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Monday, February 25, 2013

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the last week (student comments at the link indicated):

The Keys to Higher Productivity? More Sleep, More Breaks, Less Time Doing Work

Top Stories | New Equipment Digest: If you're working harder and putting in longer hours, and you're still struggling to get everything done, Tony Schwartz has a message for you. You can get more work done by devoting more time to doing less.
-- 16 Comments Here

25 Years Strong, 'Phantom Of The Opera' Kills And Kills Again

NPR: The longest-running Broadway musical ever, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, celebrated Saturday another milestone: its 25th anniversary. When it all started Jan. 26, 1988, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, a gallon of gas cost about 90 cents and a ticket to The Phantom of the Opera was a whopping $50. It was the hottest ticket in town.
-- 11 Comments Here

Live Sound: Putting Safety First In Live Sound

Pro Sound Web: We don’t often think of concert and event production as being a dangerous profession, but far too many accidents and injuries - and sometimes even deaths - occur each year in our chosen profession. Most of these accidents are caused by human error and can be avoided if we simply pay attention to what we’re doing and follow basic safety rules.
-- 10 Comments Here

Relax! You’ll Be More Productive

NYTimes.com: THINK for a moment about your typical workday. Do you wake up tired? Check your e-mail before you get out of bed? Skip breakfast or grab something on the run that’s not particularly nutritious? Rarely get away from your desk for lunch? Run from meeting to meeting with no time in between? Find it nearly impossible to keep up with the volume of e-mail you receive? Leave work later than you’d like, and still feel compelled to check e-mail in the evenings?
-- 10 Comments Here

Carrie Underwood dress lights up Grammys

TODAY Entertainment: As Carrie Underwood took the stage to sing "Two Black Cadillacs" on Sunday night, Grammy fans noticed something strange was happening to her dress: the seemingly white gown started to light up with a variety of holographic patterns.
-- 10 Comments Here

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Does this dress mark a celebrity using technology in an innovative way, or is it a sign of a trend starting to emerge where fashion and technology blend as one. We see in the movies of the visions for the future, but lately it has seemed the most current fashion trends are simply a mashup of the past. Are we living in a post modern world, or is there a new wave of fashion coming our way. Since it was a celebrity does this mean the trend is a look reserved for those on the covers of US weekly, or will this trickle down into the peoples clothes. Only time will tell.