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Police and parish council meetings could be merged under plans aimed at increasing public participation.
The move comes after a claim police are considering scrapping Neighbourhood Action Panel (NAP) events in Buckhurst Hill due to poor attendance.
Concerns were raised about the proposal when the issue was discussed by parish councillors last night.
Members of the Buckhurst Hill Residents Association said they would not feel comfortable speaking to police in front of councillors.
Jenn Page, of Luctons Avenue, said the NAP meetings should remain, but remain separate from council meetings.
She added: "A lot of people would not want to talk at a meeting like this.
"We should encourage police to carry on with NAP meetings."
Steven Neville, of Rous Road, agreed, saying: "This is not the place for a lengthy discussion which is sometimes needed at a NAP meeting."
"In no way is a parish council meeting adequate."
There has not been a NAP meeting since December and the next one is not yet planned.
Councillors said that they "got the impression" that the police were not going to continue with them.
It was also suggested that police feel that they would "rather be solving crime" than talking about it.
Council Chairman Aniket Patel said he believes there would be benefits from holding NAP meetings as a part of council meetings.
"There could be an added bonus as everything that the police say would be recorded and published in the parish minutes," he added.
Mr Aniket said that the proposal was discussed at the meeting because he would like to help make the public aware of what action the police are taking in Buckhurst Hill.
The matter was deferred until the police reveal their plans for NAP meetings.
NAP meetings could be replaced by frequent crime updates in the form of letters and emails, it was suggested.


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I went into Williams-Sonoma tonight and they had this out on sample (www.williamssonoma.com). I don't particularly care for orange squash, but this recipe was divine. To speed preparation, this recipe calls for prepared butternut squash puree. A garnish of lightly sweetened whipped cream and chopped roasted chestnuts adds richness and texture to the soup.
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- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 2 golden delicious apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
- 1 (32 ounce) jar butternut squash, puree
- 2 1⁄2-3 cups chicken stock
- 1 large bay leaf
- 2 teaspoons salt, plus more, to taste
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- fresh ground pepper, to taste
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream, whipped until just thickened (optional)
- 12 fresh chestnuts, roasted, peeled and roughly chopped
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- Using a small, sharp knife or a chestnut knife, score, or shallowly cut, an X on one side of each nut. Be careful not to cut through the nutmeat.
- To roast the chestnuts in the oven: Lay the nuts in a single layer on an ungreased baking sheet, and roast in a 350°F oven until the nuts are fragrant and the scored portions begin to separate from the shells, 15 to 20 minutes. (If you're going to eat the chestnuts plain, increase the heat to 400°F and bake until the shells give slightly when pressed with oven mitt-protected fingers.)
- To roast the chestnuts in a chestnut pan: Heat the pan over medium-low heat and add the chestnuts. Cook, tossing the chestnuts frequently, until the shells crack and the chestnuts are cooked through, 30 to 35 minutes over a gas flame burner, 35 to 40 minutes over an electric or conduction burner.
- Transfer the nuts to a platter or heatproof surface and cover with a damp kitchen towel to keep them warm.
- 5. Using a kitchen towel or pot holder, pick up each nut and, with your fingers or the knife, peel back the scored X. Peel off the hard outer shell and the thin, beige, soft inner skin. Discard any nuts that, once peeled, look dried out.
- Eat the chestnuts immediately or use as directed in a recipe.
- In a small stockpot over medium heat, melt the butter. Add the onion and apples and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 10 minutes. Stir in the butternut squash puree, 2 1/2 cups of the stock, the bay leaf and the 2 teaspoons salt. Bring to a simmer, reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring occasionally, about 30 minutes. Remove the bay leaf and discard.
- Using an immersion blender, puree the soup in the pot until smooth. Pour through a fine-mesh sieve set over a clean stockpot. Stir in the cream and add more stock to reach the desired consistency. Season with salt and pepper. Reheat the soup gently to serving temperature.
- Ladle the soup into warmed bowls. Garnish each serving with a swirl of whipped cream and sprinkle with chestnuts. Serve immediately. Serves 6.
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After shampooing, use a towel to dry your hair. The more excess moisture you remove, the better effect the product will have. Work a dime size of amount Aveda Smooth Infusion Naturally Straight through your damp hair. Depending on the density of your hair, divide your head into two (if thinner) or three sections. Make a part by taking the end of a tail comb from the corner of your brow and across the crown of your head in a semi circle, twist the hair up, and clip. If you need another section go from ear to ear.
If your hair is wavy or curly you should use a blow dryer with a nozzle to help straighten it as you dry. If your hair is already straight, use a blow dryer with a diffuser so it doesn't get too straight. This style is about leaving some of your natural body in the look. As your hair gets dry, take it all together and twist, then blow dry down to give it a slight bend.
As you finish blow drying each section, add the new still wet section to it, blending them together. When you get to the top section, you no longer need to apply oil. Spray Aveda Pure Abundance Style Prep on top of the section of hair, then flip it over and spray underneath. Start blow drying from the flat part of your crown, working your way up to your hair line.
Tightly pull the front of your hair with the brush from one side of your head to the other, blowing drying against your head with the nozzle, almost like a natural flat iron. Do this on both sides, then blow dry the hair forward and back as well. The curlier your hair, the more you want to blow in all different directions. After it is dry, go through it with a wide tooth comb and let your hair fall to its natural middle part.
Using a 1 1/2 inch double barrel curling iron, take small sections (they do not have to be perfect), and place the iron in the middle of the hair and gently rock back and forth. This will smooth your locks without totally straightening them. Then curl each section of starting half way down and leaving the ends straight.
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In 1983, the late Paul Splittorff led the Kansas City Royals pitching staff in strikeouts. Through the first half of 2012, three relievers have exceeded his total for that entire season:
Splittorff won 166 games over a 15-year career. Different pitchers, different eras. The mind boggles.
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CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI No Mans Landby Shane McAdams
If a work of art isn't working when it's small, it probably won't work any better if it's 10 times the size. The problem with this truth truism is that if bigger isn't necessarily better, it is often more spectacular and, unfortunately, in some sad cases, spectacle is passed off as real feeling (much of what was on display at "Skin Fruit" at the New Museum comes quickly to mind.)
Christian Boltanski's enormous installation "No Man's Land" at the Park Avenue Armory provides a rare instance where size is roughly proportionate to emotional impact. Where some artists' default setting is "as grandiose as possible," hitting the emotional sweet spot often only by happenstance, Boltanski's work always feels very considered. Well-known for his hyper-intimate constructions and installations that use photos and personal effects to trace lives lost and forgotten, Boltanski's work inspires an intense ambivalence about the state of being human. It resides in a potent territory between optimism and pessimism where you can't decide whether life can or can't be recuperated by the things we leave behind. It's often hard to decide whether his works are memorials or anti-memorials. They are like reaching into the pocket of a suit purchased at an estate sale for a few dollars and finding someone's business card: you find yourself on an emotional journey that begins with indifference, leads through thoughts of universal interconnectedness, and eventually concludes with a most profound sorrow that all the sound and fury of this invisible person's existence can be reduced to a piece of paper and a bunch of strangers scavenging his belongings for few salvageable scraps.
