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Associated Press

E-Commerce for Manufacturing 101

E-Commerce for Manufacturing 101

Join Industrial Media's David Mantey and E-Commerce Evangelist for Manufacturers, Author, Curt Anderson as we explore the impact and opportunity e-commerce brings to US manufacturing. When? Wednesday, November 10th, 11:00 AM CST

Ducklings are raised cage-free and then force-fed to produce foie gras, the fattening of duck liver that is served at restaurants and sold at grocery stores.

NYC Considers Foie Gras Ban

City council members have signed a bill to ban the sale of foie gras on the grounds that producing it constitutes cruelty to animals.

In this June 28, 1944, file photo, garment workers sew clothing at a loft factory in New York. Hundreds of thousands of garment workers once toiled in the sweaty, elbow-to-elbow workshops of midtown Manhattan before the whirring of sewing machines was mostly silenced by foreign competition. But a group of New Yorkers - manufacturers, landlords, designers, politicians - want to preserve some of the bustling sewing scene by zoning the neighborhood for at least 300,000 square feet of garment workshops now serving higher-end designers.

More Change for NY's Shrinking Garment District

The city's garment district isn't dead yet.

In this March 30, 2017 photo, a worker welds near a stairwell inside one of several ferryboats being built for a new fleet of ferries for New York City, at the Metal Shark Shipyard in Franklin, La. The city is investing $335 million in the Citywide Ferry Service, betting that it will attract millions of passengers in waterfront neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx that are now a distant walk from overcrowded subways.

Ferry Fleets Born on the Bayou

Shipyard workers are scrambling to finish a new ferry fleet in time for summer.

In this Wednesday, June 22, 2016 photo, a worker helps set another load of concrete into the walls of 3 World Trade Center in New York. The World Trade Center's latest new skyscraper has reached its full height of 80 stories.

WTC's New $2.5B Skyscraper Tops Out

A series of construction security fences signal that there's still plenty of unfinished work before the site is totally back to life.