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Un piccolo locale di udon.
Ingresso basso, tenda consumata, spazio minimo.
Orari lunghi, servizio continuo.
Sembra fermo nel tempo, ma è aperto e funziona.
Chi guarda distrattamente lo dà per vuoto.
Guardando meglio, qualcuno sta uscendo.

小さなうどん屋。
低い入口、使い込まれた暖簾、最小限の空間。
営業時間は長く、ずっと動いている。
時間が止まったように見えるが、営業中。
一見すると人はいない。
よく見ると、出ていく人がいる。

A small udon shop.
Low entrance, worn curtain, minimal space.
Long hours, continuous service.
It looks frozen in time, but it’s open and running.
At a glance it feels empty.
Look closer, someone is leaving.

SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:

Un piccolo locale di udon.
Ingresso basso, tenda consumata, spazio minimo.
Orari lunghi, servizio continuo.
Sembra fermo nel tempo, ma è aperto e funziona.
Chi guarda distrattamente lo dà per vuoto.
Guardando meglio, qualcuno sta uscendo.

小さなうどん屋。
低い入口、使い込まれた暖簾、最小限の空間。
営業時間は長く、ずっと動いている。
時間が止まったように見えるが、営業中。
一見すると人はいない。
よく見ると、出ていく人がいる。

A small udon shop.
Low entrance, worn curtain, minimal space.
Long hours, continuous service.
It looks frozen in time, but it’s open and running.
At a glance it feels empty.
Look closer, someone is leaving.

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date stamped on slide, September 1966

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• Nikola Vlasic scores equaliser in 2-2 draw

• Dortmund seal Champions League spot with 4-0 win

Champions-elect Inter were held to a 2-2 draw at Torino on Sunday, with the Serie A leaders letting slip a two-goal lead and leaving the title race ticking over with four rounds left.

Inter appeared to be cruising after Marcus Thuram put them in front in the 23rd minute and Yann Bisseck doubled their lead 16 minutes after the break with another header but Torino clawed their way back into the game.

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Questions raised about political violence, security and gun control after brazen attack at event attended by top officials

• White House press dinner shooting aftermath – latest updates

A stunned Washington faced searching questions about political violence and gun control on Sunday after shots were fired at a prestigious media gala attended by Donald Trump and senior White House officials.

A man targeted a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel the previous night before being tackled and arrested. Trump and Melania Trump were rushed out of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner as guests dived for cover under tables.

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Smiles turned to shock and fear, Trump dived to the ground and guests ducked under tables after loud bangs were heard

• White House press dinner shooting – latest updates

Donald and Melania Trump appeared in good spirits as they settled in on the high table at the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC on Saturday night, despite the event already being steeped in controversy over the US president being invited when he frequently makes aggressive verbal and legal attacks on the media that covers him.

There was tense anticipation about what kind of speech he would make – but just about half an hour after arriving, Trump was diving for the floor as something far more dramatic erupted.

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• American beats Sorana Cirstea 4-6, 7-5, 6-1

• Gauff struggles as virus spreads through locker room

Coco Gauff described how difficult it has been for players to remain healthy at the Madrid Open this year after she reached the fourth round despite vomiting on court and struggling with a virus that appears to have torn through the locker room.

“I think I got a little cocky because I’ve been at tournaments where there were viruses and I never got it,” she said. “I saw it going around, I was like, ‘I’m not going to get it.’ And then here I am. I think it’s hard because you don’t know who’s sick, who’s not. I do a good job at using hand sanitiser and washing my hands and wiping my [training] mats and stuff before I use them. But sometimes some things are just hard to avoid when you’re all in a big building like this and have to pass each other and use the same equipment. Hopefully everybody’s all good by Rome.”

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Hearts boosted their Scottish Premiership title hopes after Blair Spittal’s 86th-minute winner earned a dramatic derby victory over nine-man Hibernian, putting Derek McInnes’ side three points clear after Rangers lost at home to Motherwell.

Hibs took an early lead at Easter Road, with Martin Boyle striking after just seven minutes – but seven minutes later, the game changed as goalkeeper Raphael Sallinger was sent off for handling the ball outside his penalty area.

