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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Painted Purple Tutorial
Purple. Purple is the color of good judgement, peace of mind, and is said to symbolize royalty. Purple is also my favorite color of all time hence why my room is painted purple, my favorite nail polish (OPI Extravagance) is a shade of purple, and most of my favorite eye shadows are...you guessed it, purple! I love that it is a color that makes my eyes POP! It looks great on any eye shade which is great for those of us who love to wear a little color. If you are just starting to wear colorful eye shadows, go with purple!
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Saturday, September 1, 2012
BeJewel MePlease - Haul, Review, & Giveaway
For those of you who watch me on YouTube, you know that I am an avid lover of accessories. A girl can never have too many earrings, necklaces, bracelets, etc. Accessories are what add the finishing touch to an outfit or make a once boring outfit into something fabulous! Recently, I was contacted by BeJewel MePlease (super cute name, right!?) to review some of their accessories as well as do a giveaway. If you watched my video, then you would already know that BeJewel MePlease is an online boutique that caters in fashion jewelry and accessories. I am in love with everything I got because of the unique style each one has. Below are pictures of each accessory I got from BeJewel MePlease as well as their accompanying links.( Just note though, that since their constantly updating what they have, some things may go out of stock fast!)
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Review: Wolves of the Calla
The road to the Dark Tower is fraught with peril, and Gunslingers cant turn their backs on people in need.
The simple townsfolk of Calla Bryn Sturgis are in need of some gunslinger assistance. Every twenty years or so, the Wolves come out of Thunderclap and steal away one of each set of the town's twins. This may not sound so bad, but in Calla Bryn Sturgis twins are commonplace, and a single child is a rare occurrence. After half the twins are taken, they are returned months later, called "roont" (ruined) by the townsfolk, the kids are shells of their former selves,doomed to a short life, mentally empty, and destined to grow to a hulking size. The wolves are due to come in a month. Which of course is where Roland and the gang come in handy. The townsfolk want the gunslinger's aid, but while the gunslingers are trying to protect the town, they must also protect a single red rose that grows in a vacant lot in New York City. The rose is important as it's safety is mysteriously tied to the Dark Tower which Roland seeks.
To further complicate things the gunslingers face a few pressing personal issues that threaten to doom their quest for the Dark Tower.
Wolves of the Calla is one of the strongest Dark Tower books yet. The plot grabbed me early on, and doesn't really let go even at the end. King managed to juggle a lot of elements, yet the book flowed nicely and despite its length of about 750 pages, it didn't have more than a couple slow points.
The people of Calla Bryn Sturgis were an interesting group of folks. I really enjoyed a couple of the characters. The heavily conflicted Benjamin Slightman was an extremely "realistic" character to me, I felt like I could see things from his point of view, but I didn't approve of his actions.
The most important man the gunslingers meet in Calla Bryn Sturgis is Father Callahan. King fans will recognize this guy from 'Salem's Lot. Callahan has quite a story to tell of his life since the events of 'Salem's Lot, from vampire vision, to killings, to alcoholism, to his own death, and his travels in parallel earths...the guy has been through a lot. Somehow, he has wound up in the Calla, and he's got a powerful magical item hidden in his church.
Though in some ways the gunslingers helping the townsfolk seems like a side-quest, that really isn't the case. The overall plot thickens quite a bit, and King really ups the ante for the entire series. Everything is setting up nicely for an absolute gut buster of a finish and I can't wait to see where everything stands once the dust has cleared. I'm definitely hooked and I'm excited for the next two books.
After a couple of slower Dark Tower books, Wolves of the Calla is a pretty much a return to awesome. You really cant go to far wrong with a book that has gun fights, vampires, time travel, robots, lightsabers, demons, and Stephen King's deadly, explosive version of Harry Potter's snitch. There is a lot to love about Wolves of the Calla I really enjoyed this one from the start right up to the lightning paced finish.
Grade: B+
Posted by Ryan at 9/22/2010 09:56:00 PM
Labels: books, Dark Tower, Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
6 comments:
- mummazappa said...
Anyone who loves Willie Nelson and reads Stephen King deserves a follow in my book! I found you on bookblogs, great blog!
- September 23, 2010 at 5:12 AM
- Ryan said...
Hey! Thanks. Glad you like the blog.
- September 23, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- Seak (Bryce L.) said...
This sounds awesome. I really need to get on with my reading of The Drawing.
- September 27, 2010 at 9:44 AM
- Ryan said...
Seak-Yeah you do! The Drawing of the Three is still my favorite, but Wolves of the Calla is no slouch. I gotta get my hand on the last two volumes.
- September 27, 2010 at 10:02 PM
- the Weasel said...
Another superb synopsis, Ryan! I was a little less thrilled with the book, one of those who saw it as more of a side quest, but it was still a great read and hilarious in places. It will get no less than a B from me but no more either.
- March 13, 2011 at 10:11 PM
- Ryan said...
The Weasel- yeah, it can definitely be seen as a side quest, but it was an awesome one, so no complaints here.
- March 14, 2011 at 6:29 PM
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Mr. Speaker, there have been funds made available for public transit in a significant way, not only through the infrastructure program, but that vehicle is also available through the climate change funds that were proposed in the last budget.
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If you want to win your way into the WSOP, instead of paying the full buy in amount, the thing to do is to enter a satellite tournament. Satellite tournaments are low buy in tournaments in which the winner, or sometimes the top several finishers, wins entry to a larger event. In this case, that would be a WSOP event.
For example, rather than pay entry for the $10,000 event, you might pay entry into a $1,000 satellite, in hopes of winning a a seat in the larger event. Of course, the same is true of other buy in fees. For instance, you may have to play a $125 buy in to win a spot in a $1000 event, $225 to win entry to a $2,000 event or $325 to enter a satellite to a $3,000 event. It all depends on the event that you hope to gain entry to.
As mentioned above, satellites come at all different buy in levels. They also come in all different game types, though. The most common is 10-handed Texas Holdem, but there are also 8-handed Stud-based games.
Generally, you can play any sort of satellite that you want, as long as the floor staff doesn't already have a group playing. If they do, though, you can expect that the offered game is likely to be Texas Holdem, since it's usually the most popular. The exception would be if a mixed event is coming up the next day or later that day.
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There are also multi-table satellite options, which are especially good for getting into the Main Event. They are called Mega Satellites and they run at specific times. Each one offers several seats to the bigger event. How many seats depends on the size of the prize pool, usually.
Of course, it's important to play the satellite tournament that corresponds tot he event that you want to gain entry to. For example, let's say that you want entry into the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event. If that was the case, the only satellite type that could potentially help you is the $5,000 H.O.R.S.E. Mega Satellite.
It's also important to remember that you can join more than one satellite and you may have to, in order to win entry to a big event. Even if you lose the first time or two, though, the over all amount you spend is still likely to be worth it. After all, it will still be cheaper than entry to the big event itself. That's one of the reasons beginner players are especially fond of satellite tournaments.
Trying to find the right satellite tournament can be a bit confusing, especially for a first-time satellite player. Luckily, there are schedules available ahead of time. For instance, at this years WSOP, the Tropical Room will host single table satellites, while the multi-table games will be in the Amazon or Brasilia Room. Also, as a general rule, the H.O.R.S.E. Satellite is almost always held in the Amazon room, since it can accommodate more people at a time.
So, now that you understand satellite play, give it a try. It's an easy and fairly inexpensive way for you to gain entry to the bigger tournaments. Why not take a stab at it? You might find yourself at the Main Event final table!
If you want to win your way into the WSOP, instead of paying the full buy in amount, the thing to do is to enter a satellite tournament. Satellite tournaments are low buy in tournaments in which the winner, or sometimes the top several finishers, wins entry to a larger event. In this case, that would be a WSOP event.


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To SWEAR Is Human
People put a lot of stake in promises. Swear an oath, make a pledge, take a vow — you'd better be good to your word. If you've ever been on the receiving end of a broken promise, you don't enter into them lightly.
Only promises can be tricky. Situations change, making a pledge impossible to keep. Or a promise gets lost in the maze of memory. Or loses its purity and becomes a responsibility — a "should." In my perfect world, there's no such thing as "should."
Especially when it comes to love.
Which is what SWEAR is all about.
Okay, maybe not all. The novel revels in ghosts and gods, friends and fiends, abduction and seduction, music and madness and a twisted, tangled mystery. But at its core, SWEAR ponders why we swear our love.
No doubt, it's an instinctive urge. Love is so huge, so vital, and in a way so scary, it's natural to say: "Promise you won't break my heart. Promise you'll never leave me. Promise to love me forever." Yet as the characters in SWEAR ultimately discover, love is a gift, not an obligation. Love is a risk, not a duty. Love is to be cherished and respected and fought for, but in no way beholden to our will. Love is more powerful than our intention and beyond our control.
