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I would consider legal action. Tertiary institutions are bound to provide you with the best educational experience they can...
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lol. We all aspire to go to the great US universities but unfortunately we're not all Terry Tao!
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I'm a 4th year PhD student and started using Arch at the beginning. As far as essential software goes, I write my papers in LaTeX.
As others have mentioned, sometimes Arch will spectacularly break, or least it appears that way when you are new to it. Arch isn't really the same as openSuse, in that it expects a lot more from the user. As a university student especially you need take extra steps for stability, and restoring files. The best way you can avoid headaches is keeping regular backups of important files (including a copy of /etc in a worst case scenario). Keep the /home directory on a separate partition. Use snapshots so you can roll back any botched upgrades. Keep an Arch iso USB handy, and learn how to chroot from it into your main install. Avoid the temptation to pacman -Syu right before you turn in your assignment.
I know I make it sound scary using Arch, but don't get me wrong, I wouldn't use anything else but Arch Linux. Overall the level of control you get saves you time, unless you get addicted to it . Over the last 4 years I've only had a handful of problems upgrading, and most of the problems were due to my own incompetence. I'm of the mindset that Arch is one of the few distros where you never really need to wipe clean and start over. Still, we are all human, so protect your hard earned work!
I've had ubuntu, and the arch, throughout my entire University career. I'm about to graduate, and i've had zero issues. The only issue i've had is with the Autodesk suite, but i have a windows 7 guest on my laptop that i use there, it's just SLOW. Also, i can use rdesktop to get into our 'Virtual Computer Lab' which has the Office Suite and Matlab. (Actually, for matlab i just SSH into our university's general purpose linux server )
Also, remember that according to Microsoft's EULA, they allow you to use an OEM copy of windows inside a VM, so long as that VM exists on the system the Genuine sticker is attached to. This means that i was able to run Arch with a virtual Windows guest, legally, and for no extra cost to me.
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While I'm not a Uni student, I do own a buisness. Both are very important for uptime. Run arch and XP in virtualbox for the odd things people send me which is usually CAD oriented. This goes without saying but having a good backup solution should be first priority, then you should never have a problem no matter what OS you use. Also update when you have time if something goes wrong.
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Get 2 hard drives the same size as yours and use dd for the root partition and rsync for the home partition. Put one hard drive in a safe place offsite, (Mine's in storage 10 minutes away) with a custom live arch usb stick just in case. I use Dropbox for the files I'm working on this month and backup the home partition everyday. Once every 2 weeks I update my arch box, but before I do I dd the root partion to the backup. If something goes wrong during the update you can still boot in an exact state with the backup drive if you can't figure it out yet and need to get something done.
Once a month I'll swap the hard drive from storage so If my office burns down I still have everything and dropbox for current files easily from any computer like my netbook which is already synced with Dropbox or someone else's with the live usb stick.
In 3 years of using Arch I only had one problem with an update where I couldn't print and NEEDED to get something done days later. (HP, go figure) But it was easy as rebooting into the other drive until I had time to fix it.
Another student (Ph.D) chiming in!
I've been using Archlinux full-time for several years. I haven't had much of a problem, particularly because many of the people around me are using Unix based or Unix-like operating systems.
I will say this: VirtualBox is a piece of cake on Arch. It was literally dead simple to install it with pacman, load it up, create a new Windows 7 partition and install it like normal. It runs great :-)
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Chemistry Student here!
All important chemical programs to draw atomic structures etc works native/effortless in wine! Also for my lab protocols I use LaTeX and received good marks for those.
Besides I wrote some scripts. For LaTeX one so I can better work with people together to translate for example ä,ö,ü,°,ß etc into its proper latex form.
Also I wrote a rename script, which will replace upper with lower case, replace umlauts with ae,ue,oe, spaces with "_" and more.
Then I have a script which will sort my files in Downloads/ based on their endings. Since I have to download tons of files sometimes for university and it gets messy really fast.
Now I'm thinking about writing an index.html script for my study folder to access it via my web browser.
In short using linux can be pretty good for studying. Less distraction, it's easy to write very useful scripts and it is even more easy to create a small, sufficient backup just in case.
In short using linux can be pretty good for studying. Less distraction, it's easy to write very useful scripts
But that can become a distraction ....
I've lost track of how many days I've spent perfecting a script or some means of automating work so I can be more productive. End result: I've got cool scripts, but no productivity!
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
So what, they knew it wasn't made using 2010 because it wasn't in the fancy new file format, or because it didn't render correctly in 2010?
I can't recall excatly, but I think it was a little bit of both. However I remember that the document looked/renedered right on my end in Office when writen in LO.
I also recall, there were things that were only specific to Office 2010. Such things like those little graph images... spark lines I think they were called, and those "smart graphy things" - can't remember proper term here. For 99% of it all, she was able to convert the lesson/homework to LO instructions/features. But yeah, somehow they "knew".
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I've lost track of how many days I've spent perfecting a script or some means of automating work so I can be more productive.
This is a problem of wrong priorities. I had a problem (too many files in my Downloads/ ) and so I wrote a script to solve it. It works. It doesn't take ages. It is sufficient. After it run flawlessly I spent my time with my studies .
If your script is more important to you than your actual job, then something is wrong and needs to be reconsidered.
On the other hand if I have spare time I like to improve my scripts, but it doesn't have such a high priority as long as there is no gigantic error in it.
I've lost track of how many days I've spent perfecting a script or some means of automating work so I can be more productive. End result: I've got cool scripts, but no productivity!
It depends on your workflow.
If you're captive at your job, you might as well blow your free time writing scripts so that you can do even less actual work (while still getting things done).
Wow. I thought I would share a slightly humorous comment on a minor vice I assumed many here would share. I didn't expect it to be followed by casting doubts on my work ethic or priorities. Don't worry McDoener - I get my job done and am quite well respected for it.
*note to self: no more self deprecating humor*
"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" - Richard Stallman
*note to self: no more self deprecating humor*
Don't be like that Trilby! The rest of us have a perfectly functional humerus
PS: There was an amusing graph about scripting vs time/productivity but I can't find the blasted thing.
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Well you often see people, which overthink everything. A certain someone in my vicinity creates first a ToDo-List, create a draft to every point and sometimes even some diagrams and he always uses the same programming language to solve his problems.(I think it is pascal) It is very counterproductive, because he justs wastes too much time into preparation it isn't even funny anymore.
Oh and eh next time tag it please It wasn't too evidently to me.
