text: LINGUIST List: Vol-21-4711. Tue Nov 23 2010. ISSN: 1068 - 4875. Subject: 21.4711, Calls: Historical Linguistics/Japan Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org> Reviews: Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison Eric Raimy, U of Wisconsin-Madison Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison <reviews at linguistlist.org> Homepage: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunett at linguistlist.org> ================================================================ Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! 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Full Title: Exaptation Date: 25-Jul-2011 - 30-Jul-2011 Location: Osaka, Japan Contact Person: Muriel Norde Meeting Email: m.norde at rug.nl Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2011 Meeting Description: Workshop on exaptation at the 20th International Conference on Historical Linguistics 2011 Call for Papers: Although some morphological changes seem to obey general tendencies, as formulated for instance by Kury?owicz or Ma?czak (see Hock 1986, ch.10) or Van Loon (2005), most of these tendencies can just as easily be violated. Diachronic morphology is largely idiosyncratic (Joseph 1998). Morphological paradigms appear to be ripped up at random in order to establish 'local generalizations' (Joseph 1992). One particular way in which unpredictable changes come about is through 'bricolage' with junk morphology, which goes under the name of exaptation (Lass 1990, 1997: 316ff.). Exaptation is a concept that was first used in evolutionary biology, to refer to co-optation of a certain trait for a new function. A typical example is the use of feathers, originally serving a thermo-regulatory function, for flight. In linguistics, exaptation is defined as follows: 'Say a language has a grammatical distinction of some sort, coded by means of morphology. Then say this distinction is jettisoned, PRIOR TO the loss of the morphological material that codes it. This morphology is now, functionally speaking, junk; and there are three things that can in principle be done with it: (i) It can be dumped entirely; (ii) It can be kept as marginal garbage or nonfunctional/nonexpressive residue (suppletion, 'irregularity'); (iii) It can be kept, but instead of being relegated as in (ii), it can be used for something else, perhaps just as systematic.(...) Option (iii) is linguistic exaptation.'' (Lass 1990: 81-82) Lass originally understood exaptation in a rather narrow sense. First, the term exaptation was reserved for changes affecting functionless (or 'junk') morphology. Second, in order to qualify as exaptation, the new function of a morpheme needed to be entirely novel. In Lass's own words: 'Exaptation then is the opportunistic co-optation of a feature whose origin is unrelated or only marginally related to its later use. In other words (loosely) a 'conceptual novelty' or 'invention'.' Both criteria have been criticized. With regard to the first criterion, Vincent (1995: 435), Giacalone Ramat (1998), Smith (2006) and Willis (ms.) pointed out difficulties with regard to the notion of junk. And indeed, Lass later stretched his notion of exaptation, admitting that linguistic exaptation - just like biological exaptation - could also affect non-junk morphology (see Lass 1997: 318), to the effect that the old and the new function may co-exist. Doubt has also been raised with regard to the second criterion, the novelty of the new function, which is central to the notion of exaptation according to Lass (1990: 82) (see also Norde 2001: 244, 2009: 117 and Traugott 2004). Some scholars have argued against the purported novelty of the function after exaptation (Vincent 1995: 436; Giacalone Ramat 1998, Hopper & Traugott 2003: 135-136). If this criterion is jettisoned, we arrive at a fairly broad definition of exaptation, like for instance in Booij (2010: 211), who defines it as '[t]he re-use of morphological markers'. Such a broad conception of exaptation is in line with the notion in evolutionary biology, where neither of the two criteria is decisive for the application of the term to shifts in function, but the question then arises whether this does not make the concept vacuous (see De Cuypere 2005). Despite these criticisms, exaptation has been used as a convenient label for morphological changes that at first sight seem to proceed unpredictably, e.g. by running counter to grammaticalization clines (see Norde 2009: 115- 118). It has been applied to various cases of morphological change, discussed in Lass (1990), Norde (2002), Fudeman (2004), Van de Velde (2005, 2006), Narrog (2007), Booij (2010, ms.), Willis (ms.) among others. In this workshop, we aim to come to terms with exaptation. Apart from specific case studies drawing on original data, we welcome papers that address the following issues: (1) Do we need exaptation in diachronic morphology, or does it reduce to more traditional mechanisms such as reanalysis and analogy, as e.g. De Cuypere (2005) argues? (2) Does exaptation only apply to morphology (Heine 2003: 173), or is it relevant to syntactic change as well, as Brinton & Stein (1995) have argued? (3) Does exaptation presuppose irregularity and unpredictability? If so, does this entail that exaptation is language-specific (as argued by Heine 2003:173), and that cross-linguistics generalizations are not possible? See, however, Narrog (2007) for evidence to the contrary. (4) Does exaptation happen primarily in cases of 'system disruption', such as typological word order change or deflection (see Norde 2002: 49, 60, 61)? (5) How should we define the concept of 'novelty', and is it a useful criterion for a change to be qualified as exaptation? Currently, there seem to be different views in the literature on what is exactly understood by a 'new' function. Does this mean (a) an entirely new category in the grammar, (b) a function unrelated to the morpheme's old function, or (c) a different though perhaps not totally unrelated function from the old function? (6) Is exaptation infrequent (Heine 2003:174, Traugott 2004) and non-recurrent (as argued by Heine 2003: 172)? Or can one morpheme undergo several successive stages of exaptation (as argued by Giacalone Ramat 1998: 110-111 with regard to the -sk- suffix and by Van de Velde 2006 with regard to the Germanic adjective inflection)? (7) What is the relation between exaptation and grammaticalization? Do they refer to fundamentally different kinds of changes (Vincent 1995), is exaptation a final stage of grammaticalization (Greenberg 1991, Traugott 2004), or are exaptation and grammaticalization just two different labels for the same type of change? After all, both processes involve reanalysis (Narrog 2007), both processes can come about through pragmatic strengthening (see Croft 2000: 126-130). Furthermore, if the old and new function of the exaptatum co-exist (see above) and if the new function is related to the old one, then exaptation involves 'layering' and 'persistence', respectively (see Van de Velde 2006: 61-62), which are also key features of grammaticalization (see Hopper 1991). (8) What is the relation between exaptation and degrammaticalization? Does exaptation always entail some sort of 'degrammaticalization' (as argued by Heine 2003 and arguably Narrog 2007: 9, 18), or does exaptation often, but not always, go together with degrammaticalization (Norde 2009: 118)? (9) Is exaptation the same thing as what Greenberg (1991) understands by 'regrammaticalization' and as what Croft (2000) understands by 'hypoanalysis', or are there significant differences between these concepts? And what is the overlap with related concept such as 'functional renewal' (Brinton & Stein 1995)? Convenors: Muriel Norde (University of Groningen) & Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven) Our proposal for a workshop on exaptation at ICHL 2011 (Osaka, Japan), has now been accepted by the ICHL Scientific Committee. Abstracts for this workshop have to be submitted directly to the ICHL website (http://www.ichl2011.com/call_for_papers.html) no later than January 15, 2011. Please mention the workshop title in the appropriate box on the abstract submission form, and your abstract will be forwarded to us. Notification of acceptance will be sent within two weeks upon submission. