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Positive Feedback ISSUE
january/february 2008
the Cantle of the Cacophonophilist
- the next step: a review of the
Tec-On Model "55"
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the crazy cacophonist's reviewing game, where tonight I review the Tec-On Model "55" integrated ($749). I am using the same equipment as before, the Zu Druids and Sony CD Player, all with Zu wire. The new item on the list, the Model "55", was a bit strange at first to set up. It took me a while to figure out how to set up the USB cable connection from device (Tec-On) to my computer. The connection part was the easy bit, the setting up on the computer was the difficult part. After that the rest was simple and clean without any hiccups.
This device, from what I recall, did not hum at all compared to the last item I reviewed (the Firestone Amplifiers/Preamplifier mix). This device sounded clean without anything being played through it. Putting a CD on made the music come from the speakers, so everything was working correctly. I had no problems with this device on that realm. The CDs sounded crisp, clear, and not held back. The Tec-On seemed to compliment the system nicely.
Now where I had the problem with this device was not with its functionality with the CD player, but rather with its interfacing with the computer. I use my computer for most of my music needs. I use iTunes to listen to music over listening to a CD player. And I don't give a $%@! about "lossless" or losing sound quality with MP3 or anything like that. It all sounds EXACTLY THE SAME. If I listen to a CD, and then I listen to the MP3 version, I hear NO DIFFERENCE in sound quality changes. Playing music from my computer gave me the same sound that I heard from my CDs: crisp, clear, and not held back. But, I digress, the problem that I had with this device, was that if I connected it while iTunes was running, it would cause iTunes to freeze. This happened when I also tried to disconnect it with iTunes running (I tried it both with music playing and without music playing, with the same results). Not that one would do either while running iTunes, but that was an issue. I also didn't like how while I was playing a computer game, the Druids would play all that too. If this device came with software to regulate the music from other sounds produced by the computer it would make it 100% more desirable for a college student like myself. This gigantic error on this device's end caused its unfortunate downfall. The Tec-On's main functionality is flawed. Though, it does work (it allows interface from your computer to sound system with no problems) it does not do it as I would wanted it done.
The volume knob was a bit jumpy at times. I am not sure it if was the device (it happened with the radio, computer, and CD player) but it seems that if set at low, it would be low, but if turned up slightly it jumped up in volume (not terribly, but it was not smooth) too quickly. I found this to be an annoyance. The power switch was conveniently located on the side, no gripe there. The tubes were nicely placed, and the artwork (the logo) was nice and put in an appropriate place.
This device, although revolutionary to me, does not do what its main feature is supposed to do: easily play music from my computer. It is a device that should be looked at as a learning device for future products using this technology. As done before I like to score the things I review and here is the scoring card:
Dad here, I mean I just got to add my 2 cents worth… so okay what does this all mean? I helped Peter set up the Tec-On Model "55" integrated and did some listening as well, so let me offer some additional comments from the older audio buffoon perspective.
The Tec-On Model "55" preamplifier features 4.5-watts via a single-ended design based on EL84 tubes. The cool part is that it has an internal sound card (Brown-Burr delta/sigma 44.1kHz) which allows for direct USB connection; the computer sees the Tec-On Model "55" preamplifier as an outboard sound device. Easy plug and play with Windows (XP here); no compatibility issues at all as the computer simply shows an outboard audio device. But, this was not the device Peter thought it was. He was under the impression that it would allow him to play music from his computer while he was actively engaged with his friends in an on-line game—engaged that is by hearing the sounds and effects of the game combined with the requisite verbal interaction with other gamers to make things click. See, with the "55", while Peter was gaming (plotting the next move with co-gamers via his headphones and microphone via a shared "chat" connection), he could not listen to music from his computer (either MP3 files or whatever) when connected to the "55". You can do one or the other, but with the "55" and a computer, not both at the same time. Not a fault of the "55" (seems that this is really a computer issue …make that a motherboard issue in how audio signals are routed), but something that was important to Peter …being able to do both from his computer. I guess that that would be nice for a college kid to be able to do, but for me it is simply music or nothing when at the computer.
Additionally, while the unit does allow for two inputs—USB and RCA—there is no option to select either than by the unit's default to USB; if two sources are connected simultaneously the RCA source is automatically muted in preference to that of the USB. So I guess you either use it with a computer (via USB) or use with another source (via RCA), but not both at the same time. Peter's frustration was that he wanted to do both—use it with his computer when he wanted to listen to iTunes as well as with the Sony when he wanted to listen to CDs. Going back and forth was an issue as he had to close iTunes every time he wanted to swap the unit (via the inputs) in or out. This is something Peter has not experienced before as he runs his computer via his soundcard (Creative Audigy 2 ZS) into his Altec Lansing gaming speakers. And since that is so...this is not an issue of the "55", just how things work. Plus, in his case at least, placement meant that he needed to run a long USB cable resulting in a degree of hum being audible, though apparently this hum was an issue of the specific USB cable used with the "55" and not the unit by its self. Changing to a different cable resulted in the hum completely disappearing. Obviously, the buyer needs to check the USB cable to make sure it is compliant with the "55".
Sound quality was rather robust with somewhat of a "loudness" contour being evident; this was audible in a nice little bass boost that made Peter's system really rock. The unit was, as he said, quite crisp and clear (in audio speak it is nicely transparent) with little if any audible grain and grit. Not bright mind you, just evenly balanced from the mids on up. That is, the "55" is quite smooth and musical, heck, even Peter commented on more than one occasion that he thought the unit sounded richer or fuller than his usual set-up (and that's a lot to have coming from him!).
