Nice ve mutlu yıllara, Ramayan

Each year, thousands of European companies lose business and miss out on contracts as a result of their lack of language skills, according to a study carried out for the European Commission during 2006 by CILT, the UK National Centre for Languages, published today. The findings suggest that there is enormous potential for small businesses in Europe to increase their total exports if they invest more in languages and develop coherent language strategies. Recent research shows that companies that enhance their language skills can exploit better the business opportunities in the EU’s internal market, which, with nearly half a billion people, is the world’s largest.

“Far from being an unwelcome cost to doing business", European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban, said, "investing in language skills can dramatically improve a company’s business opportunities. I plan to place multilingualism at the heart of the Lisbon strategy for more growth and jobs.”

for more you can visit: http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/key/studies_en.html

speaking about powerful women, the Iron lady goes bronze:

Baroness Thatcher has become the first living ex-prime minister to be honoured with a statue in the House of Commons.
A 7ft 6ins bronze sculpture was unveiled on Wednesday, with her immediate successor John Major and Tory leader David Cameron attending.
Baroness Thatcher, 81, said it was "an honour", adding: "I may be made of iron but bronze will do."
The statue, in the members' lobby of the Commons, depicts the former prime minister in mid-debate, jabbing her finger in the air to make a point.

BBC News, published: 2007/02/21

dear sevans, as an incentive to move on head high, it is better to lose a lover than love a loser

for the sake of being politically correct, hasn`t also a top of the world`s most powerful men been published?

thank you very much, Aslan

I hope everybody will enjoy it.