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2013 Altima 2.5 SV
Includes 2.5 S features plus:
- Includes 2.5 features plus:
- Smart Auto Headlights
- Nissan Intelligent Key®
- 6-way power adjustable driver's seat
- Cruise control
- 17" Aluminum-alloy wheels
- Nissan Intelligent Key® with Remote Engine Start System [*]
- Audio system with 5'' color display
- USB connection port for iPod® [*]
27 mpg city, 38 mpg hwy
A four-door sedan delivering small-car fuel efficiency without sacrificing performance. Get around town on 27 mpg and get down the highway at 38 mpg. [*]
182-hp 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine
With the fuel efficient 182-hp engine, you'll get both efficient performance and the long lasting value you deserve. Amazing gas mileage and strong, smooth power delivery add up to a winning combination. [*]
Xtronic CVT® (Continuously Variable Transmission)
Say goodbye to fixed gear ratios and hello to a new kind of CVT. In the newest version of our CVT, friction is reduced by up to 40% and the ratio coverage is increased to greater than that of some 8-speed automatics. What does that mean behind the wheel? Better acceleration and fuel economy, plus performance so smooth, it's like riding a continuous wave of power.
Active Understeer Control
A Nissan first, the 2013 Altima is equipped with Active Understeer Control to give you a smooth, controlled, and comfortable ride. The system senses understeer and oversteer and subtly applies braking power to the inside wheels when you are turning, giving you sharper handling in all conditions.
Altima is one of a select group of Nissan vehicles to wear the PUREDRIVE™ badge. PUREDRIVE™ is a key part of our commitment to achieve lower, eco-friendly levels of CO2 emissions. The technology focuses on improving fuel efficiencies and reducing CO2 emissions. And that's something we all can smile about.
Aggressive design
Dramatic styling and serious performance credentials give the all-new 2013 Altima an aggressive disposition. Underneath, the stance has been widened for better handling. Outside, functional character lines and powerful styling lower the aerodynamic profile, while chrome accents underscore Altima's bold new attitude.
Those chiseled curves and muscular lines aren't just for show, they are all there to reduce drag and make the all-new 2013 Altima one of our most aerodynamic sedans ever. The hood, front fascia, mirrors, and even the taillights, were re-engineered to help drop the coefficient of drag to a slippery 0.299. A lower coefficient of drag means better handling and, most importantly, better fuel efficiency.
17" Aluminum-alloy wheels
The 2013 Altima 2.5SV is equipped with 17-inch lightweight aluminum-alloy wheels and low-profile 215/55 R17 All-season tires.
Smart Auto Headlights
The 2013 Altima's headlights read and react to light conditions outside, automatically turning your lights on and off when needed. The lights also react automatically to your windshield wipers, turning on after four swipes.
Dual exhaust outlets with chrome-tipped exhaust finishers
Dual chrome-tipped exhaust finishers add a subtle touch of aggressive styling to the Altima.
Advanced Drive-Assist™ Display
Advanced Drive-Assist™ Display is an innovative new system designed to help keep you focused on the road. The crystal-clear, 5.5-inch LCD screen is centered in the instrument cluster and displays navigation settings, text messaging, and call interactions, service warnings, maps, travel directions, and more. [*]
Bluetooth® (Hands-free phone system and streaming audio)
The Bluetooth® Hands-free Phone System activates via steering-wheel-mounted controls and streams songs from your phone's music player. Now you can keep up connections no matter where the road takes you. [*]
Nissan Intelligent Key® with Remote Engine Start System
The Nissan Intelligent Key® lets you tap a button on the door handle or trunk to unlock them, while your keys stay in your pocket or purse. Before you even get there though, you can start your car from up to 100 feet away with the Remote Engine Start System. This convenient solution lets you heat up or cool down the Altima before it's time to get in, provided you set the climate control functions when you got out. [*]
Dual Zone Automatic Temperature Control (ATC)
This feature lets the driver and the front passenger set their own temperature.
AM/FM/CD audio system with 5'' color display and RearView Monitor
Keep track of your tunes on the bright, full-color 5-inch display. When you put Altima in reverse, the screen doubles as the RearView Monitor, which helps you see what's behind you when you are backing up. [*]
The all-new 2013 Nissan Altima comes equipped with a suite of technologies. Hands-free phone capability, streaming audio, messaging, navigation and lots more, all accessible from Altima's centrally located 7" screen. [*]
Leather-wrapped steering wheel
Wrap your hands around luxury with a stitched premium leather-wrapped steering wheel.
Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) with individual tire pressure display and Easy-Fill Tire Alert
Take away the guesswork when it comes to your tire pressure with Altima's Tire Pressure Monitoring System. A signal illuminates on your dash to tell you when your tire pressure is low, and the individual tire pressure display will indicate which tire is low on the Advanced Drive-Assist™ Display. When filling your tires, the class-exclusive Easy-Fill Tire Alert gives you a friendly beep of the horn when you've reached the right pressure. [*]
Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) with Traction Control System (TCS)
This standard feature—sometimes called stability control—continuously monitors your steering and braking actions, senses any oversteer or understeer, and compensates by reducing engine speed and/or applying brake pressure to specific wheels. In addition, the Traction Control System can sense front wheel slip or spin and responds by instantly helping reduce throttle which helps you both regain grip and maintain control of the road. [*]
Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) with Electronic Brake force Distribution (EBD)
This innovative braking system responds automatically to changing conditions. ABS helps you maintain control by working to prevent wheel lockup during emergency braking situations. And if the rear of Altima is weighted with passengers, cargo, or even just a full tank of gas, Electronic Brake force Distribution sends extra force to the rear brakes to compensate.
Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (AABS)
Nissan Advanced Air Bag System (AABS) includes dual-stage supplemental front air bags with seat belt sensors and an occupant-classification sensor. The inflation rate of these dual-stage air bags adjusts depending on crash severity and seat belt usage. In addition, two supplemental air bags are built into the front seats to offer side impact protection and move with you as you adjust your seating position. Also, roof-mounted curtain side impact supplemental air bags help provide head protection for both rows of outboard occupants. [*]
LATCH System (Lower Anchors and Tethers for CHildren)
LATCH is another way we're working to keep children safe. The Altima LATCH system lets you secure LATCH-compatible child restraints in the back seat without having to use seat belts or a locking clip.
Rear Decklid Spoiler
- Heighten the style of your Altima® with an aerodynamic spoiler.
- Custom-designed to help enhance vehicle aerodynamic appearance
- Comes pre-painted in factory-matched colors
- Not available for 2.5, 2.5 S and 3.5 S.
Stainless Steel Illuminated Kick Plates
- Light up your entrance and protect your front sills.
- Contoured to match door openings
- Brushed-aluminum inserts feature an illuminated Altima® logo
Body Side Moldings
- Arm your Altima® against parking lot dings, dents and scratches.
- Easy to install
- Pre-painted to match vehicle color
- Not available for 2.5.
Splash Guards (4-piece)
- Save your Altima® from an unwelcome mud bath.
- Contoured to match wheel openings, Splash Guards help prevent dirt and debris from nicking and scratching the finish
- Add value and style while helping protect the sides of your vehicle
Carpeted Floor and Trunk Mats
- All Nissan Carpeted Floor and Trunk Mats are made of high-quality material and are custom-fit.
- Driver's mat secures with a grommet hole/positioning hook system
- Floor mat backing is designed to help position the mat in place
- Not available for 2.5 and 2.5 S.
Nissan VTRS (Vehicle Tracking and Recovery System) [*]
- Nissan VTRS can provide the security consumers are looking for in today's vehicles.
- Allows real-time GPS tracking of your vehicle
- Nationwide coverage
- Police notification
- 24/7/365 call center support
- No monthly service charges with included Basic Service Plan
- Available with Gold Service Plan ($249) and Silver Service Plan ($149)
External Ground Lighting
- Just click for a sense of security with lights that brighten up the area beneath and around your vehicle.
- Goes on when you press the key fob, press the entry button or open doors
- Fades in and out with the dome light
- 4 LED lights between front and rear tires
- Not available for 2.5.
Fog Lights
- They look great but, more important, they help increase your visibility in foggy conditions.
- White lens adds wide-angle view, increasing visibility
- Lens design creates low, wide projection for foggy conditions
- Integrate into front bumper for a factory-installed look
- Includes Fog Lights, brackets and harness
- Not available for 2.5, 2.5 SL, 3.5 SV and 3.5 SL.
Clear Rear Bumper Protector
- Designed to help prevent scratches and scuffs when loading cargo.
- Transparent design provides protection without sacrificing style
- Easy, no-drill installation
- Features an Altima logo for a signature look.
Nose Mask
- Help keep your Altima® looking like new with a premium leather-grain vinyl Nose Mask.
- Soft-felt polyester-lined to prevent abrasion
- Custom-fit design lets you open the hood without removal
Vehicle Cover
- Custom Vehicle Cover designed to fit like a glove.
- Helps protect against UV rays, acid rain and other airborne contaminants
- Constructed of strong, durable material to repel water and resist mold and mildew
- Machine-washable
- Optional Security Cable with Lock available for additional cost
- Available in two models: Silverguard Plus™ ($230) and Mosom Plus™ ($115)
Vehicle Cover Cable Lock
- Keep your Vehicle Cover secure.
- Easy to install
- Includes black plastic-coated steel cable, lock and three keys
Wheel Locks
- Four Wheel Locks and coded Wheel Lock socket to help keep your wheels out of the wrong hands.
- Superior durability, corrosion-resistant
- Available for vehicles with aluminum-alloy wheels.
License Plate Frames
- Show your Nissan pride.
- Stainless steel construction
- Choice of several finishes, with or without logos
Nissan Valve Stem Caps (4-piece set)
- Show your Nissan pride.
- Inert ABS plastic material helps caps screw on and off with ease
- Rigorously tested to resist salt spray and corrosion
- No interference with Tire Pressure Monitoring System
- Designed to be hand-tightened
Nissan Chrome License Plate Frame and Valve Stem Caps Package
- Show your Nissan pride.
- License Plate Frame features stainless steel construction and chrome finish
- Valve Stem Caps screw on and off with ease
- Valve Stem Caps do not interfere with TPMS and are designed to be hand-tightened
Interior Accent Lighting
- White LEDs illuminate the foot wells.
- Easily control light color and on/off function with the vehicle's headlights
- Works with the vehicle's interior lighting when the door is opened
All-season Floor Mats
- Stepping in from the rain or snow? You need a set of All-season Floor Mats.
- Custom made of durable and long-wearing material
- Driver's mat secures with a grommet hole/positioning hook system
- Floor mat backing is designed to help position the mat in place
- 4-piece set includes front and rear floor mats.
Trunk Protector
- Keeps trunk area clean and helps protect it from scratches and damage.
- Water-resistant heavy-duty trunk area protection
- Made of durable rubber material
- Easy to remove and clean
Hide-away Trunk Net
- Fight the forces of chaos with a Trunk Net that helps keep items in place.
- This Hide-away Trunk Net stows away neatly in its own zippered case that secures to the trunk when not in use
Emergency Road Kit
- Everything you need for life's little uncertainties.
- Basic roadside emergency supplies in a zippered nylon bag
- Contents include: heavy-duty jumper cables, emergency reflective triangle, flashlight with batteries and hands-free stand, duct tape, two screwdrivers, battery terminal cleaner and compact thermal blanket
First-aid Kit [*]
- Play it safe with a First-aid Kit with VELCRO® backing so it can secure to any carpeted surface.
- Basic first-aid supplies in a convenient, durable, zippered vinyl pouch
- Contents include: latex-free gloves, adhesive bandages, adhesive tape, sterile gauze, elastic bandage, cleansing towelettes, large-grip super scissors, first-aid cream, tweezers/magnifier and a first-aid instruction booklet
Air Bag Anti-theft Bolts
- Your safety equipment helps keep you safe, so why shouldn't you return the favor?
