![]() The CDC lists fertility-awareness methods as among the least effective of all contraceptive options.īeyoncé, left, and Serena Williams Getty Images/Vogue/Tyler Mitchellīeyoncé, Serena Williams bring attention to risks of childbirth for black women If it is used perfectly – consistently and correctly – that risk falls to one in five pregnancies per 100 women. In the first year of typical use of fertility awareness, between 12 and 24 women of every 100 could become pregnant, the group said. “This puts the app in the same category as the condom,” the company says on its website.Īccording to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the app is a form of contraception called fertility awareness. Launched in Sweden in 2014 as a fertility app to help women who are trying to become pregnant, the app obtained approval last year as a certified contraceptive from the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. She and her husband developed and marketed the Natural Cycles algorithm after not finding a satisfactory hormone-free contraceptive option on the market. Natural Cycles was developed by nuclear physicist Elina Berglund Scherwitzl, who was part of the Nobel Prize-winning team that discovered the Higgs boson particle, part of a model that explains the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Nor does it provide protection against sexually transmitted infections. Women with a medical condition with which pregnancy would be associated with a significant risk, such as high blood pressure, diabetes or kidney disease, should not use the app at all. Women who are using birth control or hormonal treatments that inhibit ovulation must stop before using the app, the FDA warned because it could invalidate the app’s assessment. ![]() A red light then warns if there is a risk of pregnancy and to use contraception a green light says it’s safe to have unprotected sex. To use the app, a woman must take her temperature with a basal body thermometer, which provides accurate data to the 10th of a degree, every morning. The app uses sperm survival rates, body temperature and menstrual cycles to predict a woman’s fertile days. Natural Cycles hopes to tap into that market. ![]() However, a study from the University of Iowa found that if more women knew about it, one in five would consider it as an option. In partnership with the pharmaceutical company TherapeuticsMD, the council plans to offer the ring at significantly reduced prices to lower-income women at federally designated Title X family planning clinics in the United States.įor birth control, what's old is new againĪccording to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, between 1% and 3% of women use fertility awareness – in which a woman’s body signs such as temperature are measured to predict ovulation – as a form of contraception. “It is indicated to prevent pregnancy for up to a year and does not require refrigeration, which is particularly important for distribution and use in low-resource settings,” the Population Council said on its website. The soft reusable ring combines a new progestin (segesterone acetate) with a widely used estrogen (ethinyl estradiol) to develop a single product designed to be left in place for 21 days and removed for seven days. ![]() ![]() Called Annovera, the device is “the first vaginal ring contraceptive that can be used for an entire year,” the FDA said.Īccording to the Population Council, Annovera is the first in a new class of contraceptives. “But women should know that no form of contraception works perfectly, so an unplanned pregnancy could still result from correct usage of this device.”Īlso Friday, the FDA announced approval of a vaginal ring designed by the global nonprofit research organization the Population Council. Terri Cornelison, assistant director for the health of women in the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, in a statement. “This new app can provide an effective method of contraception if it’s used carefully and correctly,” said Dr. The Natural Cycles app was approved as part of the agency’s new Digital Health Innovation Action Plan, designed to fast track approval for new low-to-moderate-risk devices. An app designed to track fertility and prevent pregnancy in women 18 and older is the first to win US Food and Drug Administration approval to be marketed as a contraceptive, the agency announced Friday. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A quick visit to the options menu reveals that these are just quick-select choices – you can enable and disable every single option individually. There are three prebuilt options for comfort to package these settings together. I ended up using a blend of snapping and physically turning to get the job done. The movement is far too slow, and it judders so badly as to cause immediate nausea. I’ve tried all of them and only smooth rotation presented immediate issues. With stick-based motion enabled you can flick left or right on the right thumbstick to snap 45 degrees in the selected direction. With or without smooth motion as a movement option, you can turn your head or even your entire body to face whatever direction you wish. Once you’ve decided how you’ll move forward and backward, it’s time to address turning. Gesture based has you progress by swinging your arms in a walking motion while holding a button on both controllers. ![]() Movement is handled one of two ways – “smooth motion” stick-based walking and turning, or “gesture based”. All the way around, in fact! The PSVR2 does not use light tracking to determine position, instead leaning on an impressive array of cameras and infrared to keep track of the headset and controllers. Unlike the PSVR1, however, you can turn around. Like the PSVR1, holding the options button will re-center the headset, should you get spun around. If you’ve read our reviews on Tobii’s eye trackers on PC, you know that this works remarkably well, allowing you to select items from menus using only your eyes, with a button press to confirm. First and foremost, you’ll spend a few moments calibrating your eye targeting – a major component of the foveated rendering used to bring this game to life with the highest fidelity possible. Developer Firesprite is following the Sony trend of going well beyond the norm to make sure everyone can experience their adventure. Thankfully, the game supports a staggering amount of comfort options. No matter the odds, this climb is now personal.īefore you set off on your grand adventure, you’ll need to calibrate your headset for the experience. A dangerous climb to be sure, but there’s a wrinkle – his brother Urid had already been given this task and has disappeared somewhere on that mountain. A member of the Shadow Carja clan, Ryas is brought to Sun-King Avad and given one chance to earn himself an unconditional pardon – climb Sunspear and uncover why the valley has recently been flooding with even more machines than before. In Horizon: Call of the Mountain we join Ryas in the most unfortunate starting position of any protagonist – bound, a bag over his head, and headed to his inevitable execution. Aloy’s story is hardly the only development of the 31st century, and Horizon: Call of the Mountain is one such story. In Forbidden West it was taking all she’d learned and striking out into the unknown territories of the West to track down Sylens. In Zero Dawn it was about uncovering Aloy’s mysterious past and her connection with the world at large. ![]() ![]() One of my favorite aspects of Horizon: Zero Dawn (review) and Horizon: Forbidden West (review) was the sense of discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Offer different types of appointment calendars for your services. Automate your schedule while still maintaining control of your availability - manage your booking calendars, time slots, and appointments all in one place. Simply let your WordPress booking system take care of it!Įasily limit how many daily appointments you schedule and set the minimum time between bookings. And block off dates when you don’t want to be disturbed for bookings - no more phone calls or back-and-forth emails to find a meeting time that works. You can tame your schedule and easily manage when you’re available for appointments. The perfect tool for business consultations, interviews, or scheduling services. Simply Schedule Appointments is perfect if you want to let your customers schedule phone calls, in-person or virtual video meetings, or coaching appointments. Trigger Webhooks for appointment actions and connect to Zapier.Google Analytics and Tag Manager tracking enabled to count booking form conversions.Zoom and Google Meet for virtual meetings.Gravity Forms and Formidable Forms Integration – Create complex booking forms.Twilio for SMS notifications and reminders.Stripe and PayPal for Payments – Instantly get paid for your time and expertise. ![]() ![]() Mailchimp – Automatically add users as new contacts to your audience from the booking form.Team booking – Allow your staff to receive bookings and customize their own schedules.Google Calendar Sync – Allow your site’s booking system to check your personal calendar for conflicts. ![]()
![]() ![]() You can create multiple widgets of each size, and even give them names. You can assign an action to each contact even, so I never need to worry about “which messaging app do I use with this contact?” I just tap the contact and it runs my preferred action, which can even be viewing their contact card. Widgets of course are new to iOS 14 and macOS Big Sur, and Cardhop 2.0 is taking advantage of them. Now someone could use Cardhop to scan this business card, but using the QR code will get all the information displayed into their contacts, as well as any other data you may want to share (which might not be shown on the front of the card because of space limitations). ![]() They also display a QR code which includes more information. You can even have multiple business cards set up, and you just swipe between them. In fact, it just shows 3 pieces of information, and this is easily available when you turn your iPhone to landscape mode. Speaking of business cards, since the beginning Cardhop has had a feature that allows you to create and share your own business card, including and excluding specific information. This doesn’t replace the photos feature of identifying people, but is useful for screenshots and things like a scan of the business card! This picture doesn’t become their picture but is an attachment, and you can have multiple photos attached to any contact. So you can scan someone’s business card with the camera on your iPhone or iPad and it will attach that picture to their contact information. This means you can invite a group of people incredibly quickly – so from now on I’ll be starting all my invites like this.