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> Subject: Re: How do you interpet gcc test results?
> > My last email was regarding the test results of GCC.
> > wrong, but they don't seem to make any difference.
> Try reading the book.
> You have exactly 6 failures out of about 90000.
> That's not "so many".
Yeah I read that prior to asking. Thanks for the insight.


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Drymonia är ett släkte av fjärilar som beskrevs av Hübner 1819. Drymonia ingår i familjen tandspinnare.

Dottertaxa till Drymonia, i alfabetisk ordning

 Drymonia albescens
 Drymonia albida
 Drymonia albifasciata
 Drymonia albisignata
 Drymonia albofasciata
 Drymonia anadolua
 Drymonia approximata
 Drymonia argentea
 Drymonia bicolor
 Drymonia centralariae
 Drymonia concolor
 Drymonia corax
 Drymonia daisenensis
 Drymonia danieli
 Drymonia deleta
 Drymonia delineata
 Drymonia discoidalis
 Gulsvansspinnare, Drymonia dodonaea
 Drymonia dodonides
 Drymonia esmera
 Drymonia fusca
 Drymonia grisea
 Drymonia ilicis
 Drymonia illunulata
 Drymonia intermedia
 Drymonia japonica
 Drymonia lunula
 Drymonia melagona
 Drymonia melanochroa
 Drymonia moghrebana
 Drymonia nigrescens
 Drymonia nigroramosa
 Drymonia obliterata
 Drymonia purpurascens
 Drymonia roboris
 Vintereksspinnare, Drymonia ruficornis
 Drymonia trimaculata
 Drymonia wageneri
 Drymonia vivida

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Q: Flask route for AngularJS with HTML5 URL mode I have an AngularJS app being served via Flask. I am using the HTML5 routing mode and thus need to redirect several URLs to the client app. I'm not sure how to do the wildcard matching needing to do this correctly. Currently I just match multiple levels of path like this:
@app.route('/ui/')
def ui():
    return app.send_static_file('index.html')
@app.route('/ui/<path>')
def ui(path):
    return app.send_static_file('index.html')
@app.route('/ui/<path>/<path2>')
def ui(path,path2):
    return app.send_static_file('index.html')

Obviously I don't like this and would like to just have one route (everything starting with ui/).

A: The path url converter can do this for you:
@app.route('/ui/<path:p>')
def ui(p):
    return app.send_static_file('index.html')

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Q: How works ApplicationInfo().uid and are there distinction with system apps? I am trying to know if I can get root privileges with a system app to execute commands.
In this code:
getApplicationInfo().uid

In the documentation I can read that the uid is the kernel user-ID that has been assigned to this application; currently this is not a unique ID (multiple applications can have the same uid).
But how is this assigned?,
And the uid assigned to system apps,
does it has more privileges than normal apps to execute commands?

A: For all practical purposes, your Application's process will never be executing as uid=0 or root, as it has irreversibly changed to an ordinary user ID before a single line of code written by you executes.
When people make "root" apps, they are not changing the application process itself back to root - that is simply not possible.  Instead, what they are doing is executing a new helper process which runs as root.  Underneath the java level, this is ultimately done by calling an exec() family function on a file which has the setuid bit set.  This file might either be the helper program itself, or more commonly it is a "root shim" such as a hacked "su" which in turn runs the specified helper program as root.  Such a helper program is almost always native code, and is probably not registered with the Android framework to be able to utilize Android-level functionality.
System Applications do not run as root either.  What they have that third party apps do not is special Android-level Permissions which cause platform services that do run as root or other privileged user id's to privileged things on their behalf.  A few android permissions can also confer membership in user groups which have special access - some of these are available to third party apps (Internet permission for example) and some are not.

A: Basically, (I am not delving into the entire Linux explanation about uids. It can be easily found if you are interested). The uid in android is comprised of 2 parameters:

*

*Application id

*User id

The formula is this:

uid = app_id+100,000 * user_id

app_id is basically a random number (not REALLY random, but is different from device to device) that is assigned ti each application and the user_id, which is used on tablets running JellyBean, is assigned per user on the device (users are assigned a number starting user 0 , user 1, ...user n - for every new user defined on the device).
Applications can share an id as explained here: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/manifest-element.html
Of course an app can't have the same uid for two different users, but the same app can have the same uid as another app the same user possesses.
System apps run are the only apps that may actually have access to services that other users may not have access to. They are located on the device under /system.
In order to write a system application you need to download the AOSP from Google, and compile it yourself with your app included.


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When Australia crumbled…
Virat Kohli's master class was the answer to a formidable Australian attack, as India won the match to see itself go into the semi-finals. There was a huge craze after the match as fans all over the country went berserk with Kohil's epic match-winning knock. The unbeaten 82 by Kohli is the top innings by an Indian batsman in successful chases in T20 matches. With this knock, he also entered the second spot of the best ever innings in a successful run chase with only Chris Gayle's 88 in 50 balls bettering him.
Opposition captain Steven Smith after the match said, "It was a pretty serious innings on wicket which was tough to bat on. I thought we were in a good position with India needing two runs a ball at one stage. It just took an unbelievable innings under pressure by Virat Kohli to get his team over the line. It looked whatever Virat did at that point would go to the boundary. It was a serious innings. Hats off".
Contrary to the social media rounds about break up with his girl-friend, it is Kohli's fitness regime that seems to have influenced his game positively. He prefers high protein diet including grilled sea food and chicken. On tours, he reportedly has lamb chops or pink salmon. Unless he is at home, he has a no-oil and no-carbs diet. He stays away from sweets, rotis and rice and junk food, of course.
Virat is also known to work out in the gym for long hours specially working on his upper body and arms to enhance his power-hitting capability. That is perhaps one of the reasons why the ball kept flying into the stands despite miss-hits by the Delhi chap.
Virat might have stolen the show, Sunday night however there is little credit that has gone to Ashish Nehra who is currently enjoying a late surge in his cricketing career. The 36-year old pacer is being looked at India as the one with the experience after Zaheer Khan missing from the scene.
Nehra has been, rather surprisingly, the most economical bowler in this T20 tournament with an average of 5.93, bettering the likes of Dwayne Bravo and Mustafizur Rahman. It is hard to believe but out of the first 18 deliveries that he bowled to the Aussie batsmen, 11 were dot balls. Nehra before the Bangladesh match said h was 'old school' however that seems to have helped India in the win effort.
At one stage while chasing, around the 10th over, India was in a dire spot. It was almost as if India were out of the tournament. Virat talking to bcci.tv said, "I have never played an innings like that where we needed 39 of 3 overs and I have been able to pull it off with MS Dhoni batting at the other end". He summed up his feeling about the match and his innings saying, "This is the reason you play the sport".
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Life, The Universe and Everything


