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Jonti Picking

Jonathan "Jonti" Picking (born 17 May 1975), also known as Weebl and Mr Weebl, is a British Internet personality and Flash animator and is the creator of Weebl's Stuff.

His animations are known for repetitive melodies and surreal dialogue; the majority feature a catchy tune with silly lyrics, paired with a looping animation. He does most of the voices in his animations himself, and several feature himself in live action, including "Haricots Verts", "Chutney", "Boogie", "CAMRA", "Stockmarket", "We Are Mature", "Tangerine" the Weebl and Bob episodes "DJ" and "Safety", the fourth On The Moon episode, and "Jazzmas". He has also worked with other animators on YouTube, such as Edd Gould in the video "Nuts [Weebl]".

Career
Picking is a trained sound engineer and artist, and has also worked on 3D visual effects for the film Resident Evil. In 2003, he made several advertisements for Anchor Butter in the style of his Weebl and Bob animations, but featuring cows, which were broadcast in the UK. The television program Totally Viral on UKTV G2, consisting of video clips and cartoons from the internet, has an animated title sequence and links made by Jonti.

Jonti set up his own production company called Sumo Dojo, which he later left to set up Weebl's Stuff Limited, also known as Weebl Ltd. Weebl's Stuff Ltd was dissolved in 2014, and Jelly Penguin Productions Ltd was set up in its place shortly afterward. In 2009, Picking produced several radio and television adverts based on the tune of the first "Magical Trevor" for the 118 24 7 service of Yell.com. It appeared on the ITV television channel, amongst others. It was voted 6th Most Irritating Ad of 2009 by Marketing Magazine. He is also an admitted fan of Wesley Willis and created an animation for Willis' song "Merry Christmas".

Weebl's Stuff
Weebl's Stuff is Picking's personal website. Whilst initially starting with his own creations (The show "Weebl and Bob" was previously hosted on Newgrounds before moving to Weebl's Stuff), it quickly grew to incorporate numerous series and numerous staff. As well as providing the site with animations, usually at least twice a week, Weebl's Stuff also provides animation services to companies. Clients have included E4, Yellow Pages, and Anchor.

HuHa
In 2012 Picking began contributing to the YouTube comedy channel HuHa under the name of Jelly Penguin. He produced several shorts, including Evil Guy (a parody of super-villains from comic books and Saturday morning cartoons), Beef House (a parody of the A-Team in which the protagonists are butchers) and BAD Advice (a parody of public information films from the 1970s and 1980s). As of 2014, no further works for HuHa have been produced, either by Picking or others.

Team Badger
In 2013, Picking teamed up with Queen guitarist and animal rights activist Brian May and actor Brian Blessed, along with a number of animal rights organisations including the RSPCA, to form "Team Badger", a coalition against the British Government's proposed badger cull. Picking, May and Blessed recorded a single, Save The Badger Badger Badger, a mashup of 2003's Badgers, and Queen's Flash, featuring vocals by Blessed. Picking also animated the music video, which parodied elements of the original "Badger" animation, as well as a scene from the 1980 film Flash Gordon, in which Blessed played Prince Vultan, and for which Queen provided the soundtrack. On 1 September 2013, Save The Badger Badger Badger charted at No. 79 on the UK Singles Chart, No. 39 on the UK iTunes chart and No. 1 on the iTunes Rock chart.

Savlonic
Savlonic is a synthpop/synthwave virtual band consisting of singer Rosco (formerly Roscoe Thunderpants) portrayed by Picking, singer/keyboardist Eve (formerly Evangeline D'isco) portrayed by Sarah Darling, backing vocalist/drummer Kandi Flaus (portrayed by Katt Wade ), and guitarist Kaspar Funk (Daniel Dobbs).

As of March 2019, nine Savlonic songs have been made into music videos: "Electro Gypsy", "Tiny Japanese Girl", and "Action Causes Reaction" were all animated by Picking, the latter-most being animated in the Unity engine as a VR experience. The videos for "Wandering Eye", "The Driver", "Computer Guy" and "Spelunker" were animated by Peabo. "Broken" and "Hi-Lights" were animated by Kr3id.

The band has released three full-length albums: Red (2014), Neon (2016), and Black Plastic (2019). Cover albums titled Emulat0r and Emulated were released in 2017 and 2020, though there aren't counted as Savlonic's numbered albums. They have also released a five-song EP named after the band's animated frontman Rosco, and multiple tracks released as singles ("Sweet" and "00:00:00"). The Red, Neon and Black Plastic albums were funded by the fans of Weebl and Savlonic through the crowd-funding website Kickstarter The campaign for Red raised £34,768 from 1,320 backers, the campaign for Neon raised £40,778 from 1,276 backers, and the campaign for "Black Plastic" raised £37,055 from 847 backers.

Personal life
Picking married Sarah Darling, a radio presenter on the station Xfm, on 31 March 2007. On 23 December 2008, Picking announced his wife's pregnancy on the Weebl's Stuff forums. On 13 July 2009, Picking's wife gave birth to a girl. Picking and Darling also have a son together, born 2 June 2011.

Discography
Picking has produced several mini-albums, most of which feature extended versions of songs featured in his animations. Many are available for purchase on the music streaming site Bandcamp or to stream on Spotify.

 * Pure Yak Frenzy (produced with Rob Manuel from b3ta) (2003)
 * Hands Over Pastry (6 April 2009)
 * Yesterday's Lemon (26 October 2009)
 * Magical Chalk Toilet (17 November 2010)
 * Shabby Bacon Hut (2 November 2011)
 * Ooh. Waffle Dog (23 November 2012)
 * On Board the Beef Bus (16 January 2014)
 * Red (as Savlonic) (18 August 2014)
 * Neon (as Savlonic) (19 September 2016)
 * Emulat0r (as Savlonic) (21 September 2017)
 * A Right Festive Northern Christmas (14 December 2017)
 * Black Plastic (as Savlonic) (19 March 2019)
 * Emulated (as Savlonic) (14 May 2020)

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Lyijykomppania

Lyijykomppania (English: "Lead Company") is a Finnish heavy metal band. It was originally formed in 1981 by guitarist and vocalist Timo Rautiainen and drummer Esa Moilanen but was disbanded a short two years later in 1983.

The band regrouped and started again with the original lineup in 1990 and remained together until once again breaking up in 1998 with guitarist and vocalist Timo Rautiainen and bassist Arto Alaluusua leaving to form the more well known band Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus.

The band got back together in 2003, by the only original member drummer Esa Moilanen. Joining Moilanen were bass guitarist and vocalist Jarkko Strandman and guitarist Petri Lindström. Jarkko Strandman left the group in 2006, leaving Lindström as the sole guitarist. Petteri Virtanen was hired as a new bass guitarist and vocalist in the summer of 2006.

Petri Lindström left the band in 2008 and has since been featured on bands and projects like Saturn Twilight, Progeland and Corvus Stone. Later Lindström rejoined the band.

The current line-up features Tero Vuorinen on guitar and vocals, Petri Lindström on bass guitar and Esa Moilanen on drums.

Current members

 * Tero Vuorinen, vocals and guitar (2016–present)
 * Petri Lindström, bass and guitar (1996–2008, 2013–present)
 * Esa Moilanen (drums), (1981–2022)

Former members

 * Timo Rautiainen, vocals and guitar (1981–1996)
 * Jarkko Strandman, vocals and guitar (1996–2006, 2015)
 * Olli Jaatinen, bass (1981–1992)
 * Tapio Wilska, bass (1993)
 * Arto Alaluusua, bass (1994–1996)
 * Petteri Virtanen (bass, vocals), (2006–2012)
 * Joni Rossi (guitar), (2007–2012)

Albums

 * Uimakoulu (transl. 'Swimming school') (1993)
 * Viimeinen voitelu (transl. 'Anointing of the Sick') (1996)
 * Harmaita säveliä (transl. 'Grey tones') (2005)
 * Sota Nälkä Rutto Kuolema (transl. 'War, Hunger, Plague, Death') (2010)
 * ''Tietoja epäonnistumisista ja päättämättömyyksistä, tai Väkivaltaa ja vääriä lääkkeitä (trans. 'Information about the failures and indecisions, or Violence and wrong medicines') (2018)

Singles

 * Ohjelmanjulistus (1993)
 * Helsinki tulessa! / Isä heiluu kirveellä (2017)
 * A R T / Yksinäisen tähden harhailija (2019)

EPs

 * Synkkää jynkytystä (1991)
 * Suden hetki (1994)
 * Kehitys kulkee perse edellä (2004)
 * Mennyt maailma (2007)

Compilations

 * Lyijykomppania (1993)

Record labels

 * Bassmania Records (1991–1993)
 * RAM Disc (1994–present)

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General Grant Grove

General Grant Grove, a section of the greater Kings Canyon National Park, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1890 and is located in Fresno County, California. The primary attraction of General Grant Grove is the giant sequoia trees that populate the grove. General Grant Grove's best-known tree is called General Grant, which is 267 ft tall and the third-largest known tree in the world. The General Grant tree is over 1,500 years old and is known as the United States' national Christmas tree. General Grant Grove consists of 154 acre and is geographically isolated from the rest of Kings Canyon National Park.