Wow. I thought I would share a slightly humorous comment on a minor vice I assumed many here would share. I didn't expect it to be followed by casting doubts on my work ethic or priorities. Don't worry McDoener - I get my job done and am quite well respected for it.
*note to self: no more self deprecating humor*
Sorry, I didn't mean to ignore your humor and jump on you.
I just meant to say that, while I used to waste a lot of my own leisure time playing with scripts, now I waste my otherwise boring work time doing it.
In general, I would say yes. Being a senior aerospace engineering student I have been using Linux ever since my first day in university and have hardly required Windows for anything. Sure, there was the occasional project where my fellow students prefered to use some Office flavour for writing reports and at those times I usually kept Windows running in a VM as a backup for when LibreOffice decided to fail on me. I also required 3D modelling software (CATIA), which forced me to use Windows.
However, I would say 99% of all university related work gets done in Linux for me. The department at which I am graduating strongly encourages, if not requires, all papers and reports to be written in LaTeX and we use Matlab for scientific modelling and computational purposes. Lower level software is usually written in C/C++ (sometimes directly generated from Matlab). So, nothing that binds me to Windows in any specific way.
Yet, lately, I decided to keep Windows installed on a separate partition on both my laptop and desktop computers. My university provides me with a free license and Windows is useful to have available and running natively for whatever might be required at some instant in time, or for the occasional game if I am in no mood for studying or writing code. Also, with an SSD, the time required for a reboot is negligible.
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Wow. I thought I would share a slightly humorous comment on a minor vice I assumed many here would share. I didn't expect it to be followed by casting doubts on my work ethic or priorities. Don't worry McDoener - I get my job done and am quite well respected for it.
*note to self: no more self deprecating humor*
It's worth remembering that, for a lot of posters, English is their second language, so humorous remarks are easily missed as such (it happens enough in the written word for English speakers, so it's not that surprising). It's not necessarily a sense of humour failure when that happens, just language and culture.
Anyway, I got it.
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I used arch for papers in college and just had an online backup for all of my papers (dropbox) The problem is doing work vise fiddling with my system
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Computer science undergrad here. So far, I'm able to submit papers using LaTeX + pdflatex in all of my classes (that require digital submission) except introductory english. My professor only accpeted the Microsoft .docx format, specifically the one generated by the latest version of Microsoft Word. Of course there were so many freely available resources for students that I couldn't argue "I don't have Microsoft Office." I wrote my papers in vim and went out of my way to convert them to .docx format.
In other news, our last remaining GNU/Linux laboratory was recently converted into a Windows lab. Meanwhile, our linux users group is still going strong.
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Last year I finished my masters in computer science and I did all my work with arch linux.
LyX is an incredible application. Editing math equations is a snap. Nothing in the app is "in your way" and you can remain focused on your work. Also PDF exports from LaTeX is very clean and professional. All my professors commented on great the output was.
Last year I finished my masters in computer science and I did all my work with arch linux.
LyX is an incredible application. Editing math equations is a snap. Nothing in the app is "in your way" and you can remain focused on your work. Also PDF exports from LaTeX is very clean and professional. All my professors commented on great the output was.
Also used gnuplot, octave, and R quite a bit. Dabbled with maple too. Great tools. Heard a lot of great things about SciPy as well. The point is IMO everything is a better experience under Linux vs Window$.
I'm also a full-time student. Never had problems. I simply keep the fiddeling with my System to a minimum when I'm just a few weeks away from my exams.
Handed it an essay written in Office 2007 which was installed with Wine. Not a problem. Keep your /var/cache/pacman/pkg stocked in case you need to revert
some packages and store you personal files + evolution backup on dropbox.
I had a home made desktop with a pretty cheap videocard as a student. The only warning I would throw WRT using arch as a student is if a package has xorg in the name, and you have a cheap videocard, you may want to to pacman -Syu on friday afternoons, to give yourself some time to fix things.
My laptop, on the other hand, never failed. Later the desktop gained stability as the Noveau drivers matured. (later still I got a new graphics card, which... probably should have been my initial solution).
If you have a weirdo teacher that doesn't accept PDF's, switch classes.
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Full time physics student here. I dual boot Arch and Windows and I've never had any problems (Fedora, on the other hand, broke periodically). I suggest dual booting just in case, so that you have a working system if catastrophic breakage of either OS happens. I store all my working data on a separate NTFS partition that both my OSes can see in case either OS dies catastrophically. I also suggest going through all the precautions suggested here, and whomever suggested dropbox and an external backup knows what he's talking about.
LibreOffice/OpenOffice can do some weird things to .docx files, but the issues are usually pretty minor and my professors almost always want .doc.
My presentations (including my undergraduate honors thesis defence) have always been made in LibreOffice and presented on a linux box. Never had any problems.
Silverlight might be a big issue for you if there's DRM videos you need to watch. If so, a virtual machine or dual booting are both easy solutions.
If you need to make pdf documents, I suggest learning LaTeX. It has a steep learning curve, but, as has already been mentioned, its much better than adobe.
McDoenerKing wrote:
In short using linux can be pretty good for studying. Less distraction, it's easy to write very useful scripts
But that can become a distraction ....
I've lost track of how many days I've spent perfecting a script or some means of automating work so I can be more productive. End result: I've got cool scripts, but no productivity!
I'm with you, buddy. Entire evenings can disappear in a flash. My switch to XMonad was expecially bad/awesome.
Lenovo Thinkpad T420; Intel sandy bridge i7 2.7GHz; integrated graphics card; 4GB RAM; wifi; Arch; Xmonad WM
Political science student here. Been on linux for about three years on my school laptop, and arch for one (had debian before). I write all my papers in LaTeX, and if you've ever tried to use it in windoze you know it's a good reason to run linux. My school does not require anything fancy, and LibreOffice would be okay if I did not insist on using something else. Previously with my old laptop I was running exclusively debian. Now that I got my new thinkpad, I do have a dual boot with the factory-installed win7, but it is rarely used. I actually asked Lenovo before buying to see if if I could get one without the OS for a discount, and they said no. My desktop is mostly used for gaming so it's running the obligatory windows, but I recently gave it a dual boot with arch so i can work in LaTeX on a big screen if I want to.
Never ran into any serious problems either. Sometimes stuff breaks, but it is usually easily fixed. I do updates sporadically... When I find that everything is working as it should, I'll often not update until the next time I need to install something in order to limit potential breakage. I was never blocked from accessing any part of my university's online resources because I run linux. They even provide a little VPN client for linux, so we can access the uni's network from elsewhere (admittedly, it doesn't work very well).
