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FIFA president Sepp Blatter vowed to overhaul the voting system used to choose World Cup hosts here Wednesday after allegations of corruption surrounding the successful Qatar 2022 bid.
Latest related read: Blatter clears final hurdle, elections not to be delayed.
Blatter who is poised to be re-elected to another four-year term as head of world football later Wednesday, said he wanted future votes to award World Cup hosting rights to be decided by all 208 FIFA members.
The FIFA membership would vote from a shortlist of candidates put forward by the organisation's 24-member executive committee. Previously, World Cups were chosen by the 24 executive committee members.
"I want to give more power to the national associations," Blatter said.
"In the future the World Cup will be decided by the FIFA Congress. The executive committee will create a shortlist - but will make no recommendations only a list - and the Congress will decide on the venue."
Blatter's pledge follows stinging criticism of last December's votes for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, won by Russia and Qatar respectively.
Two members of the executive committee were suspended from the ballot after an investigation by British newspaper The Sunday Times found them seeking to trade votes for cash or development projects.
Former England 2018 bid leader David Triesman last month told a parliamentary inquiry four other members of the executive committee had demanded lucrative deals or honours in exchange for their votes.
The decision to hand the 2022 tournament to Qatar, an oil-rich Gulf state where summer temperatures can soar to 50 degrees Celsius, has attracted severe scrutiny.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said in an email leaked earlier this week he believed Qatar had "bought" the tournament, prompting furious denials by the 2022 bid team. Valcke later said his words had been miscontrued.
However the head of Germany's powerful football federation Theo Zwanziger called for the 2022 vote to be re-examined on Wednesday.
"I think there is a significant degree of suspicion that one cannot just dismiss," Zwanziger told ZDF public television when asked about calls for the sport's world governing body to take away the event from Qatar.
"And that is why I reckon that the awarding of this World Cup must be re-examined with regard to these concerns," he said.
"I do not want to comment on how that might happen until I know more about the matter. I am an outsider and not a member of the executive committee," the DFB president added.


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A US military official says Turkish and Kurdish forces in northern Syria have reached a "loose agreement" to stop fighting each other.
"In the last several hours, we have received assurance that all parties involved are going to stop shooting at each other and focus on the ISIL threat," Colonel John Thomas, US Central Command spokesman, told AFP, using another acronym for the Daesh terrorist group.
"It's a loose agreement for at least the next couple of days and we are hoping that will solidify," he added.
Thomas said Turkish forces and militants from the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) had opened communications with the US and between each other "with the goal of limiting hostilities."
On Monday, the US Defense Department called for an immediate de-escalation in clashes between Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forces, saying the fighting is "unacceptable" and a "source of deep concern."
"This is an already crowded battle space," Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a written statement. "Accordingly, we are calling on all armed actors to stand down immediately and take appropriate measures to de-conflict."
Ankara launched a bloody offensive in northern Syria last week and killed 25 Kurdish forces on Sunday, a day after a Turkish soldier died in a rocket attack allegedly by the YPG.
Ankara regards the YPG and YPD as allies of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s.
The US-allied YPG, which controls nearly the entire northern border of Syria with Turkey, has been fighting against Daesh. Conversely, Turkey is running a dual military campaign in Syria targeting both Daesh militants and the YPG.
The situation adds to simmering tensions between Ankara and Washington when Turkey's government is still reeling from last month's failed coup, which it says Washington was too slow to condemn.

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|This article is about a/an episode in Kagaku Sentai Dynaman.
The Day Fish Attack Humans (魚が人間を襲う日 Sakana ga Ningen o Ozou Hi) is the eleventh episode of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman.
When the owner of an aquatic park is abducted for a Jashinka plot to control marine life, Shima pursues them leading to a greater hope for his dreams.
