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“Trust me, not writing Aaron’s name in the lineup is not an easy thing to do,” the manager said before the Yankees opened up a four-game series with the Astros at Minute Maid Park. “But it’s just something I felt like we’ve needed to do. I kept putting it off. But it’s such a tough stretch of games and with the travel getting in late I just felt like this was the best thing to do — playing the long game a little bit to keep us as fresh as possible.” Mike Mazzeo The post Aaron Judge receives overdue day off as Yankees face Astros appeared first on Breaking News, World News, US and Local News .

Facebook’s lawyers are attempting to block a High Court decision in Ireland, where its international business is headquartered, to refer a long-running legal challenge to the bloc’s top court. The social media giant’s lawyers asked the court to stay the referral to the CJEU today, Reuters reports. Facebook is trying to appeal the referral by challenging Irish case law — and wants a stay granted in the meanwhile. The case relates to a complaint filed by privacy campaigner and lawyer Max Schrems regarding a transfer mechanism that’s currently used by thousands of companies to authorize flows of personal data on EU citizens to the US for processing. Though Schrems was actually challenging the use of so-called Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) by Facebook, specifically, when he updated an earlier complaint on the same core data transfer issue — which relates to US government mass surveillance practices, as revealed by the 2013 Snowden disclosures — with Ireland’s data wa...

BERLIN — Police in southwestern Switzerland say four Alpine climbers have died and another five others were in critical condition after becoming trapped overnight by an unexpected snowstorm and high winds. Authorities in the Valais canton deployed seven helicopters as part of efforts early Monday to rescue a total of 14 hikers from France, Germany and Italy in the Pigne d’Arolla region. Valais police spokesman Markus Rieder said they were caught off-guard by high winds, snows and cold and were forced to spend the night outdoors. Several of those rescued were suffering from hypothermia, and were rushed to area hospitals. Police said three people died in hospital, and another apparently was killed in a fall. Police said the hikers had been trying to reach the Vignettes hikers’ hut at 10,357 feet in the Alps. Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails Tags: newswires associated press world newswires Send a Letter to the Editor Join the Conversation: facebook Tweet ...

I first encountered rooibos tea in a Paris tea shop, called Cape and Cape, that specializes in teas sourced from African countries. I was there doing a tasting and came across a scarlet hued tea that looked like a thousand pieces of saffron. The needle point leaves produced a warm melange of slight fruitiness, floral notes, and earthiness. I was smitten. Now that I know to keep an eye out for it, I’ve started seeing rooibos tea everywhere. (Like you get a new car, and then you notice it on every street corner.) You can purchase it loose leaf as well as in tea bags. When I visited South Africa, I was able to purchase the locally produced Mandela Tea and found my adoration for the tea grow even deeper. Rooibos is an indigenous herb to the mountainsides of the Cederberg region in South Africa, and locals refer to it as red bush or African red tea. The Cederberg region is a World Heritage site with a bustling ecological system of hundreds of plants species and intricate sandstone rock fo...

A man and woman were found dead inside a Brooklyn apartment Sunday, and police are trying to determine if they were victims of foul play. Cops found the 28-year-old man and 24-year-old woman about 1:20 p.m., in a building on N. Eighth St. at Wythe Ave. in Williamsburg. Cops found no signs of forced entry or trauma, and no weapons or blood, sources said. They also found pot paraphernalia. Neighbors said the two had moved into the building a few weeks ago. Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails Send a Letter to the Editor Join the Conversation: facebook Tweet Adam Schrader, Laura Dimon, John Annese The post Two bodies found in Brooklyn apartment appeared first on Breaking News, World News, US and Local News .

Jan Frykhammer’s three decades of Ericsson experience to play a key role in guiding Openet’s disruption of the industry DUBLIN, Ireland – April 30 2018 – Openet today announced the appointment of Jan Frykhammar, who has joined Openet’s Board of Directors. Having spent almost three decades at Ericsson, Jan has held a number of positions during his tenure, including interim Group CEO, CFO, and most recently, special advisor to the board and CEO. Jan Frykhammar Jan will work closely with Openet board members and management team to ensure that Openet’s commitment to industry change continues its momentum. “We are delighted to be welcoming such an accomplished and well-respected telecoms leader onto the board of directors. Having been an invaluable member of the executive team at Ericsson, Jan has in-depth insight to the changes needed for vendors and operators alike during this period of industry transformation,” said Niall Norton, CEO of Openet. “With digital now a critical requi...

