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Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle (10 May 1775 – 6 July 1809) was a French cavalry general during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Often called "The Hussar General," he first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Throughout his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was credited with many exploits, fighting on every front. He was killed at the Battle of Wagram.

Early career
Antoine Lasalle was born on 10 May 1775 in Metz, Lorraine province, into a family of minor nobility. His father was Pierre Nicolas de Lasalle d’Augny, an officer in the French Royal Army and a knight of the Order of Saint Louis. His mother was Suzanne Dupuy de la Gaule, a descendant of Abraham de Fabert, a Marshal of France. His military inclinations showed at an early age and, thanks to his family's status, when he was just eleven years old he joined the Foreign Infantry Regiment of Alsace (France) as a second lieutenant replacement, thereafter rising to the rank of second lieutenant by the age of fourteen.When the French Revolution broke out, Lasalle embraced it and was assigned as a second lieutenant to the 24th Cavalry Regiment on 25 May 1791. Being an officer in the French Army had always been a privilege of the nobility, but this was reversed by a government decree in 1792, to the point of forbidding people of aristocratic origins to have military command. As a result, he lost his commission but he remained loyal to France. The incident did not deter his desire for a military career, so in 1792 he enlisted as a private and moved to Paris.

He joined the Section des Piques, a group of radical Parisian revolutionaries in the National Guard. By 1793, he had joined the Army of the North in Italy as a volunteer in the 23rd Horse Chasseur Regiment.

The Army of Italy
Through family friendship with François Christophe Kellermann, he won back his pre-Revolutionary grade of lieutenant and became Kellermann's aide-de-camp on 10 March 1795. Enjoying the challenges of staff work, he stayed with Kellermann when he transferred to the Army of Italy on 6 May 1795. He was employed as an assistant to Kellermann's son, Adjutant-General François Étienne de Kellermann in May 1796. Lasalle was soon promoted to Captain on 7 November, of the same year.

Battle of Rivoli
He justified his rapid progress and reputation when, at Rivoli, he spurred ahead with his entire cavalry—26 horsemen of the 22nd Horse Chasseurs. A battery of 15 French guns blasted the Austrian dragoons, while two columns of infantry were led forward, supported by cavalry under Leclerc and Lasalle. The packed Austrian soldiers in the gorge fled when their dragoons began trampling on them. As a result, an entire battalion of the Deutschmeister Regiment threw down its arms in panic and fled. Likewise, the dispersed infantry on the Trambasore Heights were unable to hold once Lasalle and the French cavalry got in their midst. Lasalle and his men continued to support Generals Lebley and Vial until the battle was over.

There were 5,000 French casualties against 14,000 on the Austrian side. Eleven flags were captured, five of those by Lasalle. After the battle, all of the trophies were piled up before Napoleon. Lasalle lay exhausted a few feet away on top of his five flags. Napoleon said, "Go to sleep on your flags, Lasalle, for it was well-deserved!”

The invasion of Egypt
Napoleon Bonaparte personally asked Lasalle to participate in the Campaign in Egypt. Excited about participating in this expedition, he joined the Army of the East. They invaded Alexandria and from there marched to Cairo. On 21 July 1798, at the Battle of the Pyramids, the Turks, reassured by the easy refuge the village of Embabeh provided for them, resisted the efforts of the French Army. Lasalle, at the head of 60 men, charged the village and routed the garrison. He cut off the retreating army by taking a secret route through the Giza Pyramids, allowing Napoleon to crush his opponents. Because of this bold move, Napoleon promoted Lasalle to Lieutenant Colonel of the 22nd Horse Chasseur Brigade and 7th Hussars.

Affair and marriage
Lasalle had been intimately connected with Joséphine Berthier, the wife of General Victor Leopold Berthier (Minister of War and Chief of Staff) and sister-in-law to Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier. Joséphine and Berthier divorced and Lasalle immediately proposed to her.

Napoleon gave Lasalle 200,000 francs towards the nuptials. When they met at the Tuileries Palace, Napoleon asked, "When is the wedding?” Lasalle replied, "Sire, when I have enough money to buy the wedding presents and furniture". Napoleon said, "But I gave you 200,000 francs last week, what did you do with them?". Lasalle replied, "I used half to pay my debts and have lost the rest gambling". Such a confession would have broken the career of any other soldier but, coming from Lasalle, it made the Emperor smile. Napoleon merely ordered his Grand Marshal of the Palace, and aide, General Géraud Duroc to give Lasalle another 200,000 francs. When a prefect asked why Napoleon didn't discipline Lasalle for his conduct, Napoleon responded "It only takes a stroke of a pen to create a prefect, but it takes twenty years to make a Lasalle".

On the Prussian Front
Lasalle went into immediate action at the Battle of Austerlitz, with the 1st Dragoon Division, under the command of Divisional General Louis Klein, in the Cavalry Reserve of Marshal Joachim Murat. Because of his successes on the field, he was given command of a Light Cavalry Brigade consisting of the 5th and 7th Hussar Regiments, also under the command of Marshal Murat. Lasalle's star was high during the 1806 campaign for Prussia, where his hussars became known as the "Brigade Infernale" ("Hellish Brigade"), with Colonels François Xavier de Schwarz and Ferdinand-Daniel Marx as his regimental commanders.

He then fought at Schleiz and Jena-Auerstedt, where he captured the King of Prussia's bodyguard and forced the Prince of Hohenlohe to retreat. On 26 October 1806, Lasalle was in pursuit of Hohenlohe when he observed Prussian infantry northwest of his position, at the edge of the forest, near Zehdenick. Unconcerned about the enemy's huge numerical superiority, he charged. After fierce fighting, the Prussians managed to beat back Lasalle's hussars until cavalry reinforcements arrived. General Grouchy arrived at about the same time and the combined attacks destroyed the Prussian cavalry. The Prussian infantry moved into the woods and then withdrew.

