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KIHEI - South Maui's "inadequate infrastructure" may not be able to shoulder the effects of large-scale future development projects like the expansion of the Makena Resort, the Honua'ula project in Wailea and the Kihei high school, especially if the community does not have a voice in the planning process, retired college professor Dick Mayer said Tuesday.
Mayer, a Kula resident who has been involved in planning issues on Maui for more than 40 years, presented a status update on more than a dozen planned projects, as well as his concerns about impacts to roadways, the water supply and coastline access, Tuesday night during the Kihei Community Association's monthly meeting.
"I'm not saying any of these projects are bad or good, but the cumulative effect of all of them, that's something people should be interested in," said Mayer, a retired professor from Maui Community College, which is now University of Hawaii Maui College.
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Dick Mayer outlined more than a dozen proposed development projects in South Maui and the impacts they may have on the community during the Kihei Community Association meeting Tuesday night. Mayer is a retired professor from Maui Community College, now called University of Hawaii Maui College.
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Honua'ula, previously known as Wailea 670, would add a proposed 1,150 residential units. Alexander & Baldwin has planned to add 1,150 residential and 640 resort units to Wailea, and ATC Makena Holdings is slated to add at least 850 residential units to the Makena resort, according to data compiled by Mayer.
The proposed expansion of the Maui Research & Technology Park, which is scheduled to appear before the state Land Use Commission next month, would add 1,250 residential units and 150 hotel units.
"You've got to think, what kind of impact would all this have?" Mayer said.
For one, traffic along the two main routes through South Maui would be greatly impacted from the growth in area population, Mayer said. South Kihei Road and Piilani Highway would become severely congested if another route is not developed, he added.
Ongoing water shortages and limited access to the coastline also are major issues that residents should consider, Mayer said.
"We need to move from a planning process run by landowners and developers to one based on residents of the community," Mayer told The Maui News after the meeting. "The organized voice of the community could really make a difference."
County Planning Director Will Spence, who took the podium after Mayer, told the audience that "just because it's in the plan doesn't mean it's going to get built."
"It looks like a lot of plans, will all these projects come to fruition? Probably not," Spence said, adding that even the projects that do get built will probably span 20 years.
The planned new high school, the controversial Piilani shopping malls that are currently being revamped, the Kihei Downtown Center by developer Krausz Cos. along Piikea Avenue and smaller developments also are going through the approval and entitlement process.
"You can look at development as an opportunity to partner with large landowners as opposed to 'Oh my God, what's going to happen?' '' Spence said. "The question of do we want this or not is not new. When we were getting SMA (shoreline management area) permits for a lot of these condo units, there were objections then too, and now they're full occupied."
Choosing smart, feasible and community-centric development projects is key to moving forward, Spence said.
"Instead of creating subdivisions, we should be creating neighborhoods and a place where people want to live. . . . There's design things you can do that create a sense of neighborhood. I hope we're headed in that direction," he said.
But some residents were concerned about adding thousands more residential units when resources are already stretched thin.
"Water will have to be developed," Spence said, adding that the Maui Research & Technology Park has already completed an environmental impact statement for a desalination plant that may be able to satiate the community's needs.
"I agree with the director (Spence) that it's about the quality of the development," said South Maui Rep. Kaniela Ing, who also was at the meeting. "We've seen 3,000 luxury condo (units) pop up in the last decade or so. We probably don't want to see too much more of that. If we're going to see development, we want to see houses that people like me or my little brothers and sisters can come and live in, and it has to be affordable so people don't have to move away."
Ing said that he also was intrigued by updates on the campaign to stop cane burning, which Maui Tomorrow Executive Director Irene Bowie talked about briefly at the meeting.
Bowie advocated a push for green harvesting, a technique that eliminates burning of the crop, which may help Maui Tomorrow's campaign for cleaner air on Maui. Green harvesting allows the farmer to recycle the tops of the cane to uses as a "trash blanket," which enriches soil and prevents erosion, Bowie said.
"Our main goal is not to put HC&S (Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar) out of business by any means. We support agriculture and we want to see agriculture still in our Central Valley. . . . But we need to encourage our elected officials and HC&S to develop a can-do attitude instead of a can't-do attitude," Bowie said.
A new smartphone application may be downloaded for free to help residents easily report incidents of excessive smoke, excessive ash or dust from cane burning activities to the state Department of Health Clean Air Branch. The app may be found by searching "Clean Air Maui."
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Think the uproar over looming federal budget cuts is just political hot air?
Plus, what I'm hearing is that this isn't even a cut in spending. It's just spending less than what was originally expected, yet still an increase over what was spent last year. If this is true and doing it would cause all the layoffs and etc, then to actually stay within a budget or to (God forbid) have a surplus must be armagedden.
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Actually in reality Non socialist that 2% cut is a 2% cut in the 35% of the amount of money the federal government has to borrow from China and other countries to run our government. We still would be borrowing 33% of every dollar that the federal government spends. A 2% cut is nothing near what needs to be done. The government can not continue to spend more money than we take in. It will either lead to a total financial colapse or the government will continue to print more useless money and inflation will go rampant. If we really wanted to cut the national debt down by 2% we would need to cut the spending by at least 37%.
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I love the disagrees, offering no opinion, just disagreeing.
The answer is clearly yes.
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The White House claims this will destroy the budget of the National Drug Intelligence Center...which doesn't exist anymore.
Here we have a bunch of people, 16 trillion in debt, that are flipping out over 85 billion. Which is like 150 dollars to someone making 30 grand a year. Don't buy it, it's nonsense. Not to mention, the President says that it can be avoided with just a little compromise--failing to mention that compromise is what created it in the first place and allowed the debt ceiling to be raised 2 trillion dollars. Let it go through, notSocialist is right about Obama's worst case--and no one will notice.