Ron Wolk in Providence, R.I., in 2015. —Gretchen Ertl for Education Week Ronald A. Wolk, a pioneer in education journalism whose publications and passions helped inform and elevate the conversation about K-12 schooling in the United States, died on Saturday at age 86. Wolk, who lived in Warwick, R.I., had been in and out of the hospital frequently in recent months and died of congestive heart failure and kidney failure in East Sandwich, Mass., said his daughter Suzanne Wolk. Wolk was the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of Education Week , which launched with a splash in 1981 by running a scoop about efforts by President Ronald Reagan’s administration to downgrade the U.S. Department of Education, which was then still in its infancy. The administration’s efforts fizzled. Wolk had been an editor of the alumni bulletin at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore when he became instrumental in an effort among college magazine editors and publicists to establish a national...

Priority No. 1 for the Oklahoma City Thunder this offseason following their disappointing first-round playoff exit is coaxing Paul George, a free agent-to-be this summer, to re-sign with the team. Likely to opt out of the final year of his contract, George will undeniably have plenty of suitors as an unrestricted free agent, and the buzz about him being West Coast-bound could wind up being very real. But following the Thunder’s loss to the Utah Jazz in Game 6 on Friday, the 27-year-old didn’t rule out the potential of re-upping with OKC and running it back in 2018.  “There was a lot to be happy about: the fans, the city, the organization,” George said. “Everything has been unbelievable. It’s too soon. I’d love to remain a Thunder, but that’s what this summer is for. We’ll address that in the summer.” George is near the top of the free agent want list for teams this summer, joining LeBron James, Chris Paul and Kevin Durant who are also slated to be unrestricted. Though he rem...

Facebook’s admission to the UK parliament this week that it had unearthed unquantified thousands of dark fake ads after investigating fakes bearing the face and name of well-known consumer advice personality, Martin Lewis, underscores the massive challenge for its platform on this front. Lewis is suing the company for defamation over its failure to stop bogus ads besmirching his reputation with their associated scams. Lewis decided to file his campaigning lawsuit after reporting 50 fake ads himself, having been alerted to the scale of the problem by consumers contacting him to ask if the ads were genuine or not. But the revelation that there were in fact associated “thousands” of fake ads being run on Facebook as a clickdriver for fraud shows the company needs to change its entire system, he has now argued. In a response statement after Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer revealed the new data-point to the DCMS committee, Lewis wrote: “It is creepy to hear that there have been 1...

Tell someone not to do something and sometimes they just want to do it more. That’s what happened when Facebook put red flags on debunked fake news. Users who wanted to believe the false stories had their fevers ignited and they actually shared the hoaxes more. That led Facebook to ditch the incendiary red flags in favor of showing Related Articles with more level-headed perspectives from trusted news sources. But now it’s got two more tactics to reduce the spread of misinformation, which Facebook detailed at its Fighting Abuse @Scale event in San Francisco. Facebook’s director of News Feed integrity Michael McNally and data scientist Lauren Bose held a talk discussing all the ways it intervenes. The company is trying to walk a fine line between censorship and sensibility. These red warning labels actually backfired and made some users more likely to share, so Facebook switched to showing Related Articles First, rather than call more attention to fake news, Facebook wants to ...

There’s a right way to do your grocery shopping — and, almost by definition, a wrong way. In search of higher profits, supermarkets try to woo you with products that are more convenient, but also more expensive. These products include ready-made items that can be prepared much more cheaply at home, produce you’d be better off buying in its simplest form, and non-food items that are significantly less expensive at other retailers. I asked a couple of budget-minded bloggers to help me identify which supermarket offerings can blow your food budget — and then I ran the numbers myself. (To avoid having the results skewed by the high grocery prices in New York City, where most of MONEY’s staff lives, I used pricing from a Kroger supermarket in Mount Pleasant, Mich.) Here are the items to avoid. Precut Produce Let’s face it: Cutting pineapples, cubing sweet potatoes, and peeling and slicing carrot sticks can be a pain. The temptation to pick up precut fruits and veggies may save you some...

HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky teen has been sentenced to five years in prison for a threat to “shoot up” his high school last fall. Commonwealth’s Attorney Bill Markwell told The Gleaner on Tuesday that the case was difficult for the prosecution and defense, as school officials spoke highly of 19-year-old Cameron J. Davis. Davis pleaded guilty to second-degree terroristic threatening in March. According to his arrest citation, he made the threat during class at Henderson County High School. He told police he had been joking, and that “it was stupid” to have done so. Markwell says authorities can’t take a chance with such threats, especially in today’s climate. He also said it’s unlikely that Davis would serve his full sentence, and that he’s eligible for shock probation. ——— Information from: The Gleaner, https://ift.tt/2f9cWEN Web Only Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Back to Top The post Kentucky teen gets 5 years for school shooting...

