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What is SADSOG.com?
SADSOG is an adult gaming team and community founded in October of 2009. Being veteran formed, we naturally gravitated towards a milsim-style fps clan, holding our members to a higher standard of communication versus individual game play ability. Over time, our milsim mentality has faded and our members actively participate in a variety of game genres primarily on the PS4 but, our heart is still in the military FPS genre.
SADSOG was formed by and administered by veterans and we attract mostly veterans but also welcome non-veterans with open arms. Our team and community is a small casual group of gamers, usually around 10-20 active members. We are always looking to add quality teammates. A quality teammate to us is someone who is not concerned about KDR or dominating the field of play single-handedly but who are true team players, who communicate and coordinate so that as a team, we dominate. That doesn't mean that we win every match. We probably have more laughs and hi-jinks when playing as a large group however, we still have our moments of "greatness".
Why should I become SADSOG team member?
- We are a casual team. Casual means no mandatory events or participation requirements. Our only requirement is that you add the current team members to your psn friends list.
- We are geared towards the 20-50 somethings who enjoy console gaming as a hobby. No MLG gamers here. The only thing we take seriously is beer.
- If you are tired of the lone wolf and blueberry style of play.
- We are a community that is drama free, financially self-supported, laid back and maintain a relatively active forum on the slack app.
If any of the items listed pique your interest then contact us today! We are looking for YOU to help us grow the next generation of SADSOG.
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Now you know what it's like when two dozen elite cyclists crash at high speeds. First of its kind >>
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Over the past several years, the Wings have excelled due in large part to the world-class trio of Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg, and Nicklas Lidstrom. The skilled and possessive Red Wings style of play fueled a Stanley Cup run in 2008 and a return trip the following season.
The arrival of Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews (2007) brought hockey back to the forefront in the Windy City. Mirroring Datsyuk and Zetterberg's rise in Detroit, Kane and Toews quickly became the central pieces of an exciting and competitive team. Three years later, Kane clinched the Stanley Cup with a quick wrist shot from the left boards.
This season has presented challenges for both clubs. Going into the season, the Red Wings lacked consistent scoring outside of the Euro Twins, while the Blackhawks were looking to fill an apparent lack of depth at center.
Filppula answered the call for the Wings, asserting himself as one of the NHL's most underrated two-way forwards. Only Zetterberg and Datsyuk play the opponent harder. With great skating and reactive hands, Filppula has a nose for the puck. With 64 points on the season, his play in the opponent's zone has improved drastically. With more pucks going to the net, linemates Zetterberg and Hudler have not only embraced Filppula, but flourished.
Unlike Filppula, Kane is not enjoying a career year. In fact, this is the second year his numbers have slipped. Kane missed a large part of training camp as a result of offseason wrist surgery. In a somewhat questionable move, Quenville looked to move Kane, a natural winger, to center. Though Kane has excellent offensive awareness and playmaking ability, he turns the puck over and does not back-check.
With a handful of games remaining, Filppula has more goals (23) and points (64) than the heralded Kane (20G, 60P).
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Preview: Admirals vs. Wolves, at IceHogs
Basics: Chicago Wolves (7-3-1) vs. Milwaukee (4-6), 7 p.m. Friday at the BMO Harris Bradley Center; Admirals at Rockford IceHogs (5-4-0-1), 7 p.m. Saturday.
Broadcast: AM-1250
About the Wolves: Chicago leads the Midwest Division seven points ahead of fourth-place Milwaukee. The Wolves won the first four games of their season and have seven points in their last five games. Right wing Zack Kassian will miss the game Friday because of a suspension.
About the IceHogs: Rockford is in third place in the Midwest, three points ahead of the Admirals. The IceHogs have won five of their last six games after failing to win in their first four games. Right wing Andrew Shaw and defenseman Dylan Olsen are also suspended and will not play Saturday.
Admirals update: Milwaukee is coming off a loss at Grand Rapids Wednesday, but Jack MacLellan picked up his first point of the year on an assist, and Jon Blum and Juuso Puustinen each scored his first goal. The team is looking to beat the IceHogs for the first time in the last nine meetings. Saturday is also the start of a seven-game road trip for the Admirals, who were 0-4-0-2 in Rockford last year. Patrick Cehlin has not played in the last two games. Goalie Jeremy Smith is 1-6 in his last seven starts.
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RUSH: Here's Sherry in Cordova, Illinois. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Great to speak with you, Rush. I hope your vacation was joyous and restful.
RUSH: Thank you very much. It was on both counts.
CALLER: Glad to have you back. I need to let you know a little bit about who I am. I'm a Republican and a Tea Party person and I'm just absolutely tickled when the media tries to encapsulate the Tea Party. I just think that's hysterical that they think they need to put us in a compartment or define who we are. I wanted to mention to you that the liberal media tells us how bad we have it. They do this psych job on us telling us that, you know, we're in trouble or we're losing candidates. But, you know, this Hawkeye caucus was the free market at its best. You know, it's how we select the best of the best. And I think it's good for them to have had that caucus but I think the media tries to spin it and there are people -- older people especially, I think -- who believe who four, six, and eight tell 'em. They're kind of gullible in that way. So, "How stupid we are?" I guess is my question. I'm not a Rush Baby, I'm sorry to say, but I'm making up for lost time.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: You know, people will believe what the media tells them. We're gonna get reports in this Election Year that are gonna talk about how improved that the county is, how improved unemployment is, but I use myself as just one sample -- and I know I'm not representative of the whole population, but -- I'm working on paying off credit card debt. I choose store brand substitutes instead of brand names that I would prefer to buy in the story trying to save money. My husband is a business owner, and I get concerned about --
RUSH: Well, see now, as far as the question you're asking you're answering it for most people. They may turn on the news, they will turn on the news and we're even though hear about this robust economic recovery. What's gonna happen is, they're gonna think, "That's great, except it isn't happening to me." The reverse of this is -- and you're right: The media is very powerful still. They can convince people there's a recession when there isn't. They can take perfectly healthy neighborhood or community and make it feel horrible by telling it, "You might be doing well, but I'll tell you: The economy is bad out there," and people feel guilty.
They don't want to be doing well when other people aren't. It's long documented here how the media goes out of its way to convince people that things are bad even when they're good -- and vice-versa. This is definitely going to happen. The unemployment rate's gonna magically reduce. The consumer confidence is gonna go up. All these things are gonna happen. The counterbalance to it is that people's own lives will actually not reflect this, and so people will have the evidence within their own homes, their own communities and neighborhoods to know that what they're hearing isn't true but they'll be tempted because, "Well, good, good! We hope the country comes back.
