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File- and printersharing on the local network
Suppose you are living in a household with Windows and Linux computers scattered all over the place. How are you going to share all the data across those Operating Systems? Running up the stairs with USB sticks is only so much fun.
Here is where Linux shines (yeah I know you can setup a Windows server, but you'll have to pay the price for that). In this article, I will try to explain how to setup a file- and print server where Windows and Linux clients (right… and Mac OSX too!) can connect and store their valuable stuff.
This will not be a complete hand-holding experience - I will assume you've got at least a basic knowledge of Linux, Samba and (possibly) NFS. This article helps you get things right, when you tried and failed before.
Having said that, let's delve a little deeper. There are two basic methods of accessing files on filesystems located on a networked machine. When you're a Windows users, filesharing amounts to Windows File Sharing using the SMB or CIFS protocols. These protocols are built into Windows, so why let them go to waste? I'll describe how you setup a Samba server on your central Linux box and all your Windows clients will be happy. Looking at Linux users, the horizon broadens. Here, we face several more alternatives, Samba and NFS being the two that will be available to virtually every Linux user. NFS has the advantage of being able to map all the user IDs on the server to the same user IDs of the client. With Samba, an exported share can be mounted on the client (provided you have sufficient access rights) using another user ID or group ID than that of the original files.
The rest of the article will describe how to set up a Samba server as well as a NFS server, and enhance the network experience of your fellow computer users (or perhaps it's only you that will be using Samba). Setting up networked printers will also be discussed. An article on setting up CUPS printing is not in scope of this article, but we do need a configured CUPS server if we want to print from our Windows clients.
Setting up Samba on Slackware
The exercise is meant to setup a Samba server where you make available several shares, some username/password protected, others that don't need a password. People will be able to connect to their homedirectory on the server. The printers that were configured in the CUPS printserver will be available as shared network printers through Samba, and Windows printer driver files can be automatically downloaded from the Samba server by Windows clients. So far, sounds nice, doesn't it? The next paragraph contains an example smb.conf file that is based on what we're about to do.
Here is the skinny:
Basic setup
- Install Samba and CUPS packages
Strictly speaking, we're talking about setting up a file server here. But since fileserving and printserving are closely related issues, and the Samba package depends on the CUPS package anyway, we will proceed to install both. If you decide not to use the CUPS printserver, that's up to you. If you do a full install of Slackware, both packages will have been installed.
- Create a Samba guest user account (for anonymous aka public shares)
groupadd smbguest useradd -g smbguest -m -d /home/smbguest -s /bin/false -c "Samba guest user" smbguest smbpasswd -a smbguest -d passwd smbguest -l
This will make sure that the account smbguest can not be used for direct logons to your Linux box. Only Samba will be able to use it.
- Make sure these lines are in
so that Samba can use it for the public shares:guest account = smbguest map to guest = bad user
- This should be in
, it defines the password backend Sabma will use (I will not discuss the alternative LDAP backend here, I hope to write another article on that all of it's own):passdb backend = tdbsam guest
NOTE: when you enable tdbsam on an already configured and running Samba server, and run
killall -HUP smbd
to let it re-load the configuration files, you might have to re-add the 'smbguest' user to Samba, since the default to use is the smbpasswd file and not the tdbsam database.
So, again run:smbpasswd -a smbguest -d
- Create samba directories (as root) that don't yet exist (but we need them):
# General purpose: mkdir -p /var/log/samba/messages mkdir -p /usr/local/samba/bin mkdir -p /usr/local/samba/netlogon # A shared directory where you can dump stuff temporarily: mkdir -p /usr/local/samba/share chmod 1777 /usr/local/samba/share # These are for the network printers: mkdir -p /usr/local/samba/printers/{W32ALPHA,W32MIPS,W32X86,WIN40} chgrp -R wheel /usr/local/samba/printers chmod -R g+w /usr/local/samba/printers
- Make sure you have configured printers in CUPS if you want to use printing in Samba. For Linux, you will use a CUPS printer configuration that is using the printer-specific PPD file, but for Windows clients, you will have to setup additional printer queues that use RAW printing (i.e. CUPS does not mess with the incoming printer data and passes the data on to the printer unaltered). The CUPS server does not know about raw printer data by default, so you will have to uncomment a couple of lines.
- In the file
uncomment the lineapplication/octet-stream
- In the file
uncommentapplication/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
And then restart CUPS daemon using/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart
- It is now time to fire up our Samba server. But we will test the configuration first by running the command
. IT will show us if anything went wrong while editing thesmb.conf
file. If everything seems allright, we will procede with making the Samba start script executable (so that it will still start when we boot our server) and then running the script:chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.samba /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start
Check if your server is up and running by using either of these two commands:
smbclient -L localhost
The result should be a dump of the visible shares that are defined in Samba, plus a list of computers in the network that also talk the Windows File Sharing protocol (this list will be small or empty at first, it may take up to 15 minutes for machines in the network to become aware of each other).
which will give an overview of the activity on the Samba server (a verbose list of connected shares and open files).
Was it really that easy? Yes! It really is that easy. We have of course not yet messed with networkprinters, or password-protected shares, but the basics are there. You can take a Windows machine and (if you followed my example to the letter) try to connect to \\BOB\PUBLIC
and see your Linux ftp server directories.
Advanced setup
There are some topics I have to cover. These are: password-protected access, and Windows clients.
Windows clients
Ever since Windows 98 and NT4SP3, windows clients exchange encrypted passwords with the server. The Samba server is configured for encrypted passwords, so this will cause no problems. Only DOS, and Windows 95 clients will not be able to access our Samba server.
