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Tax time can be stressful enough without worrying about whether your tax issues will spill over to your credit reports and affect your scores.
The good news is that simply filing an extension or finding that you owe the IRS a chunk of money come tax time shouldn't affect your credit reports. It's only when you don't have the money to pay what you owe that it can affect your credit.
Following are five ways that your yearly payment to Uncle Sam can affect your credit.
Going Into Hock to Pay Taxes
Many years ago, in my first year of self-employment, my accountant calculated my estimated taxes but forgot about the "self-employment tax" -- the portion of taxes that cover Medicare and Social Security. As a result, I learned on April 14 (!) that I owed a much bigger tax bill than I expected. At that time, there was no option to pay by credit card, and I didn't want to drain my savings entirely to pay it.
I ended up taking out a personal loan from my bank at a low interest rate and paid it off fairly quickly. It worked out OK. The loan, however, did appear on my credit reports. It didn't create any problems for me, but if you are going to borrow from another source such as credit cards or a personal loan to pay your taxes, keep in mind that debt can affect your credit scores. How much it will hurt (or help) your scores depends on everything else in your credit reports.
Keep it in perspective, though. After all, you may find it's better to owe a credit card issuer than to owe the IRS. Another option is to enter into an installment agreement with the IRS where you pay them monthly until your balance is paid off. In most cases, these payment plans don't appear on your credit. However, if you owe a large amount, you could wind up with a Notice of Federal Tax Lien filed against you, and that will definitely affect your credit. (More on that later.)
Quick Refund Woes
If you need your refund fast, you may be tempted to take advantage of a "refund anticipation loan." Often marketed as "instant" or "rapid" refunds, these short-term loans basically advance you your refund, usually at a very high cost. Whether or not this will show up on your credit reports depends on the lender's policies.
For example, H&R Block currently offers a Refund Anticipation Check, and its website states that this is a "bank deposit, not a loan." But it also offers a line of credit called the Emerald Advance and that does impact the taxpayer's credit. Their website says, "If you apply and qualify for an Emerald Advance, H&R Block Bank may report information about your account to credit bureaus. Late payments, missed payments, or other defaults on your account may be reflected in your credit report."
Also understand that if your refund takes longer than expected to arrive -- or doesn't come through at all -- you may wind up falling behind on this loan and that can end up on your credit reports. Don't think that won't happen to you. Tax-related identity theft is a large and growing problem I'll discuss in a moment. The New York Department of Consumer Affairs warns:
A RAL can damage your credit report ... If you're unable to repay the lender (usually a bank), the bank will report the unpaid debt to a credit agency which will negatively affect your credit report.
Tax Liens
If the amount of taxes you owe is large enough, or if you don't resolve your debt quickly with the IRS, you could find yourself with a tax lien on your credit reports. Tax liens fall in the "seriously negative" category with items like collection accounts or bankruptcy.
Fortunately, the IRS has become more lenient in its policies regarding tax liens in recent years. The threshold for automatically filing a lien has risen from $5,000 to $10,000. In addition, the IRS has a relatively new policy that allows taxpayers to request that lien be withdrawn once the debt has been paid in full. (After it has been withdrawn it can be removed from credit reports as well.)
And finally, taxpayers who owe $25,000 or less and enter into a direct debit installment agreement may be able to get the tax lien withdrawn after a few monthly payments have been made. If you do wind up with a tax lien on your credit reports, take the time to find out whether you can get it removed from your credit if you resolve the debt. If you're successful, your credit scores could rise significantly, provided the rest of the information in your reports is positive.
Going Bankrupt Because of Taxes
If you simply can't pay, tax debt can force you into bankruptcy. You may have to file to get rid of other debts so you can pay your taxes, or you may have to file to discharge some or all of your tax debt. Either way, the bankruptcy will be a serious setback for your credit and will remain on your reports for seven years if you file a Chapter 13 case or 10 years if you file under Chapter 7.
The reason you filed -- even if you believe the taxes were improper or unfair -- won't matter as far as your credit is concerned. All bankruptcies are treated the same when credit scores are calculated.
Identity Theft
If you file your tax return expecting a refund, but are told by the IRS that your refund has already been issued, you may discover that you are a victim of tax-related identity theft.
It's a problem that's expected to reach $21 billion during the next five years and the IRS is not doing a lot at this point to protect taxpayers. While the fact that you have been a victim of this type of fraud won't automatically affect your credit reports, you'll probably want to place a fraud alert or credit freeze on your credit reports. And that will make applying for credit or other services such as a cell phone, utilities or insurance, that much more of a hassle.
According to Identity Theft 911, it can take you up to a year to get your refund. So if you were counting on that money to pay off holiday debt, think again.
-- Credit.com's Personal Finance Expert, Gerri Detweiler focuses on financial legislation, budgeting, debt recovery and consumer savings information. She is also the co-author of Debt Collection Answers: How to Use Debt Collection Laws to Protect Your Rights, and Reduce Stress: Real-Life Solutions for Solving Your Credit Crisis as well as host of TalkCreditRadio.com. Have a question for our experts? Email them at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Arnold and Virginia Starkel of El Dorado will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary May 23, 2013.
Arnold Starkel and Virginia Hobson were married May 23, 1948 in Marion.
They have been residents of El Dorado for 60 of their 65 years of marriage.
They have two children, Vicki (Gene) Adams and Gary (Karma) Starkel; three grandchildren, Angela Starkel, Kyle Starkel Mike Roberts; and four great-grandchildren.
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Russia defeated Tahiti with ease, hitting five unanswered goals past the islanders to move on to six points in Group C and ensure their place in the quarter-finals.
With heavy rain falling at Stadio del Mare, neither side were able to find a breakthrough in the first period, despite Russia's show of superiority.
The second period opened with more success for the eastern Europeans, however, as Egor Shaykov capitalised on a defensive mistake from the Tahitians to fire home a powerful volley.
Tahiti were searching for an equaliser on the counter, but it was Russia whose domination finally told in the third period.
Egor Eremeev scored his third goal of the tournament, before Yury Krasheninnikov lobbed an awkward ball over Franck Revel in the Tahitian goal.
Ilya Leonov then stroked in a fine chance from the left flank, and it was Alexey Makarov who put a seal things as he tapped home with ease after a glaring mistake from Revel.
Tahiti still, however, have a chance to qualify for the knockout phase when they face Nigeria on Tuesday 6 September, while Russia will look to finish the group stage perfect against Venezuela.


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Has anyone seen good regens come out of the Barca academy on their saves? I'm basing all of my transfer plans on what regens come out.
Has anyone seen good regens come out of the Barca academy on their saves? I'm basing all of my transfer plans on what regens come out.
Not really, but then I haven't really looked at Barca's academy.
Holy ****, Milan just offered Pato out! Time to snap him up!
Milan are strange on this game regard Pato. A lot of people have snapped him up on a free.
Dunno who to be.
Pato is my favorite player IRL and in the game, so I would do almost anything to get him. 20m is a fair price for him, and he's only on 60k wages.
EDIT: Be Barca, Hershie
Want a challenge.
Get the level 11 file and play as Exeter Civil Service?
Try Stuttgart?
After a couple of wobbly results sending me down to 6th, ive come back with a 1-0 win over derby and a 5-0 win over QPR my polish strikers bagged his 2nd hat trick of the season and is on 11 goals in 9 games for the season.
Don't want to start too high..
5 points from promotion. 9 points to get. Doubt I'm gonna make it this year...
AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Undone by Route 1 in the 93rd minute
Had the chance to jump to 2nd with my game in hand against Hull and close the gap on forrest to 4pts
Lost 2-0
still 4th 2pts behind 2nd and 3rd
Possibly the greatest ever performance as a manager yet.
Continuously going behind but finally get our noses in front and go on to win.
3rd League Cup premiership scalp. bring on the quarter finals
Been given a 5th straight home draw to... Man City
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started a barca save yesterday night to run along my chelmsford game and boy was it fun. i just sat back took some coffee with me pitchside and the latest issue of 442 magazine and watched messi run rings around the opposition. 14games played 14won nedless to say i quit because i got bored and wasnt really feeling it!
Bugger, Ibara is out for three to four months again. Fortunately we're now in May.
Chelsea have no fit goalies and so far the manager has put four different players in goal :o
Beat 5th placed Reading 1-0 away to put breathing space between automatic promotion and the play-offs.
Still 7pts behind forrest
Finished the 2013-14 season. Update is up.
I think its fair to say that snow is a bit broken in Classic 2d.
This is what my current match looks like in Classic 2d.
FA Cup final against Man City, let in a last minute equaliser in extra time and lost 5-4 on penalties
I actually can't be bothered with a separate thread... too many fancy functions and features to get right.
How di I even get rid of it?
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Ask a mod to close it.
Two days later and I'm playing Man City AGAIN!!
Closed the gap on Forrest to 5 points after I beat preston 1-0 and they drew to Leeds
Finished 4th in the table. Board are adding 8,500 seats to Flybe ArenA at a cost of over £10 million and are improving training/youth facilities.
Lost to Watford 3-2 a draw would have been a fair result.
Missed easy chances and Watford missed a pen.
Good game
Bad outcome
8 points behind Forrest now
Going 1-0 down, then down to 10 men, then winning 2-1 at the death, is a great feeling
Ah, so this is where you are all hiding!
I've decided to put the old Arsenal save on hold for a while and start up a new save in Holland; Sparta Rotterdam to be precise. I have yet to manage in Holland for any length of time in FM10 so better late than never.
My aims: become the best team in Holland and Europe (this is a given) with a squad that has 90% Dutch players, built around young 19 year old midfielder Kevin Strootman.
My kit sponsorship has more than doubled for the new season
Henry was top scorer in the Premiership too
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I think I'm in for another season of mid-table anonymity this season. I haven't really improved my squad this year
Woo!! £33 million transfer budget
*Blows it all on a flop*
Yannis Tafer is amazing. Loaned him for Newcastle in January (on OTFFMO) and he's scored 7 in his first 2 matches! 4 away at Bolton and amazingly a hattrick at home vs Man City, who were 22 games unbeaten - we stuffed them 4-0.
And I draw 2-2 with Pontevedra in the opening game. Setting the pattern?
And Elche end my cup run again for the second season running....
Oh, FFS! A last minute mistake means we draw 1-1 with Gímnastic
EDIT: A 90+3 min free kick from Sakari Mattila means we win 2-1!!
Saved my 1st team ready for the game against Man City
Ended up losing 2-1 to Coventry
Ended up losing 3-0 to Man City
But did win 2-1 against Middlesborough
Somehow, playing like crap, we've got into 5th.
Drew to second bottom Millwall.
I need to get back on a run and chase Automatic promotion!
Wooah! Nothing like restarting your game with a win!
Especially a win that puts me third!!
Booya! Thrashed Málaga 4-1!
current celtic squad - Season 2012/13
GK - Boruc/Prandelli
DL - Wallace/Misun
DR - Hinkel/Towell
DC - O'Dea/Thompson/Loovens
ML - Mcindoe/Burns
MR - Slane/Koumas
MC - Beckham/Ticinovic/Barton/Nakamura
FC - Adriano/Lukaku/Santa Cruz/Scannell
Andrea Prandelli - £4 Million from Florentina
Lee Wallace - £4.6 Million from Hearts
Shunsuke Nakamura - Free
Ian Harte - Free
Jose Manuel Pinto - £140k - Valencia
Zander Thomson - Free
Giorgos Samaras - £1.6 Million - Coventry City
Barry Robson - Free
Sitting Top currently and in all competions. Also Holland U21 manager leading them to the Euro Under 21 Championships. Got one of the players who has impressed me from my dutch U21 squad coming in jan for £6.25 Mill. Looking a good player and will add to my midfiled as koumas, becks and naka on there way out. Plenty of good talent coming thru youth also with some good midfielders and strikers esp Scannel who is hitting the net nearly every game just now.
Starting a new Hammers save after watching that amazing game today. So glad they're safe from relegation
Yes; finally.
Unfortunetly this means debt though. Over £200million of it...
Somehow, I've managed to win the Russian Premier Division in the first season with 11th place predicted Terek Grozny.
Why has this thread been moved out of GD?
I quite enjoyed the read in GD. So many sub-forums these days
Signed a Portuguese assistant manager by the name of Ruca. I'm not particularly high up the chain and he's quite a good assistant manager - and he only wants £40 a week!
Can't really complain.
Nep - it was 'not' a punishment... for offtopic stuff
Its died a bit really, Played FM for 1st time in a week or so after finishing my 101 point season.
Broke my transfer record by signing Balotelli for £40M, I really needed a good AML/Striker
Got in a load of youth players scouted by my mass team of scouts and 2 freebies including Zac Boucher from Real Madrid.
Sold players of interest:
Abou Diaby back to Arsenal for 3.8M
Jonjo Shelvy to Malloca for 4M
Alex Smithies to Bayern for 3.6M also sold an aging Benaglio for £3.3M to Juve the season after i got him for free.
First two Games - Charity Shield v Man U - I win 3-0 Revenge after losing in the extra time of the Fa cup.
1st prem game home vs Man City - I win 4-0, Montano with 2, Jo, Prince Asamoah
2nd Prem game away at Chelsea.
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Well we've been trying to start up an all nighters forum.
awaiting a consortium takeover at Cardiff, Hopefully brings some cash in or atleast cear the debt.
On my 2nd season as the Bolton Wanderers manager..... Just been knocked out of the first knock-out stages of the Europa League by Werder Bremen.
4 days after that, I was in the League Cup final vs. West Ham. Lost 1-0 because of an own-goal.
Got Reading away in the FA Cup next match..... I don't even want to think about being knocked out of 3 competitions within the space of 10 days.
Just moved into the 73,000 capacity Speake Stadium after winning the 19/20 title.
I'm annoyed that all my players seem to end up at Man City though... I'm like their feeder club
Trying to work out the bugs in my 4-3-1-2 formation with West Ham, and I definitely need some help
Faubert/Behrami Tomkins Upson Ilunga
Noble Parker Collison
Ilan Cole
That's the line up I'm using, with the front three being 'trequartista' 'DLF' 'Advanced Forward'. Any tips?
Alright lads
In 2019 and just noticed Cardiff City are sitting 14th in Coca Cola League Two! That's currently the same league as Bath!
Anybody else seen some big drops or rises in the leagues?
Lazio in Serie B aswell
Singing Jesus. I've had 3rd, 4th and now 2nd in my last 3 games
And in this run, we've been denied in the 90th minute and looked like a pub team against second.
We've lost our first game this season and top spot
And we've humped Elche out of sight, 8-0!
I think I did something dumb. I needed a good right winger, one who would be rotation/backup, depending on how my 1st choice 19 year old plays. So I uh bought this kiddo for....oh you know...36M GBP....
He looked better before I bought him, I swear!
