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Riley, has no life , she is constantly following in K.Stewarts Steps!! Riley is a COPYCAT!!
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..isn't it obvious that this riley girl is sort of copying kristen's style?! duh… and now she seems in a hurry to get rob's attention… yeah she's elvie's granddaughter, but obviously she can't shine on her own way… she may have the skill to "copy" kristen's looks, but an original is always the best & better than a hundred copycats, and she just can't ever have those gorgeous eyes of kristen no matter how much make-up she puts on her face… she maybe pretty too, but not as naturally pretty as kristen, with or without make-up. :)
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She kissed someone who took advantage of her, she was young and didn't know what to really do. How about Robert cheating the first year they were together, she'd go home during would have someone in his room , all the workers there talked about it often, so he did worse to Kristen. They both still love each other.
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I don't think Rob is dating either woman now. Physical beauty is nice in a partner but not at all the most important quality. I consider Kristen to have one of the most beautiful natural faces I have ever seen, and it is not likely that Rob's next lady will equal that. Hopefully she will be a better match in other ways.
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Whereas I think I could intellectually forgive a one-time cheater who just made a boo-boo, I think it would be hard to accomplish at a feeling level. I might not be able to trust her afterward, even if I wanted to. This might be the conundrum Rob found himself in, that caused the present split. Who knows?
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Kristin by far outshines Riley. From her beautiful eyes to her flawless complexion. You can tell Riley is hiding some facial flaws under that makeup she's wearing. She's too heavy on the makeup. Kristin's hair looks softer, healthier and more natural. Riley's looks too bleached out and course. I have to say that Riley and her mom both have that rough exterior. Like they should belong in a motorcycle gang or something. Their expressions are the same, which to me looks like a sneer, and their body language says, don't come any closer. Don't you know that I am of the Elvis dynasty. I just can't see Rob with her. She's just doesn't have that soft, sweet endearing look about her that we're so used to seeing on Rob's ex. Something tells me that her character is not of the demure type. Like maybe she's got a sordid past. I shouldn't say that because I don't know her and I hope I didn't offend anyone. She is a pretty girl but I would never have picked her for him. Good luck to all three of you.
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Will DXO test the new X10 sensor?
Fuji is offering X10 owners a sensor replacement repair service to address the "orb" issue. I have seen test images that indicate the issue is resolved with the new sensor. I am hoping DXO will test this new sensor to see what else has changed. I also agree with other posts here that this camera should be tested in the various EXR modes.
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Added by hoodlum | May 13 , 2012
Re: Will DXO test the new X10 sensor?
+1. I do hope dxomark tests this new sensor.
Added by PStoddart | February 26 , 2012
Crop factor error
There is a crop factor error in the specs quote on the X10. If the sensor is 2/3" it must have a crop factor of 3.94 not 5.50. We know this because the X10 lens is 7.1mm - 28.4mm which converts to 28mm - 112mm.
If it was 5.50 you end up with 40mm. :)
Also the crop factor and sensor size are missing from the preview of the X-S1 listing as well. But we know these because it is the same sensor. Therefore 6.6mm x 8.8mm crop factor of 3.94x.
The sensor does not have stabilization but lens does so the specs of the X10 is yes to that question not no.
Finally the shutter speeds are know 30 - 1/4000.
Added by Hakeem | January 18 , 2012
Really frustrating
Why DXOMark can't test in EXR Mode HDR and SNR separately. There is no point of buying this camera if its EXR modes are not used with it! If I am buying that camera again, it will be for these special modes on EXR sensor.
Added by hoodlum | January 17 , 2012
HR mode was tested
You can tell by comparing the Print vs Screen modes. The print mode results are scaled to 8mp for all sensors. The screen mode is the per pixel results.
All recent sensor results drop when going from Print to Screen mode as they have more than 8mp. The X10 was no exception so that shows the test was done at 12mp (HR). If one of the EXR 6mp modes had been used then the results would have improved when going from Print to Screen.
