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Cookbook talk:Kosher

It would be interesting if you could provide the actual passages. Interpretation of Kosher may be at least partially subjective, but the passages themselves are not.

Additionally, it would be beneficial to find an image of the symbols used to denote a product is Kosher.

--Eibwen 09:34, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There are restrictions on plants, such as eating fruit from trees only after they are at least three years old, but I do not know the details.

--ALW, 11 Sep 2005

Hey there is a certain type of apple which isn't kosher figure what it is called please

I think it might be called ______ shiny apple

Also there is a certain of lettuce maybe it was cabbage which contains so many bugs it is impossible to remove the bugs.

Fruit from a tree less than three years old is not permitted. In practice I've never heard of anyone refusing fruit bought in a store. There are enough symbols to fill a few pages (for example every country has its own set), but the most widespread is the OU or Orthodox Union symbol. I this this might make an ideal image. All fruits/vegetables are kosher. Some choose not to eat lettuce and cabbage because of the effort required to ensure the food free of insects. I've never heard of this 'shiny apple'. <IP_ADDRESS> 05:19, 6 April 2006 (UTC)userbeliever

Also the

Catfish
Since when do catfish not have fins? --Gbleem 23:06, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Catfish do have fins but are bottom feeders, which are not allowed. Incedentally, correct placement/number of fins is also required, as well as visible (not shark- or ray-like) scales. <IP_ADDRESS> 04:59, 6 April 2006 (UTC)userbeliever

Terrible Cookbook in need of improvement
This is a really terrible cookbook. The information here is less in depth than the english wikipedia article on kosher, and doesn't have a single recipe. Legitimately, as a religious Jew, I can see no value here for either kosher observant people or non-kosher observant people who want to prepare a kosher meal. This article should be restarted from scratch. TimeEngineer (discuss • contribs) 05:08, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

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KYIS

KYIS (98.9 FM, "98.9 KISS FM") is a hot adult contemporary radio station serving the Oklahoma City area and is owned by Cumulus Media. KYIS-FM's studios are located in Northwest Oklahoma City and a transmitter site is in the Northside of the city.

History
The earliest known format of the station is urban contemporary when it went by the call letters KFJL in the 1970s. Another early callsign of the station was KYFM with its transmitter located on the Lakeshore tower near the Northwest Expressway and May Avenue. At one point, the transmitter location was co-located on the 890 AM tower at Britton and Eastern. The calls were then changed to KTLS (The LifeStyle), and flipped to a Christian format.

It changed calls in September 1980 to KLNK, and ran an adult contemporary format known as "The Link." Bill Lacey of Zuma Broadcasting changed calls again in 1983 to KZBS, and the station was known as "Z99" and "99FM" for a time. KZBS was known for many extravagant promotions including a home giveaway that was surrounded by a great deal of controversy. KZBS switched between Top 40, Rhythmic Top 40 and hot adult contemporary, and switched full-time to Hot AC, becoming KYIS (KISS-FM), on August 28, 1991. The station became successful in 1993 with new Program Director Jon Zellner, who hosted afternoons. Zellner hired the Jack and Ron morning show and Kathi Yeager for middays. KYIS started making serious inroads against competitor KJYO with Zellner and later with another program director, Ray Kalusa. Jack and Ron stayed on until 2016, when they were moved to sister station KQOB.

Dial/Greyhound repossessed KZBS from Zuma in 1990, and then the station was debt-combined with KATT in August 1994.

As of 2016, KYIS' morning show is hosted by Joey Combs and Heather Emery, with Nugget as their producer. They’ve won the “Best Morning Show” award of the Oklahoma Gazette every year they have been at KYIS. Kaci Summers handles afternoons, Martha Steele is in for your drive home & The Adam Bomb Show is on at Night.

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Hoblitzelle Foundation

The Hoblitzelle Foundation is a foundation which makes grants to social service, educational, medical, and other organizations in Texas, particularly in the Dallas area.

Based in Dallas, the foundation was established by Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle in 1942.

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Massachusetts House of Representatives' 31st Middlesex district

Massachusetts House of Representatives' 31st Middlesex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers Stoneham and Winchester in Middlesex County. Since 2015, Michael Seamus Day of the Democratic Party has represented the district.

The current district geographic boundary overlaps with those of the Massachusetts Senate's 2nd Middlesex and 5th Middlesex districts.

Gov. Charlie Baker (R) signed the state's new legislative maps into law on November 4, 2021. After the redistricting plans were enacted, Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin (D) issued a statement expressing concern regarding how the maps would be implemented: "I am extremely disappointed that these bills were signed into law in their current form and I think it is a devastating blow to the voters of Massachusetts. With local precincts divided multiple ways, it will inevitably lead to chaos at the polls and make it impossible for voters to understand who their elected representatives are."

Representatives

 * James Jones
 * Hugh Morgan
 * Anthony Gallugi
 * Marie Elizabeth Howe
 * Edward Connolly
 * Paul C. Casey
 * Jason M. Lewis
 * Michael Seamus Day, 2015-current

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David L. Richards

The result was delete. bd2412 T 17:49, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

