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Inbox zero is not just inbox 0
Apr 2. 2016
Inbox zero is a state where your email inbox has zero messages. Not zero unread messages, zero messages total.
To some, inbox zero was a new years resolution (still working on it!). To others it's a habit, a way of life. And for most of us it's a distant place that we can only dream of visiting someday. A trip that is postponed until further notice.
As the idea for this post came to me, I started wondering about the origin story. I don't have internet access as I write this so I'm just going to guess.
In the early-days of email we had Excite, AOL, Yahoo, and Hotmail. Microsoft Outlook was dominant in the corporate world. I used all of these tools and I don't recall having an 'Archive' feature in any of them. Inbox management was simply read an email, file it away, or leave it in your inbox.
Then came Gmail with it's mysterious Archive button. Google replaced folders with labels and archiving. Coming from Outlook it took me sometime to adopt the habit of archiving (I was stuck in the folders concept). But once I got comfortable with tapping that Archive button, I started to get closer to the state of Inbox zero.
So my conclusion is Inbox zero is the byproduct of Gmail's Archive button.
But why inbox zero? Why strive for this elusive state?
If you don't get there, you're using email wrong. Email becomes the itch you cannot scratch as the never ending list of messages continue to pile on. You read some now, you figure you'll get to others later, and you never feel accomplished because you have so many more to go through.
Your main argument is all those emails need your attention. The flash sale email, the obscure sneaker newsletter, deals on flights to Europe, bank notice, club soccer team group thread, all these emails need to be looked at and processed. But if you aren't shopping for anything right now, or planning on going on a European vacation, do you really need to process those emails? Why not just archive them and if you do happen to need a new pair of pants the next day, use the search tool to find that flash sale email.
If your inbox is a task list, you are doing email wrong.
Your approach should be receive, process, archive. Ideally you do this in deliberate, planned, time-allocated chunks. This way you process them in bulk and are not interrupted throughout the day processing email. If an email does require you to take some action, schedule it. Add it to your calendar or your favorite task list tool. Schedule it, archive it.
In the early-days of the internet, the volume of email circulating was minimal. Today, the amount of newsletters and email notifications that exist is mind boggling. You can easily get 100 emails a day. Given this, reassess how many of these services and notices you actually need. The fewer you have, the easier it will be for you to reach inbox zero.
Getting to inbox zero will bring not only a sense of accomplishment, but of resolve. You're caught up. You've scheduled any relevant actions. You've processed the information. You can carry on with your day knowing that you don't have to check your inbox every few minutes.
It's the lifestyle habits and processes you instill that make inbox zero much more valuable than just inbox zero.


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This story is about how things started I was only 13 and very confused I recall the first time things began between me and my dad I was only 13,I was home alone with him and he was watching tv as I walked by he patted the couch and said come on watch tv with me, thinking nothing of it I sat with him after a while he shut off the tv and turned to me and asked have you ever played truth or dare??
No dad i havent.he asked me how about we play then?
I nervously answered ok not sure I wanted to play this game with my dad after all I had secrets an i didnt want to tell them, he went first asking truth or dare? I said truth, so he asked have you ever kissed a boy? No.my turn truth or dare .truth he said do you love me?
Yes of course I do silly he said.this went on for while and i relaxed thinking ok this is dumb! the next time he asked me truth or dare I said Dare.this is where everything changed for me, he grinned real big and said I dare you to take all your clothes off and lay naked while I touch your tits.I said do I have to? he told me well its part of the game and its the rules so I did as I was told I took off all my clothes and laid naked he started touching my tits real slow told me to close my eyes and then I felt his mouth on my tit real warm, I squirmed trying to move away but he held me down saying hold still, I started to get a little scared but he told me that it was all ok that sometimes girls have to help there dad's out and that is what i was going to do, I felt his hand move over my body and between my legs it was like small electrical shocks as he explored my virgin pussy, I wont lie it felt very good but i knew it was so wrong for him to be touching me this way but I knew better then to argue so i let him continue, he slid one finger inside me moving in and out rubbing over my clit tickling it lightly, he said he was going to stop but he wanted me to sit up and stay naked, when he removed his finger from me I sat up and he took his pants off and laid next to me and told me to put my hand around his dick and stroke him, I told him i didnt know how.so he grabbed my hand and wrapped it around his dick and worked my hand up and down telling me just like this,I could hear his breathing getting faster as I stroked him, he told me how good it felt and what a good girl i was to do this for him, as I was stroking thinking ok this is easy he told me baby i want you to kiss my cock and then suck it like a sucker I leaned over and started kissing and sucking i felt him put his hands over my head and move me up and down then he pushed me back and told me baby watch daddy is going to cum, I watched as he shot his cum all over his belly, he got his breath back and wiped off asking me what i thought i told him it was wierd.
