and calligraphy are included. For a print copy of the book, please visit Bertrand Mao's website.
7th International Calligraphy Education Conference, Beijing
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CHILDREN at St Andrew's Primary School will be able to watch salmon eggs hatch into tiny fish in their own classroom.
It is all part of a project on the life-cycle of the Atlantic salmon in conjunction with the Axe Vale Rivers Association, Westcountry Rivers Trust and East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
A tank of 100 eggs lying on gravel will be cooled and aerated in the main classroom for about a month.
Children can watch the eggs hatch and when the fry are ready will help release them into their local river.
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A suspected drunken motorist hit a pedestrian in Torrance and drove more than two miles with the dying victim stuck in her windshield, police said Sunday. | » Motorist accused in DUI death ran sober living facility
The victim, 31-year-old Phillip Moreno of Torrance, died later at a hospital, police said.
"I can't believe he's gone," said his cousin, David Garibay. "He didn't deserve to go."
Police said the driver, Sherri Lynn Wilkins, 51, of Torrance, panicked when she struck the man at 11:25 p.m. Saturday on Torrance Boulevard near Madrid Avenue.
"He is literally embedded in her hood and into the windshield," Torrance police Sgt. Robert Watt said. "She knew he was somehow embedded into her car but she panicked."
Wilkins was driving her Mitsubishi Eclipse west on Torrance Boulevard when she hit the man near the railroad crossing. She turned right on Crenshaw Boulevard and kept driving until concerned citizens swarmed her car at 182nd Street and told her to stop because a man was hanging on the hood. Someone reached in and grabbed her keys.
Moreno was able to speak to paramedics, but died after he reached a hospital. Friends said he had just left the Branch Office bar on Torrance Boulevard and was crossing the street to walk home when he was run down.
Traffic investigators did not release the results of Wilkins' breath test, but said her blood-alcohol measured at nearly twice the legal limit for driving, Watt said.
County court records show Wilkins was charged on July 16, 2010 with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident, and being under the influence of a controlled substance. The case was either dismissed or not prosecuted, records show.
Wilkins, who told police officers she was coming from work, was booked at the Torrance jail on suspicion of drunken driving and manslaughter.
"This is just another tragic reminder that impaired driving is drunk driving and fatal crashes can happen if someone is driving while intoxicated," Watt said.
Based on Wilkins' route, she appeared to be heading toward her home on 182nd Street west of Prairie Avenue.
A man who identified himself as Wilkins' husband was walking two small dogs outside their residence Sunday morning. He refused to comment.
Family members gathered at Moreno's Del Amo Boulevard house also declined requests for an interview.
But at the Branch Office bar, a large group of Moreno's friends gathered to mourn. They stood in a circle and raised shots of tequila in a toast "To Chud." Moreno's nickname was short for "Chudweiser," a name he earned because he enjoyed Budweiser.
Friends said that Moreno's last words were "I'm Chud," when a police officer asked him his name.
Moreno, a 1999 graduate of Torrance High School, lived for his "Raiders Nation."
He would have watched Sunday's Oakland Raiders game with friends at a Torrance house.
"He never had any problems with anybody," said a friend who identified herself as Hailey M. "Everybody loved him."
Anyone who witnessed the initial accident was asked to call police at 310-618-5557.
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GEMS and Trinity Wall Street Church Present Sinfonia New York's Holiday Family Concert Today
Today, December 29, 2012 at 3:00 p.m., the period-instrument orchestra Sinfonia New York, along with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, will offer a one-hour "Concert for Children of All Ages" at Trinity Wall Street Church, Broadway at Wall Street.
This holiday event, part of Trinity's annual Twelfth Night Festival of Early Music, will offer a New York spin on a famous British tradition - the "Festival of Lessons and Carols," the Christmas Eve service at King's College Chapel in Cambridge. Music by J.S. Bach (whimsically depicted above) will be featured, along with traditional and lesser-known carols; and instead of scripture, there will be a reading of Clement Clarke Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, New York City's very own poem about Santa Claus and his work on behalf of all children.
