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Mew Developments Ltd
Mew Developments were regional winners of the Kitchen or Bathroom Project category at the FMB South West Master Builder Awards 2017.
They picked up the award for the installation of a stunning kitchen as part of a timber-framed new build on a cliff side location in Lyme Regis. See photos and read more about the project in the Case Studies section.
Mew Developments is a chartered building company which has been delivering superior building projects in and around Lyme Regis for over 20 years. Our ever increasing portfolio of successfully delivered projects reflects the skills, capabilities and wealth of experience that we bring to every scheme we work on. We work with clients who value the highest levels of quality, safety and technical expertise – applying our skills to meet their individual needs. Our philosophy is based around our company core values, which are the heart of our business because they define who we are, how we work, what we believe in and what we stand for. They are the basis from which we make all of our decisions and embody the fundamental values of the Chartered Institute of Building.
Professionalism and Integrity in Construction
Every member of our team, whether our own employed craftsmen, carefully selected subcontractors, professional partners or suppliers, understands the need for these core values and are willing to embrace and embody them. Taking stock of what previous clients have to say we understand that choosing a builder can be a daunting prospect. It is a huge decision and one that means you will be working very closely with whoever you choose for several months, whether on a luxury new home, extension, renovation to a listed building or conversion. This is why, with careful planning and attention to detail, we strive to help you enjoy the process and shared goal of realising your finished project. Our continued aim is to provide the very highest quality work within the building industry and our fundamental core values of professionalism, trust, collaboration and innovation all contribute to our excellent reputation. By providing a caring approach and professional efficient service, we have many cients recommending us and gaining us repeat business.
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The Crow's Nest Kitchen - Winner of best Kitchen or Bathroom at the FMB South West Master Builder Awards 2017
The kitchen that we constructed as part of the Crow's Nest project was awarded best Kitchen or Bathroom at the FMB South West Master Builder Awards 2017. Find out more about the Midland & South West awards here.
The kitchen was designed to match the contemporary lurch clad building with a simple and stylish finish and looks out over the beautiful surrounding countryside. Light was used to maximum effect to complete the aesthetic.
Replacement lightweight timber framed dwelling on cliff side location in Lyme Regis providing 150sqm of internal floor area. Due to the limited access it was decided early on to construct the property on site rather than using SIPs panels.
This is the third house constructed on this site in the last fifty years. Due to very unstable ground conditions and subsidence the previous two houses had been demolished. After the demolition of the previous property on the site we installed a piled foundation with ground beams. The design then called for a steel grillage which forms the basis of an innovative design allowing re-leveling following anticipated land movement.
The property is clad with larch, including all the walls and roof, giving a very contemporary look. A number of irregular angles have been incorporated into the design to enhance aesthetic.
What our client had to say
"I was given the name of Joe Mew from a local ''born and bred'' Lyme Regis resident and that is always a good way to start. First impressions also count and from our first meeting I felt that Joe was down to earth, honest and thoughtful and I knew that our house required a builder with all of these characteristics. The Crows Nest was built following significant landslip and subsidence which required the previously existing house to be demolished. The site itself brought plenty of sensitivities and complexities being in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, a Unesco World Heritage Site and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. To add to the difficulties we wanted to build a contemporary house with complex foundations that allowed the house to be re-levelled with a series of hydraulic jacks in the event that we had further subsidence. It was also a very bespoke and intricate design that required a builder that was both considered and diligent. The end result has exceeded all our expectations and is a truly fantastic house. Working with Joe and Grenville of Mew Developments has also made it a fun and exciting project to work on. Too often building a house can be both stressful and full of financial shocks but this was never the case with Mews. We worked on a relatively open book basis and I always felt that I could trust them both on quality and price. Exactly what you want from your builder!"
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Robert "Bubby" Lewis is not only an incredibly talented composer, he is also a killer bass player. In this video, Bubby gets funky as he demonstrates one of his favorite patches in the Roland VB-99 V-Bass System.
Robert "Bubby" Lewis is not only an incredibly talented composer, he is also an amazing bass player. When Bubby isn't composing for anime and television, he gigs with Lupe Fiasco. In this video, Bubby explains his custom, GK-3B ready bass, how he uses it to control the Roland VB-99 V-Bass System and how expressive the V-Bass system can be. Stay tuned for a followup post and video of Bubby rocking some his favorite VB-99 sounds.


Before and after pictures of male breast reduction surgery.
, gynecomastia affects between 40-60% of the male population, and is far more prevalent than many people realize. While a large number of gynecomastia cases are prompted by unknown causes, some factors – including steroids, medications containing estrogen, cancer, reduced liver function and excessive use of alcohol and marijuana – have been linked to male breast enlargement. Regardless of the source, gynecomastia can be safely and effectively treated using plastic surgery techniques. However, it is critical for all prospective patients to consult a board certified plastic surgeon before electing to undergo surgery.
Plastic surgeons perform male breast reduction surgery through either liposuction or the removal of excess glandular tissue, and both procedures are safe for most healthy male plastic surgery patients. During the initial consultation, a plastic surgeon will work with each patient to determine the best course of action – and to encourage diet and weight loss as a first step prior to surgery if appropriate. Both liposuction and the removal of excess tissue offer permanent results, and leave the patient with a smoother, firmer chest. The surgery usually takes several hours and is performed under general or local anesthesia. After about one week, most patients can return to their normal activities, and enjoy minimal scarring around the areola that will eventually fade with time.
and the entire San Diego area. In addition, our loyal clients come to us from throughout the state: we are proud to serve patients from as near and far as Newport Beach, Rancho Santa Margarita, Beverly Hills, and Baja California.


Lorde is not happy with Kids See Ghosts. The 22-year-old singer took to Instagram to claim Kanye West and Kid Cudi stole the design for the floating, glass rectangular box they performed in at Camp Flog Gnaw this weekend from her.
"I'm proud of the work I do and it's flattering when other artists feel inspired by it, to the extent that they choose to try it on themselves," she wrote on Instagram. "But don't steal — not from women or anyone else — not in 2018 or ever." The floating stage was created by Es Devlin and Lorde and debuted during her 2017 Coachella performance.
West, 41, has a decades-long working relationship with the artist and designer. However, Lorde's assertion of theft was quickly met with a mixture of bewilderment and confusion, with many people sharing photos of artists who have also performed in clear parallelograms.
Justin Bieber performed in a clear glass box during his 2016 "Purpose" tour. Earlier this year, A$AP Rocky was part of the performance installation "Lab Rat," while promoting his album "Testing." Kendrick Lamar's BRIT Awards performance also included a glass box.


No sailing today on Super Sunday. Just one day off this week and I've got some projects to work on including building new saw horses for the spring bottom painting on SPARTINA.
With the cold short days I always start thinking about the spring sail, this year's will be down on Pamlico Sound. I placed some food orders this morning for the cruise. At top are the buffalo/cranberry bars, part of my steak and eggs sailing breakfast (the eggs being Rx bars that I'll buy locally). The Callipo canned tuna is for lunch. And the Mango ginger chews are for snacks.
Webb is approaching the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. Looks like he will have contrary winds to get to the passage but once through he'll have the Tradewinds to carry him to Panama.
I have no favorites in the Superbowl. Just hoping for a good game.


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Can population health IT investments pay off?
Most providers think analytics tools will show quick ROI
More and more healthcare organizations are recognizing the value of population health management – and a majority say they expect to recoup their investments in the technology to power those programs in just a few years, according to KMPG.
[See also: Population health success depends on good data]
An online poll from KPMG shows that 20 percent of respondents say investments in healthcare information technology and analytics will pay off in one to two years. A slightly bigger group (36 percent) think ROI could take up to three or four years.
The survey showed that 29 percent see the investment in population health paying off in five or more years. Only 14 percent see them not recouping their costs at all.
[See also: Analytics means we 'roll up our sleeves']
"Our clients see benefits from population health management programs as a part of the solution to reduce avoidable medical costs and variability in care," said West Johnson, a KPMG advisory partner, in a press statement. "Preventive care is given a big priority in these programs, since they deliver improvements in efficient and effective care with a high degree of patient engagement."
As accountable care models, value-based contracts and other new reimbursement evolve, providers are embracing the care coordination and predictive strategies of population health, according to KPMG – whose survey found that more than a third of respondents (36 percent) say the biggest clinical benefit derived from population health management will come from preventive care.
Developing evidenced-based clinical protocols to improve the efficiency of care was the second biggest response (23 percent) among the healthcare managers and executives surveyed, followed by managing chronic diseases (21 percent).
Still, less a quarter (24 percent) of the poll's 296 respondents consider their organization's population health management capabilities to be "mature." The largest group (38 percent) describe their capabilities as in the "elementary stages," while 23 percent classify their efforts as in their "infancy" and nearly 15 percent say their pop health capabilities are "nonexistent."
"Healthcare providers are facing a seismic shift in the coming years, largely because government and commercial payers will increasingly decline to pay for avoidable hospital visits," said Joe Kuehn, a KPMG partner with the healthcare advisory practice, in a statement.
"Providers and other participants in the care delivery system need the real time data and analytic tools to not only manage and improve the quality of care provided, but also the ability to measure costs to operate efficiently," he added.
Redesign of care management processes, more focus on evidence-based medicine and a robust change management strategy, will be key to realizing the full potential of pop health programs and speeding their ROI, he said.
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Financial/Revenue Cycle Management
Epic CEO Judy Faulkner on Apple, docs who actually like their EHRs and Warren Buffett
Epic to jump into medical billing, currently hiring for new unit
How does blockchain actually work for healthcare?
Cerner sued for $16 million over revenue cycle rollout

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BRISTOL, Tenn. (August 23, 2015) – In his 100th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) start, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. salvaged a 21st-place finish in Saturday night's IRWIN Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.
After leading Roush Fenway's qualifying effort on Friday, the two-time XFINITY Champion started eighth and climbed his way up to seventh place before the handling on his Fastenal Ford turned deadly loose causing him to lose some positions early on in the 500-lap race.
With the race having long green flag runs, the Olive Branch, Miss. native lost a lap early on to the leader but was awarded the 'lucky dog' on lap 125.
Five laps after the restart on lap 379, Stenhouse was jockeying for position when contact was made causing the Fastenal Ford to spin bringing out the yellow on lap 384. With minimal damage to the right side of the Fastenal Ford, the crew worked feverishly to keep Stenhouse inside the top-20.
After restarting in the 19th position, but at the tail end of the field, Stenhouse worked his way up to 18th before losing a few positions in the closing laps to take the checkered flag in the 21st position.
The NSCS has a weekend off before heading to Darlington. The Bojangles' Southern 500 will be televised on Sept. 6, 2015 at 7 pm E.T on NBC. Race coverage can also be heard on Motor Racing Network (MRN) and SIRIUS channel 90.