History
The original inhabitants of what is today General Grant Grove and Kings Canyon National Park were natives of the Shoshonean language group. The Monache, Tübatulabal, and Yokuts were the primary native groups of the region. In 1846, Hale Tharp, a disenchanted miner who hoped to establish a cattle ranch in the region, became the first white settler to enter the Giant Forest that would later constitute Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Tharp carved a shelter out of a fallen sequoia tree and began to raise cattle. Initially, Native Americans of the region welcomed Tharp, as he helped them hunt and coexisted peacefully among them. Tharp's settlement in the Giant Forest, however, spurred further human interest in the region, and the native population began to contract contagious diseases from incoming white settlers. Tharp claimed that the natives pleaded with him to help them prevent white settlers from entering the valley. When Tharp told them this was impossible, the natives elected to leave the valley. By 1865, within twenty years of Tharp's arrival in the Giant Forest, the natives of the region had moved elsewhere and the Giant Forest was open to timber companies and cattle ranchers. With the growing presence of timber and cattle interests, conservationists began to advocate for the preservation of the region. In 1873, John Muir, a renowned naturalist, hiked from Yosemite to the Giant Forest. After the hike, Muir began advocating for federal protection of the canyon.

Park establishment and early battles
Because of the sequoia's size and durability, the Giant Forest was a region of particular value to loggers. The Kaweah Colony, a socialist colony which lived in the forest until 1892, hoped to profit from lumber production and constructed the first road in the park. Lumber interests did not have a stranglehold on the region, however. The federal government ensured protection of the General Grant Tree in 1880, when it withdrew from sale four acres of land surrounding the tree.

Advocacy for protection of the forest gained traction in the 1870s when agricultural interests in the Central Valley sought to end the harmful practices of sheep herders and lumber companies. Local farmers objected to the economic exploitation of the canyon on two levels. First, grazing and lumbering resulted in runoff which impacted farming in nearby towns. Second, locals feared that habitat loss would detract from their scenic and recreational enjoyment of the wilderness. On October 1, 1890, in response to pressure from agricultural interests from citizens in towns such as Visalia and conservationists such as John Muir, who wrote a number of articles in journals describing the lands' beauty, Congress passed a bill that established Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant national parks.

Tourism in General Grant National Park was limited in its early years. Utilizing the road built by the Kaweah Colony, early tourists camped in the park using tents and temporary shelters. In subsequent years, accommodations and lodgings were constructed to attract visitors. Initially, General Grant National Park was under the supervision of the State of California and protection of the U.S. Army. State officials oversaw tourist issues, while the Army was responsible for park protection. Despite only receiving $8,000 to protect all three California National Parks, the Army protected the parks effectively in its early years. In 1906, the State of California ceded control of the park to the federal government and in 1916, the establishment of the National Park Service permanently placed management of the park with the newly created National Park Service.

Even after the establishment of General Grant National Park, private interests sought to profit from the resources within the park. Officials from Los Angeles County hoped to use the park's major rivers, the Kings, Kern, and Kaweah, to harness hydroelectric power for the city, but locals remained wary of the environmental impact of damming. The Mt. Whitney Power Company began development of power stations along the rivers in 1898, and hoped to eventually dam the three rivers to provide power. The 1920 Federal Power Act allowed the federal government to license private corporations to develop water and power projects on public lands. Following the Federal Power Act, the City of Los Angeles filed to build dams on the rivers both within park boundaries and outside the park. The City of Los Angeles' plan was met with extensive resistance from locals, however. Residents of the San Joaquin Valley spearheaded the resistance to the proposed dam. After three years, the City of Los Angeles' petition to dam the park's rivers was rejected. However, the fight to prevent the damming of the rivers continued through 1965, when all of Kings Canyon was protected from hydroelectric development.

Creation of Kings Canyon National Park and recent history
In 1940, General Grant Grove became a section of the newly created Kings Canyon National Park, thanks to the combined efforts of Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, the Sierra Club, and Congress. Kings Canyon National Park included General Grant Grove and Kings Valley, an area that had been outside the protection of General Grant National Park. In order to gain support for the park, Secretary Ickes commissioned naturalist photographer and Sierra Club member Ansel Adams to photograph the area. Adams' photography convinced Congress to sign into law the bill that established Kings Canyon as a national park, with General Grant Grove being annexed into the park's boundaries. Fusing Kings Canyon with General Grant Grove allowed the National Park Service to strengthen the protection and management of the sequoias in both.

After World War II, the National Park Service expanded its function to include a new endeavor: scientific research. The Leopold Report, published by Dr. Starker Leopold in 1963, advocated returning the nations' remaining wilderness to conditions similar to those encountered by the first white settlers of North America. In order to do so, the Leopold Report stressed the need to hire scientists to conduct research and maintain the ecosystems within the park. In Sequoia and Kings Canyon, the effects of the Leopold report were felt immediately. Newly hired scientists conducted studies measuring the human impacts on the Giant Forest, overgrazing by deer, and the danger present to threatened species. By 1971, Kings Canyon had a chief scientist, botanist, and several research assistants on staff conducting research that would both preserve the sequoias and provide academic information for future generations.

By 1982, park officials began to focus on the deteriorating quality of accommodations in General Grant Grove. Little improvements had been made to the cabins in Grant Grove in the past half century, and park management hoped improving facilities would increase park attendance. The National Park Service drafted an Environmental Impact Statement detailing their plans to expand accommodations in Grant Grove. The National Park Service outlined two options of action. One involved improving existing facilities and the other included adding ninety-eight additional units for tourists. Eventually, the park elected to construct additional units in Grant Grove and improve accommodations on the existing units.

The cabins of the Giant Forest Lodge Historic District, a 31 mile drive away, had been placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Because of their negative impact on the trees, the cabins were demolished between 1997 and 2000. The site was restored to a natural state.

In 2015, the Rough Fire burned through the northern section of the grove and killed 12 trees with diameters greater than 4 ft.

Climate
General Grant Grove has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate (Csb). It is characterized by dry summers that are warm during the day and cool during the night. Winters are wet and cool, with frequent rain and snow and nighttime temperatures dropping below freezing.

Vandalism and early issues
Even though few visitors traveled to General Grant National Park in its early years, incidents of vandalism were common from the park's inception. Tourists often carved their names into trees and shot arrows into them. The General Grant Tree, the largest in the grove, fell victim to the most vandalism. In order to combat these incidents, the United States Army fenced off the major trees. Sheep overgrazing was another early problem that plagued General Grant National Park. Grazing sheep posed a major threat to the ecosystem of the parks, as sheep overgrazed and killed plant species within park limits. Army officials prevented overgrazing by kicking intruding ranchers and sheep out of the park.

