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IRAQ AS TRIAL RUN
Print edition : April 11, 2003 T+ T-
Noam Chomsky, University Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, founder of the modern science of linguistics and political activist, is a powerhouse of anti-imperialist activism in the United States today. On March 21, a crowded and typical - and uniquely Chomskyan - day of political protest and scientific academic research, he spoke from his office for half an hour to V. K. Ramachandran on the current attack on Iraq.
V. K. Ramachandran: Does the present aggression on Iraq represent a continuation of United States' international policy in recent years or a qualitatively new stage in that policy?
Noam Chomsky: It represents a significantly new phase. It is not without precedent, but significantly new nevertheless.
This should be seen as a trial run. Iraq is seen as an extremely easy and totally defenceless target. It is assumed, probably correctly, that the society will collapse, that the soldiers will go in and that the U.S. will be in control, and will establish the regime of its choice and military bases. They will then go on to the harder cases that will follow. The next case could be the Andean region, it could be Iran, it could be others.
The trial run is to try and establish what the U.S. calls a "new norm" in international relations. The new norm is "preventive war" (notice that new norms are established only by the United States). So, for example, when India invaded East Pakistan to terminate horrendous massacres, it did not establish a new norm of humanitarian intervention, because India is the wrong country, and besides, the U.S. was strenuously opposed to that action.
This is not pre-emptive war; there is a crucial difference. Pre-emptive war has a meaning, it means that, for example, if planes are flying across the Atlantic to bomb the United States, the United States is permitted to shoot them down even before they bomb and may be permitted to attack the air bases from which they came. Pre-emptive war is a response to ongoing or imminent attack.
The doctrine of preventive war is totally different; it holds that the United States - alone, since nobody else has this right - has the right to attack any country that it claims to be a potential challenge to it. So if the United States claims, on whatever grounds, that someone may sometime threaten it, then it can attack them.
The doctrine of preventive war was announced explicitly in the National Strategy Report last September. It sent shudders around the world, including through the U.S. establishment, where, I might say, opposition to the war is unusually high. The National Strategy Report said, in effect, that the U.S. will rule the world by force, which is the dimension - the only dimension - in which it is supreme. Furthermore, it will do so for the indefinite future, because if any potential challenge arises to U.S. domination, the U.S. will destroy it before it becomes a challenge.
This is the first exercise of that doctrine. If it succeeds on these terms, as it presumably will, because the target is so defenceless, then international lawyers and Western intellectuals and others will begin to talk about a new norm in international affairs. It is important to establish such a norm if you expect to rule the world by force for the foreseeable future.
This is not without precedent, but it is extremely unusual. I shall mention one precedent, just to show how narrow the spectrum is. In 1963, Dean Acheson, who was a much respected elder statesman and senior Adviser of the Kennedy Administration, gave an important talk to the American Society of International Law, in which he justified the U. S. attacks against Cuba. The attack by the Kennedy Administration on Cuba was large-scale international terrorism and economic warfare. The timing was interesting - it was right after the Missile Crisis, when the world was very close to a terminal nuclear war. In his speech, Acheson said that "no legal issue arises when the United States responds to challenges to its position, prestige or authority", or words approximating that.
That is also a statement of the Bush doctrine. Although Acheson was an important figure, what he said had not been official government policy in the post-War period. It now stands as official policy and this is the first illustration of it. It is intended to provide a precedent for the future.
Such "norms" are established only when a Western power does something, not when others do. That is part of the deep racism of Western culture, going back through centuries of imperialism and so deep that it is unconscious.
So I think this war is an important new step, and is intended to be.
Ramachandran: Is it also a new phase in that the U. S. has not been able to carry others with it?
Chomsky: That is not new. In the case of the Vietnam War, for example, the United States did not even try to get international support. Nevertheless, you are right in that this is unusual. This is a case in which the United States was compelled for political reasons to try to force the world to accept its position and was not able to, which is quite unusual. Usually, the world succumbs.
Ramachandran: So does it represent a "failure of diplomacy" or a redefinition of diplomacy itself?
Chomsky: I wouldn't call it diplomacy at all - it's a failure of coercion.
Compare it with the first Gulf War. In the first Gulf War, the U.S. coerced the Security Council into accepting its position, although much of the world opposed it. NATO went along, and the one country in the Security Council that did not - Yemen - was immediately and severely punished.
In any legal system that you take seriously, coerced judgments are considered invalid, but in the international affairs conducted by the powerful, coerced judgments are fine - they are called diplomacy.
What is interesting about this case is that the coercion did not work. There were countries - in fact, most of them - who stubbornly maintained the position of the vast majority of their populations.
The most dramatic case is Turkey. Turkey is a vulnerable country, vulnerable to U.S. punishment and inducements. Nevertheless, the new government, I think to everyone's surprise, did maintain the position of about 90 per cent of its population. Turkey is bitterly condemned for that here, just as France and Germany are bitterly condemned because they took the position of the overwhelming majority of their populations. The countries that are praised are countries like Italy and Spain, whose leaders agreed to follow orders from Washington over the opposition of maybe 90 per cent of their populations.
That is another new step. I cannot think of another case where hatred and contempt for democracy have so openly been proclaimed, not just by the government, but also by liberal commentators and others. There is now a whole literature trying to explain why France, Germany, the so-called "old Europe", and Turkey and others are trying to undermine the United States. It is inconceivable to the pundits that they are doing so because they take democracy seriously and they think that when the overwhelming majority of a population has an opinion, a government ought to follow it.
That is real contempt for democracy, just as what has happened at the United Nations is total contempt for the international system. In fact there are now calls - from The Wall Street Journal, people in Government and others - to disband the United Nations.
Fear of the United States around the world is extraordinary. It is so extreme that it is even being discussed in the mainstream media. The cover story of the upcoming issue of Newsweek is about why the world is so afraid of the United States. The Post had a cover story about this a few weeks ago.
Of course this is considered to be the world's fault, that there is something wrong with the world with which we have to deal somehow, but also something that has to be recognised.
Ramachandran: The idea that Iraq represents any kind of clear and present danger is, of course, without any substance at all.
Chomsky: Nobody pays any attention to that accusation, except, interestingly, the population of the United States.
In the last few months, there has been a spectacular achievement of government-media propaganda, very visible in the polls. The international polls show that support for the war is higher in the United States than in other countries. That is, however, quite misleading, because if you look a little closer, you find that the United States is also different in another respect from the rest of the world. Since September 2002, the United States is the only country in the world where 60 per cent of the population believes that Iraq is an imminent threat - something that people do not believe even in Kuwait or Iran.
Furthermore, about 50 per cent of the population now believes that Iraq was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre. This has happened since September 2002. In fact, after the September 11 attack, the figure was about 3 per cent. Government-media propaganda has managed to raise that to about 50 per cent. Now if people genuinely believe that Iraq has carried out major terrorist attacks against the United States and is planning to do so again, well, in that case people will support the war.
