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Apokolips

Apokolips is a fictional planet that appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The planet is ruled by Darkseid, established in Jack Kirby's Fourth World series, and is integral to many stories in the DC Universe. Apokolips is considered the opposite of the planet New Genesis.

Apokolips is a large planet covered entirely by a city (an ecumenopolis). It is a notoriously dismal place, where the slavish Hunger Dogs (low-class citizens) labor endlessly to feed the Energy Pits which supply light and power to the world. Both Apokolips and New Genesis exist in a different plane of existence from the regular DC Universe, located near the Source that originated the Old and New Gods.

Apokolips represents a dystopian society. As Jack Misselhorn writes: "No one on Apokolips evolves spiritually because there is no love. It is a stagnant society, its inhabitants living in ignorance, the legacy of oppression".

Accessing either Apokolips or New Genesis usually requires a form of travel known as a "Boom Tube", a portal generated by a device known as a Mother Box. In some versions, the boom tube actually converts the size of individuals that pass through to proportions fitting the destination, i.e., when a New God passes from Apokolips (or New Genesis) to Earth, they shrink in size, while someone going the other way would grow larger. If someone somehow reaches the Fourth World by other means, they will discover that its denizens are giants.

Fictional history
Apokolips and its bright counterpart New Genesis were spawned by the destruction of Urgrund, the world of the "Old Gods" (implied to be the gods of Norse mythology). While New Genesis was given strength and nobility from the "living atoms" of the Old God Balduur, Apokolips was saturated with evil from an unnamed sorceress. The two planets are locked in an eternal war, symbolizing the struggle of evil and good on a grand mythic scale. Apokolips is ruled by a fell being known as Darkseid, a dark leader who rules over his downtrodden people by force and fear. Apokolips appears to be a high-tech industrial ecumenopolis.

Seven Soldiers
Both Apokolips and New Genesis were seemingly destroyed in a final battle prior to Grant Morrison's miniseries Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle. However, the final issue of that series implied that the story's earlier events were merely visions seen by the hero as part of an elaborate test by the New God Metron. How much of the battle really happened and the current status of the New Gods remains to be seen.

Countdown to Final Crisis
Using Boom Tube technology, Brother Eye arrives on Apokolips and seemingly assimilates the entire planet. Before the assimilation is fully complete, the Pied Piper intervenes and channels the Anti-Life Equation through his flute. This destroys much of Brother Eye, causing its central core to make a last-minute escape off the surface of the planet and reverting much of Apokolips to what it was.

Death of the New Gods
At the end of the Death of the New Gods miniseries, with all the gods now dead, the combined entity born from the melding of the Source and the Anti-Life Equation merges Apokolips and New Genesis into a single new planet with characteristics in common with both the former worlds.

The Great Darkness Saga
In the 30th century, original Legion of Super-Heroes continuity, Apokolips is inactive and Darkseid is incapacitated. In the reboot Legion continuity, Darkseid was aged and dying, with the planet mostly uninhabited, but the center of a large cult.

The New 52: Earth-0 and Earth-2
In DC continuity following its 2011 Flashpoint event and the launch of its New 52 line of comics, the DC Multiverse remains composed of 52 worlds, but only one set of New Gods. Darkseid and his army from Apokolips have attempted to invade Earth-0, or Prime Earth, but are repelled by the first incarnation of the Justice League. At the same time, his armies invaded the alternate Earth of Earth-2 under the aegis of Steppenwolf, which was much more successful.

The invasion of Earth-2 cost the lives of that universe's original Superman, Batman, Catwoman, Wonder Woman and millions of humans, including Earth-2's Lois Lane, who married Superman on that world. The Apokoliptan forces have assistance from Fury (Earth-2 Wonder Woman's abducted and brainwashed daughter), with all her mother's Amazonian abilities. Five years on, a number of new "wonders" begin to emerge: Green Lantern (Alan Scott), the Atom, Hawkgirl, Doctor Fate, the Red Tornado (an android with Lois Lane's consciousness) and the Flash form an embryonic Justice Society to deal with threats such as Solomon Grundy. Before long, the armies of Apokolips attempt a second invasion of Earth 2, and the Wonders of the World are supported by further heroes including Batman (Thomas Wayne), a new Superman (Val-Zod), the Huntress (Helena Wayne), Power Girl, Aquawoman (Marella), the Accountable (Jimmy Olsen), the New God Mister Miracle, and Earth 0's Mister Terrific.

Agents of Darkseid, such as Glorious Godfrey and Kalibak (in Batman & Robin) and the Apokoliptian Orion (in Wonder Woman), have encountered the heroes of Earth-0 on several occasions, but no full-scale invasions have taken place. Later, in the series Earth 2: Worlds' End, Mister Miracle discovers that Highfather made a deal with Darkseid that the armies of Apokolips could invade Earth-2 and that dimension freely without the intervention of the New Gods of New Genesis, explaining the wild disparity between the fates of Earth-0 and Earth-2. Ultimately, Apokolips itself enters Earth-2's Solar System and consumes Earth-2, transforming the planet into fuel to sustain itself.

DC Rebirth
When Perpetua destroys the Source Wall, one of the side effects is that Apokolips simply vanishes. With Apokolips gone, Darkseid plans to use the Ghost Sector to create a New Apokolips which he will use to invade and conquer the Multiverse.

Inhabitants
The population is a downtrodden lot, including many kidnapped from other worlds before being "broken". The majority of the population are called Lowlies or Hunger Dogs, a bald and fearful race that has no sense of self-worth or value, and yet, in their own way, are just as much gods as those who rule the planet. The Lowlies are subject to constant abuse that ends only with death. Next are the Parademons, who serve as the keepers of order on the planet. Higher above the Parademons are the Female Furies, who are Darkseid's personal guard. They are blessed with unnatural strength and longevity and are either trained for their position in the Furies from birth, or are promoted from the ranks of general Apokoliptian troops. The leaders of the Furies are Granny Goodness, who sports the appearance of a matronly old woman while being the most powerful of the guards, and Kanto, who enjoys a unique position as Darkseid's master assassin. The chief guard, Big Barda, had a third position under Granny which has not been filled since her defection from the group. Deep below Armagetto, the lifeless forms of the Old Gods live on. They are known as the Dreggs.

Apokolips is ruled by Darkseid as its theocratic god/despot, but he delegates most of the actual day-to-day ruling to his counsellor DeSaad. Darkseid has no real contenders for the throne of Apokolips except the bug-like Mantis, although his sons Orion, Grayven and Kalibak are also potential contenders. Darkseid is cursed with Grayven and Kalibak's stupidity and Orion's service in the name of good. Orion once usurped the throne of Apokolips from his father temporarily, until coming to his senses and returning to New Genesis. It is prophesied that Orion will overthrow Darkseid. In Kingdom Come, it is revealed that Darkseid's overthrow will not result in major changes on Apokolips, as Apokolips' evil comes from evil itself rather than from Darkseid.