With Windows XP, the authentication mechanism changed somewhat, due to MS Active Directory (AD) support. A Windows XP client can only connect and authenticate against a Samba server after a small registry modification (the requiresignorseal hack). This is the registry key - save this in a file with extension .reg
and double-click on it. XP will ask if you want to merge the files's key into the Windows registry. You want that.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; ; This registry key is needed for a Windows XP Client to join ; and logon to a Samba domain. Note: Samba 2.2.3a contained ; this key in a broken format which did nothing to the registry - ; however XP reported "registry key imported". If in doubt ; check the key by hand with regedit. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters] "requiresignorseal"=dword:00000000
You can find this file (/usr/doc/samba-3.0.xx/docs/registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg
) and several others in the Samba documentation directory on your Linux box.
Passwords in Samba
The Samba server will use your local Linux accounts (the ones in /etc/passwd
) but with encrypted passwords enabled (see above) Samba must have a way of storing these passwords somewhere. They are incompatible with the Linux account passwords that you find in /etc/shadow
. Samba keeps a database with these encrypted passwords and the trick is to keep these synchronized with the Linux passwords. The lines in smb.conf
# Synchronize Samba and Unix passwords passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *password* %n\n *password* %n\n *changed* unix password sync = Yes
will take care of that.
There is one caveat: for every Linux account that wants to use the Samba server, you will have to add the entry in the Samba password database manually. You do this as root, and it's only needed once for every user:
smbpasswd -a <some_username>
The smbpasswd
command can be used later on to change the Samba password and the Linux password together by running
smbpasswd <some_username>
A Windows user can use the <CTRL><ALT><DEL>
sequence to change the password!
The Linux client setup
On a linux client computer, it is the smbmount
command that lets you mount a Samba (or a Windows!) share on the local filesystem. You can run the command manually in a console like this:
mount -t smbfs //192.168.0.1/mp3 /mnt/samba/bob/mp3 -o rw,uid=0,gid=10,fmask=664,dmask=775 -U <some_special_user>
which will mount the share called mp3 on our server called bob which has the IP Address 192.168.0.1
in this example. The mountpoint /mnt/samba/bob/mp3
must of course be created as a directory before. I chose /mnt/samba/bob/mp3
arbitrarily, I like looking at the mount point's name and be able to guess what it is all about. You are of course free to take another mount point.
The command mounts the share as user <some_special_user> and it's up to you who that user account is, as long as it has the necessary access rights to the share. If the account has a password associated with it, you will be asked for it.
The -o rw,uid=0,gid=10,fmask=664,dmask=775 part means that the remote share will be mounted locally read/write, seemingly owned by user root:wheel (uid=0, gid=10) and with file- and directory masks that make the share's files and directories read/only for non-root, non- wheel users. Having to type all this in order to mount the share is a tedious effort, so we take the easy way and add the following line to /etc/fstab
//192.168.0.1/mp3 /mnt/samba/bob/mp3 smbfs rw,uid=0,gid=10,fmask=664,dmask=775,credentials=/etc/bob.cred 0 0
We store the username and password that we need to gain access to the mp3 share, in a file called /etc/bob.cred
which we protect from curious eyes by removing read access for all but the root user:
chmod 600 /etc/bob.cred
The contents of that file are like this:
username = <some_special_user> password = <the_secret_word>
Having this in our client computer's /etc/fstab
will cause the samba share to be automatically mounted when the computer boots.
A sample smb.conf
# This is the main Samba configuration file. You should read the # smb.conf(5) manual page in order to understand the options listed # here. Samba has a huge number of configurable options (perhaps too # many!) most of which are not shown in this example # # For a step to step guide on installing, configuring and using samba, # read the Samba HOWTO Collection. # # Any line which starts with a ; (semi-colon) or a # (hash) # is a comment and is ignored. In this example we will use a # # for commentry and a ; for parts of the config file that you # may wish to enable # # NOTE: Whenever you modify this file you should run the command "testparm" # to check that you have not made any basic syntactic errors. # #======================= Global Settings ===================================== [global] # workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name, eg: LINUX2 workgroup = SLACKWARE # The server's NETBIOS name netbios name = BOB # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = BOB File Server # Security mode. Defines in which mode Samba will operate. Possible # values are share, user, server, domain and ads. Most people will want # user level security. See the HOWTO Collection for details. security = user # Specify the debug level for multiple debug classes. # The default will be the log level specified on the command line, # or level zero if none was specified. #log level = 2 passdb:5 auth:3 winbind:2 log level = 1 # Don't log anything at all in the syslog. syslog = 0 # This option is important for security. It allows you to restrict # connections to machines which are on your local network. The # following example restricts access to two C class networks and # the "loopback" interface. For more examples of the syntax see # the smb.conf man page hosts allow = 192.168. 127. # If you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this load printers = yes # you may wish to override the location of the printcap file printcap name = cups # It should not be necessary to specify the print system type unless # it is non-standard. Currently supported print systems include: # bsd, cups, sysv, plp, lprng, aix, hpux, qnx printing = cups # Commands with which to control the printer queues print command = lpr -oraw -r -P'%p' %s lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -P%p # Members of the wheel group should be able # to add drivers and set printer properties # root is implicitly a 'printer admin' printer admin = @wheel # Uncomment this if you want a guest account, you must add this to /etc/passwd # otherwise the user "nobody" is used guest account = smbguest # Bad User - Means user logins with an invalid password are rejected, # unless the username does not exist, in which case it is treated as a guest # login and mapped into the guest account. map to guest = bad user # User name remapping ; username map = /etc/samba/smbusers # this tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 50 # Backend to store user information in. New installations should # use either tdbsam or ldapsam. smbpasswd is available for backwards # compatibility. tdbsam requires no further configuration. passdb backend = tdbsam guest # Synchronize Samba and Unix passwords passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *password* %n\n *password* %n\n *changed* unix password sync = Yes # Most people will find that this option