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THE following is an extract from the "Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa," of the venerable pioneer, David Livingstone.*
"An adverse influence with which the mission had to contend was the vicinity of the Boers of the Cashan Mountains,† otherwise named 'Magaliesberg.' These are not to be confounded with the Cape Colonists, who sometimes pass by the name. The word 'Boer,' simply means 'farmer,' and is not synonymous with our word boor. Indeed, to the Boers generally the latter term would be quite inappropriate, for they are a sober, industrious, and most hospitable body of peasantry. Those, however, who have fled from English Law on various pretexts, and have been joined by English deserters, and every other variety of bad character in their distant localities, are unfortunately of a very different stamp. The great objection many of the Boers had, and still have, to English law, is that it makes no distinction between black men and white. They felt aggrieved
* The extract commences at chapter II, page 29.page: 37 by their supposed losses in the emancipation of their Hottentot slaves, and determined to erect themselves into a republic, in which they might pursue, without molestation, the 'proper treatment' of the blacks. It is almost needless to add, that the 'proper treatment' has always contained in it the essential element of slavery, namely, compulsory unpaid labour.
"One section of this body, under the late Mr. Hendrick Potgeiter, penetrated the interior as far as the Cashan Mountains, whence a Zulu chief, named Mosilikátze, had been expelled by the well known Kaffir Dingaan, and a glad welcome was given these Boers by the Bechuana tribes, who had just escaped the hard sway of that cruel chieftain. They came with the prestige of white men and deliverers; but the Bechuanas soon found, as they expressed it, 'that Mosilikátze was cruel to his enemies, and kind to those he conquered; but that the Boers destroyed their enemies, and made slaves of their friends.' The tribes who still retain the semblance of independence are forced to perform all the labour of the fields, such as manuring the land, weeding, reaping, building, making dams and canals, and at the same time to support themselves. I have myself been an eye‐witness of Boers coming to a village, and according to their usual custom, demanding twenty or thirty women to weed their gardens, and have seen these women proceed to the scene of unrequited toil, carrying their own food on their heads, their children on their backs, and instruments of labour on their shoulders. Nor have the Boers any wish to conceal the meanness of thus employing unpaid labour; on the contrary, every one of them, from Mr. Potgeiter and Mr. Gert Kruger, the commandants, downwards, lauded his own humanity and justice in making such an equitable regulation. 'We make the people work for us, in consideration of allowing them to live in our country.'page: 38
"I can appeal to the Commandant Kruger if the foregoing is not a fair and impartial statement of the views of himself and his people. I am sensible of no mental bias towards or against these Boers; and during the several journeys I made to the poor enslaved tribes, I never avoided the whites, but tried to cure and did administer remedies to their sick, without money and without price. It is due to them to state that I was invariably treated with respect; but it is most unfortunate that they should have been left by their own Church for so many years to deteriorate and become as degraded as the blacks, whom the stupid prejudice against colour leads them to detest.
"This new species of slavery which they have adopted serves to supply the lack of field labour only. The demand for domestic servants must be met by forays on tribes which have good supplies of cattle. The Portuguese can quote instances in which blacks become so degraded by the love of strong drink as actually to sell themselves; but never in any one case, within the memory of man, has a Bechuana Chief sold any of his people, or a Bechuana man his child. Hence the necessity for a foray to seize children. And those individual Boers who would not engage in it for the sake of slaves, can seldom resist the twofold plea of a well‐told story of an intended uprising of the devoted tribe, and the prospect of handsome pay in the division of captured cattle besides. It is difficult for a person in a civilized country to conceive that any body of men possessing the common attributes of humanity, (and these Boers are by no means destitute of the better feelings of our nature,) should with one accord set out, after loading their own wives and children with caresses, and proceed to shoot down in cold blood, men and women of a different colour, it is true, but possessed of domestic feelings and affections equal to their own. I saw and conversed page: 39 with children in the houses of Boers who had by their own and their master's account been captured, and in several instances I traced the parents of these unfortunates, though the plan approved by the long‐headed among the burghers is to take children so young that they soon forget their parents and their native language also. It was long before I could give credit to the tales of bloodshed told by native witnesses, and had I received no other testimony but theirs, I should probably have continued sceptical to this day as to the truth of the accounts; but when I found the Boers themselves, some bewailing and denouncing, others glorying in the bloody scenes in which they had been themselves the actors, I was compelled to admit the validity of the testimony, and try to account for the cruel anomaly. They are all traditionally religious, tracing their descent from some of the best men (Huguenots and Dutch) the world ever saw. Hence they claim to themselves the title of 'Christians,' and all the coloured race are 'black property' or 'creatures.' They being the chosen people of God, the heathen are given to them for an inheritance, and they are the rod of divine vengeance on the heathen, as were the Jews of old.
"Living in the midst of a native population much larger than themselves, and at fountains removed many miles from each other, they feel somewhat in the same insecure position as do the Americans in the Southern States. The first question put by them to strangers is respecting peace; and when they receive reports from disaffected or envious natives against any tribe, the case assumes all the appearance and proportions of a regular insurrection. Severe measures then appear to the most mildly disposed among them as imperatively called for, and, however bloody the massacre that follows, no qualms of conscience ensue: it is a dire necessity for the sake of peace. Indeed, the late Mr. page: 40 Hendrick Potgeiter most devoutly believed himself to be the great peace‐maker of the country.
"But how is it that the natives, being so vastly superior in numbers to the Boers, do not rise and annihilate them? The people among whom they live are Bechuanas, not Kaffirs, though no one would ever learn that distinction from a Boer; and history does not contain one single instance in which the Bechuanas, even those of them who possess firearms, have attacked either the Boers or the English. If there is such an instance, I am certain it is not generally known, either beyond or in the Cape Colony. They have defended themselves when attacked, as in the case of Sechele, but have never engaged in offensive war with Europeans. We have a very different tale to tell of the Kaffirs, and the difference has always been so evident to these border Boers that, ever since 'those magnificent savages,' (the Kaffirs,) obtained possession of firearms, not one Boer has ever attempted to settle in Kaffirland, or even face them as an enemy in the field. The Boers have generally manifested a marked antipathy to anything but 'long‐shot' warfare, and, sidling away in their emigrations towards the more effeminate Bechuanas, they have left their quarrels with the Kaffirs to be settled by the English, and their wars to be paid for by English gold.