Love is magic, and there's only one crucial ingredient for magic:
Believe that you're worthy of this magic and it will come to you. Believe that you're capable of giving this magic, and do so—an equal bliss. Feel it. Share it. Believe, and enjoy!
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– Greek letter omega in red as logo, Omega brand made its appearance in all James Bond movies.
The logo belongs to one of the world's best known producers of luxury watches. The company is based in Biel, Switzerland.
– This particular brand became the official watchmaker for both the British Royal Flying Corps in 1917, as well as for the American army, in 1918. They were also the first watch on the moon, as provided by NASA.
– Biggest pharmaceutical company in the world since 1891. Its name is the same as its founder.Their specialists discovered most of the recent medicines like Lipitor, Diflucan, Viagra, Celebrex, and several others.
– The logo features the wordmark, non-capitalized, written in a white cursive font face Blue logo with F letter.
– Very easy to recognize from American movies the blue and yellow Seal. Under the red and white shield we can read 3 symbolic words for this organization: Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.
– Federal Bureau of Investigation was taken out of the logo for obvious reasons. Serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. . It's also the only agency allowed to investigate crimes on Native American territories.
– This suggestive logo features the wordmark, set atop three lines, which suggest tracks or the lines on a highway.
– This brand actually belongs to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation. It's a publicly funded railroad company and it is managed for profit. It connects several cities across the United States via rail and operates 374 trains each day, across 51,000 km. It also operates in three Canadian territories.
– Railroad company in United States. For Europe and others sorry about this, you have to check our answers hence is very unlikely to guess it. The logo looks like a flag with blue stripes.
– This logo consists of a wordmark written in a very particular font face – made up of lines with rounded ends. The initial F is the most distinctive feature of the logo, since the bottom part of the letter is blue, while the upper part is red.
– Sport clothes company established in 1911. Does an Italian-South Korean company strike you as an unlikely probability? Well, not only does such a company exist, but it's also famous the world over for the sportswear it produces. The name is the same as its co-founders.it was taken over by its South Korean branch in 2007 and operates in 11 countries worldwide. Blue and red capital F in logo.
Land Rover
– The logo is a wordmark, spelled out against the background of a green oval logo, with a double white border.
– It's a British car manufacturer, mainly 4×4. It's based in Coventry and, in 2008, it was purchased by Tata Motors. Its main competitor (and only older producer of four-wheel drive cars in the world) is Jeep.
– The logo is like an eye in a light green square featuring a stylized eye, made up of a spiraling, squiggled line. The left-hand half of the picture is black on white, while the right-hand side is white on light green.
– American company responsible for these products: Geforce, nForce, Tesla, Tegra, Quadro. Known to gamers the world over for the GPUs it produces, as well as for the SOCs it makes for mobile computing. Its famous GeForce line directly competes on this market segment against the similar Radeon line from AMD.
– Italian luxury car manufacturer. This logo consists of a silver oval shape. Its bottom part is dark blue, while the upper part is light grey with a red trident in logo.
– Founded in Bologna, Italy, in 1914. It's part of the Fiat group and was initially associated with Ferrari. It has recently become a part of the group's sports car segment, together with Alfa Romeo. What a car… Quattroporte, GranTurismo. It is written Maserati not Masserati or Maseratti.
– This rather self-explanatory logo features the black silhouette of a feline prowler, depicted mid-jump, as it reaches out into the air.
– This logo belongs to a very famous German company, specialized in producing footwear, both for athletes, as well as for casual wear. It was founded by two brothers in 1924, but as their relationship deteriorated, one of them went on to form Adidas, this brand's main competitor. This company has famously sponsored many renowned football players, including Pele, Cruijff, and Maradona. Too easy to mention.
– Manufacturer of swimwear and swimming equipment. It's the leading company in this industry and also produces wrist watches and mp3 players nowadays.
– The logo is a red check sign symbolizing speed in water.
– This relatively simple logo features the wordmark, spelled out in capital letters. Red letters J and I in logo.
– The company is from Japan and has the same name as its founder. Is offering hardware and software products. This Japanese company based in Tokyo is the second largest provider of IT services in the world, based on revenue. It's second only to IBM. It's known for the computing products it makes, but, in fact, it also offers telecommunication and microelectronics services. It's listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has over 172,000 employees.
– Founded by Henri Nestle in 1867, this Swiss food brand is responsible for making a lot of the products you probably have in your fridge and/or pantry. It makes baby food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee, tea, dairy products, snacks, pet food, etc.
– Some of its most famous lines include Nescafe, Kit Kat, Nesquik, Maggi and Vittel. Is now one of the biggest companies producing food.Logo with one bird nest and 3 birds.
– The logo depicts a massive capital C in black. Its very distinct shape also seems to suggest a wave. The bottom part of the letter is massive, in stark contrast with the circular shape in the upper part of the logo.
– Clothing company founded in 1889 in United States and have been making work clothes for over 120 years now! It was founded by Hamilton Carhartt and it is still owned by his descendants, to this day. It has remained a family-owned business, and it's based in Michigan. It was producing uniforms for railroad workers initially.
– Popularly referred to as 'China's Google', this brand actually offers a lot of different services. Aside from the search engine function, it also provides a collaborative encyclopedia and a discussion forum. It was founded by two Chinese nationals in the year 2000. Internet services company operating from Beijing, in a campus with the same name as the company.
– The logo has letters du in an animal foot print.
New Balance
– Footwear manufacturer from Boston. Anyone who lives in Boston and wears athletic shoes knows about this brand, especially since it's over one century old. They produce very popular models of sporting shoes, with all sorts of interesting technical features, such as heel counters and blended gel inserts.
– This logo is comprised of the brand's two initials, written in italic red capitals. Red N and B in logo, The B is solid, while the N is made of red and white stripes, which suggest movement.
– The initials that make up the name of this organization stand for 'world wide fund for nature'. It is the biggest independent organization for wildlife conservation in the world. It has more than 5 million supporters in the whole world and is active in over 100 countries.
– Interested in conservation, research and restoration of the environment.Black and white panda bear as logo.
– This logo features the brand's name spelled out in cursive red letters. It is set against a yellow flower with ten 'petals'. The flower's outline is a triple border in purple, red, and white.
If you live in Europe and have ever had lollipops, either as a kid or as an adult, you definitely know this brand. It was originally used on lollipops and founded in Spain by a Catalan entrepreneur.
– Nowadays, the brand is associated with several other confectionary products and is owned by an Italian corporation. Everyone knows yellow sign from ChupaChups.
– Video games developer from US,which is no longer active today, used to produce software for various types of gaming consoles, wireless devices, and handhelds. Its name stands for 'Toy Head-Quarters', because in the early 1990s, it used to produce toys. One of its most famous titles was the Saints Row game series.
– This logo features the company's name, made up of three initials. White H in a black rectangle with a red stripe underneath.
– Red and silver shield, sliced in half by a silver-grey shape that cuts across and seems to suggest a road. The name was removed.
– Is an Italian Motorbike manufacturer that has its headquarters in Bologna. It's owned by Audi, through the Italian subsidiary of the automotive giant, Lamborghini. It was founded in 1926 and its yearly revenue stands at EUR479 million.
– The logo is a silver geometric shape, reminiscent of a leaf or flower. Its two halves are symmetrical and it is based on the initial logo – a blue oval shape, with several curved lines within it.
Korean car manufacturer.
– This South-Korean company was founded in 1967 and became defunct in 1999, when the local government decided to dismantle it, at the peak of the Asian financial crisis. Its name meant "the Great Woo" in Korean, after the name of its founder, Kim Woo-jung. Starts with D and finishes with O.
– This famous logo consists of an off-white circle with a triple navy border: two of the three concentric circles that make up the border suggest stitches. Within the circle, there's a Blue star logo with the name Chuck Taylor in it.
– This brand has become synonymous with youth culture, as well as with several sports, including basketball and tennis. What started out as a line of sports footwear has since grown to be associated with punk, grunge, hip-hop, and several other countercultures.
– Unilever brand for care products with a grey bird in logo.
– This brand is most commonly associated with skincare and hair care products. The brand is owned by multinational conglomerate Unilever and some of its most popular products include soaps, lotions, body washes, and deodorants.
– This logo features the brand's name, spelled out in red capital letters. The letters are continuous – there is no break between them. A white line crosses through the middle of the letters.
– This company is probably the best known news channel in the world. It's part of a larger mass media corporation and delivers news 24/7, throughout the globe. It's your go-to source of real-time, reliable information from all over the planet.
– Clever quiz, letter N at the end was made to look like a J, therefore it wasn't so easy to guess even using hints like U.S cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner.
– This logo is yet another wordmark, spelled out in a blue font face. The distinctive trait that this logo displays is a 'greater than' sign, on top of the letter 't' in the brand's name.
– This company deals in management consulting, technology services, recruiting, and outsourcing. It's headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and it's the world's largest consulting company by revenue. It's got some 280,000 employees in 56 countries. Multinational company expert in outsourcing personal especially call centers.
