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Diet Changes While weight loss can result in reducing insulin resistance, improving the way you eat can also help to lower your insulin levels. The key is to choose foods that don’t raise your insulin even more. Changing your diet to include lots of low glycemic-index fruits, vegetables, and lean proteins can be beneficial. Focus on anti-inflammatory foods which have been shown to improve insulin resistance. Portion size matters: to best manage insulin levels, keep carbohydrate foods to just one or two servings at meals, or one-quarter of your plate....

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....

Today, Lakers guard Russell Westbrook takes the spotlight. The Lakers have held up defensively through the first week of the 2022-23 season. Offensively, not so much. We’re working with incredibly small sample sizes, but the Lakers scored at a rate of 97.2 points per 100 possessions against the Warriors, Clippers and Trail Blazers, giving them the worst offensive rating in the league. For context, the last team that had an offensive rating below 100 was the 2015-16 76ers, who went a tanktastic 10-72....

The interesting folks over at CableTV.com and HighSpeedInternet.com are looking for applicants to take on a dream/nightmare job for one night. Applicants and/or victims will have to fill out a form as well as a short bio explaining why they should be the one to take on this terrifying task. The winner will be paid $1,000 to simply sit at home and watch movies. Clearly someone’s high school guidance counselor is about to be proven wrong....

After a few weeks of use, it is obvious there is a lot to love about the latest smartphone from the up-and-coming phonemaker. The 7T, which hits the U.S. via T-Mobile this week priced at $599, makes a lot of sense in the context of the American market—working to bridge the gap between 2018’s 6T handset and the more premium 7 Pro, which was released back in May this year....

OnePlus One review: What it is The One from OnePlus is a high-end smartphone at a mid-range price. It’s an Android smartphone running an OS based on 4.4.2 KitKat, with high-quality specifications, but in the UK it retails for just £229 – for now. As of 25 March in response to the falling value of the Euro the price will be increased to 299 Euro for the 16GB model and 349 Euro for 64GB (up from 269/299 Euro)....

Lorcan was signed with WWE from 2015 until 2021 and was mostly notable for his work on the company’s developmental show NXT. He would initially be used as an enhancement talent and then as part of a tag team with English wrestler Danny Burch. After he requested his release from the company in 2021, Lorcan’s request was granted, and he would depart the company that same year, bringing his six-year-long run to an end....

You may also wonder if anyone would want to date you. It’s a natural concern to have when you’re stuck on the roller coaster of life with FMS or ME/CFS. Rest assured, plenty of people in your situation and worse have found a special someone. Yes, you face some challenges when it comes to meeting people and going out on dates, but it is possible to find someone you’re interested in—and who’s interested in you, as well....

But, despite the initial hype, OnLive received mixed critical reception. Critics had several issues with OnLive including input lag, poor visual quality (which reportedly varied from game to game) and there was also a lack of games to play as software had to be modified before it could work with the service. As a result, OnLive filed for bankruptcy in 2012, let many staff members go and was turned into a different company called OL2....

The NTSB last week released 1,700 pages of documents, including a transcript of the plane’s cockpit recorder and a sheaf of FBI interviews that NTSB officials believe are consistent with only one plausible theory, first reported by NEWSWEEK last year: that relief copilot Gamil al-Batouti deliberately put the plane into a fatal dive. The transcript, approved by U.S. and Egyptian investigators, confirms that Batouti repeated a common Arabic prayer, “I rely on God,” even as the Boeing 767’s autopilot and engines were switched off....

How to Get Oobsidian in Ooblets Wishy Well There are a couple of different ways to obtain Oobsidian in Ooblets, but the most reliable way is to just buy them from the Wishy Well for 100 Wishies. To use the Wishy Well, players can either open up the menu and tab over to the ‘Stuff!’ section, and then click on the well icon on the left side of the screen. Players can also visit the Well in the middle of Badgetown to get certain items too....

In a region racked by political unrest, economic crisis and falling standards of living, Chile remains, remarkably, a country that works. In an era when many traditional political parties have fallen into disrepute and few heads of state entertain any hope of being re-elected, the same center-left coalition has governed Chile since democracy was restored in 1990. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has changed little since Pinochet was voted out of office, and unemployment is on the rise....

Announced today by CEO of Redbeet Interactive André Bengtsson, Raft will be launching in Steam Early Access on May 23 as part of a deal with Scrap Mechanic publisher Axolot Games. The game sees players wake on a small raft in the middle of the ocean, armed with nothing but a plastic hook. Gathering resources form the water around them, players will learn to cook and farm as well as turn their raft from a few pieces of wood into their own floating kingdom, all while avoiding those pesky sharks....

Red Dead Redemption 2’s vast open world is well-known, but there’s one element of Rockstar’s world design that other open-world games could learn a lot from. With it, Rockstar balances its own take on the Wild West with some of the strangest and more genre-defying moments in gaming. As counterintuitive as it may seem, Red Dead 2 manages to find a way to use its strangest moments to make its world feel even more immersive....

Gameplay for open world horror game Wronged Us was revealed at the Golden Joystick Awards, a video game award ceremony that is not quite as well known for its big world premieres as The Game Awards, but still has its fair share of exciting announcements nevertheless. Wronged Us was one of the most exciting reveals, showing a supernatural horror game with disturbing imagery that is clearly taking inspiration from Konami’s Silent Hill franchise....

There are tons of great presentation making features in Impress and it supports all the common file formats that other presentation programs use. OpenOffice Impress Supported File Formats Below are just some of the file formats supported by OpenOffice, specifically the ones that work with Impress. If you’re using Impress as a replacement for PowerPoint, you’ll be pleased to know it can open PPTX files. Open Formats PPTM, PPTX, POTM, POTX, PPT, PPS, POT, ODP, OTP, SXI, STI, SXD, CGM, UOP, UOF, ODG...