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The parents, through attorney Mike Flood, sent the conference a letter Thursday demanding transparency. Their focus is on the Big Ten’s voting procedures and any medical information it received prior to voting. The conference has until Monday to provide the materials, Flood wrote. If it fails to meet that deadline, then the group will ask a federal judge in Nebraska to order their release. The parents will also ask for unspecified “immediate relief” from the judge....

Read on for more information on needle exchange programs, how to access them, and where to find support for substance abuse. How Do Needle Exchange Programs Work? People in need of needle exchange can go to an NEP location and pick up sterile syringes. Locations may be physical storefronts, but others are mobile, such as distributing from a van or the supply bag of NEP outreach workers. Many programs allow you to take as many supplies as you need, without restrictions or requirements, after returning used syringes....

It is available as a capsule, powder, oil, tincture, cream, or mouthwash. Some remedies are made from the bark, flowers, or fruit of the neem tree. This article discusses the purported uses of neem, its side effects, and the risks associated with taking neem supplements. Benefits and Uses of Neem The purported health-friendly properties of Neem are numerous and have led to it being used as an antioxidant and for antifungal, antibacterial, and pest control applications....

Even if official Washington isn’t saying anything, futures traders are jumping in with both feet. According to John Delaney, the chief executive of Intrade, an online futures-trading market, the latest contracts betting has Gonzales much more likely to step down than Wolfowitz. “Currently we’d give Wolfowitz a 42 percent probability of being gone by the end of June,” says Delaney. By contrast, the figure for Gonzales is a 55 percent probability, he says....

In a press release, the company said the affected products were produced between June and September 2022 and were distributed in the continental United States and Puerto Rico. According to Nestlé, there have been no reports of illness or injury. However, the company chose to voluntarily recall the cookie dough after “a small number of consumers” called about the presence of “white plastic pieces” in the product. A spokesperson for Nestlé told Newsweek that its lab identified the plastic material as PET (polyethylene terephthalate), “a material commonly used in food packaging....

The animation had been set to have a second season following an announcement by Netflix in June that the company had renewed the show, however, on Monday, January 9 show creator Shion Takeuchi revealed this was no longer the case. Inside Job is a workplace comedy set in Cognito, Inc., a shadow organization that helps control the world, and it followed a team led by robotics engineer Reagan Ridley (Lizzy Caplan)....

NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) Entering the game in Chicago, the Nets were just 0-8 against top-tier competition this season. Of the games played against ’top-tier competition’ they had lost six of the eight by double-digit figures, and one of the losses in single-digits (Phoenix) they were down by as much as 22 before making a late run when the game was essentially over....

Collins' first 10-day contract ends on Tuesday. Collins became the first openly gay man to play in the four major American sports on Feb. 23 when the Nets took on the Lakers in his season debut. The NBA at large offered a wide range of support for Collins and applauded the courage it took for him to come out as a gay athlete. PHOTOS: Openly gay athletes Since signing with the Nets, Collins has played in five games and maintained averages of 0....

Jon Ralston, editor of the nonpartisan news website The Nevada Independent, began a lengthy Twitter thread just after 12 p.m. ET Thursday providing an update on the vote count. All eyes are on Nevada at the moment, as its six electoral votes would clinch Biden’s claim to the presidency. Biden leads President Donald Trump by about 11,000 votes in the state, according to the most recent estimates. Reports arrived Thursday from Clark and Washoe Counties, as well as several of the state’s rural counties....

The R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl is not one of them. In fact, it could seem like a home game for Louisiana-Lafayette, which hosts Nevada on Saturday morning to begin the 2014 bowl season (11 a.m. ET, ESPN). The Ragin’ Cajuns (8-4 SU and 6-5-1 ATS) are seeking to win the New Orleans Bowl for the fourth consecutive year. With Lafayette just 135 miles east of New Orleans, the game again figures to draw plenty of Ragin’ Cajun supporters....