Of course at only 5-watts or so, the "55" was a sonic match made in heaven for the Druids which is why it sounded rather good in his system. But with such efficient speakers combined with the preamp's gain, the volume ramped up a bit too fast for his taste. Of course with such a low-powered amplifier one needs to carefully consider the right speakers.
The "55" showed no issues with long term use, in that it never gave any signs of distress or being unhappy. The "55" was also very simple and easy to set-up. It is designed and built to a level that defies its rather affordable price. The "55" is a fun option for those of us who want a nice computer-based system to play our tunes on. Mighty impressive and worth an audition. even Peter misses it!
Tec-On Audio http://www.teconaudio.com
A Manufacturer's Response to Peter & Dave Clark's review of the model "55".
I would like to thank Peter & Dave Clark for their insightful review of the tec•on model "55" and for publishing it in the well-respected Positive Feedback Online.
We are of course delighted by the very positive reaction to the style and ease of use of our mini amp, and particularly by the description of its sonic performance: transparency, clarity, musicality are terms that confirm that the "55" is definitely meeting the goals that we had set-up for it. We wanted to offer a unique product, with modern design and quality electronics delivering the solid sound staging that we call our "pristine soundscapes"©, all in a compact package and at a price point that is considered "affordable". The review makes it clear that this has been achieved.
Beyond these positive aspects, as Peter notes, the model "55" is quite revolutionary. The unique USB input and on-board DAC makes it possible to link directly to a computer or music server. Here, our original objective was to extend the concept of an existing, conventional mini tube amp with a direct link to a computer for "multimedia". A Burr Brown PCM 2702 chip set, considered one of the standard for 16 bits stereo 44.1kHz DAC by audiophiles, was used to link to the USB port of a computer or server.
The implementation of the USB interface appears to fall short of Peter's expectations. However, given the vast range of computers, operating systems, media players and servers, we knew that complexity could sink the execution quickly. We wanted to have an [almost] foolproof solution, at the cost of flexibility or even some functionality. This was a basic decision, made to keep the product easy to use and affordable.
For instance, it was decided that USB would have priority, and that the USB cable would have to be disconnected to play through the RCA inputs. This was done, with due respect for audiophiles, to positively avoid "clicks" that may happen when spurious signals come through the USB from poorly controlled programs and to avoid early cut-offs from end-of-tracks fades.
Also, the USB Audio Device as implemented is not programmable: it is automatically detected by the computer and, hopefully, will successfully run through a "plug-and-play" routine to make the system as easy and robust as possible. USB devices are supposed to hot-plug without problems. Unfortunately, programs misbehave, and it is not unknown for "freezes" to happen. We have extensive experience with Windows operating systems for which no problems were encountered. On the other hand, misbehaving of OSX and iTunes has been reported by others.
Peter's vision is from someone who comes from the computer side and wants to extend functionality of the audio capabilities. Our original vision originated from the audiophile side, with an attempt to extension to digital capabilities. Thus, Peter might find that the "computer-ability" of the model "55" does not go far enough, however for audiophiles or music lovers with more limited PC abilities [myself included!], we hope to have made it easy to run a digital input without sweat! There are of course many opportunities to develop devices that are more directly "software controllable", but surely they will be more complex and more costly.
Concluding with PFO Editor's own words describing the "55" as "mighty impressive and worth an audition", I would like to again extend my sincerest thanks to the wonderful father & son reviewers' duo for their informative and very positive review!
Pierre Tecon
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|2010-07-23, 18:15
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Then explain how Saber could run on water? She claims to have the blessing of hte Lady of the Lake, but it is clear that he doesn't after she demands he gives up Excalibur and the scabbard, or present her the head of Balin le Savage. (Balin kills her with the axe of the Green Knight then and there)
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"Hey, Isaac?"
Then why doesn't Saber have Avalon when she's first summoned? If Heroic Spirits automatically 'came' with any item they used even once, she should have always had her scabbard, but instead she only had Excalibur because she explicitly lost the scabbard partway through her career, whereas Excalibur was with her up until her final battle. So she didn't have the scabbard with her, because her story said she lost it. Which also meant that someone else was able to find and use it to summon her, even.
I am willing to accept that not all of them might work that way, granted, since Saber is a unique case. But there's no evidence they don't all work that way either.
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Arthur's sister stole the scabbard from him to return it to Avalon. When her lover, Accolon, was killed for trying to usurp Arthur's throne for the people of Avalon, he and a few knights gave chase. Knowing she couldn't outrun them, Morganna threw the scabbard into a lake. Because it was encrusted with so many jewels, it sank like a rock. Because this was such a key part of the legend, Arthur couldn't have it. Had Arthur kept the scabbard, he never would've died from the wounds dealt by Mordred at Camlann.
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"Hey, Isaac?"
Yes. I know. And a key part of Perseus's legend is that after he completed his quest to slay Medusa and returned to found his own kingdom, he returned the gifts that the Gods had given him and offered Athena the head of Medusa in thanks. How is that different?
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Perseus returned them of his free will, Arthur defied those who set him on the throne and they took back what was theirs. Eventually, they got their sword back, but no one got the scabbard.
|2010-07-23, 18:55
|Link #2287
"Hey, Isaac?"