Fire management, a brief history
Fire management has always been a vital issue in park management, although fire policy has changed dramatically since the park's inception. While current management practices in General Grant Grove include prescribed burns, fire suppression was actively followed in the park's early years. In fact, the Army practiced active suppression of fires from the groves' inception, which resulted in a brush buildup throughout the grove. In electing to suppress fires, the Army kept with early 20th century practices of fire control. Since consistent fire maintains the health of a forest ecosystem, the Army and the State of California's practice of fire suppression endangered the grove risk of extensive habitat loss through fire. The creation of the National Park Service in 1916 did not alter fire control policies. The Leopold Report, however, soon did transform fire policy in Kings Canyon. In fact, Dr. Leopold used the sequoia groves in Kings Canyon as evidence of the need for proscribed burning and improved management practices. The 1964 Wilderness Act confirmed the findings of the Leopold Report and mandated controlled burning in the national parks and national forests, including Kings Canyon. As such, the National Park Service reintroduced fire into the grove as a natural process to prevent brush build up. By 1972, Kings Canyon had implemented a proscribed burn plan that spanned the entire park, including General Grant Grove. Controlled burns today remain a vital part of the National Park Service's efforts to manage Kings Canyon and General Grant Grove.

Ozone pollution, climate change and the groves' future
Another issue of growing importance to the Grove is anthropogenic air pollution. National Park Service employees fear that greenhouse gas emissions have increased temperatures, and that the increased temperatures have already negatively altered the habitats of the national parks and that ozone affects sequoia seedling growth. Research has indicated that climate change has already affected Kings Canyon. Rising temperatures have pushed the snow line higher into the mountains. The higher snow line will likely lessen water storage, change species' habitats, and make fires more severe. Because the sequoias of General Grant Grove thrive under a distinct set of conditions, the impact of climate change could result in habitat loss for the trees, as fewer areas within the park will retain the conditions necessary for the sequoias' survival. Specifically, an increase in the temperature could lead to failure in sequoia regeneration and increased mortality from long droughts. Current restoration plans aim to slow the effects of climate change through reducing air pollution within the parks and the greater San Joaquin Valley. Kings Canyon is among the leading parks in this effort. But since climate change occurs as a result of human activity mainly outside the park, the larger problems of air quality will continue to pose a challenge to the survival of the ancient trees despite efforts by the National Park Service to remedy the impacts.

Description
General Grant Grove consists of a number of sequoia trees situated around a half-mile loop. Visitors have access to a number of trails, including Big Stump Trail, Redwood Canyon Trail, and the Big Baldy Trail. The Panoramic Viewpoint also offers unmatched views of the entire grove. From the viewpoint, hikers have access to a lookout at 7,520 feet to the northeast of Grant Grove. In addition to the General Grant Tree, which stands a colossal 270 feet tall and 107 feet around, Grant Grove is also home to the eleventh largest tree in the world, which stands an imposing 254 feet tall.

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SIOP

SIOP may refer to:
 * International Society of Paediatric Oncology
 * Sales Inventory Operations Planning, an integrated business management process
 * Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, a research-based observation instrument used to measure sheltered instruction
 * Single Integrated Operational Plan, the tactical blueprint for the deployment of nuclear weapons by the United States
 * Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, a division of the American Psychological Association for I/O psychologists
 * Steroid-induced osteoporosis, a bone disease that leads to an increased risk of fracture

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Talk:Scimitar (Star Trek)

Who says the Schimitar was the most powerful ship in the Trek universe? What about the massive Jem'Hadar ships seen at Cardassia in the last DS9 episode? What about Borg cubes? What about species 8472 bioships (one of which can easily take out Borg cubes)? Editted appropriately pomegranate 19:29, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)

I'll change it to one of the most powerful ships, but it still was pretty darn hard to get a scatch in. Remember, it could fire while cloaked and it took the entire complement of photon torpedoes to get weaken the shields just 30%. I'll also finish the article.- B-101 20:19, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Don't forget the V'ger Ship and the whale probe. Dudtz 9/27/05 5:18 PM EST

Notability
This article makes no assertion of real-world notability, offers only plot summary and cites no secondary sources; I have redirected it to the Nemesis article. --EEMeltonIV 04:40, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

 * And there is not much mention in that article. Either stop being obtuse or add that info to the movie site. You only redirect when the information is also on the other article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.169.192 (talk) 14:58, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

 * The movie article mentions and discusses the ship as much as is appropriate for Wikipedia (i.e. not much at all -- it's a make-believe ship of marginal in-universe and negligible real-world notability). --EEMIV (talk) 15:23, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

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Astana Qazaqstan Team

Astana Qazaqstan Team is a professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by the Samruk-Kazyna, a coalition of state-owned companies from Kazakhstan and named after its capital city Astana. Astana attained UCI ProTeam status in its inaugural year, 2007. Following a major doping scandal involving Kazakh rider Alexander Vinokourov, team management was terminated and new management brought in for the 2008 season. The team was then managed by Johan Bruyneel, former team manager of U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel team. Under Bruyneel the ethical nature of the team did not improve, although Astana in this period was very successful.

With a lineup including Grand Tour winner Alberto Contador, as well as runner-up Andreas Klöden the results were good, but the team was on the verge of financial collapse in May 2009. A battle for control of the team led to the return of Vinokourov for the 2009 Vuelta a España and caused Bruyneel and at least fourteen of its riders to leave at the end of the 2009 season, most for. Only four Spanish riders, including Contador, and most of the Kazakhs remained with the rebuilt team for 2010. Those four Spaniards all left the team for in 2011.

Demise of Liberty Seguros–Würth
Astana first became involved in sponsoring cycling during the 2006 season. The Spanish Liberty Seguros–Würth team was heavily implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case and the sponsors Liberty Mutual, and later Würth, withdrew their sponsorship of the team. Astana stepped in to sponsor the team, and during the second half of the season, Vinokourov won the Vuelta a España while riding for the renamed Team Astana, and his Kazakh teammate Andrey Kashechkin finished third.

2007: Formation of the new team
The new Astana management initially tried to buy the ProTour licence of the former Liberty Seguros–Würth team, held by Manolo Saiz. However, Saiz was reluctant to sell, so Astana applied for a licence in their own right. Initially, the new team was based in Switzerland under the holding company of Zeus Sarl and managed by former Tour de Suisse organiser Marc Biver. Vinokourov was the team's debut leader.

The UCI ProTour license commission first informed Astana that they would not be granted a ProTour License for the 2007 season. Following UCI's decision not to grant a ProTour license, the organizers of the three Grand Tours informed Astana Team that they would be included, regardless of ProTour license status. On 20 December 2006 the UCI License Commission relented and awarded Astana Team a 4-year ProTour license.

Other prominent new riders for the 2007 season included stage race specialists Andreas Klöden, Paolo Savoldelli and Andrey Kashechkin, as well as Matthias Kessler, Grégory Rast, Thomas Frei and Spanish climber Antonio Colom.

2008
Riding under a Luxembourgian license, the team also included other ex-Discovery Channel riders such as Tomas Vaitkus, Sérgio Paulinho, Chechu Rubiera, Vladimir Gusev and Janez Brajkovič, as well as American Chris Horner.

The Astana team was not invited to the 2008 Giro d'Italia based on failing to meet the criteria of ethics, quality, or internationality. However, on 3 May, one week before the start of the race, Giro organizers chose to extend a last-minute invitation to Astana. Astana was able to field a team despite the short notice, and on 1 June, Alberto Contador won the Giro, finishing 11th on the final stage time trial to keep his pink jersey and take the overall victory.

Contador also won the 2008 Vuelta a España, with teammate Levi Leipheimer finishing a close second. Thus, despite not competing in the Tour de France due to doping by Vinokourov and others in 2007, Astana still won two Grand Tours in 2008 and achieved three podiums. Leipheimer also won a bronze medal in the time trial in the 2008 Olympics, just edging Contador, who finished fourth.

Among the other results achieved by the team were victories in several stage races: by Contador in the Vuelta al País Vasco and the Vuelta a Castilla y León, by Leipheimer in the Tour of California, by Klöden in the Tour de Romandie and by Russian Sergei Ivanov in the Tour de Wallonie. Various team members also achieved several other top-tier results, and Ivanov, Paulinho, Vaikus and two of the Kazakhs won their national championships.

Astana's strict anti-doping policy came to the forefront later in the year. On 28 July Astana fired Vladimir Gusev for showing "abnormal values" in an internal doping check. In a statement, Bruyneel said that while the results "do not indicate the use of banned substances, the team has therefore applied the contractual terms based on these physiological and biological abnormalities", and fired Gusev "with immediate effect." On 17 June 2009, almost a year later, the Court of Arbitration in Sport ruled that Bruyneel's company, Olympus sarl, which held the rider contracts, had violated Swiss employment contract law by firing Gusev on the suspicion of doping without prior implementation of the special procedure provided under terms of the contract. The company was ordered to pay Gusev back wages, damages and legal costs.

