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Telehealth abortion demand is soaring. But access may come down to where you live
By Pien Huang,
Mara Gordon
Published May 20, 2022 at 6:34 AM EDT
Shane Tolentino for NPR
On the day of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, a woman named Nora was at home in her one-bedroom apartment getting through a medical abortion. She'd stocked up on menstrual pads and painkillers, and steeled herself to get through a tough day.
Having children "is something I so badly want," Nora told NPR, "but I'm 22 and I'm poor, and I just can't even wrap my head around it."
(NPR is using Nora's first name only out of concern for her personal safety.)
For Nora, who lives in upstate New York, deciding to end the pregnancy was hard. But getting the Food and Drug Administration-approved abortion pills was not.
She got a medical consult online and received the pills by mail, through a provider called Aid Access. It's one of a handful of U.S. telehealth abortion services that have sprung up in recent years.
The services, with names like HeyJane and Abortion on Demand, have used pandemic-era changes to rules around telehealth and abortion medications to fulfill a growing demand for safe, at-home abortions.
As many U.S. states gear up to restrict abortion access in anticipation of the Supreme Court decision, the physicians, midwives and nurse practitioners behind these services are preparing for an even bigger surge in demand.
"The future of abortion access is going to be getting pills out there and into the hands of people," says Robin Tucker, a nurse midwife and nurse practitioner who provides abortions through Aid Access and in private practice. "That's one of the interventions that can provide the most autonomy in an environment where people are going to lose reproductive rights."
Groups that provide abortion pills are also preparing to face significant new obstacles, as anti-abortion states push back against expanded online access. Both patients and clinicians are testing the boundaries of a service that is fully legal in many states — but operates in a legal gray area in others.
Transforming abortion care
Prior to the pandemic, getting an abortion in the U.S. could be a difficult, complex and often expensive process for women and other pregnant people. Telehealth abortion has rapidly transformed that.
In the past, patients usually had to go to freestanding clinics that offer abortion – and often had to drive quite far to get to one. That takes "time to arrange child care, time off work, gas money, finding a place to stay," says Dr. Jamie Phifer, founder and medical director of Abortion on Demand, a company that sends abortion medications through the mail. Patients also faced harassment from anti-abortion protestors, who often targeted the clinics.
Now, patients can access pill abortions privately from home, with a credit card and a few taps on a smartphone.
"Most of my patients are sitting in their parked cars ... Some of them are sitting on the couch, breastfeeding their infants," says Phifer, whose organization currently provides abortion pills to patients in 21 states. "Telemedicine abortion actually folds into normal, everyday experiences that abortion care couldn't otherwise do."
For Nora, the experience of getting the pills was "quick and easy" – "I sent the email [to Aid Access], thought nothing of it, and went to work," she says, "They reached back to me immediately."
In a span of about two weeks, Nora realized she was pregnant, decided to get an abortion, got a consult and the pills through Aid Access and completed the abortion.
Telehealth abortions are medication-based abortions that generally rely on a two-drug combination. The first drug, mifepristone, blocks a hormone needed to continue an early pregnancy, and the second, misoprostol, contracts the uterus to expel the pregnancy. The FDA has said the pills are safe and effective for ending pregnancies up to ten weeks; the World Health Organization says they work up to 12 weeks.
While the pills were approved by the FDA in 2000, their use made up just under a quarter of all abortions by 2011, lagging behind procedural, or "surgical," abortions. By 2020 medication-based abortions accounted for just over half of abortions in the United States.
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Bottles of the drug misoprostol sit on a table at the West Alabama Women's Center on Tuesday, March 15, 2022 in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Telehealth abortions are medication-based abortions that generally rely on a two-drug combination. The first drug, mifepristone, blocks a hormone needed to continue an early pregnancy, and the second, misoprostol, contracts the uterus to expel the pregnancy.
Until the pandemic, FDA regulations made it complicated to get the medications. Patients had to see a certified clinician in person at a clinic or hospital to get the pills.
Then in 2021, the FDA changed some of those regulations, making it legal for the medicine to be sent in the mail. The pandemic also brought a boom of telehealth services in all fields of medicine, as insurance companies expanded coverage for online visits.
The result has been an surge of requests for abortion pills, say online abortion providers. And with further restrictions on abortion looming, demand continues to grow.
"It's been exponential," says Christie Pitney, a nurse midwife who provides medication abortions through Aid Access and in private practice. In the 24-hour period after the news broke about the impending Supreme Court decision, Pitney says, Aid Access' website traffic went up 2800%.
Legal gray areas ahead
Despite its fast expansion, abortion-rights advocates caution that telehealth abortion will not be a quick fix to the problem of abortion access if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
For Nora, who lives in New York, every step of her telehealth abortion – from filling in a form online, to getting the pills by mail – was fully legal. Indeed, most telehealth abortion providers comply with state laws and officially operate only in states where their services are legal.
But that leaves potential gaps in access amid a legal landscape that's shifting quickly.
"We're in uncharted territory," says Alina Salganicoff, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation and their director of women's health policy. "I think it's going to be challenging for providers. I think it's going to be challenging for patients. And I think we're going to see a lot of litigation as these cases move forward."
There are many kinds of state laws restricting abortion, and "whether it's gestational age limits, state-mandated ultrasound, extended waiting periods – they also apply to telemedicine abortions within that state," says Phifer of Abortion on Demand.
And some states like Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee have specifically banned using telehealth services for abortion. Others, like Texas, have criminalized sending abortion medications in the mail.
Many of these state-level laws are in flux: a number of them have been blocked by lower courts because Roe is still in effect, but if abortion rights are overturned they may well stick.
