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Boeing supplier Orion takes economic potential to Auburn
Orion Industries will move to a new location in Auburn next year after nearly 20 years in Federal Way.
Federal Way's loss is Auburn's gain. As a top supplier of parts for Boeing aircraft, Orion's economic future brims with promise.
Boeing set a record for year-to-date deliveries and net orders for the 737 Next Generation Aircraft. That model's replacement, the 737 MAX, will be built in Renton. Boeing predicts the world's total airline fleet will double from 20,000 to 40,000 by 2031, with Asia as the biggest market.
Orion employs 265 workers and reports 20 percent growth for the past 10 years. The non-profit manufacturing company specializes in job training and placement for people with disabilities.
Orion, which also operates a call center, has outgrown its Federal Way facilities on 9th Avenue South.
Orion wanted to build a 100,000-square-foot location in an area zoned light industrial, all within walking distance of the Federal Way Transit Center. More than half of Orion's employees rely on public transit. The idea was to eliminate a bus transfer that added 30 minutes of travel in each direction.
"Transportation is the largest barrier to employment," said John Theisen, president and CEO.
Orion approached Federal Way's department of economic development more than a year ago to discuss alternative sites near the transit center. Four possible sites were reviewed in an attempt to meet the company's criteria for size, zoning and location. In the end, Auburn arranged a better deal for a new home.
"Our preference was to remain in Federal Way," Theisen said. "I don't know if there was anything else that could have been done."
Orion's future home is expected to open in November 2013. The facility will be built on 6.5 acres of undeveloped property in Auburn on 15th Street NW, bordered by the Auburn Airport and a Metro Park and Ride.
Theisen said the new facility will help Orion take on more work statements, train more people and create more jobs in the region.
Orion was named one of Boeing's 16 top aerospace suppliers, and was Supplier of the Year in 2011. Theisen expects Orion's growth to continue alongside a healthy commercial aerospace industry in the region, noting the optimism that surrounds production of the 737 MAX.
The future 737 MAX is approaching 1,000 firm orders worth billions of dollars. In 2011, Jakarta-based Lion Air ordered 230 airplanes at a list price of $21.7 billion. One of South America's largest airlines, GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligentes, announced a firm order in October to purchase 60 of the 737 MAX planes. The contract is worth $6 billion.
Local economic impact
From an economic development perspective, Orion's expansion is a win for the region.
"All of the Boeing suppliers need to pick up the pace and expand with them," said Bill Thomas, economic development planner for the City of Auburn. "We're all kind of in this together."
One economic benefit is having 300 more workers who eat, drink and spend money at Auburn retail establishments. Thomas said the city has created other incentives to drive the market, such as lower permit fees, tax rebates and programs for small businesses.
"It lets everybody know that Auburn is open for business," Thomas said. "Our mayor and city council are boldly changing regulations and creating opportunities."
Thomas said Auburn aggressively pursued Orion to make the deal, which involved a complex land transaction. King County sold a surplus portion of the Auburn Park-and-Ride lot to the city, which then sold that land to Orion. Through the deal, Orion deeded some of the property bordering the airport to the city for expansion.
King County Councilman Pete von Reichbauer praised the land sale, which required an ordinance through a vote from the council.
"This is a win-win for the county, the city of Auburn, and local job-producing businesses," von Reichbauer said in a news release. "Our primary responsibility is to create an environment that encourages jobs in South King County, and this ordinance shows how public and private businesses can work together to create jobs in our community."
In the past, Orion has received Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds from Federal Way. The grants focus on job creation and economic development. In 2012, Federal Way awarded $17,974 to Orion, which initially requested between $190,000 to $549,900.
Patrick Doherty, director of economic development for Federal Way, said the city tried to keep Orion and find a suitable property within walking distance of the Federal Way Transit Center. Doherty said the city presented four options, and was willing to rezone property in the city center to make it work. Communications with Orion died down before the company eventually announced its move to Auburn.
It would have been difficult for Federal Way's city center to meet the needs of a manufacturing business like Orion, Doherty said. One factor is the higher cost of real estate in the city center. In addition, a large manufacturing zone clashes with the city center's goals for retail, office and residential development.
On the contrary, the Auburn site is located on the outskirts of town near public transit and an airport. The site is situated on flat land that's more conducive to industrial zoning.
In fact, manufacturing jobs represent the smallest component of Federal Way's economy, Doherty said. Federal Way is better suited to attracting office jobs, such as kidney company DaVita, which will bring 350 jobs from Tacoma. Such professional jobs pay higher salaries than manufacturing jobs and result in higher purchasing power for those employees, Doherty noted.
While the arrival of new businesses will offset the loss of Orion, Federal Way is losing a valuable partner.
"We're going to miss them, that's for sure," Doherty said. "They're part of the community."


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Wyoming elk hunters enjoying an increased harvest
According to the Wyoming Department of Game and Fish, Wyoming elk hunters are enjoying their "good ol' days" right now.
Game and Fish harvest surveys show Wyoming elk hunters in 2013 killed 25,968 elk, slightly under the record 26,365 elk taken in 2012.
In 1995, elk hunters killed 17,695 elk, more than 8,000 fewer than the average Wyoming harvest of the past few years.
In comparison, Colorado in 2013 reported 219,166 elk hunters killed 43,606 elk, including 22,766 bulls, 18,593 cows and 2,247 calves.
Colorado is the only state selling unlimited over-the-counter bull elk licenses. Those licenses are available in the second and third regular-rifle seasons.
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Wyoming has totally limited elk licenses with a range of prices, including the $5 pioneer license (65 and older with 30 years of residency); Pioneer Heritage, $27-$32; resident, $52; nonresident, $577 (cow $288).
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If you're schizophrenic or bi-polar, the chances are small as some schizophrenics or bi-polar people can be aggressive. Not on purpose, obviously but the rejection is for the safety of other Buddhists.
Depression & anxiety is not an issue because meditation can help these conditions.
A temple or monastery close to your hometown or doctor's office would be the best solution. Or talk to your doctor, he/she will tell you if you can survive the journey."
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I'm so happy that your resection was successful! I hope and pray that your recovery is complete and uneventful.
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I'm so happy that your resection was successful! I hope and pray that your recovery is complete and uneventful.
Welcome, sister of Suzanne, and thanks for the great news, we're all on the same team here so it's good to know when we score another point against our unfair opponent.
Thanks for the updates Terri! This is such WONDERFUL WONDERFUL VERY VERY good news!!!! I'm so happy you found someone who was willing to help you fight and that everything has gone so well.
Sending my best wishes and prayers your way Suzanne! And keep the updates coming!
Thanks to everyone for the encouragement and support. This site, and everyone on it has been like a lifeline to us since the beginning of our nightmare that began in July 08. The information that Suzanne has been able to gather from other members of this club has been invaluable and has assisted her in so many ways, like how to deal with her doctors, what to ask, etc. The emotional support could never be replaced because only those who have dealt first hand with this thing can begin to know what it feels like. She is doing so well with her recovery and hopes to go home Monday. Again, thanks to all- please keep her in your prayers as she still has a long way to go.
Oh, and if anyone is looking for a great surgeon oncologist in Atlanta, I have just the one for you!
Thanks so much, Terri. Please, let Suzanne know that I am hoping for her recovery to be swift and steady and that many good wishes are coming her way.
Suzanne (and Terri),
This great news is JUST what I like to hear - keep the good new coming! How relieved you must feel - have her keep up the laps - every lap around is one step closer to going home!
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I am so happy for Suzanne & for you and the rest of your family. I will be hoping that she will be able to go home on Monday & also hope for the best for the rest of her recovery.
Well, It's me, live and in person! I finally made it down to the computer today. I was released from the hospital on March 3. 2 weeks in the hospital was MORE than enough!
I can't thank everyone enough for the positive posts sent my way after my sister let everyone know the surgery was successful. I don't know what I would do without her, or without this website.