and asked him if that was how a girl cam to? he told me not quite and that he would show me if I would just lay back and lay still and do what he said that if I said ok that i could not stop anything I had to finish not knowing at that time what it would mean I agreed, he laid me back and pulled me to the edge of his bed he spread my legs and started rubbing my pussy working his finger slowly inside, he knelt down and placed his mouth on my pussy kissing slowly and began licking up and down, it felt so good i started moaning and squirming he paused his licking and said feels good does it baby?
I moaned yes daddy soo good what is happening, he said you are getting ready for me.I had no idea what that ment but i liked what he was doing so i didnt ask he went back to licking and sucking I felt this warm tingly feeling building inside and started trying to move back, but my daddy grabbed my hips and said no baby go with itI started cumming my first cum ever screaming oh DADDY DADDY it feels good what is it DADDY DONT STOP, as i started coming down from my first high of cummingI saw my dad stand up and pull me forward a bit more and say ok now we have some real fun just like adults I started to panic and try to move back he grabbed me by my hips and said DONT FIGHT ME!
I told you we would finish this and you agreed, I said daddy no please not with you i dont want to.he told me thats to bad daddy is going to fuck your pussy im going to shove my cock all the way inside you untill I cum and your going to love it! I can do it easy or I can hurt you its your choice so what is it going to be?
I didnt answer so he slapped my leg hard! answer me NOW! ok I sobbed the easy way ill be good, I watched in horror as he grabbed his cock and lined it up with my pussy thinking it wont go in its to big!
he rubbed up and down getting it wet and then started pushing forward, I felt my pussy streatching around him as he moved forward, then he hit against my Hymen he told me ohhh babygirl this is going to hurt a little but you will be fine and you will love it once this part is over I said Daddy no please dont lets just stop!.He pulled back making me think maybe he was going to stop then he slammed forward right through my hymen I screamed it hurts please take it out it hurts!
but he didnt he started moving in and out of my pussy telling me what a good girl i was to make her daddy feel so so good!
and that soon he was going to fill me with his cum but not untill I cam on his cock.daddy no it still hurts I dont want to cum for you!
he started rubbing my clit while he continued fucking my pussy and it stopped hurting, it actually felt good! I started getting that tingly feeling again I was moaning and pushing back against him, he whispered in my ear it feels good huh baby?
I moaned yes daddygood baby cum for daddy and not 5mins later I cam so hard on his cock, screaming again im cumming daddy im cumming, good girl baby daddy feels you milking his cock, Im going to cum soon baby all inside you as i started to cum down from my orgasum I felt daddy start cumming he screamed AHHHH Im cumming he cam what seemed like forever inside me when he was done he laid next to me and said god you are sexy little girl I need you to clean me up now he told me to take his cock in my mouth again and suck it clean i told him it was gross but he told me to do it anyway so I did what he said sucking his cum, my cum and my virgin blood off his cock gagging a bit but I did it while he smiled and said I was a good girl when i finished i curled in a ball and I heard him say .I loved taking your Virginity baby girl, I didnt look at him I didnt know what to say just knowing what we had done was sooo wrong, and at the same time I had liked it.then another thought came to mind daddy cam in me what if I got pregnant?
and I just laid there shocked and scared.(to be continued?)

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The junit test for bundled plugins is failing on Ubuntu but didn't on Mac. The following error was thrown.
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The tests with `buildPlugin` should cover this as it tests on linux and windows. I think this is safe to close.
After looking into this a little more, it seems that I was using Java 11 on my Ubuntu vm, and by default buildPlugins only tests for Java 8 (https://github.com/jenkins-infra/pipeline-library). I don't really fully understand the error yet, but it seems to be caused by a change introduced in Java 11. I'll close this ticket and open a separate one about adding compatibility with Java 11.
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Modern Steel Products (2014) - Introduction: lecture 1
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A course of lectures by Professor Bruno de Cooman, of the Graduate Institute of Ferrous Technology, POSTECH, Republic of Korea. This comprehensive course leads the audience through a large variety of metallurgical aspects that influence steel products.