I should badmouth my players more often, because he's just scored in only his third game, his first start...within 10 minutes...
just got an offer of £60mill for Rooney from tycoon owned ATL Madrid.
On a similar note, I found a great player I really wanted. His price was 'only' 17.75m. Finally the club came back to me with a price. 137m...
I think not
The save I'm playing at the moment is one where I started unemployed. My first club was Panionios in Greece. First season we were predicted to finish 8th and finished 2nd, then earnt ourselves a Europa League place in the play-offs. After half of the next season I resigned and remained unemployed for the remainder of that season. Having struggled to find a new team I took over at recently relegated Middlesbrough and currently in January we're storming the Championship. The club had also ran into some financial difficulties before I arrived and were also taken over. The new Chairman seems keen to resolve the financial problems however and regularly adds an extra 600K or so to the balance. Having managed to get a few players to drop their wages slightly, I'm enjoying life at Boro. It's been an enjoyable save so far and I hope it continues that way
Am manager of Lokomotiv Astana in Kazakhstan, am trying to claim domination in the league, currently 3 wins out of 3
Haven't been on here for a ridiculous amount of time.
Continuing my unemployment save where i have got the Rayo job.
Rayo 4-1 Murcia
In my third season with AFC Liverpool and just won 5 straight after a change of formation. In second after 28 games, 3 off the lead still.
Just won the Kazakhstan League, still have 6 games left to play, next seasons expectations is trying to get to Group stage of Champions League
Won my first match in charge of Vancouver, a regional derby match.
Woot! Beat Toronto 2-0 to begin our Canadian Championship effort. \o/
First game up in the Championship as Barnet and I was expecting a brave defeat against Sheffield Wednesday.
Final score Barnet 6-1 Sheffield Wednesday, utterly ridiculous
Day off today so plan to play fm in the sun
Been Liverpool for some reason on the 10.3 update. Going well have won the league somehow and sold a lot of the crap thats at Liverpool.
Just went a club record 42 games without loss, only to be beaten in the Carling Cup final
I signed eight players in the summer break of my Bordeaux save. Three were youth prospects, but the overall breakdown was six defenders and two keepers. So I had better concede zero goals in the first six games. That included games against OM and Lyon.
Then a 4-0 loss to Bayern Munchen in the CL, but that was a fluke. I swear.
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I was soooo close to beating Arsenal's PL record of 49 without a loss. We were up to 46. But then I fiddled with tactics a little cause teams kept parking buses in front of goal and I wanted to put more pressure on them. We lost 0-1 at home to Blackburn, having 19 shots to their 3.
Stuff hit walls.....
Man im struggling with Brazil but flying with cardiff.
I've just hit the magical 50
Stil don't like how this thread was moved here.
One thing that is increasingly annoying me is the almost machine-like goal the first few minutes of a match. It is absurd how often this happens. And if you happen to concede a goal like this, you can bet the house on chasing the rest of the match, no matter how much more dangerous chances you create. It gets tedious to lose or draw matches when you create a lot more chances than the opposition on a regular basis.
the all-nighter thead was where it was at this place does seem pretty dead now without hershie, trigger etc
As for the all-nighters, I believe they have a new home.
So, we are 2-0 up away at Villa when I make a triple substitution in the 79th minute. Villa then pull it back to 2-2 before I get a man sent off.
Then, in the 90th minute, this happens:
Free kick is taken from the edge of the box.
Axier spots the ball coming, unmarked with his back to goal.
He leaps and connects with an overhead kick.
He beats the keeper.
He wins the match in the 90th minute and completes a hattrick
First time I've seen one of those, and what a way to do it


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I have an existing CentOS 6 installation working wonderfully and its owner now wants to add a separate Debian installation onto the same machine. He only accesses this host via the command line and via a NoMachine VNC-type GUI connection, since it's located in a data center and thus out of reach.
My questions:
Can I create a "hot partition" on the existing CentOS 6 installation without destroying what we have now?
If I can safely add a new partition, is there any tool or method the user could use to choose which OS it will boot into? Something like a boot picker. Remember he does not have physical access to the machine.
I'm coming from a Mac/Windows background and thus don't know the answers. Suggestions or ideas are welcome.


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3 Pack~27 LED Multi Use Light Hook w/ LED Flashlight for $9.99 + free shipping
These suckers are bright!
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These lights were perfect during the blackout after Hurricane Sandy. They are brighter and batteries lasted longer than my camping lanterns.
The magnetic backs make them handy to mount inside a safe. I have two of them in mine.
I just bought this deal! Look, a lot of people complaine about the 3rd party sellers on newegg but these flashlights are the handiest tools I've used! The little hook on these lights makes them so much more convienient then a normal flashlight and they are bright as heck too!
Doesn't matter to me if the seller ships them media mail (extremely slow) as long as they eventually show up, I'm happy because these lights are worth it!
i'm still without power from Sandy. i bought these same lights from harbor freight 2 days before she made landfall. they've been a lifesaver! in lantern mode, they literally light up an entire room. the magnet is great too! in flashlight mode only the front LEDs light up so i'm preserving battery. i'm wooting via generator at the moment.. sick right? haha
Welcome to the Gulf Coast club. It is no fun, and I don't wish it on anyone (I have been through Alicia and Ike, without power AND water for two weeks both times). Best wishes!
While any LED light is a good idea, these a pretty handy. However, they are $5.99 at my local hardware store.
For out of power types (sorry for your pain!), the ones that look like lanterns and have a crank are not especially bright (no jokes, please!) but never need batteries. I have another lantern style that DOES use D cells and they last for years of intermittent use.
Just to point out a similar (possibly better) deal. Harbor Freight sells that same light in blue for $3.49 ea and this month has a coupon that makes it $2.49 ea. ($7.47 for 3). It gets 4.5 out of 5 stars on HF with 71 reviews.
Just in case someone doesn't need / want 3 of these. The coupon is limit 6 per customer. Last month they had a coupon that made them free with any purchase and my brother gave me one because he had so many. I actually like this light because it's so versatile. I have a cree q5 light that's much brighter and a Black and Decker clamp on light that's more rugged but somehow I always grab one of these out of my toolbox because it's so easy and if I break it, who cares?
I bought one of these from another seller, and am ordering these right now!! A great deal, as I paid $4.99 for one. These are bright, bright, bright! I keep one in my car, for emergencies, and have had to use it several times. I like that it has a hook AND a magnet, very useful. Definitely recommend this handy light!! :o)
Harbor Freight has these (looks like the same thing) for about $3. I like using the hook to hang it from my shirt collar and shine the light in front of me. If you tuck it inside your shirt, you can pretend you're Tony Stark (pretty cheap Halloween costume).
@techstorm: plus 6.99 for shipping !!
I was read to pull the trigger and checked my HF coupons, sure enough they have it for $2.49 and includes batteries, since a store is close I will get that. If not for that I would order it here. I have had one for several years with the batteries it came with and it is one of the handiest lights ever.
@wootguy12: Not only that, but the coupon only took $1.00 off of ONE. Three cost $9.47, not $7.47. Weird.
Newegg will save you a few bucks in gas....though since I have a Harbor Freight within reasonable range....this light is the BEST bang for the buck ever!
I use mine every weekend....my big troubel lights in the garage are jealous...and unused...


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There's something close to it. If you press 't' you will be using the Select Track Forward Tool which selects every visual OR audio track after and including the track you click on. If you press 'tttt' you will be using the Select All Tracks Forward Tool which selects everything including audio and audio transitions after and including the track you click on.
