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The bike is worth between $4200.00 and $5000.00. The same exact bike just sold with similar miles for just over $4000.00 in Northern California.
The bike is worth between $4200.00 and $5000.00. The same exact bike just sold with similar miles for just over $4000.00 in Northern California.
Hi my name is Chris and I am a slash-five-o-holic.
You can use this blog for any questions about your bike. There are many knowledgeable people willing to give beneficial help and or directions. There should be a number of like minded Airheads in your state. I've had the pleasure of meeting many in my home state (WI) and look forward to the annual Tech sessions to learn more airhead maintenance tips. Also there's the Airhead Beemers Club that offers a monthly newsletter to it's membership with helpful tech info and listings of state specific events.
Mike Horne
76 R90/6, 120k, daily rider
93 R100R Legend, 40k, weekend and special rides
You'll have between $3500 and $4500 in a well sorted airhead when you are finished, that if you do most of the work your self. I'd add about $500 for excellent, original paint. Go ahead and do the math.
Too bad about the fairing. I personally never liked those very much. It would be a detraction to me to have to deal with removing one of those from an otherwise exceptional motorbike.
If you don't use the bags much I would take them off and store them someplace safe and if that fairing is as cumbersome as it looks I would take it off and put it back to naked bike status. This bike is an easy candidate for an "S" fairing and a set of Magura low bars. Or if you like it the way it is ride the wheels off it, that's what its been waiting for.
A word of advice, if you haven't already please please have the under the gas tank brake master cylinder inspected and replaced if its old or questionable. It would be a shame to ruin any of the paint on that bike if it decides the recent activity is reason enough to leak.
The first thing you want to do is to clean and lube the clutch splines; they're probably pretty dry.
And that fairing should be saleable.
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"When you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."
I Love these old sleds...and have to keep myself in check on bringing home 'Orphans'. But if I got a chance on a stocker like this, I would grab it...up to about $3500.
Steve in Santa Fe
96' Triumph Trophy
I don't have a clue what it's worth, but congratulations on a great find !!!
Current Inventory:
I make it relatively easy on the BMW dealer to do the appraisal. I write a letter with the relevant details about the bike (year, model, mileage, general condition, etc) and include the dealer's and my address. I leave the value and his signature line blank.
The discussion generally factors in the hypothetical cost to me to purchase that same bike from his showroom floor (assuming that he had that bike to sell). It is made clear that the appraisal value is not an offer from him to take the bike in at the stated value (for trade-in or outright purchase). Consideration is given to pricing of the same model bike in similar condition for sale in the same time period (internet is great for this kind of research). I do the research ahead of time and bring the results with me.
The cost of the insurance (full coverage) is directly tied to the valuation placed on the bike - I forget the exact cost rate.
My 77 R100RS is insured for $6500. I'd think that your bike would be appropriate at a value around the $4000 to $5000 range (after the needed work has been done - a bit less before - you might be supprised at how much of the work you can do yourself, particularly if you can get to some Airhead Tech Days).
I have found that rubber bits generally need to be replaced around 20 to 25 years. Seals can be a bit of work (or think of this as a learning experience). I'd suggest staying clear of synthetic oil or you might get to the seal replacement sooner than later - at least that was my experience.
Links for valuation research -
http://marketplace.ibmwr.org/ {I really like IBMWR and have purchased a bike this way - met some good folks too!}
http://www.nadaguides.com/Motorcycle...7-980cc/Values {I've found that many dealers use NADA pricing}
http://www.kbb.com/motorcycle/ {KBB can be WAY off in the valuation!}
http://www.searchtempest.com/ {searches Craigslist - beware that asking prices on CL can be very unrealistic}
http://www.cycletrader.com/find/search {I don't use cycle trader much any longer}
I don't know how much you guys are paying for collision coverage, but is there even any point in doing it, for these values?
I don't even cover my 2005 R1200ST.
"When you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there."


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Some games, we're told, are meant to be experienced more than played. If you're the sort of person who is untroubled by that design aesthetic and is seeking a gaming experience closer to art than entertainment, you may consider breaking bread with Dinner Date, the quirky indie brainchild of designer Jeroen D. Stout (http://thestoutgames.com/:News).
Games in this "genre," the interactive art piece, often combat the powerful gravity of their pretension, which forever threatens to pull them down into an infinite void where fun is an unwelcome concept. Dinner Date manages to narrowly avoid that pitfall by providing narrative momentum delivered through the main character's voice. The player serves as the protagonist's subconscious, encouraging him to drum his fingers or glance nervously at the clock as he awaits the arrival of his dinner date. While he fidgets, smokes, and begins preemptively eating the meal he's prepared, you're treated to his internal monologue, a laundry list of concerns about co-workers and relationships and all the detritus that fills an idling, nervous mind. As the game's main storytelling device, that monologue is of key strength and rings true as an authentic window into the mind of a bachelor struggling with his identity as he approaches that dreaded middle age.
Though the game addresses a specific period in the protagonist's life, the themes Dinner Date lingers on are familiar to audiences of other ages, as well. Anyone who's rocketed out of high school or college and then been caught unawares by the odd period that follows can emphasize with the anxieties swarming through Julian Luxemburg's head. Quality voice acting lends a certain pathos to Julian's ruminations about his job, social life, and his standing among peers. As the game further immerses you in the details of his life, the subtle differences between the interior monologue in Dinner Date and more traditional dialogue become evident. Because we're given inside access to the protagonist's most secret desires and ambitions, a lot of the success of Dinner Date's storytelling relies on how well the player sympathizes with the protagonist.
The meta-narrative quality of the internal monologue is strengthened by the setting. The entire game takes place in the confines of Julian's apartment, modestly appointed and claustrophobic in size. The narrow space and spartan furnishings amplify the sense that the real "action" is happening inside Julian's mind. While this feature highlights the importance of the interior monologue, it also reduces the player's sense of agency and interactivity. There are a limited number of objects to manipulate and a restricted setting with which to engage. The game ends up feeling like a rail-shooter on a very small track, where shooting is replaced by fumbling with candles and wine bottles.
The controls are not always intuitive. Rolling your fingertips over Q, W, E, and R to drum the table feels natural enough, but many of the other interactions are poorly defined, with icons that are suggestive at best. This failure results in a lot of random, unsatisfying inputs with unclear outcomes. The main issue Dinner Date faces, however, is not the controls but rather the player's role as a subconscious presence. After a handful of playthroughs, each lasting about a half an hour in length, the narrative differences were so subtle that it was difficult to determine whether they existed at all, regardless of how much the player modified the actions. The loss of agency kills a great deal of Dinner Date's draw as a video game, hardly its strength to begin with.
As an intellectual experiment, Dinner Date is interesting and even profound. As a meta-narrative about the social constructs that confront the modern man, it fascinates. As a game, it barely qualifies. How much of the game you enjoy will depend heavily on which of these elements you care most about and how you feel about video games that shoot for more than just entertainment.

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Plan for site collection upgrades in SharePoint 2013
Applies to: SharePoint 2013, SharePoint Foundation 2013, SharePoint Server 2013
Topic Last Modified: 2017-07-26
Summary: Explains how plan to upgrade site collections to SharePoint 2013 and how to plan for upgrade evaluation sites, notifications, and throttling in SharePoint 2013.
When you upgrade from SharePoint 2010 Products to SharePoint 2013, site collections are not upgraded when you upgrade the content databases to a new version. The upgrade process is split to allow site collection administrators to decide when to upgrade their site collections. For a visual overview of the upgrade process, see Overview of the upgrade process from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
Server farm administrators can control settings for upgrading site collections, such as settings for upgrade evaluation site collections, notifications, and upgrade throttling. This article helps you plan the settings to use to controlling the upgrade of a site collection.