- Unique keyed design provides added security
Seat Belt Extender
- Need a little extra breathing room? The Seat Belt Extender adds up to 8 inches of length.
- May be used for either the driver or front-passenger seating position
Illuminated Ash Cup
- An Ash Cup that is hard to miss – especially in the dark.
- White LED light automatically comes on when the lid is opened
Convenience Package
- Power sliding glass moonroof with one-touch open/close and tilt feature
- Fog lights
- Folding outside mirrors with LED turn signal indicators
- Sun visors with illuminated vanity mirrors and sliding rod extension
- Passenger-side front-window one-touch auto-up/down with auto-reverse
- Auto-dimming inside rearview mirror with digital compass
- HomeLink® Universal Transceiver [*]
- Mood lamp in roof console
- Side cargo net


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Joe Lhota's Mayoral Campaign 'Won't Want for Money'
Billionaires pledge to back his "uphill battle."
MTA chairman Joe Lhota may be the current favorite of the Republican New York establishment, but his chances of moving into Gracie Mansion still don't look great. First, there's the GOP primary, where he'll have to beat out Gristedes owner and "common billionaire" John Catsimatidis, who's expected to spend millions of his own money on the mayoral race. And if he does make it to the general election, he'll likely have to face Democratic front-runner and City Council speaker Christine Quinn, the contest's undisputed fund-raising powerhouse. "Republicans in New York only win under special circumstances," a former City Hall insider tells the New York Times — like when the city's broke or rioting. "Joe has an uphill battle," admits real-estate investor and former New York Post owner Peter Kalikow, but that's not stopping Kalikow and fellow sugar daddies James Tisch (CEO of Loews Corporation) and Home Depot co-founder, billionaire, and onetime major Mitt Romney supporter Kenneth Langone from pledging a share of their bottomless wallets to Lhota's bid. As Langone told the Times, "All I know is that Joe is not going to want for money." If only he could ensure a little harmless rioting, the election would be Lhota's for the taking.

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I just installed the Akismet anti-spam plugin on my WP 1.5 blog. Seems to be working fine.
The only problem is that when I log in it tells me that there are 84 comments marked as spam and that I should check to make sure there are no legitimate comments that are about to be deleted. The problem is that no comments are listed! I would estimate that i've had around 90 spam comments in the last few weeks or so but i've deleted them all in throgh the usual interface before I installed Akismet.
I'm just afraid that if I hit the delete button in Akismet for those 84 comments a lot of my real comments will go? What do you all reckon?


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I don't have a machine capable of Intel VT ("Virtualization Technology"), but I was assigned to do certain experiments with
Windows Server 2008 R1 / R2 and
SharePoint 2008 / 2010. I tried installing
Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 using both
Virtual PC 2007 SP1 and
VMware Workstation 7, and the first tells me it can't work with x64 operating systems, while the latter tells me I would need a
VT enabled CPU, which I have no access to.
- Model: Toshiba Satellite L505
- O/S: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x86
- CPU: Intel Pentium Dual Core T4400 @ 2.20GHz
- hard drive: 80 GB free
Is there a workaround for this? How much would I need to downgrade in order to be able to work with my current setup (e.g.,
Windows Server 2008 R1 x86 and
SharePoint 2008 x86, perhaps switching to
Windows 7 Ultimate x86 for my main system)?
Edit: The solution was simple:
- Host: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x86
- Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1 x86
- Guest: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R1 SP2 x86
- Microsoft SharePoint 2007 SP2 x86
More: Installing MOSS 2007 on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008


text: THE LIGHT SIDE OF THE MOON An RU Team by typon77 Hello RU Players, this is typon77 with a bulky offensive RU team that I have been fairly successfully with. Although I am not an awful battler, I'm not that great, so the success I have had with this team gave me a lot to think about. I've played RU on and off since its beginning, but this is the first time I have seriously laddered. Once I saw that Cofagrigus moved up and that Cresselia and Durant were unbanned, I decided it was time to try RU again. This team features both unbanned pokemon with some other prominent threats in the metagame. The centerpiece of this team is the Bulky TWave CM Cresselia that has been becoming popular recently. So with out further rambling, here's the team! Team at a Glance In-Depth Look Nidoqueen (F) @ Life Orb Trait: Sheer Force EVs: 176 HP / 252 SAtk / 80 Spd Modest Nature - Stealth Rock - Earth Power - Fire Blast - Thunderbolt Although Cresselia is the center of this team, Nidoqueen often ends up being the MVP of many of the matches I play. Her sheer power and good neutral coverage with the given moveset lets her break through walls and slower pokemon with ease. I often lead with Nidoqueen, as she forces a lot of other pokemon out, and use the free switch to either predict the switch and hit the switch in if I think a threatening pokemon is coming in, or use the free turn to set up Stealth Rock. A Bulky Offense team like this needs some form of hazards to penalize the many switches forced, so I opted to replace one of Nidoqueen's coverage moves with Stealth Rock. Cresselia greatly benefits from these hazards, as it lets her KO much faster than before. Nidoqueen's usefulness, however, is not diminished mid and late game. Her powerful moves let her break through walls and sweep slower, weakened teams late game. Earth Power is a staple on all Nidoqueen sets, as its a reliable, powerful STAB with great neutral and super effective coverage in the metagame. Sludge Wave is my safety STAB move. Generally, when I'm not sure what move my opponent is going to make, I can utilize Sludge Wave's great neutral coverage to do good damage to most of my opponents options. For my coverage move, I chose Thunderbolt over other options like Fire Blast so I could get an OHKO on Moltres, a huge threat to this team, and to do more damage to Slowking, one of Nidoqueen's best checks. I've been considering using a bulkier EV spread, something like 100 HP / 252 SpA / 156 Spe, but I'm not sure if that's worth it. Using the new EV spread suggested by col49. Fire Blast has replaced Sludge Wave temporarily to help with my weakness to