"The Bechuanas at Kolobeng had the spectacle of various tribes enslaved before their eyes:—the Bakatla, the Batlo'kua, the Bahúkeng, the Bamosétla, and two other tribes of Bechuanas, were all groaning under the oppression of unrequited labour. This would not have been felt as so great an evil, but that the young men of those tribes, anxious to obtain cattle, the only means of rising to respectability and importance among their own people, were in the habit of sallying forth, like our Irish and Highland reapers, to procure work in the Cape Colony. After page: 41 labouring there three or four years, in building stone dykes and dams for the Dutch farmers, they were well content if at the end of that time they could return with as many cows. On presenting one to the chief, they ranked as respectable men in the tribe ever afterwards. These volunteers were highly esteemed among the Dutch, under the name of Mantátees. They were paid at the rate of one shilling a day, and a large loaf of bread among six of them. Numbers of them, who had formerly seen me about twelve hundred miles inland from the Cape, recognised me with the loud laughter of joy when I was passing them at their work in the Roggefelt and Bokkefelt, within a few days of Cape Town. I conversed with them, and with Elders of the Dutch Church, for whom they were working, and found that the system was thoroughly satisfactory to both parties. I do not believe that there is a Boer, in the Cashan or Magaliesberg country, who would deny that a law was made, in consequence of this labour passing to the Colony, to deprive these labourers of their hardly‐earned cattle, for the very urgent reason that, "if they want to work, let them work for us, their masters," though boasting that in their case their work would not be paid.
"I can never cease to be most unfeignedly thankful that I was not born in a land of slaves. No one can understand the effect of the unutterable meanness of the slave system on the minds of those who, but for the strange obliquity which prevents them from feeling the degradation of not being gentlemen enough to pay for services rendered, would be equal in virtue to ourselves."
After giving his experience of eight years in Sechele's country, in Bechuanaland, Livingstone continues:—"During that time, no winter passes without one or two of the tribes in the east country being plundered of both cattle and children by the Boers. The plan pursued is the following: one or two page: 42 friendly tribes are forced to accompany a party of mounted Boers. When they reach the tribe to be attacked, the friendly native are ranged in front, to form, as they say, 'a shield;' the Boers then coolly fire over their heads till the devoted people flee and leave cattle, wives and children to their captors. This was done in nine cases during my residence in the interior, and on no occasion was a drop of Boer's blood shed. News of these deeds spread quickly among the Bechuanas, and letters were repeatedly sent by the Boers to Sechele, ordering him to come and surrender himself as their vassal, and stop English traders from proceeding into the country. But the discovery of lake Ngami, hereafter to be described, made the traders come in five‐fold greater numbers, and Sechele replied, 'I was made an independent chief and placed here by God, and not by you; I was never conquered by Mosilikátze, as those tribes whom you rule over; and the English are my friends; I get everything I wish from them; I cannot hinder them from going where they like.' Those who are old enough to remember the threatened invasion of our own island, may understand the effect which the constant danger of a Boer invasion had on the minds of the Bechuanas; but no others can conceive how worrying were the messages and threats from the endless self‐constituted authorities of the Magaliesberg Boers, and when to all this harassing annoyance was added the scarcity produced by the drought, we could not wonder at, though we felt sorry for, their indisposition to receive instruction.
"I attempted to benefit the native tribes among the Boers of Magaliesberg by placing native teachers at different points. 'You must teach the blacks,' said Mr. Hendrick Potgeiter, the commandant in chief, 'that they are not equal to us.' Other Boers told me 'I might as well teach the baboons on the rocks as the Africans,' but declined the test which I proposed, namely, page: 43 to examine whether they or my native attendants could read best. Two of their clergymen came to baptize the children of the Boers, so, supposing these good men would assist me in overcoming the repugnance of their flock to the education of the blacks, I called on them, but my visit ended in a ruse practised by the Boerish commandant, whereby I was led, by professions of the greatest friendship, to retire to Kolobeng, while a letter passed me, by another way, to the missionaries in the south, demanding my instant recall for 'lending a cannon to their enemies.'*
"These notices of the Boers are not intended to produce a sneer at their ignorance, but to excite the compassion of their friends.
"They are perpetually talking about their laws; but practically theirs is only the law of the strongest. The Bechuanas could never understand the changes which took place in their commandants. 'Why, one can never know who is the chief among these Boers. like the Bushmen, they have no king—they must be the Bushmen of the English.' The idea that any tribe of men could be so senseless as not to have an hereditary chief was so absurd to these people, that in order not to appear equally stupid, I was obliged to tell them that we English were so anxious to preserve the royal blood that we had made a young lady our chief. This seemed to them a most convincing proof of our sound sense. We shall see farther on the confidence my account of our Queen inspired. The Boers, encouraged by the accession of Mr. Pretorius, determined at last to put a stop to English traders going past Kolobeng, by dispersing the tribe of
* Livingstone had given to the Chief, Sechele, a large iron pot for cooking purposes, and the form of it excited the suspicions of the Boers, who reported that it was a cannon. That pot is now in the Museum, at Cape Town.
page: 44 Bechuanas, and expelling all the missionaries. Sir George Cathcart proclaimed the independence of the Boers. A treaty was entered into with them; an article for the free passage of Englishmen to the country beyond, and also another, that no slavery should be allowed in the independent territory, were duly inserted, as expressive of the views of Her Majesty's Government at home. 'But what about the missionaries?' enquired the Boers. 'You may do as you please with them,' is said to have been the answer of the Commissioner. This remark, if uttered at all, was probably made in joke: designing men, however, circulated it, and caused the general belief in its accuracy which now prevails all over the country, and doubtless led to the destruction of three mission stations immediately after. The Boers, 400 in number, were sent by the late Mr. Pretorius to attack the Bechuanas in 1852. Boasting that the English had given up all the blacks into their power, and had agreed to aid them in their subjugation by preventing all supplied of ammunition from coming into the Bechuana country, they assaulted the Bechuanas, and, besides killing a considerable number of adults, carried off 200 of our school children into slavery. The natives, under Sechele, defended themselves till the approach of night enabled them to flee to the mountains; and having in that defence killed a number of the enemy, the very first ever slain in this country by Bechuanas, I received the credit of having taught the tribe to kill Boers! My house, which had stood perfectly secure for years under the protection of the natives, was plundered in revenge. English gentlemen, who had come in the footsteps of Mr. Cumming to hunt in the country beyond, and had deposited large quantities of stores in the same keeping, and upwards of eighty head of cattle as relays for the return journeys, were robbed of all; and when they came back to Kolobeng, found the page: 45 skeletons of the guardians strewed all over the place. The books of a good library—my solace in our solitude—were not taken away, but handfuls of the leaves were torn out and scattered over the place. My stock of medicines was smashed; and all our furniture and clothing carried off and sold at public auction to pay the expenses of the foray. I do not mention these things by way of making a pitiful wail over my losses, in order to excite commiseration; for though I feel sorry for the loss of lexicons, dictionaries, &c., &c., which had been the companions of my boyhood, yet, after all, the plundering only set me entirely free for my expedition to the north, and I have never since had a moment's concern for anything I left behind. The Boers resolved to shut up the interior, and I determined to open the country."
Mr. A. McArthur, of Holland Park, wrote on March 22nd of this year:—
"When looking over some old letters a few days ago, I found one from the late venerable Dr. Moffat, who was one of the best friends South Africa ever had. It was written in answer to a few lines I wrote him, informing him that the Transvaal had been annexed by the British Government. I enclose a copy of his letter."
