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Labour remains opposed to privately-run prisons. |
The policy documents released do not have any information on the costs of the policies. |
West Ham United are set to sign former Manchester United left-back Patrice Evra ahead of Watford's trip to east London. |
The Hornets travel to The London Stadium on Saturday, looking to build on last night's victory over Chelsea. |
But it looks like the Hammers will strengthen their squad with the signing of Evra, who has been without a club since having his contract terminated by Marseille in November, after an altercation with a fan. |
Evra spent eight years at Old Trafford and played under current West Ham boss David Moyes during the Scot's ill-fated time in charge. |
Arthur Masuaku had established himself as the Hammers' starting left-back under Moyes, but is currently suspended after spitting at Wigan Athletic striker Nick Powell during an FA Cup game. |
Whether or not Evra will be fit enough for the Premier League game on Saturday remains to be seen, but if he is included, Brazilian Richarlison will fancy his chances against the 36-year-old. |
KINGSTON - Tim Southee bowled a faultless line and length to Chris Gayle. Trent Boult made Kieran Powell play with his wicket-to-wicket trajectory. Jimmy Neesham was frugal, too. All of the seamers did not allow West Indies’ free-scoring openers to play their natural games. However, it was New Zealand’s inexperienced s... |
The saving grace for West Indies was Gayle, who battled through Southee’s probing first spell and some uncertain moments against the offspinner Craig to score a half-century in front of his home crowd in his 100th Test. After West Indies had gone from 60 for 0 to 61 for 3, Gayle counterattacked in the company of the bu... |
Southee bowled 30 balls to Gayle this morning, 29 of which were dot balls. A majority of those deliveries pitched around off stump, on a length that had Gayle prodding from his crease without moving his feet, and several of them angled across the left-hander to beat the bat. While Gayle left whenever the line was wide ... |
Earlier, all-rounder Jimmy Neesham became the first New Zealander, and just the eighth player overall, to score centuries in each of his first Two tests as the tourists ended the second day of the first Test against West Indies with a huge first innings lead. |
Neesham, who scored 137 not out on debut against India in February, was dismissed for 107 after sharing a 201-run partnership with wicketkeeper BJ Watling (89) to take the visitors to 508 for seven declared at Sabina Park in Kingston. |
BOWLING: Boult 11-3-27-0, Southee 8-5-9-0, Craig 8-3-23-2, Neesham 3-0-8-0, Sodhi 6-0-30-1. |
The U.S. Alpine Ski Team boasted two different winners last weekend on the Audi FIS World Cup ski tour in Europe—and they were the men, not the speedy American women. |
Park City’s Ted Ligety, 28, won Sunday’s men’s giant slalom at Alta Badia, Italy, one day after 30-year-old Steven Nyman of Sundance, Utah captured the men’s downhill at Val Gardena, Italy. |
Elsewhere last weekend, four-time Audi FIS World Cup queen Lindsey Vonn, 28, continued to struggle and failed to add to her 57 World Cup wins and four victories this season. |
Downhill points leader Vonn DNFd Friday’s downhill at Val d’Isere, Fra. and failed to finish Sunday’s giant slalom at Courcehevel, Fra. The tour’s super giant slalom leader this season, Vonn had a bad break Saturday when a snowstorm canceled the SG at Val d’Isere—a race she was favored to capture. |
On a positive note for the U.S. women, Leanne Smith of North Conway, N.H. posted a career-first Audi FIS Alpine World Cup podium, placing second in Friday’s Val d’Isere downhill. |
Slovenia’s Tina Maze, 29, continues to be this season’s dominant women’s racer, just as Vonn was last year at this same point of the season. |
Maze posted her 16th World Cup career win Sunday and now stands at four-for-four in giant slalom wins this season. |
Last year’s World Cup overall runner-up to Vonn, Maze improved her World Cup women’s overall total to 799 points ahead of second-place Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany (468). In the two races at Val d’Isere Maze stretched her lead from 234 to 331 points over Hoefl-Riesch. |