October 26, 1885.— A Method for the Prevention of Rabies after the Bite of a Rabid Animal. — The prophylaxis of rabies such as I exposed it in my own name and in the name of my fellow-workers in my preceding notes certainly constituted a real progress in the study of that disease. But the progress realised was more scientific than practical. In application it exposed to various accidents. Not more than fifteen or sixteen dogs in twenty could be made refractory to rabies with certainty.
It was advisable, on the other hand, to end the treatment with a last and very virulent inoculation, a control inoculation, in order both to confirm and to strengthen the refractory state. Furthermore, simple prudence required that one should keep the dogs in sight for a longer period than that of the incubation of the disease as produced by the direct and isolated inoculation of this last virus, so that it was occasionally necessary to wait three or four months before gaining the assurance of having produced a refractory state.
Such serious exigencies would considerably limit the scope of the method in practice.
Finally, it would have been difficult to put the method to emergency uses at a moment's notice, a condition required of it nevertheless, if we consider how casual and unforeseen are the bites of mad animals.
It was necessary, therefore, if possible, to discover a more rapid method, and one capable of giving, if I may so speak, a state of perfect security in the dog.
And it was impossible, too, before that desideratum was realised, to think of making any trial of the method on man.
After, I might say, innumerable experiments, I have at last found a method of prophylaxis both practical and rapid, and one which has proved successful in the dog with so much constancy in such a considerable number of cases already, that I feel confident of its general applicability to all animals and to man himself.
This new method rests essentially on the following facts : The rabbit, inoculated under the duramater, after trephining, with the spinal marrow of an ordinary mad dog, is always affected with rabies ; it takes the disease after a length of incubation averaging about fifteen days.
If a second rabbit be inoculated from that first one, a third from the second, and so on, always by tlic same mode of inoculation, there is soon manifested in the succeeding rabbits a growing tendency towards a shorter incubation.
After a number of passages through rabbits, varying from the twentieth to the twenty-fifth, tin incubation falls down to eight days, which remains the normal incubation time for the next twenty or twenty-five passages. Then it reached an incubation of seven days only, and recurring with striking regularity up to at least the 90th passage, which is the point we have reached at present, and there is barely as yet a slight tendency towards a shorter period of incubation than seven days.
The series was begun in November 1882, and has now lasted three years already. It has never once been interrupted, and never has it been necessary to have recourse to any other than the virus of rabbits of the same series which had previously died of rabies. Nothing is easier, therefore, than to have constantly at one's disposal, for considerable lengths of time, a virus of perfect purity and always identical with itself or as nearly so as possible. Therein lies practically the whole secret of the method.
The spinal marrows of the rabbits are virulent throughout the whole of their substance, with constancy of the virulence. If from those marrows we take portions a few centimetres long, using all possible precautions to keep them pure, and then suspend them in a dry atmosphere, their virulence diminishes slowly until at last it is all lost. The time that the virulence takes to disappear entirely varies somewhat with the thickness of the marrows, but most of all with the outside temperature. The lower the temperature, the longer is the virulence preserved. These points constitute the scientific part of the method.
After those preliminary explanations, here is the process for rendering dogs refractory to rabies in a relatively short time.
In a series of flasks, the air inside which is kept dry by dropping pieces of caustic potash into it, suspend every day a portion of fresh spinal marrow taken from a rabbit which has died of rabies of seven days' incubation. Every day also inject under the skin of the dog to be made refractory a full Pravaz hypodermic syringe of sterilised broth in which has previously been triturated a small piece of one of the drying marrows. Begin with a marrow old enough to make sure that it is not at all virulent. Previous experimentation will already have settled that point. On the succeeding days proceed in the same manner with fresher marrows, and use those of every second day, until finally we inoculate a last and very virulent one which has been drying only one or two days.
The dog has now become refractory to rabies, and will not take it anyhow inoculated, under the skin or on the surface of the brain.
Theodore Yone, a grocer from Meissengott, near Schelstadt, bitten on the arm on July 4 by his own dog, which had become mad.
Joseph Meister, nine years old, bitten also on July 4 at eight o'clock in the morning, and by the same dog. This child had been thrown down by the dog and had received numerous bites on the hand, the legs and thighs, some of them so deep that he could scarcely walk. The principal wounds had been cauterised with carbolic acid by Dr. Weber, of Ville, on July 4, at eight o'clock in the evening, twelve hours only after the accident.
The third person was the mother of little Joseph Meister, and had not been bitten.
The dog had been killed by his own master, and on opening his stomach it had been found stuffed with hay, straw, and chips of wood. The animal was certainly mad. Joseph Meister had been rescued from him all covered with saliva and blood. Mr. Vone had been severely contused on the arms, but he assured me that his shirt had not been traversed by the fangs of the dog. I told him there was nothing to fear, and that he could go home that same day, which he did. But I kept with me little Meister and his mother.
The weekly meeting of the Academie des Sciences was held on that same day, July 6. I saw there our colleague Dr. Vulpian, to whom I related what had occurred. Dr. Vulpian, joined by Dr. Grancher, professor at the School of Medicine, kindly consented to come at once and see the state and the number of the wounds of little Joseph Meister. He had been bitten in fourteen different places.
The advice of our learned colleague and of Dr. Grancher was, that owing to the depth and number of his wounds, Joseph Meister was exposed to almost certain death from hydrophobia. I then communicated to Drs. Vulpian and Grancher new results I had obtained in my studies of rabies since the time of my lecture in Copenhagen a year before.
The child, being apparently doomed to inevitable death, I resolved, not without feelings of utmost anxiety, as may well be imagined, to apply to him the method of prophylaxis which had never failed me in dogs.
My set of fifty dogs, indeed, had not been bitten before they were made refractory to rabies ; but that objection had no share in my preoccupations, for I had already, in the course of other experiments, rendered a large number of dogs refractory after they had been bitten.
I had that same year invited the members of the Commission on Babies to witness that new and important progress.
On July 6, then, at eight o'clock in the evening, sixty hours after the bites of the 4th, and in the presence of Drs. Vulpian and Grancher, we inoculated into the right hypochondrium of little Meister, under a fold made in his skin, the half of a Pravaz hypodermic syringe containing the marrow of a rabbit which had died rabid on June 21 previous. Since that date the marrow had been kept in dry air, suspended in a bottle— fifteen days altogether.
The treatment, therefore, lasted ten days, and the total number of the inoculations was thirteen. 1 shall say later on that a smaller number of inoculations might have sufficed, but in this first case I had necessarily to act with peculiar circumspection.
Two fresh live rabbits were also inoculated on the brain with every one of the marrows used, in order to follow their degrees of virulence.
The observation of those rabbits brought out the following points : the marrows of July 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 were not virulent, for the rabbits inoculated with them did not become mad. The marrows July 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 were all virulent, in ascending progression. The rabbits inoculated from I marrows of July 15 and 1G took rabies after seven days' incubation ; those inoculated from the marrows of the 12th and 14th after eight days ; those from July 11 after fifteen days.
I had, therefore, in the last days of the treatment, inoculated Joseph Meister with the most powerful rabies virus — namely, the virus of the ordinary mad dog, strengthened by a large number of passages through rabbits, a virus giving rabies to rabbits after seven days' incubation, to dogs after eight or ten days only. My action was justified by what I had observed in the fifty dogs of which I have spoken before.
When once the state of immunity has been reached, there is no danger attaching to the inoculation in any quantities of the most powerful virus. It has always appeared to me that the only consequence of such inoculations was to consolidate the refractory state.
Joseph Meister has, therefore, escaped from the hydrophobia which he might have developed in consequence of the bites he had received, and also from the hydrophobia, more powerful than the one resulting from ordinary canine madness, which I inoculated into him to test the immunity imparted by the treatment.
This last highly virulent inoculation has one more advantage : it limits the period of time during which fears may be entertained as to the results of the bites. If rabies could come on at all it would undoubtedly do so quicker after this most virulent inoculation than after the bites. As early as the middle of the month of August I looked forward with confidence to the future health of Joseph Meister. To-day, three months and three weeks after the accident, his health is still perfect.
What is the mode of action of the new method, just given, of the prophylaxis of rabies after bites '? I do not purpose to deal fully with the question today, but shall content myself with a few preliminary remarks, which will help to explain the meaning of the experiments which I am still carrying on for the purpose of giving us a clear idea as to the best possible interpretation.
If we consider, on the one hand, the methods of progressive attenuation of mortal viruses and the prophylaxis which can be derived from them, and, on the other hand, the influence of atmospheric air on that attenuation, the first explanation which offers itself to the mind is that the continuous contact of the rabid marrows with dry air progressively diminishes their virulence until it is finally all lost.
It would hence appear that our prophylactic method rested on the use, first of all, of a virus without any appreciable degree of virulence, and then of viruses progressively virulent, from the lowest up to the highest.
I shall show later on that the facts do not agree with that hypothesis. I shall also give proof that the delays in the incubative periods of the rabies inoculated from day to day into fresh live rabbits, as just indicated, and for the purpose of testing the state of the virulence of our desiccated marrows, are due not to a diminution in the degree of virulence of those marrows, but to a diminution in the quantity of rabies virus contained in them.
Might it be, then, that the inoculation of a virus, the virulence of which should always remain identically the same, could bring on a state of refractoriness to rabies on condition that we proceeded in the use ot it by very small but daily increasing quantities ? That would be one way of interpreting the facts of the new method, and a way which I am occupied in verifying experimentally.
Yet one hypothesis suggests itself in explanation of the new method : a hypothesis which at first sight seems very strange, assuredly, but one nevertheless worthy of all consideration, for it is in keeping with certain known facts of the vital phenomena observed in several of the lower beings, and, in particular, in certain pathogenic microorganisms.
A large number of micro-organisms apparently give rise, in the media where they grow, to substances which have the property of opposing their own growth.
As early as the year 1880 I had initiated some researches having for their object to detect some such poison produced by the fowl-cholera microorganism and toxic to that same micro-organism. I have not been able, as yet, to demonstrate the presence of such a substance ; but I am of opinion to-day that those studies ought to be taken up anew, and I shall not fail to do so myself, taking care to cultivate the micro-organism in an atmosphere of pure carbonic acid gas.
The microbe of swine-plague thrives in broths of very varying composition, but it is so rapidly stopped in its development, and the weight of it formed is so small, that it is occasionally barely possible to tell the presence of a crop of it by noticing the slender silky bands undulating in the nutrient medium. It looks as if at once had been produced a substance which had stopped the growth of the little being, whether sown in presence of air or in vacuo.
M. Raulin, once my assistant, and now a professor in the Faculty of Lyons, showed, in the very remarkable thesis which he presented in Paris on March 22, 1870, that the Aspergillus niger develops during growth a substance which stops, to some extent, the further production of that mould whenever the nutrient medium does not contain iron salts.
Might it be, then, that rabies virus was made up of two distinct substances, the one living and capable of multiplying in the nervous system, the other not living, but capable still, when in suitable proportions, of arresting the development of the first ?
In an early communication I shall give the experimental and critical results arrived at with regard to this third hypothesis concerning the mode of action of the prophylactic method.
It is scarcely necessary in closing to remark that probably the most anxious question for the present is that of the time which may be allowed to elapse between the bite and the application of the treatment. That interval was, in the case of Joseph Meister, two days and a half, but it will certainly be considerably longer in a large number of cases.
On Tuesday last, October 20, obligingly assisl by MM. Vulpian and Grancher, I had to begin the treatment of a young man of fifteen who had bee n bitten six full days previously on both hands and in circumstances of peculiar gravity.
The Academy will not listen without some emotion to the story of the deed of bravery and of cool-mindedness done by the boy whose treatment I took in hand last Tuesday. Jean-Baptiste Jupille is a shepherd boy belonging to Villers-Farlay, in the department of Jura. Seeing a powerful dog with suspicious gait throwing himself upon a group of six of his comrades, all younger than himself, he seized his whip and rushed forward to meet the animal. The dog at once caught hold of Jupille by the left hand. Then followed a hand-to-hand fight, so to speak, the boy finally throwing down the animal and pinning him to the ground under his knee. Next, with his right hand he forced open the jaws of the beast, disengaged his left hand — all the while receiving new bites — and taking the thong of his whip he tied the muzzle of his enemy and with one of his wooden-shoes beat him dead.
I shall make it a point to acquaint the Academy with the results of this new trial.