– This logo is about as simple as they come: the brand's name in white block capital letters, with black drop-shades for each letter. Red background white N and X.
– Ever watched an on-demand video online? Then you probably know of this brand, which delivers entertainment in most parts of the Western world. To date, it has amassed more than 26 million subscribers and has earned over $1.5 billion in revenue. It has also delivered over one billion DVDs worldwide. Offers rental movies services in US.
– Shoe manufacturer popular for hiking, mountaineering, and casual wear. It's an American company, which also sells watches, glasses, and all sorts of leather goods (bags, shoes, etc.). It regularly makes the list of the best companies to work for in the world, owing to its CSR policies.
– The logo is an orange tree in a circle. Both the tree, as well as the patch of soil it shoots up from, are designed in brownish yellow.
– UK largest retailer offering grocery and general merchandise. Second only to Walmart, in terms of the biggest merchandise retailers in the world, this chain of stores is based in England, the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1919 as a group of stalls in the market and now has a market share of 30 per cent in the U.K..
– Red and blue logo, red capital letter and dotted line below.
United Nations
– Organization established in 1945 for maintaining international peacein the wake of World War II. At the time, it only had 51 member states, but it has since expanded to include 193 of them. It's headquartered in Manhattan, New York City.
– Light blue Earth globe logo, set against a circle, divided into several segments, with concentric circles within it. The circle is framed by two olive branches on both sides.
– This company was initially American, but became Swiss in 2010. It produces technology for consumer goods, but also for the aviation and marine industries. Software company offering GPS navigation systems. To date, it has sold more than 126 million GPS devices.
– IN with a blue triangle on top in the quiz logo picture. This wordmark consists of the brand's name, spelled out in black capital letters. The letters are reflected below.
– The logo features the wordmark, written in red cursive on a white background. The brand's name is framed by scroll-like edges in green and yellow and superimposed on top of a green vertical rectangle.
– Though this brand of foods and beverages is German, it is currently owned by an Anglo-Dutch company, Unilever. It produces several types of foodstuff, but it's best known for its dehydrated soup formulas, as well as for its lines of seasonings and sauces. It produces dehydrated soup mixes and condiments. Use your hints or have a look to our solutions.
– Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider in Europe and Latin America.
– The logo is yet another wordmark, spelled out in a fetching, italic blue font.The name starts with a blue T and is underlined.
National Geographic
– The National Geographic Channel is also known as Nat Geo (which is a trademarked name). it's owned by the society by the same name and it launched in 1997. It only airs non-fiction and most of its programming is self-produced. As of 2013, it has reached some 84 million households in the U.S. — Features documentaries involving nature, science, culture, and history.
This channel's logo consists of its name, written in block all-caps letters, with the first two words in black and the third one in grey. To the left of the brand's name there's an upright yellow rectangle. The logo is a yellow square.
Jack Daniel's
– This sophisticated logo is an updated version of a historic design. It features hand-written letter-like adornments on the edges, plus a specific font, both in block letters, as well as in cursive. The logo indicates both the brand's origin, as well as the type of whiskey it is.
– This brand of sour mash Tennessee whiskey is the best-selling American whiskey in the world. To this day, it's still produced in Lynchburg, Tennessee – interestingly enough, though, the distillery is located in a dry county, which means the company is forbidden by law to sell its products at stores and restaurants there. If you don't know this you didn't lived.
– This is another self-explanatory logo, which denotes the brand's very name. It's a yellow shell, with an ample red outline, as well as red detailing.
-One of the largest Oil company from Holland. It provides oil and gas products, it's the second largest company in the world by revenue and it's one of the six 'supermajor' oil and gas companies in the world. It's also one of the most valuable companies in the world and topped the Fortune 500 list in 2013.
– This brand is almost synonymous with luxury, because it produces something as banal as bottled water. However, this water is harvested from several exclusive sources on the shores of Lake Geneva, which apparently justifies the price. The brand belongs to French group Danone nowadays. Comes from several sources near Evian-les-Bains.
– Pink logo with blue. On top of the brand's name, you can see three mountaintop-like shapes, reminiscent of the French Alps.
– This logo consists of two concentric circles: the inner circle is blue, while the outer one is silver-grey, with a blue border. Within the inner circle, there are several lines and arrows which form a complex geometric shape, reminiscent of war insignia.
– This Japanese company Manufactures musical instruments, electronics, motorcycles.
– This logo consists of the letter C, with a red semi-circle inside it. It's available in various colors, though it's most often featured in blue and white.
– There are actually several commercial brands with the same name around the world, but the most famous one is probably the sportswear brand, which is a subsidiary of Hanes. It's actually Hanes' second largest brand and, during the 1990s, it famously produced the uniforms sported by all the teams in the NBA. American clothes for sport.
– This striking logo is the brand's name, spelled out in a distinct red font, with a memorable capital initial V. There's a strikethrough line underneath the wordmark.
– Richard Branson founded this company which offers services in different aspects of life: Airlines, Music and many more. In its history, there are some rather resounding failures, along with some popular successes.
– Automobile made in South Korea. This brand belongs to the second largest car maker in South Korea, which comes in right after the Hyundai Motor Company. This brand, established in 1957, managed to sell more than 2.7 million vehicles in 2012. In 2012, a 32.8 per cent share of the company was sold to Hyundai.
– This logo is made up of the three-letter brand name, written in Red letter I in an oval in the image of quiz logo.
– Founded 1872 in Italy, Milano, has become one of the 5 largest tires producers in the world, is known for two things: the tires it produces, as well as its famous calendar, which it has been publishing since 1964. It's the fifth largest tire producer in the world, but also runs a fashion project and a sportswear brand. The calendar has benefitted from the input of some of the world's most famous models and photographers throughout the years.
– This logo features the brand's name, spelled in a red font face. Its most distinctive feature is the recognizable letter P in logo whose upper curl extends over the rest of the letters that make up the wordmark.
– This famous logo is a wordmark, spelled out in blue capitals. The initial V features a yellow segment, on the upper left.
– This bank card producer has a very famous slogan, aside from an easily recognizable logo. Its products are used all over the world and you probably have a card bearing their logo in your wallet. You can pay with these cards online, as well as in real life, with the aid of electronic POSs.Anyone has or had a card issued under their terms and conditions.
– This famous logo features a wordmark, written in a specific white font, against the background of a red shape, with an angular outline at the bottom and straight edges on the remaining three sides.
Closely associated with the American spirit, this brand of tobacco products is the best-selling one in the whole world.
– It's produced by Philip Morris and is well-known for the ad character who bears the brand's name and is usually featured as an All-American cowboy. The brand also sponsors motorcycle sporting events.Don't smoke, smoking kills!
– American company founded in 1981. Developed the Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo series and World of Warcraft.
– This wordmark in pale blue is made up of the brand's name, spelled out in a particular font face. The styling of the font seems to suggest that the letters have been clawed into the paper by a monster, or torn out of the paper. Logo with 2 Z letters.
– This famous logo is a wordmark in bright green. The choice of color is clearly not accidental and it directly ties in with the brand's name and the activities of the organization it represents. The font face used for this logo is reminiscent of graffiti and of writing in cursive.
– This is probably the world's most famous NGO and its name has almost become synonymous with activism on environmental issues. The organization is no stranger to controversy as its members sometimes resort to extreme gestures and forms of protest, such as tying themselves to oil rigs in the Arctic.
– Non-governmental environment organization with green letter G in logo.
– Known as walkers in the UK and Ireland and Chipsy in Egypt. The company was founded in 1932 and has been owned by PepsiCo since 1965. On the potato chip market, this company is famous for the many flavors it has experimented with, in recent years, as well as for the fact that they have very little nutritional value (but a ton of salt).
– This very simple and explicit logo features the brand's name, written in white cursive letters on a yellow ball with a red stripe logo.
– American multinational energy corporation, paradoxically, this is both one of the world's best known companies, as well as one of the most maligned. That's because it's an energy corporation, active in every segment of the oil, gas, and geothermal extraction industries.
– They are active in over 180 countries all over the world and are one of the world's six supermajor oil companies.
– This logo consists of two downward pointing arrowheads with red and blue stripes in logo.
– This distinctive logo features the name of the organization it represents, against the background of a mlticolored rectangle logo starting yellow, red, pink blue
– This family owned business is best known for the racing events it governs. The brand's name stands for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Aside from U.S.-based races, it has also held exhibit races in Mexico, Australia, and Japan.
– Previously known as America Online, the company behind the brand is a multinational mass media corporation. It develops brands and websites and distributes content digitally, but it's best known for its homonymous online software suite.
– In 2000, this company purchased Time Warner.
Its logo consists in a blue triangle with a white circle inside.
