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Bath Independent (Newspaper) - March 13, 1880, Bath, Maine ATH � . _ ,t- V f A. LkkmiI, Bwrtnuw, AgprlonHnraJ and Family Newwpaper. VOL. I. BATH, MAINE, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1880. NO. 14. . YES OR NO. Ton ask to-night my daughter's hand, As you'd request a toy-Do yon know the weight of yonr demand On a mother's heart, my boy? Ton nay yon love her wildly, well, - ! ' Will It hut 'till the end of time, Or will the ring of the wedding-bell Besound" Its dying chime ? - The heart yon crave is a holy thing, So tender, trusting, true; -Can yon t.o her devotion bring As warm as hers to you ? Will you love her through the c hanging years As tenderly as now, When ills shall pale, of sorrow's tears/ Becloud her sunny brow ? / When age shall bow her graceful form And bleach her jetty hair, Will you protect her through each storm And shelter her from care ? . When time shall dim her sparkling eye " And Winter furrows show, Will your love be the last to die ? If not, I answer, No.' Bemember that her'future life Would every day beyours r A loving woman when a wife To one that she adores, Has no existence of her own Apart from him shb loves j She lives henceforth for him alone, And in his orbit moves. She molds her wishes to his will, Her ways^tb" his desires";. He leads her by love's willing web Through life's refining fires; She walks with him through thorny fields, And o'er life's rugged road; He is her idol and ideal, � ..." Her guide and household god. So If your love will live and burn, And bless her fntnre years; If you will'give her in return The trust that lite endears; If you will guide her destiny, And shield her from distress, Will always live, adoring her, Why then, I answer, Yes. -Cincinnati Enquirer. The Tea-Kettle Light. (a tbute story.) R In a 'New Hampshire farm-houso, about the beginning of the present century, there lived a boy who, according to the onstom of his Bible-loving ancestry, had been named Joseph. Joe went to school only in the winter, after he was ten or twelve years of .age}; bat he had learned the ordinary English branohe's so well, that his father and the neighboring farmers thought his education pretty nearly finished, especially as he wa3 now seventeen years old. But the boy himself was not eo easily satisfied. He delighted in gaining knowledge of every sort, and he ' constantly craved time and facilities for study. Well, Joe was seventeen now, and whiter was just coming on. The dis-triot school was about to begin, with an uncommonly well-qualified teacher, and Joe was very anxious to go; but his father had other plans. " Joe," said ho, one evening, " our barn must be built larger next year, and the whole roof '11 have to be shingled new, and we mnst get out the shingle this winter. We must get out,enough, while we are abont it, to sell some to buy flour with. We've got to buy for the first time since lean remember, thanks to last summer's drought and the early frost, which have left us neither corn nor wheat. I'll shavo the shingles, but you must split them ready for me. Yon must get up the wood " (that big fire place could consume more wood than a moderate-sized township would nowadays). "Besides, the fodder for the stock is uncommonly short, and there's no grain for them; so it will be a tough job to get them through the winter alive, Altogether, we shall have a pretty busy winter, I calculate." Joe thought a little before he replied. He felt the truth of all that his father had said, bufihe could not reconcile himself to the idea of giving up the winter-schooling. He was not easily discouraged, and in a few moments he spoke, up cheerfully: " Father, I belie've I can do work and go to sohooj too." "Thenyou'll have to command the . sun and moon to stand still six or eight hours every day, and that's more than ever Jothna undertook." " I could command them rosy enough, but the Uzy fellows are in euoli a hurry to got to bed this cold weather, that I don't suppose they would obey me as well as they obeyed Joshua. But I've berff thinking it over, and I believe I can do it ail without interfering with the sun aud-moon,-- ~--� * I'd like to know how ?" " Well, the. timber is close by, and I can get up the wood Saturdays, and out it nights and mornings, and help take t care of the stook, too, if we get up early." � That may all be, but when do you t calon/ate to split tho shingles for me ? " "Oh, 1*11 do thatafter dark," "Butyou can't see to work in the night" " I believe I can fee well enough to do that, if mother will let me split them , here by the fire place," " "What ?" said his mother, V and have the house littered all over every evening, and all the racket besides ? And you'd batter the floor all up. No, Joe, that never will do." 1 "But, mother, I could keep the shingle-blocks here snug in the corner, and split them on this flat stone, and I don't think the noise will he very bad." Well, yon cantry it, for aU 1 care, but I don't believe yon,oan see well-enough by fire-light. Itft) precious candles we have this year, and they must be kept for siokness and company." " Of course he can't see to split shingles by fire-light," said his father, " and he oould "n't split enough, evenings, s'posin' he could see." " I can split pretty fast, you know, father," persisted Joe ; " and I'll make so bright a light with the splinters and shavings, that we won't want a oandle." A Eoore of other objections was brought against Joe's projeot by his' mother and sisters, and not a little ridicule; but by his promising, if he failed in his plan; to give up sohool, his father reluctantly consented, adding : "I don't see any sense in it. You are ahead of all the sohool now,"�and "what more yon want, I'm sure I don't know. And there's another, thing about it. If you are going to sohool, that coal-pit must be 'tended to straight off, unless you think you can do that, too, at night." Thankful for the ground already gained, Joe felt equal to almost any mi dertaking, and asked : "Can't we go abont it to-morrow? There's a moon." "May be we can, if it is fair weathe was the response, and so the matter was settled. Tne next day, after the conversation about the winter's work and schooling, Joe and his father proceeded to build a ooal-pit. It was made of white birch trees, which, Btrange to say,- had not been even scorched when his father had burned off the clearing, and showed their white trunks rs oleanas ever, He bad all the sides'- nearly done, Jt was quite dark; and the great black heap looked gloomy enough, when suddenly Joe heard a loud puff, and instantly it was as light as day all abont him. He looked up and saw what seemed burning smoke pouring out of the apertures on the opposite side. These flames streamed up over the pile with .a wonderful brightness. He examined more closely and satisfied himself that there was no fire close to the surfaoe of the pit, but the air around it and over it seemed to bo on fire, as though the smoke had burst into a blaze after it got out. Convinced that the inside of the coal-pit was in no immediate danger, he began to marvel at and admire the bril-lianoy of the light; but he oould not explain it. < After enjoying it for some time, he continued his work, and Boon had the last side banked up. Then the mound of wood and earth'seemed disenchanted, and behaved itself* like any other sober ooal-pit. With the welcome days at school came the long evenings of shingle-splitting, splinters,that tbeold farm-house seemed cheerful. But he soon disoov- to do it, if I only could study it out," declared our hero as he put on his cap. Tramoing