As the wrestling season comes to an end, we take a look at our area wrestlers who will head to the University of Iowa in the coming years.
It's no secret, the state of Iowa loves their wrestling. The University of Iowa is no different, the program routinely sells out Carver-Hawkeye Arena and brings in top recruits year after year. With so many great wrestlers in the area, it's no surprise to see them dip into the talent pool.
Among local wrestlers committed to the school are Kasson-Mantorville's Patrick Kennedy, Albert Lea's Zach Glazier, Simley's Ryan Sokol and Mason City's Cullan and Colby Schriever.


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A Road Map for Getting Rid of Racist Cops
Former public defender Vida Johnson has some ideas for how to purge police departments of white supremacists.
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It's hard to forget the image: Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker, two off-duty Virginia police officers, pose for a selfie in the US Capitol, one of them raising his middle finger to the camera, as throngs of Trump supporters ransack the building to try to stop lawmakers from certifying the presidential election. The photo circulated widely on Facebook and other social media platforms in the days following the January 6 mob.
As a result, the two officers were fired this week from the Rocky Mount police department, and they're now facing federal charges. It's likely they weren't the only cops to join the insurrectionists: Police departments around the country are also investigating more than a dozen off-duty cops who allegedly participated in the violent mob, and examining allegations that other officers attended the rally in the hours beforehand.
But waiting until after an armed insurrection to investigate officers with extremist views seems like far too little, too late. In the wake of the Capitol attack, legal scholars and activists argue that police departments should do much more to rid their teams of racist officers, including by regularly screening their social media posts. "They should be searching their emails and text messages for key words associated with far-right extremism and racial animus," says former DC public defender Vida Johnson, an associate law professor at Georgetown University who has studied white supremacist infiltration of police.
"They should be searching their emails and text messages for key words associated with far-right extremism and racial animus."
In recent years, the Plain View Project, a collaboration between a Philadelphia lawyer and journalists at the nonprofit Injustice Watch, has documented around 5,000 bigoted social media posts by accounts belonging to current and former law enforcement officials. These days, many more posts are coming to light: One of the Virginia officers who posed for the Capitol selfie gave clues on social media weeks before the mob, writing on Facebook in December that he was prepared to start an armed rebellion, according to an FBI investigation. The other Virginia officer sent social media messages to a friend afterward, bragging that he'd peed in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's toilet. "[I]t was f***** amazing," he wrote. (Both officers now say they did not participate in any violence or property damage in the Capitol.)
I spoke with Johnson about some simple solutions that police departments could adopt to crack down on bigots with badges after decades of allowing them to patrol the streets.
What was your reaction to the news that off-duty police officers joined the mob that stormed the Capitol?
Obviously I was shocked by the scale of what happened, and more than a little bit scared. I definitely was not surprised.
Police departments around the country are now investigating some of their officers who were in DC that day. Do you have any thoughts about these investigations and the way discipline is being handled?
It's a great step that departments are actually taking a look at their officers who were involved. Unfortunately, we're not going to know much more than what they share with us. Because of collective bargaining agreements between municipalities and police departments, and also confidentiality statutes, we don't know an awful lot about police officers and the kind of discipline they're exposed to. The Capitol Police is one of the most opaque police departments, but there aren't a lot of police departments that are particular transparent. So we're not going to know a lot about what kind of investigations are done. I find that worrisome.
What should police departments be doing to root out racist police?
One of the problems we saw on January 6 is that there's a disproportionate number of people on police departments who hold far-right views. Really, it's not a surprise. Ten percent of the [total US] population believes it's okay to hold neo-Nazi views. Twelve percent of the population, based on a Reuters poll, said they support the rioters. You have to assume an even bigger percentage of people currently in law enforcement hold those types of beliefs. Whether they act on them or not, it's going to color the way they see the world and the way they police communities.
We know that white people are overrepresented on police forces, and that needs to change. It's not to say Black officers are all good or white officers are all bad, but it's definitely something we need to look at. This is just anecdotal, but when you look at who was taking selfies with the crowd, they were the white officers. When you look at who acted heroically, and lots of officers acted heroically, but the person we think of is that Black officer who led the rioters away from Congresspeople who were only feet away. So we need to diversify police departments.
We also need better background checks of police officers—more personality testing of new hires. There's this horrible story of a Little Rock, Arkansas, officer who was completely honest during hiring when he said he attended a KKK rally when he was a teenager, and he was hired anyway, and he went on to shoot and kill an unarmed teen there. So we can't just do background checks; we have to not hire people who set off alarm bells.
Another thing that hasn't happened is that we need to check in on officers periodically during their tenure in the police department. I use this example: We don't give someone a driver's license when they're 16 and say, "Go ahead. You can drive for the next 70 years." We check in on them to make sure their eyes still work, that they're thinking clearly, that they don't have dementia. Every year or two, police departments should be doing social media checks, having [officers] come in for new rounds of psychological testing. They should be searching their emails and text messages for key words associated with far-right extremism and racial animus. Police officers need to agree to a social media policy that makes it impossible for them to spew hate online, and they need to be fired when they violate it.
It is really difficult to fire police officers due to a lot of agreements that municipalities have made with police unions, and that needs to change. Because until it is easy to fire a police officer who crosses a line or violates the law, we are going to continue to have this problem. Good officers have no incentive to tell on officers [who commit misconduct], because at this point they have every reason to believe those officers will be on the force the next day or the next year.
In one of your papers, you argue that police departments have a legal obligation to regularly screen officers. Can you talk more about that?
Both police departments and prosecutors' offices have an obligation under something called the Brady doctrine. There's a case called Brady v. Maryland that was a Supreme Court case several decades ago, and it said the government—and the government means both prosecutors and police—has to turn over any information that's favorable to the defense for use by the defense at trial. For example, if a complaining witness in a case has a prior conviction for perjury, that's something they need to turn over to the defense so that the defense can cross-examine that witness with that information. Similarly, I argue that issues of police discipline and anything else you could cross-examine a police officer about should be turned over to the defense.
Many prosecutors' offices already do this. The US Attorney's Office in DC and the San Francisco prosecutor's office turn over issues of police discipline to the defense for use at trial. But what they're not doing, and should do—all prosecutors' offices should—is some social media checks to see whether these officers hold any biases against the communities they police. So for example, in the OJ Simpson trial, basically the way the defense won that case was by showing that the main detective had used a racial epithet toward Black people in the past, and he lied about it on the stand, and then they cross-examined him with it. That shows how effective that kind of cross-examination can be. So that's something that police and prosecutors need to do more seriously.
But there's not a lot of incentive for prosecutors to do these kinds of in-depth looks at police officers because they don't want to ruffle police officers' feathers, because they rely on them so much. They don't want to step on police officers' toes. That's a problem.
We really need independent people looking into both prosecutors' decisions on whether to prosecute police officers and also the issue of officer discipline. A good police department would pay an outside group to do an internal review of the social media policies, searching for emails and text messages of police officers. Because you're more likely to root out the problem when you don't have people who may have been to an officer's daughter's birthday or wedding being the one looking into whether they should stay on the force.
