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Now that Joe Morgan is telling tales 'round the national campfire, who out there is left to make specious, proudly ignorant arguments about the value of baseball statistics? Batter up, Harold Reynolds!
I'm going to quote this in full, partly because you really need to read the whole thing to get the warp and woof of his argument, but mostly because it approaches, by the end, something like abstract art. From Reynolds' blog, called "Harold Reynolds Presents":
It's been real interesting in the last couple years as I've watched how the importance of statistics has taken over how to analyze a baseball game. I used to play for an old time manager named Dick Williams who used to tell me, "The situation will dictate what happens." He used to call me to his office and say, "I should never have to give you a sign. You should know this is a bunt situation, you should know this is a situation where you need to take a trike, you should know the situation calls for getting the man over. I should never have to give you a sign, the situation dictates what happens."
But what I've been witnessing while I've been a broadcaster is everyone using these stats to try and explain the game of baseball. Not all statistics work. Some do, some don't. And one of the stats that has become real popular is OPS. On-base plus slugging. All of a sudden, it's this stat that defines whether a guy is a good ball player or not. And the fact of the matter is, if you're a power hitter then the situation will dictate what a pitcher does with you - either walk you or pitch you real careful. So more than likely you're going to end up on base and therefore your on-base percentage goes up. This in my mind has become the stat the everyone thinks is the be all and end all. It is not. If you have a ball club that's a great offensive team then that changes everything. But if you have a guy like Adrian Gonzalez, for example, his OPS is going to be high - he's got a lot of home runs and walks a lot...because you're not going to pitch to him. Power guys like Giambi and Dunn have always had high OPS because no one wants to pitch to them. But it takes two hits to score them from first.
This is how the game has changed. Dick Williams is pulling his hair out. This is not something people have reinvented in the game. You can go all the way back to Dave Kingman. When Kingman was hot, you didn't pitch to him. If he wasn't hot, you pitched to him. Big power hitters swing and miss and strikeout. Or they hit home runs and walk. And at the end of the year their OBP is always going to be higher than most of the other guys on the team because they clog the bases.
A few years ago this stat grabbed my ear when someone said that Ichiro doesn't walk enough. So I said, "What do you mean?" And they said his OBP could be so much higher if he walked more. The guy gets 200 hits a season! And he scores over 100 runs. I think that speaks for itself.
So as the old, wise Dick Williams used to tell me, "I should never have to give you a sign. The situation dictates what happens."
The great Joe Posnanski was so discombobulated by this entry he was reduced to babbling about Andrew Dice Clay and the movie Awakenings. No joke.
I know how he feels. I'm not even sure where to begin. In the year of our Lord two thousand and nine, a respected baseball personage is taking to the Internets and criticizing players who "clog the bases." He is not talking about VORP or FRAA or any of those other newfangled acronyms that seem to amuse certain analysts so. He is talking about OPS, which I had figured was one front on which the jocks had conceded the point. I guess I was wrong. I hesitate to speculate, but perhaps Harold is a little miffed that the bulk of objective analysis now tends to devalue speedy ballplayers with a career OPS of .668, which is understandable and even a little sad. Reach out to him, statheads. Give the man a hug.
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|J'Adore modeling a gown by Atelier Soda.
Words don't do justice to this magnificent creation. Tom posted this on Studio Commissary.
Atelier Soda created this miniature rendition inspired by a piece from Christian Dior/John Galliano's Spring 2007 Haute Couture runway collection. http://www.viva-soda.com/Product%20-%203%20Haute%20Couture/Atelier/Product_CT005_CoutureNo5.html
For my readers who don't know yet...J'Adore is a 16" resin BJD version of Gene Marshall designed by Mel Odom and produced by JamieShow. She was the most recent FDQ exclusive. Tom has redressed and re-wigged her for this stunning photograph.

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A day after manhandling Maria Sharapova in the fourth round of the US Open, Caroline Wozniacki is on top of the tennis world. The whole world, that is. TSF noticed all the buzz today, and is here to chronicle it for you in one, easy-to-read blog post. Voila!
On the Twitter front, @carowozniacki, Caroline herself, power-tweeted all day long. First there was chatter about overtaking John Isner in followers, then she showed that she has stolen the lives of Maria and Serena Williams by being a fashionista, even in week two of a Slam.
If the prowess couldn't be felt through Wozniacki's tweets, surely an at reply congratulations would do the trick from the one and only Serena. And another tennis diva giving Caro props was Tennis Channel's James LaRosa, scolding anyone who still thought Wozniacki plays as a human backboard.