By default, site collection administrators are in charge of when they upgrade their site collections, and they perform the upgrade themselves. However, under certain circumstances a farm administrator should probably perform the upgrade. For example, for sites that meet the following characteristics, the upgrade team at the farm level should perform tests before upgrade, and potentially upgrade the site collection:
Extremely important sites
If a site is very important to your business, farm administrators should carefully test it before they upgrade it, and then upgrade it themselves to make sure that the site collection is available for users as quickly as possible.
Very large sites
By default, if a site collection administrator starts to upgrade a site that is larger than 10 MB or with more than 10 subsites, the site is added to the upgrade queue, instead of being upgraded immediately. For very large site collections (larger than 10 GB), we recommend that you have a farm administrator upgrade the site collections instead of allowing the site collection administrators to start the upgrade. This way, the farm administrators can test these sites and then monitor the progress of the upgrade.
Highly-customized sites
Carefully test sites that are based on custom site definitions or that have many other customizations before you upgrade them. If there are issues with server-side customizations, then farm administrators should address them, test again, and then perform the upgrade so that they can troubleshoot any issues that occur. If there are issues with the design of a site, a designer and site collection administrator can address them.
Farm administrators can upgrade sites by using PowerShell. For more information, see Upgrade a site collection to SharePoint 2013.
When a site collection is available to upgrade, a status bar on a site indicates that site collection administrators can upgrade it. They can choose to upgrade the site collection then, or be reminded later.
Farm administrators can determine whether to allow site collection administrators to upgrade their sites at all. You can set a property to prevent the site collection administrators from starting to upgrade, which also turns off the notification in the status bar. Then you can perform the upgrades yourself by using PowerShell. If you choose to upgrade some sites centrally, you should have a plan to decide when each site will be upgraded and who will verify the site after upgrade.
Although administrators can upgrade all site collections immediately, we do not recommend this, for the following reasons:
You would risk that some sites would have unforeseen issues that you'd have to address. This could create or prolong an outage.
A high volume of issues could arrive at your helpdesk or troubleshooting process when users start to work with upgraded sites at the same time.
You can control settings for site collection upgrade and site creation. You can determine the following:
Whether the site collection administrator can upgrade the site collection.
Which mode (2010 or 2013, or both) can be used when a user creates a site collection.
For example, you might want users to keep creating 2010 mode sites for a while, until most of site collections are upgraded, or you might want to force new sites to be created in 2013 mode so that you don't have to upgrade them later.
Properties that control site collection upgrade and site creation
Determines whether an upgrade notification can be set for a site collection.
Default is true - notifications are set automatically.
If set to false, the upgrade notification will not appear on the status bar.
Determines in which modes a site collection can be created. For example, 2010 mode (14) or 2013 mode (15). The following ranges are available:
You can use these ranges or set your range by using the New-Object command to set the Microsoft.Shareoint.SPCompatibilityRange property.
For more information about how to set these properties, see Manage site collection upgrades to SharePoint Server 2016.
You can also control settings upgrade notifications. You can determine the following:
Whether to add a link to more information from the Upgrading now status bar.
How many days to wait before reminding a site collection administrator about upgrade if they choose Remind me later on the status bar.
If a user clicks Remind me later, the current date is added to the number that is set for the UpgradeReminderDelay and the notification is hidden until that new date occurs. For example, if the setting is 30, then the notification will appear 30 days from the current date.
The following properties control site collection upgrade notifications:
Properties that control upgrade notifications
Adds another link to the upgrading now status message so that users can follow it, and find more information.
Default is empty.
Sets the number of days to suspend the upgrade notification in the status bar after a user clicks Remind me later.
Default is 30 days.
If set to 0, then the upgrade notification is not removed from the status bar and the notification cannot be set to Remind me later.
For more information about how to set these properties, see Manage site collection upgrades to SharePoint Server 2016.
Site collection administrators can request a preview of their site collection. This preview site is called an upgrade evaluation site collection. An upgrade evaluation site collection enables site collection administrators to see their site's content in a new, separate copy of the site that is running on the SharePoint 2013. Unlike visual upgrade in SharePoint Server 2010, the upgrade evaluation site collection is a complete copy of the site collection. It is separate from the original and has its own URL. Actions that the site collection administrators perform in the upgrade evaluation site collection do not affect the original site. Both the original site and the upgrade evaluation site are available for search, and timer jobs that run for all site collections also run on the upgrade evaluation sites.
When a site collection administrator requests an evaluation site collection, the request is added to a timer job (known as "Create Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections") which runs one time per day. This timer job creates a full copy of the site collection at a unique URL. Upgrade evaluation site collections are set to expire automatically and be deleted. The default time for expiration is 30 days, which can be configured by setting a value for the web application or by changing a value on the evaluation site collection itself.
Farm administrators can choose to prevent users from creating upgrade evaluation sites by setting the SPSite.AllowSelfServiceUpgradeEvaluation property for a site collection.
Timer jobs create and delete upgrade evaluation sites. The following timer jobs are used:
Timer jobs for upgrade evaluation site collections
|Job name
|When run
Create Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections (job-create-upgrade-eval-sites)
Creates upgrade evaluation sites.
Runs daily, between 1:00 and 1:30 AM
Delete Upgrade Evaluation Site (job-delete-upgrade-eval-sites)
Deletes expired upgrade evaluation sites and sends notifications for sites near their expiration date.
Runs daily, between 1:00 and 1:30 AM
Upgrade site collections (job-upgrade-sites)
Upgrades site collections in the queue for a content database.
Runs every 1 minute
You can decide when and how often these timer jobs run, and you can also run them manually.
The Create Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections job timer collects the list of site collections that were queued for evaluation sites, and then copies the sites to new URLs and Site IDs. It also adds the sites to the upgrade queue so that they will be picked up by the Upgrade Site Collections timer job later. To create the copy of the site:
If you have an Enterprise version of SQL Server, the Create Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections job timer takes a snapshot of the database and reads the data from the snapshot to a destination database (with the source database being the default target). This doesn't affect the read-only status of the source site throughout the whole process.
For other versions of SQL Server that do not have snapshot capabilities, the Create Upgrade Evaluation Site Collections job timer backs up a site collection and restores it to a new URL. This makes the source site read-only for the whole duration of the process.
The Upgrade Site Collections job collects the list of site collections that were queued for upgrade and then upgrades the queued sites from oldest to newest. The recently added evaluation site is then upgraded (or at least upgrade is tried).
To make sure that site collection upgrades do not cause an outage on your farm, there are throttles built in at the web application, database, and content level. This means that even if 100 site collection administrators decide to upgrade their site collections at the same time, only some are run at the same time, and the rest are put into a queue to run later.
Site collection upgrades are throttled:
Throttle levels for site collection upgrade
|Maximum number of site collections that can be upgraded at a time
|Property that controls the throttle setting
Web application
Default is 5 per web application instance.
Additional requests are queued.
SPWebApplication.SiteUpgradeThrottleSettings AppPoolConcurrentUpgradeSessionLimit
Content database
Default is 10 per content database.
Additional requests are queued.
If multiple sites are queued in one content DB, only one site at a time will be upgraded by one timer service instance. That behavior is by design.
The ConcurrentSiteUpgradeSessionLimit throttle affects all forms of site upgrades, including the ones that happen directly in w3wp (end-user initiated or in process upgrades) and administrative tools like Windows PowerShell (unless the farm administrator explicitly overrides the throttle, see below). The timer service has its own mechanism for distributing load independent of anything related to site upgrade. Content databases are distributed throughout the timer service instances in the farm, and all jobs for a given content database are processed by one and only one timer service instance, in a serial process. This means that only one site collection is being processed by the timer service in a given content database at a time, but different timer service instances could be processing the queue for multiple different content databases at once. While for independent reasons the timer service is not parallelized for processing a single content database, the timer service is not the only way that site collections can be upgraded. If the site collection is small, it will be upgraded synchronously in the process where the upgrade was initiated – typically w3wp.exe, but it could also be Windows PowerShell if the –QueueOnly flag was not specified. The concurrency limit primarily takes effect in this scenario.