On 28 October, as they approached Prenzlau, they realized the Prussian Army had been inside the city for some time. Marshal Murat arrived at 10 a.m. and ordered Lasalle to cut the road from Gustow and to storm the northern gates of the city. Lasalle took his troopers right up to the city gates and burst them open. He continued through the city and out the east gates where he could see Hohenlohe's army forming in a plain northeast of the city.

Capitulation of Stettin
The next day Lasalle and his hussars marched to the fortress of Stettin, arriving well ahead of the main French force. He prepared to attack but decided to try a bluff instead. Pretending that the entire army had arrived, he demanded that Stettin surrender. General Romberg's reply was predictable: "Tell your master that the town of Stettin was entrusted to my safeguard and that I shall defend it to my last man". Lasalle then resorted to threats: "If, by 8 a.m. you have not surrendered, the town will be bombarded by our artillery, stormed by 50,000 men, the garrison will be put to the sword and the town will be plundered during twenty-four hours". Convinced that he was faced with 50,000 French soldiers, Romberg entered into negotiations and capitulated on the evening of 29–30 October.

Battles of Lübeck and Golymin
The capitulation of Stettin had prevented Prussian General Blücher from passing the frontier into Eastern Pomerania. Now Blücher was determined to escape from the French at any cost. Murat, together with Lasalle, Bernadotte and Soult were in hot pursuit, forcing Blücher farther and farther to the north. Having run out of Prussian territory, On 5 November, he marched into the neutral city-state of Lübeck, where he demanded money and food from the city authorities. The next day, Bernadotte's men arrived and attacked the walls. Lasalle was among these men and fought bravely.

During the Battle of Golymin, General Lasalle led his legendary "Hellish Brigade" against a Russian battery of 12-15 guns. The hussars charged with vigour but were abruptly seized with panic, turned about and, in disorder, stampeded back to the rear. Of the whole brigade only the elite company of the 7th Hussars, placed immediately behind Lasalle himself, remained firmly at their posts. Lasalle was furious. He rode after them, screamed "Halt!", and brought them back. Lasalle kept them within a short range from the Russian guns as punishment for their behaviour, standing 20 paces in front of his men, remaining motionless and calm, although under enemy fire.

He then finally rallied his troops and commanded "Break the ranks!", and with the support of Klein's dragoon division charged the enemy from the flank. The Russians were routed and fled under the cover of artillery as Lasalle pursued until the battle was won.

Promotion and cavalry trainer
On 30 December 1806, Lasalle was promoted to Divisional General and given command of the Light Cavalry Division in Murat's Cavalry Reserve. Shortly thereafter, Napoleon authorized raising a guard regiment of Polish Light Horse. Under General Lasalle they were given an intensive course in horsemanship and discipline, becoming one of the finest regiments in the Imperial Guard. An officer of the Poles wrote: "It was in Lasalle's school that we learned outpost duty. We have kept a precious memory of this general in whom all the lovable and imposing qualities of a born marshal were combined ... He should have replaced Murat to whom he was vastly superior ..."

Battle of Heilsberg
During the Battle of Heilsberg, on 12 June 1807, Murat was surrounded at the height of a mêlée by 12 Russian dragoons. Lasalle was in command of three brigades of light cavalry which contained the "Hellish Brigade", two lancer regiments, and five horse chasseur regiments. Lasalle saw Murat in trouble and charged at the enemy, killing the officer who commanded the detachment and putting 11 dragoons on the run, saving Murat's life. Shortly after, Murat and other members of the "Hellish Brigade" saved Lasalle from certain death. Afterwards, while shaking hands, Murat told Lasalle, "General, we are even". The following July, Napoleon made Lasalle a Grand Cross Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown. He was then sent to Spain under the orders of Jean-Baptiste Bessières.

The Peninsular War
Lasalle was given command of the 1st Light Cavalry Division, consisting of the 8th Hussars, 13th, 16th and 24th Chasseurs. Lasalle's cousin, Pierre-Louis-Adolphe-Georges du Prel, became his aide-de-camp. He arrived in Spain on 15 February 1808. One of Lasalle's major faults was his willingness to repay resistance with brutality, and it was said of him that he "made Spain tremble". In June, Lasalle was responsible for the torching of Torquemada, a village that resisted his troops. As his men approached Palencia, the insurgents abandoned their positions and fled to Valladolid, supported by a column of infantry.

Battling across Spain
After plundering Torquemada and ransoming the town of Palencia, Lasalle set off for Valladolid. On 11 June 1808 Lasalle's army linked up with the troops of General Merle. The following day, their combined 9,000-strong army attacked a force of 4-5,000 men under Spanish General Cuesta, deployed along the Cabezón bridge to bar the road to Burgos against oncoming French divisions. In the subsequent French attack, the Spanish cavalry fled and the infantry broke, whereafter Lasalle proceeded to Valladolid, which he occupied the same night.

On 14 July at Medina de Rioseco, with 14,000 men under the command of Bessierès, he fought against over 20,000 Spaniards. Lasalle marched towards Vitoria, commanding the rearguard, and protecting the French from another breach made by the enemy. As a result of these actions, he was named Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor and made a Count of the Empire.

On 7 November he fought at the Battle of Burgos. The untrained Spanish militias were unable to form infantry squares and scattered in the face of massed French cavalry, while the stubborn Spanish and Walloon Guards stood their ground in vain. A few days later, at the Battle of Villa Viejo, he captured seven cannons and four flags. On 15 March, Leval's division and Lasalle's cavalry crossed the Tagus River at Talavera. On the next day, they were joined by Victor-Perrin, heading Villatte’s and Ruffin's divisions, at Arzobispo. The rest of the cavalry, along with the artillery and the baggage, was sent to Almaraz. Two days later, Lasalle reached Meza de Ibor and fought the Spanish troops, forcing them out of their defensive position on the Tagus.

Battle of Medellín
Lasalle then joined the Battle of Medellín. The Spanish had an army almost twice the size of the French and Lasalle's position was somewhat vulnerable. The Guadiana River was only a mile behind him and he recognized how dangerous a retreat would be, given the close confines of the narrow bridge across it. But Lasalle had been reinforced with seven infantry battalions from Villatte, so once he saw the Spanish routing to the west he ordered a powerful counter-attack. He also attacked frontally, and before long his French dragoons were rolling over the centre of the Spanish army, which was attempting to flee in any way it could. Cuesta's army effectively ceased to exist.

