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No Trivia's Rap Release of the Week: Mykki Blanco's 'Betty Rubble: The Initiation'
Not that you need to be reminded, but thanks to the Internet, music trends move faster and faster. For better and worse, the result is that artists seem to go through a career-length number of transitions in a matter of months. And they can fizzle out if they don't keep moving forward. Consistency is no longer a virtue. Consider Le1f's more subdued, Jodorowsky-ian Fly Zone mixtape, released less than a year after the cyberpunk fight-rap of Dark York, or even, the tangible Kendrick Lamar tics and grunts that suddenly dominated Chance the Rapper's style on Acid Rap.
Kanye West Has Become Our Pink Floyd, Just Admit It
Projected onto a wall in 66 different locations across the globe on Friday Night, Kanye West's new single, "New Slaves," off his upcoming album Yeezus, is vital, singular, muddled, and fairly hypocritical, like a lot of Kanye West statements. He expresses frustration with the way his aspirational raps have been imbibed and misread by everybody: "What you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond chain? / All you blacks want all the same things / Used to only be niggas, now everybody's playing / Spending everything on Alexander Wang / New Slaves."The point seems to be that those things which Kanye perceived as aspirational, or even transgressive, have with his help become painfully middle-brow and attainable.
Stream Khalil Nova's Head-Nodder 'Gunnin' 4 a Palace'
Towards the end of 2011, Georgia Khalil Nova — the anime-obsessed, lo-fi beatmaker/rapper from Stockbridge, Georgia — appeared with a bizarre, broken-down mixtape called 808s of Death. It capped off one of the more fruitful years for anything-goes hip-hop and was given an early cosign by Danny Brown. Since then, Khalil Nova has released other mixtape, The Black Layne Staley, which should have plenty of SPIN readers reaching for the keyboards to download the thing, right?
No Trivia's Rap Songs of the Week: Vampire Weekend Prove Their Rap-Nerd Bonafides
Eve, feat. Pusha T & Juicy J "She Bad Bad Remix"The only two songs that remind you her lunkheaded label stuck its grubby paws in Eve's otherwise excellent Lip Lock are "Make It Out of This Town," a beyond forgettable party-pop track featuring Gabe Saporta of Cobra Starship (in her SPIN review, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd quipped that "featuring Gabe Saporta" was "one of the most tragic phrases in pop culture"), and this end-of-the-album remix of "She Bad Bad," featuring Pusha T and Juicy J. These are the two places left in the mainstream for rapping right now, it seems: As just another moving part inside of some hopelessly corny EDM non-starter, or indulging pop-enough street-rap's dirty old men. It's bleak out there, people. But hey, if it takes aging-out creeps Pusha T and Juicy J remixing a rubbery dance-rap track to get Eve the attention she deserves, that's cool.
Homeboy Sandman, 'Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent' (Stones Throw)
Last month, Hot 97 morning-show host, notoriously aggressive "real hip-hop" defender, and professional Nicki Minaj antagonizer Peter Rosenberg released the pointedly titled free mixtape New York Renaissance.
No Trivia's Rap Release of the Week: Eve's 'Lip Lock'
Finally, after 11 years, we've got a new Eve album. Her first since 2002's Eve-Olution, it actually lives up to the buggy, nervy promise offered via a half-decade of underrated and unfairly maligned singles like "Tambourine" (air-raid siren meets a Soul Seachers sample yammer-rap), "Me N' My" (a dubstep-pop track before everybody was doing them), and "Coolin'" (a scream of squeak-synths from producer Swizz Beatz). Although none of those tracks ended up on Lip Lock, most of the record — save for an unfortunate collaboration with Cobra Starship vocalist Gabe Saporta called "Make It Out of This Town" — works off that same blueprint of rap-rave weirdness.
The RIAA's On-Demand Stream Policy Is Hostile to Hip-Hop
As SPIN reported via Billboard last week, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that it will now count the number of streams an album receives towards its gold and platinum status. The services whose streams will be considered are MOG, Muve Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, and Xbox Music. Also, video views from MTV.com, VEVO, Yahoo! Music, and YouTube are going to be factored in. A hundred streams will count as one download, because, well, the RIAA says so.Although this looks like an aging-out aspect of the industry acknowledging the present, it will have devastating effects for hip-hop and, ultimately, may leave the genre further out on the margins of the pop mainstream.
No Trivia's Rap Songs of the Week: Action Bronson Is About to Get His Axl Rose On
Ab-Soul - "Back Then"In which Ab-Soul, one of XXL's 2013 Freshman (even though he's been flirting with the mainstream going on two years now, and is bros with everybody's big-time rap hero Kendrick Lamar), bleats over a skittering, half-evil Harry Fraud beat that nods to both exploitation movie synth-trash, and throbbing strip-club bangers. "Back Then" makes a case that Ab-Soul, the most eccentric Black Hippy member, could become a radio-friendly rapper run amok. Between this and Ab's appearance on Chance the Rapper's "Smoke Again," is he molting into some kind of weirdly nimble booty-club lyricist? Wale, watch out!
Riff Raff Trolls James Franco, Channels Brando, on Surreal Soap Opera 'One Life to Live'
Yesterday, Riff Raff appeared on the soap opera One Life to Live as a menacing art dealer straight out of Miami named Jamie Franko. This stunt, it seems, was inspired by James Franco's own stint on General Hospital, and fueled by Franco's steady refusal to acknowledge the influence of Riff Raff on the character of Alien in Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers. Although this is an absurdist coup for Riff Raff (and some stellar trolling of a Hollywood superstar), it is also important to point out that this shit is beyond low-stakes. One Life to Live is a long-running soap opera now relegated to being shown only on Hulu. It isn't exactly Franco doing General Hospital for, like, three years. Riff Raff is just creating another jokey-not-jokey layer to this whole James Franco vs. Riff Raff pseudo-tiff that Jody Highroller seems intent on milking and mocking for as long as possible.