Salganicoff, who researches telehealth abortion, says there are many legal "gray areas" which are likely to become even more ambiguous if Roe is overturned: What will it mean for a patient to get an abortion in one state if her doctor is in another? What will happen to friends or family members that send pills to patients in states where abortion is banned? Can anti-abortion states prosecute doctors across state lines, and will abortion-friendly states be able to protect their clinicians?
"One issue is how the rules will play out, and the other issue is how they will be enforced," Salganicoff says, "The lawyers will be busy."
Abortion rights activists are petitioning blue states to protect their clinicians from penalties. "We're lobbying the state to pass assurances that my license will not be in jeopardy; that my malpractice will not be in jeopardy; and that I will not be extradited to another state and prosecuted," says a New-York based telehealth abortion provider who asked to remain anonymous out of fear for her family's safety.
States including Connecticut, California and Washington have passed, or are considering passing, laws to protect their clinicians from liability, according to KFF's Salganicoff.
"If I have these protections, I would be able to send medication abortion pills to people in any state, with the understanding that this is an FDA-approved medication, and that I am providing a service that I am licensed to do," the New York provider says. "This can't take a backseat because, for people who can't afford to hop a plane to New York, California, to states [where abortion will remain legal], they basically are not going to have access."
Patients in states where telehealth abortion is banned or in legal limbo could turn to one organization that will still provide the pills. Aid Access has a workaround for states where telehealth abortion is illegal. Their founder, a doctor who is based in Europe, uses an Indian pharmacy to send abortion pills to patients in states where their U.S. providers can not. This approach works for now, but sits in a legal limbo between U.S. and international law, and there are some drawbacks; getting the drugs from India can delay the abortion by several weeks.
For anti-abortion groups, reducing abortions is the goal. They are hopeful that if the Supreme Court overrules Roe, abortion everywhere – including telehealth abortion – will be more difficult to access.
"The real moral question of: 'What is pre-born human life? And doesn't that deserve to be protected?'" says Dr. Michael Valley, an obstetrician gynecologist and member of American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "That will be a question that ultimately, depending on the decision, goes back to the states and the people to decide."
'Not a panacea'
Beside legal restrictions, there are other obstacles to using telemedicine for abortions. For one thing, majority of people who seek abortions are poor or low-income, and may not have the resources or technology seek abortion care online.
People without reliable internet access may find it difficult to use web platforms or video chat software. It might be hard for some people to get a pill shipment in the mail, if they don't have stable housing or a place to open a package in private.
"We can't assume that telemedicine abortion is a panacea," Abortion on Demand's Phifer says. "It's not going to serve everybody, and it can't."
Telehealth abortion providers say they screen for complications, such as patients with symptoms of ectopic pregnancies or severe anemia, as well as those with pregnancies at a later gestational age. These patients may not be good candidates for fully remote abortions, and may be advised to seek in-person care.
Still, some doctors worry that these remote screenings will miss critical warnings that would be picked up with ultrasounds and bloodwork — must-haves in the traditional model of care.
"It just does a disservice to women to not provide the care that we always have," says Valley. "We have to do better – medical providers as well as our society as a whole – to support those mothers."
But telehealth abortion providers point to the growing body of research that shows that, for patients who are good candidates, these methods are safe and effective and patients are satisfied with the experience. Even without an ultrasound very few people require in-person follow-up care, like an emergency room visit.
And for those who have cleared the logistical and medical hurdles, the experience can still be weighted with social pressure and shame. Though her actions were legal, Nora felt like she had to hide what was happening when she got her abortion. "It was very lonely, even though I have a monstrous unit of support," she says.
Her mom spotted her $150 for the pills. Her boyfriend stayed with her through the whole experience, except when he ran out to get her orange juice. "I just told a couple of important people," she says. Even so, it was hard to take the casual judgment and vitriol she heard online and around her – with the Supreme Court's leaked draft decision in the news.
Pitney, a clinician with Aid Access, says the service prides itself on providing discreet abortion access, very few questions asked. But it's not the ideal situation: "I hate that we're having to work in a society where we need these workarounds. But I appreciate that they're available," she says.
Still Phifer, who works for Abortion on Demand, says that for most of her patients, the whole process is simple to navigate because the pills are so safe.
"The most common feedback we get is: 'I can't believe this is so easy. I'm crying because this is so easy,'" Phifer says. "It folds into their everyday lives compared to in-person care where you had to travel to the clinic, you had to set up child care, often you had to take time off of work ... It feels more normal for people."
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Pien Huang is a health reporter on the Science desk. She was NPR's first Reflect America Fellow, working with shows, desks and podcasts to bring more diverse voices to air and online.
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What can a Fulbright grant offer an artist?
The following interview features Roberta Levitow, a former Fulbright Specialist in theatre, and was originally posted on the TCG Circle. Levitow is an emeritus of the Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador Program. Fulbright Stories is an interview series conducted by Theatre Communications Group with theatre practitioners who received a Fulbright grant.
March 27th is World Theatre Day, but TCG is celebrating the values of WTD throughout the month of March. Leading up to the 50th Anniversary of World Theatre Day, TCG is launching Fulbright Stories on the TCG Circle. In this series, we'll be speaking with theatre practitioners who received a Fulbright grant to live and work abroad. The Fulbright program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, offers opportunities for artists to undertake research, teaching and study and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. In exploring TCG's core value of Global Citizenship, we hope this series can inform and inspire theatre-makers to deepen and enrich their work globally.