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions! Freek Van de Velde and Muriel Norde References: Booij, G. 2010 (to appear). Construction morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Booij, G. manuscript. Recycling morphology: Case endings as markers of Dutch constructions. Brinton, L. & D. Stein. 1995. Functional renewal. In: H. Andersen (ed.), Historical Linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 33-47. Croft, W. 2000. Explaining language change. An evolutionary approach. Harlow: Longman. De Cuypere, L. 2005. Exploring exaptation in language change. Folia Linguistica Historica 26: 13-26. Fudeman, K. 2004. Adjectival agreement vs. adverbal inflection in Balanta. Lingua 114: 105-23. Giacalone Ramat, A. 1998. Testing the boundaries of grammaticalization. In: A.Giacalone Ramat & P.J. Hopper (eds.), The limits of grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 227-270. Greenberg, J.H. 1991. The last stages of grammatical elements: Contractive and expansive desemanticization. In: E.C. Traugott & B. Heine (eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 301-314. Heine, B. 2003. On degrammaticalization. In: B.J. Blake & K. Burridge (eds.), Historical linguistics 2001. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 163-179. Hock, H.H. 1986. Principles of historical linguistics. Berlin: de Gruyter. Hopper, P.J. 1991. On some principles of grammaticalization. In: E.C. Traugott & B. Heine (eds.), Approaches to grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 17-35. Hopper, P.J. & E.C. Traugott. 2003. Grammaticalization. 2nd edn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Joseph, B.D. 1992. Diachronic explanation: Putting the speaker back into the picture. In: G.W. Davis & G.K. Iverson (eds.), Explanations in historical linguistics. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 123-144. Joseph, B.D. 1998. Diachronic morphology. In: A. Spencer & A.M. Zwicky (eds.), Handbook of morphology. Oxford: Blackell. 351-373. Lass, R. 1990. How to do things with junk: Exaptation in language evolution. Journal of Linguistics 26: 79-102. Lass, R. 1997. Historical linguistics and language change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Narrog, H. 2007. Exaptation, grammaticalization, and reanalysis. California Linguistic Notes 32 (1). . Norde, M. 2001. Deflexion as a counterdirectional factor in grammatical change. Language Sciences 23: 231-264. Norde, M. 2002. The final stages of grammaticalization: Affixhood and beyond. In: I. Wischer & G. Diewald (eds.), New reflections on grammaticalization. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 45-81. Norde, M. 2009. Degrammaticalization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Smith, J.C. 2006. How to do things without junk: the refunctionalization of a pronominal subsystem between Latin and Romance. In: J.-P.Y. Montreuil (ed.), New perspectives on Romance linguistics. Volume II: Phonetics, phonology and dialectology. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 183-205. Traugott, E.C. 2004. Exaptation and grammaticalization. In: M. Akimoto (ed.), Linguistic studies based on corpora. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo. 133-156. Van de Velde, F. 2005. Exaptatie en subjectificatie in de Nederlandse adverbiale morfologie [Exaptation and subjectification in Dutch adverbial morphology]. Handelingen der Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 58: 105-124. Van de Velde, F. 2006. Herhaalde exaptatie. Een diachrone analyse van de Germaanse adjectiefflexie [Iterative exaptation. A diachronic analysis of the Germanic adjectival inflection]. In: M. Hüning, A. Verhagen, U. Vogl & T. van der Wouden (eds.), Nederlands tussen Duits en Engels. Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. 47-69. Van Loon, J. 2005. Principles of historical morphology. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. Vincent, N. 1995. Exaptation and grammaticalization. In: H. Andersen (ed.), Historical linguistics 1993. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 433-445. Willis, D. Manuscript. Degrammaticalization and obsolescent morphology: Evidence from Slavonic. ----------------------------------------------------------- LINGUIST List: Vol-21-4711 ---------------------------------------------------------- Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships: http://multitree.linguistlist.org/


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Last year I have already blogged about it in Caution when using PL/SQL functions in a SQL statement, but that was in the context of writing a stand alone SQL statement for a report, … but what actually happens if you have a SQL embedded into PL/SQL like the following example procedure code in a package
PROCEDURE processEmps ( pDepartmentId IN NUMBER ) IS BEGIN FOR rEMP IN ( SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE SALARY > getAvgDeptSalary(pDepartmentId) ) LOOP NULL; END LOOP; END processEmps;
(Note: getAvgDeptSalary isn't a very good example, because you could also do that with SQL only, but it's just an example)
Very simple. A function in the WHERE clause which uses the procedure parameter pDepartmentId. What would you expect how the code/SQL is executed?


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eBay updated its fall seller's guide this week. Among the newly banned items are "advice, spells, curses, hexing, conjuring, magic, prayers, blessing services, magic potions and healing session."
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eBay is not the only sales site on the Web, so vendors looking to sell magic potions or hexing services have other outlets to turn to, such as Craigslist. Outside of reliability, eBay could be facing pressure from faith-based organizations that use the site often, said Tim G. Richardson, professor of e-commerce at Seneca College and the University of Toronto.
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koontz1973 wrote:cairnswk wrote:Thank-you koontz for keeping as always the stuff upper lip...holding up the process...instead of getting this into workshop where players can see it the gameplay discussion area, you're going to hold it up for a few more days...congratuations...are you sure you didn't work for the Brits before WWI before the "parade ended"...sometimes the bueacracy never ceases to amaze me
no offense koontz, but holding up a map for the sake of process is simply plain stupid.
No it is not stupid. And I did not hold the map up for the sake of the process. I held this one up as I was not sure which way you where going with it so until I was, I kept it here as per the drafting room guidelines.