At the Park Avenue Armory, Boltanski twists our emotions into knots with the help of a 60-foot-high crane and a literal mountain of used garments sitting in the dead center of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall. With droning regularity, the crane dips down to grab a heap of clothes from the top of the pile, raises and then releases its jaws so that the clothes scatter and fall back onto the mound. The clothes flutter downward with a lifelike animation, as if remembering the movements they made when they were filled with muscle and bone. Though the exhibition's literature lets us know these are used clothes, that familiar, musty Salvation Army odor gives their thrift store origins away before reading a word. Every minute or so, the crane slowly descends, grabs another clump of motley apparel, tilts up 20 feet and drops it again, ever churning and reshaping the pile in a Sisyphean cycle.
Arrayed around the central drama of crane and garment-mountain are rectilinear patches of used clothes arranged in a grid, providing narrow rows for viewers to navigate through, where their distance from the action creates the illusion that the crane and falling clothing are operating in slow motion—an eerie, intense, almost surreal atmosphere augmented by the intense spotlights, the haunting audio loop of a beating heart, and the gaping, darkened industrial interior.
As with his more intimate work, "No Man's Land" makes use of decidedly personal and individualizing artifacts, while its seriality and accumulation frustrates our urge to relate to them at a personal level. One can't help but toggle constantly between the field of clothing as a signifier of a mass of people and a glimpse of a pair of red sweatpants as a signifier of a single life. And the overwhelming space in union with the content provides the perfect scalar relationship between the personal and impersonal. With "No Man's Land," Boltanski manages to put flesh on Stalin's statement, "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic," much in the way Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial manages to emphasize the value of each life lost in Vietnam.
When speaking of a work of art, the terms "size" and "scale" are often used interchangeably, when in fact scale is relative and size absolute. The difficulty with the notion of scale when it comes to artwork is that what it is relative to is often abstract. It refers to the fragile network of contingencies an artist is responsible for controlling between the work, the viewer, and the space. It refers to alternative choices that can't be seen. In "No Man's Land," Boltanski does not allow the overwhelmingly large space to suffocate his work, nor does he suffocate the space by using it as some kind of spectacular proving ground for an overdetermined art work. "No Man's Land" is a huge piece, but it never loses sight, in its scale and ambition, of the individual lives it commemorates, or of those who have come to contemplate them.
ContributorShane McAdams
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Workthe title and the contentunpacks the meaning of one of the most saturated signifiers in 21st-century American English. Work, like other fundamental concepts such as property, is almost impossible to define despiteand perhaps because ofa common-sense feeling that we know what it is.
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A Body of Work
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A little more than a year ago I gave a lecture on Jack Goldstein, an artist synonymous, for most, with the Pictures Generation and the advent of postmodernism in the visual arts.
Raymond Pettibon A Pen of All Workby Terence Trouillot
MAR 2017 | ArtSeen
Yet again, the New Museum has fashioned an exhibition with a nearly limitless collection of work. Encapsulating absurdly prodigious and outrageously stimulating works, Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work is a blistering retrospective of Pettibon's over five-decade career, and is the artist's first major survey in New York City.
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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. - A 2-year-old girl whose father took her for a walk, but never returned, has been found in good health, according to Osceola County deputies.
Police said the father, 26-year-old Archie Yobnovich, said in a telephone call that he would not return 2-year-old daughter, Miley George. Yobnovich has not been located, according to deputies.
The U.S. Marshal's Florida Regional Recovery Unit found Miley and returned her to her mother.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Osceola County Sheriff's office at (407) 348-2222.
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Email Health Scares
Urban legends circulate through email and create panic.
WebMD Feature
The Internet has made it simple for women to spread health information with a click of the mouse. Some of these health claims gain steam as women discuss the alleged dangers of everyday products. For instance, the following two health rumors have been circulating the Web recently: Antiperspirants cause breast cancer, and tampons contain asbestos and dioxins. But are these claims real -- or just a hoax?
Can Antiperspirants Cause Breast Cancer?
The antiperspirant rumor on the Internet claims the following:
"Just because someone makes a statement on the Internet doesn't make it true," says Lisa Bailey, M.D., a cancer surgeon and past president of the American Cancer Society (ACS), California Division. "There haven't been any studies to verify these claims about antiperspirants, which are tested by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and have not been found to contain any chemicals that cause DNA damage leading to cancer."
Although lymph nodes do clear some toxins from the body, toxins are not released through sweating, according to the ACS. Most cancer-causing substances are released through the kidneys and liver.


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Triplets set for different schools
Lots of children in England found out this week which secondary schools they'll be going to in September.
The way places are given out is very complicated, but not everyone is able to go to their first choice school.
Triplets Josh, Max and Leanne wanted to go to the same place but were given places at THREE different schools.
Max has got a place at the school they all wanted to go to most, but at the moment Leanne and Josh will trying on two other school uniforms for size.
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The key to getting what you want — and need — is knowing your body, and feeling comfortable asking questions if you don't. And that's where too many of us fall short. In a recent Association of Reproductive Health Professionals survey, only 51 percent of women said they felt extremely knowledgeable about their vaginas. Many women don't have all the facts about hormones, libido, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), fertility, or birth control. Here it is — the latest news. Feel free to share.
In your 20s: Your risk of STDs is at an all-time high. Almost half of sexually transmitted diseases occur in people 24 and younger, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Young people tend to have more sexual partners, which exposes them to more bugs," says Hilda Hutcherson, MD, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center and author of Pleasure: A Woman's Guide to Getting the Sex You Want, Need, and Deserve. In your 20s, the cells of your outer cervix are more fragile and susceptible to infection. The two STDs you should be most concerned about: chlamydia and human papillomavirus (HPV). If left untreated, chlamydia can scar your fallopian tubes, causing infertility — and 75 percent of the time, the disease has no symptoms. Ask your doctor to test you annually. "If you test positive, your partner needs to be screened too, or you'll be reinfected the next time you have unprotected sex," says Sarah de la Torre, MD, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Seattle. Treatment consists of a round of antibiotics and a follow-up test three months later.
Get the HPV vaccine, but don't ditch your Pap. And keep using condoms to protect against the virus. The vaccine, given as three shots over six months, is the most significant sexual- health advance in years, but it protects against only 70 percent of all HPV strains that can lead to cervical cancer.