True, I just don't see how that makes much of a difference, y'know? The heroes lost these items, and it is explicitly a part of their story that they lost these items before going on to continue their lives and careers. Why should how they lost the items make a difference?
|2010-07-23, 18:55
|Link #2288
The Mage of Four Hearts
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And also, anecdotes alone don't make a Noble Phantasm, it has to be an inseparable part of the hero's legend. If it was anything about a hero that became a Noble Phantasm, then Lancer would have Fragarach, since Cu Chulainn used it in his life, not to mention Rider summoning Chrysaor.
|2010-07-23, 18:58
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|2010-07-23, 19:02
|Link #2290
"Hey, Isaac?"
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|2010-07-23, 19:14
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"Hey, Isaac?"
And while they wave away most of Hercule's Noble Phantasms by saying he doesn't have the dexterity to wield them as a Berserker, but what about the pelt of the Nemean lion? He just wore that as armor, it's not like it would take any skill to do that.
So really, there's a lot of exceptions. I wonder how they decided who got what items?
|2010-07-23, 20:18
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 32
Well, it's a good question. But, it's not "what they had when they died", because otherwise many servants would be missing their most famous NPs due to them not having them at the moment of their death (King Arthur, for example, wouldn't have Excalibur since it was thrown in the lake before he died).
As for the pelt of the Nemean lion, its ability was that it's pretty much impossible to penetrate, so it's almost certainly the origin for God Hand's "can't be broken by any attack of rank B or below" ability. So, Berserker does have it, it's just in a conceptual form.
|2010-07-23, 20:48
|Link #2295
"Hey, Isaac?"
Maybe it has something to do with class, and they're assigned only some of their potential NPs to match that? Like, if Cu Chulainn had been called as a Saber instead of a Lancer, he'd have Fragarach instead of Gae Bolg? And Medea, in at least some versions of her legend, had a chariot given to her by Helios, so maybe if she were summoned as a Rider she could use that as a Noble Phantasm.
EDIT: Also, it occurs to me that even the highest class Servants seem to have three Noble Phantasms at most, which probably has some bearing on which they're assigned. If more than three exist, they get the three that most exemplify them?
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 32
Well, in the case of Fragarach, it seems that Lancer in the TM universe never had it classed as his NP, since Bazett still has it.
As far as we're aware, the NPs a servant gets do not depend on class. It wouldn't really make sense for them to do so, because the class is just a 'container' for the soul. It doesn't create the NPs, those come with the spirit itself. Also, there's no real evidence that servants are limited to 3 NPs. It's just that having any more than that would be extremely unusual.
|2010-07-23, 22:33
|Link #2297
"Hey, Isaac?"
I don't know, I still kinda like that as a theory, if only because I've yet to think of any better reasoning behind it. For instance, supplementary materials state that Caster has the Golden Fleece (well, it's called 'Argon Coin', but you know), which allows the summoning of a Dragon. It's technically considered a Noble Phantasm, but she can't use it so it never comes up. If she were a different class, say a Rider, would that change? Her Helios-given chariot was pulled by dragons in the legend, after all. In that case it wouldn't be that their assigned class affects the Noble Phantasms they have, just which of the ones they have that they can use.
And yeah... I really just noticed that in both FSN and Fate/Zero all of the Servants involved had three or fewer and thought it might be relevant. I'm really just tossing theories out when they come to me at this point.
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|2010-07-24, 00:46
|Link #2298
The Mage of Four Hearts
Join Date: Mar 2010
Age: 27
Probably the Servants get the Noble Phantasms most strongly associated with their legends. I mean you can't think of Medusa without thinking of the Pegasus or Cy Chulainn without the Gae Bolg. Also I doubt that Lancer didn't get Fragarach because the Fraga family still has it. After all, they use a ritual to recreate Fragarach. I don't think they have the actual thing.
|2010-07-24, 01:47
|Link #2299
The heroes are who they are because of their NPs, and the NPs are directly important because of the hero that uses them.
Also, Caliburn is a hax weapon. Excalibur is stated many times in the legend that it is the greatest sword EVER (which is why it is Anti-Fortress; Sword of Mars which Atilla the Hun would have would be that, so Excalibur is inherently better), so no sword could possibly do more damage (Ea is a god, not a sword, and Enuma Elish a poem, not an attack) that it.
That out of the way, Perseus would get whatever NPs were directly responsible for him becoming a hero and maintaining that status, which are those given to him by the gods (hermes, really).
I've thought this stuff through WAY too much while making servants for a friends fanfic, then making new ones when he changes his mind.
|2010-07-24, 06:21
|Link #2300
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 29
I'm curious though, you're calling Perseus the most powerful servant that can beat even Gil on account of the Phantasm that he has, yet Gilgamesh has many more phantasm's than Perseus.
Speaking of his phantasm's, once Gil brings out Gungnir or Mjöllnir it becomes an 'unstoppable force versus immovable object' scenario to which the answer relies purely on who the author wants to win.
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And then there was surf. It snuck up on me. I was minding another great night in Lisbon, which was leading to another brain shattering morning. Or hotel shattering. Then I had a feeling. A suspicion that huge closeout barrels were might going to break at Supertubos. I had this feeling at 6 am, rushed to the {{{BMW}}} and sped north like Vasco de Gamma himself. Except he sped south.When I got there it was delicious. Barrels the size of semi-trucks were detonating. A frenzied crowd had gathered and were screaming mad curse words in Portuguese. A younger boy was foaming at the mouth. Two girls were beating each other in the face with sticks. The ocean was alive.