homeward through . the snow, Joe's wrinkled brow gradually smoothed itself out, and when he went in to supper and saw the tea-kettle on the orane sending forth clouds of steam, whioh hissed and puffed and made the heavy iron cover dance, he was as smiling and cheerful as ever. His mother thought he smelled the " flap-jacks " she was cooking. So he did, perhaps ; but his mind was so full of something else, that he was Eoarcely oonsoious of flapjacks. As he was beginning his evening task, his father said to him : 'Now, Joe, that's no kind of use. You can't do it, and I knew it all the time. I've had to be busy a part of the time at something else, so far, and tomorrow your mother wants to go up to Uncle Gilmore's, and next day I must go to mill, so may be you can go to school the rest of this week and yet keep me in shingles; but then you see, yourself, that when I gst to work in earnest, as I must next week, you'll have to stay at home." " Perhaps I shall," Joe replied. "I've been afraid of it. But I want to try one thing more first. Mother, is that old tea-kettle up garret good for anything?" "I'm going to sell it one of these days for old iron. It isn't of any use now to any one. It's oraoked down the sides, and all ready to fall to pieces. If you want something to put your gim-oraoks in, you'd better make a box, and let that smutty thing alone." : "No, if you please, mother. I'd rather have that old oraoked tea-kettle than anything else I know of just now.". "Very well," said his mother, "you can have it." - That night, Joe split shingles with all his speed, and coaxed his younger brothers and sisters to keep up the firelight for hira, so that at bed-time he had a good supply prepared for his father. Saturday he spent in drawing loads of wood to the house. During these trips he secured a quantity of birch-bark, whioh he put carefully away. Just be-, fore night, he came down stairs with his tea-kettle, and the girls shouted that Joe was going to set up housekeeping by himself, and that he had an old tea-kettle to start with. Little Moses tripped after him, and whispered : " Are you going to make a mouse-trap of it, or what ?" "Wait a little bit," Joe whispered baok, " and we'll see." His mother looked curious, but said nothing, until Joe began to stir up a batter in the pan she had been mixing her tea-biscuit in, asking, as he did so, how she made brown bread. This was joined in making fun of him and his oraoked kettle. Joe was. irritated, of; course, but was so full of his new idea that he hadn't time to get angry, and he oomforted himself with the belief that it might be-his turn to laugh before long. Yet he knew he never would hear the last of it if his experiment failed.' He watched it very anxiously. - At last, his father imperatively ordered him to take his kettle away; but he was so earnest in his pleading for time to give his idea a fair trial that his mother interposed out of pity, and his father consented to let him alone, thinking he would thus be more oonvinoed that he was following up a crazy notion. So Joe, thankful for the respite, kept intently watching the flames reach up toward the queer, patched objeot ou the orane, baking the dough-oem'ent harder, and concealing it with a deposit of soot. Soon atraoeof steam issued from the spout, and became a new center of interest to him, and a new subject for chaffing by the merry circle of sisters. When the steam passes off the gas will begin to come," explained Joe, quietly. Then there was a new cause of alarm. Jane beoame more and more nervons-"fidgety,"as her mother said because company was coming, and her brother and his old tea-kettle would We town talk." This nearly stopped his proceedings, but he managed to save his maobine a little longer, Jane's " young man" still delaying his expected coming; and as the 'clouds of steam began to grow lees and less, with that even the Housekeeping Hints. Pish Balls.-On the morning yon intend having them, pare your potatoes and boil; drain off tho water, and cover with a clean towel to dry. First, though, boil your codfish till done; then pull to shreds, oarefully feeling for every bone and lump.' Mash the potatoes very finely, pour in a little warm milk and a small lump of butter; beat up your potatoes till they are light as down, then mix with your fish, and work all togeth-er thoroughly. A small raw onion, ohopped very finely, mixed through, gives a flavor which many persons like ; no pepper nor egg. When ready, roll into small oakes lightly, and fry a deli-oate brown. The particular part is to have your potatoes' quite soft with the milk, and fish with not the smallest lump. Good Obullerb.-To one quart of flour rub two scant teaspoonfulB sea-foam, lump of butter half size of an egg, good oupf ul of white sugar, a pinoh of salt, yolks of two eggs. Work.these together thoroughly but very lightly, using the tips of your fingers. Moisten with enough milk to make-as soft a dough as possible to roll out, using as little flour as you oan, foiling out into twists. It must be a sticky dough. Keep your fingers just dipped in flour. If the mixture be too stiff your crullers will be tough. Too muoh working will toughen them, too. Have your lard well boiling, and drop in quiokly and watch carefully. Cboqukttes and Rich.-Chop up cn onion very fine, and fry it in butter till it be of a golden color; then stir in a tea- strange earnestness, that even thoughtless little ones respected, Joe begged for only ten minutes longer.and , , . -, . ....__, . . .. warned Jane and her tongs away from onPfu] of noe 5 let �' oook m the butter ------------ - - , - ----w'- . ,� i .......- -1 inr a t/xttj tniTV very oneerfui. Jtmt ne soon oovered that so many minutes were consumed in feeding the fire, that, when bed-time came, he had'seriouB misgivings whether, in spite of all his exertions, there were enough shingles prepared for his father to shave the next day. On tho morrow he found that his doubts were well founded, and the next night it was little better, though he worked with redoubled energy, and though his mother occasionally paused in her knitting long enough' to throw a handful of splinters on tho fire iu front of the enormous back log. That night Joe's countenance wan rueful, and his f itber smiled ominously hb he glanced at the pile of shingles just before retiring. On his way home from sohool one day he had an errand at the house of a neighbor, named Wheeler, and,in tho courso of a friendly ehat, Mrs. Wheeler found out about joe's difficulty. Her ready interest and sympathy drew him out, and he told her, also, of his strange nig'it in the woods. Wbut Eort of wood was your ooal-pit. made of, Joe ?" she asked. The white biroh that grew on that knoll in the piece we cleared ia Oot o-ber." "Thon the bark was all burned off, of course." , - No," replied Joe; "the "wind carried the fire clean past tho kuoll, without so mnoh as tcorohing it. So we had poor burn, but we had a nice job, catting aud piling tho birches in their clean white jackets, so we didn't'much care." You are sure the light you saw did not come from the inside of the pit?" Oil, yes, quite sure. It was dark olose to tho coal-pit, but it seemed an though the steam from the green wood caught' firs afte* it came out. But, of course, steam wont burn any more than water. I wish it would. I'd hang tea-kettle of water on the crane, and after it began to boil I oould set the steam on fire, and see to work nicely." " That ligbianust have come from the burning of something which chemists call gas," said the sensible woman, thoughtfully. "And it must be that tho gas came from the green-birch bark, and that tho