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Previous Tale: Wise Girl, The
Next Tale: Lying for a Wager
IN DAYS gone by there lived a married couple who had one only son. When he grew up they made him learn something which would be of use to him in after-life. He was a kind, quiet boy, and feared God greatly. After his schooling was finished his father gave him a ship, freighted with various sorts of merchandise, so that he might go and trade about the world, and grow rich, and become a help to his parents in their old age. The son put to sea, and one day the ship he was in met with a Turkish vessel in which he heard great weeping and wailing. So he demanded of the Turkish sailors, 'Pray, tell me why there is so much wailing on board your ship?' and they answered, 'We are carrying slaves which we have captured in different countries, and those who are chained are weeping.'
Then he said, 'Please, brothers, ask your captain if he would give me the slaves for ready cash?'
The captain gladly agreed to the proposal, and after much bargaining the young man gave to the captain his vessel full of merchandise, and received in exchange the ship full of slaves.
Then he called the slaves before him, and demanded of each whence he came, and told them all they were free to return to their own countries. At last he came to an old woman who held close to her side a very beautiful girl, and he asked them from what country they came. The old woman told him, weeping, that they came from a very distant land, saying, 'This young girl is the only daughter of the king, and I am her nurse, and have taken care of her from her childhood. One day, unhappily, she went to walk in a garden far away from the palace, and these wicked Turks saw her and caught her. Luckily I happened to be near, and, hearing her scream, ran to her help, and so the Turks caught me too, and brought us both on board of this ship.' Then the old woman and the beautiful girl, being so far from their own country, and having no means of getting there, begged him that he would take them with him. So he married the girl, took her with him, and returned home.
When he arrived his father asked him about his ship and merchandise, and he told him what had happened, how he had given his vessel with its cargo, and had bought the slaves and set them free. 'This girl,' continued he, 'is a king's daughter, and the old woman her nurse; as they could not get back to their country, they prayed to remain with me, so I married the girl.'
Thereupon the father was very angry, and said, 'My foolish son! what have you done? Why have you made away with my property without cause and of your own will?' and he drove him out of the house.
Then the son lived with his wife and her old nurse a long time in the same village, trying always, through the good offices of his mother and other friends, to obtain his father's forgiveness, and, begging him to let him have a second ship full of merchandise, promised to be wiser in future. After some time the father took pity on him, and received him again into his house, with his wife and her old nurse. Shortly after he fitted him out another ship, larger than the first one, and filled with more valuable merchandise. In this he sailed, leaving his wife and her nurse in the house of his parents. He came one day to a city where he found the soldiers very busy carrying some unlucky villagers away to prison. So he asked them, 'Why are you doing this my brethren? Why are you driving these poor people to prison?' and the soldiers answered:
'They have not paid the king's taxes, that is why we take them to prison.'
Then he went to the magistrate and asked, 'Please tell me how much these poor prisoners owe?'
When the magistrate told him he sold his goods and ship, and paid the debts of all the prisoners, and returned home without anything. Falling at the feet of his father, he told him what he had done, and begged him to forgive him. But the father was exceedingly angry, more so than before, and drove him away from his presence. What could the unhappy son do in this great strait? How could he go begging, he whose parents were so rich? After some time his friends again prevailed upon the father to receive him back, because, as they urged, so much suffering had made him wiser. At last the father yielded, took him again into his house, and prepared a ship for him finer and richer than the two former ones. Then the son had the portrait of his wife painted on the helm, and that of the old nurse on the stern, and, after taking leave of his father and mother, and wife, he sailed away the third time.
After sailing for some days he came near a large city, in which there lived a king, and, dropping anchor, he fired a salute to the city. All the citizens wondered, as did also their king, and no one could say who the captain of the strange ship might be. In the afternoon the king sent one of his ministers to ask who he was, and why he came; and the minister brought a message that the king himself would come at nine o'clock the next morning to see the ship. When the minister came he saw on the helm the portrait of the king's daughter, and on the stern that of her old nurse, and in his surprise and joy dared not believe his own eyes. For the princess had been promised to him in marriage while she was yet a child, and long before she was captured by the Turks.
But the minister did not tell any one what he had seen.
Next morning, at nine o'clock, the king came with his ministers on board the ship, and asked the captain who he was, and whence he came?
Whilst walking about the vessel he saw there the portrait of the girl on the helm and that of the old woman on the stern, and recognised the features of his own daughter and her old nurse who had been captured by the Turks. But his joy was so great, he dared not believe his eyes, so he invited the captain to come that afternoon to his palace to relate his adventures, hoping thus to find out if his hopes were well founded.
In the afternoon, in obedience to the king's wish, he went to the palace, and the king at once began to inquire why the figure of the girl was painted on the helm and that of the old woman on the stern. The captain guessed at once that this king must be his wife's father, so he told him everything that had happened--how he had met the Turkish ship filled with slaves, and had ransomed them and set them free. 'This girl, alone,' he continued, 'with her old nurse, had nowhere to go, as her country was so far off, so they asked to remain with me, and I married the girl.'
When the king heard this he exclaimed, 'That girl is my only child, and the accursed Turks took her and her old nurse. You, since you are her husband, will be the heir to my crown. But go--go at once to your home and bring me your wife that I may see her--my only daughter, before I die. Bring your father, your mother, bring all your family. Let your property be all sold in that country, and come all of you here. Your father shall be my brother, and your mother my sister, as you are my son and the heir to my crown. We will all live together here in one palace.' Then he called the queen, and all his ministers, and told them all about his daughter. And there was great rejoicing and festivity in the whole court.
After this the king gave his son-in-law his own large ship to bring back the princess and the whole family. So the captain left his own ship there, but he asked the king to send one of his ministers with him, 'Lest they should not believe me,' he said; and the king gave him as a companion for his voyage the same minister to whom he had formerly promised the princess in marriage. They arrived safely in port, and the captain's father was surprised to see his son return so soon, and with such a splendid vessel.
Then he told all that had happened and his mother and wife, and especially the old nurse, rejoiced greatly when they heard the good news. As the king's minister was there to witness the truth of this strange news, no one could doubt it. So the father and mother consented to sell all their property and go to live in the king's palace.
But the minister resolved to kill this new heir to the king and husband of the princess who had been promised to him for wife; so, when they had sailed a long distance, he called him on deck to confer with him. The captain had a quiet conscience, and did not suspect any evil, so he came up at once, and the minister caught him quickly and threw him overboard.
The ship was sailing fast, and it was rather dark, so the captain could not overtake her, but was left behind in the deep waters. The minister, however, went quietly to sleep.
Fortunately the waves carried the king's young heir to a rock near the shore; it was, however, a desert country, and no one was near to help him. Those he had left on board the ship, seeing next morning that he had disappeared, began to weep and wail, thinking he had fallen overboard in the night and been drowned. His wife especially lamented him, because they had loved each other very much. When the ship arrived at the king's city, and reported to him the great disaster that had befallen them, the king was troubled, and the whole court mourned greatly. The king kept the parents and family of the young man by him as he had engaged to do, but they could not console themselves for their great loss.
Meanwhile, the king's unhappy son-in-law sat on the rock, and lived on the moss which grew there, and was scorched by the hot sun, from which he had no shelter; his garments were soiled and torn, and no one would have recognised him. Still not a living soul was to be seen anywhere to help him. At last, after fifteen days and fifteen nights, he noticed an old man on the shore, leaning on a staff, and engaged in fishing. Then the king's heir shouted to the old man, and begged him to help him off the rock. The old fisherman consented--
'If you will pay me for it,' said he.
'How can I pay you when, as you see, I have nothing, and even my clothes are only rags?' answered the young man sadly.
'Oh, that matters nothing,' exclaimed the old man; 'I have here pen and paper, so, if you know how to use them, write a promise to give me half of everything you may ever possess, and then sign the paper.'
To that the young man gladly consented; so the old man walked through the water to him, and he signed the paper, and then the old man took him over to the shore. After that he journeyed from village to village, barefoot, hungry, and sorrowful, and begged some garments to cover him.
After thirty days' wandering, his good luck led him to the city of the king, and he went and sat at the door of the palace, wearing on his finger his wedding-ring, on which was his own name and the name of his wife. At eventide, the king's servants took him into the courtyard, and gave him to eat what remained of their supper. Next morning he took his stand by the garden-door, but the gardener came and drove him away, saying that the king and his family were soon coming that way. So he moved away a little, and sat down near a corner of the garden and shortly afterward he saw the king walking with his mother, his father leading the queen, and his wife walking with the minister, his great enemy. He did not yet desire to show himself to them, but as they passed near him and gave him alms, his wife saw the wedding-ring on a finger of the hand which he held out to take the money. Still she could not think the beggar could be her husband, so she said--
'Let me see the ring you have on your finger.'
The minister, who was walking by her, was a little frightened, and said--
'Go on, how can you speak to that ragged beggar?'
But she would not hear him. She took the ring, and read thereon her own and her husband's names. Her heart was greatly troubled by the sight of the ring, but she controlled her feelings and said nothing. As soon as they returned to the palace, she told the king, her father, that she had recognised her husband's ring on the hand of the beggar who sat by the side of the garden. 'So please send for him,' said she, 'that we may find out how the ring came into his hands.'
Then the king sent his servants to find the beggar, and they brought him to the palace. And the king asked him whence he came, and how he got that ring. Then he could no longer restrain himself, but told them how he had been thrown overboard by the treacherous minister, and spent fifteen days and nights on the naked rock, and how he had been saved.
'You see now how God and my right-dealing have brought me back to my parents and my wife.'
When they heard that, they could hardly speak, so rejoiced were they. Then the king summoned the father and mother, and related what had happened to their son.
The servants quickly brought him fine new garments, and bathed and clothed him. Then for many days there was great rejoicings, not only in the palace, but also in all the city, and he was crowned as king. The minister was seized by the king's order, and given up to the king's son-in-law, that he might punish him after his own will. But the young king would not permit him to be put to death, but forgave him, on condition that he left the kingdom instantly.
A few days after, the old man who had saved the young king came, bringing with him his written promise. The young king took the paper, and reading it, said--
'My old man, sit down. To-day I am king, but if I were a beggar I would fulfil my word, and acknowledge my signature. Therefore we will divide all that I have.'
So he took out the book and began to divide the cities.
'This is for me--that is for you.' So saying, he wrote all on a chart, till all were divided between them, from the greatest city to the poorest barrack.
The old man accepted his half, but immediately made a present of it again to the young king, saying--
'Take it! I am not an old man, but an angel from God! I was sent by God to save thee, for the sake of thy good deeds. Now reign and be happy, and may thy prosperity last long.'
The angel disappeared; and the king reigned there in great happiness.
Tale Title: Good Deeds Are Never Lost