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- In the parodied version, Dolphin Shinka was renamed Mr. Flipper or "Flippy" as what Princess Chimera/Lucy gives him for a pet name due to him being her lover and the sole reason why they've made the fish attack the humans is because Mr. Flipper was once an experimented dolphin that has now mutated and now he has plotted revenge against the humans.[Citation needed]
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|This movie shows the positive gravitropic response of a corn root after the seedling was placed on its side. Each images was taken at 5 min intervals. In about 20 to 30 min after being placed on its side (to see this advance the movie one frame at a time), gravitropism starts to cause differential growth along the root tip and the root begins to bend down. As more time passes, the root continues to get longer and curves more and more until it is finally reoriented so the tip faces down. Also not that the root wiggles (nutation) around a bit as it reorients, although the wiggling is not as dramatic as in the plant shoot (see other gravity movies).


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Murder suspect busted by asking SIRI "How to hide a body"
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Pedro Bravo is being accused by the state of Florida of killing his roommate a young man by the name of Christian Aguilar.
A detective that was working on the case got a look at all the searches that Mr. Bravo made and noticed a peculiar one from around the same time Aguilar went missing.
Pedro asked Siri "How to hide his roommate" ....
If he didn't kill his roommate then that was a really bad timed inquiry.
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It is the applicators responsibility to renew the license which involves 3 hours of recertification and paying the administrative fee of $30 to the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Note: $20 paid to OSU Extension of the recertification class is not the license renewal fee.
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Discussion of Hadoop. Related subjects include:
Kafka and more
In a companion introduction to Kafka post, I observed that Kafka at its core is remarkably simple. Confluent offers a marchitecture diagram that illustrates what else is on offer, about which I'll note:
- The red boxes — "Ops Dashboard" and "Data Flow Audit" — are the initial closed-source part. No surprise that they sound like management tools; that's the traditional place for closed source add-ons to start.
- "Schema Management"
- Is used to define fields and so on.
- Is not equivalent to what is ordinarily meant by schema validation, in that …
- … it allows schemas to change, but puts constraints on which changes are allowed.
- Is done in plug-ins that live with the producer or consumer of data.
- Is based on the Hadoop-oriented file format Avro.
Kafka offers little in the way of analytic data transformation and the like. Hence, it's commonly used with companion products. Read more
|Categories: Data integration and middleware, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Hadoop, Kafka and Confluent, Market share and customer counts, Streaming and complex event processing (CEP)
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Cloudera in the cloud(s)
Cloudera released Version 2 of Cloudera Director, which is a companion product to Cloudera Manager focused specifically on the cloud. This led to a discussion about — you guessed it! — Cloudera and the cloud.
Making Cloudera run in the cloud has three major aspects:
- Cloudera's usual software, ported to run on the cloud platform(s).
- Cloudera Director, which for example launches cloud instances.
- Points of integration, e.g. taking information about security-oriented roles from the platform and feeding then to the role-based security that is specific to Cloudera Enterprise.
Features new in this week's release of Cloudera Director include:
- An API for job submission.
- Support for spot and preemptable instances.
- High availability.
- Kerberos.
- Some cluster repair.
- Some cluster cloning.
I.e., we're talking about some pretty basic/checklist kinds of things. Cloudera Director is evidently working for Amazon AWS and Google GCP, and planned for Windows Azure, VMware and OpenStack.
As for porting, let me start by noting: Read more
BI and quasi-DBMS
I'm on two overlapping posting kicks, namely "lessons from the past" and "stuff I keep saying so might as well also write down". My recent piece on Oracle as the new IBM is an example of both themes. In this post, another example, I'd like to memorialize some points I keep making about business intelligence and other analytics. In particular:
- BI relies on strong data access capabilities. This is always true. Duh.
- Therefore, BI and other analytics vendors commonly reinvent the data management wheel. This trend ebbs and flows with technology cycles.
Similarly, BI has often been tied to data integration/ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) functionality.* But I won't address that subject further at this time.
*In the Hadoop/Spark era, that's even truer of other analytics than it is of BI.
My top historical examples include:
- The 1970s analytic fourth-generation languages (RAMIS, NOMAD, FOCUS, et al.) commonly combined reporting and data management.
- The best BI visualization technology of the 1980s, Executive Information Systems (EIS), was generally unsuccessful. The core reason was a lack of what we'd now call drilldown. Not coincidentally, EIS vendors — notably leader Comshare — didn't do well at DBMS-like technology.
