Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1917-10-18, Page 2Operation of the Bream. "Our. brake M your best friend in an emergency," says an expert, "but like every other good friend it must be. treated right, If working properly, it gives you the greatest sense of security, but if neglected you may pay the penalty with your life. "There are only two kinds of brakes -internal and external. The internal consists of a heavy ring which ex- pands, gripping the brake drum or stopping its motion. The contact is usually metal to metal, although a • brake lining is sometimes used. The internal brake is called the internal expanding or expanding -ring brake. "The external brake consists of a steel band lined with brake lining, a specially woven fabric of asbestos and brass wire. This is drawn tightly around the brake drum, holding it from the outside. It is called the external contracting or contracting - band brake, Apply to Controls. "The names 'service brake' and 'emergency brake' do not apply to the brakes themselves, but to the controls. The pedal usually applies the con- tracting band brake and is called the service brake, as it is the one ordinar- ily used in service. "It is not so powerful as the emerg- ency brake and is better adapted to ser- vice, bringing the car gently to rest without throwing the passengers for- ward or locking the wheels so that the car will slide on one spot on the tire, wearing it away. As implied by the name, the emergency brake is only used in an emergency to stop the care suddenly. It is extremely powerful and may be applied too suddenly, cans- ing the car to skid. "Another classification of brakes is by location, that is, transmission brakes and wheel brakes • A trans- mission brake is one that sets around a drum on some part of the transmis-, sion, such as the brake on the plane- tary of the Ford car. It holds the shaft rigidly, but allows the wheels to turn different ways, thus increas- ing the danger of skidding, "A serious disadvantage on heavy cars is that the full driving force of a heavy car is applied to the differ- ential, universal joint, drive shaft, and other points, straining them severely. This is not a serious objection on a light car. Put Brake on Drums. "The only proper place for a brake to be applied is on drums on the rear wheels. The emergency brake is al- ways applied here. On account of the fact that it can be set, the emer- gency brake is used to hold the car when we leave it. 'Brakes should never be' applied except when needed. This sounds like.a truism, but has more to it - than one may think. The operator should allow the car to coast to the place where he wishes to stop, letting it carne to rest without -applying the brake at all. This saves the brakes, the tires and the mechanism. "Quite different is the grand stand play of the novice. Ile dashes avidly up to the place where he wants to stop and jams on both brakes with a flourish while his experienced friend turns away with a pitying smile. Brakes were made for use not abuse. "It is extremely important to try out the brakes every time the car is taken out. Speed up when you have a clear space ahead of you and then apply the brakes. Do this several times with both foot and emergency brakes. Note whether car stops promptly or not, or if it has a ten- dency to swing to one side, showing one wheel to be free and the other one dragging. Test Brakes Often. "Once a week a thorough test and inspection should be given. Jack up both rear wheels, set the emergency brake up until it binds and try both wheels. The resistance should be uni- form. If one side is loose it must be tightened. If the car is equipped with brake equalizers the two sides will hold evenly unless there is grease on the brakes or they are worn un - 'evenly. "The two sides should be measured and brought to even length. An as- sistant will be necessary to apply the foot brake while it is being tested, al- though a jack might be used to hold the pedal in case no assistant is avail- able. "Brakes may slip because of grease getting on them from the axle hous- ing, weir of the lining so that the rivets are touching drums, stretching of the brake rods, looseness of the, parts. These should be gone over) and remedied as far as practicable. 