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Question: For low light which would be better: RAW and Lightroom to rescue exposure issues or jpeg and rely on the camera's wizardy to nail the exposure and compensate for the low light?
You are really asking if you should use RAW or JPEG. The exposure is fixed regardless of RAW or JPEG. If you want good image quality, shoot both. RAW will definitely give you more details but your software needs to know how to do lens compensation.
RAW + LR gives you much more leeway than pp'ing JPG to recover low exposure/shadows - in fact if you ever need over iso800, you may as well stay at iso800, shoot dim, and boost brightness later in raw/lr (the camera is merely doing the same thing - boosting brightness after sensor exposure - but giving you less control and the risk of blowing highlights). And you still have the JPGs if you want them.
I don't really understand how it works. Do you shoot in manual mode?
You can fix the ISO to 800 but the camera is going to change shutter or aperture or both. Most likely, it is not what you want. Besides, what is the difference of shooting at ISO 800 but a very dim image and boost brightness vs shooting at ISO 3200, both in RAW with shutter speed and aperture equal? Won't in you ended up with the same image? ISO 800 will have less noise but the noise will show up when you boost the brightness. And how do you recall what the lighting condition was when you took the picture?
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Last offseason when defensive lineman Johnny Jolly was reinstated by the National Football League after being suspended due to violating the league's substance abuse policy, few thought he would ever contribute on the football field again in a real way.
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Cheap Valuation Makes IBM Stock A Long Term Investment?
- IBM has reported Q3 FY 15 results where its top and bottom lines continued contracting.
- IBM's Strategic Imperatives continue to impress.
- Currency headwinds that have been wreaking havoc with the company might decrease in the future and ease the pressure on its top line.
- IBM stock is real cheap and good for long-term investors who are willing to hold them for at least five years.
Erstwhile tech giant IBM (NYSE:IBM) has reported its third quarter earnings, and it wasn't pretty. IBM reported revenue of $19.28 billion, a worrying 14% Y/Y decline and badly missing consensus estimate of $19.62 billion. The company's earnings were somewhat a mixed bag: non-GAAP EPS of $3.34 topped estimate of $3.30, but was nevertheless represented a 9% Y/Y drop. GAAP EPS of $3.02 represented an even bigger 13% Y/Y decline. This is the 14th straight quarter in which IBM's revenue fell, and there does not seem to be an end to this decline the near future. After all, IBM revised its full-year earnings projection downwards to a lower range of $14.75-$15.75, whose midpoint is well below analysts' consensus estimate of $15.68.
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IBM pinned the blame for the awful quarter on continuing currency headwinds. The company pointed that currency headwinds nicked 9 points from its top line, and its revenue would have fallen only 1% without FX headwinds. But it's not clear whether IBM's calculations are completely accurate because Americas' revenue, which has minimal FX exposure, declined 10% to $9.1 billion. Asia-Pacific revenue fell a jaw-dropping 19% to $4.1 billion.
With the kind of results IBM is churning one quarter after another, Big Blue is running a very real risk of becoming a tech also-ran. IBM stock fell about 5% immediately after the earnings report to $142, just a notch above its 52-week low of $140.
Strategic Imperatives Impressive but Slowing Down
IBM's Strategic Imperatives segment of Cloud, Business Analytics, and Engagement, on which the company is pinning its hope for a comeback, continues to be its only bright spot, but is beginning to show signs of slowing down. IBM did not break down the segment's actual revenue numbers, but said revenue was up 17% with cloud revenue up 45%. IBM reported that total cloud revenue over the past 12 months clocked in at $9.1 billion, while cloud delivered as a service had a hit an annual run rate of $4.5 billion up from $3.1 billion a year ago.
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IBM's key attraction as an investment vehicle remains its robust dividend and share buybacks. Although IBM slammed the brakes on its share buyback splurge in 2014, its overall yield of dividends and buybacks remains pretty solid. The company said that it spent $4.7 billion in dividend payouts and another $4.0 billion in share repurchases over the past 12 months. IBM's net payout yield (dividends + share buybacks) totaled a healthy 1.8% in the third quarter alone. IBM shares yield a solid 3.5%.