No Trivia's Rap Release of the Week: Chance the Rapper's 'Acid Rap'
Last week's rap release of the week was Rittz's sturdy The Life and Times of Jonny Valiant. Mostly because the obvious pick, Chance the Rapper's Acid Rap, was going to get a thorough evaluation thanks to a SPIN review (it was named an "Essential," read the review here). That Rittz album is special — the kind of thing you'll end up coming back to way more than you expect — but it doesn't possess the inspired sprawl of Acid Rap by any stretch of the imagination.This week, there are a couple of notable releases. Scotty, an Atlanta traditionalist wise enough not to saddle his rhymes with a savior complex, just released F.A.I.T.H, a confident step up from 2011's quite-good Summer Dreams (RIYL: Kevin Gates' The Luca Brasi Story).


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Service Orientation
The Denison Service Orientation (DSO) is an intense direct-service experience designed to help incoming students adjust to college, build strong friendships, and realize the possibilities available to them at Denison.
A small group of entering students will travel to Washington D.C. for a service experience related to homelessness and hunger or engage in service in Denison's surrounding communities. During the programs participants will engage in leadership training, group building, issues education and direct service. Three upper-class student leaders and a faculty/staff leader will provide guidance for the group traveling to Washington; two upper-class student leaders will provide guidance for the Newark trip.
Service-Learning is an important area of emphasis at Denison University. Whether you have had previous service experience or not, the Denison Service Orientation (DSO) is a great way to begin your transition to life at Denison, making new friends within the rewarding context of community service. Participants in DSO must be willing to work cooperatively, join in group discussions and be actively involved in the work we'll be doing.
Participants will arrive at Denison on August 15th, depart for either Washington or Newark on August 17th and return to the campus on August 21st in time to transition to the general August Orientation, beginning August 23rd.
Here's what we'll do:
- Explore and reflect upon homelessness, hunger, and other social issues.
- Donate our time in direct service to agencies, shelters and food banks.
- Enjoy group-building activities and participate in daily group and one-on-one conversations.
- Eat, sleep, learn and play together as a cohesive group of service-oriented people.
- Make a purposeful transition back to Denison.
Join DSO this fall! Please complete the application. The deadline is June 1, 2015.
Safety & Experience
To help minimize risks and to create a group environment that is fair to everyone, we ask that DSO participants abide by the following policies:
- No non-prescription drugs
- No alcohol
- Please feel free to bring CDs, DVDs, iPods, card games, and snacks for the bus trip!
The cost for the program is $250 for each participant which covers all meals, transportation and lodging. Financial aid is available for those who qualify. Apply using the form in the First-Year Notebook or download the PDF below and mail to Denison.
Additional Details
Housing, food, and storage for your personal possessions will be provided upon your arrival on campus. Participants will need to pack lightly. Include sandals and sneakers, summer clothing, sweatshirt, umbrella, pillow, light sleeping bag or single sheet and blanket, and a bath towel. Bring a lock to put on a locker if you want to store valuables at the site. We will stay in a church hostel downtown, cook our meals in a church kitchen, use the metro, and walk a lot.

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Malaysia Kopitiam
Address: 1827 M St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-833-6232
Dupont Circle, Downtown
Opening Hours: Open Monday through Thursday 11:30 to 10, Friday and Saturday 11:30 to 11, Sunday noon to 10.
Nearby Metro Stops: Dupont Circle, Farragut North
Price Range: Inexpensive
Dress: Informal
Noise Level: Chatty
Reservations: Not Needed
Website: Click here to open in new window.
Best Dishes Green mango and squid salad; po pia, spring rolls; chicken satay; curry puffs; stuffed lotus root; roti canai; stir-fried watercress with fermented tofu; skate in curry sauce.
No. 93: Malaysia Kopitiam
Bored with your food groups? Try this Kon Tiki–meets–M Street hideaway. The warren of rooms has the feel of an underground bunker, dark and low-ceilinged, but the homespun Malaysian cooking, which brings together the flavors of India and China, more than makes up for it.Unlike some ethnic eateries where communication can be hard, owners Penny and Leslie Phoon spell things out for diners with words and pictures. Eating with a group is the ideal way to experience Malaysia Kopitiam. Not only will you be able to order a feast for next to nothing, but much of the fun is in the contrast of flavors and textures.
The menu cuts a wide swath, from warming curries like tamarind beef with okra, eggplant, and spicy tamarind to street fare like roti canai, thick pancakes with creamy curry chicken as a dipper, and sticky rice with minced chicken and shrimp, steamed in a banana leaf. There are assertive stir-fries, like the tangy, kicky assam sambal shrimp, and kitchen-sink salads like the rojak, which brings jícama, tofu, egg, peanuts, sesame seeds, and shrimp fritters into a lively, riotous whole.
Many of the flavors show up over and over, so roam widely across the menu. Otherwise, caution makes no sense, especially where a meal costs only slightly more than you'd pay at the McDonald's across the street. And far less than the lap dances at Camelot next door.


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Daily 2nd place, frontpaged, so many kind reviews and such a nice rating! Well, thanks a lot guys, you're awesome! :D
EDIT: This game was inspired by 'Motherload'. It is about mining ores and selling them to buy upgrades and drill deeper. Utopian Mining is part of this mining genre, so the games share the same basic concept. However, I did my very best to make it different to other mining games, by adding a different atmosphere, a story, some quests, cartoony-8bit-graphics and another feeling to it (and some other small stuff, too).
I hope you enjoy playing it. :)
Welcome to Utopia!
A few days ago a storm destroyed nearly the whole town.
Help these people and find out more about the Core-Ore...
Mine around as a mining robot, earn money, buy better hardware and complete missions.
This game has a few missions, different upgrades for your robot like drills, chasis, cooling liquids and batteries, awesome music made by Kevin MacLeod, some selfmade 8bit sounds, and lots of coal, iron, gold, wolfram, smaragd, ruby and diamonds!
How to play:
'LEFT', 'UP', 'RIGHT', 'DOWN' - move around
'X' - interact with things
'C' - cancel or leave
'J' - jobs
'M' - map
'I' - inventory
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
I loved the game but occasionally the keys would stick (not my computer I tested this on 3 diff computers) but it was only a few blocks before it stopped but I also wish that the coolant went lower or some of the ores were higher cause I needed the highest coolant for smaragd but otherwise the game was great.
Rated 3 / 5 stars
The game was either really easy or really hard. It's easy if you just don't care about your chassis until you have to move it up and ran your battery low. But it can be hard for someone if they just kill themselves and don't have any back up money. I got to diamond when I was supposed to go dig up smaragd. In my opinion, the maker of this game should've made the more expensive ores to be more rare. I got $32000 before beating the game and getting smaragd.