'Be extremely careful not to draw up the brakes too tightly. They will bind and prevent the engine from driving the car at proper speed, thus wasting gasoline. At the same time the lining is worn, requiring replace- ,enent all the sooner. After adjust- ing the external brake you should see daylight all around the drum, show- ing that it is not touching anywhere. "So give close attention to your brakes, as their failure at a critical time might easily mean death" i SOLDIER'S FIRST AID. Knowledge of How to Use His First Aid Packet is Invaluable. An elementary knowledge of first aid is absolutely priceless, says Cap- tain David Fallon, M.C. In my experi- ence it has been the means of saving numerous lives, including my own on many occasions. When a man is dan- gerously wounded and first aid is ap- plied immediately there is every chance of his life being saved, but if the blood is allowed to escape from the body, and there is no means of etopprirg it, the body is soon emptied of its priceless fluid, and death fol- lows inevitably. I have known men who have been dangerbusly wounded and have saved their lives by a slight application of this knowledge of first aid. Each soldier is supplied with a first aid packet and should become familiar with its contents and applica- tion, This is one of the priceless gifts to every man. One should be aware of how easily one's own clothing and accoutrements can be used in the application of first aid. Men lying wounded in No Man's Land, where no assistance can be ren- dered them, can save their lives by us- ing their puttees as a means of band- age and a bayonet as a tourniquet. In one of my midnight raids I came across a man who had been lying in No Man's Land with a bullet wound through both his thighs, and his life had been saved through his own pre- sence of mind in having applied his field dressing onto the wounds and tied both his legs together with his puttees, On another occasion, when capturing a Boche trench, I discover- ed a man who had been lying in a funk hole with both legs smashed, but having applied first aid he had saved his life, though his legs were after- ward amputated. A Book About Bees. When bees become queenless they have the science to rear a new queen to save the colony from perishing. An ordinary worker -egg that is just hatching into the larva is profusely fed with royal jelly, a strangely pre- pared food of which no ope knows the exact composition. Instead of grow- ing in the ordinary cell, the larva is given one of these great waxen cones for its nursery; and instead of hatch- ing in twenty-one days into a worker bee, it hatches in sixteen into a fully fledged virgin queen. The first pre- paration for swarming is the starting of a batch of these queen -cells, so that the colony shall not be left queen - less when the queen departs with the swarm, and the swarm does not leave till some of the cells are sealed over. Whenever a queen loses her life, or grows so old as to be useless, the same sort of queen -cells are started to re- place her. The only exception is when a queen dies in the winter, and there are no eggs from which a new one can be reared; and then, unless man gives help, the colony quickly van- ishes. Frank Lillie Polock tells all about this in "Wilderness Honey," which is just published:,, Let the rats and mice do the starv- ing. ARMY DOCTORS WIN BATTLES Many of the Diseases heretofore Moat Deadly are Defeated. Few realize how great a debt of gratitude not only the army but the nation owes to the administration beade of the Royal Army Medical Corps. They have seen clearly and have not stayed their hands. It is common knowledge that typhoid fever has been defeated, tetanus, is defeated, bilharzia, that plague of Egypt `and the old Pharaohs, is defeated, dysent- eries are on the way to defeat, • the ter- rible sepsis of wounds has been de- feated, only a few enemies remain and the war against them is incessant. Regarding one of 'these few, the London Lancet has made the import- ant announcement that an officer of the Army Medical Corps has found a parasite in the blood of men infected by trench fever and working from that has been able to suggest a new line of treatment. The Lancet emphasizes the import- ance of the obscure war diseases, of which trench fever is an example. These diseases are widespread and not man can say how long drawn out their, after effects may be, but it is now known that such after effects do occur, One of these after effects of trench fever is a common disease from which' humanity is always suffering. With the discovery of the germ of trench fever the antidote also was found. It is possible that this discovery -may lead to wonderful results; it is being, watched with eager interest by medi- cal men. The King of Spain's Waistcoats. Affairs in Spain have brought King Alfonso lately into considerable pro- minence. He is better liked in Eng- land than any other European mon- arch, and is reputedly the best -dressed king in Europe. But once he receiv- ed a gentle hint on the art of attiring himself from the late King Edward that he never forgot. The young king brought with him to Buckingham Palace a varied selection of fancy waistcoats of the loudest design. He wore oneof these gar- ments when he went to have a cup of tea in King Edward's 'smoking -room shortly after he arrived at the Palace. The late King, in the most tactful manner, pointed out to the young monarch that in England