I too wished they had test the 6mp DR400 mode for this sensor. They can easily manually select it under Program mode by changing the Image Size and the DR. Then we could compare the 6mp vs 12mp results.
Added by darrask | January 17 , 2012
SN, SR or HR?
Very well, the X10 beats other compacts. But how were the scores calculated? Best SNR is achieved in 6MP SN more, and best dynamic range is obtained in 6MP SR score.
Though it is quite surprising there is no word on this! Not even an explanation how the sensor works, only the layout is shown.


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I don't usually use sites like these to get my car repaired, but i was desperate, so i ended up using this site. Out of all of quotes i got, these guy's came out by FAR the cheapest, at least £100 cheaper than everybody. I thought at first there was a catch, like one of the previous garage's i called on here, they quoted £220 for just the labour and not the parts. But NO these guy's quoted me on exactly how much it would cost ! Quick service, no messing around. They even fitted in some missing clips on my front bumper which was nice of them. And also to top that i asked them how much it would cost to replace my back light bulb and they did that for free too ! Great, quick, reliable service. Will definitely be seeing these guy's again if something (Touch wood nothing) goes wrong ! Daniel.
Paul was very helpful even to the point of picking up my car and returning it. They did a great job. In a good time. I'm just sorry my insurance company were slow on paying up their end. Hopefully now resolved. I will be sending my mums car to him soon. Happy to recommend them to others. AK N14
No I would not recommend this garage. We paid for the vehicle delivered to your garage on the 23/03/16 for a Cam Belt change, we also had the Clutch replaced and Water Pump whilst you had the vehicle, with the understanding that we needed the vehicle back in time for a contract job we was doing. We picked the vehicle up and paid £1050.00 in which we paid when the invoice should have been for £950.00 because we supplied the cam belt kit and drive belt. We paid again for the vehicle to be returned to your garage because the battery went flat and didn't start on the 30/03/16 and then we had to hire a splitter van to replace ours, for 3 days at a rate of £130.00per day. We paid to have the vehicle to be picked up after you telling me that it was the battery at fault, so we agreed to offset the over payment for a new battery. We used the vehicle on 02/04/16 and that evening the vehicle lost lighting it went dim first and then all the warning lights started to come on. We lost the vehicle hire £100.00 for that day of the 02/04/16, and had subcontract hire at a rate of £150.00 for the 03/04/16 for not having a vehicle to for fill our contract. We did not return the vehicle, because of no confidence. We had the vehicle tested, and we was told that the Alternator was faulty so I replaced it myself after taking a photo of the of its position then still getting the right reading from the new Alternator the vehicle was taken to an Auto Electric Technician in which we found that your garage had put the alternator belt on incorrect so it was turning the wrong direction, so we didn't need a battery or an alternator because the vehicle never had a starting or charging problem before it went to you plus the damage to be repaired at a cost £150.00 This is a breakdown of our invoice to you of our losses.
Fantastic service, CSS Motors collected my car the same day I accepted the quote and delivered it back that day with all work carried out. 10 out of 10. will defiantly use again
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not very happy with there service there are a rip off never done what I whited done, there diagnostic was not right. went up the m25 and the turbo was not working and my engine was smoking and empty of oil had to get the aa to recovery me home after waiting 5 hours, I do not no what damage it as done to my engine until Monday the never told me the turbo stop working I will be taking this matter further, Regards Levi.
It's was good was really happy with the finish products and very happy with the service I got
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"The crux [first] pitch took nine days of effort starting in late September, with an additional two or three days up there by myself finding holds, cleaning them, and just trying to decipher individual moves," Weidner told National Geographic.
In an email to Rock and Ice, Weidner describes the day of the send with perfect temps, "freezing in the cold and warm in the sun." He also said that this was the first attempt from the ground up and had yet to redpoint either of the final two pitches.
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A Mulligan, in a game, happens when a player gets a second chance to perform a certain move or action; usually due to lack of skill or bitter luck. A "Do-Over". Like getting an "Extra Play" in pinball due to sinking the ball before obtaining an arbitrary amount of points.