– Black circle logo with a dot in center, Home Box Office
– This premium cable and satellite TV network is owned by Home Box Office Inc., which is actually part of Time Warner. This channel is famous for being the oldest operating paid television service in the United States. Over the past couple of decades, it has also become recognized for the quality of its productions, be they series, documentaries or feature films.
– Specialized agency of the United Nations that contributes to peace and security. it has 9 associate members and 195 member states. It also promotes respect for justice and human rights.
– Its logo is a blue pantheon, The pantheon's 'columns' are the initials which make up the brand's name, spelled out in elongated, thin capital letters.
– American lager manufacturer, this beer brand draws its name from the German noun that means 'someone from the city of Ceske Budejovice'. In German, this city, now located in the Czech Republic, was called Budweis.
– There are actually three companies that make beer and bear this name, but the American one is produced by Anheuser-Busch. It was first marketed as such in 1876.
Has a red papillon logo with a golden crown above.
Founded in 1965 by Luciano Benetton. This fashion brand, based in the Italian city of Treviso, is one of the best known labels in the world. Its name stems from that of the founding family. It has over 6,500 stores in 120 countries and has repeatedly garnered media attention for its controversial advertising campaigns.
Unexpected the logo is showing only green color and an indefinite geometrical shape containing 2 circles.
Mountain Dew
– Refreshing Beverage consisting of 2 words. This soft drink brand is a PepsiCo product, whose original formula was invented in 1940, in Tennessee. It has since become a very popular brand for kids, tweens, and teenagers, largely due to its caffeine content, as well as its association with the gaming and skating sub-cultures.
– First is written in green and second in red. Only letters M and W were kept from original logo.
– This simple logo is made up of a white capital letter R in a red circle.
– This brand is closely associated with skiing, since it's famous for producing equipment and clothing for this sport, but also for other snow sports. Nightingale in French and, though French by origin, it is owned by Quiksilver nowadays.
American Eagle
– The logo of this brand is self-explanatory: it is the blue silhouette of an eagle, shown in flight, with its wings stretched out, just as it is about to land. The choice of color is a reference to the blue on the American flag.
– Blue Eagle in image, very simple for Americans because of numerous shops around US the most important based in Time Square. This airline brand name operates regional flights for several airlines and it does so on behalf of American Airlines. Among the airlines it services stand Envoy Air and Executive Airlines.
Taco Bell
– What company founded Glen Bell? I a food services chain offering mexican dishes. This brand is probably the most popular Mexican food chain in the world, best known for its hilarious series of commercials featuring a Chihuahua dog. They're based in Irvine, California, and serve quesadillas, nachos, burritos, tacos, and most anything that qualifies as Tex-Mex food.
– The image shown a pink Bell with a yellow tongue protruding from inside, against the backdrop of an indigo semi-circular shape.
Sesame Street
– Green rectangle with 123 above, looks like a street name. And some more help: It's a TV series for children. Spanish speaking audiences may be familiar to this popular kids' show as 'Barrio Sesamo'.
– This logo belongs to a very famous children's TV show, which featured Jim Henson's famous Muppets characters. The show blends education, humor, and cultural references and it premiered in 1969.
Warner Bros
– This is one of the most popular logos associated with the filmmaking industry. It features two capital letters, a W and a B, placed inside a coat-of-arms-like shape. The letters, as well as the outline of the coat of arms, are golden yellow, while the background is an intense shade of blue. Gold WB letters logo
– This logo belongs to one of the world's largest and most famous film production studio. As for its history, contrary to popular belief, there were never any actual Warner brothers at Warner Bros Pictures, or Warner Bros Entertainment, as it's alternatively referred to.
– Fox looking like flames around the Earth globe
– Possibly the world's best loved web browser. It is open-source and free, it's compatible with the Windows OS, but also with OS X, Linux, and Android-powered mobile devices. It's the third most popular browser in the world.
– This cartoonish logo features a Styrofoam white cup of coffee. Two circular squiggles suggest the coffee inside the cup is steaming hot. The cup is branded 'DD', the brand's two initials in orange and bright pink. The cup is enclosed in a square shape with rounded corners. The left-hand half is orange, while the right-hand one is pink. Fresh coffee cup in pink and orange square logo.
– Coffee shops all over the world, famous for its donuts. This doughnut company and coffeehouse chain was founded in Massachusetts in 1950. Ever since, it has become one of the largest coffee and baked goods companies in the world. It now operates more than 15,000 restaurants in 37 countries.
– This famous beer logo consists of the brand's name, spelled out against a Black square logo with 1759 in it. There are two gold lines included in the logo, one above the brand's name and one below it. Below the brand's name stands the word 'draught', in white capital letters. Above the name, there's a golden harp, as well as the year the beer was first brewed.
– This is probably the best known stout in the world. It's Irish, it's dry and It's a beer made in Dublin. Today, it's brewed in nearly 60 countries and sold in 120 of them.
– Multinational Dutch electronics company with blue logo with 4 stars and 3 stripes looking like waves.
– This stylized, geometric logo is designed in blue. The inner circle contains two pairs of four-point stars, one on the left-hand upper side and the other one on the right-hand lower side. There's a triple wave-like shape in between the two sets of stars. The circle is contained within a geometric shape with a rounded bottom and a straight upper part.
– This Dutch brand produces a lot of appliances and electronics – its main areas of focus are healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting. It's one of the largest companies in this field in the whole world and has over 122,000 employees in more than 60 countries.
– Metallic circle with an horizontal lightning.
– Car manufacturer from Germany. Opel is named Vauxhall in UK. This German carmaker is part of the American General Motors company. It produces passenger vehicles, light commercial vehicle, and vehicle parts. Its products are distributed throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America.
EA Sports
– Metallic circle with word sports in blue letters. If the games Need for Speed, Medal of Honor, The Sims, Battlefield don't say too much to you, you are on the right place hence we give you the solution to any quiz.
Domino's Pizza
– Blue and red domino pieces in logo, which, of course, is a reference for the brand's name. The red domino piece displays one white dot on its upper half and two white dots on the bottom.
– This American restaurant chain has expanded to include a pizza delivery franchise, which is active all over the world. It's the second largest pizza chain in the U.S., coming in right after Pizza Hut, but it's the largest one worldwide. Anything else? I think… Pizza.
– This is the logo of a multinational computer technology corporation based in the United States. It develops and sells computer hardware, as well as several software products, including database management systems. The corporation that produced the Oracle Database.
– Still don't know what letters are missing from its logo. Starts with O and finishes with E. Red letters.
– Swedish car manufacturer, Sweden has a lot of well-known exports around the globe, but this brand of cars is probably the most popular one. Its name stems from Latin, in which it means "I roll". This – Latin-flavored name refers to the ball bearings used in the production of the cars. The brand name was first registered in 1911.
– Very masculine logo, similar with male gender sign.
– Small cars or Mini Cars. The company is owned by BMW Group and is covering small car niche on the market. Is very sporty for a city car and this brand belongs to a line of compact economy cars, first produced in the United Kingdom by the British Motor Corporation. The car in question became iconic during the 1960s and made a spectacular comeback in popularity during the late 90s.
– Nowadays, most industry commenters consider it to be the British counterpart of the German Volkswagen Beetle. It was named the second most influential car of the past century.
– This logo features the name of this particular car brand, written on a black circle. The circle is bordered by two concentric circles in silver, as well as by a pair of stylized, angular spread-out wings. Its logo looks like a front view of a plain.
– Tyres made in US. Red letter F in logo,enclosed in a shield-like shape, also red. The red F is set out against a white background.
– This tire company was founded in 1900 in the U.S. and aimed to produce tires for wagons and buggies. Soon thereafter the automobile industry exploded and the company pioneered the production of tires for cars. Today, it belongs to a Japanese corporation.
The company has the same name as its founder: Firestone
Hot Wheels
– The logo looks like a flame, featuring the brand name written on top.
– Toy car, made by Mattle in 1968 and it's one of the most famous ones out there to this day. Until 1997, its main competitor was Matchbox, which Mattel eventually managed to buy out. Many real-life carmakers have licensed Hot Wheels to produce miniature models of their cars, by using the original blueprints.
– This logo looks like the small yellow dial of a compass, framed by a silver circle, with two wing-like shapes, one extended on each side.
– American car made in Detroit. Though this brand is strongly associated with the United States, nowadays it's a multinational group, based in the Netherlands and created in partnership with a famous Italian automaker. In the old days, the initial American company was one of the U.S.'s Big Three car manufacturers. Its brand image make you think to an airplane.
– Telecommunication company based in San Diego,sells products and services for wireless communication. It is active in the satellite phone network industry and has been instrumental in developing standards for the mobile phone market.
– The most distinctive feature of this wordmark, spelled out in capital letters Q and MM blue logo.
– Blue cat with green eyes wearing headphones.The company was founded by Shawn and John Fanning and is offering file sharing over Internet. There are two distinct online services focused on music with this name and logo.