"If it's coming back for them that we're seeing on TV maybe it will happen to me later." So it is a fact of life. You are Rush Baby. You're just now arriving at this reality. A lot of people have been where you are. It's a frustrating thing, but have faith that there are far more people than you think who are not fooled and tricked by it anymore, not nearly as many as who used to be. The media is still very powerful and they still can shape opinion. It's just much harder for them to do. They can still do it. In this case, it's gonna take a massive amount of lying and a massive amount of prevarication, and it is going to stand in stark contrast to reality. The media's gonna have to be very, very careful how they try it this time around.
RUSH: Snerdley could not believe it, didn't believe it. Even now after 23-plus years I still am doubted. Some on the staff still think that I would say something horribly wrong and be mistaken about it, that I'm that careless. When I said that we are a net exporter of gasoline, it didn't compute. Snerdley still doesn't believe it. I'll tell you in a moment why prices are still out the roof, and they are, by the way, and that is not gonna help the Bamster.
Gasoline is now the top export of the United States. "Measured in dollars, the United States is on pace this year to ship more gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel than any other single export, according to US Census data going back to 1990. It will also be the first year in more than 60 years that America has been a net exporter of these fuels." First time in more than 60 years, net exporter of gasoline. You might say, "I thought it was just right after Katrina we had all these shortages? I thought we didn't have enough refining capacity. How can this be?" Two things are happening. The price has gone up, demand is down. We are exporting our supply away. I don't know whether it's on purpose. I'm not even making political statement. I'm just telling you that in the laws of supply and demand, we are exporting our excess supply, which has an impact on price. It results in the price not coming down. But it is a money making thing.
Fuel exports are worth, in 2011, an estimated $88 billion, and there are two reasons cited, Snerdley, for this. Crude oil is a lot more expensive now, and the volume of fuel exports is rising. The US is using less fuel because of a weak economy, more efficient cars and trucks, we're using less and the price is rising, and so we have an excess supply. We are less mobile. It's a very unreported thing. On one hand you could say it's a good thing, okay, we got enough gasoline we can export it. But on the other hand it's a bad thing. It indicates a slowdown of economic activity. Any time you have a reduction in the use of energy, you have a concurrent reduction in economic activity. The two go hand in hand. It's a product of Obamaism. No two ways about it.


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A "static kill" operation would offer some key advantages to BP's effort to tame its Gulf of Mexico well, BP senior vice president Kent Wells said Tuesday afternoon.
"Unlike the 'top kill' where we had to pump at high rates and pressures, that is not required with the 'static kill,'" Wells said. "We would start pumping at low rates and pressure and after we get some mud in the hole, the pressure would start to go down. So you very quickly start seeing benefits as opposed to risk."
The static kill operation would involve pumping mud into the well through the cap in an attempt to overcome the flow of oil. Pursuing a static kill would require some modification of the Q4000, one of the vessels BP had been using to capture oil that was flowing into the Gulf. But those modifications shouldn't take very long, Wells said.
BP and federal officials could jointly decide to pursue a static kill effort within the next day or two, he said.
"We're actually going through and trying to look at the different risks," he said. "We need to keep looking at all of the procedures and plans and make sure we're not missing something, but we think there are some real benefits to moving forward with this."
Wells also said a static kill operation would not interfere with the relief well, which is considered to be the best way of permanently closing down the well.
"I would argue that we're definitely not taking our eye off the ball (by looking at a static kill)," Wells said. "In no way is the static kill getting in the way of the relief well. In fact, we're going to make sure we get the casing in the relief well before we start the static kill."
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Kolton Houston and Philip Lutzenkirchen were only friends for a short period time, but that didn't stop the two from forming a tight bond.
Houston, who plays offensive line for Georgia, met Lutzenkirchen the weekend the late Auburn tight end passed away in a severe car accident. The two players had little trouble becoming friends.
"That was the first weekend I'd really met Phil," Houston told 11Alive's Radi Nabulsi. "We'd met a couple times through recruiting, but that was the first weekend I'd really hung out with him."
In the short amount of time the two hung out, Houston gained a lot of respect for Lutzenkirchen. So much that the Bulldogs' lineman got a new tattoo on his arm. The tattoo not only honors Lutzenkirchen, but it also honors former Georgia baseball player Ian Davis, who also lost his life in the crash. Davis was friends with Houston and Lutzenkirchen.
"I've got a new tattoo," Houston said. "It is Phillippians 4:13. I got it for Philip. He wore 43. Ian is outlined. Philip and Ian put together makes Phillippians. Ian had Phillippians 4:13 on his side. Ian's uncle's daily devotional verse was 4:13."
Houston is the second Georgia player to honor Lutzenkirchen in some way. Quarterback Hutson Mason has a pin he wears with the number 43 printed on it, the number Lutzenkirchen wore when he played with Auburn.


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Review Summary
- Gorgeous beachfront location in Paget Parish
- Beautiful British-colonial-style entryway and lobby
- Modern, luxuriously appointed rooms and suites
- Large pool with poolside bar and restaurant
- Four on-site restaurants and a lobby library lounge
- Asian-inspired spa and small fitness center
- Five tennis courts
- Free Wi-Fi throughout
- Hilly property that's difficult to get around without relying on shuttles
- Only two restaurants are open year round
Bottom Line
There's no denying that the upscale Elbow Beach is one of the island's top resorts. The 98-room beachfront property has some of the most modern and luxurious rooms in Bermuda, as well as a half-mile stretch of pink-sand beach, a beautiful pool, an Asian-inspired spa, five tennis courts, and four on-site restaurants. It's a quiet, secluded property that's best suited for adults and couples, although families with children are certainly welcome. An equally impressive, and similarly priced option is the Rosewood Tucker's Point, but guests looking for a smaller, more intimate property might prefer The Reefs.
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A sophisticated beachfront property that attracts a well-heeled clientele
A long driveway leads to a yellow, British-colonial-style building where flags flap in the wind and porters are eager to greet guests upon arrival. The hilltop building overlooks the hotel's grounds, and the bright blue ocean in the distance. Inside, the lobby makes a grand first impression with its marble floors, thick patterned rugs, and massive chandeliers. Yellow walls with white-paneled moldings soften the room, along with pillow-topped cream-colored couches and tables full of fresh flowers. After check-in, guests are whisked away by golf cart to their rooms, which are located down the hill from the lobby, close to the beach.
Elbow Beach is a luxury property that attracts a well-heeled clientele. Families flock to the hotel during the summer months, golfers visit in the springtime when temperatures are pleasant and crowds are few, and couples honeymoon here year round.