This has happened, as I said, after September 2002. September 2002 is when the government-media campaign began and also when the mid-term election campaign began. The Bush Administration would have been smashed in the election if social and economic issues had been in the forefront, but it managed to suppress those issues in favour of security issues - and people huddle under the umbrella of power.
This is exactly the way the country was run in the 1980s. Remember that these are almost the same people as in the Reagan and the senior Bush Administrations. Right through the 1980s they carried out domestic policies that were harmful to the population and which, as we know from extensive polls, the people opposed. But they managed to maintain control by frightening the people. So the Nicaraguan Army was two days' march from Texas and about to conquer the United States, and the airbase in Granada was one from which the Russians would bomb us. It was one thing after another, every year, every one of them ludicrous. The Reagan Administration actually declared a national Emergency in 1985 because of the threat to the security of the United States posed by the Government of Nicaragua.
If somebody were watching this from Mars, they would not know whether to laugh or to cry.
They are doing exactly the same thing now, and will probably do something similar for the presidential campaign. There will have to be a new dragon to slay, because if the Administration lets domestic issues prevail, it is in deep trouble.
Ramachandran: You have written that this war of aggression has dangerous consequences with respect to international terrorism and the threat of nuclear war.
Chomsky: I cannot claim any originality for that opinion. I am just quoting the CIA and other intelligence agencies and virtually every specialist in international affairs and terrorism. Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the study by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the high-level Hart-Rudman Commission on terrorist threats to the United States all agree that it is likely to increase terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
The reason is simple: partly for revenge, but partly just for self-defence.
There is no other way to protect oneself from U.S. attack. In fact, the United States is making the point very clearly, and is teaching the world an extremely ugly lesson.
Compare North Korea and Iraq. Iraq is defenceless and weak; in fact, the weakest regime in the region. While there is a horrible monster running it, it does not pose a threat to anyone else. North Korea, on the other hand, does pose a threat. North Korea, however, is not attacked for a very simple reason: it has a deterrent. It has a massed artillery aimed at Seoul, and if the United States attacks it, it can wipe out a large part of South Korea.
So the United States is telling the countries of the world: if you are defenceless, we are going to attack you when we want, but if you have a deterrent, we will back off, because we only attack defenceless targets. In other words, it is telling countries that they had better develop a terrorist network and weapons of mass destruction or some other credible deterrent; if not, they are vulnerable to "preventive war".
For that reason alone, this war is likely to lead to the proliferation of both terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Ramachandran: How do you think the U.S. will manage the human - and humanitarian - consequences of the war?
Chomsky: No one knows, of course. That is why honest and decent people do not resort to violence - because one simply does not know.
The aid agencies and medical groups that work in Iraq have pointed out that the consequences can be very severe. Everyone hopes not, but it could affect up to millions of people. To undertake violence when there is even such a possibility is criminal.
There is already - that is, even before the war - a humanitarian catastrophe. By conservative estimates, ten years of sanctions have killed hundreds of thousands of people. If there were any honesty, the U.S. would pay reparations just for the sanctions.
The situation is similar to the bombing of Afghanistan, of which you and I spoke when the bombing there was in its early stages. It was obvious the United States was never going to investigate the consequences.
Ramachandran: Or invest the kind of money that was needed.
Chomsky: Oh no. First, the question is not asked, so no one has an idea of what the consequences of the bombing were for most of the country. Then almost nothing comes in. Finally, it is out of the news, and no one remembers it any more.
In Iraq, the United States will make a show of humanitarian reconstruction and will put in a regime that it will call democratic, which means that it follows Washington's orders. Then it will forget about what happens later, and will go on to the next one.
Ramachandran: How have the media lived up to their propaganda-model reputation this time?
Chomsky: Right now it is cheerleading for the home team. Look at CNN, which is disgusting - and it is the same everywhere. That is to be expected in wartime; the media are worshipful of power.
More interesting is what happened in the build-up to war. The fact that government-media propaganda was able to convince the people that Iraq is an imminent threat and that Iraq was responsible for September 11 is a spectacular achievement and, as I said, was accomplished in about four months. If you ask people in the media about this, they will say, "Well, we never said that," and it is true, they did not. There was never a statement that Iraq is going to invade the United States or that it carried out the World Trade Centre attack. It was just insinuated, hint after hint, until they finally got people to believe it.
Ramachandran: Look at the resistance, though. Despite the propaganda, despite the denigration of the United Nations, they haven't quite carried the day.
Chomsky: You never know. The United Nations is in a very hazardous position.
The United States might move to dismantle it. I don't really expect that, but at least to diminish it, because when it isn't following orders, of what use is it?
Ramachandran: Noam, you have seen movements of resistance to imperialism over a long period - Vietnam, Central America, Gulf War I. What are your impressions of the character, sweep and depth of the present resistance to U.S. aggression? We take great heart in the extraordinary mobilisations all over the world.
Chomsky: Oh, that is correct; there is just nothing like it. Opposition throughout the world is enormous and unprecedented, and the same is true of the United States. Yesterday, for example, I was in demonstrations in downtown Boston, right around the Boston Common. It is not the first time I have been there. The first time I participated in a demonstration there at which I was to speak was in October 1965. That was four years after the United States had started bombing South Vietnam. Half of South Vietnam had been destroyed and the war had been extended to North Vietnam. We could not have a demonstration because it was physically attacked, mostly by students, with the support of the liberal press and radio, who denounced these people who were daring to protest against an American war.
On this occasion, however, there was a massive protest before the war was launched officially and once again on the day it was launched - with no counter-demonstrators. That is a radical difference. And if it were not for the fear factor that I mentioned, there would be much more opposition.
The government knows that it cannot carry out long-term aggression and destruction as in Vietnam because the population will not tolerate it.
There is only one way to fight a war now. First of all, pick a much weaker enemy, one that is defenceless. Then build it up in the propaganda system as either about to commit aggression or as an imminent threat. Next, you need a lightning victory. An important leaked document of the first Bush Administration in 1989 described how the U.S. would have to fight war. It said that the U.S. had to fight much weaker enemies, and that victory must be rapid and decisive, as public support will quickly erode. It is no longer like the 1960s, when a war could be fought for years with no opposition at all.
In many ways, the activism of the 1960s and subsequent years has simply made a lot of the world, including this country, much more civilised in many domains.
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I start to cry as I watch the biggest loser. "I want that" I say out loud with nobody around.
I start to cry again. The contestants are weighing in . One woman weighs 183. That is 8 pounds less than I weigh. She looks good - but still big. Which means I look fatter. I want to work out. I want to have boot camp.
I start to cry again. I hate my body. I can't walk into a gym and work out. People would stare, mock, snicker. I hate that I care about what others think.
I harden myself again. Now is no time to cry. It's time to study. It's time to continue this dull life and live on the bare minimum.
This battle with depression is getting close to another low point. I feel it coming.