Under the Brady doctrine, is the government required not only to hand over information to the defense that it's aware of, but to actively be searching for information about these officers?
With the proliferation of social media platforms as a way to communicate, and the fact that officers are texting with one another rather than using their recorded radio channels to communicate, I think we're at a point where to not look into these things is like putting your head in the sand. As long as other officers know this stuff, then the prosecutor is on notice to look into it. So I think yes, the law says they need to look into it. Not everyone would agree with me.
Are there any outside groups already doing these social media checks, or any that would be well tasked to do this?
Not that I'm aware of. We do it in other instances: We appoint special prosecutors—calls for this usually come in the wake of a police shooting, where a local prosecutor doesn't prosecute a police officer. But we really need to think about this more broadly. Otherwise this problem is going to continue. It was back in 2006 that the FBI warned of the infiltration of white supremacists in police departments, and almost nothing's been done to curb the problem. We've let it just grow for almost 15 years.
Even if police departments had to do these social media investigations themselves, wouldn't they be pretty well equipped to do it? Since they already have teams of people who analyze social media posts of suspected gang members or people suspected of criminal activity.
Yeah, big police departments do. But it's so easy to scrutinize someone different than you. It's a different matter to dive deep into someone who you know well. The tendency is to give them the benefit of the doubt, cut them some slack. You try to read a different meaning into what their post says. So I think we don't want to leave it to other police officers who may have known the officer they are looking into since they were a cadet. Or they've been to the bar with them, they've been to each other's weddings. That's a recipe for more of the same.
"Police officers have access to sensitive information. That's one reason why careers in law enforcement are so appealing to people who hold far-right belief systems."
You've heard the story of the officers in Wilmington, North Carolina, over the summer. One of them accidentally activated his body cam, and it caught this whole conversation between several officers who were dreaming of a race war and of wiping Black people off the map, and referring to a Black woman they'd arrested earlier that day as the n-word. There were multiple officers having this type of discussion. And the only way it was discovered was because someone happened to be independently reviewing body camera equipment to see if it worked. It wasn't that one of the officers who was more quiet was like, "God, these guys are scary." No. Those guys just continued to work together every day.
There was another story of officers in San Jose over the summer. One of them posted, "I say re-purpose the hijabs into nooses." This was on a Facebook group with other officers. Why would he feel comfortable posting that unless he knew his back was covered? The culture of policing is that you don't tell. There's this blue wall of silence. And until that is destroyed, you're going to continue to have this problem.
I've seen the term "ghost skins" in some articles, referring to officers who are white supremacists but don't openly display their beliefs; they try to blend into society and further their agenda that way. How common is that?
It's so hard to know how common any of this is. But that's precisely what that 2006 FBI report warned about. Police officers have access to sensitive information. For example, they might know if they're looking into the Proud Boys or the Three Percenters or the Oath Keepers, so they can tip them off. That's one reason why careers in law enforcement are so appealing to people who hold far-right belief systems. They get this opportunity to not only police people of color, to control their goings and comings and how they live their lives, but also they get this inside information about whether [far-right groups] are in fact being investigated.
There's an argument that departments can't fire officers simply for having white supremacist beliefs—it has to be about behavior, which I think could include social media posts. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Well, we can never know what's in someone's mind, but certainly we can fire them when they act on their white supremacist views, like publicly posting something or texting something to another officer, because that impacts the behavior of others. There are cases that say that an officer might have a First Amendment right to express some of his views, but his right to express those views don't outweigh the police department's interest in a good relationship with the public. Anything that undermines the integrity of the office is grounds for dismissal.
You previously worked in DC's public defender office. Did you encounter any cases there that involved racist police that got you wanting to study this more?
In my time as a public defender, I saw all sorts of instances of racial bias. Our clients were 95 percent Black in a city that's less than 50 percent African American. But in terms of explicit bias, it really wasn't until I had the time as an academic to sit back and think about this problem. I was at Georgetown—I teach a clinic there. Our students represent people in Superior Court. And there was a police officer who wore a T-shirt with a symbol on it that's connected to white supremacy. The middle of the shirt showed an angel of death, like a Grim Reaper, and in one hand he was holding a rifle, and in the other hand he was holding a Metropolitan Police Department badge. This officer wore the T-shirt to court; that's how it was discovered.
At the same time I heard about a scandal in another police department about some racist text messages—it might have been Miami. That's what connected all the dots for me. The thing about the T-shirt that really troubled me is that it showed that this white officer saw himself as not a public servant to this community that he was policing, but as an angel of death, as someone at war with them. Someone who's goal was to intimidate them. And then ultimately it was discovered that there wasn't just one of these T-shirts—the entire shift had these. And some of those officers were Black. So whether it's racism or not, there's a problem in police culture where they don't see themselves as servants of the community.
That reminds me of another case you mentioned in your paper, in Cincinnati, of the officer who had the—
—the Confederate flag…
Yeah, he wore a Confederate flag T-shirt underneath his uniform, and the judge wouldn't allow that to be considered as evidence in the trial.
Evidence of racial bias. Ah! The other thing that's really crazy about that T-shirt [in DC] is he wore it to court. Just think about how comfortable you are in your job that you think you can wear a T-shirt like that. One that shows you as an angel of death. It was the Seventh District, which is one of the Blackest precincts in DC. It was the 12 a.m. to 8 a.m. shift. Just imagine that you think you can wear that to court and that that's okay. You're not gonna get in any trouble. And indeed, nothing happened to any of these officers who had these T-shirts.
They're supposed to be protecting and serving us. But unfortunately it seems like a lot of departments see themselves at odds with or even at war with the rest of the community. That's a culture within policing that needs to change.
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Leopold Takawira (* 1916 in Chirumanzi, Victoria District, Südrhodesien; † 1970 im Gefängnis in Salisbury, heute Harare, Rhodesien, heute Simbabwe) war einer der Vorkämpfer der Unabhängigkeit Simbabwes. Er war auch unter dem Namen Shumba yeChirumanzi bekannt.

Leben
Takawira ging in Chirumanzi zur Schule und erhielt später eine Lehrerausbildung in Mariannhill in der Provinz Natal in der Südafrikanischen Union. Er wurde zuerst Hilfslehrer und später Leiter der Chipembere Gouvernment School in Highfield (Rhodesien), einem der ersten Townships in Salisbury, heute Harare. In den 1950er Jahren wurde er Angestellter in der Capricorn Africa Society des Colonel David Stirling und gab den Lehrerberuf auf.

Politische Laufbahn
Nachdem der Rhodesische African National Congress von den britischen Kolonialbehörden in Südrhodesien verboten worden war, kam es 1959 zur Gründung der National Democratic Party (NDP). Takawira wurde 1960 zum Vorsitzenden des Bezirks Salisbury der Partei gewählt und Mitglied des Zentralen Parteivorstands. Am 19. Juli 1960 wurde er zusammen mit anderen führenden Kämpfern unter der Anschuldigung verhaftet, sie gehörten dem verbotenen National Congress an. Nach der Verhaftung der Parteimitglieder gab es Unruhen in Salisbury.

Am 21. September 1960 wurde Takawira zum vorläufigen Vorsitzenden der Partei gewählt, verlor jedoch die Wahl zum Präsidenten im November 1960 gegen Joshua Nkomo. Nkomo sandte Takawira danach als Leiter für die Internationalen Beziehungen der Partei nach London. Takawira hatte 1961 gegen die Politik der NDP-Führung von London aus protestiert. Dies führte zu einer Politikänderung in der Partei. 1961 wurde Takawira Gründungsmitglied der Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), der Nachfolgerin der NDP. Auch in der ZAPU war er des für die Außenpolitik zuständige Vorstandsmitglied.

