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![]() In 1985, Chong played the love interest in Mick Jagger's video " Just Another Night". She appeared with her father in Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers (1984) and Far Out Man (1990). Other notable roles have been in the films Choose Me (1984), Beat Street (1984), The Color Purple (1985), and Commando (1985). We grew up desperate to know anything about our Chinese culture." Later in life, though, her grandfather "saw the error of his ways and embraced his heritage." Career Īfter acting in a few television roles, Chong's second feature film was Quest for Fire (1981), for which she won the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in 1983. She said, "I think my grandfather had great racial shame, which was hard on us growing up. In addition to Rae Dawn, two of her sisters and her adopted brother Marcus Chong have pursued acting careers.Ĭhong has said that her paternal grandfather left a poor village in China in the 1930s to live with an aunt in Vancouver, where Chinese immigrants were mostly sequestered in a small area due to racial discrimination, and that although he spoke Cantonese, he refused to teach it to his children or grandchildren. ![]() They have three younger half-brothers (one adopted) and a half-sister by their father's second wife. Her sister Robbi Chong, by Maxine Sneed, is a model and actress. Her father is of Chinese and Scots-Irish descent and her birth mother, Gail Lewis, was of Black Canadian descent. She is the daughter of comedian and actor Tommy Chong.Ĭhong was born on February 28, 1961, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the first daughter of actor/comedian Tommy Chong. She made her big screen debut appearing in the 1978 musical drama film Stony Island, and in 1981 starred in the fantasy film Quest for Fire, for which she received Genie Award for Best Actress.Ĭhong later starred in films Beat Street (1984), American Flyers (1985), The Color Purple (1985), Commando (1985), Soul Man (1986), The Principal (1987), Tales from the Darkside (1990), Time Runner (1993), and Boulevard (1994). Rae Dawn Chong (born February 28, 1961) is a Canadian-American actress. ![]() Has many of the features offered by Adobe Acrobat. Įxport PDF and many other formats, multi-pages and multi-layers. Import-/Export- from multipage PDF to multipage PDF or (Vector-)graphics. Import from PDF and create HTML and MOBI output. Converts PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, raster images. Also rotating, deleting and reordering pages. Supports merging, splitting, and extracting pages from PDFs. SWF conversion and manipulation suite containing a standalone PDF to SWF converter along with a Python gfx API (requires Xpdf). PDF to Word, Excel, HTML and Text supports passwords, text editing, and batch conversion. Structural, content-preserving transformations from PDF to PDF.Įxtraction and analysis tool, handles corrupt and malicious PDF documents. Import from PDF (with restrictions) (after installing an extension), export as PDF including PDF/A.Ĭonverts PDF to other file format (text, images, html).Ĭonverts PostScript to (other) vector graphics file format. Import from PDF (extension included by default), export as PDF including PDF/A. ![]() View, create, manipulate, print and manage files in PDF.Ĭonverts PDF to raster images and vice versa. Import from PDF, export as PDF including PDF/A.ĪGPLv3 for version 3, GPLv2 for previous versions 2.xĭesktop application to split, merge, extract pages, rotate and mix PDF documents.
![]() ![]() As with all our resume templates, feel free to reorder the sections to highlight your unique value.Įmploia, the muse of job applications, visited our designers and inspired them to create this elegant resume template with subtle color accents. The carefully planned layout can showcase all of your achievements without looking overcrowded, and the bold blocks of color make it perfect for a modern resume.Įnfold is a professional resume template with a contrasting sidebar and an easy-to-follow layout that guides the reader’s eyes straight to your key achievements. Our users agree that Cubic is one of the best resume templates they’ve ever seen. Of course, a fillable blank resume template for Word looks very convenient.īut are you sure you won’t accidentally wreck the entire formatting when you happen to drag something by a couple of pixels?Īnd are you 100% sure that being left alone with a fill-in-the-blanks Word resume template is the best way to write a successful resume?īefore you even start fiddling around in Word, try a dedicated resume builder that guides you through the entire process and comes with a library of easy-to-use, customizable resume templates like these. You’re probably thinking, “Why are you even asking? That’s what I came here for-free resume templates for Word!” Absolutely wonderful!ĭo You Really Need a Word Resume Template? Now, I can introduce any changes within minutes. My previous resume was really weak and I used to spend hours adjusting it in Word. What users say about ResumeLab: I had an interview yesterday and the first thing they said on the phone was: “Wow! I love your resume.” Try our resume builder with 20+ resume templates and create your resume now. Save hours of work and get a job-winning resume like this.