I'm still having some eating issues. Getting enough protein is a hard one for me. Does anyone have any suggestions? I do have to eat every couple of hours, and I need solid food but I'm having a tough time finding foods that will go down without effort. It feels like I have a small air bubble at the base of my throat. I don't know if this has something to do with the tube they had to put down my throat into my stomach while I was in the hospital. It doesn't burn like acid reflux but it is definitely something. I don't see my doc until March 27, which is when I will get the staples removed.
I'm hoping to not lose too much more weight. I can't really afford it right now.
My entire family is SO happy the surgery was a success. Now I just have to recover and get on with my life!
YEA! Good to see you and you're looking great to me!!!! Keep up the great work. We love it!!
Glad to see you back on & that you are doing so well. Take care & keep us posted as to how you are doing.
Suzanne....I also am overjoyed to know that you are progressing nicely. In order to increase the protein consumption for my husband I relied heavily on shakes with added protein powder. This way it goes down easily and you can stick with the flavors you like most. There are also other ready-made shakes on the market with high protein contents.
Others may have more specific suggestions.
So glad to hear from you and to know that you're continuing to do so well! It is such wonderful news!
As Marion suggested, shakes are always a good option. You can use yogurt with a variety of fruits in the blender as well. The best protein powder that I found is "whey" protein powder. It seems to be the most palatable...I got the vanilla flavor and added it to vanilla yogurt every day. It doesn't dissolve well in liquids...kept trying it in my favorite chocolate milk, but it just didn't work! I think eating small amounts frequently is the key.
Please keep us posted and let us know how you're doing. I'm so happy for you Suzanne!
If you make protein shakes in a blender, you can put in a blob (a couple tablespoons) of peanut butter. Tasty and adds lots of calories and "good" fat, also some protein. That's what helped keep me from fading away. I weighed only 109 pounds to begin with.
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I am so happy you are back. I was the worst eater after surgery, so I cant help you. But the peanut butter does sound like a good idea.
Great news Suzanne ! Keep the ball rolling in your court. That air bubble feeling could be inflammation from the tube like you said. It could also be a blob of flem. I know sounds gross, but I had it happen twice post surgical. Felt good when it finally let loose. If it is really bothering you breathing wise go get it checked out for piece of mind. For food try boiled eggs, beans, drinks like already mentioned, healthy choice low sodium soups. Keep on the mend.
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Hi Terri,
I am so very happy to hear about your sister and the outcome of her surgery, it is really providing me with some hope too. My sister was diagnosed with intrahepatic cholangio about 4 weeks ago, we knew about two weeks before that she had cancer in her liver but they were not sure where the primary was at that point. We went to mayo 2 weeks ago in hopes that surgery would be a real possibilty. Unfortunately in the 3 1/2 weeks from the first scan the cancer had spread about 20% more. The majority of the right is covered and there is a definate spot on the left . They wanted her to do 2 rounds of chemo and then see if it shrank at all. they wanted at least 30% left . She left feeling devistated as you can imagine. she is only 41. I know in my heart that surgery is the way to go, we just need to convince someone. She has been basically asymptomatic ( with the exception of high calcium) she is young, beautiful, strong and a great m om to two awesome kids that need her.
I was hoping you could share with me your sisters doctor in atlanta, and also if the surgery was done at emory???
thank you so much and god bless you and your sister.
Hello Foodie and welcome to the best little club in the world that no one wishes to join. So sorry to hear about your sister but we all know here that hope and attitude is everything. I know you will get some good advice here and please keep us posted.
Hi Foodie - Suzanne here. I'm sorry to hear about your sister, our situations seem to be very similar, I'm 43. My surgery was done at Emory, the surgeon is Dr. David Kooby. He's a surgical oncologist. It's been a long road to where I am now. I was diagnosed in July 2008, then went through a failed resection attempt and then about 5 months of chemo before I was referred to Dr. Kooby. I was getting ready to have radio-embolization when the interventional radiologist went before the tumor board at Emory to see if there was a doctor willing to try resection, even though I had tumors on both sides of my liver. My left lobe was entirely consumed by tumors, and I had 2 smaller tumors on my right side. This is where Dr. Kooby enters the picture. He agreed to try to resect based on my overall good health (other than cancer!), and that the tumors had remained stable (no progression) since my diagnosis. However he was very clear there was only a 50/50 chance he would be able to resect once they opened me up, also with no way to know if the cancer will come back and/or how quickly. I was left with about 25% of my liver. My recovery is going very well. I hope this helps. Please keep me posted on how your sister is doing.
Hi Terri,
I am so very happy to hear about your sister and the outcome of her surgery, it is really providing me with some hope too. My sister was diagnosed with intrahepatic cholangio about 4 weeks ago, we knew about two weeks before that she had cancer in her liver but they were not sure where the primary was at that point. We went to mayo 2 weeks ago in hopes that surgery would be a real possibilty. Unfortunately in the 3 1/2 weeks from the first scan the cancer had spread about 20% more. The majority of the right is covered and there is a definate spot on the left . They wanted her to do 2 rounds of chemo and then see if it shrank at all. they wanted at least 30% left . She left feeling devistated as you can imagine. she is only 41. I know in my heart that surgery is the way to go, we just need to convince someone. She has been basically asymptomatic ( with the exception of high calcium) she is young, beautiful, strong and a great m om to two awesome kids that need her.
I was hoping you could share with me your sisters doctor in atlanta, and also if the surgery was done at emory???
thank you so much and god bless you and your sister.
Hi Suzanne,
Unfortunately the situations do sound similar, I am so happy you were able to get your surgery, knowing this has really given me a hopeful outlook. Right now, my sister is in her 2 nd week of chemo ( xeloda and gem). She said she is scheduled for a new scan on the first as her enzymes are still climbing. As it turns out, she had been given thge name of Dr. Kooby and also Dr. Staley. She was actually scheduled for an emory surgery review appointment last monday, but cancelled after a dissappointing outcome at mayo beying told that her cancer had spread over the first month of diagnosis ( she had not had any treatment , it took a while to figure out is was cholangio) so surgery was out for now unless the tumor reacted to the chemo, and knowing that she only had one day to recover prior to the start of chemo. I think her hope is to go back to emory once she has had some chemo to stabalize her situation .
Would you mind giving me a little history of what you have done ( and in what order?) Is there anything besides chemo that you had done that helped?
It has been hard not knowing anyone with this. My sister also asked if you wouldn't mind sharing your email with her. Her name is Kim and she lives in Macon. I am sorry to ask, it is such a gift you are giving to help someone else. I so appreciate it and will keep you in my prayers.
Hi Suzette - I'm happy to share anything and everything I know and have had done if it is of use to someone. Here is my e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. I look forward to hearing from her.
Here is my timeline, all done at Emory:
-July 2008: diagnosed (from the time the tumors were seen on CT scan until biospy and diagnosis was 3 days including the weekend) - left lobe of liver completely consumed by tumors
-August 2008: had a colonoscopy, upper endoscopy to make sure there was nothing going on. then the failed resection attempt - tumors found on right side. they just closed me back up.
-September 2008: started chemo - gemzar & cisplatin
-November 2008: follow up scans showed no change in size of tumors, no smaller but no progression either
-December 2008 - conferred with Dr. Kim regarding radio/chemo embolization. He is interventional radiologist who actually ended up putting me together with Dr. Kooby
-January 2009 - had liver arteriogram (aka shunt study) done in advance of radio-embolization - it's at this time that Dr. Kim tells me that he went before the Emory tumor board to find a surgeon willing to talk to me about resection. Dr. Kooby enters the picture. I owe a HUGE debt of gratitude to Dr. Kim for doing this.