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Think that what young men want most is money,
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
How Brutal Honesty about the Future Affects Aspie Relationships
18 comments:
- Clarissa said...
I sense a lot of condescension towards people with Asperger's on your part. I always give the answers you enumerate in response to similar questions. But i do it not because I "don't understand" people's expectationss and boundaries. I do it because I havee no interest in letting other people's expectations run my life and control my responses. If they choose to be "hurt" by honesty, they are the ones with the problem.
- December 15, 2009 at 12:39 PM
- Hig-Quality Mothering said...
I have nothing but positive to say about this post. I understand it after 13 years of marriage to it!
I appreciate your observations & that you share them with others so they can understand, too.
Thank you!
Kelly K
- December 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM
- Gavin Bollard said...
My apologies if the post caused offence. I'm not trying to be condescending to anyone.
It's obvious that everyone is unique for both genetic and environmental reasons.
The lack of understanding described in this post tends to apply more to male aspies than female, hence I didn't worry so much about saying "them" instead of "him" throughout the post - normally I make my language gender-neutral.
Even then, males are just as unique as females and the blog is a guide only. I'm always grateful for corrections such as your own because they widen our points of view.
Many of the answers here were given by me to my (then) girlfriend. The motivations behind those answers were as I've written. If anyone is naive or misunderstanding, it was probably me.
- December 15, 2009 at 1:31 PM
- Lindsay said...
I also do all of this, and, like Clarissa, do not feel that I am wrong to do so.
I think my transparency is one of my good qualities, and I would not wish to lose it just so that I could be more like most other people.
It might be a somewhat different matter for me, since I never try to pass as normal, and always explain to new friends/potential lovers how my autism affects the way I see, think about, and react to things. I tell them about my literal-mindedness, and this typically leads to a relationship in which all parties are brutally truthful.
Sometimes the conflict can be solved just as easily by adding more transparency to a relationship, as by the truthful party learning how to lie.
- December 16, 2009 at 10:20 AM
High-Quality Mothering, how do you cope with being married to it? We're not married (i think this is because the idea of it symbolising love has no relevance to my partner but i could be wrong) but we have two children. I am finding it increasingly difficult to cope with. I don't know if it's because i am giving up or because my partner is becoming more extreme and engaging in converstaion even less. He seems to have absolutely no idea that things he says have an imoact on my emotions. Tell me what secrets you have for coping?
- December 16, 2009 at 10:43 AM
- Therapeutic Ramblings said...
Very interesting post. Thanks!
- December 16, 2009 at 12:25 PM
This post reminds me of this SAPL post: http://stuffaspergerpeoplelike.com/2008/11/30/28-brutal-honesty-aka-rudeness/
Don't take it too seriously, it's only satire. I've been known to piss people off due to my lack of ability to sugarcoat or lie...
- December 21, 2009 at 1:58 PM
So, Clarrisa, it sounds like you're saying that you are going to give your answers in the manner that you choose regardless of whether the other person's feelings are hurt (or, as you say, they "choose to allow" to be hurt) - it makes you sound very self-centered and uncaring. I am not trying to put you down, I am merely giving a possible perspective of the person on the receiving end of your answers. It's not so much about anyone's expectations, as it is about kindness. For example, there is such a thing as letting someone down "gently", as opposed to "being brutally honest" - while still being truthful in the process. I appreciate your open-mindedness in considering my comments.
- December 23, 2009 at 7:53 PM
- Vanessa Suzanne said...
I find that as far as relationships go, it doesn't seem to be so much that I don't know how to properly answer these questions, its that I see no point in playing 'relationship games.' What I mean by 'games' is couples being unclear or misleading about their feelings. I think that we just view this as being pointless and somewhat wrong. Also, I think that we don't understand these games as well as other people might, another reason why we don't wish to be involved.
It could also just be a variation between what we believe is right and what our partners believe. We believe its not right to play games by lying to an extent, our partners may believe that brutal honesty isn't right since it is often hurtful. We may counter that being hurtful but honest is more right than trying to decieve people of our intentions. Part of hte reason that we are different is that we view issues from different perspectives such as this one.
- January 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM
- Nathan K. said...
As an adult with Asperger's, I think this is a really good post! The examples you have given are exactly the sorts of questions I have trouble giving ready answers to.
(The "picture yourself in the future" question is one that also shows up in job interviews, and I know the interviewer is hoping for something specific to show interest, but how can I honestly give any answer but "I don't know where I will be in the future"?)
This post has given me a lot to ponder.
- January 19, 2010 at 4:41 AM
Hmm, I've been called brutally honest and I've given very similar answers as described in your post. I'd say that sometimes I do it because I truly don't get it, and other times I get it but I feel weird lying.
I agree that aspies can lie when their intention is to lie. The adage "aspies can't lie" probably applies to situations where lying is not in our intentions. In such cases, I'm often a little brutal even when I try to be nice. Sometimes I feel defensive about my oddity and my coping mechanism is to "own" my oddity and be honest, whether brutal or not. Perhaps that's what Clarissa is describing too.
As for the love issue, I still don't know where the problem lies. Is it that I've not fallen in love yet, or that I'm not capable of feeling the same emotion others feel as love, or is it that I feel what everyone else feels but just can't/don't want to express it the same way?
A spiritual guru whose advice I often read says repeatedly that "our nature is to love." Even if you feel like you're not loving enough or not being loved enough, don't doubt the love and let go of the worries. What many people call "love" can actually just be attachment. It's better to stop doubting love and work on the technicalities of the situation.
I find this advice makes sense to me and has helped me worry less about such stuff. It certainly might not work for everyone, and I'm not preaching this view.
- January 27, 2010 at 1:57 PM
Just wanted to add another thought...
Sometimes I feel like I do understand relationship dynamics and that I am capable of expressing and empathizing like any NT person. However, in practice it still turns out that I'm often not perceived as the person I think I am. And that's when I realize what it means not to not be able to process social cues. Sometimes I might doubt that an NT's strategy will work, based on my understanding and logic, but as it turns out it does work! And I learn that I have a lot more to learn about relationships.
- January 27, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- aspiegirlfriend said...
Gavin, these posts of yours are incredibly useful and quite beautiful. You remind me of my bf's better intentions every time I read your blog. He too refers to me as his "friend" even though we have been going out - that is, socially, emotionally and sexually intimate - for two and a half years. And I know he loves me. He told me once, though he prefers to say I "am important to him," and that rarely.