waistcoats of so remarkable a pattern were not worn. King Alfonso thanked King Edward for this hint, and 'subsequent- ly gave away his whole stock of fancy waistcoats to his valet, "The waist- coat the King saw," he confessed subsequently, "was the quietest one of the lot." te— Lucid Testimony: "And after the choking—" prompt- ed the lawyer, who represented the plaintiff in a recent trial for assault. "Oh, there wasn't any choking that I saw," said*thewitness. "No choking? But didn't -you tell the officer that the accused sprang upon his victim from behind and seiz- ed him by the throat?" "Yes, sir, surely. But there wasn't any choking. He just squeezed him till he couldn't breathe." "Well, wasn't that choking, I'd like to know?" If the court was not enlightened by such a finely discriminated point, neither was the truth be -clouded. But Mr. William J. Burns, the famous de- tective, declares that it is nearly im- possible for the average person to give simple,lucid information to a lawyer or detective. He gives as an example the office boy who was asked, "Did Mr. Jones or his partner usually reach the office first?" "Well," said the boy eagerly, blush- ing and stammering with excitement, "Mr, Jones at first was always last, but later he began to get earlier, till at last he was first, although before he had always been behind. He soon got later again, although of late he has been sooner, and at last he got be- hind as before. But I guess he'll be getting earlier sooner or later." • Teacher—Who can tell what were the words of the Angels' Song on Christmas morning? Patriotic Pupil —"The Maple Leaf Forever!" Of all the treasures in Alaska, the seals are probably among the most valuable. Unlike mineral wealth, they need never run out, for, in conse- quence of their powers of reproduction, they can yield under reasonable.con- trol a large and continuous revenue for an indefinite future. COURAGE OF FRENCH SOLDIERS THE SOIL OF FRANCE IS NEVER A SOLITUDE, HE S_,YS.' Looks Forward to the Release of His Beloved Land From the Grip of the Barbarian. „ The following letter from the trenches was written by a French sol- dier who had been on active service since the war began. In civil 1afe the writer is a simple stone mason: "I wrote to you only a few days ago, but as I have a free memont I am sending you news again, as it may be some time before I shall have an- other chance. , . "The snore we gain upon the enemy and close upon him, the more he at- tacks us and lays hold upon us, suck- ing in our battalions like a thousand tentacles of an octopus. Ah! when bit by bit, at the price of fatigue and sac- rifices that cannot be told, the soil shall have been retaken by us, wrest- ed by main force by the soles and the nails of the boots of the diggers, all the united forces of the offensive, when the waves of the assault shall be only a meter from the frontier at the border of Belgium, she, too, will be impatient to feel the torrent of her sons sweep over her. Then only shall we celebrate the feast of the soil, which shall be both her salvation and her purification. Most Beautiful of Edens. "However, ave must be wise. Let us await whatever fate has in store for us in the decision of our commander, who lays plans, while appearing to be subject to a retreating enemy. We must even distrust ourselves and the snares of our enthusiasm and imagin- ation, and without stifling our toy yet us advance only -with dignity upon this suffering soil, which the barbar- ian, in being forced to renounce; ex- hausts his rage upon in martyring. These mutilations of the last hour make it only dearer to us than ever. It is as though it were beaten like an air at double time by the scourges of the adverse army, or'were like an an- vil fpr the perpetually bursting shells, which leave nothing but the surface, In Orchard, Field and Garden, , When picking grapes, handle thein by the stem and avoid injuring the bloom on the berries, The bloom adds totheir looks kid sellingf quell. ties. Last call to cut out .the old rasp- berry and blackberry canes! The cut- tings should be burned promptlt, in order to destroy insect'ond fungous pests which may be on them. Currants and gooseberries may be pruned as soon as the leaves fall; or the work may be left until early. spring, Cut back one-third of this year's growth, and thin out surplus, diseased or unthrifty shoots. Olid' bushes may have two-thirds of the present year's growth removed. Tho various kinds of small • fruits will not cost much to plant and will give anabundance of fruit the season through, Plan for it now; plant next' ' spring. Of course there is nothing ahead of a mellow apple from the cellar ot pit when the snow is banked deep and the fire shines bright, but there are can-' 'fire apples,dried apples, apple but- ter, apple sauce, apple presetyes''and spiced apples for the table, that