To introduce the series, we'll be talking to Roberta Levitow, co-founder of Theatre Without Borders and former Fulbright Specialist. As a Fulbright Specialist in U.S. Studies/Theatre, Roberta worked at Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda 2007), the National University of Theatre & Cinematography (Bucharest, Romania 2005), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2003). Since being tapped as a Fulbright Ambassador in 2010, Levitow has made it her job (or, one of her many jobs) to encourage artist-practitioners who are curious about international travel to consider participation in the Fulbright program.
To my knowledge Fulbright is still the most reliable, long-standing mechanism to support international exchange for American students, scholars and artists. I don't believe that there's a comparable funding source. It gets you over there. Wherever you want to go in the world. There are longer-term Core grants, from 2-9 months, and those are ideal for research, teaching, study or collaboration projects. Those grants give people rare opportunities to build deep and lasting relationships with artists and communities within another culture. And there are short-term Specialist grants, for 2-6 weeks, which are great for people who want a shorter, intense exchange. For many professional artists, people who are deeper into their careers, leaving home for longer than 2-6 weeks may not be feasible. Specialist grants can work for those professionals who are ready to share their expertise about American theatre. Fulbright welcomes diverse applications based on the goals of the applicant. There's really no determining mandate outside the artist's proposal, except that you create a mutually acceptable and desirable grant proposal with your host country— that's key. There are other great grants, like TCG's Global Connections grant, but there are many, many more people who apply for those grants than get them, so what else is available for people who have an interest in international exchange? Fulbright is a singular way to have a life-changing experience, personally and professionally.
What got you interested in the Fulbright?
I was at Bennington College and I was teaching a really bad class on world theatre. I was at "a certain age", and I wanted something renewing. I had lost some of my own enthusiasm for the work I was doing. I taught a really bad class on world theatre because I knew nothing about world theatre—I'd been in American new play development for 35 years, so I really knew nothing. On the day that we were studying African theatre a student turned to me and said 'Wouldn't it be great to go to Africa?' And I thought 'It would'. So I started looking around for opportunities and was linked up to a project through Martha Coigney and Philip Arnoult. And after I did that project in East Africa in 2001, I came home thinking 'I really have to find ways to continue engaging internationally'. I found the Specialist Grant opportunity on the Fulbright website and applied. In less than two years, I was an artist-in-residence at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
I feel like the Fulbright is an underutilized grant for artists; we see the word 'scholar' and think that it's only for academics or researchers. What do you think holds artists back from applying to the grant?
You're right, it doesn't announce that artists are eligible the same way it announces scholars- which is the history of the program. It doesn't announce availability to artists the way most artist grants do. So if you're used to looking at Guggenheim or MacDowell Colony or TCG or Sundance, you're used to being talked to directly, artist to artist. But you're not going to have that, so you just have to push on through and trust that we mean it, and that the Fulbright really does want artists and other professionals to submit applications. The other thing is sometimes people don't know anyone in the place they want to go, they just know the name of a country or a kind of theatre they've seen and want exposure to. The distance between being there and wanting to be there is intimidating. Because it is a journey, and it does take time to build those relationships, to figure out what you really want to do. So some of the grants are not necessarily for tomorrow, they're grants for the day after tomorrow, or next year, or the year after that.
And what do you think makes someone an ideal candidate for the Fulbright? What qualities prepare someone for the experience?
I just got another email at Theatre Without Borders, and I get them often, saying, 'I've been thinking, I really want to go to, fill in the blank, India. Africa.' These are big entities, the African continent contains over 50 countries. So, Africa–where? Or 'I want to go to India.' India's a big country! There are many different cultural expressions there, so which style of Indian performance are you interested in? Traditional? Contemporary? Many times the interest is expressed in this very nascent way, it's just like, 'I have a feeling I'm drawn towards.' And I think that's actually a very positive thing. It's that feeling that will create a good grant proposal. You have to have a feeling that you're personally drawn towards something: an aesthetic, an artist, a place. But then I think ideally the person begins a journey of exploration and discovery and that journey opens the person to a universe of nation, culture, personality, language that is new and different. It's also important for a person to have a sense of give and take, not just take and not just give. It's important to go not as a teacher but as a learner. The inquiries that TWB receives are so often variations on this theme. Sometimes people want to go and help, sometimes people want to go and give, but the best is when people want to go and learn. Because really the great discovery is that it's not only going to be you learning about another place and culture, it's going to be you learning about yourself. You're going with the intention of learning about others and you come home learning so profoundly about yourself and your own background. That's the life changing part, isn't it? That's what changes you. You never see yourself in the same way and you never see other people -or the world- in the same way.
The Fulbright Program offers over 8,000 grants each year to U.S. and foreign students, scholars, teachers, artists, scientists and professionals. View a full list of Fulbright grant categories and programs. To learn more about Fulbright Programs for artists, click here.
Roberta Levitow is a director, dramaturg, and teacher; Co-founder Theatre Without Borders, www.theatrewithoutborders.com; Co-creator TWB/Peacebuilding and the Arts Program at Brandeis University "ACTING TOGETHER" Project: Artistic Associate Sundance Institute East Africa. Fulbright Specialist Makerere University, Uganda; The National University of Theatre and Cinematography, Romania; Chinese University of Hong Kong. Honoree 2003 15th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre. Accomplishments and writings are featured in The New York Times, American Theatre Magazine, Theatre in Crisis?: Performance Manifestos for a New Century, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and Writing the World: On Globalization. A graduate of Stanford University; faculty UCLA and Bennington College. Presently Fulbright Ambassador.
Jaki Bradley is an Artistic and International Programs intern at TCG and a 2010-2011 Fulbright U.S. Student grantee.


I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season! We are very busy at Wheelock focusing on teaching and learning as we incorporate some fun activities for the boys and girls.