Ĭardhop 2.0 is preparing for the world to return to normal too, with a brand new feature: business card scanning. While you can invite a person, you can also invite a group and if you’ve got a business account set up on your device then this will let you look for people based on the hierarchy and grouping there as well. Relationships also play into the new invite feature. If I want to then I can easily tap on the person in the relationship view to create their contact card - which I often do as soon as I know their birthday! I really love now that I can document relationships between people and not have to put a person in my contacts just to know that Anna is Shawn’s wife. Cardhop 2.0 has a relationship view, this works with details you add yourself such as family information, but also integrates with Office or Exchange-so you can see an organizational hierarchy. The built-in Contacts app has the ability to let me specify relationships like “this person is my mother,” but this is just shown in text on my contact card. The one feature I really love though is the relationships. This has become even more powerful with version 2 because it also works with Fantastical when you use the Invite keyword. The “magic bar” as I call it, is not just for finding contacts, but also for creating them, updating, and interacting with them. It’s how I use Drafts, and how I’d prefer most of my applications to work. You can scroll through your contacts, but the open and type approach is what drew me to the app in the first place. But under the hood, there are some impressive changes that make the app even much more useful, whilst still keeping it simple and easy to use.Ĭardhop is simple – you just open it and start typing in the magic bar. At first glance, not a lot has changed (which is actually good because it means I don’t need to significantly change my workflows). Today Cardhop 2.0 is out, and while it looks a bit different. This is something I often need to do because if I don’t have an email address for someone there’s no point trying to write them an email, and if the place is closed there’s no point trying to call them! Adding and updating contacts requires lots of clicks or taps, and it never felt like a good place to start trying to contact someone. There’s nothing wrong with the native contacts app on iOS or macOS per se, it’s just not that great. Cardhop has been my preferred contacts app since it came out. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only differences between the three files are some of the hashes at the beginning of the file list. They contain a list of all of the files burned to the disc along with their hash and the directory on the computer in which they originated from. These files can be opened with any text editor. However, in the Japanese Wii version, many more leftover files from earlier stages of development are present in the root of the game's filesystem. ELF file containing debug symbols named after the game, region, and stage of development present in the root of the disc. Only known difference from duplicate 997tt is has more top speed similar to ball car from previous title.This mean calmed this car is developer car used in development.Īll Wii releases have an. In Vited file, located in fontend/vehicles there are 2 brand was cut from this game, they are likely leftovers from previous titles: The final unused track found in the Asian release of ProStreet is a track named "TestTrack." It is not fully clear what this track could have been used to test, but it is similar to L6R_NIS and the Alpha 61 tracks due to the fact it is another track which uses Mondello Park as a base. This track, like the name may imply, was used to test Black Box's "NIS" (non-interactive scene) files, which are used throughout Most Wanted, Carbon, ProStreet, and Undercover. This is similar to the Laguna Seca and Leipzig courses found in the Alpha 61 build of ProStreet for PlayStation 2 because of the fact it continues its trend and uses Mondello Park as a base. ![]() This track is another one found in the Asian release. As the name suggests, this track may have been used to test LOD (level of detail) mesh generation that is used throughout majority of Black Box's Need for Speed titles. This course shares a similar base to L6R_Lighting as majority of its assets are derived from Infineon. This course shares a majority of its assets with that of Infineon, and even contains some unused Super Promotion assets.