Here are some shots from the sky during sunset. And folks, we should look up more to the sky. The colors, the light. It is so nice. Instead putting our heads and eyes in our phones we should pay more attention to what's around us. The Sky for example. The ever changing color and light, a spectacle only nature can show.


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Report on rock paintings found in a small shelter next to a waterfall.
Report on rock paintings found in a small shelter next to a waterfall at Tweefontein, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings are of human and animal figures.
Report on a rock face with rock paintings.
Report on a rock face with rock paintings at the Withoogte Outlook, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings are of humans and a buck.
Man walks past a "troops out!" sign spray-painted onto the Castle, Cape Town
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A pedestrian walks past the Castle, seemingly oblivious of the controversial slogan painted on its wall facing Strand Street during the night.
Report on a crack in rock face, yielding rock paintings and artefacts.
Report on a crack in rock face, yielding rock paintings and artefacts such as pot shards, cores and flakes at Huis River, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings are of red, black and orange dots in rows.
Report on rock paintings in a deep cave with varied rock painting, inside and outside.
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Report on rock paintings in a deep cave in Bushmankloof, De Cango, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings are on the inside and outside of the cave and or of human and animal figures.
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Report on a rock shelter containing rock paintings and ostrich egg shells at Wanhoop, Western Cape, South Africa. The report contains a map.
Trish Lovemore painting in Vienna
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Report on a large shelter containing many rock paintings at Osgat, Western Cape, South Africa. Rock paintings are of human and animal figures in red, yellow and black.
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Report on rock paintings against exposed smooth rock face at Seweweekspoort, Swartberg Mountain range, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings are of human and animal figures.
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Report on a cave with rock painting and a constructed trench at Marseilles Grotte, Western Cape, South Africa. Photographs of the rock paintings are included in the report.
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Report on rock paintings of human figures at Misgund B, Western Cape, South Africa.
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Report on a find in Tienie's Cave, Western Cape, South Africa where many rock paintings of human figures, some with hook heads, animal figures and Entopics.
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Report on 4 rock faces, close to waterfalls, with many rock paintings, at Misgund, Western Cape, South Africa. Photographs are included in the report.
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Report on rock faces with many rock paintings at Besomfontein, Western Cape, South Africa. Rock painting are of human and animal figures. Some of the human figures have hook heads.
Report on an east facing overhang, with rock paintings.
Report on an east facing overhang, with rock paintings at the Groenkop State Forest, Western Cape, South Africa. Tracings are included in the report.
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Report on a shelter next to a stream, containing rock painting at Doornkloof, Western Cape, South Africa. The rock paintings are of human and animal figures. There are 12 in total in red, black and yellow paint.
Report with diagrams of rock paintings in a small rock shelter.
Report with diagrams of rock paintings in a small rock shelter in Doornrivier, Western Cape, South Africa. Rock paintings are of humans with bows, and animal figures.
Report on a shallow cave with rock paintings and artefacts.
Report on a shallow cave with rock painting and artefacts at the Anysberg Forest Reserve 3 site in the Western Cape, South Africa . Rock paintings are of human and animal prints and concentric circles.
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Design, portability and performance are three of the most important factors to consider in a laptop. Performance is the number one. These factors are very much evident in HP's newest baby.
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Armed With 'GhostFork' Pitch, Kodai Senga Officially Joins The New York Mets
By Romona | December 20, 2022
Kodai Senga smiles during an interview after a news conference at Citi Field, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, … [+] in NYC. The Japanese pitcher and the New York Mets have finalized a $75 million, five-year contract. (AP Photo/Seth Little)
In the 2006-07 offseason, Daisuke Matsuzaka's gyroball was all the rage as he went from the Seibu Lions to a six-year, $52 million contract with the Boston Red Sox.
Fourteen years later, Kodai Senga's "Ghostfork" is a popular talking point when it comes it to his repertoire of pitches and if all goes well during the first year of a $75 million, five-year contract with the Mets, fans will be hearing about it the pitch quite often.
Matsuzaka's gyroball is described as a pitch with a "spiral-like spin" where according to a 2006 article in Sports Illustrated, the effectiveness of the pitch is related to the arms and not in the grip of the ball, though according to analysis back then by Baseball Prospectus said it was more of a myth.
Matsuzaka experienced a decent amount of success, winning 15 games in his debut season when the Red Sox won the second of their four World Series titles. He was 18-3 in 2008 and Met fans remember Matsuzaka for his 4.06 ERA in 41 appearances during the 2013 and 2014 seasons as the Mets gradually ushered in their rebuild centered around Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Zack Wheeler and Steven Matz, whom all are elsewhere these days.
On Monday, Senga showed some personality in his first comments to a New York media crowd, including his one-word description of the pitch when he said "Practice." In response to how he mastered the pitch.
So what exactly is the "ghostfork" besides a pitch that has a cool name and can be developed into numerous fun things for marketing and promotions departments? The pitch was given the nickname by fans of the Pacific League's Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and is basically a combination splitter/forkball.
Many pitchers from Japan are known for their splitter and for observers of New York baseball, they received plenty of looks at the pitch during the 271 games Hiroki Kuroda and Masahiro Tanaka appeared in with the Yankees from 2012 to 2020.
This pitch besides possessing the cool nickname is something that is considered his second-best pitch. When it worked in the Pacific League it exited Senga's hands like a fastball and when it reached the plate the bottom simply drops out like a splitter.
"I think they spend a lot of time experimenting with different movement characteristics," Mets general manager Billy Eppler said of why pitchers join the majors from Japan with specialty pitches containing cool nicknames. "It's just a focus of theirs to try to see if they can do creative things with the baseball."
Eppler would certainly know about scouting Japan's pitchers. When he was assistant GM under Brian Cashman, Eppler helped the Yankees land Tanaka and when he became the GM of the Angels, he signed Shohei Ohtani, who happened to be a free agent after the 2023 season.
Somewhere between scouting Tanaka and signing Ohtani, Senga emerged on Eppler's radar, counting him as among the intrigued parties looking forward to seeing the pitch against major league hitters.
"I'm excited to see it," Eppler said. "I know the bottom falls out of it and comes out of the hand looking like a fastball. So, it'll be interesting to see how he acclimates because let's not forget that there's a lot of acclimation that comes with a pitcher coming from the NPB or any foreign league."
As for what his fastball looks like, according to the Japanese statistical website DeltaGraphs, he averaged 96 mph, topped out at 101.9 mph in a May start and the effectiveness of pitch set the table for his mid-80s splitter, a pitch ranked as the hardest pitch for NPB hitters to make contact with last season according to the site.
One thing anyone who followed Monday's proceeding is the group of hitters Senga is looking forward to facing the most.
He certainly did not hesitate when in English he said: "The Phillies Lineup" in response to the question and it is hard to blame any Met pitcher for high anticipation at getting cracks at the Phillies after the Mets won 101 games and flamed out in the wild-card run while the Phillies made a magical run to the World Series.
The Mets are hoping for similar results from Senga's 11 seasons in the Pacific League where he was 87-44 with a 2.59 ERA and converted into a starter in 2016. After becoming a starter, he was the Game 1 starter in four straight seasons as his team won four straight titles, a fact Eppler admitted swayed the Mets into adding him as part of their $476.7 million spent for seven free agents so far.
"It was a bit of a separator," Eppler said of Senga's championship experience.
As for the exact financial cost, according to the AP, Senga received a $5 million signing bonus and his annual salary from 2023-27 is $14 million. If he reaches 400 innings through the first three seasons, he can an opt out.
And then there are various bonuses, which are frequently in contracts.
He would earn a $100.00 bonus for winning reliever of the year, a $50,000 bonus for winning a Cy Young, $25,000 for finishing second in the Cy Young voting and $10,000 for third. Senga would get $100,000 for World Series MVP, $50,000 each for making the All-Star ream, winning a Gold Glove or the League Championship Series MVP
Considering the aspirations of the Mets since becoming major players in each of the past two winters under Steve Cohen, they will gladly pay those bonuses and they certainly are hoping to hear more about the "ghostfork" a pitch that may provide ample opportunities for t- shirts and other merchandise if all goes according to plan.
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Q: What is bitcode for apple iOS apps, does need to do the developer extra effort I heard recently that apple for iOS apps, bitcode is the default, but optional for app thinning. Does developer need to change something in the code except the plist modification Enable Bitcode. I didn't find much about bitcode. How can a developer make app compatible with this and its architecture to more robust app.
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https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/8991
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Márton Esterházy
Márton Esterházy (born 9 April 1956 in Budapest) is a Hungarian retired professional footballer. He is a descendant of the Esterházy aristocratic family. After retiring, like his famous writer brother Péter Esterházy, he became a published author himself as well. He is also the head of the Hungarian Futsal Committee, and in February 2007 became a UEFA controller.[1]
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III. Kerületi TVE
Budafoki LC
Ferencváros 21 (2)
Honvéd 153 (62)
AEK Athens 54 (16)
Panathinaikos 11 (1)
Chênois 30 (15)
Hungary 29 (11)
1 Club career
2 International career
Club careerEdit
Esterházy played for Budafoki LC, Ferencváros and Honvéd, until he was acquired by AEK Athens. At AEK it didn't take long for him to impress, alongside Thomas Mavros and Hokan Sandberg they composed a "magical" triplet in the mid-80s. Highlight of his career on the goal of Pavlos Papaioannou against the Real Madrid on 18 September 1985, when with a jump over the ball he confused the opposing goalkeeper Ochotorena, as a result of which it ended up in his net.[2]
In December 1986 as his performance had begun to decline, he left AEK and joined Panathinaikos. He played for the "greens" for 1.5 years, but without much success. He then moved to Austria to play for Casino Salzburg. In 1989 he traveled to Switzerland for Chênois and Bulle. He ended his career in Weissenbach.[3]
International careerEdit
He scored 11 goals for the Hungarian national team,[4] and was a participant at the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where Hungary failed to progress from the group stage. Esterházy scored the first goal in the 2–0 win against Canada.
^ Esterházy új szerepben Archived 2 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine in Hungarian
^ "AEK - REAL MADRID 1-0 (1985) UEFA Cup" – via www.youtube.com.
^ "Μάρτον Εστερχάζι". kitrinomavro.gr.
^ Mamrud, Roberto. "Hungary - Record International Players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2 September 2006.
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Once again, I am reminded how simple and playful children's books should be. The Merry Chase was written and illustrated by Clement Hurd in 1941, best known as the illustrator of classics like Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. With the thread of a dog pursuing a cat, we are taken on a high-speed chase that wrecks more property and probably injures more people than the running of the bulls. Vibrant full-page illustrations show runaway baby carriages, spilled pots, table cloths catching fire, head-on car crashes, spilled paint and toppled wedding cakes—all havoc wreaked by the hound and feline. But the best part is the people—not one of them has their feet on the ground! They are all caught midstream before breaking a tailbone, getting scalded, hitting a head, drowning or getting knocked out by a toppling statue. Each page reveals a catastrophe unfolding and about to get worse. It's stop-motion animation in book form. The illustrations are painted in a Matisse-like palette with simple flat colors and minimal tonal shading—an amazing feat to create such energy with such a primitive style of rendering. If proposed today, I doubt the lawyers would let it see print. I'm thrilled to see it reissued—disaster never looked so fun!
I've always been fascinated with image cropping from my years as a designer. How little information does it take to tell a story? A tightly cropped image can often extend well past the edges of the page. The book can become virtually huge. So I showed Neal some initial sketches along those lines—each page revealing more information and a fresh point of view.
My initial sketches had words and we both felt an urge to eliminate written narrative. Over the next month we batted the storyline around until we felt it stood on its own. The rest of the year was spent making the final drawings which is always the best part.
The exciting opportunity I saw was to produce very graphic and geometric illustrations—reminiscent of 80's Swiss graphics that I was schooled on. I got out my T-square and circle templates—sorry Adobe.
Without giving away the story—you already know the main characters in Bee & Bird. In short, it's a story about companionship, separation, and reunion without words. Believe me, we really thought hard about the merits—or not—of a wordless book. We kept coming back to thing that kids and parents love, that is, to contribute your own version of the story. A book to teach reading this is not. A book to teach storytelling it is. Look for it this May or pre-order it now. Don't worry, I'll remind you.
Crazy Days is a theme book with a dozen fantastic 'what's wrong with this picture' spreads. I'm a huge fan of illustrations with smart riddles or 'switcharoos' —and Taro Miura pulls it off stylishly cover-to-cover. This book says to a kid, (and their parents), anything is possible if you can see it. Wouldn't the world be grand if trees were full of music, clouds were sheep, horns blew bubbles and ships could fly? With bright, simple and loosely airbrushed illustrations these are indeed crazy days—and I like it!