– One was a peer-to-peer service, famously involved in an illegal download scandal in the late 1990s, which eventually had to cease operations because of a slew of copyright infringement claims. The current service provides digital music content, but does so lawfully, for a fee.
– Aside from featuring the brand's name, this logo includes a stylized depiction of the brand's best-known products: four square pieces of paper, in various shades of yellow.
– This brand is not patented by anyone at the moment: it used to belong to a company called 3M, but their patent ran out in 1997. The brand is not genericized yet either, but it's hard to think of any other name by which you could call these small, usually yellow and square-shaped pieces of paper, with re-adherable strips of glue on their back.
– It's so well known that I actually don't remember the name of this product before 3M's Art Fry to invent it. The logo is even more straightforward, it illustrates 4 yellow sticky notes.
John Deere
– Yellow deer on green in the image. This American corporation is one of the largest manufacturers of machines used in agriculture around the world. It was founded in Illinois and it's still based there. It makes all sorts of such machines, including tractors, harvesters, planters, sprayers, etc.
– It could have a name related to deer. For those who aren't familiar with agricultural machinery, this could be a hard one. We help you saying that the company is owned by John Deer and has its name.
– US postal company initially called Federal Express. This American courier company has expanded to deliver packages all over the world. Its original name, from which it was abbreviated in the current form, was actually the name of the company's air delivery division.
– The company is based in Little Rock, Arkansas and it is listed as FDX on the New York Stock Exchange.Small blue letter D and capital orange E in the image shown in logo quiz.


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Senior Director - Jennifer Kent
Jennifer Kent
Senior Director
As Senior Director, Research Quality & Product Development, Jennifer manages Parks Associates' process for producing high-quality, relevant, and meaningful research. She acts as an internal advocate for Parks Associates clients and leads the company's efforts at conceptualizing and implementing digestible, relevant research presented in an optimal manner. Jennifer is always looking at the most effective ways to provide research to Parks Associates clients.
Since joining Parks Associates in 2009, Jennifer has worked on the mobile and health research team, specializing in the connected health, mobile payment, and connected car markets, as well as the consumer research team, analyzing consumer data related to the connected home and consumer electronics markets.
Jennifer earned her Ph.D. in religion, politics, and society and an M.A. in church-state studies from Baylor University. She earned her B.A. in politics from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Industry Expertise: Digital Health Products and Services, Portable and Mobile Access Platforms and Applications
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Stanley has more than 40 years of experience as a practicing psychotherapist. He is also the author of several books, including most recently Your Brain on Sex: How Smarter Sex Can Change Your Life. And he is the former Director of Education at New York's renowned Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. Objecting to censorship, Stanley has now launched a Kickstarter campaign to support his Psychology Tomorrow, an online magazine that will openly explore the cutting edge of psychology:
Psychology Tomorrow Magazine will explore the practice of psychology as an art in all its complex possibilities. Going against the current trend in psychology to pathologize human behavior through medical and scientific explanations, the magazine will instead emphasize the creativity of the therapeutic process for both patients and therapists.Visit the magazine's Kickstarter campaign online to learn more from Stanley speaking in a video message and providing more background text. Explains Stanley:
As daring, Psychology Tomorrow will go a step further by looking at the relationship between psychology and contemporary visual arts, photography, fashion, writing, dance and video. Our understanding of human behavior depends as much on our appreciation of creative self-expression as it does scientific research.
While an understanding of the science of psychology is the accepted basis for treating patients, a wider appreciation of psychology as art informs my practice. A therapist's job may be less to cure a problem than to identify, respect and even revere how it solves or rectifies life's dilemmas. Much of the satisfaction from my work is the inspiration I derive, from seeing over and over again, how imaginatively and often unwittingly we address each others' fears, loyalties and love.The Kickstarter campaign ends on Apr 25, 03:08pm EDT. Pledging is easy and is a powerful way of showing your support. It can cost you as little as $1.
Therapy, then, is about decoding and honoring the creativity of the mind rather than the codification of behavior into diagnostic categories. Only then can it achieve reverence for the power of the human spirit.


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Recruitment :- Yard Superintendent At APM Terminals
At APM Terminals, we are a team of over 20,000 employees spread across more than 60 countries united by a passion to provide our expertise in port operations and container management services. By providing the expertise and port infrastructure essential to world trade, we actively support the advancement of the societies around us, enabling local economies to unlock their potential and build an even stronger global community. Working with a team of talented professionals you will get a chance to experience different cultures and make friends all over the world. You'll find a culturally diverse, stimulating environment at any of our offices, terminals or depots. When you join APM Terminals, the world is your workplace
We offer: This position offers an outstanding opportunity to join a professional team at APM Terminals and contribute to the success of the organization. This position offers an outstanding opportunity to join a professional team at APM Terminals and contribute to the success of the organization.
Key Responsibilities
• Manage, motivate and instruct all operational team members, set priorities and structure tasks and goals.
• Provide effective organisation and control of all terminal operations during designated shift period in order to meet planned objectives.
• Coordinate terminal planning and operations to ensure effective ship working programmes are set and maintained to ensure vessels meet sailing or berthing deadlines.
• Liaise with engineering department shift management to maximize equipment availability and effectiveness.
• Is responsible for efficient allocation of all shift operational staff and the cost-effective utilisation of equipment resources to match the operational requirements of the terminal.
• Ensure that recognized safe working practices are utilized for all terminal operations and maintain effective implementation of safety policies and procedures.
• Provide first line of response for emergency situations and damage assessments.
• Provide terminal presence by maintaining significant visibility checks all quay side and yard activities continuously throughout shift and prepare operational reports as required by management.
• Maintain continuous operations by ensuring all shift operational staff use the "hot seat" changeover at shift changeover times and for operator rest break changeovers.
• Assist in the development of staff to ensure they perform at efficient and effective levels by monitoring performance and taking appropriate action in order to ensure they reach their full potential.
• Contribute to "on the job" training of supervisory staff and undertake other duties within capabilities as required by senior management.
Who we are looking for
§ Requires a university degree Operations Management, Logistics, Business Administration or related discipline.
§ Requires at least seven years or more of strong supervisory experience in container terminal operations environment, or similar, related industry. Previous experience as a foreman, supervisor, superintendent or other similar position would be expected as a natural progression to this position.
§ Is thoroughly familiar with the strict implementation of international standards of safe working practices within marine, stevedoring and terminal operations.
§ Advanced computer skills with a sound understanding of modern terminal planning and control systems.
§ Requires a comprehensive understanding of container terminal operations, especially vessel cargo logistics, hazardous cargo, break-bulk and special cargo handling requirements and equipment.
§ Ability to work under pressure, anticipates potential problems and diagnoses, evaluate and resolve logistical problems as they happen in order to meet operational performance objectives and deadlines.
§ Have effective customer service skills.
§ Provide leadership and ensure cooperation and support from employees and contractors in all areas of terminal operations to achieve operational objectives of the business using a teamwork approach.
§ Effective negotiation and conflict resolution skills combined with good counselling and listening skills.
§ Well developed English oral, written communications and report writing skills. Also must have a working knowledge of the Pidgin English.
§ Previous experience of working in a multi cultural environment is an advantage.


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Labor's economic and education policies for a changing economy
The NSW Labor Economic and Education & Skills Policy Committees invite you to a working Forum to discuss and develop proposals to adapt Labor's Economic and Education platforms as our economy evolves to improve the nation's economic productivity and prepare the present and future workforce for the jobs of the future.
For catering purposes please RSVP by Monday 7th September
This will be a working Forum to develop policy proposals. Tea/Coffee and sandwiches will be provided. The lunch break will be in self-selected groups with facilitators helping to draft policy proposals for the afternoon session.
September 13, 2015 at 9:30am - 4pm
Queanbeyan Leagues Club
164 Monaro St
Queanbeyan, NSW 2620
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April 18, 2011
The Feministing Five: Sonya Barnett and Heather Jarvis | Feministing {featured read}
It has also been the subject of much discussion over the past few weeks, inspiring awesome and necessary conversations about violence, assault, and victim-blaming in forums both new and old.
On their website, they proclaim that they are "tired of being oppressed by slut-shaming; of being judged by our sexuality and feeling unsafe as a result. Being in charge of our sexual lives should not mean that we are opening ourselves to an expectation of violence, regardless if we participate in sex for pleasure or work. No one should equate enjoying sex with attracting sexual assault."
The event in Toronto was so successful that at least 24 more SlutWalks are now in the process of being planned all over the world. I was completely honored to speak with Sonya and Heather about their reasons for starting SlutWalk, their plans for the future, and of course, that whole desert island thing. Read More >>
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Media Options
- Glenn SugameliSenior Legislative Counsel in Earthjustice's Policy and Legislative program.