The 2018 NFL Draft has begun as the first round completed on Thursday night.  Check out our tracker and grades for Round 1. As hundreds of prospects make names for themselves as the newest class of NFL rookies, a first-time draft host — Arlington, Texas — will also be making history. There’s good news for you, too, because you can watch that history unfold in real time — for free — thanks to three days of coverage scheduled on CBS Sports HQ. Looking for a hot new NFL podcast that’s your home for NFL Draft coverage? Look no further. The Pick 6 Podcast with Will Brinson has you covered each day of the draft with new episodes around 30 minutes each. Subscribe: via iTunes | via Stitcher | via TuneIn | via Google Play . If you haven’t figured out just how you’ll be watching this week’s anticipated event (and, inevitably, finding out just which of the 2018 quarterback prospects the Cleveland Browns will make the No. 1 pick), you’ve come to the right place. Here’s everyt...

Despite Facebook being under fire for everything pertaining to Cambridge Analytica, the company still hopes to be able to do some good. Today, Facebook is dropping its platform fees pertaining to fundraisers for personal causes. That means Facebook is getting rid of the 4.3 percent platform fee in the U.S. and the 6.2 percent fee in Canada. Those fees were charged to cover a review process and vetting for each fundraiser. Now, Facebook says it will absorb the costs associated with those safety and protection measures. “We’re continuously learning and this was something we wanted to do to help people maximize the benefits,” Facebook Head of Product for Social Good Asha Sharma told me over the phone. To be clear, there will, however, still be fees for payment processing and taxes. In the U.S. and Canada, payment processing fees are 2.6 percent plus $0.30. Facebook is also unveiling two new features for its fundraising tool. The first is the ability for people to match donations for ...

More than 140 children were ritually slaughtered in Peru more than 500 years ago, reported National Geographic. Described as “the largest single incidence of mass child sacrifice in the Americas — and likely world history —” the remains suggest that many of the boys and girls had had their chests opened and their hearts removed. Radiocarbon dating pinpointed the date of the supposed sacrifice between 1400 and 1450. Archeologists were shocked and unsettled by the finds. “I, for one, never expected it,” John Verano, a physical anthropologist with decades of experience in the region, told National Geographic. “And I don’t think anyone else would have, either.” The site of the mass grave, where remains of 200 young llamas were also found, used to be known as “Huanchaquito-Las Llamas.” It is located less than half a mile from the UNESCO World Heritage site of Chan Chan. The area has been studied since 2011, when remains of 42 children and 76 llamas were unearthed. Since the...

With Microsoft’s BUILD 2018 conference right around the corner, the company just made good on a promise from last year’s conference; Apple iTunes is finally coming to the Windows Store. The music software was originally forecast to arrive by the end of 2017, but it took a bit longer to finally find its Windows home. The iTunes of the Windows Store is just the same old regular iTunes, but now installation updates are handled through the Windows Store updater rather than through Apple . It’s arrival also ensures the software’s compatibility with Windows 10 S mode which only runs apps downloaded from the Windows Store. If you somehow don’t have iTunes yet you still desire iTunes on your Windows 10 PC, check it out here. Lucas Matney The post Apple iTunes finally arrives in the Windows Store – TechCrunch appeared first on Breaking News, World News, US and Local News .

Cops are grilling a Bronx man they believe may have killed a 31-year-old woman he just started dating who was found dead in his apartment, authorities said Friday. Police were called to the 28-year-old man’s first-floor apartment on Luring Ave. near Duncan St. in Williamsbridge about 11:45 p.m. Thursday for a wellness check. When they arrived, they found Kayon Williams’ body lying face down in the bedroom. Williams, who lived about two miles away in Wakefield, had multiple injuries, a source said. The city medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine what killed her. Her boyfriend, who police found inside the apartment, said the two had just started dating but wouldn’t elaborate on how Williams died. He was taken to the 47th Precinct stationhouse for questioning. His name was not immediately released. Charges against him were pending. Sign up for BREAKING NEWS Emails Send a Letter to the Editor Join the Conversation: facebook Tweet THOMAS ...

The Houstonian Hotel has been whipping up Barbara Bush’s chocolate chip cookies since 2016. “They’re sweet and firm,” Catherine Rodriguez, head pastry chef at the Houstonian, recently told CultureMap—two adjectives many would use to describe the former First Lady herself. Following Bush's death at the age of 92 last week, the Houstonian has been treating guests to her “famous” chocolate chip cookies in her honor. “We’ve been baking and giving away thousands of Mrs. Bush’s cookies since her passing,” Rodriguez said. The cookie recipe was a favorite of the Bush family matriarch, who reportedly got it from a dear friend. In 1992, she even submitted it to Family Circle’s “presidential bake-off” competition. Years later, Houstonian staff discovered the recipe and approached Bush one day while she was visiting. “She was having lunch here at our restaurant, Olivette,” Rodriguez recalled to CultureMap. “We asked her if we could use it at the hotel. She said she would be honored and sh...

