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MIT Researchers Solve Temperature Problem in 3D Printing Glass; End of Glass Blowers?

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 03:01 PM PDT

Are custom glass blowers next in line to be replaced by robots?

The problem has always been in working with temperatures at close to 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. However, MIT researchers have solved the problem.

Please consider Scientists Develop New High-Temperature System to 3D Print Transparent Glass.

MIT researchers have for the first time developed a new high-temperature system that can produce 3D printed transparent glass objects.

Researchers have attempted to 3D print glass objects in the past, but a major obstacle has been the extremely high temperature needed to melt the material.

The high-temperature system developed by the team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) retains the strength and transparency of glass.

The new system was developed by Neri Oxman, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab; Peter Houk, director of the MIT Glass Lab; MIT researchers John Klein and Michael Stern; and six others.

Like other 3D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design programme, producing a finished product with little human intervention.

One challenge the researchers faced was keeping the filament of glass hot enough so the next layer of the structure would adhere to it, but not so hot that the structure would collapse into a shapeless lump.

They ended up producing three separate components that can independently be heated to the required temperatures - the upper reservoir for the stock of molten glass, the nozzle at the bottom of that chamber, and a lower chamber where the printed object is built up.

"Glass is inherently a very difficult material to work with," Klein said.

The new process could allow unprecedented control over the glass shapes that can be produced, Oxman said.

"We can design and print components with variable thicknesses and complex inner features -- unlike glassblowing, where the inner features reflect the outer shape," Oxman said.

Mike "Mish" Shedlock

Real Median Earnings for Men at 1971 Level, Women at 2001 Level; Household Income at 1996 Level; What About the War on Poverty?

Posted: 16 Sep 2015 10:55 AM PDT

If you are looking for evidence that QE has done anything to improve income for the bottom half of the nation you will not find it in data released today from the Census Bureau.

Please consider the census report on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States for 2014.

Highlights

Median household income was $53,657 in 2014 [down 1.5% from 2013]. This is the third consecutive year that the annual change was not statistically significant, following two consecutive years of annual declines in median household income.
In 2014, real median household income was 6.5 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the most recent recession.
The real median income of non-Hispanic White households declined 1.7 percent between 2013 and 2014. For Black, Asian, and Hispanic-origin households, the 2013-2014 percentage changes in real median income were not statistically significant
The real median income of households maintained by a foreign-born person increased by 4.3 percent between 2013 and 2014. In contrast, the median income of households maintained by a native-born person declined 2.3 percent.

Real Median Household Income

Household Income Progress

Real median household income for all races is where it was in 1996.
Real median household income for white non-Hispanics is where it was in 1997.
Real median household income for blacks is where it first was in 1995.
Real median household income for Hispanics is where it first was in 1998.
Real median household income for Asians is where it first was in 1995.

Real median household income for all races is 6.5 percent lower than 2007, and 7.2 percent lower than the median household income peak ($57,843) that occurred in 1999.

Earnings of Men vs. Women - Fulltime Workers

Earnings Progress

The female-to-male earnings ratio is at an all-time high of 79 percent
Real median earnings of male fulltime workers is at a 1971 level
Real median earnings of female fulltime workers is at a 2001 level

By the way, those "real earnings" numbers assume you believe the government's measure of inflation. Note that the CPI does not reflect home prices or property taxes, and is at best a crude, inefficient, measure of prices.

Poverty

The poverty rate is where it was in 1966.

On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the "Economic Opportunity Act" kicking off his "Great Society" and the "War on Poverty".

Johnson stated "Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it".

Until Johnson declared a war on poverty there was actually progress on poverty.

In 1996, president Bill Clinton signed the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act" on a mission to "end welfare as we know it".

President Clinton succeeded, in a perverse way.

For details of Clinton's success, please see States Have an Incentive to Promote (Not Stop) Disability Fraud; So How Much Fraud Is There?

Mike "Mish" Shedlock

Announcing MozCon Local 2016! - Moz Blog

Announcing MozCon Local 2016!

Posted by EricaMcGillivray

Looking to level up your local marketing and SEO skills? Join us in Seattle for MozCon Local, Thursday and Friday, February 18-19. With both an all-day conference and a half-day workshop, you'll hear from top local speakers on topics critical to local marketing, including local link building, app search, mobile optimization, content creation, and so much more. For those who attended LocalUp Advanced last year, this is its newest iteration.

For Friday's main show, we'll have a full day of speakers giving in-depth presentations with tons of actionable tips. Whether you're an in-house or agency marketer, a Yellow Pages publisher, or a consultant, you'll come away with a long to-do list and new knowledge. Plus, you'll be able to interact directly with speakers both during Q&A sessions and around the conference, and spend time getting to know your fellow local marketers.