gives better performance. # See the chapter 'Samba performance issues' in the Samba HOWTO Collection # and the manual pages for details. # You may want to add the following on a Linux system: # SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 # Configure Samba to use multiple interfaces # If you have multiple network interfaces then you must list them # here. See the man page for details. ; interfaces = 192.168.12.2/24 192.168.13.2/24 interfaces = eth0 lo bind interfaces only = yes # Browser Control Options: # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master # browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply ; local master = no # OS Level determines the precedence of this server in master browser # elections. The default value should be reasonable ; os level = 33 # Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. This # allows Samba to collate browse lists between subnets. Don't use this # if you already have a Windows NT domain controller doing this job domain master = yes # Preferred Master causes Samba to force a local browser election on startup # and gives it a slightly higher chance of winning the election preferred master = yes # if you enable domain logons then you may want a per-machine or # per user logon script # run a specific logon batch file per workstation (machine) ; logon script = %m.bat # run a specific logon batch file per username ; logon script = %U.bat # Where is a user's home directory and where should it be mounted at? logon drive = H: logon home = \\%N\%U # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS Server wins support = yes # DNS Proxy - tells Samba whether or not to try to resolve NetBIOS names # via DNS nslookups. The default is NO. dns proxy = no # Message command action # (whenever a client user types "net send SILAS 'some message text'") message command = sh -c 'echo ""|cat %s >> /var/log/samba/messages/%m.msg -; rm -f %s' & #============================ Share Definitions ============================== [homes] comment = Home Directories hide dot files = yes browseable = no writable = yes valid users = $S create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0751 invalid users = root nobody smbguest # NOTE: there is no need to specifically define each individual printer [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no # Set public = yes to allow user 'guest account' to print public = yes writable = no printable = yes printer admin = @wheel # See http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/printing.html#id2553131 # Try to work around crashing Explorer.exe ("function address 0x606xxxx # protection fault" messages) when installing a printer driver # (e.g. for the HP3820C). Set 'default devmode' to 'yes' and reboot the # client PC that experiences the explorer crash ; then install the driver # onto the server share and re-set this parameter to 'no': default devmode = no # This one is useful for people to share files [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /usr/local/samba/share read only = no public = yes # A publicly accessible directory, but read only, except for people in # the "wheel" group [public] comment = Public Stuff path = /home/ftp/pub public = yes writable = yes printable = no write list = @wheel [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /usr/local/samba/printers guest ok = yes #browseable = yes browseable = no read only = yes ; since this share is configured as read only, then we need ; a 'write list'. Check the file system permissions to make ; sure this account can copy files to the share. If this ; is setup to a non-root account, then it should also exist ; as a 'printer admin' write list = @wheel,root create mode = 0664 directory mode = 0775 force group = wheel # A publicly accessible directory, read/write to all users. Note that all files # created in the directory by users will be owned by the default user, so # any user with access can delete any other user's files. Obviously this # directory must be writable by the default user. Another user could of course # be specified, in which case all files would be owned by that user instead. [pool] comment = Pool path = /home/ftp/pool public = yes only guest = yes writable = yes printable = no force group = users create mode = 664 directory mode = 775 ## Example: share with mp3 file, accessible without a password (read-only) ## And only someone in the 'wheel' group can write here if he mapped the drive ## using his account and password. #[mp3] # comment = MP3 files # path = /data/mp3 # level2 oplocks = True # write list = @wheel # create mode = 775 # directory mode = 775 # public = yes # writable = yes # follow symlinks = yes # wide links = yes


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We crossed the finish line!!! The 21 Day Standard Process Marathon is officially o-v-e-r.
It was a different race for each member of the family, but I think I speak for all of us when I say woohooo! Obviously it was hardest on Daddypotamus, who actually had to restrict his diet. For me, the challenge was waking up before 6am to make breakfast and pack his lunch. Katie had to give up some of her favorite foods temporarily . . . homemade bread and beef mostly. Big sacrifice for a two year old.
Gigi's sacrifices are not being counted because tomorrow she heads off for a week long vacation in Playa Del Carmen. At a place that has seven restaurants. And a service where you custom order your own pillow. And did I mention her sister is taking her for free? So yeah, her sacrifices are not being counted ; – )
I had a pretty good run until I fell flat on my face this last weekend. On Saturday I couldn't tell if I was having extremely strong Braxton Hicks or some early labor signals. I'd been a lot more active than usual (and so had baby, for that matter), but since I'm only 27 weeks we put everything on hold and let my body cool down just in case.
Daniel had an incredible attitude for the full three weeks. Sad to say, I was expecting a backlash, but he never did anything but thank me for my efforts in meal prep. Can you believe this guy? Maybe he was cheating and running to Taco Bueno after I fell asleep. I don't know, but I intend to find out during my post cleanse interview. So let's go chat up Daddypotamus, shall we?
H: Hi there.
D: Hey, pretty lady.
H: First question, did you cheat?
D: No. I didn't. I ALMOST ate a handful of Katie's granola snack the last day of the cleanse, but I stopped just shy of my lips and let her eat out of my hand instead. To give the MOST honest answer, however, you were there when I cheated at Bliss Raw Cafe. I ate faux spaghetti and meatballs, and the "meatballs" had yummy nuts in it. But that was the only time I cheated.
Don't think I didn't think about it every day, though.
H: What was your favorite recipe?
D: You're gonna hate me for this, but I honestly can't remember eating anything before yesterday. So I'm gonna go look through the cleanse recipe posts real quick and gather my thoughts…
Not surprisingly, my favorite dishes came after Day 11, when chicken was allowed. Here are a couple of my fave recipes:
- Dolmas
- Spicy Lentils & Peruvian Roasted Chicken
- Grilled Portabello Mushrooms
- Roasted Chicken
- Italian Pasta
I think the two most satisfying meals were the Mushrooms and the Roasted Chicken. I gotta say, though, I have a whole new respect for lentils. Me and lentils, we're like "this" now (fingers crossed).