"Top-quality, uncompromising holiday music programs that are accessible to children and at the same time sophisticated enough for adults are rare," notes Gene Murrow, Executive Director of GEMS, "so we are pleased to be able to include this event as part of our Fifth Anniversary celebration. GEMS serves both the early music community and the public, including some of its youngest members, via our 'S'Cool Sounds' semester-long elementary school teaching programs. Trinity Wall Street Church is one of our City's most important historic buildings and institutions, with a choir that is celebrated world-wide; Bach is a towering figure in our musical history. Here's an entertaining, inexpensive way to experience it all and introduce young people to these treasures while continuing to celebrate the holidays."
With joyous voices and instruments - including drums and not one...not two...but three trumpets - all who are young, and young of heart, are invited to enjoy the richness of festive and contemplative music expressing the joy and hope of the Christmas season.
Sinfonia New York plays today, December 29, 2012, 3:00 p.m. at Trinity Wall Street Church, Broadway at Wall Street. Tickets: $25 - General Admission. By phone at 212/866-0468, online at www.gemsny.org or at the door. A concert for children of all ages.
Christine Gummere, Artistic Director
with the Trinity Wall Street Choir, Andrew Megill, Guest Conductor
Marika Holmqvist, concertmaster
Dongmyung Ahn, violin | Alissa Smith, viola
Christine Gummere, cello | David Chapman, violone
Priscilla Smith, Kristin Olson, oboes
John Thiessen, Nathan Botts, Patrick Dougherty, trumpets
James Baker, timpani
Once in Royal David's City | Star in the East | Away in a Manger
"Zion Hort Die Wachter Singen" from Cantata No. 140 | J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750)
Concerto for Oboe | Bach
Veni Redemptor | Mervele Noght, Joseph | Ding Dong Bells
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (reading) | Clement Clarke Moore
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen | Silent Night | Three-Trumpet Fanfare
"Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen" from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 | Bach
Sinfonia New York is a period-instrument orchestra that specializes in historically informed, vibrant performances of 17th-, 18th- and early 19th-century music. Since its Town Hall debut in 2007, the orchestra has appeared on tour in the United States and Canada, and in several performances in New York City. Most recently, the ensemble was featured in "The Art and Ecstasy of the Chaconne," presented as the opening event in Gotham Early Music Scene's fifth anniversary celebration. For more information, visit www.sinfonianewyork.org.
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Many school pupils have little opportunity to play other people from outside their own school.
Of course, if you have internet access, you can use a Go Server. But many of the users of Go servers are either strong players, or people who have no idea of the rules. Pupils may prefer to use a game or Go Server where you can meet and play against pupils from other schools.
The place where the BGA organises events and meetings from time to time is the PlayOK game server (formerly known as Kurnik - Polish for "chicken coop"). It based in Poland, but used all around the world to play many different games in many different languages. The Go players you find there are usually beginners and happy to play on small boards. It is at:
Watch out for announcements of events here, usually held on a Monday evening.
The best Go server for improving pupils to use is
It is easy to find players slightly better than beginner level here and UK players are usually in the British room.
It is easy to use the java connection directly available on the KGS web site. Your pupils can just follow the "Play Go Now!" link.
However we suggest instead for pupils to download and install the Go Client program, CGoban3. This can be downloaded from KGS Download page; it uses Java Web Start (which is also available from there). This is better than the direct java connection, because the client program allows a teacher and pupil to look at a completed game on line, discussing it and trying out other moves, and you can use it to edit locally held game records that are in SGF format.
Once you have installed the client program, it is easy to connect, you just run the client program and click its "Play on KGS" button.
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I might have been stretching things a bit to claim there is an "elite" shadow group out there controlling things. It could just as well be that our bureaucrats are either very stupid, or horribly corrupt.
I'm listening to the Swanson guy right now. I've heard a lot of the same from other authors. It's obvious that our imperialist actions will eventually bring us down. Same with the fiscal and monetary policy we are pursuing.


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For once...some trade discussions went beyond 3pm EST and it actually happened!
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For once...some trade discussions went beyond 3pm EST and it actually happened!
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
You don't care if a deal makes the team better? Talk about ****ing stupid...
