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...pursue it as a career.”Under the NHL’s collective bargaining agreement, the New York Rangers organization retained the rights to Reese until one year after he left school, and the blueliner was therefore obligated to sign with them.He was given an ATO, or Amateur Tryout agreement, by the Hartford Wolfpack of the American Hockey League, which is the AHL affiliate of the New York Rangers. Under the stipulations of an ATO, a player does not have to be drafted—although Reese was—only eligible to sign with a team. According...
...radio operators have been around since the beginning of radio; in fact, amateur radio enthusiasts were the first people to pick up the Titanic’s distress signals in 1912. Since the 1960s, some real fanatics have gotten even more serious about broadcasting and formed pirate stations that operate outside the Federal Communication Commission’s jurisdiction...
Within the song’s two minutes and 17 seconds, a miniature scale model of the band manages to wreak havoc on the otherwise quaint, tiny town the video’s live-action amateur enthusiast constructs...
...very taken with the idea of consumers creating content for the Internet. With the advent of blogs, tagging, personal profiles, garage band music and amateur web videos, instant notoriety is just an "upload" click away. The sheer volume of user content is staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...
...inevitably, consigned to refuse bins at the sight of an unflattering haircut. It is these rustling forests of lost and discarded images that concern photo historian Michel Frizot and photography professor Cédric de Veigy. Their Photo Trouvée, recently published by Phaidon, brings together 285 anonymous, amateur snapshots, salvaged from flea markets and antique shops over the past 20 years. Behind every one is a delicious enigma: Who captured...