I'm not a vegetable lover by any stretch. I love that which gives me energy. Lentils, meats, cheeses, eggs, starches, etc. I'm not saying this from an intellectual preference – just sharing an observation. I seem to enjoy most that which can keep me going. I think I've had such severe issues with energy levels that I tend to overeat that which can be burned immediately. I'm sure you (Heather) or the Haggertons could explain this better than I could.
H: How do you feel?
- Tired
- Humbled
- Able to breathe
- Less self-conscious
- Quieter in my mind (fewer noises)
- Moody (more frequent depression)
- More Tired
Tired, mostly. Like I haven't been at full capacity for a long time now. I feel kinda like I've been fasting; i.e. more humble than usual and aware of my flaws. When you live in a constant state of choosing to not meet your desires and cravings, all kinds of wonderful flaws and emotions start popping up like those heads you pound with the hammer at Chucky Cheese.
I read something recently that my friend Gene wrote. I can't prove this scientifically, but he says he's learned that
"when you put on weight your fat stores memories. Or as brain pickers (psychiatrist) say that your fat remembers moods and as you lose the weight you can remember the depression that you were in that caused you to gain the weight in the first place."
I don't know if that's actually true, but I will say that I've noticed a LOT of mood swings lately. And I'm not talking little mood swings. I'm talking big 'ol grandaddy bi-polar, somebody-better-not-piss-me-off mood swings.
I hope Gene is right. I would like to think that these feelings are signs of flushing out both physical and emotional toxins. I'd like to overcome that which has come to the surface and come out of this a new and improved man. I'm not promising that, but I wouldn't turn it down, for sure.
H: Where do you go from here?
D: You know, that's a good question. I've been asking myself that for days. What now? How will I approach food now that I've experienced this cleanse?
There are several factors at work:
- It's VERY hard for me to deny my flesh. Part of that is a blood sugar issue that always seems to be fluctuating too much. So I can't really just hold out for the most healthy homemade food if I get caught in one of those weak, tired, and about-to-fall-down moments.
- I actually feel better about life when I eat healthy organic food. But it's a weak sensation. How do I describe it? It's like quiet time with God, only less mandatory (maybe). In order to quiet ourselves and listen for God, it's like a little mini-torture session each time. The first 15 minutes are hell on earth. Or they can be at first. But I experience this slight pleasure that over time begins to permeate my being. It's VERY slow working, though. Eating organic is like that. I feel this slight pleasure that might grow if it weren't always competing with the fructose-powered pumping surge of elation I feel when I eat at Taco Bell or the like. Life is about choice… Choosing between what feels quiet yet clean, wholesome, and good, and that which is loud, jarring, exciting, and a little violent.
- I have control issues, and when I hear Heather starting to plan my daily snacks until Kingdom come, I get this itch in my craw. I like to think I have options, and not feel pressured. So the more freedom you (Heather) offer me, the more I can enjoy it when I make the best decisions.
So where do I go from here? Well, I talked it over with Jim Bob and it sounds like the next step is a liver cleanse. I'm going to give myself the rest of July off (I think), and then look at doing a special double liver cleanse and see if I can survive it. It's my hope that once my liver has been focused on in a serious cleanse, my body will be able to handle food and moods and all sorts of things better. It's pretty amazing what a congested liver will affect in your quality of life.
So that's the next thing. Not sure what comes after that.
[2011 UPDATE: The amazing and effective GAPS Diet came next! Read about it here.]
Oh, and I'll be paying attention this next week to my sinuses. I haven't been able to breathe very well for years, because of some collection of something (sorry) stuck somewhere I can't get to in my sinuses. That whatever-it-is has been removed (I had a snot fountain for several days and a phlegm coughing week as well during this) and I feel MUCH better in that regard. If it happens to be a food allergy, I want to know. The most likely possibilities in my mind are dairy, wheat / gluten, and corn. I'm going to experiment and see if one of those makes me feel significantly worse.
Food is VERY important to me. It's perhaps the greatest pleasure in my life. Or it has been. It's been that one thing I've used to comfort myself most often when I feel ignored, unloved, unappreciated, insignificant, or incapable. I know that it has had a power over me that is unhealthy. Or to be more precise, I know I've abused food in my life to substitute for other things God intended. And I am hopeful that this is a powerful step in a gradual lifestyle change.
