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Online retail giant Amazon is set to launch a new service helping link people with services such as plumbers and handymen in their area, Reuters reports.
The move is seen as a challenge to popular US sites such as Yelp and Angie's List which help connect people with local services, though there is no indication of whether the company plans a similar service in the UK.
Amazon statement: We pay 'all taxes'
Amazon have responded to a report that the company paid £10 million corporation tax in Britain last year, despite achieving record sales of £4.3 billion.
The company pays all applicable taxes in every jurisdiction that it operates within.
Shoppers have been urged to boycott Amazon after it paid £10 million corporation tax in Britain last year, despite achieving record sales of £4.3 billion.
'It's an outrage Amazon only paid £10m in tax'
The chairwoman of the Commons Influential Public Accounts Committee has said its "an outrage" that the retail giant Amazon paid only £10m in tax in 2013, after reporting record sales of £4.3 billion.
"It is an outrage," chairwoman Margaret Hodge told the Herald Scotland, "Amazon should pay their fair share of tax.
"They are making money out of not paying taxes. I no longer use Amazon."
Amazon insists it follows the tax rules in all the countries where it operates.
Amazon pays £10m UK tax despite record £4.3bn sales
Amazon paid £10 million corporation tax in Britain last year, despite achieving record sales of £4.3 billion.
The US company's UK arm is registered to pay tax in Luxembourg, meaning it can avoid higher rates of tax.
Amazon.co.uk reported a 56% rise in profits to £17 million last year on a 13% rise in UK revenues.
Essex University's Professor of Accounting, Prem Sikka, said this may have put the company "under pressure from HMRC to adjust their inter-company agreements."
Amazon said it follows all the tax rules in every country where it operates. HMRC declined comment.
Amazon tie-up lets Twitter users shop with a hashtag
Online retailer Amazon has announced a new partnership that will allow customers to shop via Twitter.
With the new system users add the hashtag #AmazonBasket to tweets referencing products they like, then the item is automatically added to their online shopping cart.
Amazon said the tie-up would mean "no more switching apps, typing out passwords or trying to remember items you saw on Twitter".
Amazon takes on supermarkets with grocery service
Amazon has launched an online grocery service called Prime Pantry that lets US members of its Prime loyalty scheme do their food shopping on the website.
The service allows members to fill a 45-pound (20kg) box of groceries and have it delivered to them for a flat fee of $5.99 dollars (£3.56) - though fresh food is not available through the service.
The Amazon website says: "Adding your first Prime Pantry item to Cart starts a Prime Pantry box. As you shop, you see that each Pantry item tells you what percentage of a Pantry box it fills based on its size and weight.
"Pantry boxes are large and can hold up to 45 pounds or four cubic feet of household products. As you check items off your list, we continuously track and show you how full your box is."
The service - which is currently only available in the US - is the latest in a line of new services Amazon has recently launched to compete with rivals such as Apple and Google.
Uncontacted Amazon tribe reacts to planes overhead
A series of pictures of a remote, uncontacted tribe in the Amazon basin has been released. The pictures were taken near the Xinane river in Brazil's Acre State, close to its border with Peru.
The tribe was first identified as "uncontacted" in 2011 when satellite pictures revealed this community was living near the border with Peru.
In the latest pictures, taken on March 25, the uncontacted people are seen reacting to a plane flying overhead. As many as five tribal men can be seen raising their weapons in a threatening manner at the plane.
Amazon testing drones to deliver packages in 30mins
Online retailer Amazon is testing unmanned drones called Octocopters in a bid to deliver packages to customers within 30 minutes.
The drones could deliver packages that weigh up to 2.3kg but the service is not expected to start for at least five years, the company's chief executive Jeff Bezos claimed.
Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes programme: "These are effectively drones but there's no reason that they can't be used as delivery vehicles...I know this looks like science fiction. It's not."
"We can carry objects, we think, up to five pounds, which covers 86 per cent of the items that we deliver...These are electric motors, so this is all electric; it's very green, it's better than driving trucks around," he added.
The service will be called Prime Air but US aviation officials have not approved use of the drones.
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Author 'delighted' over calls to ban his parenting book
The author of a book that advocates beating children under a year old with paddles said he was "delighted" to discover a Tory MP was calling for it to be banned on Amazon's website.
Michael Pearl told BBC Radio 5 Live that if the book is removed from the retailer's website, he will "advertise it as 'the book banned in the UK'".
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries asked the Commons yesterday if Parliament could apply pressure on Amazon to remove To Train Up A Child.
Mr Pearl told the radio station: "I was delighted to hear that Parliament might ban my book, if they do, I will immediately advertise it as 'the book banned in the UK' and...we will end up selling another 100,000 books directly to the UK."
"The British defeated the Nazi's with planes and tanks and now they stoop to defeating ideas with censorship," he added.