heat drove it off, and set it oh fire," ex-olaimcd Joe, suddenly. '' Nobody else's ooal-pit got bewitched, as old Mr. Clark said this one was, because noboay else ever cleared a piece of land and didn't burn the birch-bark." "No," said Mrs. Wheeler, reflectively; " witches don't infest coal-pits, that ever I heard of." "Now," resumed Joe, with hjs'brow all in a pnoker, " can't I get a light from birch-bark up at the house somehow, if I try, as* wolf as down in the woods when I didn't *ry,,at all? If 1 only oould build a little green biroh oaal-pit in tho bouse I" .' " I'm afraid you would have more coal than house if you should." " Tfee, I suppose we should, and I'd hive to split shingles for a home as well m "a barn. Bat f believe, there is a way and she exolaimed "Why! What in the World, Joe? Thero'b plenty of rye mid brown bread, of course ; it's Saturday night I" Yes, I suppose there is," Joe answered, quietly ; " but I want brown-bread crust for a particular purpose." The dough made, Joe came out of his mystery enough to remark that he wob going to stop the cracks in his old teakettle, and then he disappeared into the wood-shed, Lois called after him that if he didn't grease his tea-kettle well, it would stick." He's going to make a tea-kettle dumpling!" shouted Deborah But Joe, out in the cold wood-shed, kept plastering dough over the oraoks in the tea-kettle. This well done, he began outting into small pieces the birch, bark he had saved, so that it could be crowded closely into the tea-kettle. By the time he had filled it, supper was called, and Joe, going in, set his patched contrivance close by the fire, "Well, Joe," laughed his mother, "what now" Are you going to turn blaoksmith or baker ?" "Joe, Joe," piped Moses,' "will you be a blacksmith or a bakesmith, mother says ? " O, I am a shingle-splitter," said Joe, smiling back. " And I'd like to be a ligutsmith, too, pretty well, if I oould." After supper was cleared' away, and the big kettle was taken off the crane, Joe hung on his tea-kettle, bread dough, biroh-bark, and all, swung it over the fire, and sat down to watcti the result of his operations "What is it, anyhow, Joe?" asked Moses. "Why, don't you see? It's an old tea-kettle." "What you dot in it?" piped little Judith. "Biroh-bark, sis," responded Joe, laconically. " Maple-bark is best to make ink of; isn't it, mother ?!' queried Debby. " Yes, indeed, Joe, and you don't have to burn it-only steep it, and put in a little copperas." "I am not trying to make-ink, mother," Joe answered, " though I must make some before long." Then turning to his father, he said " You remember how the ooal-pit we burned last week got�bewitohed,' don't you? Well,!! think it must have been the green-birch bark, whioh I don't sup pose ever before got piled into a coal pit, that caused the light somehow, though I dou't know how; and I am trying to see if biroh-bark wont make a light here as well as there." Joe spoke with a depreoating tone, for he knew his father's violent antipathy toward all "new-fangled notions.'" " Well, you are a dunce, to be sure. Don't you suppose: that if biroh-bark had been good for anything but a torch, somebody would have found it out before this.?.. XQ.ung. folkB,.-!n,owadays, think they know more than their fathers. It wasn't bo when I was- a boy. You'd better just put that tea-kettle out of the way and go to work," The key-note had been struck by his fattier, aid ever j yoioe in the aouaehold interfering, in a tone so quietly'stern, that she never thought of answering him, but sat down immediately. The girls went to work on their grammar lesson, but soon got baok to the kettle. Everybody's thoughts spun round that black, hissing objeot j ust now. They talked a good deal about it, but Joe did not appear to be listening. The steam had stopped entirely, and he was carrying a lighted shaving with trembling hands toward the spout of the kettle. A brilliant blaze suddenly lighted up the house. " Hurrah I" cried Joe. " Sell your box of candles and buy yourself a new gown, mother. Hurrah for sohool and shingles all winter 1 Hurrah I" Why, Joe I" oricd his mother, something sparkling inlier eyes, "why, Joe, I didn't think it would burn so; but it does, and I'm glod of it, too." Little Moses and Judith skipped about- from one corner to another, laughing to know that something was not hid there tooatohthem every time they ventured into the darkness. Joel came in just then to Jane's great satisfaction, though, perhaps, he did not help to correot a grammar reoitation on Monday. Notwithstanding his presence, she did not seem very seriously alarmed for Joe's reputation. Joel looked on the blazing tea-kettle in amazement, and with some trepidation. " May be it's bewitohed I" said he to Jane. " O, I don't know what Joo's been doing to it, I'm sure," said the promising girl; "but I guess it ia light enongh to see to play oat's oradle," and so they tried it, "Why, Joe, you're a g6nius instead of a dunce, I do declare," cried Debby. "This is an invention, and no mistake,"" "Yon are all acting like a parcel of dunces,'''deolaied their father, preparing to go to bed. " 'Taint no great wonder that biroh-bark should burn after it got afire, if it is in an old tea kettle. It'll all burn out in ten minutes." No, Debby, I'm only a dnnoe," Joe replied; "but you will soon see that it will burn all the evening." And it did. At bed-time the teakettle was taken from the orane and the blaze extinguished. The next evening it was hung on again-this time with out opposition-and lighted after it got hot, no time being lost in waiting for steam to dry off. Joe split his shingles now without delay, and never was there a more diligent and happy fellow. Toward the end of the week the orust burned off the oraoks in the kettle, whereupon the light bboame more brilliant than ever, for it streamed out from every crack as well as from the spout, and the blaok.old tea-kettle was clothed in a mantle of flickering Are. But Joe was afraid the shattered constitution of his favorite would hardly hold together under so muoh excitement. "So, on Saturday, he plastered the oraoks over anew, this time with day, and filled it with a new stock of biroh-bark. And thus he worked by his tea-kettle light all winter. The fame of Joe's invention was soon spread abroad, and everybody wondered, for there were cot supposed to be so many new things under the sun in those days ; and when something extraordinary did happen, it made a Btir. Many were the inquiries from neighbors that Joe had to answer about his tea-kettle light, and at home, from some slight Indications, whioh he was quick to perceive, he inferred that even his father and 'Jane were rather proud of him, as they surely had good reason to be. Thus endeth the true history of the first of all the gas factories.-St, flieholae; for a few minutes, - stiring oil the time; then add one pint of good gravy, and simmer slowly. When nearly cooked put a little grated nutmeg, Parmesan oheese (also grated), salt and pepper to taste. Mix well up, when thoroughly done, let it stand a few minutas before the fire, and just before serving stir in a small piece more butter. Serve with nicely fried oroquettes of any kind of meat or poultry. A Obbam to Eat with Pbtjit.