Mary Bowling

We've teamed with our friends at Local U again to bring you in-depth workshops on Thursday afternoon. If you have specific questions and needs for your clients or local marketing, they'll be able to dive into the details, give advice, and address issues unique to your business. For those of you who attended last year's LocalUp, you'll remember the great Q&A sessions. Local U is planning a couple different tracks from agency management to recommended tools, which will be a blast.

Buy your MozCon Local 2016 ticket!

Some of our great speakers (more coming!)

Darren Shaw

Darren Shaw
Whitespark

Darren Shaw is the President and Founder of Whitespark, a company that builds software and provides services to help businesses with local search. He's widely regarded in the local SEO community as an innovator, one whose years of experience working with massive local data sets have given him uncommon insights into the inner workings of the world of citation-building and local search marketing. Darren has been working on the web for over 16 years and loves everything about local SEO.

David Mihm

David Mihm
Moz

David Mihm is one of the world's leading practitioners of Local search engine marketing. He has created and promoted search-friendly websites for clients of all sizes since the early 2000's. David co-founded GetListed.org, which he sold to Moz in November 2012.

Ed Reese

Ed Reese
Sixth Man Marketing

Ed Reese leads a talented analytics and usability team at his firm Sixth Man Marketing, is a co-founder of LocalU, and an adjunct professor of digital marketing at Gonzaga University. In his free time, he optimizes his foosball and disc golf technique and spends time with his wife and two boys.

Emily Grossman

Emily Grossman
MobileMoxie

Emily Grossman is a Mobile Marketing Specialist at MobileMoxie, and she has been working with mobile apps since the early days of the app stores in 2010. She specializes in app search marketing, with a focus on strategic deep linking, app indexing, app launch strategy, and app store optimization (ASO).

Lindsay Wassell

Lindsay Wassell
Keyphraseology

Lindsay Wassell's been herding bots and wrangling SERPs since 2001. She has a zeal for helping small businesses grow with improved digital presence. Lindsay is the CEO and founder of Keyphraseology.

Mary Bowling

Mary Bowling
Ignitor Digital

Mary Bowling's been in SEO since 2003 and has specialized in Local SEO since 2006. When she's not writing about, teaching, consulting and doing internet marketing, you'll find her rafting, biking, and skiing/snowboarding in the mountains and deserts of Colorado and Utah.

Mike Ramsey

Mike Ramsey
Nifty Marketing

Mike Ramsey is the president of Nifty Marketing and a founding faculty member of Local University. He is a lover of search and social with a heavy focus in local marketing and enjoys the chess game of entrepreneurship and business management. Mike loves to travel and loves his home state of Idaho.

Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin
Moz

Rand Fishkin uses the ludicrous title, Wizard of Moz. He's founder and former CEO of Moz, co-author of a pair of books on SEO, and co-founder of Inbound.org.

Robi Ganguly

Robi Ganguly
Apptentive

Robi Ganguly is the co-founder and CEO of Apptentive, the easiest way for every company to communicate with their mobile app customers. A native Seattleite, Robi enjoys building relationships, running, reading, and cooking.

MozCon Local takes place at our headquarters in Seattle, which means you'll be spending the day in the MozPlex. In addition to all the learning, we'll be providing great swag. Thursday's workshops will have a snack break and networking time, and for Friday's show your ticket includes breakfast, lunch, and two snack breaks. Additionally, on Friday evening, we'll have a networking party so you meet those attending, some who you may have only met on Twitter. Face-to-face ftw!

We're expecting around 200 people to join us, including speakers, Mozzers, and Local U staff. LocalUp Advanced sold out last year, and we expect MozCon Local to sell out, too, so you'll want to buy your ticket now!

Our best early-bird prices:

Ticket	Normal price	Early-bird price
Friday conference Moz or LocalU subscriber ticket	~~$599~~	$399
Friday conference GA ticket	~~$899~~	$699
Thursday workshop Moz or LocalU subscriber ticket	~~$399~~	$299
Thursday workshop GA ticket	~~$549~~	$399

In order to attend both the conference and workshop, you must purchase tickets to each. Or you may choose to attend one or the other, depending on your needs.

Buy your MozCon Local 2016 ticket!

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Seth's Blog : When did you give up?

When did you give up?

The bureaucracy is no longer your enemy. The bureaucracy is you.

And it's easy to blame your boss, or the dolt who set up all these systems, or the one who depersonalizes everything. The policies and the oversight and the structure almost force you to merely show up. And to leave as early as you can.

But the thing is, the next job, like the last one, is going to be like this. If this is the job you're seeking, if this is the level of responsibility you take, perhaps it's not just your boss.

How long ago did you decide to settle for this? How long ago did you start building the cocoon that insulates you from the work you do all day?

Years ago, the spark was still there. The dreams. And most of all, the willingness to take it personally.

You can take it personally again.