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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 ...

  • Cannes-Fashion Photos Sharon Stone Accessorizes with a Snake Janet Jackson Opts for a Sexy White Pantsuit

    aids gala on Thursday. There, they presumably held onto their metallic clutches extra tightly as they demonstrated creative new ways of baring flesh. For Sharon Stone, this meant accessorizing her bare back with a gilt snake ornament, while Brazilian model Isabeli Fontana chose a black gown with circular cutouts. Karlie Kloss and Janet Jackson went in the other direction, opting for sexy ...

  • U.S. Manufacturing Growth Slows a Bit in May

    The pace of U.S. manufacturing growth in May slowed marginally from April, Markit Economics data released Tuesday indicates. It was the second consecutive month in which the pace of growth slowed, the research firm said. Markit, however, noted that the critical new orders index for manufacturers rose in the month. The figures released Thursday are considered a flash estimate and could be ...

  • Brakes on manufacturing as Ford pulls out

    The shock announcement yesterday that Ford will stop making vehicles in Australia comes as terrible news for the 1,200 workers affected.They will be gutted to learn that the company that has made cars in Australia since the days of the Model-T will close its factory doors from 2016.But this is not just a shock for workers in the Ford plants in Geelong and Broadmeadows, it will be hard to take ...

  • 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 ...

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