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  • New light rocket Angara ready for launch

    Russia's first light-class modification Angara 1.2PP carrier rocket is ready for its maiden launch, its manufacturer Khrunichev Center said. The first Angara will be sent to the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia later this month, the manufacturer said in a statement, but did not give a precise launch date. Meanwhile, the first heavy-class Angara-A5 has been completed and will soon be ...

  • Food-inspired clothing like butcher briefs meat socks could soon be reality

    Food-inspired clothing like butcher briefs, meat socks and chef jeans could soon become a reality. Several years ago, chef Chris Cosentino teamed up with goofy clothes company Betabrand to create Gluttony Pants. Now, Cosentino is back with three new projects, and he needs your help to make them a reality, the Huffington Post reported. These items will go into production if enough people ...

  • Ford to close manufacturing operations in Australia slash 1200 jobs

    Ford will close its manufacturing operations in Australia and 1200 workers will lose their jobs in October 2016. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano said that the company would shut the Geelong engine factory, costing 510 jobs, and the Broadmeadows car assembly line, shedding another 650 positions, reports News.com.au. Sacked workers have been offered a 39 million-dollar rescue ...

  • Rosario Dawson suffers wardrobe malfunction by flashing undies at Cannes

    Rosario Dawson suffered a fashion mishap on the Cannes red carpet by accidently flashing her underwear to cameras while posing on the steps, on Monday. The 34-year-old actress looked gorgeous in a white beaded Elie Saab gown as she attended the premiere of 'As I Lay Dying', but she flaunted the front high-slit a little too much on the red carpet, Us magazine reported. After the mishap, Dawson ...

  • Chinas manufacturing slows HSBC

    China's manufacturing activity fell into contraction for the first time since October, a preliminary survey from the HSBC showed. The HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for May fell to 49.6 in May, dropping under the boom-bust line of 50 for the first time since October, according to figures released by HSBC Thursday. Qu Hongbin, chief economist of the HSBC China, said ...


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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Fin de semana para los muertos) (aka The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue) [DVD]

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (Fin de semana para los muertos) (aka The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue) [DVD]

When Jorge Grau's Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( Fin de semana para los muertos) was first released in 1974, ripping off George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) was not yet a cottage industry. In fact, at the time there had been only a handful of zombie films that owed a debt to Romero's masterpiece, including the shoddy Garden of the Dead and Bob Clark's se ... ...

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  • Manufacturing one pair of sneakers emits 30 pounds of carbon dioxide

    A typical pair of running shoes generates 30 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions, equivalent to keeping a 100-watt light bulb on for one week, a new MIT-led lifecycle assessment has revealed. But what's surprising to researchers isn't the size of a shoe's carbon footprint, but where the majority of that footprint comes from. The researchers found that more than two-thirds of a running shoe's ...

  • Manufacturers Session Has New Jobs as Goal

    Texas Workforce Upper Rio Grande has joined forces with federal, state and public institutions with a goal of targeting manufacturers willing to expand and create more jobs. A free Manufacturers Information Session is set for 2:30 p.m. May 30 in the UTEP Chemistry and Computer Science Building, Room GO208. Local and national organizations and businesses will also discuss export market ...

  • Fashion truck coming St. Paul approves mobile retail licenses

    First came the food trucks. Now, fashion trucks can rev their engines, head to downtown St. Paul and sell their products. Shops on wheels have been on the rise around the country including locally, and the city of St. Paul is making efforts to welcome them to the neighborhood. On Wednesday, the city of St. Paul unanimously approved an ordinance to create a new license category allowing for ...

  • Dorel Industries Announces Election of Directors

    May 23, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - Dorel Industries Inc. (TSX: DII.B, DII.A) is pleased to announce that all of the nominees listed in its management proxy circular ...

  • Manufacturing Index Hits 7-Month Low

    report (link opens as PDF) released today. The "flash" estimate is typically based on approximately 85% to 90% of total PMI survey responses each month and is designed to provide an accurate advance indication of the final PMI data. Although an above-50 reading denotes general growth, these newest numbers put the index at a seven-month low. Still, analysts had expected even worse ...

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