2009: The return of Lance Armstrong
On 25 September 2008, it was confirmed that Lance Armstrong – at the time considered a seven-time Tour de France winner – would leave retirement to ride for the team in the 2009 season. Along with Armstrong, Yaroslav Popovych, another former Discovery Channel rider, joined the ranks of Astana, which brought the number of former Discovery Channel riders on Astana to nine (Armstrong, Popovych, Contador, Leipheimer, Rubiera, Noval, Vaitkus, Paulinho and Brajkovič).

It was reported that Armstrong would share team leadership with current leader Contador, that he intended to participate in the Tour Down Under, the Tour of California, Paris–Nice, the Tour de Georgia, the Critérium du Dauphiné Liberé and the Tour de France, and that he would receive no salary or bonuses, instead directing his attention to raising awareness for cancer research.

Along with Armstrong and Popovych, Astana also signed Jesús Hernández, who had joined the former Liberty Seguros team in 2004 when Alberto Contador was one of the riders there, and Basque rider Haimar Zubeldia. Contador expressed his support for the return of Vinokourov from his two-year doping suspension but seemed less enthusiastic about Armstrong's return.

Armstrong was part of the team that participated in the season's first ProTour race, the 2009 Tour Down Under. The team's first victory of the season was the 6th stage, followed by the general classification, of the Tour of California by Levi Leipheimer. In the same week, Alberto Contador won a stage and the classification of the Volta ao Algarve, and subsequently two stages in the Paris–Nice race.

Armstrong's participation in the Tour was cast into doubt in late March, after he suffered a broken collarbone in the Vuelta a Castilla y León that required surgical repair. However, Armstrong was able to recover in time to ride in the 2009 Giro d'Italia.

Financial crisis
On 6 May 2009, Astana admitted that it had failed to pay its riders amid the financial crisis in Kazakhstan, but a team spokesman said that this was only a delay, that the team was not in danger of folding, and that the team would compete in the 2009 Giro d'Italia as planned. On 7 May Armstrong, riding for Astana on an unpaid basis, expressed his sympathy for employees waiting for their wages only days before the start of the Giro d'Italia. He also said that if the financial crisis was not resolved, the team's license should be turned over to Bruyneel, which he said was the "most logical solution."

Organizationally, Astana had an unusual structure. Although the Kazakh team holds the UCI license and pays the salaries, the individual rider contracts and equipment leases are held by Bruyneel's Luxembourg-based Olympus SARL, so the team could continue with merely a license transfer. UCI President Pat McQuaid was planning a visit to Astana during the Giro to discuss the team's future. According to Armstrong: "I don't have any concrete answers but I suspect we can find some funding that would get us from June to the end of the year." On 11 May, the UCI set a deadline for resolving Astana's financial situation of 31 May, the last day of the Giro. If the team had not met its financial obligations by that date, it would be suspended by the UCI. Bruyneel noted that at least the team would be able to finish the Giro under its current banner.

During stage 7 of the Giro, eight of the nine Astana riders, including Armstrong, rode in jerseys with the non-paying sponsors' names nearly faded out in protest over the team's unpaid salaries and remained in such jerseys for the rest of the Giro. The only rider not to participate was Andrey Zeits from Kazakhstan. According to Bruyneel, the names of paying sponsors, such as Trek and KazMunayGas, were not blanked out, and the team would continue to "race with these shirts until everything, emphasis on everything, is fixed", as "the riders have only received two months of salary in 2009." On 19 May, Bruyneel announced that the sponsors had paid part of the past-due wages since the start of the protest "but the major part is still missing." On 3 June the Astana team gave financial guarantees to cycling's governing body which would allow them to compete in the 2009 Tour de France in July, and later that month declared their financial problems to be resolved and the funds secure at least to the end of the season.

Vinokourov versus Bruyneel
During these financial problems, it was rumored that three of the former Discovery Channel riders on the team – team leader Contador and his domestiques Benjamín Noval and Sérgio Paulinho would join Garmin–Slipstream for the Tour de France if Armstrong were to take over the Astana team. These problems seemed to be resolved, at least for the remainder of 2009, when the team's funding was resolved. However, the funding battle may have been merely a skirmish related to the underlying issue: control of the Astana team after the expiration of the two-year doping suspension of Alexander Vinokourov on 24 July 2009.

On 2 July, Vinokourov stated that he would return to Astana, which he noted was "created for me and thanks to my efforts", when his suspension ended, and that he would ride for Astana in the 2009 Vuelta a España. He stated that he expected to reach an agreement with Bruyneel about his return within the week, but that "if Bruyneel does not want me, it will be Bruyneel who is leaving the team."

The next day, the French newspaper L'Équipe reported that the Kazakh Cycling Federation planned to fire Bruyneel, Armstrong, Leipheimer and many of the other riders and rebuild the team in the model of the old Liberty Seguros team, which was predominantly Spanish. The paper quoted the vice-president of the Kazakh federation as saying, "[Contador] will be our sole leader for years to come [and] will be able to pick out the riders he wants to ride with him. In our mind, the team will be composed of Spanish and Kazakh riders, including Alexander Vinokourov."

On 21 July, with Contador, Armstrong and Klöden holding three of the top four places in the Tour de France, Bruyneel told Belgian channel VRT that Astana as currently constituted was "finished" and that he would be leaving the team, as Vinokourov and the Kazakh federation had discussed, at the end of the season. Despite the comments by Vinokourov and the Kazakhstan federation, Bruyneel and Vinokourov did not reach an agreement regarding Vinokourov's return to Astana for 2009, and the team submitted a preliminary roster to the 2009 Vuelta a España listing him only as a reserve. Finally, on 24 August, Astana announced that an agreement had been reached between Vinokourov and Bruyneel and that Vinokourov would rejoin the team for the start of the Vuelta. The next day, Armstrong announced that Bruyneel would take over Team RadioShack in 2010.

2010
The immediate result of Vinokourov's return and Bruyneel's departure was a mass exodus from Astana. Although Bruyneel still had a year to run on his contract, Astana permitted his departure in return for him not blocking Vinokourov's return. Contador had a year on his contract, and Astana refused to permit his departure. Much of the rest of the team departed for RadioShack, including Armstrong, Klöden, Leipheimer, Zubeldia, Horner, Brajkovič, Popovych, Paulinho, Vaitkus, Rast, Rubiera and Muravyev (the only Kazakh to depart), which meant that eight of the nine members of the winning Astana team at the 2009 Tour de France moved to RadioShack.

Schär and Morabito joined. All that remained of Astana was four Spanish riders (Contador, Noval, Navarro and Hernández) and the Kazakhs (except Muravyev). The team signed three more Spanish riders, including 2006 Tour champion Óscar Pereiro, to support Contador. Consistent with the July 2009 plan, the 2010 team included 12 Kazakhs and 7 Spaniards among its 26 riders.

2013–2016: Nibali era
When Contador left the team after the 2010 season, the Spanish faction of the team declined, to be replaced by an Italian element; in 2011 and 2012, the team signed Enrico Gasparotto, Mirco Lorenzetto, Francesco Masciarelli, Jacopo Guarnieri, Francesco Gavazzi, Simone Ponzi, and Fabio Aru, while in the same period of time David de la Fuente, Daniel Navarro, Jesús Hernández, Benjamín Noval, Óscar Pereiro, and Josep Jufré resigned, so that by the beginning of the 2012 season there were no Spanish riders of the team.

In 2013, the team signed Valerio Agnoli, Andrea Guardini, Alessandro Vanotti, and Vincenzo Nibali, who immediately won Tirreno–Adriatico and the Giro d'Italia. Then Nibali wore the leader's jersey more than any other Italian in the history of the Vuelta (13 stages out of 21), but lost first place to American Chris Horner (RadioShack-Nissan). In 2014, Vincenzo Nibali won the Tour de France and became the sixth cyclist who have won the three Grand Tours. In August the team announced they had signed Lars Boom, Luis León Sánchez , Davide Malacarne & Diego Rosa  for the 2015 season.