Yesterday we enjoyed a great Good Character assembly from Miss Connolly's class and Mrs. Laliberte's class. This month's word is Compassion. At Wheelock we are trying to model this great trait for our students. They showed great understanding yesterday as we related compassion to daily life experiences.
In our pictures, you can see grade 2 singing a lovely song so appropriate for our message, accompanied by Mrs. Stover. Next see us taking a quiz on comapssion, using a great app, Plickers, which can record our responses for quick checks.
As we head into Friday, we are excited to host a concert conducted by Mr. Doug Olsen and the MHS Jazz Band. As you can see, the children are mesmerized!
On Wednesday of next week we hold our annual Pajama Day and holiday parties. MHS music students return to "Carol Around the School"!


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Learning "all about me" includes getting to know each other. This is very important so that we can support each and every child in terms of their settling in and happiness in the setting.
There are many ways to extend this topic including simply using the information for background understanding for the future.
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With halloween coming too, we need to keep a fine balance through our activities between factual learning as well as a little bit of "spookiness" without being scary!
One approach to our planning is where we start our learning by understanding the children's current knowledge. Then we look for opportunities to extend their knowledge through fun and creative activities. And finally we ask the children what they have learned - to find out whether we successfully assisted their learning journey. But that's not the end really, since we recap on an ongoing basis as we progress through our continuing learning and discoveries.


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A desperately needed signal
When you live in Turkey for some time and follow the news, you could get used to the considerable power the military still has in this country. They interfere in politics all the time on all sorts of issues, from the Kurdish question and relations with Armenia to matters of freedom of expression and freedom of religion. It's a Turkish reality, but of course it's not normal in a country that calls itself a democracy and wants to become more democratic. But now it seems that gradually things are once again changing a little for the army. In short: they will have to take responsibility for their actions.
One of the discussions going on is about the 1980 coup. The participants were never brought to trial due to a constitutional stumbling block. Now even the opposition party CHP says the law needs to be amended so that for example coup leader Kenan Evren can be brought to court. Evren reacted in a not very mature way, one could say: he threatened to commit suicide if he is brought to trial. Still, bringing the people behind the 1980coup to trial is exactly what is needed to put an end to the way the army continually gets away with mingling in politics. After 1980 there have been other coups, although not involving tanks: in 1997 the military forced the government of (Islamic) Prime Minister Necmattin Erbakan to step down because they were allegedly a threat to the secular principles of the state. And only a few years ago, in 2007, the army threatened governing party AKP when they wanted to appoint Abdullah Gül as president. The people were not impressed and in the general elections a few months later voted for AKP overwhelmingly anyway, but still, the army tried to interfere again.
And now there is ongoing tension about the plans to topple the AKP government and the Gülen movement, which were (apparently) signed by an army colonel, Dursun Çiçek. These sorts of blatant interference in politics can only stop if the impunity of the army comes to an end.
A step is now being taken in that direction: a few days ago, the parliament introduced a law that makes it possible to try military personnel in civilian courts for crimes committed in peacetime, including plotting against a government and planning a coup. To be honest, I'm a bit afraid the law will never be passed. Opposition party CHP has already called on president Gül to veto the law because in their eyes it's against the constitution. If Gül approves the law anyway (which is expected), CHP might take it to the Constitutional Court (like they often do), which would probably throw the law into the rubbish bin. That would be a shame. But maybe, maybe the CHP will keep its word and actually back the AKP when it wants to amend the constitution to take the 1980 coup plotters to court. That would show that, in the end, the army can't keep on getting away with playing politics. A signal that is desperately needed.
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Season 8 of The Walking Dead.
The Walking Dead returned with a bang for its eighth season Sunday night, as Alexandria, the Hilltop and the Kingdom escalated the conflict with Negan and the Saviors to all-out war. Before leading the attack on the Sanctuary, Rick delivered one of his classic impassioned speeches about the meaning of the group's mission.
However, there were also a series of cryptic flash-forwards interspersed with the present-day battle scenes that featured a much older Rick waking up in his home with Michonne, Carl and Judith followed by a wildly distressed Rick alone in an unclear location. "My mercy prevails over my wrath," the tearful Rick whispers near the end of the episode.
The old-man Rick sequence was teased in the trailer for the season that premiered at San Diego Comic-Con and led fans to speculate that the show intended to mirror the time-jump that takes place in the Walking Dead comic books following the war with Negan. But judging by the setup of the premiere, it seems more likely that it is only Rick's vision of what could have been if he and his family had been able to live in peace.
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What courses are available for BE Mechanical graduates?
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I see a trend among Mechanical engineers towards CAD / CAM courses. Have you considered those? Let us know what kid of job you are looking for so that our fellow engineers can make better suggestions.
Sir, I am good at Catia, Solidworks, Ansys as well. But I don't know where should I go.
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Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappointed...
In this paean to the pleasures of language, Gass equates his text with the body of Babs Masters, the lonesome wife of the title, to advance the conceit that a parallel should exist between a woman and her lover and a book and its reader. Disappointed by her inattentive husband/reader, Babs engages in an exuberant display of the physical charms of language to entice an illicit new lover: a man named Gelvin in one sense, but more importantly, the reader of this "essay-novella" which, in the years since its first appearance in 1968 as a supplement to TriQuarterly, has attained the status of a postmodernist classic.
Like Laurence Sterne and Lewis Carroll before him, Gass uses a variety of visual devices: photographs, comic-strip balloons, different typefaces, parallel story lines (sometimes three or four to the page), even coffee stains. As Larry McCaffery has pointed out, "the lonesome lady of the book's title, who is gradually revealed to be lady language herself, creates an elaborate series of devices which she hopes will draw attention to her slighted charms [and] force the reader to confront what she literally is: a physically exciting literary text."