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One thing that it really does is expose their inability to stop building the empire, all they've done is threaten the people of those country by talking about all of the domestic programs that will be cut. We can't cut these programs, because people here rely on them. Seems like a pretty easy solution to me...don't cut domestic programs...
Oh...I forgot, our national defense is more important and hinges on us having a base in New Zealand. Not like our military budget has tripled in the last decade or anything...it's expensive when you're on OFFENSE. Has nothing to do with defense.
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The absurdity is incredible. ANY turnaround expert could cut government spending by 15%, easily, and NO ONE WOULD EVEN KNOW IT HAPPENED. Yet, here we have the Whiner-in-Chief crying that the sky is falling, even though he increased spending by a MASSIVE 52% over the average of the Bush years -- astounding!! And now he can't even cut 2% out of the 52% increase ---- unbelievable!
The Whiner-in-Chief is completely unable to manage anything; yet he will NEVER be held accountable for anything. And the morons in the media cannot even do simple math and call him on it. Sad state of affairs.
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It's not the 2 %.It's the meat axe approach. Your 15 % wouldn't even put a dent in balancing the budget ,little lone starting to pay down the debt,
The last time i looked it was congresses job to legislate,to budget and control spending. But for 18 months it was more important to campaign,to see who was going to win the election first. Just back from another 10 day recess and it's more of the same.
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Oh i know the repb. cotrolled congress has passed 2 bills adressing the sequester,
Of course it wasthere way or way approach without any amendmants by the dems,..
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The dems . have offered several bills to adress the sequester and the repubs won't even bring it to the floor for a vote
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Just keep in mind. Your so called turn around expert better be prepared to deal with all the politics involved
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That's because dems want to raise taxes with it. It was Obama's idea anyways to get the debt ceiling raised. Dems are the ones who want no compromise. Republicans are pathetic because, to this point, they haven't stood their ground.
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A 2% cut is a "meat axe" approach --- HILARIOUS.
When will the Whiner-in-Chief stop crying and start managing? When will the democrats in the senate pass a budget - it's been 4 years now? When will the media start calling out obama for the liar that he is?
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Meat axe as spending rises...LOL
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The debt ceiling has been raised by every president dating back to Washington." May be not that far "
I believe both parties are quility of no comprimise.
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Again q, city .The job of the congress is to legislate,pass a budget and control spending. Now the fact the presindent can't get anything threw congress and the congress can't get anything threw the senate seem to be why their rating is only 12 %
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GB % DC lie cost us 3trillion in debt,4600 lives and 35000 wounded.
A chance to pay off our debt .So go clean up your own back yard first.
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Apperantly you didn't understand the word meat axe approach.
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The debt ceiling can rise as growth increases, it should be a equal rise. If it was, how do we find ourselves 16 trillion in debt? Your only answer is that it's ok, because it's gone up with every administration. The statement alone proves that you DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE. You're the one arguing right and left, not me. The problem needs to be solved, I don't care who does it. Problem is the leaders of the Democratic Party want you and me to pay for their mistakes and introduce legislation that continues to make the same mistakes at the same time. The Republican Party did the same thing under Bush, but the only ones who seem to understand the issue and are willing to admit it exists are calling themselves republicans at the moment.
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Hilarious that you defend Obama and call out Bush, showing us all that you don't have a clue. You're so blind with party allegiance that you can't even admit that Obama is GWB on steroids. Wars, expanding federal government, no transparency, lies on top of lies.
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Show me where i said it was OK.
I agree,It's only going to happen when we get enough grown adults on bothsides of the aisile.
As long as continue on the present route "Never "
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I'm not the one seems to always put the blame in one spot like all of you.
I blame them "ALL "
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By the way i voted a mixed ballot.
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It seems funnie all the blame falls in the laps of the presidents.
There's 535 of reps, in washington and until they find away to cross over and comprimise.
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Umm derrrrr how do you pronounce "Mosin Nagant"?
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> Umm derrrrr how do you pronounce "Mosin Nagant"?
November 5, 2003, 09:32 AM
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November 5, 2003, 09:39 AM
After I bought my M-44, I did a significant amount of reading on the subject, and found somewhere that it is properly pronounced Moe-seen Nah-gahnt. Mosin was a Belgin and Nagant was a Russian, and with my limited understanding of French, this sounds about right.
Of course, I might very well be wrong. That happened once before.
November 5, 2003, 10:54 AM
Sorry, but you have that backward: Mosin was the Russian and Nagant was the Belgian.
mo-SEEN na-GAW is my best guess.
Dave R
November 5, 2003, 11:30 AM
I thought is was "Noisy Magnet".
Andrew Wyatt
November 5, 2003, 12:40 PM
moh-zin na-gaunt
November 5, 2003, 12:46 PM
Well, I'm from Rocky Top and we say "Mozun Naggat".:D
November 5, 2003, 12:59 PM
I can't tell you how to pronounce it, but I can tell you it translates from the Russian to:
Emptier of bank account, or, maximizer of credit limit.
Proceed with caution.
PS, their favorite breeding place is in a dark, cool, gun safe.:D
Mike Irwin
November 5, 2003, 01:52 PM
You'll also see a lot of variation in the spelling of Moisin if you go back over the years in any number of magazines.
Mosin, Moisin, Mossin, Moisen, etc. Moisin seems to be the one that's accepted right now.
Lots of debate about which is correct...
Quite frankly, they all are, and none are.
Russia uses the Cyrillic alphabet, while we use the Latin alphabet.
To get from one to the other, you have to transliterate, and transliteration is always open to interpretation.
Joe Demko
November 5, 2003, 02:44 PM
I thought it was pronounced "My hovercraft is full of eels."