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The Land of Pyramids
Written and photographed by Krzysztof Grzymski
There are probably more pyramids in Sudan than can be found in all of Egypt. Yet the wonders of ancient Egypt are known worldwide, while those of its southern neighbor stand forgotten on the banks of the Nile. The checkered political history of Sudan, combined with the country's rugged terrain and lack of modern conveniences, has kept tourists away from some of the most romantic archeological sites in the world, among them several whole fields of pyramids.
The oldest Sudanese pyramids, dating back to the eighth century BC, stand near the modern city of Karima, downriver from the Fourth Cataract of the Nile. They were built for the kings of Kush, as the land was known in antiquity, who - after conquering Egypt around 730 BC - adopted the old pharaonic tradition of erecting monumental tombs for themselves and members of their families. These pyramids were smaller than the Egyptian ones, and were located near the Kushite capital city of Napata, which once existed in the neighborhood of Karima.
These Napatan conquerors of Egypt, despite their adherence to Egyptian customs and religious beliefs, preferred to be buried not in the land they won but near their home town; after their eventual expulsion from Egypt by the Assyrians, around 660 BC, they really had no other choice, and the»burials continued.
It was also near Napata that one of the most important temples in the entire Nile Valley, the Great Temple of Amun, had been erected by the Egyptian pharaohs in the 15th century BC, at the foot of an impressive mountain called Jabal Barkal. Its massive ruins can still be seen in the desert sands.
We owe our knowledge of the Sudanese pyramids to an American archeologist, George A. Reisner, who on behalf of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University spent several winters between 1916 and 1923 excavating the Napatan pyramids as well as those at Meroe, a site only 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Khartoum. While his work represented the first truly scholarly examination of these monuments, he was not the first to explore them. A hundred years before Reisner, various European travelers had passed by and left descriptions, often very detailed ones, of the Napatan and Meroitic pyramids (See box, page 9).
One of those travelers, an Italian doctor turned treasure-hunter by the name of Giuseppe Ferlini, went a step further and in 1834 began "exploring" the monuments. His goal was simple: to find the great treasures that rumor claimed were hidden inside the pyramids. According to his published account, he employed a very "efficient" - today we would say "barbarous" - method of conducting his treasure hunt: a laborious and systematic dismantling of the structures, one after another, from the top down. The tragedy, from the point of view of the modern archeologist, is that he did indeed find beautiful gold jewelry in one of the Meroe pyramids! These royal treasures eventually found their way to the museums in Munich and Berlin, and since that time have often been displayed in international exhibitions, such as the one that toured various American and European museums in 1978 (See Aramco World, July-August 1979). Fortunately, despite the explorations of Ferlini and his followers, many of the pyramids survived intact.
Reisner began the first legitimate archeological exploration of the pyramids in January 1916. As a scholar of great repute, the Sudan Railways provided him with a special first-class sleeping car, complete with kitchen, for his travel across the Nubian Desert from Wadi Haifa to Karima. The British governor of the time, Jackson Pasha - who, after a lifetime of service in Sudan, was eventually buried beneath a pyramid-shaped tombstone himself - offered the Americans a local government rest house, surrounded by a small garden, as living quarters.
During this first year in the field, the work concentrated on excavation of the Egyptian temple at Jabal Barkal and the pyramids located nearby. In the following campaigns, Reisner conducted a systematic investigation of the Napatan pyramids. The oldest, as we now know, were the pyramids of al-Kurru, followed by the cemetery of Nuri, while the two groups at Jabal Barkal were of much later date, contemporary with those of Meroe.
A common feature of all the pyramid fields was their location on high ground, as if to make up for their deficiency in size when compared to the Egyptian counterparts. They were built of sandstone blocks and gave no appearance of having interior burial chambers. These, as it turned out, were cut into the bedrock beneath the pyramid and were reached by a long stairway that began some distance in front of the pyramid and outside the wall that surrounded it. Above the stairway, abutting the pyramid itself, was erected an offering chapel, profusely decorated with reliefs depicting various religious scenes. The reliefs in the chapels and the painted decoration of the burial chambers were largely Egyptian in style, although some elements were more African in character.
While many of the pyramids were robbed in ancient and, as in Ferlini's case, in more recent times, there was still plenty to be discovered, as Reisner quickly learned. Thousands of small funerary statuettes called shawabtis, small gold objects, wooden coffins, inscribed stelae, hundreds of pots and many other objects came to light during Reisner's excavations and are now proudly displayed in the museums in Boston and Khartoum. They all bear witness to the high degree of artistic and economic development of this lost kingdom on the Nile.
Many of the earliest objects were inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs and thus provided clues to the identity of the owners, enabling Reisner and his assistant, Dows Dunham, to establish an outline of the royal chronology. Such clues, however, were not always available, and Reisner was faced with the double problem of identifying the "owners" of the remaining unassigned pyramids, and finding out where they probably fell in the regnal sequence. This task was further complicated by the introduction, in the third century BC, of a native writing system which, Jo this day, has not been deciphered (See Aramco World, July-August 1983).
Reisner's solution was remarkable in its simplicity; he simply assumed that the most attractive and visible position in any given cemetery had been occupied first, and that the succeeding burials had been arranged farther and farther away. By combining this locational approach with a stylistic and architectural analysis of the pyramids, Reisner was able to establish a chronology which, with modifications, is still used by historians today.
The modern visitor is less apt to travel to far-away Karima, but a day trip from Khartoum to Meroe is quite easy. Reisner himself worked on the three pyramid fields of Meroe (300 BC to AD 350), and other scholars excavated the ruins of Meroe city, which the well-known British writer Basil Davidson described as one of the largest archeological sites in the world. Since the Meroe pyramids are now a prime tourist attraction, the Sudanese authorities have launched a conservation and reconstruction program to make good the deeds of Ferlini and his ilk and to develop the site for tourists - including the restoration of some of the pyramids to their original state. However, tourists are not yet flocking to Meroe in great numbers. This makes the place uniquely attractive compared with other, usually overcrowded ancient sites, and gives the visitor a chance to admire some of the most magnificent monuments of the African continent in peaceful solitude. Spending a night in the desert under the beautiful southern sky, near pyramids built centuries ago for the powerful kings of Kush, is an experience without compare.
Krzysztof Grzymski, an archeologist, is associate curator of the Egyptian Department of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.
"The Habitiations of the Dead"
If the habitations of the living in ancient Meroel are destroyed, those of the dead remain. To the east of Assur is the great church-yard of pyramids I caimot more appropriately denote them which likewise proves that a considerable city was in its neighbourhood. It is impossible to behold the number of these monuments without astonishment, eighty are mentioned in the plan of Cailaud; but the number cannot be well ascertained, as the ruins of many are doubtful. They are divided into three groups, one due east from the city; the two others a league from the river Nilel, one north and the other south. The most northern one is the largest and best preserved. They certainly appear small in comparison with monuments of a similar kind in middle Egypt, the height of the largest not being more than eighty feet; but they are more wonderful from their number. They are built of granite like the Egyptian, but do not seem so massive in the interior. The highest of them was ascended, and, as its top was thrown off, the interior seemed nothing beyond a heap of shapeless masses. As no one, however, examined the interior, it might be premature to decide anything respecting it.
Most of the largest of them have a temple-like fore-building in the Egyptian a pylone and a door which leads into a portico, and this again through a sanctuary into the pyramid. It does not appear therefore that they desired here, as was the case in Egypt, to conceal the entrance, unless a real entrance was somewhere else. Until an interior has been examined, it will not be known whether sarcophagi and mummies are to be found within; I am not aware of having been found beyond Egypt, south of Philae and the cataracts.... The corners of the pyramids are partly ornamented; and the walls of the pylones are decorated with sculpture. That on the largest pyramid, drawn by Cailaud, represents an offering for the dead. In one compartment a female warrior, with the royal ensigns on her head, and richly attired, drags forward a number of captives as offerings to the gods; upon the other she is in warlike habit, about to destroy the same group, whose heads are fastened together by the top hair.... Upon a fourth field appears Anubis, accompanied by the Scha kal, the watchman of the lower world, with a burning in the hand. This representation, together with the magnitude of the pyramid, renders it probable that it is the sepulchre of a king. That all pyramids here were not monuments of kings is evinced by their great number. Other grandees of the empire, especially priests of high rank, or such as had obtained the sacerdotal dignity, might have found in them their final resting place,"
Arnold Heeren, Reflections on the Ancient Nations of Africa, Vol. I, 1832.
This article appeared on pages 2-9 of the July/August 1991 print edition of Saudi Aramco World.
See Also: ARCHEOLOGY AND ARCHEOLOGISTS, ART, MIDDLE EASTERN, KUSH, NUBIA AND NUBIANS, PYRAMIDS, SUDAN