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As of October 30th, 2006, 11:23 EDT, Dr. Stephen Colbert brokered the Stephen Colbert/Barry Manilow Peace Accord. Even liberal rag the New York Times recognized the import of such a momentous turning point in American history and have boldly declared that if peace can be had by Dr. Colbert and his nemesis Manilow, the cessation of all hostilities in the Middle East cannot be far behind. It is unkown what impact this may have for the upcoming World War III scheduled for 2007. It is suspected it may be pushed back to 2008 and possibly 2009 and moved to China should conditions persist. ###
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RICHMOND, VA, October 30, 2006--
A distant relative of the author of "Frankenstein" revealed today that his ancestor, Mary Shelley, did everything she wrote in her most famous novel.
"Most people believe her novel to be a work of fiction," George Allen-Wollstonecraft told a Wikiality.com reporter late Sunday evening, "but it wasn't. She actually did dig up dead bodies and reanimate dead flesh."
Mr. Allen-Wollstonecraft grew up knowing he was related to the coked-up author and was always interested in his family's history, saying he felt his connection with creativity was due to his Great-Great Aunt's propensity for the written word.
"She was a writer, I became a writer," lamented the distraught Allen-Wollstonecraft, "and now I'm going to have to dig up dead bodies and reanimate them, just like she did."
Allen-Wollstonecraft had to conclude the interview so he could make a previous engagement with two DHS agents.
Stephen King did not return calls from Wikipedia.com about his car, his dog or an incident that occured at his high school prom.###
Why Does YouTube Hate Our Stephen Colbert Videos?
(The Internets - Oct 27, 2006) REPORTS ARE FLYING THROUGH THE INTERNETS TUBES this afternoon that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and Daily Show clips from YouTube. Colbert clips are still on YouTube, but for how long?
Michael J. Fox - Fakes Parkinsons Disease
(Missouri - Oct 26, 2006) Rush Limbaugh has called out Michael J. Fox's poor performance as a man with Parkinson's disease. With unrealistic convulsions and unconvincing spasms, Michael J. Fox's act was due to be discovered sooner or later. Fortunately, a true hero stepped up to the plate and exposed this liberal-loving, baby-killing fascist. Stem Cell Research scientists are surely to be put on notice by Stephen Colbert in the near future.
Another One Bites the Dust
In the ongoing culture war between the it getters and all the rest, activist judges from New Jersey have just decided to make gay "marriage" legal. I read an article from some (probably liberal) newspaper and the full story sent shivers down my spine, now my body's achin' all the time. A link to the full story can be found here
Vote Tampering Expected to Help Democrats Gain Seats
October 24, 2006, ALLENTOWN, PA--
Concerned Republicans are sounding the alarm about vote-tampering this election season, warning that certain electronic voting machines may be potentially damaging to the integrity of elections in this country. The gravest danger may be that the government may fall into the wrong hands if the vote-tampering isn't addressed immediately.
"The Democratic party may gain anywhere from 15 to 40 seats in the House and may gain control of the Senate if these voting irregularities are not addressed," said an unnamed Republican staffer, "and that only helps the terrorists."
It seems the few companies that provide America with the state-of-the-art technological advances in paperless voting machines are owned by an investment group headed by Hugo Chavez and George Soros. Barbra Streisand refused to comment on her involvement. And Al Franken would not return phone calls, a spokesman, however, claimed that Mr. Franken, "was doing a 'radio show'". Wikiality.com was unable to verify if Mr. Franken actually has a job. ###
Party Affiliation Extends Life Expectancy
October 20, 2006, SAMALIA.--
The newest ad from the Republican National Convention has a message: "Vote Democrat And You Will Die." According to the ad, you can continue to consume large volumes of alcohol and calzones and be guaranteed to live another four years with the push of a button. The ad portrays Dick Cheney as the poster child for the heart attack preventing qualities of the Grand Ol' Party.
Insiders tell Wikiality.com that the Republican party hopes the message will help them draw votes from individuals living "risky" lifestyles.