I will keep that in mind for Utopian Mining 2! :)
Rated 1.5 / 5 stars
Played Twice. Both times refuses to save my progress. Made sure flash was allowing to save progress. Made sure internet browser wasn't deleting any cookies or history. Rebooted computer. Lost progress. Good game but will not be playing again if progress will not save.
Can't believe that after playing the game two times you didn't figure out how to save the game. Next time try to read the instructions properly or look at what Seloving posted. Thanks.


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Werder Bremen have confirmed Nigeria international striker Joseph Akpala has joined Turkish side Kardemir Karabukspor on a season-long loan.
Akpala only signed a four-year contract with Werder 12 months ago after arriving from Club Brugge, but he struggled to make an impact in the Bundesliga.
He trained with Championship side Reading earlier this summer, but was unable to secure a move to the Madejski Stadium.
The 27-year-old will now spend the campaign in Turkey and Werder's general manager Thomas Eichin hopes Akpala will benefit from the move.
"Joseph Akpala has great skill, but so far he has not been able to break into our first team regularly," Eichin told Deutsche Presseagentur.
"Now, he will get the chance to play regular first-team football in the Turkish league. There, he can pick up the self-confidence every striker needs."


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We have just started a study to determine the current distribution of the Southern Hognose Snake, Short-tailed Snake, Florida Pine Snake, and Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake.
Taking a measurement of a H. Simus found during the study Florida Pine Snake, Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus Short-tailed Snake, Lampropeltis extenuata | The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provided funding to the FWC for status surveys of the southern hognose snake (Heterodon simus), Florida pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus mugitus) and eastern diamond-back rattlesnake (Crotalus ada-manteus), all of which have been petitioned for federal listing as threatened. To determine the current distribution of these spe-cies and the short-tailed snake (Lampropeltis extenuata), reptile and amphibian researchers solicited sightings through online surveys and conducted system-atic road surveys. Two seasonal technicians, Steve Christman and Glenn Bartolotti, were hired to conduct most of the road sur-veys, and Jonathan Mays de-signed a database to record and summarize the snake survey re-sults. We designed an occupancy mod-eling study for the southern hog-nose and pine snake, selecting 33 survey routes through upland habitats. The routes were ap-proximately 100 kilometers (60 miles) long, and researchers sur-vey each three to seven times from September to November. Driving 16,307 kilometers (10,133 miles) yielded 170 snakes of 20 species (65 percent were alive), but only three south-ern hognoses and one pine snake. We averaged 0.01 snakes per mile in the peninsula and 0.03 snakes per mile in the pan-handle. Black racers (Coluber constrictor) accounted for 40 per-cent of the snakes seen, and dia-mondbacks were the fourth most common species. We were much more successful at soliciting snake sightings, re-ceiving credible reports of 54 southern hognose, 163 pine snakes, 32 short-tailed snakes and 659 diamondbacks. Update to project 8/26/14 Solicitation of records from the public via 2 FWC webpages, posters, emails, or phone calls produced numerous credible sightings: 90 southern hognose, 44 short-tailed, 231 Florida pine, and 953 eastern diamondback rattlesnake. We ran almost 40 road-survey routes multiple times in September‒November 2013 but detected only 1 pine snake, 3 southern hognoses, and 14 diamondback rattlesnakes (170 specimens of 20 species in >10,000 km). In April‒June 2014, we revised our survey methodology, only targeting areas without recent records of southern hognose snakes and eliminating pre-determined road routes. We drove a total of 10,579 km and detected 1 southern hognose, 1 pine snake, and 7 diamondback rattlesnakes (129 specimens of 20 species). We installed 2 drift-fence arrays each in sandhill habitat at Camp Blanding Military Reservation, Ocala National Forest, St. Marks NWR, and Suwannee Ridge Mitigation Park WEA. There are no recent records of southern hognose snakes from these areas. In April-June 2014, we trapped over 4,000 amphibians and reptiles representing 51 species, including 8 pine snakes at Suwannee Ridge WEA and 3 pine snakes and 1 short-tailed snake at Ocala National Forest. Traps will be run again September‒November. Locations of these species are being used to produce potential habitat maps. We'll be soliciting sightings on the webpages at the FWC website for entering observations above. Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus Southern Hognose Snake, Heterodon simus |


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Our daughter purchased a china cabinet ( easy assembly -yeah right) & the top of one of the doors hits the top header not allowing it to close.She has done meticulous measuring and found that the pre-drilled holes on the cabinet itself are the culprits, just a hair too high.Our dilemma is we can't re-drill them because the drill bit would only slide into the existing holes, only to enlarge them.