Content of a site collection (size and number of subwebs)
Default is that a site that is more than 10 MB, or has more than 10 subwebs, cannot be upgraded in a self-service manner by the site collection administrator, but must be upgraded by the farm administrator.
SPWebApplication.SiteUpgradeThrottleSettings UsageStorageLimit and SubwebCountLimit
The following illustration shows the relationship between the web application and content database upgrade throttle limits.
Upgrade throttles and the site upgrade queue for web applications and content databases
In this illustration, the content database contains fifteen sites, and all sites were requested to start upgrade.
Because of the web application throttle limit, only five sites can start to upgrade for web application 1 - instance 1 on Web server 1.
An additional five sites start to upgrade on web application 1 - instance 2 on Web server 2.
Because of the content database throttle, five sites are sent to the upgrade queue to wait their turn.
You can use the default throttling settings, or you can specify your own values for how many site collections can be upgraded at the same time. Farm administrators can also override throttle settings when they upgrade a site by using PowerShell. Exercise caution when you change these values and make sure that you verify the settings that you want to use in a test environment before you implement them in production. If you increase throttling too much, you could create performance problems in your environment. For example, too many parallel upgrades could affect site rendering. For information about how to change these settings, see Manage site collection upgrades to SharePoint Server 2016.
In order to make it possible to upgrade site collections separately from upgrading content databases, SharePoint 2013 introduces the concept of site collection "modes" (also known as compatibility levels). Site collections are in 2010 mode in the new environment until they are specifically upgraded to 2013 mode. You can create new site collections in either mode. Although farm administrators can configure this setting, the default setting is to create sites in 2010 mode). When a site collection is in 2010 mode, the user interface resembles the SharePoint 2010 Products interface, and only features that were available in SharePoint 2010 Products are enabled. In 2013 mode, the interface and features are updated to SharePoint 2013.
You have to make sure that the solution packages, features, and other custom components are available for both site modes. For more information, see Create a plan for current customizations during upgrade to SharePoint 2013.
It is important to train users about how to upgrade their site collections and how to review their sites in an upgrade evaluation site collection. Educated users are prepared and know what to expect, which will minimize helpdesk support and frustrations.
Inform users about changes and new features. Also, let them know about possible issues that they can expect. For instance, they might have issues with customizations, such as pages that do not display correctly. For information about general upgrade issues, see Review site collections upgraded to SharePoint 2013 and Troubleshoot site collection upgrade issues in SharePoint 2013.
Explain to site collection administrators that their upgrade evaluation sites are copies, and any changes they make there will not persist in their upgraded sites. There is also a notification bar in the preview site that indicates that it is a copy.
By default, site collection administrators control upgrade for their sites. They can use upgrade evaluation site collections to preview the new user interface and features. This gives them time to make sure that everything works correctly, and they can address any issues in their original site before upgrading it. When site collection administrators are ready, they can upgrade their sites.
We recommend that you have a plan and set a time limit for how long to allow site collection administrators to postpone upgrade of their sites. For example, each site collection administrator may be given 90 days to work with his or her site collection administrators to evaluate and then upgrade their sites. This time limit makes sure that users are given a reasonable time to become familiar with the new user interface and to resolve any issues in their sites. Ensure that you communicate the time limit to the users, and that they know that you can force through an upgrade of all sites. Also, you can use a PowerShell command to check the compatibility level for sites in a content database so that you can see how many sites are in 2010 mode and how many are in 2013 mode. For more information, see Manage site collection upgrades to SharePoint Server 2016.
It is important to tell site collection administrators that as long as sites use the 2010 mode, new features will not be available. However, as soon as sites are upgraded to the new version, application features automatically appear.


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For Immediate Release
David Graham-Caso
(213) 387-6528 x214
23,000 Californians Join Conversation About Defeating Proposition 23
CREDO Action Joins the Sierra Club on Call to Educate, Activate Broad Community of Californians to Stand Against Proposition 23
LOS ANGELES - The Sierra Club and CREDO Action hosted a conference call Monday
evening to discuss the No on Proposition 23 campaign with Californians,
who will be voting on the measure on November 2. More than 23,000 people joined the call
to hear Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune and CREDO Action
president and co-founder Michael Kieschnick discuss the dirty energy
initiative and how the Sierra Club and CREDO Action will be working to
defeat Proposition 23 this fall.
"This November, voters will have a chance to decide if we will
continue to fight climate change, or if we are going to allow
out-of-state oil companies to undermine California law," Brune told
callers. "If California is going to lead our country towards a clean
energy future, we have to defeat Proposition 23."
Proposition 23 would effectively kill the bipartisan legislation
supported throughout California that will clean up air quality and
continue making California a global leader in combating climate change
by creating a market for clean, renewable energy. By trying to
undermine California's 2006 "Global Warming Solutions Act," Texas oil
companies and other dirty energy interests are jeopardizing the health
and safety of California families. To date, oil interests have donated
nearly $8,000,000, or roughly 97% of the money behind Proposition 23;
and three out-of-state companies (Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries)
have donated 80% of the money behind the dirty energy initiative.
"Proposition 23 is backed by Big Texas Oil companies and billionaire
climate science-deniers who are seeking to undermine California law so
they can keep profiting from their pollution,"said Kieschnick. "It is
incredibly important that people know how they can help defeat this
deceptive ballot initiative."
Monday's conference call launched the Sierra Club effort against
Proposition 23, which will educate and engage California voters in the
upcoming election. The Sierra Club and CREDO have set up offices around
California to help coordinate the massive "get out the vote" effort in
support of the campaign against Proposition 23 and will contact hundreds
of thousands of voters between now and Election Day to ensure
Californians know what is at stake in this election.
"The sheer volume of people who gave up part of their evening to
participate on this call is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
Californians who want to protect our state's progress fighting climate
change," Brune said. "I am confident that Californians are going to
stand up for clean energy development and against Texas oil companies on
Election Day. We are all going to work hard to make sure California
can continue leading the charge toward a clean energy future in
The Sierra Club is America's oldest and largest grassroots
environmental organization, with more than 1.3 million members and
supporters nationwide. The Sierra Club got its start in California more
than a century ago and is still very active in this state with more
than 150,000 members, 13 chapters, and its national headquarters in
For more information about the Sierra Club's effort against Proposition 23, please visit www.StandAgainstProp23.com.
The Sierra Club is the oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States. It was founded on May 28, 1892 in San Francisco, California by the well-known conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president. The Sierra Club has hundreds of thousands of members in chapters located throughout the US, and is affiliated with Sierra Club Canada.


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August 14, 2009
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She was never really Christian,
Any fool can plainly see—
Not a born-again believer
In the Holy Book, like me!…
She admits she had some questions;
She admits she had some doubts—
So it's not a bit surprising
She and God are on the outs
She was never quite committed
To a life within the church;
If she'd found the truth already,
Why have any need to search?
I don't trust this former preacher
And her story leaves me vexed—
You see, thinking is contagious
And I fear I could be next!
The Christian Post has a story on Teresa MacBain, the former Methodist pastor and newly named public relations director for American Atheists. The article itself is quite nice; it takes the time to explore her reasons for leaving her faith, and does not shy away from describing the reaction from her family, friends, and community.
"My husband and kids were fine, they knew that things had changed for me, but extended family, I lost those relationships. I lost all of my friendships except for one couple. I have one maybe from the church that I'm still in contact with, but initially they were all just very angry. They locked me out of the church and it took me some months to collect my belongings. It was a very difficult situation," MacBain explained about reaction to her initial announcement.
There were those from the church who tried to reach out and speak to her, but those discussions did not go far.
"One pastor that was a former colleague of mine did reach out immediately and I went and sat down and talked to him. He discussed everything and let me share. It was kind of an intense conversation, but after that I haven't heard from that person anymore. I'm not really sure, I guess he just wanted to find some answers," she said.