David L. Richards

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Fails WP:NACADEMIC. This is a stub of an article, with very little information and only a list of papers. This doesn't show that they've had a significant impact on their discipline, as demonstrated by independent reliable sources. Nor have they received a highly prestigious award. In fact, they appear to fail all criteria of NACADEMIC, which is why we are here. While the page has many sources, they are mainly just sources to the papers the professor has written, not independent sources. Captain Eek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 17:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions.  Captain Eek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 17:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete. The strongest argument for notability seems to me to be that he cofounded the CIRI Human Rights Data Project, which is mentioned in the infobox but not in the article text; see this UConn Today article about the book he co-wrote (not cited in the article). I'm not sure that's enough. What tips me toward recommending deletion is that, saying he was the article subject, tried to have it deleted in 2016: blanking, speedy templating. (There were also photo substitutions by , who apparently said on Commons that she was Richards' wife.) In cases of marginal notability, we usually respect the subject's wishes. Things are complicated by suggestions that the article creator, , was Richards ... but I'm going to assume that if that was so, the subject had a change of heart about the article, and come down on the side of honoring the request. Since Daver68 has been notified of this discussion, I'll also drop notifications on the other two account talk pages in addition to my pings here. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I should note that per this AN thread, it appears that User:Mrdavid1729 is the article's subject (and simply lost their old account) and would very much like it deleted. Said thread is also the reason I opened this AfD in the first place. Captain Eek  Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 19:17, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Comment. There is a David L. Richards whose book Poland Spring: A Tale of the Gilded Age, 1860-1900 has multiple reviews on JSTOR, but I strongly suspect he is a different person than the one described here. For instance this site describes the Poland Spring author as a 1997 graduate alum of the University of New Hampshire, at a time overlapping the subject's time as a doctoral student at Binghampton. The same search did not turn up any reviews of Violence Against Women and the Law, however. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:29, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. There is probably a case here for passing WP:PROF, based on GScholar citation results. However, there do not seem to be any other significant indicators of notability, and, since the subject has requested deletion in the AN thread linked above, I think we should respect his wishes here. Perhaps a redirect to CIRI Human Rights Data Project can be created afterwards. Nsk92 (talk) 19:36, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:BLPREQUESTDELETE and the borderline nature of the case for notability evident here. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:16, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete at subject's? request. Xxanthippe (talk) 22:52, 24 September 2019 (UTC).
 * Delete'. Marginal per WP:PROF/GNG plus subject preference for no article is a clear delete from me. Guy (help!) 23:32, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not enough source to establish notability. Barca (talk) 20:59, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete does not clearly pass any academic notability criteria.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:31, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep per criteria 1 of WP:NACADEMIC. His work was critiqued and the main subject of the peer reviewed article "Response to David L. Richards", by Ann Marie Clark and Kathryn Sikkink, Human Rights Quarterly, May, 2016, Vol.38(2), p.493-496. There he was acknowledged for playing a critical role in maintaining the CIRI Human Rights Data Project, although it was critical of some of his interpretations of that data set in published peer reviewed journals. His work was also the central focus of the journal article Seeing Double: Human Rights Impact through Qualitative and Quantitative Eyes, Hafner-Burton, Emilie ; Ron, James, World Politics, 2009, Vol.61(2), pp.360-401. He has over 60 published peer reviewed journal articles in my university library, and there are many many more that cite his research. There are also three books to which he is a contributing author in my university library.4meter4 (talk) 18:56, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. I would appreciate re-evaluation from User:Yngvadottir, User:David Eppstein, User:Johnpacklambert, user:JzG. User:BarcrMac, User:Nsk92, and User:CaptainEek.4meter4 (talk) 19:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)


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Phostria calydon is a species of moth in the family Crambidae first described by Herbert Druce in 1885. It is found in Ecuador.

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Talk:David Tepper

Ancestry
why not mention he's of hungarian-jewish ancestry? Any problem with that?

According to ancestry.com he has ancestors from Austria, Romania, Poland and Russia, but not hungary. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:16, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

NPOV
This article is pure hagiography and sounds like it was written by Tepper's PR department. And why is there no identification or date connected with the above comment on ancestry? Gunnermanz (talk) 05:26, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

What parts? Is there anything you feel is missing?
 * Gunnermanz, your statement can be more helpful to the editing community if you provide specific examples of "pure hagiography" in the article.Writethisway (talk) 19:48, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

 * The fact that there is a philanthropy section to the article that doesn't contain any meaningful contributions. Donating less than 1% of your net worth does not make you a philanthropist, it makes you someone who is good at avoiding taxes. It simply isn't notable. 2603:8000:E700:B200:9F0:FFE8:70FF:E497 (talk) 21:03, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

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Substituted at 13:01, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Personal Life
The washington post article detailing how he bought the house of his former boss only to have it demolished is misleading through partial information, especially in context. He bought the house from the ex-wife of his former boss (and former Governor of NJ), not directly from his boss. He demolished it only to build another house twice as large on the same property. While he may have felt some justice, it doesn't imply that he bought and demolished it only for spite

https://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2015/09/njs_richest_man_razes_corzines_ex-wifes_mansion_builds_bigger_mansion.html

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11886753/American-billionaire-builds-Hamptons-mansion-on-land-bought-from-boss-who-snubbed-him.html

Modified it to add the links and full story. Consider eliminating the entire anecdote.

03:20, 6 December 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barath s (talk • contribs)

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Your so lucky and happy .. I'd give anything to live like you
If only there was away to have the life I deserve everything thing has been taken from me my whole life my mom took what was mine when I was 11 and says she gonna help out with money and all she's ever done my whole life is lie to me I just wish I could give my daughter a better life then I had 2601:807:100:A570:A9B1:5D96:966D:757B (talk) 14:52, 17 February 2022 (UTC)

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peggiorare

Etymology
From, from. .

Verb

 * 1)  to worsen (make worse)
 * 2)  to worsen (become worse)
 * 3)  to worsen (become worse)

Usage notes

 * Colloquial Tuscan says io pèggioro, tu pèggiori in place of standard io peggióro, tu peggióri.

