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Alkermes SVP Nichols sells $151,813 in stockBlack Friday 2024: Best Scooter Deals You Don't Want To Miss – GoTrax, Hiboy And MoreAmong the names linked to the Braves this offseason is 2024 World Series champion Walker Buehler . The former ace of the Dodgers staff has had a rough go of it since returning from Tommy John surgery, posting a 5.38 ERA over 75.1 regular season innings this year. But he may have made himself a lot of money with his performance in the postseason, tossing 10.0 scoreless innings between the NLCS and World Series, including the final three outs of the MLB season, leading the Dodgers to a victory over the Yankees in five games. While Los Angeles is all Buehler has ever known over his seven-year career, it looks as if that’s about to change. The Dodgers inked two-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell to a five-year contract last night, and they are expecting a slew of other talented arms to return from injury, including All-Stars Shohei Ohtani and Tyler Glasnow . The writing appears to be on the wall, and even top MLB insider Ken Rosenthal does not expect to see Buehler in Dodger blue next season. “I don’t expect Walker Buehler to be back, but I do expect Teoscar Hernández to be back,” Ken Rosenthal said Wednesday on Foul Territory. With the way the starting pitching market is shaking out, the idea of the Braves landing a top arm like Max Fried feels like a pipe dream. Alex Anthopoulos has never handed out a free agent contract north of $65 million since taking over as general manager in 2017. That will change eventually, but expecting him to all of a sudden fork over close to $200 million for one arm is wishful thinking. What’s much more likely is the Braves taking some gambles on a couple undervalued arms that come with significant risk but also massive upside. Just like they did last offseason with Chris Sale and Reynaldo Lopez , both of whom turned in All-Star campaigns, with Sale winning his first ever Cy Young award. No pitcher in this year’s free agent class fits that description better than Walker Buehler. This article first appeared on SportsTalkATL and was syndicated with permission.
Abortion has become slightly more common despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. It's now been two and a half years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to implement bans. The policies and their impact have been in flux ever since the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. Here's a look at data on where things stand: Overturning Roe and enforcing abortion bans has changed how woman obtain abortions in the U.S. But one thing it hasn't done is put a dent in the number of abortions being obtained. There have been slightly more monthly abortions across the country recently than there were in the months leading up to the June 2022 ruling, even as the number in states with bans dropped to near zero. “Abortion bans don’t actually prevent abortions from happening,” said Ushma Upadhyay, a public health social scientist at the University of California San Francisco. But, she said, they do change care. For women in some states, there are major obstacles to getting abortions — and advocates say that low-income, minority and immigrant women are least likely to be able to get them when they want. For those living in states with bans, the ways to access abortion are through travel or abortion pills. As the bans swept in, abortion pills became a bigger part of the equation. They were involved in about half the abortions before Dobbs. More recently, it’s been closer to two-thirds of them, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute. The uptick of that kind of abortion, usually involving a combination of two drugs, was underway before the ruling. But now, it's become more common for pill prescriptions to be made by telehealth. By the summer of 2024, about 1 in 10 abortions was via pills prescribed via telehealth to patients in states where abortion is banned. As a result, the pills are now at the center of battles over abortion access. This month, Texas sued a New York doctor for prescribing pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. There's also an effort by Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to roll back their federal approvals and treat them as “controlled dangerous substances,” and a push for the federal government to start enforcing a 19th-century federal law to ban mailing them. Clinics have closed or halted abortions in states with bans. But a network of efforts to get women seeking abortions to places where they're legal has strengthened and travel for abortion is now common. The Guttmacher Institute found that more than twice as many Texas residents obtained abortion in 2023 in New Mexico as New Mexico residents did. And as many Texans received them in Kansas as Kansans. Abortion funds, which benefitted from “rage giving” in 2022, have helped pay the costs for many abortion-seekers. But some funds have had to cap how much they can give . Since the downfall of Roe, the actions of lawmakers and courts have kept shifting where abortion is legal and under what conditions. Here's where it stands now: Florida, the nation’s third most-populous state, began enforcing a ban on abortions after the first six weeks of pregnancy on May 1. That immediately changed the state from one that was a refuge for other Southerners seeking abortion to an exporter of people looking for them. There were about 30% fewer abortions there in May compared with the average for the first three months of the year. And in June, there were 35% fewer. While the ban is not unique, the impact is especially large. The average driving time from Florida to a facility in North Carolina where abortion is available for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy is more than nine hours, according to data maintained by Caitlin Myers, a Middlebury College economics professor. The bans have meant clinics closed or stopped offering abortions in some states. But some states where abortion remains legal until viability – generally considered to be sometime past 21 weeks of pregnancy , though there’s no fixed time for it – have seen clinics open and expand . Illinois, Kansas and New Mexico are among the states with new clinics. There were 799 publicly identifiable abortion providers