For more information click here.###
Wikiality Declared Replacement for Wikipedia
October 18, 2006, NEW YORK.--
His Highness Dr. Stephen Colbert has announced that his recent assertion that the "number of African elephants had tripled in the last six months" has been shown to be not only truthy, but true. According to the International Herald Tribune, the "overpopulaton" of elephants is being arrested through judicial use of pachyderm vasectomies. Dr. Colbert appeared to refer his viewers to research the topic at the reference site, "Wikipedia", but pointedly directed the nation instead to the more appropriate Wikiality.com.###
Wikiality Reaches Random Person in Seattle
October 18, 2006, SEATTLE.--
At exactly 1:16 PM, a random person in Seattle known only as dmaycovski82, logged on and established his very own account on Wikiality. This shows not only the human tenacity one exhibits when put in a boring job with no accountability, but also proves without a doubt that there is more to do in Seattle other than protesting, drinking coffee, and buying Space Needle artwork. Presidential Pizza is just such an example. ###
Justice Department Contributes to Our Glorious Iraq Revolution
October 18, 2006, WASHINGTON, D.C.--
Alberto Gonzales announced today that the Department of Justice under his leadership has secured $2.5 billion from terrorists hiding in America.
"God bless Alberto," Dick Cheney stated, "when my administration has to go around begging for cash, it just shows who the real victims are in this war on terror."
"And it's me," Mr. Cheney said exclusively to a Wikiality.com reporter.
For more information click here.###
Ken Lay Found Innocent of All Charges
October 18, 2006, HOUSTON, TX--
A judge in Houston today cleared the embattled former CEO of Enron of all charges against him.
"My contention all along was that I never had employment relations with that corporation. And this ruling proves that reality," a sweating Mr. Lay told a Wikiality.com reporter from his home office in Hell this morning ater the announcement was made.
"All this legal stuff was daunting," he continued, "if I didn't have the same level of healthcare that Dick Cheney has, I am sure I would have died of a heart attack long ago."
When asked what his plans are now that he doesn't have that pesky Enron monkey on his back, Mr. Lay said, "I was the victim here, and I am just relieved that it's over."###
Halliburton To Sue North Korea
October 17, 2006, HOUSTON, TX--
A lawyer for America's Greatest Corporation has announced that his corporation will be suing North Korea for detonating a nuclear device this past week.
"Halliburton is the sole owner of nuclear technology and has worked tirelessly to protect it's patent," the lawyer said today during a press conference at the headquarters of the puppy-loving corporation.
"This past week's events are a threat to Halliburton's patent on nuclear devices and my company's proprietary technology. It is nothing less than an assault on my company's copyrights."
ChoicePoint, another corporation that loves America more than you ever could, has successfully protected it's proprietary software from greedy, America-hating governments from stealing their secret company patents, released a statement through their spokesman, "We love America and want nothihng more than to enjoy our freedoms. There is nothing wrong with making a profit or the contracts that allow us to get these profits. We are the victims here. God Bless America!"###
Liberals Deny The Clenis' Involvement in Recent Hawaii Earthquake
October 16, 2006, KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII--
A Republican Congressional candidate is demanding louder than anyone else can stand that liberals must explain why The Clenis caused an earthquake in his homestate of Hawaii. "Americans need to know why liberals are pro-earthquake. And I will begin investigations as soon as I am elected to represent the state of Hawaii. Thank you, and God Bless America!"###
Terrorist's favorite Liberal Lawyer to go to Gitmo
October, 16, 2006, NEW YORK -
Some people have stated their discust with liberals for allowing a terrorist to have a trial and for allowing a lawyer to defend a him.
"I heard on the radio that George Soros paid for her to defend that terrorist," said one person.
Said another, "I read that on the internets."
An unnamed staffer for a Republican official added, "Obviously, liberals are not offended at all that the terrorist on trial killed babies with his bare hands, so that he could eat them."###
The Democratic Party is Found to be Behind Every GOP Scandal
October 14, 206, WASHINGTON, D.C.--
Wikiality.com has discovered that the Democratic party has infilitrated the offices and staff of every Republican elected to public office for the sole purpose of discrediting these great leaders in the hopes that it would bring shame upon the entire party, including Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Wikiality.com discovered that the "Assistants" and "Staffers" hired to work for Republican representative Dennis Hastert were actually Democratic operatives who deliberately withheld information from the embattled Speaker, just to make him look bad.