will Hast unt11 blossoms Como and go, which 'add graciously to our larder supply; and when the crop, is picked is the time to be busy saving this store of. good things. It is not safe to store dam grain or hay unless you have adequate facilities for frequent "turning." Few -farmers realize ]olv small a percentage of moisture will cause otherwise good grain or hay to heat and deteriorate. While it is often preferable to ap- ply lime to a field when preparing the seed -bed, it is better, when badly need- ed, to spread it during the fall or any time during the winter rather than to neglect it altogether. Ground- lime- stone will not injure either the winter wheat fields or the meadows: A good husking -pin saves the thumb nails wonderfully. Make your own pin. Take- a ,piece of hickory about three and a half inches long, cut a fairly deep groove around the middle, sharpen one end, slit a piece of leather from aa_ old bootleg, put it around the! middle finger of the right hand to get the length, make a holes ateitherend, run the sharp end of the pin through! these, making a loop for the finger, put it on—and go ahead. A11„tomatoes showing, color should! be picked before frost. Stored in a shed or outbuilding, they will soonj Food Control Corner Pointed Paragrarh For Peopie*,Who Want to Win the War. N To -day's motto; 'Don'.t'stuff your husband, but husband your stuff.” Starve -the garbage can and nouriish the nation. , Foodlcontrol, , to be a country -Wide success, must, be a .personal•matter with every man/woman and child. Woman's eontributions to the cause are numerous. Not one is so •im-- portant as her assistance in food con trol. Of all;the great carnivore, of all the One fish meal for everybody every big killers„ the royal rTg)bi tiger in - day in the week would establish the and about Its native jungles is prob- market,and lower the cost of sea and ablythe most savage,the most to -be lake f 3)11A. feared, the most' terrible ,in its swift You can prevent waste by keeping infliction of injury on its foes, trach of what you spend. The grizzly, and Kadiak beaks and , The housekeeper holds the key to the lion are alone to be compared with • victory. Ounces of food saved in the the tiger, But the larger and more • kitchen swell into thousands of tons Powerful Boars are pacifists in com--- when the nation's cooks act in concert. parlson to the tiger for bloodtllirsti- ;' Eat more fish. nese and fearlessness, while the so - The waster is as much a slacker as . called, king of beasts is that only in , any one can be, • I majestic appearance and upon uh- The si sed "Food Saving Pledge" is worthy evidence, really being kiss ..L...,an obligation -that no one but yourself, bold and terrible than the tiger,. When can force you to live up to. You are matohed is ancient, arenas the tiger on your honor. f proved victorious, and singly he kills - Many millions of Europeans �youla' creatures far more farmidablo than eagerly accept the substitutes , for the lion or any bear dares to tackle. wheat, bacon and beef that are so Yak bulls and the'great nilgai bucks plentiful in Canada. I fall victims to single tigers, but one Food -saving and substitution must lion fears to battle with the African be persistent and consistent to -bring buffalo and is bald to avoid the male - results. eland. The hunting of the tiger, is atteilded ENDe•OF A FAMOUS 'LINE - ✓ by very great danger, unless,:as°gen• orally, the big striped cat is shot from elephants or 'raised platforms, after Almost a Century Since the Allanbeing driven from its jungles by the. ` Line Had Its Inception ,beating of drums and other horrible With the complete merger of the noises. But the lion is commonly Allan Line in the Canadian Pacific bowled over by the Hfunter-afoot, with- company, one of. the oldest of house out very great chance of the beast's flags disappears from the seas. It charging, was lit 1819 that Alexander Allan sent Tiger-Hhnting Incident. MOST DANGERO JS OF ALL, SPORTS IS TIGER' IfUNTINGF ON FOOT ,IN THE alUNGLE. How a .Foolhardy Hunter Saved. His Life by Taking the Beast"-?^^ by. Surpriso, out los first little brig, the Jean, from There have been a, few intrepid Greenock to. Quebec. Soon after hes; sportsmen who have tiger -hunted had five ships in commission, and from afoot, and some of them have lost that day to this the Aliens have their lives also, This is not to be ' ed a lar ge'part in -the development of ! s trade between Great Britain and 1 tigers, pursued by pinny consropitoo tact roar nny hunters, have Canada. Later on they established) ch ar ed elephants,hants, leaping on their services to Philadelphia and to BostonrhBads or sides, pulling the ,mahout but the line 'rem ned essentially from his seat and killing him before Canadian. ' Although it was not a• direct: com- petitor with"such great lines as the, Cunard and the