-Boil half a pint of oream and half a pint of milk with a bit of lemon peel ; add a few almonds beaten to a paste with drop of water and a little sugar. Take teaspoonful of dried flour, rub it smoothly down with a little oold milk and a few drops of orange-flower water ; mix all together and let it boil; let it remain till quite oold, and then add a little lemon juice. HAPPY HOUR. / THE tbe busy day is over, The household work is done ; The cares that fret tho morning Have faded with the sun; And in the tender twilight, I sit in happy rest, With my darling little baby Asleep uf on my breast. White lids, with silken fringes, Shut out the waning light; A little hand close-folded Holds mamma's fingers tight; And in their soft white wrappings, At last in perfect rest, Two dainty feet are cuddled, Like birdies in a nest. AH hopes and loves unworthy Depart" at this Bweet hour; All pure and noide longings Renew their holy power j For Glirlst, who, iu the Vlretn, Our motherhood has blest, Is near to every woman With a baby on her breast. WIT AND WISDOM. Mary and Her Little Beau. Mary had a little,beau as sweet as he oould be; but every nightrhe wouldn't go, and that made misery. For Mary's ma, she never slept but listened full of fears; and when, so lato, poor Mary crept to bed, she'd box her ears. And pa said gas bills til were high and that the coal was low, and swore he'd mar der by and by that chap who wouldn'; go. And Mary she grew thin and pale her lover he grew stout; her parents1 threats have no avail, he would not bo put out. And spite of Mary's woful gaze he'i ahovel on the coal, and poko the fire to a blaze and on the sofa loll. At length the pa and ma, both grave, said things had reached a pass when something must be done to save their winter's opal and gas. The youth's " contentions " they must know-and Mary's ma said she would question Mary's little beau, and pa said so would he. Miss Mary wept, but all in vain; that very night her pa walked in the parlor with his oane-behind him. came her ma. And then poor Mary's little beau stopped poking at the grate, and turning pale said he must go before it was too late. But ma baoked up against the door, and pa upheld the oane, and at the frightened youth he swore that now he must remain until he settled for the gas and ooal that he had scored; but if a marriage came to pass-he'd take it for the board. Alas I poor Mary's little beau, had not wherewith to pay, and begged if they would let him go he'd settle up next day. " No trust i" the angry-parent cried, and then he took the lad across his knee and swiftly plied the oane, for he was mad. Then tossed him out upon the snow, and double looked the door ; whioh settled Mary's little beau, who never oame there more.- Whitehall Times, A Pet.-The soldiers at Oamp Douglas, Idaho, have ur a pet a yearling deer with a good ear for musio. "When the Fourteenth Begiment is on parade, "Gen. Ouster," whioh is the animal'b name, marches proudly in front of the drum-major, with head erect aud lofty steps, keeping excellent time to the musio of the band. -The tramp's motto-" God bless our roany- [WUtehaU Tiinea. , ' A Monster Vampire from Asia. In a store in Summit street may be seen an animal the like of whioh but few people in Toledo have ever seen. It is a monster South ABian vampire, the muoh dreaded " blood-suoker" of that oountiy. This rare creature, perhaps the only living specimen of the kind in this country, is about one and a half feet long, has a pair of piercing blaok eyes which shine like diamonds, a double row of sharp teeth, similar to those of a weasel, and its powerful wings when stretched its full length measure two and a half feet from point to point. The vampire hangs suspended from. a bar in the centre of its cage by a pair of formidable daws, and when in repose resembles a closed umbrella. Its body is oovered with a comfortable coat of brown fur, while its beautifully proportioned head, whioh has a remarkable similarity to that of a diminutive blaok-and-tan terrier dog, is surmounted by a pair of large shell-shaped ears. This strange creature is almost totally blind during the day, but at night its little eyes twinkle with astonishing bril lianoy. The vampire is kept in a temperature of about seventy degrees, in order to conform as nearly as possible with the olimate of his native home.- Toledo (O.) Commercial. In Moil's Attibb.--The women oon-viots in tne Kentuoky penitentiary wear men's olothes. "During a ram storm," says a Whitehall young lady.a young man with a good umbrella makes a splendid rain beau.-[Times. -The discovery of diamond-making seems something like Edison's light ; now you see it. and now you don't.- [Indianapolis News. �It is one thing to try and behave like a gontleman and quite another thing to be a gentleman and not need to try. [Buffalo Express. -They are oalled bucket-shops because the unsophisticated speculators whom they take in turn pale so often,- [New Haven Register. -TJie Ozar of Russia is muoh more fortunate than the man who gets " blown up" by his wife every day.- f Haoitensack Republican. -One man eloped with the wife of another from a spelling-bee in Tennessee. It seems a spelling-bee has its sting as well an others.-[Troy Press. -Selling kisses to swell the Irish relief threatens to bo inaugurated by the girls. H'm ; if complimentary tickets are issued to editors, we favor the plan. -[Philadelphia Ohroniole-Herald. -An enterprising bootblaok on Washington street at the South End, has hung out the following sign:-"Great reduction in prices. Shine 3 cents. Sunday shine 5 oents."-[Boston Courier. -A Rhode Island man who left a son and daughter penniless' that he might give Harvard College $50,000, had his will busted so quick that it almost turned his grave around.-[Detroit Free Press. -This is the kind of weather when doctors advise everybody to keep on their flannels, and everybody tells everybody else confidentially that they took theirs off yesterday on a venture.-[Baltimore News. - Goods injured by flra have such roady Hale when advertised, that we really believe it some one should advertise a sale ol powder saved from a powder mill explosiou.'it would gooff readily.-[Cincinnati Saturday Night. -"And now, Aurelius," she said, reining her pretty head upon his manly shoulder, " I know I am full of fault.", but you will bear with them, will you not ?" And he took the hint and hugged her on the epot.-[Hawkeye. -One reason-and it's a big one- why some men don't get on better in the -world is beoause they shoot Qrst and take aim afterward. There are others, again, who take aim but never shoot. They never hit anything.-[Lowell (Mich.) Journal. -The wide leather belts recently so popular with the fair sex, have disappeared from the street, and hundreds of husbands are now strapping their razors on leather that once encircled their wives' waists.-[Philadelphia Ohroniole-Herald. . -The enemies of the Czar of Russia will attempt shooting him, blowing him up and stabbing him, and still he will live until some day, when he is fooling with a revolver that isn't loaded, he'll get the whole top of his head blown off, [Oil City Derriok. -A senior, after vainly trying to explain some scientific theory to his fair inamorata, said : " The question is difficult, and I don't see what I oan do to make it olearer." V Suppose you pop it ?" whispered the blushing damsel- Columbia Spectator. A defaulting county treasurer in Iowa exoused his oonduot on the ground that he had dreamed he must take $8,000 and buy certain lands, and that he was a believer in dreams. He didn't- have to dreim that he was sent to State Prison.-[Detroit Free Press. Hereafter we shall deoliue all invitations to take breakfast with Mr. Alexander, Ozar of Russia. 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Stock markets momentarily plunged after a tweet sent by the Twitter account of the Associated Press, which was apparently hacked, erroneously reported that explosions at the White House had injured US president Barack Obama.