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Observations on the Slavery of the Africans and Their Descendants and on the Use of the Produce of Their Labour (XHTML)
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on the use of the produce
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Recommended to the serious perusal, and impartial
consideration of the citizens of the United
States of America, and other concerned.
No. 357, Pearl-Street
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Whereas, I some time past published certain observations on the Slavery of the Africans and the descendants, and on the consumption of the produce of their labour, comprehended principally in 10 Queries and Answers, the design of which was to improve on the minds of my friends and fellow-citizens, and others concerned, as far as might be, by fair reasoning, a full sense of the abhorrent cruelty and unrighteousness of holding our fellow creatures in bondage, and wresting from them, by violence, the produce of their labour; which being well received by many, and affording reason to hope they were profitable to some, I was induced to believe a second edition might be useful.
I have, therefore, revised the original, and endeavoured to compress it as much as the subjects would admit; and have added some quotations from an anonymous pamphlet, published sometime since in England, which are so corresponded with the before mentioned observations, as to have a tendency, in my opinion, to elucidate and enforce them.
I shall only add, as a farther apology for the present edition, that the evil still continues: that there are still slave holders, and consumers of the produce of the labour of slaves, wrested from them by violence.
And as the slave holder can have no moral right whatever to the man he stiles his slave, nor to the produce of his labour; he cannot possibly convey any to a second person by any transfer he can make: for, having nothing but a criminal possession himself, he can convey nothing to a second person but the same possession: and should this possession be conveyed through a line of transfer to the twentieth person, still it would be nothing more than the same criminal possession that was vested in the first possessor, and would convey no moral slight whatever. And should any other person come forward, and, by the same mode of violence and power that was exercised by the first possessor, in reducing the man he stiles his slave to the abject state of slavery, and by which he violently took from him the produce of this labour, forcibly take free such twentieth or more remote possessor, the slave and the produce of his la-
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-bour, the right of such person, in point of equity, to such slave and the produce of his labour would be just equal to the right of such remote possessor; as neither of them could have had any more than a criminal possession: and whether that possession is obtained by violence or transfer, (if the person who receives it by transfer is informed of the criminal circumstances,) it can make no possible difference, except, that one is protected by the indulgence of a partial law of the country we live in, and the other is not. By which undeniable proposition, it appears that when any man becomes possessed of a slave, or the produce of his labour, wrested from him without his consent, whether it be by transfer or otherwise, any other person who has the power so to do, may, by violence, take from such a possessor, such slave and the produce of his labour: and when he has in that way obtained possession thereof, he has as good a right to such slave and to use the produce of his labour as the former; and the former can have no just cause to complain of such usage, as he is only paid in his own coin. For, although the first possessor committed the act of violence, when he took from the man he stiles his slave his liberty, and compelled him to work, and by the same cruel force, took from him the produce of his labour, if he is apprized of the criminal circumstance attending it, is as guilty as the first perpetrator; and should such slave and the produce of his labour pass through the hands of twenty persons, all knowing at the time of transfer the criminal circumstances attending, each would be guilty of the entire crime of the first perpetrator. This being assented to, and I conceive it is incontrovertible, I have a hope that this edition may produce a good effect, and tend to raise up many more faithful advocates in the cause of this deeply oppressed people, who may be willing to suffer every necessary privation, rather than be guilty of the least thing that may, in any degree, possibly strengthen the hands of their oppressors. I therefore recommend this little treatise to the candid and impartial consideration of the reader, and subscribe myself his sincere friend, E. HICKS.
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AFRICANS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, &c.
The Slavery of the Africans and their descendants, has become so established by long continuance, and the force of an unrighteous custom; that many persons consider the practice not only admissible, but consistent with justice and social order.
But I am led to doubt the possibility of any rational, moral person being thus circumstanced, unless he is first greatly blinded by selfishness and partiality; as I consider it a matter of fact, obviously clear to every rational, contemplative mind, that neither custom nor education, nor any law of men or nations, can alter the nature of justice and equity; which will, and must, essentially and eternally, rest upon their own proper base, as laid down by the great Christian Law-giver, viz. "Therefore, all things, what-
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soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." Hence, I conceive, it is a most necessary and important christian duty, for all those who are either directly or indirectly concerned in the slavery of their fellow creatures, seriously and impartially to consider the manner and way in which the slavery of the Africans was first introduced; and by what means it has been son long continued; not doubting, but that every upright, impartial mind, by a full examination into the subject, will readily discover, that it was first introduced by fraud and force, and continued by an unjust and tyrannical power: and will, therefore, be induced to restore to them their just and native rights, as free men, which no law nor power of men or nations ought to deprive them of without their consent.
It is generally acknowledged, by the people of every enlightened country, and particularly by those who believe in revelation, as testified of in the Scripture of Truth, that man is a moral agent, (that is, fee to act, with the restriction of accountability to his Creator,) agreeable to the declaration of the prophet Ezekiel; through whom, Jehovah, in his benignity and justice, claims the right of sovereignty over the children of men: "All souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so, also the soul of
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the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son!" This Scripture, testimony perfectly consonant with reason and justice, not only proves, that every man is to bear his own iniquity, but that he also stands fully indemnified thereby, from all the iniquity of his predecessors; and likewise fully establishes man's free-agency: and, of course proves, that every moral agent born into the world, (whatever the conduct and situation of his parents may have been) is born free: upon which undeniable truth, I shall found the following Queries and Answers:
Query 1. Where not the people of Africa, at the time when the Europeans first visited their coasts, a free people, possessed of the same natural and unalienable rights, as the people of any other nation?