White Star for the former remained out of the Canadian being riddled with bullets, even in - Meting wounds upon the occupants of the howdah. No lion •would dare face such odds unld d 1 ass corner an rare y the crust, the outer shell of the earth, ripen. Well -grown green ones cant trade for manyyears and has only re-' even then, except to break through n the kernel of all the erminations bepicked, wrapped in e'er and stored i ring of tormentors. g PP P P Gently returned toit—the Allan. Line) But even ,the tiger may, be so much shrunken and nude, 'ravaged, scraped in acool' place. When wanted for 1 was nevertheless a pioneer,in a num-1 surprised that the savagery goes out of, tormented, plundered. Even so, it use they can be ripened by'kplacing ber of improvement's in steamship con of him for a brief moment. An inti - appears to us the most beautiful of them in a warm room- It is true struction which travelers have long; dent ot this occurred when one Henry " Edens: that some. of them will be soft,'buttaken as matters of course. Thus; watt, an Americanimporter of Orien- "All the trenches and their what' of that? They will taste good the first steel steamshipito cross the tal woods, interrupted the monotony branches cutting into the earth repro- I when frost has. laid low all tender Atlantic was the Buenos Ayrean, built' of his business by going tiger hunting sent to us wide open furrows, ready things out-of-doors. �in 1879, two years before the Cunard -'lend on foot, of course, as he had al - for future harvests, both material and There are always some burst heads er Servia. Tho Parisian, built in 1581 • ways been used to going after rabbits, moral. The earth is the /nine; in it of cabbage. These should be worked was the first to have bilge keels. I quail, deer and bear in the good old -- are all 'the veins of countless trees- I up into kraut, or sold for that purpose. The Allan Line left to others, to be United States. There did not' seem to ures; it is the tufa, the base, the Along toward the middle of the month sure, the amazing increases .in size -him to be anything about a tiger that foundation, the solidity, move all the there should ' be a good demand for and speed which have marked the last looked so terrible to a man with a• „� supreme reality. When one has the kraut cabbage, and it is a good plan quarter of a century. It did not, good rifle. So Mr. Watt hired a native soil one has all. I to start in early and get a line on the join in the race for records which be- wiseacre with' an old-fashioned gun "Thedeveloped Treads of cabbage should be which led to the building of the Teu-jand hem tterly'refused to be bothered German in his haste cries out cut for sale this month, ,,. This will tonic and Majestic, the Cityof New that he has left a desert. He is mis- ] ' . with an elephant or to get up into any taken, The soil of France is never' a give the soft, immature heads time to York and the City of Paris (now the. ght. icjpd of'a safer place than the good, solitude, this 'least of all! It ispee- gain There seems to be a xvide-spread pled by a glorious throng, which our rm session that celery blanched with Enemy Has Taken Nothing. business. Only the hard, .. fully- gan with the Etruria and Umbria, and! and a lot of beaters at so much . per, enemy is too gross to see or perceive. Iea th is crisper and better flavored It is inhabited dead,by memories, by livingthe; than that blanched with boards.This shades ofof the and a the byall may be due to the fact that boards are who haves of veteransremained of the eatth, , more generally used for the early crop who goe rethvs, to 5 wup,1 when the weather is warm, and the in ostler to go before us, rise up,i atpmbling from the midst -of ruins and quality is then never so good as when debris, they themselves but ruins and it is matured in cool weather. In debris, fragments of social - classes,1 studying the matter of blanching it is and remnants of families. In this feel well to remember that a greet deal of eund desert all is ready for a newt celery grown in different parts of the birth; the children and the grain alike1eountry is blanced with boards and will spring up in strength. At each sold for fancy prices. The important step the furrows open, yawning and; thing is that the blanching be well covetous of the deep, distant roots of done at the least expense,' the race whicb could not be destroyed. . They are forever dried in their pro- Promoting the Oat. found sleep in the dust of the devast- ated church—in-the evenings they rise As rats did much damage to his like the bronze notes of dream bells. Papers, a Hindu clerk, who was in "No, The enemy has destroyed all, charge of the official documents in one but he has taken nothing away. The of the more remote Indian towns, ob- real desert is there, in the mournful tained permission to keep two cats, the larger of which was to receive somewhat better rations than the oth- er. A few Weeks later, the head of- fice at Delhi received this dispatch: "I have the honor to inform you that the senior cat is absent without leave. What shall I do?" To this problem the office vouchsafed no answer. " After waiting a few days the Hindu sent off a proposal: "In re absentee cat. I propose to promote the junior cat, and in the. meantime to take into government ser- vice a probationer cat on full rations," waste of his own heart, from which hope is fled." "He that turneth from the road to rescue another, turneth toward , his go ; he shall arrive in time by, the fopath of mercy—God will be his guide."