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the committee hearing clearly so before we start and like to have your your name on the paper so we can have a look at it afterward so just put your name on it and your affiliation so if you're wrong From GST right until Schiffer for material science or any other department right and the average and please use nice nice script so I can read what's your name this the rate of so did number of things the material will be on the E-Class site yes there's nothing today so don't look for it has yet to come the it's 1 thing the other thing is that did that Of course is being taped right so if you want to look at it again some you miss something or or you missed a class that you can always have a look at it and and so please refrain from you know using the mobile phone or something so the 2 classes this is also a nice and easy and to watch without disturbances but let me have refused number of other EU as we start if you want to won't have a textbook that goes with 2 course there is a book called Fundamentals of steel products physical analogy it's available from IST . org and you can order it on this site and the price is 50 dollars it's a softcover His mother material from the course in there but not everything but that's a good thing book to have if you would want a textbook for this course you don't need to buy at all the material would discuss will be in the slides that will be on the site the class of right then some organizational points we meet here twice a week at 11 o clock here on Tuesday and on Thursday and then we started 11 we finish at 12 15 years room for 1 I don't have time for my courses I don't use exams or matter we do want quiz every week so on Thursday morning we take 10 which is really took 15 minutes for a short quiz about the material from the 2 previous classes so you don't need to just need to keep up with the material so that gives you also due the entire the semester you will have about 100 to 150 questions that you will have answered and that is plenty of and I also use In order to foil having it language bias yes the answer the questions are either multiple-choice or yes-or-no questions right or it's very simple calculations there is there is very little language bias To date the tests also it's just if you worried about the number of quizzes rage you can miss 1 or to quizzes them because you sick or United have to go conference or you have is an experiment you have to do out of town so I will understand that yes if you missed more than 2 quizzes you're in trouble .period that's the idea ideas of that
you you take courses alright would would is the essence of the course when I designed to cause was the big idea so most of you for all of you either in materials science or in steel research yet and so would this course offers you is the big picture about steel products Seoul on most of you are either a master's degree students the PhD students you're involved actively involved in research but research tend to be very focused by its nature so you will be working all partitioning of molybdenum you know 2 car by in a heat-resistant steels that this very tiny little it also science Europe Uribe's working on this and some of you may be doing this study of this partitioning my motherland the The course offers you the opportunity to see you know where your research for From Italy steel products point of view that's because we easily talk about steals but there are many steals the very many applications and steals a very different yes so what's the big picture but so although this is not the traditional materials science courses we tried to use this materials science well-known materials science Trudy drawn yes where there is a balance between looking at Mike rastructure of the material looking at how the Microsoft rupture involves Ariz created during the process sees such as for instance here in the forging and in looking at the properties over Steele's years and also looking at the engineering performance In service for instance when we talk about the chemical properties of steels for automotive crash resistance is the being application the performance parameter to will try to To also incorporate this view this holistic view in and of course but said at this for the
start here the 1st couple of lectures will just we heard saying just to make sure everybody has the concepts knows the concept in the world will be talking about the fundamentals for the the 1st classes so will talk about it Kompas things like compositions of steel steel crystal structure Microsoft rupture strength from a very general point of view so and as and and this will allow us to set the stage for the relationship between properties and Mike rastructure ruptures and also how the MicroStrategy is generated In but mainly thermal cycles and thermal cycles which it is vault involved mainly what we call the decomposition of Austin right and also also show you through examples that's a you know what how it how you go about getting these properties in practice where I am so this course is not a basic core introductory level course interview looking for a basic introductory level courses is not that I assume that you already have a considerable amount of you know knowledge and you feel familiar with no material science concepts such as diffusion of I'm not going to have explain to you what diffusion as I assume you know what it is and what controls because this is not a course about fundamentals wrecked so at the beginning I just want to stressed the discuss rather than from the an aspect of of steel is like why is it that the the two-day hearing problem we are like a whole institute devoted to still science and training in those 2 as you know what makes me no steel so you know special that you know you have steel institutes across the world working on this material as well 1st of all I want to do to show you how How big the material errors but and this is for instance is a graph here where I show you distill production and millions of tons per year as a function of the time here and up to say a 1970 she's about 4 years ago Levels of steel production had reached around 600 million tons a year and a nowadays we are will probably reach 3 times that amount thousand 800 His million tons is a 1 . 