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90% of the time when I see doors that are not straight (out of square with the case), it is a leveling or racking issue. Shimming out or more of the case corners will draw the doors into alignment. Try pushing or pulling on the upper front corners and see if that works. The other 10% of the time it's hinges that need to be adjusted one way or the other. Are these Euro cup hinges? Often they have a built in adjustment with turning one of the adjusting screws. You can sometimes adjust non-Euro hinges into alignment with shims of cardboard behind the hinge plates. Of course if the problem is really mis-drilled holes, you'll have to re-drill them. Fill the old holes with toothpicks and glue, let it set up, then re-drill the holes. |
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Diseases and Pests
All ecosystems are affected by diseases and pests. The park attempts to find a balance between preserving natural processes (including naturally-occurring diseases), protecting visitors, and preserving park resources. Human health and safety are high priorities to park resource managers. West Nile Virus West Nile Virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne disease, first appeared in northeastern North America in 1999. It causes health-related risks to humans, birds, horses, and other animals. WNV spreads quickly through infected migratory birds that carry the disease to new areas. The first Colorado case was identified in September 2002. For humans, the highest risk is to the elderly, young children, and those with suppressed immune systems. Avoiding areas where mosquitoes are common reduces the risk of contracting the disease. Most people who are infected with mosquito-borne viruses do not become ill and have no symptoms. For persons who do become ill, the time between the mosquito bite and the onset of symptoms, known as the incubation period, ranges from 5-15 days. Two clinically different types of disease occur in humans: (1) viral fever syndrome, and (2) encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain. Symptoms of the viral fever syndrome include fever, headache, and malaise. These symptoms persist for 2-7 days. In rare cases, the virus causes a more serious brain infection such as aseptic meningitis or encephalitis. These infections begin with sudden onset of high fever and headache, and may progress to stiff neck, disorientation, tremors, and coma. Severe infections can result in permanent brain damage or death. Most deaths occur in persons over 50 years of age. At present, the impact of West Nile Virus on the park's birds and other wildlife is not known. For more information on WNV, link to the following web sites: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (WNV information specific to Colorado) Chronic Wasting Disease Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease found in deer and elk. CWD belongs to a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which also includes scrapie (which has been identified in sheep for more that 200 years) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (sometimes referred to as "Mad Cow Disease"). CWD attacks the brains of deer and elk and causes the animals to act abnormally, become emaciated, and eventually die. CWD has been found in the northeastern part of Colorado, at a rate of 1 to 11 percent of the deer populations tested. CWD is not as common in elk as in deer. Rocky Mountain National Park is working with the Colorado Division of Wildlife to manage CWD. Researchers have tested animals within park boundaries using a technique known as evaluate tonsillar biopsy immunohistochemistry (IHC), where an animal is caught, radio collared, the tonsils removed for testing, and then released. The Colorado Division of Wildlife maintains a website with additional information on CWD. Hantavirus Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) can be contracted by exposure to rodents who carry one of several strands of hantavirus. Deer mice in the West, cotton rats and rice rats in the Southeast, and the white-footed mouse in the Northeast all carry different strands of the virus. The rodents shed the virus in their urine, droppings, and saliva. It is transmitted to people when they breathe in air contaminated with the virus. Humans can become infected with hantaviruses by three methods: being bitten by a rodent with the virus (rare) touching something that has been contaminated with rodent urine, droppings, or saliva, and then touching your nose or mouth eating food contaminated by virus-infected rodent urine, droppings, or saliva Although a new strain was identified in the Four Corners area in 1993 (called the Sin Nombre virus), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) found that the earliest identified death caused by HPS was in Utah in 1959. After infection, the first signs of sickness--fever and muscle aches--appear between 1 to 5 weeks later. Soon thereafter additional symptoms appear, including shortness of breath and coughing. As the disease progresses, hospitalization becomes necessary. The CDC does not believe the disease is spread from person to person. The best way to prevent contracting the disease is to avoid exposure to mouse droppings: make your home, workplace,and vacation home unattractive to rodents and clean up infested areas by using safety precautions, including wetting infested areas with bleach/disinfectant to kill the virus. A 1994 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that the prevalence of hantavirus in deer mice captured in Rocky Mountain National Park was 18%, which is consistent with other western areas. For more information on hantaviruses, HPS, prevention and transmission, link to the Center for Disease Control hantavirus webpage. Blister Rust A fungus (Cronartium comandrae Pk.) growing in the inner bark causes comandra blister rust. The fungus infects hard pines (including our ponderosa and lodgepole), but it requires an alternate host, or unrelated plant, to spread from one pine to another. The fungus is a parasite that needs live hosts to survive. Spores are released from midsummer to early fall, and they are carried by the wind, infecting pine needles and shoots of hard pines. Then the fungus spreads to the inner bark. Between one and three years later, drops of thick, sticky, reddish-orange liquid appears on the diseased bark. Eventually a canker forms on the trunk and kills the tree. Young trees are most susceptible to the fungus. The disease usually starts on the branches and the fungus spreads from there. If the branch dies before the fungus reaches the trunk, the tree will survive. If the canker on the trunk grows, the branches around the infected branch die and eventually the crown thins and dies. This leaves a characteristic "spike" crown: the main trunk remains upright, but there are no needles on the few branches that remain. Eventually, the lower branches also die. Epidemics of blister rust follow slow, wet warm-fronts in late summer, when conditions are optimum to spread spores. For more information on Blister Rust, see the Forest Service's Forest Insect and Disease Leaflet Mountain Pine Beetle Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is an insect found in forests of the West. The beetle lives in ponderosa, lodgepole, and limber pines. Oubreaks cause wide-spread tree loss; they occur earliest in stands with fire damage or other injury, overcrowding, root disease, or old age. Mountain pine beetles live in trees, with the insect populations peaking between late-July and mid-August. Beetles bore pitch tubes on the tree trunk. Trees that have plentiful resin are able to "pitch out" the beetles. However, older trees, and trees suffering from the effects of drought, have less resin. Beetle populations are cyclic. When a rising population coincides with a drought, an epidemic can occur. Mountain pine beetles have been present in area forests for thousands of years. 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Hello, friends that I've never met in person. I'm glad to see you again, metaphorically. I've already hit you with my top 20 catchers for 2015 fantasy baseball and the top 20 1st basemen for 2015 fantasy baseball. This, here, is the top 20 2nd basemen for 2015 fantasy baseball. This, here, is a mess. There's seriously about seven 2nd basemen I'm excited about, and two of them are Brett Lawrie and Jedd Gyorko, so we know how that's gonna play out. I don't know what happened to the latest crop of 2nd basemen, but I have a theory. Twelve years ago, when these 2nd basemen were learning the position, their role model was Bret Boone. Boone used to frost his hair, so all the kids learning 2nd base at that time, frosted their hair too. Then their friends beat the crap out of them, and that was the end of all future 2nd basemen. Here's the position eligibility chart for 2015 fantasy baseball. All the 2015 fantasy baseball rankings are under that linkie-ma-whosie. As always, my projections and tiers are included for the low, low price of zero dollars. Anyway, here's the top 20 2nd basemen for 2015 fantasy baseball:
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We already went over the top 20 catchers and the top 20 1st basemen for 2014 fantasy baseball. Today, we dip our big toe into the top 20 2nd basemen. There were a lot of land mines found at this position. Shoot (not you Dick Cheney!), I'd say a guy like Cano ending up in the top 10 was still a landmine due to where you had to draft him. But there was Kipnis, Gyorko, Aaron Hill, Brandon Phillips, Brad Miller (!), Lowrie and the thousands words devoted to Alex Guerrero in the preseason and he didn't even show up until September. To recap, this final ranking for last year is from our Fantasy Baseball Player Rater with my comments. The Player Rater allows me to be impartial while looking at how I ranked them in the preseason. Anyway, here's the top 20 2nd basemen for 2014 fantasy baseball and how they compared to where I originally ranked them:
Please, blog, may I have some more?Around six months ago, your mother left us in the middle of the night with nothing but each other and our drafted fantasy teams. I tried to make you French toast as you stood on a stool and watched, but we got egg shell in the batter and you cried about drafting Brad Miller. I was trying to do work one night, looking for a middle infield replacement as you played with your toy airplanes and — crash! — you spilled your milk all over my fantasy team. I screamed, you cried and Prince Fielder hurt his neck. Then your mother reappeared and began a custody battle to take over our teams right as Wilin Rosario seemingly lost his job. It was the Fourth of July, and no one was available, but I frantically searched for a replacement catcher with a job. If your mother's attorney got wind that we couldn't even manage to have a catcher with a job, we'd lose our teams forever. With a last ditch effort, we grabbed Yan Gomes off waivers, and another crisis seemed averted. It wasn't all smooth sailing the final stretch, like when you fell off the jungle gym, and I carried your through Central Park screaming, "We have to replace David Wright and Alex Rios!" But you just needed a few stitches and Xander Bogaerts with 3rd base eligibility and a hot schmotato for the outfield. The final test was making French toast again and seeing how well you adapted to finally cutting the cord on Jay Bruce. We did it, seemingly conquering a mountain, just the two of us, but due to a hot week from Ryan Rua we lost in the H2H playoffs. As you packed up your stuff to leave, we sat on the couch in silence. The weight of the summer on our minds when you turned to me and said, "What do you think about Dallas Keuchel for 2015?" Today, we close our fantasy baseball team window for the first time in six months. Of course, you can never remove those teams from your mind's eye because you turned off your computer's screensaver months ago and your team is burned into your monitor screen. Last year, Henderson Alvarez pitched a no hitter on the last game of the season, and this year he pitched against Jordan Zimmermann, who returned the favor with his own no hitter, with the help of an incredible, diving catch from Stephen Souza. Of course, a guy named after a composer known for patriotic marches secures it for the Nationals. In a season that saw seemingly every pitcher have a sub-3.50 ERA this was about as apt of a way to close out a season as any. As Bud Selig doffs his toupee, bidding baseball adieu, let us bid this season adieu too (almost stutterer!) and say hello to the offseason. Seriously, what about Dallas Keuchel for next year?! Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?At the end of the year, you can look at season long stats and try to build a DK lineup and I can pretty much promise you, disappointment will follow. You see, season is all but done, bro and bro-ettes. That means guys get tired. The studs of May, June and July give way to the youthful, the fresh guys of the DL and the DFAs who get invigorated by their new teams. De Aza, I'm looking directly at you…and many of my season long teams thank you. But truly, if we were to look at the baseball season like it were cut up into the different eras of the Beatles catalog, September would have to be the psychedelic phase. Everything you thought you knew about the baseball season just doesn't apply right now. Oakland has been a 'bad' team for a couple of months yet their record on the surface says otherwise. Nelson Cruz leads the MLB in HRs with 39 but most of those HRs came in May with 13. And in the end, what happens works now in context but overlapping with the season it seems just completely out there. Going from 'Love Me Do' to 'Strawberry Fields Forever' is quite the drastic jolt, Lennon. I Am The Walrus? Shut the f@#$ up, Donny! Now where was I? Oh yeah, all this to say, hanging your hat on season stats don't get you nowhere. Case in point, Tyler Matzek. Season stats tell you he's pretty mediocre. The ERA is 4.19…meh. The K/9 says 6.69…ambien pills. But let's look at Tyler through a different lenses…say from the start of September. This Tyler has a 1.74 ERA over 20.2 IP to go with 19 K and 6 walks. For you non-mathies out there, that's an 8.27 K/9 and a 2.61 BB/9 rate. Sure, I ain't streaming him nor am I throwing him into any cash games but I think even with the plum matchup against the Padres, Matzek will be overlooked and underowned because he's been 'so bad for so long'. Well, so long to that so bad call. Ride the young arm to victory friends. And with that, let's move on. Here's some other hot takes for your Monday DK slate…
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Please, blog, may I have some more?If you've been scouring all your picture books for a proper fantasy hitter in the final week, look no further. Oswaldo Arcia was 3-for-4 with his 19th home run and two RBI last night. Arcia has a nice little six-game hitting streak, with four homers in that stretch. To be fair, however, he's also sat four games in that span with a tweaked muscle in his upper back. Injury concerns aside, Oswaldo is destroying baseballs when he's on the field. In his past six games, he's clubbed four homers and with 8 RBI. He's slugging .858 in the past two weeks while batting over .400, and with 19 homers (12 at cavernous Target Field) in 94 games, he's got serious power and might be someone to consider on draft day next year. He's worth the pick up in all leagues if you need some pop in the final week of the season. Oswaldo could power you to fantasy glory. He's missed some time in the past few days, but he hasn't shown any ill effects of the injury while on the field, so hopefully this back injury is behind him for the most part. Get it!? Ha! Either way that shouldn't discourage you from picking him up this hot little potato while he's mashing.
Here's what else happened in fantasy baseball Friday night:
Please, blog, may I have some more?I'll be honest, I really wanted to do a title about Rudy. After having a top-7 pitching week and moving into the top-10 overall, I wanted to kiss some a*s to the other man in charge. It was supposed to be "Rudy Comfortable", a play on Rudy Huxtable, but then Grey told me to talk about you guys and four girl readers. I obliged and started looking at the top-10 and the player rater to see what they have in common. The top-4 teams, 5 total in top 10, all have Mike Trout and 3 of the top 5 have Jose Abreu. The top two teams have both. Jose Altuve, Todd Frazier, Michael Brantley, and Corey Dickerson are scattered throughout the top ten. In the pitching it's a little all over the place. One trend I found interesting was in the bullpen where Cody Allen is on 4 teams and Wade Davis is on 3. I'm pointing those two out because they were both solid all year and probably owned all year. Allen being a draft day stash for save savy owners and Davis being a K/9 machine that caught our attention back in April. Take note of this next year. Instead of drafting next season's Jose Veras, grab a great handcuff with a high K-rate and some faith. I know that's easier said than done, being that very few MR's repeat from year to year. Unless your name is Tyler Clippard. There are always themes to successful teams, if you got the first or second pick and drafted Trout your chances of winning increase exponentially, share with us in the comments how your team's did where you got that sexy fish or any other studs that put you over the top. For the Trout owners you deserve a hat from the man himself.