4v50 Gary
November 5, 2003, 02:48 PM
Golgo - "My hovercraft is full of eels"
Mike Irwin
November 5, 2003, 02:53 PM
"I thought it was pronounced "My hovercraft is full of eels."
No no no!
That's how a Cockney from Orkney says SMLE...
Or at least that's what it sounds like through the scones...
November 5, 2003, 02:53 PM
No, no. It's spelt "mosin nagant," but it's pronounced throat warbler mangrove :D
November 5, 2003, 04:14 PM
You're a very silly person, and I'm not going to interview you!
November 5, 2003, 04:25 PM
MuzzleBlast, thanks for the correction. It's been awhile since I looked it up and I got it backwards. Either way, the two of them created an evil rifle that seems to drain money from the bank accounts of their innocent owners.
November 5, 2003, 04:28 PM
But everytime I shoot it, my nipples explode with delight.
November 5, 2003, 04:33 PM
Okie, that's wayyyyy too much info.
Mike Irwin
November 5, 2003, 04:54 PM
"But everytime I shoot it, my nipples explode with delight."
There's an image that's going to haunt me for a long, long time...
Sleeping Dog
November 5, 2003, 05:16 PM
There's an image that's going to haunt me for a long, long time...
Agree, but somehow I want to grab the M44 and head for the range. I thought it was only a sound and light show. Hmmmm.
Oh yeah, the names
I'd go for "MOY-seen" and "NAH-ganh"
Daniel T
November 5, 2003, 06:15 PM
Shooting a Mosin-Nagant might make nipples do odd things, but my shoulder aches too much from my M44 for me to notice. :D
November 5, 2003, 06:30 PM
Moist Nuggat. ;)
November 5, 2003, 06:36 PM
I like to go with a blunt Boston accent: Mo-zin Na-Jant
Dave R
November 5, 2003, 08:35 PM
Bottom line--no one knows. Pick one and enjoy.
November 5, 2003, 09:46 PM
"moosey nugget"
Mike Irwin
November 5, 2003, 10:14 PM
"Bottom line--no one knows. Pick one and enjoy."
Uhm... Actually yeah, but you have to ask two separate people.
Since Moisin is a Russian word, you ask a native speaker to pronounce it for you. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but I work with three people who over the years got out of the Soviet Union. One of them is going to know how to spell it and say it.
Since Nagant was Belgian, and came from the French speaking section of Belgium, the most likely pronunciations would either be NAH-gan or NAH-gant.
November 5, 2003, 10:30 PM
moist noggin?
max popenker
November 6, 2003, 12:56 AM
Well, being a Russian, i can at lest try to transliterate it for you :cool:
It is definely NOT Mo-zeen, the "s" is prononced softly. I think that closest will be Mos-in, with stress on "o". "Mos" is prononced like "Moscow" or "Most" :cool: , "in" - just like your ordinary "in the safe" :D
Nagant is pronounced like "Nah-gun", with sthress on "gun" ;)
Dave R
November 6, 2003, 01:06 AM
Thank you, Max. Its nice to hear from someone who knows.
November 6, 2003, 02:53 AM
MOH-sin na-GAHNT
is how I incorrectly pronounce it.
Also see:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! Whee!!!
November 6, 2003, 08:07 AM
Russian Rifle :D
November 6, 2003, 12:19 PM
Noisy Magnet...:D :D :D :D
November 7, 2003, 09:05 AM
You guys are a riot!! LMAO! :D :D I don't think it really matters. At dealers and gun shows when you ask somebody about it, saying it your way, invariably they answer, "Oh, you mean......?" and then they say it a different way. Maybe we could get Norm Crosby to give us his official misingliteration and then everybody use that!
November 7, 2003, 10:24 AM
Per Terrance Lapin's book, The Mosin Nagant Rifle:
Mosin is pronounced mo-SEEN by the rooskies.
Nagant is pronounced na-GOHN by french speakers (including Belgians like Nagant). The second sylable GOHN has a very nasal quality to it and the ending "T" is silent.
The corruption of the word into "Moisin" (Moy-zin) by some Americans is entirely incorrect to the original pronunciation.
The development of the rifle is pretty interesting. IIRC, The Belgian Nagant's rifle may have had the overall superior design, as it was selected by the army in the side-by-side test against Mosin's rifle. After the army's Nagant recommendation, Mosin's rifle was chosen by the politicians for nationalistic reasons (it needed to be made by a Russian). The end result was a rifle that was mostly Mosin's design, with the magazine and feeding design (and one other part, possibly the bolt, but I can't remember) being Nagant's design.
The Finns really made it into a modern rifle that is still a fine rifle today with their M39 design. I have a half dozen of the M39's and I love them to death.
December 7, 2003, 07:36 PM
I'm coming here from the future - "Contributions Please! THR Library Update" http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53039, where this thread is a link for "proper :rolleyes: :D :D pronunciation" of Mosin Nagent.
Now that I'm here - and have gained the exposure to this pronunciation, I must offer my version - somewhat simplified, it tends to ease the strain of remembering all these other versions:
Emenen - er... Emen? M & N?
:) -Andy
December 8, 2003, 03:03 AM
Moe-sin Nay-Gant
December 8, 2003, 04:43 AM
"My hovercraft is full of eels."No no no!!! It is pronounced: "Please foouundle, mah buttocckkkks." :D :D :D
Okie, that was so obscure that I didnt get it until I googled.
"In 1970, the British Empire lay in ruins, and foreign nationalists frequented the streets - many of them Hungarian (not the streets - the foreign nationals). Anyway, many of these Hungarians went into tobacconists' shops to buy cigarettes ..." (http://www.thisisawar.com/LaughterMPHungarian.htm):D :neener:
December 8, 2003, 08:56 AM
Did you leave out an "i?" I always thought is was Moisin, like poison.