8 billion Thomas a year of steel production that is incredible forceful travel increase yes but at the inn the growth rate in steel production but it's also you know a few at a massive amount of materials so steal still is the material that we not only make most of in terms of weight but also in terms of volume and a lot of it is driven by economic growth of course we would know steals gets gets produced because its use yes you never forget that yes what do you do still research and you the work and steel plants because somebody else also there users of this material and needs and an example for instance are the automotive industry has "quotation mark of industry and you can see how the the trends in the number of cars produced every year but in the world that follows very closely the steel production units and so it's very important you to realize that this it's not that car production follows this steel production it's the steel production who follows the growth in the car the man OK and it's very important here that's the driver is economic growth and jobs how many cars do we produced per year in the world 17 2 million cars per year 17 million cars a year against hazardous a huge number and it's growing goes up and down of course this is for instance doesn't that here is the recent financial crisis this time but you can see the numbers are back up has and will continue to grow this is only cars this a passenger car doesn't the doesn't include light trucks it doesn't include trucks a dozen accrued all the all the other transportation means of transportation we use it's just basically your regular type of passenger cars here right so but when we
talk about steel to stop so we talk about mostly carbon steel and that's going to be they core of the costs that will be talking about carbon steel and carbon steel families family has a little brother for this In this stainless steels that in comparison it's only the size of the the stainless steel production is only a few per cent so few persons Of the the amount of the amount of steels produced every year from the list deals are steals which have very different physical metallurgist units the produce In a similar but different ways and carbon steel we will not talk about stainless steels in this course if you want to here and learn about stainless steel there is a separate quarters on stainless steels acheived it so you can't you can take that course and and hear about these products and their physical mental agenda production yes and usually but it's not always the case stainless steels are produced in plants separately from carbon steel but again as I said it's not always the case you have smaller companies that will produce commercial grades notice using electric arc furnace roots and it will produce both carbon steels and certain of the new very well no 1 stainless steel for which there is demand OK so altered the application areas for stainless steels and carbon steels are deference so date basically served other industries so if you look in the carbon steels Our close to 70 per cent about 70 per cent of the currencies are using enough transport as I said instance automotive trucks industry Watson to steel goes in there and there is and the building industry structures civil engineering structures buildings etc. 22 % so these are 2 very big clients and well-defined clients of the steel industry carbon carbon steel industry in the case of stainless steel the processing industry and the agricultural and fooled products industry uses 40 per cent of the very different clients they make use of the fact that stainless steels are resistant to corrosion and so for instance in food production yes it's extremely important that your view of the materials that come into contact with food are not contaminated in any way or form so for instance if you visit a milk processing plant for instance has everything is made out of stainless steel yes there's no carbon steel being used so different clients different metallurgists and so we will not be taught will be talking about these and carbon steels in the cost of
the lectures now and again let's have a look at numbers here yes so you get an idea of what it means to produce 1 . 8 billion tons of steel for years In an integrated steel company that's a company like Paul school 1 year plan yes In the steel plants will produce steel treatment of the IRA In In process that's called the oxygen uh the BUX is the basic oxygen furnace process In this process you know depending on the steel plant in the technology 250 Thomas to 400 Tong about every half an hour yes 24 hours per day 200 attribute 365 days per year yes In 1 furnace yes there are many furnaces blessed with basic oxygen furnaces in integrated plants but if these in plant like Bohon works and we produce flat flat products in such as coils yes these 250 to 400 tons are translated into 10 coils of 250 tons or 11 coils of 36 tons as 36 dollars being big coiled so the length of these coils varies 27 thousand meters so if you uncoiled theirs you have 27 kilometers of yes or 40 thousand square meters of material that is being produced 30 minutes so we're talking about you which amounts of material that's 1 of the strengths of the steel as a material is that it's available because obviously we would talk about hung about the many companies like this in China japan Western Europe North America that produce at this same right so we produced huge amounts of steel soda consumption is very high and if you plot the consumption of steel as a function of the children's consumption of materials and as a function of the price you also see that steel it has very low price yes it's a very available material and it's also very low-cost materials yeah and just so you you can see here Steel is a top here then you have a plastics of aluminum structural plastic composites magnesium epoxy composites hi tania that we use I'm very many the materials and steals I but the whenever we do this yes In many applications the the advantage of the low cost and the availability of the the material is very important to him so for instance the car industry today use steel still make very many parts In a powertrain parts the year spring for suspension Springs Fla the engines Of course mechanical parts for transmissions the motor here we'll exhaust systems etc. the the main part of the the use of