Answer. They certainly were: for, when the Europeans, whether by fraud or force, or by purchase from those who had stolen or taken them prisoners in war, became possessed of a number of the people of Africa, and by violence reduced them to the wretched and degraded state of Slaves; at the same time it would have been as right and as consistent with equity and moral justice for the Africans to have done the same by
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them, had it been in their power: by which undeniable proposition, it is evident, that the slavery of the Africans is the product of mere power, without any possible plea of right: and that the same power of force, fraud, and tyrannical cruelty, that was exercised in reducing the people of Africa at first, to the miserable and wretched stat of slaves, has, in like manner, in a continual state of war, been exercised on all the descendants of those unhappy people that are held as slaves, from generation to generation, down to the present day: it being an undeniable truth, that no rational creature can be any longer a slave, than while the force of war is operating upon him; and as before proved from Scripture, and moral justice, that every child of an Africa, born in America, or elsewhere, is born free: therefore, he suffers the same cruel force of fraud and power while continuing under the galling yoke of slavery, as was exercised on his predecessors.
"The lust of power, and the pride of conquest, have doubtless produced instances far too numerous of man enslaved by man. But we, in an enlightened age, have greatly surpassed, in brutality and injustice, the most ignorant and barbarous ages; and while we are pretending to the finest feelings of humanity, are exercising unprecedented cruelty. We have planted slavery in the
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rack soil of sordid avarice: and the product has been misery in the extreme. We have ascertained, by a course of experiments in cruelty, the least portion of nourishment requisite to enable man to linger a few years in misery; the greatest quantity of labour, which, in such a situation, the extreme of punishment can extort; and the utmost degree of pain, labour and hunger united, that the human frame can endure. In vain have such scenes been developed. The wealth derived from the horrid traffic, has created an influence that secures its continuance; unless the people at large shall refuse to receive the produce of robbery and murder."
Q. 2. Under what name or descriptive mode of property are the slaves to be considered, in relation to the man who holds them as such?
A. The slaves being taken by violence, either directly or indirectly, contrary to their own wills, and in direct opposition to all the power of self defence, which they are capable of exerting, whether they are taken prisoners of war or stolen, or decoyed on shipboard by the slave merchant, and then forcibly confined and taken off; it must be acknowledged, they are taken in a state of war, and considered by the captor as a prize: therefore, the only true title and description of property they can possibly bear, is prize goods.
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Q3. Is not the produce of the slave's labour likewise prize goods?
A. It certainly is: for the man, who, by mere power and violence, without any just plea of right, not only holds them as slaves, but takes from them, in the same cruel and arbitrary manner, the proceeds of their labour, without their consent, thereby places himself in a state of continual and actual war with his slaves. And, moreover, as the stealing and taking a man with violence, and depriving him of liberty, and reducing him to the wretched and helpless state of a slave, is the highest grade of felony, and is done purposely to profit by the slave's labour; therefore, the produce of the slave's labour is the highest grade of prize goods, next to his person.
Q4. Does the highway robber, that meets his fellow-citizen on the highway, and robs him of all the property he has in his present possession, and then leaves him at liberty, without injuring his person, commit as high an act of felony, as he that steals or buys, or takes a man by violence, and reduces him to the wretched and degraded state of a slave for life?
A. No! in no wise. Which answer is founded on the self evident proposition, that it is more criminal to rob a man of his liberty and property, than only to rob him of his property.
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Q5. Does it lessen the criminality and wickedness of reducing our fellow creatures to the abject state of slavery, and continuing them therein, because the practice is tolerated by the laws of the country we live in?
A. No! by no means. Because, every rational creature knows, or ought to know, that no laws of men or nations, can alter the nature of immutable justice. The criminality remains as great in all cases of slavery, when inflicted without any criminality of the individual made a slave, under the sanction of law, as when it is not; and in some cases, greater: as in the instance of those governments, where they are not only guilty of the cruelty and oppression of reducing, by mere power, without any possible plea or right; their fellow-creatures who have equally a right with themselves of liberty, and the purchase of redemption by a Saviour's blood, to the abject and wretched state of slaves, but are adding sin to sin, by making and continuing cruel laws to hold them still longer under the galling yoke.
Q6. Would it be right and consistent with justice and equity, for the legislatures of the several states, and others concerned, to make laws entirely to abolish slavery in their respective states?
A. It would, doubtless, be entirely right, and perfectly consistent with equity and justice to make such laws; and nothing, I ap-
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prehend, can exculpate them from the charge of blood-guiltiness short of so doing: as, no doubt, many of the poor victims of slavery suffer daily to the shedding of their blood, under the hands of some of the cruel men who pretend to be their masters, because, they do not at all times, immediately submit to their cruel and arbitrary wills.
Q7. Would it not give a just occasion for those who still have slaves in their possession, and especially to such as have lately purchased them at a dear rate, to complain of wrong in thus taking from them, without their consent, what they esteem as their real property?