If your opening hand in Magic: The Gathering sucks bad; just call "Mulligan", reshuffle, and draw new cards.
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when, during intercourse, a mistake is made, and a free do-over is given
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They suggest the following: Preparation – Develop strategies and techniques to improve your test preparation Assessment – Complete surveys to determine the sources of your anxiety, such as the online Beck Anxiety Inventory Strategies for test taking – Learn effective test-taking strategies Stress management – Practice techniques to help you relax and cope, such as visualization, meditation, muscle relaxation, deep breathing and rational thinking (see below) How does the brain digest information? You were born with more than 100 billion brain cells, called neurons. From these neurons, you grow dendrites whenever you listen, talk or write about something. Therefore, learning involves growing dendrites. The more you practice anything, the more easily neurotransmitters transfer electrical signals between neurons across a synapse, or space, in your brain. More practice leads to thicker dendrites, and thicker dendrites lead to faster transfer of these signals. 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The modern euphemism for "macking" or "hitting on someone." Best used in a situation where a 3rd person party is explicitly and obnoxiously saying "holla holla" in front of the two people.
Jessie Wen and Zack Proman tell each other to "SMIV" and "SMID", respectively. While Jessie claims this to be FALSE, we nevertheless don't believe her. When she asks for Proman's AIM, we say, "HOLLA HOLLA!"
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A gradual building of applause, usually starting with one person clapping slowly, and ending with an enthusiastic standing ovation. Generally shows approval for an underdog in a come from behind victory or after losing with pride intact.
After they hoisted their broken sled to their shoulders, the jamaican bob-sledders slowly walked towards the finish line. Much to their surprise, the dick-head East German began the slow clap. Soon, the whole crowd was riotously cheering them on.
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Evenly spaced applause from a single individual, typically used to call attention to the clapper's presence rather than as a genuine accolade. A classic maneuver for any Samuel Jackson character.
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An organization that is predominantly female and in which feminine viewpoints and behaviors dominate.
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Engberg, Siri. "Chuck Close." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters of our time, Chuck Close has remained a vital presence by focusing exclusively on portraiture, a genre often underrecognized in contemporary art. Since the 1960s, Close has used his inimitable style of representational painting to portray friends, family, fellow artists, and himself. In all of the media in which he works, whether painting, drawing, photography, collage, or printmaking, he begins with the photograph as his subject. By choosing, as he often remarks, to consistently "alter the variables" in the way he transposes his photographic sources, he has created a remarkable pictorial language that continues to become richer and to expand through time.
By 1967, Close had completed graduate work at Yale University, moved to New York City, and abandoned the abstract work of his school years to begin painting from photographs. "I wanted something very specific to do where there were rights and wrongs," he has remarked, "and so I decided to just use whatever happened in the photograph … By limiting myself to black paint on white canvas, I would have to make decisions early and live with them."1 At the same time, he sought to eliminate any brushes or tools with which he was comfortable working: "I was constructing a series of self-imposed limitations that would guarantee that I could no longer make what I had been making and push me somewhere else."2
His first attempt was an enormous painting of a reclining female nude, from which he honed some of the decisions about where to go next, such as using an airbrush, a tool with which he was unfamiliar. Making this work led Close to paint his first self-portrait.3 "The day that I photographed myself I was actually photographing the nude, which I had just completed; I had film left over and I shot myself. There wasn't anyone to look through the viewfinder, so I focused on the wall and got the distance from the lens to the wall that was in focus. I cut a little cardboard strip, and then I moved the camera back out into the middle of the room and I would put the strip of cardboard between the lens and me so I knew that I would be in focus. I didn't realize I was tilting so much in all these photographs. And I didn't realize that I was going to get so much out of focus. Then I realized the minute I started to make the painting that it was far more interesting because there was a range of focus. The tip of the nose blurred and the ears and everything else went out of focus, so I began to engineer that… . I also didn't realize, until I made the painting, how crucial it was to shoot from below so that the painting looms over you."4
Big Self-Portrait (1967–1968) was a watershed image for Close, in that it established his basic working method, which he has continued to use in various permutations to this day. Using a technique employed by both Renaissance painters and modern-day billboard artists, he overlaid a grid on his source photograph and, over the course of four months, transposed his subject square by square to the new 9-by-7-foot canvas.5 The finished painting was arresting. The artist's rumpled, mug-shotlike visage indeed loomed from the canvas, cigarette dangling from his lips. Close recalls that the process of making this painting was extremely liberating, as his rigorous process of working only from information available in the photograph forced him to make marks and forms that were entirely new to him.6 He went on to paint a related group of eight black-and-white "heads," as he refers to them, which included portraits of fellow artists Nancy Graves, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella and composer Philip Glass. In the years that followed, he reintroduced color into his work, began to fully explore his formula in drawings and prints, and embraced Polaroid photography as another means of building an image.