steel His body in white about 40 per cent of the car's weight is in steel and this for the body but of the many in the car many other materials are being used to make car yes even what we call the steel car now contains many other materials bentsen
particularly if you out if you look at the materials that are being used To make a traditional that for instance this yield which is produced in Korea today then a you know we make this is was the body of the car as with the steals show in in this graph and his graph shows the properties of these different steals totally long-duration as tensile strength you know from your materials science the classes that whenever you have high-strength materials tend to have low Dr. Lydia it doesn't have to be this way there are materials humorous deals that don't for which this general rule does not apply but but does apply in the case of of the steel spheres and and you can see this is a crime that demanded the properties of the steals that use of very different you have very soft steals about 300 mega Pascal in tensile strength a new very hard up to to 1600 mega Pascal strength and in these steals can have a softer ones a very high plasticity reductive if you make a tensile specimen in tested 40 45 per cent of the the harder materials much less plasticity have much less plastics but you can them
replaced steel when other materials the car industry again the car industry doesn't use steel because this because the steel industry tells it to yes the car industry there's nothing to do with steel industry yes they just use materials to make cars so there I have alternative materials are available 2 of the car industry do to do their material selection it can use aluminum alloys that Itanium alloys if the use malaise they do use polymer making use of very strong carbon fiber reinforced composites has and they do they but we show you for instance here the city's aluminum alloy well are used 2 to use the different ways I don't know if you familiar with is that the different ways in which you can make cars you can make cars into the model cop concept where you have to do the body of the car is also the structure of the car yesterday or you can have a space frame concept where you 1st built a frame and then you put then that's going to be to the structure of the the structural backbone of the car and then you put external parts on the on the on off body parts on this frame yes so there are different to alloys that they're being used different materials that areas that have been used yes of course if you make Monica lock you have sheet aluminum sheet if you have space frame you will use die castings and extrusions used to make the space for it so use aluminum alloys that you would say we you know that the density is much lower than that of steel so it would be obvious change to make certainly because you can see the properties are very close to this in the properties of the steals we already use yesterday but that masks the number of things you know you're probably familiar with aluminum you know there's nothing wrong with the little Missouri plastic UCD nation very high so what's no 1 on Tuesday I'm not well there some tension challenges 1 of them is that this strain hardening is also issued you you take in the aluminum and deformable that it doesn't harden as much as steel so you body is aware yes and the strain rate sensitivity it is negatives what does that mean that means that it's harder to make high-quality presents and yes and the material I will give you more difficulties In during press forming and that's that's how you make body parts is my press forming wooded dies and so this lowered so there are manufacturing challenges when you use aluminum that do not exist this Wikinews state it's a few more words about this minimal but I want to stress that to you the fact that so but the steel is not used because the steel industry forces everybody to use its its use because it's in the match you people needed for public and in particular while we're talking about Karzai I want you to know that but the still this this competition between materials has always existed in its very often you know on people presented this as if I this materials competition is something new and dangerous and you know the challenge that the steel industry has never faced but you know for instance and there's some really interesting things for instance of the over 100 years ago yes I went out and people started building cars and user is a series of cars from Nona Portia cars loan arresting me company and Portia is the designer it's the same portion of that Ferdinand Porsche from the racing cars says the same person this is these other cars he decided early in his career there is no steel being used here Kassirer and some and unwanted mainly yes and is also no internal combustion engine user electrical cars all 3 of them you may use to win all the races yes and no without using a drop of gasoline that's 100 years ago that's actually how to steal the car industry started electrical cars and no steel yes In the island AP and and I'm
only elected to internal combustion engine that was invented and developed and it was very clear that the performance of the internal combustion engine could not be matched by electrical motors so this whole early electrical motors vehicle development was pretty much stopped but about a
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aspects of sees as a consequence we still know still see that in very many applications steel is the material of choice at a construction applications definitely you familiar with reinforcement bars structural steels bridge cables yes all of them made of carbon steels the roof
tile panels interior of the the building's ventilation and air conditioning ducts roofs stainless steel in this application but
packaging furniture very often we have of steel products being used we look around this this office is a lecturer room we don't see the steel yes but it's there for instance of this this most of this desk is actually still you're so when we spend but you look at it you don't you don't think steel bread that actually most of it is still and again in all these if we would remove the paneling yes uh everything you would see behind the paneling would be still just mostly steel pipes the structural steals etc 2 that of course young