AP staff have confirmed that the tweet was "bogus," and the @AP account has been suspended. Here is a screenshot of the tweet:
The Dow fell 146 points before recovering almost immediately. The S&P 500, which was hovering around 1576 before the mischievous tweet hit, tumbled by 0.8% in a matter of moments, falling to nearly 1563 at 1:10 p.m. EST. It bounced sharply higher after it became known that the tweet was erroneous.
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Students in her class have flipped rubber frogs across the school's parking lot to learn about Newton's laws of motion.
And at least once a semester, Teresa Gross' Westwood Elementary School fifth-graders take home everything they need to conduct an experiment on their own.
Gross is an Indiana finalist for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science teaching. State finalists will find out in June if they won a national level. Gross is a finalist for the science portion of the award.
Students in her class have built miniature cars to protect an egg and baked cookies to resemble atoms.
She conducts an annual weeklong summer science camp, where students can get a week of uninterrupted science instruction.
Lilly grants she has received have enabled students to get the materials to do science experiments at home.
Gross became an elementary teacher in 1990, and science became her favorite subject to teach.
She said the skills that students learn while solving a problem during a science experiment can be used in every other subject in school.
"My kids can Google content knowledge all day long, but that won't give them thinking skills," she said. "If I can instill some of those skills in students, then they can take it beyond (the class)."
People outside Greenwood schools have heard about her talents.
Westwood Principal Lisa Harkness nominated Gross for the award.
Her husband works for Eli Lilly and nominated Gross for the Lilly grants after hearing Harkness talk about the science experiments Gross does with her students.
And teachers from other school districts who work at the summer science camp take ideas from the camp and lessons they have learned from Gross back to their classrooms, Harkness said.
Every fifth-grade student is able to take a backpack with a science experiment home. And students from other school districts can enroll in the summer Camp Invention.
"Instructionally, that is how she has an impact outside of the Greenwood school district," Harkness said.
Experiments in elementary school science classes are not common, Harkness said. Gross' students conduct a big experiment almost every week, she said.
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Aperture: Color Value Sample Size no longer adjustable
Or where has the Adjustment Action pop-up menu (the gear icon) in the adjustment HUD gone (where the controls for the sample size was)? It used to be below the histogram on the right side. Just to the right of the drop-down menu for adding adjustment blocks, where now the Auto-Enhance button is.
Where with Color Value Sample Size I mean the size of the sampling area (in number of pixels) when using the eyedropper tool (pipette tool). Apple's documentation still claims it should be there, even in the pdf manual which claims to be for Aperture 3.4. It is shown and labelled in this screenshot in the documentation.
Do you still have the gear menu there? If not, do you know another way to adjust the sample size?
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Exactly. With movies like that I don't understand why DirecTV is adamant about not having Epix. Seems silly.
While I may be more interested in "basic" (sorry tonyd79) channels, depending upon the pricing, this channels' content is definitely on the rise when it comes to box office hits.
If it goes into the HD Extra package ala Dish, which is the only way I'd be interested in it personally (since that's the only way I'd get aside from perhaps a Freeview weekend every now and then), I'm afraid they'll jack the price up.