Battle of Aspern-Essling
Lasalle joined the French Army for its 1809 Campaign along the Danube. He arrived just before Napoleon's push across the Danube at Aspern-Essling and was sent to scout the location of the Austrian army. The first stage of the operation began on 13 May 1809, laying a bridge of boats over the first arm of the Danube to Lobau. Then, the advance guard and Lasalle's light cavalry would pass into Lobau, together with the material needed to bridge the second arm to the left bank. As soon as this was finished, Molitor’s division and Lasalle's four light cavalry regiments passed over and Lasalle's horsemen fanned out into the plain. There were no travellers or couriers to be intercepted there, as there had always been in Prussia and Spain; consequently, Lasalle's officers had nothing to go on but the evidence of their own eyes and ears.

On the morning of the 21st, great masses of men, guns and wagons had assembled on the island. In the next four hours, both Aspern and Essling were taken and retaken several times. Napoleon ordered Lasalle's cavalry regiments to aid Marulaz's distressed troops, but General Liechtenstein anticipated this manoeuvre sending nine regiments to drive off Lasalle, engaging him frontally with four regiments and using the remaining five to charge his flank. Lasalle fought them off, buying time for the hard-pressed French infantry in Aspern.

At 7 p.m. Lasalle mustered his troops for another charge. Lasalle managed to defeat the first Habsburg line, but Austrian hussars captured quite a few men of the 24th Chasseurs. Outnumbered on the second day of battle, Napoleon ordered Lasalle and Espagne to defend a sector which the IV Corps had been thrust into. Taking advantage of the fog, Lasalle's men fought along the defensive ground running between the two villages, charging the Austrians in a series of short, sharp charges intended to prevent them from launching a coordinated attack. These tactics worked, allowing General Boudet to gain complete control of Essling.

Later, during Marshal Lannes' advance, Lasalle and Marulaz's cavalry charged at least three times to support the infantry. Although the French were forced to withdraw, Lasalle's determination and courage prevented the withdrawal from becoming a rout.

Death at the Battle of Wagram
On 5 July 1809, Lasalle fought at the Battle of Wagram commanding a Light Cavalry Division in the IV Corps of Marshal Masséna.

On the night of the second day, Lasalle's men had still not been ordered to fight so Lasalle went to Marshal Masséna to ask permission to pursue the enemy, but Masséna ordered him to go to the aid of General MacDonald. Lasalle was temporarily separated from his division so when he accidentally disturbed a battalion of enemy infantry, he charged them with the 1st Cuirassier Regiment. Lasalle was shot in the chest but continued to charge. The enemy infantry broke and was routed as Lasalle and the regiment pursued them. But as Lasalle continued to charge, he was shot between the eyes by a Hungarian grenadier and was killed instantly. Marulaz tried to avenge Lasalle by leading a hussar regiment against a square of Austrian infantry but was wounded in the attempt and had to be carried to the rear.

Posthumous honours

 * A street in Metz was named after him.
 * His portrait was placed in one of the salons of the Hotel de Ville.
 * In 1891, his remains were repatriated from Austria and entombed at Les Invalides.
 * In 1893, an equestrian statue of him was erected in Lunéville.
 * He has a bust in the Gallery of Battles of the Palace of Versailles.
 * His name is marked on a pillar of the Arc de Triomphe.
 * His name is used for a cycling event in the Netherlands, the Tour de Lasalle.
 * He is briefly mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Pit and the Pendulum" in which he ultimately saves a condemned main character from being executed by the Spanish Inquisition.

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Lambert van Nistelrooij

Lambertus Jacobus Jozef van Nistelrooij (born 5 March 1953) is a Dutch politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 till 2019. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, part of the European People's Party.

Youth and education
Lambert van Nistelrooij was born on 5 March 1953 in Nuland, Netherlands. He studied Human geography at the University of Nijmegen and graduated in 1974.

Work and politics
After his graduation, Lambert van Nistelrooij was a teacher for a while. He also worked at the Province of Gelderland and the agricultural organisation of North-Brabant Christian Farmers (NCB).

At 24 years old, he was a member of the city council of Nuland. In 1982, he joined the Brabant States Group of the CDA. Between 1991 and 2003, Lambert van Nistelrooij was a member of the Deputies of the North-Brabant Province where he was responsible for public health, care for the elderly, housing, urban innovation and internationalisation.

He later became a member of the Dutch delegation to the Committee of the Regions in Brussels and Treasurer of the House of Dutch Provinces in Brussels. He was also Vice President of the Assembly of European Regions for some time.

European Parliament
Lambert van Nistelrooij got elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2004 and reelected in 2009 and 2014. He was a member of the EP Committee on Regional Development. He was also substitute member of the EP committee on Internal Market and member of the delegation for EU-relations with Latin-America, Brazil and Mercosur.

During his second mandate he was also engaged in energy and telecommunications in his function as a substitute member of the EP Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. He was also on the delegations for relations with the countries of South Asia, Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, and the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

Lambert van Nistelrooij was the European Parliament Rapporteur and Negotiator for the European Structural Funds and the European Investment Fund (2014–2020). The budget for this amounts to €222 billion.

Personal life
Lambert van Nistelrooij is married. He lives in Diessen and holds the title of Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Besides his work as an MEP, he has a special interest in civil society. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of "Smart Homes", the National Centre for Home Automation and Smart Living, and Prisma, an institution for people with intellectual disabilities.

Curriculum vitae
Studies
 * 1974: Human Geography University of Nijmegen (cum laude).