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Fallout 76 Screenshots Show Off the Largest, Most Varied Fallout World Yet
Written by Neil Soutter on Tue, Oct 23, 2018 3:56 PM
Fallout 76's B.E.T.A. (Break-It Early Test Application) goes live today for Xbox One players, a week earlier than PC and PS4 thanks to Bethesda's cozy deal with Microsoft.
To celebrate the occasion, Bethesda has released a batch of new screenshots designed to show the wide range of locations that'll be available to explore in its massive post-apocalyptic recreation of West Virginia. Bethesda is promising Fallout 76 will have the largest, most dynamic open-world yet seen in a Fallout game, on top of being absolutely packed with content.
West Virginia will be a world without any human NPCs though. Players will step into the shiny shoes of the first ever Vault Dwellers to re-emerge into post-nuclear America. Every other person you see running about will be a real person. It's the sort of thing we could only dream of 15 years ago, yet it feels as if the gaming community has somewhat bizarrely turned against the idea in the intervening years. Still, for those that do hop into Fallout 76, Bethesda is promising the ultimate online Fallout experience. Whether that holds true remains to be seen, but for now, why not gorge yourself on these screenshots.
Fallout 76 will be comprised of six distinct regions of West Virginia, all shown off in these screenshots. The landmass will stretch from the forests of Appalachia down to the Cranberry Bog, and players will be free to build and craft their own bases anywhere in the world.
Fallout 76 will be coming to PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on November 14th.
Fallout 76 Has Over 150 Hours of Side-Content, 'Aggressive' Post-Launch Content Plans
Red Dead Redemption 2 Day One Patch Inbound, Companion App Out on Friday
RogueRequest
21:33 Oct-23-2018
I'm going to take a wait and see approach with this game. I want to see how predatory the monetization is going to be. The "murder" mechanic has done a lot to assuage my fears when it comes to PvP, and I kind of wish that Rockstar would use something similar in GTAO and RDRO.
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mesho22
looks like fallout 4 with mods
Googlegwn
Except you can play with other people and not have any NPC's. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. And a quest system based on things you find. Yayyyyyyyy.
xquatrox
Sorry if I'm a bit skeptical here, but Fallout4 screenshots looked just as good and the actual graphics weren't that good. I'm expecting the same with 76 :D
Gankutsuou
Hope you're wrong.
Fallout 4 looked exactly the same as its pre-release screenshots though? ie not incredible, but decent


