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Record-holding symphony bassist, 87, collapses onstage, dies

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

ATLANTA (AP) — Jane Little, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist whose career spanned a world-record 71 years with a single orchestra, has died at age 87 after collapsing onstage during a performance.

Record-holding symphony bassist, 87, collapses onstage, dies

«The Bismarck Tribune» (bismarcktribune.com) 

ATLANTA (AP) — Jane Little, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist whose career spanned a world-record 71 years with a single orchestra, has died at age 87 after collapsing onstage during a performance.



Google-owned Waze is testing its own Uber-like carpooling feature (GOOG, GOOGL)

BusinessInsider.com 

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Google-owned maps app Waze is testing a new carpooling service in California's Bay Area that will let users from certain companies hitch rides to work together.   

Waze Carpool is currently invite-only for people who work at a handful of companies including Adobe and, unsurprisingly, Google, and the service automatically pairs people to share rides based on their home and work addresses, as well as their ideal departure time. 

Because Waze Carpool aims to cut down on the Bay Area's hellish rush hour traffic... Читать дальше...

Moms, Tell Us Your Best Tips For Labor And Delivery

BuzzFeed 

What tips and tricks do you wish you’d known going into childbirth?

Perineal massage? Lemon popsicles? Counter pressure? There are so many things that can make your hospital stay (aka, squeezing out a baby) just a little more comfortable.

...so long as you can figure out what those things are. ;)

BuzzFeed Video

From what snacks to sneak in, to what to avoid, we want to hear it all.

FOX

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Kleine 3000 bezoekers op Memphis Heart 'n Soul in Enschede

Tubantia 

ENSCHEDE - Een kleine 3.000 mensen hebben het driedaagse festival Memphis Heart 'n Soul bezocht, zo is de ruwe schatting van organisator Bert Bennink. Het festival voor liefhebbers van onder meer blues en soul, werd zaterdag, zondag en maandag gehouden op de Oude Markt in Enschede.

What it's like to attend Electric Daisy Carnival, one of America's biggest electronic music dance parties

BusinessInsider.com 

Adi Adinayev for Insomniac

One of the world's biggest electronic dance festivals returned to New York this weekend. A wildly popular experience that started in Los Angeles and then moved to Las Vegas, Electric Daisy Carnival brought in over 79,000 visitors to New York's Citi Field Saturday and Sunday.

EDC is known for its whimsical themes: attendees dressed in bold costumes, rode a brightly-lit Ferris wheel and other carnival rides, and danced underneath a giant, stylized owl face that decorated the main stage. Читать дальше...

The US and others want to arm the Libyan government to counter ISIS

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In a move fraught with risk, the United States and other world powers said Monday they would supply Libya's internationally recognized government with weapons to counter the Islamic State and other militant groups gaining footholds in the chaos-wracked country's lawless regions.

Aiming at once to shore up the fragile government, and prevent Islamic State fighters and rival militias from further gains, the U.S., the four other permanent U.N. Security Council members and... Читать дальше...

Brazil’s Interim Leader Rejects Minister’s Threat To Prosecutors

International Business Times 

Brazil's interim president, Michel Temer, on Monday said he would continue a tradition of nominating a prosecutor general who is recommended by a group of the candidate's peers, calming fears the position's autonomy would be compromised. Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes, sworn in last week as part of Temer's new government, told the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper in an interview published Monday that the prosecutor general of Brazil could be selected at will by a president.

World Cafe Next: Kyle Craft

NPR (npr.org) 

Craft's debut album, Dolls Of Highland, is influenced by Louisiana and David Bowie in equal measure. Hear two songs.

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Stocks and crude oil are rallying (AAPL, USO, WTI, OIL, VDE, SPX, SPY, DJI, IXIC, BNO)

BusinessInsider.com 

Stocks and crude oil rallied in trading on Monday.

The major indexes shot to the best levels of the session near 2:12 p.m. ET. The Dow was up 203 points (1.16%), the S&P 500 was up 23 points (1.14%), and the Nasdaq was up 64 points (1.36%). Stocks closed at their lowest level in a month on Friday. 

Apple shares gained the most on the Dow, by 3% after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed that it owned a $1 billion stake in the company as at the end of the first quarter. 

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