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Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball. At the turn of the 21st century, the game was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf, with a goal in the middle of each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal.
In general play, the goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms (unless the ball is carried out of play, where the field players are required to re-start by a throw-in of the game ball), while the field players typically use their feet to kick the ball into position, occasionally using their torso or head to intercept a ball in midair. The team that scores the most goals by the end of the match wins. If the score is tied at the end of the game, either a draw is declared or the game goes into extra time and/or a penalty shootout, depending on the format of the competition. The Laws of the Game were originally codified in England by the Football Association in 1863 and have evolved since then. Association football is governed internationally by FIFA – Fédération Internationale de Football Association (English: International Federation of Association Football), which organises the FIFA World Cup every four years. Now you can show how the game should look like in these soccer coloring pages
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A piece of research by McKinsey suggests that there is a strong correlation between having high numbers of women senior executives and stronger financial performance. Companies with this make-up also have a stronger opportunity to draw from a larger talent pool as talent is in short supply.
Unfortunately I don't have access to the research at the moment, but I will be on the look out for additional quotes from this particular study. It's not the first time there have been positive correlations between financial performance and having women senior executives in the company. However the more data we have to support this situation the better and the more diverse the types of company the better. The previous research I saw was based primarily on the financial industry.


Khaled Hossenini's, The Kite Runner opened at the Wyndhams Theatre last night following the success of both the novel and film. It tells the story of Afghanistan over the span of 25 years, through troubled times.
Transforming into a play adaption, Matthew Spangler has stayed true to the story and it's importance by replicating this classic for the stage. The story is translated through Amir as he relives the past of his Kabul childhood. With his new life in America, he revisits his complicated life choices and his friendship with house servant Hassan.
Ben Turner plays a brilliant leading man/narrator with the role of Amir. His performance is strong and consistent throughout. Andrei Costin as Hassin makes the role unique and is very believable in the role. The two of them work incredibly well together and are a great duo.
With beautifully crafted music played to the side of the stage by Hanif Khan with the use of limited instruments, it gives the play a real authentic feel. The staging is very simple with the use of a few wooden slates and illustrations showing the pomegranate tree and kites flying. This allows you to focus on the true importance of this production rather than being distracted by anything else.
With everything that is going on in the world, the text translates the importance of friendship, loyalty and strength and although a little slow paced at times, it resonates well with the audience.
The Kite Runner plays at Wydhams Theatre until March 11th.


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Japan will go through to the 2019 Asian Cup knockout phase as Group F winners after coming from behind to beat closest challengers Uzbekistan 2-1, Tsukasa Shiotani's stunning strike sealing the turnaround.
The two teams went into Thursday's clash level on six points and, although Hector Cuper's men took the lead with a great goal of their own, Japan rallied and did just about enough to take the spoils and win the group.
All of the drama in the first half came in the last five minutes, as Eldor Shomurodov opened the scoring with a smart finish at the end of a brilliant solo run, only for Yoshinori Muto to level soon after – the Newcastle United forward's first goal for club or country since netting against Manchester United in October.
The superior quality of Japan's play was evident at the start of the second period and Shiotani put them ahead emphatically just before the hour, with Uzbekistan were unable to fight back.
Japan started the second half well, and after seeing a couple of chances go begging, they went ahead in style – Shiotani's superb 25-yard strike flying into the top-right corner.