I've found that although I am quite rational, evenhanded and intellectual in my approach to things, since I've started my poor blog I have become weirdly inarticulate. I've been dealing with a lot over the past couple of years, and I need all the help I can get.
The passage in the blog you linked to about laughing when the guy dies in the film made me laugh out loud! I think I did hurt my bf's feelings once when, not understanding about his AS (which is undiagnosed but very real), I told him he only liked films "without affect." It's kind of true, though. I loved what you said in another post about watching romantic comedies to learn about relationship expectations. I wish I cold get him to do it.
Clarissa, your blog is very useful and interesting too. But believe me, the communication problems are steep enough that your remark about "letting other people's expectations run your life" comes over very unhelpful. Communication is actually about heelping people's emotional responses chime more exactly with what you intend. It's about accuracy. And it has to be two-way, or it isn't communication. And if it isn't communication, you are instead kind of CONSUMING the other person - treating them as a commodity from which you will get what you need, without regard to the fact that they too have needs.
I think everyone reading this blog agrees that it is better to be happy than unhappy. People with AS seem to be saying they would rather have partners than not, for the most part. Well, why would you want to behave in a way that you KNEW was going to make your partner unhappy? Why not work as a team - relationships are teamwork - to find a way of giving each of you space for having your needs met?
- March 26, 2010 at 3:02 AM
I love my Aspie. However I wish he would be honest with me. He says he does not have an attraction to young women, (we are both 50 Yrs old), but when we are out, he stares at them until he can no longer see them. He has this problem with the neighbor girl. This is a turn on for both of them. I have watched the reactions as if I wee somewhere else. He wathed the "Girls Gone Wild " commercial until I told him it bothered me. He forgets I exist when he is staring. Help me firstname.lastname@example.com
- September 21, 2010 at 7:16 AM
I think this is a fabulous post! I may not be a true Aspie, but I have this exact view of honesty. I am brutally honest and often get burned because it doesn't occur to me that other people aren't honest back to me. I totally agree with Vanessa Suzanne that I know I am supposed to lie sometimes but I just don't want to play those games. It has worked for me in life: I sleep at night knowing I have integrity.
The only difficulty was when I divorced my husband. He thought nothing of lying in a legal setting. The hardest thing for me to understand was that no one except me thought this kind of lying was wrong. No one. Now I expect it intellectually and plan for it, but I still don't get it. I guess the real test will be how I act if I find a new relationship...
- September 25, 2010 at 3:09 AM
My boyfriend believes he has Aspergers. I have similar traits and was once described as 'terminally truthful.' But even I find it breathtaking that he will tell people negative things that other people have said about them. He honestly thinks that he is being helpful. On one occasion someone who really likes him became so upset by this treatment that she hit him in the face.He was forced to take notice but thinks it's her problem.
What is extraordinary is that he is generally a wise, caring, sensitive soul.Maybe he expects others to be as mature, dispassionate and rational as he is. They are not, so he tends to get wrongfooted.It is imposible to persuade him that this behaviour is - usually-hurtful and destructive. He gets angry. I will just have to put my fingers in my ears and sing 'la' when he next does it to me.
Unfortunately, only last night someone was encouraging him to think this is the right way to act and that it would be dishonest not to spill out everything you have heard.I think this trait has been reinforced by attending counselling courses which stressed the importance of honesty. He has taken it very literally.
- July 17, 2012 at 7:22 PM
My partner believes he has Aspergers. I have similar traits and have been described as 'terminally truthful' but even I am astounded by one thing.
My partner is generally wise, relaxed, mature and lacking in malice. The only drawback to this is that he expects others to be like himself and is often wrongfooted.
It is astounding then that he often tells people the hurtful negative remarks that other people have made about them. He honestly thinks he is being helpful.
One person who realy likes him was once so upset by this treatment that she hit him in the face. He had to take notice of this but he thinks it is her problem.
It is impossible to persuade him that this behaviour is destrucive. He get angry. Unforunately, only last night someone told him he'd got it right and it would be dishonest not to spill out everything he heard.
This has been reinforced by going on a counselling course which stressed the importance of honesty.He's taken it very literally.
It's obviously incurable. I'll just have to put my fingers n my ears and sing 'la' the next time he does it to me.
- July 17, 2012 at 7:45 PM
You can always do honesty with kindness, but since you put it that way about being hurt as a choice, then let me put it frankly to you. You will end up losing people you love and care about. This is negative perspectiveffects.
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Eagles no match for Gothenburg
Swedes defeat Wood River 40-7.
Wood River hoped to bring a bigger, more physical team into Gothenburg Friday night and hammer away at the Swedes.
It didn't take long for the Eagles to realize, though, that size doesn't matter against this Gothenburg team.
"We wanted to send a message that we're not very big but nobody is going to beat us down," said Swede coach Craig Haake.The Swedes jumped on Wood River early and held the lead throughout the game, winning by a convincing 40-7 margin.
"It was a good opener for us," Haake said. "We were able to force a couple of turnovers and get the lead but we still had to play. Wood River is a solid team."
Gothenburg scored on the Swedes' first possession early in the first quarter.
After five rushing plays that took the Swedes to the 50-yard line, quarterback Mark Hilderbrand bobbled the ball heading to the outside.
Luckily, it bounced right back up into his hands and he ran the distance for the touchdown. Holding on tight, Hilderbrand also scored the two-point conversion to put Gothenburg up 8-0.
Wood River tried to chip away at the field with 2- and 3-yard runs but an interception and return by Tannor Mroczek from the Eagles' 30-yard line gave the Swedes another touchdown.
The PAT throw fell incomplete but the Swedes led 14-0 after just under five minutes.
"This was a hard hitting game," Haake said. "Wood River had a couple of middle backers who blitzed hard every play."
After Wood River fumbled the kickoff return and Andrew Kennedy recovered, the Swedes got another chance but turned the ball over on downs.
The Eagles took advantage of the opportunity, scoring on the next possession.
Shad Smith was able to squirt out of a mass of bodies to run 50 yards for a Wood River touchdown with 2:49 to play in the quarter. A PAT kick by Briar Burr left the score at 14-7.
Gothenburg had another shot to score before the quarter ended when Tannor Mroczek carried the ball in from 5 yards out but fumbled into the endzone.
Wood River recovered for the touchback but couldn't turn an 11-play drive into points.