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Mutiny by the Bounties? the Attempt to Reform Wall Street by the New Whistleblower Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act
Rapp, Geoffrey Christopher, Brigham Young University Law Review
I. Introduction
A decade ago, when die collapse of Enron1 and scandals at Tyco2 and WorldCom3 shook Wall Street, Congress reacted by enacting the now much-maligned4 Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).5 Among SOX's more prominent features was the first federal enactment providing whisdeblower protection for insiders with knowledge of financial fraud.6 SOX criminalized retaliation against whisdeblowers,7 creating a new administrative remedy for aggrieved tipsters under the auspices of die Occupational Safety and Healdi Administration (OSHA).8
Ten years later, when the collapse of America's shadow- banking system9 led Wall Street to receive an unprecedented federal bailout, Congress once again10 reacted with a legislative hydra,11 the DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DoddFrank).12 As before, whisdeblowers took center stage. In DoddFrank, however, whisdeblowers not only receive protection from termination or adverse employment action but can also lay claim to financial bounties for bringing information to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that leads to successful securities enforcement actions.13
With the recent release of the SECs final rule 2 IF14 to govern the application of Dodd-Frank § 922,15 which embraces whistleblower bounties for securities fraud tipsters,16 it is appropriate to reflect on the nature and meaning of this provision. Law professors had called for whisdeblower bounties for financial fraud tipsters in the decade diat followed the enactment of SOX. Pamela Bucy's 2002 article, Private Justice,17 made the case for private litigation of securities fraud disputes, as well as citizen environmental suits.18
I argued in 2007 in Beyond Protection19 that the SOX framework - which provides security against retaliation but little positive incentive to encourage whistleblowing - was inadequate motivation for those with access to information about serious corporate fraud. I argued that payments could be made out of the "Fair Funds" collected by the SEC to provide restitution for injured investors.20 In a follow-up piece in 2009, False Claims, Not Securities Fraud,21 I criticized die lukewarm embrace of whisdeblower bounties in the Obama Administration's Investor Protection Act, which became the precursor of Dodd-Frank. Unfortunately, the initial proposed language left a high degree of discretion in the hands of the SEC. Historically, the Commission had rarely exercised its discretion to pay tipsters in the insider trading context, where bounties had long been audiorized.22 In a paper written before the enactment of Dodd-Frank, Tomas Arnold argued for a mandatory whisdeblower bounty scheme for financial fraud tipsters providing original information that was a "substantial factor" in leading to a corporate restatement of earnings.23
Dodd-Frank's new whisdeblower provision represents a victory for those who had called for whisdeblower bounties in die securities fraud context. Unfortunately, Dodd-Frank's embrace of this policy proposal may prove to be, like SOX before it, a missed opportunity. Although Dodd-Frank drew some of its inspiration from the False Claims Act (FCA)24 - die "gold-standard"25 of whisdeblower protection and bounty rewards - it fell short in one critical respect. While whistleblowers were provided with a process for seeking rewards, Dodd-Frank failed to embrace the crucial qui tarn26 provisions of the FCA that allow whistleblowers to litigate cases independently from federal action. Perhaps because of the power of the Wall Street lobby,27 which regularly puts the "Military- Industrial Complex" to shame,28 whisdeblowers under Dodd-Frank will remain spectators in most stages of the enforcement actions triggered by their revelations.
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After this past Friday, if Yogi Berra lived in Wisconsin, he might be tempted to say, "It's like deja vu, all over again."
For after traveling to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a constitutional test of the process by which the Legislature passed it – the justices upheld it – and being the catalyst for an attempted but unsuccessful bid to recall Gov. Scott Walker, the state law curbing collective bargaining for most public employees has again been tossed out on constitutional grounds by a Dane County circuit court judge.
This time it's not the process but the law itself that is in contention. In a 27-page decision in Madison Teachers Inc. et al v. Scott Walker et al, judge Juan Colas ruled Friday that major provisions of the law violate the plaintiffs' rights of free speech, association and equal protection, and he declared those portions void and without effect.
That means the case is likely headed back to the Supreme Court, and probably sooner rather than later. In 2011, the high court reinstated the law after Dane County judge Maryann Sumi blocked its implementation because of her conclusion the Legislature violated the open meetings law when it passed it.
In this case, the plaintiffs include a union representing members of the Madison Metropolitan School District and a union representing employees of the city of Milwaukee. While the decision applies to local governments and school districts, it does not carry to state workers, who were not associated with the lawsuit.
"Sections (of the statute) single out and encumber the rights of these employees to choose union membership and representation solely because of that association and therefore infringe upon the rights of free speech and association guaranteed by both the Wisconsin and United States Constitutions," Colas wrote in the decision.
Those rights are fundamental, he concluded.
The decision created more questions than answers about its immediate ramifications for local governments and school districts. For example, the law limits most collective bargaining (police and fire unions were exempted) to wage increases, and even then any wage increases cannot surpass the rate of inflation. The law precludes bargaining over benefits and working conditions and requires workers to pay more for health and pension benefits.
But the decision seems to put all of those back on the bargaining table for municipal workers and school employees. That left local officials, many of whom have already modified benefits and work rules to comply with the law, wondering about the status of those changes, as well as about the status of their budgets, given substantial state funding cuts.
Political reaction
Both Gov. Scott Walker and state attorney general J.B. Van Hollen said the state would appeal, and Van Hollen said he would ask the courts for a stay of the judgment, allowing the law to remain in effect while it winds through the appeals process.
"We believe that Act 10 is constitutional in all respects and will be appealing this decision," Van Hollen said. "We also will be seeking a stay of Friday's decision pending appeal in order to allow the law to continue in effect as it has for more than a year while the appellate courts address the legal issues."
Walker railed against what he called the judicial activism of the judge. The governor said enough was enough.
"The people of Wisconsin clearly spoke on June 5," Walker said. "Now, they are ready to move on. Sadly a liberal activist judge in Dane County wants to go backwards and take away the lawmaking responsibilities of the Legislature and the governor. We are confident that the state will ultimately prevail in the appeals process."
Meanwhile, organized labor and Democrats praised the decision, saying it was not only a victory for free speech but critical for economic recovery.
"Restoring the rights of workers to collectively bargain is a key part of building back Wisconsin's economy," Senate majority leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) said. "Because of Gov. Walker and legislative Republicans, tens of thousands of workers could no longer negotiate over the hours they work, the safety conditions they labor under, or the health insurance and retirement benefits they and their families depend on. This ruling is a positive step forward to restoring rights that were abruptly stripped away and opens the door to allow workers and employers to negotiate agreements that are mutually beneficial."
State Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) urged the Supreme Court to take the case immediately without waiting for an appellate court review, which it can do through a procedure known as certification.
"The idea that a judge would find a pretext to say that it is against the law for government employees to pay for part of their pension and some of their healthcare benefits, to make it easier for a school district to remove a bad teacher, for a school district to impose a dress code on teachers, or for a city or county to promote employees based on seniority rather than merit is absurd," Grothman said. "Some judges today are rendering decisions one would expect from a banana republic dictatorship or newly independent country in which respect for the law has not been established. I am sure all counties, municipalities and school districts want to know where they stand. Therefore, it is extremely important the Supreme Court take up this case immediately."
Grothman said policy makers should take the decision as a "clarion call" to prevent the state's education system from being a breeding ground for left-wing extremism.
"It should be a particular embarrassment that judge Colas is a product of the UW law school, so is judge Sumi who earlier tried to overturn Act 10," he said. "Rather than wasting money on current diversity bureaucrats, we must guarantee intellectual diversity at the University of Wisconsin in general and the law school."
The decision
In his ruling, Colas said the state statute targeted and burdened local public employees who chose to join a union, and in so doing cast them into a separate class, and treated them differently, based only on that distinction.