The fun, of course, is in the comments. No True Scotsmen abound–this woman who spent two decades in the ministry was clearly not really a Christian.
There are two lessons here (well, there are probably many more, but anyway…) One is that some people will go to astonishing lengths to distance themselves, to protect themselves, from the possibility that this thing they believe in, that defines who they are, could conceivably disappear one day (seriously, take a look at the comments!). But another lesson is that not all people will do this. Ms. MacBain is an example.
I remember, back when I was a born-again Christian, my pastor actively encouraged us to doubt, to ask questions, to explore. His faith was unshakeable that any questions we could possibly ask would be answered in favor of his world view, which included an inerrant bible and a personal relationship with Jesus. Our pastor did not want us to believe simply because he told us to; he wanted us to believe because what we believed was the truth. And you cannot know something is true without testing it.
So, yeah, one of the big reasons I am an atheist is because my pastor had the faith not just to question his own belief, but to tell the members of his church to question as well. (Mind you, it took moving away from that part of the state, and eventually moving away from that state, to begin to get answers from a more knowledgeable place; for years, all questions were answered by experts who also were believers.)


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Town Square
Getting along
Original post made by MOTHER OF 4, Birdland, on Jul 19, 2012
Comments (34)
a resident of Jensen Tract
on Jul 19, 2012 at 8:11 am
We too did the Neighborhood Garage Sale - in Jensen Tract - I had this discussion with a woman who lived in another neighborhood and none of her neighbors got along. I am fortunate here - many of the people on my street - were here when I was younger - long term people. We all get along and take care of one another - thanks in large part to our Neighborhood Watch I think and for knowing each other for many, many years. I agree - can't we all just get along!
a resident of Country Fair
on Jul 19, 2012 at 8:39 am
Count your Blessings that you had a good garage sale. We often have a block neighborhood garage sale but we have one grouchy young man who must have a mental problem. If anyone parks even close to his drive way, the man comes completely apart. He starts to cuss people out and informs them that they can't park there. He is so nasty that it darkens the mood of people having the garage sales. He even puts his garbage cans out on the street and puts ' No Parking " signs on them.
He stands behind his gate waiting for anyone to park close to his house.I used to take him food on Holidays or whenever I baked ,i would share with him. But , no longer ,as he flipped me the bird when we were having one of our sales. To this day, I no longer consider him a friend muchless a nice neighbor. He gets very upset and loud
at people. However, he does attend the August Good Guy Show here in Pleasanton, so on that Saturday, we are planning on a sale as we know he will be attending at 7 A.M. on Saturday August 25th,2012, he calls this the only vacation he takes. How sad that we have to walk on egg shells because of such a grouch. Consider yourselves very lucky that you don't have to put up with this NUT CAKE !!!!
a resident of Pleasanton Heights
on Jul 19, 2012 at 9:04 am
There are too few people with the common sense or courtesy to know how be really be good neighbors.
Illegal or inconsiderate parking can be a huge problem. During neighborhood garage sales I have had people park IN my driveway, as well as across it blocking me from getting in or out. They yell at me if I ask them to move. When my neighbors moved in they allowed the moving truck to completely block my driveway, without ever telling me. I was prevented from getting out for the entire day and had to cancel all of my appointments. Off to a real bad start there as neighbors. Others think that a barking dog is not an annoyance. Or kids with late night parties. One guy put in outdoor speakers and pointed them at my house, now he plays music late every night. Then there is the woman so concerned about her security that she has spotlights that are on all night every night, and they shine directly into my bedroom.
This angry Birdland neighbor sounds a bit over the top. However, if people would just stop and THINK about how what they are doing will affect their neighbors most ill will could be prevented.
a resident of Mohr Park
on Jul 19, 2012 at 9:08 am
In the 20 years we've been here, we have had both long-term neighbors and neighbors who move in and out. The house next door is a rental, so we've had 10+ different neighbors through there. We've gotten to be close to some, and just aquatances with others, but defininately enjoy the multi-cultural aspect our street has developed. One thing we all have in common, we moved to Pleasanton to give our children opportunities to have a good education and safe area to grow up - a bonus is the acceptance of others beliefs, culture, and lifestyle. Yes, there's been occasional friction, but that is usually when neighbors don't get to know and communicate to one another - just assuming or viewing an infringement on "their" property rights. For "Tom" above - have you ever gently, without accusation ever approached your neighbor and asked him what the problem is, or maybe include him in the planning? You are probably right that the weekend of the Goodguys is the best for him.
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Jul 19, 2012 at 9:34 am
Mother of 4- pretty funny! You ask why all of us can't get along and then you slap us upside the head as "intruders". As usual, Pleasanton residents think they are held in higher esteem with their "values". The values you are projecting are not values that I would be proud to have.
a resident of Birdland
on Jul 19, 2012 at 12:55 pm
I don't know why some ICONOCLASTS think its okay not to sign their kids up for lots of activities. Why is it wrong that my child is #1? Could it be that you're ashamed of your own kids not being #1 at everything? I just don't understand why my one-upmanship doesn't appeal to some OUTSIDERS who haven't lived here as long. People need to learn that they must CONFORM to the expectations of the commune. PRIVATE ownership means the burden is on you to be what neighbors expect you to be and that you act just like them. It is this DIVERSITY in our exceedingly DIVERSE city that makes it such a great place to live.
a resident of Vineyard Avenue
on Jul 19, 2012 at 3:50 pm
We have been hear 37 years and most of out neighbors have been great. The street that we live on is a dead end street. There are 11 houses on the street and 4 out of the 11 are 37 yr owners. As the neighbor hood changed it has been wonderful to learn about our new neighbors. Some years ago we had a neighbor who thought it was his job to run all our lives. He was constantly calling the police over thing he perceived to be a crime. He had an alcohol problem and did finely move. Then is when we learned how bad the inside of his house was. He had a blind dog and a cat or 2 and they were not let outside so they used the whole house as a bathroom. When he sold we were so happy we almost had a party. The people who bought the house had to be completely gut to the 1st floor foundation and start over. There are good neighbors and bad neighbors . Right now we are a great bunch. LOVE MY NEIGHBORS!
a resident of Stoneridge
on Jul 19, 2012 at 4:02 pm
We used to have a good nieghborhood. BART went in and then a couple of Democrats moved in. There very diseased and there kids think they are better then mine because there jealous. I cannot understand how people want to chain the brains to the feet of the master, his holyness Obama.
a resident of Parkside
on Jul 19, 2012 at 6:19 pm
Chris, about your values, or lack thereof, try Dublin or Livermore....or maybe berserkely.
Really.....if you consider yourself an intruder, then move on. We have higher standards, whereas you do not. You can criticize your neighbors or get the hell out.
a resident of Highland Oaks
on Jul 19, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Boundaries are important.
a resident of Downtown
on Jul 19, 2012 at 9:37 pm
Expect me to get along with my lunatic neighbor? the female dog that got me fired from my job? sorry-
a resident of Foothill High School
on Jul 19, 2012 at 10:28 pm
"I mean, it's true that our area has become more and more intruded upon people that don't share our historic "Pleasanton values"."
You just answered your own question. Your idea of "getting along" is for the newcomers to adapt to you, as if they were "intruding" in "your" town.
Pleasanton belongs to the people who live and work in the city, whether they are homeowners or renters, whether they arrived last week or are sixth generation descendants.
If you can't accept that, and learn to live with it, then you won't be able to "get along".
a resident of Golden Eagle
on Jul 20, 2012 at 1:00 am
I'm going to say it. I know I'm not the only one that thinks it. Some of our newer residents lack appropriate manners and are rude. And yes, it's a culture thing. If you're honest, you'll admit a nationality difference between yourself and 9 of 10 people that cut you off. You'll notice a difference in the same when someone invades your personal space zone when at a store or anywhere else. You'll see the same when the lady in front if you has 25 items in a quick check and pretends not to know. These are the people with ten or more people living in a dwelling meant for four. They are the same ones that will often bump you with their cart or push you aside if they want something even if you were there first. Why come here if you want to live as you did before? Do you want to just take from the US, but do nothing to become a productive member if society or even your neighborhood?