Beachfront location in Paget Parish
Elbow Beach is located in Paget Parish, on Bermuda's south shore. Paget Parish is centrally located on the island, and is ideally situated for travelers interested in exploring different parts of Bermuda. The hotel is about a 25-minute drive from L.F. Wade International Airport, and about a 12-minute drive from downtown Hamilton. Foreigners are not allowed to rent cars in Bermuda, but can rent mopeds. Other transportation options include taxis and the public bus. Despite being expensive, taxis are the most reliable form of transportation. The public bus doesn't always run as scheduled, and renting a moped can be dangerous for travelers who aren't accustomed to left-side driving laws or Bermuda's insanely winding roads.
The beach in front of the hotel, Elbow Beach (surprise, surprise), is technically public, but the half-mile stretch directly in front of the property is considered private and is reserved exclusively for guests. Elbow Beach is one of Bermuda's most beautiful, with soft pink sand and calm waters.
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Modern and luxuriously appointed
Elbow Beach's rooms are some of the most modern and luxuriously appointed on the entire island. Soft wood tones, simple streamlined furniture, and crisp white Ploh bedding give rooms an understated Asian-inspired feel. White wood paneling, woven accents, bright blue pillows, and framed seashell artwork bring about a subtle nautical theme. In-room amenities include flat-screen TVs, Nespresso machines, iHomes, and mini-fridges stocked with free water and sodas. Bathrooms are spa-like, with polished marble countertops, deep soaking tubs, and walk-in showers.
There are multiple room and suite types, ranging from entry-level Lanai Rooms without ocean views, to beachfront cottages with separate living rooms and large bathrooms. In addition to the hotel's standard in-room amenities (mentioned above) all suites have ocean views, free fully stocked minibars, a free tray of snacks, free Dark n' Stormy ingredients, and Aqua di Parma or Bulgari toiletries.
It should be noted that all 98 of the hotel's rooms are located at the bottom of the hilly property near the beach and the hotel's restaurants. Amenities such as the pool, fitness center, and spa are not within walking distance of the rooms, and guests have to rely on golf carts to shuttle them around the property.
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Top-notch pool and beach facilities
Elbow Beach has a large, freeform pool with beautiful hilltop ocean vistas. During the summer months, families spend their days lounging poolside, but during the cooler months, the area remains mostly empty. The pool is surrounded by navy lounge chairs and umbrellas, but guests looking to splurge can also rent private cabanas. There's a small pool bar, and a casual poolside restaurant that serves sandwiches, salads, and pizzas during the summertime. The pool's only drawback is its hilltop location — though it offers stunning views, it's far from guest rooms, and nearly impossible to access without getting a lift from a golf cart.
For guests who'd rather not hike to the pool, the hotel's beautiful, private beach is within walking distance from most of the rooms. Thanks to its calm blue waters and quintessential pink sand, Elbow Beach is consistently ranked as one of Bermuda's best beaches. Guests of the hotel have their own private section to themselves. They can rent water sports equipment like kayaks and snorkel gear, and the hotel provides free sand toys for the little ones.
For guests looking to stay active during their trip, the hotel also has a small fitness center and five tennis courts. The fitness center is located next to the spa, and features LifeFitness cardio equipment, weight machines, dumbbells, and yoga balls. The five plexi-paved tennis courts are free for guests to use, and three have bright flood lights for nighttime play.
Wi-Fi is free for all guests, and works well throughout the entire property.
Four on-site restaurants, but only two are open year round
Elbow Beach has four on-site dining options, ranging from casual to elegant. Unfortunately, only two of the restaurants, Lido and Sea Breeze, are open throughout the year. Lido, is the hotel's signature restaurant, and serves breakfast and dinner in an elegant beachfront setting. The a la carte breakfast menu features items eggs Benedict and brioche french toast, and the Bermuda banana cake is not to be missed. Lido's dinner menu has a Mediterranean flair and features lots of local seafood options. Lido isn't as memorable a culinary experience as The Fairmont's Waterlot Inn or the Rosewood's The Point, but it's a decent on-site option.
Adjacent to Lido is an open-air terrace and glass-enclosed atrium known as Sea Breeze. During the summer and early autumn months, Sea Breeze serves light bites, like tapas-style small plates and sushi. It's an ideal spot for a simple dinner or appetizers and drinks. The terrace is seasonal, but the atrium is open year round (though it has a limited menu in the winter)
Mickey's Bar & Bistro is the hotel's open-air restaurant located directly on the beach. Mickey's serves lunch and dinner in a casual, laid-back setting, but unfortunately isn't open year round. The lunch menu features sandwiches, burgers, salads, and wraps as well as a few entree courses like the fresh local catch and a grilled sirloin. The dinner menu consists of pastas, steaks, and a few vegetarian options.
Blue Point is the casual poolside restaurant that serves sandwiches, salads, and pizzas. When Blue Point is closed during the winter season, guests can order food to the pool via room service.
In addition to Elbow Beach's four restaurants, there is also a cozy bar located next to the lobby. The lobby library lounge has rich decor and lots of dark wood accents, including an ornate billiards table at the far end of the room.
A small, romantic spa
The Spa at Elbow Beach has a romantic, Asian-inspired feel. With only six treatment rooms, it's not the largest on the island, but does offer a fantastic array of treatments. Body wraps and scrubs, custom massages, facials, and manicures and pedicures are all available here, but perhaps the most interesting treatment is the Rum Swizzle Ritual -- a full-body spa service inspired by Bermuda's signature drink (the citrusy rum-based beverage is served at the end of the three-hour experience).
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GAS Announces the Unveiling of the FORD GTR1
Galpin Auto Sports today announced its first coach built supercar, the Galpin Ford GTR1, will debut on the Monterey peninsula during a week of automotive festivities highlighted by an unveiling at The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering (August 15) and display on the esteemed concept lawn of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance (August 18).
Continuing Galpin's 60-year legacy of customizing vehicles, the GTR1 is based on the Ford GT as an interpretation of what the GT may have looked and performed like had it continued its evolution. The GTR1 boasts a power plant capable of an estimated 1024 horsepower and 739 pound feet of torque, generated from a twin turbocharged 5.4L V8 engine that is mechanically capable of speeds in excess of 225 mph – making it a truly modern and bold American mid-engine supercar.
Designed by Galpin Auto Sports, the hand crafted all aluminum body was widened five inches compared to the Ford GT, and constructed by renowned concept car builder Metalcrafters. It features 20-inch forged aluminum knock- off wheels, Pirelli P-Zero tires, six-piston brakes with full carbon rotors, jeweled headlamps and tail lamps and carbon fiber accents.
The interior features a machined aluminum instrument cluster, a McIntosh sound system, and luxurious hand fabricated leather trimmed seats, dash, door panels and headliner. The Galpin Ford GTR1 will be extremely limited in production, with a choice of aluminum or carbon fiber bodies.