Geography
There are different locations on Apokolips, a ecumenopolis (a world-city) with burning firepits, extant in between dimensions, occupying a ‘frequency’ somewhere between the physical universe and Hell:

 * Armagedda - One of the many filth-strewn districts on Apokolips that is inhabited by Hunger Dogs and patrolled by Parademons.
 * Armagetto - The planet's one city and capital home to a dangerous ghetto outside of Darkseid's palace.
 * Darkseid's Palace - This is where Darkseid lives.
 * The Garden of Hope - The only beautiful place on Apokolips that has plants on it. It is here where the precognitive Pythia resides, guarding Darkseid's oracle. Darkseid tends to visit this area when he gets stressed out.
 * Granny Goodness' Orphanage - This is a training facility where Granny Goodness trains the children of Apokolips to become mighty warriors. It is located in the Night-Time Zone of Armagetto.
 * The Happiness Home - The Happiness Home is a rectangular fortress is built on a solid rock base in the centre of a shallow crater. It is over 200 feet high and a training school of sorts.
 * The Necropolis - The Necropolis is an underground labyrinth located on Apokolips, home to the Dreggs, the last surviving Old Gods. The Dreggs survived the sundering of Urgrund, but were rendered mindless. Below the Necropolis are the Black Ways, a labyrinth which was the prison of Sirius, one of the last few surviving Old Gods, now trapped in the form of a large wolf. Sirius sacrificed himself to save Orion's life, as seen in Orion #10 (March 2001). Powerful artifacts created by the Old Gods have been found in the Necropolis. A sword found in the ruins of Asgaard briefly gave John Hedley superhuman powers, which he used to challenge Orion in New Gods #16 (May 1990). In another expedition, Kalibak discovered the Thunderbelt, a device which increased his strength and durability (and which was a direct homage to Thor's belt of strength). New Genesis also has ruined cities from the time of the Old Gods. Lonar found his mystical war horse Thunderer in one of these ruins. They met the Odin for some kind of business, such as a black lightning market that could be a source for Asgaardian people.
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Technology
Apokolips is on par with New Genesis in terms of technological advancement. With their technology, they are the height of power in most of the universe and are able to devastate galaxies when they choose to use it. Technology from Apokolips is sometimes on par with the technology used by Brainiac. Apokoliptian technology is furthermore the source of unparalleled misery in the universe, as the planet routinely arms evil groups with advanced technology to further its influence (and misery) across the universe. Apokoliptian technology was used by Bruno "Ugly" Mannheim and his organization Intergang in the Superman comics. It was a deal between Darkseid and Metron which was the cause of the invention of the "Boom Tube" using "Element X", which could only be found on Apokolips. The "Entropy Aegis" armor, used by Steel to defeat Imperiex, was Apokoliptian technology, as was Dmitri Pushkin's second suit of Rocket Red armor.

Darkseid/Galactus: The Hunger
During an intercompany crossover, Galactus visited Apokolips, but was unable to feed on the planet, since all of the life force that had dwelled there had either left to New Genesis or had been burned in the fire pits long ago, in essence leaving the planet with no lifeforce and making it too corrupt for him to feed on.

Television

 * The last two seasons of Super Friends featured Apokolips. It was shown in various episodes of Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show and The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians.
 * Jack Kirby's Fourth World was featured heavily in the final season of Superman: The Animated Series with Apokolips as the primary setting in a few episodes. In the final episode "Legacy", Superman faced Darkseid in battle and actually dethroned him as ruler and freed the people of Apokolips, only to watch the citizens help Darkseid recover from his wounds out of loyalty.
 * In the successor series Justice League Darkseid asked for the League's help when the computer Brainiac attacks Apokolips. This is later revealed as a trick to capture Superman so Brainiac can make itself an organic being. Darkseid gains control of Brainiac and tries to use him to solve the Anti-Life Equation, but is killed when Brainiac's asteroid base explodes. In the series continuation, Justice League Unlimited, Apokolips plunged into civil war after Darkseid's death, between two of his generals, Granny Goodness and Virman Vundabar. Vundabar captures Darkseid's oldest son Kalibak, but Kalibak is later imprisoned on Earth. The League hopes that both sides would destroy each other, so that neither of them can threaten Earth or the universe. But when Darkseid was resurrected by Lex Luthor, he returned to Apokolips to reaffirm his rule, quickly ending the civil war. He then orders his forces to attack Earth, so as to get revenge on Superman and later to head to New Genesis. The Apokolipian forces then came upon Earth via Boom Tubes. The Justice League, temporarily allied with the Secret Society of Super Villains, fought against them. When Darkseid and Luthor seemingly perished when they clasped their hands on the Anti-Life Equation, the Apokolipian forces retreated back to their home, with their fate unclear.
 * In the series Smallville, Apokolips is referenced when Clark Kent's cousin Kara explains to Oliver Queen that a symbol-like language depicted on a cave's walls is Apokoliptian in nature. The actual planet appears in the series finale, in which Darkseid attempts to crash it into Earth until Clark, who has become Superman, defeats Darkseid and pushes Apokolips back into outer space.
 * In the direct-to-video film Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Apokolips was a featured location where Darkseid had placed Kara Zor-El under his command.
 * Apokolips was referenced in the Young Justice episode "Disordered". It eventually appeared in "Endgame", where it was the gathering place for Vandal Savage, Darkseid, G. Gordon Godfrey, and DeSaad.
 * Apokolips appears in Justice League Action.
 * Apokolips is featured in the Harley Quinn episode "Inner (Para) Demons". The show's titular character and her crew travel there using a stolen Mother Box to seek an audience with Darkseid and gain control of his Parademon army to defend against the GCPD, which they do after she and Doctor Psycho kill Granny Goodness.

Film

 * Apokolips appears in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, Justice League: War, Reign of the Supermen and Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
 * Apokolips is mentioned once by Knockout in Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay.
 * Apokolips is indirectly mentioned in Justice League. While explaining the ancient Mother Boxes to Bruce Wayne, Diana Prince explains that the boxes combine to form the Unity, a power that transforms words into the primordial hellscape of Steppenwolf’s birth world, referring to Apokolips. Apokolips was physically featured in the director’s cut, Zack Snyder's Justice League

Video games

 * Apokolips makes a cameo in the video game Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, where Darkseid and Kanto observe Intergang's activities with Superman and Metallo.
 * Apokolips is alluded in Justice League Heroes, where Darkseid uses a Mother Box to turn Earth into a "New Apokolips". Superman is kept on Earth to see what has happened to Earth. Once Darkseid is defeated, Zatanna asks the Mother Box to turn Earth back into its original state.
 * Apokolips appears in DC Universe Online, being viewable in the exterior of two instances, Happiness Home and Darkseid's War Factory, where you face against many of the Apokoliptians.
 * Apokolips is featured heavily in Lego DC Super-Villains as the final battle between Darkseid, his forces and the Justice League and Legion of Doom, as well as an alternate location once the tenth level called “Cooking Up a Deathstorm” is completed.

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New Genesis

New Genesis is a fictional planet appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. A part of Jack Kirby's Fourth World mythos, the planet is home to the heroic New Gods led by the sage Highfather. New Genesis is the positive counterpart of Apokolips, home of the evil New Gods led by the tyrant Darkseid.

New Genesis is an unspoiled and sunlit world of forests, mountains, and bodies of water. The New Gods inhabit Supertown, a golden city floating above the planet's surface. Both New Genesis and Apokolips exist in a different plane of existence from the regular DC Universe, located near the Source that originated the Old and New Gods.

Accessing either Apokolips or New Genesis usually requires a form of travel known as "Boom Tube", a portal generated by a device known as Mother Box. In some versions, the boom tube actually converts the size of individuals that pass through to proportions fitting the destination, i.e., when a New God passes from Apokolips (or New Genesis) to Earth, they shrink in size, while someone going the other way would grow larger. If someone somehow reaches the Fourth World by other means, they will discover that its denizens are giants.

Fictional history
New Genesis and its dark counterpart Apokolips were spawned by the destruction of Urgrund, the world of the "Old Gods" (implied to be the gods of Norse mythology). New Genesis was given strength and nobility from the "living atoms" of the Old God Balduur, while Apokolips was saturated with evil from an unnamed sorceress. Through Darkseid's manipulation, the two planets entered a devastating war that only ended when the New Genesis general Izaya forsook the ways of war, contacted the Source and became the Highfather, agreeing to a pact with his enemy to secure peace. Eventually the pact was broken and the war restarted when Darkseid kidnapped people of Earth and Highfather directed warriors of New Genesis to oppose him.