"We seemed to have a little bit of an issue with ball security," Haake said. "That's something we're going to work on."
After forcing the Eagles to turn the ball over on downs in the second quarter, Gothenburg went three and out.
Wood River returned the favor and the Swedes capitalized.
After a 30-yard punt return by Mroczek, the Swedes used four plays and an Eagle penalty to drive 36 yards, capping the effort with a 4-yard run into the endzone by Landen Haake.
Hilderbrand ran in the PAT to put the Swedes up 22-7 with 3:30 to go in the half.
The coach applauded his offensive line made up mostly of untested players.
"Wood River started throwing the sink at them for awhile. I think some of the coaches may have even been blitzing," Haake said. "They came and hit and we not only survived but we thrived. They did a fantastic job of paving the way for our backs."
The third quarter was nothing but a Gothenburg show of persistence. The Swedes controlled the ball the entire 12 minutes,.
After 21 plays, Gothenburg scored on a halfback pass from Landen Haake to Andrew Ostendorf with 50 seconds left in the third.
After the kickoff, Wood River fumbled on their own 42-yard line the first time the Eagles got the ball in the quarter.
Gothenburg used the turnover to score again, this time on a 9-yard run by Hilderbrand. The two-point conversion failed but the Swedes still lead 34-7.
"We had some kids with their tongues hanging out," Haake said. "We got a little tired but they just kept fighting."
With substitutes in the game, Gothenburg finished off the scoring with a 3-yard run by Tyler Aden with 7:10 left on the clock. A couple of penalty calls on the two-point conversion left the Swedes too far out to score.
Gothenburg rushed for 358 yards, led by Landen Haake with 141 yards on 21 carries. Hilderbrand added 127 yards on 15 attempts.
The Swedes had 414 yards total offense compared with 182 yards for Wood River.
The Swedes will travel to Ord for a 7 p.m. game Friday, their second non-district game.
"I think we surprised them last year," Haake said. "We jumped on them early and coasted from there."
The Chanticleers may be the only team on Gothenburg's schedule with smaller overall size.
"I'd like to see us be a little more efficient in our passing game," the coach said. "We have faster receivers than we've had in quite a while and we need to keep opponents honest."
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Payrolls increased more than forecast in February and the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to a five-year low of 7.7%, a sign U.S. employers were undaunted by the budget impasse in Washington.
Employment rose 236,000 last month after a revised 119,000 gain in January that was smaller than first estimated, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The median forecast of 90 economists surveyed by Bloomberg projected an advance of 165,000. The jobless rate dropped from 7.9%. Hiring in construction jumped by the most in almost six years.
Stock-index futures, the dollar and Treasury yields all rose on signs the world's largest economy is gaining strength in the face of federal budget cuts and higher payroll taxes. Automakers and home-improvement retailers are among those announcing plans to take on more staff as Federal Reserve policy makers debate how much longer to maintain record stimulus to boost employment.
"The labor market looks pretty solid," said Drew Matus, deputy U.S. chief economist at UBS Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, who correctly forecast the unemployment rate. "In most areas, there was a pretty healthy rate of improvement. The Fed is going to be happy to see these numbers. It would suggest to them that they're doing exactly the right thing by stimulating the economy."
In addition to the pickup in construction employment, payrolls climbed at retailers, professional and business services such as temporary help firms, and at health care providers.
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Employers also boosted hours worked, and pay picked up for American workers. Average hourly earnings rose 0.2% to $23.82 in February. The average work week for all employees increased six minutes to 34.5 hours.
Payroll projections ranged from gains of 121,000 to 260,000 following an initially reported 157,000 increase in January, according to the Bloomberg survey. Revisions subtracted a total of 15,000 jobs to the employment count in December and January.
Private payrolls, which don't include jobs at government agencies, rose by 246,000 in February after a revised gain of 140,000 the previous month. Economists forecast they would grow 170,000 following an initially reported 166,000 gain in January.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker women's tennis team suffered a 5-4 loss to Converse College on Sunday (Feb. 23) in women's collegiate tennis action.
The Cobras would fall behind 3-0 early, dropping all three matches in doubles action. However, the Navy and Yellow would battle back with wins by Jessi Campos, Sarah Elliott, Kyria Borelli and Faith Baxley in No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 singles, respectively. The match came down to the No. 5 and No. 6 singles, which Converse would sweep to preserve a 5-4 victory over the Cobras.
Coker will be back in action Thursday (Feb. 27) when they host Catawba College in a SAC showdown. The match is slated for a 2 p.m. start at the Coker tennis courts.
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Top-ranked B's seek to tie up seriesBy STEVE BUCKLEY
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April 19. 2014 8:07PM
IN A WIERD, twisted case of role reversal, the team with the best record was trying to steal a game Friday night.
In its own building.
In the first game of the playoffs.
In the first game of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
But sorry, Bruins fans, your No. 1-seeded team didn't have enough time last night to retool themselves into plucky underdogs. The Detroit Red Wings claimed a 1-0 victory in a tense, thrilling Game 1 on Pavel Datsyuk's shot under the glove of goaltender Tuukka Rask with 3:01 remaining in the third period.
And suddenly it just seems so laughable that there were any pundits or fans banking on the No. 1 seed dispatching the No. 8 seed in four, or maybe five, games.
Yeah, right.
Have we learned nothing over the years? Hockey, more than any other sport, has a way of turning regular season powerhouses into postseason busts. The road to the Stanley Cup is littered with broken teams that had plenty of oomph in December and January but plenty of nothing in April and May.
Sometimes it's injuries. Sometimes it's the other team's goalie standing on his head. Sometimes it's an old-fashioned choke job. Sometimes it's a bad call or a bad bounce. But it's always something. Every year, you get a very good team that makes a very early exit.
And so today the question must be asked: Will that team be the Presidents' Trophy Bruins this time around?
OK, so let's get to the role reversal stuff. You had your No. 1 seed Bruins playing without left winger Daniel Paille (concussion) and center Chris Kelly (back) - which is bad enough. But how about a little stomach flu to liven up the first playoff series between these two Original Six franchises since 1957? So defensemen Matt Bartkowski and Kevan Miller were handed official Stanley Cup Pepto-Bismol and sent home to bed.
And suddenly, the postseason Bruins were doing a remarkable imitation of the regular-season Red Wings: They were hurting.
When this mostly mistake-free game was over and it was time for Bruins coach Claude Julien to speak to the media, he dead-bolted the injury excuse with six simple words: "Injuries are part of the game."