Takawiras Unzufriedenheit mit der Politik Nkomos führte zu seinem Ausschluss aus der Partei im Juli 1963. Daraufhin schloss er sich der abgefallenen Fraktion unter Ndabaningi Sithole an. Er wurde im August 1963 Stellvertretender Vorsitzender der Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU).

Verhaftung und Tod
Ende 1964 wurde Takawira verhaftet und zusammen mit Joshua Nkomo, Ndabaningi Sithole, Robert Mugabe und Edgar Tekere in Sikombele eingesperrt. Nach der Einseitigen Unabhängigkeitserklärung Rhodesiens im Jahre 1965 durch das Regime von Ian Smith wurde er in das Gefängnis in Salisbury verlegt. Dort verstarb er 1970, vermutlich an den Folgen der Nichtbeachtung seines Diabetes durch die Gefängnisverwaltung.

Takawira wurde zuerst in seinem Heimatdorf bestattet. Seit dem 11. August 1982 liegt er auf dem Heroes Acre bei dem Zimbabwe National Monument außerhalb von Harare.

Literatur
 Fay King Chung: Re-Living the Second Chimurenga. Memories from the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Stockholm 2006.

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Person (Simbabwe)
Geboren 1916
Gestorben 1970
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Cutting the s3mt, beheading the Enemy.
S3mt was for Egyptians apparently something more than just "mourning". What about that s3mt that could be cut, which was related to snake uraeus, which appears in a moment of restoring some parts of the mummy and which was also an offer to the deceased? In chapters 532 and 640 of Coffin Texts the s3mt is cut and also tied around the dead one, when his neck and head are also restored. Do we have any other documents where to find more clues?
Chapter 50 of Book of the Dead was the heir of the chapter 640 of the Coffin Texts and belongs to a group of chapters related to the regeneration of the corpse. In a Ptolemaic version in the Egyptian Museum in Turin we can read: "Formula for not entering the butchering hall of the god. Speech said by Osiris, alive and justified: my vertebrae are united in my nape by them, the Ennead. My vertebrae are united in my nape (bis) in the sky and on earth by Re, in that day of reinforce and reconstitute the exhausted ones[1] over the two legs, in that day of cutting the necks[2]. The vertebrae in the nape are united by Seth with his power, when[3] there was no disturbance".
But in some other versions of the same chapter we read a very similar text to that one of the Middle Kingdom: "…fours knots have been tied around me by the sky's guardian, he has fixed a knot to the dead ones over the legs in that day of cutting the lock of hair s3mt…."
At this point it is important to notice that the writing for the Egyptian word nHbwt (necks) had the determinative of hair: . It seems that cutting the lock of hair s3mt is interchangeable with cutting the necks. So there was in ancient Egyptian belief assimilation between both hair and necks, which would mean that cutting the necks, would be the same act as cutting the s3mt.
Hair and necks, what can that have to do with the snakes? In this regards it is interesting J.F. Borghouts comment about chapter 532 of the Coffin Texts where we have already read about a Heliopolitan rite: "…Is tied to me a lock of hair in Heliopolis, the day of cutting the lock s3mt" [4]. J. F. Borghouts focus on the beginning of the passage: "Formula for placing a man's head in the necropolis…" The passage relates how the deceased receives his head and his neck at the same time that the gods receive their heads, and that action happens the same day that the s3bwt snakes (or multi colour snakes) were expelled from Heliopolis, because they caused the gods to lose their heads[5]. The s3bwt snakes where the enemies of the Sun god because they injured the gods and let them headless. We would be facing an archetype "rite of defeating the evil one", where the Demiurge announces: "I have appeased the Heliopolis' disturbance after the judgement, I have restored the heads to those ones who had them not, and I have finished the mourning in this country" [6].
The head is the central of the body for all senses, not having head means not having faculties of perception and it is also a lack of identity. In Egyptian funerary belief, the lack of head is, not only the obvious lack of life, it is also the impossibility of resurrection. To restore the head is a step to the new life, since thanks to it the deceased will have again the faculty of breathing, seeing, listening[7]. In line with that is the Egyptian union between headless Osiris and the invisibility of the new moon[8]; the disappearance of the head is like the disappearance of the moon, it is the darkness, and so, it is the death. When a human being dyes he gets into a period of shadows, which fades gradually at the same time of the funerary rites. Among these rites here we need to mention the put of the funerary mask, which was a head's substitute; with it the dead one will have again access to light, to the new life.
There is a stela found in Abydos and dating from the reign of Ramses VI where we can read: Oh! Horus, I have spitted over your eye, after it was removed by your aggressor…Oh! Isis and Nephtys, I make bring[9] to you your heads, I have put[10] your napes for you in this night of cutting[11] the heads (?) of s3bwt snakes in front of Letopolis…"[12] The text reminds to the former chapters we have already seen about the healing of the damaged lunar eye and the shaving of the two mourners.
The healing of the Udjat eye happens at the same time of the gods' heads restoring and the revenge over the s3bwt snakes. And cutting the s3mt could be the same as cutting the s3bwt.
According to J. F. Borghouts, the parallel between s3mt and s3bwt could be caused by a deformation in the writing with the passage of the time. But so many times repeating the expression "cutting the s3mt" would maybe respond more to assimilation with "cutting the s3bwt" than just a mistake in the writing. The result would be in line with our research: the lock of hair s3mt would be identified the the s3bwt snakes as a negative element that needs to be eliminated. So, to cut the s3mt would symbolize a sacrifice of a dangerous animal. The hymn to Sobek in Ramesseum Papyrus says:
"Welcome in peace, lord of peace!
Your fury has been eliminated; your anger has passed…
Your s3mt is cut" [13].
The Egyptian verb whs was used for "cutting hair", but also for "sacrificing enemies" [14], and that put in the same level to cut the lock of hair s3mt and to sacrifice an adversary. Hair, enemy and sacrifice are already familiar concepts to us.
Beheading the enemies of Osiris. Painting from the tomb of Tutmosis III in the Valley of the Kings. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Let's compile some ideas to give shape to our post:
The day of shaving the mourners is the day of giving the Udjat eye.
To equip with a lock of hair s3mt appears at the same time of shaving the i3rty of Sokaris.
The s3mt is cut when the deceased is still blind/dead and after that action he has access to light/new life.
To spit over the damaged eye of Horus for healing it, to restore the gods' heads and napes and to cut the heads of the s3bwt snakes, the enemies, happened together.
Summing up, we find four elements together in the deceased's regeneration:
Slaughter the s3bwt snakes as the evil ones.
Cut the s3mt
Restore the heads
Recover the Udjat eye.
The two first ones are similar actions for eliminating the evil and after them the two last ones are actions which meant the perception and the access to light, so the deceased's resurrection.
[1] The dead ones.
[3] From XVIII Dynasty on, preposition tp could have a temporal sense.
[4] We have seen this chapter in the first paragraph about the lock of hair s3mt.
[5] J. F. Borghouts, 1970, p. 73.
[6] Urk. VI, 115, 9-15 (D. Meeks, 1991, p. 6. The Egyptians thought that Horus from Letopolis was the one who restored the gods' heads. The day commemorating that was a festivity in Heliopolis (J.F. Borghouts, 1970, p. 206)
[7] D. Meeks, 1991, p. 6.
[8] D. Meeks, 1991, p. 8
[9] siar means "make go up", in the sense of "bring" or "give" (Wb IV, 32, 10)
[10] smn means "join", "bind", "put" limbs that have been separated (Wb IV, 132, 20)
[11] The generic meaning of sn es "decapitate" (Wb III, 457, 17).
[12] KRI VI, p.24, 3-4; M.Korostovtsev, 1947, pp. 155-173.
[13] A. Gardiner, 1957, p. 46.
[14] Wb I, 351, 14.
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Tagged adversary, ancient egypt, behead, Book of the Dead, coffin texts, dead, death, decapitate, enemy, hair, Isis, lock of hair, moon, mourner, Neftis, Osiris, resurrection, s3bwt, s3m, sacrifice, slaughter, snake, Udjat
Hair, Hathor and Moon.
Joint with the hair, we have seen now two new important elements which we cannot ignore: Hathor and light. Hathor is mentioned as the « guide of the boat, who keeps ropes kasu in front of the rudder in the West ways… », she is « the lady of the light, who guides the Big One who is tired ». Hathor and light means that the text is referring to the lunar Hathor, the guide during the night.
According to an Egyptian tradition, Hathor was patroness of deceased[1]; she was a goddess that very soon became the goddess of The West and the imagery put her on the flank of the mountain, the place of the sunset and where the dead ones got into the Underworld[2].
The goddess Hathor in the flank of the west mountain ready for receiving the dead. Painting from the tomb of Shuroy in Dra Abu el-Naga. XIX Dynasty. Phot: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