As for the playable image, you only provided bonuses 2 days ago and text that I could read yesterday, and finished that of with the update before your 88 tests. All done whilst I was asleep. I asked you a gameplay question about the starting advantage which you have answered with this:Perhaps we need to minimise that somehow
You want ideas from us, but you have not given any indication of what your ideas would be, what your preference would be. I gave you the benefit of the doubt as you have made many many maps and gave you the sticky. I did this as soon as I had logged on.
So where in your opinion have I held this up for the sake of it?
koontz...yes i have done many maps, and because of the process of this foundry where everyone gets to have a say, i quite often now hold back on my opinions about how things should work, since my ideas may not always be the best for the map, and others e.g yourself, funkyterrance, DoomYoshi etc. in this map may have ideas that will enhance the playability of the map particarliy (since conditional border were discussed as one stage), and everyone seemed to have difficulty at how the connections worked since i failed to state clearly in everyone else's language their machanics.
I beleive i gave the main coditions for what my ideas were for the map at the start, and this has now been somewhat enhanced and i have had to improve the graphics towards same.
If i only provided the main conditions for the map while you were asleep, then now that they seem to be provided, holding it up does nothing for the discussion process.
So continue, if you want to hold it up...


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There can be various reasons to sell your collection, or part of it. For some collectors it's not about owning rare books but the thrill of the hunt, and once they have completed a collection they may decide to sell to fund the next biblio adventure. Other times a collector will trade up a copy in their collection after having found a more desirable copy.
While the most profitable avenue for selling your book(s) is often finding another collector whom you can sell to directly this can be difficult (just ask a bookseller who's had certain items in their care for a decade). If you do not find your ideal buyer straight away other options open to you include:
Auction houses are easy to find. Again you will need to do your research. Commissions vary as do the levels of service. Large or specialist auction houses will even be able to catalog a collection to be sold.
There is a huge array of options available. Anyone can sell on eBay or a local used goods website. There are Internet marketplaces such as AbeBooks, Alibris and Biblio that are used by professional booksellers. Amazon also has an established marketplace for third party sellers. Each website varies and requires high standards of professionalism.
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I go to high school in a small Texas town, and we have something called "meet you at the poll". It's just a crappy christian gathering in front of the school around the flag poll. Now, they sometimes use the intercom to announce it (which I know is illegal because it is government property being used to communicate the event and next time this happens I will bring it to the principal and school board), and there has also been group prayers before some sports games led over loud speakers (which when it happens I will bring it up as well).
These things don't seem to be a big deal to ANYONE in my small town except myself. Yep, you guessed it, there is ONE church for all ~2,300 townspeople to worship so it doesn't bother them. Anyone else in small towns seem to see this same trend of the town being subconsciously ran by the church?
(and believe I'm the only atheist in my town, so if your around North Texas, pm or email me, cuz I would love to chat about the area!)
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Okay I looked into this more and if I was the school I would say it was a student club.
Read this for a little more info on the subject
Is a very good source as well:
|Each club must have equal access to meeting spaces, the PA system, school periodicals, bulletin board space, etc.
The best way to deal with these people is to beat them at their own game in my opinion. If you start an Atheism club you will become the biggest thorn you could ever be in their side. You could then demand PA use which they could grant or they might stop allowing the meeting at the pole people to use it to avoid the problem all together. The moment they try to stop you from forming the club you can bring some major heat on them and the prospect of having to cancel football in a Texas town unless they allow an Atheism club will be a huge deal and they would rather allow a few of us godless folk meet in a room then cancel the games. My question would be though is during the use of the PA system do they pray or read scripture or do they just provide information of when and where the meeting takes place? This would make or break your argument on PA system use if they use it to pray or to read scripture this would be a big problem but if its just to announce the time and location of a meeting etc its a pretty good bet that it would be allowed you also have to remember that laws are going to mean different things to different judges and what they believe the intent of the law is. I think you can make more headway over the football game if the praying is being led by a coach/employee or someone in an official capicity. The way they can get around it is if a student or group of students led a prayer on their own in the stands since that would be protected speech. I'm with you over how annoying it can be so don't think I'm not on your side I'm just trying to see what the other sides argument would be.
I had a business in a small Canadian town that was run by church leaders, predominately the Catholic priest. I remember objecting to the fact that the local hockey team had a 'team pastor', to the horror of some customers. They said, "Well, he's not a priest and doesn't push the baptist stuff, so it's non-denominational." I said, "Yeah, but the team prayers invoke the name of Jesus either way - how would that make a Jewish kid feel?" These ladies burst out laughing and chortled, simultainiously, "Jews don't play hockey!" I just had to shake my head and walk away.
In a way, I am now hoping that another one of these religious activities take place illegally (using the PA system and at games) so that I can not attack my school, but so that I can expose what is happening in my town, because at the moment I have no evidence or anything to back me up other than my voice.
Is student led prayer at graduation illegal? As in a valedictorian or salutatorian giving a prayer during graduation? What about including the words "god" instead of religion?
I remember reading somewhere that even the word "god" is illegal?
The whole idea of banning prayer or religious teachings in public schools is to protect people who do not want it. If everyone in the entire community actually has the same beliefs no one could be offended by the activity therefore it really couldn't be considered illegal. In your case their actions would be illegal because it offends you! You have to decide if you really want to stand up to the whole town on this issue.
This is academic. There has to be a complaint before any action will be taken. In a situation where no one is bothered by the praying or preaching there will be no complaint made.
It's illegal to break the law, whether or not the people in that locality support that law.
Get real this is not about rape. Look, I understand what you're saying but we are talking about a situation where no one is being excluded. There is no victim if everyone thinks the prayers are just hunky dory. If everyone in a community have the same religious views who are the laws protecting? In other words, if no one has been raped no rape laws have been broken.
Hey, I agree with you. You just have to throw reality at my hypothetical community don't you (there weren't any wandering deists in there). I admit my perfect little community is pretty far-fetched.
Small towns in Arkansas are horrible!!! Stuttgart, Arkansas is not the place for an Atheist.


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WESTON, Mass. – With a pair of goals from junior Brian Sanz (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) men's soccer (7-3) continued their winning ways as they shutout Newbury College (1-6) by the final score of 4-0, Wednesday evening at the Regis College Athletic Field.