December 8, 2003, 09:46 AM
In my post above, "The corruption of the word into "Moisin" (Moy-zin) by some Americans is entirely incorrect to the original pronunciation."
In Austin we have a street called Koenig lane. It's the German word for king. It's meant to be pronounced "ker-nig" in German. But, the Austinites say it "cay-nig". Manchaca (it looks like a Czech word but I don't know) is said "mann-check". It seems to me that Americans love to reeealllllly stretch the pronunciation of foreign words.
December 8, 2003, 10:00 AM
Geojap said: It seems to me that Americans love to reeealllllly stretch the pronunciation of foreign words.
Yep, we do. And who cares what the furrins think? They all are trying to get here. ;)
It reminds me of my dad telling he fought in the Voz-Geez mountains of France. I mentioned it to a young French person who scoffed at the miserable mispronunciation of the Voshe Mountains. I didn't mention it, but thought the dunderhead would have sang a different tune if it were now called something in German. :cuss:
December 8, 2003, 10:36 AM
Ha! So true.
I get into "word nazi" pronunciation discussions with lots of folks around here. I really don't care how a word is pronounced as long as I understand the meaning. Indignant, myopic, Spanish speakers here in Texas (and elsewhere) love to correct me and others when we say a spanish word with an american accent. They say, "Noh Jaysson, eetz Coo-bah, not Cue-bah." Referring to the Island Cuba. And it goes on and on with words like cuartito and en-CHI-la-dass and carrrrr-ne (you gotta roll your R's in spanish). I respond, "Oh yeah, you word-nazi, how do you say Munich, Germany?" Because they invariably pronounce it "Mu-nick" like all Americans, but it's correctly said, "Meun-shen" and correctly spelled Muenchen. How do you say Paris, which is pronounced "pah-REE"? You'd sound like a flaming nancy-boy if you said, "pah-ree" all the time. So every pronunciation-Nazi has their own downfall.
December 8, 2003, 10:41 AM
Every pronunciation nazi has their downfall. You said it, bro. We had an hispanic lady reporter in AZ and she spoke dead flat English until she pronounced her name: Leenda Ahlvahrez. I was not impressed. :rolleyes:
Bill Hook
December 8, 2003, 12:04 PM
We had an hispanic lady reporter in AZ and she spoke dead flat English until she pronounced her name: Leenda Ahlvahrez. I was not impressed.
Wasn't there a TV show where they made fun of this phenomenon? "Married with Children," prehaps?
Smokey Joe
December 8, 2003, 02:38 PM
Gewehr98: A "Moosey Nugget" is something found in vast quantities in Maine, Isle Royale National Park, northern Minnesota, Alaska, and vast areas of Canada. They are related to road apples and pasture pies. I absolutely GUARANTEE that you do not want to pick one up and put it to your shoulder! :D :D
December 8, 2003, 03:26 PM
now there's a new one on me... don't worry - I can SWAG it pretty close.
Never too old to learn, huh?:D
December 8, 2003, 04:53 PM
Interestingly enough, I have used frozen Moose nuggets as plinking targets for my Mosin Nagants.
The REAL sourdoughs will eat 'em.
December 8, 2003, 06:01 PM
This thread just keeps getting worse and worse.
December 8, 2003, 06:35 PM
Since Moisin is a Russian word, you ask a native speaker to pronounce it for you. I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but I work with three people who over the years got out of the Soviet Union. One of them is going to know how to spell it and say it.
Since Nagant was Belgian, and came from the French speaking section of Belgium, the most likely pronunciations would either be NAH-gan or NAH-gant.
Say... since it's actually a Russian rifle, wouldn't the proper pronounciation (in this case) of Nagant be however the Russians happened to (mis)pronounce it?
Just a thought... :evil:
Erik Jensen
December 8, 2003, 06:39 PM
I respond, "Oh yeah, you word-nazi, how do you say Munich, Germany?" Because they invariably pronounce it "Mu-nick" like all Americans, but it's correctly said, "Meun-shen" and correctly spelled Muenchen.
well, you got the pronounciation right, but it's spelled München. (wow, I hope this site recognises ümlauts...)
December 8, 2003, 07:44 PM
If you can't write the umlaut, you put an "e" after the vowel. They probably made that rule to accomodate typewriters and such that don't have the umlaut. It's a German grammar rule. So "King" is spelled "Konig" in German, but the O has an umlaut. I don't know how to do your neat little trick in your post with the umlaut, so the correct way to spell it without the umlaut over the "o" is Koenig. Same for Munchen (with Umlaut over the "u")/Muenchen (without).
Erik Jensen
December 8, 2003, 08:34 PM
es machts nichts. I'm just being difficult. :D I use the US International keyboard setting for no other reason than I can do ümlauts quickly and easily. and ñ, and ç, etc...... :-P
December 8, 2003, 11:33 PM
Alles klar. Ich habe in Deutchland fur elf jahre gewohnt and I know a bit of German. But I've forgotten most of what I did know.
December 9, 2003, 08:57 AM
I really like german beer, and I know enough spanish to start a fight.
Erik Jensen
December 9, 2003, 05:19 PM
yeah, I was in Stuttgart for 7 years, myself. with no-one to practice the language with, it goes away faster than I'd like.
December 9, 2003, 05:42 PM
Arghh! We're being invaded by zee Germans!
Where's my rifle?
December 9, 2003, 06:53 PM
In the late 80's there were about 2.5 million americans living in Germany alone: all the soldiers, dependents and civilian workers. So you can't hardly go anywhere without meeting someone who hasn't lived in Europe or Asia because of the NATO (or other defense treaty) bases we have overseas.
I lived there for 11 years, until I was about 23. Great experience but I was very glad to move back to the USA finally. I was never able to enjoy a firearm collection over there. I doubt I'd ever move to another country for too long now because I'd have to give up my C&R's.