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- Era: Civil War
- Number of Pages: 532
- Subject: Autobiography & Biography
- Date Available: April 2014
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The second volume of this authoritative biography of America's first admiral examines the last ten years of David Glasgow Farragut's life, which included the ever-fascinating period of the Civil War. Farragut was as carefully methodical in preparation for battle as he was fearlessly swift in the execution of his plans. In Our First Admiral, the reader will learn of gross inefficiency and waste in the conduct of war, in the North as well as the South; of jealous ambition and malicious criticism; of lukewarm support of the government, lack of cooperation between the Army and Navy, and the inroads upon morale made by war weariness and disease, all of which tried Farragut's courage as much as the enemy in battle. Farragut was a practical resourceful leader with vision and intuition (a rare combination), a courageous hard-hitting fighter who hated war, and a deeply religious man with an exuberant spirit and love of fellowship who was also exceedingly loyal to the Navy and his country. Though he was small in physical stature, Farragut was tall indeed in the fundamental characteristics of true manhood.
The late Charles Lee Lewis, born in 1886, was a prominent naval historian and for many years a professor of English and History at the United States Naval Academy. He has written biographies of Matthew Fontaine Maury, Admiral Franklin Buchanan, Admiral de Grasse, and Commodore Stephen Decatur and two volumes of biographical sketches of famous sea fighters.


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8 1/2" x 11" flyer for dance at the Shriners' Hall, Brattleboro, VT on February 19, 1984 (MS2011-3294). From the Steve Green Collection (VFC2011-0010). Collected by Steve Green, donated to the Vermont Folklife Center Archive by Jeff Todd Titon.
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According to Hydrocarbon Processings HPI Market
Data 2014, total capital spending in the hydrocarbon processing industry (HPI) is
estimated to exceed $77 billion (B). This amount includes
investments in the development and construction of grassroots
facilities, along with expansions and upgrades to existing
HPI facilities to meet growing global
With so much construction activity forecast around the
world, there are several major construction trends and regions to
watch. This months column discusses a number of these
trends and projects that will be seen in 2014
and beyond. For more information, please view the 2014 Market
Outlook Webcast at www.HydrocarbonProcessing.com.
A market share trend analysis of new project announcements
from 20112013 (Fig. 1) shows
considerable growth in regions such as the US. This is due
mainly to the shale gas boom, which has provided cheap
available feedstock to fuel the gas processing
and petrochemical industries. New
project market share for the US was near 8% in 2010, and it has
since risen to approximately 30% during the past two
The Asia-Pacific region has seen a dip of almost 10% since
2011, but the region still maintains the greatest total number
of active projects. Africa, Latin America and the Middle East
remain virtually unchanged over the past few years. The Middle
East has seen a steady stream of new project announcements over
the past three years. European construction activity has
increased by a small percentage due to new project growth in
Eastern Europe, Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS).
This region continues to dominate in total active
construction projects. Growing middle classes, predominantly in
China and India, have spurred demand for
transportation fuels and petrochemical products. This scenario,
in turn, has created the need for additional capacity in the
Asia-Pacific refining and petrochemical sectors,
which account for the majority of active projects in the
region. Asia-Pacific will also surpass Europe as the worlds
second-biggest natural gas market as early as 2016. Dozens of
liquefaction and regasification terminals are planned or
already under construction.
The majority of the construction activity in the region
consists of petrochemical and refining projects in China and
India. These two countries account for over 50% of the total
active projects in the region and almost 15% of the total
active projects globally. According to Indias 12th Five
Year Plan, refining capacity is expected to reach 313 million
tons per year (MMtpy) by 2017, or approximately 7 million
barrels per day (MMbpd). Indian refiners are investing over $30
B in refinery construction, expansions and upgrades through 2017
to meet spiking demand for transportation fuels.
Presently, Indian gas production meets about half of
domestic demand. However, Indian gas demand is forecast to
triple by 2017. Demand from gas-consuming industries, such as
power and fertilizer, are rising steadily. This scenario has
forced India to import gas, mainly in the
form of liquefied natural gas (LNG). In response, India is
expanding capacity at its LNG terminals and has proposed the
construction of over a dozen LNG terminal projects in the next
five years. This includes floating LNG (FLNG) facilities such
as the Kakinada LNG import terminal, and the industrys
first barge-based FLNG regasification unit offshore Andhra
China is in the midst of a refinery building boom, with
almost 20 major new refinery facilities, upgrades and expansions
taking place. China is expected to raise its existing refining capacity of 11 MMbpd to 14
MMbpd by 2015 and to 16 MMbpd by 2020.
The threat of overcapacity has delayed the start of some
projects, however. PetroChina has delayed the startup of more
than 600 thousand barrels per day (Mbpd) of new refining
capacity for up to two years, and expansion plans for other
refineries have been postponed.
The Chinese petrochemical and gas processing
industries also continue to remain strong. Chinas
ethylene capacity is forecast to hit almost 25 MMtpy by 2015,
representing an increase of more than 50% from 15 MMtpy in
2010. Chinese LNG imports reached 15 MMtpy in 2012 and are
expected to double by 2015. To prepare, China has planned over
a dozen new import terminals for completion by 2020. However,
plans could change should China successfully develop its
domestic shale gas reserves.
Although India and China are the dominant
players in the region in terms of total active projects, many
large capital expenditure projects exist throughout the
region. Australia is investing over $160 B in LNG terminal construction and an additional $85 B
for FLNG facilities. The majority of these projects are
scheduled to be operational by 2017, but high labor costs and
cost overruns could threaten construction time lines.
To meet increasing demand for gasoline and diesel, Indonesia
has planned almost $20 B in expansions, upgrades and greenfield
facilities. However, many of these projects have been delayed
due to low refining margins and a lack of government incentives
to attract international partners. If completed, this new refining capacity will accomplish
Indonesias goal of becoming self-sufficient in fuel
supplies by 2019.
Indonesia is also expanding its LNG export capacity with the
Donggi-Senoro LNG project and the Tangguh LNG Train 3
expansion project. Combined, these projects will add 6 MMtpy of
LNG export capacity by 2019, at a cost of $15 B.
Singapore has a rich history as an oil trading hub, and it
plans to become the regions first LNG trading hub.
Singapore LNG (SLNG) completed construction on its $1.7-B
bidirectional LNG terminal at Jurong Island in mid-2013;
construction on additional storage tanks is ongoing until 2017.
Due to high demand, SLNG has proposed an expansion to the terminal. A final
financial decision is expected to be made in the second quarter
of 2014.
Malaysia is constructing its own bidirectional LNG terminal
at Pengerang. The $1.3-B Pengerang Integrated Petroleum Complex
will coincide with Indonesias largest-ever infrastructure
project, the Refinery And Petrochemical
Integrated Development (RAPID) project. The $20-B RAPID project
will consist of a 300-Mbpd refinery and a 4.5-MMtpy
petrochemical complex. Completion has been delayed to 2018.
Additional Malaysian gas projects include a ninth LNG train at
Bintulu and two FLNGsPFLNG 1 and PFLNG 2.
Additional notable Asian projects include Vietnams
$9-B Nghi Son refinery and petrochemical complex and the $25-B
Binh Dinh refinery and petrochemical complex.