In its arguments before the court, the union had laid out multiple examples of such alleged burdens, namely, that the statutes prohibit municipal employers from offering represented employees a basic wage increase greater than the cost of living; from collectively bargaining with represented employees on any fact or condition of employment other than wages; from entering into a fair share agreement, or an agreement that all members of the bargaining unit, whether they belong to the union or not, pay a proportionate share of the costs of bargaining and contract administration; and from deducting membership dues for a labor organization from wages of members of a labor organization.
Colas' decision noted the distinctions created by those provisions.
"The prohibitions against offering the base wage increases above the cost of living or negotiating on the other terms of employment do not apply to employees who are not represented by a union," the decision states. "The absolute prohibition on deducting membership dues from wages applies only to membership dues for general employee labor organizations; another clause permits dues deductions for public safety and transit unions under certain conditions."
For their part, Colas wrote, the state argued that, while the law might indeed burden the economic effectiveness of the employees associational activities, it did not take away their right to associate.
"The statutes, they argue, only 'limit the panoply of collective-bargaining privileges afforded Plaintiffs' and do not impair their right to 'associate together in the first instance,'" Colas wrote in summation of the state's argument. "The changes do not prohibit public employees from associating for the purpose of collective bargaining, or for other purposes, or from writing letters, holding meetings or petitioning the government."
Can't demand surrender of rights
In the end, he rejected the state's arguments. Citing a state Supreme Court determination that the holding out of a privilege to citizens upon a condition of nonmembership in certain organizations was a more subtle way of encroaching on constitutionally protected liberties than a direct criminal statute, Colas wrote: "Persons, even if they have no right to a legislatively conferred benefit, cannot be required as a condition of receiving that benefit, to surrender constitutional rights, 'unrelated to the purpose of the benefit,' or be required 'to comply with unconstitutional requirements.'"
For example, one federal court case addressed a federal law that prohibited members of "subversive organizations" from being tenants in federally subsidized housing. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the law violated the constitution by choosing to operate a housing program and then conditioning participation in it on a surrender of the constitutional right to free speech and association, and that Congress could do so only by showing that such an infringement was necessary to prevent a substantial evil.
He likened that case to the matters at hand, saying the state could not discriminate against those opting to engage in government-sanctioned collective bargaining by demanding that they give up constitutional rights to do so.
"It is undisputed that there is no constitutional right to collective bargaining," Colas wrote. "Similarly, there is no constitutional right to a government-subsidized housing program. Yet the courts have held that once the government elected to offer subsidized housing it could not condition eligibility for it upon surrender or restriction of a constitutional right unless that surrender or restriction was necessary to prevent a substantial evil that would threaten the operation of the program. In the same way when the government elects to permit collective bargaining it may not make the surrender or restriction of a constitutional right a condition of that privilege."
In the statute at issue, Colas continued, the state has in fact imposed significant and burdensome restrictions on employees who chose to associate in a labor organization, based upon their choice alone.
"The statute limits what local governments may offer employees who are represented by a union, solely because of that association," he wrote. "It has prohibited general municipal employees from paying union dues by payroll deduction, solely because the dues go to a labor organization (unlike the restrictions found constitutional in [a U.S. Supreme Court case], which prohibited payroll deductions of dues for any political activities of any organization, regardless of viewpoint, identity or purpose). Employees may associate for the purpose of being the exclusive agent in collective bargaining only if they give up the right to negotiate and receive wage increases greater than the cost of living. Conversely, employees who do not associate for collective bargaining are rewarded by being permitted to negotiate for and receive wage increases without limitation."
Likewise, he continued, the prohibition on fair share agreements meant that employees in a bargaining unit who join the union that bargains collectively for them are required to bear the full cost of collective bargaining for the entire bargaining unit, including employees in the unit who do not belong to the union but receive the benefits of the bargaining.
"Statutes that burden the exercise of a constitutional right for a lawful purpose and reward the abandonment of that right infringe upon the right just as did the prohibition (in the public-housing case) against members of certain associations residing in public housing," Colas wrote.
That said, that he did indeed find infringement in the statute, Colas said the only question remaining was whether the harm done to the constitutional right was outweighed by the evil it sought to prevent. The state showed no such evidence, he stated.
"Without any evidence or argument that the infringement serves to prevent an evil in the operation of the bargaining system created by the statutes, the court must find the infringement to be excessive and to violate the constitutional rights of free speech and association," he concluded.
Equal protection
The court also found that the statute violated the equal protection clauses of both the state and federal constitutions.
"Put simply, equal protection is the constitutional obligation government has to treat people equally when they are similarly situated, unless it has a reason not to," Colas wrote. "If a fundamental right is affected, the reason must be a very good one."
Or said another way, cases alleging a breach of equal protection must show that a statute treats members of a similarly situated class differently. So, he stated, the question could first be boiled down to: Do the statutes create distinct classes?
"They do," Colas concluded. "The two classes are 1) general municipal employees who are represented by a labor organization in bargaining and 2) general municipal employees who are not."
The state asserted that the statute did not create those classifications; instead, they were created by the employees who chose which class they wished to join. Colas rejected that position out of hand, saying the state offered no authority for it.
"The argument ignores the fact the challenged statutes create the classes, the classes are exclusive, and that municipal employees must be in one or the other," Colas wrote.
What's more, he continued, the classes were similarly situated because there was no difference between them except for union membership. Because they are similarly situated, and because one class is treated differently based solely on membership in that class, the statute violates the equal protection clauses of the constitutions, Colas concluded.
Finally, the judge determined, the statute also violates the state constitution's Home Rule provision by setting pension contributions for city of Milwaukee employees.
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Improving Health Literacy the Target of New National Strategy
Anational plan to improve health literacy calls for replacing the jargon-filled language and complex explanations often found in patient handouts, medical forms and patient websites with easier-to-understand information.
Released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in late May, the plan's recommendations include seven goals aimed at improving health literacy, which is defined as the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Only 12 percent of English-speaking adults in the United States have proficient health literacy skills, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
"Health literacy is needed to make health reform a reality," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "Without health information that makes sense to them, people can't access cost-effective, safe and high-quality health services."
She said HHS alone cannot improve health literacy and needs providers and payers "to communicate clearly and make the necessary changes to improve their communication with consumers, patients and beneficiaries."
The health literacy action plan's goals emphasize the importance of creating health and safety information that is accurate, accessible and easily acted upon. …


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I was told that Shimano "prestretches" new 10 speed chains. Can someone explain the hows and whys of this?