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Sixteen The Kinks songs that soundtracked England perfectly
The 1960s gave us many great British rock bands, but The Kinks are often overshadowed by their sleeker, shinier contemporaries. Arguably, however, no band did more to capture England's ennui and arrogance in the 20th century
By David Levesley
It can be easy to assume that The Kinks were just a British rock band who didn't make it quite as big as The Beatles and were pipped to the post of Kings Of Concept Albums by The Who. It's an easy assumption and completely wrong, ignoring that The Kinks did something completely different to all their competition: at their best, they were a great rock band who captured the blandness of suburbia and the stupidity of the spoiled. They were the Gilbert & Sullivan of 20th century Britain, writers of weird little operettas of human folly.
Nobody captured the faux-urbanity of the English middle classes the way The Kinks did: their music is a perfect snapshot of the charm, inconsistencies and foibles of 20th-century England, able to do sweeping and epic as easily as they could perfect, potted vignettes. They are monarchs of a certain type of British sensibility: the ability to both love, and critique, the things that make us as a nation.
We at GQ have been taking a look at the artists who deserve a retread from isolation: from folk icons such as Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez to the genius of Ray Charles and the underestimated hits of Fleetwood Mac and Blondie. This week we'll be looking at some of our favourite Kinks songs to give you a broad swath of what it is we love about them, a taster before you, invariably, are inspired to begin a longer deep dive.
1. 'You Really Got Me' (from The Kinks)
The Kinks' first album is just pure, delightful rock'n'roll, full of sex and Americana in a way that slowly vanishes with each passing album until they're about as English as class warfare. There are a few standouts on the album, including the very upbeat, very crisp and clean, "I Took My Baby Home". But The Kinks' first smash hit single really is impossible to beat: from the opening guitar to the confused awkwardness of Ray Davies' vocals, who seems taken aback by his ability to become obsessed, slowly building into full blown lust.
2. 'Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl' (from Kinda Kinks)
There's a lot of good stuff on The Kinks' sophomore album: there's vestiges of the first album's rock, such as "Come On Now", and the brilliant "Tired Of Waiting For You", so lethargic and overheated that it might as well be a Tennessee Williams play. But perhaps most unusual, and yet most indicative of a certain strain of the way The Kinks can subvert and twist traditional musical forms to make contemporary statements, is "Nothin' In The World Can Stop Me Worryin' 'Bout That Girl". Part Nick Drake, part bossa nova shuffle, it sells the main character's paranoia about their flighty, unfaithful girlfriend as a kind of border ballad. You almost expect someone to cut out someone's heart before hanging themselves in the final verse.
3. 'A Well Respected Man' (from Kwyet Kinks)
There are two songs that mark the transformation of The Kinks: "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion", a standalone single released in 1966 that mocked mod culture, and 1965's "A Well Respected Man", a searing takedown of upper-class smarminess. "A Well Respected Man" is both the first of these two game-changing singles and also, arguably, the one that casts a wider and more important net of criticism. "And he plays at stocks and shares / And he goes to the regatta / And he adores the girl next door / Cause hes dying to get at her," is an absolutely perfect verse, made all the better by the way Ray sings "regatta" – you can feel the venom and how undeniably accurate it is in portraying a certain type of man that is still on the same train every time in 2020.
4. 'Big Black Smoke' (from Face To Face)
Face To Face from 1966 feels like the moment something changed for The Kinks: almost entirely written by Ray Davies, who had a nervous breakdown just before they went into record, the album is much softer and more anglicised than the albums that come before it. It's often described as a concept album, in part because it is filled with very acerbic, well-observed character studies of those who have ("Sunny Afternoon") and those who don't ("Dead End Street", originally a single that's been added into later reissues). But "Big Black Smoke" – cut from the original album, perhaps in part because Pye Records wanted to quash Ray Davies' use of sound effects to connect the songs – is just such an odd, brilliant song. It's bluegrass, it's Threepenny Opera, but it's also a distinctly English song about disenfranchised rural youths escaping to the city. It is so deeply macabre, and they're having so much fun with it, that it's a real sign of what's to come.
5. 'Two Sisters' (from Something Else)
The album that marked Ray Davies taking over on production from Shel Talmy, you can really feel The Kinks' signature sound on here: a sort of brassier, more rotund and red-nosed version of the big, sweeping sounds you hear from other bands in the mid-to-late 1960s. It was recorded during the conception of Ray Davies' "Village Green Project", which you see more of in the next album.
On the album that gave us "Waterloo Sunset", it's the biting satire of its other tracks that deserves to be delved into. Something Else is often lauded for its baroque elements, and "Two Sisters" gives you those in spades. It's a perfect short story, in which Percilla laments her mundane, married life and wishes he was more like her sister, Sylvilla, only to come to find triumph in the children she has created and raised. Davies is great at observation, but here that turns into something even greater: empathy.
6. 'Autumn Almanac' (from Something Else)
Included on the 1998 and 2004 reissues of Something Else, "Autumn Almanac" was released as a single between that and Village Green Preservation Society. Described as a "phenomenal recording" by Dave Davies, Ray's composition is such a perfect analysis of kitsch suburban Britain that it's almost uncomfortable to listen to, made all the more jarring by its lush, vaudevillian score. Capturing a truculent and melancholy man mourning the summer's passing and his small world, the verse "I like my football on a Saturday / Roast beef on Sundays, all right / I go to Blackpool for my holidays / Sit in the open sunlight" is an otherworldly microcosm of a certain type of Englishness. It's antiquated and yet fresh and has that strange sort of found-object-psychadelia that Peter Blake and Terry Gilliam captured so perfectly in their work.
7. 'The Village Green Preservation Society' (from The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society)
If you want to picture a perfect day in British music, it is perhaps the day this album – and The Beatles' White Album – were released on November 22 1968. A commercial failure, it was described by Davies as "the most successful ever flop". It is England's Under Milk Wood, a perfect bucolic concept album, a saucy postcard with a sad message on the back. If there's an album that deserves listen after listen after listen it's this one.
If the album is a matryoshka of delights, then its title song is a masterpiece of irony, reference and symbolism. From the moment it begins, the Greek chorus of the preservation society, here to preserve the finest parts of English culture, lists American characters ("Donald Duck"), derisive generalisations ("strawberry jam, and all the different varieties"), alter egos opposing urbanisation such as the "Office Block Persecution Affinity", and – perhaps its darkest and yet most hidden punchline – "virginity". There's a reason Kate Rusby's cover soundtracked the WI parody sitcom Jam & Jerusalem in 2006: no village institution survives this song in tact and yet there is no more loving tribute to rural morality.
8. 'Rosemary Rose' (from The Great Lost Kinks Album)
What sounds like a treat for fans is anything but: master tapes had been shipped by the band to Reprise Records as part of contractual obligations and had been intended as "collateral" for the label. The band only found out about this album's release when they saw it charting and legal action meant the album was discontinued two years after release (most of these songs are now included in the 1998 reissues of The Kinks' discography). While there are tons of goodies to be found among them tracks, "Rosemary Rose" is a real joy.