In your 30s: Pay attention to new symptoms. Heavy periods and pain during sex, for instance, can be signs of uterine fibroids, usually benign tumors that affect approximately two in five women in their 30s that can increase the risk of miscarriage. Experts say that fibroids are also the most common reason premenopausal women have hysterectomies — a drastic, often unnecessary step. "If the fibroids are small, oral contraceptives may alleviate symptoms of pain and bleeding," says Dr. Hutcherson. If they're large, you may need a myomectomy, a surgical procedure that removes the tumors without taking out the healthy tissue in your uterus, or a uterine fibroid embolization (UAE), a treatment that shrinks fibroids by cutting off their blood supply.
In your 40s: Don't put up with hormonal havoc. Many women assume that they just have to ride out symptoms of perimenopause, such as vaginal dryness and urinary incontinence caused by fluctuating estrogen levels, but there a lot you can do to feel better, says Suzanne Trupin, MD, a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Champaign. For dryness, try a water-based lubricant or an estrogen cream, which is safer than taking the hormone orally since you apply it directly to a small area. And make love often. "Research suggests that women who have sex frequently lubricate more easily," says Sandra Leiblum, PhD, director of the Center for Sexual and Relationship Health at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, and author of Getting the Sex You Want: A Woman's Guide to Becoming Proud, Passionate, and Pleased in Bed. Try Kegels (exercises in which you tighten and release the vaginal muscles) to help with leakage issues. (Go to kegel-exercises.com for details.) If those don't help, ask your doctor about biofeedback, says Dr. Hutcherson.
What You Need to Know About Fertility
In your 20s: All the stats are on your side. You have a 25 percent chance of conceiving each month. If you're younger than 25, you have a 98 percent chance of getting pregnant within a year, and the odds are still a healthy 84 percent until age 30. You're also less likely to have a miscarriage.
Just a little smoking can do big damage. "Five or six cigarettes on the weekend may affect your future ability to conceive by decreasing the oxygen supply to your eggs," says Sherman Silber, MD, director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis and author of How to Get Pregnant: The Classic Guide to Overcoming Infertility. Additionally, a British Medical Association report found that smoking can not only delay conception but can also be a primary cause of infertility.
In your 30s: Time sex right. Doing it the two days prior to ovulation gives you the greatest chance of conceiving. An ovulation-predictor kit (available in drugstores) can tell you when you're good to go by detecting surging levels of luteinizing hormone in your urine. Don't panic if you don't get pregnant right away. A 30-year-old woman has a 20 percent chance of success every month and a 65 to 75 percent chance within a year.
Weight matters. The most fertile BMI is 20 to 25. "Being underweight or overweight can make it more difficult to conceive, because body fat produces estrogen, and too little or too much can affect your fertility," says Dr. Trupin. One percent of women run out of eggs before age 40. If you're not ready for a baby yet, consider getting a follicle count from a fertility specialist. (Go to the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals at arhp.org to find an accredited one in your area.) "A vaginal ultrasound can show the number of follicles in the development stage, and that can help your doctor estimate how many eggs you have left," says Dr. Silber. A count of 15 to 30 is considered healthy. "If yours is lower than 14 and you're not planning to get pregnant within a year, consider freezing some of your eggs for future use." The test costs about $175 and typically isn't covered by insurance.
In your 40s: Every month counts. We see so many older moms these days, it's easy to think that the fertility window is still wide open. But only 5 percent of women 40 and older conceive in a month, and just 40 to 50 percent are successful after a year. Wait no longer than a few months before consulting a fertility expert. "Older eggs are more likely to have chromosomal abnormalities," says Dr. Silber. Even if you get pregnant, you have a greater chance of miscarrying. The rate rises from 34 percent in your early 40s to 53 percent after 45. The news isn't all bad. "Donor eggs are a great option, because your uterus is probably as healthy as ever," says Dr. Silber.
What You Need to Know About Birth Control
In your 20s: Keep emergency contraception (EC) on hand. Even though EC is technically available over the counter, you still have to ask the pharmacist for it, and some may not be willing to sell it for religious or personal reasons. Getting a prescription filled now and stashing EC in your medicine cabinet can prevent a last-minute crisis. NuvaRing can eliminate the oops-I-forgot-to-take-my-pill factor. "Most birth control pills are so low-dose, you can ovulate or have irregular bleeding or spotting if you take it even a few hours late," says Dr. Hutcherson. NuvaRing is inserted into the vagina (where it releases hormones that prevent ovulation) once a month for three weeks, with one week each month off.
In your 30s: Oral contraceptives can raise your risk of blood clots if you're over 35 — especially if you smoke. To be safe, or if you've just had a baby and want to get pregnant again soon, experts recommend opting for a nonhormonal method, such as condoms or a diaphragm.
In your 40s: Tubal ligation (or a vasectomy for him) is a great option if you don't want more kids. These procedures may sound scary, but they're goof-proof and can be safer than using hormones at this point in your life, says Dr. Silber. Not ready for such a permanent step? "Consider the IUD," says Dr. Hutcherson. If you have painful periods, choose one that secretes progesterone — it will reduce or eliminate your period by shrinking the uterine lining.
What You Need to Know to Have the Best Sex Ever
In your 20s: Tell him what you want. A recent study of college students found that couples who talked about their sexual likes and dislikes had happier relationships and more satisfying sex. "The key to sexual pleasure is knowing what you want and saying it," says Valerie Davis Raskin, MD, a psychiatrist in Chicago and author of Great Sex for Moms.
In your 30s: Exercise. Pregnancy and childbirth do a real number on your body, mind, and libido. In a study of first-time parents, over half of the women surveyed said that their changed body image affected their sex life. Another study found that women who worked out regularly during pregnancy were more satisfied with their bodies. "Feeling fit, strong, and flexible helps takes the focus off whether you're back to your pre-pregnancy shape," says Dr. Raskin. (See "Why Fit Women Have Better Sex," below, for more of the sexual perks of staying fit.)
In your 40s: Kissing is key. Finally, science proves our need for foreplay! The idea that you become aroused first, then seek out sex is based on — surprise, surprise — studies of men. For women, the latest research shows that many of us don't feel in the mood until after we start kissing and caressing.
Make time to unwind. Stress plays a big role in that not-tonight feeling. "Women in their 40s are often squeezed by the demands of kids, career, and aging parents," says Dr. Hutcherson. "And it can have a major impact in the bedroom." Anything that helps you relax — exercise, yoga, meditation, leisurely baths, funny movies — helps keep your libido strong.
Why Fit Women Have Better Sex
Can't get motivated to work out? Try thinking about all the great sex you'll have afterward! Research has shown that regular exercise plays a more important role in sexual satisfaction than many other factors, including testosterone levels, stress, or even the quality of your relationship. Basically, the more you work out, the happier you are sexually. Likewise, Finnish researchers recently found that 42- to 46-year-old women who work out strenuously have more orgasms than those who don't. Here's why:
- Increased blood flow to the vagina. "The better the circulation is down there, the more easily you become aroused physically and the more intense the orgasm you'll have," says Dr. Hutcherson. And we found proof: In one study, women with low libidos who did 20 minutes of fairly intense cardiovascular exercise (such as fast jogging or taking a step or Spinning class) before watching an erotic video became more aroused than when they watched the film without exercising first.