I then met with Dr. Kooby, who made no promises but thought there was a chance. I then had a PET scan, which along with the liver arteriogram, and CT scan gave Dr. Kooby a good idea that nothing else was hiding inside, but again they don't know for sure until they get in. He did tell me that if they opened me up and found any cancer outside the liver that they would not resect. I knew going into this there was a chance of another failed resection but I had to try. My surgery was Feb 18, and I was in the hospital for 13 days. I saw Dr. Kooby on March 20 and he says I am recovering ahead of schedule. I had a left lobe resection, a right lobe wedge resection, gallbladder removed, and a small portion of my left diaphragm removed, all with clean margins.
Dr. Kooby is an amazing doctor, and person. He's soft spoken but very sure of his skill and what he can do. I met Dr. Staley 2 or 3 times in the hospital when he made rounds. He is very boistrous (spelled wrong). Personally, I prefer Dr. Kooby's style.
Since your sister is in Macon, and Emory (Winship Cancer Institute) is so close, I would encourage her to talk to Dr. Kooby. Also, I see Dr. John Kauh, my oncologist. I get my chemo close to home but it is dictated by Dr. Kauh.
Based on what I've seen on this website, and other people's experiences and treatments, I've found that Emory offers the same treatments and care that the Mayo clinic, MD Anderson and Johns Hopkins offers. I feel VERY comfortable that I am getting comparable treatment at Emory/Winship, without having to leave home.
I hope this helps, and if you have any questions, no matter what they are, please ask. Hang in there with your sister, this is a long road, and you will both need each other. Tell Kim to e-mail me whenever she's ready.
I can't thank you enough. I know this will help in more ways than one. You have had such a battle, yet you are so giving of yourself and your time. I know my sister will appreciate the information and I am so happy you have some great local resources. I have forwarded her your info , and really can't express how greateful I am that you have taken the time to share in such detail.
Many blessings to you
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I am so sorry to hear about your sister - believe me, I understand your feelings completely! Please feel free to email me if you just want to talk -
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You're a huggy kind of guy. You like showing affection. In work settings, of course, you shake hands instead. But still you're wondering: Under what circumstances can it be appropriate to hug colleagues?
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I'm a huggy kind of guy. I like to show affection and care for the people in my life. Typically, in work settings, I shake hands instead, but I'm wondering under what circumstances it can be appropriate to hug colleagues or others in a professional setting. Also, I know that some Orthodox women avoid physical contact with men outside of their families. How do I know if that's someone's practice, and what do I do to avoid putting those women in an uncomfortable situation?
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I'm glad to hear you're keeping your impulse to hug in check at work, because it's rarely, if ever, appropriate to have that level of physical contact with a co-worker. If you work in an environment where people are friendly with each other and sometimes share good (or bad) news from their personal lives, an engagement or birth announcement is an appropriate occasion. A death in the family may be appropriate, too, but I think a pat on the back is as effective if not more so. I'd like to think you'll know if it's the right occasion, but when in doubt, don't hug.
If you invite co-workers to a family event outside of the office, or if you hang out with each other socially, you can relax the formality and act as you would with any other friend, but within the work setting, a standard mode of interaction is a helpful policy. At a social event put on by the office, such as a holiday party, there's more ambiguity, but I think social cues are your best ally, and you need to be very aware of the signs you're getting from people. I hate to say it, but, being male, you are potentially subject to a different set of standards for physical contact, and you need to be sure that your friendliness can't be misconstrued as anything more. Also, you need to consider the hierachy at work, and whether the person you're about to hug is more or less senior than you. Hopefully, you have enough to do at work to keep you busy without all these considerations and you'll just avoid the hug.
Orthodox Jews who are shomer negiah avoid physical contact with members of the opposite sex, just as you said. However, some make exceptions for handshaking, which can be considered a "momentary act," putting it in a different category than other kinds of touching. This article does a good job of explaining this practice, as well as some exceptions to the rule and some suggestions for how to handle potential awkward encounters. If you meet a woman wearing a skirt below her knees, a shirt with sleeves covering her elbows and, if she's married, a hat or wig, it's safe not to try to shake her hand. Even if she's not shomer negiah, she certainly won't be offended by the lack of a handshake.
I would say the same, by the way, about most people and most physical contact. I think it's much worse to be overly forward and too physical than not to be physical enough. I've never missed a handshake, but I have regretted some unsolicited hugs (and don't get me started on cheek kisses from people I barely know). Pay attention to how others are interacting in a variety of settings and how people are responding to you, and I expect you'll be able to determine the best course.
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MOURNERS gathered at Jamia Ghosia Mosque in Chester Street, Audley, near Bilal Saddique's family home, to offer up prayers yesterday.
Hussain Akhtar, a local councillor and community leader, joined Bilal's uncle and father and scores of other relatives and friends at the mosque.
He said the community was trying to come to terms with the death of the 29-year-old.
"This is very sad news," he said. "I was very sorry indeed to hear this news in my community.
"I am doing what I can to help the family, everyone is praying for them."
Local councillor and former Blackburn mayor Salim Mulla also visited the mosque to pay his respects.
He said: "From the people I've spoken to, they said he was a very nice lad.
"He was a really good member of the community, a law abiding citizen, and a wonderful lad.
"We're all shocked that something like that has happened to him. People still can't believe it.
"He had a very good reputation as a young man, that's what people have been saying to me in the community."
Mr Saddique's family was too distressed to speak about what had happened yesterday, but friends and members of the local community visited the family home throughout the day to pay their respects.
His friends also took to Facebook to pay tribute to him, and express their shock over his death. He was described by those who knew him as a quiet man, and a 'nice guy'.
Donna Louise Riley said: "Bilal Saddique, the nicest man you would ever wish to meet. Will be sadly missed. Rest in peace Bil.
"A very good friend, kind, quiet, caring and sincere. There's not many left like him and he will be missed.
"Prayers for Bilal and his family at this very sad time. RIP Bilal, never saw this coming."
And Sharon Booth said "RIP, such a nice guy."
Ganch Mohammed said: "Very sad news. Allah grant him jannah, he was an ace guy."
And another friend said: "He was a top lad. Quiet, always kept his head down."


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Dr. Vivian Wagner publishes Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music
Muskingum University Associate Professor of Journalism Dr. Vivian Wagner has just published Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music, which chronicles her musical journey with the violin.
The book describes the transition she made, musically and personally, from a classically trained violinist to the world of fiddle music, and the impact that journey had on both her love of music and her view of life.
Her travels took her from the remote workshop of a master fiddle maker in the Blue Ridge Mountains to a klezmer band in Cleveland, and then to experiencing Cajun fiddle music in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and to a fiddle camp in Tennessee.
Dr. Wagner joined the Muskingum University faculty in 2003. At Muskingum, she advises the campus newspaper, The Black and Magenta, and is the faculty advisor for the university's chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ). In 2006, she was named the Sheridan Baker Advisor of the Year by SCJ.
An award-winning writer, her work has appeared in a variety of publications, including American Profile, Bluegrass Unlimited, Modern Fiction Studies, Relish and many others.
Released by Kensington Publishing, Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music is available from the Muskingum University bookstore, at a variety of booksellers and from Amazon.
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ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - A man sentenced to death for stabbing and killing a 37-year-old Crescent Beach woman at a hotel in 2005 is appealing his conviction and sentence with the Florida Supreme Court.
James Turner was convicted of killing Renee Howard in September 2005 at a Comfort Inn on State Road 207 in St. Johns County.
Turner, an escaped convict from South Carolina, was pursued and captured after jumping off Deep Creek Bridge about 10 miles away.
He was convicted of murder and the stabbing of a second woman who survived, and eventually sentenced to death.
St. Johns County deputies said it was a random act of violence. They said Turner wanted Howard's SUV.
All of Turner's appeals have been denied so far. There's a hearing Dec. 14 regarding the appeal to the Florida Supreme Court.
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Inkscape tutorial: Basic
This tutorial demonstrates the basics of using Inkscape. This is a regular Inkscape document that you can view, edit, copy from, or save.