"The lonesome wife is, plainly, poetry lonesome for the poet: if she is truly courted and loved, instead of insultingly 'had', she will respond accordingly and save the language" - The New York Times
"(B)ehind the fussiness of much of the book there is a real urgency, a powerful vision of the loneliness inherent in writing (you write because you can't speak, for whatever reason) and of writing as a useful and articulate image for loneliness of other kinds." - Michael Wood, The New York Review of Books


Autumn is officially here! And so, we break more ground!
John and Nikke Hedin and their son breaking ground on Monday morning.
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RMT has confirmed that the two strikes planned for February will go ahead but that their members will now walk out from 9pm on Tuesday 4 February until 8:59pm Thursday 6 February and from 9pm Tuesday 11 February until 8:59pm Thursday 13 February.
It is as part of the row over the closure of all 260 tube ticket offices on London Underground, with the loss of 1,000 jobs. The unions say the move will affect safety and security but LU claims it will mean more staff on platforms, free to answer commuter queries.
Yesterday a second union voted for strike action on London Underground. Members of the TSSA will also walk out on the 4th and 11th of February. It is not currently clear if their strike action will also begin at 9pm or not.
Today the DLR staff called off their planned strike action for 29th & 20th January.
Richard Tracey, Conservative London Assembly Member for Wandsworth and Merton, said: "Yet again, militant RMT bosses are blackmailing workers and businesses with strike misery, which is backed by just 31% of their membership. If these strikes go ahead, it will be our workers who don't get paid if they can't get to work and businesses who will miss out on vital trade. RMT seems to be doing everything in its power to block innovation and progress on our tube network, while making sure their members pockets are lined with £46K salaries to drive trains, some of which are driverless capable, and bribes just to do their job on public holidays. Closing ticket offices will save £50 million every year and put staff around stations where they can serve the public effectively."
Phil Hufton, LU's Chief Operating Officer, said: "Our customers and staff are at the heart of our vision for the future of the Tube. All Tube stations will remain staffed at all times when services are operating, and we'll be introducing a 24-hour service at weekends during 2015. In future, there will be more staff in ticket halls and on platforms to help customers buy the right ticket and keep them safe and secure.
"We're committed to working with unions and staff to implement changes to station staffing without compulsory redundancies and we've been clear that there'll be a job for everyone at LU who wants to work for us and be flexible. I urge our trade union colleagues to work with us to shape the future of the Tube. "


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Over 18% of people get more D than they need—and 3.2% take potentially dangerous doses.
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Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin; in order for humans to produce it, their skin must be exposed to sunlight. People can also get vitamin D from fortified foods (like milk, orange juice, and cereal in the United States), some fatty fish, and from dietary supplements.
Scientists know that vitamin D is important for bone and brain health, and in recent years, the nutrient has been touted as a potential "miracle" treatment for everything from headaches to heart disease to the flu. Vitamin D deficiencies have been linked to numerous health problems, and low levels are common in the U.S., especially during the winter.
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But studies on vitamin D haven't been overwhelmingly positive. A 2011 Institute of Medicine report concluded that doses of more than 4,000 IU a day could cause unusually high levels of calcium in the blood, which could lead to hardening of blood vessels or soft tissues. Other studies have found little to no benefit, in terms of cancer or heart-disease risk, of vitamin D at higher than "normal" levels.
With all that in mind, researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health wanted to see if there's been an increase in people taking high doses of these supplements. "There's been a lot of buzz around vitamin D and its potential benefits, and we were curious if that meant people were taking more of it," says lead author and PhD student Mary Rooney.
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By 2013–2014, however, that number had jumped to 18.2%. "I thought we would see an increase, but it was to a greater extent than expected," says Rooney.
Similarly, less than 0.1% of people took doses of more than 4,000 IU a day in the years prior to 2005–2006. But by the end of the study, 3.2% were taking these potentially dangerous doses.
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Improving regulation for business and the community
The Policy Lab was established in the Department of Finance (Finance) in October 2022.
This Lab sits within the Regulatory Reform Division of Finance and is responsible for regulation-related policy research, analysis and development. It is a centre of excellence and innovation in regulation design and practice across the Australian Public Service.
The Policy Lab is currently developing its work plan for 2023. It seeks to build the capability of Australian Government regulators and policy makers through applied economic research and analysis, and knowledge dissemination.
Closely engaged with a wide range of stakeholders to understand and address regulatory problems, the Policy Lab aims to deliver better outcomes for the Australian community.
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Gottfried Merzbacher (ur. 9 grudnia 1843 w Baiersdorf, zm. 14 kwietnia 1926 w Monachium) – niemiecki podróżnik i alpinista.

Pochodził z zasiedziałej we Frankonii rodziny żydowskiej. Urodził się jako syn handlarza futer Maxa Merzbachera i Jette z domu Rauh. Uczęszczał najpierw do szkoły w rodzinnym mieście, a następnie do gimnazjum realnego w Erlangen. Zgodnie z tradycją rodzinną miał zostać kuśnierzem, zawodu uczył się w Paryżu, Sankt Petersburgu i Londynie. W 1868 roku otworzył swój własny zakład w Monachium przy Residenzstraße 14. Zapewnił mu on finansową niezależność i pozwolił na realizowanie pasji, jaką były wspinaczki górskie.