—The Tribe of the Helpers. St. Helena was discovered by the Portuguese in 1501, and remained un- known to other nations for a period of eighty-seven,,,years,' It was first inhabited by the Dutch in 1645. New 'York and Philadelphia), the Deutschland, and finally such mon- sters as the Lusitania and Mauretania, the Olympic and Vaterland, solid ground looked to be, A Surprise Attack. ' They located a big, sleek, striped But in 1881 life Parisian was the brute .in some manner known to the most famous siiip of the whole Ate; shikaree and then the line of beaters lantic fleet for beauty—a fine staunch wadded into rind across the jungle fa vessel, still afloat in the service of the high woods,, ono end of the line the British Government. And the! coming our first. But no -tiger; Watt later and larger ships—the Virginian; hadn't seen one nor had the shikaree; was the first steamship in the At -'tire cat evidently meant to break back .lantic service with turbine engines into the jungle again. Then suddenly were always well ,equipped and Com- I they heard a cry Mum. the beater's, fortable. These will probably cross. and, though the scared shikaree the ocean for many years to come caught him by the arm, -Watt rushed under the Canadian Pacifimflag. But; forward and came upon a fearful ' many will regret that a name with sight. The tiger had knocked down such a record of honorable achieve -'two beaters together and lay on them, ment as Allan is to be only a memory.1 slogly biting them to death, and when , ."s-- 1 Mr. Wat came -bursting ;through the A Forbidden Song. ,bushes he stood face to.face`with and • "There is one subject no man men -1 not six feet from the giant feline. In - scantly he tiger came at the hunter, tinned at the front unless it be very whq`could not bring his gun to his casually," ' says , Captain Ralph W. Boll in "Canada in War Paint," "Even' shoulder in the dense brush, and .so then it brings with it a sudden silence,' with the butt of the weapon the man There is so much, so very much, in punched the big brute in the face. At that little word 'Home,' If a man; that tile.tiger backed off a little,^pos- were to get up at a sing -song and sing wilily for a spring, or Perhaps rho hard 'Home, Sweet Home' his life would be iron butt piece hurt sono; anyway,it imperiled. His sodic ce would rise delayed further onslaught and in the "' ne next second the 'hunter twisted his and annihilate him, because, it' could weapon around and without sighting not give vont to its feelings in any sent a heavy bullet crashing into the other way. There are some things' tiger's Brain. This chows that no that strike directly at the heart, and matter how ferocious a boaat may be, this. is one of them" OH TOM, HERE COMES, THE MINISTER! WHAT WILL NE-IHINIC Or YOUR_ D1Ae1(EYE4' -Ga BIDE (AU 1ck'. I— 4 ti I1.1. HIDE 111 Yes CLosa rug. BEEN HERE QU1TE A WHILE NOW THINKING MR. 'D)FF WoULD GEY HOME. UOES HE STAY otr( Ti115 LATe V@RV OFTEN 2 v441 -A- RE RAD A LOT or WORK AT 'THE OFFICE ToNIGer ANO HAD Tb srAI LAYi �RTHAN USUA,. T SMELI. SMOKE MRS WF'F!! SOMe,TUING MUST BE BURNitIG'!l IT 5E5145 TO BE GAMING FROM THAT CLOSET! \ 5NINR. !SNlFY+ OH- A- WIN VI) MOST BM MISTAK0N— rr e a hard crack on the snout May make Dragon flies feed on a large variety it stop to consider tor a mameht. of injurious insects. Had that been a-dearinstead of- a - tigot', tihough bruin' woltld not have been so dangerous to 'pursue in the" first place, it would have instantly ex-' changed blows with the roan, alto. / 11 gather to the latter's finish. d For .•n Eight -Hour Day, When the dawn is in the sky Kotler busily draws nigh, Shattering the' drowsy spell Thet'precedes the breakfast bell. Busy still until the noon Brings the dinner, none too soon; Busy still until the chime Gaily rings for supper time; Busy through the twilight glow As the stare begin to show; ' Buffy still, till prayers are said And the rest have goneto, bed. Even when to sleep she goes, Vigilant, in her repose, She will hear the lightest van That front childish lips may fall Yesterday she paused to smile, Saying, "Maybe, after while. An arrangement wa will sec 'ocean eight-hour day for me."