The Basic Tutorial covers canvas navigation, managing documents, shape tool basics, selection techniques, transforming objects with selector, grouping, setting fill and stroke, alignment, and z-order. For more advanced topics, check out the other tutorials in the Help menu.
Panning the canvas
There are many ways to pan (scroll) the document canvas. Try Ctrl+arrow keys to scroll by keyboard. (Try this now to scroll this document down.) You can also drag the canvas by the middle mouse button. Or, you can use the scrollbars (press Ctrl+B to show or hide them). The wheel on your mouse also works for scrolling vertically; press Shift with the wheel to scroll horizontally.
Zooming in or out
The easiest way to zoom is by pressing - and + (or =) keys. You can also use Ctrl+middle click or Ctrl+right click to zoom in, Shift+middle click or Shift+right click to zoom out, or rotate the mouse wheel with Ctrl. Or, you can click in the zoom entry field (in the bottom right corner of the document window), type a precise zoom value in %, and press Enter. We also have the Zoom tool (in the toolbar on left) which lets you to zoom into an area by dragging around it.
Inkscape also keeps a history of the zoom levels you've used in this work session. Press the ` key to go back to the previous zoom, or Shift+` to go forward.
Inkscape tools
The vertical toolbar on the left shows Inkscape's drawing and editing tools. In the top part of the window, below the menu, there's the Commands bar with general command buttons and the Tool Controls bar with controls that are specific to each tool. The status bar at the bottom of the window will display useful hints and messages as you work.
Many operations are available through keyboard shortcuts. Open Help > Keys and Mouse to see the complete reference.
Creating and managing documents
To create a new empty document, useor press Ctrl+N. To create a new document from one of Inkscape's many templates, use or press Ctrl+Alt+N
To open an existing SVG document, use(Ctrl+O). To save, use (Ctrl+S), or (Shift+Ctrl+S) to save under a new name. (Inkscape may still be unstable, so remember to save often!)
Inkscape uses the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format for its files. SVG is an open standard widely supported by graphic software. SVG files are based on XML and can be edited with any text or XML editor (apart from Inkscape, that is). Besides SVG, Inkscape can import and export several other formats (EPS, PNG).
Inkscape opens a separate document window for each document. You can navigate among them using your window manager (e.g. by Alt+Tab), or you can use the Inkscape shortcut, Ctrl+Tab, which will cycle through all open document windows. (Create a new document now and switch between it and this document for practice.) Note: Inkscape treats these windows like tabs in a web browser, this means the Ctrl+Tab shortcut only works with documents running in the same process. If you open multiple files from a file browser or launch more than one Inkscape process from an icon it will not work.
Creating shapes
Time for some nice shapes! Click on the Rectangle tool in the toolbar (or press F4) and click-and-drag, either in a new empty document or right here:
As you can see, default rectangles come up blue, with a black stroke (outline), and fully opaque. We'll see how to change that below. With other tools, you can also create ellipses, stars, and spirals:
These tools are collectively known as shape tools. Each shape you create displays one or more diamond-shaped handles; try dragging them to see how the shape responds. The Controls panel for a shape tool is another way to tweak a shape; these controls affect the currently selected shapes (i.e. those that display the handles) and set the default that will apply to newly created shapes.
To undo your last action, press Ctrl+Z. (Or, if you change your mind again, you can redo the undone action by Shift+Ctrl+Z.)
Moving, scaling, rotating
The most frequently used Inkscape tool is the Selector. Click the topmost button (with the arrow) on the toolbar, or press F1 or Space. Now you can select any object on the canvas. Click on the rectangle below.
You will see eight arrow-shaped handles appear around the object. Now you can:
Move the object by dragging it. (Press Ctrl to restrict movement to horizontal and vertical.)
Scale the object by dragging any handle. (Press Ctrl to preserve the original height/width ratio.)
Now click the rectangle again. The handles change. Now you can:
Rotate the object by dragging corner handles. (Press Ctrl to restrict rotation to 15 degree steps. Drag the cross mark to position the center of rotation.)
Skew (shear) the object by dragging non-corner handles. (Press Ctrl to restrict skewing to 15 degree steps.)
While in Selector, you can also use the numeric entry fields in the Controls bar (above the canvas) to set exact values for coordinates (X and Y) and size (W and H) of the selection.
Transforming by keys
One of Inkscape's features that set it apart from most other vector editors is its emphasis on keyboard accessibility. There's hardly any command or action that is impossible to do from keyboard, and transforming objects is no exception.
You can use the keyboard to move (arrow keys), scale (< and > keys), and rotate ([ and ] keys) objects. Default moves and scales are by 2 px; with Shift, you move by 10 times that. Ctrl+> and Ctrl+< scale up or down to 200% or 50% of the original, respectively. Default rotates are by 15 degrees; with Ctrl, you rotate by 90 degrees.
However, perhaps the most useful are pixel-size transformations, invoked by using Alt with the transform keys. For example, Alt+arrows will move the selection by 1 pixel at the current zoom (i.e. by 1 screen pixel, not to be confused with the px unit which is an SVG length unit independent of zoom). This means that if you zoom in, one Alt+arrow will result in a smaller absolute movement which will still look like one-pixel nudge on your screen. It is thus possible to position objects with arbitrary precision simply by zooming in or out as needed.
Similarly, Alt+> and Alt+< scale selection so that its visible size changes by one screen pixel, and Alt+[ and Alt+] rotate it so that its farthest-from-center point moves by one screen pixel.
Note: Linux users may not get the expected results with the Alt+arrow and a few other key combinations if their Window Manager catches those key events before they reach the inkscape application. One solution would be to change the WM's configuration accordingly.
Multiple selections
You can select any number of objects simultaneously by Shift+clicking them. Or, you can drag around the objects you need to select; this is called rubberband selection. (Selector creates rubberband when dragging from an empty space; however, if you press Shift before starting to drag, Inkscape will always create the rubberband.) Practice by selecting all three of the shapes below:
Now, use rubberband (by drag or Shift+drag) to select the two ellipses but not the rectangle:
Each individual object within a selection displays a selection cue — by default, a dashed rectangular frame. These cues make it easy to see at once what is selected and what is not. For example, if you select both the two ellipses and the rectangle, without the cues you would have hard time guessing whether the ellipses are selected or not.
Shift+clicking on a selected object excludes it from the selection. Select all three objects above, then use Shift+click to exclude both ellipses from the selection leaving only the rectangle selected.
Pressing Esc deselects any selected objects. Ctrl+A selects all objects in the current layer (if you did not create layers, this is the same as all objects in the document).
Several objects can be combined into a group. A group behaves as a single object when you drag or transform it. Below, the three objects on the left are independent; the same three objects on the right are grouped. Try to drag the group.
To create a group, you select one or more objects and press Ctrl+G. To ungroup one or more groups, select them and press Ctrl+U. Groups themselves may be grouped, just like any other objects; such recursive groups may go down to arbitrary depth. However, Ctrl+U only ungroups the topmost level of grouping in a selection; you'll need to press Ctrl+U repeatedly if you want to completely ungroup a deep group-in-group.
You don't necessarily have to ungroup, however, if you want to edit an object within a group. Just Ctrl+click that object and it will be selected and editable alone, or Shift+Ctrl+click several objects (inside or outside any groups) for multiple selection regardless of grouping. Try to move or transform the individual shapes in the group (above right) without ungrouping it, then deselect and select the group normally to see that it still remains grouped.
Fill and stroke
Probably the simplest way to paint an object some color is to select an object, and click a swatch in the palette below the canvas to paint it (change its fill color). Alternatively, you can open the Swatches dialog from the View menu (or press Shift+Ctrl+W), select an object, and click a swatch to paint it (change its fill color).
More powerful is the Fill and Stroke dialog from the Object menu (or press Shift+Ctrl+F). Select the shape below and open the Fill and Stroke dialog.
