Zieke mensen met een ernstige psychische aandoening zijn te vaak aan zichzelf overgeleverd, waarschuwt de ggz. Dat komt doordat hulp stopt op het moment dat iemand van zorg, woning of instantie verandert. De voorzitter van de branchevereniging: „Iemand mag niet ineens alleen komen te staan.”
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Minder verpakkingsafval en duurzamer materiaalgebruik, daar moeten nieuwe EU-regels voor verpakkingen vanaf woensdag toe leiden. Betrokkenen klagen over onduidelijkheid en kleine online handelaars zeggen dat ze niet meer over de grens kunnen handelen wegens een registratieplicht in elk EU-land. „Ik zou voor één Zweedse klant 200 euro aan registratiekosten moeten betalen.”
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Since Bumble’s launch in 2014, only women could initiate conversations in heterosexual matches on the app
Bumble on Tuesday said it would begin allowing either person in a match to send the first message, dropping the women-first messaging rule that has been a defining feature of the dating app since its launch in 2014.
The move comes as dating-app companies across the globe grapple with user fatigue toward traditional swipe-based platforms and slowing growth, prompting some, including Bumble and Tinder-owner Match Group, to roll out new features and artificial intelligence-powered tools aimed at improving engagement.
Continue reading...Uefa, Concacaf and AFC working together on system
Fifa has ignored calls for an independent review
Gianni Infantino’s opponents are working together to produce a new framework for running world football to replace what they regard as a system of patronage that Fifa has adopted since he replaced Sepp Blatter as president 10 years ago.
Repeated calls from Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation for an independent review of Fifa’s governance have been ignored by Infantino since this plan to sell off 21% of the World Cup was made public a fortnight ago, and the rebels are now understood to have taken matters into their own hands.
Continue reading...The prime minister’s money-saving policies are popular but they are yet to convince voters he can take on the big things
It was last year that Martin Lewis, the money-saving guru, advised the government to find “100 small things that piss people off” and set about sorting them out.
That approach has been adopted almost immediately by Andy Burnham since entering office, as he began his programme of “everyday fixes” to tackle problems that can be dealt with through minor policy tweaks.
Continue reading...Is there any science behind the recommendations? Will they result in lower vaccination rates? And will they cause a resurgence of preventable diseases?
A new executive order from the US president, Donald Trump, calls for sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations.
His plans would result in fewer vaccines being recommended overall; the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine being replaced with three separate shots, and all childhood immunisations being administered during separate medical visits “to the maximum extent feasible”.
Continue reading...James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:
What animal do you see in this Webb image?!
A bird? An elephant? A giraffe? Let your imagination run wild!
This is Webb’s infrared view of part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region also home to the Cosmic Cliffs, which was one of the first images released by Webb. Here Webb captures a different aspect of Carina, a feature called the “Treasure Chest,” which is an object known as a cometary globule. A cometary globule is an isolated cloud of gas and dust with a dense, dark head and a sweeping tail. These clouds often somewhat resemble comets, but the Treasure Chest looks distinctly like a wooden chest with its lid wide open…or the plumes of a space chicken! Inside is a compact cluster of young and massive stars, wrapped up in dust, some of which are surrounded by disks that may one day produce planets.
Just outside the field of view, just 39 light years away, is Eta Carinae, a well-known star system containing at least two stars, one of which is 100 times more massive than the Sun - and 5 million times more luminous. Between massive stars external to the nebula, as well as the ones buried within, its dust and gasses are being carved out by stellar radiation and winds.
Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2607a/
Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Reiter
Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç
Image Description: A region of space filled with bright stars and clouds of gas. In the center, the densest clouds form the shape of a chest with its lid open. The chest appears to glow from within. At its base it breaks apart into long pillars of thick gas. Many of the gas clouds in the background are dark orange globules, while others form large, pale hazes. A few brightly shining stars lie in the foreground, the biggest and brightest in front of the chest’s lid.