![]() ![]() Woody leaves instantly after still believing that Andy still wants them and, unable to persuade the group, leaves them in the care of the children of the room. It is the toddler children's homeroom at Sunnyside opposite to the Butterfly Room, located across the corner of the only corridor, where the older children use the toys at their leisure appropriately. The room features Chatter Telephone, Billy's toys, three Pop-Ups, and Andy's toys (aside from Woody as he was in the care of Bonnie Anderson at her house). It is also the primary location for Andy's toys in 2010 Disney/ Pixar animated film, Toy Story 3. The Caterpillar Room is the room reserved for the toddler children at Sunnyside Daycare. Toy Story 3 is much more than just a children’s movie and is a perfect opportunity to discuss the important issues it raises as a family.“ And here’s where you folks will be staying: the Caterpillar Room.” ― Lotso, assigning Andy's toys to the Caterpillar Room While Lotso, the apparently good-natured but actually tyrannical teddy bear, would be a representation of “little father Stalin,” Kim Jong Un, Fidel Castro, or any communist leader. Sunnyside, the daycare center that is truly a prison could well be an allegory for the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, or East Germany. ( Flickr)Īs Barbie tells Lotso near the end: “Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force!”. He takes advantage of victimhood to impose his particular vision of how society should be organized, depriving everyone of freedom. He promises free hugs for everyone (Lotso comes from lots of hugs) but ends up suffocating everyone. He hides all his resentment behind a facade of precious intentions that end up bringing terrible consequences. ![]() Toy Story 3, an anti-communist filmĪt the end of the film, Lotso is unmasked as a resentful person who was abandoned by a child, by the system, and who is thirsty for revenge. Meanwhile, Lotso and the rest of the hierarchy enjoy a life of luxury in the noble zone with the older children, from where they control that no toy escapes from Sunnyside. The tragedy of the commons explained to children.Īs they are nobody’s property, no child takes care of them. When the first day of kindergarten finally arrives, they realize that they have been assigned to the area of the youngest and most hyperactive children, who instead of playing quietly with them abuse them to the point of torture. Woody leaves in search of Andy and the other toys believe that they will be very happy in the communist paradise that Lotso has sold them. Only Woody, who knows it was a misunderstanding, insists on returning to his rightful owner Andy and tries to convince his friends to escape from Sunnyside, but the rest of the toys have succumbed to the siren songs of Lotso and want to stay in the nursery. They will be the common property of all the new children who will arrive each year eager to play with them, in a constant flow that will make them loved and cherished forever. At first, Andy’s toys are enthusiastic about what Lotso tells them: in this daycare they will not be the private property of a particular child who will inevitably grow up, forget them and end up throwing them away. Upon arrival at Sunnyside they are warmly welcomed by Lotso, a friendly teddy bear who is the leader of the toys at this daycare center. The toys have to face the harsh reality that their owner is no longer a child, and although Andy’s intention is to keep them in his attic, because of a misunderstanding with his mother they end up being donated to a local daycare center, Sunnyside. In Toy Story 3, Andy is already 17 years old and preparing to go to college, so he must move to another city. He was also the leading artist at the Sonderbund exhibition in the year 1912 and was also represented at the Armory Show in 1913 at New York. His influence then travelled to reach England with the first Post-Impressionist exhibition of RogerFry in 1910. In the same year, a huge exhibition of Vincent's work was held in Amsterdam. This exhibition along with the exhibition at the Salon des Independants in the year 1905 were significant in the development of Fauvism. His initial retrospective after the start of twentieth-century was in Paris in 1901 at the Galerie Berhheim-Jeune. Gogh was unknown at the time of his death however his reputation swiftly grew after that and his entire work made a huge impact at several exhibitions in the early years of the twentieth century. Gogh is regarded as the most significant forerunner of Expressionism who exaggerated natural