Dr. Moffat's letter is as follows:—
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July 27th, 1877. My dear friend,
"I have no words to express the pleasure the late annexation of the Transvaal territory to the Cape Colony has afforded me. It is one of the most important measures our Government could have adopted, as regards the Republic as well as the Aborigines. I have no hesitation in pronouncing the step as being fraught with incalculable benefits to both parties,—i.e., the settlers and the native tribes. A residence of more than half a century beyond
the colonial boundary is quite sufficient to authorize one to write with confidence that Lord Carnarvon's measure will be the commencement of an era of blessing to Southern Africa. I was one of a deputation appointed by a committee to wait on Sir George Clarke, at Bloemfontein, to prevent, if possible, his handing over the sovereignty, now the Free State, to the emigrant Boers. Every effort failed to prevent the blunder. Long experience had led many to foresee that such a course would entail on the native tribes conterminous oppression, slavery, alias apprenticeship, etc. Many a tale of woe could be told arising, as they express it, from the English allowing their subjects to spoil and exterminate. Hitherto, the natives have been the sufferers, and might justly lay claim for compensation. With every expression of respect and esteem, I remain, yours very sincerely Robert Moffat."
A letter from a Son of Dr. Moffat may have some interest here. It is dated December 20th, 1899.
The Rev. John Moffat, son of the famous Dr. Moffat, and himself for a long time resident in South Africa, has sent to a friend in London a letter regarding the relations of the British and Dutch races previous to the war. Mr. Moffat, throughout his varied experiences, has been a special friend to the natives. One of his younger sons, Howard, is with a force of natives 60 miles south west of Khama's town (at the time of writing, December 20th), and Dr. Alford Moffat, another son, was medical officer to 300 Volunteers occupying the Mangwe Pass, to prevent a Boer raid into Rhodesia at that point.
He writes:—
"1. Had Steyn sat still and minded his own business no one would have meddled with him. Had Kruger confined himself page: 47 strictly to self‐defence, and we had invaded him, we might have had to blame ourselves.
"2. To have placed an adequate defensive force on our borders before we were sure that there was going to be war would have been accepted (perhaps justly) by the Boers as a menace. We did not do it, out of respect for their susceptibilities.
"3. To most people in South Africa who knew the Boers it was quite plain that Kruger was all along playing what is colloquially known as the game of ':spoof.' He never intended to make the slightest concession.
"4. Take them as a whole, the Boers are not pleasant people to live with, especially to those who are within their power, as the natives have found out sufficiently, and as the British have found out ever since Majuba, and the retrocession of the Transvaal. The wrongs of the Uitlanders were only one symptom of a disease which originated at Pretoria in 1881, and was steadily spreading itself all over South Africa.
"5. With regard to the equal rights question, it is quite true that all is not as it ought to be in the Cape Colony. But the condition of the native in the Transvaal is 100 years behind that of our natives in the Cape Colony, and you may take it as a broad fact that in proportion as Boer domination prevails the gravitation of the native towards slavery will be accelerated."
In conclusion, Mr. Moffat has this to say of the "Boer dream of Afrikander predominance": "We, who have been living out here, have been hearing about this thing for years, but we have tried not to believe it. We felt, many of us, that the struggle had to come, but we held our peace because we did to want to be charged with fomenting race hatred." He refers to Ben Viljoen's manifesto of September 29th, and to President Steyn's manifesto, and State Secretary Reitz's proclamation of October page: 48 11th, and says, "When I read these in conjunction with the history of South Africa for the last 18 years, I see that the cause of peace was hopeless in such hands."
Almost contemporaneously with the expression of opinion of Dr. Moffat (in 1877), the following report was written by M. Dieterlen, to the Committee of the Missions Evangéliques de Paris:—
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Lessouto, June 28th, 1876.
"I must give you details of the journey which I have just made with four native evangelists; for no doubt you will wish to know why a missionary expedition, begun under the happiest auspices, and with the good wishes of so many Christians, has come to grief, on account of the ill‐will of certain men, and has been, from a human point of view, a humiliating failure. Having placed myself at the head of the expedition, and being the only white man in the missionary group, I must bear the whole responsibility of our return, and if there is anyone to blame it is I.
"From our departure from Leriba, as far as the other side of Pretoria, our voyage was most agreeable. We went on with energy, thinking only of our destination, the Banyaïs country, making plans for our settling amongst those people, and full of happiness at the thought of our new enterprise. An excellent spirit prevailed in our little troop,—serious and gay at the same time; no regrets, no murmurings; with a presentiment, indeed, that the Transvaal Government might make some objection to our advance, but with the certainty that God was with us, and would over‐rule all that man might try to do. We crossed the Orange Free State without hindrance, we passed the Vaal, and continued our route towards the capital of the Transvaal; we
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reached the first village through which we must pass—Heidelberg—and encamped some distance from there. There they told us that the Boers knew that we were about to pass, and if they wished to stop us, it would be there they would do it. Let us take courage, therefore, we said, and be ready for everything. We unharnessed, and walked through the village in full daylight, posting our letters. etc. No one stopped us or spoke to us, and we retired to our encampment, thanking God that He had kept us through this critical moment. Some days later, we approached a charming spot, within three hours of Pretoria, near a clear stream, surrounded with lovely trees and flowers; we took the Communion together, strengthening each other for the future. Monday, at nine o'clock, we reached Pretoria. We were looked at with curiosity; the Field Cornet himself saw us pass, they told me sometime later. But we passed through the town without opposition.
"We continued our way to the north‐east full of thankfulness, saying to each other that after all the Government of the Transvaal was not so ill‐disposed towards us. Our oxen continued to walk with sturdy steps we had not yet lost one, although the cattle plague was prevalent at the time. Wednesday, at four o'clock in the evening, we left the house of an English merchant, with whom we had passed a little time, and who had placed at our disposal everything which we needed. Towards eight o'clock, by a splendid moonlight, I was walking in front of my waggon with Asser (one of the native missionaries), seeking a suitable place where we could pass the night, when two horsemen galloped up, and drawing bridle, brusquely asked for my papers, and seeing that I had not the papers that they desired, ordered us to
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turn round and go back to Pretoria. One of these men was the Sheriff, who showed me a warrant for my arrest, and putting his hand on my shoulder, declared me to be his prisoner. This, I may say in passing, made little impression on me. We retraced our steps, always believing that when we had paid some duty exacted for our luggage and our goods, we should be allowed to go in peace. towards midnight they permitted us to unharness near a farm. The next morning these gentlemen searched all through the waggon of the native evangelists, and put any objects which they suspected aside. All this, with my waggon, must be sent back to Pretoria, there to be inspected by anyone who chose.