By the way, my multicultural neighbor moved in about six months ago and twice I have caught him video taping my two teenage girls who were in MY front yard. I tried to explain that this was not acceptable here, and he pretended not to understand a word of English.
And by the way, if someone wants to come here they need to leave English first. It's so expensive for government Agencies, utilities, hospitals, private business ........to provide translation services. It should be that you cannot come unless you can speak basic English and no translation services are required but can be paid by the person.
Okay, I will get off my soapbox now.
a resident of Jensen Tract
on Jul 20, 2012 at 8:12 am
Regarding the neighbor who puts his garbage cans out with No Parking signs on them on your garage sale day and yells at people and flips you the bird. You need to call the police. He cannot 'harrass' you or your 'customers' and it is illegal for him to put No Parking signs on a public street.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Jul 20, 2012 at 8:17 am
Steven: If you can't spell NEIGHBORHOOD correctly, don't bash your NEIGHBORS - spend some time educating yourself instead. There's a difference between there, their, they're. Learn it.
a resident of Bridle Creek
on Jul 20, 2012 at 8:34 am
Whoa! Looks like Melissa has put up a "No Misspelling" sign and flipped Steven the bird. ccwc, call the police! Looks like someone needs to try harder to be a good neighbor to Steve.
a resident of Del Prado
on Jul 20, 2012 at 8:54 am
Melissa, it looks like a typing mistake that Steve did and don't see the reason to make a big deal about his spelling...Get a life!!
a resident of Del Prado
on Jul 20, 2012 at 9:16 am
Nate, you really stuck your neck out with that one, but I agree wholeheartedly. I am so frustrated at the way we are no longer a melting pot, but rather a "salad bar". It has become increasingly evident that many people from other countries who are coming to America for the wonderful opportunities we have here, do not want to assimilate to their new home, but rather choose to live just as they lived in the culture they left. I believe preserving your heritage and culture is extremely important, but I believe assimilating into the culture you have chosen to live is important too! We should not all live with a salad bar mentality (keeping every item separate from each other), but rather have the desire for everyone to meld together...it takes an effort on everyone's part. I certainly love to learn about other people's culture when they show an interest in learning about mine! Not so much when "the neighbor" wants nothing to do with our American culture or any "Americans" living around them. (my use of "Americans" refers to people of any nationality who desire to be part of the whole community, not just a specific culture.)
a resident of Birdland
on Jul 20, 2012 at 9:28 am
liberalism is a disease is a registered user.
Here, here, Nate. Thanks for courageously stating what many of our residents believe, despite the vocal minority that pretends to be tolerant of all offenses that impact others, but not them (yet).
I'm disgusted by the elitists who want to dictate how we should live and how we should forego our quality of life for others that are migrating here, wither voluntarily of through the coercion of appointees of govt agencies (ABAG). Yet, they'd never consider breaking up communities like Chinatown, Little Saigon, or Tijuana North becasue of their exclusiveness or insulated cultures. The left's double standards and hypocrisy are so predictable and thoughtless.
a resident of Parkside
on Jul 20, 2012 at 9:51 am
Love all of my neighbors~ Watching all of our children grow
up thru Elementary, Jr High, High School and now College has been a wonderful experience. An amazing group of children and young adults the whole community can be proud of. Thank you PMS & Foothill Teachers! Our neighbors watch out for each other and have developed deep friendships. Pleasanton has been a wonderful place to live and we will never leave.
a resident of Country Fair
on Jul 20, 2012 at 10:17 am
Looks like we are getting carried away from our topic. Getting along
is very hard to do.We are only human but this is not the excuse that we should use in our daily lives. I'm not saying that I'm holier than thou, by no means, I too am guilty of not being nice. However, when you lose Respect for a neighbor that in itself is not a good thing.My evil tempered neighbor who I considered a friend has a definite problem.Every Saturday he is out dressed in hip rubber boots and old torn jeans raking the dirt around his front yard, he gets into a mood to the point he gets " Beet Red " in the face and he is applying his anger to Mother Earth. The poor thing is going to have a massive heart attack one of these days. He looks for what he thinks are the bad things people do and he punishes those around him. I've gotten to the point that I just ignore and shake my head at his daily undertakings.The guy needs mental help but does not see him self needing love and caring people. I try to be considerate of him but watching him day after day destroying himself and making it difficult for his neighbors and the entire neighborhood. You can bring the horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Best to fully ingnore
the poor soul.Hope I'm not around when he hangs himself. After being friends for over eleven years we've lost that consideration and respect orver a damn garage sale. How very sad !!! For Him and for me.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 20, 2012 at 1:34 pm
Well since Nate stared generalizing,I'm going to as well. For the most part, foreigners that move to Pleasanton are working hard and do not accept excuses from their children when they do not act appropriately in school. Take a look at our GATE classes and you will see that it is a mix of culture. So Nate, your argument of learning English and other racial generalizations is not accurate.
Furthermore, as someone who is involved in our schools, it is often the parents with "Pleasanton" values that cause the most difficulty. The average family is amazing and dedicated to their children. But the families with the children who are the most difficult tend to come from wealthy families, who have a "this town serves me" attitude.
Guess I stuck my neck out as well.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 20, 2012 at 1:36 pm
To Nate,
I'm going to say it. I can't figure out if you're writing a comedy satire like "The Colbert Report" or if you are serious. "And yes, it's a culture thing. If you're honest, you'll admit a nationality difference between yourself and 9 of 10 people that cut you off." Where do you drive? most of the people who cut me off look like they live in Danville or Pleasanton. It sounds as if your life is an onslaught of hardships. If you are the victim of so may petty insults, the common thread is you - you are are the cause of the insults.
My family has lived internationally (born and bred in the Midwest and California, descended from the US revolution). Overseas the US is viewed as a rich and free country, and admired. But people from the US are mocked as insular, ignorant, prudish, uneducated. Your messages in this thread help support these prejudices. How many languages can you speak, or countries have you visited? In other words, what do you know about multiculturalism?
We should get together sometime over a drink to discuss these topics.
a resident of Kottinger Ranch
on Jul 20, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Steve.......please note there was no reason to slam me and tell me to move. My comment was related to the fact that this mother of 4 asks why we all can't get along and then promptly smacks us upside the head when she calls us intruders.
Additionally, Nate.......the people that are discourteous in the express lane at the grocery are not just people of color and democrats. Every discussion on here comes back to these 2 things every time. Get over it and move to the midwest if you like everyone white, rich and republican.
Need I say more about living in this "fabulous" city. Yes, that is sarcasm speaking as Pleasanton is anything but!
a resident of Vineyard Avenue
on Jul 20, 2012 at 11:48 pm
We have four couples in our neighborhood that represent eight ethnic groups. They are Swedish and Surie Lankin(sp?). Chinese and Japanese, Mexican and East Indian. British and South African. ALL of them are great neighbors.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 21, 2012 at 5:05 pm
Nate, Your new neighbors have kids that are smarter than yours, take your jobs because they are better, and can speak at least one foreign language. And they are in front of you at the grocery store. Who is better for the city and country? What are these Pleasanton values you talk about?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 22, 2012 at 2:59 am
I was really nervous about moving here from the midwest, because of the traffic and fast pace of life. "Everybody's always moving from one place to another! They never want to make new friends! They work long hours and don't have any time to help each other out!" That's what they told me about sunny California.