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Letter from the Hill
27 Nov 2022 14 minute read
Christmas ready, image by Sarah Morgan Jones
Sarah Morgan Jones
As soon as the Halloween pumpkins get kicked down the road, the oft-spectacular spooky decorations which adorn so many houses get packed up for next year, making way for the festive festoons. The race is on, the battle commences, the ladders and the cordless drill come out and there'll be no rest till it's done.
Just last weekend, quite late in proceedings, relatively speaking, I met eyes with my work-away neighbour, as I glanced out of my upstairs window. He was up a ladder attaching stars and reindeer to his house, to entertain his young son…and the rest of our street. And the next.
At the bottom of the close there is a house which has been lit up for weeks, a veritable grotto, possibly visible from space by the time he finishes.
Not just the house but the garden has been transformed, and the hardworking chef in charge mutters pseudo-grudgingly about this all being 'her' idea, or for the benefit of his children, but we all know, judging by his in-depth knowledge of the kilowatt-cost-per-unit and how he describes what is yet to come, that he loves a bit of it.
And although there are definitely fewer than normal this year, as the cost of living gnaws away at options for frivolities, and even as the prices at discount emporia such as B&M Bargains have gone up by at least a third, he's certainly not alone.
In the coming weeks, the estate will flicker to life and light, some houses, like the chef's, gaining Great Wall status, while others will be more demure delectations, a sprinkling of sparkle in the privet, an illuminated invitation to Santa, a projection of snowflakes on the wall.
These random acts of lightness are often surprising and offer some considerable joy, not least because the council has snuffed out many of the streetlights on the hill to 'save money' meaning great swathes of our streets are in eerie darkness.
This darkness, plus the shadows cast by the ubiquitous privet hedges, and the pavement-parked cars and work vans, can make the Hill after sundown, a quietly intimidating prospect, meaning apart from a few, usually male, dog walkers, you won't come across many pedestrians as the days end.
The Chef's House image by Sarah Morgan Jones
When I migrated from the 'bohemian quarter' down the hill, I had already been living in Swansea for three decades and like many, had a mixed opinion of the Hill.
Having just lost my home, the downsize required to squeeze my family life into a much smaller house which I was grumpily grateful to rent reasonably from my in-laws, required some cunning planning and a lot of culling, and while we made the space ready inside, I pitched two tents in the garden which first accommodated us, and then stuff which as yet had nowhere to go.
An award-winning estate built in the 1930s, chomping up parcels of farmland, its layout of winding and circular streets and avenues seem to reflect the very contours of the land itself.
Google Earth shows the area as a series of Celt-esque shapes, perhaps, forming the (if you step back and squint) a dragon rearing up, or some other magical beast, on one of the highest outcrops in the city.
If I somehow got atop my roof I would see, to the east(ish), the beacon of Kilvey Hill and the chugging chimneys of Port Talbot, resplendent at dawn. To the west, the gleaming sunset waters of the Loughor estuary, and perhaps even the skeletal iron lighthouse at Whitford Point.
If I turned to the north, and there was no sign of the lurking swirling mists that sometimes swamp the Gors and the valley, I could see the 3M water tower and the fields around Gorseinon where mighty, ancient battles took place.
To the northeast, the eerie, beckoning definition of the Swansea Valley, and on the clearest days the Fans and the foothills of the Beacons, changing moment by moment as they reflect the southern sun.
To the southwest, beyond Mumbles, a sharp, dry evening would open up the Gower coastline and beyond, and if I turned my face south and could see the cliffs of Devon, then I would know that, according to superstition, rain is on its way…and that if I can't see them, it's raining.
And all around there would be missing chimneys, as street by street the council remove them, considering them redundant, and with that act, also removing the chance not to be dependent on gas (a few turbines and solar panels up here would go a long way to easing the burden on residents).
The Hill from Google Earth
Up in the world
The early days of the estates of the Hill – Townhill, Mayhill and Gors – gave folks from the industrial parts of town the chance to go up in the world, quite literally, to good, functionally sized housing, with space to grow food, and to form little communities around the corner shop hubs and the village green type circles dotted around.
Each area had doctor and a school and a shop and a post office and a pub and the air was fresher, and the light (unless you are just over the north brow of the hill, which can languish in shadow) is brighter.
I know of women who were told by their doctors that if they wanted their child's asthma to be cured, then they should move up the Hill, quick sharp. Some of those children still live here today.
The design of the Hill houses was varied, reflecting the circle of 'Competition Houses' – the prized entries built as a template which form Cadwallader Circle and part of Nicander Parade at the start of Penygraig.
The designs broke away from the dog-leg-shaped houses in endless terraces and streets of Mount Pleasant, North Hill, Greenhill and the Hafod lower down the hill, and offered instead, semi-detached or short terraces of houses in crescents and gardens and parades and avenues.
No more yards, but gardens and hedges of all shapes and sizes, often front and back – no more stepping out of the front room and onto the pavement.
The main artery roads criss-crossing the hill included the old drover's route from Penclawdd to the town centre, walked daily by cockle women, with a handover point at the Cockett Inn, so they could get back home before dark.
As the development took over increasing swathes of former farmland, a teacher training college was sited on a south-westerly outcrop of Townhill, with an inspiring outlook, accessible to the community for generations as it evolved into the Tech, then Swansea Met (my alma mater) then UWTSD… and which is now being knocked down.
Like the former hospital at Cefn Coed, old college windows which would twinkle oranges and reds at sunset, declaring their presence, are now boarded up by contractors, waiting to be usurped by expensive new builds with breath taking views, priced far out of reach of the locals.
'Hill of Fear'
When I first came to Swansea in the late 80s, the Hill had a bit of a rep. Joy riders brought notoriety to what the then really local newspaper, the Evening Post, branded with tabloid glee 'The Hill of Fear'.
Speed bumps were brought in, and huge lumps of rock deposited to created no through roads, in a bid to curtail (and even kill off) this anti-social 'joy'.
Local Liberal councillor and well known small-of-stature but mightily-motivated Maggie Jones (who posthumously became my mother-in-law) defended and campaigned for the area with such vigour that she was dubbed the Yellow Peril (by dint of her hair colour and her diminutive ferocity) by some of her council colleagues.
Undeterred, she and other grass-roots Hill champions paved the way for the area to receive Objective One or Communities First funding and other European support to set up Sure Start centres, community hubs and a library.
