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  • Colourful socks trending among fashion loving men

    Men are putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colours and dashing prints. According to 33-year-old Roland Gonzales, who works in finance, socks are a way that he can stand out at work. The Brooklynite was spotted in Bryant Park flaunting a pair of pink and purple striped Paul Smiths that he wore at his wedding. "Everyone wears the same ...

  • Tanzania Battling It Out in the World of Fashion

    Dynamic full of energy with a keen eye for beauty, Subira Wahure has taken on the fashion industry in the country by storm with a penchant for promoting the African touch in her creations. She has proven that fashion design is not a career reserved for people who have nothing better to do with their lives. Woman Magazine coordinator, Mariam Said interviewed Subira and the following are ...

  • CSIRO suggests robotics solutions to boost manufacturing competitiveness

    During National Manufacturing Week the CSIRO released a white paper detailing what might be done to lift the manufacturing industry out of its slump. "The concern we started when we started consultation was that we were on a totally different planet to everybody," said Peter Kambouris, one of authors on the paper, published by the organisation’s Future Manufacturing ...

  • Toronto factory sticks to its knitting – for 87 years

    Parkhurst Knitwear sells its hats, coats and sweaters around the world from its factory in Toronto, one of the last domestic knitting mills in ...

  • Fashion types bring flair to prince’s Connecticut polo match

    Many in the invitation-only crowd of about 400 who gathered to watch Prince Harry's team win the Sentebale Royal Salute Polo Cup at the Greenwich Polo Club in Connecticut brought out their summer clothes, including white pants, floral sundresses and even some seersucker. Model Karolina Kurkova even wore optic-white shoes with her white-and-navy Carolina Herrera ...


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Summer of Sam [DVD]

Summer of Sam [DVD]

"Summer of Sam" finally lost me about two-thirds of the way through. As everyone probably knows, the "Sam" of the title refers to "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, the serial killer who terrorized New York for more than a year in the late 1970s, stalking people and shooting them with a .44-caliber handgun because, as he claimed at the time, his neighbor's dog told him to. ...

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  • Manufacturing clean technology solutions with Autodesk

    There are more than 1300 clean technology companies in Australia. The sector also directly employs more people than the automotive industry, if the Australian Cleantech Review, published in March, is accurate. The review also identifies "very significant" investment opportunities from north Asian countries and an increasing demand for clean technology solutions in industry, provided ...

  • Japanese manufacturers mood turns positive Poll

    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's expansionary policy has generated more confidence in the economy. Increasing optimism among manufacturers was largely driven by exporting sectors, including electric and precision machinery, that have benefited from the weak yen. The mood in the service sector also picked up and was seen rising further as consumers drew confidence, in part, from a surge in share ...

  • Predictions of an American manufacturing renaissance may be premature

    My father designed radio-controlled equipment that was installed in steel mills. An operator could stand on the floor, send signals to an overhead crane from a device on his belt and maneuver ingots weighing several tons. Very modern for its time, the system greatly reduced the risk of injury among workers.My dad was understandably proud of his contribution to the American manufacturing boom of ...

  • Hema Zeeman dont sign Bangladesh textile industry safety deal

    Dutch high street brands Hema, Zeeman, Prenatal and Coolcat have not signed an agreement to improve safety and working conditions for textile workers in Bangladesh, according to the final list of signatories published online. C&A, V&D, G-Star and WE have signed up to ...

  • 5 American Cities With a Booming Manufacturing Industry

    It's a fairly well-accepted narrative that manufacturing in America is all but dead. Over 3 million manufacturing jobs were lost during the Great Recession, and what's left will eventually be outsourced -- or so the thinking goes. But a closer look at the numbers shows that there are a number of big cities across the United States that are enjoying a healthy revival of manufacturing ...

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