Professional Activities
 * 1979-1983: Assistant Metropolitan Tilburg
 * 1983-1988: Policy province of Gelderland
 * 1987-1991: Departmental management training and organisational development, North Brabant Christian Farmers

'Political activities
 * 1978: City Council Member Nuland
 * 1982-1991: Brabant States Group of the CDA
 * 1991-2003: Deputy of the Province of North Brabant for health, care for the elderly, housing, urban renewal and internationalisation
 * 1992-2003: President and Vice-President of the Assembly of the Regions of Europe
 * 1995-2003: Delegation and rapporteur of the Committee of the Regions
 * 1995-2003: Various positions in the Regional Assembly of the Council of Europe
 * 2004-2009: President of the Assembly of European Border Regions

Other
 * 1999-2003: Chairman of Alive: European Challenge to Ageing
 * 2001-2010: President 'Perspekt Mark for Care', Utrecht
 * 2003–present: Chairman Advisory Board "Smart Homes", National Centre for automation and Smart Living, Eersel
 * 2006–present: Member of the Supervisory Board of Valkenhof, nursing and care, Valkenswaard.
 * 2009–present: Chairman of the Knowledge4Innovation (K4I) Forum of the European Parliament.
 * 2011–present: Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Prism, an institution for people with intellectual disabilities, Waalwijk

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Space Race/archive3

Space Race
This article had too much good material to die. It fell short of FAC some 6 weeks ago, and then was re-nominated by someone unaware, who hadn’t changed a thing. Since that abortive effort, it has been revamped greatly per reviewers’ requests. Innumerable redundancies have been removed, the time-sequencing has been improved, and the bizarre “Funding” section (which compared 60’s NASA to the current RSA) has been eliminated. The main objections were that a quarter of the article covered “recent developments”(which occurred well after the “race” ended) and that the spinoff ramifications of the race were glossed over. These too have been fixed, though I think mentioning the possibilities of future such “races” under “Legacy” is a reasonable inclusion. Sfahey 06:19, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * (I made this nomination for Sfahey because for technical reasons this was a bit complicated. Former noms can be found at Featured article candidates/Space Race/archive1 and Featured article candidates/Space Race/archive2 →Raul654 06:23, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC))

 * Support Object, but weakly this time . The article is much better now. Logical flow, nice language, and good presentation of history and related technology. The impact on other areas of technology development is not as extensive as I'd like it to be, but it is ok. I will change my vote to abstain after the following minor technical problem is fixed: 'see also' part in the 'Advances in technology and education' section needs to be moved to 'See also' section or incorporated into the text. My last remaining concern is that there is still no 'economy' section - i.e. how much did it cost, especially in the perespective of breaking the Soviet struggling economy (together with the arms race). If this is adressed, I'll support. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 19:32, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I hadn't initially included a "Funding" section because of the near-meaninglessness of the numbers, which both parties derive in a hugely politicized fashion. I just did some research though, and gave it a shot, with the help of some wiki. data from the "old" article. I also moved the "see also"s into one unified "related topics" section. Some of the topics "seem" to be covered in the article, but the "categories" links take the reader to different places. Someone else put these in, and I can't see deleting them out of hand.Sfahey 00:06, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice. I expanded that section and I support the article now. Good job, everyone! --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 13:55, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support however, i am disappointed that the "animals in space" section gives short shrift to the important role that chimpanzees played in the space race. perhaps a mention of this is a worthy addition.
 * thank you, unsigned wikipedian. On behalf of J.Fred Muggs, I have rectified this (simian) omission as well. Sfahey 00:06, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support I think you've suffered long enough Ryan Anderson 00:53, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support 172 03:09, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. -- ALoan (Talk) 12:11, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. Although the article is much improved from before in terms of organization and flow, I think there is still a significant imbalance that needs to be addressed. The narrative currently presents the material mostly as if it were an uninterrupted string of successes, achievements, and milestones. For example, "Deaths" is simply tacked on when the main narrative has concluded, as if it were a mere afterthought. Since the article acknowledges the significance of the Space Race to public morale, it needs to recognize this effect in terms of the tragedies as well as the triumphs. --Michael Snow 18:35, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. "Deaths" is hardly "tacked on" to the end of the article. If anything, it is made more important by being given a separate section, well within the article. In any event, this point of style is insufficient reason to vote "object" on a thoroughly researched, well-written 34 kb article containing a dozen pictures, copious statistics and references, and lovely tables which someone well before me put together. I request you reconsider your vote. Sfahey 23:00, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Support. Object, but much better than before. The article still focuses on the science and misses the cultural impact. The legacy section is a start towards that, but unless I missed it the article hardly even mentions the way the Space Race captivated the American people, and I am assuming the Soviet people too. In the US it certainly very often captured headlines and a lot of mindshare. Also no mention about how many people not interested in space were entirely opposed to the money spent on it. Also, what about the common references well into the 80s to the space race as still being ongoing? I'm sure I heard it in the mainstream media in the 80's too, but so far haven't found anything. - Taxman 19:06, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This is an encyclopedia article on the Space Race, and as such I think it is clearly of featured article quality. Of course it "focuses on science", but also includes a substantial portion of historical and "legacy" material, especially since "Piotr's" additions which you may not have seen. Would you "object" to an otherwise excellent article on the Olympics, for example, because it didn't include specific mention of how many people enjoyed it, or who objected to its costs?  The main previous problem with this article when I "adopted" it (instead of just taking potshots at it) was that it ran all over the place, and did not limit the "Space Race" to a specific era.  I researched it, and I think very nicely incorporated, and bent over backwards to explain, the most accepted time-frame for this "race" (which of course never really existed). The notion of returning again to redefine the "race" to include someone else's notion of what other decades it might span is too much to expect. Perhaps I was right ... articles on "exploding whales" and "pepsi can stoves", which no one knows or cares enough about to criticize, should dominate the FAC's. I've reached my limit on this.  I'm going to add a sentence about how many bazillion people watched men walk on the moon, ask that you too reconsider your vote, and then bow out. Sfahey 23:00, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Please see "Sputnik and Amer. reaction", "First human on moon/Amer.strategy" and "First human on moon/Apollo gets there ist". Lots of public opinion material was already there. Sfahey 23:28, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I read the article before my comment. And you are right it is unfortunate silly topics can become FA's more easily. But if you notice I didn't shy away in the least from voicing the weaknesses of those articles too. Lighten up man. If you're that stressed about the issue, get away from the computer for a while. What I have pointed out above is not just a side bit of trivia I am asking for. The space race truly capitvated a generation. After re-reading what you have pointed out, there is a bit more than I could see when scanning to look for stuff on this, so if it stresses you out so much you're going to quit over it its not worth it. My point about the end of the race is that the text doesn't provide any of the reasons for why that is the "accepted time-frame". It just says the "concept of a "race" became outdated" because there was one cooperative mission. If you have researched something that shows that is the accepted time frame, just mention it, that is all I am asking. - Taxman 00:56, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * The section on the "end" of the race goes into much more detail about how the "race" as such ended, including how the parties departed from once-shared goals and went in different directions after 1975. The requested material has nevertheless been added and referenced. I still think it unreasonable that, in an article of this scope, this point was seen as justifying a vote to "object". Sfahey 03:20, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I wish instead of assuming I'm trying to be difficult or something, you would assume I'm just trying to be helpful in trying to reach a very high quality article. The article is much better than it was when I objected to the last nomination and I think it is better than it was when it was nominated this time. - Taxman 13:44, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for support.Sfahey 04:22, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Support looking good now.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 02:11, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support comprehensive, colorful, fascinating. Sandover 05:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, ready for take off.  —RaD Man (talk) 22:09, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Corien Wortmann-Kool