With no points for the two races Vonn (414) dropped from third place to fourth place behind Kathrin Zettel of Austria (440). Julia Mancuso remained in fifth place with 327 points. |
In the women’s GS standings Maze leads runner-up Zettel 400-280. |
Meanwhile, the U.S. women have five in the top 20 of the overall standings starting with Vonn and Mancuso, and including 11th-place Stacey Cook, 15th-place Mikaela Shiffrin and 17th-place Leanne Smith. |
In updated men’s overall standings after 12 races, Ligety remained in second place with 508 points behind leader Aksel Lund Svindal, 29, of Norway (614). Ligety leads GS standings 360-320 over Austria’s Marcel Hirscher, who stands third in the overall standings with 460 points. |
The World Cup men visited Madonna di Campiglio, Italy Tuesday for a pre-holiday slalom. The women are in Sweden for giant slalom and slalom Wednesday and Thursday in Are. |
A dominating first run from Ligety set him up for a repeat win in Sunday’s giant slalom in Alta Badia by 2.04 seconds over Hirscher. |
It was Ligety's 14th career GS victory, tying him for the No. 4 all-time spot with Austrians Benni Raich and Hermann Maier. Alberto Tomba of Italy is next with 15. The incomparable Swede Ingemar Stenmark holds the seemingly untouchable record of 46. |
The 2.04-second win gave the U.S. Ski Team back-to-back triumphs on the weekend after Steven Nyman won the Val Gardena downhill Saturday. |
Ligety had posted a 2.40 second lead in the first run prompting speculation on the possibility of matching the record margin of 4.06 held by Stenmark. Ligety became the first skier since 1979 to post two two-second win margins—at Alta Badia and in Soelden, Austria Oct. 28. |
Ligety said about the victory, “It’s tough to go out in the second run when you're winning by 2.40. You don’t want to lose all that speed and not win but you also don’t want to go so relaxed you make big mistakes as well. So I was going hard. |
“Maybe in the back of my mind the Stenmark record was something I was thinking about a little bit. But at the same time I was just trying to make it to the bottom. I definitely made some big mistakes and decided to change the tactics a little bit just so I didn’t totally mess it up. |
Nyman’s downhill win was unexpected. |
The Utah downhiller put a mark on his comeback returning to the site of his 2006 World Cup win to do it again. He came out of the 37th start position to steal a victory on the foggy, snowy Saslong after hours of delays. It was his second career win and fourth podium. |
It was Nyman's second win on the challenging Saslong, having won there in 2006. Nyman's last podium came in 2007 at Beaver Creek. |
On Friday at Val Gardena, 24-year-old Travis Ganong of Squaw Valley, Ca. led a back-of-the-pack charge by the U.S. Ski Team in the Val Gardena super G, starting 58th and finishing 24th to lead five U.S. Ski Team athletes into the points. |
Leanne Smith parlayed an early start number into a career-first Audi FIS Alpine World Cup podium. She finished second in Friday’s Val d’Isere downhill behind Swiss winner Lara Gut. |
Smith, who started third, led four Americans into the top 10 on a shortened course after high winds forced a move of the start. Lindsey Vonn crashed hard into the B-netting, but skied away with no major injuries. |
The Best in the World women’s speed team has now placed four different athletes on the podium this season. |
Smith said, “This is something that you dream about—that you put your heart and soul into it. Every day you try to do your best. Today was my day. I skied as hard as I could. I can't express how awesome this feels. |
On Sunday at Courchevel, Julia Mancuso, 28, of Squaw Valley, Ca. and Mikaela Shiffrin, 17, of Eagle-Vail, Co. combined for top ten finishes in an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom. |
Mancuso was sixth and Shiffrin ninth as Tina Maze of Slovenia continued her dominance, winning her fourth straight GS. The finish matched Shiffrin's career best ninth set last month at the Aspen Winternational. |
Not long ago, it seemed to Melissa Larson that solar eclipse glasses were everywhere — at the Walmart, the Best Buy and all over the internet. Surely she could take her time before she and her husband left for Southern Illinois to catch a prime view of this rare cosmic phenomenon. |