The conflict between the two planets symbolizes the struggle of good and evil on a grand mythic scale. However, despiste unambiguously representing good, New Genesis and its inhabitants are not entirely perfect. Biographer Charles Hatfield writes, "The saga turns out to be not so simple, for Kirby — and this is revealing – blurs the seeming idealized perfection of New Genesis, adding complexity to his gods." Similarly, John Morrow writes, "Kirby knew that his New Genesis was no heaven. Rather, it was more like the free West during the Cold War, which was threatened by forces from within as well as without."

Highfather is a spiritual leader who maintains his people's connection to the primal energy field known as The Source. The original Highfather, Izaya the Inheritor, has since perished and been replaced by Earthling superhero Takion, a living conduit of The Source. In contrast to the industrial wasteland of Apokolips, New Genesis is a veritable paradise covered in lush forests and grasslands. The only urban location is Supertown, a floating city designed not to affect the planet's surface.

Seven Soldiers
Both Apokolips and New Genesis were seemingly destroyed in a final conflict, similar to that which destroyed Urgrund, home of the Old Gods prior to Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers: Mister Miracle mini-series. However, the final issue of that series implied that the story's earlier events were merely visions seen by the hero as part of an elaborate test by the New God Metron. It seems that none of these events actually occurred, as the miniseries Death of the New Gods takes place on New Genesis and Apokolips in the first issue, and many of the new gods and other Fourth World characters are seen in their standard style throughout much of Countdown, Countdown to Mystery, and Superman/Batman. In addition to New Genesis and Apokolips still being in existence and the characters being portrayed as they have always been, there is no mention of any of the Seven Soldiers events.

It has since been revealed that Seven Soldiers is indeed part of established history, as its characters reappear in the Final Crisis and its events are referenced. It transpires that when Darkseid died (when, and how, a subject of some controversy in itself) he fell back through time. He, and many of the other New Gods, then incarnated in pre-existing human bodies. Most, if not all of these perished during Final Crisis, releasing their godly essence.

Death of the New Gods
At the end of the Death of the New Gods mini-series, with all the gods now dead, the Source entity merges Apokolips and New Genesis into a single planet and indicates that it will possibly be repopulated.

Final Crisis
At the end of this story, in issue #7, the New Gods of Supertown were reborn on Apokolips, itself reborn as New Genesis.

The New 52
In "The New 52", a reboot of the DC Comics universe, New Genesis is largely the same, though the surface of New Genesis is now littered with the ruins of New Genesis' previous cities on the surface of the planet, devastated by the New Genesis/Apokolips War. Technology from the planet is used to create OMAC.

Inhabitants
There are two types of inhabitants of New Genesis. The first are called the "gods" or "New Gods" (the upper class), a race of powerful immortals. The gods live in Supertown. The "Bugs" (the lower class) evolved from "micro-life" spread on the planet's surface during the gods' war. They live on the planet's surface, in hives or the "Bug Mound". There is occasionally prejudice between these two races, as many of the gods consider the bug-people to be a lesser species. However, the two races are also seen showing each other compassion and respect.

Besides the New Gods and the Bugs of New Genesis, there also a race of indigenous peoples called Primitives that live in the forests of New Genesis.

Geography
There are different locations on New Genesis:

 * Asylum of the Gods - An insane asylum on New Genesis where New Gods who have gone mad are incarcerated.
 * Bug Mound - The home of the Bugs of New Genesis.
 * Lonar's Range - An area of wilderness where the Primitives live.
 * Singularity Stockade - A multiversal prison that is often used by the New Gods of New Genesis.
 * Supertown - Also known as the Celestial City, Supertown is a floating city which is the capital of New Genesis and the home of its New Gods.

Travel
As it exists in a parallel dimension, travel between New Genesis and other worlds is only possible via technology known as the boom tube, dimensional gateways whose creation is signified by a sonic boom. It has been said that in their world, the gods of New Genesis are of gigantic stature and that travel through the boom tubes rescales them to mortal proportions.

Television

 * New Genesis was featured in the Justice League episode "Twilight".
 * New Genesis was referenced in the Young Justice episode "Disordered" and featured in the third and fourth seasons.

Video games

 * New Genesis is featured in DC Universe Online as an open-world area to complete missions with or against Bugs or Parademons, while also having to defeat iconic enemies such as Lightray, Orion for heroes and Steppenwolf and Kalibak for villains.

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Mortician (disambiguation)

A mortician is a funeral director. The word may also refer to:

 * Mortician (band), a death metal band
 * Mortician (comics), a villain in Batman comics
 * The Mortician, a 2011 British thriller film

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User talk:AlanBarrett

Wrench
Alan, sorry about overwriting your changes to the Wrench page. I concur whole heartedly with your position. Please check and make sure I retreived all of your change. Drover

Alan, in reference to the Wrench page, I moved the image to the Pipe Wrench page in order to give some information for it. I would not be opposed to accomdating it on the old page however. Another thought, I'm thinking of changing the section Common Wrenches to Common Wrenches/Spanners but do not know if Sockets would fall under that section or Other Common Wrenches. Would you have an idea? Drover 21:51, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

at the Opentask .....
Hello, AlanBarrett, I don't understand the codes you've added to the Template:Opentask, but I like the way the frame keeps it neat and tidy. Thank you. I've widened it a little bit (I think that all I've done) so that the lines don't get truncated. May I ask how you decide on the dimensions ? I hope the template is not too wide now. -- PFHLai 21:59, 2004 Aug 28 (UTC)

 * See my reply at Template talk:Opentask. —AlanBarrett 10:07, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Tables
Thanks for the help on the tables on the Military of the United Kingdom. To further demonstrate my lack of understanding of tables, I found this <>> in Palme d'Or but can not figure out what is causing it. Any ideas? Rmhermen 03:40, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Fixed. There was a " |-'' " instead of "|-" between 1955 and 1956.  However, my browser damaged the non-ascii characters in 1946; can you fix that?  —AlanBarrett 09:07, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks and fixed. Rmhermen 13:03, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)

Template section numbering now screws up TOC
Please see my followup comment at Wikipedia talk:How to edit a page. - dcljr 17:55, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

aggressive edit summary
"Reinstate alt="" which was recently removed by Netoholic. Please do not hide changes like this under a misleading edit summary like "formatting".)"

Its usually considered bad form to say something so accusatory. You may disagree with the changes, you may even revert them, but edit summaries go into the permanent record of the article history. Use the edit summary to describe your changes, and use Talk page for your justification and commentary directed to a specific editor. Take a read of Edit summary if you think this isn't a community standard. -- Netoholic @ 20:11, 2004 Oct 30 (UTC)

 * I do think your edit summary at Template:Wikiquote was misleading, because you did not simply change the formatting. For short once-off complaints, it's much more convenient to use the edit summary than anything else.  As soon as I realised it was not a once-off thing, I commented on your user page.  —AlanBarrett 20:29, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Note that I did not say (or think) that your edit summary was deliberately misleading, just that it was misleading, and I wished you would describe your changes better. Sorry if you took it as an accusation.  —AlanBarrett 20:38, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

vim
Hi Alan, thanks for the tip on global search and replace! I was wondering how to do that... which is why I used that dodgy macro hack to fixup wikilinks. I'll use that command in future - much easier! Maybe I should use sed... hmmm. Don't know if I can be bothered. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:17, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

imatinib
Hi Alan, the purpose of the  tags is mainly for Gecko-based browser (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Camino, etc) which, for some reason, don't seem to break at hyphens in any of the longer IUPAC names I've entered into Wikipedia drug infoboxes; so the drugbox can sometimes become wider than the entire screen. Gecko-based browsers do break at spaces, though, which is why I had those spaces in the name - but the  solution probably looks more accurate to more people. It seems to work out okay this way for Internet Explorer, but it does look a bit strange in Safari - probably just needs a bit of tweaking with regards to where the linebreak is placed. I haven't had a chance to test it out in Opera yet unfortunately. Techelf 13:09, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * See my response at User talk:Techelf. —AlanBarrett 16:01, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/GeneralPatton
Hello Sir, you wrote: "Oppose. Does not make proper use of edit summaries. —AlanBarrett 16:59, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)"