Not to be outdone, the mainstream media got on the WozniackiExpress today as well, with the USA Today churning out an article about Wozy as tennis's new "It" girl; the New York Times featuring Caroline on its homepage for a good chunk of the afternoon (see screen grab after the cut); the WTA web site had a feature on her as long as Tweeting a year-old video of Wozniacki hanging out with soccer superstar David Beckham; the LA Times relegated its coverage to a blog post (how dare they!); the New York Daily News not only complimented Wozniacki's play but her put-together look; and the New York Post couldn't have been more blunt with its headline: "Wozniacki has look of future champ".
More on the Wozniacki craze – including what was happening in the blogosphere after the cut.


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Amino acid-derived thioamides are prepared and evaluated as ligands in the rhodium-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones in 2-propanol. It is found that increasing the steric bulk at the C-terminus of the ligand had a positive impact on both activity and selectivity in the reduction reaction. In order to find the optimum catalyst, a study is performed on a series of thioamide ligands having substituents of varying size.
The development of ligands derived from natural amino acids for asymmetric transfer hydrogenation (ATH) of prochiral ketones is described herein. In the first part, reductions performed in alcoholic media are examined, where it is found that amino acid-derived hydroxamic acids and thioamides, respectively, are simple and versatile ligands that in combination with [RhCp*Cl2]2 efficiently catalyze this particular transformation. Selectivities up to 97% ee of the corresponding secondary alcohols are obtained, and it is furthermore observed that the two different ligand classes, albeit based on the same amino acid scaffold, give rise to products of opposite configuration.
The highly interesting enantioswitchable nature of the two abovementioned catalysts is studied in detail by mechanistic investigations. A structure/activity correlation analysis is performed, which reveals that the diverse behavior of the catalysts arise from different interactions between the ligands and the metal. Kinetic studies furthermore stress the catalyst divergence, since a difference in the rate determining step is established from initial rate measurements. In addition, rate constants are determined for each step of the overall reduction process.
In the last part, catalyst development for ATH executed in water is discussed. The applicability of hydroxamic acid ligands is further extended, and catalysts based on these compounds are found to be efficient and compatible with aqueous conditions. The structurally even simpler amino acid amide is also evaluated as a ligand, and selectivities up to 90% ee are obtained in the reduction of a number of aryl alkyl ketones. The very challenging reduction of dialkyl ketones is moreover examined in the Rh-catalyzed aqueous ATH, where a modified surfactant-resembling sulfonylated diamine is used as ligand, and the reaction is carried out in the presence of SDS-micelles. A positive effect is to some extent found on the catalyst performance upon addition of phase-transfer components, especially regarding the catalytic activity in the reduction of more hydrophobic substrates.


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Matt Painter, and Concept artist Benoit Ladouceur shows us these quad bike designs from a project only referred to as " Premium Sound" You can see the rest of his word at his website.
Monday, August 31, 2009
High Concept: Benoit Ladouceur.
The Wind Deceiver.
kiboriani2000's BMW R51/3 in 1962 after adding a Peel Engineering dustbin fairing
A brief bit of quiet time at the 1974 TT. Via: Scott Wayne
Life in the big city.
A 1968 Benelli City Bike somewhere in Rome. Via: Zoomer Boys
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Ride with me.
Coney Island motorbike ride. Via: Joe's NYC
The Dock Boys.
Train Employees at the SP&S coach yard in Northwest Portland pose on a Excelsior motorcycle in 1915. Via: Historic Photo Archive
Training day.
A fully functioning Vespa engine used for trade and technical schools. Complete with stand and even a drip tray for carpeted floors.
Via: Itrademarket Priority
The best toy ever?
Pict Via: Random acts of GeekeryThe 1978 commercial for the Kenner TTP Dual Launch Drag Set featuring the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Bigfoot.
U.S. Navy Officer at Brooklyn Navy Yard, WW II, with Cushman Motor Scooter. Via: Olive Drab
Baby Dee.
"She parks her trike next to a Harley Davidson, carefully dismounts with her accordion and croons a sad, sweetly funny song about a sailor… or a girl… a small crowd gathers, beaming her beatific smile back at her. At the end of her ditty the cat/lady/man graciously curtsies, accepting coins and small bills from all of us, then gets back on her tricycle and pedals away, cackling insanely. She is an irresistible creature. The cheers and applause continue long after her waving form has disappeared around the corner."