in the U.S. in May 2022, the month before the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade. And by this November, it was 792, according to a tally by Myers, who is collecting data on abortion providers. But Myers says some hospitals that always provided some abortions have begun advertising it. So they’re now in the count of clinics – even though they might provide few of them. How hospitals handle pregnancy complications , especially those that threaten the lives of the women, has emerged as a major issue since Roe was overturned. President Joe Biden's administration says hospitals must offer abortions when they're needed to prevent organ loss, hemorrhage or deadly infections, even in states with bans. Texas is challenging the administration’s policy and the U.S. Supreme Court this year declined to take it up after the Biden administration sued Idaho. More than 100 pregnant women seeking help in emergency rooms and were turned away or left unstable since 2022, The Associated Press found in an analysis of federal hospital investigative records. Among the complaints were a woman who miscarried in the lobby restroom of Texas emergency room after staff refused to see her and a woman who gave birth in a car after a North Carolina hospital couldn't offer an ultrasound. The baby later died. “It is increasingly less safe to be pregnant and seeking emergency care in an emergency department,” Dara Kass, an emergency medicine doctor and former U.S. Health and Human Services official told the AP earlier this year. Since Roe was overturned, there have been 18 reproductive rights-related statewide ballot questions. Abortion rights advocates have prevailed on 14 of them and lost on four. In the 2024 election , they amended the constitutions in five states to add the right to abortion. Such measures failed in three states: In Florida, where it required 60% support; in Nebraska, which had competing abortion ballot measures; and in South Dakota, where most national abortion rights groups did support the measure. AP VoteCast data found that more than three-fifths of voters in 2024 supported abortion being legal in all or most cases – a slight uptick from 2020. The support came even as voters supported Republicans to control the White House and both houses of Congress. Associated Press writers Linley Sanders, Amanda Seitz and Laura Ungar contributed to this article.Many households have smart speakers and even more people have been snapping up these devices for Christmas . Alexa can assist with daily chores, provide instant weather updates, read the latest news headlines, and even play your favourite tunes. However, some experts have suggested that our smart speakers might be eavesdropping on our conversations. In the past, tech experts have advised keeping Alexa downstairs in your home. Dr Hannah Fry has stated that we should treat digital assistants like any other guest in our home, excluding them from private areas such as bedrooms and bathrooms. Dr Fry, an expert in tech company algorithms, warned that smart technology can record conversations. The associate professor at University College London said: "I think there are some spaces in your home, like the bedroom and bathroom, which should remain completely private." She added: "This technology is activated by a trigger word but it keeps recording for a short period afterwards. People accept that, but we should all spend more time thinking about what it means for us," reports the Liverpool Echo . After requesting tech firms to share the data they had collected on her, Dr Fry discovered recordings of conversations from within her home. She also noted that 'very senior' individuals in the tech industry won't even bring a smartphone into their bedroom, and consumers should be cautious of low-cost technology with internet-connected microphones. Amazon has previously said that its staff listen to customers' conversations through Alexa to enhance the Echo device's comprehension of human speech. A report by Bloomberg suggested that many users are oblivious to the fact that humans are listening in, with employees able to review up to 1,000 audio clips per day. Teams have also been known to share amusing recordings in internal chat rooms. Experts on the Forbs tech panel have offered advice about voice-activated technology that users should be aware of. Carolyn Jenkins from EPSoft Technologies stated: "Voice-activated tech is a tool, and like any tool, it can be used well or badly. Start by understanding the privacy and security settings available in the voice tech you are using, as well as the data retention policies of the company supplying the tech. Presume everything you say is being listened to and recorded, and adjust the settings you can from there until you are comfortable." Brad Thomas from Prophecy International added: "These technologies are great time-savers and make life easier, but they also make it easy to inadvertently share private information without thinking. These devices are always on, collecting data about you and your habits to better provide services-but there is no filter, and they simply collect it all. This makes it too easy to share private data with big tech that you did not intend to share." An Amazon spokesperson commented: "Echo devices are designed to record audio only after the device detects your chosen wake word (Alexa, Amazon, Echo, Ziggy or Computer). Customers will always know when Alexa is sending your request to the cloud because a blue light indicator will appear on your Echo device." "We manually review only a small fraction of 1% of Alexa requests to help improve Alexa. Access to these review tools is only granted to a limited number of employees who require them to improve the service. Our review process does not associate voice recordings with any customer identifiable information." "Customers can also easily opt-out of having their voice recordings included in the fraction of 1% of voice recordings that get reviewed. For more information related to Alexa and Privacy please see here." To remove Alexa conversations, access the Alexa app, proceed to Settings > Alexa Privacy > Manage Your Alexa Data. Then choose Choose How Long to Save Recordings > Don't Save Recordings > Confirm. Finally, go down to Help Improve Alexa and toggle the Use of Voice Recordings option to off.
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