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word of faith

Noun

 * 1) A teaching among Pentecostal and charismatic Christians that good health and long life are promised to those who follow God's will. By extension, those who die early have wronged God in some way.

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Shokichi Hata

Shokichi Hata (畑 正吉) was a Japanese sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Charles Konan Banny Stadium

Charles Konan Banny Stadium (Stade Charles Konan Banny de Yamoussoukro) is a football stadium in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast that was inaugurated on 3 June 2022. This was the fourth among the six stadiums for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. It was designed by an association formed of Alcor, Sogea-Satom, Egis and Baudin Chateauneuf.

History
On 19 October 2018, the stadium was broke ground by Ivorian Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly. In anticipation of the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, But On 30 November 2018, CAF stripped Cameroon of hosting the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations because of delays in the construction of stadiums and other necessary infrastructure; it was relocated to Egypt. CAF President at the time, Ahmad Ahmad, said that Cameroon had agreed to host the 2021 tournament instead. Consequently, Ivory Coast, original hosts of 2021, will host the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. On 30 January 2019, the CAF President confirmed the timetable shift, after a meeting with Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Which gave the government more time to improve and test the state of the stadium, On 11 June 2021, the Stadium was handed over to the Yamoussoukro Municipality and will host Ligue 1 games. like SO de l'Armée team who plays its matches on this stadium The stadium is expected to host many matches of the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations next to other five stadiums are all appointed to host this competition.

Construction
SCAU, in partnership with Sogea Satom, Alcor, Baudin Chateauneuf, and Egis, was delighted to take on the design and construction for the Charles Konan Banny Stadium Stadium. Situated on the eastern flank of the city, SCAU adopted a unique approach in crafting a stadium that seamlessly marries monumentality and minimalism. This duality serves a dual purpose: first, to project a powerful image of Ivory Coast that transcends borders, and second, to ensure the construction of a cost-effective, enduring facility. The Ivory Coast has grappled with the issue of inadequate stadium maintenance, making longevity and budget-friendliness paramount concerns.

The western stand serves as the nucleus of the stadium's amenities, while the remaining three stands are thoughtfully nestled into the natural slope of the site, reducing the need for excessive structural maintenance. This design also enhances the thrill of arriving at a match, as spectators ascend to the highest point of the stands, commanding a panoramic view of the entire stadium before descending to their seats, drawing closer to the pitch. A sweeping roof gracefully spans all stands, adapting its height to accommodate the spaces beneath while drawing attention towards the vibrant action on the field. Floodlight lamps are ingeniously affixed to the roof in the west, while two independent masts grace the eastern side. Thoughtfully positioned catering facilities and restrooms dot the public concourse, evoking an elegant, scattered arrangement. As is customary with SCAU's stadium designs, meticulous consideration was given to the stadium's post-event life. Recognizing that a stadium's heritage is pivotal to its sustainability and upkeep, SCAU collaborated with local sports and educational organizations to envision how these spaces might be utilized on a daily basis, long after the conclusion of the African Cup. Despite the spread COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, efforts were made to continue the construction of the stadium. The construction was completed in summer 2021.

Handover and opening
The inauguration was supposed to be held in September 2021. However the Confederation of African Football found some shortcomings about the stadium, mainly in terms of security, and the matches involving the Ivory Coast national football team had to be moved elsewhere. The stadium was inaugurated on 3 June 2022, during the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification and the match between Ivory Coast and Zambia. Ivory Coast won 3–1. the Stadium was named after the processor of President Alassane Ouattara former president Charles Konan Banny who served as prime minister from 7 December 2005 until 4 April 2007, who died from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in France, following his evacuation from the Ivory Coast. He was 78.

2023 Africa Cup of Nations
The stadium was one of the venues for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.

The following matches were played at the stadium:

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Ishaa Saha

Ishaa Saha is an Indian actress who mainly works in Bengali cinema. She started her career with Bengali television. She made her film debut in Bengali cinema in 2017 as a lead with Projapoti Biskut directed by Anindya Chatterjee. She acted in all the films directed by filmmaker Dhrubo Banerjee.

Early life and education
Saha was born in Kolkata. Saha passed Bachelor of Laws in 2015 from University of Calcutta and started her career as a television artist in 2016 with Star Jalsha's Jhanjh Lobongo Phool as Lobongo.

Career
She made her film debut in 2017, with the family drama Projapoti Biskut directed by Anindya Chatterjee, which was critically and commercially successful. She received praise for her performance and received a 3rd Filmfare Awards East for Critics' Award for Best Actor (Female). In 2018, Saha played the role of Jhinuk, a girl next door, alongside Abir Chatterjee and Arjun Chakrabarty as female protagonist in the 'Guptodhon' franchise (Guptodhoner Sondhane (2018) and Durgeshgorer Guptodhon (2019)). Saha gained wider recognition for her performance in Sweater, the film also turned out to be a box office success. Both Sweater and Durgeshgorer Guptodhon are in the 'Top Rated Bengali Movies Of 2019' list. Next she starred in Dhrubo Banerjee's Golondaaj, opposite to Dev. In 2021 she acted in a number of films including Karnasubarner Guptodhon and Kacher Manush. Karnasubarner Guptodhon was a blockbuster at the box office and it went on to become one of the highest-grossing Bengali films of all time, grossing 9.2 crores. In 2022 she starred in the romantic dramas Mitthye Premer Gaan and Ghore Pherar Gaan.

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Instructional design/Interpersonal behaviors/Introduction/Answers

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Your answers may be slightly different than the ones listed below. Keep in mind no one is going to know but you.
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Distorted Lullabies

Distorted Lullabies is the band Ours' first official album. Released on the Dreamworks label on May 15, 2001, it is largely composed of melodic rock songs. The single "Sometimes" found moderate success with MTV and many modern rock radio stations.