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|TAIYO NIPPON SANSO CORPORATION Patent applications
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|METHOD FOR ADJUSTING VAPOR-PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - The present invention provides a method of adjusting vapor-phase growth apparatuses in which the individual difference of a heater-set temperature and a surface temperature of substrate-mounted plate among the vapor-phase growth apparatuses is eliminated. The method of adjusting vapor-phase growth apparatuses of the present invention includes a thermocouple-location-adjusting step, in which the relative location of a thermocouple (
|COMBUSTION BURNER, BURNER APPARATUS, AND RAW MATERIAL POWDER-HEATING METHOD - An object of the present invention is to provide a combustion burner that is capable of efficiently performing heating of a raw material powder by improving the dispersibility of the raw material powder that is ejected from a raw material powder-ejecting port using a simple configuration, and a combustion burner in which raw material powder introduction pipes that introduce the raw material powder inside a raw material powder supply pathway are provided so that axes that extend from central axes of the raw material powder introduction pipes do not intersect a central axis of the burner main body, and so that angles θ that are formed by central axes of the raw material powder introduction pipes and an outer surface of a second circular member are larger than 0° and smaller than 90°.
|SUB-ZERO TREATMENT DEVICE - The present invention provides a sub-zero treatment device capable of uniformly cooling a cooling target object and reducing the amount of liquid refrigerant used for cooling the cooling target object. The sub-zero treatment device has an exhaust member extending from a through-hole provided in a cooling tank constituting a cooling target object mounting chamber through to the interior of the cooling target object mounting chamber, and having an exhaust port, wherein the exhaust port is disposed in an exhaust port positioning space, which is the space located in the upper half of the cooling target object mounting chamber and having a width in the transverse direction that is equal to the maximum width in the transverse direction of the suction port.
|BRAZING METHOD OF ALUMINUM MATERIAL AND BRAZED STRUCTURE - In order to enable a satisfactory fluxless brazing without needing flux or vacuum facilities, a brazing object including an aluminum alloy material provided with an Al—Si—Mg brazing filler metal is joined by the Al—Si—Mg brazing filler metal without the use of flux by heating the aluminum alloy material, when raising the temperature in a brazing furnace, at least in a temperature range of 450° C. to before melting of the filler metal under a first inert gas atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of preferably 50 ppm and following by heating at least at or above a temperature at which the filler metal starts to melt under a second inert gas atmosphere having an oxygen concentration of preferably 25 ppm and a nitrogen gas concentration of preferably 10% by volume or less. The oxygen concentration and nitrogen concentration in the atmosphere in the course of brazing are controlled in this way, whereby the reliability of a joint is remarkably improved, compared with conventional fluxless brazing methods, while suppressing cost increases as much as possible.
|NITROGEN-ENRICHED GAS MANUFACTURING METHOD, GAS SEPARATION METHOD AND NITROGEN-ENRICHED GAS MANUFACTURING APPARATUS - A nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing method and a nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing apparatus which minimize variations in the compressor load in order to ensure satisfactory utilization of the performance of the compressor. Specifically, a nitrogen-enriched gas manufacturing method for separating a nitrogen-enriched gas from a raw material air containing nitrogen gas using a plurality of adsorption tanks packed with an adsorbent the method including a pressurization and adsorption step, a depressurization and equalization step, a depressurization and regeneration step, and a pressurization and equalization step, wherein in the pressurization or depressurization and equalization step, the raw material air which has been compressed by the compressor is stored in a compressed raw material air tank provided on a branch line between the compressor and the adsorption tanks, and in the pressurization and adsorption step, the raw material air stored in the compressed raw material air tank is introduced into the adsorption tank and used as a portion of the gas that pressurizes the inside of the adsorption tank.
|LOW-TEMPERATURE GAS SUPPLY DEVICE, HEAT TRANSFER MEDIUM-COOLING DEVICE, AND LOW-TEMPERATURE REACTION CONTROL DEVICE - A low-temperature gas supply device is provided with a first heat exchanger, in which a mixed gas mixing a vaporization gas of a low-temperature-liquefied gas with a gas of a temperature higher than the low-temperature-liquefied gas and the low-temperature-liquefied gas are introduced and heat-exchanged with each other, and the mixed gas is discharged as a low-temperature gas refrigerant and the low-temperature-liquefied gas is discharged as the vaporization gas; a mixing unit, in which the gas and the vaporization gas discharged from the first heat exchanger are mixed and discharged as the mixed gas; and a first control unit, in which, based on the difference between a detected temperature of the low-temperature gas refrigerant and an intended temperature, respective amounts of the gas introduced to the mixing unit and the vaporization gas are adjusted to control the temperature of the low-temperature gas refrigerant to the intended temperature.
|METHOD FOR PRODUCING NITROGEN GAS, METHOD FOR SEPARATING GAS AND DEVICE FOR PRODUCING NITROGEN GAS - A method for producing nitrogen gas from a raw material gas using a PSA system, the method including using a second adsorbent, which is packed in an auxiliary adsorption tank provided in a line connecting two main adsorption tanks packed with a first adsorbent, to reduce the oxygen concentration within a recovered gas discharged from the main adsorption tank performing a depressurization equalization step, and then introducing the gas into the main adsorption tank performing a pressurization equalization step.
|HEAT EXCHANGER - Provided is a heat exchanger in which heat exchange between a low-temperature cooling medium and brine and heat exchange between brine and hydrogen gas can be efficiently performed and downsizing of cooling facilities or reduction in facility cost can be attained. The heat exchanger comprises: a vacuum insulated container 12 which is filled with brine, a lid 13 closing an upper portion opening of the container, a rotation axis 14 arranged in the axis direction of the container, a propeller 15 provided on the rotation axis, a helical hydrogen gas cooling tube 16, 17 provided in a vertically two-stage structure around the rotation axis and the propeller, and a cooling medium tube 18 for cooling brine which is arranged around the hydrogen gas cooling tubes.