A roundtable of top international journalists reacts to Bush's State of the Union address, and gives us their take on the state of affairs in their respective countries and around the world. We're joined by Andres Izarra, President of the newly-launched Latin American television network TeleSUR; Alain Gresh, Chief Editor of France"s Le Monde Diplomatique; and Abdul Bari Atwan, Editor in Chief at Al-Quds Al Arabi–a leading, London-based newspaper on the Middle East. [includes rush transcript]
- Andres Izarra, President of TeleSUR, a two-month old multinational satellite network launched by Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba and Venezuela. Prior to that, he was Venezuala's Minister of Communications and Information under President Chavez.
- Alain Gresh, Chief Editor of France's Le Monde Diplomatique. He is president of the Association of French Journalists specializing in Morroco and the Middle East and is author of several books on the Middle East.
- Abdul Bari Atwan, Editor in Chief at Al-Quds Al Arabi–a leading newspaper in the Middle East–since 1989. He is also author of the new book Secret History of al Qa'ida.
AMY GOODMAN: We are broadcasting today from Doha, Qatar, and we're joined by an international roundtable to respond to President Bush's State of the Union, to talk about, well, the state of the world today. Particularly, we'll focus today on the Middle East. Tomorrow we'll talk about Al Jazeera, which is based here in Doha, Qatar. Again, our guests, Andres Izarra, who is President of TeleSUR, the new Latin American TV network; also Abdul Bari Atwan, the author of The Secret History of al Qa'ida, Editor-in-Chief of Al-Quds, which is based in London; and we're joined by Alain Gresh, who is the Editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, the French newspaper. We're going to begin with Abdul Bari Atwan. Your response to President Bush's statement last night in his State of Union address, "We are winning."
ABDUL BARI ATWAN: Well, actually, I'm surprised when he said "We are winning," because if he's winning, he is supposed not to be in Iraq and not to be in Afghanistan, but actually, when you lose more than $300 billion in a war against terrorism, when you lose 2,245 American soldiers, when the country is in a complete anarchy, I think you cannot talk about winning, especially when the Iraqi people lost more than 100,000 people who were killed in this war. The Middle East is actually going from bad to worse. I believe terrorism is increasing. It's not decreasing.
The war or — the world, actually, is not safer, as President Bush used to say. Just about a week ago Osama bin Laden came out with an audio tape saying that he is planning or preparing to launch more attacks against the United States. Ayman al-Zawahiri just two days ago issued another videotape saying that there will be more attacks against the United States. So if those people who — the war against terrorism supposed actually to eliminate them, supposed to remove al-Qaeda, supposed to actually make the world safer, it's not working. It's not happening. How the President of the United States claiming that he is winning this war? I believe he is losing, and he should admit it.
And he is losing the support of his own people. 39% of the American people support him or are convinced he is a good leader and his policy is the right one. So a man in his place, I believe he should resign, not to continue saying, "We are winning," because he is not fooling anybody. He is only fooling himself.
And that's how we see it in the Middle East. I believe the war against terrorism is actually won by Osama bin Laden, by al-Qaeda. Iraq is not actually safer. Iraq is more dangerous. Iraq is not a basis or actually a model of democracy. Iraq now is exporting terrorism. We notice that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the man of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is sending his suicide bomber to Jordan. So I don't know, you know, why he is saying this statement. I'm really shocked to hear it.
AMY GOODMAN: You are based in London. What about your Prime Minister Tony Blair? Does he take the same approach as President Bush?
ABDUL BARI ATWAN: Actually, Tony Blair is taking the same approach. He is actually trying to say that they are winning. But he is not actually repeating the same mottos as he used to say, that the world is safer after they removed Saddam Hussein. Actually, he stopped repeating the same thing. He stopped saying we are winning the war against terrorism. What he is saying now, he's saying we are trying to — he's more apologetic. He is trying to say that, you know, it does worth it to have democracy in Iraq. It does worth it to have elections, and the Iraqi people elected their government, but where is this government? The Iraqi people — actually it took the government about a month and a half to declare the result of the election. Imagine, a month and a half, and now, actually, we are waiting maybe three months, six months until we see a government established in Iraq. So what kind of democracy and what kind of Iraq is really established by the American and the British? I think Tony Blair is losing also, and now his party is in a very, very difficult position.
AMY GOODMAN: Alain Gresh of Le Monde Diplomatique in France, do you agree that Osama bin Laden is winning?
ALAIN GRESH: At least I agree that George Bush is losing. I don't know who will win in the end, and I am afraid that chaos will prevail in Iraq and in some other countries of the —
AMY GOODMAN: Chaos?
ALAIN GRESH: Chaos, yes. Like we've seen in some way in Iraq and perhaps tomorrow in Palestine. So I think he's losing the war, and what is strange for us, looking from Europe, is how can he say this to the American people without any — he has problem inside, of course, with public opinion. But he got support, until now, 40% of the people, and I don't think this would be possible without the role played by the media since the beginning of the war.
Of course, there were some changes. We know how the media lied to the American people concerning the arms of mass destruction and etc., but until now, I'm not sure that Iraq is — that American people get a clear picture of what is happening in Iraq on the ground. I mean it's really a terrible situation. It's more difficult to see it today because there are very few journalists. It is very difficult to have information, but I think there are information showing that the situation is getting worse and worse, and I don't believe for one moment that Americans will be able to withdraw even 40,000 people — 40,000 soldiers before the end of the year.
AMY GOODMAN: Now France, the French government was opposed to the invasion and occupation. Would you say that that determined a lot of the difference of the French press from the British and U.S. press in the lead-up?
ALAIN GRESH: I hope it was not only the position of the French government, especially now that the position of the French government, unfortunately, has — not changed, but is more — is less against the war and against American presence in Iraq. There was, at first, a very strong public opinion movement from the beginning, and also I think there are special relations between the Middle East and France, and I think French journalists know better, you can say, the Middle East, so some of the lies were not bought by the French press. So I think it has played a role, but now even with a government who is silent on Iraq, the press is still criticizing. This is one of the aspects of American policy in Iraq.
If you look at the public opinion in the world, not only the Muslim world, but even in Europe — there was a headline of the Herald Tribune concerning a poll done in 15 countries about the image of United States, China, etc., and the title was "Even China is Doing Better." I mean, now the — even in England, people think more positively about China than about the United States, and this is a result of Bush policy, because, as you know, after the 11th of September, generally, at least in Europe, there was a movement of sympathy with the American people, and he has — President Bush has completely crushed this movement's sympathy. I think anti-Americanism in the sense anti-Bush policy has never been so strong than now.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, let me go south to Latin America. Andres Izarra, you head up TeleSUR, this brand new network out of Latin America. As you listen to President Bush give his address, talking about winning the war on terror, what are your thoughts?
ANDRES IZARRA: Well, I cannot think but about the Venezuelan government denouncing this addiction to oil several times. President Chavez has said it publicly, and the consequences that this addiction to oil is bringing to the world, not only in environmental terms but also in political terms. We have to remember that this addiction to oil has caused the Venezuelan government a couple of crises due to U.S. interference in Venezuela's political process. It's no secret that the U.S. was behind a coup d'état in 2002 to topple President Chavez. It was also behind an oil sabotage that stopped the oil economy in Venezuela for over two months and is pushing every effort to destabilize the Venezuelan economy, as denounced by President Chavez on several occasions. Even President Chavez has denounced U.S. efforts to kill him. This addiction to oil means for Venezuela a stronger or a rising risk of U.S. intervention in Venezuela to guarantee that this addiction is satisfied.
AMY GOODMAN: And yet, Venezuela also profits from the addiction to oil.
ANDRES IZARRA: Sure. Venezuela, as you know, is the owner of one of the biggest U.S. refining and distribution companies, such as Citgo, but at the same time, Venezuela is taking a very interesting initiative by providing heating oil to low-income families at a discount price, and this is also another issue that was left out of President Bush's address, which is the rise in poverty in the United States, and what is the U.S. government going to do to attack that rising poverty? You will have — the energy issue is key, considering the rising prices in energy and how are people now going to do to heat their houses, to heat their homes. So, yes, the Venezuelan government profits from that oil, but at the same time, it's the only multinational company that is trying to do something about poverty in the United States. Citgo has invited other companies such as Exxon, Chevron-Texaco and other U.S. and multinational companies to do something about this issue, because it's an issue of the Venezuelan government's concern, as well.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to go back to something you said about 2002. We, in the last period, have been looking at what has been happening in Haiti in the lead-up to the — to next week's election there. We've looked at the role of the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the information that is continually coming out about their role in supporting the opposition and ultimately the ouster of President Aristide and now today in the opposition forces. Can you talk about those same organizations in Venezuela?
ANDRES IZARRA: Definitely. Definitely. You have the N.E.D. involved in many of the efforts to try to topple President Chavez, financing — public documents released last year. There is even a book by Eva Golinger about the financing by N.E.D. of anti-democratic groups who acted before, prepared the coup d'état and acted during the coup d'état. You've had different groups, still financed by the N.E.D., working in Venezuela also to destabilize the government, like in Haiti, many of them disguised as NGOs who really are groups who are working for a definite political objective traced by the U.S. government.