Koniec lat 70. XIX wieku był świadkiem jego pierwszych udanych wyczynów alpinistycznych, szczególnie w pasmie Brenty na północ od jeziora Garda i w Dolomitach, m.in. na Monte Schiara. 16 czerwca 1881 roku wsławił się, zdobywając szczyt Totenkirchl w Kaisergebirge w Północnych Alpach Wapiennych. Droga, którą wówczas pokonał, do dziś nosi jego imię ("Merzbacherweg").

W 1891 roku wraz z Ludwigiem Purtschellerem przedsięwziął pierwszą wyprawę w Kaukaz. W roku 1902 udał się na wyprawę do Środkowej Azji, w centralny Tienszan, podczas której spenetrował lodowce Muszkietowa i Siemionowa. W roku następnym osiągnął on w tych górach lodowiec Inylczek i jego południową odnogą dotarł do stóp potężnego Chan Tengri.

W uznaniu jego dokonań w 1901 roku wydział filozofii Uniwersytetu w Monachium uhonorował go tytułem doktorskim, został też drugim przewodniczącym Monachijskiego Towarzystwa Geograficznego. Rok 1907 przyniósł mu Bawarski Order Zasługi i tytuł profesora królewskiego. Listę jego zasług uzupełniły liczne nagrody i wyróżnienia krajowe i zagraniczne.

Po jego śmierci jego obszerna biblioteka przeszła na własność Bawarskiej Biblioteki Państwowej.

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 Aus den Hochregionen des Kaukasus: Wanderungen, Erlebnisse, Beobachtungen. Duncker & Humblot 1901
 The Central Tian-Shan Mountains 1902-1903. J. Murray 1905

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Bibliografia
 Peter Grimm. Merzbacher, Gottfried W: Neue Deutsche Biographie Bd. 17, Melander – Moller, Berlin, 1994 s. 205
 Prof. Dr. Gottfried Merzbacher, Munich (Dec. 9, 1843 in Baiersdorf – April 14, 1926 in Munich)

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Walter Kemp is Senior Director for Europe and Central Asia at the International Peace Institute
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The peace map is a work in progress. Its biggest asset is that it is a unique platform for highlighting the work of organizations involved in IRD. Hopefully they, and others that are not yet on the map, will provide a steady supply of fresh information to ensure that the map remains up-to-date and dynamic.
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The Vineyard: A Novel
By Barbara Delinsky
Read by Beth Fowler
Barbara Delinsky Simon & Schuster Audio
To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir. Olivia Jones lives vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter Tess have no one, so they cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family is out there somewhere. When Natalie hires Olivia to help with her memoir, a summer at Natalie's beautiful vineyard by the sea seems the perfect opportunity to live out that fantasy. But all is not as it seems at the vineyard in Rhode Island -- Natalie is not quite the mothering type. Simon Burke, who runs the vineyard's day-to-day operation, sees in Olivia and Tess an unwelcome reminder of the wife and daughter he tragically lost. The Vineyard is a fascinating story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other.
To her family, Natalie Seebring is a woman who prizes appearances. So when she announces plans to marry a vineyard employee mere months after the death of her husband of fifty-eight years, her son and daughter are stunned. Faced with their disapproval, Natalie decides to write a memoir.
Olivia Jones lives vicariously through the old photographs she restores. She and her daughter Tess have no one, so they cling to the fantasy that a big, happy family is out there somewhere. When Natalie hires Olivia to help with her memoir, a summer at Natalie's beautiful vineyard by the sea seems the perfect opportunity to live out that fantasy.
But all is not as it seems at the vineyard in Rhode Island -- Natalie is not quite the mothering type. Simon Burke, who runs the vineyard's day-to-day operation, sees in Olivia and Tess an unwelcome reminder of the wife and daughter he tragically lost.
The Vineyard is a fascinating story of two women, a generation apart, each of whose dream becomes bound with the other.
Author Bio: Barbara Delinsky
Barbara Delinsky, author of Escape, Not My Daughter, While My Sister Sleeps, The Secret Between Us, and Family Tree, has written more than twenty bestselling novels with over thirty million copies in print. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she also wrote a nonfiction book, Uplift: Secrets From the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors, which is currently in its fifth printing. All of the proceeds from the book go to charity, which funds an ongoing research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. A lifelong New Englander, Delinsky earned a BA in psychology from Tufts University and an MA in sociology from Boston College.
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I saw The Imitation Game back in December, so I can tell you that this review comes with over a month to process and appreciate just how great I really do think it is. I went into the screening with absolutely no information, other than the fact that it starred Benedict Cumberbatch and it had something to do with decoding the Soviet code. I couldn't have told you anything else, but (and I completely recommend this to everyone) I like it that way. With no preconceived notions is the best way to get the most out of a film.
Now, this was also the first thing I saw Cumberbatch in since August, Osage County. He was pretty minor in that role, so it kinda felt like my first round with him at all. And, he was brilliant. He's got a unique physicality and a distinguished facial structure that makes you appreciate him, with or without a British accent.
He plays a quiet, but confident, Alan Turing. He allows him his soapbox, his unapologetic intelligence and his secrets in a way that makes us love and adore him, while his character is berated and despised. Isn't that interesting, when a character so hated is loved by those of us on the other side of the screen? Sure, it's much to do with anticipation, but in this case, I'll give a lot of the credit to 'Batch.
His performance is complemented by the soft, whimsical role of Kiera Knightley's Joan Clark. Clark is a rare female force in the intelligence world, and one Knightley plays subtly, but poignantly. She's as adorable as ever, with fresh, contagious energy and honest determination. The role felt minimal until the end (although I don't necessarily agree that it picked up enough to earn a nod).