"We're incredibly excited and honored to celebrate the culmination of Galpin's 60 years of creating unique vehicles with the debut of our first supercar at such respected venues," said Beau Boeckmann, Vice President of Galpin Motors and President of Galpin Auto Sports.
- 1000+ HP Galpin Ford GTR1 Set for Pebble Beach Debut
- New-Age GT40 to Make Debut in Monterey
- Galpin to debut 1,000-hp supercar at Pebble – Autoweek
- Galpin Envisions 21st Century Ford GT – CarBuzz
- Galpin Ford GTR1 to bow at Pebble Beach With 1,000 HP Supercar
- Galpin Ford GTR1 to Make its Debut at Monterey Peninsula
- 1024 bhp Galpin Ford GTR1 arriving at Pebble Beach next month
- 1000-HP Galpin Ford GTR1 Will Debut During Pebble Beach Concours
- Galpin to debut 1,000 horsepower supercar at Pebble Beach
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Crime Fighter F-150 Gets Unveiled at Comic Con 2013
Designed and built by Galpin Auto Sports based on a 2012 Ford F-150, the Crime Fighter F150 features a body kit modeled on George Barris' car, a tuxedo black paint job and Ferrari red accents. The unique truck is powered by a Ford 5.0 liter V8 engine.
- Batpickup is grandson's Batmobile follow-up
- Holy crime-fighting Ford F-150, Batman!
- Ford Reveals Batmobile-inspired F-150 Pickup Truck
- Batmobile-Themed Ford F-150 Pickup Can Be Yours
- Topgear – It's the Ford F-150 Bat-Truck!
- Ford unveils F-150 'The Crimefighter' at Comic-Con
- Batmobile-Inspired Ford F-150 Unveiled At Comic-Con
- Holy cargo capacity! It's Batman's Ford F-150
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Visit GAS at Ink N' Iron
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GAS will be at Fabulous Fords Forever
Don't miss Galpin Auto Sports at Fabulous Fords Forever on April 21, 2013 from 10-3PM. For more information please visit http://www.
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Watch as Popular Mechanics hosts its FIRST EVER TopShop Hangout with GAS
Join Mad Mike and the rest of the crew as they discuss the TopShop MINI makeover and answer your questions LIVE!
Click for more information or submit questions via Twitter using #pmtopshop.
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Vist GAS At the 2013 DUB Show Tour Stop in LA
GAS will be at the 2013 DUB Show Tour located in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The event will be on Sunday April 7th from 12-6PM. For more event details please visis the DUB Tour website.
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Iron Orchid
Presenting Iron Orchid: Galpin's first entry for the historic Ridler Award at Detroit's Autorama. A one-off period correct '34 Ford 5-window coupe, built by Dave Shuten of GAS. Stay Tuned!
Galpin Auto Sports is not only well known for its custom builds on new cars…it is also famous for building some of the coolest hot rods and resto mods in the world.
Many GAS creations have been exhibited at some of the biggest hot rod shows in the United States such as Detroit AutoRama, Grand National Roadster Show, and Long Beach MotoRama.
The world of hot rods, classics and resto mods are only limited to your imagination and budget. In no other area does the phrase "If you can dream it…we can build it" apply more. With a passion for hotrod building that dates back to the 60's, GAS has the artistry, know-how and ingenuity, to build period correct hotrods from the ground up or restore significant historic rods and customs. From the smallest modifications to full one-off builds, GAS will turn your automotive dream into a reality.
GAS Quality
Quality and satisfaction comes first at GAS, and we have assembled an expert crew to build your dream, including industry master Dave Shuten. In the past 15 years Shuten and has done numerous restorations from one-off builds to famous historic rods and customs including Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Orbitron, an exact recreation tribute of Big Daddy's Mysterion and Dan Wood's Milk and Ice Trucks.
Our Showroom
Galpin Auto sports not only has a full functional custom shop we have a full retail showroom stocked with all of the most recognizable hot rod and custom car brands including Moon Equipment, SoCal Speed Shop, Radir Wheels and Slicks, and Ford Racing equipment to name a few. For the kustom kulture enthusiast we also offer merchandise and apparel from the pioneers in hot rodding such as Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, George Barris, Gene Winfield, Robert Williams and Von Dutch. Galpin is also the home of one of the largest private collections of Ed Roth vehicles and kustom kulture memorabilia.
Resto Mods
As far as resto mods go…whether it's a car that you that you've always wanted or a car that's been in your family for generations GAS can restore it to stock or give it the best in resto modifications available turning your grandmothers car into the ultimate street machine.
GAS can take your beloved classic car and upgrade it using modern components to enhance its performance, comfort, safety, and beauty. GAS will keep the integrity of your classic vehicle exterior while giving it a modern spin by using the latest in technology, adding horsepower, and incorporating new components to give you something that you will cherish forever.
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GAS will be at Autorama in Detroit Michigan
GAS will be at Autorama posting photos and news throughout the event. Check back for exciting updates from the show.
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Watch the Tailgate Truck Hit the Auction Block
Modified by Galpin Auto Sports as the ultimate tailgate vehicle with HDTVs and a stainless steel grill. All proceeds to benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Watch Another Great GAS Vehicle Get Auctioned for Charity
Custom designed by Steve Carpenter from Galpin Auto Sports, all proceeds from this Mustang go to benefit the Austin Hatcher Foundation.
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GAS LA Auto Show News, Information and Photos
For complete event details and times, check out the LA Auto Show website. Hope to see you there!
GAS at SEMA 2012: Video Recap
Day 2
Sights & Sounds with Beau Boeckmann and the GAS Crew
Our Favorite Five Fords (That Aren't Mustangs) at the 2012 SEMA Show
The SEMA show this year is full of Fords – there's a huge Ford display and an even larger one outside with a mini-track for visitors to demo Mustangs, Shelby Cobras, and rally-prepped Fiestas. Seeing as we covered our favorite Mustangs in a previous post, here's a look at our favorite five Fords (that aren't Mustangs) at the 2012 SEMA show.
Ford Bronco
The Galpin Auto Sports 1966 Ford Bronco might just be one of the coolest trucks at this year's SEMA show. The Galpin Auto Sports (GAS) Bronco stands out from the crowd thanks to its baby blue and orange Gulf livery, something GAS president Beau Boeckmann said was a controversial decision, "This is going to go one way or another," he said, reflecting on the decision process, "People are just going to get angry with us…or they're going to dig it." Well Mr. Boeckmann, we certainly dig it. Aside from the Gulf livery, the GAS Bronco gets a 6.2-liter stoker V-8 churning out 540 hp, a Ford four-speed automatic transmission, beefy Dana axles and bead lock wheels. Truly a stunning Bronco.