- Stress relief. Anxiety makes you tense, which inhibits arousal physically and emotionally, says Dr. Trupin.
- Body confidence. "Women who feel better about their bodies enjoy sex more because they're less anxious in bed," says Dr. Trupin. And in general, women who exercise regularly tend to feel better about their bodies than those who don't.
- Increased endurance. Sex is exercise, so the fitter you are, the more energy you'll have to, um, go the extra mile.
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Sydney, Feb 21 (ANI): Australia vice-captain Shane Watson has claimed he is looking to give a befitting reply to his critics, who believe he doesn't merit a place in the Test team because he is not among the top six batsman in the country.
The 31-year-old's injury-driven decision to place the bowling aspect of his game on hold led critics to opine that he does not merit a spot in the Australian XI, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Watson's calm exterior suggests an indifference to having his status questioned but as Friday's first Test approaches in India's south, he admits he is bent on ramming home over this four-Test assignment why he should be an automatic selection, all-rounder or not, the paper reported.
Watson said there has been a lot that has been mentioned over the last six months on whether he warrants a position in the side as a batsman if he is not bowling, adding he is playing as a batsman in India.
Watson added he wants to be able to prove to the selectors and to the people who at times maybe don't think that he is one of the top six batsmen in Australia, to prove that he is that, and that he can get picked as a batsman, adding that his bowling is just a bonus thing to be able to add to the team.
Set to bat at No. 4 in the Australian order, Watson had wanted to open but selectors will stick with Ed Cowan in Chennai.
Watson is also intent on being a louder voice in the team, identifying the sudden dearth of experience after the retirements of Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey. (ANI)


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That dusky beauty from Tula has her sights set on you, boychik. As for you, well, you can't wait to finger her trigger. But your friends are telling you to forget it. They say it'll never work out. You come from two different worlds. She's too loud, she has a history and you can't trust her to be a straight shooter. The first chance she gets, they say, she'll kick you to the curb and cause you pain. Well, you know that she's a smooth operator because you've checked out her action. And even though she used to run with a dangerous crowd, you consider it part of her charm. Most of all, you dirty dog, you can't keep your sweaty paws off her butt! So you think you're ready to take her home to meet the family, right? Nyet! Beauty, my friends, is only skin deep. It's what's inside that truly counts . . .
Before waltzing out of the store arm in arm with Natasha Nagant, a savvy buyer will perform the requisite due diligence. Yeah, sure, I know that a gunsmith is going to check out the rifle before it's fired. By then money has changed hands, paperwork filed and the buyer pretty much stuck with the rifle. It's better to field-check a Nugget before buying and then having a 'smith confirm the field tests. So let's begin.
Doing a Background Check
But first, the inevitable safety warning. Know and obey the rules of gun safety before you handle any gun, even one that's older than you and should know better. Keep the muzzle pointed in the proverbial "safe direction" at all times, which as far as I'm concerned means "not at me." You will need to depress the trigger when you're examining Nagants, so check and double check to make sure the rifle isn't loaded and neither are you.
Don't do any of the following tests with a loaded rifle — if you shoot somebody while you're flagging the room, that somebody may get pissed off and return the insult with an even larger and more powerful gun. While it's true that we should all reduce our carbon footprints, premature death by gunfight is an extreme way to Save the Planet.
Mosin Nagant 91/30 rifles were well-marked by the armories that cranked them out by the millions. This is not a guide to marks. Suffice it to say, the marks tell exactly where each component of a Nagant was crafted. Nagants are often advertised as having "all matching serial numbers," but sometimes that's a big, steaming pile of бык дерьмо (that's Russian for "bull kaka"). A lot of 91/30s were re-arsenaled, sometimes more than once.
During the process, worn out or damaged parts were scrapped and good parts were reused or manufactured to create functioning rifles. After that, matching serial numbers may have been applied to the replacement parts. While not impossible, locating an early, as-issued Moist Nugget with original matching numbers is just a bit easier than finding a Brady Wingnut who supports concealed grade-school carry by convicted preadolescent pedophiles with ADHD and hemorrhoids.
Here's a top view of a "hex receiver" 91/30. It has the Tula arrow-in-star marking. Hex receivers are supposed to be better than round receivers, and Tula better than Izhevsk, but that's more myth than reality. The receiver is dated 1934 and has a serial number that matches every single part of the rifle, from the bayonet to the buttplate.
The bolt has a matching serial number, but the bolt handle carries the arrow-in-triangle mark (not shown) that says the handle, at least, was made in the Izhevsk factory.
Even the two barrel bands on this rifle don't match; one is from Tula and the other from Izhevsk. So what's the upshot of all this? Since we're looking for a shooter, the answer is "not much." This mixing-and-matching isn't uncommon with Nagants and doesn't mean that the rifle is "bad" or that the bolt is "mismatched" to the receiver. Such a rifle will not be inherently less accurate or less safe than one that is "as issued." When selecting a shooter, the tests are more important than the marks. So let's test.
Get Her Nekkid
Doing a proper physical exam on a Nagant requires some basic tools, and I mean basic. Everything that's needed can be carried in a pocket or purse. The entire kit consists of the Nagant teardrop multi-tool, a bore light, a late-model Roosevelt dime and three headspace gauges. Okay, the dime isn't really necessary. I only put it in the picture for scale. The other items will definitely be required.
Now we're gonna go all TSA and strip-search this rifle. Start by removing the Nagant's bolt. It's so simple, even a cave man can do it. With finger off trigger, lift up the bolt handle and open the bolt. Check the chamber again and be certain that the rifle is not loaded. Now depress the trigger and pull the bolt all the way back. The bolt will slide right out.
Now that the rifle has been ballistically incapacitated, put the bolt aside and check the crown. If it's wider than the rest of the bore, the rifle has been recrowned or counterbored. Don't buy it. The 'smith who did the job may have been a genius or an идиот. Since nobody knows which, move on. Fast. If the rifle doesn't have a good crown and bore, it won't be able to put a bullet in the ocean from the beach.
If the crown checks out, examine the rest of the bore with the little goose-neck bore light. Bore lights sell for as little as $2.95, and such an insignificant sum will prove to be the best kopecks a Nagant buyer ever spent. Put the bore light into the receiver and eyeball the entire bore from the muzzle end. Take plenty of time. The bore is likely to be dark. Hey, it's an old rifle that's been stored since before Al Gore invented the Internet. Still, the bore should not be pitted. The grooves should be complete and deep and the lands should stand proud. Just say до свидания, кот котенка if the bore fails this rudimentary test, and move on.