The International Energy Agency reports that the US will
become energy self-sufficient by 2035 due to rising shale
energy production and improved transportation fuel
Shale gas production has created an LNG export terminal
building boom in the country. Due to recent market changes,
many previously planned US LNG import terminals have either
been canceled or will be converted or expanded into export
terminals. US companies aim to construct over 200 MMtpy of LNG
export capacity over the next several years. Almost two dozen
LNG export facilities are awaiting approval from the US
Department of Energy to export LNG to non-Free Trade Agreement
(non-FTA) nations. Only a small amount of projects have
received non-FTA approval. These include the Dominion Cove
Point LNG, Freeport LNG, Lake Charles liquefaction and Sabine
Pass liquefaction projects. If these projects and others are
completed, the US is poised to become an LNG-exporting
powerhouse by the end of the decade.
The US Energy Information Administration forecasts that US
gas production will jump from 21.6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) in
2010 to almost 36 Tcf in 2040. Rising shale gas output has
established the US as the worlds leading gas producer and
has almost tripled new gas processing project market share
within the past four years. These new projects include the
construction of cryogenic and gas processing plants; natural
gas liquid (NGL) fractionators; and small, mid-level and
mega-sized gas-to-liquids (GTL) plants.
Cheap ethane feedstocks are fueling additional
project activity in the US petrochemical sector, including over
$100 B of investments by the end of the decade. Over 10 MMtpy
of new ethylene capacity has been announced, is planned or is
under construction. Projects include multiple world-scale
crackers with capacities of 1 MMtpy or greater, by companies
such as Axiall, ExxonMobil, Chevron Phillips Chemical, Dow,
Sasol and Shell. These facilities will be located primarily
along the US Gulf Coast, in Louisiana and Texas. Shell is the
exception, with a planned ethylene cracker in Monaco,
Pennsylvania, in the heart of the Marcellus shale play.
Other notable ethylene cracker projects are a 500-Mtpy
facility by Ingleside Ethylene and Formosa Plastics
800-Mtpy cracker in Point Comfort, Texas. Additionally, Braskem
and Odebrecht have formed a JV to build a large petrochemical complex in West
Virginia. The Ascent project includes the construction of a
large ethylene cracker. If built, Braskem may scrap its
expensive Comperj project in Brazil.
Forecasters predict that Canadian crude oil production will
more than double to 6.7 MMbpd by 2030, up from 3.2 MMbpd in
2012. This growth is contingent on the construction of vital
additional pipeline infrastructure. Almost all of Canadas
oil production is centered in Canadas Alberta oil
sands. Major, capital-intensive downstream projects include construction of
bitumen refineries and upgraders, such as the $8.5-B Sturgeon
refinery, to process heavy oil
Due to the recent shale gas boom, the US no longer needs to
import excess natural gas from Canada. To offset this financial
hit, Canada has planned over 50 MMtpy of LNG export capacity.
This includes over a dozen LNG terminals to be constructed,
primarily on British Columbias Pacific Coast at Kitimat,
Prince Rupert, Lelu Island and Grassy Point. Two additional LNG
terminals have been proposed in Nova Scotia on Canadas
east coast. Almost all of the countrys LNG exports will
target high natural gas demand in Asian markets.
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If you look across the Bible, there are many instances where oil is used. The anointing of Saul and David; Jacob pouring oil over the rock where he had his dream of the staircase to heaven(?); Maria pouring oil on Jesus, etc. Was oil expensive back then or something?
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The short answer is yes, oil was expensive. It was used in ceremonies both because it was often perfumed to have a pleasing aroma and because the financial sacrifice was an act of humility.
You mentioned several good examples, but I figured I would offer you one more: Elisha providing for a widow (2 Kings 4:1-7). In this scenario, Elisha is able to provide the woman with enough oil that she can pay off all her late husband's debts, and she and her sons are able to live on the rest.
Now, this passage doesn't explicitly state that oil was expensive, but a little common sense will tell us it can't have been cheap. Elisha sends the woman's sons for
I've always thought of it as more of an issue of versatility and approachability. Oils can be used for everything. The only thing on earth which is more useful is water (unless you're willing to start debating gasses &c., in which case I'm going with Hydrogen and Oxygen for the win). But, unlike water, which will often suppress fragrance and flavor, oil will absorb and augment it. Smell a child after a Catholic baptism or confirmation (and I know there are other denominations who do the same, but I am looking only for an example). In addition to that, it also has use as a material to light the home (no symbolism there).
Oil, if it is properly stored, also has a remarkably long shelf-life. Look at the expiration date on your next purchase of olive oil. It won't be any time soon. Oil also has medicinal use.
So, we have oil associated with light and with food, it lasts a long time, it can heal, it is something which can be fragrant, and it can be gotten relatively easily (except in times of drought) as it is one of the major uses of olives (something not exactly uncommon in that area). Is there any wonder that it is significant?
Oil is a healing substance rubbing it all over you will literally strengthen your skin and thereby giving you strength to carry on. That's one of the reasons oil is an excellent symbol for the Holy Spirit and furthermore why it's used all over the Old Testament.
Any time you read oil, wind, water or fire you can read "Holy Spirit" unless otherwise indicated.
I know that in a historical/economical sense, this is not an answer to your question. But if you wanted a non-doctrine answer you probably should ask on BH.SE. According to Catholic Doctrine, blessed oil is a sacramental; and in this case it is the means by which actual graces can be conferred and we have a few distinct oils that are used for this. One for Anointing of the Sick; another for consecrating priests and altars; and another for baptizing and confirmation.
So, following biblical traditions and ancient cultural practices, oil has always been used in this way. As far as the woman perfuming Jesus' feet and the gifts of the Magi, the value of their oils were in the substances mingled with the oils. Oil itself would have had to been a fairly common substance since it was used to make bread (ala 1 Kings:17).


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The Langdon Acme Miter Box was available in three sizes and came with a specially made Disston handsaw. The least expensive model cost $10; the most expensive $14.50.
Standard miter boxes of the day could cut 0 to 45 degrees. The New Langdon Miter Box Improved could cut 0 to 75 degrees. How? Look closely at the right hand fence and you'll see an adjustable piece that pushes the material away from the fence so that when you swing the saw to 45 degrees you're actually cutting 75 degrees. That round thing behind the fence is the lock knob. Okay smart guys at the power tool companies – why aren't you doing this with miter saws?
The notes below this Langdon Adjustable Miter Box say that if you send them your saw the company will fit it to the miter box for free. But they'll charge you if the saw's messed up and they have to fix it. It sounds reasonable to me.
The New Langdon Miter Box at the top of the page is guaranteed to make perfect cuts when used with the supplied back saw. The Star Miter Box at the bottom of page is budget model – better than a wood miter box but not as good as the miter boxes in previous photos. It cost $2.
In a Lost Art Press blog entry, Christopher Schwartz recounts the story of a labor dispute that took place in Chicago in 1901. It had to do with the patent miter box–an adjustable metal frame used to guide handsaws while making miter cuts. At the time of the dispute, the norm for most carpenters was to use a wood miter box, which was lighter and cheaper but far less accurate than a metal one.
The dispute was over a Carpenter's Union rule that forbade members from bringing their own patent miter boxes to work, on the theory that if one carpenter brought one, pretty soon every carpenter would have to bring one and that would work a hardship on members. Why? Patent miter boxes were more expensive, heavier, and more difficult to transport than wood ones, and likely to be stolen if left overnight on the jobsite (hmm … sounds a lot like modern miter saws).
Testifying before a government official, union carpenter O.E. Woodbury said the union's position was that if the bosses wanted carpenters to use metal miter boxes, they should provide them. The tradition obviously took hold, because it's still more or less the norm on jobsites (both union and non-union) for the employer to provide certain large tools (miter saws, table saws, and the like) for employees to use.