Thanks, Daddypotamus! Congrats on all you've accomplished. I will keep snack planning to a minimum ; – )

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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
- Freshwater and Tropical Fish
- - new tank need help finding the right kind of fish
new tank need help finding the right kind of fish hello all I am new to this forum so I hope I am posting in the right place I have 5 Gal tank and an 10 Gal tank the 5 Gal had a few Cichlids in it and the other had 5 gold fish in it I loved having both of the tank filled but my problem was my gold fish kept on getting sick and I did everything I could to save them but at the end after 5 years my last gold fish died the Cichlids where ok only had like 3 they where ok but I went away for a week told my friend to take care of them but something happen when I came back they where no fish in the tank now I want to start both tank all over again I am looking for strong fish that wont get sick as much as the gold fish also that wont need as much cleaning as the gold fish did please help me find the right kind of fish I would not mind having the same kind of fish in both tanks thank you very much ps: sorry for the bad grammar |
Welcome to Fishforum.com.:wave: 5 gallons-betta or a trio of guppies/Endlers 10 gallons-a small group of neons, glowlights or ember tetras, corydoras You'll need to cycle the tank first before you start adding fish though.:) Details are available in sticky threads of Starting and Maintaining FW Aquariums. |
The number and type of fish you can put in a 10 gallon is pretty limited, a 5.5 even more so. I was going to recommend that you check out the Small Aquatic Garden contest entries for the AGA aquascaping contests, but the stock in a lot of those tanks is based on 1) Insanely dense planting, 2) Frequent 50% water changes, 3) Massive filtration, and 4) Wishful thinking. You can get ideas there, but, as a f'rinstance, I saw a half dozen tanks there under 10 gallons with a Siamese Algae eater in them. Now, the fish in the picture was an inch and a half long, but they get 6" pretty quickly (mine are 6 months old and pushing 5"). No way should they be in any tank smaller than 50 gallons. So guide on the following: 1) Labyrinth fish with a maximum size of 3" or less. Bettas (one male or 6 female), Dwarf Honey Gouramis, Pygmy Croaking Gouramis, Sparkling Gouramis 2) Slender (Minnow shaped) schooling fish of up to 1 1/4 inch: up to 2" of fish per gallon, 3" per gallon if you plant the devil out of the tank and do frequent water changes. Neon, Green Neon, Ember, Glow Light, Blue, and Gold tetras, Microrasboras and the three small rasboras - Trigonostigma heteromorpha (Harlequin), hengeli, and espi, Endlers Livebearers, White Clouds 3) Deeper Bodied and larger schooling fish not noted for high activity (danios are right out!) up to 2.5" long. 1" per gallon. twice as many in a tank that's been heavily planted for more than 6 months. Emperor, Flame, Pristella, and Black Tetras, Cherry Barbs, Platies, Guppies 4) No more than 1 otto per 3 gallons. No more than 1 Pitbull Pleco in 5 Gallons 5) Up to 1 Dwarf Frog per 5 gallons (will eat those listed in #2) 6) Up to 1 Mystery Snail per 2.5 gallons 7) Up to 4 Neocardinia Shrimp, or 2 Amano shrimp per gallon 8) One female dwarf puffer per 3 gallons, one male per 6 gallons (Male and female territories can overlap a little). 9) Up to 2 bumblebee gobies per 3 gallons (Brackish tank) 10) One male and 2 female White Cheeked Gobies (Rhinogobius duospilus, formerly wui) 11) If you have room for no fewer than 6, you can get up to 2 Corydoras pygmeus, hasbrosus, or hastatus per gallon, or two C. guapore per 3 gallons, or 1 C. Panda per gallon. Do not get fewer than 6. Keep it small, keep it peaceful or a species tank, and ask before you buy. Remember that fish will not stop growing just because the tank is too small. Also remember than, you go to the bathroom to go to the bathroom. Fish live in their bathroom. I think that's what did in your goldfish and cichlids. |
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Issued on: | May 29th, 2007 |
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Amount: | $12,500 |
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Services Offered: | Home Security |
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Do we offer financing? | NO |
Do we have emergency service? | YES |
Do we accept credit cards? | NO |
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Richard Winans Construction - Security Technicians in Mckinleyville, California. In business since 2007. The company's license number is 897366. License held: General Building Contractor. Licensed in California.
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Dool Ave / E 2nd St median real estate price is $183,116, which is less expensive than 91.4% of California neighborhoods and 91.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Dool Ave / E 2nd St is currently $959, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 94.1% of California neighborhoods.
Dool Ave / E 2nd St is a densely urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Calexico, California.
Dool Ave / E 2nd St real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and small apartment buildings. Most of the residential real estate is renter occupied. Many of the residences in the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 1940 and 1969.
Dool Ave / E 2nd St has a 14.8% vacancy rate, which is well above average compared to other U.S. neighborhoods (higher than 74.1% of American neighborhoods). Most vacant housing here is vacant year round. This could either signal that there is a weak demand for real estate in the neighborhood or that large amount of new housing has been built and not yet occupied. Either way, if you live here, you may find many of the homes or apartments are empty.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Calexico, the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 98.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Dool Ave / E 2nd St is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 94.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 23.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 15.6% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (47.3%) than are found in 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.6% of the adult residents in the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood in Calexico are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 45.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood, 40.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.3%), and 10.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood in Calexico, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (98.3%). In addition, 47.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
The most common language spoken in the Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 94.3% of households. Some people also speak English (5.3%).
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Dool Ave / E 2nd St neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (15.6%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (54.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.6%) and 11.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
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- Release Date: Dec 1, 2011
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Dec 4, 2011World at War Zombies was simply revolutionary for its time and, while Black Ops Zombies certainly improves on nearly every aspect of its predecessor, our expectations of what makes a great game have certainly changed. It's not enough to simply add a new map and a better visual paintjob and call it a day.
Feb 8, 2012Now that we've actually been able to advance past the menus and delve into the gameplay, we are reminded why we enjoyed their previous release so much.
Feb 2, 2012If you are a fan of the Call of Duty zombie games then Black Ops Zombies is a must-own addition to your iPad library, if for no other reason than Dead-Ops Arcade. I've easily logged twice as many hours in that mode as the main FPS game, but that will likely change when new maps start to drop.
Dec 22, 2011Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is no doubt a good port as it comes with some very nice graphics and a solid gameplay. The game suffers from several problems, though: cumbersome controls, lack of maps, online issues. Better wait for the next updates.
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Dec 7, 2011It may look like Zombies but it certainly doesn't play like it, in a portable conversion that copies all the features but delivers none of the fun.
Dec 5, 2011Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies almost succeeds in transplanting the console version of the game to the iOS platform, but balance issues, network problems, and a serious lack of variety make it hard to swallow the price of entry.
Dec 4, 2011At $6.99, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is a tough sell. Plenty of other games offer more content for that price (or less). What's more, having just one map and no online play definitely hurts this title's appeal. Worth the dough if you're a high roller. Otherwise, wait for additional maps and online co-op.
Dec 4, 2011Despite a few drawbacks, Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies is a very fun FPS.
Dec 4, 2011An enjoyable game, despite a few niggles. Of course, more maps would have been welcome, but what's included will keep the player busy for quite a while.
Dec 4, 2011Some niggles with the controls and pricing aside, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Zombies is a fine port of the entertaining survival mode.