 * I really can't see how can that affect my performance as an administrator as I primarily focus on CONTENT and regularly talk the things through on talk. If you want an example you can take a look at my Erich von Manstein article that is now a FA, Battle of the Bulge article also a FA, or the David Irving article. As an administrator I can assure you I will do my choirs by the book. GeneralPatton 18:56, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * "By the book" includes making proper use of edit summaries to describe your changes and the reasons for them. If you can't do it now, I don't expect you to magically improve if you become an admin.  —AlanBarrett 19:07, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Sir, do you really think that one thing is more important than contributions to articles? I mostly focus on adding actual content, but I can assure you I’d certainly describe all my actions as an administrator and voluntarily resign if I failed to do so. In fact, I can promise you to start adding editing summary to everything I do, if you want me to. I always respond to input and suggestions by other users, I just never saw this as a major issue until now. In fact, if you give me your vote, and I fail to make one single editing summary on any content I add, I'd also voluntarily resign. GeneralPatton 23:24, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Good edit summaries make it much easier for people who watch the Special:Recent changes page, or people who have articles on their watchlist, to see why you made a change. If I agree with the change that you describe in your edit summary, and if I trust you not to write misleading edit summaries, then I can save the time that it would otherwise have taken for me to check your work by viewing the diff.  Checking people's work is an important part of quality control (which is much more than just checking for vandalism), and editors should strive to make it easy for others to check their work.
 * Good edit summaries also make it much easier for people in the future to research how a page changed over time. For example, I recently wanted to find out when a date was changed in the Che Guevara article.  If the person who changed the date had said "changed date of birth" in the edit summary, my work would have been easy; instead, I had to view many diffs between different versions until I found the one I wanted.
 * Thank you for promising to start using edit summaries. I will consider changing my vote after a few days.
 * —AlanBarrett 07:26, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Thank you sir for you time and discussing this with me. I will try to do my best. GeneralPatton 23:33, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The Humungous Image Tagging Project
Hi. You've helped with the WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes --Tagishsimon (talk)

 * We'll have to agree to differ on that. --Tagishsimon (talk)

Wiktionary
Oooh, thanks for the pointer. Noel (talk) 01:27, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Template:Stub
Hi AlanBarrett, Template:Stub has been unprotected as per your request on WP:RFPP. Please make any edits to it that you want to now. Regards, silsor 01:02, Jan 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * I have tried many times. I seem to be able to edit other articles, but whenever I edit Template:stub, I get an error.  Database errors from the Wikipedia PHP scripts, "Sorry we have a problem" errors from the Wikipedia squids, timeouts from local web cache at my side, etc.  I have tried at least 20 times (probably more like 50 times) over the past 3 days.   All I need to do is change the ugly alt="Wiki letter w" to alt=" ".  —AlanBarrett 13:05, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Yay! 17 days and several hundred attempts later, Wikipedia has finally allowed me to edit the page.  I hope that this is an indication that the servers are no longer quite so overloaded.  —AlanBarrett 06:48, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Blocks
I know of no way to block an anon and let others who use the proxy to edit. The user was repeatedly vandalizing last night. I'll check to see if the block is still there, and if it is, I'll unblock it. RickK 20:36, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. I wasn't sure whether it was possible or not.  —AlanBarrett /talk 21:07, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Alan, I'm sorry you got caught in the crossfire. For your information there was no vandalism from this IP.  I was simply removing some of the old messages in my own talk page.  With all the old messages it often confuses newbies when they see a lot of old messages that are not directed at them personally. 168.209.97.34 08:16, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Alt tags on metapicstub
You removed the tag with this edit. Could you direct me to the pages on which you found the problem and we can fix the alt text to something more suitable: I don't like having blank tooltips pop up, and I don't think it makes Wikipedia more usable. --Phil | Talk 08:36, Jan 31, 2005 (UTC)

 * For example, Template:Bio-stub used to say "David's face This biographical article is a stub" (when viewed in a text browser), and that isn't even a proper sentence. The guideline is: If an image has a caption, then choose a good caption, and don't worry about bad alt text or bad title text; else choose good alt text, and don't worry about bad title text.  See Alternative_text_for_images and en:Wikipedia_talk:Extended_image_syntax. The real problem is that there's only one place in the image syntax to specify what should be three different things: a caption (displayed below the image), alt text (displayed by text browsers instead of the image), and a title (displayed as a tooltip by many graphical browsers).  You just can't get good tooltips without getting bad alt text, and the alt text is more important for accessibility, so the tooltips suffer.  There is a feature request on file asking for the three things to be individually controllable.  —AlanBarrett 17:30, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * The above comment has been copied to Template talk:MetaPicstub. Further discussion should probably go there.  —AlanBarrett 19:34, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Cantus
I noticed your comments on the talk page of Cantus's new Images unsuitable for inline display. I'd also appreciate if you could look at my Template deletion proposal for his template:offensiveimage which he's been trying out lately on one or two articles.

The discussion is here.

--Tony Sidaway|Talk 19:11, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)

meta:Www.wikipedia.org portal/Catherine
Hi. I just reverted your last edit on the page, since it messed up all the foreign characters. Not sure if this is on my computer only, but i just rolled it back to the last version, which works fine. Please check and if necessary re-introduce the modification you wanted to do. -- Chris 73 Talk 00:26, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I left a note on the talk page asking for somebody to revert, because I was using a browser that messed up some of the non-ascii characters.  —AlanBarrett 08:40, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I have now unprotected the pages Www.wikipedia.org template and Www.wikipedia.org portal so you can work on it if you like to do. I am garding those pages. I am now online whit Jabber; walter@jabber.belnet.be, ICQ 85153582, MSN wvermeir@hotmail.com and IRC freenode user "WalterBE" in #Meta if i need to do something. --Walter 19:54, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sandbot and moved pages
What does Sandbot do if one of the pages it wants to clean has been moved? Does it follow the redirect and edit the new target page, or does it edit the redirect page itself, or does it give up and report an error? Sandbox was moved to Creep (Radiohead) today, and I wondered what Sandbot would do I think that reporting an error would be best. —AlanBarrett 07:43, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * It doesn't care. It would forcibly replace the sandbox heading anyway.  Although dealing with the history is something else. -- AllyUnion (talk) 08:05, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Unwise arbcom policy change
I did not write those proposed amendments to the policy. I strongly oppose them as they are written. If you are aware of anyone else who thinks I wrote them, please correct them and note to them that I strongly oppose them.