The Nagant does have one weakness, and it's the thickness of barrel, or rather the lack thereof as evidenced by the photo. Purpose-built for fighting in cold weather, the Nagant functions perfectly in Arctic and sub-Arctic conditions where the barrel would more likely freeze than overheat. In more temperate climes, the barrel can get hot to the detriment of accuracy. Well, I can live with that. If the Nagant had a thicker barrel with more steel, I'd need a wheeled cart and two oxen to move it about.
Memo to Randy Couture: Screw the Tower 200, Sunshine. You got a Nagant, you got a gym. Wanna try the Mother of All Workouts? Try humping this rifle a thousand miles and conquering the Third Reich.
If you're not already exhausted from lifting the beast, it's time to check the firing pin with the Nagant tool. Usually, the rifle will come with the tool, but if it isn't so equipped, one can be bought online for about a hundred and forty rubles. Wow, that's only five bucks American! The multi-tool was designed for illiterate peasants to use, so anyone like me — having at least a rudimentary intelligence — can wield it to good effect.
The Nagant tool has four rectangular notches cut into it, like the teeth on your front door key. The two notches in the middle are for checking the firing pin. The smaller of the two notches checks the minimum depth. As illustrated, the pin should be too tall to pass through this notch.
The taller notch checks the maximum depth. The pin should pass through this notch. A firing pin is correctly set when it passes both tests.
It's so easy to adjust the Nagant's firing pin that any failure of these tests raises a major red flag for me. I don't know why any seller wouldn't fix a poorly adjusted firing pin, so I would reject a misadjusted rifle unless the seller was prepared to correct the pin and allow me to the recheck it right then and there. Others are free to disagree, but I believe that being picky is bad for noses but good for choosing a first Moist Nugget.
Why is firing pin depth so critical? When the pin-strike is pansy-light, the rifle will misfire. It's even worse when the firing pin punches too deep and penetrates into the case like the Red Army punched through Berlin. The hot gasses that were supposed to propel the bullet downrange may then choose instead to propel the bolt backwards through the shooter's T-box, giving an entirely new and non-technical meaning to the word "headspace."
Speaking of headspace, I don't mean the distance between someone's ears; I mean the distance between the bolt face and the chamber face. That's where the rim of the Nagant's cartridge will rest when the rifle is loaded. The photo shows a cartridge case in its proper firing position.
The headspace must be checked before the rifle is fired. With too little headspace, maybe the bolt won't close and the rifle will be inoperable. That would be a stroke of luck for the shooter because a bolt that is forced closed can create excess pressure in the cartridge. With too much pressure, the shooter will be in a world of hurt. Overpressure will rupture the cartridge case and blast those superheated gases and perhaps even the bolt through the rear of the receiver in the direction of the shooter's mug, which he or she can then kiss goodbye with any lips that might remain.
At the other end of the spectrum, there's the issue of too much headspace, as opposed to too little. In the former case, the gasses that are supposed to propel the bullet downrange will take the path of least resistance, which again is toward the shooter, thereby causing the same monumental fail and extreme loss of face.
Now, the good news. Although I've heard of rifle failures due to improper headspace, death or serious injury seems rare. Why is that good news? Because it means that the path to internet immortality awaits anyone who stupidly fires a Nagant without checking the headspace, resulting in a well-perforated forehead. What an opportunity! Just be sure that someone nearby gets it on video and that both parties have Blue Cross or a generous burial plan. Or, just do the right thing and check the headspace.
Now, the better news. Handy dandy headspace gauges are available, and they don't require a gunsmith to use them. Some gauges require disassembling the bolt and removing the firing pin. That's easy enough to do, but the seller may bolt if you mess with the bolt, so get a set of Okie Headspace Gauges instead.
Okie Gauges is run by Todd Griffith, who is both a Nagant fancier by avocation and a machinist by trade. Todd makes a set of headspace gauges that do not require removing the firing pin. Just open the bolt, carefully place a gauge in position, and close the bolt. With the "Go" gauge positioned on the bolt face as shown below, the bolt should close properly. If it doesn't, there's inadequate headspace and the rifle should be rejected unless the buyer is boinking the neighborhood gunsmith.
The "No Go" gauge should stop the bolt from fully closing. If the bolt closes all the way, there is too much headspace. At this point, I would reject the rifle even thought it might not be unsafe to fire with standard loads. The final test uses the "Field" gauge. The bolt must not close on the Field gauge, or the rifle is unsafe, period. Either run away from it, or ship it off to Osama bin Laden for a happy little birthday surprise.
Having passed all the aforementioned tests, now Natasha can come home.
Cooking Up Some Cosmo
Cosmoline or, as I loving call it, the Devil's Snot, is hiding somewhere in that rifle. Count on it. Cosmo can be removed with mineral spirits, engine degreaser, brake cleaner, other noxious chemicals or my personal favorite, heat. Heated cosmo turns into a viscous liquid that's easily drained from Nagant parts, and most Nagant parts will fit nicely into a typical kitchen stove – even the stock. The downside of removing cosmo with heat is the stench. Unless your spouse or significant other is very understanding, he or she will not appreciate you fouling the cookie sheets, oven or air.
So here's the plan, Stan. Get thee to your local hardware store and procure some mineral spirits, engine degreaser or brake cleaner. Then get thee to the Stop and Shop and purchase some disposable foil pans of appropriate size to hold the Nagant parts and a roll of aluminum foil. Also obtain a disposable brownie pan and a box of your favorite brownie mix. May I be so bold as to recommend Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Brownie Mix? It's a bit more expensive than Duncan Hines, but you're worth it.
Back at the ranch, preheat the oven to its lowest setting, which will be between 150 and 200 degrees depending on the oven in question. It doesn't take a lot of heat to melt cosmo, so treat your rifle like a lady and be gentle. While the oven is preheating, break down the rifle and position your components in the disposable pans, use crunched-up aluminum foil to position the parts so that the cosmo will run out instead of running in. Unless you have a commercial pizza over handy, the barrel will not fit. We'll use hot water to clean the barrel. Fill a whistling teapot with water and put it on the boil.
While the parts are baking, prepare your brownie mix by following the directions on the package. After the gun parts have been heated for a half-hour or so, remove them to cool and reset the oven to the proper temperature for brownies. Let the parts continue to cool and the oven warm until both have reached their correct temperatures. Now pop the brownie pan into the oven and let the beguiling fragrance of baking brownies infuse your home.
When the rifle parts are cool enough to touch, work them over with your chosen chemical and a toothbrush. Dry and clean them with your gun cleaner and oil with gun oil. Pour hot water slowly down the barrel, then dry with patches. Scrub the bore with your bore solvent of choice to remove any copper, lead or other foreign deposits, then clean it with your gun cleaner and lightly oil. The brownies will be ready by now, so remove them to cool. Use the water remaining in the kettle to make tea. I've heard that chamomile is very soothing and goes well with cosmoline.