But a few weeks later, her confidence vanished. Store after store was sold out, and websites were demanding a pirate's ransom for the glasses — if they had them at all. |
So Larson, of Inverness, put a notice on Craigslist on Monday offering to buy two pairs for $20. As of late afternoon, she had no takers. |
"The only thing I can find online are 10-packs," she said. "That's ridiculous. Who needs 10 of them?" |
Like fidget spinners or flu shots, solar eclipse glasses have become scarce just as demand has reached a frenzy less than a week from the Aug. 21 event. The Chicago Public Library announced it would give away 15,000 pairs, only to be greeted with lines Monday that stretched out the door at some branches. |
"If they're not out already, they won't be around much longer," spokesman Patrick Molloy said. "We knew it would be popular, but we didn't know the demand would be that heavy." |
Special glasses for the solar eclipse Aug. 21, 2017, are available with an admission fee from the Adler Planetaruim, but other places are sold out. |
In Naperville School District 203, the high schools sagely ordered their supply more than a year ago, but other schools are still scrambling to track down the gear. Spokeswoman Michelle Fregoso said administrators are planning to livestream video images of the celestial event for children who remain unequipped. |
"No one's going to miss out on the eclipse," she said. "You may miss out on being outside to view it." |
Eclipse glasses block ultraviolet, visible and infrared radiation, and, according to NASA, allow people to gaze at the sun for long durations without harming their vision. Taking a peek with the naked eye is a bad idea, said Dr. Felix Chau, an ophthalmologist with the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary at the University of... |
"With the eclipse, the danger is people are fooled, and since the sky will be much darker and part of the sun will be blocked, they'll think maybe it's safe," he said. |
A mighty darkness is about to descend upon the land, and sky watchers couldn’t be more thrilled. |
It's not. Chau cited a condition called solar retinopathy, in which light energy causes a permanent scar on the retina, leading to vision loss. He recommended using a pinhole camera or other indirect means to view the eclipse, concerned that the specialized glasses might not be safe. |
"Who made those glasses and how protective are they really?" he said. "If there's damage to the retina, some people will have to deal with the injury for the rest of their lives." |
But Mike Kentrianakis of the American Astronomical Society said glasses that have the approval of the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, have proven to be safe and effective. The problem is that some opportunists are selling counterfeit glasses, ISO logo and all. |
He said the best way to be sure that eclipse glasses work properly is to try them on and look at a bright light — everything other than the light should be barely visible. |
"If you can see faint florescent lights in your home or make out any details indoors, or even outdoors (in sunlight), they're no good," he said. |
Researchers have gauged the toll of eye injuries from previous eclipses and reached varying conclusions. One study found that 1 in 7 people who sustained eye injuries during a 1999 eclipse claimed to have used safety glasses or welder's masks. |
"No additional information about these devices was provided, so it is likely that some or all of them were homemade, not certified as safe, or otherwise deficient," the society said in a summation of the research. "In any case, all patients in this study recovered their vision after several weeks." |
The demand for glasses has factories churning — one manufacturer, Tennessee-based American Paper Optics, has said it wants to crank out 100 million pairs — and prices spiking. |
A five-pack offered last week on Amazon for $19.95 was going for $39.95 Monday. On eBay, one vendor wanted $24.95 for a single pair — and within hours had sold more than 100. |
One answer to the price gouging has been to buy in bulk. Rachel Hambleton of Evanston found a 25-pack that, with shipping, worked out to $6.50 a pair. She quickly rounded up other parents on Facebook who were eager to share in the haul, finding the response so great that she placed a second order. |