The Beacons got on the scoreboard late in the first half, when Sanz was able to collect his own rebound after a hard shot, which he then drove into the back of the net. Five minute later Reyn Johnson (Mangilao, Guam) got in on the action as he made it a 2-0 match, after redirecting a pass from Stefanos Galouzis (Watertown, MA).
In the second half, Sanz once again sparked the Beacons offense, this time finding the back of the net in the 58th minute, with some help from Danny Housley (Plympton, MA). Dan Purchia (Winchester, MA) closed out the match with its final goal in the 75th minute on an unassisted play.
UMass, who has been playing some extremely well as of late, dominated play from start to finish Wednesday night. The offense, which has registered nine goals in the last three matches, tallied 40 shots in the match, with 18 of those finding their way on goal.
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- MF Global scandal has left farmers, ranchers out tens of thousands of dollars
- Months later, no indictments have been filed
- "Our money was stolen and nobody is being held accountable," farmer says
- At center of scandal is Jon Corzine, a Democratic power player
Dean Tofteland promised to take care of the farm while his father was on vacation.
"I want you to go ahead and enjoy yourself," he told him.
The small private plane carrying Arnie Tofteland never reached its destination. It ran out of gas on the way to Indianapolis, fell from the sky and struck the backstop of a baseball field before slamming nose first into the pitcher's mound.
Dean, then just 27, had come home to the farm for a short stint; he hoped to enter the world of agribusiness. Suddenly, he was thrust into the role of carrying on his father's legacy.
Twenty-three years later, he drives through his corn and soybean fields in the southwestern corner of Minnesota. "I'm still taking care of it," he says. "It's not just a way of life. It's a part of my life."
Tofteland held the farm together after his father was killed, survived drought and the great flood of 1993. Then, commodity prices sank in the mid-1990s. And like most farmers, he has seen too many friends die young.
Such are the hazards of life on a farm.
But all that Tofteland has worked for was nearly lost in one fell swoop last October. This time, it wasn't a crisis brought on by tragedy or Mother Nature. It was the work of Wall Street and commodity power players in Chicago, a scandal that has become known simply as MF Global.
Tofteland had $253,000 in an account with the brokerage firm, money he planned to use to cover his farm's operating loan. As MF Global went bankrupt last fall, customers' segregated accounts were raided in clear violation of exchange rules. When the dust settled, more than 38,000 MF Global customers -- including thousands of farmers, ranchers and grain operators who used the firm to hold money for transactions on the futures market -- were out more than $1.2 billion.
On a recent February day, Tofteland points to the stirrups hanging in his barn. They've been there since the 1930s, when the first tractor arrived. Nearby, his fields stretch nearly to the horizon.
His seed bill last year was $230,000; fertilizer cost $150,000. In addition to his own land, he farms acreage he rents at a cost of $450,000. He has another $1 million tied up in equipment, plus four full-time employees. "We're talking big numbers, and you're taking all these risks," he says. "And you can get hailed out, droughted out, flooded out at any time."
That's why the MF Global scandal hurt so much: a financial tsunami that nearly wiped everything away. Tofteland had come to rely on the futures market. So eroded is his trust in the system, he hasn't used it since.
He notes he can track a hog from his farm to somebody's table. Yet somehow, he ponders, authorities haven't fully tracked the missing $1.2 billion, or who was behind it.
"It's either ignorance or fraud," he says. "Money doesn't vaporize. If my account is empty, somebody else's is full."
Tofteland opens the door to one of his four hog barns. More than 250 piglets scamper in pens in the climate-controlled barn. The smell is so wretched it takes every ounce of strength for a newcomer not to vomit. The analogy is inescapable: What stinks worse, a hog barn or ...?
Tofteland doesn't even pause to think. "I would say MF Global. Our money was stolen and nobody is being held accountable."
'Money they just took'
From the cornfields of the Midwest to the cotton fields down South to the large cattle ranches out West, the MF Global scandal has rocked the tight-knit farming community.
Some farmers lie awake at night, unable to sleep, worried about bill collectors and the system they'd come to trust. As planting season nears, they find themselves still out tens of thousands of dollars. Most don't want to talk on the record; they don't want their friends and neighbors to know they're down big money when they have a crop to put in.
Most of MF Global's customers have received 72% of their money back. Executives at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade like to tout that fact as a great feat. But they'd better duck if they ever step foot on a farm -- they might just get punched in the jaw.
Tofteland is still out $70,000.
"Pocket change for these guys, right," he says with disgust. "This money wasn't an investment. This was money that they just took. Maybe it's a fairy tale to most people, but if you lie or cheat or steal around here in this part of the world, you're out of business."
On this day, Tofteland is on the move. He leaves his farm outside Luverne, a quaint town of 4,700 that still has a theater downtown and a drive-in on the outskirts.
He stops in town to discuss a potential land deal, spins through his wind farm and then drives 23 miles to a feed and grain operator.
At Mouw's Feed & Grain in Leota, population 222, voices seethe with anger at the mention of MF Global.
"It sucks," says Mike Mouw, who runs the business with his brother, Brad.
The Mouws and their customers are men's men: leathery hands as tough as the pickups they drive, faces lined with wrinkles from too many hours working in the sun and rain and wind. They're skeptical of outsiders. They'd prefer to tend to business than speak with a reporter. But now the dam has burst.
Mouw spins around in his feed shop and leans over the counter to look an outsider in the eye. "You got money in a savings account?" he says. "If somebody was to take money out of there -- I mean just take it from you -- how would you feel?
"You'd hate it, just like we hate it. So that's why we're so fired up and pissed off."
The Mouw brothers run the business their father founded in 1950. The futures market is essential to their way of life: Hedging grain is what they do.
Farmers use the futures market to set a strike price on their crops before a seed is even planted. However, they can skip the futures market and sell directly to a grain operator, who contracts to buy the grain but uses the futures market himself to offset the price risk.
When word spread that MF Global was going bankrupt, the Mouws were reassured on a Friday that their money was safe: a segregated account had never been lost in the history of the commodity exchange.
By Monday, their $450,000 with MF Global was gone.
"Your business flashes before your eyes when something like that happens," says Brad Mouw. "I thought: This could take us down."
The two nod as they speak. Water fills their eyes. Their business remains strong, but the scandal caused undue stress. They're still owed more than $100,000, and there's a pile of legal fees from trying to get their money back.
For an industry that relies on the futures market, it is faith in the system that has been most rattled.
"Are we still safe?" says Brad Mouw. "We don't know any more."