Scott Palmer, Rep. Hastert's Chief of Staff is just the tip of the iceberg an insider told Wikiality.com late Friday night after the press went home for the weekend.
"There is no telling how big this is," said an anonymous staffer, who may or may not be a Democratic operative, or who may or may not be a red-herring plant from Karl Rove.
The anonymous staffer/red-herring plant, continued, "I am sure there are Democratic party members everywhere trying to hurt the Republican's chances for this upcoming election. It is disheartening to politicize the safety of our children." ###
Log In NOW to Chat w Mark Foley
October 12, 2006, WASHINGTON, D.C.--
A live chat session has been arranged for Foley to address the charges against him.
Go to Congressman Mark Foley and chat live with the Republican Representative. ###
GOP Uncovers Democrat Involvement in Foley-Page Scandal
October 11, 2006, WASHINGTON, D.C.--
Republican leaders have been decrying liberal involvement in the Congressional Page scandal from the very beginnning. Now, Wikiality.com has uncovered sensitive records proving that not only were liberals involved in inappropriate contact with the underage, nubile young pages, but they knew about it and held onto that information until just before a very important election.
According to this document, Democratic leaders hacked into Republican computers and watched every single one of the over 4,000 messages Mark Foley wrote in breathless an...ticipation.
Wikiality.com will be following this story as it develops, unless there is some kind of terrorist threat or something else more important happening in the world that may distract our attention...ooh, look! A kitty! ###
Singer Michael Jackson Announces He Will Run For Congress
October 5, 2006, SANTA MARIA, CA--
Mr. Jackson has announced his intention to run for Congress in his California District. Click here for more information. ###


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Pokemon Go is the most succesful app of the year, and will go down as one of the marquee releases of 2016 with millions of players happily catching Pokemon all around the world.
It's also a total mess.
Ever since launch the game has had major server issues which have stopped players from connecting, on top of smaller but no less frustrating in game errors. Everything from the game locking up during simple tasks like catching a Pokemon to log in issues and important mechanics which simply don't run. And throughout it all, developer Niantic has been curiously silent.
Games and apps ship with bugs, this is a known fact, and the first versions of Pokemon Go were still often in a beta stage. Bugs can be struggled through, but it's much harder without any feedback from the people behind the problem. If your users don't have any information on when something might be fixed, or even a notion that the developer cares about the problem, they're going to get vocal very quickly, and that will eventually lead to backlash and - more importantly for Niantic - players leaving the game.
And so it has come to pass- there are legions of fans who are signing petitions to have the game fixed, or even shut down, and now folks are looking for full refunds for any real world money they've spent in the otherwise free app. It turns out Niantic is honouring those requests right now according to this Reddit thread, though they're also getting swamped which will further slow down development fixes.
The latest backlash comes in the wake of Niantic axing the tracking mechanic in the game entirely, making it all but impossible to locate specific Pokemon. In addition, they're shutting down external sites which help people find the ones they're looking for, meaning that there's no help out there for curious trainers.
It's one of the worst mishandling of a launch we've seen in quite a while, especially for a product that has so much potential and actually, in many ways, works quite well. And many of the issues stem from the lack of understanding on how popular the game was going to be, and also how poor the level of communication has been from Niantic.
The company is in desperate need of a Community Manager, a conduit between the official internal channels and the wider world of fans. It's an ideal way to control the flow of information and keep users onside. Even if there isn't much to report, a community manager can work wonders weeding out positive sentiment such as fan art and keeping the conversation upbeat while the busywork of fixing and pushing out updates happens.
It's a vital part of the organisation, especially for something as supposedly community focussed as Pokemon Go. and it's pretty alarming that the company didn't think of recruiting one ahead of time. The odd update from people who make it very clear that they've got more important things to be doing than talking to their users isn't going to solve the problems that the app faces with user fall off in the months ahead.
