It's always a pleasure to visit Russia and their convention is not to be missed. The theme was very nautical. All the staff wore sailor outfits. The Distributors cheered and everyone had a great time. Thanks to Dave Balzer, it was his first trip to Russia and he did a great job explaining our technologies. 
It is sad that people leave the company. Today the Turkish General Manager changed. Thank you Yesim for all you have done and welcome on board Abdurrahman Karahatay. Mr. Karahatay graduated from METU Industrial Engineering department and has an MBA from Cukurova University. He worked in sales and marketing for a number of prestigious companies in Turkey for over 15 years. I am sure Turkey will go from strength to strength.
Today we filmed the first Rhythm of Nikken DVD footage. It was strange as most of the good looking bits (no not us) will be added after. In the picture you can see the green screen background. When you see the final DVD it'll show something else! All the Network development managers were there, and at this point we could not stop laughing. I had issues with a certain word and took a LOT of takes to get it right. It should look good when it's finished.
WOW! What an honour! Due to the contributions Nikken made to Autism Speaks I was invited to 10 Downing Street to meet Sarah Brown. It was her first charity "meet and greet". During the meeting, that did have nice wine and canapés, Gordon Brown arrived - the Prime Minister. I did have a picture taken, but I am not allowed to publish it....for security reasons. Still it was a great evening, and I was awestruck by the history of the place, and seeing the cabinet room, where most of the decisions that have affected life in Britain since 1732.
Since I could not publish any pictures I thought you might like to take the official Downing Street Tour and see what I saw.
It was a great meeting at Irvine. It's always a pleasure to see everyone. Here we are outside the building (very impressive) for that final photo before we fly back to our respective countries.
Once a year all the managers from around the world meet to discuss the future. It was a great meeting with lots of ideas exchanged. Here we are hard at work discussing what should be for lunch ;)
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