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A Street and Studio photography exhibition provides the impetus for a motion picture.

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Movies, iTunes and Flickr
If you have iTunes you can use the ‘Advanced’ facility to make movie files smaller for uploading to flickr – here’s how.

• Drag a movie into iTunes
• Advanced>Convert Selection for Apple TV.
Depending on the size of movie, this process will take a few minutes.
The movie I used was originally 61 MB in size, and was reduced to 16 MB.
Which means uploading to flickr is 4x faster.
The movie (it will have an .m4v prefix) can be dragged to the desktop and uploaded to flickr.

Quality
This conversion reduces the contrast and sharpness slightly, the movie looks flatter than the original.
But, this can be rectified if you open the movie in the QuickTime Player.
Go to; Window>Show A/V Controls, and here you can adjust the contrast*
* this facility may only be available on the QuickTime Pro version.

This day in history
In 1994, Republicans chose Newt Gingrich to be the first GOP speaker of the House in four decades.
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Christmas comes alive in Gaston County, N.C.
For the past 55 years, the small town of McAdenville has turned into Christmas Town USA and brought thousands of visitors to the Gaston County. In 1956, Pharr Yarns started the tradition with putting lights on a few trees in town.
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Polanski’s “Ghost” Triumphs at European Film Awards
The European Film Academy handed off its top prize to Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer,” just one of the six honors the movie took home on Saturday night. The European Film Awards took place this year in Tallinn, Estonia and was hosted once again by German comedian Anke Engelke along with young Estonian actor Maert Avandi. Local attendance of the black-tie affair at the Nokia Concert Hall …
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