consumer appliances are made of steel very often we already discussed the automotive applications there are certain applications where and even if yeah you know you we would start to use posits a room to make cars you would not be able to replace that easily in the power and energy applications for instance that's the case electrical steels yes so stiff that are used to make the electrical motors very tiny ones to do very big ones they're all made of steel yes made of steals because of the electrical properties of status and the magnetic properties of states as you know so lecturer motorists transformers all are an entire energy grid depends on a very high quality of power transformers they're all made out of steel and then you cannot just replace it with an alternative materials 2 can end
all industries and shipbuilding related to the oil industry Oleg gas industry rigs like these offshore rigs this uh tanker here In gas for gas transport this carrier here all of all of these are made 100 % carbon steel and to very and
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of steel market so we have a material that has a very very Hi demand it's got the right in terms of price it's not the excessively high prices and there is a lot of it available yes there is another a big strength that still has yes it said the price stability yeah I many uh materials are very sensitive to what called speculative price changes so where people buy material just for financial reasons to speculate on price changes aluminum many the pytania zinc Nicole 1 the prices vary fluctuate a lot more then for steel and the reason is because people by and so nickel just to buy and sell it to make money on the transactions they're not interested in using it it in any way is just interested in I'm not making money on that commodity this is something that is totally absent in 4 steel the price is determined almost exclusively by demand yes and supply so and this is 1 of the thing is really important because if you're going to if you're a big car makers what Toyota all GM you don't buy 20 tons of steel you buy huge amounts of steel and so you make big contracts which steel companies over long terms and so it's very important that the price remains the same that's because of the prices fluctuate this is going to be and the additional costs because you will have to take an insurance yes To protect you against very big changes in the price they if the price will double yes all you have to have insurance that will take care Of this change and yes so you have to get 2 hedge you are In yourself you protect yourself against these fluctuations that things become more costly yes right God so so much for the general introduction we will now start with them admittedly reviewing the basics and 2 0 0 4 the year physical malady of steel and as you can see here in these micro grass 1 of the important things to do this too To look at Mike rastructure insisted and but when you talk about Mike rastructure of structure steels it's important to us we realize that there are many scales of Mike rastructure for instance there is democracy would call the macro scale than Mesa skill on the at 2 Potomac sticks scale has obviously you know the macro scale that's no uterus something you can capture with a camera it's something you can see massive scale it's what you need an optical microscope for years if you want to go down to atomic-scale you will need an electron microscope high-resolution machine yes and all these things are important for instance it may be that you observed a crack in your material visually the material is this season's crack of this crack may be due grain boundaries yet the cohesion of grain boundaries because of grain for some reason there is grain loss of grain boundary strength you would be able to see is the cohesion at the massive scale and the optimistic scale would allow you to you could see that this is the cohesion is related to segregation of sulfur phosphorus at grain boundaries for instance as such what and this all is MicroStrategy just like rastructure spans many scale so will talk about this
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and we know that of crystal structures this is 1 of the crystal structures of Steelers we have translational symmetry you have symmetry axis Madrid planes and other cemeteries in any way which we will be using the courses unit-cell here yes and so if you translate if you repeated this unit cell in 3 dimensions you can we create the atomic structure of 1 of these flats this of course you know that and we know that there are 2 important for steals important but Crystal Graphics variants that's the the CC variant and the FCC vary from which we the call respectively right and Austinite respected this is the BCC this units sell for Arab yes In our Pollack result it basically means that the we have this unit cell this orientation is different from grain to grain and that's why I wear these 2 grains meats but there is a mismatch small large mismatch in the orientation and that's why you can't match these action these boundaries yes and make the the missile scale visible the orientation relative orientation of these units cells can be random or can be texture if its stature it means that the difference in orientations between these unit sales from grain to grain is not very large so there is a problem with goal of preferred orientation or a crystallographic texture and care certain products such as should the products wire products Have you can have very pronounced texture directions OK again you're