"That same day I arrived in Pretoria in a cart, seated between the Field Cornet and the Sheriff, who were much softened when they saw that I did not reply to them in the tone which they themselves adopted, and that I had not much the look of a smuggler. The Secretary of the Executive Council exacted from the bail to the amount of £300 sterling, for which a German missionary from Berlin, Mr. Grüneberger, had the goodness to be my guarantor. I made a deposition, saying who we were, whence we came, and where we were going, insisting that we had no merchandise in our waggon, only little objects of exchange by which we could procure food in countries where money has no value. We had no intention of establishing ourselves within the limits of the Transvaal; we were going beyond the Limpopo, and consequently were simple travellers, and were not legally required to take any steps in regard to the Government, nor even to ask a passport. All this was written down and addressed to the Executive committee, who took the matter in hand.
"As they, however, accused us of being smugglers, and
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having somewhere a cannon, they proceeded to the examination of my waggon. They opened everything, ran their hands in everywhere, into biscuit boxes, among clothes, among candles, etc., and found neither cannon nor petroleum. The comedy of the smuggling ended, they took note of the contents of my boxes, and then attacked us from another side. They decided to treat me as a missionary. The Solicitor‐General said to me that the Government did not care to have French missionaries going to the other side of the Limpopo. I said, 'these countries do not belong to the Transvaal;' to which they replied, 'Do you know what our intentions are? Have you not heard of the treaties which we have been able to make with the natives and with the Portuguese?' There! that is the reply which they made to me. They took good care not to inscribe it in the document in which they ordered us to leave the Transvaal immediately. These are things which they do not care to write, lest they should awaken the just susceptibilities of other Governments, or arouse the indignation of all true Christians. But there is the secret of the policy of the Transvaal in regard to us missionaries; they feared us, because they know our attachment to the natives, and our devotion to their interests.
"They then ordered me to retrace at once my steps, threatening confiscation of our goods and the imprisonment of our persons if we attempted to force a passage through the country. I had to pay £14 sterling for the expenses of this mock trial. They brought the four native Evangelists out of the prison where they had spent two nights and a day in a very unpleasant manner; they gave me leave to take our two waggons out of the square of the Hotel de Ville where they had been put, together with the Transvaal Artillery, some pieces of ordnance, a large Prussian cannon and a French mitrailleuse from Berlin.
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"We were free, we were again united, but what a sorrowful reunion! We could hardly believe that all was ended, and that we must retrace our steps; so many hopes dissipated in a moment! and the thought of having to turn back after having arrived so near to our destination, was heart breaking. We were all rather sad, asking each other if we were merely the sport of a bad dream or if this was indeed the will of God. I resolved to make one more effort and ask an interview with the President of the Transvaal, Mr. Burgers. It was granted to me. I went therefore to the Cabinet of the President and spoke a long time with the Solicitor‐General, protesting energetically against the force they had used against us, and I discussed the matter also with the President himself, but without being able to obtain any reasonable reply to the objections I raised. I saw clearly that I had to do with men determined to have their own way, and putting what they chose to consider the interests of the State above those of all Divine and human laws.
"Their Parliament (Raad) was sitting, and I addressed myself to two of its members whom I had seen the day before, and who had seemed annoyed at the conduct of the Government towards us. I besought them for the honour of their country, to bring before their Parliament a question on the subject: but they dared not consent to this, declaring that if the Government were to put the matter before the representatives of the country these latter would decide in our favour, but that they could never take the initiative.
"I had now exhausted all the means at my disposal. I did all I could to obtain leave to continue our journey, and only capitulated at the last extremity. I received a written order from the Government telling me to leave the soil of the Republic immediately.
"These gentlemen had made me wait a long time, perhaps because they found it more difficult and dangerous to put down on paper orders which it was much easier to give vocally. This note was only a reproduction of the accusations they had made against us from the beginning. They declared to us that we were driven from the country because we had introduced guns, ammunition, and a great quantity of merchandise, and because we had entered the Transvaal without a passport, in spite of the Government itself having recently proclaimed a passport unnecessary for evangelists going through the country. In this document they systematically misrepresented and violated the right which every white man had had until then of travelling without permission. From the beginning to the end of this document it was open to criticism, which the feeblest jurist could have made; but in the Transvaal, as elsewhere, might dominates right, and we have to suffer the consequences of this odious principle.
"We sorrowfully retraced the route towards the Vaal; this time no more joyous singing around our fire at night, no more cheerful projects, no more the hope of being the first to announce the glad Evangel among pagan populations. The veldt we traversed seemed to have lost its poetry and to have become desolate. To add to our misfortunes the epidemic seized our oxen. We lost first one and then a second,—altogether eight. Those which were left, tired and lean, dragged slowly and with pain the waggons which before they had drawn along with such vigour. At last we were in sight of Mabolela, and arrived at our destination, sorrowful, yet not unhappy, determined not to be discouraged by this first check. And now we were again at Lessouto, waiting for God to open to us a new door."


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Check this out. health savings accounts, higher deductibles, and higher out of pocket expenses? I don't know, seems a little geared toward higher wage earners.
Check this out. health savings accounts, higher deductibles, and higher out of pocket expenses? I don't know, seems a little geared toward higher wage earners.
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In case you are anything between your ears a higher premium is a higher out of pocket expense & eligible to contribute to those profits you detest
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Someday your life will flash before your eyes. It's your responsibility to make sure it's worth watching!
WE need to go back to the pre PPO/HMO days when Healthcare was affordable and everyone that needed it received care!
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
That sounds like a pretty good plan for the price, Murral. Let's hope you get to keep it if Obamacare goes into place. If that includes wife and children, that is a downright bargain.I would be fine with 10% to 20% higher premium. It's more up front, but that's why it's called insurance. I currently pay $200 per month in premiums. $500 deductible, 80/20 up to the first $1000 out of pocket and then insurance pays 100%,
You may already have the level of co-pay and deductible that Romney intends. Keep in mind that a lot of plans (like some unions or the Federal employee plan) may have far smaller co-pays and/or deductibles.
It will be very interesting to see what Romney's details turn out to be ... this should be a subject with which he has a LOT more experience than Obama ever had.
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Richard Garriott is not the first great designer to turn to Kickstarter as a means to fund his work. But while Shroud of the Avatar, his long-awaited return to game design, directly references the classic Ultima series, Garriott is banking on more than nostalgia.
In typical fashion, Garriott is aiming for a complete rethink of not just online RPGs, but RPGs in general. It's not quite an MMORPG like Ultima Online, but it's definitely not strictly single-player either. Basically, it's a single-player RPG with a really extensive online component.
That online component, among other things, entails things like player-run cities, a massive in-game economy, and skills that are distributed virally. However, as much as it might seem to have in common with other online RPGs, the similarities largely end there. Put another way, Shroud of the Avatar won't be relying on exclamation marks–the traditional marker for a quest giver. Rather, Garriott wants its main hallmarks to be organic exploration.
For the most part, that will mean simply wandering from village to village on a large overworld map. Within these villages and campgrounds are NPCs like gypsies, who may be under attack by wolves, or in need of some other form of assistance. Fend off some wolves, and they will offer whatever they have on hand. It may sound like a bog standard quest, but the point is that the scenario can play out in a number of different ways depending on your actions, which hearkens back to the behavior-driven gameplay of Ultima IV.