|AIR SEPARATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is an air separation method and apparatus in which consumed power source can be reduced when oxygen is collected in a three-column process, including: a first separation step in which feed air is separated into high pressure nitrogen gas and high pressure oxygen-enriched liquid air; a second separation step in which a high pressure oxygen-enriched liquid air is separated into medium pressure nitrogen gas, and medium pressure oxygen-enriched liquid air; a first indirect heat exchange step in which a medium pressure nitrogen gas is condensed and a low pressure oxygen-enriched liquid air is vaporized by indirect heat exchange; and a third separation step in which a low pressure oxygen-enriched air is separated into low pressure nitrogen gas and low pressure liquid oxygen.
|METHANE SEPARATION METHOD, METHANE SEPARATION APPARATUS, AND METHANE UTILIZATION SYSTEM - A methane separation method of the present invention at least includes: mixing the biogas and an absorbing liquid that absorbs carbon dioxide in a mixer so as to form a mixed fluid of a gas-liquid mixed phase; introducing the mixed fluid into a first gas/liquid separator so as to separate the mixed fluid through gas/liquid separation into methane and a CO
|KNEADING APPARATUS - The present invention includes a kneading chamber (
|VAPOR-PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - The present invention provides a vapor-phase growth apparatus, including: a reaction furnace in which a susceptor is removably installed, and in which vapor-phase growth is conducted; a transport robot which transports the aforementioned susceptor; a glove box which accommodates the pertinent transport robot and the aforementioned reaction furnace; an exchange table which is set up inside the pertinent glove box, and on which a susceptor is temporarily mounted during susceptor replacement; and an exchange box which is provided in a side wall of the aforementioned glove box, and in which susceptor replacement is conducted; and wherein the aforementioned exchange table comprises a positioning device which rotates upon mounting of the aforementioned susceptor, and which determines a position of the aforementioned susceptor in a rotational direction by stopping at a prescribed rotational position.
|Method for Producing Fluorine-Containing Substituted Compound and Fluorine-Containing Substituted Compound - A method for producing a fluorine-containing substituted compound, the method including: introducing an organofluorine compound and an organolithium compound into a microreactor provided with a flow path capable of mixing a plurality of liquids, to thereby obtain a reaction product; and introducing, into the microreactor, the reaction product and an electrophile exhibiting electrophilic effect on the reaction product, to thereby obtain a fluorine-containing substituted compound.
|SUSCEPTOR AND VAPOR-PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - The present invention provides a susceptor which is rotatably provided in a chamber and has a plurality of substrate mounting parts, and a substrate on which a thin film is deposited is rotatably mounted on the substrate mounting part, and
|PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTION DEVICE AND ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT METHOD USING THE DEVICE - The present invention includes: a light-transmissive reaction cell (
|COMPOSITE RESINOUS PARTICLES, METHOD OF PRODUCING COMPOSITE RESINOUS PARTICLES, COMPOSITE RESIN MOLDED BODY, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME - A composite resin material particle is produced by a method including the steps of: forming a mixed slurry containing a resin material particle and carbon nanotubes; supplying the mixed slurry to a pressure vessel, followed by supplying carbon dioxide with stirring an inside of the pressure vessel; holding the inside of the pressure vessel at a temperature and at a pressure which allow the carbon dioxide to be maintained in a subcritical or supercritical state; and transferring the carbon dioxide to the outside of the pressure vessel.
|BURNER COMBUSTION METHOD - The present invention provides a burner combustion method for supplying and combusting an oxidant stream and a fuel stream, wherein the oxidant stream is composed of a primary oxidant stream jetted from around the periphery of the fuel stream or from a position near the fuel stream, and a plurality of secondary oxidant streams, and by periodically changing the flow rate of at least one of the primary oxidant stream and the plurality of secondary oxidant streams, and also causing a periodic change in the oxygen concentration within the oxidant stream, causing a periodic change in the oxygen ratio which is calculated by dividing the supplied amount of oxygen, supplied by the oxidant stream, by the theoretically required amount of oxygen, and providing a difference between the periodic changes in the oxygen concentration and the oxygen ratio, the combustion state adopts a periodic oscillating state.
|HYBRID WELDING METHOD AND WELDING TORCH FOR HYBRID WELDING - An object of the present invention is to provide a hybrid welding method which can improve the stability of the arc, the welding speed, and welding efficiency, and the present invention provides a hybrid welding method in which a TIG arc is generated on the front side in the welding direction, and a MIG arc is generated on the back side in the welding direction in order to weld a welding base material, wherein electric current for the TIG welding is larger than electric current for the MIG welding; and an absolute value of the interval between an intersection of a center axis of a TIG electrode and a surface of the welding base material and an intersection of a center axis of a MIG electrode and the surface of the welding base material is 4 mm or less.
|VAPOR PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - Provided is a vapor phase growth apparatus having a rotation/revolution mechanism by which a rolling member is prevented from riding onto an adjacent rolling member. In a vapor phase growth apparatus having a rotation/revolution structure in which a plurality of substrate retaining members
|CARBON-BASED FINE STRUCTURE ARRAY, AGGREGATE OF CARBON-BASED FINE STRUCTURES, USE THEREOF AND METHOD FOR PREPARATION THEREOF - An aggregate of carbon-based fine structures in which a plurality of carbon-based fine structures are collected, wherein respective carbon-based fine structures are oriented in the same direction. The above aggregate of carbon-based fine structures is an aggregate of a plurality of carbon-based fine structures in a state they are pulled by one another with strong interaction, and has such a length that allows the improvement of the handeability and workability thereof.