And yet I've found that "good fences make good neighbors" just like in the midwest and the northeast. Maybe we have been lucky with the neighbors in our court (and even behind us on the next street.) We needed to redo our backyard fence, and we share property lines with 5 different houses. I was really nervous about making our neighbors angry. The owners and tenants come from *all* *over* the world, and we took the time to talk about it with all the neighbors before we started work on the fence. Out of the 5, 4 helped to pay for the part of the fence that they shared with us. (With the tenants, it was the landlords who paid, and I was really surprised at that! I thought the "greedy" real estate management companies would resist, but I was wrong.)
Sometimes neighbors can be a little mentally unstable, no matter where they come from. (We had some like that in the midwest too, but most of them had lived in their houses way, way longer than us. I could tell you stories about crochety old ladies!) That's no fun. But when new folks move into your neighborhood, please do what you can to welcome them.
Remember those old-fashioned values about taking a new neighbor some cookies, or some oranges from the tree in your backyard? (That's not just a midwestern thing, is it? In the midwest we were always trying to get rid of zucchini and beans, but here it's oranges and lemons.)
If you reach out to newcomers before you have had any problems, then you may be pleasantly surprised how much easier it is to talk with them reasonably if something comes up later that's a point of tension.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Jul 22, 2012 at 8:04 am
This is a cowcasion country founded by cowcasion people. Now cowcasions are last in line for schools, jobs, and groceries. Trouble is all the liberal attitude says its okay for ethnics to come over hear and get put in line before us. But its all a plot by liberals. What is it about the liberal attitude that makes it okay for them to cut me off on the highway and stop cowcasion kids like mine from going to Standford.? Its a disease. Liberalism. (See how many Suree Lankens are doing the US proud in the olympics. Its all cowcasions that do the heavy work. I rest my point.)
a resident of Stoneridge
on Aug 4, 2012 at 6:51 pm
Steven, this whole thread would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. So its the Democrats and liberals who cause all the problems? All of them? Across the board?
Well, I have news for you. Perhaps you should consider that the real root of the problem and the lack of being able to get along is your elitism and holier than thou attitude, sense of entitlement and exculsivity that causes the mass majority of issues around the neighborhood and in America in general. Perhaps if you took some time to realize that you really aren't better than anyone else, you would find that its easier to get along with others. But I guess you really can't see it since you are obviously one of those awesome, smart, "christian," COWcasions.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 4, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Steven is a union troll trying to get a rise out of people who have an "image" in their head about republicans. You are on the same side. Sigh . . .
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Aug 4, 2012 at 10:33 pm
To This is hilarious, Are you new to this site? You DO know, or can't you TELL, Steven, is a farse and pretender, He tries to write dumb, and throw in words that are suppose to lead you to believe he's a right winger. WRONG. In fact he's very left. He WANTS to appear dumb and mean, etc.
Just another form of dirty politics, That's a tactic when you can't win with ideas, try games. Usually most try to ignore him and the others that try the same stupidity. They're really easy to spot, once you see through their lack of depth. So childish and pathetic.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Aug 5, 2012 at 8:52 am
Honestly and Observer are both union paid trolls to descredit honest white middle class people like most of us are admit it.
Unable to deal with real ideas, there tacktic is to call other posers trolls that should'nt be listened too. Do either Honestly or Observer offer anything but charecter assesination? See what I mean?
And Hilariess, what about you? You assume I'm Christian just because your a liberal thats' on the same side as all the other GODless liberal loons and trolls that domenate the forum. Your as hilariess as Hilary the sumbmissive secratary. Go take your unfoundered opinions some place else.
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 18, 2012 at 12:54 pm
can we all get along...signed, thievee
a resident of Livermore
on Aug 18, 2012 at 12:58 pm
i must agree with Observer that theevee is a hairless wimp...yup, a wimp that's balding!
theevee is not christian, he's Catholic...
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CLEVELAND -- Mired in an 0-for-20 slump, Red Sox outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. found himself on the bench for Tuesday night's game against the Indians, even with right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez pitching for Cleveland.
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Drew gets night off, Ciriaco starts at shortstop
CLEVELAND -- Red Sox shortstop Stephen Drew got the night off on Tuesday after playing five straight games in his return from the disabled list.
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South Ventana Cone Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|From China Camp
Date Climbed: Feb 1, 2014
|Given its proximity to the Pine Ridge Trail this peak sees infrequent visitors based on the register entries. The result is no use trail and a bushwhack. Summit register located at the southeast end of the peak. The views are worth the shwack to the top.
|Posted Feb 1, 2014 7:26 pm
|Dayhike from China Camp
Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2012
|Northwest slope from the Pine Ridge Trail.
We left the Pine Ridge Trail a few hundred feet before the Black Cone Trail junction but soon turned back because the brush was too thick for our liking (we are Ventana bushwhacking novices) and didn't look to get any thinner ahead. So we headed a short distance back down the Pine Ridge Trail (away from the Black Cone Trail junction) and then headed up again, choosing a steeper aspect that looked to have more trees and less brush. Fortunately, soon after leaving the PR trail for the second time we came across a faint use trail/game trail that led to a campfire ring just below the summit plateau. From that point, we pushed through 50 feet of horrendous brush then scrambled up some loose dirt and rocks to the summit plateau.
From the top it looked like there might be a promising route on the southwest slope back down to the Black Cone Trail, but we didn't chance going down that way, as we did not know the state of the Black Cone Trail.
It was a sweet Ventana adventure, and the views from the top are awesome. Someday I'll try for the Ventana Cone once I forget how much I hate bushwhacking.
|Posted Apr 23, 2012 3:46 pm
|From China Camp
Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2012
|I enjoyed the views along the way and from the peak. If I head back to the Tassajara Road area again, I may opt to spend more time exploring Pine Valley and less time bushwacking to reach summits. As I already knew from previous experience and from reading, the non-burned off-trail chapparal areas of the Ventana can be almost impenetrable. The family and I stopped by the Chews Ridge lookout on the way out the next day.
|Posted Mar 12, 2012 4:52 am
|With Ventana Cone
Date Climbed: May 8, 2011
|Dayhike in from China Camp to Ventana Cone, then over to South Ventana Cone. Very cloudy most of the day. The CCC was in the process of cutting back and clearing the trail portion, had completed the first four miles or so.
|Posted May 9, 2011 5:10 pm
|From Big Sur Station
Date Climbed: Nov 20, 2006
|Very nice but very long day hike from Big Sur Station. Bushwhacked up from the Black Cone Trail, but I did a terrible job of route selection on the way down and ended up being scratched and coated in resin and leaves.
|Posted Nov 22, 2006 10:15 pm
|April 2003
|Bushwhacked up from the Black Cone Trail, not far from the Pine Ridge Trail junction. Really enjoyed the views.
|Posted Sep 18, 2006 2:19 pm
|Bob Burd
|Ventana Triple Crown
Date Climbed: May 29, 2006
|Hoo - boy. Finally successful at tagging all three of the peaks along Pine Ridge in one long, 20hr dayhike with Michael Graupe. Trip Report
|Posted Jun 16, 2006 2:46 am
|Route Climbed: From Pine Ridge Date Climbed: 22-Nov-2003, 17-Jan-2004
|Quite cold in November, quite hot in January. (Jan trip was with Bob/Matt below.)
Pics from the Nov trip are here
|Posted Jun 17, 2004 9:23 pm
|Matthew Holliman
|Route Climbed: From Pine Ridge Date Climbed: Jan 18, 2003; Jan 17, 2004
|Hiked with Bob both times. It was hot both times.
|Posted Apr 29, 2004 8:59 pm
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: From Pine Ridge Date Climbed: 4/16/02 - 1/18/03 - 1/17/04
|The route gets a little harder each year as the chaparral grows back that ravaged the northwest side of the peak some five years ago. Trip Report
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City lights threaten rain forests by deterring bats
Fruit-eating bats play an important role in forest regeneration, collecting and spreading seeds far and wide. However, human development may be stymying bat-mediated dispersal. In a new study published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, researchers found that fruit bats avoid feeding in light-polluted areas, which may significantly affect forest growth.
Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin (IZW), undertook the study in Costa Rica, and focused on Sowell's short-tailed bats (Carollia sowelli), a species found throughout Central America and Mexico. The findings of their study indicate that artificial lights may deter these bats from feeding on fruit and spreading seeds by 25 to 50 percent.
Daniel Lewanzik, a researcher at IZW, divided a cage into two compartments. One was naturally dark and the other was illuminated by a sodium street lamp – the most common form of street lamp in the world. The bats were offered the same fruits in each compartment: pepper plants, nightshade and figs.
In a second experiment, Lewanzik illuminated pepper plants growing in the wild with a street lamp and measured the amount of fruit bats harvested from the plants compared with plants in dark areas.
The results revealed the bats flew into the dark compartment twice as often as the lit compartment, and harvested fruits twice as often in the dark compartment. Lewanzik also found that bats harvested 100 percent of the ripe fruit from wild plants in the dark, but only 78 percent from plants lit by the street lamps.
Frugivorous vertebrates, or animals that feed on fruit such as Sowell's short-tailed bat, are vital in the dispersal of seeds in tropical habitats. Scientists estimate that up to 90 percent of tropical trees and shrubs use vertebrates to disperse their seeds.
Lewanzik said that while many insect-eating bats are known to avoid foraging in light-polluted areas, this is the first study to show that fruit-eating bats also avoid artificially lit areas
"Sowell's short-tailed bats in particular are known to traverse open areas, thereby producing a heavy seed rain in Central American rain forests," Lewanzik said.
The issue is not restricted to bats, with other animal species also affected by artificial light in their natural habitats.
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Summaries of EU Legislation
Summaries of EU legislation: direct access to the main summaries page.
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International investments: towards a comprehensive European policy
The European Union (EU) establishes the foundations of a new European policy as regards international investments. This policy should be based on the new powers attributed to the EU to remove the obstacles to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) transactions. Whilst the EU is the leading issuer of and global destination for FDI, emerging markets are becoming more and more active in this area.
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - Towards a comprehensive European international investment policy [COM(2010) 343 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The Commission presents a strategy to prepare a new European policy for international investment.
Since the adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union (EU) has exclusive competence to introduce the progressive liberalisation of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) transactions *. A new European policy should thus enable the treatment of foreign investors in the EU to be improved, and access for European investors to third-country markets to be facilitated.
The foundations of a common policy
European investors in third countries should be able to benefit from a favourable and stable environment, particularly in countries where the legal, political or economic conditions are insufficient to guarantee the certainty of investments. Thus, at the present time, EU countries conclude Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with third countries, in order to obtain guarantees on the treatment of their investors. However, this situation creates unequal conditions of competition between European investors.
In the future, the EU should obtain guarantees through trade negotiations. Its trade partners should commit to protecting and facilitating the flow of all forms of European investment. The EU may also conclude stand-alone investment agreements with certain countries (in particular with China or Russia), in order to increase the degree of cooperation in one specific trade sector or for all types of investments.
Foreign investors in the EU should in turn benefit from a level playing field and uniform and optimum conditions.
Finally, a common policy should enable investors' needs to be better addressed at every stage (planning, admission to a country, etc.). EU countries should also be able to adopt measures to promote investment, at national, regional and local levels, in particular through tax incentives or technical assistance.
A common negotiation agenda
Each trade partnership is unique, according to existing relations between partner States. Nevertheless, the Commission identifies a number of principles which should frame its future negotiations as regards international investments. These are:
- selection criteria for partner countries, which take into account the guarantees offered to European investors (fair and predictable treatment, political and institutional stability, economic potential, etc) and the degree of trade cooperation;
- the treatment of investment-related fields, in order to cover all transactions concerning the acquisition or establishment of enterprises (costs of fund transfers, payments, intellectual property rights, etc);
- investment protection standards, specifically concerning the fair treatment of investors, legal certainty, the principle of proportionality of public action and also expropriation rights and the freedom to transfer funds;
- the implementation of commitments concerning FDI, for example to guarantee transparency or the proper regulation of litigation;
- States' international responsibility, in particular concerning the payment of financial compensation.
These principles are to be formalised by a Commission Recommendation.
Key terms
- Foreign Direct Investment: any foreign investment which serves to establish lasting and direct links with an undertaking whose capital is employed to carry out an economic activity. Such investments may enable shareholders to participate in the management or control of a company.
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing transitional arrangements for bilateral investment agreements between Member States and third countries [COM(2010) 344 final - Not published in the Official Journal]. The Commission proposes a transitional framework for implementing international investment agreements. This framework should allow existing agreements to be maintained and conditions to be laid down for future agreements.
Codecision procedure: (COD/2010/197)
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2014 and Earlier Chevrolet Traverse Lease Questions
I spoke to the lease manager @ my local Chevy dealer and he confirmed that based on the appraisal @ the end of the lease and the residual the customer is entitled to the difference which they could use as a down payment or be given a check and just walk away. Since my 2010 has extremely low mileage and is in mint condition, he told me currently I could be looking @ around $2,000. I just wanted to see if other GM dealers would have a higher appraisal.
Edmunds itself states customers could have equity in their lease cars.
db05 Posts: 1I have a deal at a Chevy Dealer for a Traverse 2LT with moon roof and leather seats. The MSRP is 41,340 and the final price is 37,165. They offered me a lease at 387 a month with $8,300 down for 36 months, 15k a year mileage with a buy at $23,151
The 8,300 seems like a large down-payment on a lease. Can someone help me out? Is this a good deal.
vladlink1990 Posts: 3Hey I got a deal for the same exact car 387/mo but with $3,095 down including 1st month payment, taxes, fees from Exotic Motor World in New Jersey.
With no GM pull Ahead Program available I am considering paying off my last 4 lease payments.
I would like to lease another 2014 Chevy LTZ Traverse before fall.
The current incentives end 09/03/13 and I don't know what the new incentives will be.
Would it be wise to do this now or should I wait and see what the new incentives will be first?
I brought home a fully loaded MSRP $49,540 2014 Chevy Traverse LTZ and got an amazing deal! I priced this car at 12 different dealerships and none could even come close!!
Since this was a 2014 there is really no Chevy incentives except the $500 cash back!
I am not a sucker and I stood my ground and told all 12 dealerships this is the only deal I would make.
Anyway here is my deal!
I got OVER 5 thousand off sticker. My lease paperwork shows I bought this car for $44,000. I leased it and with 15k miles per year and a residual value of 58% and $3000 total cash out of pocket that was applied to my NJ taxes, first month payment and all dealer fees, license plates etc.
The GM even bought my family dinner and told me to only give him $2,830 and to keep the other $170 for a steak dinner on him!
WOW!!!! All other dealerships the other 11 were just greedy and stupid and would rather make nothing then move a car!!
Veh MSRP $49,540 (fully loaded)
36 MONTH lease
$2830 total cash out of pocket
15K MILES per year
$459 month payment
Financing through ALLY (800 credit score)
Deal was done on July 23, 2013
No back door fees and a deal that 11 other greedy dealerships could not touch!!!
All reading don't be a sucker and stand your ground and tell
the dealerships where to go if they don't like your numbers and what you want to pay!!!
Dealer ships always make money and don't believe the stupid invoice prices and dealer incentives are just extra money dealerships pocket!
Invoice prices are no where near what a dealer pays for that car!!
I read some of you got suckered into 39 months or putting more then $5000 cash down these are signs of you being taken from Behind!!
You should always stick to a 10% off MSRP price to negotiate your deal. $50,000 car $5000 off sticker, $30,000 car $3000
Off sticker!!
I have been leasing cars for 15 years and this has always worked for me!!!
That is an amazing deal. I have only dealt with 3 different dealerships on leasing a Chevy Traverse LTZ ( and @ all 3 dealerships are telling me I would need at least 5 to 6000 down on 48 month lease @ nearly $500 per month. Plus the LTZ I wanted was not fully loaded (MSRP 45,000) . How did you do it?