C.M. (Corien) Wortmann-Kool (born 27 June 1959 in Oud-Alblas) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (Christen-Democratisch Appèl) who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014. She has a background in politics, public administration and business. During her time in parliament, she served as vice president on Economic and Financial Affairs of the European People's Party (EPP) Group. She has an MA in Political Science and Economics from VU University Amsterdam.

Wortmann-Kool has been chairing the Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP since 1 January 2015.

Career
Wortmann-Kool started her political career in the board of the youth organization of the CDA. From 1987 until 1994, she was a member of the executive board of the CDA party. During the municipal elections of 1994, she was elected as council member of the municipal council in her town of residence, Zeist. In 1995, she became Chair of the CDA delegation in the municipal council, from which she retired in 1999.

From 1996 onwards, Wortmann-Kool worked at the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management where she served as senior policy advisor and project leader on projects related to the governance of the Public Sector. From 2001, she served as deputy and acting Director for Transport and Infrastructure. Prior to this she was Member of the executive board of a retail company.

Member of the European Parliament
In 2004, Wortmann-Kool became a Member of the European Parliament for the EPP Group, of which the Dutch Christen Democratisch Appel (CDA) is a part. In 2009, she has become the vice-president of the EPP Group on Economy, Finance and Environment. Wortmann-Kool played a crucial role as negotiator on behalf of the European Parliament on the Stability and Growth Pact legislation, the so-called "6pack" for European economic governance, that came into force in the end of 2011. A large part of her work focusses on increasing the stability of the financial sector. Wortmann-Kool is closely involved in legislation for banks, insurers, pension funds, hedge funds, financial markets and the European supervisors. She represents the EPP Group at the informal meetings of EPP Ministers of Finance, in preparation for the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council meetings.

In the European Parliament, Wortmann-Kool served on the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (ECON), the Transport and Tourism Committee (TRAN) and the Committee for Women's Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM). Furthermore, she was a member of the parliamentary delegation for the United States and the parliamentary delegation for the Caucasus. Until 2009, Wortmann-Kool was the vice-chair of the Committee on International Trade and rapporteur for trade relations between the EU and China. She represented the Parliament at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

In addition to her parliamentary work, Wortmann-Kool served as vice-president of the European People's Party from 2007. In this capacity, she participated in the Monthly EPP summits of Heads of State and Government. She also chaired the EPP Working Group on enlargement (relations with centre-right parties from non-EU countries from Eastern Europe, Balkan and Caucasus; accession of new member parties EU and non-EU). She served as co-chair of the EPP Working Group on Economic and Social Policy since 2016, alongside Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs and Data Protection Dara Murphy.

Other activities
In addition to her political work, Wortmann-Kool holds several board memberships, including the following:
 * Trilateral Commission, Member of the European Group
 * Mercedes-Benz Netherlands, member of the supervisory board (since 2011)
 * Business Women of the Year Prize (Prix Veuve Clicquot), Member of the Jury (since 2006)

Personal life
Corien Wortmann-Kool is married and has a son and a daughter. She lives in Zeist, the Netherlands.

Career

 * Bachelor's degree in nursing (1976–1981)
 * Master's degree in political science, Free University of Amsterdam (1981–1987)
 * Member of the management team in a retail company (1987–1996)
 * Coordinator/senior adviser at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (1996–2001)
 * Deputy Director of Transport and Infrastructure at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (2001–2004)
 * Member of the administrative committee of the CDA youth organisation (CDJA) (1981–1984)
 * Member of the CDA administrative committee (1987–1994)
 * Member of the CDA Committee on Foreign Affairs (2003–2004)
 * Member of the EPP political bureau (1989–1994)
 * Member of the Zeist Municipal Council for the CDA and group chairwoman (1994–1999)
 * 'Zon en Schild' Psychiatric Centre, Amersfoort, Vice-chairwoman of the Supervisory Council (1990–1999)
 * Chairwoman of the Parents Association, Comenius School, Zeist (1993–1997)

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Thijs Berman

Thijs Berman (born 26 September 1957) is a Dutch former journalist. Between 2004 and 2014, he was a Dutch politician and a Member of the European Parliament.

Biography
Berman was a correspondent in Paris and Moscow for Dutch weekly De Groene Amsterdammer, for the Dutch Public Radio (Radio 1), the Dutch Inter-Churches radio and television IKON, the Dutch international radio Wereldomroep, the agrarian daily Agrarisch Dagblad, and magazine Elsevier. He presented radio and television shows, notably for broadcaster IKON. He was also a regular contributor to TV5, the international French-speaking TV-station.