He peers from beneath a baseball cap with the initials "MFG." He notes that the letters stands for their business -- Mouw's Feed & Grain -- not the company that took them for a ride.
On the hallowed ground built by their father, their voices grow animated. They raise pertinent points in spitfire fashion: In their view, the MF Global scandal amounts to the largest bank heist in U.S. history -- so where's the national outrage? Where's the all-points bulletin for those responsible?
The Justice Department, the FBI, federal regulators and Congress have launched multiple investigations into what happened and who is to blame for the missing money. No indictments have been brought. Federal investigators have said the probe has taken months because they're scrutinizing scores of wire transfers to determine if a crime was committed.
At the center of the scandal is Jon Corzine, MF Global's CEO at the time and a highly connected Democrat who was once touted as a potential treasury secretary. Corzine also is a former governor of New Jersey and U.S. senator who President Obama once hailed as one of his "best partners" in the White House.
In congressional testimony, Corzine has said he knew nothing about the transfers of customer money.
That doesn't stop the Mouws from drawing conclusions. In fact, it feeds their questions: Does the lack of justice have anything to do with Corzine's strong ties to the White House and his former role as a top fundraiser for Obama? Why have the Occupy Wall Street protesters remained silent about the scandal and the eighth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history?
Rod Sas pulls up with a load of corn and strolls through the door. Decked out in a blue jumpsuit, he delivers more than grain on this day. He dishes up a mouthful. He didn't have money tied up with MF Global; his cash was held by a different firm. But farmers stand in solidarity.
The name Corzine swishes around like bad chewing tobacco. "He's Obama's big buddy is what he is," Sas says.
He's suspicious of any investigations of a Washington insider and millionaire Democrat. That right there, he says, explains why he's not behind bars.
"Indictments?" says Mike Mouw. "I doubt it's ever going to happen."
"It was a bail-your-buddies out program," Tofteland chimes in.
"What do they call that? Chicago politics," Sas says. "I don't see why people can get away with what they did."
As everyone parts this day, Brad Mouw hops in his F-250. "When you get my money back, let me know," he says out his window.
The farmer takes on MF honcho
Dean Tofteland's Minnesota roots are as firmly planted as his corn and soybean fields. His grandfather, who immigrated from Norway, began as a farmhand before buying his first chunk of land.
But Tofteland, 50, never expected to become the face of farming.
A father of four children ranging in age from 8 to 16, he prefers traveling two hours away to his sons' hockey games than flying to the nation's capital. But when the MF Global story hit, he spoke to the local newspaper about his ordeal. Soon, he was on a plane to testify before the Senate Agriculture Committee. (The trip cost him $3,000 out of pocket, plus a new suit.)
"Business failures are nothing new. They happen every day on Main Street. The difference in this case is the missing money," he told the committee in December. "We all know if our personal bank account is one penny overdrawn, the bank knows about it. ... What they call 'unlawful comingling' on Wall Street is called stealing back on Main Street."
Corzine sat just two seats away. He glowered at the farmer as he spoke. When Tofteland finished, he stared back. "Corzine looked down," Tofteland says. "I think he was probably looking down to see if I was going to trip him.
"It was almost surreal, because this man who is blood and flesh like myself and other human beings acted, in my opinion, very arrogant. He affected a lot of people, and his words don't match up with his actions."
Corzine, who resigned in the wake of the scandal, testified that money from the customer accounts was taken but that he didn't know it at the time. Terrence Duffy, head of the exchange operator CME Group, testified to the contrary: that Corzine had been aware of at least some transfers.
Almost as soon as the hearing ended, Tofteland made the rounds on cable news shows and business networks: the farmer who stood up to the MF big shot. At the time, he figured MF Global customers would soon get their money back and "the biggest crooks" would be charged.
"I'm asking: Where's the Justice Department?" he says now, more than two months after his testimony.
Tofteland shrugs. He knows he's just one farmer up against the system. If other farmers are afraid to speak, he sees it as a moral imperative to speak for all.
"I just keep thinking about all those people out there that are affected and aren't able to have a say in what happens."
Tofteland's big rig kicks up dust as it travels the gravel road to his farm. He's returning from dropping off about 1,000 bushels of corn at a local ethanol plant.
The modern farm is one of complete efficiency. Tofteland's corn goes to the ethanol plant; the byproduct is then used for livestock feed. The ethanol runs his truck. His soybeans head to a biodiesel plant; his tractors are fueled by it.
Even his hog manure doesn't go to waste. It's saved and spread over the fields as fertilizer. He has also helped spearhead farmer-owned wind farms in the region. They hire locally and pour money back into the rural economy, as well as provide green power.
"Combines in the sky," he calls the wind towers.
His motto: "The most important thing a farmer can apply to his land is his footprint."
Pride and dignity are ingrained in his blood. His dad was a car salesman and drag racer, won the national championship in 1972. But farming is what he loved. By 1976, he bought the land his son now farms.
At the height of the farming crisis in 1985, the elder Tofteland told his son: "Go do something else." Dean went off to college and got a job at the grain exchange in Minneapolis. He helped create a marketing plan for a road deicer made from a byproduct of corn while in college. Job offers rolled in.
Yet Tofteland wanted to soak up the farm operation before he left for good. His plan: spend a year with Dad and learn the family business.
But then, his father got on that ill-fated flight. He was 50 when he died, the same age Tofteland is today.
He keeps a dusty 1967 Pontiac GTO -- his father's favorite racer -- in his machine shop. One of these days, he'll honor him by restoring it.
Soon, he'll honor Dad in another way. He'll till the land and plant for another season. He'll swell with pride when the fields turn golden brown by October. "It's a great, great feeling to bring the crop in after you've worked on it all year."
Until then, he'll keep hounding MF Global. He's used to his boots getting muddy: Fighting for the common man might just become his most lasting footprint.


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Stef's Blog - a native London Southlander and unrepentant 'Conspiraloon™' who doesn't trust anyone, not even himself. Sometimes I take pictures. I also enjoy swearing immensely and think much faster than I can type, so each post comes guaranteed to include at last one confusing typo. OK?
And so it begins...
... though I won't be able to join Muad'dib on his jolly to Parliament on 5th November; having checked my diary, I'm watching TV and doing the crossword then.
bit short notice, I'm afraid
The endframe is quite hopeful though
I posted a criticism on another site for linking to Muad'dib's latest video and was rebuked for hiding behind the name of a fictional character
And so it begins...