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The contract with Global Partners also cements North Dakota crude's hold in the East Coast refining belt, where two other refiners already get Bakken crude by rail.
By BEN LEFEBVRE
Phillips 66 signed a five-year contract for 50,000 bpd of
North Dakota crude oil to be delivered by rail to its Bayway refinery in New Jersey, the company
said Tuesday, a move that underscores how important the North
American oil boom has become to refiners on the East Coast.
Phillips 66's contract with Global Partners also cements
North Dakota crude's hold in the East Coast refining belt, where Philadelphia
Energy Solutions and PBF Energy already get crude from North
Dakota's Bakken field by rail.
Most pipeline construction has focused on bringing
oil from West Canada and North Dakota to the Gulf Coast,
leaving East Coast refiners relying on railcars to bring in
domestic oil.
Under the contract, Phillips 66 will use Global's network of
loading facilities and offloading terminals.
The cost of the deal wasn't disclosed.
Even after shipping costs, a barrel of Bakken crude can be
$10 less than the Brent oil imports that East Coast refiners
have traditionally relied upon. That price difference has
revived the fortunes of refiners in a region where last year
numerous refineries were expected to shut down because of the
high cost of imported oil.
"The ability to get crude from someplace other than the
world market keeps those guys alive," RBN Energy analyst Rusty
Braziel said of the East Coast refining industry.
The East Coast fuel market is the biggest in the country,
with 4.6 million bpd of gasoline, diesel and other
petroleum products sold in October, according to the latest
figures from the US Energy Information Administration.
New drilling methods have unlocked a wealth of oil and
natural gas that had until recently had been considered too
expensive to economically produce.
But logistics, construction issues -- and in the
case of TransCanada's planned Keystone XL heavy Canadian crude
oil pipeline, political protest -- have bogged down new
pipeline projects, leaving rail companies to
capitalize on their ability to use existing routes to
Last year, Phillips 66 bought 2,000 rail cars to supply
domestic crude oil to its refineries. Tesoro built a 10,000-car
"pipeline on rails" to bring crude oil from the Bakken field to
its refinery in Anacortes, Wash.
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5 WTF Abandoned Wastelands You Won't Believe Exist
Have you ever known somebody -- an old roommate or neighbor, perhaps -- who seems to leave a monumental mess wherever he goes? There are piles of Taco Bell wrappers in his back seat. His yard is where lawn chairs go to die. God, forget about the living room -- he's got eight TVs stacked one atop another. You know who we're talking about, right?
Well, these places are his Mecca.
#5. The Great American Tire Pile
In the 1950s, Ed Filbin had a dream.
Oh, not one of those civil rights deals, or even the one where you have to flee a Kool-Aid tsunami with the mom from Arrested Development. No, this dream was strange: He imagined that, one day, discarded rubber tires would be worth a fortune. Never mind that tire piles are ugly, collect water, and become breeding grounds for mosquitoes, or that they're essentially impossible to put out if they ever catch fire. Mere trifles like logic and reason were not about to stand in the way of Filbin's Great American Tire Pile. And so it was that Ed Filbin collected 42 million tires. And lo, he did put them in a giant pile. And he looked upon his work, and he said that it was good.
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Originally, it formed a single giant tire. Then it kept growing.
Obviously Filbin's dreams of black rubber gold never came to fruition -- what, you mean people weren't itching to buy ancient, weather-cracked tires full of mosquitoes? -- so in the 1980s, he sold the pile off to a series of companies. Why so many people were investing in old tires, we don't know (building a Captain-Planet-villain-style lair, perhaps?), but it didn't work out for the buyers, either. Several companies went bust trying to deal with the pile. Eventually the tires were whittled down to a meager 10 million rubbers, but then, in 1999, disaster struck. Literally.
Lightning struck and ignited the pile.
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The Catholics were right: God hates latex.
The authorities tried, but simply didn't have the resources to subdue the fire, so they had but one option: Wait for it to burn itself out. They likely expected it to take days.
The inferno raged for a solid month.
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The fire truck then faced a delay because it had a flat and no spare was available.
Man, it's true what they say: The Simpsons really has done everything.
#4. Chernobyl's Radioactive Parking Lot
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Just like hurricanes, nuclear disasters have a scale of impending fuckedosity. The International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) covers a range from 1 to 7, with 1 being "microwave left open while running," while 7 is "does this tentacle make my ass look fat?" The 1986 Chernobyl disaster hit the charts at #7 with a bullet (to the head, to spare you the inevitable horrors of the rampaging mutant hordes).
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And the radioactive sentient dolls. Don't forget the radioactive sentient dolls.
Millions of locals were evacuated, and an army of emergency response units were drafted to help bring the fire under control. Obviously the men couldn't run in bare chested and punch nuclear fallout in the neck, no matter how appropriately Russian that plan sounds. A slew of heavy equipment was conscripted to deal with the disaster: Fire trucks tackled the flames from the ground, while helicopters hovered over the reactor, dumping material to try to smother the burning pit. Obviously, fallout contaminated all of this equipment. So what else could they do but just abandon it all in a big-ass field?
They could have nuked it, but some called that solution flawed.
Million-dollar helicopters, thousands of heavy trucks, and other astonishingly expensive fire-fighting equipment was all abandoned as their operators presumably tried to outrace the radiation on foot. The biggest depot, pictured above, is located in Rassokha, Ukraine. That's right: "is." You can still see the radioactive parking garage on Google Maps today. Oh, don't worry, the highly contaminated vehicles aren't just sitting around, waiting for unsuspecting children to come play pilot. The most heavily irradiated equipment -- the "grow an arm where your eye should be stuff" -- that was all buried. These ones sitting out? They're just, like, "maybe get a little ball cancer in 30 years" irradiated. Frolic away, children!
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No worse than smoking, which used to be mandatory in Ukraine.
#3. Sweden's Mammoth Wood Pile
In 2005, Cyclone Gudrun (a storm as powerful as a hurricane) nuzzled its way into Europe and snuggled up with Sweden and Denmark. Hey, if you're going to anthropomorphize a disaster, you might as well make it adorable, right? Unfortunately, Gudrun didn't know its own strength and ended up cuddling the roofs off of buildings, Eskimo kissing a few vehicles into oblivion, and generally spooning the holy shit out of half a continent. All told, the storm uprooted 2.65 billion cubic feet of lumber, worth more than $2.9 billion. But unlike a fire, these trees weren't gone, just dead, so Sweden gathered up as much as they could and did what is apparently standard practice: They made a giant friggin' pile.
Most of the felled timber was gathered at a military airstrip in the south, stacked more than 40 feet high, 200 feet wide, and almost a mile and half in length. It is the single biggest hoard of wood in the world (ladies). And because Swedes understand fun like no other culture on earth, the giant stack of dead trees attracted thousands of visitors daily while under construction.
Only hundreds of whom came to watch the hot Swedish construction workers.
The original plan was to start processing the logs in 2008 and be completely rid of them all soon after. But as is the way of the pile, the lumber discovered that it kind of liked where it was and didn't much feel like moving. As of 2013, Google's all-knowing eye in the sky tells us that around half of the pile is still standing.