Please, blog, may I have some more?I'm going to look right in your eye and say, "I don't know where Jacob deGrom's coming from." Don't turn away from me. *turns your face by chin* Look at me. I don't know everything. I'm sorry. I know that upsets you like finding out that Santa Claus is really just a drunk man in a costume. I apologize profusely if you didn't know that about Santa too. It hurts me to ruin your naivete more than anything. Your child-like innocence is what originally drew me to you. Alas, we'll find something else. Like deGrom, for instance, we can discover him together. In Triple-A, deGrom had a 6.8 K/9 this year, and 7.5 last year. Always had nice control, but he has a 9 K/9 in the majors. You don't see guys often jump up a pedigree when they go from the minors to the majors. He's always featured nice command, which is the key here. When a guy can command his pitches and then learns how to throw a new pitch that is special, he can use it effectively. So, what did he learn? Supposedly, Johan Santana gave him the secret sauce recipe for The Change. Another key is his velocity. This isn't a guy who is adding a new pitch with 89 MPH velocity. He throws his fastball in the mid-90's. Throw one pitch in the mid-90's and another dropped in around 84 and you have a recipe for Ks. As was the case yesterday — 7 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 13 Ks — when the Marlins were like Farmer Ted striking out at deGrom. Still think he's closer to a high-7/low-8 K-rate guy with a mid-3 ERA, but it's still a lot better than I thought he was when he came up. Now let's move past this lapse of judgment by me and try to enjoy ourselves. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?In Fantasy Baseball, it doesn't matter if it's daily or redraft, strikeouts hand out nerd boners. Don't worry, straight fantasy baseball players, it's not a gay thing (not that there's anything wrong with that). It comes down to playing a sport that is built for strikeouts dominating your pitching desires and in fact, I'd say in daily fantasy a 10 K day would have you bordering on priapism. So pardon me while I go back to the Trevor Bauer well with you. Yes, we've done this before and with success. For some reason, Trevor at home feels…well, at home as he has a 3.32 ERA, 9.11 K/9 and a .309 wOBA against at Progressive Field. Obviously he's not perfect at home – he does have a 1.34 WHIP and a 3.6 BB/9 ratio there – but for the price of $6,500, you could have yourself 10 K. Oh, I see that got you all flushed. So go light some candles, sprinkle rose petals around the laptop you build your DK lineups on and put on some appropriate music to anoint the mood while you anoint yourself with other things…ahhhh yeah. Maybe his start will be so successful, you can afford the plumber to fix your wife's leaky pipes and order an extra large italian sausage pizza like she's always asked for. Bet she'd like that. But before our 'innuendo' turns into 'in your end hole', let's get this show rolling. Here's Razzball's picks for today's slate…
New to DraftKings? Scared of feeling like a small fish in a big pond? Well try out this 10 team league of Razzball writers and friends to wet your DK whistle. Just remember to sign up through us before you do. It's how we know you care! If you still feel helpless and lonely, be sure to check the DFSBot for your daily baseball plays.
Please, blog, may I have some more?The other day I talked about the dark underbelly of roster expansion and how, due to teams not DL'ing their players, it can actually hurt us in this thing we call life. Well, some of us call it fantasy baseball instead of life. Some of the less obsessed of us. To those people, I ptooey in your direction. If you're not completely obsessed over your hobby, let me say this… Get a new hobby! The national pastime's pastime? Maybe if you're a stutterer! This shizz is more like the national pastime's full-time, 24/7 job like taking care of your uncle who has been lying on your sofa for a month because your aunt started dating a guy she met on Tinder! "Uncle Frank, maybe you put on sweatpants so I can have company." No, Uncle Frank won't put on sweatpants, just like you won't have company until you find another first baseman to replace Anthony Rizzo. Uncle Frank is comfortable in his gotchies! Are you kapeeshing me? So, Rizzo has a muscle strain, and the Cubs said they would DL him if the rosters hadn't expanded, but instead they're going to let Anthony Rizzo slice garlic really thin — so thin it melts when it hits the pan — while he whittles away the year on the bench. Sadly, you have to move on to another first baseman in redraft leagues. You can't count on him the rest of the season. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Please, blog, may I have some more?There's a dark side to the expansion of rosters that no one wants you to talk about. Or people do talk about it, but they talk about it as written by the writers of The Honourable Woman so no one can understand it. You laid a cable modem through the Gaza Strip? But now the Palestinians can see which celebrities are on their side. "We got Rihanna! With a hashtag, baby! If we could only buy her albums. What does she sing? S&M? What's that mean? Whips and chains? Oh, yeah, like torture? Oh. Regarding sex? Hmm, we'd kill her for singing that. What other songs does she have? Umbrella? It doesn't rain here. What else does she sing? Only Girl in the World? That is neither accurate nor encouraging. Could she remix it to 72 girls in the world?" This MLB roster expansion has a side to it that is that disturbing. With teams expanding, they don't need to DL players. A week ago if Dustin Pedroia was forearm shivered as he was on Saturday, he would've hit the DL. Now, well, he's going to sit on the bench for at least a week. Miguel Cabrera may have also hit the DL a month ago, so he could rest his ankle. Now, the Tigers said he could sit for 4 to 5 days. It's not great news, though with how he's hitting, in some leagues it might pay to just bench him and grab a hot bat. As for Pedroia, I'd drop him in most mixed leagues. He could be out for a week or longer, and, brucely, he hasn't done much this year when he has been playing. Anyway, here's what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
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With two wins in three tries against Tom Brady, Cardinals defensive end Bertrand Berry can boast a rare run of success against the New England Patriots quarterback.
But Berry, who played for Denver until signing with Arizona in March, doesn't claim to know any secrets about how to shut down Brady, who has lost just 12 of his 51 NFL starts (including playoffs) since getting the Patriots' job in 2001. And he is certain the Cardinals will have a difficult time with Brady when he visits Sun Devil Stadium Sunday.
Brady is, in Berry's estimation, the best quarterback in the NFL. It's not hard to find people who agree.
"You judge a man by what he does on the field," Berry said, "and what he does on the field is win."
