His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story. Panenka has spent 25 years living with the disastrous mistakes of his past, which have made him an exile in his home town and cost him his dearest relationships. Now aged 50, Panenka begins to rebuild an improvised family life with his estranged daughter and her seven year old son. But at night, Panenka suffers crippling headaches that he calls his Iron Mask. Faced with losing everything, he meets Esther, a woman who has come to live in the town to escape her own disappointments. Together, they find resonance in each other's experiences and learn new ways to let love into their broken lives.
German table manners and etiquette might be like what you know, or they might be very different. In German this is called Esskultur is the cultu...
Living with a messy partner can be a real struggle, making life more challenging with the constant untidiness, scattered belongings, and lack of organization. The frustration amplifies when others witness the chaos and unfairly pass judgment as if it's our fault. This is exactly what happened to Reddit user u/Houseisafu*kingmess after a three-week vacation. Returning
We've all been there.
A Reddit user shared a story of management changing the workflow of a technical team on a whim, with disastrous results.
They're having a worse Christmas than you.
Irving Chernev's outstanding chess books earn him a high rank among the world's top chess authors. In this well-annotated text, Mr. Chernev guides his readers to an understanding of the subtleties of combinative play.Step-by-step from the simplest combinations to the most complex, the book explains the intricacies of pins and counter-pins, Knight forks, smothered mates, and other elements of combination play. There is a discussion in chapter five of combinations lurking in roads not taken — alternate lines of play show up in Chernev's notes to the game, while the sixth chapter, "Convincing the Kibitzers," shows the second-guessers what would have happened had the masters done the obvious. (Some disastrous combinations show up here.) A host of boomerangs follow — cases where the player didn't look far enough ahead and his combination, instead of bringing about the opponent's ruin, paved the way to his defeat. Chapters 8–21 take up combinations used by such great players as Tarrasch, Botvinnik, Nimzovich, Steinitz, Rubinstein, and Pillsbury; the sacrificial combinations of Anderssen and Spielmann; the dazzling brilliancies of Morphy, Keres, and Alekhine; the deadly attacks of Marshall; the almost unfathomable ideas of Lasker; and the matchless creations of Capablanca. Mr. Chernev's thoughtful annotations unravel the secrets of each of these plans. A diagram accompanies each combination; an index, by player, leads the reader to the combination he is looking for.
Nothing's easy.
Hey, you there! Yes, you — the one who so often walks into lampposts or spills coffee on keyboards. There is nothing wrong with constantly having your head in the clouds, but have you ever wondered what would happen if your daily dose of clumsiness met high-stakes, risky jobs? If not, then welcome to the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat world of jobs that allow no mistakes — the kind of dangerous careers where perfectionism is everything and a single slip-up could be catastrophic!