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Currently the Norway Chess tournament is ongoing and Divya Deshmukh is leading the rankings* after round 5.

Divya Deshmukh looking at her chessboard during Norway Chess. She's wearing a very stylish outfit as always, this time in black. Photo copyright Norway Chess by Michal Walusza.

Photo by Michal Walusza (who takes the best chess photos), copyright Norway Chess, from here, from an earlier round.

(* the women's rankings. The time will come she'll lead the overall rankings.)

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Her rise has been sensational. She only became World Girls Champion in 2024. Hopefully, she can push above 2600 and up to 2700 with Vaishali and others

Duck.

A male duck scratching its beak using its flipper.

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Just back from visiting Veldhoven Zoo, and from cycling to and from there. Very tired. I took many pictures, both cards I had with me are full. Maybe I should not have left the camera on burst mode, and maybe I should have emptied both cards before I went there... It's going to take a while to sort through everything.

I like that some animals are free to roam around with people, farm style. And I like that this zoo started as, and still is, a sanctuary for birds. All these times people realise they can not keep parrots anymore, they go there. Someone told me that in covid times they received over a hundred parrots and budgies per day; I must have misunderstood. They also have a breeding program for eagles, which will be released in the wild in France. Apparently eagles don't form couples when in France.

Until two weeks ago I didn't even know this zoo existed, and I've lived here for decades. But a colleague mentioned visiting it with her little daughter, and I wanted to check it out too.

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