- Business Objects, one of the pioneers of the modern BI product category, rose in large part on the strength of its "semantic layer" technology. (If you don't know what that is, you can imagine it as a kind of virtual data warehouse modest enough in its ambitions to actually be workable.)
- Cognos, the other pioneer of modern BI, depending on capabilities for which it needed a bundled MOLAP (Multidimensional OnLine Analytic Processing) engine.
- But Cognos later stopped needing that engine, which underscores my point about technology ebbing and flowing.
|Categories: Business intelligence, Business Objects, Cognos, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Hadoop, Information Builders, MicroStrategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Teradata
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Readings in Database Systems
Mike Stonebraker and Larry Ellison have numerous things in common. If nothing else:
- They're both titanic figures in the database industry.
- They both gave me testimonials on the home page of my business website.
- They both have been known to use the present tense when the future tense would be more accurate.
I mention the latter because there's a new edition of Readings in Database Systems, aka the Red Book, available online, courtesy of Mike, Joe Hellerstein and Peter Bailis. Besides the recommended-reading academic papers themselves, there are 12 survey articles by the editors, and an occasional response where, for example, editors disagree. Whether or not one chooses to tackle the papers themselves — and I in fact have not dived into them — the commentary is of great interest.
But I would not take every word as the gospel truth, especially when academics describe what they see as commercial market realities. In particular, as per my quip in the first paragraph, the data warehouse market has not yet gone to the extremes that Mike suggests,* if indeed it ever will. And while Joe is close to correct when he says that the company Essbase was acquired by Oracle, what actually happened is that Arbor Software, which made Essbase, merged with Hyperion Software, and the latter was eventually indeed bought by the giant of Redwood Shores.**
*When it comes to data warehouse market assessment, Mike seems to often be ahead of the trend.
**Let me interrupt my tweaking of very smart people to confess that my own commentary on the Oracle/Hyperion deal was not, in retrospect, especially prescient.
Mike pretty much opened the discussion with a blistering attack against hierarchical data models such as JSON or XML. To a first approximation, his views might be summarized as: Read more
Splunk engages in stupid lawyer tricks
Using legal threats as an extension of your marketing is a bad idea. At least, it's a bad idea in the United States, where such tactics are unlikely to succeed, and are apt to backfire instead. Splunk seems to actually have had some limited success intimidating Sumo Logic. But it tried something similar against Rocana, and I was set up to potentially be collateral damage. I don't think that's working out very well for Splunk.
Specifically, Splunk sent a lawyer letter to Rocana, complaining about a couple of pieces of Rocana marketing collateral. Rocana responded publicly, and posted both the Splunk letter and Rocana's lawyer response. The Rocana letter eviscerated Splunk's lawyers on matters of law, clobbered them on the facts as well, exposed Splunk's similar behavior in the past, and threw in a bit of snark at the end.
Now I'll pile on too. In particular, I'll note that, while Splunk wants to impose a duty of strict accuracy upon those it disagrees with, it has fewer compunctions about knowingly communicating falsehoods itself.
1. Splunk's letter insinuates that Rocana might have paid me to say what I blogged about them. Those insinuations are of course false.
Splunk was my client for a lot longer, and at a higher level of annual retainer, than Rocana so far has been. Splunk never made similar claims about my posts about them. Indeed, Splunk complained that I did not write about them often or favorably enough, and on at least one occasion seemed to delay renewing my services for that reason.
2. Similarly, Splunk's letter makes insinuations about quotes I gave Rocana. But I also gave at least one quote to Splunk when they were my client. As part of the process — and as is often needed — I had a frank and open discussion with them about my quote policies. So Splunk should know that their insinuations are incorrect.
3. Splunk's letter actually included the sentences Read more
|Categories: Hadoop, Parallelization, Rocana, Splunk
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The questionably named Cloudera Navigator Optimizer
I only have mixed success at getting my clients to reach out to me for messaging advice when they're introducing something new. Cloudera Navigator Optimizer, which is being announced along with Cloudera 5.5, is one of my failures in that respect; I heard about it for the first time Tuesday afternoon. I hate the name. I hate some of the slides I saw. But I do like one part of the messaging, namely the statement that this is about "refactoring" queries.
