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Monday, February 13, 2012

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week...

Playground: The Week BHA Student Emily Anne Gibson Comes out to Play

Her Campus: Emily Anne Gibson, a sophomore B.H.A. student of History, English, and Dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon University, doesn’t sleep. At least, not at regular hours or in regular places during the School of Drama’s Playground, and not in the presence of her roommate, (yours truly). In fact, right before this interview, she burst into the room, said, “I’m back!” and “I’m not sleeping here tonight. I’m leaving around 1:00.” Yes, 1:00a.m.
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The Enormous Secret Weapons Depot Hidden Underneath Manhattan

Gizmodo: Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood is mostly filled with bored models and stupid-expensive boutiques. But on one grimy, absolutely ignorable corner is the entrance to a cavern stuffed with guns, rockets, cocaine, and riot shields. This is where Hollywood locks and loads.
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Indiana OSHA Fines Three Entities

Theatre Safety Blog: Following investigations into the stage canopy collapse at the Indiana State Fair on August 13th of last year, IOSHA has filed fines against the canopy provider Mid-America Sound Corporation, The IATSE Local 30 that provided labor to erect the stage, and the Indiana State Fair Commission, sponsors of the event.
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Cover Series: Hey Ya!

YouTube: The first of our Kickstarter Reward Cover Series.
"Hey Ya!" by Outkast (Andre 3000). Shot and edited by Bart Cortright.
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Quiet, Please: Unleashing 'The Power Of Introverts'

NPR: From Gandhi to Joe DiMaggio to Mother Teresa to Bill Gates, introverts have done a lot of good work in the world. But being quiet, introverted or shy was sometimes looked at as a problem to overcome. In the 1940s and '50s the message to most Americans was: Don't be shy. And in today's era of reality television, Twitter and widespread self-promotion, it seems that cultural mandate is in overdrive.
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