I did note that there was merit in splitting personal and official capacity. However, I oppose all four of the proposals which make the arbcom follow the directions of and report to the Foundation instead of this community. It's a massive and, IMO, very unwise change. Jamesday 13:18, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Alt text for images
I responed your comment on my talk page. --Cool Cat Talk 21:57, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

RFA/you -- would that be amenable to you?
Alan, I am not sure if you would appreciate a nomination for Mop+Bucket. Would that be onerous for you? I am well aware that public scrutiny is not pleasant for many of us, me included. Please do not worry if you are not ready to answer; I am taking this action at the request of others, namely Taxman. If you were to agree then I would simply be following the actions templated by BD2412. I would also be relying on their advice to ensure a reasonable chance at success for the outcome of RFA/you. If you want a higher probability of success, then we could probably work something out to increase the chances, but it would be a learning process. ---Ancheta Wis 21:24, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I haven't been active at all the past few months, so I suspect that an RFA would fail. However, if I do become active again, I would appreciate a nomination.  Thanks.  —AlanBarrett 18:13, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Language order on www.wikipedia.org
Hiya, I recall that you helped sort out the page, and particularly the ordering of the languages on http://www.wikipedia.org. What's the order based on? Mutante is currently trying to write a script that would create this page automatically (thereby making the numbers a bit more up to date) but he's struggling with this issue. Can you please help? GeorgeStepanek\talk 08:39, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The sort order didn't ever make sense to me, and I didn't change it. So I don't think I can help, sorry.  (My personal preference would be to sort by the language code.)  —AlanBarrett 18:17, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Country
What country do you live in? I read your comment about not knowing what Nickelodeon was on the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide talk page and was wondering where you could possibly live. Oh, and is Alan Barrett your name? Because if it is, wouldn't you live in America or Britain where they get the Nickelodeon television channel? I thought the channel was world wide! Please respond on my talk page. Thefreakshow 22:47, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * on your talk page. —AlanBarrett 17:24, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:Cosmos_tubulaire.jpg
An image that you uploaded or altered, Image:Cosmos_tubulaire.jpg, has been listed at Possibly unfree images because its copyright status is disputed. If the image's copyright status cannot be verified, it may be deleted. You may find more information on the image description page. You are welcome to add comments to its entry at if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. MECU ≈ talk 13:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
 * The image was originally uploaded by Anthere, who said that it was licenced under the GFDL (see the notice at the top of her user page). She was very upset last time it got deleted without anybody informing her.  See  that I made on her talk page when I uploaded another copy that I found on a mirror site.  —AlanBarrett 20:21, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * you know... I gave up :-) The person who gave them knew nothing about licenses, and at that time, most of us did not really insist on this. She said "yes, take it, do whatever you want with it"; and I am sure she would see them fine under a free licence. But she did not tell me "yes, put it under the GFDL", so I do not dare put words in her mouth. Since there was a second spree of deletions, I gave up. I think there are probably now much better photos for these 3-4 flowers. So, it went down the drain. That's okay.
 * But I *really* appreciate you taking the time to drop me a word. That was very nice. Anthere (talk)

Herman Hoeneveld
Hi Alan, Thank you for your criticism. I did not take "the Herman Hoeneveld note" out but placed it in a more appropriate context: in the chapter Articles. But we can also keep the note in in the chapter biography/career and just mention it twice. PF (Professionele Fotografie) Magazine is a very good magazine. I am still wrestling with getting the copyrights and the name of the photographer right in the picture box otherwise they are going to delete the picture!. The photographer is Piere Ferron and the copyrights are with Errol Sawyer. I would also like to ad some images in the chapter career and I wonder how I can exactly determine their size and place. Kindly provide your advise. Username: Mathilde Fischer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mathilde Fischer (talk • contribs) 04:03, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I will reply at User talk:Mathilde Fischer. —AlanBarrett (talk) 09:02, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Removal tag?
Hi Allen. After getting the notes of Herman Hoeneveld in the right position, I hope that you can remove your tag as it is jeopardizing the integrity of the article of Errol Sawyer. I have a lot of problems with another editor Barrett? But I am not the only one it seems. As I am an academic, I apply academic rules. The weak side of Wikipedia is, that anyone can edit it without any qualification. Also people who are only interested in picture models and fashion like Mister Barrett. But Errol Sawyer is not a fashion photographer so why does he want to destroy him? Mathilde Fischer (talk) 14:36, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

 * I assume that you are talking about the Errol Sawyer article, and about the articleissues tag that was added . That tag is not intended to be any kind of accusation against anybody, or to jeopardise the integrity of the article; it's intended to draw the attention of existing editors (such as yourself) to a problem that somebody perceived, and  to draw the attention of new editors to help improve the article.  Please use Talk:Errol Sawyer to discuss any disagreements between yourself any other people who are editing or interested in that article, including to discuss whether or not the article deserves to have that tag.  The tag can be removed as soon as the discussion on the talk page reaches a satisfactory conclusion and the perceived problems are fixed.  By the way, it's not my tag; it was added by User:Mbinebri.  I also have no idea which "Mister Barrett" you are talking about who is interested only in picture models and fashion; are you confusing me with somebody else?  —AlanBarrett (talk) 15:17, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

purpose
Were you trying to add something to the discussion on my talk page, or just formatting it for me? If the later, I appreciate the attention, but it is not necessary, and some people prefer to deal with such things themselves, even if they don't deal with it optimally. DGG (talk) 15:09, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Sorry, my browser did something unexpected when I pressed enter. I had started adding a comment to your page, but then decided not to.  —AlanBarrett (talk) 15:12, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Archiveurl in cite web template
Is there an ongoing discussion about solving the misfeature, as called it in the WebCiteBot discussion? I totally agree that it should change and I'd be interested in hearing what you think is the optimal format. - Mgm|(talk) 10:47, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I have seen small discussions scattered around; for example at Template talk: cite web. It might make sense to start a new discussion at Template talk:citation or Template talk:citation/core. —AlanBarrett (talk) 14:03, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Nomination for merging of Template:Catmore1
Template:Catmore1 has been nominated for merging with Template:Catmore2. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. — ξ xplicit  04:53, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Hi welcome to wikipedia, but please do not paste copyrighted material into the 'pedia. Thanks. Dunc_Harris|☺ 20:48, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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User:Peccavimus

Peccavimus lives near Chicago, where he is struggling to get his Ph.D. in modern American and British literature. He occasionally writes books about the occult and articles about roleplaying games.

Professional interests
My professional interests include:

 * Stylistic analysis of literature.
 * Register variation in poetry.
 * Code switching in fiction.
 * Queer theory.
 * Beat poetry.
 * Oral literature.
 * Linguistic pragmatics (language in use).

Personal interests
Entry in personal interests does not imply any level of expertise. My personal and hobby interests include:

 * Natural language learning.
 * Latin
 * Spanish
 * French
 * German
 * Bahasa Indonesia
 * Constructed languages.
 * Role-playing games.
 * Mage
 * GURPS
 * Warhammer
 * The occult
 * Hermetic magic
 * Chaos magic
 * Shamanism and Neoshamanism
 * Paganism
 * Punk rock
 * NOFX
 * Apocalypse Hoboken
 * The Cramps
 * Simple musical instruments
 * Pennywhistle
 * Jews harp
 * Weightlifting
 * Yes, really.

Political views
Essentially anarcho-socialist. I tend to vote Democrat, though. I support social programs, do not support increased military spending, and am against the war in Iraq. I am suspicious of corporate influence in government and nervous about religious involvement in policy making.

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Takion

Takion (Joshua Saunders) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Paul Kupperberg and Aaron Lopresti, first appearing in an eponymous series in 1996 that lasted for 7 issues.

Fictional character biography
Josh Saunders, a blind psychologist, who was chosen by Highfather to become a Source Elemental and given the ability to manipulate the Source, because Highfather felt he was "a man without destiny" and therefore would not be missed. Highfather names him Takion of the Source and tells him that he must clean a taint from the Source. In reality, Takion was created as an Avatar of Highfather, as a security measure in the event of Highfather's death. In that moment, Takion was able to see everything, all his failures and victories, time was without boundary. He was even able to foresee Highfather's death.