But he followed with a rather candid look at how his afternoon had gone.
"We kind of had to wait the whole day to find out who was in, who was out," he said. "We've had surprises all week long with the flu bug going around. It was nice that we were able to get 20 guys in our lineup."
If that last quote sounds like Julien was indeed making excuses after having just put it out there that, you know, injuries are part of the game, he was not, in fact, making excuses. He was just being honest, and then he got back to the original message when he said, "There are certain areas we have to get better at, obviously, to create more scoring chances. We have to find a way to get to the net. We have to find a way to get more shots."
The Bruins did get to the net, and did get off a great shot with just over three minutes remaining. That's when Milan Lucic tried to redirect a Jarome Iginla shot past Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard, except that Howard got a glove on it.
"It was a fortunate save," said Howard. "It was pretty lucky. (Lucic) stuck his stick out and got a lot on it and it just sort of spun my glove and I was just able to get enough on it. I was pretty lucky."
Oh. So to that list of reasons for postseason busts, we must now add "lucky save by opposing goaltender."
If Howard isn't lucky, maybe the Bruins win 1-0 and we aren't having this discussion. But he was lucky ... and just seconds later Datsyuk beat Rask with what proved to be the game-winner.
And, in a way, it was reminiscent of the last Stanley Cup playoff game played at the Garden. Last June, just as you thought the Bruins and Blackhawks were going to overtime, the Blackhawks won the game and the Cup.
Friday night, just as you thought the Bruins and Red Wings were going to overtime, the Red Wings won it.
No. 1 vs. No. 8? Totally irrelevant now. Heck, it was totally irrelevant going into this series.


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After three years of pain and frustration, Darren Fletcher's road to recovery finally appears to be nearing its end.
Fletcher captained Manchester United to their fourth and most impressive pre-season win on Saturday when they defeated Real Madrid 3-1 at Michigan Stadium in front of 109,318 spectators.
With all the focus being on Louis van Gaal, the story of Fletcher's return to the first-team has flown under the radar over the last fortnight.
The Scot has played more minutes (270) than any other member of the 26-man squad, which is an impressive feat considering what he has been through in the last few seasons.
In 2011 Fletcher was diagnosed with chronic bowel disease ulcerative colitis.
The debilitating illness left Fletcher "running to the toilet 10, 20, 30 times a day," he explained recently.
As a result, Fletcher has spent nearly two of the last three years on the sidelines.
It is no surprise, therefore, that he is happy to be back to full fitness.
"I don't want to look back, but everyone knows I've been through a lot," Fletcher said.
"I have not had a pre-season for three years.
"But now I am back in the gym and I am feeling the benefits from that.
"I am getting stronger and hopefully I can get as fit as possible.
"I am looking forward to the new season."
For a man who has dedicated the last 19 years of his life to Manchester United, last season's seventh-place under David Moyes was hard to take.
The midfielder and his team-mates want to prove that was nothing but a blip.
"Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea all finished above us last year so it was disappointing for us," he said.
"Next season we all want to show what we are capable of.
"We have got a fantastic team spirit. We were talking about it the other night among ourselves.
"We are all pulling in the right direction and we all want the best for Manchester United.
"We realise some experienced players have gone and it's up to us to come together and get us back up there."
It may just be pre-season, but the fact that three of United's four wins on tour have come against some of Europe's top clubs has given the squad optimism about the season ahead.
Van Gaal must take credit for installing that confidence among the playing staff.
The contrast between the atmosphere in the camp and the final weeks of Moyes' reign could not be greater.
The players are happy to undertake double training sessions under their new manager and they have adapted well to Van Gaal's 3-4-1-2 formation.
The players are smiling again. And so is the manager, who was happy to chat and pose for photographs with fans after the match in Ann Arbor on Saturday.
"We are just enjoying it," Fletcher said when asked about the difference between this season and the last.
"The manager expects a lot from us and he thinks we have got the ability to do it.
"He demands a lot, but the players have responded.
"We are enjoying playing in a new system and under him."
There could be no finer way for Van Gaal to round off his first tour as United boss than with a win over Liverpool in the International Champions Cup final on Monday.
It may be just another friendly on paper, but the rivalry between the two arch rivals makes the Miami showdown an enticing prospect.
"It's Man Utd v Liverpool. It doesn't matter if it's pre-season. We want to win," said Fletcher, who is confident of overcoming a calf injury to play.
Just like United, Liverpool have experienced a summer of upheaval, with star striker Luis Suarez departing for Barcelona.
The Reds have registered wins over Manchester City, AC Milan and Olympiacos while in the US though so they will be confident of taking home the one million US dollar prize (£600,000) too.
Liverpool will be without Daniel Sturridge as he has been sent home for treatment on a hamstring injury which kept him out of Saturday's 2-0 win over AC Milan.
"Dan has flown back to the UK," Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers said.
"He had a really, really slight feeling in his hamstring. It's nothing major."
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Microsoft floats fresh code for Azure
.NET and open source faithful called to cloud
MIX 2011 Microsoft has delivered updated Azure software, while extending an offer that allows for free use of its so-called development cloud.
On Tuesday, Microsoft updated its Windows Azure SDK to simplify the migration, management, and deployment of IIS Web Server applications and servers to the online service. And in the next month, the company will update the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service to speed performance of Windows Azure and SQL Azure applications.
Microsoft is also delivering completely new code. On Tuesday, it announced a community technology preview (CTP) of a service called Windows Azure Traffic Manager to balance the performance of your application in the Azure cloud when it's running in different geographies.
The company is coy about saying where the data centers running Azure actually live. But we know Microsoft operates data centers in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Also, there's a preview of a service to stream video hosted on Azure that adjusts to different bandwidth conditions to reduce buffering and startup times. The Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) for Internet Information Services (IIS) Smooth Streaming capabilities will deliver video to Silverlight, iOS. and Android Honeycomb clients.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has given people another three months to sign up for a bundle of free compute power and storage on Azure. You've now got until September 30 to get free access to 750 hours of extra-small instances and 25 hours of small instances on the service, 20GB of storage, 50K of storage transactions, and 40GB of data transfers per month.
This is the deal's second extension. In February, Microsoft had pushed out an earlier introductory offer until June 31 while - at the same time - chucking in extra-small instances. Microsoft is hoping to push open sourcers and other developers on its cloud rather than similar services from Amazon and Google.
