Theater Preshow Announcements Take Aim at Cellphones
NYTimes.com: "THE producer David Richenthal was at a performance of “The King and I” in the late 1990s when a cellphone rang. Its owner, sitting near him in the audience, answered. He remembers her saying, in a heavy New Yawk accent, “I can’t talk right now, the king is dying.”"Hollywood movies follow a mathematical formula
Physorg.com: "Psychologist Professor James Cutting and his team from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, analyzed 150 high-grossing Hollywood films released from 1935 to 2005 and discovered the shot lengths in the more recent movies followed the same mathematical pattern that describes the human attention span. The pattern was derived by scientists at the University of Texas in Austin in the 1990s who studied the attention spans of subjects performing hundreds of trials. The team then converted the measurements of their attention spans into wave forms using a mathematical technique known as the Fourier transform."
10-resume-red-flags
Yahoo! Finance: "Searching for a job is not always easy, no matter what state the economy is in. And when you're on the hunt, your best weapon is your resume. This document must emphasize the best of your experience, education and skills and sell you to your future employer. It's a lot to ask, but it is possible to get your CV into fighting shape. Don't let your effort go to waste by having these glaring red flags on your resume."
Cancelled classes result in loss of instruction, finances
The Tartan Online: "Last Monday through Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon canceled classes for the first time since 2003 — and for the first three-day period in the university’s history.
In a move that might have seemed a bit out of character for Carnegie Mellon, the university’s administration identified the safety risk inherent in a blizzard of the magnitude that swept through Pittsburgh last week, and put classes on hold."
Signs of spring: A list of high school musicals
Post Gazette: "It's high school musical season again. Although some shows at high schools across the region already have begun, most are scheduled in March and April.
Below is a list of shows in chronological order, as well as three awards shows where most of these musicals will be considered."
Monday, February 22, 2010
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