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a female leader who defends her country's rights to the very end, who never bends or bows, and who speaks to despotic, populist leaders like donald trump in the language they deserve.

the english commentator put it perfectly. "it is not the last dance, it is just another tango!"

apparently fox is turning on a "star cam" feature for this match. throughout the game one of the cameras will focus solely on messi, and anyone who wants to can watch the match from that camera.

steer clear of men who've never been loved and don't know how to be loved. because the moment you start loving them is the moment you reach the relationship's finish line.

in greek mythology, the lord and god of mount olympus and the gods living there and consequently of all mortals. the youngest son of cronus and rhea. zeus took his father cronus's place by overthrowing him.

according to this legend, cronus, who was told that he would be brought down from his throne by one of his children, panics (since he himself came to that position by overthrowing his father uranus, he knows full well how things work) and swallows his children one by one (hestia, demeter, hera, hades, and poseidon), but his wife rhea (also his sister) and his mother gaia deceive cronus by placing a stone inside the clothes of the still-infant zeus, and zeus is saved. afterward rhea takes her baby to crete, and there in a cave zeus is looked after by the sacred goat amaltheia. after zeus grows up he goes to his father and gets him to bring his siblings back out (according to one story, zeus has his father drink a potion given to him by metis, who helps him, and gets him to vomit up his siblings). later zeus starts a rebellion against his father and the titans under his leadership, and defeating them, sends them into exile.

after zeus takes control, he and his siblings divide up the universe; zeus takes the skies, poseidon the seas, and hades the underworld (the world of the dead). but zeus is forced to defend his newly established divine kingdom against gaia's other children (the giants, typhon, and the twins named the aloadae). after defeating them too and banishing them alongside his father, it's finally time for ruling and womanizing.

according to legend, zeus's first love is the goddess metis. but his grandmother gaia tells zeus that metis will bear him a daughter and that this girl's son will overthrow zeus. hearing this, zeus swallows metis, and thus, since he himself will also be the mother of the child to be born, he thinks the prophecy won't come to pass. but his wife and at the same time sister hera, hearing this, gets very angry at this relationship of his and at his being about to have a child without a woman's help, and she somehow impregnates herself on her own. and this child, named hephaestus, when the time comes, splits open zeus's forehead, and out from inside comes athena, armed from head to toe.

zeus has a whole bunch of other children besides this. his children from his wife: ares, hephaestus, hebe, and eileithyia; his children from the other goddesses he got up to business with: apollo, artemis, and aphrodite, the three horae (goddesses of the seasons) and the three moirae (the fates or destinies), the nine muses; and also his children from the humans he, unable to restrain himself, raped or deceived: the twins castor and polydeuces, clytemnestra and helen of troy, perseus, heracles, minos, rhadamanthys, sarpedon, and dionysus.

how do ants know when another ant is dead?

when ed wilson was a young assistant professor at harvard in the 1950s, he observed that when ants die — and if they're not crushed and torn apart — they just lie there, sometimes upside down, feet in the air, while their sister ants (almost all ants in a colony are ladies) walk right by without a glance. that is until about two days after an ant's passing, ed discovered, when the corpse appears to emit a chemical signal that changes the living ants' behavior dramatically.

all of a sudden what was once a pile of gunk on the colony floor becomes a "problem to be solved." once the signal is in the air, any ant that happens by grabs the corpse and carries it through the colony to a refuse pile designated the graveyard and dumps it on a mound of also-dead ants.

ed, who would revolutionize the study of ants by exploring their ability to communicate with smell, decided to figure out what chemicals equal "i am dead" to an ant.

in his autobiography, naturalist, he wrote: "i thought, maybe with the right chemicals i could create an artificial corpse."

finally, after much sifting and mixing, ed discovered that oleic acid — just a teeny drop of it — was all the ants had to sniff to think "dead!" and, because he could — ed had a colony parked in his harvard lab so he could watch them endlessly — one day he took a drop of the chemical and gently deposited it on an ant that had the misfortune of walking by.

ed describes how as soon as he dabbed the ant, the next ant that came near grabbed his ant, slung it on its back, hiked over to the graveyard and though the ant was very much alive — "kicking, you know," says ed — flung it onto the refuse pile.

dead is what you smell — not what you see — if you are an ant. so, though it tried to clean itself over and over, the minute it returned to the colony, it was grabbed, carried and slung back on the pile.

a sport that, when done correctly, works and gets your body into shape. i want to write some of the tips and tricks too, as far as i know them myself.