Īnother unused track found in the Asian PC release. Judging by its name, the track was designed to test lighting and other light behavior. In 1.0 version of this track found in Asian version,they are lack float buildings and dated August 28,2007 while 1.1 is October 11,2007Īn unused track found in the Asian PC release of the game. This track was most likely abandoned for the version of the expressway included with the Booster Pack. The track layout itself is a recreation of Shuto Expressway Route 11 and is fairly unique as it is the only track that allows driving on both separated and elevated sections of road at the same time. ![]() It is unknown if the barriers were a cut concept or simply just a placeholder. The destructible canyon barriers from Need for Speed: Carbon even make a return. The track actually has a proper road spline, and even has some rough level scenery consisting of various windowed cuboids placed on some basic pieces of land. Continuing the trend of using early versions of already existing tracks being used as placeholders, these two are both of a very early version of Mondello Park.Īnother unfinished track referred to as "ShutoExpressway" exists in every version. Present in only the leaked "Alpha 61" build for the PS2, placeholder tracks for both Laguna Seca Raceway and the Porsche Leipzig race track exist, despite the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions never actually receiving Leipzig. ![]() ![]() ![]() What happens if I install 'Equalizer APO' and setup everything up correctly, but it still doesn't work?ġ. Showed how to disable and enable one profile at a time. Once both profiles were imported, showed how to view the filters by selecting green "UP" arrowġ6. Selected "browse" button, selected "akg k371 flat with amirs preamp.txt" (which will import this 2nd profile)ġ5. Selected Green "Plus" icon, to add another section, selected "Control", then "Include (include configuration file)"ġ4. In the section called "Include", selected "browse" button, changed to "akg k371 amir.txt" (which will import this profile)ġ3. In the section called "Graphic EQ", clicked on "Remove" button. In the section called "Preamplification", clicked on "Remove" button. ![]() Opened "Configuration Editor" (which opens "Equalizer APO Configuration Editor")ĩ. txt from another directory on your computer, so it must be in this directory.ħ. Navigated to "c:\program files\equalizer apo\config". Copied the preamp text only, then created a 2nd file called "akg k371 flat with amirs preamp.txt", and pasted the contentsĦ. ***Optional Step, if you want to see how to import multiple profiles***. On Desktop, created "akg k371 amir.txt" and pasted the contentsģ. Copied Amir's Equalizer APO profile for AKG 371 (from )Ģ. It has been hosted in OnWorks in order to be run online in an easiest way from one of our free Operative Systems.1. This is an application that can also be fetched from.
![]() ![]() With the arrival of Dante on his flashy motorbike, the pair of demon hunters are set to try and save the city and find out what’s behind this latest demon invasion.ĭevil May Cry 5 Special Edition comes packed with an abundance of new features and game modes powered by next-gen consoles, in addition to the heavily requested arrival of Vergil as a playable character. ![]() Adding a bit more versatility, the Gerbera Devil Breaker generates an intense heat that can be shot out as a highly powerful shockwave which can be used as a direct attack, reflect enemy projectiles, or even to propel Nero through the air and augment his evasion capabilities.Ĭombined with melee attacks using his ‘Red Queen’ sword and the long range firepower of his ‘Blue Rose’ handgun, the power of Nero’s Devil Breaker arms add dramatic adrenaline fueled action to the eternal battle between the forces of good and evil that plays out in the streets of Red Grave City. ![]() The first arm Nico makes for Nero, the Overture Devil Breaker, looks plain in style allowing Nero to wear it inconspicuously throughout the city, but the hidden electric generator inside is enough to shock any demons that come too close. Finding himself without the use of his right arm, Nero enlists Nico, a self-professed weapons artist, to design a variety of unique mechanical Devil Breaker arms to give him extra powers to take on evil demons such as the blood sucking flying Empusa and giant colossus enemy Goliath. ![]() As this hellish incursion starts to take over the city, a young demon hunter Nero, arrives with his partner Nico in their “Devil May Cry” motorhome. The invasion begins when the seeds of a “demon tree” take root in Red Grave City. The threat of demonic power has returned to menace the world once again in Devil May Cry 5. United by fate and a thirst for vengeance, these demon hunters will have to face their demons in the hope to survive. Years have passed since the legions of hell have set foot in this world, but now a new demonic invasion has begun, and humanity's last hope will rest in the hands of three lone demon hunters, each offering a radically different play style. More information about Vergil's moveset is going to be revealed soon, according to the developers.