|WELDING TORCH AND ADAPTER KIT - According to the present invention, an adapter kit is provided in which a welding torch having a single nozzle structure is switched to a welding torch having a double nozzle structure. In an adapter kit (
|WELDING GAS AND PLASMA WELDING METHOD - A welding method, which performs non-keyhole welding of a ferritic stainless steel having a plate thickness of 3 mm or less using a plasma welding torch (
|VAPOR PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - A vapor phase growth apparatus with a measuring means which can measure the state of the warpage of a substrate, which is a rotation/revolution type vapor phase growth apparatus with a susceptor and a plurality of substrate retaining members in a chamber, wherein a measuring means comprising a laser source which continuously emits a laser light in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate which is retained in the substrate retaining member and is rotating/revolving by the rotation of the susceptor and a light receiving portion which receives a laser light reflected on the surface of the substrate is fixed on the outer surface of a laser transparent portion provided on the chamber; and a judging means which judges that the substrate is in an abnormal state when the variation of the reflected light received by the light receiving portion is larger than a preset variation is provided.
|GAS PURIFICATION METHOD - Provided is a gas purification method in which the amount of adsorbent is reduced, an adsorption column can be considerably miniaturized, the amount of regeneration gas can be reduced and the running cost can be reduced in cases where carbon dioxide or water which is an impurity contained in a gas to be purified is adsorptively removed; and in which a gas to be purified which contains carbon dioxide having a partial pressure of 35 Pa or lower as impurities is brought into contact with an adsorbent whose heat-regeneration temperature is set to from 160° C. to 240° C. composed of a faujasite type zeolite whose cation is sodium to adsorptively remove the carbon dioxide. Also provided is a gas purification method in which a gas to be purified is brought into contact with an adsorbent which is subjected to an initial activation at 300° C. or higher and composed of a faujasite type zeolite whose cation is lithium to adsorptively remove the residual carbon dioxide and a heat-regeneration is performed at 240° C. or lower.
|COMPARTMENTAL ANALSYS SYSTEM, COMPARTMENTAL ANALYSIS METHOD, COMPARTMENT ANALYZER, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - One object of the present invention is to perform compartmental analysis of the dynamics of a tracer in the brain, and the present invention provides a compartmental analysis system including a measurement apparatus that measures the strength of an electromagnetic wave from a tracer and a compartmental analyzer that performs compartmental analysis of the dynamics of the tracer in the brain on the basis of the strength of the electromagnetic wave, wherein the compartmental analyzer includes a rate constant calculation unit that calculates a rate constant when the tracer moves between compartments on the basis of the strength of an electromagnetic wave in a first compartment corresponding to the cerebral blood vessel in the brain or an input function in the first compartment, the strength of an electromagnetic wave in a second compartment corresponding to the brain tissue in the brain, and the strength of an electromagnetic wave in a third compartment corresponding to the cerebral sulcus or cerebral ventricle in the brain.
|BURNER COMBUSTION METHOD - A burner combustion method is employed in which at least two burners (
|GAS CUTTING METHOD, GAS CUTTING MACHINE, AND CUTTING TIP - A gas cutting method is provided which includes: mixing hydrogen gas and hydrocarbon gas to acquire fuel gas; ejecting a preheating flame, which is formed by mixing and igniting the fuel gas and preheating oxygen gas, from an end of a cutting tip to heat a workpiece; and ejecting cutting hydrogen gas to the heated workpiece to cut the workpiece. Here, the content of the hydrocarbon gas in the fuel gas is more than 0 vol % and equal to or less than 4 vol %.
|METHOD FOR OPERATING GAS SEPARATION DEVICE - Provided are a method for operating a gas separation device capable of performing gas separation with high separation capability and treatment amount in a small membrane area or in a small number of separation membrane modules, and a method for recovering a residual gas capable of performing more suitable detoxifying treatment or recycling by efficiently separating and recovering a mixed gas remaining in a cylinder, using the operating method. Two or more separation membrane modules are connected with each other in parallel. One separation membrane module is continuously and repeatedly operated in an operation cycle including: a first process for supplying a mixed gas into an airtight container and filling the airtight container with pressure; a second process for, when a predetermined time has elapsed or a predetermined pressure has been reached, stopping the supply of the mixed gas and retaining the supplied mixed gas; a third process for, when a predetermined time has elapsed or a predetermined pressure has been reached, recovering the mixed gas from a non-permeated gas discharge port; and a fourth process for, when a predetermined time has elapsed or a predetermined pressure has been reached, closing the non-permeated gas discharge port. The other separation membrane modules are operated in operation cycles shifted by respective predetermined intervals.
|METHOD FOR MULTIPLE QUANTIFICATION OF AMINO GROUP-CONTAINING NON-PEPTIDIC COMPOUND WITH HIGH EFFICIENCY AND HIGH SENSITIVITY AND KIT THEREFOR - A method of quantifying a target non-peptidic compound having an amino group contained in one or more biological samples, which comprises a step of producing a difference in the mass of the target non-peptidic compound between samples, by using a combination of two or more kinds of stable isotopes of a compound represented by the formula (I):
|CRYOPRESERVATION DEVICE - Provided is a cryopreservation device which is small-sized and light-weight and has a low price, and also which is easy to get a cryocane in and out of.