Peyton Manning is a great quarterback, the reigning co-MVP of the league, the likely choice to start a new franchise for many general managers. But Manning fizzled in the AFC championship game going head-to-head with Brady, and lost again when the two teams met in the NFL regular season opener.
Manning completed 16-of-29 passes for two touchdowns and one interception. Brady, though, was spectacular, completing 26-of-38 passes for 335 yards, with three touchdowns and an interception. The win was New England's 16th straight.
That's why, even as Donovan McNabb propels his Philadelphia Eagles toward a possible fourth straight NFC championship game, Steve McNair fights through injuries to make Tennessee a contender and Daunte Culpepper opens the 2004 season with a five-touchdown-pass performance, Brady continues to be the chic choice.
Statistics won't hold up the argument. Brady has never had a passing rating above 86.5. His 300-yard game against the Colts is only the fourth he's had during the winning streak.
There are other numbers Brady backers use.
Last season, Brady had just two games in which he threw more interceptions than touchdowns — the two games, not surprisingly, the Patriots lost. He's 6-0 in playoff games. He's 7-0 in games that have gone into overtime. He's 28-4 in games played after Nov. 1.
In two Super Bowls, Brady has taken over on offense with less than 90 seconds left in a tie game and calmly driven his team to championship-winning field goals.
"He's as close to Joe Montana as anyone I've ever seen," former 49ers coach Bill Walsh told the Kansas City Star. "What strikes you about Brady is the serenity in which he plays the game. That might sound silly, but when you see a great quarterback, there's a calmness and coolness he has on the field, a fluidity to his game, smoothness, if you will, that sticks out."
Patriots coach Bill Belichick didn't want to get into ranking his quarterback, although he did say, "I would like for him to be our quarterback more than anybody else."
Brady has heard the comparisons to Montana, especially during last year's Super Bowl. He's had conversations with Montana, and admitted he can see some of the same characteristics in both he and the Hall of Famer.
But he doesn't assume greatness. He's got a long winning streak, his Super Bowl titles and another stellar showing against Indianapolis last week, but Wednesday he was again talking about what he needed to do to be better.
"There are 15 games to play," Brady said. "I'm glad that we have a long way to go and there is much improvement to be made. You always wish that you start off doing everything right, but that is not the case."
If Brady does find a way to perfect his game, the Patriots might be headed for another Super Bowl title — and that would cement Brady's status among his peers. "His players believe in him and he delivers each and every week," Berry said. "You have to really say he is the best.
"It will be a big challenge for us. But I believe we are up for it."


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So, here's the thing. Decorating with rugs is definitely an art, and not a science. No hard and fast rug rules have been handed down from on high by the home décor gods. And while there may have been stricter guidelines for area rugs in the past, in a world where white after Labor Day is perfectly acceptable, so is an eclectic style at home, where pieces don't necessarily all have to match, and items from opposite ends of the design spectrum can work surprisingly well together.
In fact, sometimes, such contrasts can make for a much richer and more interesting living space. But you also don't want to overdo it. If every single piece in a room is marching to the beat of its own very distinctive – and very loud – drum, you're bound to get a headache just looking at it.
The trick is finding the balance that fits your personal style best. But getting started can be daunting, what with the plethora of rug choices available, and the myriad different possibilities for using them in your home. So we've come up with a few tips to help guide you in your decision-making process.
Rug Color
You don't have to worry about perfectly matching the color of your rug to the color of your furniture or walls – unless you want to, of course. But you can also use a rug to add a splash of color to an otherwise sedate room.
An easy way to find an area rug that will complement a room's décor is to look for one that has at least one color that does coordinate with some other design element in the room. Even better if it has one color that goes with the couch, for example, and another that matches the curtains, and still another that coordinates with the walls. Area rugs are ideal for pulling together an eclectic room in this way.
Rug Design
Should you go for contemporary or traditional? Solid colors or patterns? Unique materials or more conventional ones? A bold geometric pattern can look jarring in a very traditionally decorated room, just as a floral Oriental rug can look out of place in a sleek, modern room. But most homes don't follow such strict décor delineations, making it much easier to mix and match.
A few things to keep in mind? Patterns hide dirt and wear better than solid colors, so if the rug will be placed in a high-traffic area, a pattern might be your best choice. And geometric designs draw less attention to themselves than rugs with a central medallion, so if you want something other than the rug to be the focal point of your room, such as a fireplace, a contemporary rug might be the way to go.
Rug Size and Shape
A general rule of thumb in choosing the size of your area rug is to make it slightly smaller than the area covered by your furniture, to allow for circulation around the space. The shape of your rug should mirror the shape of the room – for example, a long, narrow room with a long, narrow rug – or the shape of the furniture it's framing – for example, a round rug underneath a round table. But as always, don't be afraid to experiment with different shapes and sizes, regardless of conventions.


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Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya may bring forward a planned sale of at least $500 million in Eurobonds to this fiscal year from 2012-13 to benefit from lower offshore borrowing costs.
"We are considering doing it this fiscal year," Henry Rotich, the Treasury's deputy director of economic affairs, said today in a phone interview from Nairobi, the capital. "Low interest rates in the U.S." have spurred the department to revisit its plan, and pricing will be determined when a lead manager is appointed and officials meet with investors, he said.
The U.S. Federal Reserve in August pledged to keep its benchmark interest rate at a record-low 0.25 percent at least through mid-2013 to revive its economic recovery. Kenya raised its benchmark interest rate for the third time this year yesterday to help curb inflation which accelerated to 16.7 percent in August, more than triple the 5 percent target.
Kenya in June said it may revive plans to sell dollar- denominated debt international markets after shelving plans more than three years ago as the global financial crisis seized credit markets. The country joins other African nations such as Zambia, Angola and Rwanda that intend to raise capital in the global markets.
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The currency has slid 15 percent against the dollar this year, making it the worst performer worldwide after Uganda's shilling. Kenya's currency climbed 0.3 percent to 94.93 at 1:13 p.m. in Nairobi today. Six-month borrowing costs rose to 11.935 percent at a treasury-bill auction yesterday, the highest in a decade.
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Kenya's economy is expected to grow 6 percent next year, from an estimated 5 percent to 5.5 percent in 2011, while inflation may start slowing within three months as the onset of rains boosts food supplies following drought, Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Joseph Kinyua said yesterday.