On August 20, the team announced the signing of Rein Taaramäe on a one-year deal. With the addition of Michele Scarponi in 2014 and Dario Cataldo in 2015, the team had a plurality Italian element at the beginning of the 2015 season, with 9 riders out of 25 and only 5 Kazakh riders remaining.

Doping controversies
The team recorded its first doping positive in April 2007, when Matthias Kessler tested positive for testosterone following a surprise control in Charleroi and later analysis of his B-sample. Eddy Mazzoleni left the team later in July after allegations of doping usage. Mazzoleni, who had finished 3rd in the 2007 Giro d'Italia, was later suspended for two years for his alleged involvement in the Oil for Drugs doping case. On the eve of the 2007 Tour de France, Alexander Vinokourov confirmed he had received coaching from controversial doctor Michele Ferrari.

The next positive doping result came from team-leader Vinokourov, after a positive result for blood doping (blood transfusion). As a result, ASO (the organisers of the Tour de France) "invited" Team Astana's management to withdraw the entire team from the Tour de France; this invitation was immediately accepted. Following confirmation that Vinokourov's B-sample had also tested positive, the Astana Team announced that he had been sacked with immediate effect.

On 1 August 2007, fellow Kazakh Andrey Kashechkin tested positive for homologous blood doping following an out-of-competition test in Belek, Turkey. He was suspended and subsequently fired. This was followed by the termination of José Antonio Redondo's contract after "failing to abide by team rules", making him the fifth rider of the team to leave during the 2007 season.

Following the doping problems of 2007, Astana's sponsors replaced Biver with Johan Bruyneel, the former directeur sportif of the defunct Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. Bruyneel had the mandate to start afresh with the team, so he hired a number of former Discovery riders including 2007 Tour de France winner Alberto Contador (who had ridden with Vinokourov on the old Liberty Seguros team) and third-place finisher Levi Leipheimer. Bruyneel introduced the anti-doping system developed by Dr. Rasmus Damsgaard, Head of Information for Anti Doping Danmark (ADD). The anti-doping system was initially used by Team CSC starting in 2007. The link between the Discovery Channel team and Astana was strengthened when Bruyneel signed a contract with Trek Bicycle Corporation to supply the team with bicycles and components, as they had done with Discovery Channel. Bruyneel also affirmed sponsorship with component maker SRAM.

On 13 February 2008, the organisers of both the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France announced that Astana would be barred from their 2008 Grand Tours, due to the team's links to Operación Puerto and involvement in the 2007 Tour doping scandals. This meant that Contador was unable to defend his Tour crown, because his contract did not have an "escape clause" that covered Astana's current situation. One week before the 2008 Giro d'Italia, the organisers went on to invite the team to the race, a race which Alberto Contador went on to win. In July, Vladimir Gusev was sacked by the team due to "irregular values" highlighted by the team's new internal anti-doping system.

In 2009, after returning from retirement, Lance Armstrong was accused by the French anti-doping agency of acting improperly by disappearing from the sight of the anti-doping investigator for 20 minutes. In June, Assan Bazayev was given a two-week internal suspension for not correctly reporting his whereabouts properly.

In September 2010, Alberto Contador returned a positive doping test for Clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France. After a two-year legal procedure, Contador is stripped of his 2010 Tour de France win (and 2011 Giro d'Italia victory).

In 2011, Roman Kreuziger finished 5th at the Giro d'Italia as well as winning the best young rider classification. In 2014, the UCI began proceedings against him for biological passport anomalies dated from 2011 and 2012 – the two years he spent at Astana.

In 2012, former Astana riders and staff including; Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel, Levi Leipheimer, Dr. Pedro Celaya and Dr. Luis del Moral are heavily implicated in the mass doping scandal which surrounded the U.S. Postal /Discovery Channel team.

In September 2014, it emerged that Valentin Iglinskiy has returned a positive test for EPO at the Eneco Tour, he confessed to doping to the team and was immediately sacked, three weeks later Valentin's brother, Maxim Iglinskiy was provisionally suspended by the UCI for an EPO-positive on August 1. It was later announced that Astana withdrew themselves from the Tour of Beijing per the MPCC rules, who state that a team with 2 positives in a short period of time must not participate in the next World Tour event.

Subsequently, a sample taken at the Tour de l'Avenir in August from Ilya Davidenok, a rider with the Astana Continental Team and a stagiaire with the Astana Pro Team, tested positive for anabolic steroids. Davidenok was provisionally suspended, and a review into the team's licence was announced following the positive tests for Davidenok and the Iglinskiy brothers.

University of Lausanne independent audit
On February 27, 2015, cycling's governing body, the UCI, requested that the team's WorldTour licence be withdrawn following an audit of its doping controls by the Institute of Sport Sciences in Lausanne. The UCI stated that the audit revealed a large difference between the team policies presented to the Licence Commission and reality. On 23 April 2015, it was finally announced by the UCI that Astana would keep their license but would be under more scrutiny.

Since 2021
For the first time in its history, the team took on a co-title sponsor, as Canadian tech company Premier Tech joined for the 2021 season. However, mid-season disagreements between it and the team's Kazakh shareholders resulted in the collaboration being cut short after one season, and the team rebranded to better demonstrate its Kazakh background.

National And Continental champions

 * 2007
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Maxim Iglinsky
 * MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG Luxembourg Road Race Benoît Joachim

 * 2008
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Assan Bazayev
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Andrey Mizurov
 * MaillotRusia.PNG Russia Road Race Serguei Ivanov
 * MaillotRusia.PNG Russia Time Trial Vladimir Gusev
 * MaillotLituania.PNG Lithuania Road Race Tomas Vaitkus
 * MaillotPortugal.PNG Portugal Time Trial Sérgio Paulinho

 * 2009
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenia Time Trial Janez Brajkovič
 * MaillotEspaña.PNG Spain Time Trial Alberto Contador

 * 2010
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenia Road Race Gorazd Štangelj
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Maxim Gourov

 * 2011
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Andrey Mizurov

 * 2012
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Assan Bazayev
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Dmitriy Gruzdev
 * MaillotEslovenia.PNG Slovenia Road Race Borut Božič
 * MaillotUcrania.PNG Ukraine Road Race Andriy Hryvko
 * MaillotUcrania.PNG Ukraine Time Trial Andriy Hryvko
 * MaillotEstonia.PNG Estonia Road Race Tanel Kangert

 * 2013
 * MaillotEstonia.PNG Estonia Time Trial Tanel Kangert
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Alexsandr Dyachenko
 * MaillotUcrania.PNG Ukraine Time Trial Andriy Hryvko

 * 2014
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Daniil Fominykh
 * MaillotItalia.svg Italy Road Race Vincenzo Nibali

 * 2015
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Alexey Lutsenko
 * MaillotItalia.svg Italy Road Race Vincenzo Nibali

 * 2016
 * MaillotLetonia.PNG Latvia Time Trial Gatis Smukulis
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Dmitriy Gruzdev
 * MaillotLetonia.PNG Latvia Road Race Gatis Smukulis
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Arman Kamyshev

 * 2017
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Zhandos Bizhigitov
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Artyom Zakharov
 * MaillotItalia.svg Italy Road Race Fabio Aru

 * 2018
 * MaillotUcrania.PNG Ukraine Time Trial Andriy Hryvko
 * MaillotEstonia.PNG Estonia Time Trial Tanel Kangert
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Daniil Fominykh
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Alexey Lutsenko

 * 2019
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Alexey Lutsenko
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Alexey Lutsenko

 * 2020
 * MaillotEspaña.PNG Spain Road Race Luis León Sánchez
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Track (Omnium), Artyom Zakharov
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Track (Madison), Artyom Zakharov
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Track (Scratch race), Artyom Zakharov

 * 2021
 * MaillotRusia.PNG Russia Time Trial Aleksandr Vlasov
 * MaillotEspaña.PNG Spain Time Trial Ion Izagirre
 * MaillotEspaña.PNG Spain Road Race Omar Fraile
 * MaillotItalia.svg Italy Time Trial Matteo Sobrero
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Yevgeniy Fedorov
 * MaillotEritrea2.jpg Eritrea Time Trial Merhawi Kudus
 * MaillotCan.PNG Canada Time Trial Hugo Houle

 * 2022
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Yuriy Natarov
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Road Race Yevgeniy Gidich
 * Asian Championship Jersey.svg Asia U23 Road Race Gleb Brussenskiy

 * 2023
 * Asian Championship Jersey.svg Asia Time Trial Yevgeniy Fedorov
 * Asian Championship Jersey.svg Asia Road Race Gleb Brussenskiy
 * MaillotKaz.PNG Kazakhstan Time Trial Alexey Lutsenko
 * MaillotItalia.svg Italy Road Race Simone Velasco

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どうも. 日本語版のNekosuki600です.

