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...desirability of not kicking a man when he is down. The wonder of modern professional sports, with their teenage soccer millionaires, mass migrations to overseas tournaments and stud fees running into six figures, is not that cheating should dominate the headlines but that so many elements of the bygone amateur ethic should survive. After all, if international football were entirely corrupt, a player sent off for charging down his opponent in sight of goal would be applauded off the pitch. That it isn't - quite - reduced to these depths is a mark of its enduring moral core and the complexity...
...here has been done for the sake of getting lost. I’ve walked along the Seine at night with a few friends and a few bottles of wine. During La Fête de la Musique, which is a citywide all-night music festival where both professional and amateur musicians and DJs play all night (in addition to many drunk Parisians who think they are musicians by 2 or 3 a.m.), I walked and danced till dawn along the cobblestones. I might have even thought that I was a musician by 2 or 3 a.m. Nobody sits to watch...
...star Steve Carell will be disappointed to find he's not in any of the episodes. (His character, boss Michael Scott, is referenced, though; an accountant catches him having expensed a J. Crew receipt as "lunch.") Only a few network sites re-create the joyful weirdness of the best amateur viral video; Comedy Central's MotherLoad site, for instance, has Golden Age, a hilarious True Hollywood Story parody about the tragic lives of fictitious celebrity cartoon characters. Other sites are filled with extras that are geekily appealing (Sci Fi Network's site reveals how prop masters create futuristic beverages...
...camera to feature High Definition Multimedia Interface. Put simply, you can shoot still photos, plus video with audio, and watch it in all its high-resolution glory on your high-definition TV. Video compression is also featured, which gives four times the video storage of older digital cameras. The amateur needn't fret; a movie stabilizer helps reduce the dreaded vibrations of "camera shake." And Digimax Reader text-recognition software is in place for the James Bond type who needs to snap documents on the fly and then isolate and extract text from an image...
...error occurred while processing this directive]simply, you can shoot still photos, plus video with audio, and watch it in all its high-resolution glory on your high-definition TV. Video compression is also featured, which gives four times the video storage of older digital cameras. The amateur needn't fret; a movie stabilizer helps reduce the dreaded vibrations of "camera shake." And Digimax Reader text-recognition software is in place for the James Bond type who needs to snap documents on the fly and then isolate and extract text from an image. The more experienced shutterbug will rejoice...