Oh hum
What are they going to try next?
Find a pair of magic slippers to tap together?
Blow up a fucking Death Star?
I hope you produced your credentials via webcam, as authority figures are alarmingly enthusiastic to do these days
So what gives?
Have the BBC got another 7/7 special in the pipeline?
There is a sort of silver lining to all this. The tactics being used here are so transparently orchestrated (predictable and predicted on this blog and others) that it is very easy to point it out to non-conspiraloons. And they get it. People are wising up. Throw in Shayler and Tony Farrell and a little bit more of the deep state gets exposed.
So Mad Muad and the Knights that say "Dib" (The Lords Born Again Freemen and the Kent Freedom Movement last time I looked) are going to rise up and lead us back to the enlightened times of the Old Testament where anyone he doesn't like (gays, jews, most women, most men) will be stoned to death.........
the enlightened times of the Old Testament where anyone he doesn't like (gays, jews, most women, most men) will be stoned to death.........
actually, it would seem that stoning is too good for such demons and lacking the purifying power of fire...
The Way Home of Face the Fire
There's some excellent, almost forensically indetectable, astroturfing by The Elect on that page btw
I asked leading 9/11 Truther, and Muslim convert, Kevin Barrett what he was doing bigging up a film which declares that Muad is the Messiah and calls for disciples/ worshippers
No answer so far
Maybe Kevin will ask Tony Farrell next time he's on Kevin's radio show
Or Maybe Kevin could ask his old pals Dr Nick Kollerstrom or Jolly Jim Fetzer
Is it any coincidence that turds have been reportedly found in St. Paul's? I think not.
My understanding is that St Paul's has been filled with turds since the middle of the 17th century
@General Zod
I think the idea is that if you actually believe you are General Zod then Truther sites will take you seriously
I AM Zod!!
That's the ticket
actually, it would seem that stoning is too good for such demons and lacking the purifying power of fire...
I thought the approved Old Testament method was stone 'em to death first then send their eternal soul into the inferno - or summat like that.
Good point
I made the classic schoolboy error of assuming that stones and fire are mutually exclusive
My bad
On the subject of fire
Even as a young kid I couldn't see the connection between the Guy Fawkes myth and the tradition of burning a 'guy'
And then I saw The Wicker Man and the penny dropped. And then I found out about the ancient festival of 'Samhain' and the penny dropped even further
So I think I was about 13 when I first realise that 'the establishment' was well practiced in co-opting existing beliefs and rituals and re-writing history to facilitate the process
On the subject of co-opting
As Aangirfan has just pointed out there are plenty of reasons to suspect that the 'Gunpowder Plot' might itself be an example of state-sponsored false flag terror and Fawkes a patsy. The Elizabethan/ Jacobean state demonstrated on many occasions that it was more than up to such intrigue
...and the irony that protesters might be drawn to a patsy myth is compounded imho by the fact that even though they, almost without exception, pay homage to the meme of non violent revolution they, again almost without exception, refer to the imagery promoted in corporate-produced, big budget motion picture which is violent to the core
Fawkes is an establishment-promoted myth and its contemporary manifestation promises, Hollywood style, that all 'we' have to do is kill the bad guy/ blow up the Death Star and everything's going to be fucking peachy
all 'we' have to do is kill the bad guy/ blow up the Death Star and everything's going to be fucking peachy
Pretty much the same argument as put forward by the Trots.........
I'll beat any passing Trot to it and say what the Trots/Marxists are after is systemic change but that can only be facilitated through an intermediate statist stage
I've already mentioned elsewhere that my opinion is that 'intermediate' stages have a habit of becoming sticky
For too long adult library cards have been issued on a no-questions-asked basis and now we are reaping the whirlwind.
access to information is a serious obstacle to making sense of the world
it's time that particular genie is put firmly back in its bottle
We all do what little we can
Hi GGL, thanks for dropping by
Maybe you could help me with a theological question
I've been reading that Eve was Adam's second wife
How does that work?
/ confused
What is the point of rushing Parliament on November 5th 2012. The whole world is going to end of 21st December 2012. Let us all chill out (literally) with The Melodians.
Add your candidate(s) here
We can beat this - TOGETHER!
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More than 2,300 students are eligible to participate in the Spring 2014 Western Illinois University commencement ceremonies this weekend.
Ceremonies recognizing the academic and personal accomplishments of students and alumni will be held today and Saturday in Macomb during the 2014 Spring Commencement Weekend. The exact number of those eligible to participate is 2,389 students, which includes nearly 1,909 undergraduate students, of which 149 students are in the bachelor of arts in General Studies degree program, as well as 480 masters-level graduate students and two students earning their doctorate degrees in educational leadership.
Honorary Doctorate
Sandra Keiser Edwards, deputy director of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., will receive the WIU Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Western's exercises. Keiser Edwards will be recognized at the 9 a.m. Saturday.
The Honorary Doctorate is the highest award WIU can bestow upon an individual who has made significant contributions to his/her career and to WIU.
Keiser Edwards, a 1974 college student personnel master's degree graduate, has been a key member of the Crystal Bridges leadership team since 2007, overseeing the founding of the museum, as well as its construction and successful opening in November 2011. Since that time, the museum has welcomed more than 1.2 million visitors, with Keiser Edwards serving in the pivotal role of deputy director. Keiser Edwards continues to be a guiding force in establishing the institution, creating and growing connections to bring increased tourism to the area, as well as offering museum visitors unparalleled arts, cultural and educational experiences.
For more information, see the April 21 release, "Edwards to Receive Honorary Doctorate," at http://bit.ly/S32rT3.
Distinguished Alumni
Richard P. Lavin, president and chief executive officer of the Commercial Vehicle Group Inc., New Albany, Ohio, will receive Western Illinois' Distinguished Alumni Award at the Spring 2014 Commencement exercises. He will be recognized at the 1 p.m. Saturday eremony.
Lavin, a 1976 sociology graduate, was appointed to his post at Commercial Vehicle Group in May 2013, following a successful 28-year career with Caterpillar, Inc. In addition to serving as president and CEO at CVG, which makes cab products and systems for commercial trucks and heavy-duty vehicles and machines, Lavin is a member of the company's Board of Directors.