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1. Colleges across country deal with tension between races — The New York Times
As racial tensions simmer at various colleges and universities across the U.S., like University of Michigan, administrators struggle to find solutions. Experts say the misconception that millennials live in a post-racial society harms racial harmony more than helps.
2. Parents push back against criminalization of student misbehavior — NPR News
Students who lash out in school are receiving much more than detention: some misbehaving students are facing criminal consequences for middle school fights. Advocates who, among other things, say minority students are affected more by these policies are pushing for a change.
3. KS lawmakers attempting to change school board elections — Education Week
Kansas bills that are currently being considered by the House and Senate aim to reorganize school board elections. These bills, for example, would change the dates of the electoral calendar in hope to boost electoral turnout.
4. Private initiative aim to pay college tuition for 'dreamers' — PBS NewsHour
Even though some states now allow dreamers to pay in-state tuition for college, these students still are not eligible for federal financial aid. In this NewsHour segment, private sector efforts to assist these students are discussed.
5. Kansas City Public Schools work to involve community in middle school project — The Hale Center for Journalism
The Kansas City school district will reopen two middle schools in the fall. Lead Middle School Principal and Project Leader Dr. Cynthia Johnson described how the two soon-to-open middle schools will be different from ones in the past.


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I would like to respond to Rick Bear's letter, which creates an air of confusion and misinformation about the development and sales of West End Village.
Had Bear ever contacted me, I could have provided the following information, but it obviously was not his intent to understand the success of the project or he would have done the proper research.
First -- the market rate sale of the lots at West End Village was the critical component of the project, allowing the development to go forward so that 24 families, 14 duplex buyers and eight self-help housing owners could purchase their deed restricted homes in Steamboat. The key to reducing risk and cost of any development includes quick delivery of the lots and a reduction of carrying costs through rapid sales. Everyone benefited from the sales of the market rate lots, as the business model had intended. Kathi Meyer and her husband Jim Peterson understood the importance of having market rate lots fully integrated and next door to deed-restricted lots as seamlessly as possible. Their lot sits across the street from a self-help program duplex.
Second -- the insinuation that Meyer and Bud Romberg took affordable housing opportunities out of someone's hands is political posturing in its worst form. Where are Bear and like-minded champions of affordable housing today, when they still can buy single-family lots for $75,000 that allow a primary residence and a caretaker apartment for rental income and additional affordable inventory for local residents? Today we have a number of free market lots available, well under other prices in the city.
The sooner these are sold, the quicker the community can see the model can be successful for something other than $1,000,000 to $10,000,000 homes.
Third -- perhaps the critics or naysayers of market rate purchasers feel it is a bad investment because I require buyers to sign a five-year right-of-first refusal to keep land speculators without intention of providing housing out of the market. This right allows me to buy back the lot at virtually the same price it originally was sold for.
Meyer, Romberg and other market rate purchasers understand and get it. I wanted to keep away short-term speculators and reward long-term believers. In my opinion this has worked. Free market lots have sold to a few buyers with goals of rental income or future house sales, but for the most part the lots have sold to local workers including government workers, educators and many small-business owners.
Meyer and the few other buyers who have come forward took a leap of faith that West End Village would be a model neighborhood combining free-market and deed-restricted housing. Their understanding -- judgment, if you will -- came from working for years on affordable housing and helping to shape a neighborhood like West End Village. In the process, she helped to create affordable housing for more than 100 people.
It is unfortunate some people would use this project's success for political sword rattling. There is no excuse for not checking for the facts and truth.
Vote Nov. 4 for action and results, not misinformation and never-ending politics.
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House committee backs repeal of Medicaid expansion Associated Press 5:49 PM, Feb 6, 2014 5:49 PM, Feb 6, 2014 region phx | central phoenix Share Article ABC15 Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Show Caption Hide Caption Previous Next PHOENIX - Some Republican legislators are attempting to reverse Arizona's 2013 decision to expand the state's Medicaid program under the federal health care law, setting up a potential rematch with Gov. Jan Brewer and those who backed the expansion with majority votes in both chambers of the Legislature last year. Republican Rep. Adam Kwasman of Oro Valley said a vote by the House Reform Human Services Committee on Thursday that advanced his House Bill 2234 is the first step in what may be a long fight by conservatives opposed to the expansion. The bill is virtually certain to fail, because the coalition of Democrats and some Republicans Brewer assembled last year to push through her proposal remains in place. But Kwasman said his effort is important anyway. "Even if it does not pass out of this Legislature, with this governor, we want to be able to continue to put pressure on, keep fighting that fight, so that after this Legislature and perhaps with a new governor we will be able to finally repeal this piece of legislation," Kwasman said. The same committee also advanced a proposal by House Speaker Andy Tobin, House Bill 2367, that would add work requirements for those on the state's Medicaid program, institute co-pays for emergency room visits and limit free coverage to five years. Tobin's proposal would require a waiver of rules set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. "They've been making changes in Obamacare since they started," Tobin said. "The president's been issuing executive orders entirely changing the makeup of it. So at the end of the day I think it makes some sense to say let's continue this conversation about having co-pays and try to reduce the overall costs." Tobin's proposal would affect even those who have full-time jobs but qualify for free health care because they earn so little. "The idea is to say hey, after five years, is not 60 months long enough?" Tobin said. "Cash assistance is two years, unemployment has limitations, this is double, more than double what the cash assistance is." Federal health officials could not immediately say whether such a waiver was possible or ever been issued to other states. Monica Coury, a spokeswoman for Arizona's Medicaid plan, called the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, said she is not aware of any state being allowed to impose work rules or a time limit on eligibility. Arizona was allowed to charge $30 co-pays for unnecessary emergency room visits, but that expired Dec. 31. The state is currently asking federal officials for authority to charge $200 for such visits for newly eligible people. Tobin and Kwasman are both seeking the Republican nomination in the 1st Congressional District. Tobin said he would not support Kwasman's bill despite his opposition to expanding Medicaid because it can't pass. "I think it's a fool's errand to run a bill that's going to have the same result that we had here last year," Tobin said. Tobin and Kwasman are both part of an effort to have the Medicaid expansion thrown out by the courts. Share Article A Share A A A Share Article


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Why does the switch below give me an "unexpected '>'" error? I Google'd for examples and found some that write it case > $numeral and others that write it case > = $numeral, but both give me the same error.