defensive Grass and Bug types such as Ferroseed, Roselia, and Escavalier. Cresselia (F) @ Leftovers Trait: Levitate EVs: 252 Def / 252 HP / 4 Spd Bold Nature - Calm Mind - Psychic - Thunder Wave - Moonlight When I heard that this thing was unbanned and the Cofagrigus moved up, I immediately jumped back into RU. Finally, a pokemon the slowed down the former all out offense of the tier, and gave bulky teams a way to be more successful. Cresselia has become an invaluable mid-game pivot and late game sweeper that this team just couldn't do without. Her bulk is unsurpassed in the tier, and the full defense investment makes her near impossible to 2HKO without super effective STABs. She can even tank some of those, avoiding a 2HKO from moves like Scolipede's Megahorn. Thunder Wave and Moonlight provide the core moves for her mid game sponging, as she can come in on an offensive threat, paralyze that pokemon or switch in while taking a hit, and then heal up any lost HP from the inevitable chip damage using Moonlight. However, late game, when all the Dark Types and bulky Steels are gone, is when the fun really begins. Once Cresselia gets in on a weakened team and sets up a Calm Mind or two, she is almost impossible to break, and she still outspeeds slow and paralyzed pokemon, as 85 Speed is much higher than most defensive pokemon. She can then alternate boosting and healing until she can sweep without opposition. Her teammates have been chosen to help her sweep late game. Medicham breaks through fast Dark types and Steels, Durant also takes out Darks and Psychics as well as opening up holes in the other team and being able to sweep itself, while Magmortar can take out the bulkiest of Steels and most other walls single handedly, and Nidoqueen can absorb the various status inducers like Thunder Wave and Toxic that hinder Cresselia's abilities. Durant @ Life Orb Trait: Hustle EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk / 4 HP Jolly Nature - Hone Claws - X-Scissor - Superpower - Iron Head Durant is one of those pokemon that doesn't need coverage or bulk to sweep, it just has so much raw power and speed that it can break through almost anything with STAB moves alone. Its base 109 speed is one of its most important attributes, as it allows Durant to outspeed a majority of the unbolted metagame regardless. His Bug STAB also lets him break through the Psychics and Darks that give Cresselia trouble, and it can be used as another late game sweeper if he is better suited for sweeping that team. Hone Claws is a move that just seems to be made for Durant. Without the accuracy boost, the drop from Hustle seems to bite me in the butt more often than Stone Edge. However, Stone Edge remedies this problem, while also further boosting Durant's already ridiculous Attack. The coverage moves are fairly obvious. X-Scissor and Iron Head are obvious STAB moves that have good coverage and good synergy with my team, while Rock Slide is used to destroy the Fire types that will try to tank my STAB moves. Superpower has replaced Rock Slide so Durant can better take on Steel types. Sceptile @ Life Orb Trait: Overgrow EVs: 252 Spd / 252 SAtk / 4 HP Timid Nature - Leaf Storm - Focus Blast - Hidden Power [Rock] - Giga Drain Sceptile literally does everything that an offensive pokemon could do. It can blast holes through teams with a 140 BP, Life Orb boosted Leaf Storm, it can revenge many threats with its base 120 Speed, and it can stay alive for a while with Giga Drain as a reliable STAB. I was so excited to see this at the #1 spot in October, because there's just no reason not to use it. Sceptile functions on this team as a secondary offensive threat and backup revenge killer. Basically, its my insurance that can take the place of other team members in case they fail. However, my team members usually do a more precise job with these roles, as Medicham is a faster revenge killer, Durant is a superior sweeper, and Magmortar and Nidoqueen hit generally harder with better coverage. That being said, Sceptile is in no way insignificant and is often my most important team member with his unique coverage. Leaf Storm is my "destroy everything" STAB move, which lets me OHKO most pokemon without too much bulk invested. Focus Blast lets me hit the steels that resist my Grass STAB, although its accuracy makes me question its worth sometimes. HP Rock is very important, as it lets me OHKO Moltres and heavily damage other Fires that try to come in on my Grass STAB. Finally, Giga Drain is a reliable, albeit much weaker, STAB that lets me attack without dropping my stats while also recovering any lost HP. Magmortar @ Expert Belt Trait: Flame Body EVs: 24 HP / 252 SAtk / 232 Spd Modest Nature - Fire Blast - Thunderbolt - Focus Blast - Substitute I honestly can't believe this thing was NU at one point. Its utility in this increasingly bulky metagame is phenomenal. With the three coverage moves I have, it can break some of the bulkiest pokemon in the metagame with Stealth Rocks, including, but not limited to: Tangrowth, Slowking, Clefable, and Ferroseed. Magmortar makes sweeping infinitely easier for every other team member, as it destroys the stall teams that can wall my other sweepers. The strategy with it is simple. Come in on a revenge or resisted weak attack on a pokemon that it outspeeds and forces out (more pokemon than you would think), and set up a Substitute or predict a switch. If you set up a Substitute, you can leave them in a bad way, because Magmortar can outright OHKO many offensive threats that outspeed it, and leaving Magmortar behind a Substitute is dangerous. The move set is very important to Magmortar's success. Fire Blast is non-negotiable, as its sheer power lets Magmortar heavily damage anything without a resistance. Thunderbolt his bulky waters, letting Magmortar 2HKO Slowking and OHKO other pokemon such as Kabutops and Moltres with a little prior damage. Focus Blast is for hitting those Normal type special walls that tank too many neutral hits, like Munchlax, Clefable, and Audino. Substitute isn't too common on Magmortar, but its an excellent move for abusing the switches it forces. Expert Belt was chosen over Life Orb because LO recoil would stack too much with Substitute damage, so Magmortar's longevity is greatly increased. Medicham @ Choice Scarf Trait: Pure Power EVs: 252 Atk / 252 Spd / 4 SDef Jolly Nature - Hi Jump Kick - Psycho Cut - ThunderPunch - Trick I don't know how Medicham moves so fast and hits so hard with those short, chubby legs. However, I am thankful for that, because Medicham is one of my primary revenge killers on this team. Scarf Medicham is an amazing set, because it lets Medicham use its well over 400 attack stat with boosted speed and a 130 BP STAB move to kill most of the frailer sweepers. I