During his career at Caterpillar, Lavin served as the group president of construction industries and growth markets, with responsibility for Caterpillar's earthmoving, excavation and building construction products divisions and the deployment of business strategies in China, India and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific region. He also had development and deployment responsibility for the company's business in Japan and for construction machinery manufacturing operations in Asia, the Americas and Europe.
For more information about Lavin, see the April 8 news release, "Lavin: 2014 Distinguished Alumnus," at http://bit.ly/1fqGozS.
Macomb Honors, Commissioning and Commencement Ceremonies
Provost Ken Hawkinson will serve as master of ceremonies for each ceremony. Greetings will be given by Cathy Early, chair of the Board of Trustees, and President Jack Thomas will present remarks, "Graduates of Purple and Gold: Great Thinkers, Game Changers and Generous People," to each graduating class. WIU's Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, WIU Professor of Sociology David Rohall, will be recognized at each ceremony. The WIU Wind Ensemble, under the baton of Director of Bands Mike Fansler, will play for the Macomb ceremonies.
Events scheduled for today include the following:
-2 p.m. Academic Honors Convocation, Western Hall — College, Honors and Departmental Scholars and students with academic distinction based on grade point average receive a medallion for each academic honor. Graduating senior Samantha Elizabeth Morrow of Rushville is the Convocation speaker and will deliver her speech, "Lollipop Moments."
-4 p.m. Army ROTC Commissioning, University Union Heritage Room—17 Army ROTC cadets who have completed requirements will be commissioned to active or reserve duty as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.
-5:30 p.m. Graduate Hooding and Commencement Ceremony, Western Hall.
Saturday Undergrad Commencement Ceremonies in Western Hall
To find the list of majors by college, go to wiu.edu/commencement/majors.php.
-9 a.m. ceremony will recognize graduates in the College of Fine Arts and Communication and the College of Business and Technology. An Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters will be presented to Sandra Keiser Edwards '74.
-1 p.m. ceremony will recognize graduates in the College of Education and Human Services. National Anthem singer: Barbara Brewer.
-4:30 p.m. ceremonies will recognize candidates for graduation in the Bachelor of Arts in General Studies, the Interdisciplinary Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences.


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Hill-Murray senior Colten Greeder beats Edina goaltender Andrew Rohkohl and Hornets' defenseman Ben Hull (2) for a second-period goal. Photo by Adam Crane
Colten Greeder is one of those high-energy guys whose pumping legs and swirling skates form mini tornadoes.
He is here. He is there. He is everywhere.
"He's a pain in the rear to play against because his motor is always running and he's all over the place," Hill-Murray coach Bill Lechner said about his senior forward. "And as soon as you look for him, he's somewhere else."
The 5-foot-9, 160-pound Greeder, a senior who spent last season on the junior varsity, started this season on the Pioneers' third line. Soon enough, he was moved up to No. 1-ranked Hill-Murray's second line.
Greeder's rise to prominence hit its zenith on Saturday, Jan. 5, as he scored a clutch goal in the Pioneers' 2-1 victory over No. 3 Edina at Braemar Arena.
Greeder spent the night playing on Hill-Murray's top line, joining team scoring leaders Zach LaValle and Mitch Slattery.
Not bad for a kid who, a few months ago, was just hoping to make the Pioneers' varsity.
Hill-Murray senior Colten Greeder, middle, has four goals and seven assists this season. Photo by Adam Crane
"I worked hard over the summer," said Greeder, who attended a variety of summer camps in preparation for the season. "I got my shot playing with LaValle and Slattery and took advantage of it."
Greeder's goal came after LaValle fired a low shot wide. The puck took a lively bounce off the end boards behind the goal and popped in front just as the hustling Greeder reached the crease. He made no mistake in firing it past Edina goaltender Andrew Rohkohl, who was still scrambling to get into position.
"Luckily it came right to me and I got to bounce one in," said Greeder, who has 11 points (four goals, seven assists) in 13 games this season. "It was nice to have that happen."
Greeder would have you believe his success can be attributed to nothing more than a series of favorable bounces. The truth is he has had to bust his behind to get everything that has come his way.
"As a coach sometimes it's frustrating because he might not be where he's supposed to be, but at least he's hustling," Lechner said. "He's that (Energizer) bunny."
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
Hill-Murray senior captain Zach LaValle (21) scored in overtime for the Pioneers against Edina. Photo by Adam Crane
Hill-Murray senior forward Zach LaValle got almost everything he wanted from his game-winning goal in overtime on Saturday.
Looking for a "top shelf, highlight-reel goal," LaValle settled for a puck under the armpit of Edina goaltender Andrew Rohkohl as No. 1 Hill-Murray edged No. 3 Edina 2-1 on the road at Braemar Arena.
"It didn't go where I wanted it to go but it went in," LaValle said with a smile.
LaValle's goal was the difference in a game featuring two teams with similar green and white colors and disciplined styles. Hill-Murray (11-1-1) has yet to allow more than two goals in a game this season. Edina (11-3) has allowed more than two goals just twice.
Overlooked at times in hockey circles because he also plays football and baseball, LaValle's abilities and intangibles helped all three Pioneers' teams reach their respective state tournaments as a junior.
Hill-Murray's Zach LaValle, left, has been a varsity regular since he was in the eighth grade. Photo by Adam Crane
Hill-Murray coach Bill Lechner said LaValle's goal Saturday was a reward for another steady performance.
"You look at him sometimes and you don't see a pile of flash," Lechner said. "But you watch the tape and he's always in the right spots grinding, working hard and giving himself the best chance to succeed. That's why I hope someone at the next level catches that."
Injury or illness left the Hornets without four starters: goaltender Willie Benjamin and forwards Miguel Fidler, Andy Jordahl and Dylan Malmquist.
But the Hornets, who coach Curt Giles scolded for a lack of effort last week, played with urgency. Giles came away impressed with his team's renewed energy.
"The kids worked extremely hard and played extremely well considering we had four kids out of the lineup," Giles said.
Edina's Tim Spicola opened the scoring at 4:45 of the second period with a quick shot from the top of the circle that sent the puck through the feet of Pioneers' goaltender John Dugas.
A good bounce helped Hill-Murray draw even later in the second period. A puck came off the boards behind Rohkohl into good position for Colten Greeder to slam home at 11:36.
The next goal was LaValle's game winner.
"You're disappointed in the loss due to the fact that they played so well against the best team in the state," Giles said.