While trying to deal with the ebb and flow of energy through his body into and out of the Source, Josh attracts the attention of Captain Atom, the Flash, Green Lantern; after a brief fight, he easily defeats all three heroes and leaves the planet feeling that with his immense power levels, he was a threat to everyone on Earth.

Cosmic awareness
The problem was that unlike a New God, Takion has cosmic awareness but has to filter this awareness and all the information it brought using the primitive thought structures of a human brain. This dissonance was making him unstable. He spent his time in space learning how to separate the future and past from the present, and forcing his awareness to exist only in the present. He allowed his body to discorporate so that he could re-assemble himself, which is when he first discovered the ability to possess others, read their minds and also their potential timeline and destiny. Takion also learned how to accept and use his cosmic awareness.

Stayne
Takion's main nemesis is Stayne, his dark counterpart who was a nameless human woman transformed by Darkseid's power. She is sent to keep Takion from achieving his true potential and to prevent him from learning about Darkseid's plan to destroy the Source Wall. After Stayne's creation, he is finally caught up to Darkseid and confronts her for the first time. Takion must deal with Stayne's ability to cut him off from the Source and the threatening fact that if she makes physical contact with the Wall first, she will gain control over reality.

Izaya's death
During the Genesis event, Highfather (Izaya) learned of Darkseid's plans to destroy the Source Wall and take control the Source itself. Izaya gathered a group of younger gods, including Zeus, Jove, Odin and Ares together to fight him. However, Ares rebelled against Highfather and killed him. Ares was imprisoned in the new Source Wall by the other gods.

Highfather
After Izaya's death, the role of Highfather is offered to Scott Free (Mister Miracle) who is Izaya's only living heir. Scott turns the offer down, leaving Takion to become the new Highfather. During a crisis, he asks for guidance from Highfather, who had become one with the Source. Highfather is able to temporarily return from the Source by using the body of his Avatar Takion, as this was the real purpose for Takion's creation. Highfather resurrects Supertown, providing the people of New Genesis with new hope.

Death
Takion travels to the Source Wall, accompanied by Himon in order to learn the identity of the serial killer that has slain many New Gods. Takion himself falls victim to and dies at the hands of the Infinity-Man.

Powers and abilities

 * A living embodiment of the Source, and to the spirit of Highfather. He serves as a conduit and avatar, between the Source and the New Gods of New Genesis. He is one of the most powerful New Gods.
 * Takion's only limit is the amount of energy existing in the Source, he cannot create new energy, but can channel and manipulate existing forms of energy. Takion is near omnipotent. He apparently can actively shift the signature of wave energy along its spectrum.
 * He seems to be able to rewrite the atomic structure of matter by re-arranging the subatomic particles that form its identity matrix.
 * He could become intangible at will as well as teleport.
 * He could manipulate subjective time on a quantum level.
 * He could also dampen energy fields, including the ring of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner.

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OKJ (karting)

OK-Junior is a kart racing class for top drivers aged 11 to 15 (drivers must reach the age of 12 within the first semester of calendar year).

This class used to be called Junior Intercontinental A (JICA or ICA-J) and has changed since January 2007 when CIK-FIA decided to replace the 100 cc air-cooled two-stroke engines with 125 cc Touch-and-Go (TaG) water-cooled two-stroke engines (KF type).The engines produce 26 - 27 hp. The chassis and engines must be approved by the CIK-FIA. Minimum weight is 145 kg, including kart and driver.

Karts are equipped with an electric starter and clutch. The engine rpm is limited to 14,000 rpm.

It is one of the highest kart classes with national championships (perhaps with different tyre rules).

There is a European championship, a World Cup, as well as Oceania and Asia-Pacific championships. The Junior Monaco Kart Cup is taking place each year in this format.

For 2013 the class was renamed KF-Junior.

In 2016, the karts were completely re-designed by removing much of the electronics. The karts are now push started. The class was subsequently renamed OK-Junior, standing for Original Kart.

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Josef K

Josef K may refer to:
 * Josef K., the name of the protagonist of the novel The Trial and the short story A Dream by Franz Kafka
 * Josef K (band), Scottish post-punk band

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William Moseley

William Moseley may refer to:

 * Bill Moseley (born 1951), American film actor and musician
 * William Moseley (actor) (born 1987), English actor from The Chronicles of Narnia
 * William A. Moseley (1798–1873), U.S. Representative from New York
 * William Dunn Moseley (1795–1863), Governor of the U.S. state of Florida
 * William G. Moseley (born 1965), geographer at Macalester College
 * William G. Moseley (Massachusetts politician) (fl. early 1900s), a Massachusetts politician
 * William Mosley (born 1989), American basketball player
 * Bill Moseley (bowls) (born 1945), South African lawn bowls player
 * Will Moseley, a contestant on the twenty-second season of American Idol

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William Dunn Moseley

William Dunn Moseley (February 1, 1795 – January 4, 1863) was an American politician. Born in North Carolina, Moseley became a Democratic politician and served in the state senate.

Later he moved to Florida, which became a state in 1845. That year he was elected as the first Governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1845 until 1849 and leading the establishment of the new state government.

Early life and education
William Dunn Moseley was born on February 1, 1795, at Moseley Hall in Lenoir County, North Carolina. (Note: This is a different place than Moseley Hall on the Northeast branch of the Cape Fear that was created by colonial official Edward Moseley, to whom he was not related.)

William was the son of Matthew and Elizabeth Herring Moseley, who built this Moseley Hall. He and his father were distant descendants of William Moseley, the immigrant ancestor, a merchant who was a member of the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London, a trading guild. He had been trading in Rotterdam before he came to Virginia in 1649. He settled-in, in what was then Lower Norfolk County, and built 'Greenwich' near Norfolk on the Elizabeth River. That plantation house was later known as Rolleston Hall; it was the last residence of Virginia Governor Henry A. Wise at the time of the Civil War.

William D. Moseley graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1818. He was of English ancestry on both sides, descended from ancestors in the original thirteen colonies. He received his master's degree from UNC in 1821. While at the university, Moseley was the roommate of James K. Polk, a future president of the US.

Marriage and family
In 1822, Moseley married Susan Hill; the couple had six children: William Green Moseley, Elizabeth H. Moseley, Susan Hill Moseley, Alice Hill Moseley, Alexander Moseley, and Matthew Moseley. Susan Hill Moseley died in March 1842, after the Moseleys moved to Florida.

Career
In 1817, Moseley became a tutor at the university. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Wilmington. Like many lawyers of the time, law was not his only profession; Moseley also farmed and taught school.

From 1829 to 1837, Moseley represented Lenoir County in the North Carolina Senate, serving as speaker for four terms between 1832 and 1835. He lost the Democratic nomination for governor in North Carolina by three votes.

In 1835, Moseley and his family moved to Lake Miccosukee in Jefferson County, Florida, after purchasing a plantation there. In 1840, Moseley was elected to the territorial House of Representatives. In 1844, he won a seat in the territorial Senate. On March 3, 1845, Florida was admitted as the twenty-seventh state of the Union.

Later in 1845, in the first statewide election, Moseley won the election for governor of Florida. He beat Richard Keith Call, who had been the governor of Florida Territory, and Moseley became y the first governor of the state of Florida. Moseley was sworn in on June 25, 1845.

During his term, he established the new state government. The state Capitol building was completed during his first year in office. Moseley oversaw the state's role in the Mexican–American War. Like other Southern states, Florida supported the war with troops. The planter class believed the war was an opportunity to gain territory where slavery could be extended.

Moseley worked to resolve conflicts between white settlers and the Seminole who remained in Florida, chiefly in the southern Everglades area. (Many Seminole had been removed to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after warfare with US forces.)