Now you have a clean rifle, a sweet-smelling home and a happy spouse or significant other who is nibbling on a brownie and sipping tea. Show some class and keep your pinkie up. Ain't life grand? While you're at it, do the planet a favor. Dispose of the used chemicals and cosmo properly. All petroleum-based products are carcinogenic if ingested, so don't put anything into the ground or water that you wouldn't put in you, because that's where it's going to end up one way or the other.
In the next installment, we'll clean up the stock a bit, sight in the rifle and destroy some shit. Guaranteed, there will be a trick for adjusting the front sight that you'll absolutely love.
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24 Responses to Ralph's Guide to Buying Your First Mosin Nagant 91/30 Pt. 2
Excellent piece Ralph!
I've got 2 that I was given, so I have done zip save for lubing them. I guess I will now have to actually check them out a bit next time I drag them out of the safe.
Great job as usual Ralph, I'm sure these tips can help people avoid getting ripped off and remain safe at the same time.
Great article!
Let me add a note of urgency t oyour advice to degrease the gun FIRST, before you fire it even once: Most 'sticky bolt' problems are caused by failing to get the cosmoline out if the chamber, bolt lugs, and breech locking lugs before firing. It's easy to clean BEFORE you fire the gun, but once it gets cooked in there it's a bitch to remove.
Wonderful article- and great photos, too. Thanks!
There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING like the smell of cosmoline from an old Soviet Mosin Nagant.
Cosmoline from Mosin smell like victory, Komrade….or maybe like getting close to victory but deciding to drink vodka instead, and waking up three days later in day-old borscht in ditch beside sidewalk in front of old tractor factory.
I have, over the years, bought more Mosin Nagants than I care to admit. Two are still in my safe, and the rest were given away as gifts.
One is a Finnish M39 Nagant, which is a bit more refined than your typical Soviet model. Of course, all Finnish M39s started life as Soviet Mosins, but got turned into M39 models after Ivan and Anton graciously toted them all the way to Finland first.
I love the smell of milsurp ammo in the morning. It smells like . . . cat piss.
I'm really enjoying this series of articles! I was turned on to Mosin-Nagants over on Freerepublic.com, as they are quite popular among Freepers.
Got my first Mosin at a gun show this January- and, sure enough, it's been counterbored. I've only put about twenty rounds through it so far, and that at short range, so we'll see how that affects accuracy.
Mine does have matching serial numbers, but they were definitely not original- it has a Remington bolt handle! Since it bears refurbishment stamps on both the barrel shank and the stock, I have this vision of armorers working on rebuilding rifles, and just taking parts out of huge bins to make a whole, then stamping identical numbers on all of them.
I did, though, invest in a field gauge from Okie gauges to check it before firing- and carry that gauge in my wallet for future use 🙂
Rather than smell up the house when cleaning cosmo by using the oven, I've got a small 1-gallon wall paper steamer with the head removed and a brass barb in it's place.
If heat or hot water work to remove cosmo, why not both from one source?
I buy enough surplus rifles that this steamer has more than paid for itself, having cleaned 16 rifles so far and still going, including 2 Mosin's that were originally chemically cleaned and suffered severe sticky-bolt. Steam fixed those 2 right up.
With a properly sized adapter, it makes very short work of cleaning the barrel after a long range day digesting corrosive surplus.
I still have, and have no problem buying, lots of chemical cleaners, the steamer just works better, and cheaper, for me. A lot less aerosol cans to dispose of, reduced risk of chemical interactions in your rags or trash, and fewer patches needed on the bore.
If you plan to buy a surplus rifle that have had the cosmo dunk more than once, I highly recommend a steamer.
If you don't want your oven to smell like cosmo or you just feel odd baking your brand new old gun, you can take a black trash bag filled with kitty litter, put the wooden parts in there, and then leave the bag in a sunny spot for a few days, periodically shuffling the litter and parts around.
Non-chlorinated brake cleaner works wonders for cleaning the metal parts, but keep it far, far away from the wood, it'll eat that pretty Russian ruby enamel off in moments.
However you clean it, no matter how meticulous you are, the first few times you go to shoot it, more cosmo will weep out. Take a rag with you if you don't already.
if the bolt shoots out the back of the rifle, you have bigger issues than a ruptured case…
the bolt handle locks on the receiver when it is in the down position and servers as the bolt's third locking lug…
for the bolt to go through your skull, both locking lugs and the bolt handle, or receiver side would all have to fail, at the same time…
if that happens (not freaking likely) your number was up anyway….
Where is the next installment been waiting what seems like forever now sheesh
Hi Ralph ,
Nice and informative post : However Nagants are Imperial Russian Revolvers and Mosins are rifles that have served well for 120 years . The most appropriate name for the rifle is Mosin 91 , Mosin 91/30 or Mosin Nagant if we must bring the Belgian fellow into it .
Bought my first Mosin 91/30 a few weeks ago, successfully disassembled and cleaned off the cosmoline, then put it back together. I was having some "sticky bolt" issues so i decided to break it down again for a more thorough job. when I reassembled the rifle, (including putting the bolt back on) I realized the trigger was slack and that the trigger pin had fallen out. However, now I can't get the bolt off to put the pin back in, since it's covering the top screw. Any tips? Or is a gunsmith in my future?
Bump to top for awesomeness. Just picked up a 91/30 and a can of ammo. Thanks for the great write up. It feels like a piece of junk back to back with my 1917 eddystone but it gets the job done just as well I bet.
All 3 parts of your article are amazing.
I just acquired an M44 1945, I will be receiving it in the next week or so.
But I can not wait (seriosuly) to detail strip and clean out the cosomoline and bond with "Natalya" hehehe. Thank you for the write up and detailed pictures. Much appreciated!
Just purchased my first Mosin and am literally laughing out loud at your insightful and hilarious articles. Very good information and much appreciated.
EXcellent Ralph, really enjoyed the info and the humereous way it was presentedI now own 4 mosins, a t-53, and a nagant 7 shot revolver, next a yugo mauser, then a r-11 and a r31 swiss, then a #4 enfield, whats your thoughts on these old timers?? thanks Jared Stanfield, Homer, Ill.
I used a hair dryer to melt the Cosmoline. Worked for me.
Great writing Ralph! I just bought a 91/30 that appears to be de-cosmo'd. I cleaned it and hope to shoot it soon, after I check it's headspace. Your humor probably is more effective in getting new mosin owners who are not well seasoned rifle cats to pay close attention to the safety aspects of owning "vintage" firearms. The accuracy information is fantastic. I've had a few cocktails this evening so I will sign off here and retire to dream of several "Natashas". Good work! thanks. Bill Nichols, Louisville, KY
It's not good to be a "know-it-all" so I came across this article and figured, maybe there is something new I could learn. Well I get to the part titled "Get Her Nekkid" and I see the picture "Tools for Mosins" with everything I've used, plus a dime. Then I start reading "The entire kit consists of the Nagant teardrop multi-tool, a bore light, a late-model Roosevelt dime and three headspace gauges." You really dropped the dime on me! I was thinking, wait what is the dime for, what did I miss?!? Then, "Okay, the dime isn't really necessary. I only put it in the picture for scale. The other items will definitely be required." Yeah, that was fun. Very good article by the way. Keep up the good work.