|VAPOR PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - Disclosed is a rotation/revolution type vapor phase growth apparatus that can maintain constant flow rates of a purge gas and a raw material gas when a raw material gas introducing direction is set to be the same as a susceptor rotation introducing direction. Inside a hollow drive shaft
|AIR LIQUEFACTION SEPARATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - Disclosed is an air liquefaction separation method and apparatus by which the apparatus cost can be reduced when liquid products are collected, the method including:
|VAPOR PHASE GROWTH APPARATUS - Disclosed is a rotation/revolution type vapor phase growth apparatus that allows for automatic meshing between an external gear and an internal gear. In the apparatus, on tooth side surfaces of at least one kind of a plurality of external gear members provided rotatably in a circumferential direction of an outer periphery of a disk-shaped susceptor and a ring-shaped fixed internal gear member having an internal gear to mesh with the external gear members, there is provided a guide slope that abuts against a tooth side surface of the other kind of the gear member(s) to guide both kinds of the gear members into a meshed state when both kinds of the gear members move from a non-meshed state to the meshed state.
|Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same - A semiconductor device according to the invention includes a first Cu interconnect and a first barrier insulating film. a The first barrier insulating film is provided on the first Cu interconnect, and prevents Cu from being diffused from the first Cu interconnect. In addition, the semiconductor device includes a second Cu interconnect and a second barrier insulating film on the first barrier insulating film. The second barrier insulating film is provided on a first Cu interconnect, and prevents Cu from being diffused from the second Cu interconnect. The first and second barrier insulating films are made of a silicon-based insulating film having a branched alkyl group and a carbon-carbon double bond.
|METHOD FOR SUPPLYING REFINED LIQUEFIED GAS - A method for supplying a refined liquefied gas, in which prior to the supply of a liquefied gas stored in a container, the liquefied gas is refined by (1) determining the concentrations of impurities in the gas phase, then estimating the concentration of each impurity in the liquid phase from the ratio between the liquid-phase concentration and the gas-phase concentration of the impurity (gas-liquid equilibrium constant (K
|Catalyst Body for Production of Brush-shaped Carbon Nanostructure - It is intended to highly efficiently produce a high-density brush shaped carbon nanostructure useful in the production of CNT assembly, such as rope-shaped CNTs, and provide a catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure that enables the production. The catalyst body for production of brush-shaped carbon nanostructure is one comprising a substrate (
|Method of Continuously Synthesizing Oriented Carbon Nanotubes and Apparatus for Continuously Synthesizing Same - A method and apparatus for continuously synthesizing oriented carbon nanotubes, with which oriented carbon nanotubes can be stably synthesized in large quantities, is presented.
|Process for producing metallic ultrafine powder - A process for producing metallic ultra-fine powder, which can use a raw material which is spread over a wide range, and control freely the grain size of the metallic powder to be produced, at low cost and high safety. The process for producing the metallic ultra fine powder consists of using a burner and a furnace which can generate a high temperature reductive atmosphere, and an apparatus for separating gas which is generated in the furnace from powder to recover the powder. The burner has a function of blowing a powdery metallic compound as a raw material into a high temperature reductive flame. The raw material powder is efficiently heated in airflow of a high temperature reductive flame, thereby being reduced rapidly into metallic ultra-fine powder. At this time, the grain size of the metallic ultra-fine powder is controlled by adjusting the oxygen ratio (i.e. the ratio of amount of the burning-assist gas supplied to the burner to the amount of the burning-assist gas required for completely burning the fuel).
|SHIELDING GAS FOR MAG WELDING, MAG WELDING METHOD, AND WELDED STRUCTURE - The shielding gas for MAG welding according to an embodiment is a shielding gas for MAG welding to perform narrow gap welding of a high Cr steel containing 8 wt % to 13 wt % of Cr with one layer-one pass by using a solid wire containing 8 wt % to 13 wt % of Cr, and the shielding gas for MAG welding comprises a ternary mixed gas of 5% by volume to 17% by volume of a carbon dioxide gas, 30% by volume to 80% by volume of a helium gas, and a balance of an argon gas.
|Method for supplying gas - [Problem] The present invention provides a gas supply method by which a gas in a gas container can be effectively utilized.
|INSULATING FILM MATERIAL, METHOD FOR FORMING FILM BY USING THE INSULATING FILM MATERIAL, AND INSULATING FILM - An insulating film material for plasma CVD, wherein the material is represented by the chemical formula (1); a film forming method using the material; and an insulating film;
|Pre-purification unit of cryogenic air separation unit, hydrocarbon adsorbent, and method of pre-treating feed air - A hydrocarbon adsorbent that includes a zeolite with either a H-FER structure or a MOR structure in which the pore diameter has been adjusted by ion exchange. A propane adsorbent that includes a zeolite with a MFI structure. A hydrocarbon removal unit that includes a TSA pre-purification unit having a column packed with sequential layers of activated alumina, a NaX zeolite, and the hydrocarbon adsorbent. A method of reducing the hydrocarbon content within liquid oxygen inside a cryogenic air separation unit that includes purifying feed air with the above pre-purification unit.