use Jolly over Adamant because the power difference isn't too different, but I can outspeed and OHKO Aerodactyl. I can also outspeed and OHKO things like Sceptile, +1 Crawdaunt, and Cryogonal. Its utility doesn't stop there. Thanks to its Fighting type and Trick, it can take our Dark Types and cripple walls, two things that Cresselia greatly appreciates. I can't really see any better options for its move set. Hi Jump Kick is absolutely necessary, as its power with STAB and type coverage make it too powerful to give up, especially for revenging pokemon. Psycho Cut is a more reliable STAB with decent coverage. I opted for it over Zen Headbutt so I would have a more accurate STAB to use. ThunderPunch hits Moltres for a 2HKO, while also hitting waters harder. I don't really use it much, but its always there when needed, and there are not really any better moves to use, seeing as Medicham only really needs HJK and Trick. Finally, Trick is there to mess with stall teams, but I only use Trick if I'm sure I won't need Medicham for revenge anymore. Conclusion I've had a lot of fun using this team, and I'm definitely going to continue using it until the metagame changes or something on the team leaves. Cresselia is such an all-purpose pokemon in this role, and its teammates support it very well. However, like any team, this team isn't perfect at all. Any improvements or suggestions you could make on move sets, EVs, or even pokemon changes, I would be happy to hear. Let me know especially in the case of EVs, because I'm not very good with creating EV spreads, and if there are better options I would love to try them out. Anyways, thanks for the read, and please rate and comment!


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Pasadena Weekly Features Nursery
Here is How to Help:
The abandoned nursery site in Hahamongna on the former US Forest Service Ranger Station has really blossomed since ASF moved in last February to grow native plants for the Arroyo Seco Canyon Project. On January 12, 2016 ASF sent a letter of application to Pasadena's new Public Works Director, Ara Maloyan, to begin the process of securing a long-term lease of the 1/3rd acre site. In the last year ASF and our volunteers have decisively proven that we can operate a model native plant nursery with tremendous benefits for Pasadena and the community. We hope you will support our application for the long-term use of the site.
The trees in our region have been under extraordinary stress in recent years. Five long years of drought have weakened many of trees and made them more susceptible to persistent pests like the Polyfaguous Shot Hole Bore which is spreading rapidly and threatening new trees. But is the solution to simply cut down threatened trees and hope for the best? Pasadena, chopped down seven ancient oaks in Hahamogna Watershed Park on Christmas Eve and has plans to remove hundreds of trees especially in the natural lands of the Arroyo Seco. Pasadena Public Works officials call it necessary maintenance, but their actions are destroying the character of the rare oak grove in Hahamongna and of the Arroyo Seco itself.
We call on the City of Pasadena to:
The 2015 Arroyo Verde Awards were held December 13, 2015 at Los Angeles County Fire Camp #2 at the Northwest Corner of Hahamongna. Congratulations to all the awardees and those who came to celebrate the Arroyo!
The event couldn't have been a success without the wonderful dishes everyone brought and the heartfelt speeches each awardee made. We look forward to 2016. Keep in mind those who make an impact in 2016 for next years nominations.
Click here to view the US Army Corps of Engineers' Presentation
There have been several changes regarding the court hearing on the lawsuit regarding LA County Flood Control District's program to excavate 2.4 million cubic yards of sediment from behind Devil's Gate Dam in Hahamongna Watershed Park and to truck it to distant landfills. There is now a new judge and the initial hearing has now been backed up until some time later this year.
Here's the news briefing explaining the Hahamongna sediment lawsuit filed by the Arroyo Seco Foundation and the Pasadena Audubon Society against the Los Angeles County Flood Control District sediment mining and trucking operation from behind Devil's Gate Dam in Hahamongna Watershed Park. ASF's Tim Brick, Laura Garrett, Conservation Chair of PAS and attorney Mitchell Tsai are featured in the video explaining their concerns and the issues that will be contested in the No Big Dig lawsuit.
LA County Flood Control District's sediment removal program for Devil's Gate Dam in Hahamongna Watershed Park is deeply flawed. It's an old-style mining and trucking operation with devastating impacts on the nature and character of Hahamongna Watershed Park and on the surrounding communities.
The Canyon Project is an innovative program to improve water resources and environmental conditions in the Arroyo co-sponsored by the Arroyo Seco Foundation and Pasadena Water & Power Department.More
By a mysterious process that no one will explain, the Arroyo Seco and the southwest corner of the Angeles National Forest were eliminated at the last minute from the newly announced San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.
Congresswoman Judy Chu has now proposed legislation that would expand the boundaries of the national monument to include all of the treasures of the Angeles National Forest.More
Los Angeles
Metro Water
CA Drought Map
Here's a great way to get involved in the Arroyo Seco restoration. Join the Arroyo Seco Stream Team


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This paper describes the authors' distributed parameter approach for derivation of closed-form expressions for the four-pole parameters of the perforated three-duct muffler components. In this method, three simultaneous second-order partial differential equations are first reduced to a set of six first-order ordinary differential equations. These equations are then uncoupled by means of a modal matrix. The resulting 6 × 6 matrix is reduced to the 2 × 2 transfer matrix using the relevant boundary conditions. This is combined with transfer matrices of other elements (upstream and downstream of this perforated element) to predict muffler performance like noise reduction, which is also measured. The correlation between experimental and theoretical values of noise reduction is shown to be satisfactory.
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Four days after the U.S. government indicted SAC Capital Advisors LP, describing it as a "veritable magnet for market cheaters," founder Steven A. Cohen walked around the firm's Manhattan offices on Madison Avenue and spoke with employees, telling them that "bad apples" exist in any organization.