Religious texts show that from very soon Hathor was a goddess who received the dead[3], who sheltered him[4], who helped him in reaching the eternity[5]; in the Afterlife the dead was in the entourage of Hathor[6] and she was the main one in the necropolis, that is why one of her epithets was "Hathor at the head of the Necropolis"[7]. Hathor helped the dead to go up to the sky, the same sky where she is guardian and that is his own body as celestial cow. In fact, the Egyptian name Hathor means « The house of Horus » [8].
Hathor grants the dead be sitting in the sky, that according to E. Drioton would be a lunar paradise[9], so a night sky. Not only Hathor has a relationship with the moon, with the night sky and with Horus[10], she also is connected somehow with the Udyat eye[11]. There are several examples of Hathor with a lunar character, so she is the "left eye of Re" [12], the "eye of Re in the sky during the day and the eye of Horus which makes the darkness bright" [13].
It is well-know the relationship between cattle and the moon, because the horns are assimilated to the crescent quarter. This aspect contributes to that image of Hathor as a sky goddess, which exist in Ancient Egypt from the Predynastic period.
Cow-head palette from Gerzeh. Predynastic period. Photo: http://www.touregypt.net
We see it clearly in the cow-head palette from Gerzeh in Cairo Museum with the image of a cow rounded with stars making a very ancient image of a celestial cow[14].
But Hathor, is mainly a mother goddess, a celestial cow whose main role is feed people and gods and, so that, has the faculty of giving the life[15]. Maybe that is the reason why, as a mortuary divinity, Hathor also took part in the deceased's resurrection and was assimilated with Isis[16].
The maternal nature of the cow makes that animal a symbol of rebirth. In this sense Hathor should be consider as a manifestation of the primeval mother[17]. Because "horns of cattle, that characterize great fecundity gods, are the emblem of the divine "Magna Mater"[18] and because moon and fertility go together.
Hathor, as lunar deity, is also guide of the boat and she maintains the ropes. In this regard we consider interesting to refer to chapters 404 and 405 in the Coffin Texts, where the bow rope is assimilated to the braid of Isis. It is the night boat, which carries the deceased when he revives during the night, so it is the moon. The shape of the boat could remember the quarter of the moon, so the boat crescent-shape will be one of the first means of transport[19] in Egyptian culture, as it will be for the dead once he will be in the Afterlife.
In fact, the usual head-dress for lunar deities is a full moon over a crescent, in the same way the deceased reborn as a full moon will travel in the Hereafter in the lunar boat, identified with the crescent.
Head-dress of Khonsu with full moon over the crescent. Relief from the temple of Khonsu in Karnak. XIX Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
So, what we are facing is a lunar rebirth. In that rebirth we have seen the important role of the hair element. The feminine hair appears related to water, maternity, sexuality…and also now to the moon. If hair is related to water and moon, the lock of hair swt in mourning should also have a connection with the lunar resurrection of the dead, with the goddess Hathor in her lunar nature, as guide of the boat (crescent of the moon) in the dark of the night sky.
Hathor capital. Bahr el-Yussef museum. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
So, we have the mourners and /or the locks of hair swt in the moan, that is, mourning on earth during the funerals while the goddess Hathor in her lunar nature is in the night sky with her both ringlets on each side of her frontal face; Hathor is a grant of the deceased's resurrection and she guides the boat, which bow rope is the braid of Isis. In the funerary ceremony the two locks of hair of the mourners could be the announcement of the lunar resurrection.
[1] E. Drioton, 1985, p. 188.
[2] A. Erman, 1952, p. 50.
[3] Pyr. 1026.
[4] CT VI, 769.
[5]CT V, 398.
[6] LdM, 144.
[7] S. Allam , 1963, p. 67
[8] S. Allam, 1963, p. 99
[9] E. Drioton, BiOr 15, p. 189.
[10] A. Mariette, 1875, IV, 77 a; en Ph. Derchain, 1962, p. 46.
[11] CT VI, 670.
[12] A. Mariette, 1875, I, 112, 7(A).
[13] A. Mariette, 1875, VI, 144, 2-3(J).
[14] According to F. A. Hassan it could represent Orion (F. A. Hassan, 1992, p. 314).
[15] One epithet for Hathor is "Mistress of Life" (A. Mariette, 1875, I, 26 f.).
[16] According to a version of the Osiris legend, Isis lost her head and Thoth replaced it with a cow's head (Pap. Sallier IV). In addition, sometimes Hathor is called with the epithet of "Beautiful One of Osiris" (A. Mariette, 1875, VI, 3, 3).
[17] F. A. Hassan, 1992, p. 315.
[18] M. M. Eliade, 1970, p. 146.
[19] G. Durand, 1979, p. 238.
Posted in 03. LOCKS, PLAITS AND RINGLETS
Tagged afterlife, ancient egypt, boat, cow, cow-head, crescent, dead, death, deceased, egypt, funeral, funerary, hair, Hathor, Hereafter, Horus, Isis, Khonsu, lock of hair, moon, mountain, mourner, necropolis, Neftis, night boat, night sky, Osiris, resurrection, tomb, west
The meaning of the word swt
There is another chapter referring to swt; although it is a confusing text, we can make some deductions examining consciously the words. In the chapter 332 of the Coffin Texts the dead is being guided by a powerful goddess who is
"…the lady of the power, who guides to those ones in the caverns. I am Hathor, Lady of the northern sky, who maintains the ropes kAsw of those awaken…the earth trembles because of the jubilation, while the locks of hair are in the mourning…"
Sw is a verb, whose meaning is "to be something harmful for someone"[1], maybe it could be translated as "hurt "or "wound". The substantive would then be swt ("damage", "hurt")[2]. We already find this verb in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom:
The two arms over the head is a very normal posture among mourners in Ancient Egypt. Painting from the tomb of Roy in Dra Abu el-Naga. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
"The deceased is the Lord of his enemies, which have been beaten by Horus for him. Go up! Sit over him! You are stronger than him, hurt him…!" (di ir.k swt ir.f)[3]. Isis is sitting, her arms over her head. Nephtys, holds her breasts because of the death of her brother, Anubis is bended over his stomach, Osiris is in his damage » (Wsir m swt.f) [4].
We could maybe consider the word swt as a passive participle of the verb sw, so the translation would be something as: "the damaged ones" or "the hurt ones", the ones who have been damaged, that is, the mourners Isis and Nephtys; they were hurt by the death of Osiris and that is why they are in mourning. This would also explain the use of the hieroglyph of hair as determinative in so many words that refer to mourners and mourning.This passage is clearly describing the typical funerary scene in which the mummy is laying while Anubis makes his embalming process and the two mourners Isis and Nephtys regret the death of her husband/brother.
We should also notice a kind of word game with the "locks of hair" (swt) in chapter 531 and the "hurt ones" (swt) in chapter 332, in both cases applied to the mourners who dishevel their hair as a sign of mourning. It is as well interesting how each mourner is indentified with a lock of hair; so mourners and hair go together. That is what we call a metonymy; the whole (the mourners) is designated using its most significant part (the hair).
But we wanted to go on searching more on the verb sw and we found that it also could be translated as "to increase the strength" or "to get the strength back" [5]. We can read this verb in the Pyramid Texts[6] and also in the Coffin Texts:
"…I came and I recovered the strength back in nsrsr island"[7].
In both texts the dead, after drinking milk or beer (both considered revitalising drinks), recover his force and comes back to life. It makes sense the use of the hair as determinative ; if the hair is an energy source and the nwn/nwn m gesture pretend the resurrection of the corpse, it is normal here to find it related with a verb meaning « fortify ». On the other hand, swt is a causative verb that derives from wt, whose translation is "be powerful" or "be big" [8]. In addition, wt also means « to embalm » [9] and there is direct relationship between embalming and the deceased's resurrection. One of the main goals of embalming was to reconstruct the whole body, the physical reconstruction as getting the soul's support, and this consolidation is connected with the hair element.
[1] Wb IV, 59, 16
[3] Pyr., 652.
[4] Pyr., 1281-1282.
[5] D. Meeks, 1977-1979, II, p. 311, nº 78.3367; D. Meeks, 1976, p. 88, n. 14.
[6] Pyr., 1282 b.
[7]CT VII, 1013. Translation of P. Barguet (P. Barguet, 1986, p. 417).
[8] Wb IV, 77, 9.
[9] Wb I, 378, 8.
Tagged ancient egypt, coffin, corpse, dead, deceased, egypt, funeral, funerary, hair, Isis, lock of hair, mourn, mourner, mourning, Neftis, Nephtys, Osiris, resurrection, weeping
The Locks of Hair swt are Isis and Nephtys.
The chapter 531 of the Coffin Texts treats about the prophylaxis of the different parts of the funerary mask, always assimilating them with many divinities. After saying how perfect is the face (that is the mask) of the dead we read:
"Your White Crown is Thoth; your crown is Wp-wawt[1]. Your eyebrows are both Enneads. Your eyes are the boat of the day and the boat of the night.
Your two locks of hair are Isis and Nephtys.
Your nape is Duanenuy. Your plait is Hddt
The funerary mask is like a complete head, or like its substitute, and to put it on the deceased's face is a revivifying action. The dead is assimilated to the acephalic Osiris and the mask has two functions. On one hand it hides the damage made by Seth on the Osiris' face; on the other hand it restores the faculties to the head, as to see and to breath; through the mask the dead can also perceive things that mortals cannot notice[2]; the replacement of the head, symbolised by the placement of the mask, allows the deceased to come back to life.