Track listing

 * 1) "Fallen Souls"
 * 2) "Drowning"
 * 3) "I'm a Monster"
 * 4) "Sometimes"
 * 5) "Miseryhead"
 * 6) "Here Is the Light"
 * 7) "Medication"
 * 8) "Dancing Alone"
 * 9) "Bleed"
 * 10) "Dizzy"
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User:ShaenaPete

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Sidney Clifford Brookfield Yorke

Sidney Clifford Brookfield Yorke (1922–2007), was a British Psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital who in 1945 while studying medicine at King's College Hospital, assisted at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a voluntary medical student. He took over from Anna Freud at the Hamstead Clinic.

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Mirai (wrestler)

Chiemi Kitagami (北上 知恵美) was a Japanese professional wrestler. She made her debut in September 2001 for All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling under her real name but left the promotion shortly after. In 2002, she joined Kaientai Dojo as a trainee but left before ever competing for the promotion. In 2003, she changed her name to Mirai (未来) and debuted for AtoZ, joining the Z-Spirits stable. After leaving AtoZ in 2005, she became a freelancer, competing for Ms Style, K-Dojo and JWP Joshi Puroresu.

Kitagami died after drowning in her bathtub on September 14, 2005. She was 22 years old.

Career
Kitagami enrolled in the All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling (AJW) dojo when she was just 18 years old, debuting on September 23, 2001, going to a time-limit draw with fellow trainee Tomoko Morii. After less than six months as an active wrestler with the promotion, she left in January 2002 and became inactive for over a year. She briefly joined Kaientai Dojo in the fall of 2002 as a trainee, but left before ever competing for the promotion. She would join AtoZ in 2003 and change her ring name to Mirai (未来), and in her return match in July, defeated Yukari Kitao. After almost two years with AtoZ, Mirai quit the promotion in March 2005 and announced she would be taking a hiatus from pro wrestling as a whole, citing problems with depression as her main reason. She returned to the ring in May as a freelancer, and also debuted her masked character Ruka (流華). She wrestled her last match on September 12, 2005, for the Neo promotion, teaming with Haruka Matsuo in a loss to Kyoko Inoue and Takako Inoue.

Death
Kitagami was first diagnosed with depression in January 2005, and subsequently left AtoZ as a result. During this time, she kept an online diary, where she openly discussed suffering from depression and disclosed that she previously attempted suicide at some point in early 2005. She also expressed frustration at the fact that she continued to take medication but saw no improvement in her mental condition. Despite this, she returned to pro wrestling in mid-2005, and was active until two days before her death.

At around 2:00pm on September 14, 2005, Kitagami was found unconscious in the bathtub of her apartment. She was pronounced dead at the age of 22 shortly after. Despite her history of mental health issues and her previous suicide attempt, her death was ruled accidental and was revealed to the public by her friend and fellow professional wrestler Gami the following day. At the request of her family, no public memorial was held; however, tributes were paid by many wrestling organisations, including Ibuki, JWP Joshi Puroresu, and numerous freelance shows.

Championship and accomplishments

 * Atoz
 * Diamond Jr 5 Championship (one time)

title: Mirai (wrestler)


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Celestia/FAQs

What is Celestia?
Celestia is a freely-distributed, multi-platform, open source software package that provides photo-realistic, real-time, three-dimensional viewing of the solar system, the galaxy and the universe. It has proved a valuable tool for astronomy education, and is used in homes, schools, museums and planetariums around the world. Versions are available for Windows, Macintosh (MacOS X) and Linux computers.

Where can I get more information about Celestia?
The  Celestia Website  has some additional information about Celestia.

The Celestia Forum  is a good place to look for or ask for additional information. You'll find lots of friendly people there.

The Celestia Motherlode has many Celestia resources. (Unavailable 2020-11-18)

Where can I get the most recent version of Celestia?
You can download the latest version of Celestia (v1.6.1) from SourceForge.

Prerelease versions are announced in the Celestia Web Forum in its Users Forum.

What changes have been made to Celestia since the last version?
The developers maintain a list of all new functionality and bug fixes in the Celestia ChangeLog, which is located at SourceForge (most recent changes listed at bottom).

Celestia crashes, what it draws is messed up or it's extremely slow. What can I do?
Celestia makes use of the most advanced features of OpenGL that your computer's graphics driver claims to support. Many older OpenGL implementations have serious bugs. Here are some options for improving Celestia's display, with the most likely ones first:
 * 1) Make sure full hardware acceleration is enabled in your display properties.
 * 2) Upgrade to the most recent drivers for your graphics card. Download them for free from the Web site of the manufacturer of your card, not from Microsoft.

Nvidia drivers can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp

ATI drivers can be downloaded from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Notes:
 * 1) Graphics chipsets integrated into laptop systems usually require drivers provided by the manufacturer of the laptop itself. Too often proprietary "glue chips" prevent the chip vendor's drivers from working properly.
 * 2) Reduce or disable hardware acceleration to verify that the problem is hardware related.

Square Stars
Intel graphics chipsets and drivers have had this problem for many years. The only fix is to type Ctrl-S several times while running Celestia. That'll select other "Star Styles", one of which might be drawn better.

Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10
Update your computer's graphics drivers. Follow the instructions on the Web site of the manufacturer of your graphics hardware.