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My question isn't how they receive the energy to jump, but why. When someone views an element's emission spectrum, we see a line spectrum which proves that they don't exist outside of their orbitals (else we would see a continuous spectrum). Electrons can be released in the form of beta decay, thus proving that they are capable of traveling outside of orbitals contrary to the statement my teacher said that they stay within orbitals. Then, to add to the confusion, the older model of rings floating around a nucleus has, from what I can tell, been outdated, which would support this model. My teacher's explanation was that the electrons made a quantum jump of some kind. How do electrons move between orbitals or do we know how they jump, excluding the reason that energy causes them to jump, and why are positrons formed sometimes instead of electrons in Beta decay? When I'm asking "how do electrons jump" I would like to know how an electron can jump between each orbital such as how it moves and how it knows where to jump since it appears to be a jump where the electron doesn't slow into a orbital position. Specifically how they jump what is this Atomic electron transition, I understand that they jump and that they do this through absorbing and releasing energy but what is this Atomic electron transition other than what is already on the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_electron_transition.
Imagine an electron a great distance from an atom, with nothing else around. The electron doesn't "know" about the atom. We declare it to have zero energy. Nothing interesting is going on. This is our reference point.
If the electron is moving, but still far from the atom, it has kinetic energy. This is always positive. The electron, still not interacting with the atom, may move as it pleases. It has positive energy, and in any amount possible. Its wave function is a simple running plane wave, or some linear combination of them to make, for example, a spherical wave. Its wavelength, relating to the kinetic energy, may be any value.
When the electron is close to the atom, opposite charges attract, and the electron is said to be stuck in a potential well. It is moving, so has positive (always) kinetic energy, but the Coulomb potential energy is negative and in a greater amount. The electron must slow down if it moves away from the atom, to maintain a constant total energy for the system. It reaches zero velocity (zero kinetic energy) at some finite distance away, although quantum mechanics allows a bit of cheating with an exponentially decreasing wavefunction beyond that distance.
The electron is confined to a small space, a spherical region around the nucleus. That being so, the wavelength of its wavefunction must in a sense "fit" into that space - exactly one, or two, or three, or n, nodes must fit radially and circumferentially. We use the familiar quantum number n,l,m. There are discrete energy levels and distinct wavefunctions for each quantum state.
Note that the free positive-energy electron has all of space to roam about in, and therefore does not need to fit any particular number of wavelengths into anything, so has a continuous spectrum of energy levels and three real numbers (the wavevector) to describe its state.
When the atom absorbs a photon, the electron jumps from let's say for example from the 2s to a 3p orbital, the electron is not in any orbital during that time. Its wave function can be written as a time-varying mix of the normal orbitals. A long time before the absorption, which for an atom is a few femtoseconds or so, this mix is 100% of the 2s state, and a few femtoseconds or so after the absorption, it's 100% the 3p state. Between, during the absorption process, it's a mix of many orbitals with wildly changing coefficients. There was a paper in Physical Review A back around 1980 or 1981, iirc, that shows some plots and pictures and went into this in some detail. Maybe it was Reviews of Modern Physics. Anyway, keep in mind that this mixture is just a mathematical description. What we really have is a wavefunction changing from a steady 2s, to a wildly boinging-about wobblemess, settling to a steady 3p.
A more energetic photon can kick the electron out of the atom, from one of its discrete-state negative energy orbital states, to a free-running positive state - generally an expanding spherical wave - it's the same as before, but instead of settling to a steady 3p, the electron wavefunction ends as a spherical expanding shell.
I wish I could show some pictures, but that would take time to find or make...
The answers so far seem pretty good, but I'd like to try a slightly different angle.
Before I get to atomic orbitals, what does it mean for an electron to "be" somewhere? Suppose I look at an electron, and see where it is (suppose I have a very sophisticated/sensitive/precise microscope). This sounds straightforward, but what did I do when I 'looked' at the electron? I must have observed some photon that had just interacted with that electron. If I want to get an idea of the motion of the electron (no just its instantaneous momentum, but its position as a function of time), I need to observe it for a period of time. This is a problem, though, because I can only observe the electron every time it interacts with a photon that I can observe. It's actually impossible for me to observe the electron continuously, I can only get snapshots of its position.
So what does the electron do between observations? I don't think anyone can answer that question. All we can say is that at one time the electron was observed at point A, and at a later time it was observed at point B. It got from A to B... somehow. This leads to a different way of thinking about where an electron (or other particle) is.
If I know some of the properties of the electron, I can predict that I'm more likely to observe an electron in some locations than in others. Atomic orbitals are a great example of this. An orbital is described by 4 quantum numbers, which I'll call $n$, $l$, $m$, $s$ (there are several notations; I think this one is reasonably common). $n$ is a description of how much energy the electron has, $l$ describes its total angular momentum, $m$ carries some information about the orientation of its angular momentum and $s$ characterizes its spin (spin is a whole topic on its own, for now let's just say that it's a property that the electron has). If I know these 4 properties of an electron that is bound to an atom, then I can predict where I am most likely to observe the electron. For some combinations of $(n,l,m,s)$ the distribution is simple (e.g. spherically symmetric), but often it can be quite complicated (with lobes or rings where I'm more likely to find the electron). There's always a chance I could observe the electron ANYWHERE, but it's MUCH MORE LIKELY that I'll find it in some particular region. This is usually called the probability distribution for the position of the electron. Illustrations like these are misleading because they draw a hard edge on the probability distribution; what's actually shown is the region where the electron will be found some high percentage of the time.
So the answer to how an electron "jumps" between orbitals is actually the same as how it moves around within a single orbital; it just "does". The difference is that to change orbitals, some property of the electron (one of the ones described by $(n,l,m,s)$) has to change. This is always accompanied by emission or absorption of a photon (even a spin flip involves a (very low energy) photon).
Another way of thinking about this is that the electron doesn't have a precise position but instead occupies all space, and observations of the electron position are just manifestations of the more fundamental "wave function" whose properties dictate, amongst other things, the probability distribution for observations of position.
Of course electrons CAN travel between orbitals, although they do this in not conventional (classical) way.
The question of traveling electrons between orbitals is the subject or relativistic quantum mechanics, or as it is called another way, of quantum field theory or quantum electrodynamics.
By words I can describe the situation in following way.
The orbitals are not PLACES, they are EIGEN STATES of energy operator. Electron can exist in any state, but this any state is representable by superposition of eigenstates.
So, an electron traveling from orbital $\psi_1$ to orbital $\psi_2$ is described by the state $a \psi_1 + b \psi_2$ where $a$ and $b$ are complex weights of the components of superposition. They are changing over time, having $a=1; b=0$ at the beginning of the process and $a=0; b=1$.
Also, you know that $|a|^2 + |b|^2=1$ at any instant.
The law of this changing is exponential, i.e. $a(t) \sim e^{-\lambda t}$.
The parameters of this exponent are depending on state lifetime. The shorter lifetime, the more exponent slope. Also lifetime is also related with state uncertainty. The wider the state, the shorter it's lifetime.
Here I will address some misconceptions in the question, not addressed by the answer of DarenW.
These emission and absorption spectra
emission spectrum
Come from the atomic orbitals, as explained in DarenW's answer. That is, the nucleus with its positive charge, say Helium with charge +2, has around it two electrons "orbiting" in allowed by the solutions of the quantum mechanical problem "orbits". Where "orbits" means a spatial location in 3 dimensional space where the probability of finding electrons is high, of spherical shape about the nucleus with very specific quantum numbers.
This is a misconception. Beta decays happen when a neutron turns into a proton and an electron, and they are phenomena pertaining to the nucleus, not the atom. The atom is described well by electromagnetic interactions, the nucleus is described by strong interactions and weak interactions. Beta decays are a weak interaction. Thus the electron of the beta decay is a free electron once it materializes and is ejected from the nucleus, particularly if all free electron orbital locations are filled. The nucleus then changes into an Z+1 charge isotope nucleus.