You will see that the dialog has three tabs: Fill, Stroke paint, and Stroke style. The Fill tab lets you edit the fill (interior) of the selected object(s). Using the buttons just below the tab, you can select types of fill, including no fill (the button with the X), flat color fill, as well as linear or radial gradients. For the above shape, the flat fill button will be activated.
Further below, you see a collection of color pickers, each in its own tab: RGB, CMYK, HSL, and Wheel. Perhaps the most convenient is the Wheel picker, where you can rotate the triangle to choose a hue on the wheel, and then select a shade of that hue within the triangle. All color pickers contain a slider to set the alpha (opacity) of the selected object(s).
Whenever you select an object, the color picker is updated to display its current fill and stroke (for multiple selected objects, the dialog shows their average color). Play with these samples or create your own:
Using the Stroke paint tab, you can remove the stroke (outline) of the object, or assign any color or transparency to it:
The last tab, Stroke style, lets you set the width and other parameters of the stroke:
Finally, instead of flat color, you can use gradients for fills and/or strokes:
When you switch from flat color to gradient, the newly created gradient uses the previous flat color, going from opaque to transparent. Switch to the Gradient tool (Ctrl+F1) to drag the gradient handles — the controls connected by lines that define the direction and length of the gradient. When any of the gradient handles is selected (highlighted blue), the Fill and Stroke dialog sets the color of that handle instead of the color of the entire selected object.
Yet another convenient way to change a color of an object is by using the Dropper tool (F7). Just click anywhere in the drawing with that tool, and the picked color will be assigned to the selected object's fill (Shift+click will assign stroke color).
Duplication, alignment, distribution
One of the most common operations is duplicating an object (Ctrl+D). The duplicate is placed exactly above the original and is selected, so you can drag it away by mouse or by arrow keys. For practice, try to fill the line with copies of this black square:
Chances are, your copies of the square are placed more or less randomly. This is where the Align and Distribute dialog (Shift+Ctrl+A) is useful. Select all the squares (Shift+click or drag a rubberband), open the dialog and press the "Center on horizontal axis" button, then the "Make horizontal gaps between objects equal" button (read the button tooltips). The objects are now neatly aligned and distributed equispacedly. Here are some other alignment and distribution examples:
The term z-order refers to the stacking order of objects in a drawing, i.e. to which objects are on top and obscure others. The two commands in the Object menu, Raise to Top (the Home key) and Lower to Bottom (the End key), will move your selected objects to the very top or very bottom of the current layer's z-order. Two more commands, Raise (PgUp) and Lower (PgDn), will sink or emerge the selection one step only, i.e. move it past one non-selected object in z-order (only objects that overlap the selection count, based on their respective bounding boxes).
Practice using these commands by reversing the z-order of the objects below, so that the leftmost ellipse is on top and the rightmost one is at the bottom:
A very useful selection shortcut is the Tab key. If nothing is selected, it selects the bottommost object; otherwise it selects the object above the selected object(s) in z-order. Shift+Tab works in reverse, starting from the topmost object and proceeding downwards. Since the objects you create are added to the top of the stack, pressing Shift+Tab with nothing selected will conveniently select the object you created last. Practice the Tab and Shift+Tab keys on the stack of ellipses above.
Selecting under and dragging selected
What to do if the object you need is hidden behind another object? You may still see the bottom object if the top one is (partially) transparent, but clicking on it will select the top object, not the one you need.
This is what Alt+click is for. First Alt+click selects the top object just like the regular click. However, the next Alt+click at the same point will select the object below the top one; the next one, the object still lower, etc. Thus, several Alt+clicks in a row will cycle, top-to-bottom, through the entire z-order stack of objects at the click point. When the bottom object is reached, next Alt+click will, naturally, again select the topmost object.
[If you are on Linux, you might find that Alt+click does not work properly. Instead, it might be moving the whole Inkscape window. This is because your window manager has reserved Alt+click for a different action. The way to fix this is to find the Window Behavior configuration for your window manager, and either turn it off, or map it to use the Meta key (aka Windows key), so Inkscape and other applications may use the Alt key freely.]
This is nice, but once you selected an under-the-surface object, what can you do with it? You can use keys to transform it, and you can drag the selection handles. However, dragging the object itself will reset the selection to the top object again (this is how click-and-drag is designed to work — it selects the (top) object under cursor first, then drags the selection). To tell Inkscape to drag what is selected now without selecting anything else, use Alt+drag. This will move the current selection no matter where you drag your mouse.
Practice Alt+click and Alt+drag on the two brown shapes under the green transparent rectangle:
Selecting similar objects
Inkscape can select other objects similar to the object currently selected. For example, if you want to select all the blue squares below first select one of the blue squares, and usefrom the menu. All the objects with a fill color the same shade of blue are now selected.
In addition to selecting by fill color, you can select multiple similar objects by stroke color, stroke style, fill & stroke, and object type.
This concludes the Basic tutorial. There's much more than that to Inkscape, but with the techniques described here, you will already be able to create simple yet useful graphics. For more complicated stuff, go through the Advanced and other tutorials in.


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1: Will meditation lead me to poverty? If I let go from my attachments, will I end up like a homeless man as I will not desire a home anymore?
1.5: Can a Buddhist be ambitious?
2: Is belief in rebirth necessary? I see no reason to believe in it, so...
3: I know that monks are prohibited to listen to music, should I stop listening to music myself? If not, then why is it a bad idea for monks to listen to music but not for me?
4: Have any of you started lucid dreaming due to meditation? Also, would meditation through the night involve lucid dreaming as the body falls asleep?
5: Oh, and what teacher would you recommend? Apparently Ajahn Chah and Mahasi Sayadaw are supposed to be good? Are they? Btw, I'm a Christian if that matters (I've heard that Buddha was apathetic to the question of God's existence)


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Lawmakers hope to help military families transition to civilian life
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Lawmakers hope to give South Carolina a boost in the next round of base closures with measures to help military families adjust when they move from another state and make the transition to civilian life.
A law scheduled for a ceremonial signing this week allows public colleges to award veterans course credit for their military training.
That allows South Carolina to check off one of 10 issues the U.S. Department of Defense considers key for military families' quality of life, leaving six issues still outstanding.
Sen. Tom Davis of Beaufort says one of his top priorities is going "10 for 10" before the 2014 legislative session ends next summer.
Other Southeastern states are also working down the list ahead what could be another round of base closures coming 2015.


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block. Songs by Lucy Wainwright Roche seems to be told with a shrug.
LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE: (Singing) No, it's not her that's calling, it's just me. So settle your jumpy, broken heart...
BLOCK: She sings with a note of apology or modesty, and yet talk about an impressive musical pedigree. Her father is the witty and acerbic singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright. Her mother is Suzzy Roche, one-third of the harmonious Roche sisters. Then there are her half-brother and sister, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, each of them acclaimed singer-songwriters. But Lucy looked around at all that talent and said, no thanks.
ROCHE: I had no interest in being a musician because I was surrounded by them, and it seemed like a terrible plan.
BLOCK: So, Lucy Wainwright Roche steered away from the family business. She got a master's in education and settled in, teaching elementary school. But then Rufus talked her into coming on tour with him. And, as she told me, she got swept up into the romance of being a musician, even though she thinks she's really, really shy.
ROCHE: The very first show I did alone had been a terrible, awkward, horrible disaster. And then the second one, about halfway through, I realized that I should just be the way I would be if I were just talking to one person. That solved the problem. Then I was like, oh, I'm not really building the mystique. I'm just sort of being normal. And that helped because I'm not much of a mystique builder.
BLOCK: I want to ask you about the song on the new album that's called "Seek and Hide."
ROCHE: (Singing) I fell in love last year, it's not a thing I do a lot. Pack up all my lonely habits, and give it all I got...
