<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br></div></span></div></span></div><div><div>On 08.11.2010, at 12:21, Justus Römeth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">What about the one who got elected in a town in Russia? Was that in the European part of the country?<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>He was not elected, but got "only" 20%. It was in the city of Shumerlya, and this is located in the center of the European part of russian federation. It is outside of European Union, but still on the European continent. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Also, make sure to mention the students in the US, and that they are not affiliated with PPI or PPUS (I would, at least).</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>No point in making the achievement of the Canadian Pirate Party any smaller. Those Students don't share anything with the pirate movement but a name. But so does also the Pitsburgh Pirates (a US baseball team) Croyden Pirates (UK baseball), Portland Pirates (hockey), East Carolina Pirates and Hampton Pirates (university sports teams), Cornish Pirates (rugby), East Kilbride Pirates (UK football team), Orlando Pirates (South Africa football), Essex Pirates (basketball), Pool Pirates (UK racing team), or the football club of Bristol "Rovers" who are nicknamed Pirates. </div><div><br></div><div>it would be of no sense pointing to the sports trophies of those "Pirates", even if they happened to be outside of europe. </div><div><br></div><div>What come to my mind, is that the Pirate Party in Peru got two people elected to the Commission for the Development of the Information Society (CODESI) <a href="http://www.codesi.gob.pe/">http://www.codesi.gob.pe/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Gregory Engels</span></font></div><div>International Coordinator</div><div>Pirate Party of Germany</div><div><br></div><div>mobile: +49 172 853 44 91</div><div><a href="skype:gregory.engels">skype:gregory.engels</a></div><div><a href="jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de">jabber:dichter@jabber.piratenpartei.de</a></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>