It's in part designed as a response to traditional MMO design, which is generally gated by level. Garriott is quick to praise Blizzard and World of Warcraft for what he terms "phenomenal" reward cycle design, but he also finds what he terms the "monster fence" to be limiting and frustrating: "There's literally a series of encounters beyond the perimeter of an area designed to absolutely forbid you from moving forward. It's a perfectly fair way to deliver content, but it ensures your exploration and my exploration will always be the same. There's no way to proceed except as you unlock each level gate one at a time."
With Shroud of the Avatar, Garriott hopes, every player will ultimately have a different experience.
The other point of having the hero wander the world lending a hand is to make it feel as if evil is an active force in the world of Shroud of the Avatar. You are the hero, and as the forces of darkness close in, your services are required to save the local villagers (among other things). It's part of an attempt by Garriott to address an RPG trope that has bugged him for years now: "There's no real reason for you to hate [an RPG villain], because he's not been active in the world. He's just waiting for you to come kill him."
One of the main points of the Shroud, he says, is that evil is definitely being proactive in the world, and will periodically terrorize the local public by attacking and burning cities in unscripted events. In fact, much of Episode I of Shroud of the Avatar revolves around trying to figure out why exactly evil is running amok, and what their motives might be (apart from simply being villainous).
The decision to present Shroud of the Avatar episodically is due in part to another crippling weakness that Garriott perceives in the online RPG genre: "One of the big mistakes of MMOs is spending three to five years and hundreds of millions developing the thing, then having no one like it. I think you need to start smaller, get players in earlier, and have the game grow along with them."
Granted, it's not as if Garriott actually has three to five years and hundreds of millions dollars to dump into Shroud of the Avatar. But even if he did, he seems to have learned his lesson from the abject failure of Tabula Rasa, which was a money pit in every sense of the word. His notion of having the game grow with the players has a certain appeal, as it affords the development team more flexibility when it comes to the design, and thus more of an opportunity to respond to fan feedback.
Given the direction Garriott is taking Shroud, such feedback figures to be plentiful, too. One of the more controversial mechanics ought to be the battle system, which Garriott describes as something like building a deck of skills. It's less like Magic: The Gathering though, and more akin to real life.
Before going into battle, players will be able to select from a pool of skills, which will become available at random during a fight. Garriott compares it to his time fencing, when he would occasionally remember to step and parry properly, but also sometimes lost his head and forgot what he was doing entirely. In other words, that skill you desperately need might not always be readily available.
It's an approach that's destined to drive some RPG fans crazy, not the least the min-maxers who take skill optimization extremely seriously. And for the most part, Garriott is okay with that.
"I'm totally okay with driving min/maxers crazy," he says. "Min-maxing shows a certain level of mastery; so for the people who have mastered it, they have good reason to feel proud. But for everyone else, it means that the only way to remain competitive is to follow down that path of statistical analysis, and I'm really trying to make a roleplaying game."
Garriott continues: "Being one of the earliest adopters of D&D, most all of the people who were attracted to it right off the bat were pretty good storytellers. Pretty much universally, no one paid attention to the rules. No one cared if I rolled a D20 or a D6, it did not matter. What mattered was whether I could tell a story, and you could respond with something funny, or plausible, or something that worked.
"On the other hand, if you did something clearly stupid like using a stick to poke the eye out of the 20 foot tall monster, it failed. Rules were largely irrelevant. But as D&D grew in popularity, we ran out of good storytellers, and it devolved into a game that became about having a +1 sword and +3 armor and having initiative and rolling a die … and missing. That's not roleplaying. It's min-maxing, but it's not roleplaying."
Garriott's response to this quandary is an oddly innovative and yet retrograde approach to RPG design; a sincere attempt to take the genre back to its tabletop roots. For those desperate for some strategic depth, however, there is in fact a method to Garriott's madness. One element players will definitely have to keep in mind is the risk of running a smaller pool of skills versus the reward of getting what they need on a regular basis. In that, it's easy to see the germ of what could be some interesting strategy.
Of course, It's not all about the battle system though. In fact, one could argue that Garriott is trying to make it as little about combat as possible. In true RPG fashion, Shroud of the Avatar is a game that rewards exploring, and more importantly, learning. It's a world, potentially, where Garriott will give one player a unique skill they can teach to others, then watch it spread. Or, he may distribute a dozen keys to treasure vaults around the world, which in turn may become lost to legend when players leave the game or forget about them in their inventories.
"We're trying to create this player economy in knowledge, where just because you can post it on the web, you don't necessarily have it," he says.
It's a game of ideas, which has been Garriott's stock in trade going back to Ultima IV. Some of them may not work. Some, like the notion of "viral skills," could become the newest trend in RPG social networking.
Garriott's pitch has thus far resonated with fans. With 25 days to go, his Kickstarter is up to $846,000, and has almost 13,000 backers.
"It is clear that people are very excited to see Richard get back to his roots with the spiritual successor to his earlier works," says a Portalarium Studios representative. "We have found there are two distinct groups of players backing this project, those looking forward to playing Shroud of the Avatar, as a completely solo player experience, and those looking for a [Ultimate Online] like experience from when Richard was in charge."
With the team fast approaching $1 million, the team will be "divulging our stretch goals at that point and we think people will be excited by what we have planned."
At the moment, it's hard not to be intrigued by what Shroud of the Avatar has to offer. Not just the exploration or combat, but the prospect of being able to craft one-of-a-kind swords and sell them as a master blacksmith, and player housing with substantive real-world value. Best of all, it won't be limited to online fans or offline fans, mainly because Garriott himself wants to be able to play it while on one of his many cross-country trips.
It all adds up to a potentially welcome return to form for a designer who has been largely quiet since the Tabula Rasa debacle back in 2007. In his own way, he's going back to the beginning, when he was still programming games on an Apple II. And he's going back to the fans that made him famous.
"For Ultima fans of the past," Garriott says. "I'm making this game for you."
Shroud of the Avatar to put roleplaying back into RPGs, Garriott hopes


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I noticed on a student's paper that he was long-dividing some numbers, and what was the number inside the radical? 113.84, which I think counts for this thread.
I started to count the number of my posts in this thread, and I think the one just before this one was #83, unless I goofed (quite possible).


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The Poll Section
Posted 05 January 2010 - 03:42 PM
Keep in mind that the Polls used to be allowed in all sections but people asked that we move them into a separate forum because Polls would be created and stay on the top page for a few days then disappear. This would cause people to create a similar poll a few weeks later, people would say a poll like this already exists, and a mod would have to delete it or merge it - and you can't really merge polls because the choices can be different....
This is initially why they were moved into a separate section.
Well, how do you want it now?
Posted 05 January 2010 - 04:06 PM
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Posted 05 January 2010 - 11:03 PM
andrew., on Jan 5 2010, 02:05 PM, said:
your analogies get better and better.
i think the poll section takes up a useless subforum. just merge it, honestly. the stuff is pretty random anyway.