A team of scientists led by Gerald Mayr from the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, both in Germany, estimate that the penguin, dubbed Crossvallia waiparensis, would have measured about 5.2 feet in height—or as large as some adult humans—and weighed up to 176 pounds, according to a study published in Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. This makes C. waiparensis one of the largest species of penguin ever known to have existed and means it is comfortably bigger than today’s emperor penguins, which stand at around 3....

Video resurfaced this week from an August 11, 1993 Larry King Live segment in which an unnamed woman, purportedly Reade’s mother, called in from San Luis Obispo, California to speak with panelists who were discussing the treacherous world of Washington politics and media. The recently uncovered CNN video shows Reade’s mother telling host Larry King and his panelists: “I’m wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in Washington, my daughter has just left there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all and the only thing she could have done is go to the press and she chose not to out of respect for him....

“I understood it wasn’t because of the weather,” Blatt said. True, but welcome to the eye of the NBA storm, nonetheless. Blatt will never forget July 11, 2014. It was the day he coached the Cavaliers for the first time, if only in summer league. It was the day Andrew Wiggins made his debut in Cleveland’s wine-and-gold colors. Oh, and it was the day that he learned that when his first real season running a team in the NBA begins, he’ll have LeBron James to lead his club....

Authorities in countries including South Korea, Australia, and Thailand have seen increasingly rising cases and deaths from the more infectious variant, and lockdown measures have been imposed in the last week in an attempt to slow the spread. Australia According to Reuters, nearly half of Australia’s population of 25 million is currently under lockdown. The state of New South Wales detected the Delta variant last month, and on Friday, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian, declared new restrictions in Sydney....

Brad Friedel’s side claimed a third victory in five games this season thanks to goals from Teal Bunbury, Andrew Farrell, Diego Fagundez and Wilfried Zahibo, all after Saphir Taider had been sent off for the visitors. Bologna loanee Taider’s match lasted just 14 minutes, the midfielder shown a straight red card for a reckless lunge on Luis Caicedo as he tried to control the ball. The home side made its advantage count six minutes later, with Bunbury heading home Zahibo’s cross, but the Impact were given some reprieve when Fagundez saw a penalty saved by Evan Bush after a lengthy video referral....

Major League Soccer clubs held leads in three of four quarterfinal series after the first legs, none greater than the 3-0 margin for the New England Revolution after they throttled Liga MX side UNAM Pumas. It wouldn’t last. Pumas took firm control of the second leg, overwhelming the Revs from the opening whistle with a 3-0 victory of its own. The ensuing penalty shootout felt like a formality, with the momentum firmly on the Mexican club’s side, and it proved just that....

Julia Ormond knows how it is. She knows the media are always getting worked up over some new face, and then forgetting it 15 minutes later. You know: lather, rinse, repeat if necessary. All this is troubling if you’re a young British actress in it for the long haul. “The press will build you up and then tear you down,” says Ormond, 29, staring into her fruit salad. A reporter offers to tear her down right now, if it’ll help....

Thankfully, the band and audience escaped the fire mostly without incident—a few fans were injured and the band’s equipment was destroyed, but there was no loss of life. But not even a week later, Zappa was nearly killed after being pushed from the stage. The audio of Zappa’s brutal attack is available for the first time on the new eight-disc box set Mothers 1971, which came out Friday. The event happened on December 10, 1971 at the Rainbow Theatre in London....

If approved, the contracts would have extended state funding for the Equality Health Center, Lovering Health Center and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. Thousands of the clinics’ patients rely on that funding in order to have access to cancer screenings, testing for sexually transmitted diseases and other types of routine health care services. The contracts had gained the support of Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican, but other GOP state leaders decided to reject them for a third time on Wednesday....

That may not be as farfetched as it sounds. The famed diet doctor Dean Ornish has shown that a strict low-fat diet and exercise can reverse heart disease. Why not diabetes? A leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes is obesity. As America’s girth has expanded, disease rates have spiraled. Today, 16 million Americans have the disorder, costing the United States $100 billion a year. But new research shows that diet and exercise can not only help prevent the disease, but also possibly delay its progression....