Matthew Goode (who I love from Stoker) plays a menace you can appreciate and the appearance of Tywin Lannister (also called Charles Dance) rounded out a nice group of intelligence officers. #GoT #Can'twaittillapril
The story is a true one, so I can't really spoil history, but if any of you are like me, I won't spoil the way this story gets retold. Know that it's something you should move toward the top of your to-see list, whether you're chasing Oscar-movie-seeing stardom, or you just need something for your Friday by-the-fire night. It's rich history told with fascinating propulsion and puts 'Batch adequately in the running for the golden statue. He's got a tough crowd to beat out, but we're proud of his reign that this flick gave him, all the same.
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Michael Snyder January 26, 2015
Radical leftists have been catapulted to power in Greece, and that means that the European financial crisis has just entered a dangerous new phase. Syriza, which is actually an acronym for "Coalition of the Radical Left" in Greek, has 36 percent of the total vote with approximately 80 percent of the polling stations reporting. The current governing party, New Democracy, only has 28 percent of the vote. Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras is promising to roll back a whole host of austerity measures that were imposed on Greece by the EU, and his primary campaign slogan was "hope is on the way." Hmmm – that sounds a bit familiar. Clearly, the Greek population is fed up with the EU after years of austerity and depression-like conditions. At this point, the unemployment rate in Greece is sitting at 25.8 percent, and the Greek economy is approximately 25 percent smaller than it was just six years ago. The people of Greece are desperate for things to get better, and so they have turned to the radical leftists. Unfortunately, things may be about to get a whole lot worse.
Once they formally have control of the government, Syriza plans to call for a European debt conference during which they plan to demand that the repayment terms of their debts be renegotiated. But the rest of Europe appears to be highly resistant to any renegotiation – especially Germany.
Syriza says that it does not plan to unilaterally pull Greece out of the eurozone, and that it also intends for Greece to continue to use the euro.
But what happens if Germany will not budge?
Syriza's entire campaign was based on promises to end austerity. If international creditors refuse to negotiate and continue to insist that Greece abide by the austerity measures that were previously put in place, what will Syriza do?
Will Syriza back down and lose all future credibility with Greek voters?
Since 2010, the Greek people have endured a seemingly endless parade of wage reductions, pension cuts, tax increases and government budget cutbacks.
The Greek people just want things to go back to the way that they used to be, and they are counting on Syriza to deliver.
Unfortunately for Syriza, delivering on those promises is not going to be easy. They may be faced with a choice of either submitting to the demands of their international creditors or choosing to leave the eurozone altogether.
And if Greece does leave the eurozone, the consequences for all of Europe could be catastrophic…
Syriza risks overplaying its hand, said International Capital Strategies' Rediker. "Given that the ECB controls the liquidity of the Greek banking system, and also serves as its regulator through the SSM (Single Supervisory Mechanism), going toe-to-toe with the ECB is one battle that could end very badly for the Greek government."
If the ECB were to stop funding the liquidity of the Greek banks, the banks could collapse—an event that could lead to Greece abandoning the euro and printing its own money once more.
Milios didn't believe it would come to that, saying, "No one wants a collapse of banks in the euro zone. This is going to be Lehman squared or to the tenth. No one wants to jeopardize the future of the euro zone."
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, because one bad move could set off a meltdown of the entire European financial system.
Even before the Greek election, the euro was already falling like a rock and economic conditions all over Europe were already getting worse.
So why would the Greeks risk pushing Europe to the brink of utter disaster?
Well, it is because economic conditions in Greece have been absolutely hellish for years and they are sick and tired of it.
For example, the BBC is reporting that many married women have become so desperate to find work in Greece that they are literally begging to work in brothels…
Some who have children and are struggling to support them have turned to sex work, to put food on the table.
Further north, in Larissa, Soula Alevridou, who owns a legal brothel, says the number of married women coming to her looking for work has doubled in the last five years.
"They plead and plead but as a legal brothel we cannot employ married women," she says. "It's illegal. So eventually they end up as prostitutes on the streets."
When people get this desperate, they do desperate things – like voting radical leftists into power.
But Greece might just be the beginning. Surveys show that the popularity of the EU is plummeting all over Europe. Just check out the following excerpt from a recent Telegraph article…
Europe is being swept by a wave of popular disenchantment and revolt against mainstream political parties and the European Union.
In 2007, a majority of Europeans – 52 per cent – trusted the EU. That level of trust has now fallen to a third.
Once, Britain's Euroscepticism was the exception, and was seen as the biggest threat to the future of the EU.
Now, other countries pose a far bigger danger thanks to the political discontents unleashed by the euro.
At this point, the future of the eurozone is in serious jeopardy.
I have a feeling that major changes in Europe are on the way which are going to shock the planet.
Meanwhile, the rest of the globe continues to slide toward another major financial crisis as well.
So many of the things that preceded the last financial crisis are happening once again. This includes a massive crash in the price of oil. Most people have absolutely no idea how critical the price of oil is to global financial markets. I like how Gerald Celente put it during an interview the other day…
I began getting recognition as a trend forecaster in 1987. The Wall Street Journal covered my forecast. I said, '1987 would be the year it all collapses.' I said, 'There will be a stock market crash.' One of the fundamentals I was looking at were the crashing oil prices in 1986.
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By itself, the Greek election would be a significant crisis.
But combined with all of the other economic and geopolitical problems that are erupting all over the planet, it looks like the conditions for a "perfect storm" are rapidly coming together.
Unfortunately, the overall global economy is in far worse shape today than it was just prior to the last major financial crisis.
This time around, the consequences might just be far more dramatic than most people would ever dare to imagine.