|Oxygen isotope concentration method - A method of concentrating the stable oxygen isotopes of
|Oxygen isotope concentration method - A method of concentrating the stable oxygen isotopes of
|Gas purifying process and device - This gas purifying process removes trace constituents from a mixed gas that includes a rare gas and nitrogen as main components, and at least one from among hydrogen, nitrogen and hydrogen reaction products, and water vapor as the trace constituent. This process sequentially carries out an adsorbing step for removing water vapor and nitrogen and hydrogen reaction products; a hydrogen oxidation step for converting the hydrogen into water vapor by means of a hydrogen oxidation catalytic reaction in the presence of oxygen; and a drying step for removing water vapor generated in the hydrogen oxidation step. When nitrogen oxides are included as a trace constituent, then a denitration step is carried out prior to the adsorbing step, to convert nitrogen oxides into nitrogen and water vapor by means of a catalytic denitration reaction in the presence of a reducing substance.
|Catalyst for Carbon Nanostructure Growth, Process for Producing Carbon Nanostructure, Raw-Material Gas and Carrier Gas for Producing the Same, and Apparatus for Producing the Same - It is the purpose of this invention to present a process for producing carbon nanostructure in which the mechanism of continuous carbon nanostructure growth can be optimized and a high-quality carbon nanostructure can be produced, a catalyst for carbon nanostructure growth which is for use in the production, a raw-material gas and a carrier gas for producing the same, and an apparatus for producing the same. The process for carbon nanostructure production, in which the length of the nanostructure can be continuously controlled comprises feeding a carrier gas and a raw-material gas to a reaction chamber (
|METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING NITROGEN ISOTOPE - The present invention provides a method for concentrating nitrogen isotope comprising a step for obtaining a final product nitrogen, in which the stable nitrogen isotope,
|HEAT MEDIUM HEATING-COOLING APPARATUS AND HEAT MEDIUM TEMPERATURE CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a heat medium heating-cooling apparatus and a heat medium temperature control method, which can control the heat medium temperature stably and more efficiently. The heat medium heating-cooling apparatus includes a heat medium heating unit (
|METHOD OF PRODUCING ULTRA-FINE METAL PARTICLES - A method of producing ultra-fine metal particles of the present invention includes: blowing metal powders of raw materials into reducing flame formed by a burner
|Process for Production of Aluminum Ingots, Aluminum Ingots, and Protective Gas for the Production of Aluminum Ingots - To provide a method for producing an aluminum ingot whose oxides is reduced by preventing the surface of molten aluminum from being oxidized. The method according to the present invention includes a melting step (melting furnace
|Molten metal treatment, method for treating molten metal, and apparatus and method for feeding cover gas to molten metal - A molten metal treatment consisting of a liquid mixture in which fluorinated ketone is dissolved in liquid carbon dioxide at 0.01 to 10 wt % is put in a container, and the molten metal treatment is vaporized, and is fed as a cover gas to be contacted with the surface of a molten metal.
|POROUS CALCIUM OXIDE PARTICULATE AND POROUS CALCIUM HYDROXIDE PARTICULATE - Granular calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide which are highly reactive with a halide gas and its decomposition products and favorably employable for filling a gas-fixing unit (
|Exhaust Gas-Processing Apparatus - An exhaust gas-processing apparatus of the present invention includes a gas supplier
|PROCESS FOR PRODUCING POROUS METAL BODY - Disclosed is a process of producing a porous metal body containing a metal component which is likely to be oxidized, by which process the amounts of residual carbon and residual oxygen therein are decreased, and by which the performance of the product porous body can be largely promoted. The process for producing a porous metal body by sintering a material of the porous metal body, which material is obtained by coating a slurry containing a metal powder and an organic binder on an organic porous aggregate, comprises a defatting step of treating the material of the porous metal body at a temperature not higher than
|GRANULAR MATERIAL COMPRISING POROUS PARTICLES CONTAINING CALCIUM AND/OR MAGNESIUM - A granular material having a high strength and a large BET specific surface area composed of porous particles comprising calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide wherein the calcium oxide is contained in an amount of 30 to 80 weight % based on a total amount of the calcium oxide and calcium hydroxide and the porous particles have a BET specific surface area of 40 m
|Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and processing apparatus - To remove the deposit including a high dielectric constant film deposited on an inside of a processing chamber, by using a cleaning gas activated only by heat. The method includes the steps of: loading a substrate or a plurality of substrates into the processing chamber; performing processing to deposit the high dielectric constant film on the substrate by supplying processing gas into the processing chamber; unloading the processed substrate from the inside of the processing chamber; and cleaning the inside of the processing chamber by supplying a halide gas and an oxygen based gas into the processing chamber, and removing the deposit including the high dielectric constant film deposited on the inside of the processing chamber, and in the step of cleaning the inside of the processing chamber, the concentration of the oxygen based gas in the halide gas and the oxygen based gas is set to be less than 7%.
|SPHERING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - A sphering apparatus includes a sphering furnace on a body of which a plurality of adhesion preventing air-introducing holes is formed and at a lower position of which a carrier air-introducing hole and a carrier air-withdrawing hole are formed; an air blower introducing both an adhesion preventing air and a carrier air; a first pipe one end of which is connected to a discharging part of the air blower and the other end of which is biforked, one biforked end being connected to the carrier air-introducing hole and the other biforked end being connected to a manifold bundling the plurality of adhesion preventing air-introducing holes; a first damper provided in any one of two pipes in the biforked part of the first pipe; a cyclone connected to the carrier air-withdrawing hole through a second pipe; and a bag filter connected to the cyclone through a third pipe.