Posted 05 January 2010 - 11:13 PM
Posted 06 January 2010 - 12:02 AM
I was pulling out my heart so I could pin it to my sleeve
On display for you to see, I'm on display.
Posted 06 January 2010 - 01:58 AM
Sounds organized but makes it more open for discussion...
Posted 06 January 2010 - 08:50 AM
or, how about:
get rid of the poll section, allow polls wherever, move the other entertainment section to where the poll section was, and keep the middle section just for music related discussion that doesn't pertain to circa survive.
Posted 06 January 2010 - 09:41 AM
Most of them will wind up in the random thread. But it would be cool to have polls roaming freely around like in the music section/Circa section.
Posted 06 January 2010 - 03:36 PM
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Just in time for Christmas, a retiring Minnesota grocery store owner is giving his roughly 400 employees quite a gift — ownership of his three stores.
Instead of accepting any of the multiple offers he received from large national chains to purchase his stores, Joe Lueken, 70, will transfer ownership of his two Lueken's Village Foods in Bemidji, Minn., and another one in Wahpeton, N.D., to his employees as part of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). The transfer of ownership from the Lueken family to the employees will begin on Jan. 1, and will not cost the employees any money.
The amount of shares each employee receives will be based on length of service and salary. The program is expected to pay the Lueken family off for the sale in three to five years, according to a report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"My employees are largely responsible for any success I've had, and they deserve to get some of the benefits of that," Lueken told the Star Tribune. "You can't always take. You also have to give back."
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After being informed by his two sons that they were not interested in taking over the business, Lueken and his family came up with the employee stock ownership plan to transfer ownership.
"We could have hired a gunslinger from Minneapolis, but that didn't sit well because the reward wouldn't go to the proper people," Lueken's son Jeff told the Star Tribune.
After 46 years in the business, Lueken, who has Parkinson's disease, is retiring to travel the world with his wife. Lueken announced last week that Brent Sicard, who started in a janitor job at Lueken's in 1998 and worked his way up to a top management position, will take over as the company's president and chief executive officer.
Lueken has acted like a regular guy even as his business grew, driving vans for the company and hanging out in the break room with the other employees over the years, according to the Star Tribune.
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"Joe would arrive at 3:30 every morning," Sicard told the newspaper. "No one could outstock Joe. No one could outwalk Joe. No one can outthink Joe. He can walk through a $2 million warehouse and tell you within a few thousand dollars how much is in there."
Lueken has also been giving to charitable causes for years, helping the Bemidji State University Foundation give scholarships to students in need.
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Dimensions Height: 3-7.6 m. (10-25 ft.)
Diameter: 0.3 m. (1 ft.).
Habitat Mountains, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Grasslands & prairies, Fields.
Range Texas, Plains, Southwest, Rocky Mountains.
Discussion Very rare or even extinct in Mexico, only a single herbarium collection from 1880 verified. Unlike many other junipers, the wood is not durable, so is not used to any extent.


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Lieberman Finds Middle a Tricky Path
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's criticism of Senator Barack Obama has infuriated many of his Democratic colleagues.July 14, 2008 usNews
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The failed bid played a role in Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's decision to run on his own party line; it freed him to do and say exactly what he felt.November 3, 2006 nyregionNews
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Weicker and Lieberman Shape Images for Senate Campaign
Attorney General Joseph I. Lieberman announced his campaign for the United States Senate, he presented himself as "the people's lawyer."February 28, 1988 nyregionNews
Bipartisan Group of Ex-Senators to Run Ads Against Iran Deal
Norm Coleman, Joseph I. Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Saxby Chambliss have founded a group that is spending $6.2 million to runs ads in nine states against President Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran....
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Head of Group Opposing Iran Accord Quits Post, Saying He Backs Deal
When the bipartisan advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran decided last week to mobilize opposition against the nuclear deal with Tehran, Gary Samore knew he could no longer serve as its president....
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Senator Lindsey Graham appeared with Senator John McCain and former Senator Joseph I. Lieberman in New York on Monday to denounce the deal to contain Iran's nuclear program....
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The documents included detailed records of Saddam Hussein's high command in Iraq and Qaeda records from Afghanistan; Pentagon officials say they are planning to transfer the archive to a civilian institution....
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Usher, 50 Cent & More Paid Millions By Dictator Gaddafi: Should They Give It Back?
Several A-listers pocketed tons of cash to perform for the Libyan dictator and his family and now the pressure is on to give it back, like Beyoncé and Nelly Furtado!
Some of Hollywood's biggest names are having a bit of a headache, thanks to the latest world crisis. Muammar Gaddafi has ruled Libya for 42 years, and his country's people have revolting against his dictatorship and begging him to step down. The strongman who has been linked to deadly terror attacks against Americans has paid artists like Usher, Beyoncé and 50 Cent millions to perform for him at lavish parties.
Beyoncé reportedly sang five songs for Gaddafi in 2009 at his New Year's Eve party in St. Barts — and she just announced that she donated her $2 million fee to Haiti earthquake relief charities.
"Once it became known that the third-party promoter was linked to the Gaddafi family," Beyoncé's website states. "The decision was made to put that payment to a good cause."
Along with Beyoncé, Nelly Furtado, took to her Twitter on March 3 to say she would donate the $1 million he paid her in 2007 for performing at an Italian hotel.
Mariah Carey also released a statement to People magazine regarding the Libyan money she received: "I was naive and unaware of who I was booked to perform for. I feel horrible and embarrassed to have participated in this mess."
Other celebrities who have reportedly been paid in the past are Usher, 50 Cent and most likely many others.
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Jean (Jeanie) Woolever
Jean "Jeanie" Woolever of Monroe entered eternal life on Monday, October 21, 2013 at the age of 94.
There once was a pretty girl with a red curl, who loved kicking-up her heels on the dance floor. She was a sweet, fun, and feisty spirit who enjoyed bowling, poker and pot-lucks, tending to her potted flowers, and caring for her family and friends. She loved the Green Bay Packers, baseball, and never met a dessert she didn't like.
She was a Girl Scout leader and long time member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary (62 years). Jean loved working at the Monroe Clinic and retired in June, 1986 with over 30 years of service. She was a member of the Monroe United Methodist Church.
Jean was born December 5, 1918 in St. Paul, MN, to Fred and Freda Hammond. She graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1937. She married Monte Woolever in Shell Lake, WI in 1940. They had one daughter, Karen, in 1943 before divorcing in 1954. Jean was a very dedicated single mother for over 10 years.
Jean will be missed by her daughter, Karen (Jack) Greenspan of New Glarus; two grandchildren, Brian (Deanna) Carter, Washington, and Kelli Jean Carter, Oregon; two great grandsons, Grant and Andrew Carter. She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Jack Hammond of Menomonie, WI.
The family would like to express their appreciation and extend a thank you to the Pleasant View Nursing Home staff who assisted in Jean's care through the challenges of Alzheimer's disease (for 15 years) and the Monroe Clinic Hospice who assisted her for the last two months of her life. Contributions may be made in her memory to: Alzheimer's and Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin.