She, like many of her generation, was a local wise-woman, a go-to certainty in a crisis, according to her family, and with her old house just down the road by the chef's Illuminated Wonderland, her memory is still very much alive round here. I only wish I had met her.
I remember walking out on the new dawn of Brexit and looking for the EU funded projects that would soon cease to exist, or at the very least need to look elsewhere for funding.
The effects may not be immediate, but they would be profound, and I did wonder what Maggie and her colleagues would make of those changes.
The day after the referendum, image by Sarah Morgan Jones
Folklore and frustration
When the old college site closed, ready for the new housing project, so did the much-used straight-ish path down through the campus, through Cwmdonkin Park to the Uplands, to more parks and town and the beach.
As the Pobl housing estate continues apace, there has been a decision not to re-open that path, so permanently, scandalously, closing off a convenient, attractive and accessible pedestrian journey. No short cuts for school kids, no short walk for pram pushers and pensioners, just more dependency on cars or public transport.
There are a few paths off the Hill, the Hundred Steps and the Ravine and past the old Mayhill washing pond, or through Rosehill Quarry or down the main, busy, arterial roads.
But just as planners avoided straight lines in their street maps, so they did with the paths and byways, meaning that there is no direct walking- or bus- routes to any of the nearest Aldi, Lidl or Co-op, and certainly no easy way back if you have a load of family shopping, and some pint-sized family in tow.
There is a Tesco superstore at the terminus of our three circular bus routes, but at £4+ for a ticket and a near guarantee that several of those buses will be pulled from the schedule through the day without warning – or simply go missing in action, it would seem – then car-less shoppers may find their 'big shop' an expensive ordeal.
And woe betide you if you need to start work early or go out after six or on a Sunday – work, a night out, or a family outing to the beach – because our scant, inflexible services become a thing of folklore and frustration.
Our local shops very much have a monopoly in their localities and can charge a premium for their wares…if we run out of dog food I know I will be paying twice the price for a tin locally, over the odds for milk and bread, and in one shop round here, if I wanted a tin of corned beef the shopkeeper would look me in the eye without flinching and demand £5.50. I kid you not.
Although part of the population is maybe just starting out up the Hill and may move on to pastures new, many residents have been around for years and are part of the fabric of the place, stitching it through with some vapours of their upbringing in Greenhill or elsewhere.
They know the ropes and the rules, the tall stories and the traditions. The go-to roofer or plumber or spark. The bloke with the keys to the boxing gym. The guy who will strim your garden. The woman who will help in any of life's rituals from birth to death.
Who to have a word with if you've been burgled, how to identify that hooded Herbert caught on CCTV trying the car doors, and why knocking on the door of the Police house, even with an assailant in a headlock, is utterly pointless.
The local funeral director who marches in his finery with a black cane and a sense of theatre ahead of the cortège, that usually leaves from the house.
Distinctive hollering cries of the Rag 'n' Bone man can be regularly heard, summoning plenty of householders out with the goods that the scrappies seek, a mutually beneficial service.
View North, image by Sarah Morgan Jones
'Salt of the Earth'
The limelight picks out some names of locals who shone, near and far, in culture, politics and sport – Bad Finger, Spencer Davies, Tommy Jenkins of Cromlech, Paul Allen, Boys from the Hill, rugby players Stuart Davies and Paul Arnold, son of Evans the Shop – politician Nigel Evans, as well as many boxers and footballers and athletes who all emerged from the Hill.
When poet Nigel Jenkins gave the Hill his psycho-geographical consideration in Real Swansea, he went on a walk with local writer and dynamic youth worker Zoe Murphy. They touched on the spirit of the community, the positivity of identity and the robust characters, leaving the reader with a definite 'salt of the earth' feel about the place.
It's easy to get blindly romantic about this, but it most definitely exists. It is evident in the way people know each other, or know of the families; the way in which in streets like mine, women went over to the other side of the hill to help with the clear up in the aftermath of the so-called 'Mayhill Riots'; the way in which those circular buses act as a vital information exchange when older residents head into town to do their weekly town based chores.
It was evident when I first moved in and all the kids on the street trooped round to my back door en masse to see who had moved in and ask who we were, while they examined us with open curiosity, and the way the cul-de-sac is packed full of playing kids all through the summer, a new lot every couple of years, and the way they all stop and wave and ask 'Where you going? Can I say hello to your dog? Where've you been?'
It is evident in the way that some streets have clusters of families, grown up children setting up satellite homes around the mother ship.
And in the way people gather to walk their dogs on the local field and join forces in their indignation about the moped riders who go through phases of tearing up and down the neighbourhood sounding like devil-possessed sewing machines with the pedal rammed on, or the bare-chested broncos riding their bareback, shoeless pie-balds in age-old coming-of-age displays of masculinity and 'up yours!'
And it's evident in the way that the roads are often clear of the cars in the daytime, as the plumbers, the sparks and the roofers, the scrappies, the small holders and horse breeders, the cleaners, the carers, the nurses, the teachers, lawyers, army officers, social workers … whoever … are all up and at it from up til down, doing their thing, playing their part.
View from Pantycelyn Road, Townhill, image by Sarah Morgan Jones
Up yours!
It is easy on a fair day to see all the good up here, and my specs are not so rosie that I can't see the bad.
On a dreich day when the summit is shrouded in the hedge-tumbling mists while the sun shines at sea level, or when lateral rain dangerously diminishes visibility, or when the buses fail to arrive…and you know that within every street there are people struggling with every obstacle life throws…on those days it can feel a long way up and out up here.
We can be forgotten quickly, and may be hard to reach.
When the council cancelled this year's firework display down on the seafront, and the usual gathering of hundreds who come to watch for free from Pantycelyn Road was abandoned, I swear there was a better impromptu display in the streets around us than we would have had from the normal vantage point.
So, while the council makes savings on our street lights, and our overpriced bus service is considered optional, and our access routes expendable, and our chimneys are removed, and our college is shifted and our pubs are turned into flats… let's raise our glasses to the OTT Christmas lights, early, extravagant and exciting, and salute their resounding message.
'Up Yours!'
Del Hughes
That was an amazing read, and i'm deffo joining the 'up yours' movement. Loved the history of the hill and your lyrical descriptions. Now I'm off because those fairy lights won't hang themselves 🎄