All messaging quibbles aside, I think the Cloudera Navigator Optimizer story is actually pretty interesting, and perhaps not just to users of SQL-on-Hadoop technologies such as Hive (which I guess I'd put in that category for simplicity) or Impala. As I understand Cloudera Navigator Optimizer:
- It's all about analytic SQL queries.
- Specifically, it's about reducing duplicated work.
- It is not an "optimizer" in the ordinary RDBMS sense of the word.
- It's delivered via SaaS (Software as a Service).
- Conceptually, it's not really tied to SQL-on-Hadoop. However, …
- … in practice it likely will be used by customers who want to optimize performance of Cloudera's preferred styles of SQL-on-Hadoop, either because they're already using SQL-on-Hadoop or in connection with an initial migration.
|Categories: Business intelligence, Cloudera, Data pipelining, Data warehousing, EAI, EII, ETL, ELT, ETLT, Hadoop, SQL/Hadoop integration
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Couchbase 4.0 and related subjects
I last wrote about Couchbase in November, 2012, around the time of Couchbase 2.0. One of the many new features I mentioned then was secondary indexing. Ravi Mayuram just checked in to tell me about Couchbase 4.0. One of the important new features he mentioned was what I think he said was Couchbase's "first version" of secondary indexing. Obviously, I'm confused.
Now that you're duly warned, let me remind you of aspects of Couchbase timeline.
- 2 corporate name changes ago, Couchbase was organized to commercialize memcached. memcached, of course, was internet companies' default way to scale out short-request processing before the rise of NoSQL, typically backed by manually sharded MySQL.
- Couchbase's original value proposition, under the name Membase, was to provide persistence and of course support for memcached. This later grew into a caching-oriented pitch even to customers who weren't already memcached users.
- A merger with the makers of CouchDB ensued, with the intention of replacing Membase's SQLite back end with CouchDB at the same time as JSON support was introduced. This went badly.
- By now, however, Couchbase sells for more than distributed cache use cases. Ravi rattled off a variety of big-name customer examples for system-of-record kinds of use cases, especially in session logging (duh) and also in travel reservations.
- Couchbase 4.0 has been in beta for a few months.
Technical notes on Couchbase 4.0 — and related riffs — start: Read more
|Categories: Cache, Clustering, Couchbase, Data models and architecture, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Exadata, Hadoop, MarkLogic, MongoDB, MySQL, NoSQL, Open source, Schema on need, Structured documents, Web analytics
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The potential significance of Cloudera Kudu
This is part of a three-post series on Kudu, a new data storage system from Cloudera.
- Part 1 is an overview of Kudu technology.
- Part 2 is a lengthy dive into how Kudu writes and reads data.
- Part 3 (this post) is a brief speculation as to Kudu's eventual market significance.
Combined with Impala, Kudu is (among other things) an attempt to build a no-apologies analytic DBMS (DataBase Management System) into Hadoop. My reactions to that start:
- It's plausible; just not soon. What I mean by that is:
- Success will, at best, be years away. Please keep that in mind as you read this otherwise optimistic post.
- Nothing jumps out at me to say "This will never work!"
- Unlike when it introduced Impala — or when I used to argue with Jeff Hammerbacher pre-Impala — this time Cloudera seems to have reasonable expectations as to how hard the project is.
- There's huge opportunity if it works.
- The analytic RDBMS vendors are beatable. Teradata has a great track record of keeping its product state-of-the-art, but it likes high prices. Most other strong analytic RDBMS products were sold to (or originated by) behemoth companies that seem confused about how to proceed.
- RDBMS-first analytic platforms didn't do as well as I hoped. That leaves a big gap for Hadoop.