familiar with the crystal structures that you don't exist for Ireland for pure Al-Faran which has been BCC This is the units BCC unit-cell you know this from introduction to material science courses you've had as an undergraduate at short and you have the SEC structure which we called gamma or Austin here very different unit and this phenomenon called polymorphism I you see here that the unit itself dimensions are very well known what but . 2 8 9 nanometres for Alpha parent and its larger gamma are now is there 1 important thing 2 not to forget said although the gamma iron what this parameter is larger this is the phase if you compare the density of between Alpha and gamma this has a higher density because here I have more atoms 4 units sell then he area to act as Brazilian itself here have year after letters a year for atoms for units Account so the higher density is this way so when I go from their right to Allston nite there is decreases In size and dimensions on increase in just to make sure I need you know confused so few if I have a piece of steel and I it's far right at room temperature NI heated up to a temperature where the transforming face transformation occurs and then this sample this smaller it's it's reduced in other words I have more atoms pop closer to the the patterns of closer together to get a higher density and so the density goes up this the same number of atoms right it also means that if I go from here to here yes from high temperature To I have an expansion this winter still here in this direction have contraction His direction and expansion so that means that With the transformation there will be there may always but there always stresses involved here because when you when you go if you cool down something the temperature is not the same everywhere but can be slightly cooler in 1 area than the other ones so the transformation will not be homogeneous yes and so you may have internal stresses as a consequence so polymorphism the C C R and S E C R SEC irony is a higher density so there's
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have small interstitial carbon atoms and to a lesser extent nitrogen atoms we have interstitial these interstitials in particular carbon and nitrogen and yes no will be interstitial is located in the latter's and it that we know from our own studies over many years that did the favorite position of the carbon madam is in the Oct taking droll positions this book book both in the far-right and in the Austin area and so this is desired the optic he drove In and the many this is 1 of the officers many different options Dr. he and this is the optic in the Austin yes but now I want you to its important for you to realize that this size the size of the October he drawn yesterday the size the space available here yeah and the space available here is a very different units so the diameter Of the October the drill space With just before I go on you have to realize that because I To make the crystal structure clear very often we draw the unit-cell like this when we do this we make the fiery items very small yes the iron atoms are there are much bigger than that actually they touch each other In in this direction yes In this out and this sentiment is out of touch each other so but if I would do this if I would draw them size you wouldn't be able to see the crystal structure very clearly so we make them smaller but that was actually much bigger and it particularly along along this these diagonal touch each other so that that this is the space he Antioch he space is small and the diameter of this is this time a point 0 3 8 nanometers and its 2 ends much larger in the case of 8 Austin attic that he drove into assistants this has a very big there implications carbon is not soluble In the a right and it's very soluble in Austin this is a very important thing you have to remember and then verite and it's too density prospects and the other thing is that In steals where you have carbon carbon is soluble In Austinite it is not soluble In Sara at room temperature but then you will oscillate ways attended you know when I was an undergraduate they told me about fire and in price and why are you drawing it here if it's not soluble in which the point point is is that that's the equilibrium situation carbon cannot be is not soluble in fairer at room temperature but when you process steals when you make sales you are rarely in equilibrium situations so you you process materials quickly you have very high calling and you can keep elements that are not supposed to be in solution you can keep them in Super saturation yes it also means that if you give the material they need the material a chance to get out of the latter's yes it will do so very quickly In the case of carbon you know you may not know that the common will very quickly make a Carbide called semen time as soon as it gets the opportunity OK so and so what happens basically and uh when the carbon is kept in solution it will do this is to set this to he drowned in the sea see it will distort artistic doctor he drove us and so this elastic energy is is a relatively large and constitutes a driving force for the precipitation or formation of Carter writes
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Laying a marble floor without grout is possible so long as proper care is taken to assure your layout is perfectly square. You will be butting the tiles up against each other, so there isn't any room to work out problems encountered in the grout joints, as would normally be the case. It would also be helpful to purchase a higher-quality marble tile since the consistency among tiles will be better.
Determine a square corner to establish a starting point. To find a square corner, use the 3-4-5 rule. This means that if you measure and mark out one wall from the corner any multiple of 3 and the other wall any multiple of 4, the distance between the two marks will be exactly the multiple of 5 if the corner is square.
As an example, if the room is 10 by 10, measure 8 feet from the corner on one wall and make a mark. Measure 6 feet down the other wall and make another mark. If the distance between the two marks is exactly 10 feet, the corner is perfectly square. If you are within an 1/8 inch, you are OK. Use the longest measurements that will work to get the best accuracy. This is a much better test than a carpenter's square.
Measure and pop a chalk line the distance of two tiles (probably 24 inches) from one of the walls. Continue measuring and popping lines the same distance all the way across the room. Do the same from the wall that is perpendicular, and you have determined to be square. You should end up with a grid of lines spanning the room. This will ensure that the installation is square.
Mix thinset according to the package directions. Begin spreading it with the notched trowel inside the squares down one of the walls. Begin laying the tiles inside the squares. Use the straightedge to make sure the edge of the tiles are straight against the lines. Use your fingers to press the tiles into the thinset, making sure that adjacent edges are smooth. There can be very slight differences in the thickness of tiles. Since you don't have a grout joint to cover this up, it is important to make sure the floor is smooth and the tiles are flush.