さて、日本語版からブロックされたと思ったら英語版に出張ってきて記事のコピペですか. 何をしているんですか. サンドボックスであろうとも著作権侵害はするなというのは日本語版でも言われたことだと思いますが. 英語版では日本語を読める人が少ないために著作権侵害であるということが発覚しにくく問題が大きくなる可能性が強いということもあわせて考えると、あなたがやっていることはきわめて深刻な破壊工作であるように思います.

日本語版でもうまくやれなかった以上、不慣れな外国語版ではもっとうまくやれる可能性が少ないと思います. とりあえずWikipediaから離れて実社会で修行を積むとかいう方が、あなたにとっても有益なのではないだろうかと思います. すでにかなり問題は深刻になっています. この助言について、真剣に考えていただけますよう、お願いもうしあげます. --Nekosuki 13:44, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.
 * I agree with Nekosuki. You should reconsider what you have done to JAWP and why you are blocked. JAWP community decided 2-year block on you in order that you learn from everyday experience OUTSIDE Wikipedia. Until you acquire enough research, photograph, language, and/or communication skills to get along with other Wikimedians, you should not try to edit any Wikipedias, and desirably, any Wikimedia projects: let alone illegal conducts such as copyvio.
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Afghanistan Campaign Medal

The Afghanistan Campaign Medal (ACM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was created by Executive Order 13363 of President George W. Bush on November 29, 2004, and became available for general distribution in June 2005. The medal was designed by the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry.

The Afghanistan Campaign Medal is awarded to any member of the United States military who has performed duty within the borders of Afghanistan (or its airspace) for a period of thirty consecutive days or sixty non-consecutive days. The medal is retroactive to October 24, 2001, and was active until the conclusion of Operation Allies Refuge on August 31, 2021. Personnel who have been engaged in combat with an enemy force, or personnel who have been wounded in combat within Afghanistan, may receive the ACM regardless of the number of days spent within the country. The medal was also awarded posthumously to any service member who died in the line of duty within Afghanistan, including from non-combat injuries such as accidents and mishaps.

Campaign phases and devices
The following are the approved campaign phases and respective dates for the Afghanistan Campaign Medal:

Examples of campaign stars worn on the Afghanistan Campaign Medal service ribbon:

The following ribbon devices are authorized for wear on the Afghanistan Campaign Medal:

 * Silver and Bronze Service Stars.PNG Campaign stars (all branches)
 * Arrowhead device.svg Arrowhead device (Army, Air Force, and Space Force)
 * Fleet Marine Force Combat Insignia.svg Fleet Marine Force Combat Operation Insignia (Navy personnel assigned to a Marine Corps unit in combat)

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
The Afghanistan Campaign Medal replaces the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (GWOT-EM) for service in Afghanistan and personnel who previously received the GWOT-EM for Afghanistan service may elect to exchange the medal for the ACM. Both medals may not be received for the same period of service in Afghanistan and any current Afghanistan service will only be recognized with the Afghanistan Campaign Medal.

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Iraq Campaign Medal

The Iraq Campaign Medal (ICM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was created by Executive Order 13363 of U.S. President George W. Bush on 29 November 2004, and became available for general distribution in June 2005. The medal was designed by the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry and was awarded during the Iraq War, from 19 March 2003 to 31 December 2011.

Appearance
The medal is bronze in appearance, 1+1/4 in in diameter. The obverse depicts a north-oriented relief of the map of Iraq, surmounted by two lines representing the Tigris and Euphrates rivers throughout, superimposed over a palm wreath. Above is the inscription "IRAQ CAMPAIGN." On the reverse, the Statue of Freedom surmounts a sunburst, encircled by two scimitars pointing down with the blades crossing at the tips. Below is the inscription "FOR SERVICE IN IRAQ." The medal is suspended from a ribbon 1+3/8 in wide. The stripes of the ribbon invoke the colors of the Iraqi flag and are: $5/32$ inch scarlet at the edges, followed by $1/16$ inch white, $1/32$ inch green, and $1/16$ inch white. The white is separated by a $5/32$ inch black with a $7/16$ inch stripe in chamois in the center.

Criteria
The Iraq Campaign Medal was awarded to any member of the U.S. military who performed duty within the borders of Iraq (or its territorial waters) for a period of thirty consecutive days or sixty non-consecutive days. The medal was awarded retroactively from 19 March 2003 until the end of Operation New Dawn on 31 December 2011.

Personnel who engaged in combat with an enemy force, or personnel wounded in combat or wounded as a result of a terrorist attack within Iraq received the Iraq Campaign Medal regardless of the number of days spent within the country.

In addition, each day participating in aerial missions as a "regularly assigned air crewmember of an aircraft flying sorties into, out of, within or over Iraq and in direct support of the military operations" established a single day of eligibility. When the required minimum days of eligibility were accrued, the medal was then awarded.

The medal was also awarded posthumously to any service member who died in the line of duty within Iraq, including from non-combat injuries such as accidents and mishaps.

On 23 April 2012, an order terminating the award of the Iraq Campaign Medal was issued by the Department of Defense. The order is effective to 31 December 2011, the day Operation New Dawn ended. U.S. military personnel serving inside the borders of Iraq after December 2011 will not be eligible to receive the ICM.

Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal
The Iraq Campaign Medal replaced the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (GWOT-EM) for service in Iraq from 19 March 2003, through 30 April 2005. Personnel who previously received the GWOT-EM for Iraq service were given the option to exchange the medal for the Iraq Campaign Medal. The medals were not authorized for the same period of service in Iraq, and any Iraq service which followed the Iraq Campaign Medal's creation was recognized only with the ICM.

Operation Inherent Resolve
U.S. military personnel serving post-2014 in the Iraq conflict were originally awarded the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (GWOT-EM) and not the Iraq Campaign Medal as the latter conflict had ended and the former conflict was nameless at the time and the U.S. government did not designate the fighting to be a military campaign. However, the U.S. government dubbed their operations in Iraq post-2014 as "Operation Inherent Resolve", and in March 2016, the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal (IRCM) was created. The IRCM is now awarded to those who have served in missions in Iraq against ISIL from 15 June 2014 to the 30 JUNE 2022. Those who were awarded the GWOT-EM for serving in Iraq from 15 June 2014 to 30 March 2016, request the Inherent Resolve Campaign Medal instead.

Campaign phases and devices
The following are the approved campaign phases and respective inclusive dates for the Iraqi Campaign Medal:

Examples of campaign stars worn on the Iraqi Campaign Medal service ribbon:

The following ribbon devices are authorized for wear on the Iraqi Campaign Medal:

 * Silver and Bronze Service Stars.PNG Campaign stars (all branches)
 * Arrowhead device.svg Arrowhead device (Army and Air Force)
 * Fleet Marine Force Combat Insignia.svg Fleet Marine Force Combat Operation Insignia (Navy personnel assigned to a Marine Corps unit in combat)

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De Long Islands

The De Long Islands (Острова Де-Лонга; Де Лоҥ Aрыылара) are an uninhabited archipelago often included as part of the New Siberian Islands, lying north east of Novaya Sibir.

Geography
This archipelago consists of Jeannette Island, Henrietta Island, Bennett Island, Vilkitsky Island and Zhokhov Island. These five islands have a total area of 228 km². Bennett Island is the largest island and it also has the archipelago's highest point at 426 m. These islands lie around 77°N, are partially covered by glaciers, and rise to peaks.

In 1996, the total area of these islands covered by ice caps and glaciers was 80.6 km². This island group belongs to the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic administrative division of Russia.

