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8 Issue #90 July 2020 www.sportsenergynews.com

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Looking Your Best While Zooming

into the Future

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Actually, Zoom sympathized
to adaptations of the telephone, on”? We’d happily accept the flying and added a filter to help everyone
however, we saw reasons for concern. car and the robotic dishwashing
out. You know what a filter is. A
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one that we could carry around in the phone line!
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key and such. The teacher, however,
hen I was in grade five, which long before we were delighted what’s needed for Zoomers: a bit of
Wfeels like a hundred years did envision a screen so that talkers by the invention of that promised virtual makeup!
could see each other in real time!
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(Apple device, phone or iPad)
And then along came the pandemic!

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Zoom has become a part of everyday
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