BLOCK: What do you think is going on in this song?
ROCHE: That song, I guess, is about just in the rush of what it's like to be in a relationship at first, and it feels like everything is so different; and this sort of realization that you are stuck with you no matter what is going on, and no matter how much time has passed. And that's sort of like your constant companion, like it or not - is yourself, and sort of the shortcomings of that.
ROCHE: (Singing) I'm just the same old sorry kettle calling black as pot. You've got to watch it all change. You've got to watch it all stay the same...
BLOCK: I imagine it was a deliberate choice to not have any of your family members on the album - your mom, Suzzy Roche; your dad, Loudon Wainwright; your siblings, Rufus and Martha Wainwright. None of them are on here.
ROCHE: None of them are on here. In part, that was due to recording in Nashville in a very short period of time, and they were all in New York. But I think it was hugely different, a challenge and also great to kind of do it in a little bubble, away from the family. It was interesting to see what would happen when I went off by myself, as if I was just some person who didn't know anybody else making records.
BLOCK: You do one cover on this new album. It's the song "Call Your Girlfriend," which was originally a dance hit by the Swedish singer Robyn. Let's take a listen to her version first.
ROBYN: (Singing) Call your girlfriend, it's time you had the talk. Give your reasons, say it's not her fault...
BLOCK: And Lucy, here's your version.
ROCHE: (Singing) Call your girlfriend, it's time you had the talk...
BLOCK: So Lucy, you've taken this hyperactive dance hit, and turned it into just about the most stripped-down song you can imagine.
ROCHE: Yeah. That's one of my specialties - is taking upbeat things and turning them into, as a friend of mine said, sad snoozers.
BLOCK: (Laughter) Sad snoozers?
ROCHE: Yes. I love that song. When I first heard that song, I was like, wow. I have never heard someone say exactly that, in that way, in a song before. And then in the recording process, I discovered with the producer that we both had a deep love of this song. We kind of looked at each other like could we possibly? And...
BLOCK: Turned it into a sad snoozer?
ROCHE: Yeah. Is there any way that we could find a sad snoozer in that song? And sure enough, we did.
ROCHE: (Singing) And you tell her that the only way her heart will mend is when she learns to love again. And it won't make sense right now, but you're still her friend. And then you let her down easy...
BLOCK: You were saying you'd never heard somebody express quite that emotion in a song.
ROCHE: Yeah. I'd never heard somebody say like, look, call your girlfriend, tell them we're going to be together now; and just tell her it's fine. You know, I thought it was quite direct, an interesting approach; although I'm not sure how well it would work in real life. But I was smitten with the idea of the song saying that.
BLOCK: Tell her it's not her fault.
ROCHE: Yes, tell her it's not her fault. She'll be fine; it's fine.
BLOCK: Yeah. I'm sure she'll love that.
BLOCK: Yeah. (Laughter)
BLOCK: I'm talking with Lucy Wainwright Roche. You know, I was thinking, Lucy, as I was getting ready to talk to you - the first time I met you in a song was in a song that your dad wrote about you when you were a baby.
ROCHE: Oh, yeah, "Screaming Issue," right?
BLOCK: "Screaming Issue."
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT: (Singing) You have Ludwig van Beethoven and...
ROCHE: "Screaming Issue" was written by my dad and my Aunt Terry; written, I think, New Year's Eve, right after I'd been born. I was born Dec. 16. And I was just a horrible baby that screamed constantly - for a while - and so that they were up with a screaming baby, and they wrote that song.
BLOCK: But it turned into this lovely, beautiful, beautiful lullaby.
ROCHE: It is a really beautiful song. It is. As a kid, I really didn't like it because people would always sing it to me. Like, once I had a math teacher that would sing it to me and point out that each of the notes in the song had the same length, and he thought that was really interesting.
BLOCK: And you really didn't want to hear about it.
ROCHE: No. I was just horrified. But now, I really like that song.
WAINWRIGHT: (Singing) Lucy, when I hear you crying, I don't know what I can do...
BLOCK: If I have this right, your dad wasn't part of your life from a pretty early age.
ROCHE: Well, he was a part of my life, but my parents split up when I was about 2, and he lived in England part of the time. We definitely didn't spend large amounts of time together, and so that's been really interesting to tour with him as an adult. I think it's a thing that people who don't spend a lot of time with a parent as a kid, you rarely get to make it up. And we have, in a way. So that's been a really interesting chapter for us, I think.
BLOCK: That's Lucy Wainwright Roche. Her new album is "There's a Last Time for Everything." Lucy, thanks so much.
ROCHE: Thank you.
BLOCK: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.
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How To Recognize A Font?A Mini Guide To Successful Font Recognition
ATTENTION!This thread contains the font recognition tutorial and discussion regarding it and the methods used for recognizing the typefaces.If you want to post your font identification request, please do it in this thread - Anyone recognize this font?
You have an image with some text on it - it can be a logo, screenshot, scan or a photo - and you have to find out the name of the font used.How to proceed?There are a few methods which can make it possible and easier.
1. Online Tools• WhatTheFont• Search By Sight: [Identify A Font & [URL=http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/SearchBySight.htm]Fonts.com & [URL=http://www.itcfonts.com/fonts/SearchBySight.htm]ITCFonts](http://www.identifont.com/identify.html)• TypeNavigator
2. Other Methods• Compare&Match (using font viewer and your font collection)• SitePoint Graphics Forum• WhatTheFont Forum
3. Software Tools• FontMatch
4. Tips• WTF: Preparing the image, choosing optimal letter set• Font categories, font sources, font viewers and procedure for Compare&Match method
5. Case Study• Simple 2 color image• Complex image• Small font• Pixel font• Ornamental font• Web 2.0 logo font
1. Online Tools
• The first stop in font recognition procedure
Its high successful recognition ratio makes it the basic tool for your task.
• Search By Sight"Identify a typeface by answering a series of simple questions about key features." (Identifont)
[Identifont & [URL=http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/SearchBySight.htm]Fonts.com & [URL=http://www.itcfonts.com/fonts/SearchBySight.htm?xmlurl=http:%2f%2fitc.identifont.co.uk%2fstart.xml]ITCFonts](http://www.identifont.com/identify.html)
All three sites offer the same Search By Sight tool.
Answer the questions about the key features of the specific characters.After gathering the informations needed, the program will display the list of the fonts.
• TypeNavigator" TypeNavigator: the world's first interactive visual font search system." (TypeNavigator / FontShop)
An online application similar to "Search By Sight", but using slightly different approach.
You have to decide which style your sample font belongs to (there are icons with example letter to help you with this):- Humanist- Modern- Slab Serif- Sans Serif- Handwritten- Blackletter- Geometric- Amorphous- Ironic- Stamp
Then you define several glyph features: serif, width, proportions, angle, weight, contrast, axis, contour and tools.After you have selected the features, TypeNavigator searches for the fonts and displays the results.You can also click "Find Similar" on the result page, looking for the fonts similar to the one from the results of your initial font search.
Of course all the online tools are using limited resources (usually all the fonts available for sale via the website offering the font recognition tool).And because of this the may properly recognize "commercial" fonts, but have problems with the free ones, as they are not considered when performing the search.
2. Other Methods
• Compare&Match
A simple method that consists in comparing the image with a font collection you have.This may sound as an extremely time-consuming way, as an average font collection may contain thousands of typefaces.But when they're logically sorted into style categories, the task will be relatively easy.Refer to the tips for this method explained further.
If other methods fail, you'll have to ask others for help.SitePoint's Graphics and Multimedia forum can be a place to start.Post the image containing the font you are looking for the name of, and you might find someone who can help you.
WhatTheFont forum where you can ask font experts for help in font recognition task.
DaFont forum where you can ask members for help with recognizing your font.