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DASH Enters Partnership with ATM Operator
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CoinFlip, a cryptocurrency ATM provider based in Illinois announced its partnership with Dash (DASH) and added that it will be offering the digital coin on its ATM network in the US, according to a statement made by Dash on Monday.
The announcement did not state the exact date when crypto users will be able to make Dash trades using CoinFlip.
CoinFlip's support for Dash on its terminals will allow customers to make transactions with the coin at 175 ATMs in the US and just over 418 machines located in various parts of the world. According to information from CoinFlip's website, its network is currently spread to over 70 locations in the US, most of which provide buy-only cryptocurrency options, with just several of them offering the sell option as well.
CoinFlip's ATMs currently offer Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tron (TRX) and OmiseGo (OMG) transactions, and decided to add Dash due to being one of the notable crypto coins in terms of market cap its use in payments and e-commerce, explained Daniel Polotsky, CEO of the ATM provider. As a result, CoinFlip aims to further drive the expansion to a global level, he said.
In addition to the new partnership, the two companies also announced they will be holding a lottery which will give away one $1,000 and ten $100 cash prizes during the course of three months. Everyone who signs up and uses a CoinFlip account will be considered a participant in the lottery, where each transaction on a CoinFlip ATM is considered an additional entry.
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Technology Within Every-Day-Life: What People Could Do - What People Can Do - What People Do. Towards Another Psychology of Technology in 21 th Century.
Scientific Essay, 2005
Dr. Richard Albrecht (Author)
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Technology Within Every-Day-Life: What People Could Do - What People Can Do - What People Do. Towards Another Psychology of Technology in 21 th Century. 1
Richard Albrecht
For reasons I will remember and quote what I read some twenty-five years ago, when I was a student of the social sciences, on "technology" as written by a radical critic of "The Capital" published in 1867 in his anatomy of economy. In the 13th chapter on "Machinery and Great Industry" Carl Marx, in a footnote, annotated on both conceptual and methodological aspects of any critical social
science quite sophistically:
"Technology discloses the active relation of man towards nature, as well as the direct process of production of his very life, and thereby the process of production of his basic societal relations, and of his own mentality and his images of society, too." 2
Moreover, I will take the liberty -if I may- and remind my scholarly reader -he or she- what some twenty years ago, when I was graduated as a social psychologist, some leading figures of that network self- naming themselves "the scientific community" called "a new paradigm": In Germany for example the notorious pollster lady Mrs. Noelle-Neumann-Maier-Leibnitz, from the Allensbach oracle, publicly shoutet out her abrupt turnaround ("the white ele- phant") and taught us that all of the media we are used to and using are no longer "powerful" but, on the very contrary, have to be handled as most "effectivenessless", above all TV. Moreover, there was a new basic question, and everyone -he or she- who really wants to carreer better said Farewell to old Paul Lazarsfeld et alii asking the other way around: What (so) ever the media (may) do with (the) people overnight was a strictly prohibited area -- What-Do-the-People-with-the-Media became main- stream concept of every bulk scientist dealing with it...
Be it as it ever may be: What I´d like to conceptualize -if I were a scientist with strong interest on problems of the aesthetics, media, and technology within 21th century any longer- would really not be just a bit more elaborated but another basic look on the field. Not only what people do with all those technical apparatus which they are currently using -like phone mobile, electronic mailing and all around world- wide-web e.g.- is of grande scholarly interest. But the more another, at least double- widened, perspective which, indeed, is due to another logic, the dialectic one aiming the third ("tertium datur"). For what people could do with every-day-technique is from my viewpoint as important as what people can do with all of the technical things in- corporated within current daily life (even whenever typically not done by common people). Whoever is asking narrowly for what people empirically do what they do when using advanced technique will get an answer due to the question: People just do what they do while doing what they do in the way they do - an issue which is - as I feel - not only as banal as obscure and cloudy but has been characterized (by Th. W. Adorno) as Verdoppelungsrealismus, occuring whenever social scientist "forget" thinking before entrepreneuring empirical projects.
According to any scholarly approaches beyond rubbish data and/or bullshit psycho- logy not only all that what exists (empirically is) -the visible- and what people ever do when coping with current technology within every-day-life is of scholarly interest but also, and the more, that what people could do -the potential application- and what people can do -the conditional application- using technical things in a specific manner... making things which are still unvisible progressively more and more visible.
I am quite sure these two new paths may be a long way but are, prospectively, steps towards a human future leading to another use of technology, its media, and its aesthetics.
Richard Albrecht is a social scientist and psychologist: http://richard-albrecht.de. He got his first Ph.D. in cultural studies (Dr.phil. 1976) and his second one in political science (Dr. rer.pol.habil. 1989). He is the author of more than a dozen books, about 650 other pieces, two curricula and a research manual. Richard Albrecht´s most impressive scholarly work is his essay ´The Utopian Paradigm´ (as published in 1991; an abridged version according to the theoretical concept was recently published within this network under the title: "Tertium: Ernst Bloch´s Foundation of ´The Utopian Paradigm´ As a Key Concept Within Cultural and Social Sciences Research Work"; http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/hausarbeit/phg/25119.html). Before his retirement -in 1999- the author was a lecturer/reader at German universities (GH Siegen; WWU Munster, WH Mannheim). From 2001 to 2004 Richard Albrecht was an honourary judge, since 2002 he is the managing editor of rechtskultur.de, the online-magazine for Human Rights in Germany: http://de.geocities.com/earchiv21/rechtskulturaktuell.htm. As an free-lanced independent scholar Richard Albrecht is basically interested in (i) theories of human acting, and acting human; (ii) the meaning of fuzzy logics and dynamic processes within human actions, and (iii) another methodology related to empirical research work within cultural studies. The author lives in Bad Muenstereifel in the very south of Northrhine-Westphalia As an honourary capacity, Richard Albrecht is still teaching ´´Administrative Behaviour, As Founded by the Social Sciences" (´Sozialwissenschaftliche Grundlagen des Verwaltungshandelns")
dr.richard.albrecht@gmx.net
1 an abridged version of this paper was presented to the congress "Innovations for an e-Society: Challenges for Technology Assessment" (Berlin, Oct. 17-19, 2001: the cultural section; vide "http://www.itas.fzk.de/e-society"); former contributions of mine on media & technology appeared in German; vide "Computerisierte Le- bensführung" (Kunst & Therapie, 12/1987); "Bilder-Welten" (medium, 3/1987; en- larged version under another title: Die Rolle der elektronischen Medien in der Entwicklung der Künste, ed. Alphons Silbermann; P. Lang, 1987); "Technik - Me- dizin - Handeln" (Gesundheit und Medien, ed. Walter Nutz; Quintessenz, 1997).
This commentary however follows my own basic concept as published ten years ago as "The Utopian Paradigm" (Communications. The European Journal of Com- munication, ed. A. Silbermann/W. Nutz, 3/1991)
2 my own translation. Originally in German: "Die Technologie enthüllt das aktive Ver- halten des Menschen zur Natur, den unmittelbaren Produktionsprozess seines Le- bens, damit auch seiner gesellschaftlichen Lebensverhältnisse und der ihnen ent- quellenden geistigen Vorstellungen". - Whenever comparing to this passage - how confusing that concept "technology" a modernist sociologist like Manuel Castells actually presents in his prologue of "The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture" altering explanans and explanandum when he remarks in a pseudo-Marxist phrase on the relationship between technology and society:
"To large extent technology expresses the ability of a society to propel itself into technological mastery through the institutions of society, including the state. The historical process through which this development of productive forces takes place earmarks the characteristics of technology and interweaving in social relationships." (pp. 12/13, sec.ed./1st vol.) [quotation in the German ed./translated by Reinhart Köss- ler, which appeared in autumn/fall 2001 at Leske + Budrich publ. house, p. 13]
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Richard Albrecht ist Sozialwissenschaftler (Dr.phil., Dr.rer.pol.habil.) und lebt als Sozialpsychologe, Autor und Ed. von rechtskultur.de in Bad Münstereifel.
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Dr. Richard Albrecht (Author), 2005, Technology Within Every-Day-Life: What People Could Do - What People Can Do - What People Do. Towards Another Psychology of Technology in 21 th Century., Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/109208
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How do trademark disclaimers affect similarity examination?
Jie He, Mengmeng Yu and Xia Zheng of AFD evaluate the role of trademark disclaimers in similarity examinations, analysing a number of cases dealing with the issue
By Mengmeng Yu
& By Xia Zheng
A trademark is a sign indicating the origin of goods. It by nature requires the constituent elements to show distinguishable characteristics and features so as to further prompt brand recognition. You may find many trademarks also have descriptive or generic elements in order to help consumers quickly identify the basic information relating to the goods, and thus easily establish connections between the trademark and the designated goods. Typical descriptive or generic elements are words or symbols that are widely used to describe the designated goods bearing the trademark, such as the name of the goods, the characteristics of the goods, or the name of the place where the goods are manufactured. Those elements are inevitably also used in a normal business context by others. In order to balance the exclusive rights of trademark owners and the interests of the public, the Trademark Law stipulates that a trademark owner does not have the right to restrain others from properly using such elements. If such elements are a part of one's trademark, the trademark owner can renounce the exclusive right to the elements in his trademark. Such a statement is called a trademark disclaimer.
As a small part of the Trademark Review Opinions, conduct surrounding trademark disclaimers was set forth in the Notice of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Issues Related to Trademark Review Opinions (notice), which was implemented in 2000. The notice specified circumstances where a trademark disclaimer may be needed. For example:
Article 3 – an exclusive trademark right shall be automatically disclaimed if it regards publicly known/used wordings included in a trademark application for an enterprise name.