He encouraged development of agriculture, supporting new citrus, avocado, tobacco, and cotton industries. During his administration, the federal government built Fort Jefferson, on one of the coral keys off the southern Florida coast, and Fort Clinch on Amelia Island, near modern-day Fernandina Beach, Florida. These were defenses against European nations that still had colonies in the Caribbean and the Americas.

Moseley was a strong supporter of states' rights. Unusually for his time, he favored the establishment of state-funded public schools.

Constitutionally limited to a single term, Moseley returned to his plantation after ending his term on October 1, 1849. Two years later, he settled in the town of Palatka in Putnam County. There he operated a citrus grove. Moseley died on January 4, 1863, and was buried at the West View Cemetery in Palatka.

After his death, his daughters commissioned a portrait to be painted from a daguerreotype. They presented the portrait for display in a state portrait gallery at the Florida capitol.

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Granny Goodness

Granny Goodness is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

Publication history
Modeled after Phyllis Diller, Granny Goodness first appeared in Mister Miracle #2 (May 1971) and was created by Jack Kirby.

Fictional character biography
Granny Goodness did not begin as one of the higher-level residents of Apokolips, but was instead one of the "Lowlies"—the brutally oppressed peasant class. She was removed from her parents and trained to be one of Darkseid's elite, the "Hounds". One part of their training was to train their war dogs; Goodness named hers Mercy. Through combat and training, the two bonded closely. As the final step of her initiation into life as a Hound, she was told to kill her beloved pet. Instead, she killed her trainer for ordering this. When Darkseid asked why, she answered that "to have done otherwise would have robbed my lord of a most valuable asset", telling him that Mercy would obey her first, but him foremost. Testing this, Darkseid ordered Mercy to kill Goodness. Mercy attacked Goodness, forcing Goodness to kill her pet. Darkseid was impressed, telling Goodness that she had graduated with honors. "You have trained Mercy so well in my name that perhaps you'll do as well training others whose blind obedience I will one day require".

Darkseid had Goodness run the training facility for his elite soldiers, where she used brainwashing and torture, in a brutal parody of child care, to turn the innocent into fanatical warriors willing to kill or die for Darkseid's glory. Since the war between Apokolips and New Genesis first moved to Earth, Granny Goodness has often run Earthly orphanages, looking for potential warriors for Darkseid.

Granny runs the "orphanage" on Apokolips and is the chief of the Female Furies. She also raised Scott Free, the son of Highfather of New Genesis who had been traded for Darkseid's son as part of a peace treaty. Scott Free (AKA Mister Miracle) became the first child to successfully escape one of her Orphanages.

In the final issue of the Amazons Attack miniseries it was revealed that Granny Goodness has been posing as Athena, having manipulated the Amazons into the war. She tells Hippolyta that it was a test which the Amazons failed. It also appears that Goodness is posing as Athena in the Countdown series, using Amazon centers to recruit new female fighters. She is also holding the Gods of Olympus prisoner. After the gods are freed by Mary Marvel, Holly Robinson and Harley Quinn from an Apokolitian chamber, Granny is attacked and killed by Infinity-Man.

However, she is reincarnated on Earth, along with the other Evil Gods, as a member of Boss Dark Side's gang. Although this form is destroyed by Black Alice in an issue of Birds of Prey, in the "Final Crisis" storyline, she takes the body of the Alpha Lantern known as Kraken and uses it to attack John Stewart and frame Hal Jordan for the assault. While she is discovered by Batman, she easily overpowers him and brings him back to the Evil Factory beneath Blüdhaven where he is sealed inside a torture device. Later, Reverend Good announces that Granny Goodness is poised to conquer Oa from within in the name of Darkseid, which would likely reestablish her as his favorite among the Elite.

Granny's attempted assault on the power structure of Oa results in injury to a Guardian, the clearing of Hal Jordan's name, the hiding of the Power Battery and a Green Lantern assault force sent to Earth. After she is stopped by Hal Jordan, she is taken away to be inspected. Her fate after "Final Crisis" is left unknown.

Powers and abilities
Granny Goodness is functionally immortal, has superhuman strength and endurance. She is surprisingly robust considering her age: she can still lift several tons with ease and she is resistant to most forms of physical attack. Also, she is quite good at hand-to-hand combat. In her youth, she was one of the best and most loyal warriors in the service of Darkseid. As a member of Darkseid's elite, Granny Goodness has access to highly advanced weaponry; in combat she usually wields a mega-rod. In addition, she is a great leader and military strategist that commands soldiers being trained at her orphanages, including flight troops, who ride on flying aero-discs; armored infantry; and members of the special powers force, who wield deadly weapons and who, in many cases, possess super powers. Among her most relevant pupils are Mister Miracle, Big Barda, Kanto, Virman Vundabar, and the Female Furies.

Reception
Granny Goodness has been described as a symbol of the "monstrous feminine" who "violates traditional paradigms of motherhood and femininity" through her wickedness, as opposed to more traditional, nurturing depictions of motherhood in fiction.

Other versions
She is seen in the pages of Justice League, in the Rock of Ages storyline, in an alternate future where Darkseid has conquered the Earth. She has merged with the Mother Box systems, making a giant Grandmother Box. As her main offensive weapon, she teleports and blasts fire pit energy at her adversaries. Ultimately, she is destroyed by the future Wonder Woman who sacrifices her own life in the battle.

In Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers, after Darkseid's victory over New Genesis destroyed both planets, Granny reinvented herself. She is now a brothel madame, with the Furies as her prostitutes, and is an obese black woman. In this guise she hoped to seduce the new Mister Miracle to Darkseid. An identical version of Granny appears in Birds of Prey #118 (following Countdown), working at the "Dark Side Club".

In Amalgam Comics, Goodness was fused with Marvel Comics' Agatha Harkness to become Granny Harkness, follower of Thanoseid (Thanos + Darkseid).

Television

 * Granny Goodness appears in series set in the DC Animated Universe (DCAU), voiced by Ed Asner:
 * Introduced in Superman: The Animated Series, this version is the second leader of Intergang following Bruno Mannheim's death, before being defeated by Supergirl and subsequently forced out of her position by Darkseid. In the two-part series finale "Legacy", Goodness works with Darkseid to kidnap and brainwash Superman into serving them, though she is later defeated after Superman is freed.
 * In Justice League Unlimited, following Darkseid's death in the Justice League episode "Legacy", Granny Goodness enters a civil war with Virman Vundabar and his forces, which is temporarily ended by Darkseid's resurrection but resumes after Lex Luthor sends him into the Source Wall.
 * Granny Goodness makes a cameo appearance in a flashback in the Legion of Super Heroes episode "Unnatural Alliances" as Imperiex's former master on Apokolips.
 * Granny Goodness appears in Smallville, portrayed by Nancy Amelia Bell in "Salvation" and by Christine Willes in the tenth season.
 * Granny Goodness appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Super Hero High, voiced by April Stewart.
 * Granny Goodness appears in Justice League Action, voiced by Cloris Leachman.
 * Granny Goodness appears in Young Justice: Outsiders, voiced by Deborah Strang. This version utilizes the human alias of Gretchen Goode and initially allies with the Light, participating in their metahuman trafficking operation, before betraying them to seek the Anti-Life Equation.
 * Granny Goodness appears in the Harley Quinn episode "Inner (Para) Demons", voiced by Jessica Walter.

Film

 * Granny Goodness appears in Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, voiced again by Ed Asner.
 * An alternate universe incarnation of Granny Goodness appears in a flashback in Justice League: Gods and Monsters, voiced by Khary Payton.
 * Granny Goodness appears in DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games, voiced by April Stewart.
 * Granny Goodness appears in Zack Snyder's Justice League through computer-generated imagery (CGI), modeled after the aunt of Wētā FX artist Jojo Aguilar.