A celebration of her life will be held out of state with her loving family. Online condolences can be made at www.newcomerfuneralhome.net


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A lot of us have this platonic layer over our lives in Canada Newfoundland Channel Port Aux Basques
There will always be pressing matters. There will always be things that your children will be advocates of to get you in in Channel Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland, Canada . "Please, Mom, sign me up. Please, Dad, I want to do this." There is always going to be that pull and that tug. But it's up to us to discern what should be eliminated and what should be chosen. We have to say no to some good things in order to say yes to the best things and so that we truly fulfill those priorities that God has set. Lisa, I've heard you say what you do is try to line up and try to think of all this stuff against the backdrop of D6, Deuteronomy 6.
You know what? This is something that has happened in the past couple of years. Our children will say, "But Mom, so and so invited me over to their house. And you said I might be able to go." Or, "You never let me go!" Or, "That's not fair!" I have to take everything that's, I hate to say thrown at me, but sometimes it feels like they are throwing things at me. I take all these possibilities for activity and say, "Wait a minute, okay, this is what we need to do." If I am too activity driven, I am going to become frazzled. I'm going to become frustrated. I'm going to become anything but a spokesperson for the Lord, and sharing with the children about loving and trusting Him. They are not going to necessarily see the best Godly spirit in me when I am just at the end of my rope. That's usually what happens when we are too heavy on activities in in Channel Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland, Canada .
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This week, the full House of Representatives will vote on the Innovation Act (H.R. 3309), the best troll-killing bill we've seen so far. This is a big deal: patent reform is sorely needed.
The bill passed out of the House Judiciary Committee two weeks ago with a strong, bipartisan 33-5 vote. Now that it's facing the whole House, it's time to mobilize.
Use our tool to call your representative and tell him or her to support the Innovation Act. (You can also email your member of Congress and urge them to support the bill.)
The latest supporters of robust patent reform—the kind that we're optimistic will come out of the Innovation Act—are more than 60 law professors. These professors, led by by Prof. Brian J. Love, sent a letter to Congress today joining the chorus of many disparate groups, such as venture capitalists and inventors, who have called on Congress to pass reform that would stem the harm patent trolls are wreaking on the innovation economy.
As the professors write:
Big news in patent reform: the Innovation Act, our favorite troll-killing bill, has cleared its first major political hurdle. Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee resoundingly voted 33-5 to send the bill to the floor. Better yet, the amendment process added back in two pieces we worried were missing—demand letter reform and covered businessed method patent (CBM) review.
We owe you an update on patent reform. Things are moving quickly!
Here are the basics:
First, the Innovation Act continues to move forward. The most recent version, however, lacks an important provision that would expand an effective avenue to challenge a patent's validity at the Patent Office. While we still support the remaining package, we are disppointed about the loss of the bill's only piece dealing with patent quality. The Innovation Act heads to markup tomorrow (you can watch here and we'll be live tweeting at @EFFLive).
The bipartisan Innovation Act is the best bill yet when it comes to fighting patent trolls. This post is the sixth of a series explaining the bill's various provisions. While the Innovation Act won't fix every problem with the patent system, it includes a powerful set of proposed reforms that—taken together—will significantly reduce the threat of abusive patent trolls.
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Family: Cardinalidae, Cardinals view all from this family
Description 9" (23 cm). Unmistakable. A large grosbreak with a huge, deep bill. Adult male solid lemon-yellow; black wings and tail boldy patterned with white. Female similar but duller, with streaked upperparts.
Habitat Riparian woodlands; oak woodlands.
Observation Tips Members of this family usually lay 3 or 4 pale blue or green eggs in a cup nest.
Range Native to western Mexico. Straggler to Arizona in summer.
Voice Whistled song similar to that of Black-headed Grosbeak. Call note like that of other grobeaks in its genus.
Discussion This member of the cardinal family lives in Mexico and Guatemala, only occasionally appearing across the U.S. border. Records of Yellow Grosbeaks in more northerly states may be escaped captive birds.


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From James Madison, Federalist 10
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens?
And a quote from George Washington.Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment, and above all, the pure and benign light of Revelation, have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period,
Circular Letter to the States
George Washington
the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
George Washington, "Circular to the States," June 8, 1783, in W.W. Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington, 1748–1799


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Weird things are going on here in Switzerland. Today I've seen a spam campaign sent out by the Cutwail Spambot (on of the biggest spam botnets in the world), hitting Switzerland with the P2P version of ZeuS (aka P2P ZeuS aka ZeuSv3 aka Gameover ZeuS). The spam email looks like this:
Subject: Re: onjuist ingevulde NATXXXX belastingformulier
Helaas is u op de hoogte dat je hebt fouten gemaakt bij het invullen van de laatste belastingformulier applicatie (ID: XXXXX).
vindt u het advies van onze fiscalisten Op deze link
( 1 minuut Wacht tot rapport zal laden)
Wij vragen u om corrigeer de fouten en bestand de herziene aangifte aan uw lokale belastingkantoor zo snel mogelijk.
Kanton Aargau
Sachbearbeiterin Wehrpflichtersatzverwaltung
Departement Gesundheit und Soziales
Abteilung Militär und Bevölkerungsschutz
Rohrerstrasse 7, Postfach, 3352 Aarau
Tel.: +41 (0)62 362 XX XX
Fax: +41 (0)62 365 XX XX
What is weird with this spam campaign is the fact that it imitates a social department of a Swiss canton called Aargau (German), but the text in the email is written in Dutch. It might be hard to believe, but most Swiss citizens don't speak Dutch at all…
Additionally, I've seen that Cutwail is sending out this spam campaign to non-CH mailboxes as well (.net, .com etc.). So it is not yet clear whether the intend of the criminals behind this malware campaign is to hit Swiss citizens or not (I don't think that any foreign citizens knows the canton Aargau…).
The spam email contains a hyperlink to a hijacked website, for example:
For a normal visitor the page doesn't look suspect at all, its a copy of the official web page of the canton Aargau (swiss canton). However, if you take a closer look at the html source of the advertised URL you will notice malicious Java script code which will cause that the visitors web browser will load a content from foreign URL hosted in Korea:
africanbeat.net points to 126.96.36.199
[ Network Information ]
IPv4 Address : 184.108.40.206 – 22.214.171.124 (/13)
Service Name : broadNnet
Organization Name : SK Broadband Co Ltd
Organization ID : ORG3930
Address : 267, Seoul Namdaemunno 5(o)-ga Jung-gu SK NamsanGreen Bldg.
Zip Code : 100-711
Registration Date : 20040402
The mentioned website (africanbeat.net) is likely operated by cybercriminals and hosting a exploit kit called "Blackhole". Blackhole is able to exploit various (known) vulnerabilities in the visitors web browser (eg. Internet Explorer or Firefox) but as well as in 3rd party browser plugins like Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader and Sun Java. If the software installed on the visitors computer is not fully patched, blackhole will exploit a vulnerability and will use it to install an ebanking Trojan called P2P ZeuS.