Ī release date has not been given for the DLC, but Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition launches on Xbox Series X on November 10 and PS5 on November 12, so it stands to reason that Vergil will be available around then.Ten years since Devil May Cry 4, Director Hideaki Itsuno and the core team have reunited to conclude the long-awaited Sons of Sparda saga. Many of the updates you'll see in the Special Edition won't be coming to PS4 and Xbox One thanks to technical limitations, but at least you'll be able to get the highly-motivated swordsman if you own the base game. Producer Matt Walker and director Hideaki Itsuno announced that Vergil will be arriving as premium DLC for the base game on PS4 and Xbox One. Until today, it was unclear whether you would be able to get Vergil in the standard edition of the game on current consoles. To see this content please enable targeting cookies. The new edition of the game comes loaded with new features such as ray tracing, and enhanced 3D audio, Turbo Mode, and Legendary Dark Knight Mode – but the biggest update is the addition of Vergil as a playable character. Capcom has announced that Vergil will be arriving in Devil May Cry 5 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One via DLC.ĭante's brother was revealed as a new playable character in the game last week, when Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition was announced at the PS5 Showcase. ![]() ![]() ![]() We’ve compiled some of the most handy computer tricks you should be taking advantage of. Many hardcore computer users might consider themselves above learning new tricks, but there are always new ways to sharpen your skills on the PC and we bet that you will find at least one useful thing here that you didn’t know before. 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Additional features include batch scanning and queuing of encodes, VFR and CFR support, live static and video preview, title/chapter, and selection of range, and others. The program works on multi-platform, including Windows, Mac, and Linux. Handbrake is a free to use open-source video transcoder that allows converting videos to MP4, MKV formats with support to an array of codecs. How to Convert ISO to MP4/MKV Free with Handbrake Click the Start All button to start converting ISO files to AVI or other desired format.įree Download Free Download Part 2. Also, choose the file resolution.Ĭhoose the location on your computer to save the converted file at the File Location option. From the pop-up window, select AVI, MP4, MKV, or other desired target format from the Video list. ![]() Once ISO files are added to the ISO to AVI converter, click downward arrow at the Output Format: option on the top-right corner. 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There is no dearth of ISO to AVI converter in the market, and Wondershare UniConverter (originally Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate) is recommended because of its high-quality conversion and added features. Best ISO Converter: How to Convert ISO to AVI/MP4/MKV Easily How to Convert ISO to AVI Freeware with VLC Different types of ISO to AVI converters for converting ISO to AVI and other formats are discussed in the following part. Thus, to come over all these situations, the best solution is to convert ISO to AVI, MP4, or MKV format that is commonly used video formats. Sharing these files also creates problems. Moreover, these files are not compatible with the majority of the players and devices. ISO files are large in size that will occupy a lot of storage on your system. 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As it turned out, it was due to the NASA hashtag her friends used that called the agency’s attention to it long after my comments were gone,” Hickam noted. ![]() “This I had nothing to do with nor could I since I do not hire and fire at the agency or have any say on employment whatsoever. However, according to him, NASA saw the conversation and withdrew its offer. ![]() He added that he deleted his comments after “her friends took umbrage and said a lot of unkind things”. In a statement on his blog, Hickam said he’s not offended by the f-word, but was worried NASA might be. The Vietnam veteran said he wasn’t responsible for her sack. Hickam replied: “And I’m on the National Space Council that oversees was sacked, Twitter users began to criticise Hickam for pulling rank. I saw one of the comments to the blog somehow making it about millennials lacking respect or something smh. EDIT: she lost her internship, according to Hickams, now deleted, blog post. She went on to say: “Suck my d** and balls. She should be fired for not knowing who Homer Hickam is, forget the language. Hickam, replied her tweet with “Language.” ![]() She wrote (in caps):Įveryone shut the f*** up. In took to Twitter to share news of her internship offer. A woman on Twitter lost her internship position at NASA following comments she made to NASA engineering legend and member of the National Space Council Homer Hickam. ![]() |
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