Scholar D. Meelks translated the word swt as "lock" or "plait"[3]. Due that the chapter is describing the funerary mask; we could think that this word would be making an allusion to the two locks of hair that fall on both sides of the face; in the same way that Isis and Nephtys are always at both extremes of the dead.
Khonsu's funerary mask. XIX Dynasty. Metropoliltan Museum of New York. Photo: http://www.metmuseum.org
Let's remember also that we have already seen how the word swt designates the front lock of hair the mourners pull. Maybe both locks of hair were assimilated to the hair the two goddesses pull from.
In the wig both locks of hair fall at both sides of the face while the rest of the hair falls over the back. The term hnskt usually means "plait of hair"[4]. But in the context we are the two locks of hair are assimilated with Isis and Nephtys, and just before the text mentions the nape, so it makes sense to think of Hnskt as the mop of hair that in the wig falls on the back[5]. On the other hand, the term Hnskty is a dual that means « the two women with plait », Isis and Nephtys[6]. And that refers us to those images of Isis and Nephtys with the head-dress afnt (see image in header) or to those images of mourners with the hair tied in a back tail; , which would reinforce the idea that hnskt could be that hair identified with the goddess Hddt (a kind of Isis in Edfu).
Mourners with hair tied in a back tail. Painting from the tomb of Roy in Dra Abu el-Naga. XVIII Dynasty. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
At this point we consider important to point out a scene of a libation on an altar in Dendera. In it the spelling of Isis Hddt is changed by another one that refers to a light symbolism. We are in a context where the mission of Isis is to bright in the sky just in the moment of bringing the flood[7]. That makes us think about what we have seen in former chapters about the nwn gesture and the beginning of the Egyptian year; the nwn gesture would be a way of symbolising the new flood, the new year and, therefore, the new life. Again we would be facing the hair element with a strong regenerating symbolism.
[1] "The One who open the ways", the name of the jackal god from Asiut, that opens the ways to the king in the battle. Let's think about its presence also in the Sed Festival.
[3] D. Meeks, 1977-1979, II, p. 312, nº 78.3373.
[4] Wb III, 116, 4.
[5] Chr. Desroches-Noblecourt considers that Hnskt refers to the small braids under the head-dress afnt (Chr. Desroches-Noblecourt, 1953, p. 28, n. 2) and that it is related with the manifestation of the deceased's ka (Chr. Desroches-Noblecourt, 1953, p. 25, n. 5). The mother of the dead in funerals wears the head-dress afnt: "Your mother is the great cow in el-Kab, (with) the crown Atef and head-dress afnt, with long hair, with hanging breasts, which has nursed you" (Pyr., 2003).
[6] Wb III, 121, 1. It appears like that in The Songs of Isis and Nephtys, Pap. Bremner-Rhind I; 1,9; 3,23; 6,23 y 11,19.
[7] M-Th. Derchain-Urtel, 1993. Leuven, p. 102.
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The sexual Meaning of Hair in Ancient Egypt Funerals. Part I.
We already know the relationship between mourning and hair and the connexion it has with the Osiris legend. A very important part of that myth is the episode when Osiris recovers his virility. According to the legend, once the different parts of Osiris corpse were found and the body was restored, Isis put herself over her husband's body and conceived the posthumous son Horus. Thanks to that act the cosmic order was again established; Horus became the king of Egypt and Osiris resurrected as the king of the Hereafter.
In a coffin found in Gebelein and dating from the XIII Dynasty, there is a vignette with both women assisting the dead, over him is bending a feminine image.
A female figure is bending over the dead. Scene in a coffin from Gebelein. XIII Dynasty.
Already in the 50's Chr. Desroches-Noblecourt considered that the goal of this gesture was to give back the virility to the mummy[1]. In fact, the Pyramid Texts show that in the Old Kingdom Isis and Nephtys were considered the responsible ones of regenerating the deceased's faculty for fertilising[2]. The Egyptian iconography has several examples of the copulation of Isis and Osiris; Isis as a kite[3] put herself over the phallus of her husband, and she assures the conception of the son who will avenge the murder of his father; also literature has many examples of that episode:
"I am your sister Isis. No god and no goddess have done what I have done. I have performed the procreation, although I am a woman alone, for making your name to endure on earth. Your divine semen was inside my womb and I put it over the earth, this way he can spread your image. He is healthy, although you suffer. He must send the violence to those who had caused it. Set succumb to his knife. Fellows of Set succumb because of Set. The throne of Geb is yours. You are his beloved son…"[4]
In some tombs of the Middle Kingdom were found some figurines maybe used for restoring the virility to the dead. According to Chr. Desroches-Noblecourt, these figurines evocate a young femininity and with no visible effects of maternity; so, they would not be images of fecundity, but of eroticism[5]. That premise would send us to what we exposed formerly (see post of 27th May) about the two mourners in the roles of Isis and Nephtys; we think that these two women should have been mother yet. It looks as if these figurines were also put in tombs of New Kingdom for restoring the ka of the dead[6].
In chapter 991 of the Coffin Texts we could read how the dead is "the one who fertilises the mourners" (see post of 21rst May) and in The Songs of Isis and Nepthys there are several allusions to that matter; many times Osiris is "the lord of the sexual pleasure"[7], "the lord of the love" [8], "bull that fertilises the cows"[9]. We also read in that text: « you give the life over the woman"[10], so, « you impregnate her »; it is the same meaning as we read in chapter 991 of Coffin Texts. In the Songs of Isis and Nephtys Osiris is also called « the one who engenders » [11] and the mourners ask him to have sexual relations:
"Copulate you with us as a male" [12].
"Copulate you with your sister Isis" [13].
There is a very meaningful sequence:
"Lord of the sexual pleasure,
¡Oh! Come to me;
Be in union the sky and the earth"[14].
In the mythic sphere the primeval union is the one between earth and sky (in Ancient Egyptian cosmogony between Geb and Nut); it is the moment of the Creation, symbolised by the sexual act because it contents the power of generating life. This reflexion makes us think of orgy as a sexual celebration; in many cultures orgy is a synonym of agricultural fecundity; it is an act in favour of life for stimulating new births; and there is also a bond between vegetation and eroticism.
[1] Desroches-Noblecourt, 1953, p. 43.
[2] Pyr., 366, 628 a, 631 b, 632 a-d and 123-125.
[3] Roeder, 1960, p. 180.
[4] Pap. Louvre, 3079; Roeder, 1960, p. 182.
[5] Desroches-Noblecourt, 1953, p. 18. However she accepts the idea of the virginity of the two mourners representing Isis and Nephtys.
[6] Desroches-Noblecourt, 1953 p. 39.
[7] Songs…1,23; 12,8.
[8] Songs…3,5.
[10] Songs…14,27.
[11] Songs…3,26.
[12] Songs…2,9.
[14] Songs…12,8-9-10. There are allusions to that matter in 7,4; 12,11-12; 12,16.
Posted in 02. HAIR AND MOURNING WOMEN
Tagged ancient egypt, ceremony, coffin, conceive, dead, death, funeral, funerary, hair, Horus, Isis, lock of hair, mourn, mourner, mummy, Neftis, orgy, Osiris, resurrection, sex, sexual, virility
Hair and Death in Ancient Egypt: Parts of the contents.
The work has four main parts:
1) The first one is dedicated to the gesture of shaking the hair made by mourners in Ancient Egypt.
Two women shaking their hairs. Relief from the Red Chapel of Hatshepsut in Karnak. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín
Using the written documents and the iconography, this subject is treated from the practical and symbolic point of view, since I write about the symbology of hair for better understanding that gesture in the funerary context.
2) In the second part I tackle four different aspects of the hair:
the lock of hair
the two curls
the long hair (mane)
All speeches here are about these forms of hair from a symbolic perspective, which is always related to regeneration concept, so important in Ancient Egypt.
3) The third part of the work contemplates the relationship between the hair and the Udjat eye (Eye of Horus) . At the end of the funerary ceremony the delivery of the Udjat eye means the resurrection of the deceased, assimilated to the god Osiris. In this last step the presence of the hair is very relevant, and to analyse it in third place is helpful for understanding much better the final of the funeral.
4) Once I have seen evidences in Ancient Egypt of a lamentation rite with the hair as the main element, I wanted to know in which moment of the funeral it took place. Reading between the lines the funerary texts and the iconography, we could think that the mourning rite was carry out in some moment during the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony, a group of practices made in front of the mummy or the statue of the dead.
Women mourning beside the mummy. Tomb of Roy in Dra Abu el-Naga. Photo: Mª Rosa Valdesogo Martín.
The two mourners representing the goddesses Isis and Neftis could be in charge of renewing gestures with their hairs for helping the deceased's regeneration.
Posted in 01. INTRODUCTION
Tagged ancient egypt, art, dead, death, egypt, eye, funeral, funerary, hair, Horus, Isis, mourner, Neftis, opening of the mouth, Osiris, resurrection, rite