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|TIG WELDING EQUIPMENT AND TIG WELDING METHODS - The TIG welding methods of the present invention include generating an electric arc between an electrode and an object to weld the object, wherein a first shielding gas including an inert gas flows toward the welded object surrounding the electrode, a second shielding gas containing an oxidative gas flows toward the welded object along a periphery of the first shielding gas, and the concentration of the oxidative gas in the second shielding gas is set such that the oxygen concentration in the welded metal portion of the welded object is within a range of 70 to 220 wt. ppm.
|Process and Apparatus for Nitrogen Production - A process and apparatus for producing nitrogen by which product nitrogen can be efficiently supplied. The nitrogen producing process comprises: a first separation step in which feed air is distilled at a low temperature; a first indirect heat exchange step in which a first nitrogen gas and a first oxygen-enriched liquefied fluid which have been separated in the first separation step are subjected to indirect heat exchange to obtain a first liquefied nitrogen and a first oxygen-enriched gas fluid; a second separation step in which the first oxygen-enriched gas fluid is distilled at a low temperature; a second indirect heat exchange step in which a second nitrogen gas and a second oxygen-enriched liquefied fluid which have been separated in the second separation step are subjected to indirect heat exchange to obtain a second liquefied nitrogen and a second oxygen-enriched gas fluid; a cold generating step in which the second oxygen-enriched gas fluid is adiabatically expanded to generate cold; a first product recovery step in which part of the first nitrogen gas is discharged as a first product nitrogen gas; and a second product recovery step in which part of the second nitrogen gas is discharged as a second product nitrogen gas after the cold is recovered.
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Thirty-six years after federal overseers of safety at nuclear plants first recognized the serious risks of fires—when a candle ignited a major emergency at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant—preventable fire hazards still persist at the nation's reactors, including Browns Ferry.
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Nationally, half the accidents that threaten reactor cores begin with fires that can start from something as simple as a spark or short in a cable.
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Both regulators and the industry have routinely downplayed the risks of fire.
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Critics of the plant, which is applying to have its operating license extended for another 20 years, have argued that it is vulnerable to earthquakes, is an attractive target for terrorists—and that it fails to meet many fire standards set by the NRC. There is also a report of a little-known threat at Indian Point: the presence of two half-century old natural gas lines 600 feet from the reactor containment building.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, in a petition to the NRC asking for a review of all public safety threats posed by the plant prior to relicensing, noted that Indian Point has been granted over 100 exemptions to fire safety rules.
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September 30th, 2013 03:13 PM #1
Let's talk about Audrey!
Since I can't seem to narrow down these new crushes of mine, I figured I'd take a bit deeper of a look at each one individually, and maybe I can make some decisions (and find a combo for the ones I want to keep!). First up is Audrey--out of all of the new favorites, this one has been growing on me for a long time and I feel like it's a favorite of the new favorites. It feels like a more timeless version of my name, which I love--since one of the things I dislike about Ashley is that it's so trendy.
WDYT of Audrey? What sort of little person do you picture with the name? Do you think it suits my other favorites, or is it too non-frills (or even too vintage?) for the rest of my list? And--I don't want to ask this, but I feel I should--is it too close to Ashley?
And I'm not going to go all-out on combos yet, but I'd take suggestions if you want to offer them. I'm thinking something really pretty, soft, to soften up Audrey a little. I don't feel that it's harsh, but I do feel that it is harsher than a lot of my favorites, if that makes sense. I like Audrey Camellia so far, but I'm not the hugest fan of the one Camellia I know, so I'm not sure I'm terribly interested in using it. I have liked Audrey Evangeline in the past, but I'm not sure how I feel about it anymore.
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September 30th, 2013 03:36 PM #3
I love Audrey too - more than the popularity, the harshness of the name has always swayed me and kept me from adding it to my list.
I have synesthesia, and Audrey is far on the warm side of the spectrum for me. It's a warm orange, an intense color like fire. (Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright, in the forests of the night...).
(Judging by your sig) I don't think Audrey is too different, frilly or vintage from your other names.
Is Audrey too close to Ashley? I feel so, unfortunately.
I think Audrey Camellia is pretty good! I like Audrey Celeste and Audrey Sylvia.
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I love Audrey It works perfectly with your other names It's hard to say what I picture a little Audrey looking like, as I've never met one, but I imagine one being sweet and lovely to deal with! I have Audrey on my list, so these are the combos I have with it.
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I really like Audrey. It's classy, feminine and works on a little girl or a grown woman. I think Audrey would be really pretty with Isabelle, Olivia, Rachel, Charlotte or Tess from your signature. If you like nicknames, Drina is a bit of a stretch, but it's really pretty and makes Audrey more frilly. I think an Audrey could be anyone. It's girly enough to wear pink and boyish enough to climb trees, and it wouldn't be too much for a shy girl to handle. I really like names that could suit any personality - Persephone is gorgeous, but if you haven't got the personality it really doesn't work.
It might be kind of close to Ashley, but I wouldn't worry about it. If you were deliberately naming a child after yourself, that would be one thing, but if you just happen to like a name that sounds kind of like your name it's not really an issue in my opinion.
Audrey Camellia and Audrey Evangeline are both beautiful combinations. I can't really think of anything to offer -- Audrey Estelle? Audrey Penelope?
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Audrey is a wonderful name! Audrey Hepburn and Shakespeare and classic. I see a preppy little girl with a tomboy streak. I rather like its difficult to make a nn for it because then any nn could be a special pet name that isn't necessarily part of her name.
