Muscle from Brussel.

Muscle from Brussel. Theories are fine as far as they go. When we don’t know how to handle a situation, we ‘cook’ up the best plan we can. Yesterday I wrote word-by-word: “…How’s about not the Supreme Being, but I, for change, to come impregnate you, the Mister Trichet with my own, specific guidelines in the all of “ours” (and World know it), ‘professional agreements’, for you to know that I’m still be not a shmack or too vulnerable to the power plays?...” Than, late at night, (what I expect?!), until 3 - 3.5 am was receiving beating in my head. Or what I remember, because after long hours – I stop to care anymore. Just fall down. The proper trouble ensued only when I start realize that the reality is not shaping up (however you try) as I expect it to. (At 2 am was a huge blast in centre of Liege which destroy all apartment block). Then, because I want to control my feelings (which is not just difficult, but impossible), for my own comfort, I try to stick with the ‘original yours’ idea (i.e. a virar, a preto, a fuder) in which base the “our” joint-venture, the money, and the resources are formed. Under the fire, like they obviously are, “we” find ourselves catched off-guard in an unexpected and heavy of billion pounds bill… (You remember the Trainee Mortgage Adviser from “praga”?). Like always, you, the ongoing… are putting me, to deal now, with a situation that again, has evolved the couple hours, since I last evaluated it! Personally, I tell you what: If yours outstanding debts in place of reimbursement appeared like the Monteiro yesterday at front of my nose – “we have a future”. Same is with the blue-gray Smart car with the cocaine bastards Barroso and Solana inside. It’s a natural to expect for you to see my “Lambreta”… And this not is the sharpening, of by self, ‘sharp situation’. It’s preferable to make to yourself the question of type the “How they do this?” and than read that the one “special country” develop the biodegradable bride. Normally, when I expose your sneaky spine, pass long days when I stop to be worrying about my safety. Essentially, with cocaine of ex-President of Portuguese Republic the Denis Sampaio. Because the my suspicions about yours intentions is not the hollow song. Because exactly theirs malevolence and negativity was that “a não, a não a não pago” is transformed into assumption that I’m being just clumsy faux pas, or a joke. And who see the yesterday CSI show – will hear me at the end of this note, insisting that the Portuguese blue blood (in our case, the barroso and Socrates) is no more, no less that the Diamond from Barclays. I paying close attention to this (futile) details upon a suspicion that “someone” is intent to (maybe the Terner) cause me to wobble. Actually, don’t matter who or why. I still stand, and if you won’t realize that I’m not for budging – it’s will be yours problem. It’s all, I see, very similar to the Bank. Everyone knows that the bank in nature – is the social structure. Full of people which will lost, and when the Bob begin to defend working places (barroso’s “a servir”), come to my mind the dirty idea to start call him the Rosa Luxemburg. (One of the girl-friend of Lenin, before the turning around the “future of our civilization”). It’s exactly like we see upwards, the stand upon which the all Eurocracy based. The God hope that with this, comes some personal changes. Maybe the adjustments in my attitude will enable to come to concord with someone who shares this with me.

Business warns regulation may crimp recovery. Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:14pm GMT. Barclays President Bob Diamond challenged Obama's effort to limit the size of big banks and restrain risk-taking, telling the opening forum session: "I've seen no evidence that suggests that shrinking banks and making all banks smaller or more narrow is the answer." "If you step back and say large is bad, and we move to narrow banking, the impact of that on banks and on global trade, the global economy, would be very negative." European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet played down trans-atlantic differences, telling the Wall Street Journal the proposed U.S. reforms were "relevant and interesting" and shared the same aims as European measures. Not all bankers were critical of Obama's plan. The CEO of Italy's biggest retail bank, Corrado Passera of Intesa Sanpaolo , said it was a good idea to reward banks that did less proprietary trading and lent more to the real economy, for instance by allowing them lower capital ratios. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a champion of regulation and state industrial policy who has demanded a "moralisation of capitalism," was to give the keynote address later Wednesday. Against a backdrop of public outrage over bumper bonuses for bankers whose institutions were saved by taxpayer intervention, aides said Sarkozy would insist there must be no return to the excesses of financial speculation and deregulation. U.S. economist Nouriel Roubini, who had warned that the 2008 financial crisis was coming, said loose U.S. monetary policy was now fuelling asset price bubbles that would cause the next bust. "It's become too much, too fast, too soon and U.S. monetary policy is being exported to the rest of the world," Roubini told a forum session. In contrast to many speakers, he said he was not concerned about over-regulation but about a return to business as usual.

Luva de protecção biodegradável desenvolvida em Portugal. 25.01.2010 - 13:07. Uma equipa de investigadores da Universidade de Coimbra (UC) foi desafiada por uma empresa multinacional para desenvolver um novo tipo de luvas de protecção industrial biodegradáveis. Caso seja bem sucedida, a investigação será um contributo para resolver um problema ambiental provocado pelos materiais usados nas luvas de protecção industrial. A principal dificuldade é conseguir produzir estas luvas num material amigo do ambiente mas, ao mesmo tempo, resistente ao calor, à corrosão, à água e com elevado nível de aderência.

Blast flattens apartment block. Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 07:12 GMT. More than 20 people were injured, two of them critically, when a five-storey building was ripped apart by an apparent explosion in eastern Belgium on Wednesday. Rescue workers searched the rubble of the downtown apartment block in the city of Liege for survivors, but had to briefly flee when the facade of the building collapsed hours after the 2am blast. Firefighters heard at least two different voices under the rubble when they looked for survivors. A further two people have also been reported missing. "It is likely there was a gas explosion," Mayor Willy Demeyer said. "There was a gas alert in the building over the weekend but no leak was discovered." The blast, which happened just 100 yards from the city hall, also damaged other buildings, with Mr Demeyer warning that more may collapse.

KKR snaps up Pets at Home for £955m. January 27 2010 10:16. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US private equity group, on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Pets at Home in a deal valuing the UK’s leading supplier of dog collars, cat flaps, rabbit hutches and fish tanks at £955m. The takeover by KKR comes after a highly competitive auction between some of the world’s biggest private equity groups for Pets at Home, which persuaded its owner – Bridgepoint – to ditch plans for an initial public offering. Bridgepoint is expected to make about an eight-times return on its initial equity investment in the pet accessories retailer, which it bought for £230m in 2005. The price paid by KKR was at the top end of the company’s expected IPO valuation range. The move highlights a new trend of private equity groups swooping for companies being readied for an IPO by rival buy-out groups. Similar bids are expected for Kabel Deutschland, the German cable operator, and New Look, the UK clothing retailer. It also shows that a revival in credit markets after the financial crisis is encouraging private equity groups to be more ambitious after a two-year slump in buy-outs. Pets at Home has enjoyed resilient growth amid the recession, with like-for-like sales rising 6.7 per cent in the six weeks to January 7. Sales of dog coats rose 70 per cent, as the cold weather persuaded more dog owners to buy them. KKR saw off competition from TPG, Apax Partners and Bain Capital for the chain, which is expected to generate about £82m of ebitda in the year to March. The company has net debt of £233m. Nomura advised KKR and Rothschild advised Bridgepoint. Debt financing for the deal was provided by Nomura, Calyon, KKR Capital Markets and Commerzbank.