-- David La Vaque, Star Tribune staff writer
Zach LaValle
Senior Zach LaValle scored off a faceoff 62 seconds into overtime to boost No. 1-ranked Hill-Murray past No. 3 Edina 2-1 on Saturday, Jan. 5 at Braemar Arena in Edina.
LaValle got the puck to linemate Mitch Slattery off the faceoff to the right of Edina goaltender Andrew Rohkohl.
Slattery moved the puck back to LaValle, who drilled a shot from close range that ended a tight-checking, defensive-oriented game that included solid goaltending from both Rohkohl -- who was filling in for injured starter Willie Benjamin -- and Hill-Murray's John Dugas.
Hill-Murray (11-1-1) extended its unbeaten streak to seven games with the victory. The Pioneers were playing their first game since winning the Schwan Cup Gold Division Championship in a shootout over St. Thomas Academy.
Colten Greeder, a senior who played on the Pioneers' junior varsity last year, tied the game at 1 in the second period when he slammed the puck past Rohkohl after a LaValle shot banked off the boards behind the net and slid in front just as the hard-charging Greeder arrived.
Edina (11-3-0) opened the scoring in the second on a long-range blast from senior Tim Spicola. His shot found a hole between Dugas' leg pads and put the Hornets ahead 1-0 4:45 into the period.
Greeder's goal came with 5:24 left in the second.
Both teams had multiple close-range scoring chances in the final period but Rohkohl and Dugas exchanged tough saves to extend the game to overtime.
Dugas finished with 27 saves, and Rohkohl had 30.
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
1. Zach LaValle, Hill-Murray
Game-winning goal in overtime. Assist on the tying goal in the second period. Tough defensive play. Unflappable leadership. About the only thing LaValle, a senior who has been doing it all for the Pioneers since he was in the eighth grade, didn't do was drive the Zamboni between periods.
2. Colten Greeder, Hill-Murray
Scouts like to talk about "honest" players. That's code for guys who work their tails off shift after shift after shift. Greeder, promoted to the Pioneers' top line because of an injury to Josh French, was his usual leg-churning, "honest" self, but he also contributed a huge second-period goal on a drive to the net.
3. Andrew Rohkohl, Edina
The junior, filling in for injured senior Willie Benjamin, showed no signs of big-game nervousness while stopping 30 shots. He was on his angles and limited his rebounds most of the night, looking more like a poised veteran than a varsity newbie.
-- Loren Nelson, MN Hockey Hub editor
Edina goaltender Andrew Rohkohl. Photo by Adam Crane


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The San Fernando Valley has long been a center of tubular cuisine in Los Angeles. The Stand, Carney's and the now shuttered Wiener Factory have been among Southern California's most vaunted practitioner's of the hot dog art form. For the last few years though, it's been all about Fab, a hot dog joint tucked next to a Pizza Hut in a big Von's anchored strip mall on Victory Boulevard in Reseda.
Fab has all manner of dogs and toppings, but they are best known for the ripper, a New Jersey style deep fried hot dog (pictured). I've never had a ripper before and had been meaning to make it to Fab for too long so when I found myself in the Valley, I made a lunch detour to finally check out a ripper.
Along with the famous ripper, the Fab menu includes practically every kind of hot dog from any geography. There are Chicago dogs, Manhattan dogs with hot dog cart red onion sauce, LA street dog style bacon wrappeds and even a "Fairfax Burrito Dog," clearly modeled on an Oki Dog.
Along with my ripper, I figured I should get something from this detailed list, so I picked the house specialty Fab Dog, a charred beef dog with tomato relish, bacon, mustard and onions. The dog itself was good, nice and juicy though not a huge snap. The tomato relish was very tasty, sweet but with a little bit of spicy zing, and the bacon was perfect. Rather than strips carelessly tossed onto the dog as you find at places like Pink's, these were chewy bacon strips sprinkled on top, more like lardons. You could tell from the deep, smoky flavor, that they're using good quality bacon. Now I tend to be more of a hot dog purist - just the dog and mustard, but the relish and bacon were pretty darn good as far as condiments go.
As for the ripper, well, put me in the camp that doesn't really get it. The Fab ripper had a different dog in it than the Fab Dog. It was larger and paler with a lot less spice, almost like a brat, and the deep frying makes the casing tough and chewy. And I should have guessed this, but it comes out of the frier mouth-scaldingly hot. Personally, I like the snap of a grilled or steamed dog. The hard, blistered skin of the ripper just didn't do it for me. I felt like I was eating a hot dog that had stayed out in the sun too long.
All in all, good dogs though probably not worth a special trip unless maybe you grew up in North Jersey and need your ripper fix.
Fab Hot Dogs
19417 1/2 Victory Blvd.
Reseda, CA 91335
(818) 344-4336
Thursday, September 1, 2011
When We Were Fab...Hot Dogs
3 comments:
- Greg said...
Nothing like a good hotdog. Your post reminded me of my time in L.A. where I would frequent Tommy Burger whenever I got the chance. I'm sure you've checked them out.....
- September 2, 2011 at 5:52 AM
Fab sounds good, but I'm holding out for the as of yet unscheduled opening of Le Hot Dog in Encino.
- September 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM
- sku said...
I don't think I knew you lived in LA Greg. Yeah Tommy Burger is a good stand by for a late night grease bomb chili dog or burger.
- September 5, 2011 at 5:28 PM
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Check out whales over the salted rim of a frozen margarita at Sandos Finisterra Los Cabos, which will reopen March 1 after a multimillion-dollar renovation.
The 288-room waterfront resort, which includes a top-floor whale-watching bar, sits at the tip of the Baja Peninsula, near central Cabo San Lucas in Mexico. It was formerly called the Finisterra Hotel. Now it will become the first Sandos resort in Los Cabos, and the brand's fourth in Mexico.
"The new elements include a world-class spa, more than 200 renovated and brand-new guestrooms and the whale-watching bar," said Jacques De Paep, corporate director of sales and marketing for Sandos Hotels & Resorts.
De Paep emphasized the resort's competitive rates, which include a 25% introductory discount offered to those who book between March 1 and April 6. The hotel will become an all-inclusive resort, offering one price for accommodations and meals. Rates begin at $130 per person, per day.
Other changes include the addition of the Tortuga Beach, a casual waterfront café, and the Don Diego, an open-air kitchen-style restaurant featuring a breakfast buffet and à la carte dinner.
Info: Sandos Finisterra Los Cabos (888) 774-0040.
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