As Cohen, 57, sought to assure employees that business will continue as usual at the 21-year-old hedge-fund firm, many of his portfolio managers, analysts and traders were already reaching out to friends, hedge funds and recruiters in the hope of landing jobs next year when they expect SAC will need far fewer employees, according to people who have spoken to them.
Getting those jobs won't be easy for many investment professionals, as the charges against SAC raise concern about reputational damage and hedge-fund hiring generally is sluggish. At least one large hedge-fund manager, the $18 billion Millennium Management LLC, doesn't plan on taking on SAC stock-pickers because of the risk that, as the government's investigation continues, it may end up with an employee who is charged with insider trading, according to two people with knowledge of the firm's hiring policy.
"If employers see SAC on a candidate's resume, they're going to take a longer pause," said John Carley, president of A-L Associates Ltd., a search and consulting firm in New York that services hedge funds. "But it doesn't mean they're going to waive him or her from coming into their organization."
A limited number of hedge-fund firms are open to considering SAC applicants, among them Bluecrest Capital Management LLP, Citadel LLC and Balyasny Asset Management LP, said people familiar the firms. SAC employees hoping to land there will face tough scrutiny and longer hiring processes, according to recruiters.
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The people discussing the hiring policies spoke on condition of anonymity because the firms are private.
Most employees will stick around until at least next year when their bonuses have been paid, said recruiters and employees. The portfolio managers are among the best paid in the industry, earning between 15 percent and 25 percent of any profits they make, plus a percentage on money-making ideas they feed to Cohen's portfolio.
SAC has said that "numerous" portfolio managers have earned more than the $9.3 million bonus made in 2008 by Mathew Martoma, the former SAC portfolio manager charged in November for insider trading.
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Cohen raised bonuses earlier this year to help stem defections as the government insider-trading probe intensified. SAC, based in Stamford, Connecticut, employs about 1,000 people globally, with some 400 of them focused on investing, according to an April regulatory filing.
Prosecutors on July 25 announced criminal charges against the $14 billion firm, saying it engaged in an unprecedented, decade-long insider-trading scheme. The government cited separate alleged insider-trading schemes by at least eight current and former fund managers and analysts. Six days earlier, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in an administrative action, said Cohen failed to supervise two employees who have been charged with insider trading.
At least 11 former or current SAC employees have been linked to insider-trading while at the firm, most of them working on technology and health-care stocks.
Losing either case means Cohen may have to stop managing money for outside clients and be left to invest his own fortune, estimated at $9 billion by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Prosecutors also raised the prospect that SAC's assets may be subject to forfeiture.
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SAC denied it encouraged or tolerated insider trading and pleaded not guilty. Cohen himself wasn't criminally charged. Jonathan Gasthalter, a spokesman for SAC at Sard Verbinnen & Co., declined to comment beyond statements last month in which the firm denied the charges and said it expects to be able to continue its operations while it works through the matter.
What concerns New York-based Millennium, run by Izzy Englander, and some other firms is that prosecutors have vowed to continue their probe of SAC, which could lead to more arrests, said the people. Englander would make an exception for traders from SAC's 20 quantitative teams and 13 macro teams, strategies that don't lend themselves to the use of illicit information, as well as employees not directly involved in investing, said the person.
Englander and Cohen have made it a practice to refrain from poaching employees from each other's firms. Millennium employed 810 people in investment advisory roles at the end of last year, up from 570 at the end of 2011, according to regulatory filings.
Investor Pressure
"Some investors are leaning on the hedge-fund owners to be extremely cautious when recruiting from SAC as they don't want to risk being embroiled in the insider-trading probe," said Jason Kennedy, chief executive officer of London-based recruiter Kennedy Group.
Citadel, the $15 billion firm run by Ken Griffin out of Chicago, is open to interviewing former SAC employees. While the firm isn't hiring aggressively at this time, it is taking on people opportunistically, according to one of the people. The firm's equities group is one of its largest, with assets of about $2.6 billion.
Employees at other firms that closed down after being swept up in the government's insider trading probe have found new jobs. Within months of the October 2009 insider-trading charges against Raj Rajaratnam, founder of Galleon Group LLC, several of his firm's 124 employees joined other firms. Charles Benziger, a portfolio manager, joined Citadel as a consumer-industry analyst. Eric Wasserstrom and Rajeev Patel joined George Soros's New York-based Soros Fund Management LLC as analysts.
'More Selective'
Wasserstrom declined to comment on the job search after Galleon, and Benziger and Patel didn't respond to messages seeking comment. None of them have been accused of wrongdoing. Galleon was never charged.
While hiring in financial services has picked up in the past three years, employment remains about 4 percent below the 2008 high. The number of jobs in a broad area of financial services that includes brokers, exchanges and portfolio managers, fell by almost 9 percent from August 2008 to March 2010, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"Hedge funds are not hiring like gangbusters like they were before the financial crisis," said Michael Karp, chief executive officer of Options Group, a financial-services recruitment firm in New York. "They are being much more selective."
Bluecrest's Expansion
Much of the demand at hedge funds is coming from bigger firms that are adding strategies including asset-based lending and mezzanine financing that were once the purview of banks, said Gary Goldstein, the chief executive officer of New York-based Whitney Group LLC, an executive search firm that focuses on financial services.
SAC's main strategy is trading stocks, and its holding period tends to be shorter than many of its rivals, meaning SAC alumni might not fit into the culture of other hedge funds. Still, with U.S. stocks at a record, some of the more successful firms are looking to beef up their equity teams.
Bluecrest, the $36 billion firm that focuses on fixed-income investments and uses computer algorithms to profit from asset-price trends, has hired at least a dozen people for equities since March as part of its expansion into trading stocks. The London-based firm is run by Michael Platt.