I want to display a centered image ($Img1C) if that image is more than 250 pixels wide, with the default image size floated to the right ($Img1R).
switch($Width1) { case > 250: $Img1st = $Img1C; break; default: $Img1st = $Img1R; break; }
i'm not sure where you saw those samples, but they must not have been php. here's the supported syntax of switch: http://us2.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php
Thanks, but there's only one mention of a greater than/lesser than value on that page...
<?php switch ($i) { case 0: case 1: case 2: echo "i is less than 3 but not negative"; break; case 3: echo "i is 3"; } ?>
I tried a lame experiment to change it to a switch that says "anything less than 250"...
switch ($Width1) { case 0-249: echo "Width is less than 250"; break; default: echo 'DEFAULT'; break; }
But it doesn't work.
The Manual has a page of "Comparison Operators," with $a > $b apparently working with IF functions. Is there a way to adapt this to a PHP switch?
AFAIK, this can't be done in a PHP switch. You can use if/else statements, and if you want slightly cleaner syntax, try the alternative syntax (e.g. if(statement): ... endif; ). The switch structure is only for easily executing code based on known values of a statement/variable.
This can be done 1 sec
<?php switch (true) { # Pay close attention to the true. case $Width1 > 250: # if true, enter; if false, skips; $Img1st = $Img1C; break; default: $Img1st = $Img1R; break; }
It can, but we shouldn't encourage geosite to continue this pseudo-language he is creating where switch() trees control all program flow whether appropriate or not.
//3 lines with if() $Img1st = $Img1R; if ($Width1 > 250) $Img1st = $Img1C; //1 line with ternary operator $Img1st = ($Width1 > 250) ? $Img1C : $Img1R;
Thanks for the elegant solution, Dan.


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Real estate transactions for May 2-8, 2002
What is next in the survey process?
With the statistics having been compiled from the 2002 Steamboat Springs Community Survey, Councilwoman Nancy Kramer discusses the issues that will most affect Steamboat residents. Strong leadership, utilizing information and a comprehensive approach to planning are areas Kramer says will need to be addressed if the city wants to continue to be successful in the future.
Selfless sacrifices
Routt County Human Services worker honored by state for service, dedication to helping children
Even after receiving a prestigious state award from the Colorado Department of Human Services, Michael Sidinger brushes it aside like it is no big deal.
The View From Here
Growth, environment top issues in 2002 Community Survey
Protecting the environment and managing growth should be the top priorities for the city, residents said in the 2002 Steamboat Springs Community Survey.
Driver killed in accident on Rabbit Ears Pass
Man apparently fell asleep at the wheel traveling
A 45-year-old Walden man was killed Saturday afternoon in an accident where a truck plunged 100 feet off Rabbit Ears Pass.
2 shot in Oak Creek quarrel
Shooting from a second-story window of his building in Oak Creek, Ed Carnes fatally wounded town trustee B.F. Williams and struck his brother, Charles Williams, in the leg with two bullets last Sunday afternoon. The Williams brothers had been walking down the road toward Carnes' place of business when they were shot. Carnes claims that both men had guns, but others say only B.F. Williams was armed.
Sharon Steele of Hayden and Russ Steele of Vernal would like to announce the engagement of their son John Kuntz (Steele) to Lindsay Wildman.
Developers offer Web advice
Local businesses thinking of engaging in e-commerce will need ample supplies of patience and perseverance. Local Web developers say going beyond a home page that serves as a marketing tool and entering into e-tailing demands a longer launch time, and continuous effort.
298 combined years of service
12 retire from Steamboat Springs School District
Many of the teachers retiring from the Steamboat Springs School District this year would agree that being a teacher is a state of being, and not a profession that they can separate from other aspects of their life.
Fishing for a solution
God didn't intend for northern pike to cruise the eddies of the Yampa River, searching for native fish to sink their teeth into. But the fact is they're there. And they must be eating something. How else can you explain their ability to grow to be 3 1/2 feet long?
Janice Muhme hosted a PartyLite party at her home May 3 in the evening. Many guests enjoyed learning about decorating with glowing candles and beautiful accessories. Janice served lovely refreshments and fun games were also played. The sales representative was Joann Schuler.
Facts about CWD
You would like the wildlife official to talk about what is known about CWD, or what they suspect? For years our Division of Wildlife knew about CWD in the northeastern part of Colorado, but they suspected that CWD animals would not carry this disease over the continental divide.
Grand dedications
Freemasons gather in Yampa and Oak Creek to honor tradition
Schoolchildren in Yampa and Oak Creek witnessed a centuries-old tradition Friday morning.
Mothers make a difference
Whether they work or stay at home with the kids
Patty Schrader gave birth Wednesday to a little boy, and she hopes her husband knows about it.
Each year, the Steamboat Springs Workforce Center participates in the Governor's Summer Job Hunt, developed to help youth ages 16 to 21 find summer employment.
Office space
Highland Commercial Company converts old newspaper building into executive suites
A building that once housed the hospital, newspaper, forest service and even doctors is looking for new clientele.
Julia Tanya McCarthy, daughter of Sean and Valerie McCarthy of Steamboat, was born April 9, 2002.
Thanks for the memories
By late Saturday afternoon, all the cheers will have faded away, the crowds will have filtered out of Jefferson County Stadium and the high school sports season will have come to a close for Steamboat Springs High School.