You say check the crown..can you show an example of a bad crown job..ive reverse crowned 1911s and I can't imagine a machinist or gunsmith botching a crown job..what exactly is a newbie to nagants supposed to look for? Also should my local gun shop that boys crates of these include the tool? And who sells the three shim guahes and what thickness are they just in case I would want to verify w dial calipers.thank you
Cabela's has a supply of 91/30's for sale. If anyone in the Atlanta area is a knowledgeable Mosin enthusiast, I'd be interested in some assistance inspecting/selecting one.
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I just picked one up at a local store up here in Maine. Ralph wasn't lying when he talked about the Devil's nose juice that is cosmoline. Holy crap, that stuff is like the ectoplasm from that weird birthing scene in Poltergeist. The only good news is that to get rid of it all, one really gets to know his new rifle. I just ordered an Okie no-go headspace gauge. There is just a terabyte of good information in this piece, Ralph. Thanks for putting it together.
I'm actually looking for a mosin for myself, where is a good place to get one? Gun Shows? Online? Has anybody gotten one from aimsurplus.com? They are reconditioned mosins, but online doesn't give the opportunity to inspect….


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Raymond J. Sicheneder, age 88, of St. Bonifacius, passed away on Friday March 22, 2013 at the Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia.
Memorial Mass of Christian Burial was held on Wednesday March 27, 2013 at 11 a.m. at St. Boniface Catholic Church in St. Bonifacius with Father Thomas Balluff as celebrant of the Mass; visitation was Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the St. Boniface Catholic Church and one hour prior to the Mass at church; vigil prayers were held 7:30 p.m. Tuesday evening; interment St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery.
Raymond was born on April 16, 1924 in Hannibel, Wis., the son of Andrew and Alma (Splettstoeszer) Sicheneder. On Feb. 12, 1946 Raymond was united in marriage to Beatrice Ebert at St. Boniface Catholic Church in St. Bonifacius by Father Wohlfert.
Raymond served in the army from 1941-1945. He fought in the European theatre and landed on Normandy Beach. Raymond received two purple hearts, a bronze star and the Occupation of Germany medal. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus being a Grand Knight and the American Legion Post in St. Bonifacius. Ray was an avid fisherman, enjoyed camping hunting, playing cards with family and friends, especially sheephead and cribbage. But above everything else he loved being with his wife and family.
Raymond is survived by his loving family; wife of 67 years Beatrice; children and spouses Adrian and Karen Sicheneder of St. Bonifacius, Steven and Jill Sicheneder of Wyoming, Minn., Karen and Gerald Elling of St. Bonifacius, Sharon Day and friend Chad Hirman of Waconia, Jan and Randy Knott of New Germany; grandchildren Jeff Sicheneder, Christina Wichelman, Kimberly Sicheneder, Sarah Sicheneder and Bryce Larson, David Sicheneder, Michael and Jo Lynn Elling, Katie Elling, Jason and Deanna Dennis, Ryan Dennis, Jennifer and Travis Jolicoeur, Heidi Knott and fiance Jon Noerenberg, Andrew Knott; great-grandchildren Amber, Tatum, Cole, Mack, Taylor, Alexandra, Travis, Sam, Macy, Madelynn; great-great-grandson Brock; brothers and sisters-in-law Vernon and Dee Schwalbe of Mound, Lowell and Marilyn Schwalbe of Sun City, Ariz.; sister Suzie Light of Watertown; sisters-in-law Josephine Sicheneder of Mound, Fran Born of Chaska; nieces, nephews other relatives and friends.
Urn Bearers were Raymond's grandchildren.
Arrangements with the Johnson Funeral Home in Waconia, Minn.; www.johnsonfh.com.
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Raymond J. Sicheneder, age 88, of St. Bonifacius, passed away on Friday March 22, 2013 at the Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia.


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Hello friends.!!I am new at .htaccessi have a queryI want to convert my url www.mydomain.com/menu.php?id=1to www.mydomain.com/menu./1Please help with detail procedure..
Hi jun$,
You want to take a look at mod_rewrite and specifically around RewriteRule, here is a site that can give you a quick introductionhttp://datakoncepts.com/seo and it has has Code Generator
Or you can read all of this off the Apache Sitehttp://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Hi cpradio,Thanks for your info.I will check out this.
Please post any follow up questions if you don't find what you are looking for or it doesn't make sense.
Thanks cp!
That's just too easy, however, as my tutorial states, it's YOUR job to link to the new format and mod_rewrite's job to redirect back to something which Apache can serve (in other words, your "convert ... to" is the wrong direction). Yes, you can redirect to the new format then back to the original but that takes some slight of hand and, if you're asking this question, you're not quite ready for that yet!
To convert TO menu.php?id=1 from menu./1 (is that dot supposed to be there before the /???):
# .htaccess in domain.com's DocumentRoot
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^menu\\./([0-9]+)$ menu.php?id=$1 [L]
This regex simply requires menu./ before some digits (and nothing else), captures the digits and redirects (without being seen - that would require the R=301 flag) to menu.php?id={the digits}.
If you have any questions on this or the tutorial, you know where to find me (or PM).
Just to add on, (if that dot shouldn't be there )
# .htaccess in domain.com's DocumentRoot
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^menu/([0-9]+)$ menu.php?id=$1 [L]
Amen (that was about the strangest thing I've seen in a while ... but, if part of this member's specification rather than a typo, it did have to be dealt with.


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© InfoOne of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck on Friday 11 March 2011 off the north eastern coast of Japan. It caused widespread loss of life and severe damage. The earthquake also triggered a tsunami, a destructive wave of water that washed away everything in its path - homes, buildings, vehicles and people.
Days after the event, the exact extent of the loss of life, damage and personal suffering was unknown. Large areas where the tsunami impacted had not been reached by journalists. Roads were blocked and communication systems destroyed. It was clear that many thousands of people had died. Some survivors were without the basics of life - food, water and shelter.
When the world's media moved on after the massive earthquake and tsunami that brought destruction to north eastern Japan, local people continued to clean up the devastation and to try to adjust to their changed worlds. Mark the anniversary with activities exploring personal loss and uncertainty and ways to express the scale of the destruction.
Note: Teachers may find it helpful to read the emotional support and bereavement briefings before using this resource.
After a disaster one of the first tasks is to find survivors and bring them to safety. It is called search and rescue.
After a few days, depending on circumstances, the chance of finding more people alive becomes very remote. At some point, this search and rescue effort will become recovery work: recovering the bodies of those who died, rather than finding survivors.
