“Beware of greeks bearing gifs".

“Beware of greeks bearing gifs". Meaning: Don't trust your enemies. Origin: An allusion to the story of the wooden horse of Troy, used by the Greeks to trick their way into the city. It is recorded in Virgil's Aeneid, Book 2, 19 BC: "Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts." Of course that English version is a translation. Another translation, by John Dryden, has "Trust not their presents, nor admit the horse." The same thought was also recorded by Sophocles (496 - 406 BC), in Ajax: Nought from the ‘…Greeks towards me hath sped well. So now I find that ancient proverb true, Foes' gifts are no gifts: profit bring they none…’ The phrase "beware of geeks bearing gifs" was coined to sum that up.
The Chartered Accountants facilitate to theirs employers the acquisition of the iPhone. It’s what the Reuters were recently communicating. This good and practical job-related thoughts put me thinking: - ‘Which was the exact reason for the media gone spending the tones of ink only dedicating to the gift made by Abramovitch to the sranaia churka? To offering the an entire 150 feet motor yacht. Because, - he is surrounded by the water? The same thought was passing through my mind when the Tom was offering me the TV set. That phrase from Garfield: - ‘Every work worth – is worth working for (four)’. Also, seems that my four “portuguese speaking” tv-sets come back to me… (I had this or more quantity of tele’s in Portugal before to went to the UK). A preto de herança… In this twenty first century, when we all are surrounded by sensors, meters and monitors, the trustworthiness and integrity are at front of our noses. You want or not. The optimum is to tell how far you should rely on person. More yet, if you wash your hands and throw him to the ‘dogs’. To conceal him, like a ‘career’ in front of public, of ‘politicians’ or very dodgy sales personnel. Ironically, it can be me who rocks the boat as much as ‘anyone else’.

Sale of VIVO! promised by BNP Paribas. 03/06/10 08:55. Analysts at French bank anticipates an approval in general meeting from the sale of Vivo to Telefónica."It is likely that the new proposal is approved by Vivo" partly because "even if the major shareholders Portuguese (25%) vote against the deal, there is enough space for the transaction to be viable (it takes 50% plus one vote)," Today the analyst writes Mathieu Robillard. "We hope the Government [Portuguese] maintain a neutral stance, although it may signal that the price is still too low, trying to force Telefonica to offer a little more," he relates. In this research note, LBW rises by 5% for the nine euros per share price target for Portugal Telecom, which gives a potential recovery of 4.3% for the Portuguese operator. The recommendation remains in 'ouperform'. Also, analysts at Bernstein argue it is more likely that the deal is made possible than not, because 6500 million "represents a premium of 60% on 'fair value' of Living" and is an 'upgrade' of 14% over the original price. Already UBS, also a note of analysis today, maintaining its rating of 8 euros per share (below the current price), and will focus on the two assumptions given to PT: immediately sell its position in Vivo by 6, 5000 million or dispose of a third (giving control to Telefonica) and sell the rest over the next three years. The analyst Keval Khiroya stresses that any of the scenarios allows the PT 'buy' the 10% that Telefonica has in its capital and leaves you about four billion euros for acquisitions. Option A (sell out immediately) would allow the PT, experts say UBS, unleveraged their debt ratios. Have the option B (sell in a phased manner) gives the administration more time to find an alternative to Vivo. Everything will be decided at the general meeting of shareholders. In today's session, the shares of PT totaled 0.43% to 8.62 million (see graph).