AMY GOODMAN: You say that the U.S. has attempted to assassinate Chavez. What documentation do you have of that?
ANDRES IZARRA: No, I have said that President Chavez has denounced this possibility on several occasions. When you have a country that is addicted to oil, and you have the supplier of that oil claiming its sovereign decision, its sovereign will to use those resources to finance its own development and the development of Latin America as a priority, and this hostile administration to that political objective traced by the Venezuelan government, you see clearly there is an antagonism there, that this oil addiction is behind it.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask about TeleSUR and what you are trying to accomplish with TeleSUR.
ANDRES IZARRA: Yes, well, TeleSUR is a multinational enterprise backed by the governments of Argentina, Uruguay, Cuba and Venezuela. Our purpose is to be a window to the region, show what the region is about, inform about the region with the voices and the talents of Latin America. Nowadays — or up to the launching of TeleSUR, we were only able to know what went on in Latin America through the eyes of the big multinational media companies, such as the big agencies or CNN. There was no way we could know what was happening in Argentina or in Chile or in Brazil or in Bolivia through an information service that came from the region itself.
In that sense, it's very similar to Al Jazeera, which is the first network that was able to talk to the Arab world from the Arab world itself and show what went on in the Arab world through their news service. So TeleSUR is trying to do the same thing, in the sense that it's trying to inform Latin America from its own perspective, using its own talent, its own capacities, and that it's giving us a possibility to go deeper in what's going on in the region in showing our audiences what is happening and cultivating a bigger conscience of what we are and what we do.
AMY GOODMAN: One of the criticisms of the corporate media in the United States is it's very much beholden to the government. It may not be run by the government, but it has acted as a megaphone for those in power. In the lead up to the invasion, it kept emphasizing weapons of mass destruction, and it turned out it was not the case. If TeleSUR is run by the various governments, how it is separate? How will it give us an honest depiction of Latin America outside of the governments' view of the countries that sponsor it?
ANDRES IZARRA: Well, we've been on the air for three months now, and I think it's been enough time to show our independence in how we are covering the region. Al Jazeera is also an initiative financed by the Qatari government, and I understand it has caused the Qatari government several headaches, especially with the relationship to its neighbors. Nonetheless, the independence of Al Jazeera has not been curtailed because of this issue. So is the case with TeleSUR. TeleSUR, although it is financed by these states, by these governments, it has in its principles to act independently and especially to stand for the highest ethical and professional standards of journalism.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you, Abdul Bari Atwan — you focus on the Middle East. You're based in London. We have gotten some news over the last month of another Downing Street memo.
ABDUL BARI ATWAN: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: We've not seen this memo. The newspapers, publications, media outlets in London have been forbidden from publishing it, if it indeed exists. And it's about, supposedly, the reports are, President Bush telling Blair that he wanted to bomb the headquarters of Al-Jazeera, which is right here in Doha, Qatar. Can you explain more about this and if, in fact, you believe this memo exists?
ABDUL BARI ATWAN: Yes. Actually, I do believe it does exist, because if we noticed the American reaction toward Al Jazeera and its free reporting, especially from the hot spots like Iraq and Afghanistan, we can understand why this administration is so sensitive vis-à-vis Al Jazeera. We know the Americans bombed Al Jazeera's office in Afghanistan, in Kabul, during that war against Afghanistan. Also, we know that the Americans bombed, you know, Abu Dhabi and Al Jazeera office and killed one of Al Jazeera's reporters inside Iraq, in Baghdad, during the war. We know that the American administration, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and even President Bush himself, criticized Al Jazeera several times and its coverage of the situation in Iraq.
It seems the American administration doesn't want anybody to give a fair account of what's happening in the Middle East. They are actually talking about democracy, talking about freedom of expression, but at the same time, trying, actually, to impose censorship on Al Jazeera. I know, personally, the American administration several times complained that certain Arab media and satellite television having guests like me who is very critical of the war against terrorism and the war in Iraq, and I know that from my colleagues in these satellite channels, that there is a blacklist, and I am at the top of this blacklist.
So, in London, now there is a trial about — against journalists of the Daily Mirror and also American officials who leaked these documents. So the document is there, and in this documents, it was indicated that President Bush was seriously thinking of bombing Al Jazeera. And Al Jazeera several times asked for these documents to be published or to have a look at it, and the British government refused to do so. And the British government admitted in a letter from 10 Downing Street to a citizen who asked about this, that yes, the document existed.
So if the document exists, why they don't publish it? Why actually they don't say exactly what happened? It is actually a setback for the American administration and for its credibility about talking about the human rights and about their freedom of expression, about democracy. Our problem in the Middle East, we're always trying to imitate the American media. We are always trying to present ourselves as actually free, as objective, like the Americans, those in the media. But we notice recently that the Americans, who are the leader of freedom of expression, the leader of democracy, actually they are not encouraging us, encouraging our media outlets to be as free as they're supposed to be, as they teach these kind of values to their students, media students in the United States.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we have to break. We're going to come back to this discussion. Our guests are Abdul Bari Atwan, who is author of The Secret History of al Qa'ida. It is a book that's just being published. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Quds, a newspaper that focuses on the Middle East, based in London. Andres Izarra of TeleSUR. He is President of the Latin American TV network. And Alain Gresh. He is Editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, based in France.
AMY GOODMAN: We are broadcasting from Doha, Qatar. I'm Amy Goodman. As we talk about the State of the Union and the state the world, at least as far as the Middle East today, as we focus both on the Middle East and also on Latin America. Our guests are Andres Izarra, President of TeleSUR, the brand new Latin American news network. We're also joined by Alain Gresh. He is the Editor of Le Monde Diplomatique in Paris, France. And we're joined by Abdul Bari Atwan. Al-Quds Al Arabi is his newspaper based in London. He has a new book out; it's called The Secret History of al Qa'ida. And they are all here for the second annual meeting that Al Jazeera is sponsoring — Al Jazeera is based here in Doha, Qatar — talking about the state of the media with journalists from all over the world. Alain Gresh, I wanted to talk you to about a subject you raised today in the open session of this conference, and that is, on the stories that are focused on by the media and the stories that are missed.
ALAIN GRESH: There are sometimes — I was saying that there are sometimes lies made by the media, and we spoke about the arm of mass destruction. But sometimes it's not lie; it's a problem of how you focus, of how you put a news in its context. I was giving the example of the Oil for Food resolution in the United Nation. You know, one year ago there was a commission from the United Nation, a commission from the Congress saying that this exchange between oil and food in Iraq during the embargo has been profited by Saddam Hussein, who has taken some billion from this. And there was a big fuss about it. But I think this is a true — I mean, it's true.
But the problem is that nobody mentioned that this embargo for ten years and this Oil for Food program have contributed in a direct way to the — not only to the poverty of the Iraqi people, but also to the fact that the state in 2003 in Iraq was no state. There was no state. People were — I went there, and I think many people went there. It was not functioning. So it was not very strange that just after the Americans entered, the [inaudible] break up. And this should have been told by the media. Otherwise, I mean, we would speak about scandal, and we can find other scandals.
There are also scandals linked with Iraq, which we have not spoken about. I spoke about the United Nation Competition Commission, which worked also during this embargo. 30% of all Iraqi oil exports were used to pay people who has been [inaudible] by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. That means that billion of dollar were given to Kuwaiti, Saudi, big friends at the moment where Iraq was crushing. And this commission is still functioning now; of course, on a small basis. That means that we take today a part of Iraqi money to pay big firms in Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia. This is a real problem. And I think it's much more important than the scandal. I don't think the scandal is not important, U.N. for food, and the fact that there was people taking bribes, etc., etc. We should fix it. But was it the main story? I don't think so.
AMY GOODMAN: Another example?
ALAIN GRESH: Another example is how we — I was really shocked — this time I will criticize the French media, not only the American media — about the reaction of the French media to Hamas victory. I mean all the media had more or less the same point of view: Hamas is a terrorist organization, and we should pressure Hamas, and that's all. Meaning, they — nobody spoke in a clear way that this was democratic election, even under — I mean, democratic election under military occupation. We must not forget this. And, okay, 76% of the Palestinian people went to vote. They decided to vote. We Westerns are giving lessons to everybody in the world about democracy. And once there is democracy, we say, 'Oh, okay, can you have democracy, but you can't vote for this or for this.' It's really strange.