Windows XP

 * 1) Whenever you upgrade Microsoft's DirectX software, you must upgrade or reinstall the graphics hardware manufacturer's graphics drivers afterward. Installing DirectX installs Microsoft's copies of the drivers, which usually are several generations old.
 * 2) To disable hardware acceleration under Windows, open the "Display Properties" window. Select the "Settings/Advanced/Troubleshoot" tab. (not the "Troubleshoot..." button). Move the "Hardware acceleration" slider all the way to the left. Click on the "OK" buttons to change the settings in use. This will cause Windows to use Microsoft's Generic OpenGL v1.1 library, which is limited, but seems to have relatively few bugs. It does everything in software, works on 2D displays, and is quite slow.
 * 3) Driver Upgrade Procedure
 * 4)  download driver installation program
 * 5) use the Control Panel / Add or Remove Programs menu to delete the current graphics drivers.
 * 6) Reboot
 * 7) Cancel out of XP's offer to install new drivers.
 * 8) Run the Installation program for the new drivers.
 * 9) Reboot
 * 10) Configure desktop resolution and other desirable features.

 * The two reboots are essential in order to cause the old low-level drivers to be deleted. Without those reboots, the old low-level drivers will not be deleted and the new installation will not work properly, although it may not generate any error messages.

MacOS X
For Apple PPC and Intel computers running MacOS X, you must upgrade to the most recent version of the operating system. Updated drivers usually are not available separately.

Apple's OpenGL on MacOS X often has serious bugs which sometimes are not fixed in the most recent release of MacOS. You must report those problems to Apple, otherwise they will not get fixed.

Linux
For computers running Linux, you usually can download the drivers for free from the Web site of the manufacturer of your graphics card.

ATI's fglrx drivers for Linux often have serious bugs. Try to use the driver shipped with the most recent version of Xorg's X server software.

Celestia draws the Moon in shades of purple, blue and red. Why is it doing that and what can I do?
Your graphics chipset and its drivers aren't drawing bumpmaps and normalmaps properly: their OpenGL routine "GL_ARB_vertex_program" is defective. (This is often seen with the newer Intel graphics chips.) Assuming you've already installed the most recent drivers, IgnoreGLExtensions [ "GL_ARB_vertex_program" ]
 * 1) Download and install a different version of Celestia. The program is frequently revised.
 * 2) Turn off some of Celestia's advanced display features.
 * 3) Type a [Ctrl-V] several times to select "Basic" or "Multitexture" render paths instead of the OpenGL Vertex programs. This disables the use of vertex and shading programs temporarily. If this does improve things after you've followed the previous suggestions, then you need to do the next step:
 * 4) Tell Celestia to ignore specific features that your OpenGL library claims (falsely) to support. To do this, edit celestia.cfg. Remove the # that's in front of the line
 * Celestia's Help menu lists all of the routines in your system's OpenGL library. Add equivalent Ignore lines for other suspicious routines.

Addendum provided Tech Sgt. Chen:

Shut down all background programs on your system before running Celestia (i.e., antivirus software, multimedia software such as REAL Player, Musicmatch, etc.) Graphics programs are notorious for consuming system resources and even the best of graphics cards are better off without competing for those resources.

Celestia still crashes, draws funny stuff or is extremely slow. What can I do?
Report the exact circumstances and details of your hardware and software in the "Celestia Bugs" section of the "Celestia forum". Celestia runs on many different hardware and software configurations. It is not appropriate to ask people to guess what you have. For example:

Problem: Celestia crashes when I look at Saturn with Ring Shadows enabled System: 256MB 1GHz Pentium 4, Windows 98 2nd ed Graphics: 128MB Radeon 9700, Catalyst 3.2, OpenGL v1.3.9088 Program: Celestia v1.3.0

Hopefully you know the System information. If you're running Windows, System details usually are available in the Control Panel's System Properties menu.

Some of the Graphics information can be found in Celestia's Help menu. If you're running Windows, more details can be found in the Control Panel's Display Properties menu.

Where can I get another version of Celestia that might work better?
Older versions of Celestia are available on SourceForge v1.2.4 is extremely robust, but does not include many recent features.

Visit the "Celestia Forum" and ask for help if you are having problems with Celestia v1.6.1.

I want to see all possible Celestia eye candy. What kind of graphics card should I get?
As of 2017, you can get whatever graphics card you like. More memory will allow more and higher resolution objects to be viewed, but the most advanced features of Celestia use only the features provided by OpenGL v2.0. All modern graphics hardware, including Intel's embedded graphics support OpenGL v3 or later. The current version of the Mesa software graphics library also provides OpenGL v3.

Sometimes a screenshot captured in Celestia will have multiple boxes around it, as if Multiview was on. How can I get rid of it?
To make a good clean screenshot image, press [Ctrl + D] before you capture the image. This cancels Multiview.

(provided by ElPelado)

I can't turn off the Red/Green diamond in the center of the selected planets.
You are seeing a Mark. Disable Marks by pressing Ctrl+k (the "Control" key and the "k" key). Marks also can be turned on and off in the "Render/View Options..." menu of Celestia v1.3.1 pre3 and later.

(provided by ElPelado)

I want to write some scripts for Celestia. How can I do it?
Briefly:
 * Celestia includes a very simple scripting language of its own which understands commands like "go here, look there, set flag, display text". These commands should go into a file with the filetype .CEL

 * Celestia also includes Lua, a sophisticated, general-purpose scripting language. Scripts written in that language should be put into a file with the filetype .CELX

For more information see Celestia/Scripting

Why are my favorite stars not in Celestia?

 * Celestia v1.6.1 includes only stars that had their distances measured by the Hipparcos satellite. Hipparcos was not used to measure the distances to many dim, variable or close double stars. Someone may have created an Add-on that includes your stars, though. Or consider creating the necessary STC file yourself and contributing it.

