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OCPs do not prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This article reviews the types of OCPs, their effectiveness, benefits, side effects, costs, and where to get them. Types Oral contraceptives use synthetic female hormones to prevent pregnancy. Combination pills and progestin-only (minipills) are the two main OCP types. Your healthcare provider may instruct you to take them conventionally, for extended use, or continuously. Combination Birth Control Pills Combination birth control pills are the most commonly prescribed....

Jennifer Morlok, a therapist at Oregon’s counseling center, notified university administrators and a Justice Department attorney via a letter that the school infringed on the privacy rights of Doe, who alleges she was gang-raped by three Oregon basketball players in March 2014. The alleged violation of privacy stems from a lawsuit the student filed against the university and basketball coach Dana Altman after one of the alleged assailants, Brandon Austin, was recruited while being investigated for rape at another school....

Oregon now joins Florida, Arkansas and Louisiana in having more people hospitalized with COVID than ever since the pandemic began At Salem Hospital in Oregon’s capital, the intensive care unit is at capacity, with COVID patients in 19 of 30 available beds last week. The youngest patient was only 20 years old. Over at a hospital in Roseburg, one of western Oregon’s former timber towns, a COVID patient died in the emergency room last week waiting for an ICU bed to become available....

Chay Lopez said his stepson, who is half-Black, was playing outside their apartment in a West Salem, Oregon apartment complex during the Independence Day weekend. The incident occurred the same weekend that an Oregon State Police officer was accused of using white supremacy hand gestures toward Black Lives Matter protesters, KGW reported. Lopez said while the child was playing, his neighbor, identified as Marcus Ray Wilson, threw a firecracker in his stepson’s direction....

The partnership makes sense, because Ori and the Will of the Wisps and it’s prequel Ori and the Blind Forest revolve around the titular protagonist, Ori, and her adventures to protect the forest she inhabits. The game falls into what has become known as the Metroidvania genre which means that as players gain more abilities, more areas of the world open up for exploration, thus allowing for further progress through the main plot thread....

After a superb 2019 that included a run to the US Open final, Medvedev is considered one of the contenders in Melbourne, where the year’s first grand slam starts on Monday. But 14 of the past 16 Australian Opens have been won by Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal, and the trio are again the favourites. Medvedev, the fourth seed who will face Frances Tiafoe in a tricky opener, said regularly facing the greats gave him confidence....

Australia has been ravaged by bushfires in recent months, triggering poor air conditions and concerns among players for their welfare ahead of the year’s first grand slam. Australian Open organisers have come under fire after allowing qualifiers to take place on Tuesday, despite a thick haze of smoke, forcing Slovenian Dalila Jakupovic to retire, while Eugenie Bouchard, Bernard Tomic and Maria Sharapova also struggled. The main draw gets underway on Monday and all eyes are on the Victorian capital with conditions continuing to fluctuate....

Date: 19 January 2022 Tournament: Australian Open 2022 Round: Second round (Round of 64) Venue: Melbourne, Australia Category: Grand Slam Surface: Outdoor Hardcourt Match timing: 3 p.m. local time, 4 a.m. GMT, 9.30 a.m. IST Prize money: $75,000,000 Live telecast: USA - Tennis Channel | UK - Eurosport | India - Sony Six, Sony Liv Karen Khachanov vs Benjamin Bonzi preview Karen Khahchanov will take on Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi in a second-round encounter at the 2022 Australian Open on Wednesday....

No one feels indifferent toward Haider. His attacks on Austria’s liberal immigration policies and his occasional apologies for the Third Reich have made him a populist hero to some Austrians. Others see him as an embarrassing–and potentially dangerous–reminder of their country’s dark history. Outside Austria, he is viewed with alarm. When it became clear last week that the Freedom Party would join the government, Austria’s neighbors warned Vienna not to expect business-as-usual....

Avatar Legends got some attention when it was first announced in early 2021. In July, Magpie Games released a quickstart guide to Avatar Legends that provided a ton of insight into the game. The quickstart guide shows that Avatar Legends is a Powered by the Apocalypse-style game that enables adventures in many different eras of the Avatar universe and opens the doors to bender and non-bender characters. Magpie Games has done well designing an RPG that’s built around the character-focused storytelling that made Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra so successful....

You might not have heard of Avita before, and that’s becuase the Hong Kong-based brand is new to the UK market in 2019. Price The Avita Liber is available from eBuyer for £439.98, Laptops Direct for £449.97, Studio for £459.99 and Look Again for £480. The model comes with 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD storage, and an Intel Core i3 processor, which is a reasonable price for those specs. Also check out our best budget laptop chart for more options....

Those comparisons still hold, but if anything has been proven since July 2020, it’s that Avowed might just be Xbox’s Elden Ring. As many know, Elden Ring’s marketing prior to release was as bare as they come. The last few months before its release finally saw some major reveals, but between its reveal at E3 2019 and release in early 2022, it was as scarce as they come. For example, after that first E3 trailer, it didn’t receive another one until June 2021, two years later....

Avowed is set in Eora, the world from Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity games. Eora shares a big similarity with Tamriel, the continent that comprises the main setting for The Elder Scrolls. Elder Scrolls fans who enjoy a certain aspect of the games’ exploration and dungeon-diving may have something to look forward to in Avowed, though there are also many differences between the two settings. RELATED: Avowed: Common PoE Enemies That Are Likely to Appear...

With the release of this game on PC, it’s only a given that modders would be hard at work carefully dissecting each part of the experience to make it more personalized and exciting for fans of the series. Character mods are especially prominent in this regard, and here are some of the best mods within this category that players can download for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R. 10 Saul Goodman - (Kosaku Kawajiri) There’s just something odd about a character like Saul Goodman being in a JoJo fighting game....

RELATED: Best Anime That Defy Their Usual Genre Tropes With the massive number of anime being produced nowadays, there is no doubt that not all of them manage to pique the interest of the viewers. Some anime are not as good, but because of certain characters, these anime become more enjoyable. Even if the story is mediocre, one star character can make an anime truly shine. 8 Escanor — Seven Deadly Sins Escanor is widely regarded as the best character in Seven Deadly Sins....

RELATED: Beginner Tips For Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands You Need To Know Tiny Tina’s Wonderlandsis full of action and loot, but it doesn’t reveal all of the amazing things players can do within the game. It’s a game full of secret treasures, exciting challenges, and ridiculous enemies that only the most discerning and inventive players can discover. There are a lot of awesome things to do in Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and the best ones are also the most well-hidden....

The ongoing tri-series in the Carribean also had an impact on the rankings with Australia’s Josh Hazelwood climbing nineteen spots to the number 18 in the bowler’s rankings while the hosts West Indies have benefitted with their victories over Australia and South Africa, gaining five points. Rohit Sharma’s absence from the Zimbabwe tour saw the 29-year-old lose two spots, dropping down to the seventh spot with Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan and the New Zealand pair of Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill benefitting from the Indian opener’s absence....

Although Metroid and Castlevania laid the foundation for Metroidvanias, like the name suggests, the genre has largely been carried in the last decade by strong indie titles such as Hollow Knight, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and the Ori series. The original Axiom Verge in particular ranks among the most critically-acclaimed of these games, and while its followup shakes up that formula in multiple ways, based on the early reception, it appears on track to receive similar praise....