The first verse starts off so conventional – "Rosemary Rose / Nature sure gave you such a beautiful nose" – and then subverts it immediately: "'Though you're not beautiful as someone would know / That Rosemary Rose." It starts off like a cover of a Restoration ballad and then descends into a strange, oddly sinister look at obsession and desperation. Nobody gets to be loved in a Kinks song if they can help it.
9. 'Australia' (from Arthur)
Arthur, often rightly praised as one of the great concept albums, was originally intended to be used in a Granada television play about a carpet layer. You can feel the operatic quality to what The Kinks do here more than anywhere else: down to song names such as "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina", which falls into the sort of nomenclature you might expect for an aria or a sonnet rather than a rock song.
"Australia" doesn't really go anywhere – though, then again, The Kinks do atmosphere just as well as they do narrative – and to see it written down on the page it just seems camp and knowingly tacky. But there are few songs that do so well at showing the unravelling of a dream as "Australia": from cowabunga dreamscape ("We'll surf like they do in the USA") to the very collapse of the utopia it describes as the song descends into a perfectly ordered mess. It's one of the loosest, most overtly surreal songs The Kinks ever did.
10. 'Shangri La' (from Arthur)
It's hard not to keep referring back to some of the great poets of Englishness (or, indeed, wider Britishness) when talking about The Kinks. Their focus on microscopic analyses of our nation's best and worst qualities doesn't make for stadium anthems and immortal singalongs, but it does make for work that deserves to be held next to Rudyard Kipling or John Betjeman and "Shangri La" is one of the songs that deserves that comparison most.
Inspired by Ray and Dave visiting their sister, Rose, after she moved with her husband to a designed community in Adelaide, it does what The Kinks do – and Arthur does over and over again – best. It takes the idea of a particular idyll, the "Shangri La" of the comfortable atomic family in a comfortable house, and explodes it for the hypocrisy and insecurity at its core. "They say their lines, they drink their tea, and then they go / They tell your business in another Shangri-la" is such a perfect description of suburban mundanity that it beggars belief.
11. 'Lola' (from Lola Versus Powerman)
Lola Versus Powerman was that rare thing for The Kinks: a great album that managed to be a commercial success. The album is full of corkers – "Strangers", "Powerman", but there's a reason "Lola" has become one of The Kinks' best known songs: it is, simply put, a piece of musical genius. It's not just catchy and simply written enough to be a truly great singalong (which is rare in the eloquent world of The Kinks), but it's also an incredibly clever song: layered yet economical, it is full of ideas of masculinity, sexuality, fluidity. Regardless of how Lola might identify now – drag queen? Transgender woman? Nonbinary club kid? – the song's compassion for all its characters means it has a Twelfth Night-ish quality: a dreamy and timeless look at human complexity.
12. 'The Way Love Used To Be' (from Percy)
The soundtrack to the British comedy of the same name about penis transplants, this Kinks album produced some belters. Perhaps the most out there for them – and one of their most beautiful songs – is "The Way Love Used To Be". The Kinks loved songs about dreams of a better place and this is a perfect example. It's also one of the few instances when the romance central to the song isn't at all complicated or difficult: unlike the crumbling love stories of many of their best songs, here the lovers want to escape together to somewhere in solitude just to find love and peace.
13. 'Here Come The People In Grey' (from Muswell Hillbillies)
Muswell Hillbillies, probably the last England-under-the-microscope album The Kinks' produced, was a commercial failure but a critical darling (which is something you can apply to pretty much every one of The Kinks' greatest albums). After the deeply English soundscapes of the last few albums, Muswell Hillbillies toys with the formula by mixing assessments of our fellow countrymen with the sounds of bluegrass. There are wistful portraits of small dreams in songs such as "Oklahoma USA", and there's the dyspeptic noir of "Holloway Jail", but "Here Come The People In Grey" is a particularly interesting use of the album's style: what starts as the story of a man suffering under the thumb of modern Britain when a borough surveyor takes away his home turns into a political piece as he moves off the grid with his girlfriend and says, "We're gonna buy me gun to keep the policemen away." It is a strange look at how American individualism could sound coming from a very ordinary English man and it's this dissonance of two cultures clashing that makes this song so interesting.
14. 'Supersonic Rocket Ship' (from Everybody's In Show-Biz)
This 1972 album is seen as the moment Davies dived even deeper into vaudeville and music hall as inspirations. It's campy, it's oddly glam, it's no less forensic about the human condition, but it's perhaps the least interesting psychological study the band offer, considering that we're not at any loss for songs about how hard it is to be famous. "Celluloid Heroes", perhaps oddly for a closing track, feels like the opening of a brilliant musical, but is triter than much of their best work (the 2009 version with the Crouch End Choir is probably better than the album one, for our money.) There are some great pantomime character studies such as "Maximum Consumption", on here, but the album's most famous song is also, probably, its most interesting look at the pitfalls of fame. "Supersonic Rocket Ship" offers a utopian escape from the pretences and struggles of modern society that Davies spends so much of his music lampooning, again playing with calypso and reggae beats in a way that feels a little bit less awkward than his dubious accent on "Apeman".
15. 'Sweet Lady Genevieve' (from Preservation Act 1)
Davies did a two-part rock opera for The Kinks' next two albums and… well, they aren't well remembered: both parts one and two not only sold poorly, but they were also slated by critics, a hellish combo the band largely avoided up until now. "Sweet Lady Genevieve", however, a song performed to an estranged former lover, is often seen as the one shining gem from a difficult time in The Kinks' musical output. Does it sound a bit like The Beatles' "Buffalo Bill"? Absolutely! But it's a beautiful transcontinental romantic rock song and a sign of the solid gold nuggets even The Kinks' worst albums could contain.
16. 'Juke Box Music' (from Sleepwalker)
The Kinks released albums well into the 1990s, but by the time we get to Sleepwalker, you've probably heard the best and most interesting stuff the band ever put out. There are still some gems left, though, including this album's "Juke Box Music": back to full blown American rock'n'roll again, it takes a fresh long at the daydreaming young women so prevalent in the genre: while this woman is obsessed with the romance and heightened emotions of music, it leads to everyone else wondering why she distances herself from reality. Even here, in a song that feels like very old-school Kinks, they manage to do something fresh thanks to Davies' idiosyncratic look at the world.
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Great. Sounds like it was a success. And it's great to have friends that get you.
Well done you! And well done for hosting the Trick or Treat Reads. I was happy with my 'sales', and it was nice to get around the other participants.
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BookFace involves lining up your face or body with a book cover that has a matching body part and taking a photo. The library is sponsoring a photo contest for the best BookFaces, and prizes will be awarded to the top three entries. Stop by the library to pick up a book and for contest details. Entries are due on Tuesday, November 15. Enter as many photos as you'd like!