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While visiting my great friend kris-wilson we decided to get in another collaboration. Those who've seen our past few know we go big haha! This time we went the fan art route. We both are huge fans of the Hexxus birth scene and thought we'd try and capture it.
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Hexxus is one of the most amazing villains ever, he really didn't get enough scenes though...
wow great !!
You captured the texture well. It looks gross and oily, in a good way.
Awesome. I knew what it was even before I read the title. Ahhhh Ferngully.... my childhood. LOL.
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Ferngully. Oh, the memories; it's good to know it's still remembered.
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This skeleton seems to be very nice ;D
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isnt hexxus from fern gully?
Looks awesome I remember the character from Furngully and how frightening it was for a kids movie.
My lord dude this is so sick! I love it!
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If you don't like it go Affliction for the fights where you want big single target. Destro is viable for at least four fights this tier. That is the beauty of being able to have two specs.
Suggestion: Increase (Immo)/Inci/Conflag damage to fix poor single target performance and reduce F'n'B modifier to limit AoE capacities!
A) Provide Blizzard with PTR logs where it shows just how bad our ST damage scaling is(and maybe get their attention to other issues) and maybe get some buffs/fixes
B) Do nothing, everything remains as it is now, keep complaining on MMOC about it
I don't know but i think option A) might be the way to go :s
On a 5+ target fight destro's aoe works roughly similar to what it does on live. Under 5 targets destro works nothing like it does on live. That's an issue. I honestly would rather use RoF on single target for a minor gain than to have to deal with the can of worms that the RoF emberbit nerf opened up. Blizz was honestly ready to ship this patch next week, I'd say it's better to try and get them to revert back to a known quantity than to try and get them to jump over to an unknown quantity. Even if they liked something suggested, it probably wouldn't even make it live until 5.5 at this point, and by that time what's the point really?
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im happy with destruction atm. for singletarget and multidottng fights i gonna play affliction, for add cleave with fast dying adds i gonna roll destruction. but its little bad that MF dont increase range for FnB any longer.
So you guys think its ok for destruction to scale like dog crap and be so massively behind on single target just because its aoe is strong?
Is it not better to spend 5 minutes reducing the mastery scaling on fire and brimstone (potentially the ember cost by 50% to) and then buffing single target damage accordingly.
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why can't immolate just be a sick DoT? my gimp geared Mage's Living Bomb hits harder than my Mastery stacked 541 Destro Warlock's immolate.
-in 5 man dungeons, Arms Warriors again are the weakest link in the chain as they require 3X amount of healing as other classes and therefore die much more frequently and receive less healing in general, as with the amount of mana spent to keep an Arms Warrior alive the healer can heal all other members and himself.
You can get the single target and aoe in balance after adjusting single target....blizz just needs to put forth a little bitty bit of effort or thought. Give immo/incinerate/conflag/FF(dest only) arc mage levels of spell coef. Turn down the base spread on F&B by a similar amount. This is no harder than the concept of reforging yet seems to escape the devs at present. As has been pointed out there is almost no time to get valid testing of a destro change should one even happen.
Destro needs some mechanics changes to help it cope with the 550+ilvls, legendary meta gem, and AoE sustainability. All of which have been covered in the forums both here and on the official site. The pvp card doesn't play either since there is already a 25% nerf to chaosbolt damage vs players and its crystal clear they will keep nerfing CB in pvp at the slightest hint of viability. Regardless of what representation or math looks like compared to other bursty ranged.
I also am not sold on the idea of logs changing anything. Remember MoP beta and how much was said? Then remember the community pointing out the same things that were said in beta about destro as issues months later when there was an abundance of data? Nothing changed. Devs seem to have a vision for destro which is a extremely poor man's mage that has some niche use but never really gets a seat at the adult's table. It is tuned to be a second class citizen in pvp and pve....some amazing players can make it work and most solid players can use it in the niche settings, but its not permitted to be a truly competitive spec.
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i think blizz' biggest problem is that they want to buff destro's single target dps, but buffing destro's fillers like incinerate and to a degree conflag will also buff its aoe which isnt needed, so their only real option, if that is their intention, is to buff ember generation and ember spenders as they arent regularly used except for single target dps and cleaving.
What do you guys seriously want to see buffed which won't make Destro AoE ridiculous? Or PvP, for that matter. FnB and CB makes balancing single target PvE very hard.As others said it is very easy to increase the scaling of our single target spells without increasing our AoE power, they just have to reduce the FnB modifier. There is no issue there.i think blizz' biggest problem is that they want to buff destro's single target dps, but buffing destro's fillers like incinerate and to a degree conflag will also buff its aoe which isnt needed, so their only real option, if that is their intention, is to buff ember generation and ember spenders as they arent regularly used except for single target dps and cleaving.
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Of course it's easy to adjust scaling of spells. But is it easy to do so and keep everything some what balanced 2 weeks before the patch? Hmmmmmm. If destruction is tuned so it's as good as affliction (or better) single target, how many people would go destruction only for all SoO? That seems like the opposite of what blizzard intends.
"So you guys think its ok for destruction to scale like dog crap and be so massively behind on single target just because its aoe is strong?" In the dev's minds, probably yes. Yes green fire is awesome and it was fun to abuse destruction for a few fights in ToT, but now it's a new tier and we have multiple specs.... if you don't like playing different specs, maybe it's time to reroll.


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