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Galpin Gasser III 1957 Ford SEMA 2012
"I didn't want to be a 100 point show car, I wanted a gasser I could drive," said builder Steve Carpenter, those are words we love to hear. The gasser is a '57 Ford post car powered by 302 that was bored and stroked to a 331 and producing 502hp. "There's a gasser etiquette, it has to be a post car."
Steve purchased the car off of Ebay, it was an old racecar from Kentucky. Worn and beaten, the car showed up falling apart from rust and damage. "It wasn't worth a dollar," said Steve. "Now, it's the nicest car, I've ever built."
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Good afternoon everyone!
Hopefully our weeks will be better this week!
DD is happily painting a coloring page with Big Bird & the #20. That should keep her occupied for a while!
Our only real plans this week (so far) are reviewing numbers 10-20. She knows what they are, she just can't say them very well. So we'll work on that a bit.
And I want to review lowercase letters again. It's been a while for her.
And I'm thinking of starting some actual sight words activities, but I don't know what yet.
She's also learned how to put on her shoes, so she's been practicing that over and over. She can do the socks and pants, but they're still difficult, so I'm sure we'll practice that, too.
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Mantidactylus biporus
|Scope: Global
|Scientific Name:
|Mantidactylus biporus
|Species Authority:
|(Boulenger, 1889)
Common Name(s):
Mantidactylus brauni Ahl, 1929
Rana bipora Boulenger, 1889
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Frost, D.R. 2015. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|This species is probably a complex of at least five cryptic species (M. Vences and F. Andreone pers. comm.). The species Mantidactylus tricinctus was recently removed from the synonymy of M. biporus by Glaw and Vences (1999).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Vallan, D. & Glaw, F.
|Stuart, S.N., Chanson, J.S. & Cox, N.A.
Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|This is a widely distributed species in northern and eastern Madagascar, with one record in central Madagascar. Two isolated records from west central and south-central Madagascar need to be confirmed. It occurs from sea level up to 1,600m asl.
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|It is a streamside species in rainforest, including degraded forest, and open areas adjacent to forest. It is often associated with wetlands, bogs, stagnant water, and seeps, but not fast-flowing streams. It breeds in permanent and temporary pools and in slow-moving water. Knoll et al. (2007) collected one of the benthic larvae "from a puddle beside a footpath on muddy ground".
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
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|Its forest habitat is receding due to subsistence agriculture, timber extraction, charcoal manufacture, and invasive spread of eucalyptus, livestock grazing and expanding human settlements.
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|It occurs in numerous protected areas throughout the eastern rainforest belt.
Blommers-Schlösser, R.M.A. 1979. Biosystematics of the Malagasy frogs. I. Mantellinae (Ranidae). Beaufortia 29(352): 1-77.
Blommers-Schlösser, R.M.A. and Blanc, C.P. 1991. Amphibiens (première partie). Fauna de Madagascar 75: 1-379.
Glaw, F. and Vences, M. 1992. Zur Kenntnis der Gattungen Boophis, Aglyptodactylus und Mantidactylus (Amphibia: Anura) aus Madagaskar mit Beschreibung einer neuen Art. Bonner Zoologische Beiträege 43: 45-77.
Glaw, F. and Vences, M. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Second Edition. Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn.
Glaw, F. and Vences, M. 1999. Resurrection and rediscription of Mantidactylus tricinctus from eastern Madagascar. Journal of Herpetology: 639-647.
Glaw, F. and Vences, M. 2007. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Third Edition. Vences & Glaw Verlag, Cologne.
Guibé, J. 1978. Les batraciens de Madagascar. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 11: 1-140.
IUCN. 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Available at: http://www.iucnredlist.org. (Accessed: 5 October 2008).
Knoll, A., Köhler, J., Glaw, F., Teschke, M. and Vences, M. 2007. Larval morphology in four species of Madagascan frogs of the subgenus Brygoomantis (Mantellidae: Mantidactylus). Zootaxa 1616: 49-59.
Nussbaum, R.A., Raxworthy, C.J., Raselimanana, A.P. and Ramanamanjato, J.-B. 1999. Amphibians and reptiles of the Réserve Naturelle Intégrale d'Andohahela, Madagascar. Fieldiana Zoology 94: 155-173.
Raxworthy, C.J. and Nussbaum, R.A. 1996. Amphibians and reptiles of Andringitra Massif: a study of elevational distribution and local endemicity. Fieldiana Zoology 85: 158-170.
Vallan, D., Andreone, F., Raherisoa, V.H. and Dolch, R. 2004. Does selective wood exploitation affect amphibian diversity? The case of An'Ala, a tropical rainforest in eastern Madagascar. Oryx 38(4): 410-417.
|Vallan, D. & Glaw, F. 2008. Mantidactylus biporus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T57465A11630286. . Downloaded on 23 October 2016.
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Trent Franks Concerned That Obama's Science Czar Believes Limitless Population Growth is Bad; Franks Also Worried About Holdren's Stance on Abortion
Thankfully, there's just one Trent Franks.
The conservative Arizona Congressman from District Two, which includes Maricopa County, apparently believes human beings should multiply like rabbits until the entire Earth is covered. Why else would he take issue with the following piece of writing from President Obama's science czar, John Holdren:
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"Human values and institutions have set mankind on a collision course with the laws of nature. Human beings cling jealously to their prerogative to reproduce as they please -- and they please to make each new generation larger than the last -- yet endless multiplication on a finite planet is impossible. Most humans aspire to greater material prosperity, but the number of people that can be supported on Earth if everyone is rich is even smaller than if everyone is poor," Holdren wrote.
Franks put out a statement on July 31, covered in the Business Journal today, in which he expresses concern about the above statement.
A bit of research shows that Holdren did have some radical ideas about how to control the population, which he and Paul Ehrlich -- author of The Population Bomb -- put forth in a 1977 book called Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment. For instance, he pondered whether a sterilization drug should be introduced into water supplies. He denied he believes in government-sponsored population control during his confirmation this year. According to a Washington Times article last month, Holdren:
... is not and never has been an advocate for policies of forced sterilization.
And we agree -- forced sterilization can't be the answer to population growth.
On the other hand, what rational human being could argue with the idea that "endless multiplication on a finite planet is impossible?"
Franks' statement was mostly concerned with Holdren's alleged view that a fetus is not a human being. Social conservatives and right-to-lifers are having a field day with the following statement, reportedly from a 1973 textbook:The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being.
Does this statement mean that Holdren believes fetuses and even little kids are not human beings? True, a literal reading of the sentence implies he does. But that idea is so ludicrous, it makes more sense his point was lost due to poor writing. Holdren (below) will probably get the chance to make the laughable statement that yes, he does believe toddlers are human beings.