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Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
|Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
|Garage rock
Blues rock
Punk blues
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Universal Music Group
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Radio Caroline
The Birthday
Midnight Bankrobbers
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|Yusuke Chiba
Futoshi Abe
Kōji Ueno
Kazuyuki Kuhara
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant (often abbreviated to TMGE) was a Japanese garage rock band formed in 1991.[1]
The band was formed in 1991,[2] while Chiba, Ueno, and Kuhara were students at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University. They later drew influence from The Roosters. Their unusual name originated when a friend mispronounced the title of an early jam session recording; featuring cover songs of Thee Headcoats (one of the band's main influences) and from The Damned's album, Machine Gun Etiquette.[3] Some years later Futoshi Abe joined the band. After an independently released EP in 1995, they signed to Nippon Columbia's Triad label, releasing the album Cult Grass Stars in 1996, followed later that year by High Time, the band enjoying chart success in their home country.[2] Chicken Zombies (1997) gave them a top five hit.[2] The band's 1998 album Gear Blues was the first to be released in the US (in 2000).[2]
The band announced that they would break up on October 11, 2003, after their Last Heaven tour of Japan. On July 22, 2009, the guitarist Futoshi Abe died of an acute hematoma.[4]
Song titles and lyrics[edit]
The majority of the band's songs have English titles, which often appear to be a random selection of words cobbled together - 'Pinhead Cranberry Dance', for example.
The lyrics are almost entirely Japanese, with the odd English phrase or word thrown in.
Musical instruments[edit]
None of them used any effect pedals at all. They used to perform with coiled guitar cables as Dr. Feelgood did.
Yusuke Chiba
- Fender Jaguar, Fender Jazzmaster, Gretsch Tennessee Rose
Chiba did not play the guitar so much. Sometimes the sound of Chiba's guitar was not sent to PA's mixer, because he played the guitar not to make a sound but to keep himself a rhythm.
- Fender Hot Rod De Ville
Futoshi Abe
- Seen (Japan's luthier) Telecaster, Telecaster Custom, Gretsch Silver Jet
Seen is a brand name of the guitar produced by Matsushita Guitar Factory, placed in Harajuku, Tokyo. Some details were changed in Abe's Telecaster Custom-modeled guitar. The toggle switch was replaced where the tone knob of the rear pickup should be, because the switch's setting could be changed easily by his heavy playing. Because of it the guitar had only 3 knobs, 2 volume knobs and a master tone knob. For the majority of TMGE's lifespan, Abe played a Fender "The Twin" - a master volume amplifier with pre-amp distortion. Later he used a Marshall JCM-900.
- Fender The Twin, Sunn Amplifier, Marshall Amplification
Koji Ueno
Through almost all the time of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, he used only two units of Fender bass guitar. Two of them were completely same, one had 3-tone sunburst body and the other vintage white. Both of them had amber pickguards. Fender Jazz Bass and contrabass were used in some tracks. He always played the bass guitar with a Jim Dunlop's pick.
Kazuyuki Kuhara
- Canopus (Japanese drum company), Ludwig-Musser
Side projects[edit]
All four members have had other musical projects or played with other bands both while in TMGE and after its break-up. Some of these are as follows:
Yusuke Chiba
- ROSSO (Vocals, Guitar and Songwriting on all releases)
- The Birthday (Vocals, Guitars and Songwriting on all releases)
- The Midwest Vikings (Vocals, Guitars and Songwriting under the alias 'LACOSTE')
- Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (Vocals on one song on the album 'Stompin' On Down Beat Alley')
- Raven
- Bugy Craxone
- Midnight Bankrobbers
Kazuyuki Kuhara
- ROSSO (Drums on some live appearances)
- The Birthday (Drums on all releases)
- The Midwest Vikings (Drums and Pianica under the alias 'HANG TEN')
- Yoko Utsumi's YOKOLOCO BAND (Drums on later releases)
- Shigeki Hamabe (Drums on first two albums)
- M.J.Q (drums on all releases)
Koji Ueno
- Radio Caroline (Bass on all releases)
- The Hiatus (Bass on all releases)
Futoshi Abe
- KOOLOGI (Guitar on first album)
- Barebones
- Strawberry Jean (Guitar - This was Futoshi Abe's pre-TMGE band - their one album is sometimes available via Japanese online auctions)
- Maximum! Maximum!! Maximum!!! (1993) Self-released
- Cult Grass Stars (1996) Triad
- High Time (1996) Triad
- Chicken Zombies (1997) Triad
- Gear Blues (1998) Triad
- Casanova Snake (2000) Triad
- Rodeo Tandem Beat Specter (2001) Triad
- Sabrina Heaven (2003) Island
- Sabrina No Heaven (2003) Island
Live albums[edit]
- Casanova Said "Live or Die" (2000) Triad
- Last Heaven's Bootleg (2003) Island
- Sekai no Owari (1996) Triad
- Candy House (1996) Triad
- Lily (1996) Triad
- Culture (1997) Triad
- Get Up Lucy (1997) Triad
- The Birdmen (1997) Triad
- G.W.D (1998) Triad
- Out Blues (1998) Triad
- Smokin' Billy (1998) Triad
- GT400 (2000) Triad
- Baby Stardust (2000) Triad
- Abakareta-Sekai (2001) Triad
- Taiyou wo Tsukande Shimatta (2002) Island
- Girl Friend (2003) Trippin' Elephant
- Electric Circus (2003) Island
B-sides compilations[edit]
- Rumble (1999) Triad
Best of compilations[edit]
- TMGE 106 (2000) Triad
- Collection (2001) Alive Records (US release)
- Grateful Triad Years (2002) Triad
- Thee Greatest Hits (2009) Columbia
Other releases[edit]
- Wonder Style (1995) Trippin' Elephant
- Wonder Style (reissue) (1997) Triad
- Vibe On! (1998) Trippin' Elephant
- Kwacker (with Mick Green) (2001) Trippin' Elephant
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- ^ "Thee michelle gun elephant │ オリコン芸能人事典-ORICON STYLE". Oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
- ^ a b c d Strong, Martin C. (2003) The Great Indie Discography, Canongate, ISBN 1-84195-335-0, p. 1025-6
- ^ "ROCKIN'ON JAPAN インタビュー : チバCollection". Shine1771.exblog.jp. 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
- ^ ドコデモタワレコ. "ニュース - Tower Records Online". Bounce.com. Retrieved 2014-07-04.