ALBANY — Outspoken radio host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa said Thursday he is considering running for governor on the Reform Party line. Sliwa is the chairman of the small party, whose executive committee recently couldn’t decide whether to back Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro or former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra for the line. Sliwa said on his WABC afternoon radio show with Rita Cosby that he’s been approached about running by Reform Party members and might take the plunge if he can get medical clearance from his doctors. He has suffered from chronic Crohn’s disease as well as high blood pressure and hypertension. “If I can get a clean bill of health, doctors who say to me that if you run you won’t drop dead…then I believe I have no other choice,” Sliwa said. Cuomo adds ex-de Blasio campaign aide to his reelection team The Reform Party convention is set for May 19 in Queens. Sliwa admits one reason he would run is to try and ensure the par...

The headphone jack could still have a future in an iPhone. These leaked pics show an iPhone SE 2 with a glass back and headphone jack. Like the current iPhone SE, the design seems to be a take on the classic iPhone 5. I dig it. The leak also states the upcoming device sports wireless charging, which puts it in line with the iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Rumors have long stated that Apple was working on an updated iPhone SE. The original was released in March 16 and updated a year later with improved specs. With a 4-inch screen, the iPhone SE is the smallest iPhone Apple offers and also the cheapest. WWDC in early June is the next major Apple event and could play host for the launch of this phone. Last month, around the iPhone SE’s birthday, Apple held a special event in a Chicago school to launch an education-focused iPad. It’s logical that Apple pushed the launch of this new iPhone SE to WWDC to give the iPad event breathing room. While Apple cut the headphone jack from its flagship ...

Shine Bid Services CEO Anne McNamara: “Firms shamed in gender pay gap should look to smaller, more dynamic companies as an example.” London, United Kingdom. 26 April 2018 . The CEO of one of the UK’s leading businesses on winning government and highly regulated bids today called for industry giants who pay women less than men to follow the example of smaller businesses, highlighting Shine Bid Services’ diverse workforce as being behind the organisation’s success. Shine Bid Services Anne McNamara, CEO of Shine Bid Services, made the comments after Shine was named among the top 400 fastest growing private companies in Europe by Inc. 5000. Ranking in 396th place, the result was based on Shine’s three-year revenue growth. “Being named as one of Europe’s fastest growing private companies is a testament to our team for the amazing work they deliver for clients, by helping them win work to transform their business,” said McNamara. “As a female-led company with an even mix of women and...

Once everyone was seated and began singing “Amazing Grace,” Timothy Cardinal Dolan led the Mass procession of a dozen priests down the aisle, periodically stopping to thank the people from across the baseball ranks — Commissioner Rob Manfred, Players Association chief Tony Clark, Mets owners Fred and Jeff Wilpon, former National League president Leonard Coleman, Rusty’s former teammates Lee Mazzilli and Ron Darling, ex-Mets manager Bobby Valentine, and police and fire commissioners past and present, including James O’Neill, Daniel Nigro, Ray Kelly and Thomas Von Essen. Bill Madden The post Rusty Staub’s pals celebrate Mets legend as on-field force, humanitarian hero appeared first on Breaking News, World News, US and Local News .

While studying abroad in London, I had the good fortune of making new friends who happened to be vegetarians. While that may not seem all that unusual, I grew up in a small U.S. town and had never come across (much less been friends with) full-blown non-meat eaters before. What's more, my new friends introduced me to the wonderful world of artichokes. Before that I had barely known what an artichoke looked like, much less thought about putting it on a pizza. Isn’t that what pepperoni is for? Five years later, I’d more or less forgotten about the glory that is an artichoke-topped pie, until I came across this recipe on Health.com: roasted tomato and artichoke flatbread pizza. The recipe was simple, only requiring a few ingredients: grape tomatoes, artichokes, flatbread, Parmesan cheese, arugula, lemon juice, and olive oil. So I thought I'd give it a try. According to the directions, the tomatoes and artichokes should have taken about four minutes to broil, and another 10 min...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Thunder’s season was over. Stick a fork in ’em, see ya next season, good riddance over. With 8:34 remaining in the third quarter Wednesday night in Game 5, Jae Crowder drilled a 25-foot 3-pointer to give the Jazz a 25-point lead, their biggest of the game. It felt like the butcher knife being jammed squarely into OKC’s tired, confused backs. This wasn’t a Thunder-on-the-ropes situation. The Thunder were as good as done. A 71-46 advantage for Utah appeared insurmountable midway through the third quarter. OKC’s defensive rotations were off, its offense stagnated, and its stars, Russell Westbrook and Paul George, were duller than the dagger Crowder used to try and end their season. This was how a tumultuous season filled with highs and lows was going to end. A full-blown tailspin. But OKC’s incredible surge over the final 8:34 of the third quarter — a 32-7 run — scribbled out what was going to be a thud of an ending. Instead, the Thunder etched their names into th...