3. Software Tools
• FontMatch
4. Tips
• WhatTheFont
Preparing the image
There are several tips that help WhatTheFont in recognizing the font from provided image.These are the following:- increasing the contrast- removal of obsolete, non-font elements- increasing the letter spacing
Image that looks like this:
Would be a hard task for WhatTheFont to recognize the font and it would most likely fail.
After some work the image can be turned into this:
This correction will greatly increase the chances of success in finding the proper font match.
Choosing optimal letter set
If your font sample image contains more letters, you should consider choosing the optimal set for WhatTheFont.
WTF has some limits:- number of components - max. 35- maximum image size - around 360 x 275 pixels*ʾ*ʾ With the smaller image height, the width can be bigger.
While the number of components is usually not a problem, the image size limit may result in fewer characters given for font recognition, thus - smaller chances of success.
There's no use in uploading the image with the same letter occuring several times.Repeating characters can be removed and replaced with the unique ones.Remember that WhatTheFont is not the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool.It doesn't make a difference if the letters you upload make any sense, they're sample characters only.
Instead of "mass stress passes", it's better to remove all the repeated letters (leaving only "mas tre p") and add several unique letters.
The more variety of the characters provided, the bigger the chance of successful font recognition.
Font categories
Sort your font collection into logical style categories (gothic, script, pixel/bitmap, etc.)If you don't know how to sort them, use the categories as listed on DaFont or similar free font site.This will greatly help you when looking for a specific font style.
Font sources
To be able to use the Compare&Match method successfully, your font collection must be large.You can download fonts from numerous free font sites – check the Definitive List of Wortwhile Font Sites.
Font viewers
If you don't already have a font viewer or manager, you'll have to download and install one.There are a few free or shareware ones:
• FontHit• FontView• Font Xplorer Lite• X-fonter
There are also commercial programs, but any of these mentioned should be enough for this task.
Once you find the font you were looking for, you can confirm the match by entering the text into "custom preview" field on the font site, like for example www.dafont.com.
• decide which style category the font belongs to• run the font viewing program• enter the same letters (as the sample text), as these on the image with unidentified font• slowly browse through the font category, comparing the sample text with the image
5. Case Study
• Simple font, 2 color image
The easiest possible. To recognize the font used, upload the image to WhatTheFont.
• Complex image
Prepare the image (contrast correction, obsolete element removal, increase letter spacing) and upload to WhatTheFont.
• Small font
WhatTheFont usually doesn't recognize the small text font, so use the Compare&Match method.
• Pixel Font
Don't upload such a small sample text to WhatTheFont – it'll fail in recognizing it.Before uploading, prepare the image – resize it 4x or 8x times (if you are using Photoshop, select the "Nearest Neighbour" method instead of "Bicubic").This simple trick will raise the chances of positive font recognition by WTF.
Results before resizing the sample image – none of the matches is close to the font used.
Results after the image resizing – most of the matches found are either similar or even exact match.
• Ornamental font
WhatTheFont will fail in most such cases and if it does, use the Compare&Match method.
• Web 2.0 logo
If you'd like to know what font is used in one of the popular "Web 2.0" logo designs, you can check it here - The Logos of Web 2.0
After you've tried recognizing the font yourself and failed, upload your image and ask on the forums: [[B]SitePoint[/B] or [URL=http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum][B]WhatTheFont[/B]](http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=8).
Great thread Varelse, very useful and insightful.
Wow Arthur, you are a beast! Thanks for the tips.
Very useful post Varelse! It can be really hard to recognize a font, and i'm sure this guide will be useful when i need to find out what kind of font it is.
I had a strange feeling you were gonna do this..haha..good article Varelse!
Nicely done. Thank you for taking the effort
Great guide! Thanks.
I have been looking for a site like this. Thank you very much, your efforts are not wasted!
wow thanks a LOT!! i had this exact problem the other day, glad to know this will be here the next time i need to find the name of a font
Thanks for your opinions.I hope that this guide will be helpful and make the whole process easier for people looking for the font name. If so - I am happy.
Great guide! Thx for your efforts!
Great article, thanks!
Nice guide! Thanks for the effort!!
Just what I've been looking for for a long time
Wow, the amount of times ive had to do this myself and not known where to start. "WTF" is certainly an eye opener.
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Finding love online has only resulted in a series of headaches and heartaches. But what's the next step when you think the problem is you, not the computer dating services? Miriam's Advice Well has got some suggestions.
Dear Miriam,
Dear Somebody,
Right here, right now, that "somebody" to love has got to be yourself. It's been said a million times before, but I'm adding my voice to the chorus: You cannot love someone else, you cannot date the right person in the right kind of healthy relationship, until you accept and adore the person who you are independent of a partner. You can talk yourself into a circular logic situation of saying, "I would like myself a whole lot better if I were in a relationship," but I'm not buying it.
I typically try to avoid the, "here's what I think, but really you should go to therapy," strand of giving advice, but in this case, I think finding a productive relationship with a qualified counselor would be extremely beneficial. I say this not because I actually think that there's something "wrong" with you that needs to be fixed so that you can meet your beshert (soulmate). Rather, since, after presumably years of dating, that's the conclusion that you've drawn, I think it would be helpful to have a professional unpack that conclusion with you. You want to figure out what the "it" is, and exploring the whole range of who you are, how you present yourself and how you feel about yourself is going to be a step in the right direction whether or not there's an "it" that can be identified.
If you hate this suggestion and are cringing at the mere thought, or if you can't afford therapy right now, go to your local bookstore and peruse the self-help section. Lots of people have written lots and lots of pages about loving yourself and accepting yourself, and getting some of their perspectives could be almost as valuable as a real live therapist in terms of getting you out of your own head and focusing less on "the dating problem" in particular. After you've read some motivational literature, ask yourself what you really love to do, whether it's reading, cooking, biking, etc. Find an outlet to do one of those activities, alone or with a friend, but not in a way that's geared towards meeting a potential date. Make plans for the weekend that include activities or friends that make you feel good separate from any relationship potential they might create.
You might see where I'm going with this. Right now, you need to focus on yourself. You need positive social and creative experiences that fuel who you are and what you like about yourself. You need to stop beating yourself up about being single and you need to let go of the idea that being single is your fault. Give yourself a month or so and see how you feel. If you feel like you have a new perspective on yourself, go ahead and start considering dating again, but in a casual and low pressure way that honors your individuality. If you're still in the mindset of figuring out what's wrong with you that's keeping you from meeting "the one," then go back to the previous paragraphs and start over.
In the dating advice world, I've heard a lot of people say things like, "as soon as you stop looking, you'll meet him." While that may be true, and while that attitude has, in fact, worked for a number of people I know, don't think that you're going to stop looking in order to meet "the one," because guess what: that still counts as looking. Really honestly honor yourself and your time and your ambitions and interests. Take a break from overanalyzing every date you've ever been on. Try to enjoy life, and yourself, and then it won't matter what the "it" is, because there won't be one.
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With Uruguay striker and Italian-shoulder enthusiast Luis Suarez receiving worldwide condemnation for his "gnash and grab" job on Italy's Giorgio Chiellini, we decided to look at some of the best on-pitch meltdowns from players of the so-called beautiful game...
9. Lee Bowyer — Back in 2005, bad-boy Lee Bowyer was playing for a Newcastle side that were losing 3-0 to Aston Villa at home.
The abject performance got the better of Bowyer and teammate Kieron Dyer, who got involved in a bizarre wrestling match and had to be separated by players of the opposing team.
Both Newcastle players offered apologies immediately after the game.
8. Joey Barton — Barton has never shied away from an on-field explosion, but perhaps his most outrageous breakdown was during a vital game for QPR at Man City on the last day of the 2012 season.
Barton was sent off for his reaction to a punch from City striker Carlos Tevez, who he appeared to elbow.
In his anger at being sent-off he waged war on the City team — kicking Sergio Aguero and headbutting City captain Vincent Kompany before trying to take on the Italian Mario Balotelli, who always enjoys a good melee.