Here is how the neutron decay is currently visualized
You have to add energy to excite the electrons to higher orbitals, and usually it is with the kick of a photon of the energy of the gap between orbitals.
From wikipedia on electron capture
In all the cases where β+ decay is allowed energetically, the electron capture process, when an atomic electron is captured by a nucleus with the emission of a neutrino, is also allowed
It means that a proton in the nucleus turns into a neutron a positron and a neutrino. This lowers the nuclear Z by one unit, and will induce a cascade of higher orbital electrons falling in the hole left by the captured one.
Electrons are not particles as they exist in the atom. I believe that the electron's wave gets perturbed by something that happens from the nucleus. The nucleus is not a steady thing but it's members are in motion all of the time. So say at a particular time there is an excursion or event of one of the members or field of the nucleus. This may be what causes the electron to move to a higher shell. Similarly a atomic decay would occur. Think half-life. So it is probablistic.


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We do use "Troll" and "trollen" in German forums. But is there another Word that predates the Internet that could be used instead?
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Provokateur should be the nearest german expression. But as in many cases around Computers, IMHO it won't make sense to translate it. e.g. Joystick is a word too which can be translated, but most users won't catch it at once.
According to the Wikipedia article, troll originates from the French verb trôler, but also from the Norse word troll.
Let's concentrate on the second one here. A troll is a mythological monster. The German word for Troll is Troll, so there is no difference.
As for the activity of trolling: This is an artificial word created for this purpose, so there is no direct translation we can use. However, trolling means something like ködern (as you can read here). So I would go for that.
Querulant: someone who always criticises and takes opposition to anything. For example, German law uses this word to describe someone who files so many lawsuites for no real reason that he must be declared partially incompetent in regards to bringing action.


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On the latest podcast there was some discussion about rephrasing 'Not Constructive', I think 'Open Ended' is a suitable replacement that accurately flags why the question has been closed, without being too hard on new users.
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How about this alternative:
It would fit the whole debate side of things, but it would also take care of the list questions where one could argue "But there's no discussion for those. That's not a debate." And at the same time it doesn't sound as harsh (to me) as "Not constructive".
Someone else said it, and I think it's a great candidate:
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It's important that no matter what verbiage is picked, we don't invent new reasons to close questions. The text should reflect that the question objectively meets the site's criteria (it's about a programming problem, it hasn't been asked before, it applies to more than just the asker); but doesn't meet the style of the site: (Q & A rather than discussion forum).
How about going straight to the crux of the matter with simply closing as
(followed by the description as usual).
This is what we're really objecting to with this close reason.
We're keen to use that close reason for questions that are likely to cause unresolvable debate/argument or lists of alternatives, so I suggest
Too often I find people using Not Constructive inappropriately for questions that should be closed for other reasons, so I think the current phrase is misleading some and needs to be changed.
Originally, Not Constructive was originally Subjective and Argumentative. Not Constructive is more widely applicable, but is still a little pejorative. We recently changed "[closed]" to "marked as [duplicate]", which maintains our principles and high standards, but is less likely to upset. Be strict, but be nice while you do so; this way people argue less. I think "Too open to debate" fulfils those criteria.
As it used to be 'Subjective', (until subjective became subjective...), how about
Yes; good idea, call it
The text given for non-constructive gives suitable information as to why the question was closed. It doesn't fit all situations, but you can add a comment to explain this.
If you change the text to Open Ended, this will also be incorrect in some situations, so you'd still have to add a comment.
I don't see the point in changing it.


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Given a 2-dimensional array of MxN heights, how to transform it to a sphere? Every element of this array is just a 3D point (x,y,z) where z represents some height. One has to transform this array into a sphere, twisting it around the origin so, that only minimal distortions will happen.
Representing it by spherical coordinates is not very good, because of the severe distortions. It's probably better if there is no direct one-to-one mapping from 2D plane to a surface of 3D sphere - many plane's points will not be involved. But what is the best possible mapping and how to transform involved points (elements of array)?
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What's the difference between 言わないでほしい and 言ってほしくない ?
If the intended message is "I don't want you to say it" which of the two above would be more suitable?
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You can use these sentences in two ways. One is to use it as in "I don't want you to say x (literary)". Another is to use it as in "I resent what you already said".
So, what's the difference? In the first case, 言わないでほしい is an explicit request. 言ってほしくない merely states that you don't want the other guy to tell anybody, and the request is only implied. As a consequence, the latter is softer, as it would be in English.
In the second case, 言わないでほしい focuses on the fact that you don't like to hear x. Hence it is possible to use this expression when you think the speaker is saying something legitimate, but you just don't want to be told that for personal reason etc.
For example, you may say わかってるから言わないで when you are told something that you know you can't defend, but nevertheless want the other person to stop saying it. Here is an example of this usage. The author doesn't disapprove the motivation itself, but he is explaining that one should not say 頑張って. Note however that you can use 言わないでほしい to express disapproval/disagreement. It's just that you can also use it when you don't want to.
言ってほしくない is much less suitable in this situation because it implies that you believe the speaker is saying something unjustifiable in your opinion. For example, if you'd say わかってるから言ってほしくない, the listener will sense a frustration or disagreement, and that he/she doesn't really mean わかってる. More natural use of 言ってほしくない can be seen here. The author uses 言ってほしくない because he pretty much disapproves the word ヤバイ itself.
This is a question of whether the predicate presupposes the excluded middle. In principle, there should be three possibilities:
When the three possibilities exist, the sentence negation of 1 should mean either 2 or 3. When there is a presupposition that 3 is excluded from the possibilities, then the negation of 1 would mean 2, which is the negation of the proposition. In that case, negating 1 is usually preferred over using 2. WIth English
means the same as
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I can think of one situation where you use 言わないでほしい instead of 言ってほしくない, when you use the phrase as a request:
The first sentence above is a common way to say "please don't" and is parallel to 「言わないでください」 while if the second sentence is used as a request it would sound indirect like "I don't want this told to anyone." It sounds like a statement but you can imagine what's being implied if it is said straight on your face.


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Ethiopia is a land of legend, whether it's the discovery of coffee or the unearthing of a 4.4-million-year-old prehuman fossil nicknamed Ardi. Our friend Samuel Demisse, who has a personal relationship to this mill, began importing this beautifully processed natural coffee from the Guji region around the same time that Ardi-the-skeleton was recognized, and thus his spectacular coffee is named in tribute.
About 60 miles south of the famous small town of Yirgacheffe there is a town called Hagere Maryam. All of the Ardi coffee comes from one mill in this town. Starting next year there will be two more additional mills buying and processing coffee for Samuel.
This is a natural processed coffee, which helps to yield the super typical blueberry and strawberry flavors that are found in the cup. In order to control the drying process of this coffee it is first dried for two weeks on raised beds in the sun. There are several women who clean the coffee as it dries. Any under-ripe cherry (green in color) stands in stark contrast to all the red cherries on the bed. All the under-ripe cherries are removed, and after two weeks, the coffee is set to dry on a concrete patio.
Demisse, who now lives in the United States, comes from a family of coffee producers. His father owned a mill in Ethiopia and a farm as well. Samuel grew up picking coffee and attending coffee ceremonies, and has been selling fine Ethiopian coffees to Dallis Bros. for years now.
Ethiopia Koke is back!
We did run out of the Koke two weeks ago, and now it is back. The beautiful balance of lemon and sweet red notes can be yours again.