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The man who once served as Tom Cruise's Scientology auditor is predicting that the actor's divorce agreement with Katie Holmes will ensure she doesn't blame Scientology for their breakup -- and give her custody of their daughter, Suri.
On his blog Sunday, Mark "Marty" Rathbun wrote that Holmes will surely sign "a document that indicates there is to be joint/equal custody of the daughter of Tom and Katie. However, there will be a side agreement (that will sit locked up in their lawyer's safes) that gives Katie sole custody, control over education, and some visitation rights to Tom."
So far, one of Rathbun's predictions has been proven correct: in the same July 8 post, he said that Cruise would "aggressively and intensively negotiate the [divorce] case to settlement."
Early Monday afternoon, just two weeks after they separated, the couple announced that they had, in fact, reached a divorce agreement.
Rathbun says he audited Cruise in 2001 just after he'd separated from Oscar winner Nicole Kidman; Scientologists claim the process of auditing clears negative influences in order to heighten spiritual awareness and access untapped potential. Rathbun left the Church of Scientology in 2004 and now offers counseling to former church members.
In his blog post, Rathbun also stated that Holmes will sign a document "that indicates that Scientology was never an issue nor consideration in the filing for divorce."
Any such declarations would support utterances from an unnamed Cruise source who last week told TMZ: "She [Katie] was totally committed to Scientology. She had enthusiasm for it and would voluntarily and gladly participate in it when Tom was off shooting movies. This is not a fight over religion. It's being used as a way to hurt Tom."
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"As to the claim that they are so suprised [sic] because Katie only expressed 'love' for Scientology, that is right out of Miscavige's well-worn strategy to use pressured, documented, positive utterances (called success stories) against former members in the following wise," he wrote.
"Those success stories are the first thing that are mustered and organized for defense when a former member sues or speaks ill of Scientology Inc. to the media. Miscavige has Scientology Inc lawyers and hacks wave about previous success stories and claim that Scientology Inc. is shocked the person who wrote such stories has 'suddenly' had a change of heart."
Rathbun -- who calls Miscavige the "Scientology Inc. cult leader" -- also criticized Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields last week for suggesting that Holmes was intentionally orchestrating the international media storm swirling around the divorce.
"Has Katie Holmes made a single utterances [sic] publicly about the divorce in the past week? No," he wrote. "Yet, the august, venerable Bert Fields snidely claims as a fact that Katie has been working the media against poor Tom.
"Miscavige ... loves the victim card and when his back is against the wall he always plays it, and plays it well. He has, and will, pay untold sums of money to orchastrate [sic] the apparancy that he and Scientology Inc. were the victims."
Miscavige will also pay handsomely to buy Holmes' cooperation, according to Rathbun.
The terms of the Cruise/Holmes settlement will be obtained at "an astronomical price (Miscavige may even need to dip into Scientology Inc's war chest to help pay the price)," Rathbun said in his post.
"The scenario I predict (buy silence at any price) ...He has been doing it for thirty years. The price to accomplish it keeps getting higher. While the price will likely be in a whole new strata when it comes to Katie Holmes, Cruise and Miscavige have plenty of cheese in their Scientology Inc. war chest to pull it off."


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On the contrary, the Tenth Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The president and the federal government have only those powers delegated to them in the Constitution. In other words, if it's not in the Constitution, the president - and, indeed, the federal government - cannot do it.
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Regarding the Jan. 30 article, "Eco-vigilantes: All in 'The Family?' ": How could a firebomb symbolize respect for animals and the Earth - much less one consisting of "a napalm-like substance known as 'vegan Jell-O.' " Veganism isn't about forcing people to behave differently, and it sure isn't about napalm-like substances.
I appreciate knowing that we have constitutional rights, and civil rights lawyers to defend them. But as an animal-rights theorist, I have a responsibility to talk about the principles of animal rights. So, for the record: It's not making oneself vulnerable to law enforcement that makes one radical. It's not planning moves in secret.


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I have 3 new men's suit jackets that need sleeves shortened 2 inches.They have 4 buttons & mitered corners.Am I correct in thinking it will be impossible to re miter because amount taken up won't have a placket seam allowance?Any ideas will be appreciated.I hope you can visualize what I'm talking about. Iris |
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- Posted by joansews4u (My Page) on Sat, Dec 13, 08 at 21:52
I doubt there is enough fabric to miter the corners without adding a facing for the placket seam allowances. That would be a careful application to prevent bulkiness. Unless the person is one who wears suits everyday, I don't know that I would wrestle with trying to do it. |
- Posted by theturtlelady (My Page) on Sun, Dec 14, 08 at 12:08
You may not have enough to re-miter, but it isn't necessary if you're taking that much off. Just sew straight and mimic the overlapped look. It doesn't matter if the vent is quite small. Once you sew the lining back on inside, no one is likely to notice if you do a neat job and reposition the buttons correctly. |
- Posted by czechchick2 (My Page) on Mon, Dec 15, 08 at 1:34
It depends on size and the cut. Taking 2" off the sleeves means usualy take in the sleeve too otherwise you might end up w/much wider sleeve than before you started. So taking in the sleeve generaly leaves enough fabric to finish it the same way as it was done in the first place. I would recomend to put in new interfacing too. There is couple of ways it can be done but if you want profesional job, specially on expensive suits, I'd take it to the tailor shop. I worked in custom tailor shop in Boston and altered many suit. I had customer, every time he got new suit, he had it fitted to his body, re-cut the collar, shoulders etc. Kind of nuts. I charge 15 dollars for shortening jacket sleeves. Where do you live? |
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czechchick2 - I would pay the $15 to not have to do it and I know how. LOL |
- Posted by czechchick2 (My Page) on Tue, Dec 16, 08 at 18:12
Well, I'm in Florida. I'm not sure if it's worth it to pay for shipping both ways plus the alterations. You should be able to find some little old lady that sews. If you do it yourself, be carefull w/ the seam ripper :) |
Thanks to all who commented.The garments are done & returned.I think I was just looking for someone to say it would be OK not to miter. The man that owned coats likely could have had them altered where he bought them.They had price tags ,$200.No doubt he was looking to save a few bucks.This was not my first sleeve shortening job & I have done the mitering but never on sleeves that needed 2 inches off.LOL I'm just hoping he measured correctly ! We all know how that goes. Iris |
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