Barton was later banned for 12 matches.
7. Ben Thatcher — Another player who received a lengthy ban for an on-field assault was former Man City defender/UFC fighter Ben Thatcher.
He was banned for eight games after a brutal elbow on Portsmouth midfielder Pedro Mendez, which left the former Portugal international out cold.
Thatcher was not actually shown a red card for the incident, but the FA hit him with the ban after watching it back.
6. Paulo Di Canio — While Suarez became enraged with a fellow player yesterday, it was referee Paul Dirkin who courted the anger of Italian timebomb Paulo Di Canio in 1998.
During a match between Di Canio's Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal at Hillsborough the striker was shown a red card by Dirkin.
Rather than accepting his punishment gracefully, Di Canio forcefully shoved a helpless Dirkin, who tried in vain to stay on his feet, before landing squarely on his back-side.
He was banned for 11 matches.
5. Roy Keane — This list would not be complete without an entrance from all round hippy and keeper of the peace, Roy Keane.
Prone to a violent reaction from time-to-time, Keano's most aggressive assault came during a Manchester Derby in April 2001.
As part of an ongoing feud with Man City player Alf-Inge Haaland, the Irishmen flew through the air, driving his studs into the Norweigan's leg and hurling him into the air.
The United captain was sent off for the offence, but when he later appeared to admit in his autobiography that the gruesome foul was intentional — the FA fined him and banned him for 5 games.
4. Zinedine Zidane — Nicknamed "Zizou", Zidane was one of the most elegant players to grace the modern game, but his last game for the French national team will be remembered for a decidedly inelegant moment.
During the 2006 World Cup final in Germany, Zidane was arguing with Italian defender and wind-up merchant Marco Matterazzi.
The Italian said something to Zidane that must have been pretty harsh — because the French wizard promptly spun round and planted his head into the defender's chest, throwing him to the ground in a Dirkin-esque fall.
Zidane was dismissed and Italy went on to win the final on penalties. C'est la vie.
3. James Cotterill — Away from the glitz of the World Cup and straight to Cumbria for a player whose violent on-pitch reaction landed him in the slammer.
During an FA cup match in 2006 between Barrow and Bristol Rovers, Barrow player James Cotterill punched Bristol's Sean Rigg square in the face, leaving him with a double fractured jaw.
The Tyson-style hook meant that Rigg was only able to eat with a teaspoon and a straw, making it difficult to chew those pre-match carbs.
Cotterill was banned from all football activity until several months later, but was also jailed for four months after admitting GBH.
2. Eric Cantona — King Eric, as he was affectionately known by Man Utd fans, became the king of kung-fu in 1995 when he aimed a flying kick and a series of punches at an abusive Crystal Palace fan during a match at Selhurst Park.
Cantona had been sent-off for a kick on Palace player Richard Shaw, and when fan Matthew Simmons aimed some apparently xenophobic abuse at him, the Frenchman thought he would continue the kicking.
He was arrested and convicted of assault and ended up being given 120 hours of community service.
While violence like this should never be applauded, the incident did result in Cantona making a hilarious speech about seagulls following trawlers at a press conference, so swings and roundabouts.
1. Luis Suarez — So last, but by no means least is Liverpool-playing, shoulder-nibbling, naughty boy Luis Suarez, who followed up two previous chomping efforts in Holland and England by plunging his decidedly pronounced gnashers into the shoulder of Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini during his Uruguay side's 1-0 win over the Azzuri.
As Suarez awaits a potentially lengthy ban for his actions, we can't help but feel that a muzzle and a year's supply of pedigree chum might just be the answer.


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I've only been meaning to post this crocheted blankie in my Etsy shop for a month. Its finally there! And Eli makes a fantastic baby model!
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what a sweet little blanket and a sweet smiling little man
Such a cute blankie! Looooove Eli's happy face! :) His onesie's pretty cute too.
Oh my that baby is cute! And the blanket is great too.. but that baby is very distracting.
Awww what a cute little guy. Great blanket!
Shit, I didn't think Eli could get any cuter... that taught me!
I love this onesie! And the blankie, of course.


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Fair Trade Recipe: Chocolate Mousse Cake With Vanilla Cardamom Swirl
Renowned chef Malika Ameen and celebrity dietician Ashley Koff R.D. share a desert recipe that is full of Fair Trade Certified ingredients
Renowned chef Malika Ameen and celebrity dietician Ashley Koff R.D. share a desert recipe that is full of Fair Trade Certified ingredients This recipe will be featured in an upcoming live USTREAM broadcast on October 19 at 1pm PT/4pm ET. Click here for more info on the event!
Yield: one 9 inch cake
Vanilla-caradom mixture
8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
2/3 cup Fair Trade Certified natural cane sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons ground cardamom
1 teaspoon grated orange zest
Chocolate Mixture
2 tablespoons boiling water
1 ½ tablespoons Fair Trade Certified ground coffee
7 ounces Fair Trade Certified dark chocolate
3.5 ounces Fair Trade Certified milk chocolate
5 ounces unsalted butter
3 large eggs
1/3 cup Fair Trade Certified light brown sugar lightly packed
1 teaspoon Fair Trade Certified organic vanilla extract
generous pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Grease a 9x2 inch cake pan and line with parchment paper
Make the vanilla batter:
- In the bowl of an electric mixer beat cream cheese on medium speed with sugar. Mix until well combined. Add egg, cardamom, and orange zest. Mix again and set aside
Make the chocolate batter:
- Combine boiled water and coffee in a small bowl and let stand for 2-3 minutes. Strain and reserve liquid.
- In a medium bowl, melt the chocolate and butter over a pan of simmering water and set aside to cool slightly.
- Using a stand mixer with a whip attachment beat the eggs, sugar, reserved coffee liquid , vanilla extract and salt on high until pale and fluffy – this should take about 4 minutes. Reduce the mixer speed to low and add chocolate mixture beating until blended. You may have to remove the bowl from the mixer and mix the remaining streaks of chocolate by hand to fully incorporate.
- Spread half of the chocolate batter into the cake pan.
- Next add half of the vanilla cardamom mixture in large spoonfuls.
- Next add the chocolate batter and then again spoonfuls of the remaining vanilla batter.
- With your spatula or the tip of a knife gently swirl the two batters together so they are mixed but do not completely blend them (you should have a very pretty swirled pattern of chocolate and vanilla). Tap the cake pan a few times on the counter to help settle and combine the batters.
- Bake at 300 degrees for 35-40 minutes or until outside of the pan is set and the middle still has a slight jiggle being careful not to overbake.
- Let the cake stand at room temperature for 1 hour, loosen it from the pan with a knife and invert onto a plate. Peel off the parchment paper and invert the cake onto a serving plate.
- Cover with plastic wrap and chill for 1 hour or overnight.
- Slice and serve with Fair Trade ice cream
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I want to be clear that I wasn't trying to marginalize what we did at the end of the 10-11 season and the playoff series against Chicago. It was clearly a turning period for the franchise and it felt like heaven after the disastrous O'Brien years. Vogel finishing the season 20-18 after the team started out 17-27 was certainly a phenomenal coaching job. There's no doubt that Vogel taking over is one of the most important moments in franchise history.
That being said, regardless of how great of a coach Vogel is, that team needed more playmakers if they were ever going to become a true contender. We desperately needed more players who could make clutch plays because our weakness against Chicago was that we simply couldn't close out. Well, Bird went out and got Vogel those players when he added West and Hill.
At the end of the day, debating the importance of Vogel vs. West is like debating a Ferrari vs. a Lamborghini. The bottom line is that virtually everything this franchise has done from 08-present has turned out incredibly well. We've witnessed the complete rebirth of a franchise and fanbase.
Maybe the most important move was Bird taking complete control in 2008 and finally having the freedom to mold a team 100% his way.