 * Celestia v1.6.1 also includes all of the stars within 20 LY of the Sun, as well as about 200 double stars. (There are actually many more double stars than that, but relatively few have had their orbital parameters accurately measured.)

The Sun and the Moon are much too small in Celestia. What's wrong?
Their diameters are exactly right. As seen from the earth, they both are about a half-degree across. Celestia's default window is about 45 degrees across, so the Sun and Moon are about 1% of that. They are drawn only 10 pixels wide if your screen is 1024x768.

Remember that your computer screen is only about 10-20 degrees wide in your own field of view. Celestia's 45 degree field provides a "wide angle" view of the sky. This makes objects look smaller than you might expect.

The apparent large size of the Sun and Moon as we see them in the sky is a psychological illusion. There are several different explanations for this. If you take a picture of the moon with a camera lens that has the same field of view as Celestia, you may be surprised at the small size of its image.

At least one book has been written about this effect: The Mystery of the Moon Illusion: Exploring Size Perception, by Helen Ross and Cornelis Plug. Review of their book

A simple experiment was suggested by "HarrieS", a guest on the Celestia forum:

 * Here is something you might try: a finger at arm's length is about two degrees wide for most people. That means that you can fit four moons side by side. Go outside and check it. Now have a direct look at your finger indoors. Can you still believe that four moons will fit on it?

And Dalle of the Forum wrote

 * But if your head is positioned e.g. 70 cm away from your e.g. 17" monitor, which measures 32 cm across (at least mine does), then the effective field of view looking at the Celestia sky "through" your monitor screen is 2*arctan((32/2)/70)) ~ 26 °. Hence, if you decrease the Celestia field-of-view to 26° you may get a more accurate appearence of what you would see looking out the window.

Celestia's galaxies are ugly, dim, grey blobs. How can I get colorful galaxies that look like the real things?
The real things are dim, grey blobs. Your eyes are not sensitive to color at the very low light levels emitted by distant galaxies.

Many of the colorful pictures you're used to seeing are enhanced by long exposures on sensitive color film. Others are imaginative "false color" combinations of narrow-band CCD images designed to make visible the specific features of interest to the investigators. The colors of those pictures aren't realistic at all.

You can add a colorful object to Celestia by creating a 3DS model with appropriate images as surface textures. Define it as a Nebula in a DSC file. Use the Search command in the Celestia "Development" and "Add-On" forums to find examples.

Why are there no stars beyond about 16,000 light years? Why are there no stars in distant galaxies?
Hipparcos could only measure parallax to a value of about 1 milli-arc-second. For details, please read the thread Celestia currently has technical limitations which prevent it from drawing stars beyond a distance of about 13 million LY from the sun.

On the second page of the thread mentioned above, Chris wrote about some of the tradeoffs in the current version of Celestia.

Sometimes the planets and moons are way far away from where their orbits are drawn. Why?
To draw the orbits, Celestia only calculates 100 or so precise locations and then draws straight lines between them. If the orbiting body doesn't happen to be close to one of those 100 points, then it won't be very close to the line, either. The position of the orbiting body is calculated very accurately. The lines aren't.

Celestia only calculates a few points around the orbit in order to minimize the amount of computation needed between frames. The more calculations are required, the slower the frame rate is. You can specify the number of segments in an orbit track. Use your favorite text editor to modify the file celestia.cfg. Change the line

OrbitPathSamplePoints 100 Increase 100 to 500 or larger.

Why does the illumination level in Celestia not fall off the farther from the Sun I go - surely it should be very dark by the time I get to Pluto?
The human eye can adapt to a very wide range of illuminations, so it wouldn't be as dark out there as you think - about the level of moderate indoor lighting, in which you can see very well. At the other end of the scale, your computer monitor is physically incapable of generating the brightness of illumination that pertains on the inner planets. Fortunately it doesn't need to, since all that would happen would be that your pupils would constrict to reduce the incoming light to a more comfortable level.

So in summary -
 * 1) There's no way Celestia can display "realistic" brightnesses on your computer screen; but
 * 2) such "realism" is unnecessary because your eyes merely adapt to compensate.

(Provided by Grant Hutchison)

When I try to capture a picture or movie, the image is stretched out of proportion.
(Thanks to DaveMc for these tips!) Here are three things you can try...
 * 1) Check the OpenGL anti-aliasing setting of your graphics card. If it is on, try turning it off, or setting it to another option. This seems unrelated to the anti-aliasing setting inside of Celestia.
 * 2) Set your graphics card OpenGL options to "default".
 * 3) Get the most recent drivers for your graphics card.

(Provided by Don G.)

How can I make Celestia work like a planetarium? I want to see how the sky should look from my backyard.
If you're running Celestia v1.3.0 or later
 * 1) Select the body from which to observe; e.g. type H then 3 to select Earth,
 * 2) Use the GoTo menu to specify your Longitude and Latitude and GoTo there (lat & long are entered in decimal format - there are websites that convert to/from degrees/minute/seconds format, such as this one,)
 * 3) Type y = Sync Orbit (this locks you into position above the location you set),
 * 4) Type (Windows:Ctrl-G) (Linux:Alt-S) = Goto Surface,
 * 5) Type (Windows:Ctrl-F) (Linux:Alt-F) = change Arrow keys to AltAzimuth mode (this keeps the horizon level when panning left & right),
 * 6) Use the arrow keys to look toward the sky, you can adjust the field of view (FOV - how much sky you see at once) with the , & . keys.

Celestia provides a Horizontal (alt-az) coordinate system display which can be selected in its Render menu. Also, typing a ; will turn on the equatorial coordinate system display. There are some scripts which add alt-az display, such as Planetarium.