appearances to express the terrible passions of humans. The movement of expressionism traces its origins to the decade of 1880 however it did not transformed into a distinctive style until the year 1905. Expressionism was an artistic movement that focused on expression of the experience by the artist. Gogh's formal distortions as well as humanistic concerns made him a famous and pioneer of 20th century expressionism. ![]() This style of 'post-impressionist' sparkled in masterpieces like 'Self-Portrait' and 'Portrait of Pere Tanguy'. He changed his brushwork and his vision became less traditional while his tonalities lighter. Vincent absorbed most of their methods and started developing his distinctive way of art. (Thomson, 2008)ĭuring his two-year stay in Paris, Impressionism existed as a high-fashion in the artistic circles. He left a huge collection of almost nine hundred paintings and more than one thousand sketches and drawings, most of them painted in his last years. Among his most influential models of 'Expressionism' his masterpieces comprise 'The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters, and various sunflowers' along with many self-portraits. It was applied by Van Gogh like a sculptor slapping clay on to a relief. Most of his pictures can easily be recognized from the broad brushstrokes of thick impasto paint. His drawings and oil paintings are now regarded as one of the best known and most expensive art-works in the world. ![]() He started painting in his last ten years of life, however failed to sell any of his nine hundred paintings during his life. Vincent Van Gogh, the post-Impressionist artist, is the most famous and well-renowned of all modern Dutch painters. While Gogh's theme formed the basis of expressionism in twentieth century, Dali initially became a leader of the Surrealist movement and later on developed interests in psychology and science, both movements influencing their beliefs and formal approaches in distinctive ways. The focus of the paper is to make a comparison and highlight contrasts between Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' and Salvador Dali's 'Persistence of time'. Compare and Contrast Essay: Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' and Salvador Dali's 'Persistence of Time' ![]() Into deep bass house? Check out Green Velvet, Jauz and partywithray. For fans of that classic house groove, there’s Ida Engberg, LondonBridge, NightFunk, Tchami and Will Clarke. Elephante, KSHMR, Loud Luxury, Sonny Fodera and Vintage Culture will bring us totally dance-approved progressive house pop for your pleasure, while house techno will be bumping from Anna Lunoe, DJ Issac, Eric Prydz, Layton Giodanii, LUCATI, Ranger Trucco and VNSSA. Drum and bassheads will love the beats from Black Sun Empire and Noisa, while house fiends will also get their fix with an array of house artists and blends, starting with a killer can’t-miss back-to-back set from Loco Dice and Nicole Moudaber. We get a solid twist of metal with Sullivan King, representing metal dubstep for all our true headbangers and rail-riders. Speaking of feel-good, we have The Chainsmokers headlining our melodic EDM category, along with Ekali and a special DJ set from Gryffin. Funky dance-alicious dubstep is scheduled from Ganja White Night and JSTJR, who could bring any kind of get-down vibe (this man loves moombahton!!), plus an incredible back-to-back set with Machinedrum and Holly! And, finally, some light melodic dubstep from Dabin and William Black for all the good feels. In our dubstep/ heavy whoomps category is Baauer, Bioweapon, Dack Janiels, Mersiv, Trampa for our headbangers, there is a back-to-back set featuring Doctor P and Funtcase. Insomniac Events went off on what is only their first lineup announcement… we love a juicy “more TBA” slated at the bottom of a roster! Over 65 artists represent all genres of EDM, with some feel-good happy electro by ARMNHMR, down to some heavy dubstep thanks to our Halloween necessities Vampa and Zomboy. It’s time to grab your best costume and your ghoul squad! North America’s largest Halloween-themed dance party is slated to take place this upcoming Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California. Justin Bieber - Let Me Love You (Outro Edit)ĭJ Snake ft.Attention, ghosts and goblins! We have an exciting announcement on the festival front for all Halloween and EDM enthusiasts! Escape Halloween is returning this year for it’s 10th annual two-day haunt, with initial lineup leaders such as legend Benny Benassi, The Chainsmokers and Zedd for all your spook-tainment. Mr Hudson - Here Comes The Night (Junkie Kid Remix)ĭJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It (Outro Edit)ĭJ Snake ft. ![]() Mr Hudson - Here Comes The Night (NGHTMRE Remix / DJ Snake Edit) Yellow Claw & Juyen Sebulba - Do You Like Bass? (KMKZ & Bleu Clair & Sihk Remix)ĭJ Snake ft. Like A Bitch (Slushii Edit)Īazar & Kovalenco Gennadi ft. Graves & Coolights - Say Things (Crankdat Re-Crank) W/ Crizzly & Prismo - Crunk & Wired (Carbin Remix) Boombox Cartel - Humble Jefe (RALBiNO DJ Tool) W/ DJ Snake - Propaganda (SayMyName Remix) Ellie Goulding - Fall Into The Sky (Everybody Fuckin Jump Acapella) Skrillex & Dillon Francis - Bun Up The Dance Lauv - A Different Way (Bro Safari & ETC!ETC! Remix) W/ Hex Cougar - Hexifornia (Gesaffelstein Cover)ĭJ Snake ft. Lil Jon - Turn Down For What?! (DJ Snake Drop It Low Edit) Lil Jon - Welcome To The Jungle (Acapella)ĭJ Snake ft. ![]() ![]() Pjanoo (Tchami Mashup)Īlvaro & MERCER ft. Valentino Khan & Boaz Van De Beatz - Lord W/ Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike & Martin Garrix - Tremor (Sensation 2014 Anthem) (Riot Ten & Sullivan King Bootleg) O.V - Get With The Program (Eptic & Trampa Remix) TroyBoi & Flosstradamus - Soundclash (Acapella) ![]() The latter lets you get access to the most crucial actions, like new projects, the web rapid start, the list continues. The easy and user-friendly interface consists of the structure of a folder including preview, log, and error panels as well as an open window on the desktop. After the configuration is finished You can then click “Compile” to convert the file to the desired format.Ĭhoose a design for the book’s cover from Jutoh’s template or design your own layout using an in-built cover designer. 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Create your project in a matter of seconds by using files that already exist using the New Project Wizard or make your book by hand by using the built-in styled text editor.Ĭorrection of the Word import issue where incorrect images were imported due to being two folders called media within the DOCX file. Make your book in a matter of seconds by using existing files with the New Project Wizard, or build your book entirely from scratch with the built-in styled text editor. There are a variety of editing options both for the layout of pages and the styles used in the text. The application lets you add text, images MOBI, EPUB, or PDF files, etc. Once you’ve mastered how the program functions, you are able to begin adding content into your work. The DRM removal Bundle is a comprehensive tool that can remove the DRM protection for ebooks. It has also added Italian user interface translations comprising Writing Recipes, Tech Tips, and Wit and Wisdom, thanks to the amazing work of the front. The Control Panel lets you create your files with one button. In this way, you can use the ‘Organizer’ to manage how you structure your digital book. The application has added an image viewer to media files that contain images. The program features multi-panel interfaces that have multiple sections that are open simultaneously and allow you to alter the section of your project you’d like to buy a couple of mouse clicks. Jutoh Featuresįirst, you must input the title, author, or publisher as well as other information, including subject, publisher’s site language, issue year, or description. Design iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire apps from Adobe InDesign. Quick to import existing content, be it in HTML, text, or OpenDocument. Quickly create your Epub, Mobipocket, or another format. ![]() The maximum number of projects that can be favored to 100. There are periodic registration reminders. LIMITATIONS CONDITIONS UNREGISTERED Version without registration is limited to 20 documents Chapters that have been generated include the words “CREATED BY JUTOH” at the top. ![]() Loot drops - in addition to boss farming - have been a huge part Borderlands’ continued success, the games’ internal random number generator driving players ever onward in search of the perfect gun or grenade mod. This happens largely in conjunction with other designs inherited first from PC role-playing games and then from MMORPGs. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage: (PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 )ĭeveloper: Gearbox Software, Triptych Gamesīorderlands is, by and large, about math, about procedurally generating things by filling in certain categories with certain values - fire rates, monetary value, drop percentages. Torgue’s Campaign of Carnage are addressing the fundamental question of what kind of franchise Borderlands wants to be.īorderlands 2: Mr. ![]() It’s also, I guess, a way to sell horse armor, alternate outfits, and snake oil to unsuspecting consumers.