I'll expand on that last point. Analytics is no longer just about fast queries on raw or simply-aggregated data. Data transformation is getting ever more complex — that's true in general, and it's specifically true in the case of transformations that need to happen in human real time. Predictive models now often get rescored on every click. Sometimes, they even get retrained at short intervals. And while data reduction in the sense of "event extraction from high-volume streams" isn't that a big deal yet in commercial apps featuring machine-generated data — if growth trends continue as much of us expect, it's only a matter of time before that changes.
Of course, this is all a bullish argument for Spark (or Flink, if I'm wrong to dismiss its chances as a Spark competitor). But it also all requires strong low-latency analytic data underpinnings, and I suspect that several kinds of data subsystem will prosper. I expect Kudu-supported Hadoop/Spark to be a strong contender for that role, along with the best of the old-school analytic RDBMS, Tachyon-supported Spark, one or more contenders from the Hana/MemSQL crowd (i.e., memory-centric RDBMS that purport to be good at analytics and transactions alike), and of course also whatever Cloudera's strongest competitor(s) choose to back.
|Categories: Cloudera, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Hadoop, Kafka and Confluent
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Cloudera Kudu deep dive
This is part of a three-post series on Kudu, a new data storage system from Cloudera.
- Part 1 is an overview of Kudu technology.
- Part 2 (this post) is a lengthy dive into how Kudu writes and reads data.
- Part 3 is a brief speculation as to Kudu's eventual market significance.
Let's talk in more detail about how Kudu stores data.
- As previously noted, inserts land in an in-memory row store, which is periodically flushed to the column store on disk. Queries are federated between these two stores. Vertica taught us to call these the WOS (Write-Optimized Store) and ROS (Read-Optimized Store) respectively, and I'll use that terminology here.
- Part of the ROS is actually another in-memory store, aka the DeltaMemStore, where updates and deletes land before being applied to the DiskRowSets. These stores are managed separately for each DiskRowSet. DeltaMemStores are checked at query time to confirm whether what's in the persistent store is actually up to date.
- A major design goal for Kudu is that compaction should never block – nor greatly slow — other work. In support of that:
- Compaction is done, server-by-server, via a low-priority but otherwise always-on background process.
- There is a configurable maximum to how big a compaction process can be — more precisely, the limit is to how much data the process can work on at once. The current default figure = 128 MB, which is 4X the size of a DiskRowSet.
- When done, Kudu runs a little optimization to figure out which 128 MB to compact next.
- Every tablet has its own write-ahead log.
- This creates a practical limitation on the number of tablets …
- … because each tablet is causing its own stream of writes to "disk" …
- … but it's only a limitation if your "disk" really is all spinning disk …
- … because multiple simultaneous streams work great with solid-state memory.
- Log retention is configurable, typically the greater of 5 minutes or 128 MB.
- Metadata is cached in RAM. Therefore:
- ALTER TABLE kinds of operations that can be done by metadata changes only — i.e. adding/dropping/renaming columns — can be instantaneous.
- To keep from being screwed up by this, the WOS maintains a column that labels rows by which schema version they were created under. I immediately called this MSCC — Multi-Schema Concurrency Control — and Todd Lipcon agreed.
- Durability, as usual, boils down to "Wait until a quorum has done the writes", with a configurable option as to what constitutes a "write".
- Servers write to their respective write-ahead logs, then acknowledge having done so.
- If it isn't too much of a potential bottleneck — e.g. if persistence is on flash — the acknowledgements may wait until the log has been fsynced to persistent storage.
- There's a "thick" client library which, among other things, knows enough about the partitioning scheme to go straight to the correct node(s) on a cluster.
|Categories: Cloudera, Columnar database management, Hadoop, Solid-state memory, SQL/Hadoop integration
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Introduction to Cloudera Kudu
This is part of a three-post series on Kudu, a new data storage system from Cloudera.
- Part 1 (this post) is an overview of Kudu technology.
- Part 2 is a lengthy dive into how Kudu writes and reads data.
- Part 3 is a brief speculation as to Kudu's eventual market significance.