Via: Coilhouse
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Genius at work. Edwin Yi Yuan's Greenspeed.
Edwin Conan ( Yi Yuan ) has succeeded in designing a concept air-fueled bike dubbed the Green Speed Air Powered Motorcycle. It is not an utterly novel concept for we have heard of compressed air powered vehicles before, but this motorcycle has overcome a couple of problems faced by previous concepts — short range and low speed.
Edwin combined with his lecturer and a team of design students to give it a form. He chucked the guts of a Suzuki GP100 from the 1970s into the bin and just used its frame, wheels and brakes.
The engine used to grind this machine is an invention of a Melbourne based engineer, Angelo Di Pietro. It is lightweight and runs on air compressed from two compressed air tanks on the bike. It revs up 10,000 RPM thereby eliminating the need of a gearbox, bringing only a single gear (sprocket bolted directly to the axis of the engine and chained to the rear wheel) into use."
Via: Greenpacks
To the clouds...
The De Lackner Aerocycle is not only the ultimate in one-man flying machines, but also the ultimate in aerial safety.
Since the operator stands on a tiny platform with a pair of naked helicopter blades whirling beneath him at food-processor speeds there is a great inducement not to fall off.
Via: Flying Solo
The Rogue.
A (rather natty) rider oh his Royal Enfield Model L circa, 1920/19300 Scandinavia. Via: Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society
Origin of Species.
A young boy in a Uganda refugee camp carries water on his wooden scooter.
Via: The Glenns In Africa
Via: The Glenns In Africa
Pray for bad weather.
The Motorcycle Umbrella from SZ Wholesale
Going nowhere fast.
The Motorcycle sphere of death at Ringling Brothers Circus. Via: About.com
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Future Upstairs.
Wes Siler has some urban indoor motocross fun with the electric Quantya Strada. Pict via: Grant Ray.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Vanishing Point.
By Eleanor Grosch. Via: FFFFound.
The Wind Deceiver.
The 1965 Lambretta Monza special. Via: Racing Retro
Jack, Budge & Freckles.
Andrew Carey Lincoln's 1912 series with Jack, Budge & Freckles on their motorbikes. Via: jotor's photostream
I am curious plastic-Scary!
Ideal's "Scare cycles" pict via: Collection DX
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Youtube: The Hondells Circa 1964.
The Hondells were a group formed by producer Gary Usher using studio musicians. They recorded and released Brian Wilson's "Little Honda" in 1964, before the Beach Boys did, and it was a hit. Via: Honda Super Cub.
Denmark 2046.
Scouzy's amazing spherical wheeled bike. Via: The Brothers Brick
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text: I recently found a place that has trails available in the summer and winter for hiking, skiing and snowshoeing as well as cabins and such for camping. I noticed that they offered geocaching on the trails and you could get a patch for completing all the caches. I checked gc.com and found that the caches were not listed so I contacted the manager. He said it was more of a treasure hunt type of things but was interested in what I was saying. He indicated that they suggest a $5 donation when using the trails and thought that would drive people away. I thought about it for a bit and decided to pose the question here. Would you or have you paid to get admission to a place to go geocaching? Would it result in better caches do to the probability of less muggle activity or issues?


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Remembering and honoring, always. uafly.co/vcsV1k
As a member in the tourism, travel and transportation industries, United offers a unique perspective into the economic and operational effects rippling across the U.S. To advocate United's efforts, and in anticipation of a bright future, New York/New Jersey President Jill Kaplan and California President Janet Lamkin have both been named to their states' respective governor's COVID-19 response task force committees.
Appointed by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, Jill joins the New Jersey Restart and Recovery Advisory Council — a group of business and municipal leaders tasked with planning to restart the state's economy.
"Serving on Governor Murphy's Restart & Advisory Council uniquely positions us in the epicenter of helping to restart state's economy by providing innovative ideas, sharing best practices and creative thinking to help ensure the rebuilding of New Jersey's economic vitality alongside notable business leaders," said Jill. "I'm honored to represent United Airlines and the transportation industry as a core building block to expediting the state's recovery."
United is the sixth largest company in the state and one of the largest essential businesses continuing to operate through this crisis, and as or advocate, Jill will share some of our best practices and lessons we're learning with the nine different committees through the customer and employee lens.