In June 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament. He is a member of the Dutch Partij van de Arbeid, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and was, between 2004 and 2008, member of the Committees on Agriculture and on Regional Development. In 2008, he joined the Committees on Budget, and on Development and Humanitarian Affairs. Between 2009 and 2014 he was a member of the European Parliament's Committee on Development and the Subcommittee on Human Rights. He also was a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and for the Committee on Budgetary Control. Further he was the chair of the Delegation for relations with Afghanistan.

In 2009 he headed Dutch Labour in the European elections after winning the party primaries.

In 2009, he terminated the EU Election Observation Mission at the presidential elections in Afghanistan, as the successor of French general and politician Philippe Morillon. In 2010, he was appointed as head of the EU Election Observer Mission to Ethiopia. In 2012, he was the EU Chief Observer to the presidential elections in Senegal. In 2014, he was the EU Chief Observer to the presidential elections in Afghanistan.

In 2016, Berman took up a role in Vienna, Austria, as the Principal Adviser to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Berman now resides in the Netherlands, where he works as Executive Director of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD).

Controversy
Following the violent Ugandan elections of 2021 Berman's institute NIMD was accused of failing to address the rigging of the elections. On July 1st 2022 the Ugandan community demonstrated in front of NIMD office in The Hague. As a result, the NIMD decided to no longer fund the Inter Party Organization for Dialogue (IPOD) program. Berman is also criticized for having a local representative in Uganda Frank Rusa who is an NRM member and former member of the Ugandan Electoral Commission.

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Emine Bozkurt

Emine Bozkurt (born 9 August 1967) is a Dutch politician of Turkish descent and Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2014. She is a member of the Dutch Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists.

In the European Parliament she was a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality. Furthermore, she was the chairperson of the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Central America, as well as a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Early life
Emine Bozkurt was born in Zaandam, North Holland to a Dutch mother and a Turkish father. She currently lives in Zaandam and Brussels.

Education

 * VWO at Zaanlands Lyceum (1985)
 * Bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature, University of Amsterdam (1987)
 * Master's degree in European Studies, University of Amsterdam (1992)
 * Qualification from the Netherlands Association for Public Relations and Information (NGPR) (1995)
 * Public relations diploma, Foundation for Advertising and Marketing Education (SRM) (1997)

Career

 * Staff member of the consulate-general, Germany (1992–1993)
 * Spokeswoman and head of internal and external relations, Dutch Muslim Broadcasting Company (1993–1997)
 * Publisher and spokeswoman, Rathenau Institute (1997–2001)
 * Senior adviser, Radar - advice bureau on social issues (2001–2004)
 * Member of the Amsterdam PvdA executive (1998–1999)
 * Member of the PvdA European policy advisory committee (since 1999)
 * Member of the core group of the PvdA multi-ethnic women's network (1997–2001)
 * Member of the review committee on public broadcasting (Rinnooy-Kan Committee) (2002–2003)
 * Member of the disputes committee of the National Committee for International Cooperation and Sustainable Development (NCDO) (since 2002)
 * Member of the governing body of the Institute for Public and Politics (civic education)

Member of the European Parliament
During her terms, Bozkurt was involved in the following committees:
 * Chairperson delegation for relations with the countries of Central America (2009–2014)
 * Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2009–2014)
 * Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality (2004–2014)
 * Special committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering (2012–2013)
 * Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly (2009–2014)
 * Substitute member Committee on Foreign Affairs (2009–2012)
 * Substitute member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009–2013)
 * Chairperson of the Friends of Football
 * Chairperson of the Friends of Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * Chairperson of the Anti-Racism and Diversity Intergroup
 * Member of Intergroup for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) rights
 * Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (2004-2009)
 * Member of the Committee on Culture and Education (2004-2009)
 * Member of the Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-2009)

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Owen Dixon

Sir Owen Dixon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1972) was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia. Many consider him to be Australia's most prominent jurist.

Dixon served as a justice of the High Court for 35 years, including a 12 year period as Chief Justice. He was considered in his time to be one of the world's leading common law jurists, and his judgments reportedly "carried persuasive effect wherever the common law was applied".

In his lifetime, he was showered globally with various honours, including an appointment to the Privy Council, various honours such as the GCMG and Order of Merit, as well as honorary degrees from the university of Oxford, Harvard, Melbourne, and the Australian National University, as well as an award from Yale for "services to mankind".

The British law lord Lord Wilberforce wrote of Dixon: "There is no such thing as substandard Dixon, but from time to time there is Dixon at his superb best."

Early life and education
Dixon was born on 28 April 1886 in Hawthorn, Victoria. He was the son of Edith Annie (née Owen) and Joseph William Dixon, who were both English immigrants originally from Yorkshire. His father was a barrister and solicitor.

Dixon attended Hawthorn College where he was a prize-winning student. He went on to the University of Melbourne, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1906 and Bachelor of Laws in 1908. During this time, he developed his lifelong love of the classics from his classical philology professor, Thomas George Tucker. He was also influenced by professor of law, William Harrison Moore.

Later academic awards
Dixon was later awarded honorary doctorates from Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Melbourne.

Early career
Dixon was admitted to the Victorian Bar in 1909 at the age of 23. In December 1911, he appeared before the High Court of Australia for the first time, aged 25 years. After a slow start, his career became stellar, and he was made a King's Counsel in 1922. In the 1920s, Dixon was a prominent member of the Victorian Bar, along with his colleagues and friends John Latham (who would precede Dixon as Chief Justice of Australia) and Robert Menzies (later the longest serving Prime Minister of Australia). He regularly appeared in the High Court of Australia and the Privy Council in London, including an unsuccessful application for special leave to appeal from the decision of the High Court in the Engineers case. At the time of his appointment to the High Court in 1929, he was the acknowledged leader of the Bar in Victoria, and indeed Australia. In 1919, he married Alice Brooksbank (1891–1969) and they had four children (two sons and two daughters): Franklin (1922–1977), Ted (1924–1994), Betty (1929–2018) and Anne (1934–1979).