Cloudera is introducing a new open source project, Kudu,* which from Cloudera's standpoint is meant to eventually become the single best underpinning for analytics on the Hadoop stack. I've spent multiple hours discussing Kudu with Cloudera, mainly with Todd Lipcon. Any errors are of course entirely mine.
*Like the impala, the kudu is a kind of antelope. I knew that, because I enjoy word games. What I didn't know — and which is germane to the naming choice — is that the kudu has stripes.
For starters:
- Kudu is an alternative to HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), or to HBase.
- Kudu is meant to be the underpinning for Impala, Spark and other analytic frameworks or engines.
- Kudu is not meant for OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing), at least in any foreseeable release. For example:
- Kudu doesn't support multi-row transactions.
- There are no active efforts to front-end Kudu with an engine that is fast at single-row queries.
- Kudu is rather columnar, except for transitory in-memory stores.
- Kudu's core design points are that it should:
- Accept data very quickly.
- Immediately make that data available for analytics.
- More specifically, Kudu is meant to accept, along with slower forms of input:
- Lots of fast random writes, e.g. of web interactions.
- Streams, viewed as a succession of inserts.
- Updates and inserts alike.
- The core "real-time" use cases for which Kudu is designed are, unsurprisingly:
- Low-latency business intelligence.
- Predictive model scoring.
- Kudu is designed to work fine with spinning disk, and indeed has been tested to date mainly on disk-only nodes. Even so, Kudu's architecture is optimized for the assumption that there will be at least some flash on the node.
- Kudu is designed primarily to support relational/SQL processing. However, Kudu also has a nested-data roadmap, which of course starts with supporting the analogous capabilities in Impala.
|Categories: Business intelligence, Cloudera, Columnar database management, Database compression, Databricks, Spark and BDAS, Hadoop, HBase, Predictive modeling and advanced analytics, Solid-state memory, SQL/Hadoop integration
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- Developer: June Software Private Limited
- Publisher: June Software Private Limited
- Genre: Trivia / Game Show
- Release: Mar 25, 2009
- ESRB: Not Set
Question & Answers
Help please on a few questions on level 5 and 6 :)
On level 5-
1. a black upside down 'A' with a flick at one side
2. an orange lion sitting down
3. some balcked out words with a red oval in the top corner with a white horse shoe shape on its side inside it.
4. a red circle at one end and at the other end a red 'g'
5. a red square with 2 white rectangles and 2 curves on top that cross eachother
Level 6-
1. a blue 6 sided shape with 'R' and 'E' in
2. a red oval with a white circle and 2 white wave shapes and to the right, a red 'A'
3. a red 'P' and a red 'E'
4. a blue and silver oval with detail in the inside
5. a black rectangle with a red wing shape in the middle
6. 6 blue lines that make up a circle
7. a blue rectangle that has white detail coming from both left corners
8. a blue circle with white lines to make a sort of stripy square shape inside
9. a grey square with a white one inside and a grey dot nest to it, then a black 'B' at the end
10. 2 blue swirls to make an oval
11. a blue circle with a line through the middle with a blue line coming in through the side
12. a white 'R' outlined in black
13. a red ovall outlined in red and white dots with a black '3B' at the top
14. three flame like shapes res, blue and yellow
15. a yellow baseball cap shape with an upside down blue and red baseball cap shape on top of eachother to make a circle with 2 sticks at eash side
16. a black 'X' shape with the 2 left hand sides joined.
17. a black wiggly 'L' shape
18. a blue 'F' and a blue box with a white 'F' at the other side
Thanks to anyone who can help me it is much apprechiated :D
Answer from: daleklover
Level 5
2. ing direct
5. bradesco
Sorry no answers for level six ones, am struggling with that one myself!
Answer from: Gaaabzxo
Level 5
Answer from: chalmer62
Level 6
4. lada
5. hankook
6. airbus
9. basf
13. bugatti
14. iberdrola
Answer from: Emz_
Thanks alot- a great help
Answer from: Emz_
Thanks- thats good :)
Answer from: Emz_
Thank youu :)
Answer from: Emiily
Level 5
1. Mizuno
2. Ing direct
3. John smith
4. Rotring
5. Bradesco
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