A. The making and enforcing such laws cannot possibly give just occasion for any such complaint; as it is impossible for any man to gain any just property in a rational being, as a slave, without his consent; for, neither the slave dealer, nor the planter can have any moral right to the person of him they stile their slave, to his labour, or to the produce of it; so, they can convey no right in such a person, nor in the produce of his labour to another; and whatever number of hands they pass through, (if the criminal circumstances appertaining thereto be known to them at the time of the transfer,) and the money paid either for the slave or for the produce of his labour, is paid to
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obtain the criminal possession, and can confer no moral right whatever; and if the death of the person called a slave, be occasioned by the criminal possession, the criminal possessor is guilty of murder; and we who have knowingly done any act which might occasion his being in that situation, are accessories to the murder, before the fact; as by receiving the produce of his labour, we are accessories to the robbery after the fact. Therefore, I conceive, it must appear clear and agreeable to truth and justice, that a man who should dare to be so hardly as to buy a fellow creature, whose liberty is withheld from him by violence and injustice, ought not only be obliged to set him free, and to forfeit the purchase money, by likewise to make full satisfaction to the person he had injured, by such purchase.
Q.8. As the Legislature of the State of New-York has passed a law, declaring that every child, born in this state of a woman held as a slave, shall be free, the males at twenty eight years of age, shall be free, and the females at twenty-five; can such a law be considered as doing full justice to that injured people?
A. Although such might have been the unjust bias, that too generally prevailed on the minds of the inhabitants of this State, at the time of making the law alluded to in the query, that it was the best step the Legislature could then take; nevertheless, in my
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opinion, it fell very far short of doing them that full justice to which they are entitled; for, as all children born of white women in this state, are free at the age of twenty-one and eighteen years, according to their sex; and as the Africans and the descendants are not here in their own wills, nor agreeable to their own choice, but wholly in consequence of the will and pleasure of the white citizens of this State; therefore, it is impossible, in point of justice, that any disadvantage or penalty should attach to them, as a consequence of their being born here: but as free born men and women, they have a right to demand their freedom at the same age as other citizens; and to deny them of it, is depriving them of their just right.
Q. 9. What measures can be adopted by the Legislature and citizens of New-York, and others concerned, in order to exculpate themselves from the guilt of that atrocious crime of holding Africans and their descendants so long in slavery?
A. The least that can be done, in order to effect the salutary end contemplated by the query, would be to declare freedom to every slave in the state, and to make provision by law for the education of all minors that are in a state of slavery; compelling their masters, or those who have the charge of them, to instruct them so as to keep their own accounts, and that they be set at liberty, the
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males at twenty-one and females at eighteen years of age: and further, that some lawful and reasonable step be taken, to compensate such slaves as have been held in bondage beyond that age, for such surplus service.
Q. 10. By what class of people is the slavery of the Africans and their descendants supported and encouraged?
A. Principally by the purchasers and consumers of the produce of the slaves' labour; as the profits arising from the produce of their labour, is the only stimulus or inducement for making slaves.
"The laws of our country may indeed prohibit us the sweets of the sugar cane," and other articles of the West-Indies and southern states, that are the produce of the slave's labour, "unless we receive it through the medium of slavery; they may hold it to our lips, steeped in the blood of our fellow creatures, but they cannot compel us to accept the loathsome potion. With us it rests, either to receive it and be partners in the crime, or to exonerate ourselves from guilt, by spurning from us the temptation. For let us not think, that the crime rests alone with those who conduct the traffic, or the Legislature by which it is protected. If we purchase the commodity, we participate in the crime. The slave dealer, the slave holder, and the slave driver, are virtually the agents of the consumer, and may be consid-
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ered as employed and hired by him, to procure the commodity. For, by holding out the temptation, he is the original cause, the first mover in the horrid process; and every distinction is done away by the moral maxim, That whatever we do by another, we do ourselves.
"Nor are we by any means warranted to consider our individual share in producing these evils in a trivial point of view: the consumption of Sugar" and other articles of slavery "in this country is so immense, that the quantity commonly used by individuals will have an important effect."
Q. 11. What effect would it have on the slave holders and their slaves, should the people of the United States of America and the inhabitants of Great Britain, refuse to purchase or make use of any goods that are the produce of slavery?
A. It would doubtless have a particular effect on the slave holders, by circumscribing their avarice, and prevent their heaping up riches, and living in a state of luxury and excess on the gain of oppression: and it might have the salutury effect of convincing them of the unrighteousness and cruelty of holding their fellow creatures in bondage; and it would have a blessed and excellent effect of the poor afflicted slaves; as it would immediately ameliorate their wretched condition and abate their cruel
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bondage; for I have been informed, and reason naturally dictates to every one who has made right observations on men and things, that the higher the price of such produce is, the harder they are driven at their work.
And should the people of the United States, and the inhabitants of Great Britain, withdraw from a commerce in, and the use of the produce of slavery, it would greatly lessen the price of those articles, and be a very great and immediate relief to the poor, injured, and oppressed slaves, whose blood is continually crying from the ground for justice, as their lives are greatly shortened, and many of them do not live out half their days by reason of their cruel bondage.