"I'm still getting people asking me (for the glasses)," she said. "I say, 'You'll have to check with the other moms. I've already ordered 50.'" |
The Adler Planetarium has served as a major distributor of eclipse glasses after ordering 200,000 from American Astronomical Society-endorsed manufacturer Rainbow Symphony. It gave the Chicago Public Library part of the supply, and also is selling them in the gift shop for $2.50 a pair. |
Other libraries have secured a cache of glasses through grants by a STEM-related organization. The Oak Lawn Public Library has already given out about 200 pairs, but is holding back about 800 for people who show up on eclipse day. |
"Even if they come in droves, we'll have glasses for them," said Emily Kenny, the library's youth services associate. "We feel confident in that." |
In the end, supply and demand have a way of working out. By Monday evening, Larson finally got a response to her Craigslist ad: A seller offered her and her husband a five-pack of eclipse glasses for $30. |
"Looks like we'll be the ones with extras," she said. |
Manager Megan Slaker discusses the solar eclipse glasses that will allow for safe viewing of the upcoming eclipse at the American Science and Surplus store in West Chicago on Aug. 14, 2017. The glasses were quickly sold out, half an hour after the store opened at 10 am. |
Manager Megan Slaker discusses the solar eclipse glasses that will allow for safe viewing of the upcoming eclipse at the American Science and Surplus store in West Chicago on Aug. 14, 2017. Glasses were quickly sold out, a half-hour after the store opened at 10 am. |
Yesterday (Mar. 11) Nicki Minaj made time to address rumors that identified PartyNextDoor as a ghostwriter for her recent track, "Regret in Your Tears." |
Taking to Twitter, Minaj denied the allegation, saying that not only has the OVO signee never heard the song "a day in his life," he had nothing to do with the track. PartyNextDoor has since responded, but was quick to delete his tweet addressing the rapper and their recent digital bickering. |
Minaj called out PartyNextDoor for being petty, saying that she wasn't sure why he was "liking" all the tweets that claimed he ghostwrote for her, saying that maybe he was "hacked" or it was just "funny" to him. |
In a now-deleted tweet, PartyNextDoor exclaimed that at the end of the day, rumor or not, he's a fan of Minaj's. |
"I'm a fan of nicki minaj," he wrote. "We have a song together, I hope she's as cool & as I've always imagined." |
While the tweet has since been wiped clean from his Twitter page, DJ Akademiks was quick to snag a screenshot, with many weighing in their own opinions on whether or not PartyNextDoor will be the next person Minaj goes to war with. |
The song he refers to in his post is his recent collaborative track with Major Lazer and Minaj, titled "Run Up." |
Take a look at PartyNextDoor showing love (sort of) to Nicki Minaj in the posts below. |
The Buffalo Bills are in dire straits at quarterback with veteran Kevin Kolb possibly concussed and rookie EJ Manuel recuperating from knee surgery. |
So, they need reinforcements and will audition Matt Leinart and John Beck soon, according to FOX Sports. |
The only health quarterback on the roster is undrafted rookie Jeff Tuel. |
The Bills hope Manuel can return soon, perhaps in time for the opener. |
Godmother Queen Latifah and Captain Luigi De Angelis officially christen the new ship. |
The ship's WaterWorks water park is the first in the fleet with Dr. Seuss theming. |
Two slides recall classic characters The Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2. |
The Cat in the Hat slide is an enclosed raft slide. |
A 300-gallon tipping bucket is a nod to the Cat's famous hat. |
The kiddie splash zone has a number of water toys. |
Guy’s Pig & Anchor Bar-B-Que Smokehouse|Brewhouse is one of two all-new dining venues. |
The bar serves four new craft beers, brewed onboard. |
A copper pig stands guard at the entrance. |
Beer is also a big part of the decor. |
The seating area includes a stage for live performances. |
There is also an outdoor seating area. |
Bonsai Teppenyaki is the line's first teppenyaki dining venue. |
The Dreamscape funnel in the ship's atrium displays art by children from St. Jude's. |
We stayed in balcony stateroom #9273. |
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