On the opposite coast, California Governor Gavin Newsom last month appointed Janet to his Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery. Joining Janet at the table are former California governors, legislative leaders and CEOs and executives from numerous businesses with large stakes in the state, such as Apple and Disney. In addition to Janet's position on the task force, Janet is also serving on the Long-Term Jobs Recovery sub-committee and will advocate for industries suffering long-term ramifications of COVID-19 such as tourism, travel and entertainment.
"Being appointed to Governor Newsom's Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery ensures that United is part of the important conversation and part of the plan to help California pave the way toward a fast, safe recovery of jobs," said Janet. "It is an honor to represent the only transportation business on the task force, and I look forward to working alongside a group of very distinguished leaders and focusing on innovative ways to rebuild the economy for our 40 million residents. This work will build on our partnership with the Governor to provide free flights for medical volunteers and having our employees call to check in on isolated older adults as part of the Social Bridging Project."
Pre-COVID, we transported 38 million passengers to, from and within California each year, and directly and indirectly supported tens of thousands of jobs, so the health and well-being of the industry is vital to the prosperity of the state.
As the only airline represented among each of these groups, Jill and Janet are working hard to ensure that our voices, as a company and industry, are heard, valued and utilized as a new chapter dawns on the horizon.
We remain passionate about connecting the world safely
United CleanPlus SM is our commitment to putting health and safety at the forefront of your journey, with the goal of delivering an industry-leading standard of cleanliness. We're teaming up with Clorox to redefine our cleaning and disinfection procedures, and over the coming months, we'll roll out Clorox products across our U.S. airports, starting in select locations, to help support a healthy and safe environment, and to provide transparency and choice throughout the travel journey.
At the airport
At check-in:
1Implementing temperature checks for employees and flight attendants working at hub airports
2Installing sneeze guards at check-in and gate podiums
3Encouraging use of the United app for contactless travel assistance and more
4Promoting social distancing with floor decals to help customers stand 6 feet apart
5Introducing touchless check-in for customers with bags
At the gate:
6Disinfecting high-touch areas such as door handles, handrails, elevator buttons, telephones and computers
7Providing hand sanitizer and
disinfectant wipes
8Allowing customers to self-scan boarding passes
9Boarding fewer customers at a time and, after pre-boarding, boarding from the back of the plane to the front to promote social distancing
On our aircraft
1Providing individual hand sanitizer wipes for customers
2Requiring all customers and employees to wear a face covering and providing disposable face coverings for customers who need them
3Temporarily removing onboard items like pillows, blankets and inflight magazines
4Disinfecting high-touch areas, like tray tables and armrests, before boarding
5Reducing contact between flight attendants and customers during snack and beverage service
6Ensuring aircraft cleaning standards meet or exceed CDC guidelines
7Aiming to give more personal space on board when possible, including:
- Limiting middle seat selection
- Moving customers seated closely together
- De-planing in groups of five rows at a time to reduce crowding
8Using electrostatic spraying to disinfect aircraft, to be completed on all domestic flights by mid-June
9Using state-of-the-art, hospital-grade, high-efficiency (HEPA) filters to circulate air and remove 99.97% of airborne particles
- The cabin recirculated air is exchanged every 2-3 minutes
We're working closely with the experts at Cleveland Clinic to advise us on enhancing our cleaning and disinfection protocols for the safety of our employees and customers. Visit Cleveland Clinic's website to learn more about COVID-19.
Hello. I'm Scott Kirby, the new CEO of United Airlines. I'm a proud Air Force Academy graduate and have spent my entire career in and around aviation, including the last four years as President of United.
While I had planned for my first communication with you to be about the meaningful investments we were making to the travel experience and our continued growth across the U.S. and expansion to exciting new destinations around the world, today, the situation rendered to us by the COVID-19 pandemic leads me to a different type of message.
First, I graciously and humbly thank you for your business. Now, more than ever, our customers' loyalty is so deeply appreciated by every member of the United family.
As essential workers, the men and women of our airline have been hard at work over the past two months to transport vital medical supplies and critical goods to places that need them most, to provide free travel to healthcare professionals and to help thousands of individuals repatriate to their home countries.
Safety has always been our top priority, and right now in the midst of an unprecedented crisis, it's our singular customer focus. We recognize that COVID-19 has brought cleanliness and hygiene standards to the front of your mind when making travel decisions. We're not leaving a single stone unturned in our pursuit to protect our customers and employees.