German bomb squad team killed trying to defuse second world war device. Explosive found undergroud during contsruction of new stadium kills three experienced officers in Göttingen Associated Press in Berlin. Wednesday 2 June 2010 18.46 BST. Three experts working to defuse a bomb from the second world war were killed when the device exploded, injuring six others, police said today. Some 7,000 residents from the central German town of Göttingen, where the 500kg bomb was found, were still being evacuated when it blew up late on Tuesday. Construction workers had found the device about six metres below the ground where the city is building a sports arena. The three dead men, aged 38 to 55, were experienced in defusing bombs and it was not clear why it exploded, Göttingen police president Robert Kruse said at a press conference today. He said two other experts were severely injured and four others were treated for shock. City spokesman Detlef Johannson said the team was still preparing to remove the detonator when the bomb exploded. Unexploded bombs from Allied bombardments and the first world war are found regularly in Germany. Only a few days before, another bomb found in Göttingen was successfully defused. Every German state has dozens of specialists trained to defuse old bombs, and accidents are rare. Hundreds of police and firefighters are usually involved in helping evacuate people before experts attempt to make safe a bomb.

Cumbria Massacre: Gunman kills 12 in Lake District rampage. Wed, Jun 2 2010. WHITEHAVEN, England (Reuters) - A gunman killed at least 12 people in a rampage through quiet towns in and around the scenic Lake District on Wednesday in Britain's worst shooting spree for 14 years. Terrified locals and walkers were told to stay indoors as 52-year-old taxi driver Derrick Bird opened fire on people in towns across the rural, sparsely populated county of Cumbria, one of the nation's top tourist destinations. As well as the 12 dead, 25 people were wounded, including three in critical condition, in shootings in 30 locations. After a huge manhunt, Bird's body was found in a secluded area in Boot, a remote hamlet in the Eskdale valley, an area popular with hillwalkers. Police said he was believed to have killed himself. "This has shocked the people of Cumbria, and around the country, to the core," said Stuart Hyde, Assistant Chief Constable of Cumbria Police. "We are still at a very early stage in our investigation and we are not able to really understand the motivation behind it or establish whether this was a premeditated or random attack." The Queen said in a brief message she was "deeply shocked" by the news and shared the "grief and horror of the whole country." Multiple shootings are rare in Britain where there are strict gun controls. In 1996, a gunman massacred 16 children and their teacher in the Scottish town of Dunblane, and a man shot dead 16 people in the southern English town of Hungerford in 1987.
The Dunblane killings led to the adoption of new laws which banned civilian ownership of handguns and forced owners of other weapons to obtain a certificate from the police. Government figures showed there were certificates for almost 1.37 million shotguns in March 2009. Police said they were investigating where Bird got the two weapons he used in the attacks and whether they were legally owned. TAXI DRIVERS' DISPUTE. The shootings began in the coastal town of Whitehaven where Bird worked. "He had a dispute with a taxi driver yesterday morning which carried on into today. He absolutely lost the plot," Lorraine Rimmer, who works for a taxi firm in the town, told Reuters. "He was a bit of a loner who hardly spoke to people." As police chased Bird for three hours through sleepy towns and villages across Cumbria, frightened locals were told to shelter indoors. The gunman eventually dumped his car and headed on foot through picturesque areas popular with walkers. Landlord Sean King said police had warned him that the gunman was heading towards his pub in Boot, population 15. "It was very unnerving," King told Reuters, saying there had been a stream of hikers heading to his pub for shelter. He said Bird's body was believed to have been found about 200 yards (metres) from his pub. Prime Minister David Cameron said local communities would be shattered by the killings. "The government will do everything it possibly can to help the local community and those affected," he told parliament. During the manhunt, the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Seascale said all the site's gates had been closed and staff had been told to stay at their posts, but its operations were unaffected.

TNK-BP agreed to bankrupt "Rusia Petroleum". 03.06.2010, 13:18. "Rusia Petroleum "- the holder of the Kovykta with gas reserves of almost 2 trillion cubic meters. m - can be bankrupt. "With "Rosneftegas "[we] are close, we discuss the topic, there is a normal constructive work", - said in March co-owner of TNK-BP's Viktor Vekselberg (i.e. the sramaia churka) and added that he appreciates asset of the company in the $ 700-900 million. Total debt, "Rusia "in front of TNK-BP at the end of I quarter 2010 was more than 11.4 billion rubles. follows from the report of the licensee to Kovykta.