Honors, accolades
Alex Mackey was named the Rotary Club's Student of the Month for March.
Wallace and Janet Acker of Steamboat Springs are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter Lynn to Josh Lannin, son of Duffie and the late Jeffrey Lannin of State College, Pa. A June 23 wedding is planned in Lyons.
Surrounding Strings
Condos, shopping center planned around proposed venue
When the Strings in the Mountain Festival of Music relocates to a six-acre parcel across from the ski area's Meadows Parking Lot it will be joined by some new neighbors.
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at issue Community survey our view The survey should be used as a guide, not a mandate.
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Lessons in e-tailing
Catherine's tries offering furnishings on Internet
For a mom-and-pop store on Lincoln Avenue, it sounds like an impossible dream. If Amazon.com is struggling to make a profit, aren't the odds even greater against small retail shops succeeding in e-commerce?
Tracksters fare well at meet
Eighteen area athletes will represent Routt County at the upcoming state track meet following an onslaught of outstanding performances at the Western Slope Regional gathering at Stoker Stadium May 10-11.
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Sailor tennis players willing to sacrifice for success
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Guardiola is amazingly lucky to have players like Xavi and Iniesta, whose style is reminiscent alot of his own back in '94. They are perfect for transforming his vision of the game into actual football.
Would be naive to call it lucky. Iniesta and Xavi were both brought up through the Barcelona youth system as kids and have studied and learned the same philosophy that Pep played (and now coaches) under. It's the 'total football' system Johan Cruyff brought from Ajax.
Xavi was Guardiola's understudy in the late 90's and Guardiola was Iniesta's youth coach.
Sure, it may be a 'lucky' that they found these kids and brought them over, but everything else is a product of the infrastructure that keeps the Barcelona machine going from year to year.
It's no coincidence that Barcelona played the derby match with 8 youth team players (Messi, Valdez, Puyol, Pique, Pedro, Busquets, Iniesta, and Xavi) vs. Real Madrid's 1? 2? (Raul, Casillas...Guti(?))


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If he were alive today, former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew would tell you in no uncertain terms how hard it is to keep the nattering nabobs of negativism down. He would warn you to be wary of the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
And he would be right.
Forget about the theory that the only difference between a stock price busting out or going bust is the difference between savvy, hard-working management and shiftless, self-serving misfits. Emotion influences stock prices, often times producing prices that do not reflect the level of talent in the executive suite or the fundamentals of the business.
On the way up, this irrational exuberance is all well and good as long as there is a ready inventory of fools willing to pay more than the last fool. When the supply of foolish buyers runs out, the issue becomes the supply of fools who want to sell for less than the last guy, which is where we find ourselves today.
Friday's 4 percent slide in the Dow Jones industrial average left the market barometer down 5 percent for the week, 27 percent since Sept. 1 and 37 percent for the year.
Daniel J. Howard, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University, says investor behavior demonstrates the principle of social proof: The more an individual sees those around him believing something or acting a certain way, the more the individual believes that thing to be true or the behavior appropriate.
"Stock market bubbles and crashes are caused by herd mentality," Dr. Howard said. "It's scary to me because we make our own heaven, and we make our own hell."
The herd mentality is more fearful in a falling market, says George Loewenstein, a Carnegie Mellon University business professor who specializes in the emerging field of behavioral economics. That's because individuals start fearing the economic consequences of the market sell-off: whether they will have a job; whether they should reduce spending; whether they'll be able to make loan payments or get a loan to buy a car.
Those fears are evident in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released last week showing that 41 percent of Americans believe that a 1930s-style depression is somewhat or very likely over the next 12 months.
Dr. Howard expects those fears will put a dent in Christmas sales.
"It's going to be terrible," he said. "People are either uncertain or afraid. Those two moods ... do not bode well."
Dr. Loewenstein says research shows that when people are afraid, the world looks scarier to them. Those fears are compounded by the fact that people don't understand what caused the credit crisis and why its consequences are reverberating on Main Street.
"Part of the reason the market is so volatile now is that we're in unbelievably uncharted territory. No one seems to know what's going on," he said. "Even business people are having a hard time wrapping their minds around it."
This "monkey see, monkey do" behavior is evident in the outcome of market simulation experiments run by Penn State University economics professor Anthony Kwasnica. One involves a mock economy where participants make hiring and other decisions based on their economic outlook. Introducing an element of pessimism to their outlook makes participants start thinking that if everybody else is cutting back, they will too, Dr. Kwasnica says.
"It's self-fulfilling expectations," he said. "If I'm pessimistic and I think some of the firms around me won't be hiring a lot of people, I decide to be more conservative."
Of course, there's no way of knowing when a bubble will burst or when a bear market has run its course. In the technology stock bubble, many investors understood that a company that didn't make anything and had no immediate prospects to turn a profit shouldn't be selling at exorbitant prices, Dr. Loewenstein says.
"But they were buying on the prospect there would be a greater fool," he said. "It's much more difficult to know when prices are out of line on the downside.
"Everyone is desperate for experts to tell them whether they should be in the market or out of the market. There are no experts."
In the Great Depression, the wisdom of President Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address took a few years to sink in: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror, which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Thus far, Warren Buffett's "I'm buying" pronouncement hasn't done the trick. That doesn't mean he's wrong.
"Now's the time to buy stocks, not later," said Dr. Howard.
But he does not expect the masses will do that until someone like Mr. Buffett leads the way. Then the masses will try to get rich by following, only to find "most of the riches have already been taken," Dr. Howard says.
The clear-headed Nobel Prize-winning CMU economists Dr. Loewenstein rubs elbows with every day also believe that it's time to buy. He likes their advice, but thinks it's too rational to act on just yet.
"They know what the right thing to do is, but they know it's too early," Dr. Loewenstein said.
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