Video games

 * Granny Goodness appears in DC Universe Online, voiced by Lainie Frasier.
 * Granny Goodness appears as a boss and unlockable playable character in Lego DC Super-Villains, voiced by Diane Delano.
 * Granny Goodness appears as a support card in the mobile version of Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Miscellaneous
Granny Goodness appears in DC Super Hero Girls, voiced by April Stewart. This version is Super Hero High's librarian.

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Johann Jakob Moser

Johann Jakob Moser (18 January 1701 – 30 September 1785) was a German jurist, publicist and researcher, whose work earned him the title "The Father of German Constitutional Law" and whose political commitment to the principles of Liberalism caused him to lose academic positions and spend years as a political prisoner.

Early life
Johann Jacob Moser was a member of the Moser family of Filseck, an old and respectable Württemberg family. They were devout Protestants with a history of service as civil servants to the Duchy of Württemberg. Moser's father was Johann Jacob Moser of Filseck (born 1660 in Stuttgart, died 1716), and his mother was Helene Catharine née Misler (born 1672 in Stade, died 1741 in Stuttgart).

Moser was born and died in Stuttgart. He had six brothers and sisters but his parents managed to fund his pursuit of an academic career. After attending Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium,

Career
Moser studied state journalism at the University of Tübingen. He was mostly self-taught and at 18 years of age he became a professor of the law faculty. However he found his income insufficient, and he so that it had to look around for other possibilities. he studied at the University of Tübingen, and was brilliant enough to be already at the age of 19 appointed a professor of law in the same university.

In 1721 Moser married Friederike Rosine Vischer, daughter of a Württembergian Upper Council President. Their oldest son, Friedrich Karl von Moser, was born on 18 December 1723 in Stuttgart, and became a jurist, political writer and a statesman.

From 1721 to 1726 he worked in Vienna. In 1724 he became an adviser to the state vice-chancellor Count Schönborn. Moser was not able to pursue a career in the imperial service, because he refused to convert to Catholicism. Soon afterwards he entered the civil service of the Holy Roman Empire, and was appointed as a "state adviser" in the Imperial Court. In 1726 Moser returned to Stuttgart as a government advisor. In 1727 he was appointed professor at the Tübingen Collegium. The work brought him into conflict with the government's censors, and he quit both his job as professor and his job as government advisor in 1732. He later held a long series of administrative appointments, giving him a thorough knowledge of political and constitutional issues.

In 1736 he was called to head the Faculty of Law at the University of Frankfurt (Oder), but had to leave after three years due to his thoroughly Liberal ideas which were disliked by King Frederick William I of Prussia. Between 1739 and 1751, he had various jobs.

He spent the years 1739 to 1747 at Ebersdorf, mainly concerned with completing the monumental 53 volumes of his Deutsches Staatsrecht ("German Constitutional Law"), a pioneering research analysing the named subject matter more systematically than ever done before, and based on a through study of the sources.

In 1751 Moser became a consultant on land reform to the Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. He came into conflict with the Duke by opposing the Duke's absolutist tendencies. In July 1759 he was arrested and imprisoned without judicial procedure in solitary confinement in the fortress Hohentwiel, on the charge of authoring subversive writings. He completed his five-year detention with his mental and physical health and his faith in God unbroken. In order to meet his desire to write, without writing materials, he wrote religious songs on the walls with soot from the fireplace on the walls. In 1764, aged 63, he was released, in part due to the intercession of Friedrich the Great of Prussia, and was rehabilitated and restored to his position, rank and titles.

In 1764 he was released, due in part to the intercession of Friedrich the Great of Prussia (son of the king who had hounded Moser in 1739). He was rehabilitated and restored to his position, rank and titles. He retired on 16 July 1770 aged 69. During the next 15 years, he wrote many books. Over his entire life he wrote 500-600 books. This prolific output led sometimes to careless representations of the facts in his works.

Legacy
Johann Jacob Moser wrote the first description of the German state based not on abstract principles but on concrete legal rules and judicial decisions. He collected material and organised it systematically. Thus he argued against the deductive systems of natural law advocated by Christian Thomasius (1655-1728) and Christian Wolff (1679-1754). He gave the same treatment to international law, describing how it was actually practiced, rather than attempting to derive it from nature. Moser is considered as laying the foundations for the modern German state and positive international law. He defended the traditional order by defending actual legal rules.

Apart from his work on state law, he was also interested in the local law of the numerous territories of the state. However, because of their great variety, he was not able to describe them with the same comprehensiveness.

Among his important later works can be mentioned Neues deutsches Staatsrecht, ("New German Constitutional Law"), published in 24 volumes between 1766 and 1782. His overall ouvre includes about 500 works, on law as well as theology.

Bibliography (in German)

 * H. Shultze, "Johann Jakob Moser – Der Vater der deutschen Staatsrechts", 1869
 * J. Herzog, "Moser, Vater und Sohn", 1905
 * M. Fröhlich, "Johann Jakob Moser in seinem Verhältnis zum Rationalismus und Pietismus", 1925.

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Kamlesh Pattni

Paul Kamlesh Pattni (also known as Brother Paul) was (born 1965). He was implicated in the 1990s Goldenberg scandal but was acquitted in 2013.

In March 2023, Mr Pattni has been uncovered by Al Jazeera Investigative Unit as dirty Gold money launder in Zimbabwe.

Background
Kamlesh Pattni was born and raised in Mombasa, Kenya. He later moved to practice business in Nairobi, where he allegedly used his company to acquire billions of shillings, in league with prominent politicians and government officials in the Goldenberg scandal.

The Daily Nation reports that Kamlesh Pattni is now a baptised Christian taking the name of Paul, and runs his own church.

In April 2013, the High Court held him over the Goldenberg scandal.

Political career
Pattni is the chairman of the Kenya National Democratic Alliance (KENDA), a political party in Kenya. He was a parliamentary candidate at the 2007 elections. He unsuccessfully contested the Westlands Constituency in the 2013 election and received 10,083 votes.

Personal life
He was born into a Hindu family and later converted to Christianity and took the name Paul on his baptism.

In 2012, he was awarded the Lifetime Africa Achievement Prize for Humanitarianism and Equity by the Ghanaian Excellence Awards Foundation.

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RFC: WMC
(William M. Connolley 23:54, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)) I note your comments on the RFC. I'd like to review the edits you think are contentious, but I don't know where they are. Could you list (here will do) which pages you feel particularly aggrieved about and (optionally) any particular diffs. Thank you.

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Orbital forcing
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 * Perhaps it should, but I found an empty link and decided to start a stub.

Precession in Vietnamese
Hello GregBenson,

Could you kind enough to permit me use of your picture Precession and seasons.jpg, that you submitted for use in in the article "Tuế sai" of the .Vuong Ngan Ha 04:34, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Relative Humidity.jpg
Hello Greg,

could you clarify the unit "saturation fraction of water" you indicate on the Relative Humidity.jpg. Are you talking about molar fractions, weight percent..? Thanks

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Image:SeasonDuration.jpg
The information in Image:SeasonDuration.jpg would be more legible as a text table. (SEWilco 04:32, 11 September 2006 (UTC))

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Dew point graph
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place to do this, but I've spotted your graph on the article on dew points: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dewpoint.jpg And I was wondering if you had a link to the original data? Or knew where I could find a table of saturation fraction against temperature somewhere else? I can't read the precise values from the graph, and I'm having trouble finding one like it elsewhere. It's not too important, I'm just interested in looking at some real life values and looking at the relationship between them.

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