Titus having fun with it on Twitter:
For those who have asked, here are my thoughts on The Villain getting traded to my hometown team: http://t.co/QF9kG7l3J0— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) February 20, 2014
But seriously, @thekidet. Don't move to Brownsburg. We don't need you polluting our fine town. Live in Avon with all the other degenerates.— Mark Titus (@clubtrillion) February 20, 2014
We've paid him millions of dollars, and there really is no loyalty left in sports.
It's all about the dollar sign and winning. If we wouldn't have paid him back in '09, he'd have bolted and not just stayed for cheap because we drafted him here.
The only thing that sucks is that he isn't going to be part of whatever this team does the rest of the year. He did deserve that chance.
But in the end, it's business and doing whatever helps the Indiana Pacers
My advice, try not to get as attached to players. Remember, as much as they may love playing here, it's a business, and it's about what helps the team get that first NBA championship and what helps keep them contenders.
Good luck and thanks for everything Danny!
Welcome to Indy, Evan!
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"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
----------------- Reggie Miller
Turner always seemed like a pretty good player, but lacked athleticism to be anything more than a pretty good player.
Well, yeah, because everyone knows Donnie would never trade away a fan favorite to try to get a piece that fit better *cough* Detlef *cough*.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
So who's got the stones to start the Danny Granger Appreciation Thread. Not sure I can stomach to do it right now.
And if we want to blame Lance for Danny's lack of production then we have to blame Paul George as well. Whenever Lance left and Granger can in, Danny played just as bad.
Yes, he can play I loved him at Temple. He will get PT down the stretch if we keep him. He didn't fit in with Brown's style in Philly he is better suited for a slower pace team. Plus he has been out of shape and some trouble off the floor I believe.
That would suck but I can't really fault him either the Pacers were the ones that let him go so he's free to do what he wants.
This is the type of deal in the past we would have heard about in 3 hours that we missed the deadline by like 3 minutes because Morway was taking a dump or something.
"Turner has averaged 17.4 points, six rebounds and 3.7 assists for the Sixers this season."
Good numbers!
I'm legitimately sad. Drop bombs on us whenever we play Philly Danny.
If the rumor that the Sixers made this just to get above the Salary Cap floor.....wouldn't buying Granger out put them back under the Floor ( something that they clearly do not want to do )?
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Had to be a emotionally tough convo between Danny.
Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right. ― Ricky Gervais.
I'm sick to my stomach....like the trade...feel bad for DG
the captain . good move basketball wise.... but I feel so bad for Danny
and im not the only one
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Not answering any questions right now.
I really feel for Danny. I'm hoping this doesn't affect the team's attitude. Everyone looked up to Danny in a way, and now he's gone. Good basketball move. Good money move. I'm just a sentimental guy.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
I fully expect Granger to be bought out, and Miami did just cut a player to free up a roster spot...
That better not happen.
this. pretty slimy, Larry.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
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Nirjala Ekadasi, or Pandav Bhim Ekadashi, is observed during the Jyeshta Shukla Paksha – waxing phase of moon in Jyeshta month, which falls during (May end or June beginning). The Ekadasi fasting method for Nirjala Ekadashi is different from the usual practice.
Nirjala Ekadasi is one of the toughest fasting in Hinduism. 'Nirjala' means without water and devotees do not drink water on the day of fasting. The greatness of Nirjala Ekadasi was explained to Bhima, the second of the Pandava Brothers, by Sage Vyasa.
It is said that one should not drink water from the moment of sunrise on the Ekadasi day and should drink water only on the sunrise on the day of Dvadasi (next day morning). Devotees also do not eat food on the day.
In the scriptures, it is said that a devotee should perform the purification ritual by drinking water that can immerse a single mustard seed.
Devotees spend the day at Vishnu temples or listening to stories from Bhagavad Purana or by chanting bhajans dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Vishnu Sahasranama and other sholkas dedicated to Lord Vishnu are chanted on the day.
It is strongly advised that those who are under medications and have some ailments should not observe Nirjala Ekadasi.
Those devotees who want to observe this particular Ekadasi but can't follow the rule of not drinking and not eating on the day can observe a partial fast. What is more important is devotion and not the severity of the fasting.
This Ekadasi fasting happens before the starting of the monsoon season and therefore it is also meant in helping in cleansing the body.