Explain this to students. Talk briefly about the implications of the change in effort. How will friends and relatives of the missing feel at that point? What about the rescue workers? Then ask:
After discussion, tell the group that the recovery phase following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is still active. That is a full year after the disaster.
Play this audio clip , in which a BBC world service reporter talks to those organising a search.
A year on, 153 from this small town, are still missing. But they haven't given up on finding them. A dozen divers are going out today to search the bay.
"Why are you doing this work? Why are you carrying on, so long after the tsunami?"
"As long as the families of the missing want something back, anything to remember them by, even a fragment, we will continue with our search."
Ask questions:
More than 3,000 people are reported missing following the Japanese tsunami. They are in addition to the known death toll of nearly 16,000.
Invite students to think for a moment about the friends and relatives of those 3,000 people. How might their feelings have changed over the past year? At the beginning they may have had hopes that their loved-ones had survived. How would that affect their daily lives? How long would it have taken for those hopes to fade? What would they be replaced with?
Reflect on significant aspects of losing someone in such a disaster. Such as:
Use this list to explore why many of those who are grieving have such a strong desire to find a body.
Students can be helped to appreciate how uncertainty increases stress by looking at where it occurs in their own lives. For instance, they may have experienced:
Discuss how people deal with these kinds of everyday occurrences. What helps – such as having the support of others who understand?
Talk about how removing the uncertainty changes things. Why is it easier to deal with an illness when you know what it is? How does this relate to the need of families to know the fate of their relatives?
Many statistics are quoted at the time of an anniversary. They are used to communicate something about the event. They can be difficult to comprehend and visualise. Try to bring them to a human level. Show students these figures below, which are examples of what is being reported one year after the tsunami:
Which of these is most striking to students? Which do they think is useful for explaining to someone the scale of people's suffering and the devastation? Could they be presented so they were more easily understood?
Read the above or a similar report to set the scene about the event. Then prepare students to watch the five-minute video. (Note: watch it first to assess its suitability. There is a section at 4:00 which shows the wrapping up of dead bodies.) Say that while the reality it reports is distressing, the video is also a moving depiction of the dignity and humanity of those who survived.
The video is a Channel 4 news report, fronted by presenter Alex Thomson in Minamisanriku, a small town on Japan's north eastern coast which was very badly hit by the tsunami.
Read the transcript.
Use the following headings to structure thoughts about the report and the disaster. In the classroom, these could be given to students in advance of viewing the film. For an assembly, they could be used to direct thoughts after the viewing. Select carefully, bearing in mind the group and their maturity and experiences.
What in the report shows the following?
See the section in which a body is "quietly" removed, "with whatever dignity an old blanket can provide". Also the sequence in which the necessary bureaucracy of identifying then wrapping and labelling the bodies is taking place. Note the reporter's comments, "this is a small town, they know these people".
Many long shots of the landscape indicate this, some pointed out by the reporter as he tries to show how far the wave washed through the area. Note the focus on personal belongings now lost - such as the photograph of a bride among the rubble.
The reporter remarks on the self-help and dignity of the survivors in very difficult circumstances. Note, for example, the group waiting patiently for rescue, one man carrying an elderly and possibly injured woman on his back. See the school, now used as a centre, sheltering people from the town. There is now no hospital, so people are improvising as best they can.
Point to two instances - first where filming is interrupted by a tsunami alert and again as people are urged up and up to higher ground.
Other striking moments which could form the basis of exploration include:
Explore the Japan earthquake with students using this simple activity. It is suitable for upper primary, as well as secondary school students. It starts with a short audio quiz. The further ideas and material can be introduced as appropriate to the age and interests of the group.
(Note: Some students may have heard this or similar sounds in a real-life context, so be clear that it is part of the lesson, without revealing the answer.)
The sound you are about to hear has been described as scary. It also saves lives. What is it?
Play the sound.
After discussing students' ideas, explain or confirm that it is an earthquake early warning system. It has been regarded as effective in saving lives in the recent massive earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan on 11 March.
The sound is regularly broadcast on radio, television and through mobile phone alerts. It is played just before a tremor to give people a chance to get into a safer position when the quake begins. There have been many aftershocks in the days following the major earthquake.
Ask students to listen to the sound again, this time knowing that it is a warning.
Depending on how far from the centre of the quake they are, people get a few seconds warning. Is that enough time to reduce the chances of a serious injury? Yes. Here are some ideas:
Invite students to add to the list. Be inventive. Spend some time thinking about how you would respond right now in the classroom, and in different circumstances.
Is the alert also scary? Yes, say some people who have been hearing the sounds regularly since the 11 March earthquake and the series of aftershocks. Talk about why. Then read out some of these comments from social networking sites:
"The sound of the Earthquake Early Warning still scares me, and my hands start shaking when the television plays it and my cell phone starts buzzing."
"I'm so tired… just heard the Earthquake Warning again in Nagano Prefecture. The sounds coming from my cell phone … scare me. The magnitude isn't always big but we don't know when the next big one will come. It frays my nerves each time the Warning on my cell phone rings…"
"...when I was in the Keikyu Train, different earthquake warning sounds started ringing from everyone's cell phones at the same time. An extreme sense of urgency filled the train."
"In our workplace, everyone's cell phones started ringing at once, making a sound that had never been heard before. It was the Earthquake Early Warning. We continued to work although we were terrified. Everyone is okay. It's wonderful to be alive, isn't it?!"
"I duck underneath the table every time I hear the Warning. It's like an air-raid siren. Securing food, trying to confirm the safety of loved ones, unfounded rumours, a feeling of scarcity… it's like the world of the wartime stories that my grandmother used to tell me."
Finish by asking students what message they would send to the people of Japan now. Ask for written contributions, then mount them on a display or upload them to a website.
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The Cookie Festival Building and Balancing Toy is fun and educational. The cute little cookie men enhance children's fine movement stability through unlimited stacking fun. Enrich creative thinking from 2D piecing to 3D stacking games.
Level up children's concentration and frustration tolerance through the stacking process. The unique banana base design can be used as a rocking bar to add an extra challenge and provide different levels of stacking fun to increase children's symmetry and balance concepts.
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Hong Kong Street Market T-shirt Art
de Aaron Anfinson and Nadia Anfinson
À propos du livre
For the last two years we've been searching for printed shirts that seem to resonate the pulse of HK life and all the foot traffic of one of the world's most densely populated areas.
We found a lot of incoherent junk, but also quite a few gems. For us, nothing says "real" working life in HK more than these found art pieces from HK's common back alley markets. With erratic fonts, peculiar punctuation and mixed messages, these are those shirts.
À propos du créateur
Aaron and Nadia Anfinson are a married team of educators whose worldview and inspiration come from family, students and friends in midwestern America, developing Vietnam, post-colonial Hong Kong and the Arabian gulf.
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