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Sunday, March 29, 2020

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How to find keyboard shortcuts for Zoom

The Verge: When you’re in the middle of a Zoom video meeting at home and your cat suddenly decides to start bawling for its dinner, you’ll want to mute your audio in a hurry. In that case, you have a choice: you can either reach for your mouse or touchpad and start searching for the “Mute” button or you can use a quick keyboard shortcut to cut off that noise immediately.

Ballet Company Costume Departments Jump Into Action, Sewing Masks for Coronavirus Aid

Pointe: The novel coronavirus pandemic has forced ballet companies worldwide to cancel or postpone their seasons. But it's not just dancers and artistic staff that have found their work at a standstill. Costume departments, a vital component in bringing performances to life, have also hit pause.

Performing for no one – the important work of in-studio audiences

theconversation.com: I was in New York two weeks ago being encouraged to clap and whoop enthusiastically by a warm-up comedian, as a member of the studio audience for The View, Whoopi Goldberg’s live daily talk show – think Loose Women with American attitude. Although we didn’t know it at the time, this was the last day The View would have a live audience for the foreseeable future. Now there are no studio audiences on either side of the Atlantic, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Theater seamstresses, actors mobilize to make protective gear for doctors

Broadway News: Broadway tailors and seamstresses have been mobilizing to make masks and gowns for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

These seamsters sprang into action after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo asked individuals and businesses to help hospitals facing shortages of N95 masks and other protective equipment. Brought together by their unions and by Broadway stars, members of the community have taken over studio spaces and contacted centers in need in preparation for the work.

A Guide to Working From Home

MyCrypto - Medium: Whether you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a first-year university student, the topic that’s on everyone’s mind worldwide as we head into Spring of 2020 is the Coronavirus. Governments across the globe are advising people to stay away from large groups, schools are evacuating, and many businesses are opting to have employees work from home (in many cases, for the first time).

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