NRC-columnist Floor Rusman kreeg in september te horen dat ze eierstokkanker had. Deze zomer schrijft ze wekelijks over wat er in haar hoofd gebeurde toen haar lichaam een bedreiging werd.

Nadat er in het weekend ongeregeldheden waren na de wedstrijd van Marokko tegen Canada, werd er bij programma’s als ‘Vandaag Inside’ in apocalyptische woorden vooruitgeblikt op de wedstrijd van donderdagavond. Blijft Amsterdam overeind?

De autoriteiten in Spanje houden er rekening mee dat veel slachtoffers van de dodelijke natuurbrand in de Zuid-Spaanse provincie Almería uit het buitenland komen.

Deze zomer luncht NRC mee bij organisaties en bedrijven in het buitenland. Deze week: India. „Mijn eten moet een human touch hebben. Ik vind het fijn dat het door iemand gemaakt wordt die ik vertrouw en die weet wat ik lekker vind.”

"I've loved the sickbay on Star Trek: The Next Generation since I was a teenager... Cortical stimulators that revive the unconscious, no matter how traumatising their injuries. Biobeds that enclose patients within sensor arrays, short metal tunnels that scan and analyse —all, I imagine, while keeping sick and hurt beings warm... Our delivery suite has a pseudo-dot-matrix printer, a team of blue scrubs, and the promise of a scalpel."

What the attack on Monticello cost was not the truth. The truth is in the ground, in the archive, in the oral histories collected beginning in 1993, in the names Stanton and Swann-Wright recovered, in the descendants' faces in the photographs taken on the West Lawn steps. Those things were put in the record by specific people doing specific work over three decades, and they remain; the work was done carefully enough that it survives the institution's retreat from it. What the attack cost was the institution's willingness to stand in front of that truth without flinching. That is a real cost.

jspeter9191 has added a photo to the pool:

In the afternoon at my village(Tallawong), Sydney, Australia.
God bless you.

A staff member sent the personal details of around 150 women who were in contact with a Scottish NHS Trust’s maternity services to their own personal email account, the Trust has revealed. NHS Forth Valley, the health board that oversees NHS services in the region between Edinburgh and Glasgow, said it is investigating the matter and has contacted the women affected. “An internal investigation is underway after a member of staff transferred a spreadsheet containing an extract of data from our maternity system to their personal email address,” a spokesperson said. "While the majority of information in the spreadsheet is unidentifiable, it contained some lines of data relating to a number of women who had accessed local maternity services. "There is no evidence that the information has been shared any wider at this stage, and the member of staff has also advised that they have now deleted the data.” NHS Forth Valley has contacted to data subjects directly and informed a number of other relevant organizations, including the UK Information Commissioner. A new mum who was one of the circa 150 women affected by the data mishap, told the Fakirk Herald, which first reported the story, that she was experiencing anxiety that her details were out in the public domain. The woman reportedly was told by NHS Forth Valley that the information was transferred for analytical purposes and concerned a fully qualified, non-clinical staff member, and not a junior. She was also informed that the data in the spreadsheet included full names, dates of birth, NHS numbers, pregnancy treatment information, and the patients’ total number of children. NHS Forth Valley said it had made Police Scotland and the Information Commissioner’s Office aware of what happened. The UK’s health service, for all its merits, has a far from sparkling record when it comes to email-based data breaches. Between bungled Freedom of Information responses to the BCC function proving too difficult for staff members, the NHS and wider UK public sector have been the subject of their fair share of blunders in recent years. Two separate Trusts – Chelsea and Westminster and NHS Highland – failed to protect HIV patients’ data when bulk-sending responses via the CC field instead of the BCC field in recent years. Between 2020 and 2021, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was also found exposing extraneous data in spreadsheets sent as part of FoI responses. And perhaps our favorite NHS clanger of all, the service’s Digital division, no less, exposed hundreds of email addresses via a failed BCC attempt when sending four separate emails to attendees of a cybersecurity event. ®

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