Many creamy dips are diet disasters, but this one uses as many low-fat ingredients as possible to keep the calorie count low (60 calories per serving), while maintaining a delicious and irresistible taste. We love artichoke hearts because they're high in fiber and full of antioxidants. The dip contains lima beans, which provide vitamin C, and spinach, which has vitamins A and K. (Just one ounce of spinach provides almost two times the recommended daily intake of vitamin K.) Our recipe makes 32 servings, so make this dip for a party, or scale down the ingredients to make it for a smaller group. Ingredients : extra-virgin olive oil, lima beans, light mayonaise, fat-free cream cheese, hot pepper sauce, capers, black pepper, dry mustard, canned artichoke hearts, frozen spinach, part-skim mozzarella cheese, grated Parmesan cheese, green onions, lemon juice. Try this recipe: Warm Spinach-Artichoke Dip Read more: 20 Best Foods for Fiber 7 Nutrition-Rich Juice Recipe...

Europe’s sweeping privacy law GDPR goes into effect May 25th, and Facebook is being forced to push users through new agreements to terms of service changes required to comply with the law. That’s why during today’s successful Q1 2018 earnings report call, Facebook CFO David Wehner warned that “we believe MAU or DAU might be flat or down in Q2 due to the GDPR rollout.” He also said that while Facebook doesn’t expect a significant impact on ads from GDPR, there may be a slight impact and it will be monitoring for that. Wehner notes that GDPR will impact the global online advertising industry so it may be hard to tell what the exact repercussions are for Facebook. Wehner later clarified that’s “what we’re expecting given that you’re having to bring people through these consent flows, and we have been modeling it and expect there would be a flat to down impact on MAU and DAU.” Facebook went on to describe how if users change their ad privacy settings through the GDPR prompts to allow les...

Commentary Teachers protest for higher pay and school funding at Tuscano Elementary School in Phoenix earlier this month. —Ross D. Franklin/AP Teachers statewide are on strike to demand respectable salaries By Donald R. Sheldon Teaching is not what someone does if they don’t have the skills for a high-powered career in corporate America. As someone who has worked in both worlds, I know that being an educator is a calling that helps a country develop and defines the character of its citizens. Character is what gives educators in Arizona, who voted yes earlier this month to the first statewide teacher strike in the state’s history, the ability to stand confident in the face of fear and determine their best course of action. I am a high school teacher in Phoenix, and I have closely watched the events around teacher pay unfold. Arizona is the latest in a string of states—Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia among them—whose teachers are walking out of schools to demand hi...

April 25 (UPI) — Researchers have figured out why exercise is good for the heart, at least in mice: It helps the organ generate more new heart muscle cells. Exercise can even deliver the benefit after a heart attack, according to researchers from the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The researchers, who published their findings Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, noted that public health, physical education and the rehabilitation of cardiac patients can help prevent heart failure. “We wanted to know whether there is a natural way to enhance the regenerative capacity of heart muscle cells,” Dr. Ana Vujic, a researcher at Harvard, said in a press release. “So we decided to test the one intervention we already know to be safe and inexpensive: exercise.” Normally, young adults can renew around 1 percent of their heart muscle cells each year — a percentage th...

As food experiences become more important in travel, people are spending significant amounts of time researching what they'll be eating before booking vacations. To track this trend, TripAdvisor gathered information on the top food cities in the world—that is, the tourist destinations where local cuisine is the biggest draw. Rome took the number one spot, with another Italian city, Florence, coming in second. Third was Paris— quelle surprise —and Barcelona and New Orleans rounded out the top five. The list included each city's most-booked "food experience." In Rome, that was a food tour of the Prati district; in Florence, it was a cooking class and market tour at a Tuscan farmhouse. (According to their data, food tours are the fastest growing experiences category on TripAdvisor based on amount spent, which increased 61% last year versus 2016.) "Travelers are increasingly interested in getting local insight on their destination, and food tours and cooking classe...