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Luanda, Angola, 12 Oct – With less than a week to go to the opening of this year's Constrói Angola – Angola's International Construction Material and Public Works Fair, the event's organizers guarantee that the Fair's stands will be set up by October 17.
Quoted by Angolan news agency Angpop, the director general of business group Arena Direct, Manuel Novais said that everything would be ready on the eve of the fair, which is due to run between October 18 and 22 at the Luanda International Fair facilities.
So far 210 national and international companies have confirmed their attendance at the event. Portugal will continue to be the most represented country with 27 companies.
Countries that have already confirmed their presence are Portugal, Brazil, Spain and South Africa.
- The Ministry of Public Security held on October 10 a conference in order to launch a drive to ensure security for the 14th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting (APEC 14), with the participation of high-ranking police officers in northern provinces and cities. - The United Kingdom Queen Elizabeth II has extended condolences to families of victims of Typhoon Xangsane, which hit central Vietnam early this month. The Queen expressed her sympathy in a recent message sent to State President Nguyen Minh Triet. - The Anti-Corruption Steering Board released its 2007 action programme at the end of an important conference held on October 10 with the participation of key officials from governmental and State agencies. - The Vietnamese Government will do its utmost to foster relations between the women of Vietnam and Cambodia and between the two nations in general.
WASHINGTON -- It's a construction site now, but in 18 months, the Washington Nationals will be playing baseball there. The new stadium that's rising in southeast Washington, about two miles from the Capitol, has met the expectations of those responsible for building it. "We're on schedule," said Allen Lew, the chief executive officer of the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission. "We're on budget. We expect to have the ballpark up and ready in time for the spring of 2008." Ground was broken on the yet-to-be named ballpark on May 5, and according to Lew and the builders, they're actually a day ahead of where they should be. The first steel was installed late last week. "The building is taking shape. It's literally rising out of the ground," Lew said. When the stadium is complete, there will be 41,000 seats -- 22,000 of them in the lower bowl.
David Hockney, younger of the two grandest old men of British art still living, was once told that his double portraits conform to the traditional iconography of The Annunciation: one figure permanent, the other "kind of visiting", one the Virgin Mary concentrating on a book; the other the Archangel Gabriel arriving with news that is not entirely welcome. I thought, not of this, but of something very like it a week or two ago, when David and I encountered each other as, in Kensington High Street, we crossed a busy side road. For a moment we were frozen in unexpected recognition, and then, in imminent danger from uncaring traffic, with tender touches each old buffer steered the other to the kerb. This, I thought, was just like The Visitation, though which of us might be the Virgin and which Elizabeth her cousin, I did not pursue.
CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation (NYSE:ETN) today announced net income per share of $1.62 for the third quarter of 2006, an increase of 25 percent over net income per share of $1.30 in the third quarter of 2005. Sales in the quarter were $3.12 billion, 13 percent above the same period in 2005. Net income was $248 million compared to $199 million in 2005, an increase of 25 percent. Net income in both periods included charges related to the integration of acquisitions. Before these acquisition integration charges, operating earnings per share in the third quarter of 2006 were $1.65 versus $1.33 per share in 2005, an increase of 24 percent. Alexander M. Cutler, Eaton chairman and chief executive officer, said, "Results in the third quarter were strong, with operating earnings per share coming in at the very top of our guidance.
BRISTOL/WARREN - After the stormy waters of the real estate market left the Mt. Hope Homebuilders Project high and dry in 2005, project officials are looking up, and ahead, at a new project on Jefferson Lane in Bristol. According to William Estrella, president of the board of the Mt. Hope Homebuilders Corporation, the program may have found its salvation in the form of a home donation from local landscaper Seraphin "Fe" DaPonte. Mr. Estrella said that the option being eyed by the homebuilders project is to relocate the 1,000-square-foot single-family home from its current place on 1250 Hope St to Jefferson Lane, where students will lay down a new foundation and marry it with the old structure. "This house is about 60 years old; it's a single-family home with a garage similar to the type that we would build new.
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