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East upends Grove City boys
East never trailed over the last three quarters of Thursday's District 10 Class AAA quarterfinal against Grove City, but that meant little to Matt Jones.
The Warriors' coach knew the Eagles would make a run. He wasn't sure when, only that it would happen.
Grove City proceeded to prove Jones right by pulling within seven points of the lead with 49 seconds left. However, East converted five of its six ensuing free-throw attempts to prevail 65-55 before 450 fans at the Mercyhurst Athletic Center.
The Warriors, the Region 6 champions, improved to 19-4 overall. They'll return to action next Tuesday, when they face Oil City in a district semifinal at a site and time to be announced.
"They're a great team," Jones said of Grove City, "but then everyone is a great team going into the playoffs. They can shoot the ball and get you off your toes. We tried our best to counter that and found a way to win."
Kyree Kirkland scored 22 points for East, which seeks its first district title since 2010. Justus Davis followed with 18 points, and Tyquis Johnson added 14.
Johnson was 6-for-6 at the foul line. The senior guard converted the last four in the game's final minute before fouling out with 25.5 seconds left.
Grove City (15-8) lost despite a game-high 30 points from Derek Turner. The last of his five 3-pointers pulled the Eagles within 60-53.
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A Little Music With Your Wine?
There is lots of talk all the time about different foods and which wines go best with what? Char grilled steak and the bitey flavours of a grippy Cabernet Sauvignon, succulent duck and the juicy berry flavors and subtle acid of a young Grenache. Sound familiar?
Sitting one night on the back deck listening to some old school Led Zeppelin I started to feel parched...hmmm what wine do I feel like? As I went though my little cellar I was finding it hard to pick a wine. I was not in the mood for anything in particular but found myself conflicted with choice. My wife, waiting eagerly for a glass of wine to be poured asked me "What's taking so long just decide already" without thinking I replied I have to find a wine to go with "Zeppelin".
Think about it. Music takes us to different places. It can put our minds into different worlds, evoke emotions not to mention just be a bit of fun at a party. To some of us wine can do the same. Have you ever had a wine just makes you feel warm and comfy, happy because its exactly what hit the spot, sad because it reminds past times or again just plain fun. All this aside I think it is important not to collide these 2 powerful vehicles of emotion but to match them equally, creating a perfect harmony of music and vino, maybe thats just the musician in me.
So after pondering for far too long with a bottle of McLaren Vale Primitivo (My Wine Match to some of Led Zeppelin's songs) I set out to think of wine and food matches for other genres. Obviously these are going to be different for everyone and so they should be. Over the next few blogs I'll share some of my wine and vino matches with you for different genres.
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"We are all born artists, the problem is staying one when we grown up",
Picasso, 1937
With time, we grow out of our creativity. We develop a fear of mistakes, a fear of risk. This show celebrates the imagination of children, that creative freedom we have the tendency to lose as adults, but find again when we go to the circus.
A Muse delights children and reminds adults how it feels to dare to play.
AMuse begins with a preshow. Guided by a team of MCs, kids and adults collectively create a giant painting, get caught up in the optical illusion of the horizontal house, participate in group choreographies or get photographed on the red carpet. The preshow activities are filmed and then projected on stage during the show, transforming the audience members into active participants and making every performance a unique experience.


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Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
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Caroline Bateson is a student studying musical theatre and rather than getting into huge amounts of debt, she's thought of a creative way to make some cash.
Her dad, Gerry Bateson, is an avid photographer who purchased a beanbag off ebay but when it arrived, he wasn't very happy with it.
"He wasn't impressed with the quality and thought he could do a much better job by-hand," explained Caroline.
So together, with a bit of trial and error, Caroline and her dad created a bean bag.
"That's where it started really. We made one and it didn't take too long so I decided it wouldn't be too hard to make some more. So we did and now they're selling really well."
To date, Caroline's sold around 500 bean bags to very satisfied and happy customers. Since the bags have been introduced, there has been interest from many parts of the world. They have been used in Antarctica, on safari in Africa and travelled with a photographer from France to China on an epic motor cycle trip. She makes custom bean bags to order and offers a variety of colours and sizes. The standard bag, is the most common, there's also a compact lady's handbag version and a plus model suited for the pro photographers. But with her studying in London is all the hard work left down to her Dad?
"Well he does a bit but when I go home every couple of weeks I create my fair share!"
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A couple things wrong:
-First, the example uses "Storemode.replace", yet the description says: Store a value using the specified key, whether the key already exists or not. Will overwrite a value if the given key/value already exists. (that's not what replace does)
-Second, according to the layout of the docs, "replace" should be an update operation, not a store operation. However, it is a "storemode" so there may need to be some cross referencing?
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I recently found the James Duncan diet online which is meant to make you lose 14 lbs in a week. You're only meant to attemp this diet for 1 week out of 4 as its such a high loss.
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As sports fans, we take pride in showing support for our teams.
That means literally counting down days, hours, minutes and, yes, even seconds until the start of a big game.
But, as hyped as we all get for certain matches, sometimes the players lack the same enthusiasm, struggling to ever really seem either interested or competitive before the final outcome has already happened.