Ewan Murray’s match report will follow

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Deepening sense of deadlock despite regional diplomacy as Washington and Tehran show no signs of compromise

Hopes of a breakthrough in negotiations between Iran and the US faded further on Sunday, amid a deepening sense of a deadlock in the nearly two-month-long conflict despite intense regional diplomatic activity.

Washington and Tehran appear unwilling to moderate rhetoric or make concessions, and there are no negotiations scheduled that might bring the war to a definitive end.

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In March, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the moon-orbiting "Lunar Gateway" space station was being "paused" to focus instead of missions to the moon's surface. And Ars Technica agrees that the project was essentially "spending billions of dollars to make it more difficult to reach the lunar surface and faced the prospect of watching Chinese astronauts wander around on the Moon from orbit instead of being there themselves."
"But this week, we learned another reason that Gateway is going away, and it's pretty shocking."


During testimony before the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Isaacman faced questions about NASA's budget... He then publicly confirmed rumors (reported last month by Ars) that there is corrosion in both the HALO [Habitation and Logistics Outpost] and I-HAB modules of the Gateway. "The only two habitable volumes that were delivered — both were corroded," Isaacman said. "And that's unfortunate because it would have delayed, probably beyond 2030, the application of Gateway...."

In a statement, Northrop confirmed the issue as well. "Using NASA-approved processes, Northrop Grumman is completing repairs to HALO after a manufacturing irregularity," a company spokesperson told Ars. "We expect to complete repairs by the end of the third quarter. HALO can still be repurposed for any mission, and it's the most mature technology to support a deep space or lunar habitat." By referring to a "manufacturing irregularity," Northrop answered the central mystery here: how corrosion could appear in both modules. This is because a French-Italian space and defense company, Thales Alenia Space, built the primary structure of HALO for Northrop Grumman. The module was delivered from Italy to the United States about a year ago

Thales is a powerhouse of the European space industry. It built several pressurized modules of the International Space Station, and it's working with Axiom Space to build its commercial space station. The company also had a big piece of the Lunar Gateway in addition to HALO, developing the I-HAB module and a future communications and refueling module known as ESPRIT... After the issue was discovered, the European Space Agency established a "tiger team" to investigate. "Based on the investigation and available data, the corrosion issue was understood to be technically manageable and did not constitute a showstopper for I-HAB, which was, in any case, in better conditions than HALO from [a] corrosion point of view," the spokesperson said...

After publication of this story on Friday, Axiom Space confirmed that it has also experienced corrosion issues. In a statement, the company said: "Axiom Space has experienced a similar phenomenon with the first module; we are leveraging the expertise of NASA and Thales Alenia Space to address the issue. Module 1 is on track to launch in 2028."

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The Washington Post reports that some teachers are now implementing "brain breaks" in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, "including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on projects; and practicing meditation."


Some teachers say the efforts are helping, at least a little... To engage students, teachers say they often feel the need to deliver teaching not only in shorter bursts, but also in more entertaining ways. "The new word is 'edutainment,'" said Curtis Finch, superintendent of Deer Valley Unified School District in Arizona. "How can you make your lesson applicable, interactive? Teachers are going to have to be more engaging for students...."

In a kindergarten classroom at McKinley STEAM [a K-8 public school], students start the day with a meditation. The classroom of two dozen children is perhaps its quietest during this short activity every morning. Imagine you're in the Arctic, a voice from a meditation video tells them, with snowflakes melting on your skin. Silently, the children lay down on the carpet and close their eyes for a moment. After the meditation, the students gather in a circle and do a few deep breathing exercises before taking turns proclaiming what they are capable of each day. "I can be a good student," one little boy said before the child next to him replied: "I can listen to the teacher." The goal is that these mantras will stay with the children hours later, when they have to sit through the more tedious lessons of the day.

An instructional coach at McKinley STEAM says the strategies are working students aren't reaching for their phones during class and sometimes actually get drawn into lessons.

The article also explains why some teachers find this necessary:



In recent years, educators say, it has grown more challenging to get students to pay attention. Eighty-eight percent of respondents in an international survey from 2025 of more than 3,000 teachers believed their students' attention spans were getting shorter. In a study published last year about kindergarten through second-grade classrooms in the United States, 75 percent of teachers said attention spans had dropped since the coronavirus pandemic, when the use of laptops and other technology for schooling spread rapidly. A growing body of research says that excessive screen time and short-form content such as TikTok videos are part of the problem. At least 36 states, including Ohio, have laws requiring schools to have some form of a cellphone ban.