On Tuesday, Microsoft also used its MIX conference in Las Vegas, Nevada to emphasize its love of open source code and those using it. Microsoft heavily plugged Orchard 1.1, the latest edition of the open-source content management system from the Outercurve Foundation, once Microsoft's CodePlex Foundation. ®


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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A top California Democrat aims to ease requirements for voters to approve local taxes for schools, a potential first test of the state's tax-limiting Proposition 13 now that Democrats hold a supermajority in the Legislature
State Senator Mark Leno said on Thursday he would introduce a bill on Monday for a constitutional amendment that would reduce the threshold for approving school "parcel taxes" to 55 percent from two-thirds of voters set by Proposition 13, the landmark 1978 voter-approved measure best known for limiting property taxes.
The San Francisco Democrat's bill would apply to parcel taxes, which are tax measures put on ballots by school districts, community colleges and county offices of education.
If approved by both houses of the Legislature and signed by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, the bill would be put to a statewide vote, said Leno, head of the state Senate's Budget Committee.
Many political analysts expect Democrats to use the two-thirds' legislative supermajority they won in this month's election to propose tax-related legislation. Republicans no longer have the votes to block such bills.
Leno's bill should be taken seriously, said Jon Coupal, head of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a California anti-tax group.
He said the bill may soon develop into an early test of how hard Democrats could push against Proposition 13, which some see as the root of the state's fiscal problems because of the constraints it imposes on tax hikes. Republicans have long argued the state should simply restrain its spending.
"We hope there are a few moderate Democrats who see this is a direct assault," Coupal said. He noted some Democrats were urging moderation on tax bills after voters earlier this month approved tax increases in a measure proposed by Brown.
California's budget has experienced massive deficits in recent years as the state's economy fell on hard times that slashed revenue. Spending cuts figured prominently in budget-balancing efforts under Brown and his predecessor, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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(Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a California man for sparking a nationwide anthrax hoax in 2008, saying his mailings of sugar packets labeled as anthrax did not qualify as free speech. It also ordered that he be resentenced.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said a federal jury properly convicted Marc McMain Keyser in September 2009 over mailings received by a Starbucks store and McDonald's restaurant in his hometown of Sacramento, California, and by an office of George Radanovich, then a congressman from California.
According to court papers, Keyser sent roughly 120 packages to politicians, media and businesses containing a CD with excerpts from his book "Anthrax: Shock and Awe Terror" and a white sugar packet labeled "Anthrax" and "Sample," with an orange biohazard symbol.
In his appeal, Keyser, 70, said that in showing the vulnerability of the United States to an anthrax attack, his mailings qualified as political speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and were not "true threats."
The 9th Circuit disagreed. "A reasonable sender would foresee that recipients would understand the mailings to be threats to injure them," Circuit Judge Richard Clifton wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel.
The court nonetheless said that in sentencing Keyser to 4-1/4 years in prison, the trial court improperly considered the government's costs to respond to other mailings for which Keyser was not convicted. It ordered the trial court to resentence him.
"We're really disappointed with the decision" and will review what action to take next, Keyser's lawyer John Balazs said in an email. Keyser is housed in a low-security prison in Lompoc, California, federal prison records show.
The case is U.S. v. Keyser, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 10-10224.
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Jerky has been around for many, many years. Various forms of it have been recorded through Native American history, of the drying and preserving of meat for consumption later on. Venison, of course, is what we focus on, but in some cultures they dry fish such as salmon or cod. Elk, moose and other four-legged game animals also are made into jerky.
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Attorney General Lockyer Files Consumer Protection Suit Against Pearle Vision
Alleges Unlicensed Practice of Optometry, Deceptive Marketing of Eye Exams
(SAN DIEGO, Calif.) – Attorney General Bill Lockyer today filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Pearle Vision, one of the largest retail sellers of eyeglasses, and company founder Stanley Pearle, alleging the unlicenced practice of optometry and use of deceptive marketing and unfair business practices.
"California law seeks to protect consumers from false marketing and from harm when non-optometrists control the practice of optometry," Lockyer said. "We believe Pearle Vision is using improper arrangements with optometrists and deceptive promotions of low-cost eye exams to lure customers to Pearle Vision stores."
The complaint filed in San Diego County Superior Court also names Pearle VisionCare and parent company Cole National Corp. The corporation claims to be one of the largest optical retailers in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean. Pearle Vision operates 24 retail eyeglass stores in the state and Pearle optometrists serve as network providers available to millions of California eye care customers.
"What we find in the Pearle Vision case is a retail eyeglass seller controlling optometrists and using misleading advertising to draw customers into its stores so more eyeglasses can be sold," Lockyer said. "In California, retail eyeglass sellers are prohibited from controlling optometrists. The focus should be on providing consumers with quality eye care, not making cash registers ring from eyeglass sales."
The complaint claims that Pearle advertising falsely promotes that the company can and does provide optometric services, including eye exams, eye care, professional eye care advice and the services of optometrists. The ads have included such tag lines as, "The Doctor is In," "Eye Exams Available," and "Nobody Cares for Eyes Better than Pearle." The lawsuit alleges that Pearl Vision in fact is not licensed to provide optometric services, is prohibited by law from providing optometric services and is prohibited by law from maintaining an optometrist on or near their retail stores.
The consumer protection complaint further alleges that the company's ads falsely represent that the optometrists located near or next door to Pearle Vision are independent. These optometrists in fact have been controlled and subsidized financially by the defendants. Optometrists were found working for Pearle VisionCare, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cole National Corp., and working inside the Pearle Vision retail optical stores using medical equipment, furniture and office space owned by Pearle Vision.
The complaint alleges the unlicenced practice of optometry by the company and its founder. The complaint states that Stanley Pearle, who is not a licensed optometrist in California, has provided optometric advice on the Pearle Vision web site and participated in the company's misleading and deceptive advertisements.
The complaint seeks to have the defendants halt their deceptive and misleading sales practices, end their practicing of optometry without a license and refund the illegally charged eye dilation fees.
"Complete dilated eye exams are important to protect against glaucoma and other sight-threatening diseases, such as diabetes," Lockyer said. "Charging patients an extra fee for dilation is not only illegal, but could discourage patients from having a thorough eye exam."
Lockyer noted that this is not the first time Pearle Vision has run afoul of these state laws. In 1982, a San Diego Superior Court issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting Pearle Vision from controlling optometrists through eye care franchises and using advertising that implied the company had optometrists in its retail stores or near its salesrooms.