Roll up in your vintage best for a night of theatrical glamour.
This fast moving, spectacular and witty night of cabaret, burlesque, music, and circus tricks is sure to sizzle.
The River of Art is ecstatic to bring you an incredible line up of fire twirling, tap dance, hula hoops with a twist, and burlesque performers at the top of their game.
Fire twirling starts at 6pm, and you can enjoy a pre-show cocktail at the Ocean Lounge at The Whale Inn or supper in the restaurant afterwards.
Chalk the Walk is a temporary footpath exhibition by the designers and artists of the Eurobodalla School of Possibilities.
Enjoy and river walk and chat to the artists while they decorate the pavement of Cheshire Park, next to Moruya Hospital, with their unique chalk artworks.
This is a one-off event and designs will stay in place at the discretion of mother nature and furry creatures.


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Elvis Richardson Releases 'The Countess Report' Examining Male and Female Representation in Australian Art
Elvis Richardson's blog CoUNTess: Women count in the art-world has published data on gender representation in Australian contemporary visual arts since 2008. Its data-collecting activities provide hard evidence of the need for – and add substantial traction to – action by women artists working to bring gender equality to art education, art practice and contemporary art culture. It is frequently cited.
Responses to gender inequality in contemporary art have increased internationally over the past few years. They include influential New York critic Jerry Saltz's ongoing commentary on gender statistics, The East London Fawcett Group's Great East London Art Audit, a data collection project focusing on London contemporary art galleries in 2012, the 2014, Gallery Tally in which Los Angeles artist Micol Hebron asked artists to submit posters visualising the gender representation of commercial galleries then exhibited them online, and the continuing artistic activism of the US-based Guerrilla Girls and Pussy Galore. All these projects have used statistics about unequal gender representation to question how notions of quality and taste apply in determining artistic merit and success.
The Countess Report is a benchmarking project and online resource on gender equality in the Australian contemporary art sector. Put together by Elvis Richardson, it compiles and analyses data on education, prizes, funding, art media, organisational makeup, and exhibitions of various kinds across a wide range of galleries including national and State, regional, commercial, ARIs (Artist Run Galleries), and CAOs (Contemporary Art Spaces). The Countess Report is based on publically available data collected from websites, exhibition catalogues, magazines and media in the calendar year 2014, chosen because the data set is recent, complete and still readily available. Detailed findings now available in The Countess Report offer evidence not previously available and provide a test case sample for future benchmarking.
The project has been designed as a public resource in the form of a website http://www.thecountessreport.com.au where the base collated data is presented. The results of this data are also available in summary form in this report. The project raises questions rather than provides answers, although this report does contain preliminary findings and initial recommendations for future research and activities.
The Countess Report was conducted by Elvis Richardson, through the initiative and research funding of the Cruthers Art Foundation and assistance provided by NAVA, an Advisory Committee and other paid and unpaid assistants.
See coverage here: Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian
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Reyes Estévez López (Cornellà de Llobregat, 2 d'agost de 1976) és un atleta català, especialitzat en proves de mig fons, sobretot en la prova de 1.500 m, on ha aconseguit els seus majors èxits.