We're more worried about the economic impact of his ideas on how to solve global warming than the chance he'll usher in a type of 21st-century holocaust as Obama's science advisor.
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Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and cleave to his wife.
Imagine that a husband and wife are puzzle pieces. Certain puzzle pieces look perfect together because they complete a beautiful picture. God made a husband and wife to fit together.
Other pieces can fit together with them, but it does not look right. God says that a man and his wife are to Cleave. That leaves no room for others to interrupt that connection. Nothing should separate a husband and wife.
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LSU dominated the No. 3 South Carolina Gamecocks, although the score didn't represent how lopsided the game was.
Along with a loss by No. 6 West Virginia the national title picture became just a bit more cloudy before the standings are released.
LSU got a huge boost by Jeremy Hill, who didn't even play in their first two games.
Hill, a freshman and behind sophomore Kenny Hilliard and juniors Spencer Ware and Michael Ford, didn't seem to fit into the Tigers plans this season. But, it was Hill who led the Tigers and all rushers with 123 yards on 17 carries as he scored the first touchdown. Hill's power 235 pounds and speed was evidenced by his 50-yard run that was eventually the game-winning score with 5:25 left in the fourth quarter.
LSU had a whopping 407 yards on the night to South Carolina's 211. 110 of those yards came on the final two drives after the Tigers took a 23-14 lead.
The SEC continues to be a mess with Alabama perched up top. All eyes are on the Nov 3rd match up of Alabama at LSU.


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Sunset Punch
|3 Pound (1.5 Kilogram)
|Watermelon juice
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Unsweetened pineapple juice
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|Lemon juice/Lime juice
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Soda water
|4 Cup (64 tbs)
|To Taste
|Watermelon balls
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Pineapple wedges
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Mint leaves
Cut watermelon in half and cut out the red flesh, including 1 cm (1/2 inch) white rind.
Make 1 cup of watermelon balls (or dice into small cubes).
Remove seeds from remaining flesh and put in a blender or mash well.
Strain pulp through a wire strainer.
Mix fruit juices and fruit.
Chill well.
Just before serving add soda water and a little syrup if necessary.
Pour into punch glasses and garnish with watermelon balls and pineapple wedges or segments of fruit.
Makes 12-18 punch glasses.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 53 Calories from Fat 3
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 0.3 g0.47%
Saturated Fat 0.03 g0.16%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 19.1 mg0.8%
Total Carbohydrates 13 g4.3%
Dietary Fiber 0.6 g2.4%
Sugars 8.1 g
Protein 0.8 g1.6%
Vitamin A 8.7% Vitamin C 34%
Calcium 1.3% Iron 1.6%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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This emergency cable pull switch is designed to provide a readily accessible emergency stop signal. As an alternative to multiple emergency stop push-buttons, the switch can be used as a means of personnel safeguarding to prevent further injury or damage to equipment when used for emergency stop signaling. It is also designed to provide emergency stop protection for exposed conveyor and assembly lines. The internal mechanism latches on both slackened cable and pulled cable, which helps to eliminate nuisance stops due to variations in temperature, stretch of cable over time, and other application variables.
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Hotel Berkeley - Dubrovnik
Along with free full breakfast, this hotel offers a restaurant and dry cleaning/laundry. You can also enjoy boat tours and fishing. Go for a dip in the seasonal outdoor pool and enjoy the sun loungers. Fancy sipping an ice-cold drink by the pool? Don't miss out as there is also a poolside bar.
Multilingual staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance. Free WiFi and high-speed (wired) Internet access is provided.
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- Check-in time 2 PM-midnight
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THERE were a thousand ways for a white South African to get into trouble as 2016 began. It took a KwaZulu Natal estate agent, Penny Sparrow, to fall into the trap. So casual, so nonchalant, so unconscious is her disdain for black South Africans that I guarantee you she never gave a nanosecond of thought to what she was doing when she posted, as her Facebook "status", a message to her friends complaining that Durban's beaches were full of black people, or, as she called them, "monkeys".
The posting set off a firestorm of debate, accusation and counter-accusation as black and white South Africans turned on each other. Careers and reputations have been ruined. But Sparrow's posting could have been made by any number of white people I know.
Her easy insult comes from deep down. She wouldn't even know where or how it got there. But it is in her culture. And it is hard-wired into the culture of every South African of Western European descent. We call it racism and it is an often well-hidden conviction of black inferiority that dates back at least to medieval times.
In the 15th century Ferdinand and Isabella ran the (black) Moors out of Spain after they had ruled it with considerable success, helped by the Sephardic Jews of the time, for 700 years. The Christian horde chased them back over the Mediterranean and forced the Jews to convert to Catholicism. If they didn't they were killed or forced into exile.
Catholic reign over Spain formalised in 1492, the year Christopher Columbus sailed down the Guadalquivir River near Seville on his way to "discover" the Americas. Long before that, Portuguese traders had rounded the big bulge in Africa and begun trading aggressively in West Africa, bringing spices home first in exchange for horses and then, as the voyages grew longer, for textiles. In 1472 gold was first traded in Ghana. That trade became so important to Lisbon that by the early 16th century 30,000 ounces of gold were reaching Portugal every year.
In his book Africa — A Biography of the Continent, the eminent Africa scholar John Reader notes that there was only so much cloth that the Akan people, who ruled the region at the time, could absorb. This forced the Portuguese to find something else to trade in, further along the coast — human beings. The Akan were expanding and needed labour to create farms and irrigation.
"Between 1500 and 1535 (the only period for which such records exist) they shipped 10,000 to 12,000 slaves across the Bight of Benin from the Slave Coast to the Gold Coast and sailed onward to Portugal with rich cargoes of gold, ivory, and pepper," says Reader.
The fact that Africans were complicit in, first, selling the slaves to Europeans and, second, were also the initial buyers, doesn't explain why slavery and the story of slavery plays so little part in the SA story today, in the debates and arguments we have. But there is no doubt that slavery, to at least as great a degree as colonial rule and apartheid, shaped what we have become.
Slavery is common in history and Africa has attracted more than its fair share of it. Arab conquerors in North Africa raided south into what we now call Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad for slaves. East Africa supplied slaves to Mesopotamia and Asia. Wealthy African families and clans raided neighbours for their own slaves.
Then the Europeans came to the game and, gradually, as the trans-Atlantic slave trade grew, slavers began to raid further down the coast, to Angola and Namibia. The first recorded slave trade in SA itself was in 1719, near Durban. But the fact that there were people there to trade was because they had been pushed south by the East African slave trade in the first place.