Article 4 – an applicant shall disclaim the exclusive right to a generic name, graphic element, or an element that directly indicates the quality, main materials, functions and/or other characteristics of the goods bearing his trademark.
In 2002, the Regulations on the Implementation of the Trademark Law were released. This document no longer provided explicit provisions in relation to the Trademark Review Opinions. This indicated that the notice was no longer implemented. Although the exact term is not found in the current law, the right to disclaim the exclusive right to certain elements of a trademark has been kept in practice. An applicant may voluntarily disclaim the exclusive trademark right to a certain portion of his trademark application in the comment section of the trademark application form prescribed by the National Intellectual Property Administration. Courts will also consider the trademark disclaimer, if there is any, when trying trademark disputes.
Some trademark applicants might think that a trademark disclaimer is a guaranteed pass for registration because he can overcome any problem by disclaiming the questionable part of his trademark. This is a misunderstanding. There are many criteria applied in trademark examinations according to the current regulations such as the Trademark Law and the Trademark Examination and Trial Standards. For example, if a trademark application violates any prohibitive provisions, it will be rejected regardless of if a trademark disclaimer has been made.
Articles 10 and 11 of the Trademark Law list the detailed circumstances in which a trademark application will be rejected. In practice, a common ground seen in rejections is that a trademark application or some elements of a trademark application lack distinctiveness. The Trademark Examination Standards stipulate that if a trademark has a part that does not have distinctive features and the use of the trademark on the designated goods would easily cause the relevant public to misunderstand the characteristics of the goods, even if the applicant makes a trademark disclaimer, it should be rejected pursuant to the above-mentioned articles.
Another misunderstanding among trademark applicants is that the disclaimed portion of the trademark application would be excluded from consideration during the trademark examination and thus would not conflict with the prior rights of others. We will use the following example to demonstrate the development of judicial opinions on this particular point.
The Beijing Intellectual Property Court used to hold that it was not necessary to consider the disclaimed portion of the trademark when determining whether the trademark is similar to others. This viewpoint was inherited from the judgment (2011) Gaoxing Zhongzi No.1348 of the Beijing Higher People's Court, which recorded the following: "In addition, the cited trademark expressly disclaims the exclusive right to the portion of MAGISTRALNUTRITION, so pursuant to the law, the legitimate use of this wording by others cannot be restricted." The opinion was affirmed in an administrative lawsuit against the review of the rejection of the trademark application of "Materia" over the cited trademark "GNMaterials and device", which was heard by the Beijing Intellectual Property Court in 2015. Seeing the owner explicitly disclaimed the exclusive right to "Materials" in the cited trademark "GNMaterials and device", the court referenced the above-mentioned judgment No. 1348 and concluded in its judgment (2015) Jing Zhixing Chuzi, No.2610 that the owner of the cited trademark cannot restrain others from using the disclaimed portion of his trademark. The court also put forward that it is feasible to only compare the non-disclaimed portion, i.e. to compare the words "GN" and "the device part" of the cited trademark with "Materia" in the trademark application, when determining whether the two constitute similar trademarks.
The applied standards on similarity determination and the consequent ruling were opposed by the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB) – the defendant in the case. In the appeal submitted to the second instance court, namely the Beijing Higher People's Court, the TRAB pointed out that although the owner of the cited trademark had disclaimed the exclusive right to that particular portion of his trademark, it did not have an effect on consumers. The disclaimed text would still be identified as a substantial part of the cited trademark in the eyes of consumers, and more importantly, it was similar to the trademark application. Thus consumers were likely to misunderstand the source of the goods of the two trademarks.
In the second-instance trial, the Higher Court accepted the TRAB's opinions and decided that the judgment No.2610 of the first instance was inappropriate with respect to similarity determination. The Higher Court then ruled in its judgment (2015) Gaoxing Zhongzi No.3299 that protection and use of a trademark should follow the principle of entirety and not involve separating the whole trademark into different components for protection. The disclaimed portion of the trademark should be considered as an indivisible part of the trademark and thus included in the overall comparison.
After the above-mentioned cases, the courts tend to adopt unified stands for similarity determination and gradually form coordinated opinions on how a trademark disclaimer may affect similarity determination. The mainstream view is now that the disclaimer statement is recorded in the trademark files, of which the relevant public is not aware, so the disclaimed portion will still be considered as a constituent part of the trademark during similarity comparison. To determine whether two trademarks are similar, overall observation is primarily adopted; comparisons between main constituent elements may come as a supplement. Comparisons may be made on aspects such as shape, sound, meaning, and overall effect, and should rest on the general attention of the relevant public. Even when the disclaimed portion of the trademark appears in a prominent position in the trademark, the "overall plus main elements" standards still apply. The disclaimed portion would still be considered as a main element, and the comparison would not be affected by the disclaimer.
Disclaiming the exclusive right to a certain portion of the trademark can also have a positive influence on similarity determination. A disclaimer statement can help examiners identify what the main elements and secondary elements are in a trademark, especially when the disclaimed elements do not seem to be in a prominent position.
In a trademark infringement case heard by the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court, the plaintiff had a registered trademark "欧普照明及图 (Opple Lighting and device)", in which the word "照明(lighting)" was disclaimed; the defendant had been using "欧普" on their own products. The court held in its final judgment (2010) Hu Yizhong Minwu (Zhi) Zhongzi No.17 that since the exclusive right to "照明" had been disclaimed, "欧普" was the main word part of the plaintiff's trademark. The defendant had been using the same characters on their products, which constituted use of a similar trademark. The defendant's use violated the plaintiff's exclusive trademark right. Thus, infringement was found.
The Beijing Intellectual Property Court also considers trademark disclaimers when determining what the main elements are in a trademark. For example, in a 2018 case the trademark applied for was "五联塑料件 (WuLian plastic part)", in which "塑料件 (plastic part)" was disclaimed, and the cited trademark which blocked the registration was "联塑 (Lian plastics)". The court pointed out in its judgment (2018) Jing 73 Xingchu No.3265 that plastic part is a common product in daily life and the corresponding word "塑料件" is a generic description. The relevant public would not split the three-character term into individual characters during trademark identification or comparison. In addition, the owner of the trademark in the dispute had disclaimed the exclusive right to the word "塑料件". The main element of the trademark in dispute should therefore be the word "五联 (WuLian)". Due to the obvious difference found in the main elements of the marks, i.e. "五联" of the trademark in dispute and "联塑" of the cited mark, the court held that the marks were not similar to each other.
In practice, the boundary between the main elements and other decorative or descriptive elements in trademarks is not always very clear, making it difficult for the examiner to categorise. In addition, there is a perception that the categorisation of the elements may be subjective and may vary among different examiners. It is possible that secondary elements will be mistaken for main elements in a similarity comparison. From the above cases, it is evident that a proper trademark disclaimer renouncing the exclusive trademark right to the non-distinctive or less distinctive portion of a trademark can serve as a clue to help examiners identify the main elements of the trademark, thus facilitating a more accurate comparison on similarity.
The purpose of a trademark disclaimer is to find a balance of rights and interests between the trademark owner and the relevant public, so that all market participants can use non-distinctive descriptions and generic elements in goods and services without worrying about the infringement of others' trademark rights. As a right holder, a trademark owner can disclaim his right to a certain portion of his mark. Although there are no explicit regulations at a legislative level, a unified understanding on the role and effect of a trademark disclaimer has been gradually formed in judicial practice through the judgments of courts at all levels over the past years. Trademark protection is based on the principle of entirety of a trademark. A trademark disclaimer does not necessarily exclude the disclaimed portion from being considered for similarity comparison. If the disclaimed portion does not play a significant role in the trademark and does not belong to any prohibitive scenario, the disclaimer statement would highlight the main elements in the trademark and thus help with similarity determination.
Jie He
Jie He is an associate in AFD China's Trademark & Legal Department. She graduated from China University of Political Science and Law (Beijing, China) with an LLB degree in 2010, and obtained a JD degree from Lewis & Clark Law School (Portland, US) in 2015. Her areas of expertise include legal research, dispute resolution, and IP consultation for a diverse array of domestic and overseas clients.
Mengmeng Yu
Mengmeng Yu is an associate at AFD China. She is a patent attorney, registered plant variety rights agent and qualified legal practitioner who passed the bar exam. Her practice focuses on IP strategy, prosecution, and advice. Her role in the firm also includes acting as the client and media liaison. Yu holds a doctorate in biotechnology and a BEng in food science. She also worked as a visiting scholar at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre of the US Department of Agriculture, where she trained as a chemical analyst between 2009 and 2010.
Xia Zheng
Xia Zheng is president and founder of AFD China, and a patent attorney, trademark attorney and lawyer. She started her career in IP in 1987 and practices in many areas of the field, especially IP strategy, prosecution, post-grant proceedings and IP-related litigation. Zheng participates actively in the industry and is recommended as a leading practitioner by numerous publications, including MIP's IP Stars. She was named a National IP Talent in 2016, Beijing Outstanding Patent Attorney of 2014 and an Excellent Legal Professional of Haidian in 2012.
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