īut the long view of the two Borderlands 2 DLC campaigns to date will show that Captain Scarlett and her Pirate Booty and the more recent Mr. It’s a way to explore new areas of a game’s story or universe, or to fill in the gaps of some expository history. Or sometimes, DLC is a way to meet fan demands, to raise a level cap or introduce a weapons storage system into a loot-driven RPG. Sometimes those ideas pop up later in, say, sequels: it’s impossible to get from Dragon Age: Origins to Dragon Age II, for example, without incorporating some of the mechanics first introduced in Dragon Age: Awakenings. The best downloadable content, in my experience, serves as a low-risk workshop to spitball and prototype new ideas. ![]() Similar to what professional audio engineers do when recording, you can place up to 5 microphones anywhere around the instrument in a separate illustrative interface. New exciting possibilities open up as you explore the parameters and discover sounds that you have never heard or thought of before. You can even modify the mechanical properties of the soundboard. Some things can hardly be done in the real world, such as changing the string length from a mini grand of 1 m/3.3 ft to an imaginary giant grand of 10 m/33 ft. With just a few mouse clicks, you can achieve things that would require hours, or even weeks, by piano technicians to adapt on real acoustic pianos. The possibility to shape the sound through physical parameters is an extraordinary feature that cannot be found in any other piano software. It also lets you position up to 5 microphones around the instrument and to choose from a selection of different microphone brands. It is a natural choice for the semi-professional musician who wants to adjust unique physical parameters such as unison with, microtuning, hammer hardness, soundboard and string length. The Pianoteq Standard 6 version offers several powerful tools for sound shaping and recording. Digital Adapters & Miscellaneous Cables.I’ve been craving a new piano VST for quite some time as my current go-to piano VST, Steinberg’s The Grand 2, just wasn’t cutting it anymore in terms of expressiveness. After finally deciding to put in the research time I set about searching the forums and reviews of the internet in pursuit of a VST that would sound great and be affordable. There are actually quite a lot of piano VSTs out on the market which made it quite hard to decide upon just one of them. However, I eventually downloaded the demo of Pianoteq 4.5 and I was instantly blown away by the sound. ![]() Upon hitting the first chord I was overcome by how rich sounding and dynamic it sounded. To be honest, I had expected it to sound very artificial due to it being a physically modeled instrument, but it was unlike any sampled piano I’ve heard in a great way.Īmazingly, this VST weighs in at a staggeringly low 29.3 MB, because it doesn’t rely on samples of any kind unlike traditional piano VSTs. ![]() Also, most sampled pianos only offer 16 sampled velocity levels whereas Pianoteq has 127 (although if MIDI were capable of more, I’m sure they could expand that as the simulation is programmed from the ground up.) The price for the PRO version is quite steep so I settled on the STAGE version (the budget offering.) Modartt offer a demo for both the STAGE and Standard versions of the software and although the bonus features in the Standard version were enticing I couldn’t warrant the additional cost with my current budget. Needless to say, I ended up buying a license. I’ve probably spent a good 6 hours today just lost in music, and it’s been amazing! Definitely recommended to those that are first and foremost pianists but don’t have the greatest sounding virtual piano equivalent yet! Luckily, they do offer upgrade options if you want to upgrade to a better version down the road. There are some drawbacks to this VST (as with anything.) First of all, the license is only valid for 1 year of upgrades on the software. I can understand why they would do this (as the software has become much better sounding over the years that it’s been in development) but at the same time I think it would be perhaps better if they only charged for additional addons. Secondly, the price is quite a bit higher than Native Instruments New York Concert Grand and other piano offerings. ![]() However, they don’t offer any kind of demo to try which is why I personally ruled that option out as I won’t buy any VSTs unless I can play with them hands on first (otherwise, I have no idea if I will enjoy using them and feel inspired by them.) Depending on the type of music you are interested in writing/playing one of those sampled offerings may be a better option. Here’s a sample of me playing Pianoteq 4.5 using the D4 Grand and R2 Electric Piano models:Īnd what the heck, I’ll give this software a rating: 9.Pianoteq Stage is based on the award winning physical model offered in Pianoteq 4 Standard and PRO and praised by many musicians for its close intimacy and responsiveness. Pianoteq Stage includes the same instruments, sounds and playability as Planoteq 4 Standard and PRO. Pianoteq Stage can at any time be upgraded to Pianoteq Standard or Pianoteq PRO to gain further sophisticated features, such as to tweak the physical model, to load Scala temperament files or to position virtual microphones around the instrument. With Pianoteq Stage, you are not locked to a certain product but have the option to upgrade whenever needed. |
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