Balyasny, the $3.3 billion hedge-fund manager run by Dmitry Balyasny, has seen a pickup in resumes from SAC employees as the probe of Cohen's firm intensified, according to the people. The Chicago-based company has a structure similar to SAC's, employing multiple teams that oversee independent portfolios. In February, it hired Justin Dodd, a former SAC employee, as a consumer portfolio manager.
'Significant Talent'
"We are lining up some significant talent which we look forward to announcing more formally in the next several quarters," the firm said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Bloomberg News. Balyasny is looking for portfolio managers focusing on Japanese equities, U.S. financials, commodities as well as technology, media and telecommunications, according to the letter.
While it's open to adding more SAC alumni and looking to get a better sense of who might be available, Balyasny won't be hiring immediately from SAC because it doesn't want to be seen as taking advantage of Cohen's woes, according to the people. The firm also wants to wait until the investigation of SAC is closer to conclusion, the people said.
Probe Continues
The government probe is continuing. Last month, Richard Lee, a former SAC employee who hadn't previously been named in the multi-year investigation, was charged over claims he traded technology stocks based on inside information. Lee, an ex-Citadel employee who co-managed more than $1 billion while working at SAC, has pleaded guilty and started helping the government after the firm closed its Chicago offices in March.
Lee was among the former employees who continued to use those premises as recently as June, according to a person who knows him. He didn't have access to SAC's trading systems during that time, another person said. Both asked not to be identified because the matter is private.
The government's investigation hasn't deterred Conatus Capital Management LP, a $2.6 billion hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm hired David Selvers as a senior analyst in June. Selvers was a technology portfolio manager within SAC's Sigma group.
Spokesmen for Millennium, Citadel, Balyasny, Bluecrest and Conatus declined to comment.
Even if firms are willing to hire a former SAC employee, the process will take longer and the due diligence and background checks will be more thorough, said Michael Martinolich, a New York-based partner at recruitment firm Caldwell Partners.
"SAC employees may have to go the extra mile by providing additional, objective references to prove their credibility," he said.


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These Power tools just keep getting more and more useful – to me the main things in this release of interest are focused on Team member identification / collaboration, use of Power Shell and making installation easier. There is lots of other stuff.
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Religious symbol
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A religious symbol is an iconic representation intended to represent a specific religion, or a specific concept within a given religion.
The Christian cross has traditionally been a symbol representing Christianity or Christendom as a whole. In the course of cultural relativism as it developed in the western world in the late 20th century, there have been efforts to design comparable "symbols" representing all of the world's religions.
Thus, the United States military chaplain symbols were limited to Christian and Jewish symbolism before the 1990s. In 1990, they were expanded by a wheel of dharma supposed to represent Buddhism, and in 1992 by a crescent moon supposed to represent Islam. Use of an Aum symbol representing Hinduism was in planning as of 2011.
Similarly, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs emblems for headstones and markers have been considerably expanded after a lawsuit was filed by Wiccans in 2006 (Stewart v. Nicholson). Until that time, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recognized 38 symbols, including 16 variations of the Christian cross. In an out-of-court settlement, the VA accepted the inclusion of a greater variety of symbols, and as of 2013, the number of recognized symbols has risen to 57 (including a number of symbols expressing non-religiosity).
Symbols representing a specific religion[edit]
Symbolic representation of a specific religious tradition is useful in a society with religious pluralism, as was the case in the Roman Empire, and again in modern multiculturalism.
|Religious tradition
|Notes and references
|nine-pointed star
|According to the Abjad system of Isopsephy, the word Bahá' has a numerical equivalence of 9, and thus there is frequent use of the number 9 in Bahá'í symbols.[1] It was recognized as a grave marker by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs in 2005.
|Wheel of Dharma
|The Wheel has been used as a symbol for the concept of Dharma since at least the 3rd century BC. It has been defined as representing Buddhism as a religious tradition as one of the United States military chaplain symbols in 1990.
|Christian cross
|2nd century CE
|The Christian cross was in use from the time of early Christianity, but it remained less prominent than competing symbols (Ichthys, Staurogram, Alpha and Omega, Christogram, Labarum, etc.) until the medieval Crusades. Early Christianity had use for such symbols due to the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, as the symbol allowed inconspicuous identification of one Christian to another.
|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The
|Angel Moroni
|The Angel Moroni is an important figure in the theology of the Latter Day Saint movement, and is featured prominently in Mormon architecture and art. An angel with trumpet motif was first used as the weather vane for the 1844 Nauvoo Temple, and starting with the 1892 Salt Lake Temple, most LDS temples feature an Angel Moroni statue, including the rebuilt 2002 Nauvoo Illinois Temple.
|The syllable "om" or "aum" is first described as all-encompassing mystical entity in the Upanishads. Hindus believe that as creation began, the divine, all-encompassing consciousness took the form of the first and original vibration manifesting as sound "OM".[2] Before creation began it was "Shunyākāsha", the emptiness or the void. The vibration of "OM" symbolises the manifestation of God in form ("sāguna brahman"). "OM" is the reflection of the absolute reality, it is said to be "Adi Anadi", without beginning or the end and embracing all that exists.[2] The mantra "OM" is the name of God, the vibration of the Supreme. When taken letter by letter, A-U-M represents the divine energy (Shakti) united in its three elementary aspects: Bhrahma Shakti (creation), Vishnu Shakti (preservation) and Shiva Shakti (liberation, and/or destruction).[2]
|Star and Crescent
|The star-and-crescent was originally a symbol of the Ottoman Empire, the most powerful Muslim empire of the modern era; it came to be re-interpreted as a symbol of Islam after the Ottoman Empire's collapse in the early 20th century.