There are some fine examples out there from similarly small work forces, see how the folks behind The Witcher 3 handled every aspect of their launch with the help of community manager fella Marcin Momot. Both positive and negative stories were addressed, update roadmaps were laid out and any rumours were quickly quelled.
The two products are quite different but the lessons are still applicable to the experience of the last few weeks- Niantic remains a mystery with little real sense of their future plans for the game. It seems like they were just hoping to launch the app and now they're spending every waking minute stopping it from falling over. As folks level up and head towards the current cap of 40, they're soon going to run out of meaningful things to do inside this augmented reality world, and the numbers will start to decline even further.
If Niantic has something big on the horizon, they need to start teasing it now to keep players engaged. And they really need to start looking for a community manager, though their jobs page currently doesn't list one. Failing that, not shutting down external sites which are are just trying to bring in features that you failed to deliver on would be a good start.
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She's been holding back, but now she's letting all her politics out. Egyptian icon Faten Hamama [2] is no holds barred with her support of the new Egyptian consitition. The starlet wrote an an article for "Egyptian Women Union" titled "Yes for the Constitution", calling all the ladies in the country to vote yes to the new constitution that [3] she believes will accomplish stability.
According to Laha Magazine, Faten said in the article, "I see that the context of the constitution is just for all society, and the new amended version to be voted on during January 14 and 15 supports human rights and helps Egyptians to progress forward."
Faten stressed that she will say yes to the new constitution because it defends women's rights, and the rights of children in more than twenty legislations. She added that it puts an end to the marriage of minors, calls for continued female education, and defends them from all forms of abuse. Women are half of society and the essence of every family, she pressed.
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Talla Tarly is Samwell Tarly's sister, and daughter of Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill.
Talla was born at Horn Hill to Randyll and Melessa Tarly. She is the sister of Samwell and Dickon Tarly.
Season 6
Talla's brother Samwell Tarly is en route to the Citadel to study about the White Walkers. Since the Citadel does not accept women and children, he plans to send Gilly and her baby Sam to live with his family at Horn Hill. While he does not get on with his father Randyll, he gets on with Talla and their mother Melessa.[1]
Talla eagerly greets Sam as he arrives with Gilly and her baby, complaining about her arranged marriage to the old, yellow-toothed Symun Fossoway. Talla takes Gilly under her wing and starts musing on what color she would look best in. She also offers to put Gilly up in one of her bedrooms.
At dinner, Talla makes small talk with Gilly, and is impressed that Gilly can hunt for herself, as Randyll never saw the need for her to learn. She later sits uncomfortably as Randyll insults Sam repeatedly. When Randyll realizes that Gilly is a wildling, Melessa listens to his rant before giving him a piece of her mind, then storming out with Gilly and Talla in tow.[2]
Family tree
|Randyll Tarly
|Melessa Tarly
née Florent
|Samwell Tarly
Night's Watch
|Symun Fossoway
|Dickon Tarly
|Rylene Florent
|Randyll Tarly
|Melessa Florent
|Stannis Baratheon
|Selyse Florent
|Axell Florent
|Imry Florent
|Samwell Tarly
Night's Watch
|Dickon Tarly
|Shireen Baratheon
|Season Six appearances
|The Red Woman
|Book of the Stranger
|The Door
|Blood of My Blood
|The Broken Man
|No One
|Battle of the Bastards
|The Winds of Winter
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Talla has been briefly mentioned as Sam's sister but otherwise not described in detail and has not yet appeared.
Randyll Tarly has five children: his eldest child Samwell, then three daughters, and finally his second son Dickon Tarly. After he became dissatisfied with the bookish Samwell as a child he kept having more children with his wife until they produced another son to replace him. Talla is the eldest of Samwell's three sisters (the other two haven't been named). In the show however, she appears to be the youngest child with Dickon as second after Sam.
See also
- Talla Tarly on A Wiki of Ice and Fire (MAJOR spoilers from the books)
|Lord Randyll Tarly
|Dickon Tarly
|Horn Hill
|The Reach
|Lord of Horn Hill
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1. The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Iron Working) (a) The lever at the end of which is the hammer head, in a forge hammer. (b) A forge hammer which is lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.


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