BONGURI has added a photo to the pool:
抜里駅のプラットフォーム。架線柱が木製だったりと、とても味わい深い。
Photo taken at Nukuri station, Shimada city, Shizuoka pref.
Revolutionary Guard issue warning as Trump awaits Iran’s response to Washington’s latest proposal for peace deal
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened to target US sites in the Middle East if its tankers come under fire, Iranian media reported on Saturday, as Washington was left waiting for Tehran’s response to its latest negotiating position.
“Any attack on Iranian tankers and commercial vessels will result in a heavy attack on one of the American centres in the region and enemy ships,” the force said, a day after US strikes on two Iranian tankers in the Gulf of Oman.
Continue reading...The US president will be counting on China to influence Iran and help him out of his latest mess. But the price may be high – including for Taiwan
Like an out-of-control wrecking ball, swinging wildly back and forth, Donald Trump smashes up the international order without much thought for the consequences. Lacking coherent strategies, workable plans or consistent aims, he power-trips erratically from one fragile region, tense warzone and complex geopolitical situation to another, leaving misery, confusion and rubble in his wake. Typically, he claims a bogus victory, demands that others repair the damage and pick up the tab, then looks around for something new to break.
The president will bulldoze into another international minefield this week – the fraught standoff between China and Taiwan – when he travels to Beijing for a two-day summit with President Xi Jinping. After a string of humiliating policy implosions over Ukraine, Gaza, Nato, Greenland, and now Iran and Lebanon, needy Trump craves a diplomatic success to flaunt at home. But his hopes of vote-winning trade pacts are overshadowed by his latest war of choice. He needs Xi’s promise not to arm Iran if all-out fighting resumes – and Xi’s help keeping the strait of Hormuz open as part of a mooted framework peace deal.
Continue reading...You must look after your own mental health. A therapist could provide a safe space to discuss your feelings
I feel torn between being a supportive wife and protecting my own mental health. My husband has recently had great success using drugs, diet and exercise to lose weight. He has struggled for a long time, and I am immensely proud of him, especially as he is now tapering off the medication and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The problem is that I have struggled with anorexia and bulimia my entire life. I’m not in therapy as I can never find the right therapist. I go through periods when it’s manageable, but sometimes it flares up.
My husband is well aware that I still struggle with these issues. However, our daily life since his weight loss has become a constant stream of calorie talk, workout updates and discussions about his shrinking clothes. I pretend I’m fine to avoid raining on his parade, and because he can be defensive when challenged, but beneath the surface I am drowning. I have stayed the same size throughout our relationship, yet find myself constantly comparing my body with his progress. I’m in my 40s and worry about getting older and being replaced. I am exhausted by trying to act as if I’m OK when I am actually deeply triggered.
Continue reading...Social media influencers and booming men’s health companies are pushing the hormone as an answer to all ills. But is ‘low T’ really problematic – or something created to sell men a cure to a problem they don’t have?
A s a young man, Nick Dooley never thought about his hormones. He always considered himself “quite an outgoing, confident, chatty person”. Around the time he turned 30, however, Dooley began putting on weight and struggling with anxiety, “just slowly becoming a shell of my former self”, he says. By 38, he weighed 22st and had a range of health issues. “I spent most of my life sat in front of a TV, doing nothing, with zero motivation, and from how I was in my 20s, that wasn’t me. I knew something wasn’t right.”
In 2024, Dooley had a private medical exam, which flagged he had fatty liver disease and was producing low levels of testosterone. “It wasn’t something I’d ever really heard of,” he says. “So I started down a Reddit rabbit hole.” An NHS doctor told him his blood testosterone levels, at 11.2 nmol a litre, were “within range” (although guidance differs between trusts, NHS England generally considers between 8 and 30 nmol/L normal) and offered him antidepressants. “I knew that wasn’t going to fix me,” he says. Instead, Dooley signed up with Manual, an online men’s health company. After two quick blood tests and a virtual consultation, Manual, which has since rebranded as Voy, started him on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT).
Continue reading...It won’t win any plaudits from Japanese purists, but there’s still much to admire here
No spoilers, but I knew even before I’d reached for my chopsticks that Mitsu would be a vast improvement on its predecessor, because it has taken the place of Nobu Shoreditch in the under-gusset of the Aethos hotel, a Swiss-owned “lifestyle hospitality brand”, in east London. Nobu was gargantuan, moodily lit (that is, pitch black), woundingly expensive and terrifically hard to book, despite having something like 797 seats; it was also one of the most soulless London restaurants of the past 25 years. Nobu Shoreditch felt symbolic: it was where all the raffish hope of the 1990s YBA crowd and the early noughties electroclash heads went to die.
But that was then, and now, in 2026, the Aethos crew has deftly brightened and lightened the mood of the room, making it actually cosy and adding a twinkly central bar; there’s an open robata kitchen and roomy booths, as well as a pretty Japanese garden. Mitsu calls itself an izakaya, which is what European restaurateurs always say when they mean the Japanese-influenced food isn’t too po-faced and you can get really tipsy on sake.
Continue reading...GRANADILLA DE ABONA (ANP) - Het Nederlandse cruiseschip de m/v Hondius is aangekomen bij de haven van Granadilla de Abona op het Spaanse eiland Tenerife.
De opvarenden zullen onder het toeziend oog van medisch personeel en de autoriteiten van boord worden gehaald. Eerder brak op de Hondius de Andesvariant van het hantavirus uit, dat al aan enkele opvarenden het leven kostte.
Eenmaal voor anker zal de evacuatie van de opvarenden tegen zonsopgang beginnen, zo meldde de Nederlandse ambassadeur in Spanje Roel Nieuwenkamp zaterdag. De Spaanse minister van Volksgezondheid Mónica García zei zaterdagavond tijdens een persconferentie ter plaatse dat de bedoeling is dat eerst de Spaanse opvarenden van boord worden gehaald. Zij zullen worden overgebracht naar een militair hospitaal in Madrid, waar zij in quarantaine gaan.
Repatriëringsvlucht
Vervolgens worden opvarenden van andere nationaliteiten per boot van boord gehaald, getest en zo snel mogelijk op een repatriëringsvlucht gezet. Een deel van de bemanning zal aan boord blijven en doorvaren naar Rotterdam, waar het schip gereinigd zal worden. Die tocht duurt vermoedelijk vijf dagen.
Een Nederlandse repatriëringsvlucht zal zondag landen in Eindhoven. Aan boord van die vlucht zijn vermoedelijk ook opvarenden uit andere landen, al is momenteel nog onduidelijk wie precies.