Why can't I see Mir or Galileo? I know they're defined in Celestia.
Set Celestia's simulation time to be when the spacecraft was in orbit. Celestia does not display spacecraft if they are not in orbit at the time of the simulation.

For example, Mir was launched on February 20, 1986, and reentered the Earth's atmosphere on March 23, 2001, at 05:55 GMT. Celestia will show Mir only if you set the time to be somewhere between those two dates.

This is controlled by Beginning and Ending directives in the definition of Mir in solarsys.ssc. If you remove those statements, Celestia will always draw Mir in orbit.

Addendum provided Tech Sgt. Chen:

Mir, along with certain other spacecraft models, were modeled within an historical time frame and can only be viewed between the mission start and end dates. You can override ending dates by opening the solarsys.ssc or other specific craft related .SSC files and placing a pound sign (#) in front of the ending date string. Then save the new setting. This way you can always view your installed Space Crafts. Consequently, removing the pound sign will return the craft to its natural time frame.

Positions on Mars are on the opposite side of the planet or bumps seem to be half a world away from the mountains or it's dark where it should be daylight. Why????
You have a misaligned map.

Celestia requires that all maps have 0 degrees of longitude in the center, with 180 degrees of longitude at the edges. All of the surface texture image maps of all of the moons and planets that come with Celestia have this alignment.

In contrast, many maps of Mars have been created with 0 degrees of longitude at the left and right edges, and with 180 degrees of longitude in the center.

Using a map with 0 at the edge would cause the symptoms you describe. You need to cut the map in half and exchange the halves or you need to find a map that's properly aligned.

My planet's rings are drawn as a featureless oval. It used to work. What's wrong?
You need to use a smaller ring image, one that is no wider than your graphic card's OpenGL texture buffer.

To see how large your OpenGL texture buffer is, use Celestia's menu Help "OpenGL Info". Near the beginning it has a line that starts with "Max texture size:"

Older versions of Celestia scaled down large ring texture images so they'd fit into the smaller texture buffer of your OpenGL graphics driver. Celestia v1.3.1 and later no longer do that.

Some older cards, like 3dfx Voodoos, only have a 256 byte buffer. Modern cards have a 2K or 4K buffer. Microsoft's software version of OpenGL only has a 1K buffer.

Celestia's orbit for the ISS is out of date. How can I get a better one?
The orbit of the International Space Station changes continuously in ways that are almost impossible to predict due to things like atmospheric drag, light pressure, cargo ship docking, etc. If you want an accurate orbit, you'll have to update it on a daily basis.

ISS TLEs (Two Line Elements) are posted to the AMSAT SAREX mailing list regularly by "Dave Larsen PhD".

Current values are also available at http://heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=25544

Here are the ISS TLE orbital parameters for August 16th, 2004:

ISS 1 25544U 98067A  04229.23839543  .00019757  00000-0  15906-3 0  4532 2 25544 51.6323  19.1941 0005251 117.9988 304.8582 15.70921896327755

and here are the corresponding values for September 30, 2017:

1 25544U 98067A  17273.74686146  .00016717  00000-0  10270-3 0  9043 2 25544 51.6413 232.1027 0004759 326.7128  33.3724 15.54058911 38162

Epoch (UTC): 	30 September 2017 17:55:28 Eccentricity: 	0.0004759 inclination: 	51.6413° perigee height: 	401 km   apogee height: 	408 km    right ascension of ascending node: 	232.1027° argument of perigee: 	326.7128° revolutions per day: 	15.54058911 mean anomaly at epoch: 	33.3724° orbit number at epoch: 	38162

Grant Hutchison has provided a spreadsheet to convert TLEs into Celestia SSCs

Also, don't forget that Celestia models the shape of the Earth using a spheroid. The actual shape of our planet is much more complicated. As a result, a view from the Earth's surface in Celestia is not accurate enough to show the correct path across the sky of satellites in low Earth orbit like the ISS. Another issue is that Celestia v1.5.1 and earlier use a fixed rotation speed for the Earth. Since the Earth's rotation is variable, the surface of Celestia's Earth is displaced from where it should be. Celestia v1.6.1 uses a more accurate variable rotation speed. In other words, you can't use Celestia to find out where to look in the sky to see the ISS.

I have a previous version of Celestia with tons of addons, custom textures, etc. How can I update to the latest version without having to reinstall all of those addons, textures, etc?
You can have more than one copy of Celestia on your system at the same time.

Rename the directory (folder) where you have Celestia now, maybe to Celestia131.

Verify that things still work: Double-click on the icon for Celestia131\Celestia.exe and look around in your universe.

Install the new copy of Celestia and tell it to use the directory Celestia. It'll create the folder again and install itself there.

Move your Addons at leisure.

Cel:// URLs run the copy of Celestia that is in the folder named Celestia. If you want to change back to using your old Celestia that way, just rename the directories again: rename Celestia to be Celestia132 and rename Celestia131 to be Celestia.

A description of how to organize your Addons so they can be moved easily.

I've compared the Celestia texture for Venus/Ida/Miranda with one I've found in a book or on the Web, and Celestia's map is upside down. What's going on?
Many sources for planetary maps (such as the USGS) use a mapping convention called "ecliptic north" - the north pole of any planet or asteroid is defined as being whichever rotational pole points north of the plane of the ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun). Each planet or asteroid can then be classified as a "direct" rotator, if it rotates in the same direction as the Earth when observed from above its north pole (i.e. counterclockwise); or as a "retrograde" rotator, if it rotates in the opposite direction.