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As a veteran emergency room physician at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Dr. Mahmoud Nouh has seen it all.
From serious nosebleeds to shooting and heart attack victims, the devout Muslim often treats 20 to 30 patients a shift, working up to 12 hours at a time. As a "golden hour" doctor who is the first to treat an ER patient in those critical moments after an injury, the La Canada Flintridge resident knows the work he does can literally be a matter of life and death.
Yet once the holy month of Ramadan begins Monday night, Nouh will strictly fast from the break of dawn to sunset for the entire month, all while mostly sticking to that rigorous work schedule in which he needs full concentration to help save lives.
He dismisses the idea that hunger pangs would affect his critical work.
"A human being can actually live three days without water and seven days without food...so when God tells you to fast for 12 hours without food or water, it's not cruel. It's tolerable," the affable Egyptian-American, husband and father of five said Monday during a break from the hospital's chaotic ER. "Many people in our country live hungry and sleep hungry so it makes you more compassionate."
While it's not uncommon to get headaches and feel tired the first few days of Ramadan, he said, the body usually adjusts to the new routine and stabilizes itself.
Muslims throughout the world -- including an estimated 300,00 to 500,000 in the greater Los Angeles area -- will abstain from food, drink and sex during daylight hours of Islam's holiest month, as their religion requires. It's a time in which God is said to have revealed the Islamic faith's holy book, the Quran, to the Prophet Muhammad. Some Muslims such as Nouh have the added challenge of having physically demanding jobs, including those who will be working or training outdoors while they fast.
Ramadan rotates throughout the four seasons based on the Islamic lunar calendar. This year the fasting month falls in the middle of a near-record hot summer, meaning they'll also have to contend with the season's unforgiving, triple-digit temperatures.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Ahrari of the West Hollywood station, who rides in a patrol vehicle responding to crime and car crashes, will be among those fasting during Ramadan.
The San Bernardino County resident helps his wife in the morning take care of their two young boys before he starts his 10-hour patrol shift at 4 p.m. But the Afghan-born Ahrari said he's unfazed by the challenge of fasting this year because for him, it's largely mind over matter.
"It's self-discipline," Ahrari said. "Last year, when I was fasting, it was very hot and it didn't bother me a lot. It's the power that God gives you. It's a test. I believe God helps you to go through it."
Ahrari will be working when he breaks the daily fast sometime after 8 p.m. but his superiors, he said, do allow him to go back to the station to pray and eat.
"If I have time, I'll eat; if not, I'll eat whenever I can," the seven-year Sheriff's veteran said. "I have all night to eat whenever I want to."
Ahrari, 37, has fasted in much more rugged scenarios. As a civilian consultant for U.S. soldiers during Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom, he said he fasted in 100-plus degree weather on three different occasions while working in hostile conditions.
"It was hot. I was kind of feeling the thirst more than being hungry but again it's all about how you discipline yourself," Ahrari said. "Part of the fasting month is to feel how underprivileged people feel if they don't have food to eat or water to drink, to discipline yourself to be thankful for what you have and for what God has granted you."
Usrah Hamzie, who works with Dr. Nouh as a clinical supervisor at the emergency department of Hollywood Presbyterian, has been fasting for Ramadan since she was seven years old. Her three sons, ages 25, 19 and 13, will also be fasting. While it can be challenging at times, especially while doing errands outside in the heat, Hamzie said she looks forward to the month each year.
"It's a pride to say I'm fasting; I'm making a sacrifice for God," said Hamzie, a Santa Clarita resident originally from Sierra Leone. "You feel like God does a lot for you. He created you. He's giving you everything you have...So what can you do in return? You fast to show your gratitude."
With time, Hamzie has learned what and when to eat to help her get through the fast. Eating too much at night makes her tired the next day. While some people eat one or two meals between sunset and the break of dawn, others eat continuously throughout the night, something the nurse with an easy laugh said would make her ill.
"Usually if you eat too much after you break your fast, it's hard to pray because that prayer is long," Hamzie said, referring to the special prayers recited each night during Ramadan called Taraweeh, in which long portions of the Quran are recited. "You're either standing too much or sitting too much and you tend to fall asleep so you have to gauge yourself."
Since women are not allowed to fast while menstruating, many will start fasting a few days before the start of the Islamic month and continue fasting a few days later to get in their 30 days, Hamzie said.
While fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of Islam, those who are sick, breast-feeding, traveling or pregnant are not required to fast that month, though they can make up the days at a later time, Dr. Nouh said. It's also customary to give charity during Ramadan and to break the fast at night with family and friends.
Sports nutritionist Rehan Jalali of Beverly Hills suggests that fasting Muslims eat plenty of "hydrating foods" like dates, figs and watermelon and avoid high sodium or dehydrating foods such as soups, breads, sauces, canned meats and condiments.
"And most importantly, do not overeat when it's time to break the fast -- hard to do when your starvin' like Marvin but overeating at this time can cause issues," Jalali wrote in an email interview.
For those who will be working or training outside and fasting during Ramadan, Jalali recommends drinking plenty of water at night and before beginning the fast in the morning and then taking breaks throughout the day when possible. Taking a solid multi-vitamin to lower any chances of nutritional deficiency is also helpful, he said.
The Zeenni family of Arcadia has three children who will be fasting for Ramadan this year while training for college or high school sports.
Kareem Zeenni, 16, a junior at St. Francis High School in La Canada Flintridge, said his varsity football team's practice this year coincides with Ramadan. Zeenni has been practicing from 6 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday and also has physical therapy sessions twice a week for hip flexor and quad injuries. Zeenni said he was unsure how much his coaches would want him to participate during his fast or how he would fare with all the activity during these long summer days.
"I talked to my mom about that; I was saying, 'I'm so scared. I have to do physical therapy too...how am I going to be able to get through these days?'" he said. "It's a little scary, I guess, but at the end of the day, it's an exciting thing, Ramadan. You see all your friends and family at night. It's fun with a little bit of hard work."
Zeenni's brother Omar, 20, who plays on the University of California Davis men's soccer team, is also practicing twice a day with an Orange County-based league while he's home for the summer. Their sister, Natalie, 19, plays with the women's soccer team at Cal State Long Beach. As they've done in past years, both siblings have practice during Ramadan and plan to fast and train at the same time.
"When one of us feels like we have to give up or give in, we look to each other for strength," Omar Zeenni said of his sister. "I was a goalkeeper, but my sister was a field player. I told myself if she's doing it, I need to do it. It's that family competitiveness." ___