Geology
Early Paleozoic, Middle Paleozoic, Cretaceous, and Neogene rocks have been mapped within the De Long Islands. The Early Paleozoic rocks are Cambrian and Ordovician sedimentary rocks interbedded with minor amounts of limestone. The Middle Paleozoic rocks consist of predominately folded and faulted basaltic, andesitic, and dioritic volcanoclastics, tuffs, lavas, dikes, and sills. Cretaceous rocks are composed of basalts and interbedded argillites, sandstones and minor coals. The youngest rocks exposed within the De Long Islands are Neogene basaltic volcanic rocks.

Quaternary geology
The De Long Islands were once major hills within the Great Arctic Plain that once formed the northern part of Late Pleistocene “Beringia” between Siberia and Alaska during the Last Glacial Maximum (Late Weichselian Epoch). These islands are what remains of about 1.6 e6km2 of the formally subaerial Great Arctic Plain that now lies submerged below the Arctic Ocean and East Siberian Sea. At this plain's greatest extent during the Last Glacial Maximum, sea level was 100–120 m below modern sea level and the coastline was located 700 to(-) north of its current position. This plain was neither extensively glaciated during the Late Pleistocene nor during the Last Glacial Maximum because it lay in the rain shadow of the Northern European ice sheet. The Great Arctic Plain was submerged, except for the New Siberian and other isolated islands, within a relatively short time span of 7,000 years during the Early-Middle Holocene.

During the extremely frigid polar climate of the Last Glacial Maximum (Late Weichselian Epoch), 17,000 to 24,000 BP, small passive ice caps did form on the De Long Islands. Fragments of these ice caps are preserved on Jeannette, Henrietta, and Bennett Islands. Traces of former Late Weichselian slope and cirque glaciers in the form of buried ground ice deposits are preserved on Zhokhov Island.

History
Jeannette Island, Henrietta Island, and Bennett Island were discovered in 1881 by the ill-fated Jeannette Expedition, named after the USS Jeannette (1878), and commanded by Lieutenant Commander George W. De Long.

In August 1901, during the Russian polar expedition of 1900–1902, the Russian Arctic ship Zarya headed across the Laptev Sea, searching for the legendary Sannikov Land (Zemlya Sannikova) but was soon blocked by floating pack ice in the New Siberian Islands. During 1902 the attempts to reach Sannikov Land, deemed to be beyond the De Long Islands, continued while Zarya was trapped in fast ice. Leaving the ship, Russian Arctic explorer Baron Eduard Toll and three companions vanished forever in November 1902 while travelling away from Bennett Island towards the south on loose ice floes.

Vilkitsky Island (East Siberian Sea) and Zhokhov Island were discovered by Boris Vilkitsky during the Imperial Russian Arctic Ocean Hydrographic Expedition in 1913 and 1914 respectively. They lie slightly further south (around 76°N), are unglaciated, and lower lying.

Henrietta was the site of a research station from 1937 to 1963.

Sovereignty
Some US individuals assert American ownership of Jeannette, Henrietta and Bennet Islands in the De Long group. This assertion is not supported by the US government. Following their discovery in 1881, De Long claimed these islands for the U.S. and reported to the United States Department of the Navy that a party had landed on Henrietta Island and taken possession. During 1916 the Russian ambassador in London issued an official notice to the effect that the Imperial government considered these islands were integral parts of the Russian Empire. This territorial claim was later maintained by the Soviet Union. A resolution of the Alaska State Senate in 1988 supported an American claim to the islands, but during 1994 the Alaska State Supreme Court ruled in D. Denardo v. State of Alaska that Bennett Island, along with several other islands, is not part of Alaska. The United States Department of State has asserted that claim has never been made by the United States to any of the islands, and the US recognizes it as Russian territory.

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Dominant minority

A dominant minority, also called elite dominance, is a minority group that has overwhelming political, economic, or cultural dominance in a country, despite representing a small fraction of the overall population (a demographic minority). The term is most commonly used to refer to an ethnic group that is defined along racial, national, religious, cultural or tribal lines and that holds a disproportionate amount of power and wealth compared to the rest of the population.

In contrast, minority rule, of less permanency and with no basis in race or ethnicity, is often seen when a political party holds a majority in political structures and decisions, but receiving less than the majority of votes in an election.

A notable example is that of South Africa during the apartheid regime, where white South Africans, more specifically Afrikaners, wielded predominant control of the country, despite never composing more than 22 percent of the population. African-American-descended nationals in Liberia, white Zimbabweans in Rhodesia, Sunni Arabs in Ba'athist Iraq, the Alawite minority in Syria (since 1970 under the rule of the Alawite Assad family), and the Tutsi in Rwanda since the 1990s also have been cited as current or recent examples. In Brazil, despite the plurality of its population being pardo (45.3%) this demographic is more affected by poverty, has a higher illiteracy rate, is more likely to be murdered, and is most likely to live in favelas (a Brazilian Portuguese slang for a slum). In contrast, the white population in the country (42.8%) has, on average, better access to education, job opportunities, and a higher wage, with the white workforce earning 80% more than black Brazilians. Black and pardo  Brazilians are underrepresented in Congress, with 71.9% of elected deputies being white, while 21.1% are pardos, and 5.3% being black.

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Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation (Sweden)

The Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation (Ombudsmannen mot diskriminering på grund av sexuell läggning), abbreviated HomO, was the Swedish office of the ombudsman against discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. On 1 January 2009, it was merged with other ombudsman officers into the new Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen).

HomO was the most recently instituted Swedish ombudsman, in the sense of a government official who addresses the complaints of individual citizens. HomO had the status of a government agency. In 2005 it received around 8 million SEK in government funding.

The term HomO is used both to refer to the office and as the title of its government-appointed acting head. HomO was the officially mandated short form, but is not a true acronym or abbreviation. Instead the word alludes to both "homo" (homosexual) and to traditional Swedish ombudsman abbreviations which do expand into descriptive terms, such as JämO = Jämställdhetsombudsmannen.

In addition to this government office, the merger that created the Equality Ombudsman office involved the earlier offices of Equality Ombudsman, Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination and Disability Ombudsman.


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Economics Wikibook
Hey, I'm Wikibooks:User:Paul Lynch from wikibooks, and was going to edit some of the economics bookshelf and was wondering if you were still around. If so, maybe you could help out? thanks.

Kissinger
Before I take time (probably next week) to do some library research, I'd like you to confirm that I've correctly understood what you want me to seek: see Talk:Henry_Kissinger. -- Jmabel | Talk 20:53, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Even though you didn't get back to me, I've followed up a bit. Have a look, same place. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:05, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't understand the basis of your recent edit that says "Kissingers involvement in or support for these plans are unknown." As I cited on the talk page (from the Church Committee report):

"'The 40 Committee met on September 8 and 14 to discuss what action should be taken prior to the October 24 congressional vote. On September 15, President Nixon informed CIA Director Richard Helms that an Allende regime in Chile would not be acceptable to the United States and instructed the CIA to ploy a direct role in organizing a military coup d'etat in Chile to prevent Allende's accession to the Presidency.' The document makes it clear that this was approved by the 40 Committee. As National Security Advisor, Kissinger would have been on that committee."

I figured I'd contact you directly here before I revert your edit or challenge you in the more visible forum of the talk page article, in case you simply had not read what I wrote on the talk page. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:18, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Hey, *you* are the one that correctly pointed out that it doesn't mention Kissinger. I only went after what you said. The sentence is there because the page is about Kissinger. If you want to remove that sentence, then reasonably, they whole section about the plans for CIA involvement should be taken away, since it no longer has any thing directly to do with Kissinger. --Regebro 09:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Mediation request
Hi, I saw your mediation request on IRC. If you could, please file a request using the box on Mediation Cabal; this will put the case into our system. It might take a few days to show up on the cases page and for it to get addressed, so please be patient. --Ideogram 19:35, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Your reverts at Single-party state
Your edit on Single-party state article goes against consensus. While you may continue to discuss the issue in the article's talk page, please refrain from reverting other people's edits. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. Thank you. --Vsion 02:06, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

No, it does not go against consensus. As I have clearly shown your edits goes against the consensus. Thanks for pointing out the three reverts rule. I'd like to point out that the last 24 hours, we have both done an equal amount of reverts: Two. --Regebro 02:09, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I've dealt with Huaiwei before and for me, it was a frustrating, hair-pulling experience. I applaud your persistence in not giving up in the face of an uncompromising opposition. enochlau (talk) 16:50, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, I have a lot of practice from other forums, so I'm used to it. :) --Regebro 17:10, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