– warm up thoroughly and don't lock your joints. these are the biggest factors in injuries.
– make a plan. have plans according to your long-term and short-term goals.
– be patient. progress is a slow-moving process. patience is the golden rule of this sport.
– learn from your mistakes. the essence of this thing is trial and error. adjust your programs according to your own body type.
– stay away from bad habits. bodybuilding is a sport, not a hobby.
– take vitamin and mineral supplements. working muscles need these more than normal.
– take protein + carbohydrates after working out. you'll have placed glycogen into your muscles and raised your insulin level.
– rest well and enough. avoid overtraining or it'll backfire.
– don't work sore muscles. soreness is a sign that the muscle's renewal isn't finished.
– don't keep your workouts long. if your muscles just won't develop, the most important reason for this is that you're overtraining.
– don't give up on the basic exercises. do a few of them even if you're cutting. otherwise you'll lose mass.
– educate yourself. without knowledge there's no thought, and without thought there's no action.
– do your reps properly. don't deceive yourself. if it's too heavy, reduce it.
– eliminate body adaptation. your body is much smarter than you think, it adapts to anything that continues for a long time and lessens the effect. so catch it off guard.

there's no line or anything, folks, first they look at whether they can fob off some other watch on you, gold ones and the like. and if you already have a prior purchase history, you get the model you want with no waiting.

go ask for a steel daytona, a gmt pepsi batgirl, a mint-dial datejust and they'll tell you to get lost if it's your first time buying a rolex. these are the models you could sell the moment you walk out of the dealer, immediately turning a profit. but ask for a two-tone gold-and-steel or full gold model and maybe they make you wait a week tops for show, or you just buy it straight from the store and walk out.

a fast-food chain that's been invaded by turks in los angeles and san francisco before and after the matches thanks to the world cup effect, everywhere you look there's a turk.

the game that cost $2 billion to make and i still don't get why there's been no in-game footage of it.

carl jung: "everything we cannot bring up into our consciousness comes to meet us in life as fate." the other day i came across an interview with jung. in his elegant suit, pipe in hand, he was explaining this saying of his;

"the most dangerous psychological sign is not panic. neither anger nor grief. the real danger is an unnatural calm. the moment you don't feel what you ought to feel. if a person looks at their wound and feels nothing, don't be quick to call this 'strength.' most of the time this is the mind's last line of defense. the soul numbs itself so the ego can stay standing. this moment is the moment life quietly becomes mechanical. you talk, you work, you laugh. but a part of you has withdrawn into the darkness. i've seen this calm many times before collapses, before ruptures, before sudden disappearances from life. because when emotion dies, conscience most often follows after it. when conscience goes silent, the mind begins to bargain with you in secret. it says 'there's no problem,' it says 'nothing matters.' it presents cold solutions with a warm logic. this is exactly why you have to stay on guard.

the unconscious speaks in symbols. a dream with empty rooms inside the house, a face that feels familiar yet foreign, a mirror that reflects nothing behind the eyes, these are not poetic coincidences. these are wounds. a healthy mind feels the pain and can stay there. a dangerous mind, on the other hand, feels nothing and gives this the name 'peace.' so don't sanctify this calm, sit with it. that is, if you're noticing this calm, this numbed, deadened inner climate, ask yourself this question; 'what did i bury alive?'. because the thing you refuse to feel does not disappear, it waits. and it comes back, but this time not as emotion, but as fate."

as you get older it's almost like the time in the final section of this exquisite song evolves from the simple future tense into the conditional perfect and turns even more heartbreaking. people over a certain age shouldn't listen to this song. it's more dangerous than cigarettes or booze.

what we hear listening to it at 20: i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?

what we hear listening to it at 40: i knew someday you would have had a beautiful life, i knew you would have been a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why why couldn't it have been, oh, couldn't it have been mine?

the federal government owns around 81% of nevada's total land, 56m acres out of 70m total acres.

if you want quality football, go watch club tournaments, watch the champions league.

the world cup is about something else: the whole world in one place. it's the smaller nations nobody expected, the fans who travel across the planet, the colors and noise and pure joy in the stands from people who waited four years for this. that variety is a breath of fresh air after a season of the same polished european sides.

peter cooper was an inventor, industrialist, and philanthropist who believed that the wealthy have a duty to help society. before the age of 30, cooper made his fortune with a glue factory. about 1828, he built an ironworks in baltimore and began a second career in the iron industry. during his life, cooper produced many inventions, including a steam-powered locomotive and flavored gelatin, and he supported the development of the new telegraph network. he also helped to secure public education and improve sanitation in new york city. in 1859, he founded the cooper union, a university that gives all its students a free education.