"If we as individuals concerned in purchasing and consuming the produce of slavery, should imagine that our share in the transaction is so minute, that it cannot perceptibly increase the injury; let us recollect, that, though numbers partaking of a crime may diminish the shame, they cannot diminish its turpitude; can we suppose, that any injury of an enormous magnitude can take place, and the criminality be destroyed, merely by the criminals becoming so numerous as to render their particular share indistinguishable? Where an hundred assassins to plunge their daggers into their victim, though each might plead, that without
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his assistance the crime would have been completed, and that his poniard neither occasioned nor accelerated the murder; yet, every one of them would be guilty of the entire crime. For, into how many parts soever a criminal action may be divided, the crime itself rest entire and complete on every perpetrator.
"But, waving this latter consideration, and even supposing for a moment, that the evil has an existence from causes totally independent of us, yet it exists; and as we have it in our power jointly with others to remedy it, it is undoubtedly our duty to contribute our share, in hope that others will theirs; and to act that part from conscience, which we should from inclination in similar cases that interested our feelings:" for instance, let us suppose that the way for obtaining slaves from Africa was entirely intercepted, and no other place opened for obtaining any, except in the rivers Delaware and Hudson, in North America; that the slave traders were continually infesting the shores of those rivers, as the only places to be insulted with impunity; that they frequently kidnapped, and sometimes by force carried off numbers of the inhabitants to the West-Indies, and sold them as slaves, among whom were many of our fathers and brothers, with their wives and children. We now view them all handcuffed, two and two together, crowded down
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between the ship's decks, and so closely stowed, as to be almost suffocated; in consequence of which, a number sicken and die, which to them is a very happy release, when compared with the still more cruel sufferings that await the survivors. We next behold them in port, and the day of sale arrives, when they are taken from on shipboard, and driven like a herd of swine to market, but worse treated, being manacled together. They are here herded in a pen or yard, like the beasts of the field, exposed to public sale, and without regard to sex or age examined by those brutal men, who are to be their purchasers, as naked as they were born: and, when one is struck off to any bidder, a red hot iron is ready to brand the poor victim with the name of his tyrant purchaser. This leads to a scene still more grievous, still more deeply afflicting. All nature is forced to yield, when the husband is separated from a beloved wife, and a wife from a beloved husband, who had been for many years the joy of her life, and who she had expected would have been the strength and comfort of her declining years; but now, alas! they are torn asunder, like bone from bone: a heart rending separation takes place, without the small indulgence of taking a sympathetic farewell of each other, or the possibility of indulging the most distant hope of seeing each other again. We be-
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hold the fond children, with ghastly look and frighted eyes, cling to their beloved parents, not to be separated from them, but by the lash of their cruel drivers, who make the blood to start at every stroke on their mangled bodies. We next, with heavy hearts and minds overwhelmed with pity, follow them to their destined labour in the plantation field, and by the morning dawn, we hear them summoned to their daily task, by the clashing of cow-skin scourges in the hands of their hard hearted overseers. And should any of them, in consequence of fatigue and loss of strength, fall a little behind their fellow sufferers, they are immediately reminded of it by the last of their cruel drivers. But here I must stop, as it is too much for nature to pursue farther the dreadfully degrading and cruel theme! And is it not enough to awaken and arouse to sympathy the hardest heart, and lead it to exclaim aloud with abhorrence against such brutal and unrighteous doings? Is it possible that there should be in the United States a man, or would he be worthy to bear the dignified name of man, where he so void of the feelings of humanity, as to purchase and make use of the labour of his fellow-citizens, his kindred and his friends, produced in the horrid manner above stated? Would not every sympathetic heart, at the sight of a piece of sugar, or other article, that he believed to be the fruit of
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their labour, produced with agonizing hearts and trembling limbs, be filled with anguish and his eyes gush with tears? Would it not awaken the feeling, unbiased mind, a sense of all the cruel sufferings above related? Would it not, instead of pleasing his palate, be deeply wounded to the heart? And, if rightly considered, cause cries to arise from the bottom of his soul, in moving accents of supplication to the righteous Judge of heaven and earth, that he would be graciously pleased to put a stop to such complicated misery and great distress of his creature man? Would he not consider the individual who should dare to be so hardy as to traffic in, and use the produce of the labour of his fellow-citizens and friends, wrested from them in the cruel manner above stated, as the open and avowed enemy both of God and man?
But some, who have not given the subject a full and impartial discussion, may object and say, the slaves in the West-Indies and southern states, are not our fellow-citizens and friends. But it cannot be objected by the impartial and the just, who know, that although in a limited sense, as applied to a particular town or city, they may not be so, yet upon the general and universal scale of nature, they are our brethren and fellow creatures; all privileged by nature and nature's God, with liberty and free-agency, and with
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The blessings attendant thereupon; of which they are not to be deprived, but by their own consent; and therefore, have a right to demand of us the same justice and equity, as our fellow-citizens and friends, in a more limited sense, as above stated, could have done; and to whom we are accountable for every act of injustice and omission of doing to them as we would they should do unto us, and for which we shall all have to answer ere long, at the dread tribunal bar, that we can neither awe nor bribe, but shall receive a just retribution for all our works, whether good or evil.
From a consideration of the foregoing Queries and Answers with the annexed observations, may we not be led to conclude, that no man who is convinced of the cruelty and injustice of holding a fellow creature in slavery, can traffic in, or make use of the produce of a slave's labour, believing it to be such, without criminating himself, and living in the open and daily breach of that most excellent Rule, given by the great Author of the Gospel Dispensation, as a just criterion of conduct: viz. "All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets."