Judicial career
In 1926, Dixon was briefly made an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and although he was considered to be an excellent judge, he did not enjoy the experience. In 1929, Dixon was appointed to the bench of the High Court, on the recommendation of his friend John Latham, who was then the Commonwealth Attorney-General. During his time on the bench, Dixon also wrote around 18% of the judgments attributed to his colleague, Sir George Rich and 4% of the judgments attributed to Sir Edward McTiernan. (The propriety of one judge writing a judgment under the name of another has not been conclusively determined. However judges swear individual oaths, so they cannot delegate decision-making; they may debate the application or development of legal principles in particular cases with colleagues, but judicial independence includes 'independence from each other'. ) Dixon rapidly established himself as a dominant intellectual force on the High Court bench, and many of his judgments from the 1930s and 1940s are still regarded as classic statements of the common law. Examples are McDonald v Dennys Lascelles Ltd (contract terms), Brunker v Perpetual Trustee Company Ltd (gifts, property), Yerkey v Jones (Equity), and Penfolds Wines v Elliott (personal property torts). Dixon also showed that behind his formidable command of legal principle he had a sense of fairness, such as in his joint judgment in Tuckiar v The King, where the Court quashed the murder conviction of an Aboriginal man who had not been given a fair trial.

Dixon had reservations about the appointment of Labor politicians Herbert Vere Evatt and Sir Edward McTiernan by the Government of James Scullin in late 1930 (and is said to have considered resigning in protest). He nevertheless forced himself to get along with all his colleagues, and at one point acted as an intermediary between them and the conservative judge Sir Hayden Starke, who refused to have any direct communication with them. He and Evatt wrote a number of joint judgments prior to Evatt's resignation in 1940 to return to politics.

From 1942 to 1944, Dixon took leave from his judicial duties while he served as Australia's Minister (Ambassador) to the United States, at the request of Prime Minister John Curtin. On 27 May 1950, Dixon was invited by the United Nations to act as their official mediator between the governments of India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir. His role was to continue conciliation talks between the two nations in the lead-up to a proposed plebiscite to be put to the residents of Kashmir. His role as mediator ended in October 1950, although he had left India in September frustrated with what he saw as an inability of the respective governments to negotiate.

At about this period, Dixon was in the majority in important constitutional cases which declared unconstitutional pet projects of successive Labor and Liberal governments, namely the Bank Nationalisation case, and the Communist Party Case. In the former, he considered that many of the operative provisions of the Chifley Government's Banking Act 1947 (which sought to nationalise Australia's banks) were beyond the constitutional powers of the Commonwealth Parliament. In the latter case he considered that the Communist Party Dissolution Act 1950 of the Liberal government led by his old friend Menzies (which sought to ban the Australian Communist Party) could not be supported by any head of Commonwealth legislative power.

In 1951, Dixon was appointed a member of the Privy Council, the English judicial organ which, at that stage, was the final court of appeal in Australian legal matters. However, Dixon never sat on the Privy Council. In fact, Dixon's disdain for the Privy Council is well documented, particularly in Philip James Ayres' biography Owen Dixon. Here, it is revealed that Dixon approached Menzies on at least two occasions, urging a restriction of appeals to the Privy Council. In Dixon's view, the council had a limited understanding of Australian constitutional law, allowed appeals on trivial matters and published confusing judgments. His words to Menzies were "I do not think they have a clue".

In 1952, Dixon was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court by Menzies, who remained Prime Minister throughout Dixon's tenure in the position. This marked the beginning of a period described by Lord Denning as the "golden age" of the High Court. Complemented by the work of Justices Kitto, Fullagar and Windeyer, Dixon led what New South Wales Chief Justice Jim Spigelman has described as "one of the great common law benches of history". This period was one of relative stability in the area of Australian Constitutional Law. This was in part due to Dixon's leadership of his Court, which resulted in a higher proportion of joint judgments than before or since. The most notable decisions from this period include Boilermakers' Case, and the Second Uniform Tax case. As Chief Justice he was also responsible for a number of seminal decisions in areas as diverse as contract law, and criminal law and precedent. In Tait v R he dramatically intervened to prevent the hanging of a mentally ill murderer before his appeal to the High Court could be heard.

In 1952, and again in 1955, Dixon was called upon by the Governor of Victoria to give advice when the upper house of the Parliament of that State refused to pass supply bills. Dixon advised the Governor of his powers in such a situation. This precedent was followed after Dixon's death, when Governor-General Sir John Kerr sought advice from Dixon's successor Sir Garfield Barwick CJ before controversially dismissing the Labor government under Gough Whitlam in 1975.

Retirement and later life
Dixon maintained an active personal life and was president of the Wallaby Club in 1936–7. He retired from the High Court in 1964, to be replaced by Sir Garfield Barwick. Shortly after his retirement, Dixon turned down an offer to be appointed Australia's Governor-General, because he considered himself "too old". (The post was given, instead, to Lord Casey.) During the early part of his retirement, Dixon read extensively, particularly in the classics, until failing eyesight made this increasingly difficult. In the later 1960s and early 1970s, Dixon's health declined and he died in Melbourne in 1972.

Assessment
Dixon has sometimes been described as a product of his times; for example, he was a strong supporter of the White Australia policy, and was, as Philip James Ayres's biographical work shows, a classicist and rationalist, deeply sceptical in regard to all religions.

With many of the leading Australian politicians in his time, notably Menzies, Dixon had a close working involvement. On occasion he gave advice to federal ministers regarding foreign policy matters. Dixon and his predecessor, Sir John Latham, were consulted by successive national governments on diplomatic and other international missions. Despite this, Dixon is remembered primarily for his attitude of "strict and complete legalism" in his approach to contentious issues and is considered by some to be among the least politically influenced judges his country has ever known.

The phrase occurs in Dixon's speech at his swearing in as Chief Justice in 1952 (emphasis added):

 * Federalism means a demarcation of powers and this casts upon the court a responsibility of deciding whether legislation is within the boundaries of allotted powers. Unfortunately that responsibility is very widely misunderstood, misunderstood, largely by the popular use and misuse of terms which are not applicable, and it is not sufficiently recognised that the court’s sole function is to interpret a constitutional description of power or restraint upon power and say whether a given measure falls on one side of a line consequently drawn or on the other, and that it has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the measure.