I need your expertise fast
Hi, I stood my ground!!! Dealerships are very desperate right now. Look at all the car commercials on TV. I know most dealerships will give you and push a deal on a 2013 because of the money rebates available from GM.
Out of the 12 dealerships, only one other came close to this deal. That dealership offered me a similar deal but at $479 on a 2014 TRAVERSE LTZ with a MSRP of $48,700. It did not have the hit to road package and all weather resistant mats..
They would not budge on the $479 and they had 10 2014 Traverse LTZ in stock!!
That is the funny thing!!! 10 of these in stock and another dealership with only one in stock with a higher MSRP BEAT their deal !!
Also the other dealership wanted to use US bank which I heard has back door fees and microscopes the car when you return it!!
When you say you stood your ground was it the:
Monthly lease price?
Money Down?
10% off MSRP?
or all 3?
You are right about them pushing the 2013 but I really want the 2014!
My only options were the Navigation system and sunroof.
Not too many dealers here in Pittsburgh have any 2014 in stock
Stand your ground!!!! Find out what the real invoice price of the vehicle you choose is!! Like my car MSRP was $49540 and my Invoice price was $46297. Once you know the true invoice price of vehicle alway negotiate the deal to get the vehicle for $2000 under invoice!!! This is really easy to do but 2014's just came out and most dealerships are just plan greedy and will wait for a sucker buyer!!
This deal that I got will be super easy to get at the end of November!!! Reason being the greedy dealerships will have plenty of rebates to still line their pockets with!!!
But if you need this car now, try to wait for Sept. 4 when a new program will be out with some extra dealer cash and plenty of these Ltz will be available!!
The funny thing I did when i brought my new baby home was emailed the 11 dealerships that lost in selling me a car and told me they could not come close to my deal, I sent pictures of my new car, a picture of my window sticker and a picture of my lease agreement contract with all important #s and told them all to where to stick their cars and deals offered to me!!!
I loved sticking it in their rear after they cried the deal I was asking for was impossible!!!
andremike Posts: 41Can someone twll me the residuals, money factor and current incentives for leasing a traverse right now?
Most dealerships incentives would be how far you can bend over!!! Residual value is 58% with 15k which is not bad!!
There is only $500 cash back on 14's at this time!!
You tell them what you want to pay and if they don't like it tell them to lick your balls!!
Worked for me!!!
Car places always make money and they always cry poverty!! Always find out veh invoice price and tell them you want them to work out the numbers with the veh $2000 below invoice price!!
What ever they sticker price is, take 10% off and and that is the number to work out your deal to!!!
If they do like it too bad!!!
Go from dealer to dealer and one will be sure to bite!!!
Btw this car is really nice but has horrible gas millage!!! Like 12 mpg!!! That is my only compliant so far!!!
kavtil Posts: 1Please tell me the name of the dealership in NJ. I live in NY and this is the exact car I want at the same price.
Thank you
I'm looking for a LS AWD.
The current offer on the Chevy website is:
245/month, 36 months, 4227 due at signing, 15,000 per year, at $33,370 MSRP... this is basically a $362/month payment with no money down.
If the equivalent invoice price is $30,385 after a $1,500 factory rebate and dealer discount, what would you want your monthly payments to be assuming no money down?
Thank you so much!
bottom line you are getting taken like the movie!!!. tell the dealership the only deal you will make is him knocking $5000 off sticker and you will be only putting $2000 down toward your taxes, first payment and all dealer fees.
You want 15K per year a 36 month lease and will only pay $299 a month.
This is a 2013 and the dealer is making a ton of back door money to get rid of these basic trashy models. So many basic model 2013 LS are around and if you go to at least 10 dealerships one will be sure to take this as your final offer.
Remember all dealerships are just trying to rear end you! You tell them what you want to pay bottom line.
I did look at a 2013 LTZ AWD Fully loaded with a MSRP of 47K and with $3000 down and 15K per year 36 month lease the dealer would have done the deal for $368 a month.
Just remember you will always get screwed no matter what deal you make!!
saddle up!!!
Thanks! The deal I listed is their advertised internet special, but it was still based off of MSRP so I figured there was still a good amount of wiggle room. The first dealer I went to told me that the invoice rate was only $700 under the MSRP so I shouldn't even bother negotiating. Needless to say I'll be finding a new dealer.
Side note: I live in Oregon so we don't have a sales tax thankfully.
I was guessing (because I don't exactly know how to do the math), that something at $0 down, $329 a month would be doing the deal "near invoice". Is that an acceptable offer? Good? Bad? Ugly? If money down is required then I'd just take it straight off the monthly payments.
Any idea??
Leased 2014 Traverse LTZ last week had 10 miles on it. Pittsburgh, Pa
Turned back in leased 2010 LT1 Traverse 17500 miles only options were rearview camera and steps.
Options on 2014 were:
My Link Navigation System
Black Metallic Color
Hit The Road Package
Chrome Steps
Cargo Convenience Package(included Cargo Security Shade)
No Money Down/39 months
CAP Cost $41,944
Rebates $1420
Lease Payment $404
Annual Mileage 10,000 miles
You got a good deal as long as you don't put on a lot of
Miles. 10k a year would not work for me. My last leased car was a honda and I had 15k miles per year and still went over by 7k miles at end of lease. Honda is awesome and ate $1100 worth of those miles and I only had to pay $700!!
I don't think GM would do that!! I almost bought a pilot touring but liked this truck better!!! Onstar is cool with phone app! But after they 6 months onstar will try to hit you with crazy fees to continue!
Does anyone know about the tow hitch package.. I got a hitch package and I got a wire in my glove box that does not fit into anything.. I did not
Get a wire that can fit the socket next to hitch. Anyone get this wire!!
I retired a few years ago so I don't drive that much.
As you can tell by the Traverse I turned in with only 17,000 miles and nearly 4 years old.
I would have had less than that but I took a road trip to see my son in Florida and that accounted for nearly 3,000 of the miles.
I really like the Traverse for it's handling and smooth ride. First time I have ever bought the same vehicle back to back in over 50 years of buying cars.
Well that's a pretty good testament to the Traverse!
Anyone have any idea if a $329/month, $0 down 36 month lease on a LS AWD is a good buy? Or should it be less? It has an invoice price of $30,385 after the $1,500 factory rebate.
I forgot to add that when I turned in the 2010 they wrote off my last 3 lease payments
I would LOVE to quickly know the current residual rate on a 2013, AWD LS if anyone knows it!
Thank you so much!
Don't know the rate on the LS, but my 2014 LTZ was 56% that was for 39 months. It will depend on the number of months your leasing for. The longer the lease the smaller the %
Do you think this is accurate?
http://www.automobilemag.com/am/99/2013/chevrolet/traverse/ls_sport_utility/1015- /rebates.html
58% residual at a 1% apr?
I had no idea how much residual rate affected your monthly payments until I played with this calculator:
That appears to be in the ball park. I just looked @ my 2010 Traverse LT1 lease agreement which was for 48 months and my residual was 39%. That was in Jan. 2010.
fatslop Posts: 1Hello, does anyone know of current (as of 09/05/13) lease residuals and rates on both 2013 and 2014 AWD Traverse 2LTs? I am just starting the process today and although the 56% residual (36 month/36K miles) I have been quoted seems reasonable the money factor rate of 3.18% does not (for someone with excellent credit at least). I am looking at a 2LT with an MSRP of $44,400. Thanks for your time.
kyfdx Posts: 70,503I'm sorry... we don't have the September lease numbers for GM..
Prices Paid, Lease Questions, SUVs
brianf1997 Posts: 25Hi CarMan,
Can you please tell me the residual and money factor on the 2014 Traverse LTZ @ 12k miles per year? Any incentives going on? Thank you!
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