Format al Cornellà Atlètic, fou plusmarquista europeu de categories inferiors en diverses distàncies entre 800 i 3.000 m, així com va guanyar el Campionat d'Espanya júnior de 1.500 m (1994, 1995) i de camp a través (1994, 1995), el Campionat d'Europa júnior en 1.500 m (1993, 1995) i sub-23 (1997). Entrenat al CAR de Sant Cugat, en categoria absoluta aconseguí sis títols de campió d'Espanya de 1.500 m, quatre a l'aire lliure (1997, 1998, 2004, 2009) i dos en pista coberta (1997, 2001), i un dels 3.000 m (2005) en pista coberta. En l'àmbit internacional, disputà sis Campionats del Món a l'aire lliure (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2009), aconseguint dues medalles de bronze el 1997 i 1999 en 1.500 m, i també aconseguí la medalla de plata en la mateixa prova en el Campionat del Món de 2001 en pista coberta. Va guanyar la medalla d'or al Campionat d'Europa de 1998, la medalla de plata al 2002 i quart al Campionat d'Europa 2010 celebrat a Barcelona, així mateix, guanyà les medalles de bronze en 1.500 i 3.000 m en el Campionat d'Europa 2005 de pista coberta. Per altra banda, va participar en els Jocs Olímpics d'Atlanta 1996, Atenes 2004, finalitzant en setena posició, i Beijing 2008. En el tram final de la seva carrera esportiva, va veure's involucrat per un cas de dopatge, ja que el seu entrenador, Manuel Pascua, fou imputat en l'Operació Galgo.

El 1997 fou distingit com millor esportista català de l'any, el 1998 com millor esportista espanyol de l'any, la medalla de plata de la Reial Orde del Mèrit Esportiu el 2000. A la televisió, va participar en la sexta edició del programa Supervivientes.

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 2 medalles de bronze al Campionat del món d'atletisme en 1.500 m: 1997, 1999
 Medalla de plata al Campionat del món d'atletisme 2001 de pista coberta en 1.500 m
 Medalla d'or al Campionat d'Europa d'atletisme de 1998 en 1.500 m
 Medalla de plata al Campionat d'Europa d'atletisme de 2002 en 1.500 m
 Medalla de bronze al Campionat d'Europa d'atletisme 2001 de pista coberta en 1.500 m
 Medalla de bronze al Campionat d'Europa d'atletisme 2001 de pista coberta en 3.000 m
 4 Campionats d'Espanya en 1.500 m: 1997, 1998, 2004, 2009
 2 Campionats d'Espanya de pista coberta en 1.500 m: 1997, 2001
 1 Campionat d'Espanya de pista coberta en 3.000 m: 2005

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Enllaços externs
 Fitxa de Reyes Estévez al COE
 Fitxa de Reyes Estévez a l'IAFF

Atletes del Baix Llobregat
Esportistes cornellanencs
Esportistes catalans del sud als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1996
Esportistes catalans del sud als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 2008
Esportistes catalans del sud als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 2004
Esportista català de l'any
Migfondistes catalans del sud
Medallistes catalans del sud als Jocs Mediterranis
Casos de dopatge en l'esport
Naixements del 1976

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In January 2016, King County's Committee to End Homelessness and the United Way of King County sponsored it 6th Annual Count Us In event, a point-in-time count of the homeless and unstably housed. Bringing together Teen Feed and 30 other King County youth service providers to outreach to and survey youth experiencing homelessness and housing instability, the early stats are in. The survey found at least increased homeless youth and young adults in King County on the day of the event January 21, 2016.
This year's count already demonstrates a 19% spike overall since 2015 in which over 800+ youth were identified as homeless or unstably-housed. The committee attributed this increase to improved survey administration as a result of a greater number of participating sites, and greater numbers as a result of the drastically increasing cost of affordable housing. Click Here to read the Count Us In 2015 report in its entirety.
"Even one homeless young person is too many and having the most reliable count of youth experiencing the crisis of homelessness strengthens our community's response," said Mark Putnam, Director of the Committee to End Homelessness in King County.
Statistics obtained through Count Us In provide important information about youth homelessness to help improve the ability of agencies like Teen Feed to most effectively help youth in need achieve stability.
Thank You to all of our partners, volunteers, supporters, and the United Way for helping make 2016 Count Us In possible! To learn more, please reach us at 206.409.1202 or info@teenfeed.org.


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Matthew Dent (designer)
Matthew Dent (born in 1981 in Bangor, Wales) is a British graphic designer. His designs were selected for the new reverse sides of seven coins of the pound sterling, after a competition open to the public by the Royal Mint on 2 April 2008.
Matthew Dent
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
Coleg Menai
University of Brighton
Coins of the pound sterling from 2008
http://www.mattdent.com
Dent studied art at Coleg Menai and graduated in graphic design from the University of Brighton.[1] The competition was to re-design the reverses of all circulation British coins (except the two pound coin which had only been introduced eleven years earlier). His entry was selected as the best of 4,000 and he was given a one-off payment of £35,000.[1]
Dent's designs were inspired by heraldry. He divided the shield of the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom among the pence coins, so that when they are placed together they show the entire shield. The full shield appears on his pound coin, which before the competition had no fixed design, instead changing every year to represent Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
In 2011 he designed a commemorative fifty pence coin for the Royal Mint to celebrate 50 years of the World Wildlife Fund. It featured 50 small pictures of plants, animals and natural resources.[2]
In 2012 he designed a limited edition two pound coin featuring the face of Charles Dickens made up from his book titles, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth.[2]
^ a b Herd, George (2 April 2008). "Coin designer's 'dream come true'". BBC News. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
^ a b "The 2011 UK WWF 50p Brilliant Uncirculated Coin Pack | The Royal Mint". royalmint.com. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
"New coins unveiled with winning design". The Independent. London. 2 April 2008. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
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