We simply do not know, but there are grounds to suspect that the southwards migration of Bantu peoples from East Africa was no natural movement. The menace and terror of slavery would have snapped at its heels every inch of the way.
Even in the 19th century, slave trading around what is now Maputo was so intense that historians take seriously the hypothesis that it was slavery, not war, that triggered the migrations we often now associate with almost mythical leaders like Shaka. It was slave-raiding, pressing from behind, that shoved the amaXhosa and the British into each other's paths west (not neatly on the east bank as our fairy stories would have it) of the Fish River.
Africa's "internal slave market", to use Reader's moniker, was one thing. The facts of what Europeans did to the slaves they transported across the Atlantic were quite another. Conservative estimates suggest that between 1451 and 1870, at least 12m African slaves were marched, in chains, onto English, Dutch, French and Portuguese ships, stuffed into lower decks like sardines to provide ballast for voyages up to three months long; lying chained in their own excreta and among their dead. Almost a million died on the way. It was, in every way imaginable, a genocide.
White South Africans who can't understand why their black countrymen can't simply get on with being free now should use their imaginations a little.
How terrifying it must have been to be an African child 500 years ago, hearing stories about men who took away your grandparents forever. Or your brothers and sisters. Nobody could say where. Not even distance from the coast protected you. You left your village at your peril. You stayed in your village at your peril. They were coming to get you, whatever you did and no matter how far south you and your family or your clan marched. You were a commodity, not a human. You'd be discarded when you were sick. Your friends would be forced to defecate in your mouth when you disobeyed.
Reader is emphatic on the power and influence of slavery inside SA itself: "The mere presence of settlers along the colonial frontier (the Fish River) was enough to intensify the disruptive effects spreading south from the Delagoa Bay (Maputo, slave) trade, but in the event their demands exacerbated the situation. The settlers were desperately short of labour, and attempts to meet their requirements included activities that only euphemistic terminology has disguised as anything other than slave trading.
"Many of the clashes which generations of historians have described as examples of black-on-black violence typifying an African propensity for warfare (and need for white peacemakers) were, in fact, slave-raids — conducted with the connivance of whites and producing a supply of so-called refugees from the fighting who were subsequently sold or given out as 'apprentices' to farmers in need of labour."
Anything that happens over hundreds of years is hard to capture in a thought. But that is how cultures grow. They are made slowly and they are slowly undone. It took a thousand years after Jesus died for a Christian culture to show its hand. Cultures are an accumulation of memory and tradition, problem-solving and belief.
It is by now a part of Afrikaner culture that the Anglo-Boer War, which lasted less than three years and ended more than 100 years ago, was a scarring, brutalising and defining event which to this day drives Afrikaners, as a people, to seek a place or a circumstance where they can be free and be themselves.
It is part of British culture that the First and Second World Wars were pivotal moments in history in which they star as the defenders of liberty against fascism or tyranny. The end of each is wildly commemorated each year. Jets fly overhead. The Queen appears on the balcony. Together, those wars lasted 10 years. They will define the British for centuries.
So if South Africans of European descent can't forget what are fleeting moments in history, whatever the well-documented hardships of the Afrikaner and the suffering of the British under German bombs, why should Africans forget almost 700 years of justifiable fear and loathing of Europeans, as slavers, colonialists and segregationists? Why are white people surprised when blacks react badly to racial insult?
Penny Sparrow wouldn't have had Sir John Cradock, one of the many British governors of the Cape, in mind when she complained on Facebook about the "monkeys" on the beach. But it was Cradock who reported, in 1812 after a brutal campaign to expel the amaXhosa out of the Zuurveld and back east of the Fish, that: "I am happy to add that in the course of this service there has not been shed more Kaffir blood than would seem necessary to impress on the minds of these savages a proper degree of terror and respect."
I know of no instance where black Africans have treated Europeans or the descendants of Europeans the way whites have treated Africans. I know the Khoisan, the people who were here first, might disagree, but I am certain that the broad generalisation can be made that black South Africans are not racist.
Sure, blacks are angry about the racism — be it soft or hard, subtle or Sparrow-esque — they face daily. But that anger, however chillingly expressed on occasion, cannot itself be racist. Affirmative action cannot possibly be, as it is often called, racism in reverse. When the British bombed German cities in retaliation for the German raids on London, did that make Churchill a Nazi?
Racism is the result of a conviction of racial superiority, accumulated and moulded over time, among people of the same race, with reference to another race. Does that make all white South Africans racist? Are we all Sir John Cradock?
Of course not. The point about culture is that it changes and that individuals can make a huge difference. Out of the same poisonous culture that produced a John Cradock come people who today lead the fight for gay rights, for women's rights, around the world, even in places where to fight for those rights is dangerous. The same culture that gorged itself on slavery also produced the people who had it abolished. But we whites underestimate at our peril the seeds of a range of appalling behaviours that our culture has bequeathed us.
Other races may have slaved in Africa but they are not our problem here. Our specific problem is that for approaching 700 years, European contact with Africa has brought to the vast majority of Africans nothing but misery.
That is what the liberation struggles throughout Africa were about, even if slavery was an unconscious memory. It mattered, and those 700 years sure as hell matter here, in SA, now. South Africans should study slavery more than they do. It is the most base expression of racism. You cannot commercialise human beings you respect. Not now and not 500 years ago.
In SA today, we cannot undo the past. But we have a unique opportunity to make a future here together, something a bit special.
There are problems. Galactic poverty. Biblical inequality. We are led by a weak man and a divided ruling party. Racial divisions, once healing, are again open wounds. What we do has to be thoughtful and done with immaculate attention to detail. Corruption and poor public administration make no conceivable remedy feasible.
We have first to properly identify our problems. If we do not we will apply the wrong "solutions". Is poverty a bigger problem than inequality? Each invites a specific remedy. Is racist speech the same thing as hate speech? No. Europeans and Africans alike are equally capable of hate speech. Is enmity between black tribes not a form of black racism? No, it is ethnic rivalry, like the rivalry between Kosovans and Serbs.
The only way two sides get over a bad past is to fix their future together. The best way to express that in SA has to lie, somehow, in the economy and in the way we create and distribute wealth. A potent and inclusive SA economy needs to have three main characteristics:
• It would need to make profits that the state can tax and use to pay for services to the poor;
• It would need to create much higher levels of formal employment; and
• Barriers of entry into the economy would need to be low, to encourage competition.
What has to go is the capitalist model we employ now. It is, in principle, not that much changed from the capitalism that drove slavery or from the Victorian model that people like Cecil John Rhodes brought with them to SA.
But to change it the state has to be on top of its game. Until now, it has chosen merely to replicate, in different colours, the economy it inherited from apartheid. The results are in the job statistics.