Second, okay, I can understand as a European, we want — I mean, Europe wants a solution based on two states — one Palestinian state, one Israeli state — and there must be an agreement, and Hamas must be part of this agreement. And we must pressure Hamas so to reach this agreement. But must we — why you put pressure only on one side? I mean, it's very strange. We don't say anything about Israel. Before Hamas election, for one year there was Abu Mazen, who was a very moderate Palestinian leader. Has Sharon accepted to discuss with him? No. There was only one meeting between them. And finally, there was nothing discussed between them. And I think there is no Israeli leadership today or even tomorrow after the election that is ready to accept the international law which says that West Bank and Gaza and East Jerusalem are Occupied Territories. And this is a real problem. If we want to define international law as European law, as Western law, please ask the two parties to accept what we consider as a base for resolution. We can't ask only Hamas and say, "Okay, you must accept this," but in a change, we don't ask anything to the Israeli government.
AMY GOODMAN: Your response to that?
ABDUL BARI ATWAN: Well, actually, I'm very happy to hear that, because seriously the Western media, they are looking for scandals. They are looking for the crimes of Saddam Hussein. They are looking for things which actually can go ahead with the previous agenda set by the American administration and other Western governments who are involved in this war. Yeah, if I will refer to what's happening in the Occupied Territories, I would like to add something more to what Alain said.
AMY GOODMAN: And Abdul Bari Atwan, you are a Palestinian?
ABDUL BARI ATWAN: Yes, I'm a Palestinian. I remember during the Israeli pullout of Gaza, you know, the people were absolutely jubilant about this. The media were very happy to portray the Israeli pullout as a great achievement. And also they were talking about the suffering of those settlers who are really going to be deprived of their homes and characterizing them as, you know, poor people. They should gain the sympathy.
The facts on the ground is completely different. Those people were rewarded about a quarter of a million of dollars, you know, as a compensation for their houses. My niece, actually, her house was blown up by the Israeli. She was given five minutes to clear the house before they blew it up. She wasn't given a single pound or dollar as a compensation. And when she moved to live with her in-laws — I mean, her parents, father and mother-in-law, the Israelis came back and bulldozed her house. Again she was — twice. And she wasn't given no notice at all.
Those people were given notice — six month's notice and a quarter million as a compensation, and then people were crying about it. Those people were actually — if you actually go and use stolen property, you are a criminal. Those people took this land and set up the settlement, the best land, the best water resources, swimming pools, while the people around are really suffering. The 7,000 settlers got about 40% of Gaza Strip, which is 360 square kilometers, while a million and a half million living in the 60% left to them, which is the most crowded area in the world.
So the media actually did not give us facts, did not give us some history about those people, why they are there, what the international law are saying about them. This is the problem. Usually they go for live things and forget the crux of the matter.
AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to bring Andres Izarra into this. There are many people of Arab descent who live in Latin America, are there not?
ANDRES IZARRA: Yes. Only in Brazil it's estimated around 10 million people who are Arab descent living in Brazil. If you add that — I don' t know the statistics of the rest of the region, but the Arab or Arab-descent community in Latin America is huge, and it's very, very influential. It's very well off economically, and because of that, it has a lot of political influence. In fact, we saw for the first time last year an effort by the Brazilian government to bring together — there was a table of discussion where heads of states from the Middle East and heads of state from Latin America were brought together to discuss for the first time in the history of our continent. So these two regions — there's really an effort to bring these two regions that have so many things in common, that have so many cultural similarities in many ways, because we inherited from the Arabs through the Spanish occupation of Latin America, trying to build bridges. And, well, we see one example with what TeleSUR is trying to do with Al Jazeera, which is to sign an agreement to exchange content, exchange or complement our efforts for Al Jazeera to cover Latin America for TeleSUR, to cover the Middle East. We are helping in every way we can the correspondent of Al Jazeera in Latin America, that for the first time we have an Arab media based in Latin America, covering Latin America on a day-to-day basis and showing the Middle East audiences what Latin America is about and what's going on in this very important part of the world.
AMY GOODMAN: This may be an odd question, but do you think Iraq saved Latin America? What I mean by that is the U.S. has had years of intervention in Latin America, but with its focus almost completely diverted to Iraq, although it focused some on Haiti, we have seen one election after another in Latin America, where there is a very clear change. And I'm wondering if you think that has anything to do with the U.S. focus on Iraq right now.
ANDRES IZARRA: Well, not really. I think the U.S. did all it could to try to stop Evo Morales from rising to the presidency, just to pull out a recent example of new governments with broad popular support that are not sympathetic to, especially to, the actual foreign policy of the United States. But in terms of Venezuela, which is one of the most critical cases, I think the U.S. really pulled an effort to try to topple the Chavez government through the oil sabotage. During 64 days, the elite of the oil bureaucracy walked out of their jobs, and a part of the society related to that elite went on strike for over 64 days. Those were 64 days where no oil production came out of Venezuela, which is very critical for us, considering that Venezuela depends almost 90% of its income from oil production. Although that effort was launched, it was very related to Iraq. It was a couple of months before the Iraq invasion happened. That was an effort thrown by the United States to try to control its main strategic reserve closer to the United States. They could not succeed in what they were trying to accomplish, which was, again, to regain control, absolute control, of those reserves. But now, the effort — the U.S. government is still trying to put a government in Venezuela which they can control, which is more sympathetic to what their interest is, more aligned to what their foreign policy is pursuing. So, an oil-addicted neighbor in the region is very dangerous to us especially, and it's a destabilizing force. It's the biggest destabilizing force in Latin America nowadays.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you all for being with us. Andres Izarra, President of the new Latin American news television network called TeleSUR; Abdul Bari Atwan, who is the Editor-in-Chief of Al-Quds Al Arabi, based in London, and he has written a new book called The Secret History of al Qa'ida; as well, Alain Gresh, the Editor of Le Monde Diplomatique in France. We are broadcasting from Doha, Qatar.


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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
DALTON TRUMBO – Bruce Cook
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What a lovely story, Mathew. I am a sucker for real-life romances like that. I will have to get that book now.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Tracy. The book's focus is mostly the blacklisting period, which was the part the movie with Bryan Cranston emphasized almost exclusively. In fact, the movie is what made me want to read the book. One thing I left out here is a little exchange between the Trumbos in describing to Cook their romance. Cleo thought something was missing. "It doesn't make it clear here that if you were an ordinary man, things wouldn't have been nearly so difficult for you."ReplyDelete
She kept reading—and kept frowning. Finally with a sigh she finished.
"You don't get the feeling out of this of how glad I am I married this crazy man instead of some dull son of a bitch."
Trumbo, the Hollywood Ten, the blacklisted writers, and that whole time period are endlessly interesting. Thanks for the post.ReplyDelete
My pleasure, Elgin. Thanks for the visit.ReplyDelete


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A little more done on the praying knight from Reaper - this is "bright" for me...
There's plenty of work still to be done (I keep spotting bits of blending that need to be improved), but I'm pleased with the solid start I've made. The grey of the scabbard is not-so-subtly pinched from Jeff at Pirate Viking Painting, who took the Charadon Granite base coat I use for green and added codex grey to it, which works really rather well.
The green is not based on Charadon Granite (I'm trying this bright malarkey remember?), but followed the scheme I've used on my Eldar Dire Avengers (still numbering only two completed at present):
- Base: Catachan Green
- Shade: Devlan Mud
- H1: Catachan Green
- H2: 1:1 mix Catachan Green and Camo Green
- H3: Camo Green
- H4: 1:1 mix Camo Green and Dheneb Stone
I like this colour as it's light, without being gaudy (despite using Camo Green).
The yellow is slightly different to my usual Tausept Ochre base and Gryphonne Sepia wash scheme, but to be frank it looks the damned same anyway, and was more effort. It looks a little flat in the picture (phone camera again), but it looks better in "real life", trust me.
- Base: Calthan Brown
- H1: 2:1 mix Calthan Brown and Tausept Ochre
- H2: 1:2 mix Calthan Brown and Tausept Ochre
- H3: Tausept Ochre
- H4: 1:1 mix Tausept Ochre and Iyanden Darksun
- H5: Iyanden Darksun
- H6: 1:1 mix Iyanden Darksun and Dheneb Stone
All that for no extra benefit over Breviccus Flavus - rubbish. Thankfully I've painted all the yellow bits.
In other news, I found out about this WIP skirmish game from Andy Hoare:
This has really piqued my interest - while I love all the alternative worlds and stuff out there, I've had a real hankering for a proper old-fashioned style fantasy game, something a bit Conan or Red Sonja in feel to it. I've downloaded the rules, but haven't had a chance to read through them yet. However I'm already scouring the Reaper and Hasslefree websites to come up with some ideas for a warband or two (or three, four, etc) - I'm going to try and push our gaming group to give it a go (if we can fit it in).
I hopefully should have the Knight done this weekend, then I've got a load of other projects to be cracking on with...
Onwards and upwards (possibly sideways)!


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WASHINGTON — Remember Transcendental Meditation and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the guru to the Beatles?
Did you figure they ended up in Strawberry Fields Forever -- along with bell-bottomed jeans, love beads and head shops?
Wrong. Transcendental Meditation works for yuppies of the '80s as well as it did for hippies of the '60s, its believers declare.