I'm not saying these teams did it purposely, but I am saying that they didn't bother showing up.


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Graduated with a B.Sc. Degree in Physics
I just graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the University of Latvia!
It took me 4 years to complete the studies. During these years I took more than 50 courses from physics, mathematics and computer science departments and my average grade was 9.1/10 (students in Latvia are graded from 1 up to 10, 10 being excellent, 9 being very good, ..., 4 being the lowest grade for passing a course. Anything below 4 means failure).
As I already mentioned in the about me page, I chose to study physics because I already had a broad understanding of various topics of computer science. Now I can proudly say that I understand a lot of physics as well.
Here is a picture of me with a diploma in my hands. :)
Here is another picture with all of us who graduated from University of Latvia with a B.Sc. degree in Physics in 2008. I'm right in the middle of the front row!
Talking about my future plans, I decided not to go to a graduate school just yet. I'll spend the next year or two hacking on whatever interests me the most and learn exactly what I have wanted (more mathematics and more computer science). It also means that I will be able to post more frequently here. :)
Thanks for reading my blog!
My most sincere felicitations for your achievement.
Best wishes, Peteris.
Let me know if your victory lap 'round the world brings you to the US, that I may buy you your beverage of choice.
Congrats! Trust my experience, if you are going to grad school don't put it off for to long. It sucks getting back into that academic swing.
Best of luck for the future.
Congrats! It is a big step into the real world.
Congratulation and thank you for your interesting blog posts. I'm looking forward for more of that kind! :-)
Especially your post about crockford's Javascript lectures was a present for me. What about hacking on a free software project the next months?
'tis a clever kitty!
Congrats on graduating!
Congratulations! You have a very bright future ahead of you.
Congratulations! But I am still thinking what physics and programming has in common(other than you).
Woo, congrats. Now quit slacking off and write more! >8D
Wait, comment moderation is supposed to be enabled, but my post showed up immediately. Huh?
Thanks for the wonderful comments, everyone!
Thomas Koch, will do that :)
Roman, it says "may delay your comment", not "will delay". Only suspicious comments get moderated.
congratulations! :)
Hi Peteris,
Great to know about your graduation. Congratulations and all the best for your future endeavors. Looking forward at reading more of your posts.
All the best for your future.
Hey! Congratulations on your achievement!. never posted here before, but had to congratulate you!! Really awesome blog BTW Wish you the best in the future
Seriously, you are my hero.
If you were a woman, I would've already married you.
Congrats buddy.
Congratulations! I am very happy for you and wish you all the best in the future.
Your websites and links to educational material helped me a LOT. I wouldn't have found them if I looked myself. Thanks!
I'm saying it here too (already said on IRC): Congratulations! Or as we say in Hebrew - Mazal Tov! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazal_Tov
Nice photos, too.
Man.. How could i miss this post?! :'-(
Congratulations from all my heart, wish you a very white and pleasant future.
Hi, I also want to get a major in physics and psychology ...a double major. but im scared as to what jobs these majors will help me get? Should I be so focused at jobs right now? Or should i just study what I like and worry about jobs in the future. Whats yor opinion? Im in second year by the way. by the way great job and congradulations!
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Thomas E. Woodward is a research professor and department chair of the theology department at Trinity College of Florida and a prominent Christian apologist.
Woodward has published widely defending intelligent design and refuting Darwin's theory of evolution. Since 1988, he has been (Florida)director of Trinity College's Center for University Ministries (CFUM). Woodward has also maintained an evangelical teaching and discipleship ministry and been head of the C.S.Lewis Society, which is housed at Trinity College.
Woodward did his doctoral work in the Department of Communication of the University of South Florida. His thesis, a history of the Intelligent Design movement, was published by Baker Books as "Doubts About Darwin" in 2003. "Darwin Strikes Back," was released in 2006 and "The Mysterious Epigenome: What Lies Beyond DNA" in 2011.
Prior to this, Woodward served with UFM International ("Unevangelized Field Mission International", a missionary organization now known as Crossworld) in the Dominican Republic. Woodward has a B.A. in History awarded by Princeton University and a Th. M. in Systematic Theology from the Dallas Theological Seminary.


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A cliff-side property high in Beverly Hills.
A shot rings out. Bang!
An unshaven man on the back porch. A glint of metal as he aims and fires. Bang!
Jack's practicing. Up at the crack of 1 p.m., he has padded to his private practice range out back to hit balls off an AstroTurf mat.
"Got my targets down there," he says, nodding toward the bent trees and thick brush in the canyon below. "That little pond? That's an 85-yard shot."
He takes dead aim. "I try to splash 'em in there, but it's tough. I go long with my 56-degree and short with my 60."
Between films, the King of Hollywood becomes the Jack of Clubs, a gleeful golfer whose select few friends needle him almost as much as he needles them. A member at Bel-Air and Lakeside golf clubs, he is famously relaxed about the rules. He might take a mulligan or three, but the rule-bending isn't just for his benefit. "You tried like hell there, pal," he'll tell a bogey-scraping buddy. "I'm giving you a par."
Jack Nicholson, 70, has lived a remarkable life. As a teenager he followed his older sister, June, from New Jersey to Los Angeles, where she was trying to break into movies. More than a decade later he learned that June had actually been his mother. His grandmother, who raised him, never revealed the family secret. In Hollywood the sneaky-eyed young actor struggled for a decade, rising from TV bits -- including an "Andy Griffith" episode that paired him with Sheriff Andy Taylor and Deputy Barney Fife -- to stardom. "Easy Rider," "Five Easy Pieces," "Carnal Knowledge," "Chinatown," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "The Shining," "Terms of Endearment," "As Good as It Gets." Twelve Academy Award nominations, three Oscars and counting. This holiday season he'll be starring with fellow Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman in Rob Reiner's "The Bucket List."