Thus, the symbol was adopted by the All-India Muslim League in 1940 (later becoming the Flag of Pakistan), and it was used by the US American Nation of Islam from the 1970s.
|Islamic calligraphy
|The strong tradition of aniconism in Islam prevented the development of symbols for the religion until recently (other than single-coloured flags, see Green in Islam, Black Standard). The lack of a symbol representing Islam as a religion paired with the desire to come up with national flags for the newly formed Islamist states of the 1970s led to the adoption of written text expressing core concepts in such flags: the shahada in the flag of Saudi Arabia (1973) and a stylized Allah in the Flag of Iran (1979). The Flag of Iraq (2008) has the takbir.
|Jain emblem
|An emblem representing Jainism was introduced in 1974.
|Star of David
|17th century CE
|Jewish flags featuring hexagrams alongside other devices appear from as early as the 14th or 15th century CE. Use of the Star of David as representing the Jewish community is first recorded in Vienna in the 17th century CE.
|Mithraic mysteries
|2nd century CE
|Mithraism is notable for its extensive use of graphical symbols, mostly associated with astrological interpretations. The central symbol is the scene of Mithras slaying the bull; Mithras could also be symbolized in simplified form by representing a Phrygian cap.
|Norse polytheism
|Thor's Hammer
|9th century CE
|During the gradual Christianization of Scandinavia, from roughly 900 to 1100 CE, there was a fashion of wearing Thor's Hammer pendants, apparently in imitation of the Cross pendants worn by Christians. These pendants have been revived since the 1970s are representing Germanic Neopaganism.
|Roman imperial cult
|Radiant crown
|2nd century CE
|Long used as symbol for Sun gods, the crown became the symbol of the divine status of the Roman Emperor, identified with Sol Invictus, around the 2nd century CE. The concept gave rise to the royal crowns familiar throughout the European Middle Ages.
|Sigil of Baphomet
|The Sigil of Baphomet is the official insignium of LaVeyan Satanism and the Church of Satan. The Sigil was derived from an older symbol that appeared in the 1897 book "La Clef de la Magie Noire". This symbol was for a time used by the Church of Satan during its formative years. During the writing of The Satanic Bible, it was decided that a unique version of the symbol should be rendered to be identified exclusively with the Church of Satan. The complete graphic now known as the Sigil of Baphomet, named such for the first time in Anton LaVey's The Satanic Rituals, first appeared on the cover of The Satanic Mass LP in 1968 and later on the cover of The Satanic Bible in 1969.[3] The symbol is copyrighted by the Church.[4]
|A graphical representation of the Sikh slogan Deg Tegh Fateh (1765), adopted by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee in 1920.
|Unicursal hexagram
|Unitarian Universalism
|Flaming chalice
|Originates as a logo drawn for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in 1940; adapted to represent Unitarian Universalism in 1962; recognized by the US Department for Veteran Affairs in 2006.
|The pentacle or pentagram has a long history as a symbol used in alchemy and western occultism; it was adopted as a symbol in Wicca in c. the 1960s. There was a campaign to recognize it as a symbol representing Wicca as a religion on US veteran headstones since the late 1990s, and the symbol was recognized for use on such headstones in 2007.[5]
|Regarded as a national icon in Iran, as well as a symbol among Zoroastrians.
See also[edit]
- Allegory
- Ayyavazhi symbolism
- Cultural, political, and religious symbols in Unicode
- Bahá'í symbols
- Buddhist symbolism
- Christian symbolism
- French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools
- Jewish symbolism
- Religion in national symbols
- Religious symbolism
- Symbolism in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Symbols of Islam
- United States military chaplain symbols
- ^ Smith, Peter (2000), "greatest name", A concise encyclopedia of the Bahá'í Faith, Oxford: Oneworld Publications, pp. 167–168, ISBN 1-85168-184-1
- ^ a b c Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, The hidden power in humans, Ibera Verlag, page 15., ISBN 3-85052-197-4
- ^ Lewis 2001, pp. 20–21.
- ^ Lewis 2001b, p. 21.
- ^ Wiccan Pentacles at Arlington, and Why Litigation Was Necessary January 31, 2012 By Jason Pitzl-Waters
- Baer, Hans A. (1998). William H. Swatos, Jr, ed. "Symbols", in Encyclopedia of Religion and Society. Walnut Creek, CA, USA: Hartford Seminary, AltaMira Press. p. 504. ISBN 0761989560. Retrieved 31 October 2008.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Religious symbol at Wikimedia Commons
- Religious symbols and their meanings
- United States Veteran's Administration approved religious symbols for graves


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Bibi-Khanym Mosque, Samarkand: 17 reviews and 51 photos
This is not one mosque, but three: two fairly normal in size, and the third on a truly grandiose scale. This is Tamerlaine?s great work, his attempt to build a mosque larger and more splendid than the Muslim world had ever seen. But his ambitions here overstretched the capabilities of his craftsmen, and the mosque was doomed almost from the start, though not from want of effort. He employed the very best slaves and workers, imported 95 elephants from India to haul the wagons and, when he judged the portal too low, had it pulled down and ordered it to be rebuilt. He himself superintended the work, coming to the site each day in his litter, and arranging for meat to be thrown down to the men digging the foundations rather than have them stop working for a moment. The result was a mosque of never-before seen proportions ? a portal over 35 metres tall (photo 2) leads to a huge courtyard, which was originally surrounded by a gallery of 400 cupolas supported by 400 marble columns. The main mosque on the eastern side has a portal of over 40 metres, and all was adorned with the most ornate tile-work, carvings, gildings etc.
But this splendour wasn?t to last. Almost from the first day it was in use, the mosque began to crumble, putting worshippers in peril. No one seems to know for certain why this was ? maybe the building was simply too ambitious for the technologies of the day. Whatever the reason, this is one ancient structure that has so far defied the attempts of modern builders to restore it properly. Thus when I went inside I was taken aback to see not the beautifully restored interior I?d come to expect by this point in our travels but a semi-ruin held together with great iron bolts (see photo 3). Weirdly though, this seemed to emphasise even more than if it had been restored the great scale of this monument to Tamerlaine?s ambitions.
Back outside in the courtyard is a huge marble Koran stand, designed to hold the Osman Koran now on display in Tashkent (see photo 4 and my Tashkent page, once completed).
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