But Celestia uses an equally valid mapping convention called "rotational north" - north is defined as being the pole around which the planet appears to rotate counterclockwise, irrespective of that pole's orientation relative to the ecliptic.

For direct rotators, this difference is irrelevant - "north" turns out to be the same direction in both mapping conventions. But for retrograde rotators, Celestia's north pole corresponds to ecliptic south - so you will find many maps of retrograde rotators like Venus, Ida and the moons of Uranus that appear to be upside down relative to those in Celestia. If you want to convert such maps for use in Celestia, you'll have to turn them through 180 degrees.

(Provided by Grant Hutchison)

What if I have more questions?
If you have a question about Celestia that is not answered above or elsewhere in this WikiBook, please ask your question in the Celestia Web Forum, not here. There are many experts reading the Forum, but very few knowledgeable people read the WikiBook. If a question is asked more than once or twice in the Forum, it'll be added to this FAQ.

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Virginia State Route 86

State Route 86 (SR 86) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs 3.33 mi from the North Carolina state line, where the highway continues south as North Carolina Highway 86 (NC 86) to U.S. Route 29 Business (US 29 Bus.) and SR 413. The entire route is contained within the independent city of Danville.

Route description
SR 86 begins at the North Carolina state line, which also serves as the southern limit of the independent city of Danville. The road continues south as NC 86 toward Yanceyville and Chapel Hill. SR 86 heads north as South Main Street, which expands from two lanes to a four-lane divided highway just north of the border and has a diamond interchange with the Danville Expressway, which carries US 29 and US 58 around the south side of the city. North of College Park Drive, the state highway becomes a five-lane road with a center left-turn lane and passes Danville Community College. At its crossing of Norfolk Southern Railway's Danville District, SR 86 expands to a divided highway and its name changes to Central Boulevard. The state highway has a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR 293 (West Main Street) next to Danville Regional Medical Center before reaching a cloverleaf interchange with US 29 Business and SR 413 just south of the Dan River. Memorial Drive heads west as US 29 Bus. toward Greensboro and east as SR 413 toward downtown Danville. US 29 Bus. continues north as Central Boulevard across the Dan River.

Though official documents show SR 86 ending at the Memorial Drive interchange, signage exists along a 1.3 mi segment of Central Boulevard and intersecting roads showing Central Boulevard as a part of SR 86. On Memorial Drive, the road to the north is signed as SR 86, signs at the Riverside Drive (US 58 Bus.) and Piedmont Drive interchanges show the road to the south as SR 86, and an "End North SR 86" sign is posted at Central Boulevard's end at Piney Forest Road.

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anagārika

Adjective

 * 1) homeless

Noun

 * 1) Homeless one; used originally for any member of the sangha
 * 2)  A white-robed student in some modern forms of the Theravada tradition who, for a few months, awaits being considered for ordination as a samanera.

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Chinese (Mandarin)/Nations of the World

Here's a list of some nations and regions, with their names in Chinese. Note that the country's name can also be used as an adjective. For example, 日本货 (rìběn huò) means "Japanese goods," and is derived from 日本 (rìběn; Japan) and 货 (huò; goods). As an aside, China imports a good number of products from Japan. Between 2001 and 2007, it was the greatest exporter to China, beating the European Union, South Korea, and Taiwan. You could also say 日本椅子 (rìběn yǐzi; Japanese chair), 日本食品 (rìběn shípǐn; Japanese food products), and 日本动画片 (rìběn dònghuà piàn; Japanese cartoons). Terms like these can be shortened, for example, 日货 means the same thing. You can see 日 is an adjective which means "pertaining to Japan," i.e., "Japanese." Another way to describe its function is that it acts like a "root," much like in English. Headlines are often abbreviated this way. For example, 中俄合作 (zhōng é hézuò) can mean "China and Russia cooperate" or "Sino-Russian cooperation." In common conversation, however, excessive abbreviation is undesirable, because it often leads to ambiguity.

 * References

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Lore Wissmann

Lore Wissmann (22 June 1922 – 25 December 2007) was a German operatic soprano.

Life
Wissmann was born in Neckartailfingen. After studying at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, Wissmann made her debut in 1942 at the State Opera there, of which she was a member for over thirty years.

There, she sang all the important lyrical parts, including Minnie in La fanciulla del West, Liù in Turandot, Marie in The Bartered Bride as well as Manon in Manon Lescaut and also took part in numerous premieres and first performances, among others by Hindemith, Stravinsky and Orff.

She gave guest performances at all leading opera houses in Europe. At the Bayreuth premiere cast of Parsifal, she sang parts from Das Rheingold and Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1956). She was married with the tenor Wolfgang Windgassen (1914-1974).

Wissmann died in Uffing am Staffelsee at the age of 85. She rests beside her husband Wolfgang Windgassen at the Waldfriedhof Stuttgart.

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User:Pudeo

I registered to Wikipedia on March 4, 2006. I am from Finland some of my Wikipedia-related interests include aviation, military, history and politics. I also like to follow what's happening in the community. I try to be civil with everyone, so even if we meet in controversial topics, drop me a line on my talk page and I'm sure we can work it out.

 * November 20, 2006, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aimo Lahti.

 * February 5, 2007, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kaleva.

 * 10 June, 2007, Did you know was updated with from the article Aero Flight 311.

 * 9 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Aero Flight 217.

 * 10 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jalmari Jaakkola.

 * 18 December 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hilja Riipinen.

 * 21 August 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Alexei Vinogradov.

 * 12 November 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Soviet partisans in Finland.

 * 2 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Schio massacre.

 * 2 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leo Skurnik.

 * 29 September 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Salomon Klass.

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