We are installing plexiglass in lobby and gate areas, we're using the same equipment used to clean hospitals to disinfect the interiors of our aircraft, all crew and customers on board are required to wear face mask coverings and we're taking the temperature of our employees before they start work.
But at United, we're not stopping there. We're teaming up with experts from Clorox and the Cleveland Clinic to set a new standard for cleanliness and healthy flying that we are calling United CleanPlus℠.
Clorox is working closely with us to improve how we disinfect common surfaces and provide our customers with amenities that support a healthy and safe environment.
Physicians and scientists at the Cleveland Clinic, will advise us on new technologies and approaches, assist in training development and create a rigorous quality assurance program. And, as scientists learn more about how to fight COVID-19, Cleveland Clinic experts will help us use those discoveries to quickly implement new ways to keep our customers safe.
While we may not know when this pandemic will subside, what we do know is that travel is so deeply woven into the fabric of our global culture. We all desire to visit family, dance at a friend's wedding, hug parents…and see the wonders of this beautiful world. No matter how sharp the picture quality – or how strong the WiFi signal – there's simply no substitute for being there – in person – to collaborate, celebrate, explore. We are confident that travel will return. And when it does, United Airlines will be ready to serve you again in the friendly skies.
Thank you. Be well. And I look forward to seeing you on board.
Together, we are facing an unprecedented challenge. United Together, we rise to meet that challenge.
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Calling all AvGeeks and travelers! Here's a fun way to take your next video call….from a United Polaris® seat, the cockpit or cruising altitude. We're introducing United-themed backgrounds for use on Zoom and Microsoft Teams, video conferencing tools that many people are using to stay connected.
So for your next meeting or catch up with friends and family, download the app to either your computer or mobile device to get started. If you've already downloaded Zoom you can skip ahead to updating your background image (see instructions below).
To use on Zoom:
- Start here by downloading your favorite United image to your computer or mobile device. Just click "download" in the bottom left corner of the image.
- Next go to your Zoom app (you'll need to download the app to access backgrounds) and click on the arrow to the right of your video camera icon in the bottom of the screen.
- From here select, "choose virtual background" to upload your uniquely United photo.
- Start by downloading your favorite United image to your computer. Just click "download" in the bottom left corner of the image.
- If you're using a PC, copy the image you want to use into this folder:
- C:\[insert your device user name here]\AppData\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads
- If you're using a Mac copy the images to this folder on your computer:
- /users/<username>/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Backgrounds/Uploads
- If you're using a PC, copy the image you want to use into this folder:
- Once you start a Teams meeting, click the "…" in the menu bar and select "Show background effects" and your image should be there
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20 UCSF Health workers, who voluntarily set aside their own lives to help save lives, are on their way to New York City.
We are humbled by your selfless sacrifice.
Thank you.
#UnitedTogether #UCSFHeroes
In celebration and appreciation of all first responders and essential workers. 👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿
This is the story of Jason and Shantel. You see, Jason and Shantel love each other very much. They also love traveling and they love the classic Adam Sandler film, The Wedding Singer.
It all began when Jason reached out to United's social media team, hoping for assistance with his upcoming plan to propose. Some phone calls and one borrowed guitar later, the stage was set for Jason. Put all that together, mix in some helpful United employees and, voila, you have a truly memorable marriage proposal. Congratulations to this fun-loving and happy couple, and here's to many more years of making beautiful music together.
A big thank you to Chicago-based flight attendants Donna W., Marie M., Karen J. and Mark K. for making this proposal come to life.
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There are only four factors that impact the ROI on social media marketing. I use a term called the Social Velocity Equation and it's pretty simple... It goes like this:
"Social Velocity is a function of [A] the # of followers you engage, [B] the average business value per follower (as measured by some outcome), [C] your conversion rate and [D] the average engagement time (social engagement cycle) spent on social media marketing per follower."
Simply put; you want to increase A, B and C and reduce D. So for example you increase A, B and C by 10% and reduce D by 10%, you increase your Social Velocity by 47%. Go on, do the math – it works out.
So, before you read the rest of this blog post, stop and think for a minute, and pick from the following four options the one where you spend most of your time.
I just have run an informal survey on this – and unfortunately most people are focusing most of their time on getting more followers and not trying to maximize the return from the followers they have. I suspect that increasing the number of followers is, for many social marketers people, the only activity that gets any real attention.
The problem with this is that if you focus most of your time on generating likes, followers, readers, comments (e.g., social signals) you've less time to increase the chance of converting the followers you have into customers, maximizing the value from those customers, or reducing the social engagement cycle.