It doesn't work.
For a new economy of our own we could look to the theory of stakeholder capitalism. It has the profit motive at its centre but surrounds that imperative with possibilities for a new SA economic culture within which the state and the private sector make major contributions.
At some stage the much-discussed but never congregated Economic Codesa will have to be held. The reason people avoid it is the risk of it getting out of control. But a new economic compact has to be hammered out around which all, or most, South Africans can agree.
We need consensus. Only from consensus can you begin to build trust.
We can't "fix" the past, though properly managed land reform and black economic empowerment offer a modicum of justice. But it is what we do to move forward, together, that will define us. A mess is always a good place to start.
It was out of the mess of post-war Germany and post-war Japan that the victorious Allies were able to fashion economic and social models that made it difficult, if not impossible, for the excesses of German Nazism or Japanese nationalist fanaticism to hold sway again over powerful economies.
German companies, listed or not, are today required to have union representation on their boards. The Allies did that. They called it mitbestimmung (co-decision-making). It means the unions get the same board packs, the same information and at the same time, that the shareholders on the board do. They know when there's trouble. German companies also, by tradition, always have a representative of their main bank on the board. We should legislate both of these here as a matter of urgency.
My Economic Codesa would also agree on a wide range of efforts designed to ensure that we create wealth in as inclusive a way as possible. And we must encourage more long-term thinking in our approach to investment, while appreciating that many foreign investors are attracted to our markets because they can move their money in and out quickly.
Our open markets are a huge strength, even though it can be scary when money leaves SA.
Stakeholder capitalism is what it says it is. You'll find strong evidence of it in the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in the race for the Democratic Party nomination for November's US presidential election. It seeks to find ways to guarantee inclusivity, which anyone with half a brain in SA today can see is our vital missing ingredient. Even Julius Malema has begun to talk like a stakeholder capitalist as he cajoles companies into taking better care of, and account of, their workers.
Companies, now with the union on the board, should also reserve at least 15% of their shares (listed or not) for employees. Treasury would find ways to reward those who do more. Equally, companies that employ more people over a period should be rewarded by the taxman. Companies that create jobs in poor and/or rural areas should be encouraged by the revenue service.
Too many chief executives in SA and elsewhere become distracted by market demands for short-term performance. Share incentive schemes can often mean that calls to cut jobs or other capacity are made too quickly. Our Codesa would encourage shareholders to stay in the share, rather than sell at the slightest hint of trouble. The dividends on shares held in an SA listed company for more than five years should attract only nominal dividends tax. After 10 years there shouldn't be any dividends tax at all. We need CEOs with their eyes on their businesses and company, not on fund managers.
The more open (democratic, even) SA business becomes, the safer it will be. I think an old idea from the 1990s still has merit. I first heard it from former Times Media boss Stephen Mulholland. Others say it was originally former Standard Bank CEO Jacko Maree's idea. But if all the companies on the JSE were voluntarily to raise their issued capital by just 1% each (no shareholder meeting required and, anyway, the markets can move more than that in a day) they could raise around R100bn in a stroke.
Not possible, say sceptics. But a R100bn pool run by unpaid private sector trustees with no political interference would be a hugely powerful statement if it was used to help poor people.
It would reassure foreign investors they were not betting on a political economy on the edge and reassure South Africans that the private sector was making a visible contribution to their future.
But the state also has a vital part to play in this stakeholder economy of the future. It cannot continue to reproduce Victorian capitalism in a black skin. First of all it needs to ensure that the country is, literally, owned by the people. The government is simply there to manage it for them.
A mass privatisation drive that gives each citizen vouchers in all of the state's assets — Eskom, Transnet, SAA (though shares in SAA might be reserved as a special punishment for certain groups of people) and hundreds of other state-owned companies and properties would be bundled up into these vouchers — would be a given. Citizens could collect dividends, hold managements to account and sell all or some of their vouchers after a certain period. It would have to be illegal for any one group or person to surreptitiously accumulate control of a state asset. The state would manage the assets and account to the people as executives would to shareholders.
Democratising land ownership would be critical. A way would need to be found for people living on tribal land to fully own, and trade or leverage should they wish, what they live on.
The state would also offer all citizens a choice upon their turning 21. They would be allocated a parcel of land (serviced with water and electricity and road access) of, say, half a hectare, or they could take a sum of money, paid directly to them. Call it R50,000, and the beneficiary does what he or she likes with it. The state would claw both the land value or the cash sum from the recipient's estate upon their death.
The state commits itself to a debt ceiling beyond which it cannot legally go and it creates a sovereign wealth fund to invest in foreign assets for the benefit of future generations. It commits to investing a minimum amount a year for 25 years and does not spend any of it until the 25 years are up.
Any Economic Codesa, especially one designed to begin repairing our spectacular racial wounds, would be hotly contested. There would be a million demands. But if we were able to keep our eye on the prize — a prosperous country for our children to grow up in — it would be worth it.
Essays like this, I know, don't make many friends in SA. It is a dangerous place to have an idea in. But I can't bear where we are. As much as I disapprove of the way Jacob Zuma runs the country, I can't bear him being taunted for the number of wives or children he has, or the fact that he read a number out wrong. Or that he isn't "educated".
I can't bear watching my fellow South Africans trade the most egregious insults about black people on social media or the growing swell of deeply angry and often violent black social media reaction to it. Technology should make us happy. In SA it makes us miserable.
I can't bear watching my fellow white South Africans not recognise what racism looks and sounds like, nor what black anger in return looks like and too many white people not knowing the difference between the two. Who will fix this? Who can?
Part of the problem is that we are led by not so much a visionary as a distracted and self-obsessed president who cannot unite us because his life has led him elsewhere.
But the bigger problem is ourselves. No-one won the war. Our democracy was negotiated, not dictated. Whites came to the table because sanctions were hurting their pockets. Blacks came because they couldn't win militarily. The result was always going to be messy.
That mess, as I have said, is now our opportunity. To the revolutionaries among us, my deepest regrets but there is no way you are going to be allowed by the domestic or international community to turn us into another Venezuela. The more the Chinese invest here, the more careful they will be with their money. The Chinese played a key role, I'm told, in persuading the president to reverse his appointment of David Des van Rooyen as finance minister last month.
To those to the right (of me) I say: the more you mock and jeer at Jacob Zuma the more you secure him. The majority of people in SA will instinctively protect someone under racial attack. Just listen to yourselves sometimes.
It was always a long and inhuman way from Delagoa Bay to the cane fields of Brazil, shackled below deck in a sailing ship. And it has been an even longer way back, for slave and slaver. Let us please not stuff this up.