she entered the Palestinian Legislative Council as an elected member in the 2006 elections.
She is married and has seven children.
inferior treatment within Islamic resistance groups, such as Hamas. Is this true?
How are women activists treated in Hamas?
Rights and duties of Muslim women emanate first and foremost from Islamic Sharia or law.
Hamas has always been pioneering.
account when deciding whether to join politics or get involved in political activism.


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Memories among the shells
The first things you notice are the peanut shells.
Millions of them. Fossilized, petrified, mummified peanut shells, scattered from above during countless summer nights at the ballpark.
Then you look overhead and see the massive web of wood, braces on top of cross-braces, tiny shafts of sunlight filtering down. It�s an architectural marvel and a fire marshal�s panic attack.
Finally, you step outside and try to see Civic Stadium through the eyes of its staunchest supporters. You imagine the rusty metal bleachers removed, the grandstand freshly painted, the leaky roof repaired. You try to picture a soccer team chasing a ball as fans cheer in the stands.
You look at all this, and you see why Civic�s supporters have fought so hard to save the aging stadium.
You also see why, if common sense prevails, the fight won�t drag on much longer.
A few weeks ago, I asked readers to share their opinions about the future of Civic Stadium. Being new to Eugene, I wanted to understand the various perspectives people bring to the table when they talk about the fate of the historic minor-league park.
Responses ran the gamut. I heard about Civic�s unique features, including the family of raccoons known to roam the rafters. I heard from people who never felt much attachment to the place and wouldn�t mind seeing it bulldozed.
I heard a lot of things, but the most passionate responses came from people who hope to see the stadium preserved. People like Dennis Hebert, who used to proselytize from a green bus in the parking lot and now serves as president of the nonprofit group Friends of Civic Stadium.
Hebert and others were kind enough to give me a tour two weeks ago, and I have to admit, there was something powerful in their descriptions of summer nights at Civic, the moon rising over the scoreboard as fans cheered on the Emeralds.
�There was nothing like it when you were sitting in that grandstand,� Hebert said. �It was one of those magical moments.�
I wish I could have experienced that for myself. But the stadium has been empty since the Emeralds moved to PK Park in 2010, and the more time passes, the fainter those connections become.
After many conversations, it became clear to me that the attachment to Civic Stadium isn�t in the architecture or the history, at least not entirely. It�s in the memories of people who sat in the stands with their kids, drank beer with their buddies and threw all those peanut shells on the ground.
Now, the hard question: If the stadium isn�t creating those memories for future generations, what purpose does it serve?
Hebert and others see a future for Civic as a venue for soccer and field sports. Lane United Football Club, a semi-pro soccer team that launches this spring, hopes to play home matches there someday, and Hebert sees lacrosse and rugby as viable options, too.
Maybe that could work, but baseball seems pretty deeply ingrained in the stadium�s DNA. And even if fans could someday embrace Civic as a soccer venue, no one has stepped forward with the funds to make it happen.
The wild card in the Civic Stadium debate came from local track guru Vin Lananna, who proposed using the site for an indoor track facility that could incorporate parts of the existing structure.
TrackTown USA has access to financial backing, but it�s not clear how committed Lananna is to pursuing the idea given the protracted fight surrounding the stadium and the need for extensive upgrades to Hayward Field if Eugene is to host the World Outdoor Championships in 2019.
The Eugene City Council, apparently waiting for an answer, modified its offer to require a smaller buy-in from private investors. Meanwhile, the pot just keeps getting richer, with Fred Meyer and the Eugene Family YMCA sweetening their bids in recent days.
As cool as a renovated Civic Stadium could be, it would mean a cash-strapped school district leaving money on the table so a cash-strapped city can purchase an aging asset with a cloudy future. I�m not an accountant, but it�s hard to see how that adds up.
Having lived in Eugene all of three months, I�m also not qualified to tell people how to feel about their landmarks. Maybe I�d feel stronger about preserving Civic if I�d grown up watching games there, but in a way, that�s the point.
If the value to the community is solely in what Civic used to be, it�s not doing anyone much good anymore.
The story of Civic Stadium still resonates. It was built in 1938, a Depression-era project funded by the Works Progress Administration. Local sawmills donated the wood, and crews completed the intricate structure in a matter of months. It�s still standing 75 years later, making it one of the oldest all-wooden stadiums in the country.
Civic represents a time when Eugene came together to accomplish something good for future generations. Lately, though, it�s had the opposite effect.
I�ve watched other communities wrestle with the fate of sports landmarks, and it�s never easy. When I covered Kansas State, basketball fans often resurrected the idea of playing games at shuttered Ahearn Field House instead of newer, shinier Bramlage Coliseum, which couldn�t seem to replicate the atmosphere of the old barn.
I said the same thing then that I would say about PK Park, or even Matthew Knight Arena. It�s true that plastic, steel and concrete will never replace original wood, but the magic is in the people as much as the place.
If you think MKA feels sterile � and it does � the best way to change it is to come and break it in. Jump around. Make new memories. It will never be Mac Court, but if people embrace it, the place will develop an identity of its own over time.
The same is true for PK Park. It�s never going to be Civic Stadium, but 75 years from now � when we watch baseball in climate-controlled pods, surrounded by screens � maybe people will reminisce about the days when we could sit outside and breathe real air.
So go. Take your kids. Eat some peanuts, and throw the shells on the ground.
People will probably come and sweep up the mess, but if you�re lucky, maybe they won�t.
Follow Austin on Twitter @austinmeekRG. Email austin.meek@registerguard.com.


Gearbox nose cone mount for early bay window vans from 1968 to 1971. Made in the UK to the same specification as original and then zinc passivated to help prevent rust. The mount is supplied with new nuts, bolts and washers required to mount in place.
Shaft kit for the air box on splitscreen vans from 1955 to 1967. The shaft is coated in a Geomet automotive grade coating with a high salt resistance for a long lasting part. Kit includes nylon washers and screws for fitting the plastic lever and a lock washer to hold everything in place.
Accelerator pedal linkage rod made by Buttys bits in the UK. This is a double ended ball jointed rod that replaces the S shaped pushrod that links your throttle/accelerator pedal to the linkage under the floor. It is very simple to fit using a thin 8mm spanner (supplied with kit). Suitable for right hand drive bay window busses from 1972 to 1976.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any right hand drive bay window bus from 1972 to 1976. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
The original kits are based on a steel rod inside a loose fitting steel tube that get very notchy. This kit is very similar but has internal roller bearings so less play/slop. It is a very smooth system. Also the kit has several other modifications done to it. At the cable end there are now three different locations to give more pull or less pull on the cable, so caters for stock engines and modified setups.
There is also the added bonus of a return spring that will reset the pedal, and take the pressure off the carb return springs. At the pedal end there is now a rose jointed linkage that goes to the pedal, a lot more positive to the old S shaped pushrod, this is also adjustable. The whole kit has been black plated so long lasting coating with a high salt resistance.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any right hand drive bay window bus from 1969 to 1972. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
This part of the kit is the main wear area on 1969 to 1972 buses, the kit mounts to the throttle pedal then goes down through the cab floor to the main swivel section. These kits have sealed roller bearings that allow everything to rotate nice and smoothly. Kit also has a double ended rose joint rod that if you feel needs adjusting you can.
The kit has recently been uprated with a new stainless steel top hat section. These come as standard with every kit. You will need to remove the original steel mount then bolt this stainless mount up in its place. Comes with four stainless steel bolts nuts and washers. Make sure when bolting up, the pushrod from the pedal is centered in the hole in the floor.
Also these joints are encased inside a rubber boot to keep all of the dirt out as your front wheel is situated right behind the joint. (Also makes it easier to squirt a bit of lubricant in there from time to time).
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any right hand drive bay window bus from 1968 to 1969. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
The kit mounts to the throttle pedal then goes down through the cab floor to the main swivel section, these kits have sealed roller bearings that allow everything to rotate nice and smoothly. The kit also has a double ended rose joint rod that if you feel needs adjusting you can.
The kit has recently been upgraded with a new stainless steel top hat section. These come as standard with every kit, you will need to remove the original steel mount then bolt this stainless mount up in its place. Comes with four stainless steel bolts nuts and washers. Make sure when bolting up, the push rod from the pedal is centered in the hole in the floor, it will be if the plate is centered over the large hole.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any left hand drive bay window bus from 1972 to 1979 with fuel injection. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade/replacement to any left hand drive bay window bus from 1972 to 1979 with a carburetor. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any left hand drive bay window bus from 1968 to 1972. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
Please note: Do not clamp your accelerator cable. Tighten then undo half a turn as the cable end needs to rotate freely.
Accelerator pedal linkage rod made by Buttys bits in the UK. This is a double ended ball jointed rod that links your throttle/accelerator pedal to the linkage under the floor. It is very simple to fit using a thin 8mm spanner (supplied with kit). Suitable for left hand drive bay window busses from 1972 to 1979.
Accelerator pedal linkage rod made by Buttys bits in the UK. This is a double ended ball jointed rod that links your throttle/accelerator pedal to the linkage under the floor. It is very simple to fit using a thin 8mm spanner (supplied with kit). Suitable for left hand drive and right hand drive bay window busses from 1968 to 1972.
Accelerator pedal linkage rod made by Buttys bits in the UK. This is a double ended ball jointed rod that links your throttle/accelerator pedal to the linkage under the floor. It is very simple to fit using a thin 8mm spanner (supplied with kit). Suitable for left hand drive splitscreen busses from 1955 to 1967.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any left hand drive splitscreen bus from 1959 to 1967. The kit is a bolt on upgrade/replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any left hand drive splitscreen bus from 1955 to 1959. The kit is a bolt on upgrade/replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
This kit made by Buttys bits in the UK is a great upgrade to any right hand drive splitscreen bus from 1955 to 1967. The kit is a bolt on replacement of the original accelerator linkage and gives a much smoother feeling to the accelerator pedal.
Remove the old cross shaft, push rod from the pedal and disconnect the throttle cable. Then clean the two square lugs where the original cross shaft went through the two holders, the new kit fits over the two square lugs allowing two bearing carriers to hang just below the original holders. The kit has to be fitted as it comes assembled. Remove the mounting bolts and fit the square washer over the square lug then fit the square bearing holder over the same lug and bolt up, leave loose while you set the cross shaft position then tighten up and make sure the new assembly moves without rubbing or catching on any other components. Now connect the pedal then the accelerator cable. The bearings will give a far smoother feeling to your accelerator pedal. Also the end plates are 20mm taller than the standard setup so it allows full throttle to be achieved easier on twin carb`d hex bar setups. The kit can be altered if you require less cable travel.


Using a universal translator and other communication technology, such as at Worf's station aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, starships can greet any ships they encounter.
Plays on any ship "flying by" one of your ships; it must stop at your location. OR Select two ships; they cannot battle each other this turn.
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