In many cases, this behavior is reinforced by management whose primary measure is 'social activity'. Questions like "How many friends did you make this week?" or "How many followers did you add last month?" drive very inefficient behavior. From the social media marketer's perspective, in many ways adding new followers to the brand, product or service is the easiest thing to do, particularly if that's how you're being measured.
Of course I understand the need to constantly add new followers to your social channels, but indulge me for a minute. Let's consider it's not the only thing you should focus on. What happens if you don't add new followers? Does it mean that your social velocity grinds to a halt? – well not necessarily.
If we apply the social velocity equation and assume that the number of followers stays static, but that you do manage to increase the average value and conversion rate by 10%, and reduce the length of the social engagement cycle by 10%, your social velocity would improve by 34%.
So, this week I'd like to give you a challenge. Ask yourself what you can do with the followers you have in to impact your deal size, win rate, and social engagement cycle duration. You might be surprised at the results. Come back and let me know.
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I can't tell you how much of a difference this has made, plus it verifies the need for social signals as part of SEO. I'm sorry I wrote that incorrectly. I meant our SEO CRM calculates... not Social CRM, but I suppose that's part of it as well.
Good information. Good Social CRMs and their algorithm calculate social velocities, exactly what you're preaching, conversions just have to be set up properly through Google Analytics and imported into them, via GA's outbound API.
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Tuesday, 9 May 2017
Irene Woo's Butterfly Heart
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It's beautiful thank you 💟🌹💟ReplyDelete
That is a beautiful heart and the colorway is fabulous!!! :)ReplyDelete
Thanks so much :-) Beautiful heart and diagram & very clear instructions. It is the sequence I had followed, too. Updating my post with this new link.ReplyDelete
This is such a lovely Butterfly Heart. Thank you for sharing the pattern. Since I do not know how to shuttle tat...is it possible to needle tat this pattern? Creative Bliss...ReplyDelete
Oooh - thank you! It is lovely and, as always, your charting work is superb! I really like the colourway you chose too, it reminds me of Spring. :-DReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing! I have always liked this pattern, and having a diagram to follow makes it easier for me to follow.ReplyDelete
Thank you! A pretty heart, tatted here in a pretty thread.ReplyDelete
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What is the thread and colorway? So pretty, and a lovely memorial.ReplyDelete
I am going to tat three framed hearts to represent "Hope, Faith, and Charity" - and coincidentally this is the one I chose to represent "Hope." A butterfly is often symbolic of the hope of change for the better and the hope of life after death.
A kind and lovely gift to remember Irene Woo's passing. Thank you. -Marion
It's a beautiful heart pattern, I have tatted many Herts from the pattern. I did put a piece on my blog when she died.ReplyDelete
Beautiful thread you used
I love this heart and always have a few on hand to give away. Thank you for the update.ReplyDelete
Sad to hear of Irene's passing. Thank you for sharing the diagram. Agree with the others that your tatted heart is lovely. :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous cant wait to try it. Only one question is this a 2 shuttle or can it be worked shuttle and ball with shoelace trick for cloverleaf section. TaReplyDelete


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Frontiersman Davy Crockett once said "You can go to hell — I'm going to Texas!"
The New York Daily News is reporting that former Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck is relocating to the Lone Star State in the wake of his departure from the cable news world.
Get the scoop here on the gated community in the Dallas area where he reportedly will lease a home for $20,000 a month. Read the New York Daily News report: Glenn Beck moving to Texas
The controversial commentator just ended his Fox show. Read more about that here: Glenn Beck has last Fox News Channel show
Beck recently sold his New Canaan, Conn., mansion for $3.6 million. Read about that here: It's official: Glenn Beck sells New Canaan home for $3.6M
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Here's Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two cruising over the Mojave Desert last Thursday. The VSS Enterprise spacecraft didn't travel into suborbital space but stayed affixed to its mothership. Virgin's planned price for a few minutes of suborbital views? $200,000.
The SpaceShip Two wasn't carrying guests on Thursday — its crew was just testing the spacecraft. Virgin's WhiteKnightTwo VMS Eve mothership is designed to fly tourists to approximately 50,000 feet, where the VSS Enterprise will disembark and offer them a few minutes of suborbital kicks. My prediction? Virgin will run into problems with shameless billionaires trying to attempt humanity's first space bonk.
[Via SPACE. Photo credit: Virgin Galactic.]