There is debate over whether screen time reduces people's ability to focus or their desire to — many developmental experts lean toward the latter, suggesting that it is possible to help students regain longer attention spans.

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DEURNE (ANP) - Springruiter Michael Greeve is in Deurne voor het eerst in zijn loopbaan Nederlands kampioen geworden. Met zijn schimmel Rubens bleef de 44-jarige geboren Rotterdammer na drie dagen foutloos. Hij troefde titelverdediger Willem Greve (Candy Luck) en Bas Moerings (Ipsthar) af.

"Ik heb al vaak meegedaan aan het NK en er een aantal keer dichtbij gezeten", zei Greeve via de hippische bond KNHS. Hij werd een jaar eerder nog tweede achter Greve, maar toen met zijn paard Denver. "Vorig jaar werd ik tweede, dat was al top. Dit jaar ben ik goed begonnen door op donderdag het jachtspringen te winnen en dat goed vast te houden."

De springruiter bekende wel dat zijn paard spanning voelde op de slotdag. "Het liep iets minder dan de eerste twee dagen, toen ging het heel makkelijk. De tweede ronde was super. Ik heb goed de kop erbij kunnen houden. Dit is mooi. Mijn paard Rubens is pas negen jaar oud. Hij groeit mooi door naast mijn toppaard Denver."

BOGOTÁ (ANP/AFP/RTR) - Het dodental door een zware explosie op een verkeersweg in Colombia is gestegen naar negentien. De autoriteiten spreken over een terreuraanslag en houden een afsplitsing van de ontbonden guerrillagroep FARC verantwoordelijk.

Het incident vond plaats op de Pan-Amerikaanse weg in Cauca, in het zuidwesten van het land. De krijgsmacht stelt dat de daders eerst het verkeer stopten door de weg te blokkeren met voertuigen. Daarna volgde een verwoestende explosie.

De ontploffing blies voertuigen omver en er ontstond een enorme ravage. Tientallen mensen raakten gewond. President Gustavo Petro reageerde woest en noemde de daders op X "terroristen, fascisten en drugshandelaren" waar de "beste militairen" tegen moeten worden ingezet.

De aanslag vond plaats in aanloop naar de verkiezingen van komende maand. Dan wordt de opvolger van Petro gekozen. Veiligheid geldt in de campagnes als een belangrijk onderwerp.

ROTTERDAM (ANP) - Burgemeester Carola Schouten van Rotterdam vraagt op Koningsnacht aandacht voor de veiligheid van vrouwen op straat. Op sociale media steunt Schouten de actie van de politie die zondag in het centrum van Rotterdam oranje armbandjes uitdeelt met de tekst 'Laat vrouwen veilig thuiskomen'.

"Dat is niet alleen een zaak van de politie, maar van de samenleving als geheel", zegt Schouten op Instagram. "Want veiligheid is een basisvoorwaarde om vrij te kunnen leven, juist voor vrouwen. Het is belangrijk dat we er allemaal voor opstaan. Maar ook dat we zeggen dat het onacceptabel is als vrouwen en meisjes niet meer veilig over straat kunnen."

Schouten doet een beroep op de Rotterdammers. "We hebben ook uw hulp nodig. Laten we er met zijn allen voor zorgen dat vrouwen 's avonds veilig over straat kunnen. En dat ze niet hoeven na te denken over hoe ze zich gedragen of hoe ze zich kleden. Want uiteindelijk is veiligheid voor ons allemaal belangrijk."

Met de campagne hoopt de politie eveneens op tips om de moord op Mariska Klompenhouwer op te lossen. Ze werd op 35-jarige leeftijd op de dag voor Koninginnedag 2001 na een avondje uit in Rotterdam dood gevonden op het parkeerterrein bij Ahoy. Het Openbaar Ministerie heeft de beloning voor de gouden tip verhoogd naar 25.000 euro.

2025 moest het jaar van de waarheid worden voor ondernemer Hennie van der Most en zijn pretpark in Rotterdam-Zuid. Maar hij kan Rivoli niet meer afmaken. Na jaren van oprakend geld en afnemend vertrouwen vanuit de gemeente, heeft het pretpark een nieuwe eigenaar. Hoe kon het zo misgaan?