I was told that Shimano "prestretches" new 10 speed chains. Can someone explain the hows and whys of this?
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Who told you this?
Chains don't stretch, they wear. If Shimano's marketing a pre-stretched chain, then I'm sitting on a gold mine of pre-enjoyed units.
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I was told by a young kid at a bike shop in the next county over. A friend of mine also said that when he bought his new Specialized Allez, that the LBS "prestretched" his chain along with the cables.Originally Posted by cpb406
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So... They went for a test ride and then slammed on all the brakes? Then adjusted it again?
Sounds fishy at best. Chain strech occurs when the holes at the pin/plate junctions elongate due to normal wear. I imagine that one could suspend hundreds if not thousands of pounds of static weight from a bicycle chain and it would not stretch.
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Sounds like they're repeating something they thought they heard someone else say. Or have been "hung" by the other more experienced guys. Sort of like sending a new wrench-in-training to the hardware store for elliptical ball bearings that go in worn out hubs. Or to look in the QBP catalog for transparent seatpost clamps or whatever.Originally Posted by Alasdair
Cables don't stretch, either, but housings compress, giving the illusion the cable got longer. Don't believe it? On a bike with well used housings, take a brand new derailleur cable and run it through the old housing and adjust the derailleur. Now go ride and note how it stays adjusted! The housings were already fully compressed. All major brands of cables are prestretched in a controlled fashion at the factory. No need in the shop. But we always compress the housings!
Uh, what possible function would pre-stretching a chain accomplish?
Maybe it keeps the chain from shrinking and compressing the cogs and chain rings, causing deformation in those parts?Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
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Would using a pre-stretched chain require you have matching pre-stretched cogs & chainrings?
When I worked for a LBS, we had a nifty device that stretched cables for you. That helps avoid the normal 1 week tune-up when everything settles in. As for a chain, I've never heard of such a thing. And if there is, I have a chain just about prestretched for Campy to start marketing.
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Had not heard that before. Funny!
This is complete bullcrap anyways. First of all the term is wrong, "stretch". Second what really amounts to stretch is chain wear.
So in effect what they're saying is, they'll "strecth" the chain for you which means they'll give you an old chain. What a load of crap.
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When I worked at a hardware store, this frequent customer would come in, pick out the newbies, and ask for a left-handed monkey wrench or elbow grease. Most of them just asked me if we carry them (to which I just laugh) but a few people actually looked up their little store guide and pointed the guy in the direction of tools or lubricants!Originally Posted by BikeWise1
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Whats next, pre worn tires?
This is not quite right either. In fact what happens is that the cable wears its path into the liner inside the housing. On a new bike, the cable wears a groove into the metal that it runs over. Grabbing the brake levers hard after installing new cables take up the slack that may exist in the run from lever to brake, and permits the cable to "slot" into the old wear pattens.Originally Posted by BikeWise1
I'm also interested in seeing a "cable stretcher". It must suspend from the ceiling so someone can dangle off the end of the cable... because I can't see a cable ever stretching otherwise. Go figure it -- test the amount of force required to move a derailleur or engage a brake caliper. Then go attach the end of a cable to something immoveable, and try to "stretch" it. Good luck. Now if that poster had said "a tool for taking up the slack in a cable system" then I might believe him.
Anyone who says a chain or cable used on a bicycle is stretched, is playing with themselves. The key for the OP was "I was told by a young kid at a bike shop".
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What metal is having a groove worn into it? I've put on thousands of cables and have never seen these grooves. In any cable run, metal on metal is not good! Once the cable wears into the inner liner, it's time for new housing!Originally Posted by Rowan
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You really have to be old school to remember that cable housing used to be unlined, and allowed metal to metal contact.Originally Posted by BikeWise1
I bow to your superior experience.Originally Posted by BikeWise1
But, as I do so, I should point out that I don't think all brake cable outers have a plastic lining. Just a mo, I will go and check on one of the bikes out in the garage... nope, no liner there on the housing. What about canti brakes... no metal to metal contact there? What about where the barrel or mushroom end goes... oh yes, I see that there on my bike, too. There's also a bike out there with ... wait for it... a travel agent with metal-to-metal contact between the cable and the pulley. That's without the straddle fitting for canti brakes where there is... wait for it, metal to metal contact!!
Just occasionally, if you choose to work on bikes that may not be the current fashion trend, you might find cables running through a tube or two above the BB to the front and rear derailleurs... let me see on the (admittedly old frame up on the wall, a Maruishi)... yes! Metal to metal contact through one of those tubes!
And, if you look at Sheldon Brown's little tweak for 9 speed shifters converting to 10-speed cogsets, you will see that the cable has the potential to wear a little groove in the adjacent metal as it works.
And while we are on derailleurs and shifter cables, have you ever noticed how the cable exits from the rear derailleur barrel stop at an angle that might just change as the cage shifts back and forth... and that on some derailleurs, there might just be metal-to-metal contact and an itty-bvitty groove wear its way into tha exit hole? Probably not.
And even though it's not metal, no-one has mentioned anything about the BB cable guide for both the rear and front derailleurs (front, bottom pull) that can contribute to this cable stretch thing, too.
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I prestretched a wheel once, but it wobbled up and down too much.,,,,BD
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Oh, I began riding in 1974! I know the nasty feeling of that steel cable dragging through the unlined steel housing, especially on those fully housed rear brakes like my first Masi....Originally Posted by Svr


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In the post-11 September security developments, both internationally and domestically, counter-terrorism has become the "new organising principle" for a resurgence in national security rhetoric and unfettered practice. (2) Just weeks after the events of 11 September, the Federal government, led by the Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, proposed dramatic changes to Australia's security legislation in order to combat a "new level of threat" of terrorism. These changes, some of which quickly passed into law, are the most extensive since the establishment of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) itself in 1949. The new laws however are not only unprecedented, they are dangerous; they immensely expand executive power, imperil the rule of Law, offend established political and civil rights, compromise the separation of powers, and weaken established judicial procedures. (3) As such, these contemporary counter-terrorism developments represent a most significant threat to the proper relations between the arms of government, in particular between the executive and the judiciary, in a way not seen since Robert Menzies' several failed attempts to pass the Communist Party Dissolution Bill in 1950.
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hai guys, i now a days come across j2me,i have an doubt that is it possible to create an "alarm clock" in j2me for mobile can anybody help me by giving some tips
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