Since P2P ZeuS is not using any centralized (botnet) infrastructure, there is no central botnet C&C domain/ip you could block on your company's gateway. However, P2P ZeuS is using P2P functionality, communicating with other infected bots around the globe using a high TCP/UDP port. In fact you can mitigate this threat by blocking any outgoing TCP and UDP port higher than 1024 on your firewall (as a side note: you should restrict outgoing traffic on your firewall anyway).
Additionally, I recommend everyone to block the following domain names and IP address at the network edge:
- 18.104.22.168 (Blackhole Exploit Kit hosting)
- africanbeat.net (Blackhole Exploit Kit hosting)
- 18.104.22.168 (Malware DNS server)
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Electric vehicle etiquette: When to charge and other conundrums
March 29, 2017, 4:09 p.m. by Sami Grover
Rules (or lack thereof) around public charging stations create new kinks in our social interactions.
Can Volkswagen reinvent itself?
April 26, 2016, 2:07 p.m. by Jim Motavalli
It will be a tough slog, but cars like the new T-Prime plug-in hybrid show the process is already underway.
Americans are trading in EVs ... for SUVs
April 22, 2016, 4:49 p.m. by Jim Motavalli
Low gas prices, and crossovers with 30 mpg, mean that only a quarter of hybrid and electric buyers are getting another one.
Which is cooler? Tesla Model 3 vs. Chevrolet Bolt
April 6, 2016, 1:17 p.m. by Jim Motavalli
Millennials and lower-income consumers are in a buying mood — and to them, brand matters.
The Tesla Model 3 rolls out in California
April 1, 2016, 3:52 p.m. by Jim Motavalli
The deal: 215 miles of range, zero to 60 under 6 seconds, $35,000 — but read the fine print.
The cars people want aren't the ones that are good for them
March 25, 2016, 9:19 a.m. by Jim Motavalli
At the New York Auto Show, carmakers reveal the difficult balancing act.
BMW's self-driving vision includes a virtual butler
March 11, 2016, 11:10 a.m. by Jim Motavalli
BMW has a vision of the future, and it looks amazingly like a self-driving car with a lot of interesting refinements when its pilot is actually behind the wheel.
Super-fast and electric are words of the week at Geneva Motor Show
March 5, 2016, 8:43 a.m. by Jim Motavalli
Electric cars are really shooting off into the stratosphere, and it's all Elon Musk can do to keep up.
Australian hacks a Nissan Leaf — in England
February 26, 2016, 10 a.m. by Jim Motavalli
The auto industry isn't handling this well. It needs to stop being reactive to each specific hack and realize it has a bigger problem on its hands.
Rimac's electric really isn't a Tesla-killer
February 25, 2016, 12:51 p.m. by Jim Motavalli
But this over-the-top $936K supercar sure is turning heads.
Carnegie study on EV charging gets it all wrong
February 19, 2016, 8:43 a.m. by Jim Motavalli
Most electric cars plug into much cleaner grids, especially in California.
What's NASCAR without the noise?
February 1, 2016, 11:47 a.m. by Jim Motavalli
Science Guy Bill Nye wants battery-powered stock car racers. But fans go for the noise.
The 'hole' of Lake Berryessa is a life-saver
What looks like a terrifying hole to the underworld is much more benign.
What's so dangerous about Jacob's Well?
A central Texas getaway lures daredevils and those simply wanting to cool off.
Antarctica's 'lost meteorites'
Antarctica is oddly barren of iron-based meteorites. What could have happened to them?
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Scientists are baffled at this seemingly altruistic behavior.


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By Tiernan Ray
Shares of Facebook (FB) are up 42 cents, or 1.6%, at $26.33 after BMO Capital's Daniel Salmon raised his rating on the shares to Outperform from Underperform, and raised his price target to $32 from $15, writing that Facebook "has improved its outreach to Madison Avenue," which could help its advertising efforts.
"We believe Facebook's advertising platform is currently gaining momentum with both traditional brand advertisers and direct response (DR, including a lot of e-commerce) marketers," writes Salmon, something he thinks may continue into the middle of next year.
He describes what he is hearing as a new tone from Facebook, citing remarks by Facebook veep Carolyn Everson in a recent AdWeek discussion, in which Everson observed, "We've been confusing at times . . . it's been a concerted effort to actually start speaking more of the marketer's language, as opposed to product-centric selling."
Writes Salmon,
Through summer 2012, the majority of agency and brand executives we spoke with felt that Facebook wasn't just confusing, but also arrogant and unbending; that opinion began shifting in the fall and has continued through the early winter. This is a similar evolution to that which happened at Google in 2007-08; Google now receives regular and consistent praise from the agency community. Facebook is getting there.
Along with that, Facebook is now focusing more than ever, he thinks, on so-called "native" advertising, that is, ads that accompany stuff people actually talk about on Facebook, such as birthdays — things that produce "quality engagement" that should be desirable to advertisers, he writes:


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In Boat builders, Eden Arthur Boyd depicts activities within the landscape of Eden, a coastal New South Wales town, close to the Victorian border. Eden is known for its forestry and fishing industries, as well as for its beautiful natural landscape. Framed by a bush setting, the boat builders in this image construct their vessel. Boyd has included a number of boathouses and workshops in the painting, as well as the fishing wharf of Eden's Twofold Bay. In the distance are Lookout Point Lighthouse and the distinctive profile of Mount Imlay.
Boat builders, Eden is one of a number of postwar paintings by Boyd likely to have been made at Open Country, the Boyd's family home at Murrumbeena on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne. Elements in the work are inspired by the sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel. Boyd had seen reproductions of Bruegel's biblical paintings, such as The gloomy day 1565 and Tower of Babel 1563, in the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne and was interested in Bruegel's depiction of historical subjects and stories within a contemporary landscape. The subject of Boat builders, Edenis a reminder of the Old Testament story of Noah's Ark, where Noah's virtuous behaviour saved himself and his family from a great flood. Boyd's image is also a response to the rebuilding of lives and lands that took place following the devastation of the Second World War.
In contrast to the painterly approach of Landscape with grazing sheep 1937 or the thick and expressive application of paint in The hunter I 1944,Boyd used the more refined paint medium of egg tempera in this work. The semi-transparent pigments have been carefully layered over each other to create a fine, shimmering surface.


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Homemade pizza bursting with sausage and cheese bakes hot and fresh in minutes. Who would want pizza delivery?
If you're baking the pizzas right away, don't worry about pressing the pineapple with paper towels. For freezing and then baking the pizzas, though, this extra step helps absorb the excess liquid from the pineapple so the crust stays nice and crispy.
For a quick meal, simply take the frozen pizza out of the freezer and pop it in the oven while you toss a quick Caesar salad and cut up some fresh fruit.
For a spicier version of this pizza pie, use hot sausage rather than mild.
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