Continue working your way across the floor, using your grid lines to make sure the tiles are square and straight. Use the wet saw to make cuts against walls as needed. Allow the thinset to cure for at least 24 hours.
- If you don't have a square corner, don't pop the lines in both directions. This will only exaggerate the problem. In that case, pop lines in one direction and use it to keep the tiles square and straight. In the other direction, work in small sections to make sure you aren't getting out of square.
- If you have a corner of a tile that won't fit flush, pull it out and turn it 90 degrees until it fits flush. Set any tiles that you can't fit flush aside and use them for cuts.


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June 14, 2017 (WAU) – Taban Deng Gai, South Sudan's First Vice President, claimed that the return of rebel leader Riek Machar to Juba to participate in the National Dialogue was a "recipe for disaster and would impose more catastrophe in the country."
In a speech before an extraordinary meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) leaders on Monday 12 June, Gai insisted that the presence of Machar in the country always lead to death and disaster, something the people of the country do no need.
"Machar who has been exiled to South Africa should remain there and will not consent to re-join the political process to end the conflict in the country without using his army," Gai told the IGAD leader in the Ethiopian Capital, Addis Ababa, according to the text of his statement seen by Sudan Tribune.
During the discussions of the one-day meeting, the heads of state and government decided to urgently "revitalise the full implementation of the ARCSS;" pointing to the failure of the current government in Juba to implement the peace agreement and pave the way democratic reforms.
IGAD leaders praised the national dialogue process which would lay down the ground for national reconciliation but stressed that the ending the war and improve the humanitarian situation in the country should be prioritised for the time being.
The first deputy further tried in his speech to convince the IGAD leader that Riek Machar was filing with efforts to use military action to rule the country, stating that Machar did not need the National Dialogue.
"I who was with Riek Machar know him more than anyone and with his own mindset, he is not intending to take part in any process, he wants to become the President of South Sudan even through war," said Gai who was the SPLM-IO chief negotiator.
He went on to respond to the calls by several political officials that Machar should be allowed to return to Juba as a normal citizen.
"This is the beginning of everything. If Riek is proposed to return to Juba, tomorrow people will move to a new topic of bringing him to his former post which he left last year. I am not predicting that he should take over of my post, the reality is, Riek is fill of destroying the country," emphasised the First Vice President.
"By the end the of the transitional period, the full integration of the army will have been completed and it would be safe for South Sudan to accept the return of Riek Machar who can then come and contest peaceful democratic elections as a civil political leader," he said.
Gai added that it would be unwise for Riek Machar to return to South Sudan now because of his behaviour, but he was more than welcome to send delegates on his behalf.
"The unity government has no objection in principle to Machar sending a delegation to deliver his views and message to the people of South Sudan in the National Dialogue Forum," said the First Vice President.
SPLM-IO believe that the peace agreement implementation should be discussed to fix the modalities of the ceasefire and to open humanitarian access to the civilians but also they want their share in the transitional government tasked with the enforcement of the deal and to give their leader his position of the first vice president.


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Unemployment Insurance: Louisiana
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Author: Patricia A. Morley, Research and Writing Associates
- Unemployment insurance is a nationwide program created to provide partial wage replacement to unemployed workers while they conduct an active search for work. Unemployment insurance is a joint federal-state program based on federal law and executed through state law. See Louisiana Unemployment Insurance.
- Employers finance unemployment insurance with state and federal tax contributions. The Federal Unemployment Tax Act (FUTA) was created to finance all administrative expenses of the federal/state unemployment insurance system and the federal costs involved in providing benefits. The Louisiana unemployment tax is used for the payment of regular benefits to qualified unemployed workers. See Louisiana Unemployment Insurance.
- Unemployment benefits will generally last for up to 26 weeks. See Benefits.
- Claimants must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible for unemployment benefits. See Eligibility.
- Employers and claimants may waive the right to receive written notices or determinations by certified mail. See Unemployment Claims.
- Parties to an appeal should receive notice seven days prior to the hearing. See Unemployment Claims.
- Other forms of pay may reduce unemployment benefits. See Effect of Other Payments.
- Louisiana employers must comply with specific recordkeeping, notice and posting requirements related to unemployment insurance. See Recordkeeping; Notice and Posting Requirements.