 * Such a function has led us all I think to believe that close adherence to legal reasoning is the only way to maintain the confidence of all parties in Federal conflicts. It may be that the court is thought to be excessively legalistic. I should be sorry to think that it is anything else. There is no other safe guide to judicial decisions in great conflicts than a strict and complete legalism.

The line that Dixon draws is between law and politics and does not, as is sometimes thought, represent a commitment to legal formalism. On the contrary, in Australian National Airways Pty Ltd v Commonwealth he had said of constitutional interpretation: "We should avoid pedantic and narrow constructions in dealing with an instrument of government and I do not see why we should be fearful about making implications."

Honours

 * Dixon was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1941, and was elevated to a Knight Grand Cross of that order (GCMG) in 1954.
 * The road Owen Dixon Drive in the suburbs of Spence, Evatt and McKellar in Canberra, Australia is named in honour of Sir Owen Dixon.
 * The Owen Dixon Commonwealth Law Courts Building, the Melbourne location of the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, is named in honour of Sir Owen Dixon.
 * Owen Dixon Chambers, in Melbourne, is also named in honour of Sir Owen Dixon.
 * Sir Owen Dixon Chambers, in Sydney, is also named in honour of Sir Owen Dixon.

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Dorette Corbey

Dorette Corbey (born July 19, 1957, in Eindhoven, North Brabant) is a Dutch politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She is a member of the Partij van de Arbeid (Dutch Labour Party), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

She was also a substitute for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and a member of the delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China.

Education

 * General nursing training
 * Higher degree in social geography, University of Amsterdam
 * Doctoral degree in law and international relations, State University of Leiden

Career

 * 1976-1988: Worked as a general nurse (part-time from 1981)
 * 1988-1993: Researcher, Netherlands Institute for International Relations, 'Clingendael', The Hague
 * 1993-1999: Policy adviser, Building and Timber Federation, FNV (Dutch Trade Union Federation)
 * 1996-1997: Project coordinator - European Works Councils, European Federation of Building and Woodworkers, Brussels
 * 1997-1999: Member of the European Integration Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs
 * since 1999: Member of the European Parliament

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Talk:Kirara (InuYasha)

Creature type
Kirara could easily be described as a creature that is otherwise a kitsune, but with vulpine aspects replaced with feline, if not completely. then again, that doesn't fit in this article very well.. so i'll just put it here.. and wait for a more skilled writer. the fact is, a lot of us thought she was just a badly-drawn kitsune at first, so... UPDATE: the article currently calls her both a nekomata and a kitsune at different points. She's obviously a nekomata, but her kind behavior and the whole fire thing makes her more like a kitsune. It's entirely possible Takahashi-baka just got confused (again).

Why are Abilities and Transform both descriptions of the size-changing thing?
Yeah, just wondering. 136.176.8.22 04:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Good question. It really needs some work. Showers 14:36, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I did some work on the abilities section. Deleted some repeating info, and rearranging the rest to make it more concise. Showers 15:02, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

What's with the Naruto Reference?
The Nibi No Nekomata is a Naruto character (the 2-tailed bijuu), so what's it doing in an Inuyasha article? And if there's a different character of the same name in thew Inuyasha manga/anime, let's have some references to verify that. 142.26.133.248 (talk) 15:36, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes but Nibi no Nekomata means two tailed cat demon. You could call it Nibi no Bakeneko too. But seeing the context it's used in I believe it was made as a Naruto reference. Somebody should delete that.Moocowsrule (talk) 00:12, 10 September 2008 (UTC)Moocowsrule

Name in English
Per Naming conventions (use English), should we not move the article to Kilala and change her name throughout the article? -- AvatarMN (talk) 09:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

 * No because her name is spelled Kirara in the English version. It's just pronounced Kilala. It's spelled like this in the episode "Kohaku, Sango, and Kirara: The Secret Flower Garden", and possibly others. Moocowsrule (talk) 09:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)Moocowsrule

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Edith Mastenbroek

Edith Mastenbroek (23 March 1975 – 23 August 2012) was a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP). She was a member of the Labour Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgetary Control and its Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. She was also a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel.

She was rapporteur for the Safer Internet Plus Programme at the start of her term in the European Parliament. She was active on anti-terrorism, information security, data protection and privacy, and on seeking alternatives to Strasbourg as a meeting place for the European Parliament once a month. She was a core member of the Campaign for Parliamentary Reform (CPR).

She was also an observer on the European Security Research Advisory Board. She was President and Chairwoman of the European chapter of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC).

On 23 August 2012 Mastenbroek died due to cardiac arrest at the age of 37.

Career

 * Higher degree in political science (specialising in international relations) (2000)
 * Trainee with the Democratic Leadership Council, Washington, D.C. (2000)
 * Senior researcher with Infodrome - a think tank for the information society (2001–2002)
 * Public affairs official/spokesperson for the ISP xs4all (2002–2004)
 * Coordinator of the 'Niet Nix' innovation movement (1999)
 * Assisted the PvdA election programme committee (2001)
 * Member of the PvdA PES delegation (1998–2004)
 * Member of the executive committee of the 'Ben je bang voor mij?' foundation (Are you afraid of me?) - for dialogue on Islam and integration (since 2002)

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Jan Marinus Wiersma

Jan Marinus Wiersma (born 26 August 1951 in Groningen) is a Dutch politician and from 1994 to 2009 Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, vice-chair of the Party of European Socialists group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He was also a member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism, a member of the delegation to the EU–Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee, and a member of the delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

Career

 * Higher degree in history (Groningen State University, 1978)
 * Researcher on Foreign Affairs and Defence for the parliamentary PvdA group in the Second Chamber (1978–1987)
 * International Secretary and second Vice-Chairman of the PvdA (1987–1999)
 * Member of the European Parliament (1994–2009)
 * Vice-Chairman of the PSE Group (1999–2004)
 * Member of the PSE bureau (since 2004)
 * Member of the Steering Committee of the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity

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