"The case now fully lies before us, and we have to make our choice, either to join ourselves with the Manufacturers of Human
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Wo, or to renounce the horrid association. If we adopt the former, let us at least have the candour to avow our conduct in its real deformity. Let us no longer affect to deplore the calamities attendant on slavery, of which we are the primary cause; nor let us pretend to execrate the conduct of the slave dealer, the slave holder, or the slave driver."


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To promote its new can size, the softdrinks brand sold them from tiny vending machines.
Beverage brand Coca-Cola worked with ad agency Ogilvy & Mather in Berlin for its latest campaign to promote the brand's new mini can size.
Coca-Cola, with the help of Ogilvy & Mather, installed a series of mini kiosks that sell tiny 7.5 ounce Coke in cans from small vending machines. The mini Coca-Cola kiosks were rolled out in five major cities in Germany.
The mini kiosks not only sold the small cans of Coke, but also sold familiar items like newspapers, candy bars, and other snacks – items that are usually sold in similar beverage and newsstand kiosks. The miniature Coke kiosks, which looked like they were half-buried in the ground, also had a real vendor inside them.
The cute mini kiosks were such a hit that they apparently sold an average of 380 mini Coke in cans – 278% more than the typical Coca-Cola vending machine. Passersby and customers also had a great time buying from the popup store and having their photos taken with the kiosk and the vendor.
The kiosks also included a small table and small chairs set up in a space next to the kiosk so people can sit back and enjoy their tiny Coke.
The Coca-Cola campaign came with the tagline "It's the little things in life that make us happy," and they certainly made more than a few people smile with their charming little popup kiosks.
Coca-Cola is no stranger to campaigns that involve popup installations or stores. Last year, the company launched the "Roll Out Happiness" truck, a truck that rolled out real grass in the shape of a Coke bottle in the middle of an urban space to create an area where people could kick off their shoes and relax with a Coke in their hand. The year before that, the company teamed up with Italian TV chef Simone Rugiati and installed a popup dining table pulled out of a converted Coke truck in Italy. The popup dining room was meant to promote the "Let's Eat Together" movement.
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An excellent book and it does a great job of explaining the concepts to a beginner like me. There are a lot of solved examples that can walk the beginners through the steps. the book is well written and well structured.The book has good worked out or simple examples to do the things of interest. they also have screen prints of the menu for better benefit.The book is well written and well structured. the book has a lot of sample code, solved examples and screen prints about configuring the server.The books in its later chapters covers advanced topics such as creation of an entity bean, maintaining its statelessness, and using Java messaging services for real world applications.the author has done an excellent job in creating this book for users of the weblogic server. I sincerely thank the author for making this book available for users like me.
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What is weekend of minecraft?
'Weekend of Minecraft' is an event taking place on March 26th and 27th(with some pre-show stuff on the 25th). It is going to be a 39+ hour stream of Minecraft taking place through that entire weekend. An exact schedule can be found here. The event will feature many people, such as paulsoaresjr, Yogscast, and Wolv21! Mojang will also be stopping in to the stream at one point. deadmau5 said before that he's going to be coming, but due to some things he has going on, he may or not be able to(though he probably will!) show up for a bit.
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Two servers will be up for the event:
Private - This is the server that the streamers and affiliates will be playing on for most of the time. It's going to have a whitelist up. If you're an affiliate, just contact me via Twitter and I'll get you added.
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This is the server which anyone can play on! It's going to be a large server(More than 200 slots!) where you can just simply have fun(but it will be moderated, griefing is not fun).
Public #2 - This can be found by connecting to wom.brohoster.com.
This is for you more 'hardcore' folks.
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By her third album, 1980's gold Irons in the Fire, Marie was doing most of her own writing and producing. That album boasted the major hit "I Need Your Lovin'," and Marie went gold again with her next album, It Must Be Magic (which included the major hit "Square Biz"). It Must Be Magic turned out to be her last album for Motown, which she had a nasty legal battle with. Marie got out of her contract with Motown, and the case ended up with the courts passing what is known as "The Teena Marie Law" -- which states that a label cannot keep an artist under contract without putting out an album by him or her.
Switching to Epic in 1983, Marie recorded her fifth album, Robbery, and had a hit with "Fix It." In 1984, Marie recorded her sixth album, Starchild, and had her biggest pop hit ever with "Lovergirl." Though Marie had often soared to the top of the R&B charts, "Lovergirl" marked the first time she'd done so well in the pop market. Ironically, Marie was a white singer who had enjoyed little exposure outside the R&B market prior to "Lovergirl."
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Hey, just followed this instructions (thanks for this comprehensive tutorial!) Everything worked great up to the point I inserted command : "ST,0" to get rid of the configuration timer. But now I'm not able to enter the configuration mode at all!
Having a loot at the manual it says : ST,0 disables remote configuration ST,60 sets remote configuration to 60 seconds (default value) ST,255 enables remote configuration forever
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The Volcano Rabbit (also known as teporingo or zacatuche) is a small rabbit native to Mexico. The Volcano Rabbit lives on approximately 280 square kilometers of land in central Mexico. The Volcano Rabbit is ranked as endangered by the IUCN.[1]
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- ↑ "Romerolagus diazi (Volcano Rabbit)". iucnredlist.org. 2011 [last update]. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/19742/0. Retrieved April 16, 2011.