 * So how much hair do you have left, Enoch? ;)--Huaiwei 12:57, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Singapore case
Will you please invite other parties to join in the mediation case discussion? I feel that you and me are the only present in the proceedings. Wiki e Zach|  talk  22:56, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm, I'll se what I can do. --Regebro 00:53, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi there. Wikizach has asked me to contact you about the MedCab case regarding single-party state. We've agreed that due to the past Arbitration cases involving two of the editors involved here, MedCab may be too informal for this, and the scope of the dispute would be better handled by the Mediation Committee instead. Would you and the other parties agree to move this to MedCom rather than let MedCab handle it (more than likely inadequately)? Cheers, – Chacor 10:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't mind at all. Although nobody has as of yet responded to my comments from yesterday, so perhaps we are at least moving towards a more common view on Singapore, which is one of the topics being disputed. --Regebro 10:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Don't vandalize talk pages
Do not vandalize on other people's comments on talk pages as you did here and here, it is considered vandalism, and I thought users such as you were above such things, and, as such, I wonder why you would stoop so low. If you delete this message I will restore it. If you delete it again I will take it to WP:AIV just so you aren't tempted.--Acebrock 19:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Cheese and fries man, cool down before you get a heart attack. Where does all the hostility come from? If you really think that "users such as me" where above such things, why are you so amazingly aggressive? What happened to WP:AGF? It's completely obvious that those are editing mistakes I didn't notice, and not vandalizing. I would have apologized but with this attack from out of the blue I fell more inclined to don my asbestos suit. --Regebro 21:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * :D'oh: NOW I think I understand what you actually MEAN. OK, I won't comment that way anymore. I'll note that I did NOT do that sort of commenting until the guy who I discussed with started doing it. That made me think it was OK to comment like that (it sure makes the discussion easier to follow). Can I assume you have posed a similar aggressive comment on HIS page? ;) --Regebro 10:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
 * First off I'm almost burnt out, and after these shenanagens are done I'm going on indefinite wikileave. Second off you're the only one who actually modified someone else's comments, it looked like vandalism to me, possibly due to stress on one, or both of our parts, and third off I wasn't talking about the comments.--Acebrock 18:10, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, OK, I'm equally confused now then, but it doens't really matter. :) Take care. --Regebro 18:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Re: Huaiwei's insults
 Frankly I don't care. He will pay for it anyways. I don't care who the persons I encounter are. I look only at the issues themselves. — Instantnood 18:26, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

RFM
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Civility
It might be best to avoid interacting with Lovelight for a while until things cool off. If you need to say something on the article talk page, maybe address it to someone else if you can. Thanks, Tom Harrison Talk 15:13, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Issues to be mediated
Please do not change the issues to be mediated, if you wish, please comment on it's talk page. Wiki e Zach|  talk  21:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that comment should go on Vsions page. He is the one that changed it, I just reverted it. --Regebro 00:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

 * sorry. Wiki  e Zach|  talk  00:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Request for Mediation
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Request for Mediation
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Conscientious Objection
Hi Regebro -- You should know that "CO" is a legal status that is not equivalent with being "anti-war". So the anonymous user is correct in pointing out that there can be people in the military who are not in combat, or not opposed to war generally, or not opposed to particular wars. Your confusion is understandable; it's a big debate within the ranks of COs, some of whom argue, as you have, that it is inconsistent to be "opposed to war" or "opposed to combat" but then supporting the war or combat in indirect ways. .... That said, while I think the confusion is understandable, it appears to be inflaming the other (anonymous) editor, and taking it away from the specific question of whether the antiwar template should be on that page or not. Perhaps you could follow up that dialogue in another forum, and help in this forum to bring the discussion back on point. Best, LQ 17:48, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

 * PLease keep this discussion in one place (that is, the talk page in question). Thank you. --Regebro 17:50, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Personal attacks
Please identify, by name, the specific user whom you feel I was making a personal attack to in. (unsigned)

 * Please try to listen to what people tell you:
 * Ad hominem statements are not acceptable, even if you are correct.
 * Even if statement A is not ad hominen statement B may still be ad hominem.
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Caistor

Caistor is a town and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. As its name implies, it was originally a Roman castrum or fortress. It lies at the north-west edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, on the Viking Way, and just off the A46 between Lincoln and Grimsby, at the A46, A1084, A1173 and B1225 junction. It has a population of 2,601. Its name comes from the Anglo-Saxon ceaster ("Roman camp" or "town") and was given in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Castre.

Buildings
Only a few fragments of the 4th-century walls remain; for example, the original Roman wall is visible on the southern boundary of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul. The area occupied by the fortress is now classified as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The church of St Peter and St Paul, which is enclosed within the fortress, has an Anglo-Saxon tower. The market square lies at the heart of a conservation area which contains 56, mainly Grade II, listed buildings. In numerical terms, the number of listed buildings makes Caistor the most important conservation area in the West Lindsey area; many of the buildings are Georgian or Victorian. Notable buildings in the town include Caistor Grammar School, founded in 1633, and Sessions House, built in 1662.

In 2010 the remains of a 4th-century Roman cemetery were found during the development of a new Co-op supermarket.

Grammar school
Caistor Grammar School dates from the reign of Charles I. An academy with a selective pupil intake, it has specialist school status for sports and humanities. Sir Henry Newbolt, author of Drake's Drum, was educated at the school.

Caistor Yarborough Academy School
Caistor Yarborough Academy is a mixed comprehensive school named in memory of John Edward Pelham, the 7th Earl of Yarborough. Being limited to 570 pupils it is much smaller than the average British school of this type. It has Arts College status under the English specialist schools programme. In 2012 the school became an Academy.

RAF Caistor
Opened in 1940, RAF Caistor was built as a relief airfield for RAF Kirton in Lindsey, and also used for flying training from its grass runways. Closed in 1945, it later reopened as a nuclear missile base.

Between 1959 and 1963 Caistor was manned by 269(SM) Sqn. equipped with three Thor missiles. The site has now returned to agricultural use, and little remains of the military facilities.

Transport
The nearest railway station is Barnetby railway station. The town was formerly served by the stations at both North Kelsey and Moortown. Both are now closed but the station buildings survive as private residences.

The town has bus services to Brigg, Grimsby, Market Rasen and Lincoln. Operated by Stagecoach.

Humberside Airport is also located a short distance to the north of the town.

Media
Television signals are received from either the Emley Moor or Belmont TV transmitters.

Local radio stations are provided by BBC Radio Humberside, Viking FM, Greatest Hits Radio East Yorkshire & Northern Lincolnshire and Lincs FM.

The town is served by the local newspaper, Grimsby Telegraph.

Audleby
Audleby is a hamlet just north of Fonaby. It is recorded in the Domesday Book with 33 households, which at the time constituted a significant settlement. Today it is listed as a deserted medieval village (DMV). Audleby House on Brigg Road is a Grade II listed building.

Fonaby
Fonaby is a hamlet and deserted medieval village just north of Caistor, mentioned in the Domesday Book as having 18 households and three acres of meadow, and held by William I.

Notable people

 * Admiral Nigel Malim lived at Caistor.
 * Gary Turner, sideshow performer and World Record holder, was born in Caistor.

Local tradition
According to a local tradition, one of Jesus's 12 apostles, Simon the Zealot, came to England, where he is supposed to have been martyred somewhere in the vicinity of Caistor. He was reputedly crucified on the orders of a Roman procurator called Catus Decianus on 10 May AD61. (However, there are competing theories as to what became of Simon the Zealot.)

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Hello I noted the changes you made to Hoxha I find them to be very well ^_^. I'd like to ask you a question do you think Hoxha headed a Communist or Socialist state?--Gustuv 00:31, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * You should already know the answer to that question, comrade. If you are a communist, as your user page states, then you know very well that "communist state" is an oxymoron. And you also know that the stalinist policies of Hoxha (and Stalin himself) were far from socialism. Thus, the answer to your question is "none of the above". However, the term "communist state" is (incorrectly) used by most people today, which is why it is accepted by Wikipedia. -- 82.76.26.125 16:43, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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