Nicholson also has been an A-list Hollywood golfer for almost 20 years: grand marshal of the Police-Celebrity Golf Tournament to benefit the families of L.A. Police Department officers, co-host of the 2005 Jack Nicholson & Rudy Durand Celebrity Golf Classic for charity. Caddies love him for his $100 tips. Golf buddy Durand, a Hollywood deal-maker, calls him "a good golfer, a great actor and a hell of a guy -- just don't let him keep score."
"Well, I ain't king of the links," says Nicholson, "but it's never too late to improve."
Golf Digest: Where do you get all those yellow golf balls you hit off your back porch?
Jack Nicholson: I buy 'em in bulk from Lakeside. If you've ever hit range balls at Lakeside, you might have hit one that ended up on my porch.
In 1994, after being cut off in traffic, Nicholson used a golf club to smash another motorist's windshield. It was (and still is) the most famous instance of road rage meeting golf tantrum.
"I was out of my mind," he said later, referring to the rugged schedule of a film he was directing and the recent death of a friend. The case was settled out of court when he wrote the other driver a check, reportedly for $500,000. One mystery remained: What club had he used? News reports called it a wedge or a 5-iron; others said 3-iron and 9-iron. Jack had never specified -- until now.
"I was on my way to the course, and in the midst of this madness I some-how knew what I was doing," he says, "because I reached into my trunk and specifically selected a club I never used on the course: my 2-iron."
Case closed.
How many have you hit into the canyon?
Hundreds. Thousands. Initially I planned to retrieve them, but there got to be so many. A friend of mine, James Spader, made his way down there through the woods and weeds, and James took a picture. It looks like outer space down there, golf balls everywhere, like a planet peppered with golf balls.
You might have conked a snake or a scorpion with one of your shots.
I hope not. Live and let live, y'know? One time I lashed a ball, and a homeless guy came running out of the weeds, yelling.
You grew up in Neptune, N.J., on the Jersey shore. Did you play golf as a kid?
Miniature golf. One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score. We'd play for quarters. That's the only time I ever played golf for money.
On a good day I'd go home with quarters ringing in my pocket.
Ever do any caddieing?
I did. We had a couple of clubs there in Jersey: Spring Lake and Shark River. You got $4 a bag, $8 for a double-bag loop. You'd be exhausted at the end of the day, but that was pretty good pay in those days.
After high school you followed your older sister, June, who you later discovered was your mother, to Los Angeles.
Yeah, and when I got out here my sister-mother was playing some golf. She played with a priest friend of hers. I knocked a few balls around, too, but didn't get bit yet.
When did the golf bug bite? You had a slick office-carpet putting stroke in the "Chinatown" sequel, "The Two Jakes." By the time of that movie [released in 1990], gumshoe Jake Gittes had gotten prosperous enough to be a golfer.
I'd been more of a tennis player till then, but I needed to swing a club halfway decent for that picture. That's when I really started playing.
You and Harvey Keitel shot the golf scenes at Wilshire Country Club. His character was a 14-handicapper, and you were supposed to be a 9.
I had to look like I could play. So I went to the Studio City range and took a few lessons. The guy warned me, "Jack, you're gonna get bit. And when you're bit, that's it."
He was right, and it drove me crazy at first, trying to play this game. I kept hitting grounders, hitting everything in the hole between first and second base. Wrong game! I got better, though. Longer and a little straighter.
You were 52 when you started playing.
I'd always told myself I'd take up the rich guys' sports when I turned 50. I'd done a lot of skiing. Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player. You can't cover the court anymore. But you can always improve at golf. So that's when I really took it up, when I was 52. I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
But that's the point where you figure something out. Just when you start getting better, you realize how much work it would take to be really good. You can't do the game justice without putting in the time. And I'm not that patient.
How well did you play at your best?
I peaked six or seven years ago. Played around par for a couple months. I've always been a good putter, on a good day, anyway. That goes back to the miniature golf. My best round ever? I shot 64 at Lakeside. With witnesses, fortunately. That was a total anomaly. Missed two greens all day, got up and down both times.
Did you say 64?
I say 64, but it might've been 65. [Laughs.] But there was no way to keep that up.
I knew I'd never go crazy enough, never spend the time it took to be any sort of par-shooter. I mean, I'd gone insane for eight years to get my game together for one second. That's how golf is: It's obsession or bust. Once you get to your peak, you can't get better without playing three or four times a week. So I came to an accommodation with the game. If I could shoot in the 80s and not hold anybody up, well, that would be good enough. And it's pretty much a breeze to shoot in the 80s -- you just stay out of the water and the woods. Which I can do, partly because I'll kick it out of the woods.
Some say Nicholson is the Mickelson of the foot wedge.
Well, I do have a few rules to live by. I don't always observe them, but I use them for amusement:


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UNESCO's "On the Frontlines of Climate Change" Forum Discusses Early Climate Impacts
17 July 2009: "On the Frontlines of Climate Change," an internet forum launched by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), has published an article on the early impacts of climate change.
The article, titled "Impacts on Water Resources in African Deltas and Pacific Islands," highlights perspectives from Nigeria and Micronesia. Discussing climate impacts to the Niger Delta, the Nigerian author Etiosa Uyique notes that the region has already been impacted by climate change. Uyique describes the flooding that has transpired and the attendant risks to low-lying populations. He also highlights the changes in rainfall over the past half century and implications for farming. In the second half of the article, Faustino Yarofaisug from Micronesia describes climate impacts to small islands, focusing on saltwater intrusion and migration of communities to more hospitable
land. The article concludes by requesting submissions on observations and experiences related to climate impacts on land, resources and livelihoods. [The article]