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June 24, 2019 , Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi , Comments Off on Online campaign to pressure Toronto Raptors not to visit Israel
Say No Raprors. Photo: Toronto BDS Coalition – screenshot
The Canadian BDS Coalition is "comprised of groups in Canada that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement targeting Israel's system of settler-colonialism, occupation, and apartheid towards the Palestinian people."
On June 22, 2019 the Canadian BDS Coalition launched an online campaign to pressure the 2019 NBA Champion Toronto Raptors not to visit Israel. The team's co-owner, Larry Tanenbaum, said he would bring Toronto Raptors to visit Israel if they win the NBA title.
Here are Facebook statements posted by the Canadian BDS Coalition:
June 22, 2019 – TWITTER STORM HAPPENING NOW. @Canadian_BDS Join us #RaptorsDontGo. June 22, 13:00 ET, 20:00 Palestine; 10:00 PT. Follow at @Canadian_BDS & retweet. Lets make #RaptorsDontGo trend! starting at 13:00 ET. To learn more & access tweets check out https://bdscoalition.ca/2019/06/16/https-twitter-com-bds_coalition-status-1140073927735205889/
June 22, 2019 – Thanks to everyone who joined the #RaptorsDontGo twitter storm urging the @raptors not to visit Israel! This is definitely not the end. We will continue to build momentum to ensure they don't take up a trip to an apartheid state! Peace and solidarity✌. Missed the storm. No problem. Follow @Canadian_BDS and re-tweet on your own time.
June 21, 2019 – TWITTER STORM TODAY, June 22, 13:00 ET, 20:00 Palestine; 10:00 PT. Follow at @Canadian_BDS & retweet. Click below to learn more & to access tweets. Lets make #RaptorsDontGo trend! starting at 13:00 ET. Over 5.5K have signed petition so far! https://www.change.org/p/toronto-raptors-sayno-raptors-to-tanenbaum-sportwashing-offer-of-israeli-visit
Excerpts from Canadian BDS Coalition's campaign statement
Join us in #RaptorsDontGo
Thanks to everyone who joined the #RaptorsDontGo twitter storm urging the @raptors not to visit Israel! This is definitely not the end. We will continue to build momentum to ensure they don't take up a trip to an apartheid state!
Peace and solidarity✌— Canadian BDS Coalition (@Canadian_BDS) June 22, 2019
A rain shower before a storm. Initial twitter storm Saturday June 22.
Join an initial twitter storm. The Momentum is building! @Raptors #SkipTheTrip to Israel on Saturday, June 22, Starting at 13:00 ET, 20:00 Palestine, 10:00 PT. Join us for 1-2 hours
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Follow @Canadian_BDS on twitter
PARTICIPATE on Saturday, June 22 1. Retweet: from @Canadian_BDS
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Excerpts from Canadian BDS Coalition's petition
#SayNO @Raptors to #Tanenbaum #Sportwashing offer of #Israeli visit
Canadian BDS Coalition started this petition to Toronto Raptors and 17 others
The Canadian BDS Coalition calls on each of the Raptors Players to say NO to this offer by Tanenbaum. Say NO to being used as an ambassador to sports-wash an aggressive ongoing colonization complete with apartheid, genocide and war crimes.
#RaptorsDontGo
Join in Twitter Storm on Saturday, June 22 at 1 PM ET/8 PM in Palestine.
Join @Canadian_BDS to be ready to tweet.
Our campaign #SayNo #SkipTheTrip is gaining momentum with CodePink & Jewish Voices for Peace on board. And more media covering it, including Quds News Network and the Palestine Chronicle.
Raptor's billionaire co-owner, Larry Tanenbaum, said he would bring @Raptors to visit if they win the @NBA title, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Tanebaum a founder of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is the chairman of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., which is the parent company of the Raptors as well as the National Hockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs, Major League Soccer's Toronto FC, the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts. He also currently serves as the board chairman of the NBA, and as a member of the board of governors of the NHL and Major League Soccer.
Israel's Sport 5 reported last week that during a low-key visit to Israel in April, Tanenbaum told several people he met that "If we win the NBA championship, I will come with the Toronto Raptors to visit the Holy Land."…
Check out open letter to Raptors which was sent to the Raptors players, president and coach:
We are writing to you as long-time fans to urge you to uphold Palestinian human rights and not to travel to Israel. Since 2004 Palestinian civil society organizations have called for the academic and cultural boycott of Israel until such a time as Israel recognizes the Right of Return of over 5 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants displaced in the process of Israeli colonization and occupation of Palestine; ends its occupation and colonization of the West Bank and its siege of Gaza; and dismantles the Apartheid system of racial discrimination and segregation for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Around the world poor and oppressed people have embraced basketball as a sport of the people, and basketball players, many of whom come from poor and struggling backgrounds, have an important history of taking progressive positions and giving back to their communities. From Kareem Abdul Jabbar and Bill Russel's stand with Mohammed Ali against the draft and the Vietnam War to public and collective statements against police brutality against Black people in America, NBA players have stood on the side of social and racial justice.
Israel's occupation of the West Bank, its settlements and its Apartheid Wall are a war crime. The siege of Gaza, and the death and misery meted out on an effectively jailed civilian population, is a crime against humanity. And its system of racial discrimination and segregation is a form of Apartheid, as articulated by survivors of South African Apartheid including Desmond Tutu and Mandla Mandela (grandson of the great freedom fighter Nelson Mandela).
As NBA Champions, you have the opportunity to use your stature and influence to make the world a better place for the young people all over the world who admire you. Please take this opportunity to stand with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and liberation, and do not travel to Israel.
Aiyanas Ormond,
Coordinator, BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish Territories…
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