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While legislative battles over gun control and government spending have dominated much of the president’s agenda this year, President Obama heads to Austin, Texas, today to bring attention to job creation and manufacturing. While in Texas, the president will announce two new executive orders during his first of a series of “Middle Class Jobs & [...]

Across the partition from the roboticist who was making coffee tables with magnetized cubes, an artist was boxing up woodcuts that, when held to the ear, sounded like a forest. Beyond him, just past the software designer on the treadmill, a muscular man in a T-shirt tinkered with his design for a motorcycle. Across the [...]

Clorox (NYSE:CLX) has become the latest company to join a new and growing labeling scheme that seeks to help U.S. consumers understand how to properly recycle or dispose of all elements in a product’s packaging. Beginning next month, “How2Recycle” labels will be affixed to four Clorox products: Fresh Step and Scoop Away kitty litter cartons, [...]

CHICAGO -GlobalShop 2013, the trade show for point-of-purchase displays and retail interiors, highlighted LED lighting in store fixtures as well as slatwall products. Wood, whether engineered, textured, rustic or reclaimed, was also a mainstay, with a significant number of architectural millwork and retail interior construction firms among the 640 exhibitors. The show was held April [...]

Lawmakers slammed Obama for manufacturing flight delays following the furlough of Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers. Republican Sen. Pat Toomey said the president was “manufacturing a crisis for political gain” on Wednesday’s Morning Joe. The FAA has required that all of its 47,000 employees—including its 15,000 air traffic controllers—to take one day off every [...]

Demand for durable goods slumped in March by the most in seven months, adding to signs manufacturing in the U.S. cooled at the end of the first quarter. Bookings for merchandise meant to last at least three years fell 5.7 percent after a revised 4.3 percent gain the prior month that was smaller than previously [...]

Being named World’s Most Beautiful is a nearly impossible feat. Yet at 40, Gwyneth Paltrow makes it seem easy. But that doesn’t mean the Oscar winner doesn’t work hard to keep herself looking gorgeous from head to perfectly polished toes. In addition to daily workouts with trainer and business partner Tracy Anderson and her famously [...]

Congressman Turner Holds Unmanned Aerial Systems Hearing in Dayton Yesterday, Congressman Mike Turner of Ohio’s 10th District held a field hearing at Sinclair Community College to discuss the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems. Congressman Turner chairs the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces. He says the reason for the hearing was [...]

A unique collaboration between colleges and the Army is giving students a chance for hands-on learning while advancing research into unmanned aerial systems. Four RQ-11A small unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, have been at Alabama A&M, Auburn University, Middle Tennessee State and Mississippi State since 2012. The universities also received ground control stations and Toughbook [...]