Oregon Secretary of State: Books Join the Battle: The Victory Book Campaign "Reading is Even More Popular Than Poker..." Servicemen pursued various types of recreation during the war, but no form was more highly recommended than reading. The activity would not only expand the mind, distracted the reader from the ugliness of war during lulls on the battlefield, from the otherwise drab military camp surroundings, or from many of the tempting, but forbidden, forms of recreation often available in nearby communities. And the Victory Book Campaign to supply the millions of servicemen with wholesome and educational reading material would be yet another way Americans could contribute to the war effort. The Need to Read Officials knew from the experience of World War I that providing plenty of books for servicemen during war could boost morale and the need showed itself soon after the United States began mobilizing large numbers of troops in 1940.
New Software Makes Digital Models From Photos Like Magic Digital image editing used to be a supremely complicated job that only highly-trained professionals could do well. Photoshop let just about anyone dabble in image editing, and a new program called 3-Sweep could do the same for 3D image manipulation. The program was created by a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University. 3-Sweep makes it possible for even the novice user to extract single objects from photographs and turn them into easily-manipulated 3D models. 3D Star Lantern Instructions — Amanda McGee Designs Create your own 3D Star Lantern, perfect for holiday decorating! This digital die cut file is available in the Silhouette America Online Store. This digital die cut template makes it fun to create your own 3D Star Lantern. This is an advanced project, and will take some experience and patience (especially with glue drying time!)
Introduction to UML2 Profiles Copyright 2004, 2008 International Business Machines Corp. Summary This article describes how to work with profiles using the UML2 plug-ins for Eclipse. In particular, it gives an overview of how to create and apply profiles (and their contents) both programmatically and by using the sample UML editor Kenn Hussey, IBM (Updated: for Eclipse 3.4; James Bruck) Prerequisites To start using UML2 (and to follow along with the example in this article), you must have Eclipse 3.4, EMF 2.4, and UML2 2.2 installed. You can either download the zips individually and expand them out or follow the steps below: Dia a drawing program Welcome to Dia's new homepage. Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, Unix, and Windows, and is released under the GPL license. Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio,' though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams.
AASL announces 2017 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning CHICAGO – The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced its 2017 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning at the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in Chicago. The annual list honors 25 websites that provide enhanced learning and curriculum development for school librarians and their teacher collaborators. Now in its ninth year, with 225 recognized sites, the list is considered the "best of the best" by AASL. Sites named as Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation and collaboration. 10 Best Free Online Photo Editing Sites Design and Development Agency based in Palma de Mallorca - Ma-No Web Design and Development Modern cameras can make digital photography seem very easy, and even the most basic models will often produce crisp, clear photos. We generally use Adobe Photoshop or other graphics applications to make some photo effects or photo editing. But what if some of you dont have Adobe Photoshop or any other applications and you want to do photo editing? If your finances won't stretch that, though, don't worry, there are some excellent free tools around.
Origamic Architecture pop-up cards World Famous Buildings There are totally 10 patterns of Origamic Architecture in the Exquisite Designs (Volume 4) ebook. You can make your own pop-up handcrafts today! Simply print out your favorite patterns and then follow the step by step instructions to cut and fold the paper. It’s that EASY! For each popup pattern, at least one model photo and a valley flow-lines pattern sheet are included for your reference.
mocl: Lisp for iPhone/iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms mocl is built around the idea that your application logic should live in Lisp, and your user interface code should be fully native to the platform — Obj-C or Java in the case of iOS and Android. This is not unlike the web, where your server logic is in one language (hopefully Lisp), and the client logic is in HTML/JavaScript. For example: Swift.org - Download Swift Latest Development Snapshots Development Snapshots are prebuilt binaries that are automatically created from mainline development branches. These snapshots are not official releases. They have gone through automated unit testing, but they have not gone through the full testing that is performed for official releases. Swift is covered by the Swift License at swift.org/LICENSE.txt.
3 must-have skills for today’s librarians Districts nationwide are looking for new and innovative ways to provide training and resources for their staff, all while keeping within a limited budget. What many administrators fail to notice is that their greatest asset is already in their building. It’s the 21st century, and school librarians are no longer just “the keepers of the books.” Librarians and media specialists are highly trained, highly versatile staff members, whose scope of responsibilities spans all students and all subjects. I represent library media specialists at the district level. 42 Free Online Magazines for Designers Art and design magazines are designers close companion. Not only it feeds us with latest trends and news in the design industry, it’s also a good source of inspiration, particularly useful for those who hit the design block frequently. Just in case you weren’t aware, there’s a huge pool of free design magazines on the net; we meant those softcopy magazines you can either browse online or download (.PDF, .SWF) for offline viewing. Not only they have high quality content, each issue released is also free. We thought that’s generous of these folks. Today we want to present you with N Free Magazines for Designers.
The tool I use now. Needs some practice (and tutorial) but does all that I want. by dcmusashi Aug 15
Inkscape exact equals, but tomorrow it will be stronger with the integration of 2D animation similar to Flash. by jeanjot Apr 8
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. by bolotoved Apr 8
Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X by phil.graphics Dec 13