Continuing the modus operandi that allowed him "to find things in the rectangle and slowly sneak up on what I want … to make it all happen in the rectangle instead of on the palette and in context,"7 Close began to explore new means of creating his images—ranging from "dot" drawings to collages of pressed and dyed paper pulp to paintings and drawings made with his own fingerprints—that began to shake up the smooth surface sheen and photographic veracity of his earlier work. By the mid-1980s, he had embraced a brilliant color palette. His grids began to be more apparent, and he had introduced marks into his system that were self-contained, allowing each square to emerge as a miniature abstraction in itself.
Beginning in 1988, Close faced new personal and artistic challenges after suffering a collapsed spinal artery that initially left him paralyzed from the neck down. Through his remarkable courage and tenacity, his condition improved, and though dependent on a wheelchair, he was able to begin painting again with a customized brace. The paintings made following this event resumed the train of thought begun with his dot drawings, but became looser and more gestural than ever before. In canvases such as Kiki (1993), the candy-colored pinks and greens, delicate lavender, acid yellow, and other unexpected combinations reveal Close as a highly intuitive colorist. The blocks of color in the painting amass across the canvas as watery pixels—resolutely abstract at close range and joltingly real as the whole is absorbed and the artificial hues begin to reveal flesh, hair, and features.
Close's work continues to evolve in surprising ways. Incorporating new techniques, from nineteenth-century daguerreotypes to twenty-first-century computer-generated Iris prints, he has remained committed to rigorous experimentation within his rigidly defined practice. Through more than thirty-five years of "isms" and art movements, Close has operated on his own continuum, one that never fails to propel his work to new places.
Close, interview with the author and Madeleine Grynsztejn (Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), artist's studio, New York City, September 30, 2003 (transcript of audiotape, Walker Art Center Archives). ↩
Ibid. ↩
The Walker purchased Big Self-Portrait out of Close's studio in 1969; the $1,300 sale was the artist's first to a museum. The Walker has continued to add to its holdings of Close's work by assembling a collection of self-portrait prints that span his career. Executed in techniques ranging from etching and linoleum block to woodcuts and handmade constructions of dyed paper pulp, the self-portrait prints form a fascinating microcosm of the artist's work overall. ↩
Close, interview with the author and Grynsztejn, 2003. ↩
The size of the canvas was determined by the proportions of the source photograph. For a detailed discussion of Close's working process in making the painting, see Lisa Lyons, "Changing Faces: A Close Chronology," in Martin Friedman and Lisa Lyons, Close Portraits, exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1980), 30–33. ↩
Lyons, "Changing Faces," 33. ↩
Close, interview with the author and Grynsztejn, 2003. ↩
Engberg, Siri. "Chuck Close." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
© 2005 Walker Art Center
I am not trying to make facsimiles of photographs. Neither am I interested in the icon of the head as a total image. I don't want the viewer to see the whole head at once and assume that that's the most important aspect of my painting. I am not making Pop personality posters like the ones they sell in the Village. That's why I choose to do portraits of my friends – individuals that most people will not recognize. I don't want the viewer to recognize the head of Castro and think he has understood my work.–Chuck Close, 1970